Linux-Misc Digest #408, Volume #19 Thu, 11 Mar 99 02:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: PPP for network connection?? ("Craig Shields")
Re: Linux SLOWER than win95? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Where can I get the RPM of the 2.2.X Kernel? (Micha� Kuratczyk)
Re: /dev/audio problems (DanH)
address book hangs communicator ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work? (Regit Young)
Re: ICQ in Linux (Ajit Krishnan)
Re: CD emulators for GNU/Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Philip Brown)
Re: Keyboard bug - Linux Mandrake -IBM l380ED laptop ("Richard Latimer")
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Tomasz Korycki)
Re: Linux <---- > Win95 (scientific DATA files rd/wrt able by both OS) (bklimas)
UFS and extended partitions (Robert Lynch)
Re: /dev/audio problems (Gerard Motola)
Re: HELP: K6-2 motherboard w/ Linux; Perf. compares/ PII ("D. C. & M. V. Sessions")
Re: Realplayer (Michael Kelley)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows (Mikhail Kruk)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows (Mikhail Kruk)
Sound Blaster 64... <<==Question==>> ("CH")
Re: Kernel 2.2.2 Intel ("Richard Latimer")
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Open Source Office Package? IDE? (Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCtt?=)
LEX/YACC Question ("alan walkington")
Re: Used WWW.DEJANEWS.COM ! (Richard Steiner)
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From: "Craig Shields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: PPP for network connection??
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:19:40 -0500
Success! It seems I had problems in hosts.conf and my routing table.
Thanks a lot Bill
for all the help. I have a <slightly> better understanding now of how our
LAN works now that I've looked at it from a different perspective than
Win98/95/NT. The next goal is to get my laptop online at home with the
modem.
I'm still not really efficient in Linux at work since I'm soooo tied down to
M$ Office now, but are there any people here who have made the switch and
found plenty of apps that are just a powerful and can maybe import/export
some common Win file formats?? Any recommendations of "must-have" apps for
Linux? I especially am in need of a good email client for starters.
Something pretty robust with good filtering and multiple mail box handling.
(I use Eudora Pro now)
Thanks again!
Craig Shields
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux SLOWER than win95?
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 17:30:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm tempted to say "slower doing what ?", but I wonder about the wisdom
of running KDE in just 16MB of RAM. Another 16MB will cost you about 30
Euros.
Raf Meeusen wrote:
>
> I installed the latest Linux Mandrake (=Redhat+KDE) on a P60 with 16meg ram.
> I use a swap partition of 70 Mb.
>
> But it is much slower than my windows 95.
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|\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw
| \| | |_ |\ You get the straight bits
But there's something missing in the middle
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Mar 1999 21:54:11 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes:
> On 10 Mar 1999 16:38:51 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >...
> >MS doesn't want to do business on unix. it could interfere with its
> >windows sales. if i could run ms-office on solaris, then i could make
> >a solid case to my boss to get rid of my pc running microsoft windows
> >and get me a sparcstation on my desktop.
>
> but why can't you run staroffice, or corel WP suite, or applixware, and
> still make that solid case to get rid of the PC right now?
> It's compatible with office?
it's not all *that* compatible. my documents tend to be chock full of
equations and figures. straight text is done ok. tables survive
usually. figures maybe. equations, not a chance. i'd love to use
AMS-LaTeX but the US DoD requires all documentation be submitted in
`MS-Word 6.0 for Windows' format.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Micha� Kuratczyk)
Subject: Re: Where can I get the RPM of the 2.2.X Kernel?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 17:07:50 GMT
Ed Young wrote:
>Be sure to read about rawhide though. It is somewhat experimental...
...and very fresh. Polish(ed) Linux Distribution is something like rawhide,
but better :>. It is based on:
- 2.2.2 kernel
- 2.1.x glibc
- RPM
PLD supports also:
- IPv6
- Kerberos5
Other nice features:
- only few SUID binaries
- can rebuild _whole_ distribution by 'rpm --rebuild *.src.rpm'
- nice rc-scripts :)
You can find PLD on ftp.ps.pl (ftp.pld.org.pl comming soon).
--
Micha� Kuratczyk
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: /dev/audio problems
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:11:09 +0000
Gerard Motola wrote:
>
> When i try to do cat something.au > /dev/audio I get an error.
