These Data were submitted on: Thursday, August, 19, 2004 at 06:05:49
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NAME:  Ramiro Aceves

CALL:  EA1ABZ

E-mail:  ea1abz@@wanadoo.es   [ email address modified ]

URL:  http://perso.wanadoo.es/terenciano

MOTHERBOARD::  Old 486 board. AMI BIOS

CPU::  486 DX-2

CPU Speed::  66 MHz

CPU Memory, Cache::  unknown

RAM in MB::  24

SOUND CARD::  Sound Blaster 16 ISA 

SOUND CHIPSET::  creative

SOUND DRIVER(S)::  2.2.20 kernel OSS modules

ADDITIONAL CARD1::  none

ADDITIONAL CARD2::  none

VIDEO CARD::  Quadtel S3

VIDEO CHIPSET, BUSS TYPE::  86C801/805

VIDEO DRIVER::  svgalib S3 driver

VIDEO OUTPUT::  single

LINUX DISTRIBUTION::  Debian

LINUX VERSION::  3.0 r1 (woody)

KERNEL VERSION::  2.2.20

GCC VERSION::  2.95.4

SVGALIB VERSION::  1.4.3-7

LINRAD VERSION::  01.22

Analog section:  4x12 el 144 MHz antenna
FSC11L GaAs preamp
transverter
CB 28MHz SSB channel transceiver 


TEXT:  Installing under Debian is very easy. I like it cause it is one of the best
"true free" Linux distributions in the world (Gentoo is another good one).
Once you have the base system installed and all CDROMS in the apt database,
you need to install some packages in order to run linrad and do some command
line tweaking (funny, isn't it? :-)).
Do as root:

#apt-get install svgalibg1        #installs the "svgalib" library
                                  # be careful, "svgalibgONE"
#apt-get install svgalibg1-dev    # installs the development files for compiling
#apt-get install sndconfig        #installs an easy sound card configuring software
#apt-get install aumix            #installs a simple command line "graphic" mixer
#apt-get install nasm             #installs the "nasm" assembler


Configuring some things:

#adduser username audio  #it is not needed to run linrad as it runs as root,                                     
                         #but it is a good idea for other sound software. It   
                         #adds your username to the group "audio"in order to
                         #have premissions to access audio /dev/dsp*   
                         #devices. 
                         #Logout and login again for changes make effect.

#sndconfig               #configure your sound card

#aumix                   #it starts the mixer. Configure "Line" as the
                         #"recording" device, and adjust the controls as needed.

Configure svgalib: 
Edit file /etc/vga/libvga.config to match your mouse and video card devices. It 
is very well self documented, so you will not have problems.
For me, the following settings work and the rest was untouched:

#########################################
#mouse unconfigured      
mouse Microsoft

chipset S3
#########################################



Unpack linrad and compile it as usual (see Leif's page)(take a good beer or a cafee)

Start linrad. If it does not work, work harder in /etc/vga/libvga.config file.

If you have any problems, please tell me.

Ramiro, EA1ABZ.


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