Re: Install different libs for different C++ compilers?

2003-10-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Gordon Messmer wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: I'd really like to be able to use this software *and* Red Hat 9/g++-3 apps utilising the same library functionality. Maybe what I want is to put the libs on /usr/lib/i386-redhat-linux7/2.96 or similar... I discussed the simple options... you may

Re: Install different libs for different C++ compilers?

2003-10-20 Thread Toralf Lund
Toralf Lund wrote: Gordon Messmer wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: Regarding the recent discussion on C++ binary compatibility, or lack thereof: I am now compiling some of my code with g++296 from compat-gcc, and it works rather well. One question, though: Is there a simple and direct way to have

Re: How to burn cd's in Linux

2003-10-17 Thread Toralf Lund
Craig Daters wrote: X-CDRoast is what you are looking for (www.xcdroast.org) and is included with RH, now whether it got installed when you installed RH is another question. If not, there is an RPM available at Red Hats site. There is documentation available for X-CDRoast at the www.xcdroast.org

Re: Install different libs for different C++ compilers?

2003-10-17 Thread Toralf Lund
Gordon Messmer wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: Regarding the recent discussion on C++ binary compatibility, or lack thereof: I am now compiling some of my code with g++296 from compat-gcc, and it works rather well. One question, though: Is there a simple and direct way to have the different g

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-17 Thread Toralf Lund
Alan Hodgson wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:08:25PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: are responsible for being able to justify their claims. In other words, if developers claim the application is perfect for me, *then* I have the right to demand that it is. Maybe this is not very relevant

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-17 Thread Toralf Lund
Otto Haliburton wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bret Hughes Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3 On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:32, Gordon Messmer

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-17 Thread Toralf Lund
Jonathan Bartlett wrote: What he's wanting is a standard C++ ABI. However, no operating system I'm aware of offers one. Hmmm. I used to work on SGI workstations (I was as certified developer and everything ;-)), and I was always under the impression that the MIPS ABI that got a great deal of

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-17 Thread Toralf Lund
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:56:46AM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: If I make a load, public announcement saying that I've written this great piece of software that is the best thing since the reinvention of the wheel (;-)), and that will render all applications known so far hopelessly irrelevant

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-17 Thread Toralf Lund
On 2003.10.17 19:15, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:13:56PM +0200, Toralf Lund wrote: I'm not trying to imply here that the gcc developers or freeware package maintainers in general aren't open to criticism. In fact, it seems to me that misplaced remarks of the form stop

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Toralf Lund
Otto Haliburton wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Burgiss Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3 On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:03:52PM -0500,

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-16 Thread Toralf Lund
[ ... ] Actually, I think the runtime linker will try to load all relevant versions , and make sure the correct one is used in each case But when the compiler/linker is trying to resolve symbols, how does it know which symbol to use? The two, incompatible versions of the C++ library will

Install different libs for different C++ compilers?

2003-10-16 Thread Toralf Lund
Regarding the recent discussion on C++ binary compatibility, or lack thereof: I am now compiling some of my code with g++296 from compat-gcc, and it works rather well. One question, though: Is there a simple and direct way to have the different g++ versions pick up different versions of a

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-15 Thread Toralf Lund
Toralf Lund wrote: Jonathan Bartlett wrote: RH9 uses an updated libstdc++ which can cause problems. Also, if you are exporting anything but c-style functions declared with extern c or whatever that is, you will NOT have compatibility at all. There is some work for a standard C++ ABI

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-15 Thread Toralf Lund
Jonathan Bartlett wrote: software certainly runs on 9; I'm not sure what happens if you mix binaries from the two versions (e.g. by replacing one of the DSOs without relinking the app.) If the C++ was exposed in anything except extern C blocks, then no, you can't mix binaries from the two

C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-14 Thread Toralf Lund
We're having problems linking C++ objects compiled with g++ 3.2 on Red Hat 9 with libraries (DSOs) built using g++ 2.96 on Red Hat 7.3. Does anyone have details about the (in)compatibility between these releases? - Toralf -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

2003-10-14 Thread Toralf Lund
Jonathan Bartlett wrote: Are the DSOs C++? Yes, that's what I said, wasn't it? RH9 uses an updated libstdc++ which can cause problems. Also, if you are exporting anything but c-style functions declared with extern c or whatever that is, you will NOT have compatibility at all. There is some

