Linux-Misc Digest #658, Volume #18 Sun, 17 Jan 99 11:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND idiot-friendly?
(George Marengo)
Re: Newbie: Can't Read CDROM properly (fred smith)
Re: Incompatibility with header files net/if.h and linux/netdevice.h (Andreas Jaeger)
Re: Earthlink unfriendly to Linux (somebody else)
Re: Kernel compile failure (Kris Hartojo)
Re: lilo says /vmlinuz too big. Now what ??? (Kris Hartojo)
AutoPPP and pppd server (Alan Baker)
Reinstall problems (George Socker)
Re: hard disk copy (Brian McCauley)
Sound under Quake II ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Matthias Warkus)
Re: What about resetting? (Brian McCauley)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Bitbucket)
FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks ("Elijah Kagan")
Re: SpreadSheets (Jack Lenz)
Re: starting window manager automatically? (Howard Mann)
Re: HELP: Setting up a DIAL-IN PPP SERVER on my Linux box?? (Tim Sailer)
Can this modem be driven with Linux? (David Jones)
Re: chrony-1.0-2.src.rpm
Re: 2.2.0pre7 boot error that won't go away
Re: Changes to the Linux daily news and research pages
Re: /dev/dsp What the....
Re: Kernel compile failure
Re: hard disk copy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Marengo)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: This is Linux, not Windows, so why not superior flexibility AND
idiot-friendly?
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 22:05:55 GMT
On 16 Jan 1999 20:13:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently
>scribe:
>
>: So true - what you use is what you like. A foreign graduate student here
>: was all frustrated with windows because he was used to UNIX and coudn't
>: figure out how to grep in windows.
>
>*CAN* you grep in windows?
Of course you can, but the difference is that you need third party
software.
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Crossposted-To:
alt.linux.slakware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred smith)
Subject: Re: Newbie: Can't Read CDROM properly
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:10:32 GMT
Calvin Mitchell - Pacbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I wrote some ftp files on a cd-r disc using an HP CD-R 7200.
: When I mount the disc on my linux or openstep system, files that are beyond
: a certain size show up as multiple copies.
: Help!!
I saw what may be the same problem recently, tring to use a CD with
MS's Joliet filesystem on it on my old RH 4.1 system. When viewed under
Windoze it looked like normal files. When mounted on 4.1 and viewed there
there were three copies of each file, each with identical names, each one
third the size of the files that showed up on Windoze. when mounted on
RH 5.2 (which supports Joliet, 4.1 didn't) it looks just like it did
on Windoze. So apparently Joliet is weird, makes multiple physical
files serve the duty of a single combined file, perhaps?
And perhaps your CD is a Joliet cd and you didn't mount it as a
joliet filesystem.
Fred
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From: Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,.comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Incompatibility with header files net/if.h and linux/netdevice.h
Date: 16 Jan 1999 22:57:44 +0100
>>>>> root writes:
> Hi,
> I recently installed RedHat 5.2, and tried to compile dhcpcd-0.70, which
> failed due to header file conflicts.
> I narrowed down the problem to the fact that it tries to include the
> header files <linux/netdevice.h> and
> <linux/netdevice.h>. If I try to compile a .c file with the two lines
> below, I get a number of warnings and errors
> about multiply defined constants and variables, and some parse errors.
> I would like any help/suggestions on where to from here. All the
> programs and header files on my system have the same version as the
> RH5.2 distribution.
Read the glibc2 FAQ (it comes with glibc2 and should be installed
somewhere on your system):
3.5. On Linux I've got problems with the declarations in Linux
kernel headers.
{UD,AJ} On Linux, the use of kernel headers is reduced to the minimum.
This gives Linus the ability to change the headers more freely. Also,
user programs are not insulated from changes in the size of kernel
data structures.
For example, the sigset_t type is 32 or 64 bits wide in the kernel.
In glibc it is 1024 bits wide. This guarantees that when the kernel
gets a bigger sigset_t (for POSIX.1e realtime support, say) user
programs will not have to be recompiled. Consult the header files for
more information about the changes.
Therefore you shouldn't include Linux kernel header files directly if
glibc has defined a replacement. Otherwise you might get undefined
results because of type conflicts.
