Linux-Misc Digest #462, Volume #19 Mon, 15 Mar 99 00:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Printer recommendations, please (Walter Strong)
Kernel upgrade -> hosed console login (David Guertin)
Re: running/installing Citrix ICA client (Justin B Willoughby)
Re: AARGH!!! (Lew Pitcher)
Help on Upgrading to kernel 2.2.3 (Ryan Ho)
Re: kernel compilation problem (Tiger)
Re: Linux Video Driver Question? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (Stuart Eichert)
Re: Are screen savers necessary? (Tiger)
Re: Networking with Linux (bklimas)
Re: best offline newsreader? (William Wueppelmann)
Re: burning audio cd's (Willow)
Re: DHCP not working with new 2.2.1 kernel (Dan Nguyen)
problem printing accented chars. (Walter Strong)
Re: Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix ("equality7-2125")
Re: Are screen savers necessary? (Carl Fink)
Re: Interpreting an error message (Alan Curry)
Re: critical hard disk error!? (Juhani Vanhala)
Re: gnome (Jim Richardson)
Re: Afterstep won't run (Jim Richardson)
Re: Printer recommendations, please (Jerry Lapham)
Re: burning audio cd's (Juhani Vanhala)
Re: Encyclopedia Brittanica (Bev)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Subject: Re: Printer recommendations, please
Date: 15 Mar 1999 03:15:03 GMT
Grant Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I've just added the feature you want to the Printing HOWTO's
: compatibility database: there are now easy-to-get listings of all
: working printers by type. You appear to want a color inkjet; that's
: at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?predef=CJ
: The database also contains printers known not work work and known to
: mostly or partly work, driver information, and notes.
: Finally, if anyone has a printer not listed in the database, please
: add it; anyone can do so...
: --
: Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
: Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
: Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
: Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
The above is fantastic, thanks Grant Taylor!
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From: David Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel upgrade -> hosed console login
Date: 14 Mar 1999 22:24:03 -0500
Reply-To: David Guertin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
I recently upgraded my Red Hat 5.2 system from kernel 2.0.36 to 2.2.3.
I first upgraded the recommended RPM's (modutils, libc, glibc, etc. --
including util-linux), and the upgrade went fine.
Mostly. I normally login with xdm (actually kdm), and that works OK.
But when I switch to a virtual console (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2), and try to
log in there, I don't get a password prompt. After entering the user
name, I just keep getting the login prompt back again.
Any ideas what's going on here? The login program is part of the
util-linux pacakge. I upgraded from util-linux 2.8 to 2.9, because
apparently this is required for the 2.2 kernel. Is there something
broken about 2.9, or have I missed something else?
Thanks,
--
Dave Guertin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Re: running/installing Citrix ICA client
Date: 15 Mar 1999 02:38:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Mircea ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Installed it yesterday. It's extremely straightforward, but, as you
> mentioned, it's a X application and must be run accordingly. There are
> installation instructions included in the package (install.txt).
> Basically, you just run ./setupwfc in the directory where it has been
> unpacked, and you end up with the client in /usr/lib/ICAClient by
> default. The install must be done from within the Xwindow system, since
> it prompts for info in dialog boxes.
>
> MST
Does the Linux version still only offer connection to a server via TCP/IP?
I want to be able to dial-in to a WinFrame server like the Windows version.
One of those few things I still need Winblows.
- Justin
> Raymond Doetjes wrote:
>>
>> The ICA client works under X it seems that you are working only on the
>> shell (command prompt). Try typing startx a X-server will be started
>> (when it is installed, then you should open an Xterm session and start
>> the program again). Then a new window will be opened with some info
>> where you wanna find a WInframe or Terminal server. (I haven;t
>> downloaded the new ICA client for Linux yet. But I will somewhere next 2
>> weeks, since then we detup a M$ Terminal Server for a client).
>>
>> Raymond
>>
--
_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ RULES!!!!!!! * LINUX RULES *
_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Justin Willoughby
_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ http://www.nmc.edu/~willouj/
_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ ------ Jesus Is Lord ------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: AARGH!!!
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 03:00:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:54:03 +0000, David Kirkpatrick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Karl,
> It is possible to recover deleted files unix side files. Search deja.
>
>Karl Bengtsson wrote:
>>
>> God damn it!
>> I just (by mistake) deleted ALL of my schoolwork for the last FIVE YEARS!!!
