GeForce Ti4600 (dual monitors) & Redhat NTFS

[amatsu]

I've been using PC's all my life, and I've finally made the firm, rough move, and decided to go in headfirst and never look back. I am struggling though, with five basic problems, that I assume you boardmembers here might be able to help out with...

1) I have a plantronics dsp-500 headset I've been using for sound for a long time, and I can't seem to find drivers anywhere for these...

2) I can't seem to get the system to accept it's a GeForce Ti4600 and not a GeForce 4 Generic....

3) I've been running two monitors on windows for forever, through a DVI-to-AGP adapter, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the second monitor to be recognized... Perhaps this coincides with the lack of real video card drivers...

4) I've heard that because I've gone to redhat, getting the system to recognize my second ntfs drive is near impossible... Can someone point me to a step by step guide to setting that up?

5) Maybe it's just me begging and pleading, but does anyone know where I might be able to find a ventrilo client for linux? The site says it's not supported, so if anyone knows of any equally as efficient voice communication programs, please, do point them out to me.

Thanks a lot, I truly appreciate any posts that come up on this thread, I hope to stay a lifetime linux user from this point on.

[vze4gmkk]

NVIDIA drivers....www.nvidia.com
when downloaded in the HOME dir in konsole/console/gnome-terminal su -c "sh *run"

[psi42]

Originally posted by amatsu
4) I've heard that because I've gone to redhat, getting the system to recognize my second ntfs drive is near impossible... Can someone point me to a step by step guide to setting that up?


I don't use Redhat but I know there are some precompiled modules available. However, you will only be able to get read access to ntfs right now, ntfs writing is "dangerous" and will cause corruption in your filesystem. Sorry.

EDIT: Maybe this is what you need:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html


~psi42

[amatsu]

It tells me I appear to be running an X server, and must exit it? How do I do this and end the server, vze?

[Lemming]

My nvidia driver guide: http://www.linuxgaminghelp.co.uk/nvidia.htm

[amatsu]

Thanks a lot lemming, that helped a million... If only I could figure out how to enable anti-aliasing now :D .

[bsm2001]

YANC (http://sourceforge.net/projects/yanc/)

This should help in getting AA up and some other things eith thaat nvidia.:cool:

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by amatsu
1) I have a plantronics dsp-500 headset I've been using for sound for a long time, and I can't seem to find drivers anywhere for these... I've got a Plantronics something-or-other. No idea which model, but it is a headset.

I need exactly zero drivers for it. It just plugs right into the headphone jack on my speakers (which are plugged into the line out on my sound card), for the stuff that it plays, and into the microphone jack on the soundcard, for the mic on the headset. That's it, no other software required -- just sound drivers that work.

2) I can't seem to get the system to accept it's a GeForce Ti4600 and not a GeForce 4 Generic....

3) I've been running two monitors on windows for forever, through a DVI-to-AGP adapter, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the second monitor to be recognized... Perhaps this coincides with the lack of real video card drivers... Yep, getting the nVidia drivers working (which you seem to have done) should allow you to solve both issues. For how to get dual-head support set up, look around in the nVidia README file -- it's available from the driver download page (http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_ia32_1.0-4363).

4) I've heard that because I've gone to redhat, getting the system to recognize my second ntfs drive is near impossible... Can someone point me to a step by step guide to setting that up? mdwatts used to have a link in his signature to precompiled kernel modules for RedHat, but I don't know if they exist anymore, or whether you even need them (linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net might be good enough). Do a search for his username -- you'll come back with about 30,000 posts. :D

Edit: Oh wait, never mind. That link in his sig is to linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net. So yeah, try there. ;)

5) Maybe it's just me begging and pleading, but does anyone know where I might be able to find a ventrilo client for linux? The site says it's not supported, so if anyone knows of any equally as efficient voice communication programs, please, do point them out to me. I'm not even sure what Ventrilo is... but if it's a voice comm program (like Roger Wilco), then something should be in the works somewhere. Try freshmeat.net, maybe.

All that any package like this should need is the microphone input on your sound card working -- assuming your Plantronics headset is anything at all like mine.

[amatsu]

My plantronics Dsp-500 headset plugs into the usb port, not the headphone jack, unfortunately.... I've looked all over on the plantronics website for these usb drivers, with no such luck for linux, I'm afraid, bwkaz.

Thanks for the link bsm... This night i've so far got my dual montiro working, and those nvidia drivers up and running.

Linux rocks! Instead of that point and click experience I got with windows, I actually SOLVE PROBLEMS with linux. It's great.

[ZAmodeo]

Ctrl+Alt+Backspace should kill your X server (graphical environment.)

[phlipant]

3) I've been running two monitors on windows for forever, through a DVI-to-AGP adapter, and I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the second monitor to be recognized... Perhaps this coincides with the lack of real video card drivers...

i activate extra monitors and projectors with CTRL-ALT-TAB. i use it at business meetings with my laptop. powerpoint on linux with OO gets a lot of attention.

[amatsu]

Anyone know where I might be able to find drivers for my plantronics dsp headset? It connects via usb, so I have no idea where I can find these, they're not on the website.

[mdwatts]

A little too late now, but so you know for the next time, 'Long time PC user, a bit bewildered' does not adhere to our posting guidelines.

Please review the JL Community Help Posting Guideline sticky thread at the top of each forum concerning posting a subject that relates to the actual question being posted. Yours certainly does not.

Thank-you for understanding.

[Jo.Mo.]

i've been searching for over an hour and i cant' find one, i suggest calling them up and asking them.