Random crashes/system hang on high load

2003-10-07 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm experiencing some serious instabilities on my machine right now. I will get arbitrary core dumps, an sometimes a complete lock-up of the host, when the system load is high. The processes that load the system are typically *not* the first ones to crash; applications like the GNOME panel,

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2003-07-18 Thread Toralf Lund
From: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 As I am out of the office, the e-mail message you just sent me (subject may be left unread for some time. I will check my mailbox occasionally, but urgent

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2003-07-18 Thread Toralf Lund
From: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: Epson Stylus C82 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Precedence: bulk As I am out of the office, the e-mail message you just sent me (subject may be left unread for some time. I will check my

Bugzilla server on Red Hat 9?

2003-07-15 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm trying to set up Bugzilla on a server running Red Hat Linux 9. I've got a package for bugzilla itself (version 2.17.1) that is working fine on Red Hat 7.3, so no problem there (I think), but I'm having a hard time getting all the perl dependencies right - and I don't know if I can use the

Preferred Applications vs File types and programs

2003-07-12 Thread Toralf Lund
I don't quite understand the purpose of the Preferred Applications dialogue in Red Hat 9. What exactly does it do? I mean, I know I can use it to select default web browser, text editor and word processor, but when are these settings used? Also, doesn't the functionality overlap a lot with

Red Hat 9 and Sapphire Radeon 9600 PRO

2003-07-09 Thread Toralf Lund
Is anyone able to run XFree86 on Red Hat 9 properly with a Sapphire Radeon 9600 PRO Atlantis graphics card? I can actually start X, but only with the VESA driver - with radeon I get an error message stating that no devices were found (and setting DeviceID doesn't help.) -- - Toralf --

Re: fixperm utility

2003-07-01 Thread Toralf Lund
You can always get linuxconf at http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/. Yeah, maybe that would be the best thing to do. I had somehow got it into my mind that linuxconf was an old, no longer supported tool that would be bad to use, but it has of course just been dropped by Red Hat (not by its

redhat-config-packages: Install tree + updates etc.

2003-06-27 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm having a closer look at redhat-config-packages to see if it may be used instead of a custom PERL script to keep our systems up to date. Some questions I've come up with: 1. What is a directory for the --tree argument supposed to look like? I tried one where I had copied the contents of all

List packages in comps.xml?

2003-06-27 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm trying to obtain some info on a Red Hat 9 install tree from within a script. Is there a simple way (e.g. a util that will parse the XML) to list all the packages included in: 1. A specific collection 2. The collections that are selected by default ? -- - Toralf -- redhat-list mailing list

Red Hat 7.3 installation on serial ATA?

2003-06-25 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm trying to install Red Hat 7.3 on a serial ATA dist connected to an MB with Silicon Image chipset. I can't get this to work simply because the installer won't recognise the harddisk. Red Hat 9 does find the unit, as far as I can tell, but I can't use anything newer than 7.3 right now due to

Re: Adding scripts to RedHat startup (rc.sysinit, rc.local)

2003-06-25 Thread Toralf Lund
Hello list, I have written two scripts that work together to locate all of the serially attached devices in a system (including a serial console) as well as determine how many serial ports the system has, then enable a login (via agetty) for all unused serial ports. One of the scripts is a perl

fixperm utility

2003-06-19 Thread Toralf Lund
Another old issue that's still unresolved: Red Hat Linux used to include a utility called fixperm that could be used to make sure that spool directores etc. had correct owner, group and mode bits so that all system services would run properly. The tool was a part of linuxconf, and I was using

Re: Desktop Weather for Linux?

2003-06-16 Thread Toralf Lund
Intellicast, Weather.com, and so on have desktop modules to run radar loops continuously on one's desktop. Unfortunately, they are all only for windows. Does anyone know of a good desktop weather module for Linux? Thanks. Try Weather report under Add To Panel-Accessories (Red Hat 8.0 or 9) or

PERL: panic: end_shift at ... line 371, P line ...