>> And together with it, A LOT of other important information... I will NEVER
>> EVER give Linux access to my windows drives again!
If what you lost was on a Windows fs partition, why don't you boot to
Windows and use one of the DOS/Win fs recovery programs. You probably only
have to boot to DOS (get out that dusty DOS recovery diskette).
>> This is the story:
>> Linux has somehow been messed up bad. I get the (admittedly stupid) idea
>> that "hey, just like windows, format and reinstall!"
>> So what do I do? I try to remove as much info as possible from the
>> filesystem, and by mistake end up deleting some things from /mnt/ as well!
>> So now all my work is lost...
It's hard to automate against human error, and impossible to legislate
against it.
>> I NEED to get a backup device,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> One Sad Loser
>> a.k.a. Karl
>
>--
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>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lew Pitcher
JOAT-in-training
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From: Ryan Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on Upgrading to kernel 2.2.3
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:05:54 +0800
Hi,
I have compiled the kernel 2.2.3 with support for loadable modules.
After I have done that, I installed modutil 2.1.121. Problem is, I still
cannot load my modules at all. I can manually load the module for some
of my file systems. But my printer refuses to work. It isn't even
detected when I probe for one using the printer configuration tool
provided in RedHat 5.2. The README files weren't very useful because
the configuration files it tells me to alter does not exist. Perhaps
there is a typo error somewhere. Help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Ryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tiger)
Subject: Re: kernel compilation problem
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 03:42:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>I am running Redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36, and am trying to cofigure a custom
>kernel.
>Heres the commands I use
>make xconfig
>make dep
>make clean
>make zImage, also tried make boot
>Usual "make:..." messages
>Then a ton of "make:..." warnings(too many to list) about stuff being either
>undefined or unused
>make: *** [vmlinux]Error 1
>I checked the Kernel-HOWTO and they had a section about kernels that won't
>compile and gives undefined symbol messages. Their solution was you're using
>an ELF compiler for 1.2 or earlier kernels, which didn't help. I'm using gcc
>that came with RH5.2 and kernel 2.0.36
>I also checked the Config-HOWTO to no avail.
You probably didn't have complete source file on the hard drive to
recompile a new kernel. If I were you, I would download a new kernel
code, 'tar xfzv' it, and try again. Make sure that if there are any
componets you have selected to be installed as modules, then don't
forget the process 'make modules' and 'make modules_install'.
Good luck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux Video Driver Question?
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:39:40 GMT
Ian,
The "All in Wonder" is supported by Xfree86 as are all Mach64 based
chips but only in terms of the 2D acceleration features. The Rage 128
chip has been streamlined performance and is no longer Mach64
compatable. Development is already underway by Xfree86 to have an X11 driver.
Please be patient
regards,
Ray
http://www.angelfire.com/ca/rchau/index.html
In article <7c756k$q9n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, All I can say is that I thought that the All in Wonder card is not
> supported right now. I remember joining a petition to ask ATI to provide
> specs so that a driver could be written for that card.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I was looking at the Video - Hardware Compatibility list for Linux and
> > noticed that all the ATI cards are supported by Mach8, Mach32, and
> > Mach64 drivers.
> >
> > The funny thing is that some cards such as the All-in-Wonder Pro is a
> > Rage Pro Turbo Chip, but is driven by the Mach64 driver.
> >
> > Is the Rage Pro Turbo chip realy a Mach64 chip?
> > Or is linux using some sort of compatibility driver that runs both?
> > Is Linux getting the best performance out of the chip that is
> > possible?
> >
> > Does this mean that if I were to buy the latest ATI Rage Fury card
> > that has a Rage 128 chip,
> > that I could use the Mach64 driver?
> >
> > Ian
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Eichert)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion
Date: 15 Mar 1999 03:53:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
JACK ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >Let's take communism, for instance.
: >Just because you discard the evil idea isn't enough to make you happy;
: >but as long as you keep the idea, you're guaranteed to be unhappy.
: hang on. communism is not evil, it was the communists that where evil. the
: actual communist ideals a quite nice and utopian (unless of course your
: wealthy).
-Communism disregards human nature and strips away freedom. To me
that is a little evil(not as evil as genocide, but still pretty bad).
Actually communism hurts those who are rising in income level more than
the born wealthy(i.e. building a business from scratch when you were dirt
poor, hiring hundreds of people, bringing in excellent profits, sending
your kids to college, and then having the government come in and take your
business for the good of the people, that sucks).
