Linux-Misc Digest #686, Volume #19 Thu, 1 Apr 99 16:13:10 EST
Contents:
No midi devices for AWE32 (dave)
Framebuffer woes (Matthias Warkus)
Re: Interesting postgres questions (Doug S)
Re: Database and Wordprocessing apps for console mode? (William Wueppelmann)
Re: Web page logins automated? (William Wueppelmann)
Linux on a non-state-of-the-art PC ? (T Ojala)
Re: IRQ's (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: No RV G2 for Linux (Try Wine) (Erik Vasaasen)
Re: Core dumped ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HELP: My users have problems logging on... (Jerry)
Re: Writing CGI Scripts in C and Serving with Apache (DeadMonkey)
Re: VMWARE -- why isn't it the rage topic of discussion? (John Brock)
Re: Linux on a non-state-of-the-art PC ? ("Don Dennis")
Re: Q: S.u.S.E. 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Subject: No midi devices for AWE32
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dave)
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 19:37:53 GMT
I use RH5.2 kernel 2.0.36. I don't remember being prompted for a midi device
when recompiling the kernel. What am I doing wrong? Do I lose the patches when
I recompile my kernel?
Card config:
SoftOSS Virtual Wave Table
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 10 drq 3,7
(SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 10 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.12)
Synth devices:
0: SoftOSS
1: Yamaha OPL3
2: AWE32-0.4.2c (RAM8192k)
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
1: SoftOSS
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
1: AWE32 Equalizer
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=y
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDCLAS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSNDPIN is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=y
# CONFIG_SOUND_PAS is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=y
CONFIG_SB_BASE=220
CONFIG_SB_IRQ=10
CONFIG_SB_DMA=3
CONFIG_SB_DMA2=7
CONFIG_SB_MPU_BASE=330
CONFIG_SB_MPU_IRQ=-1
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=y
# CONFIG_SOUND_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SSCAPE is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_TRIX is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAD16 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_CS4232 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA2 is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_MAUI is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_SGALAXY is not set
# CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1 is not set
CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS=y
CONFIG_SOFTOSS_RATE=22050
CONFIG_SOFTOSS_VOICES=32
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=y
CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m
# CONFIG_SOUND_UART6850 is not set
#
# Additional low level sound drivers
#
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
CONFIG_ACI_MIXER=m
CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=y
# CONFIG_AEDSP16 is not set
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Framebuffer woes
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:47:05 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm back with more info about my problems with the VESA framebuffer.
First of all, the FBdev X server doesn't seem to work in any colour
depth greater than 8 bits.
Then, whenever I try to switch modes with fbset, I get this:
[root@audrey]: ~# fbset -xres 1024 -yres 768
ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument
Can you help me with this?
mawa
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When you look at yourself in an aberrational mirror, you see your real
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Twisted Science, Heat, National Public Radio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug S)
Subject: Re: Interesting postgres questions
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 20:02:11 GMT
The only way I know of to do this is to export your clipper database
file to a tab or comma delimited text file. Then use the COPY command
(if you exported to a comma delimited file you'll use the USING
DELIMITERS clause, too) to import the data.
I haven't used clipper in about eight years, so I don't know enough
about clipper programs to know if they can support using data from
Postgres. I'd imagine that you're running the clipper programs on a
non-*nix machine...if there's a way with clipper programs to use an
ODBC datasource, then yes, you can use your clipper programs. But
that wasn't the case last time I encountered clipper.
There are many ways of accessing the data, though. You could redo
your app in C, perl, or PHP, among others, for example, and run on a
*nix box. Or you could even use MS Access or a similar environment on
a Win9x computer with the Postgres ODBC driver loaded.
BTW, PostgreSQL 6.5 is now in BETA. The new features look awesome!
Have fun!
Doug
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:36:32 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
> I am not sure if my question is relevant to the group, but I'll ask it anyway.
>Suppose I have a clipper database file. Would it be possible to convert it to
>postgres?
>
>Another question, let's say the files were somehow converted, would it
>be possible for a clipper program to access the postgres database? I probably
>know the answer, but I just want to make sure. I would say that if the program
>uses SQL it can.
>
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: Database and Wordprocessing apps for console mode?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:09:22 GMT
In our last episode (Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:29:28 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Martin R. Soderstrom said:
>Also, I asked this once before and was shocked at the answer, so I'm going
>to ask it again:
>
>Are there no wordprocessing packages for console mode Linux? (something like
>Wordstar or WordPerfect for DOS).
There may well be, but Unix has traditionally been more of a typesetting
enivornment. Here, you have two major options: (La)TeX and (g)roff. LaTeX
is an enormous beast that provides a lot of flexibility and is probably the
more popular, but maybe more difficult to learn. I've been using groff
with the Me macro package to produce printed documents lately. It's not
too hard to learn the basics, it gives you finer control than you'd get
with a word processor, and has a number of other advantages, such as being
able to produce formatted ASCII output as well as a nice PostScript
document from the same source. Plus, of course, you can use a real editor
like vim or emacs to edit the source, which is more effective than the
generally weak editors that are included with word processors. And your
document source becomes much more portable.