2003-06-16 Thread Toralf Lund
After upgrading to Red Hat 9 (from 7.3), I started getting the message panic: end_shift at /usr/bin/inst line 371, P line 43366. when running one of my PERL scripts. I'm guessing this is caused by some kind of weirdness in my code, but I have no idea what end_shift is supposed to mean, so it's

Re: Failure to connect USB flash drive

2003-06-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Toralf Lund wrote: Please refer to the below Q A from the USB FAQ. One of our customers is seeing this behaviour right now. The weird bit is that the setup has worked in the past, and as far as I know, the hardware or BIOS (or OS installation) haven't changed at all. Any ideas what might

Internet connection via GSM phone?

2003-06-12 Thread Toralf Lund
Has anyone tried to connect a Red Hat 7.3 system to the Internet via a GSM mobile phone? What exactly does it take? -- - Toralf -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Internet connection via GSM phone?

2003-06-12 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, It can really depend on the phone you've got, how you are connecting it and if the GSM phone itself has a full builtin modem. Can you give us a few more details Yes and no. I haven't decided yet how I want to connect it; it depends on what is expected to work best. We're mainly talking about

Re: Internet connection via GSM phone?

2003-06-12 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, It can really depend on the phone you've got, how you are connecting it and if the GSM phone itself has a full builtin modem. Can you give us a few more details Yes and no. I haven't decided yet how I want to connect it; it depends on what is expected to work best. We're mainly talking about

/dev/tape?

2003-06-12 Thread Toralf Lund
Shouldn't /dev/tape be created/updated automatically on a system with a tape drive attached? It isn't on my Red Hat 7.3 setup... - Toralf -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Failure to connect USB flash drive

2003-06-12 Thread Toralf Lund
Please refer to the below Q A from the USB FAQ. One of our customers is seeing this behaviour right now. The weird bit is that the setup has worked in the past, and as far as I know, the hardware or BIOS (or OS installation) haven't changed at all. Any ideas what might cause this problem to

Serial line transfer problem

2003-06-10 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm trying to transfer an ASCII file (S-record format) across a serial link from a Red Hat system to an IPC board. If I do cat file /dev/ttyS0 (with connection at first serial port) it seems like the transfer gets stuck after the 1st line. If I echo the file one line at a time with a small

Re: Serial line transfer problem

2003-06-10 Thread Toralf Lund
On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 10:36 am, Toralf Lund wrote: I'm trying to transfer an ASCII file (S-record format) across a serial link from a Red Hat system to an IPC board. If I do cat file /dev/ttyS0 (with connection at first serial port) it seems like the transfer gets stuck after the 1st

Re: gnorpm for redhat9

2003-06-10 Thread Toralf Lund
thanks very much other question why redhat9 doesn't come with gnorpm neither kpackage? Red Hat 9 uses a new tool - redhat-config-packages- instead of those. You should try it, it is really quite nice. thanks On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 05:09, Tapang, Roderick Eugenio (GXS) wrote: Hi,

Re: Serial line transfer problem

2003-06-10 Thread Toralf Lund
On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 12:52 pm, Toralf Lund wrote: On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 10:36 am, Toralf Lund wrote: I'm trying to transfer an ASCII file (S-record format) across a serial link from a Red Hat system to an IPC board. If I do cat file /dev/ttyS0 (with connection at first serial

Re: list folder size

2003-04-01 Thread Toralf Lund
On 2003.04.01 20:37, J.Slim wrote: I've been reading all the man pages I though might clue me in but I can't find a command to list the total size of a folders contents. Anybody? The command is 'du' (as in disk usage.) See manual pages for more info. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

X server fails with network on

2003-03-27 Thread Toralf Lund
, but I can't find anything wrong with it, and I've tried *really* hard. Ideas, anyone? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 ProCaptura AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard) http://www.procaptura.com/~toralf +47 66 85 51 01 (fax) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: how do I run a script?

