Linux-Misc Digest #517, Volume #19 Fri, 19 Mar 99 11:13:24 EST
Contents:
Soundblaser hisses under Linux ("A.G.")
Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux (Hans Wolters)
Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux (Patrik Magnusson)
Configuring Linux as mail server ... (Raghavendra B K)
Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux (George Bonser)
Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux (diahedrial)
Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux (Markus Wandel)
priorities (Yan Seiner)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows (Bill Gunshannon)
Re: [?] Help w/ ftpd (Francisco Cribari)
Re: How do you hang up pppd? ("Jeremy L. Buchmann")
cdwriting (Marko Brandes)
Re: Encyclopedia Brittanica (Shimpei Yamashita)
Change string script (Gert Vanthienen)
Re: Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a separated OS
partition? ("Rod Stringer")
Re: How do you add up decimals under bash? (Frank da Cruz)
Re: Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a separated OS
partition? (Kent Robotti)
Partitioning on the fly ("Jeremy L. Buchmann")
Re: Framebuffer XFree server (Philip Armstrong)
Re: Combining Drives? (Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?=)
Re: [Q] Swap file not working. ("G.M.Trias")
Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux (James Tappin)
Adding an os ("Matt Anderson")
Re: Problem for Linux Gurus (Sasa Ostrouska)
Dosemu Mouse Problem (Mike Brown)
has anyone installed red hat 5.2 from ftp down load ("Michael Sly")
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From: "A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Soundblaser hisses under Linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:50:24 GMT
Hi all:
I've just configured my sondblaster under Linux 2.2.3.
I compiled kernel with sound support as modules.
I added to conf.modules:
alias sound sb
parameters sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
When I do modprobe sb, the modules load w/o any errors, and I hear quite
annoying hiss comming from the speakers.
The card doesn't produce *any* hissing under NT.
Any ideas? My distro is Debian 2.1 for what that matters...
Thanx,
Arcady
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:50:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:57:59 GMT, A.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all:
>alias sound sb
>parameters sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
>
>When I do modprobe sb, the modules load w/o any errors, and I hear quite
>annoying hiss comming from the speakers.
>
>The card doesn't produce *any* hissing under NT.
>
>Any ideas? My distro is Debian 2.1 for what that matters...
Don't know if Debian has sndconfig but you might give it a try. It all
depends on what kind of card it is (Vibra, Soundpro-chip?). If it is a card
with the Soundpro chip you can look at the CMI HOWTO in my signature.
Are you using isapnptools?
Regards Hans
--
Java Search Engine Front End
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/
Linux Links/CMI8330 Soundpro HOWTO
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/linux.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrik Magnusson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:51:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters) writes:
|> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:57:59 GMT, A.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|> >Hi all:
|>
|>
|> >alias sound sb
|> >parameters sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
|> >
|> >When I do modprobe sb, the modules load w/o any errors, and I hear quite
|> >annoying hiss comming from the speakers.
|> >
|> >The card doesn't produce *any* hissing under NT.
|> >
|> >Any ideas? My distro is Debian 2.1 for what that matters...
Here's an idea: when the mixer is initialised it turns on the
'line in' or mic. That would certainly produce a hiss.
If this is the case, just use xmixer or something similar to turn
it off.
/Patrik.
|> Don't know if Debian has sndconfig but you might give it a try. It all
|> depends on what kind of card it is (Vibra, Soundpro-chip?). If it is a card
|> with the Soundpro chip you can look at the CMI HOWTO in my signature.
|>
|> Are you using isapnptools?
|>
|> Regards Hans
|>
|> --
|> Java Search Engine Front End
|> http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/
|> Linux Links/CMI8330 Soundpro HOWTO
|> http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/linux.htm
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From: Raghavendra B K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuring Linux as mail server ...
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 16:03:15 +0530
Hello,
I have a Linux server (DLD 5.4 kernel 2.0.33) which is on a LAN. This is
part of a bigger intranet. Now I would like to configure my system as a
mail server so that I can send/receive mails from the outside world
(outside intranet).
I sent a mail using elm and this is what I got.
=======================================================================
Returned mail: Data format error:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Sender domain must exist
501 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Data format error
=======================================================================
At this point, I can give you a hint. If, from any dos/windows based
system (within the intranet), I use ftp or telnet to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], I can successfully do the job.
