Some rough notes on startcom Linux www.startcom.org .
Date: Sun Jul 24 23:58:25 BST 2005
Product:
StartCom MultiMedia Edition ML-3.0.3 (Mishteh)
Linux music 2.4.22-1.SML #1 Sun Nov 7 17:23:34 IST 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Installation was easy - download CD images from a mirror, check for accurate data transfer, burn CDs, install from CDs.
Hardware: as listed by dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22-1.SML (root@pceddyn.internal.startcom.org) (gcc version 3.2.3 20040414 (StartCom Linux 3.2.3-34)) #1 Sun Nov 7 17:23:34 IST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000027ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000027ff0000 - 0000000027ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000027ff3000 - 0000000028000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
639MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 163824
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 159728 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 VIA694 ) @ 0x000f7310
ACPI: RSDT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x27ff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 VIA694 MSI ACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x27ff3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA694 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1101.972 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2195.45 BogoMIPS
Memory: 643880k/655296k available (1458k kernel code, 11028k reserved, 1071k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c7f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) processor stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4f0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: ST340015A, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03f8840, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: ATAPI CDROM 48X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(66)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 150k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:45:30 Nov 7 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0f.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:07.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:07.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:0f.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Adding Swap: 257032k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.2
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[9] MMIO=[d9004000-d90047ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00023c01510e5eb2]
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.SML
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, 00:30:bd:1f:9f:3b, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, 00:30:bd:1f:9f:3b, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000
Soundcard:
The sound hardware build into the mobo was not recognised - I haven't managed to tell what it is.
The Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS I added (after OS installation) was recognised at the next boot time.
Memory:
I added 512 Mb to the 128 Mb already present.
List of packages that on brief examination probably involve sound capabilities.
alsa-driver.rpm gkernel-module-alsa-1.0.6a-1.SML.i686.rpm galsa-driver-1.0.6a-1.SML.i386.rpm lame-3.96.1-1.1.i386.rpm galsa-driver-1.0.6a-1.SML.i686.rpm libao-0.8.3-3.i386.rpm galsa-lib-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm libmad-0.15.1b-3.1.i386.rpm galsa-utils-1.0.6-1.1.i386.rpm libmatroska-0.7.3-1.sml.i386.rpm garts-1.1.3-2.2.i386.rpm libmusicbrainz-2.0.2-10.i386.rpm gaudiofile-0.2.3-7.1.i386.rpm libsndfile-1.0.4-1.sml.i386.rpm gaumix-2.8-6.EL.i386.rpm libvorbis-1.0-7.i386.rpm gcdda2wav-2.01-a.32.i386.rpm mikmod-3.1.6-20.i386.rpm gcdparanoia-alpha9.8-15.i386.rpm mplayer-1.0-0.11.i386.rpm gcdparanoia-libs-alpha9.8-15.i386.rpm mplayerplug-in-2.66-16.i386.rpm gcdrdao-1.1.9-4.i386.rpm mplayer-skins-1.4-1.noarch.rpm gcdrecord-2.01-a.32.i386.rpm nautilus-media-0.2.1-5.1E.i386.rpm gcontrol-center-2.2.0.1-10.i386.rpm rhythmbox-xine-0.8.6-0.i386.rpm gdesktop-backgrounds-basic-2.0-14.noarch.rpm SDL-1.2.5-6.i386.rpm gdesktop-backgrounds-extra-2.0-14.noarch.rpm sox-12.17.3-11.i386.rpm gdvdrecord-0.1.2-12.i386.rpm speex-1.0.4-1.sml.i386.rpm gdvd+rw-tools-5.3.4.2.4-1.i386.rpm startcom-config-soundcard-1.0.8-1.noarch.rpm gesound-0.2.28-5.1.i386.rpm startcom-release-3.0.3-Mishteh.i386.rpm gfaad2-2.0-1.i386.rpm vorbis-tools-1.0-6.i386.rpm gflac-1.1.0-4.i386.rpm xcdroast-0.98alpha15-3sdl.i386.rpm ggnome-audio-1.4.0-6.noarch.rpm xine-0.99.2-1.1.i386.rpm ggnome-audio-extra-1.4.0-6.noarch.rpm xine-lib-1.0.0-0.14.1.i386.rpm ggnome-media-2.2.1.1-4.i386.rpm xine-skins-1.8-1.noarch.rpm ggstreamer-0.6.0-5.i386.rpm xmms-1.2.10-2.i386.rpm ggstreamer-plugins-0.6.0-14.i386.rpm xmms-aac-2.0-1.i386.rpm ggstreamer-tools-0.6.0-5.i386.rpm xmms-esd-1.2.10-2.i386.rpm gkdebase-3.1.3-5.2.i386.rpm xmms-flac-1.1.0-4.i386.rpm gkdegraphics-3.1.3-3.3.i386.rpm xmms-mikmod-1.2.10-2.i386.rpm gkdemultimedia-3.1.3-3.1.i386.rpm xmms-skins-1.2.10-2.i386.rpm gkernel-module-alsa-1.0.6a-1.SML.athlon.rpm xmms-vorbis-1.2.10-2.i386.rpm gkernel-module-alsa-1.0.6a-1.SML.i386.rpm
I didn't get this to use my soundcard - I tried several different cards. In the end I updated my main desktop to a version of SuSE that contains Rosegarden and Hydrogen and some other stuff so I probably won't spend any more time on startcom.
RoseGarden:
I need to learn how to use this. Graphical interfaces are usually terrible.