2003-03-27 Thread Toralf Lund
On 2003.03.27 18:47, stevnewb wrote: The SCRIPT facility makes it very easy to write a script, but the permissions vector does not not include an 'x' for execution rights. The script *belongs* to the root, which is how I'm logged in when I'm trying to access it, but when I try to invoke it,

dhclient shutdown and script execution

2003-03-13 Thread Toralf Lund
It looks to me as if dhclient (Red Hat 8.0 or latest Raw Hide version.) Does not execute /sbin/dhclient-script when network is stopped. Is this so? Why? - I need some way to clean up config a bit on shutdown, so that the host may also operate correctly when off the net... -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL

Re: Tape backup software and drives

2003-03-13 Thread Toralf Lund
Okay, I have two questions that are not on topic. 1) Any good open source backup software? Amanda. http://www.amanda.org/ I'm currently using dump and tar. I like the simplicity of dump but I would like to be able to get all my volumes on one tape. I think you can do this if you forward your

Dist tree generation/anaconda-runtime again

2003-02-19 Thread Toralf Lund
Are the anaconda-runtime tools documented anywhere? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 ProCaptura AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard) http://www.procaptura.com/~toralf +47 66 85 51 01 (fax) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Testing hdlist/comps etc. for customised install base?

2003-02-18 Thread Toralf Lund
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 16:49, Toralf Lund wrote: Now, I've run a lot of successful installations from my setup, but often when I make a change, I make some kind of mistake or something inexplicable happens so that the installation fails, usually with keyword error. [ ... ] something like

Re: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 (no soundcard installed)

2003-02-11 Thread Toralf Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 17:08:15 +0100, Toralf Lund wrote: In order to avoid annoying messages of the type modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 on a machine with no sound card installed, I've added alias sound-slot-0 off to /etc

Testing hdlist/comps etc. for customised install base?

2003-02-11 Thread Toralf Lund
steps or something like that? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 ProCaptura AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard) http://www.procaptura.com/~toralf +47 66 85 51 01 (fax) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 (no soundcard installed)

2003-02-07 Thread Toralf Lund
In order to avoid annoying messages of the type modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 on a machine with no sound card installed, I've added alias sound-slot-0 off to /etc/modules.conf. This seems to work rather well, but I'm still left with a lot of modprobe: Can't locate module

Re: XFS with RedHat?

2003-01-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi! As I'm thinking about switching to RedHat, I'd also like to know, if RedHat supports XFS (the filesystem)? I don't think they do. However, SGI supply kernels based on the Red Hat sources. See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ BTW, from what I hear, the 1.2 Pre-release is really quite stable

Change order of SCSI devices (/dev/sdN)?

2003-01-15 Thread Toralf Lund
id will then change. Is there a way I can change the device id assignment order so that the system id. is constant? Simple reversal of the order (i.e. _last_ disk as /dev/sda) would do just fine. -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 ProCaptura AS +47 66 85 51 00

Re: How to create /dev files for optional hardware (kudzu support)?

2003-01-14 Thread Toralf Lund
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Toralf Lund wrote: There should be a MAKEDEV executable in /dev, assuming you've got the MAKEDEV package installed (rpm -q MAKEDEV). If so, su to root, and just cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV hda Yes, I get that's part of the answer to my questions. However, I've never called

Re: kudzu: Device major mismatch

2003-01-14 Thread Toralf Lund
To add auto detection/automatic driver setup for a frame grabber board which has a custom Linux driver. I've managed to get kudzu to add the following line: alias char-major-81 itifg to /etc/modules.conf However, after loading the module I get cat /proc/devices Character devices: [ ... ] 254

Re: Finding/tracking memory leaks?

2003-01-14 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi all - I had a query from a collegue as to how to find/track memory leaks. Other than top, what is a good tool to track memory usage? Thanks! There is a Linux version of Purify (commercial), you should find out more on http://www.rational.com/. The dmalloc library (freeware; included with

Re: How to create /dev files for optional hardware (kudzu support)?

2003-01-13 Thread Toralf Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 January 2003 11:07 am, Toralf Lund wrote: I have a driver for an optional hardware component (a frame grabber) that I want the system to set up automatically upon reboot after the hardware has been installed. I've managed to modify

Re: How to create /dev files for optional hardware (kudzu support)?

2003-01-13 Thread Toralf Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 January 2003 11:07 am, Toralf Lund wrote: I have a driver for an optional hardware component (a frame grabber) that I want the system to set up automatically upon reboot after the hardware has been installed. I've managed to modify

Re: How to create /dev files for optional hardware (kudzu support)?

2003-01-13 Thread Toralf Lund
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Toralf Lund wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 January 2003 11:07 am, Toralf Lund wrote: I have a driver for an optional hardware component (a frame grabber) that I want the system to set up automatically upon reboot after

Re: How to create /dev files for optional hardware (kudzu support)?

