Linux-Misc Digest #449, Volume #18 Sun, 3 Jan 99 15:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Nix)
Re: RAMDISK in RedHat 5.2, what are them for? Can remove them? (Choon-Cheng Chee
(remove "removethis" in my e-mail))
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Anthony Ord)
NEWBIE : emacs emulation and class/function browsing (Benjamin GOLINVAUX)
Re: Advice on building an AXP Linux system ("His Holiness the Reverend Doktor
Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated")
Re: rpm not working
Semaphores problem (Bruno Quesnel)
Sybase (Scott Staley)
Printing only odd/even pages of postscript (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
Red Hat Linux 5.2 (Dale Erwin)
Re: Install KDE (Jens Kristian S��gaard)
Partitions ("Tom")
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Steve Simmons)
Re: rpm not working (Wayne Kelly)
boot.log turn on? ("Bruce H. Johnson")
PPP/Online with Cwix.com ISP (Draco)
Re: rpm not working (Wayne Kelly)
Help with soundcard in redhat 5.2 ("Billy Bob")
[ANNOUNCE] muLinux V3r0 (Michele Andreoli)
Re: Strange Problem (S. Morrow)
Re: Emacs problem under AfterStep (Gary Momarison)
Very Simple Audio Questions (Pete)
Upgrading Kernel from 2.0.29 to 2.0.36 (Roger Millington)
Re: Very Simple Audio Questions (Marc)
Re: Emacs problem under AfterStep (Tommy Johnsson)
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From: Nix <$}xin{[email protected]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 03 Jan 1999 14:26:42 +0000
"Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For every /opt/package/bin
> For every file in that directory
> diff file /opt/bin/file
> case file doesn't exist in /opt/bin
> create hard link
> case files are identical copies
> create hard link from /opt/bin overwriting /opt/package/bin
> case files are the same file
> ignore
ITYM `symlink'. HTH. (/opt may well be on a different filesystem to
/usr/bin.)
Also, what about stuff other than stuff in /bin?
GNU stow does what you seem to be wanting, anyway.
> That'll hiccup if there are two different files with the same name, but
stow handles cases where you've symlinked a directory into place
because the whole directory is newly arrived with some package (eg
/usr/share/aclocal) but now you've got something else and it's added
more files into that directory.
It's really quite a nice perl script, if with a couple of minor
glitches in its error-reporting code.
> E.g. StarOffice expects you
> to install glibc into /opt/SO50/lib if you have a libc5 system.
*urgh*
Sick.
--
`Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack
away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
managed a software project.' - Andy Tanenbaum in 1992 on comp.os.minix
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Choon-Cheng Chee (remove "removethis" in my e-mail))
Subject: Re: RAMDISK in RedHat 5.2, what are them for? Can remove them?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 15:30:37 GMT
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999 12:51:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy
Mathers) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Choon-Cheng Chee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have just upgraded a RH 4.1 to RH5.2. I noticed that there are a
>>number of RAMdisks being created when the system boots up. Any idea
>>what are they used for? Is it advisible to remove them to save memory?
>
>I imagine you are referring to the "Created 16 RAMdisks of 4096 bytes"
>message that appears on boot. Don't worry about it.
Yes, exactly. 8)
>
>No memory is used until you actually allocate the RAM disks (with
>mke2fs /dev/ram[x]).
Ok.. Any idea what they are created for?
Thx!
Choon-Cheng Chee
=========================
chee at mail-me dot com
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
=========================
* Watch my return address! Editing required !*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 16:25:42 GMT
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:40:51 +0000, Evan Carew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Anthony Ord wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:41:13 -0600, W R Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>
>[snip]
>
>> >In my experience, that's not true. It's a simple matter to execute "ATTRIB -S -R
>-H *.*
>> >/S" to have access to all files in the system and do anything desire. The same
>is also
>> >true in Windows 98. Pure DOS allows you to wreak havoc on any file you choose...
