Linux-Misc Digest #368, Volume #18 Sun, 27 Dec 98 18:13:10 EST
Contents:
SoundDriver MAD16 (Ulrich Brachvogel)
Re: US Robotics Model 5686 (Duncan Simpson)
Re: Time Synch (Ivo Naninck)
Mount (or /dev/cdrom) problem (Boris Statnikov)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Victor Danilchenko)
Re: Two Epson Stylus Color 640 questions (Peter Bradley)
Re: ln: Musty smell to its man page (NF Stevens)
Re: Infringement of the GPL ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
APS Filter Remote Printer (Martin Bartsch)
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From: Ulrich Brachvogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundDriver MAD16
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:13:40 +0100
When booting my Linux (S.u.S.e 5.1) the system stops after the message:
Sound Initialization complete for about 30 sec.
According to Chip Magazin 12/98 this might be due tu search for a CD-ROM
Interace on the soundcard. With SBPro one can avoid this by passing the
parameter sbpcd=off at boottime. This doesnt work with the opti 92x chip.
Is there any parameter which could do this?
Thanks for help :=)) Ulrich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Simpson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: US Robotics Model 5686
Date: 21 Dec 1998 16:33:43 GMT
In <75k2ff$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Art" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Doug wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Have a question. I know some US Robotics runm with Linux. I know model#
>>5685,5687 do.
>>I can get a 5686,it is an external fax Modem. I know they say all
>>externals worek but had problems with some company's . Soince my ISP
>>uses US Robotics X2 and V90,I figured I would go with this mode,m. Just
>>would like to know if anyone is using this modem or who knows if model
>>5686 will run. I have been to a lot of web pages about modems
>>researching did not see this one
>Hmm.
>I'm having a problem logging on!
>I am using EzPPP V1.09b, but I didn't have an option for selecting modems.
>I just accepted the defaults, but it's not working!
You have been fooled by windows. All modems speak Hayes commands. If windows
had a "generic hayes" option it would work with any current modem. You rarely
need more than an option for any hayes modem for most of the rest of the features
too. (FAX has been standardised and ATZ generally enables all speeds anyway).
Connect with kermit next time and keep a record of the prompts. This
will allow you to write a good expect script. There are 3 major
vairants I know of:
1st variation: authenticate with PAP when connected (what my ISP used to like)
ATZ OK
"ATDT <phone number>" CONNECT
[now hit pppd and it will use PAP, CHAP or MSCHAP]
2nd: unix shell and some portmasters (my ISP's current configuration)
ATZ OK
"ATDT <phone number>"
ogin: me
ssword: secret
[now hit pppd]
3rd varaiton: Various others sorts of annexes (old ECS annex)
ATZ OK
"ATDT <phone number>"
ogin: me
ssword: secret
otocol: ppp
[Now hit pppd]
me and secret are not a valid user and password combination. (Actually I
have 3 dail-up accounts at present...). My USR external olnly works reliably
with the lid taken off. I will be getting a V90 modem from someone other than
USR (according to my ISP people using USR modems have trouble connecting to
them).
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From: Ivo Naninck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Time Synch
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:20:54 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Look @ http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/
Then, in my ip-up script I have
# Synchronizing time with NTP-server
# next line updates the OS-time
/usr/local/bin/ntpdate -u ntp0.nl.net >> /var/adm/messages
/bin/date >> /var/adm/messages
/usr/bin/sleep 1
# next line updates the hardware-clock
/sbin/clock -w
/usr/bin/sleep 1
# End synchronizing
Works flawlessly!
> David Steuber wrote:
>
> I am looking for a little utility that I can run from cron to set the
> time on my Linux machine by connecting to port 13 or 37 on a standard
> time server on the east coast of the USA.
>
> I've also noticed that I am not running either the daytime (port 13)
> or the time (port 37) services. I would like those to start when the
> machine boots up. How do I do that?
>
> I have SuSE 5.3 distribution of Linux.
--
Best regards, and don't let the bits byte!
Ivo Naninck.
~
~
:wq!
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From: Boris Statnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mount (or /dev/cdrom) problem
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:43:16 GMT
I have a newly installed RH 5.1 system which I installed off the CD.
Now it cannot mount CDs anymore:
mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
I have tried other cd devices, incl. /dev/hdc1 just in case. I have
also tried insmod isofs. Any ideas?
