Linux-Misc Digest #689, Volume #18 Tue, 19 Jan 99 07:13:35 EST
Contents:
Re: Statement of Bill Neukom As Government Rests Its Case (Richard Corfield)
Re: Floppy drive problem (KaSI)
Re: A few questions (KaSI)
Re: Sound working - finally! (James Tappin)
Possible kernel bug? (Bryan H Kim)
Re: Linux Newbie Com 1 problem (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
cfdisk problem. help!! (nick)
Re: xhost Question (Stef)
Re: ? on poorly described -r & -R options of cp. (Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima)
how to install sound card and ethernet card? ("bob")
Re: Linux not seeing all memory (please help) (JiPUSTRADAMUS)
Re: installing win95 on slave disk (Sydney Weidman)
Re: Samba Question (Phil Brutsche)
FTP slowing down PPP (Jerome De Greef)
Re: hard disk copy (Pasha Zusmanovich)
Re: Lilo Config (JiPUSTRADAMUS)
Re: PII Motherboard recommendations & AGP video cards (Stuart Miles)
Re: Redhat 5.2 Runlevel 5 not working properly (Jeremy Nickolet)
Re: please help ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: FoxPro for SCO UNIX & linux
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Richard Corfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Statement of Bill Neukom As Government Rests Its Case
Date: 18 Jan 1999 22:52:37 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Richard> One of the problems that we're having with this one is
> Richard> that insists on forgetting the user name and password to
> Richard> dial into the remove server with. Both this and on
> Richard> testing my Windows installation suffer this. We had at
>
>This is a known issue with DUN and upgrading your DUN version should
>fix it.
>
Thanks. Someone else has suggested that I install Outlook Express and
Internet Explorer from the Freeserve CD which I now have. This will
apparently will also fix the DUN problems whilst its at it.
- Richard.
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From: KaSI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy drive problem
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:20:56 +0100
Hi John,
you said, you mounted the floppy.. have you tried using the mtools? Why
don't to try a "mcopy a:\* ~" or sth like that.
Maybe this works with your floppy...
John Garrison wrote:
> I have copied an MPG and JPG file onto a DOS formatted floppy. I can
> view the JPG file, but not the MPG file. I cannot copy either one back
> to the hard drive because it says "Input/Output Error" I have set the
> permissions mounted the drive correctly,etc. Does anybody know what
> could cause this and how to fix it?
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From: KaSI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A few questions
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:26:48 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently installed Slackware 3.4 and now I have a few questions:
> 1. How can I use my floppy drive without mounting it after every disk change?
If you have disks containing the FAT fileformat, you can use the mtools to read,
copy, ... files to and from disk.
Hope it helps!!
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From: James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sound working - finally!
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:12:47 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> question - with a running linux system - is there a utility
> which will tell me more about what hardware is using what
> DMA and IRQs?
>
cat /proc/xxx
Where xxx is the appropriate "pseudo file": e.g. /proc/dma,
/proc/interrupts, /proc/ioports etc.
(When running KDE 1.1pre1 the Kontrol centre finds them for you.)
If there is too much output, you can do (e.g.) "cat /proc/pci | less"
[less /proc/pci won't work]
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From: Bryan H Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Possible kernel bug?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:04:20 -0500
I have a dual Pentium II system that boots into kernel 2.0.34 and
2.1.131, with Debian 2.0. I run a commercial scientific software that
runs for weeks on end. I normally kde window manager. When I launch two
single threaded jobs under 2.1.131, initially they go well, showing 99%
CPU usage for each job. When I log out and log back in, I get either 72%
CPU for both jobs, or 99% for one and 50% for the other. Most of the
remaining CPU power is used up by kwm and x server. The system response
is also extremely slow. When I do the exact same thing in 2.0.34, I
always get 99% CPU usage for both jobs and excellent system response;
kwm and x server use very small amounts of CPU as they should. Did
anyone have this problem before? Is there a fix for 2.1.131?