>>
>> I would construe this as intent. Wouldn't you?
>>
>>
>
> Intent, or bad MS/3rd party app programming? Where does one draw the line?
You may have misunderstood. To do this you have to open a DOSbox (or
press F8 to boot to normal DOS), then you have to type "ATTRIB -S -R
-H *.* /S" to do this. This is not something that happens accidently
on a stray mouse click. It only happens because you *intend* it to
happen, and you go through the motions to *make* it happen.
Regards
Anthony
--
===============================================================
|'All kids love log!' |
| Ren & Stimpy |
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From: Benjamin GOLINVAUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs.help,fr.comp.applications.emacs,comp.emacs,linux.debian,linux.debian.user,fr.misc.bavardages.linux,be.comp.os.linux,linux.dev.apps,alt.os.linux
Subject: NEWBIE : emacs emulation and class/function browsing
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:41:49 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all...
1) I'd like to know if someone has heard of something to allow emacs
(xemacs) to emulate visual c++ 4.0/5.0/6.0 keybindings, most notably, is
it possible to select text by holding down SHIFT and stopping selection
when releasing shift ? For example, shift+right_arrow would add the char
at right of the point, shift+ctrl+right_arrow would add the remaining of
the word to the selection and shift+ctrl+^ would select everything
between a brace the point is supposed to be on, and the matching
brace... I'd really like to see these shortcuts, because four years with
VC++ ONLY have made it uncool to learn something else for my linux box
at home (I'm still working with VC++ at work).
2) Do you know of something in emacs to parse C/C++ code and shows a
list of functions and classes to allow for quick navigation thru code ?
Thanx
d�sol� pour les francophones, mais j'avais pas envie de traduire tout en
fran�ais... je sais, je suis paresseux...
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From: "His Holiness the Reverend Doktor Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.axp
Subject: Re: Advice on building an AXP Linux system
Date: 03 Jan 1999 00:56:28 -0500
>>>>> "GK" == Gerald Koh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GK> I thought I build this thing up to use as a server for my
GK> internal net...Is it worth it?
Well, considering that my mail exchangers (and primary/secondary DNS)
are a 486 and a VAX (see http://web.irtnog.org/about/nodes.html ;-]),
heck yeah, a AXPpci33 should work just fine as a mail/Quake server.
Probably could do NIS and SMB/NFS on it, without loading it down too
heavily.
I've got an AlphaStation 200 that's the NIS master, NFS server, SMB
server (NT primary domain controller), AppleShare server, etc. I
don't think I've ever heard the machine really thrash, even when I go
to start up EMACS.
GK> The list of hardware in the design guide is quite out of date,
GK> I'm sure I could pick up a case, 4 gig SCSI2 drive, and some
GK> cheap ass 64 bit video card and have something that works.
If you're going to stuff this into a closet somewhere (going to be a
server, right?), why bother with a video card at all? Recent Linux
kernels can do serial console, and firmware knows to talk to COM1 when
a keyboard isn't plugged in; spring a couple of bux for an old WY50 or
VT200 (or a serial cable to another computer) and you'll be in
business.
It depends on what you want to do. I use the AlphaStation as a
workstation, too, so I went ahead and bought a monitor and video
card. I've got a Stealth 64, but I'd recommend you avoid S3-based
cards. I've had nothing but problems with X and the Stealth 64.
A really good idea would be to spend money on memory and storage
space. 64 Mbytes is a minimum, in my opinion.
--
Rev. Dr. Xenophon Fenderson, the Carbon(d)ated, KSC, DEATH, SubGenius, mhm21x16
Pope, Patron Saint of All Things Plastic fnord, and Salted Litter of r.g.s.b
"Abraham came not to sacrifice, but to know once and for all whether this God
was a god to be trusted and obeyed. No other test would do." (Fall of Hyperion)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: rpm not working
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 15:51:59 GMT
On Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:19:55 +0200, Wayne Kelly wrote:
>Hi
>
>I'm running Redhet 5.1 and when I try to install any program with rpm it
>comes back to tell me that the program can not be installed. I tried to
>update the rpm files with the updated rpm-2_5_3-5_1_i386.rpm and it
>gives me the same error message. Does anyone know how to fix this.
