[linrad] KNOPPIX.iso file

[w3sz <w3sz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As you have noted, Rein W6/PA0ZN has generously alotted space for the time  
being for the KNOPPIX.iso file on his excellent Linrad Database page.  The  
link can be found on the W6/PA0ZN Linrad Database home page, at

http://www.nitehawk.com/linrad_dat/

I have also added to my webpages [also on Rein's site] a webpage that has  
a bit of explanatory text regarding the Linrad-Knoppix Starter CD at:

URL: http://www.nitehawk.com/w3sz/linrad_knoppix.htm

This is pretty much what I had sent around before, but now in HTML format  
for easier reading, and with some additions/improvements.

Any suggestions on how to improve on either the CD or the Documentation  
will be most appreciated.

Reports of successes and failures would also be most welcome.  In each  
case, listing the

Computer Model [if commercial],
CPU type and speed,
mother board,
RAM,
Video Card,
Monitor,
Sound Card[s],
Mouse Type [PS2, USB, etc]

would be most helpful.

This is the same info that we should all be entering on Rein's Linrad  
Database page, with a few additions that I think are important in figuring  
out what works and doesn't work with each Linux distro.

Yesterday I tried the Linrad-Knoppix CD on the  
1.4GHz/Radeon/Delta44/Soundblaster and  
3.0GHz/IntelExtremeGraphics2/Delta44/OnboardSound P4's at Hilltop.   
XWindows worked in both, and svgalib worked and Linrad came up after I  
selected the VESA drivers in libvga.config.  I get 48 KHz [not 96 KHz]  
bandwidth in I/Q mode with the stock ALSA drivers in Knoppix, but didn't  
get the proper input from the Delta44/ WSE units for some reason [i.e., I  
didn't see/hear the 2 meter signals I expected to see/hear, and that I DID  
see/hear when I rebooted into Fedora Core 3].  It may just be ALSA mixer  
settings.  If so, that would be very nice as it would mean that installing  
OSS or doing ANYTHING with the sound drivers is NOT NECESSARY with KNOPPIX  
3.8.1. with 'the usual' hardware.  That would be great!  But at the  
minimum, it looks like mixer / switch settings need to be fooled with.

So Knoppix has now allowed access to XWindows in 7 of 7 computers I tried  
it on, and Linrad has come up in reasonable if not perfect fashion in 5 of  
the 7 with little difficulty.

Has anyone else gotten proper Linrad input/output with the Delta44 running  
at 96KHz using the STOCK ALSA drivers?  If so, I don't have to worry about  
how to make OSS an easily installed 'option' [I don't want to install it  
if it is not needed, as that will complicate things].

I think Ramiro's idea of producing standard .deb packages for Linrad and  
svgalib is an excellent one.  I'd also like to fix [i.e. remove] some of  
the security/safety features of Knoppix that can make it difficult to play  
with, make a version where OSS is present and easily installed IF NEEDED  
[perhaps it won't be needed], clean up the CD, etc...

73,

Roger
W3SZ

--
Roger Rehr
W3SZ
http://www.qsl.net/w3sz

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