Remember such things as trade unions,co-ops, credit unions all
: spawned from communism. the ideal of communism is simple social inclusion.
-I would argue that trade unions , at least in the US, would have
resulted regardless of communism philosophy due to the unsafe working
conditions. However I would say that it would seem likely that communism
has influence on trade unions as we see how they are run by such corrupt
leaders.
: the "communists" on the other hand such as Stalin,Lenin, the eastern block
: leaders etc where evil not for the belief in communism (if they had one?).
: they where evil because of the manner in which they ruled.
-Don't forget my buddy Mao. And yes, you are correct, many of
these horrible men simply used communism as a means to become dictators.
GNU actually
: embodies the good aspects of communism . labour is its own reward, the
: resources and skills of a community should be available to all who
: participate in the community etc.
-I do not object to GNU. Many people, including myself, find joy
and personal satisfaction in creating software. However, I see no problem
with someone wanting to write software and sell it. You write the
software, you decide its license and its distribution.
: in any case its a bit disrespectful to compare communist regimes to a
: tiff over software code. especially when one considers the numbers who died
: under these regimes
: j
-True, no one has killed over free software, yet.
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* [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSEcon Wharton School '99 *
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tiger)
Subject: Re: Are screen savers necessary?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 03:58:25 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Bumble) writes:
>Someone at work mentioned that monitor screen phosphors have been
>re-designed so that screen savers are no longer necessary. Is this
>true? For instance, If I run xdm 24 hrs per day, will the login
>screen get burned into the tubes? Or is this now impossible? I was
>attempting to avoid this senario by running a screen saver over top of
>xdm, so that the savers activate if no one has logged in for a while.
>Are screen savers purely entertainment these days? Im so disheartened
>just thinking about it. Has my lovely screen saver been reduced to
>nothing more than a frivilous computer chachka?
Just like 'IE is part of of Winblowz', screen saver has been
innovated as part of the linux kernels... Just kidding.
Its always good to use energy saving monitor, which saves
screen as well energy.
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From: bklimas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.digest
Subject: Re: Networking with Linux
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:01:30 GMT
Try my homepage for info on how to set up your ppp:
http://www.magma.ca/~bklimas/FAQ.htm#ppp_setup
Hope this helps. Best regards,
Stan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi- I am running redhat Linux on a standalone system and I wish to connect to
> my ISP using a modem. I have been studying the Linux Network Administration
> Guide. I would like to know if there is anything out there that I can read
> which is more tailored to my application and covers the material with more
> clarity and detail. Please help. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: best offline newsreader?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 03:58:58 GMT
In our last episode (Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:41:23 +0000),
the artist formerly known as SpAmEnOt said:
> Why is it that nobody is willing to say easy-to-use without saying GUI in
> the same sentence??? I definately don't find them to be the same thing.
They surely aren't. A well designed interface will be easy to use.
Graphics and pointers can't make up for a poorly designed interface. I'd
take a well-designed GUI over a poorly-designed command line anytime,
though I'd prefer a well-designed command line to either, for most
applications.
>I would love to see the kind of offline processing agent employs coupled
>with pine as a reader (wth vim implicitly invoked as alternate editer.)
>which I'd then run in a console. THAT would be a (cool!) application.
Can't you? I thought that Pine could be used to read and post news via
NNTP. I'm not certain how to set it up to do so, but I was under the
impression that you could do exactly what you're describing.
Pine is a good example of a non-GUI tool that is designed for ease of use
by new users. It's default configuration disables most of the advanced
features and includes lots of "are you sure?" type messages, but it can be
set up for more sophisticated use too.
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You are likely to be spammed by a grue.
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From: Willow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: burning audio cd's
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:00:41 +0000
I'd seen mention of 'Disc At Once' so I went and looked around for info on
it. The conclusion I've come to is that most modern CD-R's support that, and
its up to the software to have the capability to operate that way.
Does anyone know of Disc At Once software for Linux? or do I have to boot
into windows for this.
Jan Johansson wrote:
> >I am trying to burn an audio cd that consists of several songs mixed
> >together. The problem is, I cannot get rid of the 2 second gap between
> >songs. I've been using cdrecord and have tried setting 'defpregap=0' and
> >'-pregap=0' like the man page says.
