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comp.os.linux.hardware :: Hardware compatibility with the Linux operating system. http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/ Posts for comp.os.linux.hardware Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:33:26 PDT http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/ http://www.nnseek.com/img/64.png 64 64 NNSeek <![CDATA[Microphone not detected !!]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/microphone_not_detected_135919512t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/microphone_not_detected_135919512t.html

Is it possible to get your microphone recognised in Debian 4.0 ? .
Even the gnome-voice-recorder
application cannot get the device correct. Please help!!!!

regards,
milon

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]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:42 PDT <![CDATA[Multiple webcams on Ubuntu Fedora and Win XP]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/multiple_webcams_on_ubuntu_fedora_and_win_xp_135734168t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/multiple_webcams_on_ubuntu_fedora_and_win_xp_135734168t.html
I need to connect 3 webcams to a labtop running Linux (Ubuntu or
Fedora9) and periodically capture and save image frames from those 3
webcams as fast as it can be.

Later on I also repeat the same operation on a Windows XP machine
belongs to someone else.

I have limited budget and I want to use the same 3 webcams on two
trials. I want my image frames in 640x480 or better resolution.

Questions:
* Which webcams (brand name, model name) are known to be running
both on Linux and on Win XP without any problem?
* Would it be a problem using 3 webcams on one PC?
* Is there any ready to use utility software that can capture image
frames from 3 cameras simultaneously?
* Is there any open source code doing this in Linux?

Thx,

miemchan at gmail dot com

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]]> Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:12:22 PDT <![CDATA[Problem installing Catalyst (proprietary ATI driver for 3D acceleration)]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/problem_installing_catalyst_proprietary_ati_driver_135640216t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/problem_installing_catalyst_proprietary_ati_driver_135640216t.html 2.6.26-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT

I tried to follow the http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI#ATI_Catalyst_proprietary_driver

So I installed "catalyst", added fglrx to MODULES list in /etc/
rc.conf, and also rebooted, but fglrx can't be loaded (with modprobe
either):

FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.26-ARCH/video/
fglrx.ko): Cannot allocate memory

Any suggestions?

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]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:08:42 PDT <![CDATA[Failed to mount nfsroot : IP-Config: No network devices available.]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/failed_to_mount_nfsroot_ip_config_no_network_devices_135604888t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/failed_to_mount_nfsroot_ip_config_no_network_devices_135604888t.html complain it dont find netwrok device.
I configed the intel-pro/100 driver in kernel.
How can I do to fix this problem?
Thx in advance.

CPU: IXP425

menuconfig
----------

Device Drivers --->
Network device support --->
<*> IMQ (intermediate queueing device) support
Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
[*] EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
<*> Intel(R) PRO/100+ support

output
------
RedBoot> exec
Using base address 0x00080000 and length 0x00141b94
Uncompressing
Linux......................................................................................
done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.6.19.2 (zheng@cos) (gcc version 4.0.0 (DENX ELDK 4.1
4.0.0)) #54 Tue Aug 26 16:46:52 CST 2008
CPU: XScale-IXP42x Family [690541c1] revision 1 (ARMv5TE), cr=000039ff
Machine: Intel IXDP425 Development Platform
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
CPU0: D VIVT undefined 5 cache
CPU0: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
CPU0: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 32512
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 noinitrd root=/dev/nfs rw
nfsroot=192.168.1.5:/tftpboot/rootfs,port=2049,nfsvers=3
ip=192.168.1.2:192. 168.1.5f
Unknown boot option
`168.1.5::255.255.255.0:ixp425.linux.org:eth1:off': ignoring
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
Memory: 126908KB available (2156K code, 659K data, 96K init)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
NET: Registered protocol family 16
IXP4xx: Using 16MiB expansion bus window size
PCI: IXP4xx is host
PCI: IXP4xx Using direct access for memory space
PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers enabled
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(0.370:1): initialized
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) (C) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing
enabled
serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0xc8001000 (irq = 13) is a XScale
serial8250.0: ttyS1 at MMIO 0xc8000000 (irq = 15) is a XScale
RAMDISK driver initialized: 1 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Time: OSTS clocksource has been installed.
IP-Config: No network devices available.
Looking up port of RPC 100005/3 on 192.168.1.5
portmap: server 192.168.1.5 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default
mount: server 192.168.1.5 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting /tftpboot/rootfs
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(2,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-
block(2,0)

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]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:24:59 PDT <![CDATA[Re: how to connect to a switch on its serial port from Fedora]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/how_to_connect_to_a_switch_on_its_serial_port_from_135603864t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/how_to_connect_to_a_switch_on_its_serial_port_from_135603864t.html wrote:
> I have a new Dell PowerConnect-6200 Switch whose manual asks me to connect
> a VT100 terminal to its serial port so as to initially configure its IP.