Thanks so much!
Boris
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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 15:58:35 -0500
From: Victor Danilchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Floyd Davidson wrote:
>
> Martin Skj�ldebrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Mading) wrote:
> >
> > >: Steve Mading wrote:
> >>: >: [...]
> >>: >: >and 2 - I don't want a $PATH
> >>: >: > variable that's over 1000 letters long because of all the /opt/yadda
> >>: >: > directories in it.
> >
> >I don't think the argument holds really. Why can't you simply install
> >a linked file in, say, /usr/local/bin that says "/opt/yadda/app &"?
> >Then you only add /usr/local/bin to $PATH.
> >
> >Or am I missing something?
>
> You have to link every single executable file. That is
> indeed one way to accomplish it, and it works well for packages
> that keep only one or two external entry points. (XEmacs is one
> example that I like to use.) However, that doesn't work well
> for netpbm or for X as a couple of examples.
Ummm, that's what "foreach" loops are for.
cd /usr/X11R6/bin
for i in /opt/kde/bin/*
do
ln -s $i
done
As easy to undo as it is to implement... And even allows you to keep
record of where everything came from, in case you don't use some package
management.
--
| Victor A. Danilchenko CSCF support |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] A313, 5-4231 |
+--------------------------------------------+
| Quando omni flunkus, moritati. |
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From: Peter Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Two Epson Stylus Color 640 questions
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:27:27 +0000
Ramin Sina wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have an Epson Stylus Color 640 connected to my suse 5.2 machine and I
> can use the lpr command line to print text files with it. But I have a
> problem printing postscript with either lpr or with the print command
> within ghostview: I get many many pages of textfile garbage. I have gs
> 5.5 on the machine and I know it does support uniprint. I have two
> questions:
>
> 1) What command line I use, or what is the best way, to print
> postscript ?
> 2) What process should I kill to stop the printer from printing garbage.
> I killed lpd and restarted it, and turned the printer off and on, and it
> still kept printing garbage.
>
> Thanks,
> Ramin
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Ramin Sina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Ramin,
I'm no expert, so if a real guru has written to you please feel free to
ignore this. My only qualification is that I've got my Epson Stylus to
print after many months and lots of help from the newsgroups.
Firstly, can you tell me what the permissions are on your /etc/printcap
file and your filter file (assuming you have one - and I guess you do).
Also what are the contents of those two files?
Do you have a problem printing directly from GhostScript? i.e. does
something like this work?
gs @stc.upp -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 <somefile.ps> -c quit
where /dev/lp1 is the device for your printer (substitute lp0 or whatever
if lp1 is not right); and where <somefile.ps> is a PotstScript file - you
might try something like:
/usr/share/ghostscript/5.10/examples/tiger.ps
Regards
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: ln: Musty smell to its man page
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 16:46:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Mading) wrote:
[snip]
>Wrong. The *real* solution is one that the filesystem layout doesn't
>allow. The *real* solution is to say that if someone wants to link
>to one of my files that's just great, but when I delete all of *my*
>filenames for it, then it should no longer be owned by me. (This isn't
>possible, but it's the only thing that would satisfy me 100%. Your
>rm aliasing is probably what I will resort to, but I will always
>consider it a work-around, not a real solution.) The problem stems
>from the fact that when user foo makes a hardlink, there is no record
>in the filesystem that that link was made by him.
IMHO the "real" solution would be for disk space accounting to work
by directory as well as file owner. If you own a directory then you
are "charged" for all the files in it. In shared directories the owner
of the file would be "charged" for it. A file with, say, 4 hard links
would count for one quarter of its size in each directory where it
can be found.
Norman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Infringement of the GPL
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 18:50:53 GMT
steve mcadams writes:
> I want to write the code I want to write when I want to write it the way
> I want to write it, and not starve while I'm doing it, and not kiss every
> customer's ass on the way,...
Neither the free nor the proprietary system can help you achieve this. You
can't sell anything without dealing with customers. Your choices are
customers, a boss, or subsistence farming.
--
John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will.
Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.
Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Bartsch)
Subject: APS Filter Remote Printer
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 21:30:47 GMT
Who can I installed more then one remote printer queues for the same
apsfilter type e. g. ljet4l.
One remote printer queue is no problem, but more?
--
Martin Bartsch, Cologne, Germany
http://www.martin.bartsch.com
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