>
> Unless your CD-R unit handles "Disc at once" (few does) this can not be
> avoided.
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP not working with new 2.2.1 kernel
Date: 15 Mar 1999 04:11:01 GMT
Erica Vogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I recently compiled kernel version 2.2.1 on my RedHat 5.2 system. This
: machine is using DHCP to obtain its IP info. After installing the new
: kernel, DHCP client stopped working. When I was running kernel version
: 2.0.36, DHCP was working fine. Does anyone know what option needs to be
: compiled in for DHCP client to work? I'm sure I missed it.
The network model for 2.2.x kernels is different from 2.0 kernels.
You will need to get a newer version of DHCPc. But this new version
only works with the 2.2 kernels.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Subject: problem printing accented chars.
Date: 15 Mar 1999 04:26:08 GMT
Hi, I hope that this is a simple problem, but I can't seem to get my printer to
print out accented characters. It's just an old epson compat. 9-pin, but it should
still be able to handle accents. Is there a particular filter that one uses?
I can't be bothered with ascii2ps as this printer is purely for quick draft
printouts. It does not do ps well.
Thanks for any help.
Walter
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From: "equality7-2125" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Re: If I had the time I know how to make a fortune in unix
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:25:40 -0000
>The native BRITONS speak GAELIC! (The anglo-saxons are late arrivals :-)
Padraig post Padraig post, Donny Murdo!
Postman pat, postman pat, Dangermouse!!!!
Anyway- all the native Americans speak Apache Indian. The pub I go to each
night is older than the Westernised population of your country "mate".
C
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: Are screen savers necessary?
Date: 15 Mar 1999 11:21:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 Mar 1999 17:29:51 -0500 Marc D. Bumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Are screen savers purely entertainment these days? Im so disheartened
>just thinking about it. Has my lovely screen saver been reduced to
>nothing more than a frivilous computer chachka?
You could run the seti@home screensaver -- it has the practical
purpose of searching radio signals from the Arecibo telescope for
signs of extraterrestrial intelligence.
See http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu to register.
Okay, maybe not "practical", but . . . .
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Science and Technology Programming, I-Con 18
Stony Brook, New York, April 9-11, 1999 www.iconsf.org
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Subject: Re: Interpreting an error message
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Curry)
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 04:43:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Majos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When testing a new kernel image I get:
>
>VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
>
>What is 08:01? Is it referring to my scsi hard drive (root file
>system is in place on /dev/sda1)? Is it that this kernel doesn't
>recognize the hard disk?
Yep, that's it.
ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 May 5 1998 /dev/sda1
^ ^
| |
These -----------------------------/----/
are the device numbers. (Watch out though, the kernel error messages are in
hex, so if you get an error about 08:10 it's really 8,16.)
Did you compile in scsi hard disk support?
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From: Juhani Vanhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: critical hard disk error!?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 01:51:42 +0000
For figuring out what is wrong with your partition table, i would
recommend Ranish Partition Manager.
(http://www.ml.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~mranish/part/) With that you will be
able to change any partition type and you can also format fat32
partitions. I found that tool very valuable when I had to fix my disk
after WIN98 fdisk messed up everything.
I would avoid WIN/DOS fdisk if you are partitioning your disk for both
Linux and Windows. I learned the hard way that DOS fdisk gets confused
when you have multiple ext2fs partitions and one FAT partition after
those. Fdisk does see the FAT partition, but if you try to delete that
last FAT partition, fdisk may delete one of your ext2fs partitions.
Good luck,
Juhani
Craig wrote:
>
> Ok, I've really gotten myself into a mess this time... (And sorry for the
> long post, but I have to go back to work tomorrow with my laptop)
>
> I dual boot my laptop with Win98/RH Linux. Over the weekend I decided I
> would reformat and repartition my hard disk. During my initial installation
> of Linux I used Disk Druid (RH partition utility) and just created a /
> (800MB Linux Native) and Linux swap partition (50MB) which I quickly figured
> out was not enough after adding KDE and some other software.
>
> At this point I used PartitionMagic 3.0 to delete my Linux partitions within
> the extended partition they were in. That left me with a FAT32 partition
> (win98), and extended and another FAT32.
>
> I booted to DOS and did a "format c:" and then installed Win98 thinking that
> I should now have one big 4GB FAT32 partition. Wrong... After installing
> Win98 I installed PartitionMagic again and was going to use it to create my
> Linux partitions. When I opened it, it said "partition table error #113
> found". The detailed explaination says "the hard disk contains erroneous
> values". It doesn't allow me to do ANYTHING to the disk.
