Linux-Misc Digest #648, Volume #19 Mon, 29 Mar 99 08:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment.... (David Martin)
Re: LPRng problems ("Peter Caffin")
Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents for
these Windoze programs? (Richard Steiner)
Maestro-1 (Gary Portnoy)
Re: Script Problems with CR/LF's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: slide-maker for linux? (Mircea)
C Programmer Needed (Doug Amdur)
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (David Fox)
Re: good linux books? (Bud Rogers)
Re: postgreSQL or MySQL for Webserver? (Bud Rogers)
Re: Can't compile kernel (Kent Robotti)
Re: xosview and 2.2.x (John Thompson)
Re: Resizing partitions. (John Thompson)
Re: DosLinux/Mutt problem (Kent Robotti)
read linux data from windows ("Fr�d�ric Hoerni")
Re: Can't compile kernel ("Anthony")
Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer (Paul Tomblin)
Re: HP Deskjet 895C---any good? (Stephen Marley)
libjpeg.so.62 (Sasa Ostrouska)
Uninstalling GTK (Sasa Ostrouska)
Re: IE5 under Linux ("Jan Johansson")
Re: Newbie: Installing LICQ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How do I .... (yan seiner)
Remove all headers lines except Subject and From? (oak)
Re: Which is the best X-Server for ATI Rage IIC card? (Jeff McWilliams)
Linux (so many flavours , what's difference?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Martin)
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,micorosft.public.outlook
Subject: Re: Using Linux instead of NT Server in home environment....
Date: 29 Mar 1999 07:01:14 GMT
In article <#H7f6dVe#GA.267@cppssbbsa03>,
"Alexander I. Butenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well,, I'd beter think that there is a Server for the client, not
> vice-versa. And one more - the question was about the OS for the home. MOst
> hom eusers can't even properly configure Win98, so the most correct answer
> about the Server was not linux but WIndows NT. Anyway I do not wasn to
> continue this flame as most of this group members seem to gain nothing from
> it.
If most people can't even set up win98 at home, what hope have they with NT?
If you want to see how easy it is to set up a home network, with IP
masquerading, firewalls etc. I would reccommend John Sery's book 'Linux
Network Toolkit' (IDG) which comes with all the software you need to get it
going. Starts off with simple networks and works up to workgroup size complex
ones.
..d
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From: "Peter Caffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: LPRng problems
Date: 29 Mar 1999 07:33:59 GMT
In linux.debian.user Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The above entry should be in /var/spool/lpd/printcap. After making the
> changes Gene suggested, LPRng worked fine :).
Actually, I believe I wrote back too soon... Everything looks nice as I
check the printers using `lpc status` and `lpq -a` and the like. But, when
I attempt to print, it just sits pretty in the queue without error
messages.
An `lpq -a` results in:
Printer: lp@stm0150 (dest [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 'Stylus ColorIIs'
Queue: 1 printable job
Server: pid 20400 active
Unspooler: pid 20402 active
Status: sending job 'synic@stm0149+718' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 15:21:50
Filter_status: c2s is ready and printing
Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
active synic@stm0149+718 A 718 (stdin) 152229 15:21:50
`lpc status all` gives the following:
Printer Printing Spooling Jobs Server Slave Redirect Status/Debug
lp@stm0150 enabled enabled 1 32344 none
The only thing I can see going wrong is that the lp-errs and lp-acct
directories (?) get complained about by `checkpc -f`
lp: ** cannot create '/var/log/lp-errs/'
lp: ** cannot open '/var/log/lp-errs/'
lp: checking file '/var/log/lp-acct/'
lp: ** cannot create '/var/log/lp-acct/'
lp: ** cannot open '/var/log/lp-acct/'
The directories should be writable:
drwxrwxrwx 2 root adm 1024 Mar 29 14:56 lp-acct
drwxrwxrwx 2 root adm 1024 Mar 29 14:56 lp-errs
I've even gone to the point of removing them entirely and seeing if it
will create the files/directory itself. No go. Nothing I do seems to
remove this error message.
Here are my printcap files (I don't *think* they're a part of the
problem):
#/etc/printcap
lp|c2s|Stylus ColorIIs:\
# :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/c2s:\ # Used by BSD LPR
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ # Used by LPRng
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus800-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
#/var/spool/lpd/printcap
lp|c2s|Epson Stylus Color IIs:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:
When I cat a file directly to /dev/lp1, I get output.