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie Com 1 problem
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:00:02 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Greetings All,
>
> I recently installed Redhat Linux 5.1 on a 486DX4 100 machine, and couldn't
> get COM 1, (Serial port 1) to work. The serial port is on a VLB DTC 2278E
> controller card. I also have a Teac55A CDROM on an interface card, using port
> address 230. I don't think it uses an IRQ, and I have had the system running
Last night I installed RH 5.2 for a friend of mine on his five year old
486DX4 133MHz (so it claimed) machine that used a single peripheral card
to supply the com ports, the parallel ports, the HD drive, the floppy
drives and the CDROM drive. Had tried to install Win95 on it but
couldn't get it to hold the mouse on a com port and Win95 kept erroring
out on parallel port problems. The main problem was that prevented me
from intitally installing RH 5.2 was that the machine would boot from
Floppy Drive A. I tried replacing the Floppy drive with a spare that I
had but that didn't help. So, I yanked the peripheral card, cleaned the
connections with an eraser and put it back in. The RH boot floppy fired
right up and Linux recognized that odd brand CDROM and installed without
a hitch. The guy was sure happy.
Hope this helps...
Jerry
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From: nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cfdisk problem. help!!
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:28:10 -0500
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hi.. when i try to run cfdisk, i get "FATAL ERROR: Bad primary
partition", and cfdisk exits. does anyone know what the problem might
be? i have one HDD, 9 gigs... the first 4 gigs have win95, followed by
2 gigs of free space (which i want to give to linux, using cfdisk),
followed by a swap partition, a /boot partition, and my root partition
(linux, of course). i'm running redhat 5.2
...thanks for any help!!
-nick
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Darth Vader doesn't have two light sabers!!
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hi.. when i try to run cfdisk, i get "FATAL ERROR: Bad
primary partition", and cfdisk exits. does anyone know what the problem
might be? i have one HDD, 9 gigs... the first 4 gigs have win95,
followed by 2 gigs of free space (which i want to give to linux, using
cfdisk), followed by a swap partition, a /boot partition, and my root partition
(linux, of course). i'm running redhat 5.2
<P>...thanks for any help!!
<P>-nick
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From: Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xhost Question
Date: 19 Jan 1999 11:42:23 +0100
: When I want to run x11 apps from another machine on my own, I typically do a
: xhost +foreignmachine
: Is there a way I can setup certain machines to always be okay so I don't have
: to explicity name them?
Just put the corresponding
xhost host > /dev/null
lines in your .xinitrc file.
Stef
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UNIX and Windows NT administration, SOS-ETH
ETH Zurich
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima)
Subject: Re: ? on poorly described -r & -R options of cp.
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 04:25:42 GMT
Terry Husie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: From the "cp" man page:
: -r Copy directories recursively, copying all non-
: directories as if they were regular files.
: -R, --recursive
: Copy directories recursively.
: So, what's that last phrase of -r supposed to mean?
: What's the difference between -r and -R, in English?
Basically I'd say that a -R will copy a symlink as a symlink, whereas "-r"
will just copy the file and make it a normal file.
the sam sort of thing will happenn to PIPES, devices etc etc.
I'm not certain ... I didn't even know there was a "-r" parameter in cp until
your post.
Tony.
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From: "bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to install sound card and ethernet card?
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:34:36 -0800
I read all the reference, still can not install
new card.
1. soundcard: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI
2. NIC: 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI Adapters
manufacure unknown, just from Taiwan.
althout I re-compile kernel, no use.
all these two work well in Win98
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From: JiPUSTRADAMUS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux not seeing all memory (please help)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:45:57 +0200
> bgreen wrote:
> >
> > Any idea what's wrong? A bad memory chip?
At the lilo boot prompt, type linux (or whatever you call it) mem=64M.
This forces linux to see the whole 64 mbs.
