Linux-Misc Digest #765, Volume #19 Tue, 6 Apr 99 17:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on HP Vectra 486 XM (Jeffery Jones)
Using a ram drive (was: Re: /tmp screws up printing if moved?) (oak)
Re: stupid newbie question about mount (Josh Joyce)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? (Wolf)
Re: Clock and Sleep Mode
Re: New Microsoft News ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need Sound Card Suggestions ("David Murray")
Re: www.thelinuxstore.com (whew!) ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Mounting SCSI CDROM (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Help ! How do I mount audio cdroms ? (Randy Crawford)
Re: New Microsoft News (brian moore)
Re: Inaccessible boot device: HELP! (NT Error, Linuxes fault?) (diahedrial)
Re: What files to backup - and what not in RedHat 5.2 ("David Z. Maze")
Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286 (Jeremy Crabtree)
Re: AppleTalk/Netatalk ("Joseph Santaniello")
Re: Tools for IRQ and IO address ("Andre Malafaya Baptista")
incremental backups and fun with unix cmds ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: WindowMaker Uninstall (Wildman, the Cuberstalker)
Re: Yet another glibc 2.1 question ("ne...")
Re: Sound in Linux? ("Greg")
Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286 (Wouter Liefting)
Tape Library Support (David Christensen)
Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the Linux-equivalents
for these Windoze programs? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffery Jones)
Subject: Re: Linux on HP Vectra 486 XM
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 14:30:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got this to work last night w/RH 5.2 I even installed via ftp. I
used the built-in Lance driver and gave it the parameters "io=<io
address>, irq=<irq>". If you have the same machine as I do, you can
view/set the nic resources in the bios.
Good luck.
Regards,
Jeff
Posted and courtesy emailed.
On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:26:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am trying to install Linux on a HP Vectra 486 XM but unable to find an
>ethernet driver for the Integrated Network Card.
>
>AMD chip AM79C960K
>
>Any Ideas ?
>
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From: oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using a ram drive (was: Re: /tmp screws up printing if moved?)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 00:47:03 GMT
>That is all great if you are using a laptop and want to conserve
>battery!
That's a part of it here.
>On a desktop it doesn't make sense at all. The fact that it
>eventually gets written to disk is of no importance at all.
t gets written to disk within a couple of
seconds...seconds which the drive could be doing something else
perhaps. In any case it's also wear and tear and the hard drive for
files that don't need to be written to disk. Also there are certain
times when I like to keep the hard drive spun down, on a laptop the
reasons more obvious but on my desktop it's just that I have a noisy
hard drive - IDE so I'll on occassion spin it down. I know it's more
wear and tear to spin it up and down a lot so I don't do it that
often. When it's down it's down for a long time, usually when I do
some writing or when I'm away for half the day or more.
>... one of the things
>to consider is, if using a RAMDISK was really so useful, given
>how easy it is to do you would expect that it would be pretty
>standard. It isn't, and there is a good reason. Disk caching
>works much better and gives you the same benefits, plus it is
>automatic and dynamically adjusts to both the amount of RAM you
>have and to the work load the machine has.
This is true in general but in my case one of the things is I really
just want the hard drive left alone.
In msdos there was this great utility that would create a ram disk but
if I used no space in the ram disk all that space would be available
as ram memory..it would be nice if there was something like that for
linux.
>Asking for 16 MB of temporary space these days isn't a whole lot, but it's
>dedicating a quarter of your memory to space that only will be required
>transiently.
I was just thinking of keeping it at 4 or possibly 8 megs at the most.
I use the Screen program a lot and it uses a screen-exchange file a
lot in /tmp, text to speech uses that space a lot for a ton of files
that just exist for a few seconds usually, then it's also space I don't have
to worry about deleting any files in because they all disappear with every
boot, I also do some recording
so quiet is definitely needed there. I had tmp as a ram drive before and
wanted to give it a shot again. It defintely keeps hard drive activity
down in well defined cases. Someone a while back mentioned running a
server which kept accessing some files over and over again so a ram
drive in those cases where you know you don't need the hard drive
accessing it comes in handy, otherwise it's best not to mess with it -
agreed. I saw a unix performance tunning book that made a similar
suggestion.
> ...But, you may be seeing some
>unnecessary metadata updates.