I'm running Kernel 2.2.4 on Debian Linux 2.0. LPRng-3.4.2. If anyone can
help, I'd be very appreciative. At the moment, it's a case of being "so
close but so far.."
--: _ _ _ _
_oo__ |_|_ |__ _ | _ |_|_o _ pc at it dot net dot a u |
//`'\_ | (/_|(/_| |_(_|| | || | it.net.au/~pc |
/ PO Box 869, Hillarys WA 6923, AUSTRALIA |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 03:35:19 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
PMFJI: I'm not the original person you responded to, but some comments
are in order, methinks...
>Making software unintuitive doesn't make it better and doesn't endow
>the user with additional skills. It's just poorly designed from the
>user's point of view.
Don't forget that something which seems unintuitive or "poor design" to
one person might be quite intuitive and useful to another.
Several years ago I collected DOS file managers, and I wrote informal
reviews about them on a local BBS. I had something like 45-50 of them
for comparison at one point (and my collection included various retail
utilities like XTree Gold and Norton Commander, as well as some of the
more well-known shareware utilities of the time like Stereo Shell, dCOM,
ElfTree, Treeview, etc.).
The one thing that struck me while I was looking at these utilities and
using them was how radically DIFFERENT some of the approaches were from
each other.
Almost all of these file managers were intended to give the user a way
to display and manipulate files in a full-screen manner, usually using
the keyboard to move around the filesystem and tag files so one could
perform operations on groups of files. But sometimes the approaches
were so different that it was very hard to move from one to the other.
I usually found, however, that almost all of them had some fairly good
qualities once I got used to the author's assumptions. Sometimes the
ones that seemed the worst at first ended up being one of my favorites.
I ended up registering Stereo Shell after hating in initially.
As Unix users know, the same differences can apply to editors. :-)
>Why do Unix people get so needlessly defensive all the time?
Why do people familiar with the Windows desktop paradigm assume that
Unix users want to use the same type of environment that they do?
Why do they get so defensive when Unix users tell them that their ideas
about "the way user interfaces should be" might not be what WE want?
>Much Unix software suffers from poor usability - not all of it, just
>a lot of it. Now you're telling me that's a good thing?
I'm not him, but it really depends.
One of the cool things about a GUI is that it can be easier to learn if
its well-designed. But the same thing that makes it so much easier to
learn can end up seriously limiting its usability in other ways.
One of the cool thing about a CLI is that it's more easily automated
and more easily used via a network connection (e.g., a telnet client).
But the same thing that makes it easier to automate and use remotely
can make it more cryptic to some not used to the CLI paradigm.
Which interface is "more usable"...?
The answer: each one can be, at least when one is given a certain set
of priorities. There is no "correct" or "better" interface.
>You don't hear me say how stable Win 95 or Win 98 is compared with
>Linux? What's the point in denying the truth?
Because in this case I think that "the truth" is actually a fairly
subjective judgement call.
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris + BeOS +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + MacOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
If I want your opinion I'll beat it from you. :-)
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:34:47 -0500
From: Gary Portnoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Maestro-1
Hi there,
I guess you can say that I am another unfortunate owner of a soundcard
based on Maestro-1 chipset. As far as I can tell, support for it has
been available since one of the patches to 2.2.2. At least i've seen
people refer to ess_pci modules and steps to get it working. Hoping to
solve this problem once and for all, i've downloaded the 2.2.4 kernel,
and I don't see anything about the Maestro-1 anywhere. The only
reference that i've found is a few comments inside sb.h. Something like
"Maestro-1 support", which leads me to believe that it is supported as a
SB compatible, yet when I compile it into the kernel, the card doesn't
get recognized. For example, the audio section under /proc/sound is
empty, etc...
What gives?
Any help?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Re: Script Problems with CR/LF's
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:44:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John McLaughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just spent a few hours tracking down a problem that has to do with
> CR/LF's in scripts. First my setup:
> Fairly Generic Redhat 5.2 Linux System (x86)
> Tcl/Tk 8.0
> Bash Shell
> #!/bin/sh
> # \
> exec wish "$0" ${1+"$@"}
>
> In the first 3 lines, whenever I tried to execute it I got
> bash: ./tkcon.tcl: No such file or directory
> (this is the first time I have ever run across it), I also find it hard
> to believe that the CR's give bash that much grief.