Please let me know the step-by-step procedure to configure my
mailserver. My resources include sendmail, elm and kmail (of kde). Also
tell me know what are the changes to be done to sendmail, etc so that I
can send/receive mails without doing anything in the domain server.
Thanks in anticipation.
Regards,
Raghavendra B K
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Bonser)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:51:41 GMT
In article <bDdH2.2455$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"A.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> When I do modprobe sb, the modules load w/o any errors, and I hear quite
> annoying hiss comming from the speakers.
>
Try this:
reboot the system. At the lilo boot: prompt, assuming your boot image is called
Linux type the following:
boot: Linux append="no-hlt"
Reload the modules and see if the hissing goes away. If it does, it is likely
caused by the cpu coming in and out of "halt on idle" ... probably due to
network traffic appearing at the ethernet (or it could be caused by speaker
cables too near your video or network cables). Do you also hear the hissing
when you move the mouse?
Anyhow, if that fixes it ... live with it if you can because running the
machine in this mode makes the CPU a lot hotter and the machine less stable.
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From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:52:45 GMT
Patrik Magnusson wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters) writes:
> |> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:57:59 GMT, A.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |> >Hi all:
> |>
> |>
> |> >alias sound sb
> |> >parameters sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
> |> >
> |> >When I do modprobe sb, the modules load w/o any errors, and I hear quite
> |> >annoying hiss comming from the speakers.
> |> >
> |> >The card doesn't produce *any* hissing under NT.
> |> >
> |> >Any ideas? My distro is Debian 2.1 for what that matters...
>
> Here's an idea: when the mixer is initialised it turns on the
> 'line in' or mic. That would certainly produce a hiss.
> If this is the case, just use xmixer or something similar to turn
> it off.
>
> /Patrik.
I had a similar problem until I used a mixer program to turn up the
volume on the output, no more hiss. (SB16, RedHat 5.0, NT4.0)
-diahedrial
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:48 GMT
In article <bDdH2.2455$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
A.G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I do modprobe sb, the modules load w/o any errors, and I hear quite
>annoying hiss comming from the speakers.
>
>The card doesn't produce *any* hissing under NT.
My RH5.2 setup has a command-line mixer control command that is just perfect
for initializing the sound at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local (the very last
thing that is run before the login prompt comes up.) Actually I put a "play"
command in there too so the machine can make a nice hi-fi startup noise just
like UnmentionableOS.
In my machine, the cable from the CD-ROM to the sound card picks up noise,
although not terribly loud. I also keep the microphone input muted when
not in use.
Markus
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: priorities
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:17:28 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I fine tune the priorities of daemons?
I've noticed lpd runs with a low priority. I need to bump it way up, as
my linux box is primarily a printer server (four network printers and
fixing to add more :-)
Yan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gunshannon)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows
Date: 19 Mar 1999 14:09:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
|> David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>
|> > Take a typical office with 16+ PCs. How much computational power is
|> > available to that office verses how much is actually used? A Windows
|> > machine spends virtually all of its time waiting for the user to do
|> > something.
|> >
|> > When these machines are all networked together, they should be able to
|> > share their cpu power so that jobs that can be parallelized can take
|> > advantage of the computing power available.
|>
|> How often is this done with Unix workstations in a larger pool?
|> To accomplish this goal, we'd need some distributed operating system,
|> like Plan9.
Plan9 is not a distributed operating system. It will not paralelize tasks
among different machines. For this you need something like Amoeba (or
maybe Beowulf, but I am only familiar with Plan9 and Amoeba.)
bill
--
Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton |
Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>
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From: Francisco Cribari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [?] Help w/ ftpd
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 05:49:39 -0600
Thanks. All I have in my /etc/hosts.allow is
#
# hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
My /etc/hosts.deny only has the following:
[cribari@edgeworth /etc]$ cat hosts.deny
#
# hosts.deny This file describes the names of the hosts which are
# *not* allowed to use the local INET services, as decided
# by the '/usr/sbin/tcpd' server.
#
# The portmap line is redundant, but it is left to remind you that
# the new secure portmap uses hosts.deny and hosts.allow. In particular
# you should know that NFS uses portmap!
[cribari@edgeworth /etc]$
In /etc/hosts I have
[cribari@edgeworth /etc]$ cat hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
150.161.44.16 edgeworth.de.ufpe.br edgeworth
[cribari@edgeworth /etc]$
Finally, in /etc/host.conf, I have:
[cribari@edgeworth /etc]$ cat host.conf
order hosts,bind
multi on
[cribari@edgeworth /etc]$
Even when I try to ftp into my machine from it, I get the same error
message:
[cribari@edgeworth /etc]$ ftp edgeworth.de.ufpe.br
Connected to edgeworth.de.ufpe.br.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp> quit
Also, I am able to telnet into my computer. I just can't ftp into it...