2003-01-13 Thread Toralf Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 January 2003 07:39 am, Toralf Lund wrote: 'man mknod' for details, but basic usage is: mknod NAME TYPE MAJOR MINOR I had a feeling someone would misunderstand my request... I *know* how a device file may be created

Re: How to create /dev files for optional hardware (kudzu support)?

2003-01-13 Thread Toralf Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 10 January 2003 11:07 am, Toralf Lund wrote: I have a driver for an optional hardware component (a frame grabber) that I want the system to set up automatically upon reboot after the hardware has been installed. I've managed to modify

kudzu: Device major mismatch

2003-01-13 Thread Toralf Lund
itifg In other words the module registers itself with major id. 254, while I would assume 81 from the modules.conf entry. Any ideas why? How exactly does kudzu determine device ids? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 ProCaptura AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard

How to create /dev files for optional hardware (kudzu support)?

2003-01-10 Thread Toralf Lund
update /etc/modules.conf (after the usual user confirmation.) However, I also need to create special device files for the unit. What's the best/recommended way of doing that? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 ProCaptura AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard) http

Sound module errors from modprobe when no sound card is installed

2002-12-23 Thread Toralf Lund
locate module sound-service-0-3 (Continually; not just during boot.) Why? Any way to prevent this? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 ProCaptura AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard) http://www.procaptura.com/~toralf +47 66 85 51 01 (fax) -- redhat-list

mtx problems on Qualstar 4222

2002-11-18 Thread Toralf Lund
We're trying to set up a Qualstar 4222 tape library on a Red Hat 7.3 system. Most operations work fine, but I'm not able to switch tapes using 'mtx next' or similar. Behaviour is rather like the one described under bugs and limitations in the mtx manual page, i.e. it will sit there

BroadCom BCM4401 network on Red Hat 7.3

2002-10-22 Thread Toralf Lund
We have a new mainboard (Asus A7V8X) with an integrated BroadCom BCM4401 LAN controller. Is there a Red Hat 7.3 driver driver for this network chip? Note that bcm5700.o or tg3.o do not appear to work. - Toralf -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: Real Player for linux

2002-10-14 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi folks, I'm a linux newbie, just bitten by the linux bug :-) I've installed linux 7.3. i 686, kernal 2.4-18 I've tried to download real player for linux 7.3, n the way I went abt it was : http://forms.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html, I was in a dilema of selecting the

Viewer for LARGE images

2002-10-11 Thread Toralf Lund
ago, but I'm hoping that has changed now, so that I can stop maintaining the old beast (it doesn't have a lot of features, it's UI is somewhat old fashioned, and I'd like to spend time on more original work...) -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 Kongsberg Scanners

Re: Keyboard problems with switchbox (again)

2002-10-04 Thread Toralf Lund
I have tried with different keyboards and also changed the keyboard type using anaconda --reconfig all with the same result. Does anyone understand what is going on here? -- - Toralf Toralf, Manual switch boxes are ALWAYS very unreliable. While switching, you're

Keyboard problems with switchbox (again)

2002-10-03 Thread Toralf Lund
And now a re-run of one of last weeks problems... I have some more information now, though, but still no idea about how to resolve the issue. We have a PC running Red Hat 7.3 that shares keyboard, mouse and monitor with a different system via a manual switchbox. PC1 : Keyboard/mouse/monitor

Re: CD-RW Support

2002-09-25 Thread Toralf Lund
Does anyone know of a way to get Kudzu (RH7.2) to detect CD-RW drives (particularly Philips brand CD-RW's)? Hmmm. We have a number of CD and DVD RWs here, and they are all detected just fine. Haven't tried the ones from Philips, though. What exactly happens? What do you get, if anything at

Re: Keyboard problems when connecting via switchbox

2002-09-25 Thread Toralf Lund
Maybe the keyboard emulator of your KVM is different than your current keyboard driver. The keyboard is constantly sending a signal to the mother board to ensure it is still there. When you switch your KVM, the KVM then in turn sends a signal to the motherboard, it seems like the OS is

Keyboard problems when connecting via switchbox

2002-09-23 Thread Toralf Lund
in text mode and under X, and found no way out except to reboot. I also tried again several times, with the same results. Any idea why this happened? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com

Re: RHL on Asus A7N266-VM (nForce chipset)?