Andreas
P.S. Followup-To is set.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (somebody else)
Subject: Re: Earthlink unfriendly to Linux
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:24:45 +0100
- regarding Alexander Viro's opinion -
i do not entirely disagree with you, nonetheless, i believe that which
you are progragating here is inappropriate.
it's about the realtionship user to system. i completely agree with in
that you do not mess with system, should you not know them insideout, if
these system are life/mission/whatever critical. e.g.: you'd expect the
technitian of a local telco exchange to know what he is doing, and
futher, that novices have no access rights to the operative facilities.
but this is not such a case. a company is selling a service to the
general public. in my opinion it is not the responsability of the
clientbase to ensure the operative securrity of the system - that
responasbility lies wholly in the operator.
example: do you know how your tv/vcr/computer/car/house/lift/subway
system works inside out? i am sure that you are unaware of the technical
issues involved with at least one of these - yet you are not required to
know them. as long as you do not mess with operative facilities and only
the interfaces that are designed for use by the user (such as the
buttons to call the lift or play on the vcr), any faults are the
resposability opf the operator (it's not you fault if you press play on
the vcr and it dies consequently).
but to get back to the Earthlink thing. it seems that either
a) our friend played with interfaces he shouldn't have or
b) played with interfaces that he should have wrongly
either way: it is the responsability of Earthlink to ensure that he
either can not access interfaces he shouldnt' or, that those he should,
he can not damage.
i agree with you: it is desirable to have user wholly in the know of
their tools, and that it is possible to implement a cost effective
testbed for private use. but requiring these is absurd. the way oue
society is built up reflects the opposite views: i postulate that 85% of
users of appliances are not aware of how these operate - and they are
not required to either.
this is clearly a "misconduct" on the part of earthlink (unless, of
course, our "intruder" is actually "hacker :-).
but then again, earthlink's behaviour is representative of teh entire
industry. imagine buying a car where the software in the engine timing
control is buggy (and thus you car occaisionally stalling & crashing)-
and the manufacturer telling you: you'll have to wait for the bugfix or
buy a new cruise control.
regards,,
kremkow
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From: Kris Hartojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Kernel compile failure
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 22:02:19 +0000
In RedHat distributions, you need to install the bin86 rpm.
Enkidu wrote:
>
> I believe it is part of the GNU assembler for Intel systems. On my
> system it is in /usr/bin. If you find it there, your PATH may be
> wrong.
>
> Cliff
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, I am having a hard time compiling a custom kernel (2.0.36) on my
> > RedHat 5.2 system. make config, make dep, and make clean all work. When I
> > try to make zImage, the compile begins, and after 5 minutes or so of
> > compilation, I get this error message:
> >
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -E -D__ELF__ -traditional
> > -DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bootsect.s
> > as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
> > make[1]: as86: Command not found
> > make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
> > make: *** [zImage] Error 2
> >
> > What is this as86 command, and what can I do about it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Brian
> >
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From: Kris Hartojo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,linux.sources.kernel
Subject: Re: lilo says /vmlinuz too big. Now what ???
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 22:06:39 +0000
I think the kernel you just made with make zImage is at
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage
At least that's the case with intel systems I've worked on.
So, looks like you copied the wrong file
K.
Bryan Halter wrote:
>
> Nick instead of using make zImage use make bzImage and after make modules_install
> run make bzlilo
>
> Bryan ;-)
>
> Nick Dreyer wrote:
>
> > To any and all who might be able to help:
> >
> > I installed the source code package for linux 2.0.34 under /usr/src/linux and
> > there did:
> >
> > make config
> > make dep
> > make clean
> > make zImage
> > make modules
> > make modules_install
> >
> > copied /usr/src/linux/vmlinux to /vmlinuz
> >
> > but when I then try to run lilo, it fails with the message "/vmlinuz too big".
> >
> > My old kernel was 704533 bytes, and this new one is 788135, so it certainly is
> > bigger, but I can't believe that is too big.
> >
> > I only included the bare minimum is configuration options, so changing that
> > won't help. Doing "make bzImage" doesn't help either. (The resulting kernel
> > is exactly the same size of 788135 bytes.)
> >
> > What's going on, and how do I get around this? Your help is greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > |\|.