>
>Thanks
>Wayne
Did you do:
rpm --rebuilddb
After you installed the update?
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From: Bruno Quesnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Semaphores problem
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:43:01 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use Linux Redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36.
For one of my application, I need to create two semaphores, one for
clients applications, and another for the server process. The creation
works fine. If I do an ipcs command, I see the two semaphores.
I can also see the values of each semaphores. My problem arise when I
want to signal one of the semaphores, so that the process can treat
acordingly (either that the server receive's data from the client, or
vice versa throught shared memory).
When I want to signal, I call the proper function and the proper
semaphore ID. The other end is in waiting mode. The operation "works"
in the respect that the signaling process exits with and error message :
invalid argument
The receiving process receives the proper info but the signaling exits.
Here is the code For the signaling and waiting function :
int waitsem(int semid) /* wait on a semaphore */
{
struct sembuf p_buf;
p_buf.sem_num = 0;
p_buf.sem_op = -1;
p_buf.sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;
if (semop(semid, &p_buf, 1) == -1) {
perror("waitsem() failed");
exit(1);
} else
return (0);
}
int postsem(int semid) /* post to a semaphore */
{
struct sembuf v_buf;
v_buf.sem_num = 0;
v_buf.sem_op = 1;
v_buf.sem_flg = SEM_UNDO;
if (semop(semid, &v_buf, 1) == -1) {
perror("postsem()
failed"); Line that
gives error on signal
exit(1);
} else
return (0);
}
Only one semaphore is created in the creation. In the creation routine,
it verifies that the semaphore exist, else it creates it.
--
Bruno Quesnel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Genie Electrique [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electrical Engeneering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ecole de Technologies Superieure VA2 BMG
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From: Scott Staley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sybase
Date: 3 Jan 1999 18:11:30 GMT
Does anyone have any advice on the Sybase ASE 11.0.3.3 that has been
porrted? I have it running and there is hardly any documentation with
it. The Sybooks at Sybase's site is great, but I was wonering if there
was a better source of Linux specific info. It seems this topic could
have a whole discussion group by itself. I want to create my own tables
and use some API's and I want to have a database other than pub2. I
also am interested in a GUI to sybase (isql is OK, but i think I could
have a better interface). I tried one called DBViewer but it didn't
compile correctly. Also note that I am only interested in FREE tools.
Any help from another Linux/Sybase use4r would be greatly appreciated.
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From: Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing only odd/even pages of postscript
Date: 3 Jan 1999 12:18:05 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello ALL!
Does anyone know how to print odd and even pages separatedly of a
postscript file? If possible, someway to use ghostscript, because I don't
have a PS-compatible printer.
Thanks a lot,
--
Did you *REALLY* check that interface between the chair and the keyboard?
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ #1383173 - PGP 5.0i user
[I'm running Linux] -=-=- Electric Engineering at Politechnic School, USP
Check my homepage at http://graphx.home.ml.org * C, 3D graphics, and more
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Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 12:22:58 -0500
From: Dale Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Red Hat Linux 5.2
I received a copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 for Christmas and have been
reading the installation guide. I am completely new to Linux and am
wondering if this is a proper forum for asking questions. In the
hopes that it is, can someone tell me if the OS/2 Boot Manager can
be used to boot Linux, or must LILO be used?
If this is not the proper forum, could someone please point me in
the right direction?
--
Dale Erwin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Kristian S��gaard)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Install KDE
Date: 03 Jan 1999 20:09:00 +0100
"Nicola�� Kisselhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not very extraordinary,
> I red them in the *french* linux magazine. ;-)
They're not that good. They assume quite a lot about you and your
system. F.ex. it assumes you have root access, it assumes you use bash
to login with ( who uses that as rootshell? ), and it sets KDE to be
wm used for _all_ users.
