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  • Subject: Re: [BL] changing the keyboard configuration
  • Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:47:30 +0200

Ok, now i have working the spanish keyboard, the procedure has been the following:
- copy file es.map in /usr/lib/kbd/keytables
- install the file kbd.tgz downloaded from slackware 4.0/a8 (it was a bit difficult to find)
-add in the /etc/rc file the line: /usr/bin/loadkeys /usr/lib/kbd/keytables/es.map
and... voi-la!, i have the spanish configuration keyboard, thanks to your advice.

Respect to the sound card, i have downloaded the gus.o module and the ad1848.0 module, (i have removed uart401.o and sb.o from rc file) i have put the configuration io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=3, and when the system boots i obtain:
Sound: An Interwave audio chip detected but no DRAM
Sound: Unable to work with this card
GUS MAX found, but not compiled in

I have tried with software mpg123 to play the /temp/test.mp3 and i cannot listen anything in the speakers, also i obtain the following messages: mpg123 :Can´t rewind stream by 1103 bits, by 301 bits, by 261 bits.¿¿??

However, i have downloaded the program workbone, i have made the link between hdb and cdrom and now i can listen to audio cds played by cdrom with the headphones. So, the sound card is working, isn´t it?.

I have tried the program mplayer but i cannot play audio cdrom with it, it seems that i need a software named cdparanoia ( i tried mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom cdda://1-4 but the system says cdda doesn´t exist) , ¿is it true?. ¿Is there a version for slackware 4.0?.

Thanks for your patience and regards

Clara
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To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: [BL] changing the keyboard configuration


Thank you Sindi for your kind welcome. I had seen the links and i have found
the way (i think) to change the keyboard to spanish. Now i have another

Good work.

problem, i have a phillips pca761aw sound card in the old pentium 133 MHz
and i have tried to make it to work but i can´t with the tips seen in bl3. I
always obtain dsp reset failed, insmod:init_module: sb: device or resource
busy any number i tru for irq (i have tried 5 and 10) or dma (1 or 3). I

This means that your sound card does not use the same driver as
Creative Soundblaster (sb.o). The BL instructions are only for
Soundblaster.

According to Wikipedia, your card is a clone of Gravis Ultrasound , using
the Gravis GF1 or AMD Interwave soundchip. They don't say which of the
two chips your card used. The GF1 was a competitor of Soundblaster and
used digitized samples instead of FM synthesis to play MIDI files.
Soundblaster AWE cards use digitized samples too, which you need to load
into the card before you can use it to play MIDI files. But you probably
just want to make it play wav or mp3 files.

went to alsa project page and there they say alsa project support this sound
card, i have read the instructions but i haven´t understand very much. Any
way, is there a way to know the irq or dma parameters for a determined sound
card?

BL does not use ALSA drivers, it uses OSS drivers.

I searched on Gravis Ultrasound (gus) and OSS, or just oss and ultrasound.

Try:

insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod ad1848
insmod gus io=* irq=* dma=* dma16=*

Try io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=3

It should complain if a number is wrong.

The dma16 is optional but you might need it for mp3s.

BL3.5 site has a gus.o module for 2.2.26 kernel.

Thanks and regards
Clara
----- Original Message -----
From: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] changing the keyboard configuration




Sindi Keesan wrote:

I have just installed BL3.50 on an old p133Mhz, 16 Mb RAM, 1Gb hard
drive. For now, everything is ok, the cdrom is recognized and fully
working. But i would like to change the keyboard configuration to the
spanish one, i have the file es.map but i don´t Know how to install it
as default keyboard and where to copy it. Also i have to say i am a
newbie in linux, so i would be very grateful if someone could give me a
step by step explanation.

links, BL3.50 website, Support, Archives, search on 'keyboard spanish'.
I got 7 hits from May 2004 to March 2005, with mention of es.map.

Other people have used Spanish and French and German keyboards with
basiclinux, so also search on 'change keyboards'. I don't know if the
method is different for console and X keyboards like it is for fonts.

See for Spanish (among other hits):

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2005-March/006818.html
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2004-December/006078.html

You probably need kbd.tgz Slackware package, which comes with
instructions. You can also change the console screen font

Thanks in advance, Clara

Welcome to basiclinux, Clara. I think you are the only other woman in
the group besides me, in nearly 10 years!

Please try to set your mail program to send plain text WITHOUT a second
copy of the message in HTML format. You probably don't see both copies,
but some programs display the HTML and it wastes space in mailboxes and
adds nothing useful. Look under preferences, options, etc. Most 'modern'
mail programs are idiotic and send HTML by default.

Sindi (Cynthia)


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