1-866-467-7101

any search for plantronic in google.com/linux came up with nothing.

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by amatsu
Anyone know where I might be able to find drivers for my plantronics dsp headset? It connects via usb, so I have no idea where I can find these, they're not on the website.

Since you posted this in a separate thread of which you had already asked the question when posting this one, I've merged the two of them together.

bwkaz had already answered your question on the plantronics.

[amatsu]

I'm sorry for the double posting...
I just got off the phone with plantronics, and they said the usb headset isn't compatible.... damn :( .

[bwkaz]

Well, that just means it won't be easy. :p It still might be possible.

In the changelog for one of the development kernels, they say that there was a tweak for some Plantronics USB headset, in the Alsa version of the usb-audio driver. And indeed, in the current testing version of the newest kernel, there are choices for a "generic USB audio" driver inside Alsa. So, I think, if you're already using the Alsa drivers, then you should be good to go -- just load up the right module (not sure what it would be, but I'm guessing snd-usb-audio or snd-usbaudio).

If you don't already use Alsa, then head over to www.alsa-project.org and grab the latest stable version (0.9.5, now). You'll need the driver, library, and utilities. You'll also need the source for your current kernel, and your distro's development tools all installed (available on your distros' CDs, or from wherever you got your last kernel update, if you updated it at all). Save all the alsa-whatever files to your home directory.

Open up a terminal, and do the following:

tar xjf alsa-driver-*
tar xjf alsa-lib*
tar xjf alsa-util*
cd alsa-dri<and hit tab here>
./configure --help Now, read through the options available, and pick some good ones. I'm guessing you'll want to use --prefix=/usr, --with-kernel (make it be --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)), --with-oss=yes, --with-sequencer=yes, and --with-cards=usb-audio,whatever (replace "whatever" with the item in the help screen that matches your sound card, so you build drivers for both devices). Then,

./configure <the options you want>
make
su -c "make install"
<Enter your root password at the prompt>
cd ../alsa-lib<and hit tab again>
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-debug=no
make
su -c "make install"
<Enter root password again>
cd ../alsa-utils<and hit tab one last time>
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-alsa-prefix=/usr
make
su -c "make install"
<Enter root password one last time> There will be delays between some of these commands, as the relevant stuff gets configured and compiled. ;)

(Oh -- don't type in any of the angle brackets (< or >) when you do this. ;))

After all of that, try to /sbin/modprobe snd-usb-audio as root, with the headset plugged in. If that doesn't work, try snd-usbaudio instead. If one of them works ("works" is defined, here, as "looks like it does nothing"), then try /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss. With any kind of luck, you'll be able to use the headset at /dev/dsp, just like you would use a normal soundcard. But you might need to use (or create) /dev/dsp2 if you have soundcard modules loaded already.

If you get errors at any step, stop and post them (or see if you can figure them out on your own ;)).

[amatsu]

I did all of that, and by the way, thanks for taking the time to figure that out :) But still I don't have sound... Oddly, there's a dsp0, dsp1, dsp2, AND a dsp3 file in my/dev dir....

Is there anyway to set it to the newest one, (probably, the one you helped me make :D ) dsp 3? I don't know where I'd set this, because the only thing I've seen in KDE about sound is the sound card detection, and there's nothing there useful...

[bwkaz]

Hmm... start at /dev/dsp3 then. For each one of them, cat the device (with the snd-usbaudio module loaded).

While cat is running, talk into the microphone on your headset. If you see something get printed to your screen, then you've found the correct device. If not, then move to the next one (hit ctrl-c to kill cat).

If you get a message about "no such device", then that means that no kernel module is loaded to service that /dev/dspX file. If you've loaded snd-usbaudio, then just ignore the message and move to the next (actually, previous, in terms of sort order) dspX file.

If you don't find anything on any of them, then ... hmm. You could try looking though the output of dmesg to see if any warnings or whatever are getting logged from the kernel.

Oh -- make sure that you have the USB driver for your USB host bridge loaded, too. On Intel/Via chipsets, this is uhci or usb-uhci or uhci-hcd (depending on kernel version, mostly). On other chipsets, it might be any of the uhci variants, but it's most likely usb-ohci or ohci-hcd. If you have the thing plugged into any USB 2 port (regardless of motherboard chipset), then it'll be ehci-hcd.

If you load snd-usbaudio first, then you'll get a message logged from the host controller module when you load it, that the Plantronics headset is getting "claimed" by the snd-usbaudio module. But this isn't entirely necessary to have; the modules can be loaded in any order.

[amatsu]

When I did a CAT on any of the dsp's, it went crazy with xterms, and then the motherboard speaker started beeping... Ironically, I do have a via chipset though, so I will check their website tonight to perhaps get the drivers for that. I wasnt sure exactly where i might find this uhci file, but when i searched for it no files were found... Any suggestions? :D

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by amatsu
I wasnt sure exactly where i might find this uhci file, but when i searched for it no files were found... Any suggestions? :D

Those are modules that are found in /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/drivers/usb and loaded with

modprobe <module>

as root.

Check to see if they are loaded first.

lsmod (list loaded modules)

[amatsu]

The modules are there, but when I lsmod, the only usb one that is loaded is usbcore with [dsbr100 hid].

[bwkaz]

Yep, try to "/sbin/modprobe uhci" as root. Either before or after the snd-usbaudio one.

It does look like something is hooked up to all the /dev/dspX files? Interesting... well, try /dev/dsp3 (or, try making a symlink named /dev/dsp that points to /dev/dsp3, just before you run a program that needs to output to / input from the headset).