Linux-Misc Digest #515, Volume #19 Fri, 19 Mar 99 08:13:25 EST
Contents:
Re: Help with Seg Fault (core dump) errors ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: file does/doesn't exist?????? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: win98 accessin linux partitions? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel Port Support. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SB16PnP-How? (jas shultz)
Re: old proprietary cd-rom recognised as scsi? (REPOST) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Printing to Win95 Connected Printer (TC Hazzard)
Re: Is trn the best (Floyd Davidson)
Where is the Video4Linux mailing list? (William Burrow)
LILO on /dev/sda6 (ASUS P2B-DS, 2xSCSI disk) (Vincent Zocca)
Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a separated OS
partition? (Ron)
Re: No hard drive!!??? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (Scott)
Re: What is the best Linux to install? (jik-)
getopt function source location - Redhat 5.2 (MTM)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help with Seg Fault (core dump) errors
Date: 19 Mar 1999 12:27:44 GMT
In his obvious haste, Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: I'm at a loss here...... I get the messege "segmentation fault (core
: dumped)" every time I run Xconfigurator, during the video card setup. I
: also get the messege when I run sndconfig, and ./xwp (Word Perfect 8).
: Any solutions!!!!!!! Please help!!!!!!! I run a K62-300 with on board
: video (SiS 6326) and a SoundBlaster pci 128. RH5.2, XFree 3.3.3.1, KDE
: 1.1. Xconfig and sndconfig crash at the command line, Word Perfect in
: KDE......
Have you been messing around installing glibc-2?
That can screw with program dependencies and cause the dreaded Segmentation
fault....
I *think* xwp is a libc5 linked application, so you'll need to reinstall
your libc5....
(If you must install glibc2, try installing it to a different directory and
using LD_LIBRARY_PATH....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: file does/doesn't exist??????
Date: 19 Mar 1999 12:31:59 GMT
In his obvious haste, [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled thusly:
: I'm a newbie running RH5.2, kernel 2.0.36 on a p-133. Most of the
: software i've installed has worked fine (most of it had to be compiled
: on my system=good thing). but a few games, plus corel wp7 and wp8,
: and VariCAD all have given me the following problem: when install the
: RPM or untar the archive (it happens with both types of packages), the
: files list properly with the ls command, and the executables are
: color-coded as executables, but when i try to run the program, i get
: the error message "bash: <filename>: No such file or directory", then,
: to see if the file exists, i try to make a directory of the same name,
: and get the following error message: "mkdir: cannot make directory
: `<filename>': File exists". Also, viewing the file with "less"
: produces the expected garbage of any executable. So what's going on?
: Is it an executable that was compiled for another system (even though
: two of those programs are from the RedHat CD!)? HELP!!!!
Linux doesn't automatically add the current directory you're in to the
executables path. Either add the directories these programs reside in to
your $PATH environment variable...
Or, you need to specify the path of the executable.
(If you're in the directory, you can use ./xwp (for example).
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| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| Finalist in:- |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: win98 accessin linux partitions?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 12:39:02 GMT
In his obvious haste, Justin Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: hey is there some kind of emulation software for win98 so i can copy stuff
: from my ext2 partitions to my fat partitions?
Why not do it from the Linux end?
Linux has no trouble access wondoze partitions...
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| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell | operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| Finalist in:- |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel Port Support.
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:51:02 GMT
Kernel 2.2.3 has all kinds of support for Parallel devices, but as of yet, I
have been able to find a configuration that will run my old, discontinued,
Eagle Exabyte TR-3 Parallel port Travan 3 drive.
Does anyone know of a driver, or a combination of kernel options and drivers
that might actually get this beast running, and backing up my Linux boxes.
This is the last Windows-era piece of hardware that I have been unable to get
running under my now complete M$ free LAN.
Eventually I am just going to buy a completely Linux supported Travan drive
(any suggestions?), but I would at least like to give this a good shot.
Surely someone out there has one of these tape drives, and has gotten it
spinning?
Any help is appreciated.
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From: jas shultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SB16PnP-How?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:51:27 GMT
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have you tried running sndconfig? I'm not sure that slackware has it, but I
assume it does as well.
Jas
eric malloy wrote:
> How do I setup my Sound Blaster PnP 16.. i got this info about it out of
> NT:
>
> IRQ=5
> DMA= 00
> DMA= 00
> I/O Range: 0220-022F
> I/O Range: 0300-0301
>
> Can someone tell me how to configure this.. when i compiled the 2.2.3
> kernel i added PnP support and SB16 support
>
> and if it helps i run slackware 3.6
>
> Thanks
> eric
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have you tried running sndconfig? I'm not sure that slackware has it, but
I assume it does as well.