...
;-)
--
Jens Kristian S��gaard,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitions
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:27:32 -0000
I've got a 512Meg HD. Can anyone suggest what partions I'll need and of what
size in order to install Linux? I was planning on 40Megs for my Root,
300Megs for Usr and the rest for X windows. Also when I install Linux, how
does the installation program choose the partion to install to? Are the
names I give them relevant?
Please reply to my Email address as I have no access to news-groups usually
and will probably miss any posted!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Simmons)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Date: 3 Jan 1999 19:01:45 GMT
My method for dealing with it -- procmail, and a separate but valid
email address. This post comes from [EMAIL PROTECTED] That
mail goes directly to my true mailbox, which sets aside all such mail
into a separate folder for later processing. When I accumulate enough
history to write some procmail rules, I'll have that mail autoprocessed
as well so regular correspondants will still reach me immediately, spam
gets bitbucketed, and everything else gets autoresponded with a note
saying I might not read it for a month or two. The auto-response will
of course come from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
``If you find yourself in a hole the first thing to do is stop diggin'.''
From `Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On: A Cowboy's Guide To Life'
by Texas Bix Bender
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From: Wayne Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm not working
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:26:13 +0200
I can't even install the update. I tried to rebuild the database but rpm will
still not work. Any other ideas why it won't work.
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:19:55 +0200, Wayne Kelly wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I'm running Redhet 5.1 and when I try to install any program with rpm it
> >comes back to tell me that the program can not be installed. I tried to
> >update the rpm files with the updated rpm-2_5_3-5_1_i386.rpm and it
> >gives me the same error message. Does anyone know how to fix this.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Wayne
>
> Did you do:
> rpm --rebuilddb
> After you installed the update?
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From: "Bruce H. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot.log turn on?
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 10:51:47 -0800
How do I turn on logging to /var/boot.log? The file exists, but always
seems to be empty.
RH5.2, Workstation Installation
--
Bruce H. Johnson
Corporate Knowledge, Inc. Los Angeles, California
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
#include <std_disclaimer>
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From: Draco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: PPP/Online with Cwix.com ISP
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:33:26 GMT
Hi,
I am wondering about my ISP and Linux. My ISP, Cwix.com, formerly
MCI2000.com, contains no tech support or anything related to Linux, as
do probably most ISPs. When I try to connect through EzPPP in Linux, I
can't get on. It never asks for a password or login name. I have tried
using the terminal window and it still will not ask for that info. I was
wondering if anyone knows anything I should do, or should I just get a
new ISP??
Thanks.
John
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From: Wayne Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rpm not working
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:13:07 +0200
To add to my first message.
There is no error message. All it gives me is (error: "rpm file name" cannot
be installed).
It gives no error numbers or anything.
Thanks
Wayne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jan 1999 17:19:55 +0200, Wayne Kelly wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I'm running Redhet 5.1 and when I try to install any program with rpm it
> >comes back to tell me that the program can not be installed. I tried to
> >update the rpm files with the updated rpm-2_5_3-5_1_i386.rpm and it
> >gives me the same error message. Does anyone know how to fix this.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Wayne
>
> Did you do:
> rpm --rebuilddb
> After you installed the update?
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From: "Billy Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.dev.sound,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Help with soundcard in redhat 5.2
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 14:23:51 -0500
When I try to install my sound card I am getting an error message
saying unable to ... /dev/audio I was told that I need to enable to
AUDIO and DSP support. How do I go about doing that???
I had this sound card working fine but quit working when I upgraded my PC
with a different hard drive, motherbord and new CPU. Since then the card has
not worked. I did a clean install. I did not have any problems with the old
one.. what could be wrong now. This setup was perviously using win98 and
worked fine...