Suggestions and pointers are extremely welcome. THANKS! FC.
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Anders G. Olstad wrote:
> Francisco Cribari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > HELP... I am running Red Hat Linux 5.2 on a i686 computer. When I
> >try to ftp into my computer, I get the following error message:
> > bernoulli% ftp edgeworth.de.ufpe.br
> > Connected to edgeworth.de.ufpe.br.
> > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> > ftp> quit
> > bernoulli%
>
> Have you checked your /etc/hosts.deny /etc/hosts.allow files, for any
> entries which could deny any outside access to your server?
> --
> Anders Gulden Olstad @ Brinkley | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> RedHat 5.2 Linux kernel 2.0.36 | "Penguins are generally nice creatures"
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
Francisco Cribari-Neto voice: +55-81-2718420
Departamento de Estatistica fax: +55-81-2718422
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recife/PE, 50740-540, Brazil web: www.de.ufpe.br/~cribari/
IBM: It is slow, but at least it's expensive.
________________________________________________________________________
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From: "Jeremy L. Buchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do you hang up pppd?
Date: 18 Mar 1999 23:56:31 GMT
Jet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have Red Hat 5.2. I can connect just fine, but haven't figured out how
: to hang up. So I just pull the cord out of the back. :)
The correct way, AFAIK, is to do something like:
ifconfig ppp0 down ; kill [pid of pppd process]
Although most people have this in a script, so they can just type
something like "pppdown", or "endppp".
===================================================================
Jeremy Buchmann "Those who trade freedom for safety deserve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] neither freedom nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
===================================================================
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From: Marko Brandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdwriting
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:18:19 +0100
Hi there,
i'm looking for a shell based tool to make 1:1 copies of audio and data
CDs (cdwrite is not working)
If anyone could say me how to find such a program ...
Tia .... Marko
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From: Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Encyclopedia Brittanica
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 15:51:56 +0000
Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>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.
EB 99 (regular edition) uses Netscape. I don't know about 98. It comes
with Communicator 4.07, and I have also gotten it to work with 4.5.
--
Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
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From: Gert Vanthienen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux
Subject: Change string script
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:50:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
L.S.,
Can anyone help me with this script? I'd like it to be able to replace
HTML-tags, but this seems impossible. SED has problems replacing
strings with special characters. Solutions?
Kan iemand mij helpen om onderstaand script te verbeteren? Ik zou het
graag zover krijgen dat het ook HTML-tags kan vervangen, maar dit wil
maar niet lukken. SED heeft problemen met de speciale tekens die deze
tags bevatten. Wie weet een oplossing?
Gert Vanthienen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Script file:
TMPDIR=/tmp
TMPFILE=$TMPDIR/chstr.$$
BEFORE=$1
AFTER=$2
shift;shift
for FILE in $*
do
sed -e "s/$BEFORE/$AFTER/" $FILE >$TMPFILE
echo "$FILE:"
diff $FILE $TMPFILE
echo " "
mv $TMPFILE $FILE
done
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From: "Rod Stringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a separated
OS partition?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 14:42:58 GMT
Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a
> separated OS partition?
>
> I have Hebrew Win 95, a problematic version of Win95 and it is stable
> now, so I will not risk adding partitions and OS, but I want to
> exercise UNIX using Linux.
>
> I have heard of such tools but need to know if any one experienced an
> easy and smooth installation, before I jump into the water.
>
> Roni
>
I believe there is a version (at least on the Slackware dist.) that will
use the FAT16 FS. Never having used it I cann't remember the name - just
jumped straight in with 2extfs. May be worth having a look through a few of
the FAQ's or visit the Linux Doc project site
--
Rod Stringer
'84 R80RT
DISCLAIMER
======================
All views expressed are my own and not those of Logica.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: How do you add up decimals under bash?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 14:54:17 GMT
In article <7cpplk$kqk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am trying to add up decimals that are contained in a string. I know how to
: do this for integers using expr eg >expr 1 + 3 + 5 9
:
: How do I do this for floats ? eg
: >expr 12.3 + 34.5 + 67.3 fails as
: non numeric arguments
:
: Can anybody help. Is there a command out there I can use from the shell
: prompt
:
Yes:
ftp://kermit.columbia.edu/misc/add.c
- Frank
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From: Kent Robotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Is there a simple way of installing Linux on a laptop not as a separated
OS partition?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 15:07:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In alt.os.linux Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
You could try this.