That's another thing, for most tmp files why waste time with the
update stamps. This drove me crazy when I first used linux, I had
everything spun down then merely accessed some files and
spun the hard drive every time errr ;(
> To get around this, mount a /tmp
>filesystem with the no atime patch. By not updating the access time on
>files, you can reduce the number of accesses to the disk, if this
>annoys you.
Yup, it annoys me. You know if those patches are available for the
latest stable kernel?
Thanks,
-Tony
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From: Josh Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stupid newbie question about mount
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:25:47 GMT
lisa wrote:
>
> Stupid question about mount, not stupid newbie (although sometimes....)
>
> I have a directory in /mnt set aside for hdc1 (/mnt/backup),a second
> harddrive. When running cron to perform a backup, should I mount the
> harddrive, copy my folders, etc, then umount? When I mount and unmount, does
> the directory look the same? I guess what I'm really asking is: Why I can
> copy files to the specific directory even tho' /dev/hdc1 isn't mounted? When
> I do and ls -al on the /mnt/backup (hdc1) I can see things in there that
> aren't there when I mount it. (and vice-versa).
>
> Is anyone actually following this?
>From what I can tell, /mnt/backup is simply a directory. When /dev/hdc1
is not mounted, you are just copying files from wherever they are into
/mnt/backup, not across partitions as you had planned. Be sure to mount
/dev/hdc1 before backing up. It isn't really a must that you umount
/dev/hdc1 after each backup; if you have your backup running as a cron
job frequently you might as well leave the partition mounted. You could
always grep /etc/mtab to check if it's mounted before the backup, etc.
I hope this helps. :)
Josh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolf)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: 6 Apr 1999 12:05:45 -0400
In article <7e391i$ksm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Betz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Little things annoy. For example, there is no common buffer for
>cutting and pasting between apps. You can't do something as simple
>as paste text copied from an xterm session into, say, Netscape.
>There are historical reasons for this, but Linux developers will
>have to address issues like this before Linux can take over the
>desktop.
>
>Maybe Gnome addresses this, I haven't run it yet.
I do this all the time with fvwm95 under Red Hat 4.2 - it
took me a while to figure out the trick because, like most
PC users who havn't played with UNIX and X extensively, I
did not realize I was missing something important...namely
a working middle mouse button in XFree86!
The magic to cutting and pasting in X is the middle button. If
you hold and drag on an xterm with the left button you can
highlight text...but there's no obvious way to paste it.
The answer is to leave the text highlighted, left-click into the
window you want to paste to, and then middle-click.
If you don't have a 3 button mouse or if your middle button
doesn't work in X, you can set it to emulate the middle
button by clicking both left and right at the same time...
Once I learned this I because MUCH happier with Linux!
--
Wolf
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Clock and Sleep Mode
Date: 6 Apr 1999 19:07:08 GMT
On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 06:01:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
hello there!
>Two things have been having rather wierdly lately. Not sure what the problem
>is. I am not sure if they are related.
>
> [boot prob snipped]
>2) Round at about the same time, I notice that when I set the machine to sleep
>mode, the monitor remains the same instead of blanking off. It used to blanked
>off automatically after it goes into sleep mode, or when I didn't touch the
>machine for a while. Now, the machine may slow down, but the monitor continues
>to shine brightly. On the other hand, it still behaves correctly under
>Windows98. Is there a problem with my video or Xfree86 setting?
1. have you recompiled the kernel for APM?
2. if not, put this into your /etc/crontab:
* * * * * root /sbin/hwclock --hctosys
HTH
willie
>Are the problems remotely related?
>
>Thanks.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 11:21:39 -0500
Mykool wrote:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > one word: paragraphs
> >
> > --
> > johan kullstam
>
> I have two words for you: complete sentences!!!
Shouldn't that be 3 words? USE complete sentences!!! ;^)
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From: "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Sound Card Suggestions
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:23:33 GMT
I highly recommend the "faithfull" Sound blaster 16! Works everytime, with
every operating system, every DOS game, everything. May not be the "best"
soundcard, but it will give you less grief. Even the new ones that are PnP
work fine and are automatically configured by RedHat. I just bought my 3rd
of these cards for $22 brand new this last weekend.
Steve Orosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi,
> I am going to buy a new sound card for my computer and I would like
> to get one that supports Linux and Windows. So far the only card that
> I've liked so far is the SoundBlaster 128PCI. However I'm not sure if
> it is supported in Linux. If anyone can help me in choosing a good
> soundcard for my computer. So if anyone has any suggestions for a PCI
> soundcard PLEASE let me know. I would prefer a PCI sound card but if
> there are some good ISA soundcards also tell me about them.
