Linux-Misc Digest #711, Volume #18 Thu, 21 Jan 99 08:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: defrag-0.70 compile error (Robert Lynch)
LILO chokes my compile...BUT I DONT USE LILO..?? (Daniel)
Re: A newbie versus "vi" (Bob Tennent)
Re: sharing netscape 4.5 files between linux and nt4 - almost there, ("Jesus M.
Salvo Jr.")
IP telephony solution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Minor bug with more !? ("Jesus M. Salvo Jr.")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Floyd Davidson)
Re: PII Motherboard recommendations & AGP video cards (Bruce Bennett)
Re: A newbie versus "vi" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't compile kernel with sound card support, HELP! (Niklas Lundin)
egcs 1.1.1 and PII (Barry)
Re: PROPOSAL: comp.unix.year-2038 (WAS: 2038 and Linux) (Andre Fachat)
Re: K6-400 "kernel paging request" errors (Larry)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Shaun Lipscombe)
Re: /dev/dsp What the.... (Larry)
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:03:42 -0800
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: defrag-0.70 compile error
Carl Koeppl wrote:
>
> Please excuse me for having to repost this. I did a search of the news
> group and found this same question posted with a reply. The reply said
> to use the line #include <linux/errno.h> as the solution to this compile
> problem with defrag-0.70.
>
> I am not having any luck correcting this compile error on RH5.1.
>
> Could someone add a little more detail on how to correct his problem?
>
> Regards,
>
> 'Carl
>
> gcc -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_LLSEEK -DEXT2FS -c -o
> misc.ext2.o misc.c
> misc.c: In function `nlseek':
> misc.c:74: `errno' undeclared (first use this function)
> misc.c:74: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> misc.c:74: for each function it appears in.)
> misc.c:74: `EINTR' undeclared (first use this function)
> misc.c: In function `nread':
> misc.c:81: `errno' undeclared (first use this function)
> misc.c:81: `EINTR' undeclared (first use this function)
> misc.c: In function `nwrite':
> misc.c:88: `errno' undeclared (first use this function)
> misc.c:88: `EINTR' undeclared (first use this function)
> make: *** [misc.ext2.o] Error 1
Apply the patch:
diff -ur defrag-0.73/misc.c defrag-0.73.glibc/misc.c
--- defrag-0.73/misc.c Sun Aug 17 16:02:33 1997
+++ defrag-0.73.glibc/misc.c Wed Jan 28 00:05:05 1998
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
*/
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <mntent.h>
Then it compiles.
HTH.
Bob L.
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO chokes my compile...BUT I DONT USE LILO..??
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:10:49 -0800
Whenever I try to compile my new kernel I make it all the way down to
the "make modules install"
then it chokes on trying to write to LILO.conf .......it says their is
no such file or directory...which is true..
because I don't use LILO...I use LOADLIN.......
I tried just creating a file named lilo.conf and when it gets to
the important part...again...it says it can't
write the MBR to device 306 or something...
If I remove lilo from my system wil THAT help???
Thanks in advance ....I'm ALMOST there...:0
This compile will solve almost ALL my SuSE probs...i.e. no sound in the
kernel, and no scanner support...and I want to use my wacom with my
ps/2 mouse...
Thanks...again...if you know about this
Daniel
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Marriage is always a bachelor's last option.
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From: r d t@c s.q u e e n s u.c a (Bob Tennent)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A newbie versus "vi"
Date: 20 Jan 1999 02:34:39 GMT
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 01:58:00 +0000, Kelly and Sandy wrote:
>
> So, reiterating: can I get a GUI editor by invoking some other
>command
>
Of course. There are dozens of editors available. Nothing forces you to
use vi to edit a file. Try jed or joe or nedit or gxedit or xwe or ....
You may not have all of these installed but they're not hard to find.
Bob T.
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From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sharing netscape 4.5 files between linux and nt4 - almost there,
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 21:40:57 +1100
Well, it seems that ns4.5 nt has some problems recognizing the messages that were
downloaded AND marked as read via ns4.5 linux.
When I specify View/Messages/Watched Threads with Unread, did not show anything.
But when I went into this thread (which is watched), and expanded the thread, the
earlier posts that I made and downloaded and marked as read via ns 4.5 linux are
still unread on ns4.5 nt. Moving between View/Messages/All then back to
View/Messages/Watched Threads with Unread now shows this thread.
Oh, well...
"Jesus M. Salvo Jr." wrote:
> I have now so far able to share the downloaded news messages between linux
> and nt4. Here is what I have done:
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IP telephony solution
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:25:16 GMT
Hi everyone!
