August 2005 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

Re: [Wlug] Sun co-processor card for sale...

by Mike Frysinger

On Friday 05 August 2005 12:30 am, Adam Keck wrote: > I have a SunPCi II (model #: X2131A) board with memory and Sun PCi II > 2.2.1 software for 20.00. I can bring it to next week's meeting, if > anyone is interested. > <snip> > I thought I would see if I could get Linux to run on it when I bought > it, but between school and work I haven't had time... yeah, linux sparc peeps usually have stacks of these things because they're totally unsupported when the host operating system is linux so unless you can run Solaris on the host machine, might as well just use the card for jewelry or something ;) -mike

Aug. 5, 2005

Sun co-processor card for sale...

by Adam Keck

Hello All, I have a SunPCi II (model #: X2131A) board with memory and Sun PCi II 2.2.1 software for 20.00. I can bring it to next week's meeting, if anyone is interested. From http://www.mmayer.net/sunpci/sunpcii.html: * Processor: Intel Celeron * Clock: 600 MHz * Memory: 64 MB (max. 512 MB) * Part Number: X2131A (#375-0131) * Software Version: 2.2.1 * Supported Machines: Sun Ultra and Blade Workstations (Ultra 5, 10, 30, 60, 80, or 450; Sun Blade 100, or 1000) * Supported Guest OSes: DOS and Windows 3.11, Windows 9x, Windows NT Workstation 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional * Solaris Versions: 2.6 and above I thought I would see if I could get Linux to run on it when I bought it, but between school and work I haven't had time... -Adam

Aug. 5, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Portable MP3 (and ogg) players and Linux

by Andre Lehovich

--- Chuck Homic <homic(a)ml1.net> wrote: > I wouldn't know if there's a hardware Vorbis player in existence There's a bunch of hardware which supports Ogg Vorbis, less which supports Ogg FLAC. For details see: http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisHardware --Andre __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Aug. 3, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Portable MP3 (and ogg) players and Linux

by Frank Moody

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:27:54PM -0400, Chuck Homic wrote: > I wouldn't know if there's a hardware Vorbis player in existence, though > I haven't researched it. As I understand it, Ogg Vorbis was designed to > be optimal for floating point hardware in PC processors. <SNIP> > -Chuck There are a few hardware Ogg Vorbis players out there (like the iRiver I posted about). While the original software was developed on PCs and used floating point, the "Tremor" codec, which didn't require floating point support and was designed specifically for a portable/handheld, has been available since Sept 2002. Given that it was patent unencumbered and released under a BSD-like license, I'm somewhat surprised (though I suppose I shouldn't be) that the support hasn't been more widespread. (While the argument could be made that it requires more processing power than MP3, so do all the MP3 followon/replacement codecs.) Frank

Aug. 3, 2005

Re: [Wlug] Portable MP3 (and ogg) players and Linux

by Frank Moody

I picked up an iRiver iFP-799T a small while back and have been quite happy with it so far. A quick rundown on the points you asked about and a couple additions: Company : iRiver Model : iFP-799T Specs : http://www.iriveramerica.com/prod/ultra/700/ifp_799.aspx Flash : Yes, 1GB Standard Batteries: Yes, a single AA Data Transfer : USB 2.0 Update/Upgradeable: Yes, via uploading the firmware and triggering the update. Support Linux : An open source app (http://ifp-driver.sourceforge.net/) is available as well as an alternate firmware that allows you to treat the device as USB Mass Storage (Haven't tried it). Ogg : Specs say yes but haven't tested it yet. MP3 : Yes WMA : Yes (but who cares...) FM Tuner : Yes Recording : Yes, Encodes to MP3 from Mic, Line in, and radio. I've been using it mostly to listen to podcasts (which I'm using bpconf and bashpodder to retrieve) and it has been working out well. Only one oddity discovered so far, at certain low and odd encodings, there are some audio artifacts. I've only run across that particular magic combo once and it was so silly/rare that I didn't even bother to note what it was (really low single digit bitrate, very odd sample rate, etc). The content was still audible, there were just some high pitched chirps overlaid on it. The battery seems to make up about half the weight of the device and it is small enough to fit in a pocket. Comes with a neck strap (which I use to attach it to a belt loop) and a sport arm band (that I found mostly useless). There is also a built in text viewer capability, but I have no earthly idea why... Frank

Aug. 2, 2005