Linux-Misc Digest #471, Volume #18 Tue, 5 Jan 99 01:13:11 EST
Contents:
2038 and Linux (Vince Conaway)
Xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed' (Yan Seiner)
Re: discrepancy between df and fdisk - Help! (Gary Krupa)
WWW: Linux Sound & MIDI Applications page updated (Dave Phillips)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (nobody)
help with compiling (John)
Please Help me Uncle Steve!! (John)
Linux will grow even bigger (Ilya)
Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<] (Mike Werner)
Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<] (David Fox)
maxtor 17gig and rh 5.1 (joey)
Re: Oracle/Linux connect internal question (Philippe Nave)
Re: WP8/Linux language modules? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Where is the Console Driver Menu in Kernel 2.1.99? (Steven James)
Re: Install Redhat on PC without CDROM drive? (Jim Richardson)
Re: WP8/Linux language modules? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Joystick in Linux (Arno Peters)
error message during booting (Jinsong Ouyang)
Re: Configuring KDE desktop (Thomas B. Quillinan)
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From: Vince Conaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2038 and Linux
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 22:55:21 -0500
Does Linux have the 2038 bug that will make Unix machines start to go
nuts around that time?
-Vince Conaway
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed'
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:30:16 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I keep getting this error on running startex. I know it has to do with
the compressed fonts in the font directories. The x server dies at that
point with:
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
There is an FAQ somewhere on this, but I can't find it at all. The fix
has to do with a configuration setting or a update, (something to do
with old fonts) but I can't remember anything beyond that.
Running RH 5.1, out of the box.
Thanks.
Yan
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
From: Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: discrepancy between df and fdisk - Help!
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 20:11:36 -0800
Michael,
Thanks very much for your reply. You put my mind at ease about this.
The explanation is consistent with what I know about DOS, and the way
that it reserves space for system files (msdos.sys, io.sys). I just
wasn't prepared for the difference of more than sixty-four blocks,
between fdisk and df.
-GK
On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Micha wrote:
> Gary Krupa wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand why the fdisk command reports 542304 blocks
> > for my /dev/hda3 partition (where all my data is located),
> > while the df command reports only 474097 blocks for the same
> > partition.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I've not been able to find my installation notes
> > listing the original configuration, so I don't know which
> > reading is correct.
> >
> > I'm concerned that there's been a loss of disk space, and
> > possibly data, somehow. Can anyone explain what's happened?
> >
> > Gary Krupa
>
> fdisk reports the size of the partition, df the size of the
> filesystem on a partition.
> Remember that a filesystem needs some diskspace for inode
> tables and so on.
> Further, there is some disk space reserved for root ( default is
> 5 percent as far as I know) to allow root to login when the
> discs are full.
> You can check and change this by using "tune2fs".
>
> schulzmi.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Michael Schulze
> University of applied sciences - Brandenburg
> http://zeus.fh-brandenburg.de/~schulzmi
> email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> "...when your girlfriend's got a penis something's wrong..."
> K's Choice
>
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From: Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW: Linux Sound & MIDI Applications page updated
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:38:27 -0500
Greetings:
As of January 4 1999 the Linux Sound and MIDI Applications page has
been updated again. The Linux soundapps page contains more than 450
various audio, MIDI, and DSP links, making it by far the most complete
listing of such software available on the Web.
The page can be accessed here:
http://sound.condorow.net
here:
http://sound.lovebead.com
and here:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html
As always, please use the mirrors first, since my ISP imposes a daily
transfer limit of 35 MB.
Have fun !
== Dave Phillips
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/index.html
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html
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From: nobody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: 4 Jan 1999 20:28:20 +0800
In comp.os.linux.misc James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > JFS.
> Being worked on.
Excellent.
> > LVM.
> I understand there are patches against 2.1.x for this, but the
> facility isn't stable enough for inclusion in 2.1.x or 2.2.x.
Good.