>
> --
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From: Alan Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.dial-up,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.linux.isp
Subject: AutoPPP and pppd server
Date: 16 Jan 1999 22:11:27 GMT
I've installed Redhat 5.1 for use as a small dialup PPP server. Dialout
PPP works fine, but inbound /AutoPPP/ calls will not stay connected. A
Win95/Win98 caller can connect and log in, but immediately gets the
dreaded "cannot negotiate a set of protocols" message. An OS/2 dialer
gets similar results without the message.
On the dialer side, TCP/IP is the only protocol requested. On the Linux
side, mgetty takes the call and PAP validates the user successfully, but
then the caller drops the session almost immediately. The Linux box is a
standalone, not networked to anything else currently.
/var/logs/messages isn't very revealing even with debug and kdebug 7. How
can I determine what's going on here and why the negotiation fails?
--
Alan Baker
San Jose
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Socker)
Subject: Reinstall problems
Date: 17 Jan 1999 04:45:33 GMT
I had to reinstall RedHat for various reasons. However, I now get kernel
panics, filesystem errors and other things which never occured before.
Kernel version: 2.0.34
Any suggestions
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard disk copy
Date: 17 Jan 1999 14:21:35 +0000
Zdravko Balorda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> how can I make an exact copy of a hard disk, along
> with boot sector etc.
Use "dd" on the devices. Actually, AFAIK, on Linux you can use "cat"
or "cp" too but that's not as portable to other unicies.
> what if disks are not exactly
> the same?
Then the question is meaningless.
Anybody know why this question is so frequently asked?
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound under Quake II
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 16:51:49 -0700
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I installed Quake
II on my Linux box that has a SB 16 jumpered card. I did the full
install so I don't need the CD. My soucd card works great and it plays
audio CDs and I can cat sounds from files into /dev/audio just fine.
But when I run the games all my sounds, both music and effects are very
garbled. It just white noise basically. I have to run it as root so
that it can be piped to /dev/audio since when I run it as myself it
doesn't give any sound at all. I checked my /dev/sndstat and everything
is working great except for MIDI which I disabled. I've recompiled the
kernel in a variety of forms under the Sound section and nothing works
still.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
KJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:04:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sat, 16 Jan 1999 18:00:15 GMT...
..and AK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Linux on the other hand, is for the more computer
> geek-tech-smartasamofo person. You can build the 'tower' as tall as
> you want, and unless you screw something up YOURSELF, the machine'll
> work. Of course, if YOU the USER messes up, then your machine's good
> as dead. Until fixed.
Correction: if YOU the ADMIN (i.e. you with your admin hat on [SYSTEM
ADMINISTRATION IN PROGRESS - BE SURE TO WEAR HARD HATS]) messes up, then
your machine's as good as dead.
There is no way an ordinary user can mess up the machine, you need at least
a root shell to do that.
> I've fixed my Windows machine numerous times,
> haven't screwed up any settings for months, and once every two weeks,
> after a clean shutdown, etc., I still have a corrupted registry which
> needs to be fixed with Windows infamous error reboot sequence. Both
> are good, and both are imperfect, but it just depends on the actual
> nature of the OS to see where the imperfections lay.
> -AK
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From: Brian McCauley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What about resetting?
Date: 17 Jan 1999 14:25:07 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rage Matrix) writes:
> Last night I was deleting some files from RedHat 5.2 and accidently
> deleted the Package Manager. Ooops, I thought and backed up my scripts and
> C++ programs and re-installed RedHat. This was not really a problem
> because I have just got Linux and have nothing of any real importance on
> there. However, if something like this happens again, is there a way of
> replacing parts of the OS without re-installing it?
Yeah, the package manager :-). If it's the package mamager you've
deleted then it's preobably quickest to reinstall. You _can_ to do it
all by hand but it would probably work out no quicker.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bitbucket)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:25:40 GMT
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 23:25:32 -0800, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think the poster's point is that the stability issue is somewhat
>> overblown. If windows was as_bad_as_COLA folks say, it would have
>> never managed the saturation it has.
>
>Windows market saturation is more dependent on marketing to
>computer manufacturers and its monopoly position than on the
>quality customers perceive or don't perceive. the reverse of
>that statement - that Windows IS as bad a COLA folks say, and
>that's one reason Linux is growing rapidly - is probably
>closer to the truth.