<P>Jas
<P>eric malloy wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>How do I setup my Sound Blaster PnP 16.. i got this
info about it out of
<BR>NT:
<P>IRQ=5
<BR>DMA= 00
<BR>DMA= 00
<BR>I/O Range: 0220-022F
<BR>I/O Range: 0300-0301
<P>Can someone tell me how to configure this.. when i compiled the 2.2.3
<BR>kernel i added PnP support and SB16 support
<P>and if it helps i run slackware 3.6
<P>Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: old proprietary cd-rom recognised as scsi? (REPOST)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:53:21 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, i just compiled the 2.2.1 kernel and noticed that it seemed to recognize
> my old proprietary cd rom (which i previously had to use via dos cause i
> couldn't get linux to recognize it). but "seemed" is the key word here, this
> is what it told me upon bootup:
> Kernel detected SCSI CDROM drive /dev/, checking for a disc:
> mount: /dev/ is not a block device
What kind of cd-rom is that? some creative labs thing? an old Sony
maybe?
> now in NT the driver for this drive is a scsi driver so i guess it makes
> sense for linux to see it as a scsi device but as you can see it detects a
> cdrom at /dev/ not /dev/cdrom (or /dev/anything for htat matter)
NT sees everything as a SCSI device, even IDE hard disks...
Could you be more precise about the cd-rom model? Linux supports several old
proprietary drives, maybe yours is one of them.
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From: TC Hazzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing to Win95 Connected Printer
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:47:47 -0500
Hi: I am trying to print from a RedHat 5.2 system to an HP5 printer which
is connected to a Win95 machine on the same LAN. I can see the printer
share from smbclient:
===========================================================================
tcbidd$ smbclient -L billing-03
Added interface ip=192.168.1.169 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /etc/lmhosts. Error was No such file
or directory
Server time is Fri Mar 19 07:30:46 1999
Timezone is UTC-5.0
security=share
Server=[BILLING-03] User=[] Workgroup=[GWI-BIDDEFORD] Domain=[]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
HP PRINTER Printer
IPC$ IPC Remote Inter Process Communication
PRINTER$ Disk
NOTE: There were share names longer than 8 chars.
On older clients these may not be accessible or may give browsing errors
===========================================================================
My printcap file looks like:
===========================================================================
billing:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/billing:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/billing/filter:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/billing/acct:\
:lp=/dev/null:
===========================================================================
where the .config file contains:
===========================================================================
share='\\BILLING-03\HP PRINTER'
hostip=192.168.1.14
user=
password=
===========================================================================
Print jobs indicate that they are printing but nothing actually shows up
on the printer. I welcome any thoughts on what I should look for.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Subject: Re: Is trn the best
Date: 16 Mar 1999 22:18:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alan Curry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>One comment that might help, is that trn should be run from a
>>script or an alias. I use a script (or actually several of
>>them) and can start trn on different NNTP servers or on the same
>>server with an entirely different .newsrc file. Generally I
>>start it with the -I -K -M -m and -q options. I don't turn
>>threading on either.
>
>No threading? That's nuts. And as for -q, I *like* having my newsreader tell
>me when there are new groups. How else am I supposed to find out about them?
>I also have a global killfile that junks all excessive crossposts, subject
>lines in all-caps, and a few other spam-signs. And I use -p+ to autoselect
>threads which I have posted to.
>
>The subset of trn which you described would leave me doing a lot of manual
>searching, and if you do that, you're not really using trn at all.
I see... you have the one and the only set of circumstances
allowed to exist, and anyone who prefers a different
configuration is nuts and not really using trn at all eh? neat.
However, the original question had to do with the overview file
download taking a long time, and you commented that trn, as you
have it configured, takes a long time to initialize and is fit
only for use at 10Mbps bandwidths available when the server is
on an ethernet with the client.
If *you* want to run trn in the slowest possible way, be my guest.
(You _would_ do better with a 100Mbps network, or at least a DS3
connection, you know.)
However, I have no need for threading, particularly given the
600ms ping times that I mentioned via a satellite connection.
As a result my overview file download times are considerably
reduced.
As to the -q option, years ago when there were 100 newsgroups I
used to let (t)rn tell me about new groups (and this was before
NNTP, when the server was not only on the same ethernet, but in
my case on the same host). Somewhere between there being 100
newsgroups and one day there being 15,000 newsgroups I stopped
using that method to find new groups. You, however, are
entitled to do it which ever way you like!
Rather than discuss the way to match your circumstances to trn,
how about we help the person who asked how to match *his*
circumstances to trn...
Floyd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Where is the Video4Linux mailing list?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:11:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wondering where the video4linux mailing list(s) are? The pointers on
various pages (eg Alan Cox' page) point to a machine that does not have
a DNS entry (odin.appliedtheory.com). Have the lists moved?
Also, has anyone gotten a Zoltrix BT848-based card to work on kernel 2.0?
dmesg reports:
bttv: Host bridge 82437FX Triton PIIX
bttv0: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 18) bus: 0, devfn: 152, irq: 10, memory: 0xf1000000.
bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found.
bttv0: audio chip: TDA9840
bttv0: audio chip: TDA9850
bttv0: audio chip: TDA8425
bttv0: model: BT848A(Hauppauge old)
i2c: bus registered: bt848-0
bttv: PCI display adapter: Cirrus Logic.
bttv: Video memory override: 0xf0000000
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From: Vincent Zocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.scsi,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: LILO on /dev/sda6 (ASUS P2B-DS, 2xSCSI disk)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:12:00 GMT
Hi,
I have a problem with LILO. I want to have it on /dev/sda6 and let it
boot /dev/sda2 (W98) and /dev/sda3 (NT4).