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From: Sydney Weidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: installing win95 on slave disk
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 05:56:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I have linux installed on my machine, and want to put in my second hard disk
> and install windoze95 on it so that I can play my games. Now, I know that
> Windoze demands that it be installed on the first partition on the first
> disk, but I was wondering if there is a way around this. Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Morgan Terry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
Here is a good answer to the question brought to my attention by Mykool
(Thanks, Mykool!!)
====== START QUOTE==========
I have Linux as my primary master and win 98 as my primary slave. The win 98
part of my lilo.conf looks
like:
other = /dev/hdb1
label = win
table = /dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to =0x81
map-drive=0x81
to =0x80
Hope this helps.
========== END QUOTE ===========
Note especially the map-drive directives. They are necessary to fool windows
into thinking it's on the first hard drive.
Cheers!
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From: Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba Question
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 00:27:53 -0600
On 17 Jan 1999, Raymond Doetjes wrote:
> Are both Workgroups the same name???
Nope, that's not his problem - if the workgroups aren't the same Windows'
"Network Neighborhood" won't even be able to _see_ his Samba server.
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Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft: "Where do you want to to today?"
Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: Jerome De Greef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: FTP slowing down PPP
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:36:01 +0100
Hi,
I've a strange problem using PPP 2.3.3 with RedHat 5.1 Kernel 2.0.36,
BocaModem 28.8, P90 48 Mb RAM.
Everything is working fine until I make download (via FTP, MC or
Netscape). Then, as soon as the file transfer begins (at 2.7 Kb/Sec,
seems OK for a 28.8 modem) , it seems it's using the whole bandwidth and
if I continue to browse, Netscape drops at less than 100 bytes/sec (I've
seen 7 bytes/sec one time :-( ).
I've played with MRU and MTU and using ping I have my response time
ranging from >5000 ms (MRU = 1500) to 800-1000 ms (MRU=296). I use
Asyncmap=0, crtscts, etc
Is it normal or am I missing something (should I say that I never had
this problem with Win95)?
Thanks for helping,
Jerome
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From: Pasha Zusmanovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: hard disk copy
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:26:23 +0200
Brian McCauley wrote:
>
>
> > Pasha Zusmanovich -------o x x "What i tell you three times is true."
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] o o x L.Carroll, "The Hunting of the Snark"
>
> Thanks, how did you guess I'd been trying to remember where that
> quotation came from. :-)
>
Ah, glad to be useful, if not with hard disk layouts than with Lewis
Carrol quotations. But... Today (totally coincendentially of course) I
opened the Camel Book on p. 549 and found there: "That which I tell you
three times is true" (without mentioning L.C. and followed by some smart
advice repeated three times). So I wonder whether this is plagiarism (oh
- dare I even think about that?) or clever japh's came to this wise
saying independently.
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Pasha Zusmanovich -------o x x "What i tell you three times is true."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] o o x L.Carroll, "The Hunting of the Snark"
www.actcom.co.il/~pasha x x o---------------------------------------
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From: JiPUSTRADAMUS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo Config
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:59:57 +0200
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, User wrote:
> Hi folks:
> I installed win95 and RedHat Linux on my machine. It works great, except
> when I boot up the computer, I have to type win95 to load windoz. How do I
> change it to something else? Tried /etc/lilo.conf, but didn't work.
> Any hints?
What would you like to change it to, then? Isn't it quite corret to type
win95 to start win95? Well, anyway, did you run lilo after editing
lilo.conf? The changes won't take place untill you do that. That is "lilo
-C /etc/lilo.conf", or just plain "lilo" should do in your case...
JP
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From: Stuart Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PII Motherboard recommendations & AGP video cards
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:52:52 +0000
Well I'm currently running an Abit BH-6, Celeron 300A overclocked to 504MHz,
Matrox Millenium G200 and 128M of PC100 memory and it goes like a rocket.
You will need XFree 3.3.3.
