Linux-Misc Digest #397, Volume #18 Tue, 29 Dec 98 19:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: patch for kernel ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Floyd Davidson)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Tim Smith)
Kdesktop (Rick Knebel)
Good news - Merry XMas Tux! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] post to gnu.announce? ("L. Peter Deutsch")
Problems uncompressing kernel (Deryk Barker)
Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!! (Bill Unruh)
Drivers for Creative Labs Banshee (Jan Sacharuk)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Tim Smith)
Re: pppd permissions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Downloading HOWTO ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: How to create a shell script? ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Running Linux on AMD or Cyrix microprocessor (Hashi)
Re: Slackware installation questions (J.M. Paden)
Re: Problems uncompressing kernel (Deryk Barker)
Cant start intial console (Spencer Plantier)
Re: modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5 (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!! (Darren Greer)
Re: Installing Slackware 3.6 on a system running Windows NT 4.0 (Michel Catudal)
Re: Installing Slackware 3.6 on a system running Windows NT 4.0 (Michel Catudal)
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: patch for kernel
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:02:38 -0800
Ceccarini wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I got a Patch for my 2.0.31 kernel. Now how do I compile it?
Actually the README in /usr/src/linux should explain all steps.
If you still have problems, please feel free to ask specific questions.
jue
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 29 Dec 1998 21:04:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Peter Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Rich Grise wrote:
>>>
>>>> /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:.
>>>>
>>>> what else do you need?
>>>
>>>/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>>>
>
>> It probably should be mentioned that normal users do not
>> need the sbin directories in their PATH.
>
>So what you want is something like
>PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$HOME/bin;export PATH
>in /etc/profile
export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
That has the effect of causing local versions to run rather than
the original distribution version. Shell scripts which depend upon
the quirks of original versions can be accessed by either setting
a specific PATH or by using the full path name.
>and
>
>PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:\
> /usr/X11R6/bin;export PATH
>in ~root/.profile
Yep, with the same changes made above.
Floyd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 29 Dec 1998 13:55:46 -0800
Chris Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What he's saying is not "X should support copy and paste
>functionality" -- I think we all know it already does. Rather, he's
>suggesting -- based on not only his experience but on the work of
>many, many human factors professionals -- that X-based interfaces for
>Unix have historically fallen down because there's no standard way of
>at that copy & paste functionality.
Worse, many (most?) X apps don't provide a way for you to select text without
copying it.
--Tim Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Knebel)
Subject: Kdesktop
Date: 29 Dec 1998 22:34:39 GMT
Hi,
I am using Suse 5.3 and Kdesktop wm.
I am not really thrilled with its stability.
Where can I change my user default desktop and anyone using suse 5.3
have any suggestions.
Thanks
Rick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Good news - Merry XMas Tux!
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:44:49 GMT
Ho ho ho!
For all those who have been too busy over the festive season to keep up with
the little guy's exploits, looks like the major players are following Tux's
friendliness and opening up source code left right and centre
(http://www.kieser.net/linux.html) ... IBM, Netscape and now Sun too!
Talk about getting the pecking order right! Am I being over the top in
suggesting that Tux is busy peeing all over conventional business models?
Well, whatever your view, merry Xmas everyone, it has been a great year for
everyone working on OSS. What a great way to end the year, huh? All the best
to the entire movement in the New Year ... I think that this coming year may
very well see the OSS snowball change the computing development paradigm. For
the better.
Brad
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From: "L. Peter Deutsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
gnu.announce,gnu.ghostscript.bug,alt.sources.d,comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Does [EMAIL PROTECTED] post to gnu.announce?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:53:18 -0800
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deryk Barker)
Subject: Problems uncompressing kernel
Date: 29 Dec 1998 18:18:29 GMT
I'm trying (really trying) to get rid of Windoze on my home machine (a
Cyrix P166 w 64MB) but work means I can only get to do it during
breaks between teaching terms.
So, yesterday I upgraded fropm RH5.0 to RH5.1 (and yes, I know 5.2 is
out) only to find that a problem I'd been having sporadically every
time I booted linux now appears to be pretty consistent.
The problem is this: when I select linux from the LILO choices, I get
the loading linux...message then: invalid compressed format (errno=1)
system halted. occasionally the errno is 2 and also sometimes the
system simply freezes after the loading message.
I had thought this might be a problem with my 6 GB IDE disk, whose
first GB is given over to a DOS partition.
However, when I try booting from the floppy created during the
install/upgrade process the same thing happens - invalid compressed
format. Ditto if I try to use that disk as a rescue disk.
(Oh yes, rest of my system: ASUS P/I-P55TVP4 MB w. NCR SCSI
controller, noname S3 Virge video card w 4MB. IBM CDROM, ZIP drive and
Microtek scanner on the SCSI chain, SMC Elite Ultra ethernet card)
So: has anyone seen this at all? Any idea what causes it? Is there any
way of building an uncompressed kernel and sidestepping the problem?
To reiterate: if I *can* get Linux to boot then everything else
(including KDE, networking, Applix) works just fine.
I am *sooooooo* frustrated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!!