I am looking for a good IP telephony product to install on a Linux 2.2 machine
(Pentium-based). I know very little about the internet telephony, hence any
suggestions, comments, recommendations, etc. are much welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Boris Epstein
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From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Minor bug with more !?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:07:18 +0000
I discovered a minor bug with the more command when used as:
ls -al --color | more
If the actual file is printed on the next line, the link will say:
<.....> .newsrc ->
;34mnt/hda5/Program Files/Netscape/Users/jmsalvo/news
instead of coloring the actual file that it is linked to. ;34 seems to
be part of the color code for navy blue as shown with ls -al --color
| less
On the other hand, sometimes, the color becomes 'permanent' to the
terminal , until you perform another ls -al --color | more
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 17:20:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frank da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Remapping the keyboard is perfectly viable in Linux, but what if you have
>a PC on which you need to boot lots of operating systems, and don't have the
>time or inclination to learn how to remap the keyboard in each and every one?
>(Or you want to leave these systems in their vanilla configuration for some
>reason.)
>
>There actually are keyboards on the market that still have the keys in the
>right place for those of us (like EMACS users) who still use the Ctrl and Esc
>keys a lot. Here's one:
>
> http://www.pfuca.com/products/hhkb/
>
>It also has a Meta key (it says "Alt" but it works like Meta). The placement
>of backslash, tilde, and Delete are a bit unfamiliar to PC keyboard users,
>but other than that, the layout is great. Also, it's not quite as long as
>a canoe paddle, so saves you some desktop.
>
>- Frank
>
>P.S. It does not even *have* a Caps Lock key.
I can remember when I was forced to switch to the standard PC
keyboard, and hated it for months. However, I guess the
geometry of my hands is such that when I eventually got used to
where the keys were, they don't bother me at all by being in
those locations. In fact I much prefer to have both a control
key and and a meta (alt) key on both sides of the space bar.
(Note that I am NOT thinking of a keyboard with an ESC key on
the upper right side, which is too disgusting to even talk
about.)
All of which brings to mind the biggest problem with using a
non-PC keyboard on anything... the simple fact that virtually
everything else is indeed going to have a PC style keyboard on
it. Maintaining a habit with any other style of keyboard would
make my life absolutely miserable, given that in any day I am
forced to use several different keyboards and do NOT have the
option of replacing any of them much less all of them with
something that suits my odd tastes.
With that said, I should point out that when buying a new
computer, I first look for the best keyboard and monitor that I
can possibly afford, and budget for those before even looking at
cpu's, memory, hard disks and all of the other areas where it
might make sense to skimp a little. It makes no sense whatever
to skimp on a keyboard or monitor if they are going to be used
for hours a day.
Floyd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Bennett)
Subject: Re: PII Motherboard recommendations & AGP video cards
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:39:15 -0800
Stuart Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
<snip>
I'm about to buy exactly the same HW and would very much like to know
about the heat generated and whether you're doing anything special about
cooling.
Regards,
--
Bruce Bennett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A newbie versus "vi"
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:30:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Augros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> have you never heard of emacs?
> emacs is not just an editor, it is an Operating System.
> in truth, emacs is a way of life.
> emacs is big.
> emacs is powerful.
> emacs takes forever to load.
> but once it's loaded, you don't have to load anything else.
> because emacs does EVERYTHING!
> use emacs.
> love emacs.
> be emacs.
>
> btw, emacs is available for every *NIX platform, and even NT.
> it is sure to be on your installation CD, if not on your HD already.
>
> type 'emacs' wherever you see the $ sign.
> you will not be disappointed.
> you will bless the day you met emacs.
> you will use vi when you have to, but in the throws of passion, you will
say...
>
> ohh emacs!!!!
>
> and vi will crash in a huff.
>
> HARHAR, but it is true.
>
> dave
>
Do you need a smoke, now? We are only talking about an _program_, aren't we?
;?} -- THKS Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Linux benchmarks
Date: 21 Jan 1999 10:55:11 GMT
In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hash: SHA1
>>>>>> "Eugene" == Eugene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Eugene> BTW, www.yahoo.com also runs on FreeBSD and so does
> Eugene> www.hotmail.com There's a nice story somewhere about how
> Eugene> Microsoft tried to replace FreeBSD with NT on
> Eugene> Hotmail... But NT just didn't cut it.
Hotmail still runs :
www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.1 on FreeBSD.
according to netcraft.
> Hmm, I think Hotmail runs on Solaris. And, I believe that not all of
> Yahoo is on FreeBSD, just the search engines.
> mp
> 8<---------------how-easy-is-it-to-demunge-an-address?------------------->8
> #! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
> while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
> if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
> if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
> substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
> $from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
> printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
> 8<-----------------------here's-one-example------------------------------>8
> - --
> Michael Powe
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> Portland, Oregon USA
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From: Niklas Lundin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't compile kernel with sound card support, HELP!