--
Stuart Miles Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alenia Marconi Systems Phone: +44 1276 63311
Views expressed are mine and not those of Alenia Marconi Systems
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From: Jeremy Nickolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.2 Runlevel 5 not working properly
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:18:54 GMT
Steve Sanyal wrote:
> >>execve failed for /etc/X11/X (error no 2)
> >>_X11TransSocketUnixConnect:
> >>Can't connect: error no: 111... giving up.
> >>xinit: connection refused (error 111) unable to connect to X server
> >>xinit: No such process (error no 3): server error.
> >
> >Nope. the error no 2 for X and the TransSocketUnixConnect error is
> >when your video card is set up right. In XF86Setup, when I messed with
> >my config, testing out my different X Server packages (and figuring
> >out which worked [best]), when a server was not compatible with the
> >video card, it would give me that error. Same thing.
>
> That's interesting. So that suggests that if I reconfigure my video
> settings, then things will work okay. But how can I get my video card to
> work then? I have an ATI 3D Expression+PC2TV Mach 64 with 4 MB RAM, and I
> use True Color (32 bit) in Windows NT. My exact video card is listed in
> XF86Config, so why can't I use it?
>
> Steve
I'm using the very same card with no problems...run "Xconfigurator" or
"XF86Setup" to configure your card. Some of the other settings may have been
altered to make the config file unusable, or maybe not. Try reconfig, it
maybe all that you need to do.
Jeremy
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: please help
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 02:08:43 -0600
>I am running Red Hat Linux 5.0 .
>When I type make I get the following errors:
<snip>
>make: *** [smodlib.o] Error 1
I'm not too sure if this will be the god-send information that you're
looking for - but those errors are usually due to the fact that your
Makefile is not properly configured for Linux and/or the Makefile is no
configured for the libc (egcs) distribution of the c compiler that comes
with Redhat 5.x. Make sure you edit the Makefile and read the README files
on the proper switches to properly configure the Makefile to correctly
compile on your system.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: FoxPro for SCO UNIX & linux
Date: 19 Jan 1999 08:24:10 GMT
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:59:30 GMT, Max Jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Al,
> I am going to set another foxpro unix up on linux this week. I will
>document it as I do it this time, and I will post it here.
thank you
al
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 19 Jan 1999 02:31:27 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael says...
>
> first_person>> If you have so little respect for the form of the material you
> first_person>> post,
>
> Kirk> And if you have any dignity or self respect, you would not
> Kirk> criticize someone else's writing in public.
>
>Hmm, more than a little judgemental, aren't we? Funny, how you
>demonstrate exactly the behavior you're criticizing in him.
>
it seemed to me that Kirk was not criticizing the first persons's writting.
he was criticizing his criticizing boob's writtings. this is different.
> Kirk> It is not your job or anyone else to take the moral high
> Kirk> ground on such issues on the internet. Feel free to do so in
> Kirk> the privacy of your own home, but not here.
>
>Nor is it yours, but you're doing it, anyway.
>
Again, I got the impression the Kirk was not doing the same thing as
the first person. where did you see him say that he criticize the first
persons writtings?
>
> Kirk> educational and background come here to discuss issues. No
> Kirk> one has assigned you to be the judge of anyone else's
> Kirk> quality of writings or the manner in which they wish to
> Kirk> express themselves, nor are you or anyone else is expected
> Kirk> to assign this task to themselves.
>
>The fact is, the very substantial majority of contributors to these
>forums are technically educated. A person like BillyBob just trolls
>because he's bored and ignorant.
>
That is your opinion. It seems now you are also trolling. are you also
bored and ignorant?
Notice that someones' trollings might be another person's good points.
The best thing is that if you dont like someone writtings, is to ignore them.
> Kirk> People like you make me sick. Those who pretend and call for
> Kirk> respect, yet they themselves show none.
>
>Another demonstration of the old adage, "we criticize in others that
>which we most dislike in ourselves."
>
I would say this only about the first person who criticized boob's writings.
Again, you are here criticizng Kirk also. what does that makes you? should
we apply the above to you also?
Shirov
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