Linux-Hardware Digest #623, Volume #9 Wed, 10 Mar 99 18:13:38 EST
Contents:
Re: sound (**Nick Brown)
Re: hard disk partitioning problems ("Pawel")
Re: why AMD386 = GenuineIntel? (Dale Pontius)
Re: init_module: device or resource busy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: hard disk partitioning problems (Klaus Voelker)
Using Sun 5c keyboard with Linux? (Daniel Herrington)
bad superblock? (Rick Luna)
Re: SCSI cables (Robert Schiele)
HOW CAN I FORMAT DAT TAPES?? (david horner)
Re: user app can crash Linux? (Tom Herman)
Re: AMD vs. Cyrix vs. Pentium MMX (Greg Yantz)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Buying a new computer for linux (Greg Yantz)
Using a Syquest SyJet (Ken Creppin)
Re: Help Asus P2B-DS owners! (Jeff Johnson)
Diamond FireGL1000 Pro (Hon Yee)
Madman needs urgent help to fix the last two problems he has! (Adam Rykala)
HD Problems... HELP!!!! ("James Kosin")
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:28:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rebuild the kernel without any sound support. I think the standard
2.0.36 kernel has this turned off as well.
Groetjes
Haaino Beljaars wrote:
> linux still tries to locate the sound card. What should I do make linux
> confinced that I don't have a sound card anymore?
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From: "Pawel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard disk partitioning problems
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:09:18 +0100
Hi !!
I have also Quantum 6,4 GB. I solved this problem with Partition Magic, it's
veru helpful, when you want to do something with your hard drives.
I have primary partition C: with win95, and second logic and extended D: for
win too.
These two disks need about 3,5 GB, the rest I have used for Linux native and
Swap.
With Partition Magic there are no problems
Pawel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: why AMD386 = GenuineIntel?
Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:19:50 GMT
In article <7c5ut1$mi4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz) writes:
> On an AMD 386 DX 33 Linux 2.0.36's /proc/cpuinfo reports:
>
> cpu : 386
> model : 386 SX/DX
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
>
> Bug or feature?
Because at the time, IIRC, AMD was a second source for Intel,
and was running the Intel mask set in their own fabs. This
type of agreement (There were other second sources.) largely
died with the 386.
Dale Pontius
(NOT speaking for IBM)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: init_module: device or resource busy
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:19:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
J J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm, puzzling.
>
> Have you done an lsmod to be sure the module isn't already loaded ?
> I take it the 3c509 is PCI ? If so, if you cat /proc/pci do you see it ?
> If you cat /proc/ioports do you see eth0 ? If so, maybe you compiled
> the driver into the kernel, rather than as a module.
>
> Hope that helps,
> J J
>
> dave caputo wrote:
>
> > i just started getting this error while trying to install my 3c509 module
> > ...
> >
> > init_module: device or resource busy
> >
> > this had been working for years, and now doesn't ... the most significant
> > change i made today was going into windows for the first time in a looong
> > time ... i think things still worked after that though, which is puzzling
> > ...
> >
> > i've tried putting the card into pnp mode and using isapnptools, which
> > seemed to configure it correctly, and also disabling pnp and setting the
> > card with the 3com install program -- no luck ... still works for windows
> > though ... there are no irq or ioport conflicts that i can see, and i
> > can't think of any reason why it would be thought that the 'device or
> > resource' is busy ...
> >
> > any help?
> >
> > -dave
> >
> > --
> >
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> > dave caputo | And you may ask yourself \ ceci n'est ___
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Am I right?...Am I wrong? \ pas une ___
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>
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From: Klaus Voelker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard disk partitioning problems
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:29:50 -0800
The version of fdisk I use doesn't even allow you to create more than four
primary partitions. I am using the following partition table:
hdc1 256MB Linux native (/)
hdc2 128MB Linux swap
hdc3 Extended
hdc4 ~2MB DOS 16-Bit
The extended partition then contains:
hdc5 256MB Linux native (/home)
hdc6 2048MB Linux native (/usr)
hdc7 768MB Linux native (/usr/local)
hdc8 768MB Linux native (/opt)
>From what I read in the HowTo's, the problem is that Linux and Windows
interpret the partition table in a different way: Linux uses linear mode (that
means, it goes strictly by sector number), while Windows uses some scheme
involving cylinder, track, and sector number (which is quite complicated for
large hard disks because of some BIOS limitations). Unfortunately, I don't
get a clue out of the HowTo's on how to work around or fix the problem...