>
> * Is this problem well known?
> * Is there an system option to change Bash's behavior to deal with CR's
> in a nicer way?
> * Are we all doomed to run dos2ux or tr past all tcl scripts that were
> edited on dos systems?
> * Why doesn't redhat come with dos2ux?
> * Am I missing something obvious?
>
> Tcl seems to handle the CR/LF's just fine, it really seems to be a bash
> problem (and perhaps all shells?), however it seems like this problem
> could really hamper cross platform scripting.
It isn't just bash, tcsh gave me the same. The only line that is mattered
for was the first (#!/bin/sh). If you pop that up in emacs, you would see
#!/bin/sh^M
...
with every line having a ^M (cr or \r) before the linefeed. However, you
only have to remove the first for the c-shell to understand that it shouldn't
be looking for an executable that ends with a \r (dumb system). Normally it
is just important that you transfer tkcon.tcl in ASCII, so that the CRLF<>LF
conversion occurs as needed betweens system types (goes for any Tcl file).
The problem really lies in the c-shell interpretation (or lack thereof) of
the CRLF/LF/CR line terminators, and would go for any script file. A shame,
but I don't know any way around it but to watch how files are transferred.
jeff.hobbs @SPAM acm.org
jeffrey.hobbs @SPAM icn.siemens.de
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: slide-maker for linux?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 23:48:04 -0500
There's one that comes with the StarOffice 5.0 suite
(www.stardivision.com)
MST
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is there an presentation-maker application similar to power-point for linux?
> Thanks for any help.
>
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From: Doug Amdur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: C Programmer Needed
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 09:45:30 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a small commercial UNIX application and need a programmer to help
modify some existing C code. The program is a desktop manager for
character terminals, and the area needing change relates to mail and
uses a curses library. I don't believe this is a very involved project.
I have a fairly limited budget, but can pay a few hundred dollars for
your services. If anyone's interested, please contact me. I'm in the
Los Angeles area, but am willing to work via the internet.
Thanks,
Doug Amdur
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: 29 Mar 1999 03:39:37 -0800
Jet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am I the only one who doesn't like big monitors? I don't like
> anything bigger than 15".
Quite possibly.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: good linux books?
Date: 29 Mar 1999 01:20:35 -0600
"wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What ever you do DON'T buy the book called: Running Linux,
> by O'Reilly & Associates, it is a pure shallow copy of stuff
> grabbed from the Internet !!!
> Want mamoney Back !!
Ah, I'd say that's a matter of opinion. I recommend Running Linux to
anyone new to Linux.
--
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/twocups.gif
Linux twocups 2.0.36 #5 Mon Mar 15 21:01:56 CST 1999 i586 unknown
1:19am up 13 days, 4:00, 5 users, load average: 0.26, 0.30, 0.31
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From: Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: postgreSQL or MySQL for Webserver?
Date: 29 Mar 1999 01:25:55 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Anderson) writes:
> ewoods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Opinions wanted please...
> >
> Please clarify your question.
>
> In the absence of any further clarification, the answer is 42.
>
Bah. The question is perfectly clear. The answer is yes.
--
Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/twocups.gif
Linux twocups 2.0.36 #5 Mon Mar 15 21:01:56 CST 1999 i586 unknown
1:25am up 13 days, 4:06, 5 users, load average: 0.05, 0.17, 0.24
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From: Kent Robotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't compile kernel
Date: 29 Mar 1999 11:58:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
St�phane Huguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a little new to Linux;actually on rh5.2 - kernel 2.0.34 -I've tried
> compiling kernel 2.0.36, 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 : always the same error in make
> dep : the mkdep script can't find the included files (stdio.h...) - Does
> anyone have an idea on why these files have disappeared, and how to
> recover them ?
> Thanks in advance !
Maybe you don't have these links in /usr/include.
cd /usr/include
ln -sf /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -sf /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -sf /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xosview and 2.2.x
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:44:58 -0600
Ed Young wrote:
> Len Cuff wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know why xosview doesn't work with kernel 2.2.x ?
> > I've just moved to 2.2.x kernel running SuSE 6. Everything else works
> > fine, pppd, sound, printer etc but the little xosview window which used
> > to appear in the fvwm2 screen has gone !