You can stand on a street corner and give away shit in a brown bag all
day. Your percentage of return customers will decline rapidly.
I for one cannot fault MS on their marketing machine. It is a wonder
to behold. But if their products were as bad as COLA poster's claim,
MS would be no better off than the brown bag seller on the street.
The University Hospital center in my town has Windows 95 -8 -NT PC's
in practically every dept of the hospital. I'm talking several 100
PC's that have a variety of uses. If these PC's crashed three or four
times a day the administration of the infrastructure would come to a
grinding halt. They don't, it doesn't. It would not be allowed to
happen. Granted they run custom applications in many scenarios and
nothing else. But the PC's also run Outlook for messaging on exchange
servers. They don't crash three or four times a day. Period.
Marketing yes, it has played a huge role in MS's success.
But if the products were as bad as portrayed in here this marketing
would not allow MS the sustained penetration, new markets, and staying
power that they now hold in many small, medium, and coming soon,,
larger business's. I'm not trying to say that Linux couldn't do the
same thing, possibly even better. But it won't in it's current state.
Companies need standardization and support contracts. Even if it is
somewhat of a ripoff. Linux right now has neither, and as long as the
desktops, community colleges and training centers educate on MS
offerings this is not going to change real soon.
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From: "Elijah Kagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:41:05 +0200
Hi,
I am trying to find any information about benchmarks of Linux and FreeBSD.
Does anyone know about some study on this subject?
I�ve spent a whole day searching various newsgroups and mailing list
archives, but no luck there. All these long �FreeBSD vs Linux� debates do
not seem to contain references to any published test results.
Any information on the subject will be highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Elijah Kagan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
P.S. Please, reply personally as well as to the group.
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From: Jack Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SpreadSheets
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 00:50:21 +0100
Mark Robinson wrote:
> Are there any Spreadsheet programs out there for Linux?
I use APPLIXWARE. Though not free you can get it for a decent fee.
(~100$).
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: starting window manager automatically?
Date: 16 Jan 1999 23:58:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Upali Bandara) writes:
> I've already installed and configured the XFree86 Server. Then I
> installed the window manager fvwm2. To run this, I must enter fvwm2 into
> the login window. How do I configure X to start fvwm2 automatically? I
> also think, I've got no xinitrc file. Could there be a connection?
Indeed. Peruse the "dot files" section on my website.
You need to create a .xinitrc file in your home directory.
Cheers,
--
Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xmission.com/~howardm
(a LINUX website for newbies)
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From: Tim Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.linux
Subject: Re: HELP: Setting up a DIAL-IN PPP SERVER on my Linux box??
Date: 17 Jan 1999 00:11:54 GMT
In comp.os.linux.questions winsor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:>
:> I know others have probably asked, but I'm not sure so I'll
:> ask.....Does anyone know how to set up a Dial-In PPP Server on a Linux
:> Machine so i can dial into it from afar and get tcp/ip routing to work
:> with it??? Sort of like having a single user ISP going on, ya know? If
:> anyone can help, thanks in advance, if not......ask someone who might
:> know AND thanks in advance...or something
:>
: I used ps_getty(uugetty) and read the PPP How-to.
I have this little page set up that talks about a lot of things like that.
http://www.buoy.com/isp
Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Jones)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Can this modem be driven with Linux?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:31:43 +0100
Linux virgin here again! :-)
I forgot to ask: will a US Robotics 56K Professional Message Modem work
with Red Hat Linux?
(I should hope so, given the price! ;-) )
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: chrony-1.0-2.src.rpm
Date: 17 Jan 1999 15:36:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:21:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I ran RPM -ivh chrony-1.0-2.src.rpm and it gave the hash marks and no
>error messages. Kewel. But then I couldn't find whatever it was I had
>just installed.
You downloaded the source code RPM, not the binary RPM. If you try to
install a src.rpm, the source code will go to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE/ in
tar.gz format.
To compile the program, try 'rpm --rebuild chrony-1.0-2.src.rpm', then
'rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/chrony-1.0-2.i386.rpm' .
Next time, download the *.i386.rpm file, not the *.src.rpm file.