Date: 29 Dec 1998 22:39:36 GMT
>I cant stand people who if they cannot get something to work in 15
>minutes they give up. I mean, come on, how do plan on learnign
>anything in Windows when all you do is the following to create a new
>connection:
> a) new connection
> b) name
> c) number
> d) DNS
>Now tell me...what have we learned here that is going to help us in
>the future. Nothing.
Actually most people do not use operating systems in order to "learn"
but to use them to accomplish other things. And most of what one
"learns" in setting up a system is pretty useless- it will change by
next year. So, I agree that Linux needs to be easier to set up ppp on.
Yes, there are tools but many of them are somewhat obscure for a novice
to find. Unfortunately, the ISPs do not help by all using slightly
different methods to set up PPP (login,PAP, CHAP,...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Sacharuk)
Subject: Drivers for Creative Labs Banshee
Date: 29 Dec 1998 18:18:42 GMT
Can anyone point me to where I might find information about these
drivers, or info about these drivers? I'm looking into buying this
card, but I don't want to unless I can actually use it under linux as
well.
JS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Smith)
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: 29 Dec 1998 14:31:23 -0800
Brian Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darwin Ouyang) writes:
>
>>So to collide, you'd have to both have identical MAC addresses, identical
>>time stamps, and happen to generate the same hash.
>
>Or all the differences have to cancel out (i.e. you're unlucky).
The first poster is slightly confused. There is no hashing. A UUID
contains the MAC address, a timestamp, and a sequence number. There
is no practical chance of a collision.
--Tim Smith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: pppd permissions
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:48:09 GMT
Andrew Comech writes:
> Could someone post the RIGHT way to allow users to dial out? I thought I
> did the right thing having added myself to dialout and dip groups (now I
> can initialize ppp connection when not being a root),...
That is the right way to do it.
> ...but the newsgroup is full of other answers.
Many questions have more than one right answer. This one of them.
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Downloading HOWTO
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:19:33 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<768uu8$8p6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Where can I download the Linux HOWTO?
>
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Well, there is more then just one HOWTO, for starters have a look at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/
jue
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to create a shell script?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:23:25 -0800
Rick Glunt wrote in message ...
>I have attempted to create a shell script using vi but cannot get it to
>execute. If I call the file test, after typeing in test I get an error
like
>"bash: test: command not found". What can I do? I've done a chmod +x test
>and that doesn't help.
This has little to do with Linux but is a UNIX VFAQ:
1: Never name a program "test". For some shells this is a build-in command.
Also usually there is /usr/bin/test as well. Both will conflict with your
own program "test"
2: Most likely the current working directory is not in your search path
because of security reasons (details see the UNIX FAQ).
Use "./test" to start the program. This will take care of the first issue,
too.
jue
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:27:44 +0000
From: Hashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Running Linux on AMD or Cyrix microprocessor
re:
---
> I run an AMD K6-3D 300Mhz 100Mhz PC100 bus and 64MB Ram, 14GB worth of Quantum
> and Maxtor IDE drivespace. SoundBlaster AWE64. RedHat 5.1 fully updated - Linux
> Kernel 2.0.36 specifically tuned to my machine's needs. Blackdown's Java Port
> 1.1.7 and TYA1.2 JIT. Mesa3.0 with GLUT. KDE fully tricked out. All the
> goodies. Netscape full accessorized, RealMedia Client for Unix, Synaesthesia,
> JCthugha, Bomb, x11amp, xanim with mov and avi support. Hitchhiker, mHockey,
> SimCity. Wine981211. BitchX. More software than I can download and run.
>
> My machine runs like a top and registers 599.50 BogoMips. Hello.
>
> Rock on!
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bloody hell and then there are some of us that have to make do with
486s, low end Pentiums, scavenging and "hand me down"s :-(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. Paden)
Subject: Re: Slackware installation questions
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:18:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Let me give you a short feedback on my Slackware installation
>process that may perhaps help others in similar situations.
>I have also a few questions.
>I was able to install Linux on a system-without-CDROM with the help
>of a Laptop-with-CDROM. It turned out that I had to install the A-series
>from diskettes and then I could install some other series from a DOS
>partition on the hard-drive of the target machine (copied there with
>Norton Commander). The target system is a Siemens-Nixdorf PCD-4Lsx,
>a simple 486 system with 8 meg memory, 25Mhz clock and a 250 Mb Linux
>partition. The video card is a Cirrus CL-GD5428 with 1M memory, probably
>SVGA but certainly VGA compatible.
>
>So now the system works somewhat, but... I have the following problems:
>1. My mouse (I think it is a Microsoft bus mouse, but how to find out?)
>does not work at all. The command gpm produces a screen full of hex dump etc.
If it is a bus mouse you need to make sure that you configured your
kernel for a bus mouse. To see if it is already configured:
As root:
cd /usr/src/linux
ls -a
This will show you a list of all the files including so-called
"dotfiles". These begin with a period and are configuration files.
Unless you search with ls -a, these files are not visible.