> > Running xosview from an xterm gives me nothing although ps ef shows it
> > running. Any ideas ? Has 2.2.x changed so much that it can't work any
> > more and, if so, is there an alternative ?
> Get xosview-1.7.1
In a similar vein, why does xosview 1.6.1 tell me I have 24
interrupts (0-23) available with kernel 2.2.1?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resizing partitions.
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 19:47:30 -0600
John McKown wrote:
> I don't know of ANY way to resize an ext2 partition.
[clip]
I have used Partition Magic v4 several times to
non-destructively resize and move ext2 partitions. I've
never had a problem with it but I have always been careful
not to change the partition numbers of my boot partitions.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Kent Robotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DosLinux/Mutt problem
Date: 29 Mar 1999 12:06:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Glassberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This week I installed DosLinux. So far so good...except for mutt. I added
> a user with a name that I receive mail under at my isp. Mutt reads the user's
> mail all right, but will not permit the user to reply to or sendmail. Mutt is
> configured with pico as its editor. When writing messages mutt creates a tem-
> porary file in /tmp. Unfortunately, all such files are owned by root and their
> mode is 600.
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Use su or sudo to run a program as root.
su -c mutt
sudo mutt
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From: "Fr�d�ric Hoerni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: read linux data from windows
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:08:11 +0200
hello,
i am looking for a program that can read linux data (ext2 system) from
windows 95.
thanks
fred ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Anthony" <Anthony@spim>
Subject: Re: Can't compile kernel
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:17:12 +0100
You need to install the kernel-headers rpm.
They are on the CD.
Can't recall the exact name.
Anthony
St�phane Huguet wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm a little new to Linux;actually on rh5.2 - kernel 2.0.34 -I've tried
>compiling kernel 2.0.36, 2.2.3 and 2.2.4 : always the same error in make
>dep : the mkdep script can't find the included files (stdio.h...) - Does
>anyone have an idea on why these files have disappeared, and how to
>recover them ?
>Thanks in advance !
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Tomblin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help me spend $2,000 on a new Linux-based computer
Date: 29 Mar 1999 12:49:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Tomblin)
In a previous article, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>sound cards...) No harm in waiting for the SB LIVE 256 support to come out, you
>should be able to get it to run as a 128...
No, you can't. The SB16 and other emulation on the SBLive is done in the
Windows driver, not in hardware, so it's totally silent under Linux.
--
Paul Tomblin, not speaking for anybody.
"Faced with the prospect of rereading this book, I would rather have my brains
ripped out by a plastic fork." - Charles Cooper reviews the new Gates book.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2230586,00.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Marley)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 895C---any good?
Date: 29 Mar 1999 11:56:49 GMT
David James Spillett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd be careful. I think NT supports WinPrinters, and some people claim
> their models work under DOS when they only work if you run your DOS apps
> within a Windows session [i.e. the Windows driver is still needed].
>
> Hence a sales-bod telling you that a printer will work under NT and DOS
> is not a 100% guarantee that it'll co-operate with Linux.
This is true. For example the HP 720 and 710 both work under NT and DOS
but support under Linux is extremely limited. What makes the 895
different is that the printer can be controlled with HP's PCL 3, a
published command language.
However, if the box says that the Mac is supported, then Linux is
likely to work too.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Sasa Ostrouska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: libjpeg.so.62
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:30:50 +0200
Hi !
I have a problem with the jpeg library. When i start WM or
Afterstep and I want to display an image
like a wallpaper I can't do that because i have just the
libjpeg.so.6.0.1 Can anybody tell me how can i solve this problem.
Thanks
Sasa
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From: Sasa Ostrouska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Uninstalling GTK
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 22:27:03 +0200
Hi to all !
I have a litle problem whic i can't solve. Can
anybody tell me how can i uninstall gtk ? I installed it
from the src. Now when I installe the new version I have some problem
with configuring the software I want to
install because the configure give me the error like this:
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... no
checking for pthread_create in -lpthreads... no
checking for pthread_create in -lc_r... no
checking for pthread_create... no
checking for gtk-config... /usr/local/bin/gtk-config
checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.12...
*** 'gtk-config --version' returned 1.2.1, but GTK+ (1.2.0)
*** was found! If gtk-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GTK+. You may also be able to fix the
error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If gtk-config was wrong, set the environment variable GTK_CONFIG
*** to point to the correct copy of gtk-config, and remove the file
config.cache
*** before re-running configure
no
configure: error: GTK not installed
redos:/usr/local/src/enlightenment-conf-0.15#
How can I solve this ?