I find that both encourage better writing and formatting too, by
encouraging you to focus on the structure and overall style of your
document rather than micromanaging fonts and doing "accidental" formatting
(e.g. individually making all of your main headings bold and 18 point,
instead of defining a main heading object and defining that as being 18
point and bold).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Wueppelmann)
Subject: Re: Web page logins automated?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:09:23 GMT
In our last episode (Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:30:14 GMT),
the artist formerly known as oak said:
>
>I'm looking to log into, say, a hotmail account without having to type
>in my user name and password. At home I'm usually running lynx so
>isn't there a way to tell my cursor to go to the "Login:" area of the
>web page and input my username <enter> then proceed to the password
><enter> and I'm logged on automatically? An expect script does the
>same thing for me with a terminal connection to a shell account, but I
>was wondering if I could do a similar thing with an open web
>browser....perhaps some kind of Screen macro or something.
>
Sorry. I think I understand what you're looking for. To do that, the
easiest way would be to just edit your bookmarks and add a URL with the
entire login string (you'll have to look at the login form for the
specifics). IOW, you'd have a bookmark link that looked something like:
<LI><A
HREF="http://www.hotmail.com/cgi-bin/login.cgi?name=oak&password=foobar">
Login to Hotmail</A>
If the CGI script is expecting data via POST instead of GET, you might need
to construct a form which contains the same fields as the Hotmail login
form, but with your name and pasword pre-filled in. That way, you can just
call up the login document and submit it.
Lynx can also be made to send form data from the command line using the
-get_data and -post_data switches, so it's probably possible to do what
you want with some shell scripting and lynx, though that may be more
trouble than its worth.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T Ojala)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Linux on a non-state-of-the-art PC ?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:19:43 GMT
Hi everybody,
I'm not familiar with Linux and I've received some very contradictory
information on Linux's usefulness when using rather old Intel
hardware.
On one hand, I found a web site (starting from www.linux.org, under
something like "Why Linux is better...") stating that Linux is well
capable of running Netscape on a 486, 8 MB platform. On the other, a
colleague said that Pentium 133 or better with 64 MB is good (after
having had some problems with Pentium 233/32).
So, simply: is there somebody out there who is using Linux + Netscape
on a platform similar to the first one mentioned? Did you spend months
to get it running? Is it really running smoothly (ie can you really
surf the net with it)?
Thanks in advance!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: IRQ's
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:19:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown) writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>
>>The PC architecture is such that the CPU doesn't know if a particular
>>device is going to interrupt with IRQ n until it does. Of course, the
>>OS can usually ask the BIOS which IRQs it has handed out to various
>>devices, so I'm not sure why cat /proc/interrupts doesn't show up IRQ 3
>>and 4 on my system.
>I have a video card that apparently claims irq 10 (according to the
>ROM boot messages reporting PCI bus). But it doesn't show up in
>/proc/interrupts either.
No surprise. The Linux video drivers don't use the IRQ at all.
There's no need for it.
>
>I've also tried to look at /proc/dma to
>figure out why my sound card won't allow the high DMA to be set. (It
>doesn't show anything on the DMA line that the sound card software says
>it's in use. Makes me wonder how reliable the entries in /proc are.)
Most reliable. Probably your sound card simply _can't_ use any high
DMA values at all. This is notorious for SB Vibra16x cards, AFAIK .
These cards have a broken design and don't support higher DMA settings.
Just use the same (low) DMA value for both settings.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erik Vasaasen)
Subject: Re: No RV G2 for Linux (Try Wine)
Date: 1 Apr 1999 20:32:26 GMT
On 26 Mar 1999 11:52:47 -0600, Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>William Lacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I wrote to them asking about a G2 player for Linux, I got a cut and
>> pasted reply (don't rate a human reply I suppose) that didnt' actually
>> answer my question. Here is what they sent back:
>
>I got a polite reply from a real human being. He said they are actively
>working on G2 for Linx and other platforms. But their priority was,
>obvously, where the bulk of the market it -- M$ platforms.
>
>--
>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
> 11:48am up 10 days, 14:29, 5 users, load average: 0.34, 0.15, 0.10
Someone just posted on Comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine that with
wine-990328 he was was able to play the first 1 minute or so of
a remote stream using the G2 player.
Since I'm about to try it out myself, I won't go dig at dejanews
for a reference to the article - so do it yourself! ;)
Erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Core dumped
Date: 31 Mar 1999 14:03:21 GMT
In his obvious haste, Le physicien nocturne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: Daniel Franzen wrote:
:> Hi
:>
:> When a application crash it often says "core dumped" and makes a file
:> named "core".
