My 'BEAST" came in and I attempted my first install of SuSE 7.1
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet. Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet. The fun begins! :) JLK
Hi Jerry & All, ok, I am not a wee bit jealous... I am very ;-) Now, have you tired turning off the onboard sound on the motherboard, dip switch or BIOS? Good luck with your wee beastie! *BFN* Greek Geek :-) Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet. Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK
On Monday 12 March 2001 23:58, you wrote:
Hi Jerry & All,
ok, I am not a wee bit jealous... I am very ;-)
Now, have you tired turning off the onboard sound on the motherboard, dip switch or BIOS?
My first try was with the BIOS setting. It was not 100% so I'll check the motherboard docs and see if they have a switch. If not, I may just pull the SB and see how the onboard sound is, since ALSA seems to detect it ok. JLK
Good luck with your wee beastie!
*BFN*
Greek Geek :-)
Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet. Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 16:01, you wrote:
On Monday 12 March 2001 23:58, you wrote:
Hi Jerry & All,
ok, I am not a wee bit jealous... I am very ;-)
Now, have you tired turning off the onboard sound on the motherboard, dip switch or BIOS?
My first try was with the BIOS setting. It was not 100% so I'll check the motherboard docs and see if they have a switch. If not, I may just pull the SB and see how the onboard sound is, since ALSA seems to detect it ok. JLK
The vendor didn't jumper the on-board sound chips off, so ALSA was picking them both up and installeing them both. Even when I removed the AV97 system it still appeared to 'leak' through with static and on occasions blocking the sound . I set the jumper correctly and will turn the beast back on shortly. JLK
Good luck with your wee beastie!
*BFN*
Greek Geek :-)
Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet. Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK
Jerry, Be sure to find the sound mixer and turn the volume up, it comes default at 'off'. Please check how FDISK detects your Iomega Zip drive; a few of us who have removable media drives are getting erroronious output from FDISK, which prevents mounting. I have ADSL here on a w98 pc and proxy to my SuSE machines; I had to do it this way to please the ADSL provider. Best of luck ...........................Pete VC Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet. Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK
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On Tuesday 13 March 2001 00:00, you wrote:
Jerry,
Be sure to find the sound mixer and turn the volume up, it comes default at 'off'.
Ya, I made sure of the volume before I tested the sound. In fact, when I ran the Control Center sound option I had to turn the volume up to hear the sound EVEN though the volume slider in the CC sound option was at 95 percent, so the two are not sharing information.
Please check how FDISK detects your Iomega Zip drive; a few of us who have removable media drives are getting erroronious output from FDISK, which prevents mounting.
I've run into that before with my Zip100. It depends how you access your drive: sda or sda4. For vfat disks it sda4 but I have used ext2 on sda and got almost all of the drive, not just 96MB. JLK
I have ADSL here on a w98 pc and proxy to my SuSE machines; I had to do it this way to please the ADSL provider.
Isn't that aggravating! Why should they care how one end of a TCP/IP connect looks like. They should just take care of their end. JLK
Best of luck ...........................Pete VC
Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet. Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK
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On Tuesday 13 March 2001 16:06, you wrote:
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 00:00, you wrote:
Jerry,
Be sure to find the sound mixer and turn the volume up, it comes default at 'off'.
Ya, I made sure of the volume before I tested the sound. In fact, when I ran the Control Center sound option I had to turn the volume up to hear the sound EVEN though the volume slider in the CC sound option was at 95 percent, so the two are not sharing information.
Update! The vendor didn't disable the onboard sound chip so both the sound systems were active and interfering. I jumpered the on-board sound off so that SB PCI512 has the show. JLK
Please check how FDISK detects your Iomega Zip drive; a few of us who have removable media drives are getting erroronious output from FDISK, which prevents mounting.
I've run into that before with my Zip100. It depends how you access your drive: sda or sda4. For vfat disks it sda4 but I have used ext2 on sda and got almost all of the drive, not just 96MB. JLK
I have ADSL here on a w98 pc and proxy to my SuSE machines; I had to do it this way to please the ADSL provider.
Isn't that aggravating! Why should they care how one end of a TCP/IP connect looks like. They should just take care of their end. JLK
Best of luck ...........................Pete VC
Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet. Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK
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Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet.
have a look at the boot / kernel messages. Some ZIP drives come as IDE floppy and are accessed as /dev/hd[a,b,c,d] (like a CDROM). Juergen
Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK
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On Tuesday 13 March 2001 10:39, you wrote:
Jerry Kreps wrote:
The BEAST: 1 GHz Athlon 512 MB RAM two 28GB HDs Zip250 PlexStor 4/6/32 CD-RW SoundBlaster c512 LexMark z52 printer
I put the beast togehter and gave YaST2 the first (and only, so far) shot at installing SuSE 7.1 It couldn't detect the z52 printer, but I have the dirver rpm, so I'll install it later. It detected the soundblaster, which was a peripheral card, BUT also the onboard sound chip system, so sound didn't work. I deleted the first sound driver and the test button gave the startup music (That 18 watt woofer really gives a thump!), but when I put a music CD in the drive no sound would come out. I checked that the audio wire from the CD to the sound blaster was connected. And, I haven't got the Zip250 running yet.
have a look at the boot / kernel messages. Some ZIP drives come as IDE floppy and are accessed as /dev/hd[a,b,c,d] (like a CDROM).
I specifically purchased a parallel drive Zip250 and have a second lpt just to handle it. I think, from the list of modules available, all I'll have to do is adust modules.conf to reflect two lpt cards and then use parport, etc., the way I do on my wifes machine. JLK
Juergen
Also, I have yet to connect the NIC to my wifes machine, which is connected to the ADSL and will be my only way out to the internet.
The fun begins! :) JLK
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