>So I tried RPM -V chrony-1.0-2.src.rpm and it tells me the
>package is not installed. Wha??
You're not using the command correctly. When an RPM is installed, you
can verify it like thus: 'rpm -qi chrony-1.0-2' or just 'rpm -qi chrony'.
To see a list of installed files, do 'rpm -ql chrony'. This will tell
you that it installed, for instance, /usr/bin/foo or /usr/doc/foo/README.
>Is it me, or is RPM going nuts?
Try reading the RPM HOWTO at http://www.rpm.org/ .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: 2.2.0pre7 boot error that won't go away
Date: 17 Jan 1999 15:36:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 16 Jan 1999 18:10:33 GMT, Frank Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have 2.2.0pre7 loaded on my RedHat 5.2 box and everything is good
>except -
>
>I get the following errors on boot
>
>Jan 15 00:29:16 FranksPC kernel: Cannot find map file.
>Jan 15 00:29:16 FranksPC kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
>Jan 15 00:29:16 FranksPC kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry.
I'm running 2.2.0-pre6 on RH 5.2 without any problems.
Did you upgrade all necessary programs to the versions listed in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes ?
Do you have /proc fs support compiled in?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Changes to the Linux daily news and research pages
Date: 17 Jan 1999 15:36:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:47:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We are pleased to announce that our free Linux news and information centre
>(http://www.kieser.net/linux.html) has been modified to be low-res friendly.
That's good.
>It is a testimony to the quality and good coding of the Linux kernel and
>associated apps that users are able to run it on (in some cases very) old
>hardware. The sort of hardware that Windows 3.0 would kill.
Ummm. Some people have Pentium II systems with PCI/AGP video cards, but
prefer to run in text mode. Why load a bloated GUI unless you have to?
>Makes you think, doesn't it?
It sure does. Hopefully, this will make you think yet a little more.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: /dev/dsp What the....
Date: 17 Jan 1999 15:36:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 15 Jan 1999 23:45:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried sending a .wav file to the card using:
>cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp
>and am told that there is no such device or address.
You must have the proper kernel drivers loaded before you can access any
of the sound devices. Otherwise, you'll get errors like the above.
Did you compile the sound drivers as a module? If so, check to see if
the modules are properly loaded. You can view what modules are loaded
by using lsmod or 'cat /proc/modules'. The modules that need to be
loaded depend on what version of the kernel you're running. For
2.2.0-pre kernels, the typical Sound Blaster clone should have
sound.o, soundcore.o, uart401.o, sb.o, and opl3.o. You'll have to give
the proper I/O address, IRQ, and DMA.
For example:
modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
If you have an ISA PNP card, then you'll need to configure it with ISAPNP
first. Read the docs that come with ISAPNP. It's not too horribly
difficult to use. Basically, what you want to do is the following:
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
vi /etc/isapnp.conf
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
If you're running Red Hat, you can use sndconfig to automatically set up
your PNP soundcard.
If you've done all of the following, and you're still having trouble,
post again, with more details, and hopefully we can resolve this.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Kernel compile failure
Date: 17 Jan 1999 15:36:41 GMT
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On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 06:06:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all, I am having a hard time compiling a custom kernel (2.0.36) on my
>RedHat 5.2 system. make config, make dep, and make clean all work. When I
>try to make zImage, the compile begins, and after 5 minutes or so of
>compilation, I get this error message:
>
>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
>gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -E -D__ELF__ -traditional
>-DSVGA_MODE=NORMAL_VGA bootsect.S -o bootsect.s
>as86 -0 -a -o bootsect.o bootsect.s
>make[1]: as86: Command not found
>make[1]: *** [bootsect.o] Error 127
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot'
>make: *** [zImage] Error 2
>
>What is this as86 command, and what can I do about it?
Install bin86.
First, put your Red Hat disc in the CD ROM.
Mount it with 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom'
Give the command 'rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/bin86-0.4-5.i386.rpm'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: hard disk copy
Date: 17 Jan 1999 15:36:31 GMT
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On 15 Jan 1999 12:51:34 GMT, Zdravko Balorda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>how can I make an exact copy of a hard disk, along
>with boot sector etc. what if disks are not exactly
>the same?
You can use dd for that.
man dd
something like 'dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb' should work.
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