>
> [gtm@gtm gtm]$ cat /usr/share/afterstep/desktop/meepmeep.au > /dev/audio
>
> bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device
>
> What's the problem?
>
> My computer has a PII 350, 128 MB SDRAM, 4.5 gig SCSI HD, SB AWE64
> sound, RedHat Linux 5.2...
Try 'sox /pathto/meepmeep.au' Might need a translator there.
Or 'showaudio /pathto/meepmeep/au'
Those tend to work
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc
Subject: address book hangs communicator
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:32:31 GMT
Whenever I try to update entries in my communicator 4.08 address book
on my RedHat 5.1 system, Communicator totally locks up. Has anyone
else seen this behavior? What might be wrong?
thanks,
John
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.solaris.x86,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux 2.2.2 and UFS write support - does it work?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:44:39 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manfred,
It works !!! Again, thank you ... : )
Best regards,
Regit
Regit Young wrote:
>
> Manfred,
>
> Thanks!!! will try that..
>
> Cheers,
> Regit
>
> Manfred Hollstein wrote:
>
> > Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I'm not with a Linux box now... but I did something like this .... and from
> > > personal experience, rw to FreeBSD is OK, but only read with Solaris.... :
> >
> > Take a look into /var/log/messages; if it's showing something like
> >
> > ... ufs_read_super: fs needs fsck
> >
> > the UFS function ufs_read_super somehow decided the fs isn't clean,
> > and therefore set the RDONLY bit. Try a
> >
> > mount -o remount,rw /where/your/solaris/fs/is/mounted
> >
> > then and you'll succeed in getting write access. The first mount
> > (even with an explicit 'rw' option included in /etc/fstab) will
> > fail in 95% of the cases. Quite annoying... :-(
> >
> > > (
> > >
> > > Rob Fisher wrote:
> > >
> > > > > If I recalled correctly, the documentation says only FreeBSD's ufs.....
> > > >
> > > > Where did you read this? I have _no_ documentation. I've even been
> > > > trawling through the source!
> > > >
> > > > Rob
> >
> > Later,
> > manfred
> >
> > --
> > Manfred Hollstein If you have any questions about GNU software:
> > Hindenburgstr. 13/1 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 75446 Wiernsheim, FRG <http://www.s-direktnet.de/HomePages/manfred/>
> > PGP key: <http://www.s-direktnet.de/HomePages/manfred/manfred.asc>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ajit Krishnan)
Subject: Re: ICQ in Linux
Date: 11 Mar 1999 05:03:27 GMT
licq is the only way to go!!!
Richard Steiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Joel Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: spake unto us, saying:
: >I am running RedHat 5.2, with kernel 2.0.36, and am trying to get an ICQ
: >program going for it.. has anyone succesfully gotten ICQ to work in
: >Linux? If so, what version of ICQ (or copy) was it?
: I don't use ICQ. But try some of these:
: http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/
: --
: -Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
: OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
: WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
: Illiterate? Write for FREE HELP!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD emulators for GNU/Linux?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:43:49 GMT
I simply wanted to be able to play quake2 and listen to diferent music CD's.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When the CD in mounted it is part of the file system.
> It does not care if it is a CD or a floppy or a HDD.
> Why do you need to fake the CD ?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Anyone know if there is a CD emulator (like fake CD) for Linux?
> > thanx
> > egon
> >
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:57:07 GMT
On 10 Mar 1999 16:38:51 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>...
>MS doesn't want to do business on unix. it could interfere with its
>windows sales. if i could run ms-office on solaris, then i could make
>a solid case to my boss to get rid of my pc running microsoft windows
>and get me a sparcstation on my desktop.
but why can't you run staroffice, or corel WP suite, or applixware, and
still make that solid case to get rid of the PC right now?
It's compatible with office?
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From: "Richard Latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboard bug - Linux Mandrake -IBM l380ED laptop
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:07:51 -0800
>use KDE, so, I used Linux-Mandrake 5.3. The installation goes fine till I
>have to log in. "root" becomes "r66t" - I cannot even find another
>keystroke for the letter "o"
The init scripts have turned NumLock on. Turn NumLock off, log in as
root and fix the scripts. Look in /etc/rc.d.
richard
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From: Tomasz Korycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:46:37 -0500
"Stuart R. Fuller" wrote:
>>>>>>>> snip! <<<<<<<<
> And, Cutler was involved in VMS, but he was not *THE* main architect.