David Kirkpatrick wrote:
> Klaus,
> Just a guess but there is some confusion with druid and making
> partitions - it sometimes lets you define things and the checks are not
> very robust. Later is will make some adjustments on its own to correct
> thing and the corrected partitions may not be exacely as specified.
> If you use fdisk - safer - you can only make 4 primary partitions, or
> three primaries and make one extended - the extended then becomes the
> housing for more parts numberer from 5 and up.
> So I'm not help on what to do now but if you did make several parts
> and it complained and you went on anyway you probably got caught by the
> above and may be experiencing problems because of it. But this may be
> usefull info should the worse occur and you are required to revisit disk
> druid and fdisk.
> d
>
> Klaus Voelker wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently installed a new 6.4GB harddrive (Quantum Fireball) on my
> > system (Abit BH6 board with Celeron 300A, running RedHat Linux 5.2 and
> > Win95). I'm using it as secondary master. I created several partitions
> > to use under Linux, as well as one large DOS partition, to use under
> > Windows 95. I encountered the following problems:
> >
> > * Disk Druid would not accept the first partition I defined, and reply
> > with 'unknown error'. If I ignore this and define additional
> > partitions, they are accepted. Since this seemed very suspicious to me,
> > I chose to use fdisk to partition my disk:
> >
> > * When using fdisk's 'verify partition table' option, it complained that
> > my Linux partitions would overlap, although they certainly do not by
> > sector number. Does this simply mean that the second partitions starts
> > in the middle of a cylinder, so that two partitions share the same
> > cylinder? Is it OK to ignore these warnings, or might there be serious
> > trouble here?
> >
> > Well, I chose to ignore the warning messages, and both the Linux system
> > and the DOS partition work fine by themselves. However, I configured
> > the partitions in such a way that there was NO overlap reported between
> > my last Linux partition and the DOS partition. Nevertheless:
> >
> > * After working under Linux for a while, my DOS partition became
> > unusable, and could be read neither by Windows95 nor under DOS. I had
> > to reformat the partition. This, however, messed up the Linux system
> > and made my last Linux partition unusable.
> >
> > It seems that there IS some overlap between the last Linux partition and
> > the DOS partition, or, that Windows and Linux don't agree on the
> > location of the partitions. I tried to read the HowTo's on this topic,
> > but didn't feel smarter afterwards. Can anyone give me detailed
> > instructions on how to resolve this problem????
> >
> > Thanks!!!!
> >
> > Klaus
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
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From: Daniel Herrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os..linux.misc
Subject: Using Sun 5c keyboard with Linux?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 11:36:48 -0600
Does anyone know how to attach a sun 5c keyboard to a pc for use
with Linux and X-windows? The connector looks like a PS/2 style one,
but I have no idea what the pinout or serial protocol is... and the
mouse plugs into the keyboard. I would assume the protocol is Sun
proprietary, not the generic PC keyboard and mouse protocols. The
connector has more pins than the standard 5-pin mini-DIN for PS/2, which
I guess is due to the mouse signals passing through the keyboard.
Are there any sites with this information? Even just a pinout would
be helpful. I could then try capturing the serial streams for given
keypresses or mouse actions with a digital scope, and put a translation
table in a microcontroller in-line between the keyboard and the pc.
Any suggestions? Is there already a commercially-sold adapter to do
this?
Regards,
--
Daniel Herrington
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rick Luna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: bad superblock?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:27:47 -0500
Hi,
I am trying to mount a partition on my disk which has win98 on it. Linux
(RH 5.0) is on the same disk in a seperate partition.
This is the error I receive when I try to mount it using fstool:
mount /dev/hda1
returned the following error
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too
many file systems
The file system must be vfat, since win98 is there. fstool shows the
partition type as being "unknown".