> Thank you very much
>
> Steve
>
>
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: www.thelinuxstore.com (whew!)
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 11:31:09 -0400
RCW wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>You're right, it is nonsense. You owe me a thousand bones for
>>reading this. Just 'cause it's in fine print don't make it binding.
>
>Absolutely true. Just because they print it, it won't necessarily
>stand up in court. However, doesn't it bother you that they are low
>enough to print that stuff in the first place?
The 21 day warranty is really pretty poor, but you'll find similar
boilerplate
on the back of just about any invoice from a supplier of commecial
goods. At least they tell you about it up front. (They may or may not
be "low" - I have no idea.)
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting SCSI CDROM
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 21:20:29 -0700
On 6 Apr 1999, Glenn T. Jayaputera wrote:
> Hello, recently I got a SCSI CDROM and I would like to use it in my
> Linux box. The box has 2940 + 2 SCSI HDs and everything works fine.
> My problem is I cannot mount this CDROM, it complains about not
> a block device. With my HDs, I use /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 but
> I cannot use sdc1 for my CDROM. Am I doing something stupid here?
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0
I had the same problem when I installed mine and people in this ng were
kind enough to tell me to try /dev/scd0 which works fine here
Gerald
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From: Randy Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help ! How do I mount audio cdroms ?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 11:02:06 -0500
Bob Martin wrote:
>
> You can not mount audio cdroms as ther is no file system. just insert
> the cd and run the cd player.
Actually you CAN mount audio CDs. They're recognized as ISO9660 filesystems
and each audio file will be identified by ls as something like "file1.aiff".
--
Randy Crawford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joyce Kilmer was thinking about central Illinois.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: New Microsoft News
Date: 6 Apr 1999 16:43:38 GMT
On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 11:37:32 -0400,
Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No, stuff would cost alot less because of *competition*. Look at what linux
> > costs: next to nothing. That is the true market value of on OS, because
> > software is so easy to reproduce.
>
> Do you really think people would code for free all of the time? I don't
> know about you, but I've noticed that a lot of linux apps are written by
> students. I'm guessing they didn't do it for fun. Maybe they did it
> for a class. I don't know how much you've programmed before, but it's
> not fun. I have a little experience and I hated it. Let's just assume
> that all software was free and people would code for free. Why would
> people *pay* for classes that would teach them to do something for
> free? I think not. And for the people that do program for free, I
> thank you, but the vast majority of people won't.
Nonsense.
The above paragraph is so full of faulty assumptions (my fave is
"programming isn't fun becuase I hate it").
Racketball isn't fun, why would people pay to learn it and pay to play
it? It'll never work as a sport because I don't like it.
Get a clue.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 16:49:28 +0000
From: diahedrial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,microsoft.public.windowsnt,microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,microsoft.public.windowsnt.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Inaccessible boot device: HELP! (NT Error, Linuxes fault?)
James Stafford wrote:
>
> CLS wrote:
>
> > stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> >
> > > PS - I had a similiar failure (invalid boot device) on another hard drive
> > > recently too.
> >
> > Stuart:
> >
> > Lilo overwrote the NT boot sector. Use your NT ERD to restore the NT boot
> > sector information. Boot from the 3 original NT disks and select repair.
> > Repair boot sector only. When using Linux and NT together, my
> > recommendation is to employ a third party boot manager program such as
> > System Commander, BootMagic, IBM Boot Manager, etc.
>
> Uh I think that when you set up lilo it gives you the option to install it to
> other places than mbr. Say like if your Linux boot partition is /dev/sdb1 you
> can put lilo there.
>
> jamess
Yes, and after that you can use "dd" to make a bootsector file and use
NT's boot loader to boot Linux. The command:
dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
will create the file "bootsect.lnx" which can be added to the "boot.ini"
file. Copy the "bootsec.lnx" file to the "C:\" dir. and add the
following line to the "boot.ini" file:
C:\bootsect.lnx = Linux
Done, you can now boot Linux with NT's boot loader. Any time you
re-compile the kernel, just run lilo, and repeat the "dd" command above
and copy the new "bootsect.lnx" to "C:\".
For the original post, the drive is IDE so it would be /dev/hda4 for his
Linux partition, (if they are all primary partitions with the Linux "/"
root as the fourth [last] partition). My recommendation, if you don't
have a Linux boot disk, make one, then if lilo was installed in the MBR,
try "lilo -U" to uninstall lilo and try the NT boot again. Hope this is
of some help...