>
> Stu
My mistake: I meant main NT architect. As I remember he also brought a
lot of people from Prism/Mica project at DEC in 1988.
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From: bklimas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux <---- > Win95 (scientific DATA files rd/wrt able by both OS)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:00:20 GMT
rick wrote:
> Any know how to create a DATA partition that allows both Win95 & Linux to
> view RD/wrt fits files ??
> I have astronomy fits data to be collected in Win95 but must be analyzed in
> Linux (IRAF).
> 4 GB HD is all FAT, LBA mode, using Partition Magic 4.01, but must be more
> to it...?
> fits files are about 2MB & will collect 50 to 100 per night so wish to
> smoothly & quickly go between Linux & Win95.
> thanks
> rick
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does not seem to be a problem to access data or write to a
windows partition from under Linux. You can mount the
windows partition or use mtools.
See my homepage:
http://www.magma.ca/~bklimas/FAQ.htm
for help on mounting and mtools.
Hope this helps. Best regards,
Stan
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:41:34 -0800
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UFS and extended partitions
Hi-
Has anyone seen this?
I used to have an 8.4 GB hard-drive with 4 primary partitions.
/dev/hda1 is Windoze, /dev/hda2 is Solaris 2.6, /dev/hda3 is RH 5.2 with
kernel 2.2.3, /dev/hda4 is a partition I use to back up my old, smaller
1.2 GB RH 5.0 drive.
(Whew! Sorry for all that...)
Today I converted /dev/hda4 to extended, and then made 3 linux
partitions, marked in the partition table as follows:
/dev/hda5 -linux native
/dev/hda6 -linux swap
/dev/hda7 -linux native
But mounting /dev/hda5 reveals it is [part of?] the Solaris "partition"
(using kernel 2.2.3 support).
I think the basis of the problem is that in fdisk, cfdisk, etc. (I have
the latest versions), there is no way to mark /dev/hda2 as ufs.
Any ideas or workarounds?
Bob L.
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http://www.best.com/~rmlynch/
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From: Gerard Motola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: /dev/audio problems
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:56:30 -0800
DanH wrote:
> Gerard Motola wrote:
> >
> > When i try to do cat something.au > /dev/audio I get an error.
> >
> > [gtm@gtm gtm]$ cat /usr/share/afterstep/desktop/meepmeep.au > /dev/audio
> >
> > bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device
> >
> > What's the problem?
> >
> > My computer has a PII 350, 128 MB SDRAM, 4.5 gig SCSI HD, SB AWE64
> > sound, RedHat Linux 5.2...
>
> Try 'sox /pathto/meepmeep.au' Might need a translator there.
>
> Or 'showaudio /pathto/meepmeep/au'
>
> Those tend to work
>
> Dan
[gtm@gtm gtm]$ showaudio /usr/share/afterstep/desktop/sounds/meepmeep.au
Playing audio on gtm.cx using /dev/audio, one moment please...
/dev/audio: Operation not supported by device.
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From: "D. C. & M. V. Sessions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: HELP: K6-2 motherboard w/ Linux; Perf. compares/ PII
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:23:11 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm looking to buy a K6-2 system (400MHz) to run
> the following software:
>
> Linux 5.2/6.0 SSE + Apache + PHP + mySQL.
>
> The K6-2 system I'm looking at has:
>
> - Motherboard: SIS598, (same AMPTRON 9900?)
> - BIOS: AMI
> - 1MB cache
> - 64MB RAM
> - 100MHz bus
> - 6GB disk (UDMA, 5400 rpm)
> - 8MB video AGP (on motherboard)
> - 40x CD
> - sound + speakers (16-bit sound on motherboard)
> - NO monitor
> - mouse, keyboard
> - 1 year warranty
> >
> > Price is around: $750. (OK pricing?
>
> Q's:
>
> 1. Should the above system be able to compile/run
> RedHat 5.2 or 6.0 ?
>
> 2. I read some people have trouble w/ the motherboard.
> Anyone heard of: SIS598, (same AMPTRON 9900?)
Our Amptron MB is gathering dust -- we replaced it because
it was just too flaky. Same CPU, peripherals, memory,
different MB are rock-solid.