When I run cabaret, sometimes i can see all the mountable drives,
sometimes not, sometimes i see multiple instances of /dev/hda1.
Any ideas on how to proceed? Can't get WINE to run if I can't get to
windows...
What is a "bad superblock?. Win98 has been crashing a lot lately, so I'm
seriously considering reformatting that partition and starting over.
Thanks,
Rick
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From: Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI cables
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:30:54 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dear forum,
>
> I have an Intel DAKOTA motherboard with onboard SCSI interface (AIC7xxx).
> When I boot Linux on my PC, I get the following messages:
>
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 9/0
> (scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 404 instructions downloaded
> (scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 9/1
> (scsi1) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
> (scsi1) Warning - detected auto-termination
> (scsi1) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
> (scsi1) If not, then please properly set the device termination
> (scsi1) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
> (scsi1) during machine bootup.
> (scsi1) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 YES)
> (scsi1) Illegal cable configuration!! Only two
> (scsi1) connectors on the SCSI controller may be in use at a time!
> (scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 404 instructions downloaded
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.4/3.2.4
> <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
> scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.4/3.2.4
> <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
>
> Is this error critical? My computer seems to work fine. Is there a way to use
> all three cables at the same time? I have my Tape streamer on the Int-50, my
> harddisk on the Int-68 and a JAZ drive on the Ext-68.
>
> Thanks for explaining me this, --Philippe
>
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On scsi all devices have to be connected to ONE string. That means is a
beginning and an ending of the cable which both must be terminated to
avoid signal reflection. If you have three cables, it means that each
signal not coming from the controller is splitted when it passes the
controller, which means that it becomes weaker. In most cases it works
in the configuration you described, because most communication is from
controller to an other device or backwards.
BUT: With this configuration you make your scsi bus unreliable, which
will slow down your scsi bus, because this configuration produces
communication errors from time to time. It would make sense to connect
your Tape streamer with an adapter to the Int-68 cable between the
harddisk and the controller.
Another important thing is that no end of cable is hanging around not
connected to any device, that means you must always connect one device
(or a terminator) to the end of the cable.
Robert
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From: david horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HOW CAN I FORMAT DAT TAPES??
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:40:30 -0800
I need to formatdat tapes . They are blank or mud.
How can I do it in linux 2.0.3?
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From: Tom Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: user app can crash Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:52:37 GMT
Sounds like you exceeded swap space. I exceeded swap space
on a 2.1.xxx kernel last year. My machine crashed.
Options are the usual:
1) Add more swap space.
2) Add more memory
3) Conserve memory by shutting down unused apps.
4) Figure out how to get Linux to gracefully handle
the situation.
HTH
Tom
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have the following question: is it normal that a simple application run
> from a regular user account to make the machine unusable?
>
> The following situation happened on a P2 laptop with 128M of RAM and 108M of
> swap and running linux-2.0.34 (shipped with RH5.1). The machine was running
> only the Xserver and fvwm: From a regular user account I started an Xgraph
> application on a really big file (19 megs). Xgraph is a program that wastes
> memory, but otherwise an ordinary one. After a while, when it became obvious
> that Xgraph will not be able to finish its job (the system started to trash
> the HDD) I tried to kill it. But any command given from a secondary xterm
> (ls, kill, rm etc.) simply dumped the core. Furthermore, the shell from which
> I started Xgraph announced that there is no VM available anymore. The single
> working solution was to do a hard reset.
>
> What can I do to prevent a regular user to put the machine into such
> situation? Can I limit the resource allocation to a given process? Why the
> kernel did not protect itself?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Serban
>
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From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD vs. Cyrix vs. Pentium MMX
Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:16:41 -0500
Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Greg H. wrote:
>
> Don't use AMDK6 if you don't want to mess in crasy problems.
There's nothing wrong with the K6, in general. Some of the early models
had problems, but it's been years since buggy K6's have been available
for sale. There are some limitations of Super 7 mb's and chipsets,
particularly wrt AGP, but for the most part it's fine.
> About the MMX support I may suggest you looking in the Bogomips howto.