> > Mirroring and stuff
> You mean Software RAID? Which level? 1?
Yes, RAID 1.
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with compiling
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:52:33 -0500
I'm trying to configure a program for compile but keep running into
problems, I have gotten through most of the problems (missplaced files,
broken symlinks, etc.) but now I'm stuck. The config.log says:
In file included from /usr/include/gdk/gdktypes.h:25,
from /usr/include/gdk/gdk.h:23,
from /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h:23,
from configure:1052:
/usr/local/include/glib.h:281: #error Could not determine proper
atexit() implem
entation
/usr/local/include/glib.h:486: warning: `GLONG_TO_LE' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:107: warning: this is the location of
the pre
vious definition
/usr/local/include/glib.h:487: warning: `GULONG_TO_LE' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:108: warning: this is the location of
the pre
vious definition
/usr/local/include/glib.h:488: warning: `GLONG_TO_BE' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:109: warning: this is the location of
the pre
vious definition
/usr/local/include/glib.h:489: warning: `GULONG_TO_BE' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:110: warning: this is the location of
the pre
vious definition
/usr/local/include/glib.h:1442: warning: `g_memmove' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:60: warning: this is the location of
the prev
ious definition
configure: failed program was:
#line 1050 "configure"
I just don't know how to make heads or tails of any of that. Thanks in
advance for any help anyone has.
Thanks
John
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please Help me Uncle Steve!!
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:49:58 -0500
I'm trying to configure a program for compile but keep running into
problems, I have gotten through most of the problems (missplaced files,
broken symlinks, etc.) but now I'm stuck. The config.log says:
In file included from /usr/include/gdk/gdktypes.h:25,
from /usr/include/gdk/gdk.h:23,
from /usr/include/gtk/gtk.h:23,
from configure:1052:
/usr/local/include/glib.h:281: #error Could not determine proper
atexit() implem
entation
/usr/local/include/glib.h:486: warning: `GLONG_TO_LE' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:107: warning: this is the location of
the pre
vious definition
/usr/local/include/glib.h:487: warning: `GULONG_TO_LE' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:108: warning: this is the location of
the pre
vious definition
/usr/local/include/glib.h:488: warning: `GLONG_TO_BE' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:109: warning: this is the location of
the pre
vious definition
/usr/local/include/glib.h:489: warning: `GULONG_TO_BE' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:110: warning: this is the location of
the pre
vious definition
/usr/local/include/glib.h:1442: warning: `g_memmove' redefined
/usr/lib/glib/include/glibconfig.h:60: warning: this is the location of
the prev
ious definition
configure: failed program was:
#line 1050 "configure"
I just don't know how to make heads or tails of any of that. Thanks in
advance for any help anyone has.
Thanks
John
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux will grow even bigger
Date: 4 Jan 1999 20:34:58 +0800
Melvin Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What sensible Unix System Administrator would partition the entire drive as
> root!
Good point, but then I never suggested going that. Quite the opposite.
I'm a Solaris and Windows NT administrator at a university. The only
> people I have met who partition their entire drive as root are people from a
> Windows enviroment. We had one windows guy who did that with our mail server
> using Linux! You guess what happen when everyone left their mail on the
> server.
> If you're going to talk about popularity in the commerce world, it is Solaris
> not HP. Our admin instructors teach Solaris because according to them, it's
> used the most in the commercial world.
You are probably correct.
> I'm still a newbie to Linux but I though Red Hat support Alphas and Suns which
> are 64 bit buses and scsi.
> I really wish the Unix community would quit bickering among themselves on who
> Unix is the best! We need to united as one family. Because we haven't,
> Microsoft has made in road w/ their bloated, buggy software. If anyone has
> taken a course OS design, they would realize that every design has it strengths
> and weakness. It depends on what you needed the makes one OS better than
> another!