Thanks,
Asim
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From: Michele Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] muLinux V3r0
Date: 3 Jan 1999 18:59:15 GMT
muLINUX (1e-6 Linux) 3.0 release "Hammameth"
==============================================
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e-mail processing (fetch, read and send mail), NFS, ftp, IRC,
finger, telnet, tcpdump, news and web browsing (with lynx 2.6);
PC-PC link via pppd; IP firewall & IP masqueranding; HD cloning;
remote access via modem line (miterm); editing&printing;
fdisk,e2fsck, fdformat; job scheduler (atd), ringd daemon,
WWW server, dialin server, serial server, fax server;
play & record WAV, CD listening (workbone), say, etc. :)
OTHER FEATURES: international keyboards support, BUS mouse,
PAP/CHAP authentication, permanent multi-configuration,
installation from LINUX/DOS/WINDOWS, PC speaker support,
NFS-root booting for diskless Xterminal applications.
Download:
http://www4.pisoft.it/~andreoli/mulinux.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. Morrow)
Subject: Re: Strange Problem
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:11:42 GMT
I did a little more troubleshooting and have found out the following
things. The ` characters appear in the terminal every 70 seconds like
clockwork, but only if the terminal window has the focus. If it
doesn't have the focus, the characters are not stored in a buffer, so
that when xterm does get the focus again, there is not a quick stream
of a bunch of them. I have doublechecked my keyboard entries in
/etc/XF86Config and I have tried both the microsoft setting and the
pc102 settings. neither helped (I have one of those funky split
keyboards. I don't know if it is a "true microsoft natural" keyboard,
but it is brand new. I got it with my new dell computer). Finally,
this only happens in terminal windows. It does not happen in text
editors or anything else. It will however happen in any application
that runs "full screen" in the terminal (like pico).
thanks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. Morrow) wrote:
>I (finally) got my linux going again. I grabbed XFree86 ver 3.3.3 and
>got it working (STB nVidia TNT 16 meg video card). But there's one
>strange problem. When I run X and open a terminal window, about once
>a minute a single ` character (the un-shifted tilde ~) appears in the
>terminal. Right where I would be typing in commands. It even
>sometimes puts them in right while I am typing. I don't even have to
>be at the computer doing anything. If I leave for a few minutes and
>come back, there will be a row of a dozen of them. This behavior does
>not happen if I don't run x and just stay in plain linux. Is my
>computer posessed?
>
>Skip
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.emacs.help,gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: Emacs problem under AfterStep
Date: 03 Jan 1999 11:50:16 -0800
"Silviu D. Minut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I don't know AfterStep, but most WMs have a config script in which
commands may be assigned to keys. These key definitions overrule
the key definitions of the applications (like Emacs or Xterm) that
run within windows. Usually you can define things so the key
definition only applies when the pointer is on certain parts of
the screen, like the background or window borders, etc. You'll
need to read the documentation for your WM.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Very Simple Audio Questions
Date: 3 Jan 1999 19:41:24 GMT
These are questions I have after reading the Sound HOWTO:
1- How do I determine what version of the sound driver I'm running
(and whether I'm running the sound driver at all?). How do I
know which modules are loaded? Installation of Linux doesn't seem
to generate a .config for me to look at to see what's loaded.
2- The HOWTO mentions that the kernel configuration of "soundblaster 16"
is appropriate for the AWE32. I have the AWE 64 Gold and Creative's
2nd newest audio card, the Soundblaster PCI 128. Is there a better
configuration for these two cards? The AWE 64 Gold in particular has
a lot of onboard programming that (I think) will go to waste if Linux
treats it as an AWE32.
3- I'm not knowledgable enough to know if the 4Front commercial sound
driver is for me. The price is right, but according to the HOWTO,
many features are not supported like wave sythesis, MIDI and DSP.
The HOWTO is almost a year old. Can any audiophiles give me adivce
on whether this is a good investment?
Thanks!
