Linux-Misc Digest #720, Volume #18 Fri, 22 Jan 99 04:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Ilya)
Success with compile..but still error messg..? (Daniel)
Re: CONCLUSIVE PROOF: Jesus *is* King of the Jews ! ! ! (David E. Fox)
Re: Playing mp3 files (Adam Foster)
Wheel mouse in X -not- be middle button? (Charles H. Chapman)
Re: CPU Monitor App (Darren Greer)
Re: HELP! 128MB ram linux only finds 64!!!!!! ("Oo.et.oO")
Data type 9 not supported error (Hbnetmail)
Re: Playing mp3 files (Gareth Owen)
MPC-3 standard (Neil Zanella)
Mouse Autoraise in Red Hat (Vivek Shanmuganathan (95410006-BS))
Linux or FreeBSD? ("Benny K.Y. Li")
e-tower X-Server Problem (Jesse Pavel)
Re: RH Kernel 2.0.18 (Simon H. Garlick)
YCL Ethernet card (White Home)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (jim)
Re: 2038 and Linux (David E. Fox)
Re: Real NEWBIE question: How can I select my PATH (David Augros)
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From: Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Date: 21 Jan 1999 20:14:57 +0800
In comp.editors Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Sven Utcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> | So I noticed. Strangely enough you still employ capital letters for
> | the words "I" and "Emacs". Or rather Emacs does, I guess :-)
> case is an important property of a word. randomly capitalizing words
> just because they happen to start sentences destroys valuable information
> about that word. I therefore maintain the case properties of a word
> regardless of its position in the sentence.
I can respect that.
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Success with compile..but still error messg..?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:58:16 -0800
I finally got a succuessful compile...on my SuSE53..........
Thanks to someone pointing out a typo I had made...
( make modules _install.................... rather than make
modules install)
duh.........
So now I have the thing compiled...but I keep getting this error when
trying to boot
VFS:cannot open root device 03: 06
kernel panic:VFS Unable to mount root fs on 03:06:
I'm using exactly the same config...i.e. rc.config
exactly the same parameters passed to loadlin
(loadlin zImage root=/dev/hda6 MEM=88M sbpcd=0x340,0)
the succesful kernel that boots is the one I installed with....it has no
problem with exactly the same
(loadlin zImage2 root=/dev/hda6 MEM=88M sbpcd=0x340,0)
It can't be a permission thing...becuase the same disk and partition
boot with one kernel
and yet not with another....
What I don't understand is why it would compile...yet not boot....
Is their anyway of loading the successful kernel and finding out exactly
what options they have
selected to compile their kernel...(they being SuSE)....?
I mean if I load their kernel and it boots fine...and then go into
/usr/src/linux and do
make menuconfig...whould the items selected in menuconfig be the options
they chose...?
Thanks in advance....I's so close I can taste it....sigh.
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox)
Subject: Re: CONCLUSIVE PROOF: Jesus *is* King of the Jews ! ! !
Date: 20 Jan 1999 19:10:19 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <77dcn0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shaygetz wrote:
>Can I get this in .rpm format?
look for jesuscamelastnightandihadtochangemysheets-1.0.2.{i386,src}.rpm.
:)
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From: Adam Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:20:45 +0000
Hello...
Richard Lewin wrote:
> I have several mp3 files which I am trying to play under Linux (they work
> fine under Windows). I have installed mpg123 and I can get it to work
> but only with the -2 option and the quality is not very good.
> Without the -2 option it plays very slowly. I have also installed kmp3
> which uses amp as its player. I can't get it to work at all with this. I
> just get a lot of screeching and whistling and the counter on the
> graphical display counts up very slowly - at least half or third the
> normal speed. Is this a problem with the mp3 files or is there something
> wrong with my installation? - (my soundcard is a Soundblaster Pro
> compatible and seems to be working OK otherwise). Has anyone else had
> success playing mp3 files under Linux and getting quality comparable to
> that from Windows media player?
It's almost certainly due to your sound card not being 100% SoundBlaster
compatible. The sound card in my computer (a CS4232) is fully
Soundblaster Pro compatible, but the SoundBlaster Pro is only capable of
8-bit audio. kmp3 is probably sending 16-bit samples to the sound card,
which thinks each 16-bit sample is actually two 8-bit samples, resulting
in wild buzzing noises and the slow counter.
To run the 'proper' driver for your sound card, try running sndconfig as
root. On my Red Hat 5.2 system, this automagically detected the sound
card and set up the drivers - I didn't even have to reboot. If you're
running some other version of Linux, you may have to compile support for
your sound card into your kernel. This isn't nearly as scary as it
sounds - I suggest you read the readme files fairly carefully. I'm sure
there's a HOWTO somewhere - have a look round
http://www.man.ac.uk/LinuxDoc/ to see if you can find one.
When you do get the sound card working properly, you'll be able to play
MP3s without any problems - there is no difference whatsoever in sound
quality. You might be interested in a player like x11amp, which looks
surprisingly like winamp (it even uses winamp skins). You can find out
more at http://www.x11amp.org/.