You are right. I hope Linux kills Windows NT, I hope it captures a big
share of the market. The concept behind it is really good even though
the implementation has not reached full maturity I feel.
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From: Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<]
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 23:33:12 -0500
Checking the XFree86 site for the newest supported card list (
http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html ) it shows the Millenium G200 as
supported with the SVGA driver. Might just need the newer driver from
them.
--
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ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!"
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<]
Date: 04 Jan 1999 20:35:02 -0800
"diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't believe the G200 is supported under redhat except as vga16; You'll
> need a 3rd party driver from Xi or Scitech or SUSE's release of X86_Com
> 3.3.3 (which is a bear to compile if you're not a linux expert--I'm not, so
> I use the SciTech beta which works okay--not great, but okay.) Go to Matrox
> site (www.matrox.com) then drivers, then 3rd party drivers for info.
Not correct. Get XFree86-3.3.3 binaries from redhat update site.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: joey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: maxtor 17gig and rh 5.1
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:52:07 -0500
I just installed rh5.1 on a 17+ gig eide/udma/ide maxtor drive. The
objective is the creation of a cheap storage disk for large data files
to be served to win95 machines via samba. I used ez-drive since the
machine I'm using is old and does not support large drives. After
installing ez-drive I installed red hat and partitioned the disk as
usual for the install... with an added partition of about 14gigs for the
data called /data1. In RH the /data1 looks like it's the right size
(looking with the gui filesystem tool). However, when I mount the drive
on a windows machine, the drive appears to be 2 gigs. I use the default
smb.conf and uncomment the [public] section. Am I missing the obvious?
Is the only alternative 7 2-gig partitions? Is this a limitation of
Linux, samba, win95, NT file structures, what? Any help would be
appreciated.
joey
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From: Philippe Nave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Oracle/Linux connect internal question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:22:29 GMT
David Sisk wrote:
>
> Hi Unix Gurus:
>
> I've got Oracle8 for Linux installed and working (at least, most of
> it, anyway). I can connect internal using svrmgrl while logged into
> the O/S as the oracle user (the account owning the software), but if
> I try connecting internal while signed into the O/S as myself,
> svrmgrl asks for the internal password. The ORACLE_HOME/bin path
> and environment variables are set for both the oracle user and my
> own userid.
Hmmm... I'm relatively new to Linux, but I've been hammering away with
Oracle on Solaris for quite a while. The first thing I wonder is
whether you've got your Oracle instance set up for host authentication
(that is, using the Unix login name as your security mechanism and
just popping straight into Oracle without a password). If that is the
case, it may be that your personal account is not set up the same way
in the Oracle database as the 'oracle user' account. We tinkered
around with host authentication here for a while, but we don't use it
for production work because we don't want to screw with odd behaviors
like the one you describe (works under one account but not another,
etc. etc.)
The situation you describe doesn't sound like a simple Unix permission
problem or anything, since you say that svrmgrl actually wakes up and
then asks for the internal password. This, to me, points to something
subtle within the Oracle security enforcement mechanism (and that led
me immediately to ask about whether you're doing host authentication).
Reply by mail, if you want to.. I dip in and out of these groups on
a pretty irregular basis...
Philippe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: WP8/Linux language modules?
Date: 5 Jan 1999 00:35:02 GMT
In <76rbmh$rlo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I've been trying to find where Corel has the non-US-English language modules.
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/cnet/win95/business/GUILG??
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From: Steven James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,fj.os.linux,h
Subject: Re: Where is the Console Driver Menu in Kernel 2.1.99?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 23:30:07 -0500
it's not there
try 2.1.132
ps- you have a voodoo banshee chipset?
George Thia wrote:
> I am unable to locate the Console Driver Menu in Kernel 2.1.99
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Install Redhat on PC without CDROM drive?
Date: 5 Jan 1999 05:01:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 13:59:24 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sayeth...:
>Happy new year everyone!