> I enclose twos rate speed for Pentium200 with and without MMX
You advise reading the howto, but you didn't seem to understand it.
I can't allow this to go uncorrected, someone might think it means
something...
Attention! Bogomips are BOGOmips. Bogus-Mips. As in, the number means
nothing. It's just a timing calibration.
The one thing worth remembering is that there is a fixed ratio of
bogomips/mhz for a given processor. So you know that, when you boot
up, if you get the wrong # of bogomips for your cpu and mhz, you
have some kind of a hardware problem.
The P200 and P200MMX are different processors, so the ratio is different.
A P200MMX *is* faster in Linux, but only because of the larger L1 caches.
A P200MMX isn't 5 times as fast as a P200. Maybe 10% faster, maybe.
Example: A K6-2 gets ~2 bogomips/mhz. A PII gets ~1 bogomip/mhz, but we
wouldn't say a K6-2 is twice as fast as a PII at the same clock speed.
> Pentium/200 81.92 bogomips
> Pentium MMX/200 400.59 bogomips
>
> Interprete yourself but read the howto!
Yes, do.
-Greg
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: 10 Mar 1999 16:38:51 -0500
Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> > Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > >
> > > > Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > why would they do that? every linux install is a rejection of
> > > > windows.
> > >
> > > Circular logic ...
> >
> > how is this circular?
>
> Yer logic is this: "MS wants Windows everywhere so MS wants Windows
> eveywhere - QED". That's about as minimally circular as you can get
> !
that's not at all what i mean. my logic is this. if i install linux,
then windows *isn't* everywhere, viz., my linux box. it's about as
straightforward a proposition as you can get.
> > > > > When MS sees that it is able to make around $1billion/year in
> > > > > software sales on Linux, you will see them porting stuff. Be
> > > > > careful though, do you really want the "registry", "proc calls",
> > > > > "GDI", "Direct-X" on Linux ? Gee, MS would love it,
> > > >
> > > > this is going off on a strange tangent...
> > >
> > > Why ?
> >
> > because it is so far fetched.
>
> You prove to MS that they can sustain the buisness with Unix and you're
> it won't be so far fetched.
MS doesn't want to do business on unix. it could interfere with its
windows sales. if i could run ms-office on solaris, then i could make
a solid case to my boss to get rid of my pc running microsoft windows
and get me a sparcstation on my desktop. now everyone wouldn't
appreciate a solaris sparcstation, but i wager enough might that
microsoft won't try.
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From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Buying a new computer for linux
Date: 10 Mar 1999 17:20:59 -0500
Gerard Thornley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any driver that would work with a Sound Blaster Live? - I don't
> mind using an old driver that doesn't make full use of the facilities,
> because I will be using sound mostly from win95.
No, none at the moment. Creative has promised Linux support, and claims
to be working on a driver, but there is no support available now.
> Will I be able to use an LS-120 floppy drive from linux - more
> importantly, will I be able to boot from it?
Yes and I think so. There is a howto available.
> And finally, assuming no problems with the above, can anyone tell me if
> I'm going to have any obvious trouble running linux with the following
> spec:
>
> Pentium II 350MHz
> ABIT BX6 motherboard
> Panasonic LS-120
> Maxtor DiamondMax 4320 8.4Gb
> Creative Labs CL 36x CD-ROM drive
> Sound Blaster Live
> Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT
> 3-COM 3C-509B combo ISA network card
It's all just fine, except for the sound card. The TNT has support
in the latest XFree release.
> Thanks very much in advance...
Cheers.
-Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Creppin)
Subject: Using a Syquest SyJet
Date: 10 Mar 1999 20:35:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Creppin)
Hello,
A Linux Newbie here! Can someone assist me in mounting a parallel port
based SyJet on RedHat version 5.2? What files do I need, and where do I
find them?
Ken
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From: Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help Asus P2B-DS owners!