Pete
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From: Roger Millington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Upgrading Kernel from 2.0.29 to 2.0.36
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 17:33:24 +0000
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade the kernel from Caldera Lite 2.0.29 to 2.0.36 so
as to be able to run Sybase.
I have two networked 486 DX2/66 machines which work well together. I
want to dedicate one to running.
I tried to upgrade using Redhat but on re-boot I received a message
along the lines:-
SIOCSIFADD : No such device
SIOCSNETMASK : No such device
SIOCSBRDADDR : No such device
SIOCADDRT : No such device
when the boot process tries to mount partitions.
Deciding I had a compatibility problem between Caldera and Redhat I
build the kernel from the source but had the same problem!
I can find nothing in the kernel notes so can anyone tell me what I am
doing wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
Roger
--
Roger Millington
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Very Simple Audio Questions
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:56:08 GMT
you are correct in that wavetable is not supported in OSS but are you really
going to be using wavetable? if not then the basic driver is fine and it
can be set up in under 5 min. also if you buy the oss from 4Front they give
you free updates until 2001 so when wavetable becomes available you can get
it for free having already bought the oss. I am almost sure that the PCI
sound card is supported by oss, I have a noname ad1816a sound card (acer FM
somtthingorother) and OSS got it working in under 3 min! :)
Pete wrote:
> These are questions I have after reading the Sound HOWTO:
>
> 1- How do I determine what version of the sound driver I'm running
> (and whether I'm running the sound driver at all?). How do I
> know which modules are loaded? Installation of Linux doesn't seem
> to generate a .config for me to look at to see what's loaded.
>
what dist are you using?
>
> 2- The HOWTO mentions that the kernel configuration of "soundblaster 16"
> is appropriate for the AWE32. I have the AWE 64 Gold and Creative's
> 2nd newest audio card, the Soundblaster PCI 128. Is there a better
> configuration for these two cards? The AWE 64 Gold in particular has
> a lot of onboard programming that (I think) will go to waste if Linux
> treats it as an AWE32.
>
see note above :)
>
> 3- I'm not knowledgable enough to know if the 4Front commercial sound
> driver is for me. The price is right, but according to the HOWTO,
> many features are not supported like wave sythesis, MIDI and DSP.
> The HOWTO is almost a year old. Can any audiophiles give me adivce
> on whether this is a good investment?
>
I have it and I swear by it :) you can email 4Front and ask them about the
MIDI they are pretty good about gettng back to people who ask questions.
plus you can DL a "demo" verison for free to try out. if it does not do what
you need then you simply do not buy it :)
Cheers!~!~!
>
> Thanks!
> Pete
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.emacs.help,gnu.emacs.help
From: Tommy Johnsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Emacs problem under AfterStep
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 20:50:40 +0100
Look at the end of the file
~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/non-configurable/desk0/feel.16bpp
if yoa are usung 16 color bits. Otherwise change the nuber 16 to whatever
colordepth you have. In the end of this file is Aftersteps aignment of
keykombinations among others.
--
Tommy Johnsson
"Most people's favorite way to end a game is by winning."
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Silviu D. Minut wrote:
> I have been using emacs with fvwm2 under linux (RedHat 5.0, but many
> packages are new, some newer than RedHat 5.2) and everything was just
> fine.
> I installed AfterStep today and seems a pretty nice window manager, but
> it messes up my emacs.
> Ctrl-v does not do anything. However, if I set the mark, highlight some
> region, kill it with Ctrl-w, then Ctrl-v will just paste it right back.
> Ctrl-n, Ctrl-p, Ctrl-b, Ctrl-f, Ctrl-a, Ctrl-e work all right.
> If I exit X, and startx to my old fvwm2, everything works just fine.
> Does AfterStep use different keybindings? Does it read them from some
> file? If so, which one? Can I just change the bindings for emacs? Won't
> this affect other applications?
>
> I would hate to give up this nice window manager. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Silviu Minut
>
>
>
>
>
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