>I would like to find out if Redhat Linux would allow me to install
>on a PC which does not have a CDROM drive of its own. The target machine
>is a Siemens-Nixdorf 486 with 8 Mb memory and 500 Mb disk (half DOS,
>half Linux). I do have a laptop with CDROM drive and I can thus copy files
>under Dos from the CD onto the harddrive of the target machine via
>a serial connection.
>
>The reason to consider Redhat is it's alleged ease of installation.
>I have been able to install Slackware but without X-Windows. I could not
>get X-Windows working. The Slackware X installation does not give much
>help if things don't go right. Is this much better with Redhat??
>
>Any tips are very welcome!
>
>Regards, Michiel Perdeck
>--
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>
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>http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
RH 5.1 (and presumably) will let you install via ftp, nfs or smb.
(smb is the windows file sharing thingy.) So you don't need a local
cd-rom, just another computer and ethernet or something between them. You
can also copy the whole cdrom (well, a lot of it anyway) over to a disk
partition on the target machine, MSDOS partition is okay, and install from
there. However, dos doesn't like to copy files with a plus (+) in the name
which is a pain if you want all the how-tos and the c++ stuff. But it is
doable.
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WP8/Linux language modules?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:40:31 -0500
John Girash wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I've been trying to find where Corel has the non-US-English language modules.
> According to http://linux.corel.com/linux8/download.htm the "instructions for
> downloading and installing" are in linux.corel.com/linux8/install_instr.htm,
> but that document mentions nothing about _where_ to find the language module
> files -- which kinda obviates the promise of "instructions for downloading".
> Does anyone know? Specifically I'd like to find guilgce0.gz . Thanks!
>
> jg
>
Have a look at www.download.com, enter in search: linux corel.
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From: Arno Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Joystick in Linux
Date: 05 Jan 1999 01:20:28 +0100
Brady Bonnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, Im wanting to get my joystick set up in Linux (kernel 2.0.35). The
> joystick is a PantherXL (made by MadCatz), but the only downside right
> now I can see is that the joystick has 17 buttons. =( Im wanting to
> use it for GLQuake and GLQuakeWorld. How would one go about installing
> ANYTHING for a joystick? hehe
Upgrade to kernel 2.2.0-pre4 or any of the more recent development
kernels (don't know when it was added). Joystick support can be build
as loadable modules. But before you do, check
Documentation/Changes.txt for the packages you may have to upgrade.
The configuration line you may be most interested in reads:
< > FPGaming and MadCatz A3D controllers (NEW)
Read Documentation/joystick.txt for more info.
Perhaps someone else can comment on how to set up a filter that
redirects the output from /dev/jsX to Quake.
--
Arno Peters
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jinsong Ouyang)
Subject: error message during booting
Date: 5 Jan 1999 00:03:32 GMT
After I rebuild the kernel (2.0.36) on RedHat5.2, I always see a few
of the following error message during the booting:
modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
Anyone knows where is this coming from? Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas B. Quillinan)
Subject: Re: Configuring KDE desktop
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 06:48:25 GMT
Sir Hoagy of the Marshlands ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Now that I've discovered the KDE desktop environment, I'd like to
: configure the hell out of it.
: What I'm particularly interested in altering is the toolbar on the
: bottom of the screen. I'm not sure where the rc file resides
: for such - I erased a couple of buttons, and they're not
: coming back (as a user, not as root). Not that I'm worried
: about it, but I know if I can do that, then I can certainly
: alter the toolbar.
Use the menu edit program to edit the menus.
To add programs to the panel (Toolbar at the bottom) try the following :
click K button
click configure (I think), its the next one up from logout
follow the menus from there -- it is very easy but I cant
remember the exact sequence.
To remove apps from panel just right click on them and select delete!
hope this helps!
tom.
: Could someone point to good resource(s) that discuss
: programming the KDE desktop?
: Much thanks!
--
--
Thomas B. Quillinan
aka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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