-diahedrial
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What files to backup - and what not in RedHat 5.2
Date: 06 Apr 1999 16:14:43 -0400
Juhani Jaakola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JJ> Is there a FAQ or HOWTO on what files should I backup and what files
JJ> must not be included in a backup?
JJ> For example, you should *not* backup /proc. What about /dev? /tmp
JJ> shouldn't be backed up, but what about /var? At least /var/lib/rpm is
JJ> very important!
On systems that strictly divide package-managed space from
non-package-managed space (e.g. Debian, and in theory Red Hat and
other RPM-based distributions) the read-only space maintained by the
package manager does not need to be backed up; this is generally /bin,
/sbin, /lib, and /usr except for /usr/local.
If your kernel is in /boot, you built your own, and you don't have
another copy somewhere else, you should back up /boot. /etc contains
system configuration files, and should be saved. /home contains your
home directories, and should be saved. /root contains root's home
directory, which is either empty, if you're good about doing
everything as a normal user, or should be backed up. /var contains
things controlled by the package manager that can change
(e.g. /var/lib/dpkg, /var/lib/rpm), and should be backed up.
/usr/local contains locally-compiled packages, and should be backed
up.
/proc is dynamically generated by the kernel, and should not be backed
up. /dev is generally created by a script; it's okay, but not
essential, to back it up, but be careful that your archiver saves
device files and doesn't try to read/write the devices. (This is
particularly an issue if you back up with tar.) You should be able to
arbitrarily burn /tmp, and backing it up really isn't important. If
you have /initrd, it holds information created by the boot process,
and isn't really on your hard drive either. /lost+found contains
scraps of files found by fsck(8), and probably doesn't need to be
backed up.
Summary, on a well-disciplined system:
Directory Back up?
/bin No
/boot If you have a custom kernel
/dev No
/etc Yes
/home Yes
/initrd No
/lib No
/lost+found No
/proc No
/root Only if there's data there
/sbin No
/usr No
/usr/local Yes
/var Yes
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Crabtree)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286
Date: 6 Apr 1999 16:54:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wouter Liefting allegedly wrote:
>Kavindra wrote:
>
>> BTW, is there a version of Linux that will run on a 286 processor?
>
>No.
Wrong. There IS:
http://www.linux.org.uk/ELKS-Home/index.html
--
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself
the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts
that are not hard" --Silvanus P. Thompson, from "Calculus Made Easy."
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From: "Joseph Santaniello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AppleTalk/Netatalk
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 21:59:49 +0200
Hi,
I think this is because you're only running IP AppleShare. See what happens
if you try to enter the servers IP number in the chooser instead of clicking
it's name.
All sorts of good stuff on how to set up Netatalk can be found here:
http://www.thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/
Joe
rufus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi. having a little bit of trouble with my netatalk setup. I can't seem to
> login as a user via AppleTalk. It recognizes the user name, and apparently
> the password because it give me the "password incorrect" message when I
> enter the wrong password, BUT when I enter the correct password, all I get
> is nothing for a few minutes, then I get "service has unexpectantly closed
> connection" (or something to that effect). The option to login as a guest
> isn't available.
>
> I think it has something to do with my NOT using shadow passwords, but am
> not at all sure. Anyone have a clue?
> thanks
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From: "Andre Malafaya Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Tools for IRQ and IO address
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 18:05:14 +0100
If you use the latest ISAPNPTOOLS (1.18 I believe) it reports any resource
clashing you may be having with PnP devices.
http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
Andr�
Jing Duan wrote in message ...
>I seems to have IRQ or IO conflict. I wonder if there are any tools
similar
>to MSD that display the IRQ and IO address in Linux.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>
>Jing Duan
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: incremental backups and fun with unix cmds
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 15:54:48 GMT
I'm looking to use BackupCopy utility (cpbk) to keep a duplicate image of
several directories on a separate disk drive. I have several users, each of
which has a .backup file with a <CR> separated list of directories they want
backed up. I'm trying to figure out how to feed those lists to cpbk.
Example .backup:
/home/joey/dir1
/home/joey/dir2
Commands I need to generate:
mkdir -p /f/backup-image/home/joey/dir1
cpbk /home/joey/dir1 /f/backup-image/home/joey/dir1
Is there some set of unix cmds or a perl one-liner or something that can help
me here?