=========================================================================
DosLinux is a relatively small distribution of the linux operating
system.
DosLinux is a LOOP version of Linux and will use the standard linux
ext2 filesystem.
It can be installed on an existing dos system i.e. msdos, pcdos,
drdos, and win95/98 in dos mode.
There's no need to create a partition or repartition to install
doslinux, because it will just be a file i.e. C:\doslinux\system\-
doslinux.img on your existing dos system.
Read DosLinux.README for further info at the site below.
You'll need about 40 megabytes of free space on your dos system
to unpack doslinux.
DosLinux doesn't include X windows or the gcc compiler, but these
are easy to install on doslinux, just read /usr/doc/guides/
install.X.guide and gcc-doslinux after you install doslinux.
DosLinux has support for IDE, SCSI, & PS/2 hard drives, Ethernet cards,
IDE & SCSI cdrom drives, Tcp/ip networking i.e. SLIP/PPP, Floppy drives,
Serial & Non serial mice, Parallel printers, PNP, PCMCIA, Firewall & IP
Masquerading, Token Ring.
If you're not sure if DosLinux will boot on your system get 'setup.exe'
and 'zimage.bin', try to boot the small linux system if it boots then
get doslnx79.bin.
If you can't boot the small linux system there's no point getting
doslnx79.bin.
You need 'setup.exe' anyway to setup DosLinux, you don't have to get it
again any future versions of DosLinux will use the same 'setup.exe'.
Read HowTo.Install.DosLinux at the site below.
The DosLinux kernel is version: 2.2.1
DosLinux is a 100% libc6 system.
You need at least a 386 CPU and 8MB of RAM = Memory to use DosLinux.
========================================================================
Begin3
Title: DosLinux
Version: 79
Entered-date: 17MAR99
Description: A small linux libc6 system that can be droped into an
existing dos system, i.e. msdos, pcdos, drdos, etc.
& win95/98 in dos mode.
About 28 mbytes uncompressed, 13 mbytes compressed.
Contents: doslnx79.bin 9533Kb or 9762446b
setup.exe 1337Kb or 1369829b
zimage.bin 885Kb or 907136b <SCSI & IDE kernel>
modules directory.
packages directory.
Keywords: HowTo.Install.DosLinux & DosLinux.README
Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent Robotti)
Primary-site: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html
ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/doslinux
Alternate-site:
Platforms: Dos/Win95/98
Copying-policy: GPL
End
=========================================================================
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From: "Jeremy L. Buchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitioning on the fly
Date: 19 Mar 1999 00:12:39 GMT
The other day, I was trying to create a new partition on my IDE drive (I
had some free space) and when I exited fdisk, it would try to sync the
disk, but failed every time. Is there a way to create a new partition
without rebooting?
===================================================================
Jeremy Buchmann "Those who trade freedom for safety deserve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] neither freedom nor safety." -- Ben Franklin
===================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Armstrong)
Subject: Re: Framebuffer XFree server
Date: 19 Mar 1999 15:15:04 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Somewhere I read you need the fbset utility to make your framebuffer
>device work. Is this true? Is this the problem? And where can I get
>that utility (no, it isn't on uni-erlangen as documented - AFAICS)?
>
Well, it comes with ggi, if you get the ggi sources. But I don't
know where it resides originally.
incidentally, which X were you trying to run? If you weren't
running the framebuffer X server, then problems are inevitable :)
Phil
--
nosig
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From: Ernesto =?US-ASCII?Q?Hern=E1ndez-Novich?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Combining Drives?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 15:05:56 GMT
Eric Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In AIX it is possible to create storage volumes consisting of multiple
: drives so that a single mount point appears to be the combined size of all
: the drives in the volume group (e.g., a df on a 3 10GB volume group would
: show 30GB).
It is called RAID, of the 0 variety (spanning). You can do it with
the Multiple Devices support in the kernel and the help of RAID-tools.
Look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/md.txt, or the ROOT-RAID-Howto for
pointers to more info.
--
Ernesto Hern�ndez-Novich - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Running Linux 2.2.1
Just another Unix/Perl/Java hacker.