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From: Michael Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realplayer
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 05:47:55 +0000
Mehran wrote:
> I've just installed Real player for Redhat. It works except each time I
> am trying to listen to an audio file (ram)from a site, it wants to save
> it instead of playing it. I am new to linux and any help is appriciated.
If you are trying to launch it from Netscape, what you need to do is go
into the Edit/Preferences/Navigator/Application menu, find the Real Audio
entry, click on the edit button, change the "Handled by" radio button to
"Application", and enter rvplayer %s for the name of the application (this
assumes that this is the name of your real player program and it is
somewhere in the search path, which it should be if you did the normal
install for 5.0...).
What this does is tells Netscape that all files of this type should go to
RealPlayer. Any files that it doesn't recognize, it downloads. Once you
tell it what to look for, it should handle it fine.
Hope this helps,
Michael Kelley
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From: Mikhail Kruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:13:41 -0500
You can setup remote services on NT. Including fully Unix compatible
ones. Like rsh, rlogin, telnet... They've released some kind of unix
compatability package recently. You can even have a NFS server running
on NT.
NT could've been a good OS actually. Microkernel architecture is
probably better anyway... It seems that Microsoft kills anything good it
touches.
Frank Crary wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I don't know which is better, FreeBSD or Linux, but I think we can all
> >agree that these two collectively kick Windows' ass. Here are the areas
> >in which FBSD & Linux are better than Windows:
> >...
> >* Multitasking -- Windows 98 multitasking is still a joke.
>
> I think multiple users is equally important. Last time I checked,
> Windows (95, 98 or NT) doesn't allow more than one user to be on
> the machine at a time, and support for remote access is between
> poor and non-existent. On my FreeBSD box at work, I have one
> user on from console more or less constantly, one or two
> who log on remotely and start running few-hour run time processes
> in the background, then log out, and myself pulling up windows
> and running processes from another machine. Even so, we aren't
> using 100% of the CPU time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
> although we often come close. If we could only have one user
> on at a time, we couldn't even get close to using 100% of the
> available CPU time, and that means we would not get getting anything
> close to the computational power we paid for.
>
> >Here are some areas in which Windows is still better than FBSD and
> >Linux:
>
> >* better books on programming, systems programming, etc. I don't think
> >there's any books out there on specifically programming for FreeBSD
> >(although Stevens' book might be close).
>
> That's the great thing about unix, especially BSD-based unix. To a
> very large extent, things like programming and the user environment
> are not operating system specific. The O'Rielly books aren't
> specifically about FreeBSD, but their book on computer security
> is largely applicable; their books on sed and awk, csh and tcsh,
> etc. are completely applicable. Books on 4.* BSD unix apply to
> FreeBSD for the most part. Since FreeBSD and Linux are similar
> to unix operating systems in general, you don't need lots and
> lots of books specifically about FreeBSD or Linux. (This is more
> true of FreeBSD when it comes to system administration details,
> since it is BSD version 4.4 unix, while Linux is neither BSD nor
> System V unix, and can't rely on general BSD or System V documentation
> as much.)
>
> >* Microsoft Office is less bloated than Star Office.
>
> And I care for what reason? Seriously, this is a very use-specific
> issue. I do computational physics for a living; I and my users
> have other machines available if we need something like Microsoft
> Office (although we use Macs and an SGI, rather than a machine
> running Windows.) The difference between MS Office and Star Office
> is of absolutely no importance to us, since we have no need of either.
> The same is true of anyone using a PC as a server. So your point
> is a problem for certain uses, rather than a general difference
> between Windows and the various PC implementations of unix.
>
> Frank Crary
> CU Boulder
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From: Mikhail Kruk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:15:56 -0500
There is no way to make a secure public NT box
show me such a box and I'll have it vandalized in few hours.
Zenin wrote:
>
> In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Bill Gunshannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >snip<
> : And let's not forget security. You know like file protections. No need to
> : log in as root (administrator) on NT. Anybody can change any file anytime
> : they want to. (Want to see an example?? Come watch us trying to maintain a
> : public student lab full of machines running NT.)
>
> Actually, this can be configured. For some configurations actually,
> there is more flexibility under NT then Unix, *especially* for file
> permissions. NTFS goes far beyond simple owner/group/world
> permissions.
>
> It's just the defaults that have NT running like a traditional
> (DOS/Windows3.1/9*/Mac) desktop.