2002-09-03 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm trying to set up Red Hat Linux 7.3 on an A7N266-VM mainboard, which as the nForce-220D chipset with integrated graphics, sound and LAN. Installation worked just fine, but: 1. Boot using GRUB fails with message: 28 : Selected item cannot fit into memory Fortunately, syslinux

Re: Java completely non-functional?

2002-09-01 Thread Toralf Lund
Hello, I'm running a fresh installation of RedHat 7.3, and it seems no Java-based application will run. Netscape 6's XUL-based panels all come up blank, no applets will run, and I cannot run any JAR files because my shell can't find a java executable. Not only have I installed the

RHL on Asus A7N266-VM (nForce chipset)?

2002-08-31 Thread Toralf Lund
I'm trying to set up Red Hat Linux 7.3 on an A7N266-VM mainboard, which as the nForce-220D chipset with integrated graphics, sound and LAN. Installation worked just fine, but: 1. Boot using GRUB fails with message: 28 : Selected item cannot fit into memory Fortunately, syslinux

Whatever happened to Red Hat ContribNet?

2002-08-28 Thread Toralf Lund
Looks like the packages on http://rhcontrib.bero.org/ haven't been updated since last year. What has happened? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 Kongsberg Scanners AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard) http://www.kscanners.no/~toralf +47 66 85 51 01 (fax

Alt-Gr key when Xkb i disabled

2002-08-22 Thread Toralf Lund
, but I really think that shouldn't be necessary... -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 Kongsberg Scanners AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard) http://www.kscanners.no/~toralf +47 66 85 51 01 (fax) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject

Re: xmms-gnome?

2002-08-15 Thread Toralf Lund
Another package from the OS distribution that causes conflict when upgrading to GNOMEhide packages, is xmms-gnome. Again, the package is not in GNOMEhide or Raw Hide. Why? Now a Bugzilla issue - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71507 -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED

Maximum file size?

2002-08-14 Thread Toralf Lund
What is the maximum file size on a normal Red Hat setup these days? (i.e. on 7.2 or 7.3 using ext3) I seem to remember hitting the roof at 2Gb in the past, but (fortunately) it looks like I can create files larger than that now. Related question: Where is it documented? - Toralf --

Re: Maximum file size?

2002-08-14 Thread Toralf Lund
What is the maximum file size on a normal Red Hat setup these days? (i.e. on 7.2 or 7.3 using ext3) I seem to remember hitting the roof at 2Gb in the past, but (fortunately) it looks like I can create files larger than that now. That's not quite true. I can create files larger than 2Gb, or

Re: Maximum file size?

2002-08-14 Thread Toralf Lund
What is the maximum file size on a normal Red Hat setup these days? (i.e. on 7.2 or 7.3 using ext3) I seem to remember hitting the roof at 2Gb in the past, but (fortunately) it looks like I can create files larger than that now. That's not quite true. I can create files larger than 2Gb,

Re: 'fixperm' tool?

2002-07-11 Thread Toralf Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 July 2002 08:44 am, Toralf Lund wrote: I notice that linuxconf is gone from the Red Hat distribution as of version 7.3. I don't really mind about the config tool, but I was using /sbin/fixperm in one of my configuration update

'fixperm' tool?

2002-07-08 Thread Toralf Lund
I notice that linuxconf is gone from the Red Hat distribution as of version 7.3. I don't really mind about the config tool, but I was using /sbin/fixperm in one of my configuration update scripts (or rather, an rpm trigger). Is there an alternative to this utility? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL

Low refresh rate under XFree86 (Toshiba Laptop with Red Hat 7.3)

2002-06-26 Thread Toralf Lund
clearly that doesn't limit the rate. I also suspected that failure to find all the video RAM was the problem, but inserting VideoRam 16384 into the devices section did not help. Any idea what else might be wrong? How exactly is the refresh rate determined, anyway? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL

Re: Opps...