One thing is to be the best, and another is to be the most popular.
Unix: Live free or die!
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:27:08 +0000
From: "G.M.Trias" <"tux"@kill -9_msn.com>
Subject: Re: [Q] Swap file not working.
Miernik wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, K.C. Adams wrote:
> >Greetings!
> >
> >I'm running RedHat 5.2 on a P166 with 64M of memory. When I look at my
> >swap file info in "top", it doesn't appear to be getting used. Anyone
> >have this problem or is this a problem?
> >
>
> Probably 64MB is enough for all your processes to fit in. Thats not so
> strange.
>
> If you want it to use the swap file, try running all your applications
> at the same time, Netscape 4.5 is a good thing: it uses 27MB at once.
>
> --
> _____________________________________________
> Miernik / / mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> / / tel.(pager): +48 642 222 864
> ________________/___/ http://www.elka.pw.edu.pl/fundusz/miernik/
BZZZZZ!!! Wrong answer! It doesn't matter how many MB of RAM you have,
you should still be able to have a swap file - the largest being 128 MB
(or is it 125?) Anyway, try enabling your swap by using "swapon -a"
command.
Hope that helps.
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From: James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Soundblaser hisses under Linux
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:11:20 +0000
A.G. wrote:
> When I do modprobe sb, the modules load w/o any errors, and I hear quite
> annoying hiss comming from the speakers.
I've had similar problems from my OPL3/SA2 that were traced to
cross-talk with the CDROM line. Try starting up a mixer and muting the
CDROM line, and see if that helps.
--
+------------------------+-------------------------------+---------+
| James Tappin, | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__ |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | University of Birmingham | -- \/` |
| Ph: 0121-414-6462. Fax: 0121-414-3722 | |
+--------------------------------------------------------+---------+
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From: "Matt Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adding an os
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:08:53 -0500
I just decided that on my linux box I want to add another hard drive with
windows installed on it. How can I run that instead of linux when LILO
comes up?
Thanks
Matt A
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From: Sasa Ostrouska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem for Linux Gurus
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:41:23 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Kimoto wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sasa Ostrouska wrote:
> > Yes I compiled KDE and also WM and when i restart them they die.
> Also I
> > was able to compileKDE only if I was loged in like root (su). And
> thet
> > was the same with Enlightenment.
> > Any Ideas why ?
> >>> fvwm95: can't resolve __register_frame_info
>
> Just to be clear: they die _with this same error_?
>
> --
> Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Yes, first the X server try to start another wm and then it crashes with
the same error
fvwm95: can't resolve __register_frame_info
or
blackbox: can't resolve __register_frame_info
The most interesting thing is that Afterstep worked untill few days ago.
I think this has begining when I installed the binary dist of Moonlight
Creator. I will try to uninstall
it and then recompile all from scratch.
I'm also planing to upgrade the X to the 3.3.3.1 i have now the 3.3.2
with the Matrox server from Suse.
Thank you.
Sasa
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From: Mike Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: conp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Dosemu Mouse Problem
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:22:20 -0800
I have been setting up dosemu on my system and am having a problem
getting the mouse to act properly. The center button seems to dump
whatever is in the cut&paste buffer into DOS's keyboard input. This
creates a byte-explosion because the DOS program isn't expecting all
these characters (and either was I). I have programs that use the
center button so whatever is happening disables them. I have gone thru
every bit of documentation I can find and search the user net for an
answer but so far no luck. I have tried to disable dosemu's internal
mouse driver but nothing I do changes anything (did this by setting the
mouse items in dosemu.conf to ""). Tried several DOS (microsoft and
logitech) mouse drivers but they always report that another driver
already exists in memory and bail. Other than the center button out
of control the mouse generally works OK in dosemu. This problem occures
both in 'X' and the console. The one difference is that when I tried to
disable the mouse it did in console mode but I still couldn't load any
DOS mouse drivers. I am running the following versions:
Red Hat 5.2
Kernel 2.0.36
dosemu 0.98.5-1
KDE 1.1-3
MS-DOS 6.20
Thanks in advance for any help you may send my way.
Mike Brown
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From: "Michael Sly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: has anyone installed red hat 5.2 from ftp down load
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 13:06:31 GMT
i down loaded a bunch of stuff using this program that goes to a download
site and gets all the files for ya but now that i have all this stuff im
not sure were to start now
any help would be great thanks
Michael
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