Any help apreciated. Thank you in advance.
Sasa
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: IE5 under Linux
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 10:41:23 +0200
Where's the problem? Only RH is up to rev 5.2 so it cant be any other
distro.. SuSE never had a 5.2 and i cant think of any distro that had..
besides redhat?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie: Installing LICQ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:24:14 GMT
Nanto Himawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to install LICQ on Redhat 5.2, and I have the following error
> message. I looked at the FAQ, but the information about moc there doesn't
> make[1]: /usr/bin/moc: Command not found
Install the qt-devel package.
Better still, get a prebuilt RPM for licq from contrib.redhat.com or somewhere
similar
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From: yan seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: How do I ....
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 06:43:31 -0500
I jsut got a copy of RH 5.2 w/ KDE, upgraded to the 2.2.3 kernel, and
everything seems fine. I have a p5/166 SMP box (yes they exist), and it
appears a little faster. KDE is very, very nice! The folks at
cheapbytes.com did a good job packaging the CD, too.
I have a few questions that are pretty silly, but annoying.
1) I can't figure out how to hang up the modem gracefully. I use
wvdial, which dows a great job configuring the modem, but there seems to
be no way to hang up short of killing the pppd daemon. Is this right?
2) In NS 4.5, how do I change the default font size? I seem to be
stuck with about 8 point fonts, which are reduced to a blur on my
ancient monitor.
3) In KDE, how do I make the font selection stick for the shell
windows? Every thime I boot, KDE defaults to these uge, ugly, bitmapped
fonts, and I have to reset every shell window to "small fonts".
4) I muddled through the kernel upgrade with no docs. Is there an FAQ
somewhere on what should be done? I seem to remember reading somewhere
that kerneld would go away and be replaced with kmod (??) but kerneld
still seems to get installed on my system. I wonder what else I'm
missing.
Did everyone catch Dilbert this morning?
Yan
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From: oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remove all headers lines except Subject and From?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:59:19 GMT
Anyone know of a way I can filter out all header lines in e-mail, and
also perhaps newsgroup posts, except for the Subject and From lines?
Thanks,
-Tony
========================================================
Power User Page http://www.eskimo.com/~oak/pwr/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff McWilliams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Which is the best X-Server for ATI Rage IIC card?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:09:01 GMT
In article <xtJL2.1679$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jim Orfanakos wrote:
>I just picked up a used Compaq Deskpro EP (Pentium II 300 MHz) at a computer
>flea market.
>
>It has an ATI Rage IIC (2 MB) video card. Which is the best X-Server to use
>with it?
>
>I have tried the SVGA, and some of the other ATI ones but I get distortion
>on the right side of the screen when I move the mouse, especially if the
>mouse is on the right side of the screen.
>
>Thanks.
Jim,
I had similar problems the other day. I was playing around a friend's
hardware:
Diamond C300 Slot-1 motherboard ($39.00 from TCComputers)
ATI 3D Charger AGP 8Mg ($40.00)
Intel Celeron 333 (about $80.00)
other generic stuff, installed Debian 2.0 running X 3.3.1 or 3.3.2
(I forget which). Both the SVGA and Mach64 servers exhibited a lot
of distortion on the right half of the screen.
The solution was to go to www.xfree86.org and download the BINARIES
for just XF86_SVGA and XF86_MACH64 and put them in place of the old
binaries. Once I did that, the Mach64 server ran beautifully, as the new
version properly identified the Rage IIc chipset on the AGP bus.
The SVGA server really wasn't necessary... I downloaded it just in case.
This is a bit of a hack, but it worked on short notice, and there isn't
much of a better solution for getting hardware support from X 3.3.3
until the Debian package maintainers finish porting it to Debian.
Jeff
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Jeff McWilliams - Advanced Development Engineer, ACE Technologies
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Subject: Linux (so many flavours , what's difference?)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:51:26 GMT
I have some questions:
Q1:Can packages of slackware and Redhat be Interchanged i.e. compatibility
Q2:what is difference in kernels for different Linux flavours?
Q3:What is difference (technical) between Unix and Linux?
it seems ugly to me to ask for response via email but truly I lack intertnet
time but quite often checks my email account.
A lot of thanks for your kind attention.
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