2002-06-14 Thread Toralf Lund
Here's the thing though. I am planning a HUGE migration from Microsoft to Linux in a K-12 school system. This includes servers AND workstations. Now, trust me, I'm not fan of Microsoft, I downright despise them. However, would any kid in the network get his hand

Re: DHCP boot problems

2002-06-12 Thread Toralf Lund
[ ... ] Is there anything else I must do to get rid of the packet filters? Or could the DHCP failure have a different cause? It turns out that the host doesn't get the address properly when booting with the network installation CD (no, I wasn't going to re-install, I just wanted to test a

DHCP boot problems

2002-06-11 Thread Toralf Lund
the same network configuration (and also the same type of Ethernet card) as others were dynamic network setup works just fine, as far as I can tell. Any ideas what might be wrong? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 Kongsberg Scanners AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard

Re: DHCP boot problems

2002-06-11 Thread Toralf Lund
Are you running IPchains or IPtables on the server? If so, make sure you open up both ports 67 and 68, for both TCP and UDP, on the interface you are using for the internal network. Not on the server, by it turned out they were running on the client even though I didn't want them to (which

How to set up DHCP client (static vs. dynamic address, localhost alias etc.)?

2002-06-11 Thread Toralf Lund
on this issue. Does anyone with a similar setup, i.e. network with multiple hosts configured via DHCP, some of which may be disconnected and run stand-alone, or even connected to a different net, possibly without even rebooting, have anything to say? -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22

Re: DHCP boot problems

2002-06-11 Thread Toralf Lund
Are you running IPchains or IPtables on the server? If so, make sure you open up both ports 67 and 68, for both TCP and UDP, on the interface you are using for the internal network. Not on the server, by it turned out they were running on the client even though I didn't want them to

Re: Cannot view html files in mutt

2002-05-21 Thread Toralf Lund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Hi all, We are running RH7.2 on a server in text mode. When trying to view HTML files using mutt I get the following error h: /usr/bin/htmlview: No such file or directory This was not a problem in 7.0 The file would just open in

Low level disk check utility (NOT fsck)?

2002-05-13 Thread Toralf Lund
. (Or alternatively, prove that the hardware is OK and put the blame on the file system.) -- Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] +47 66 85 51 22 Kongsberg Scanners AS +47 66 85 51 00 (switchboard) http://www.kscanners.no/~toralf +47 66 85 51 01 (fax

Re: Why full fsck with ext3?

2002-05-10 Thread Toralf Lund
.img to /boot/grub/grub.conf and run mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.9-31.img 2.4.9-31 Now trying a reboot... Yes, that did the trick. Thanks! - Toralf -Original Message- From: Toralf Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 6:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Disk check?

2002-05-10 Thread Toralf Lund
2. Select the special menu 3. Set DMA mode for all disks to 0 4. Set Ultra DMA mode to enable exit and restart. -Original Message- From: Toralf Lund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 7:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Disk check? We have a Red Hat

Re: RH no install on athlon board

2002-05-10 Thread Toralf Lund
On 10/05 2002 02:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A buddy of mine has a rather peculiar problem: he can install RH 7.1 on his home system but 7.2 and 7.3 bomb out. Soltec motherboard with athlon CPU. Anybody have any clues? A google search only came up with some hits about radi controllers being a

Re: imap client

2002-04-26 Thread Toralf Lund
On 26/04 2002 00:54 Michael Scottaline wrote: On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:07:57 -0500 Ezra Nugroho [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Does anyone know of a good IMAP client? The best one so far is Mozilla mail, but maybe there are others. == I prefer

Re: Where is keyboard type stored?

2002-04-24 Thread Toralf Lund
On 23/04 2002 21:12 Ray Curtis wrote: tl == Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tl I recently got minor problems with my Red Hat 7.2 setup because I had tl somehow changed the keyboard type from 101 key to 105 key by mistake. tl What was worse, I wasn't able to change

Where is keyboard type stored?

2002-04-23 Thread Toralf Lund
I recently got minor problems with my Red Hat 7.2 setup because I had somehow changed the keyboard type from 101 key to 105 key by mistake. What was worse, I wasn't able to change it back using 'anaconda --reconfig' because that command would crash. I the started looking around to see if I

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-18 Thread Toralf Lund
On 18/04 2002 16:05 Havoc Pennington wrote: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What exactly is missing? It can't be the actual package handlers because they're in /usr/lib/vfs/extfs, as far as I can tell... Well you'd need a gnome-vfs module that understands how to use those