>
> In the 'resolving partition table errors' section of PM3.0 manual it says I
> need to delete the partitions using FDISK. When I boot to DOS and run fdisk
> however, it just seems to hang forever. It's like it's working, but never
> comes up (and I've waited for at least an hour).
>
> What can I do now? How do I delete my partition table and start fresh??
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: gnome
Date: 15 Mar 1999 04:22:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:43:09 -0500,
Srinivasan, Rajagopalan, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>It appears that getting gnome to my linux box involves downloading close to
>a dozen different packages and libraries. Am I missing something?
>
>Is there perhaps one rpm or some such for "gnome". A gnome cd perhaps.
>
>Any info would be appreciated.
>
>regards
>srini
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I d/l all the bits for gnome, took quite a while. my impression, gained from
only a couple of weeks playing with gnome 0.99 was that gnome was cute, has a
lot of potential, but is way too buggy at the moment. I just installed kde, and
it is _way_ more stable than gnome. sigh, I prefer the c/gtk+ to the c++/qt
combo, but (imho) gnome is not there yet. But it is fun to play with, E
is, well wild, or at least some of the themes are. But it's no great shakes as a
desktop, ymmv.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: Afterstep won't run
Date: 15 Mar 1999 04:22:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:40:04 GMT,
Ron White, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>I am new to Linux and have been exploring the system. I tried to run
>afterstep and all I get is:
>
>afterstep: can't open display
>
>I have been using x and thought I'd try afterstep, but no luck so far.
>
>Thanks for any help anyone can give me.
>
>Ron White
Afterstep wants to be run as the windowmanager. You should add it to your
.Xclients file. Replacing whatever wm is allready there.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Lapham)
Subject: Re: Printer recommendations, please
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:45:09 -0500
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/13/99
at 08:47 PM, Ed Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> So, I'm in the market for a printer that works with Linux. My need is
> mostly fast black and white (for printing source code). Color would be
> a nice bonus. I went to Staples tonight and liked the HP 722 color
> deskjet. Whaddyathink?
If you can do without the color, I'd suggest the Lexmark Optra E+ laser
printer. I got mine for $325 from www. mcglen.com several months ago.
-Jerry
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MR/2 Ice tag: My HMO assigned me to Dr. Kevorkian.
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From: Juhani Vanhala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: burning audio cd's
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 02:07:43 +0000
cdrecord supports DAO from version 1.8a18 onwards. There is also CD
burner called Cdrdao, which does nothing but burns audio CDs in DAO
mode.
- Juhani
Willow wrote:
>
> I'd seen mention of 'Disc At Once' so I went and looked around for info on
> it. The conclusion I've come to is that most modern CD-R's support that, and
> its up to the software to have the capability to operate that way.
>
> Does anyone know of Disc At Once software for Linux? or do I have to boot
> into windows for this.
>
> Jan Johansson wrote:
>
> > >I am trying to burn an audio cd that consists of several songs mixed
> > >together. The problem is, I cannot get rid of the 2 second gap between
> > >songs. I've been using cdrecord and have tried setting 'defpregap=0' and
> > >'-pregap=0' like the man page says.
> >
> > Unless your CD-R unit handles "Disc at once" (few does) this can not be
> > avoided.
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From: Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Brittanica
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:12:12 -0800
Allen Ashley wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >Has anyone managed to run the EB CD from Linux? I hear that it runs through
> >a modified Netscape browser, which leads me to believe that it should be
> >feasible to access the info on CD from within Linux.
>
> The latest EB runs under Intenet Explorer, but the previous version
> used Netscape. I couldn't ever figure out how to access the
> files under linux. The date isn't a simple html file. Someone
> told my wife they were able to read the EB under linux, but
> we never found out the details.
You can look at the initial menu on the EB95 CD, but thereafter the links
point to directories that linux doesn't recognize. I seem to remember that
you can actually read the files, but it's impossible to do a search or use
the links, which makes the damn thing useless.
I was about to order EB98 until I found out that it REQUIRES IE. One more
level of unacceptability, and I choked. Interesting how the price is
dropping, isn't it? Funny, I used to regard the EB people as not only
reputable but actually respectable, even honored. Crying shame.
--
Cheers,
Bev
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