Alternatively, is there a better utility that can read one or more backup file
lists and copy only newer files to another hard disk?
thanks for your insights!
Mook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wildman, the Cuberstalker)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: WindowMaker Uninstall
Date: 6 Apr 1999 18:31:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 06:21:56 -0400, Jay <ayadi@~earthlink~.net>
wrote:
>How do I uninstall Window Maker on a RH 5.2 system?
>
Ummm...
#rpm -e windowmaker
would be my first guess.
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Fight spam - http://www.spamfree.org
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yet another glibc 2.1 question
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 14:27:13 GMT
On Apr 6, 1999 at 08:43, Thomas T. Veldhouse eloquently wrote:
>Stampede is a new distribution that supports glibc-2.1 on an x86.
>Debian-2.1 also supports glibc-2.1 on an alpha.
Thanks for the correction on the different distributions
using glibc-2.1.
>ne... wrote in message ...
>>On Mar 27, 1999 at 06:08, Michael Torrie eloquently wrote:
>>
>>> Most of the binary RPMs I've downloaded lately from rpmfind.net seem
>>>to require GLIBC 2.1. The only version I could find was what looked
>>>like a development version, date 990311. Once I installed it, the
>>>dependancy thing was taken care of, but the program (x11amp alpha 3-1)
>>>simply seg-faulted. A lot of my other programs wouldn't run either.
>>>xxgdb for instance seg-faults. where do I find the proper version of
>>>Glibc 2.1? Will the old apps still run that need glib 2.0 (i'm thinking
>>>glibc-2.0.7-29)? I'd really appreciate it if someone could point me in
>>>the right direction. Recompiling all the new programs doesn't sound
>>>that great because some of them are gnome apps. Also, sometimes a
>>>program will complain it can't find a specific library when loading. I
>>>check the ld.co.conf paths, and the library is there. Anyone know
>>>what's up here? Eterm, esound both do this.
>>I think it is safe to say that at the moment RedHat's RawHide
>>is the only distribution that is using glibc 2.1. Your best
>>bet when downloading from rpmfind.net is to stay away from
>>these rpms. I generally grab the version immediately preceeding
>>the RawHide one.
--
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound in Linux?
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:29:01 -0400
Hello Mike,
Sorry for this answer but I have to ask is the volume are the card
"if" one turned up..? plugs in correctly ??? I'm sure you have checked
these but just a thought..
Greg.
Michael O'Malley wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Forgive if this is not the place to ask this question>
Problem is, despite selecting sound in the setup, I
>am getting none. "ps" shows the sound process running but nothing is
>coming out (wav, mp3, nothing>
>Anyone have any suggestions?
>
>Thanks.
>
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From: Wouter Liefting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie help with Linux, IBM PS/2 30-286
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 18:30:30 +0200
Kavindra wrote:
> BTW, is there a version of Linux that will run on a 286 processor?
No.
If you really want to run *nix on a 286, try looking at minix
(comp.os.minix) if that is still alive.
- Wouter.
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From: David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tape Library Support
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 20:22:06 GMT
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Anyone know if Linux supports controlling a SCSI tape robotic device? I
would like to test this out with a couple of my Redhat boxes and a small
stacker I have.
Thanks for any help,
David Christensen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Why Linux still isn't my standard boot-up OS, or what are the
Linux-equivalents for these Windoze programs?
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:34:42 -0500
Captain Blood wrote:
> What I don't understand is why this discussion has to revolve around MS?
> Let's not forget that Xenix was an MS product, and in fact the first X86
> *nix, and is considered an early inheritor of the BSD mantle (in at least 3
> *nix books I own)... The "mouse" is not a microsoft invention, nor is the
> term. Xerox reportedly called the device a 'mouse' when they were working on
> the "GUI" that Apple finally stole from them, and I KNOW the mac geeks
> called it a mouse before MS knew what a GUI was. If someone were to ask what
> a "mouse cursor" was, almost anyone who knew what a mouse was and had used a
> modern GUI would not be confused. Likewise, nearly everyone will know what a
> "pointer" is in the same context. Simply make note of the translation and
> move along, folks...
Exactly my original point. The mouse was not the problem, it was an analogy to
"it would be nice if we had some translations." Unfortunately, someone cut out
a piece of my text under someone else's Subject: title and some people decided I
needed to be admonished for my perceived sacrilege and here we are. I'm
expecting
my house to be firebombed any minute. :^)
Rick
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