:>
:> Can I use this file in any way to find out what went wrong?
: You can use gdb or xxgdb in Xwindow. See the man pages for these
: commands.
: Good luck!
I was under the impression that you needed the source code and the app
needed to be compiled with the -g option in order to do that...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: HELP: My users have problems logging on...
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 20:41:59 GMT
Hi all,
I wonder if you can help me. I'm new to Linux and i've been given a
temporary position whilst the main admin is on a vacation.
We've got a small network that's hooked to the Internet and sometimes
some of the people log onto it from home in order to surf the
Internet. But there's a problem.
The problem is: My collegues have to try several times in order to
make a successful connection. One of my colleagues who's also new to
Linux said that when he does 'tail -f /var/adm/messages' whilst
connecting, he gets a message "serial line is looped back". He only
get's this once or twice and then it's fine. But this happens too
often, i.e. on nearly every connection attempt. The others mainly use
Win98 and report that it takes them several attempts before they're
accepted onto the server.
As far as I can tell, I think this is related with the what I've
noticed. When they logoff or get disconnected for some reason or
another, their session is left running on our server, which is a Linux
server. I notice this when I do 'ps -aux|more' and I can see their
username on there but they're not logged on as I've checked with the
'w' command.
Why is this happening and where have we gone wrong?
I would appreciate any help on this. TIA.
Jerry
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From: DeadMonkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Writing CGI Scripts in C and Serving with Apache
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 15:59:04 GMT
Rita Schiavone wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using the Apache Web Server and Linux. I'm trying to write a CGI
> program in C that does the following:
>
> 1. Reads in a file of records (e.g., the cron tab file).
> 2. Displays the file to the screen in an HTML form with a couple of
> checkboxes per record, so the user can select records to delete, activate,
> etc.
> 3. Has a SAVE button that writes user changes back to a file.
>
> 1 and 2 work fine. It's the 3rd item I'm having problems with. The SAVE
> button is pushed and it goes off to execute the CGI program but halts in the
> middle of the program (no errors it just stops before completing the
> program). If I try to open a file using the standard fopen() routine, the
> program dies at that point. If I use strcmp() to compare two strings, it
> dies there. I have tried putting fflush(stdout) before it, after it, lots
> of places, and it still doesn't work.
>
> Could some C CGI guru out there please provide me some pointers as to what I
> am doing wrong or what I need to do to correct this problem.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Perhaps you would be better off posting to c.l.c or c.l.c.moderated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock)
Subject: Re: VMWARE -- why isn't it the rage topic of discussion?
Date: 1 Apr 1999 15:45:12 -0500
In article <7e09ko$1km$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm quite surprised that VMWARE (www.vmware.com) isn't
>being discussed much. I've been waiting years for just
>such a thing. I can now run windows98 under linux, and
>run quicken, office97, solitaire :-), or anything else
>I want (except directx games...yet), without rebooting.
>
>Vmware simply rocks.
Are you actually running VMware? I was under the impression that for
technical reasons a true virtual machine was impossible on x86 CPUs,
and that once you have any sort of emulation things start to get really
messy. Can anyone give me a punchy one paragraph explanation of how
they do this? (I'm wading through their web site right now, but it's
still not clear to me why this is suddenly possible after all these
years of hearing that it couldn't be done).
--
John Brock
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From: "Don Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Linux on a non-state-of-the-art PC ?
Date: 01 Apr 1999 12:31:12 PST
I am running three different machine w/ linux
one is 486 dx2/66 12meg recently upgraded to 32meg
it had xwidows running w/ netscape
it run a little slow (not by much) till I upgraded now it kills microshaft.
a 486 dx4 /100 w/ 16 megs also has no problems
I personally think that a 486 dx2 66 is the low end before you start having
trouble with programs running slow.
don
T Ojala wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm not familiar with Linux and I've received some very contradictory
>information on Linux's usefulness when using rather old Intel
>hardware.
>
>On one hand, I found a web site (starting from www.linux.org, under
>something like "Why Linux is better...") stating that Linux is well
>capable of running Netscape on a 486, 8 MB platform. On the other, a
>colleague said that Pentium 133 or better with 64 MB is good (after
>having had some problems with Pentium 233/32).
>
>So, simply: is there somebody out there who is using Linux + Netscape
>on a platform similar to the first one mentioned? Did you spend months
>to get it running? Is it really running smoothly (ie can you really
>surf the net with it)?
>
>Thanks in advance!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Q: S.u.S.E. 6.0
Date: 31 Mar 1999 15:24:43 GMT
In his obvious haste, Rolf Inge Stangeland Salte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: Any good?
: Is it a good Linux too start from scratch with?
I've got SuSE 5.2 (from a cover disk a few months ago), and it is an
excellent distro for beginners.
The Setup tool (YaST) does just about everything for you.
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