> I know that the home-routers out there come with 192.168.0.0 or some
> such. Do switches have any such similar convention too?

Ignore the Linux-specific bit for a moment, since others have suggested
perfectly reasonable solutions to serial connections, and work on the
pretence that you don't have any client device with a serial port. Have
you phoned DELL to ask them how to configure it without a serial
port? There may be a perfectly simple solution.

Chris

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]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:00:04 PDT <![CDATA[Re: how to connect to a switch on its serial port from Fedora]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/how_to_connect_to_a_switch_on_its_serial_port_from_135584664t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/how_to_connect_to_a_switch_on_its_serial_port_from_135584664t.html deepsoft.com> wrote in
news:p9mdndVTLacZoS7VnZ2dnUVZ_rTinZ2d@posted.localnet:

> PowerConnect-6200 Switch. Minicom provides commands to configure the
> the port (which port, speed/bits/parity/stop bits, etc.). Presumably,
> the documentation for the Switch will tell you stuff like the default
> speed/bits/parity/stop bits, etc. Likely it will connect you to either
> a root shell on the Switch or to a ??tty process which will will toss
> you a Login: prompt.
>

Thanks Robert. The Dell manual does come with the parity, stop-bit, baud
settings etc. I did read about minicom and kermit curtsey google-search.
But I'm surprised that there is no native way of talking on the serial port
via linux? Isn't a serial port pretty standard functionality?

--
Rahul

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]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:46:52 PDT <![CDATA[Status of nvidia cards (GeForce 6600) with 24" [1920 x 1200] monitor?]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/status_of_nvidia_cards_geforce_6600_with_24_1920_x_135583128t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/status_of_nvidia_cards_geforce_6600_with_24_1920_x_135583128t.html I've spent some time researching/googling, but have not come up with
anything definite, so thought I'd ask here. I have an nvidia NV43 GeForce
6600 video card and am trying to find out if the latest nvidia drivers for
linux can drive the card reliably at 1920 x 1200 resolution (24" monitor).
I'm running Fedora 9, in case it matters, which it probably does.
(kernel: 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686)

BTW, I looked up the specs for the card and they specify that the card
can handle 1920 x 1200.

Any info. (including positive or negative anecdotes) on this would be
appreciated. And if I forgot to mention something important about my
setup, let me know.

(If there's a better group to post this in, I'd appreciate it if you
could direct me to it.)

Thanks!

--

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]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:21:29 PDT <![CDATA[Re: how to connect to a switch on its serial port from Fedora]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/how_to_connect_to_a_switch_on_its_serial_port_from_135574680t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/how_to_connect_to_a_switch_on_its_serial_port_from_135574680t.html wrote:
> I have a new Dell PowerConnect-6200 Switch whose manual asks me to connect
> a VT100 terminal to its serial port so as to initially configure its IP.

That is very odd. I would have expected allocation via arp.

> Any pointers?

You could try running arp to set the IP address.

Run tcpdump then power the device off and on and see if it
reveals an IP address.

Another trick would be to run an DHCP server (you probably have one on
your network already). Power off and on the device and see if it has
obtained a lease.

Another trick: connect a client running a DHCP client, and see if
the device provides a DHCP lease.

You could run ping against each of the 192.168.x address ranges and see
if one of them corresponds to the device IP address.

Mark.

--
Mark Hobley,
393 Quinton Road West,
Quinton, BIRMINGHAM.
B32 1QE.

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]]> Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:21:32 PDT <![CDATA[redhat 9 & new viewsonic terminal]]> http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/redhat_9_new_viewsonic_terminal_135506072t.html http://www.nnseek.com/e/comp.os.linux.hardware/redhat_9_new_viewsonic_terminal_135506072t.html
could someone point me in the right direction to replace an existing
terminal with a viewsonic vx2240w
i have tried editing /etc/X11/XF86Config directly,
tried redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig

where & how can i add this terminal manually ?
perhaps to a list of terminals.

bye, leon
Leon Haverly AMS LLC 770-426-5509 (w) leon@amsllc.com
Marietta, GA 30064 770-422-9355 (h) www.amsllc.com

There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who understand binary,
and those who don't.

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