This doesn't work on my system with ASUS P2B-DS and two SCSI disks.
What happens is that when configuread as meant (/dev/sd6 active, LILO on
/dev/sda6), the system won't boot.
When I install LILO on /dev/sda things look better. Linux boots fine.
NT4 however, starts a boot sequence but the gives me the BSOD with some
message that it coudn't find the boot device. Ok, silly NT4.
I think I have RTFM. But I still don't know what's going on. If you
know, by all means, speak your mind!!
Right now I have NT4's boot manager successfully configured to boot the
three OSes but I feel -say- akward with this situation. I include a
summary of my configuration.
Cheers,
Vincent Zocca
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cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda or boot=/dev/sda6
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/sda6
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
read-only
other=/dev/sda2
label=w98
table=/dev/sda
other=/dev/sda3
label=nt4
table=/dev/sda
###################################
fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1106.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 70 562243+ ff BBT
/dev/sda2 71 140 562275 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sda3 * 141 210 562275 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sda4 211 1106 7197120 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 961 1106 1172745 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 921 950 240943+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 951 960 80325 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
###################################
fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1106.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 70 562243+ ff BBT
/dev/sdb2 71 140 562275 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sdb3 141 210 562275 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sdb4 211 1106 7197120 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 961 1106 1172745 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb6 946 960 120487+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb7 921 945 200781 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a separated OS
partition?
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 11:35:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a
separated OS partition?
I have Hebrew Win 95, a problematic version of Win95 and it is stable
now, so I will not risk adding partitions and OS, but I want to
exercise UNIX using Linux.
I have heard of such tools but need to know if any one experienced an
easy and smooth installation, before I jump into the water.
Roni
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No hard drive!!???
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:48:49 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds like you have used LILO incorrectly. Try FDISK /MBR from DOS.
If that works, read the LILO manual about six times - the safest config
is (a) put the LILO code in the Linux partition and use activate, if
necessary, to make that bootable - this doesn't touch the MBR except to
set the active partition flag - or (b) boot Linux off a floppy until you
know more about what is going on.
Matt Anderson wrote:
>
> I'll admit it, I know shitloads about windows, but shit about linux. I'm
> new, running red hat 5.2. After the installation and restarting the
> computer, my system crashed, telling me that there wasn't my hard drive
> wasn't a system disk or something (not an active partition??). I put in the
> emergency disk and it booted just fine, mounted my root and started xwin.
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From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:40:14 GMT
Denton wrote:
>
> Greg Waugh wrote in message
> >I thought I would do a cp -a * (or
> >a few with correct tmp mount points), then boot from a floppy with the new
> >HD as root and run LILO, but I'm fuzzy on how to set up the /proc and /dev
> >filesystem.... and if there are going to be any issues with the swap
> >space... Thanks everyone! Any help would be very appreciated!
>
> Don't use the 'cp' command for this task. I can't remember the reason, but
> it has something to do with changing permissions or messing up links (I will
Actually if you use ip with the -a option, it tries to keep as much of
the structure as possible. It worked for me, when I moved to a new
drive.
> research it and get back to you as to what happens). There is no reason to
> write or use some bloated program, such as DiskCopy. One has already been
> written for unix/linux, the 'tar' command.
>
> tar cvpf `/` | (cd <new drive>; tar xvpf `/`)
>
> The filename `/` should work, but you'll have to experiment. Make sure the
> new drive is mounted and use the mount point as the destination.
>
> Jeff
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:22:14 -0800
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: What is the best Linux to install?
)
>
> 2. Sysinit style
>
> BSD, System V, or mix'n'match. Most people say that Slackware is very
> BSDish in sysinit. RedHat is SysV style. Cannot yet speak for other
> distros, but will soon. Got 'em all coming from LinuxMall.
They're all like RedHat in that area, yucky. Not only is that init
setup about 20x slower, it is very un-intuitive as to how to add new
commands to the structure....I looked in verious docs which didn't tell
me, so I gave up...deleted the system and installed slackware, which any
newbie could get into and edit the init (adding new commands or changing
command line) the first try just by looking at it...which is exactly how
I learned how to do it.
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From: MTM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: getopt function source location - Redhat 5.2
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 22:56:31 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, I give up I searched high and low through a complete install of
Redhat 5.2 looking for the source code for the function "getopt" as
declared in "/usr/include/unistd.h"
I've even resorted to the following exhaustive search "which failed" so
I suspect it must be in some obscure src rpm which I've missed
installing.
locate . | while read i; do if [ `grep -ls getopt $i` ]; then echo $i;
fi; done >/tmp/getopt.log 2>/dev/null
Please also reply to my email address as I can't always read newsgroups.
TIA
Mick
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