Hope all that helped...
Adam Foster
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Adam Foster - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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'My software never has bugs - it just develops random features.'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles H. Chapman)
Subject: Wheel mouse in X -not- be middle button?
Date: 21 Jan 1999 22:58:43 GMT
Hi,
I have a wheel mouse sorta working using XFree86 3.3.2 under Linux.
I -can- scroll using it but the wheel also acts as the middle button
which means if you click on it, it paste the current contents of the
clipboard to the window that has the focus. So I have to be -very-
careful not to click the wheel while rotating it, otherwise I get
unintended pastes in the window. This is not at all easy to do!
Is there a way to get "wheel" action but keep 3-button emulation
by clicking the right and left buttons together? Alternatively,
is there a way to clear what's in the clipboard in X?
Thanks!
Chuck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: CPU Monitor App
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 03:16:54 GMT
Here is some info I pulled from some mailing list.....
==================================
As result I'm always running a dockable temperature sensor applet in
Linux
which displays both LED's and an EKG type temp display, with
alarms.... very
nice!
Try:
http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/
for the actual "module" that is loaded, and then
http://www.netroedge.com/intranet/tellerstats/
for information about web routines to display the temp information and
graphs...
and finally
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kebl0850/wmlm78/
for a WIndowmaker / Afterstep dockable applet which reads the results
from
the module...
"Cool!"
====================================
Id be interested to hear your thoughts on these.....
DrGreer
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From: "Oo.et.oO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! 128MB ram linux only finds 64!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:02:07 +0000
yeah yeah I found it.
okay
but it is append="mem=128M"
unless I wanted to use 128Bytes of my ram.
I also read that kernel 2.0.36 supports more than 64 MB ram without the
boot option. I'll just wait for 2.2 or always boot into my 2.1
thanks for the help...
Darren Greer wrote:
>
> Try doing a search on dejanews........This has been answered hundreds
> of times.
>
> Heres a hint: append="mem=128"
>
> DrGreer
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:51:44 +0000, "Oo.et.oO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> -->hello-
> --> okay this is really mysterious. first Redhat neglected to do anything
> -->with my swap space and I was running with out it. so I fixed that and
> -->while I was doing that I realized that linux thinks I only have 64MB of
> -->RAM!
> -->the bios sees all 128 MB
> -->how do I figure out what is going on and fix it ASAP?
> -->here is my free output:
> --> total used free shared buffers
> -->cached
> -->Mem: 64108 62952 1156 30908 9188
> -->27748
> -->-/+ buffers/cache: 26016 38092
> -->Swap: 88700 0 88700
> -->
> -->and /proc/meminfo:
> -->Mem: 65646592 64475136 1171456 31776768 9408512 28368896
> -->Swap: 90828800 0 90828800
> -->MemTotal: 64108 kB
> -->MemFree: 1144 kB
> -->MemShared: 31032 kB
> -->Buffers: 9188 kB
> -->Cached: 27704 kB
> -->SwapTotal: 88700 kB
> -->SwapFree: 88700 kB
> -->
> -->I can't find anything on the web about this.
> --> help me pleeeeze-
> --> eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hbnetmail)
Subject: Data type 9 not supported error
Date: 21 Jan 1999 04:37:51 GMT
I am receiving a data type 9 message when trying to install the RPMS. I
downloaded the RPMS via ftp from an i386. Then I copied the downloaded files in
a Jaz drive. Next I ftp'd it to my Linux server (alpha cpu). When I tried
installing the RPMS (e.g. rpm -iv glint* ) I receive this error "Data type 9
not supported".
Please let me know what I can to fix it.
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From: Gareth Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Playing mp3 files
Date: 21 Jan 1999 14:45:39 +0000
Richard Lewin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Has anyone else had success playing mp3 files under Linux and getting
> quality comparable to that from Windows media player?
Using mpg123 I found it necessary to increase the buffer size (I forget
the switch, its in the manual) to 2048. Then it worked fine (including
using mtvp to create the streams from mpg movie files and using a named
pipe to communicate the data).
--
Gareth Owen
http://www.ma.man.ac.uk/~gowen/lisp/
Every Mode Accelerates Creation of Software
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MPC-3 standard
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:25:41 -0330
Hello,
I was just wondering what the MPC-3 standard is and whether
Linux is compatible with it.
TIA,
Neil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vivek Shanmuganathan (95410006-BS))
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Mouse Autoraise in Red Hat
Date: 22 Jan 1999 05:15:39 GMT
Hello,
I have installed redhat linux 5.1
I have also loaded X Windows (fvwm). But, I have not been able to enable the
window-autoraise option from the menu items one gets by clicking the right
mouse button and choosing Preferences/Autoraise.
I have even treid restarting fvwm. But, it does not seem to work.
Pl help.
Vivek...
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From: "Benny K.Y. Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Linux or FreeBSD?