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:17:52 +0000
Marc,
The Adaptec driver that ships on the Redhat 5.1 distribution CD is not
mature enough to recognize the version of Adaptec chip that Asus uses on the
P2B series of motherboards. The version on the Redhat 5.2 CD is current
enough to recognize the chip. The 5.1 version of Adaptec driver only
recognizes the 788x series chips, found on early high-end motherboards like
the Intel DK440LX and PCI cards like the 2940UW, 2944UW and 3944UW. The
Ultra2 chip is the 7896 and is used on most current motherboards (Asus,
Tyan, Intel) and the 2940U2W PCI cards from Adaptec. The 7896 chip family is
supported in 2.0.36 releases and higher.
Now if that wasn't confusing enough, I have found out that all of the
coming high-end motherboards from the motherboard makers listed above will
be the Symbios/LSI Logic SMDS SCSI chipset and not the Adaptec family.
-Jeff
Marc Knoop wrote:
> I just built my system yesterday (PII450, 128MB, P2B-DS, IBM 9.1GB U2W,
> V550) and I am already stumped upon my installation of RedHat 5.1.
>
> After booting off the RH bootdisk, I am asked if I have any SCSI devices.
> I select YES, and then choose 'Adaptec 2740,2840,2940' (I've even tried
> all Adaptec). Choosing 'Auto___' at the next screen produces an error
> (can't find it or something like that) and if I choose 'Manual', I have
> zero idea what these 'module options' are.
>
> How'd you guys do it?!? I've installed DOS/W95 on the primary partition
> of my SCSI drive already.
>
> ../mk
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Subject: Diamond FireGL1000 Pro
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:21:37 -0600
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From: Adam Rykala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Madman needs urgent help to fix the last two problems he has!
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:23:32 +0000
I am throwing myself on the tender mercies of the court here. Once I get
these few minor niggles out of the way Windows 98 is going into the
great bit-bucket in the sky.
1) Faxing
As I work from home, I need the ability to fax - and broadcast fax
at that. I've heard HylaFax is pretty good at that - anyone got any
experience of that? Is it easy to configure? I'm Microsoft trained but
I've had enough of the con now, and this is the furthest I've got with
Linux ever. This machine is so close to being perfect M$ ain't got a
long lifespan left here. I guess I'm trying to say - I'm not a complete
klutz but not far from it!!!
2) Multiaccount Email Clients
I have two ISP accounts with multiple email addresses. Short of
setting up new users (which is a slow fix in Netscape) - anyone have any
ideas on a good email client with multiple pop3 account suppoort? Kmail?
3) Problems with Libaries...
To put you in the picture - my setup is
Cyrix MII 300MMX / 96mb Ram / Permedia 2 Video / 9 + 4 gb SCSI HDD's
(4gb MS but not long, 9 gb Linux) - Redhat 5.1 patched to 2.2.0 and the
Permedia 2 X Server from SuSE Linux 5.2 (which I also have here) / Star
Office 5 (No more MS Office and that stupid paperclip!! WooHoo)
In attempting to install GNOME i've screwed up a few things -
Linuxconf gives a "remadmin (GUI frontend) terminating abnormally"
error while running remadmin gives a "/usr/bin/gnome-linuxconf: error in
loading shared libraries, /usr/lib/libgnome.so.0: undefined symbol:
GTK_TYPE_GDK_COLOR" error. Enlightenment goes all funny with no text in
boxes and nothing working - KDE won't start at all with empty
KFM windows (which is a real shame cause kmail fixes problem 2
apparently) and so I am stuck with AfterStep.
I've reinstalled the GTK libs and stuff several times and I seem to
be runnning around in circles to be honest with this. I know its a
conflict but I can't find where. I've screwed up the libs I know.
Please help if you can - it'll contribute to the death of Windows 98
for me...!
Diolch yn fawr (Thank you very much)
Adam Rykala / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "James Kosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD Problems... HELP!!!!
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:29:44 GMT
Anyone.... Please HELP.
I've had problems with RH Linux and my HD since day 1... I can run
diagnostics on my hard drive and everything comes out OK. Works great
on Windows 98.
The controller is an Intel 440FX chipset ...
I'm running a PII Overdrive 333MHz CPU and 256MB of memory.
2 - WD Hard-Drives one 5.1G and one 4.0G drive.
Anyone have any good suggestions???
My HD's are good. Memory is good. CPU almost brand new.
Thanks,
James Kosin
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