>
> Now on the flip side, many apps like MS Office won't function at all
> if the user doesn't have write access to C:\WinNT\System et al,
> making all the above somewhat less then useful in practice.
>
> --
> -Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From The Blue Camel we learn:
> BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC
> Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only
> medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least,
> more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution".
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From: "CH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster 64... <<==Question==>>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:29:53 -0800
I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 (value), and am trying to set it up under
SUSE 5.3...
I have read the Sound-HowTo, but that wasn't much help.
Any explanations I have seen for the SB64 setup in the past have not been
that clear. In addition, they have been for older versions or different
distributions.
I guess what I'm looking for is either some clear instructions on how to
set this up or a referance to a site that has such instructions.
It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help me out... =)
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From: "Richard Latimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.2 Intel
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 18:46:44 -0800
E. Frank Ball wrote in message <
>I'm having a similar problem with my laptop. I upgraded to 2.2.1 and
>got an error that it didn't like my modem linked to /dev/cua3, so I
>changed it to /dev/ttyS3. Worked fine until I rebooted. Every time I
>reboot RedHat 5.2 resets the links in /dev back to the cua format.
>What the hell is going on?
You have an older version of pcmcia. Either upgrade or find the pcmcia
package script that is setting /dev/modem to /dev/cua3 and change it.
richard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:54:15 GMT
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:48:49 +0000, Sergio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Boycott Swintel wrote:
>>
>> Pentium III chip with the individual serial number that can
>> track your web surfing and buying habits can now have the ID number
>> turned on and off by software. Following some links I found the
>> www.fightdivx.com website and noticed that they have a Intel Boycott
>> page with links, quotes and info on why you should boycott the
>> invasion of privacy Pentium III chips. Just like everyone suspected,
>> the ID number can be taken without a customers knowledge. Just like
>> cellular phone fraud, once someone has your unique ID number, they
>> could pose as you on the internet. Do not be fooled by reports that
>> this problem is fixed because Intel disabled this feature by software
>> on their up coming chips. Information is power. They want to know
>> your surfing and buying habits. That is what this is all about. Here
>> is the link to the page with the boycott info and links.
>
>Im not really sure if this discussion will take you anywhere, after all
>if you have a net card you already have a component with unique identity
>(mac number) which can be used to track you with a simple "arp".
>
>Sergio.
Routers don't route arp requests
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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 06:31:20 +0100
From: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=FCtt?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Open Source Office Package? IDE?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any open source office package available for Linux or is one under
> development?
There's one for kde (see www.kde.org) and a thing called
siag office
> Is there any IDE (Integrated Development Environment) available for Linux,
> like Visual C++?
The nicest (IMHO) is Wipe-Out (see www.softwarebuero.de)
>
> BOB
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
You might want to try
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/linux-softw.html
for an overview.
Regards
TS
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From: "alan walkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LEX/YACC Question
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:27:18 -0800
Gentlefolks:
In a lex regular expression, I need to specify a nonprinting character,
specifically EXCAPE.
Since there are 256 ascii characters, and only some are printable, I am
certain there is a mechanixm for doing this, but I could not find it in the
O'Reilly book.
How is a bite specified numerically? \0x010 perhaps? or \'010' or ???
Thanks,
Alan Walkington
Member of the Technical Staff
UDLP, San Jose
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Used WWW.DEJANEWS.COM !
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 00:35:59 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walt)
spake unto us, saying:
><snip>
>>>Be patient with us newbies... we're learning.
>>
>>It gets frustrating sometimes on both sides, but the more newbies we
>>can answer questions for, the more experienced users we'll eventually
>>have to help share the load when even more newbies show up. :-)
>>
><snip>
>
>Most ng's solve this problem by posting a FAQ.
Hundreds of Linux documents and FAQs exist, and one is posted on a
regular basis to colm, and yet this doesn't stop the questions.
I think you overestimate the importance of a newsgroup FAQ.
In any case, a complete FAQ for an operating system is an almost
impossible task. It covers FAR too much ground, and many questions
here deal wtih subsystems and concepts only tangentally related to
Linux itself anyway.
Besides, DejaNews is a searchable meta-FAQ as it is. Why not have a
periodic posting here describing how to use the common Usenet search
engines (DejaNews, AltaVista, others?) to find information?
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
"Paid off"? What does that mean?"
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