Date: 22 Jan 1999 06:53:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi,
I don't want to give a long story, so to make it short and to the
point, I want to know which OS better suits me. Here's the things I need
my OS to do(w/ PRIORITY):
1. Stability, stability, stability
2. Java support
3. Support my SoundBlaster AWE 64
4. Able to view VCD
5. Simpler setup & management
6. ...I don't quite want to give this condition but it feels to me it
should really be taken into account: I'm a Berkeley student, not from
Germany :-)
I know that there is Linux emulation on FreeBSD but how well does
that work? It would be terrific if anybody can tell me his/her
experience on this issue.
Thanks for your time!!
Benny
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From: Jesse Pavel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: e-tower X-Server Problem
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 02:34:35 -0500
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting the ATI 3D Rage IIc AGP that comes in the
e-tower to work correctly with XFree86. Regardless of the resolution I
choose (I've dropped down to 640x480x8bit), the display is garbled and
seems out of sync. Figuring it was my old monitor, I tried it on a new
Dell Multisync and found the same results. Has anyone successfully
installed X on this particular graphics setup?
Thanks for any help.
- Jesse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon H. Garlick)
Subject: Re: RH Kernel 2.0.18
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 02:53:53 GMT
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write unto us:
>Gramo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Hi,
>
>: I'm currently running with 2.0.18. I know I've been asleep for
>: a while. Do I have to install and rebuild all the kernel patches to
>: reach x.x.36 or can I just build 2.0.36
>
>If you currently have the 2.0.18 kernel tree, you will need to get all
>the patches between 2.0.18 and 2.0.36 and apply them in order. But
>I'd recommend just grabbing the source for 2.0.36
If you're a total newbie (like me) just grab the 2.0.36 rpms from redhat and
-Uvh them. Remember to edit lilo.conf though.
S
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Subject: YCL Ethernet card
From: White Home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:51:22 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm a newbie setting up Redhat from a cheapbytes CD. I'm at the install
point to configure the LAN. I've checked and the ethernet card is made
by YCL (inherited hardware), but none the stock drivers in the RedHat
5.2 install seem to do it. Anyone got any pointers to a good library of
ethernet card drivers for Linux? Anyone have this make of card? Any
help appreciated.
I would RTFM, but I don't have the FM. Maybe I should ATFM
(Acquire....).
Thanks
Jason White
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:57:34 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let's be realistic here. MS didn't create stupid users. They existed
> already. Windows et al made computers so common, everyone seems to have
> one. That's why you see so many clueless users. It's like making cars
> accessable to everyone, you're bound to uncover people who can't drive
> at all. Some people just don't have any sense whatsoever.
The difference being, of course, that you have to demonstrate your
ability to drive a car before you are allowed out on the road with one.
--
jim
--
http://madeira.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/people/jim/ Hold the line -
Love is delayed by essential engineering works.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: 2038 and Linux
Date: 21 Jan 1999 23:16:26 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>that VAX/VMS did it better; IIRC, it used microseconds since Nov 17, 1858
>and is good until about the year 9,000 or so; I'd have to work it out.
>Of course it uses 64 bits. :-) )
I'd pick the astronomical Julian date as a convenient system. Its only
real drawback is that Julian days start at noon rather than midnight;
otherwise it covers a rather wide range of dates. I'm not really sure
why systems decided to use arbitrary start dates rather than the
Julian system anyway. Unix, I can understand, since epoch is reasonably
close to the date the OS was first implemented. But other systems --
like Macs and some versions of Excel, where they start at 1904, or
even VAX, seem rather arbitrary. What's so special about 11/17/1858? Was
it the birthday of one of the ancestors of a DEC founder or something?
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- although Linux 2030 will probably beat NT anyway
> by then... :-)
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From: David Augros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real NEWBIE question: How can I select my PATH
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:52:18 -0500
you do not mention which distribution you are running.
not to mention which shell.
therefore i assume you are running redhat and using bash.
if this is so, you can type 'env' to see all of your environment variables (PATH
should be near the end of the list).
you might also do 'echo $PATH' to see just your path.
so you want to set it, eh?
edit your ~/.bash_profile file (~ means home directory)
(if you have no .bash_profile in your home directory, then copy the one called
/etc/profile to your home directory and rename it to .bash_profile)
then add the directories you want in your path to the line that starts like
this:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
be sure to include a colon (:) between the directories that you add.
also be sure to give the absolute path names...
e.g. if you want to add your home directory's whizbang directory, do:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/home/YOUR_USER_NAME/whizbang
don't just append :whizbang, this will not work.
once you have done that, start a new shell and try another 'echo $PATH', the
changes you have made should be apparent.
also note that setting the path is never strictly necessary, it is done for
convenience. if /usr/X11R6/bin is not in your path, and you want to run a
program that lives there, e.g. xclock, then all you need to do is type the full
path at the prompt: /usr/X11R6/bin/xclock and the program will start. people
just got tired of typing all that crap and came up with the $PATH environment
variable.
hope this helps.
dave
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