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:45:11 +0100
Hi
I have RedHat 5.2 installed on my laptop. Everything worked fine, except
apm.
I have changed the default configuration to include apm support such as
power-off
on shutdown. This compiles fine. Them I noticed that sound wasn't
supported. I
changed the configuration to include sound card support and ran as usual
make dep, make clean, then make zImage. (and previously make mrproper)
This time the compilation crashed...
Below I have entered the output.
thanks for any help
Nick Lundin
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers/sound'
make all_targets
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers/sound'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -
fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2
-malign-jum
ps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODVERSIONS -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c
sound_core.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -
fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2
-malign-jum
ps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -DMODVERSIONS -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c
sound_firmwa
re.c
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `lowlevel/lowlevel.o', needed by
`sound.a'.
Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers/sound'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers/sound'
make[1]: *** [sub_dirs] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/drivers'
make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
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From: Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: egcs 1.1.1 and PII
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:52:03 +0000
I have a Pentium II 400 running Red Hat 5.2. I've compiled egcs 1.1.1.
Is it worth recompiling source using this compiler with the -march=i686
option? I noticed that by default it sends -march=pentium.
Any help appreciated
--
Barry
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From: Andre Fachat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.software.year-2000,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.advocacy
Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: comp.unix.year-2038 (WAS: 2038 and Linux)
Date: 21 Jan 1999 11:04:35 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Bloody Viking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, before the time_t expiry, you tar up the ext2fs partitions, move the
> tars, then format the ext2fs partitions into ext3fs, and untar right back.
I'm no expert, but how does tar save the dates of a file?
Andre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.kernel,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: K6-400 "kernel paging request" errors
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Jan 1999 21:16:35 GMT
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:13:13 -0500, David R. Bergstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>If it helps at all, I am also seeing similar paging request errors under
>linux 2.0.36 with an AMD K6-200 and 128MB RAM. I will need to change
>my syslog.conf to obtain a dump next time it happens (will post).
>
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Suffering from an unstable system.
>> K6-400 (stepping 12), Motherboard FIC PA-2013 (VIA MP3),
>> 256 MB Ram (PC-100), (the board allows to downclock the RAM to 66 Mhz, what I
>> did),
>> AGP Matrox G200, 2 SCSI-Controller, EATA-DPT (only Disks)
>> and ncr53c825 (DDS-3, CDROM ).
>> RedHat 5.2 Kernel 2.0.36 and I tried as well all 2.2.0-preXX. the last
>> 2.2.0-pre7ac2.
>> The system keeps chrashing.
>>
>> I am trying to fix the system now since christmas. Getting frustrated....
>>
>> Any ideas, suggestions??
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Mario Dix
>>
>> This is from 2.0.36:
>>
>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e8f7ce98
>> current->tss.cr3 = 083ac000, %cr3 = 083ac000
>> *pde = 00000000
>> Oops: 0000
>> CPU: 0
>> EIP: 0010:[<00125af0>]
>> EFLAGS: 00010202
>> eax: 28f7ce98 ebx: 08c30814 ecx: 00000400 edx: 00000025
>> esi: 00000814 edi: 00067831 ebp: 00000400 esp: 0313de68
>> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
>> Process tar (pid: 3707, process nr: 53, stackpage=0313d000)
>> Stack: 08c3f398 00067831 00000814 00000002 00000000 00000025 0012702d 00000814
>> 00067831 00000400 0313df18 00002484 00000000 0dfddf00 00067831 00000814
>> 00000100 08c3f498 036c0814 00000000 08c3f498 08c3f418 036cf918 0313df14
>> Call Trace: [<0012702d>] [<001274af>] [<0011d25c>] [<0011d341>] [<0011d6b4>]
>> [<00123c70>] [<0010a941
I was getting this type of error with a cyrix p166 and finally took the
processor fan off and cleaned it and the fins and put it back together and
VOILA, it's been working famously ever since.
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From: Shaun Lipscombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 21 Jan 1999 10:42:13 +0000
i also, always choose a good monitor and keyboard. As you rightly
state, if you don't wish to suffer from repetitive strain injuries, or
such like, it is a neccesity.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry)
Subject: Re: /dev/dsp What the....
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Jan 1999 20:04:04 GMT
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:02:03 -0600, Michael Lee Yohe <[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 cannot play WAV files by 'cat'ing them to /dev/dsp. WAV files are
>encapsulated RIFF format audio files - meaning the data contained within the
>WAV files is stored in a special way - 999 times out of 1000 needing a CODEC
>(compressor/decompressor) to be able to play them.
That's strange, I just cat'd a whole directory full of files through the dsp
without a problem. I think you're confused.
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