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Some updates for kernel 2.4 and VIA chipset based boards
- To: "linux-il" <linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il>
- Subject: Some updates for kernel 2.4 and VIA chipset based boards
- From: Hetz Ben Hemo <hetz(at-nospam)il.linuxqa.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:05:52 +0200
- Organization: Aduva
- Reply-To: hetz(at-nospam)aduva.com
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
Hi All,
I just wanted to share with your some news and answering some private emails
I got regards those issues..
* VIA chipset support in kernel 2.4.x:
Starting with kernel 2.4.2ac13 - the chipset IDE's interface are both
supported (ATA 66 and ATA 100), so you can compile now kernel and boot from
ATA-100 controller. Just make sure to compile a kernel on ATA-33 first.
* DMA support for your hard disks and DVD-ROM's - finally - it's back, so
those who wants to watch DVD movies with programs like xine can enable the
DMA now on your hard disks with a simple command like: /sbin/hdparm -d 1 -c 1
Don't forget to save it in a place like rc.local
* TV Tuner cards:
The drivers for all those cards who are based on BT848/858/878/888 chipsets
(most of the FlyVideo cards here in Israel comes with those chip). This new
driver, along with XFree 4.0.2 will give you a real full-screen and not full
window with a small picture in the middle. BTW - the Linux driver also fixes
some garbage that the windows driver shows when you drag your TV window on
applications like Netscape in Windows.
* Sound Blaster Live:
As some of you know, the driver for the Sound Blaster live comes without
Bass/Treble support. To enable Bass/Treble support. In order to enable it,
you should add a line:
#define TONE_CONTROL
in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/emu10k1/main.c
This should give you bass and treble.
If you're using ALSA - then you might want to upgrade to there 0.9.0 beta 1
version.
Thats all for this time..
--
Hetz Ben Hamo
Hardware Research
* The opinions expressed here are my own and does not reflect my employee's
opinions.
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