Look for a file named ".config". This is the file that is created
when your kernel is put together. It will show all the choices you
made (or were made for you).
less .config
Look for a line that says:
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
and another line that says:
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
If you do not have these you will need to reconfigure your kernel.
PS/2 uses /dev/psaux
Take a look to see if your /dev/mouse is linked to /dev/psaux.
If it is not, do:
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse
This will create a symbolic link between the two.
>2. I cannot get XFree86 to work. Even XF86Setup hangs my system. Is
>there a simple configuration file that will (almost) always get the system in
>graphics mode? I do not have the original XF86Config anymore. (Except on the
>CDROM but I do not know how to find it without a reinstall)
There is a file named "Manifest" on your cdrom. It consists of a
directory of all the packages on the cd. On an old CD of mine it is:
Package: ./x7/x312bin.tgz
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config
This should also be on your harddrive unless you wiped it on purpose.
In order to search for any file in your Linux partitions, first create
a data base by using the command:
updatedb
Your system will labor for a few minutes to create a database of all
files. You can then use the command:
locate <filename>
Example: locate startx
The full path to the file will be displayed.
>
>I have also another question: How do I find out what has been installed on
>my system and which commands I can use at all?
You can use the command "pkgtool" to review all the programs that have
been installed. Since this tool allows you to delete and add new
programs you may wish to play safe and just take a look at the
contents of /var/adm/packages.
All the files in /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/bin (and any other directory
with "bin" in the title are names of commands. You can use the manual
reader command followed by the name of the command to get a
description of their use:
man startx
This will tell you about the startx command.
>
>Regards, Michiel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deryk Barker)
Subject: Re: Problems uncompressing kernel
Date: 29 Dec 1998 23:27:27 GMT
Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[...]
: install/upgrade process the same thing happens - invalid compressed
: format. Ditto if I try to use that disk as a rescue disk.
:
: (Oh yes, rest of my system: ASUS P/I-P55TVP4 MB w. NCR SCSI
: controller, noname S3 Virge video card w 4MB. IBM CDROM, ZIP drive and
: Microtek scanner on the SCSI chain, SMC Elite Ultra ethernet card)
:
: So: has anyone seen this at all? Any idea what causes it? Is there any
: way of building an uncompressed kernel and sidestepping the problem?
:
: To reiterate: if I *can* get Linux to boot then everything else
: (including KDE, networking, Applix) works just fine.
:
: I am *sooooooo* frustrated.
A fruther bulletin. This morning I decided what the hell and did a
complete install, formatting all partitions (except the DOS one).
As soon as I attemtpted to reboot - same problems, whether from floppy
or hdd.
I then tried booting the install disk again (I can't recall why now)
and - it encountered the same problem!
In addition I've also seen crc error and incomplete literal tree
messages. obviously the uncompress of the kernel is failing. It makes
no difference whether I reset or cycle the power, I get the same
errors (three-finger saltue doesn't work, of course).
I'm suspecting some sort of hardware problem, maybe with the Cyrix
chip. Has anyone else seen anything like this, ever?
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen. |
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From: Spencer Plantier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cant start intial console
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:23:39 -0500
I have just installed Red Hat 5.1. I get the message cant start intial
console. What causes this.
Thanks
Spencer Plantier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 Dec 1998 18:33:36 -0500
Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.setup Thomas Frese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Dec 28 02:03:00 kitty modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-5
> : Dec 28 02:03:06 kitty modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-4
>
> alias net-pf-4 off #Forget IPX
> alias net-pf-5 off #Forget AppleTalk
>
> See also: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/FAQ/Linux-FAQ-9.html#ss9.1
while this is no doubt excellent advice as far as IPX and AppleTalk go
(since the vast majority of people don't use them), the faq advice is
bad when you *really do need them* but can't figure out the crazy
naming scheme.
i had a request for net-pf-17 when i set up dhcpcd. turns out it is
af_packet or somesuch. but how to figure that out? kernel docs
sucked royally.
find /usr/linux -type f -print | xargs fgrep net-pf-17
gave *nothing*. where does the `net-pf-' string live? is it a
printf("net-pf-%d", npn) type thing? anyhow info on the various
modules is hard to find.
fortunately there is deja news which is how i solved this problem.
--
Johan Kullstam [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren Greer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: Am I stupid or am I stupid. PPP. ALMOST!!!
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:42:36 GMT
On 29 Dec 1998 22:39:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
-->>I cant stand people who if they cannot get something to work in 15
-->>minutes they give up. I mean, come on, how do plan on learnign
-->>anything in Windows when all you do is the following to create a new
-->>connection:
-->> a) new connection
-->> b) name
-->> c) number
-->> d) DNS
-->
-->>Now tell me...what have we learned here that is going to help us in
-->>the future. Nothing.
-->
-->Actually most people do not use operating systems in order to "learn"
-->but to use them to accomplish other things. And most of what one
-->"learns" in setting up a system is pretty useless- it will change by
-->next year. So, I agree that Linux needs to be easier to set up ppp on.
So because everything is going to change by next year....we should
just forget it....come on....If everyone did that, we'd never learn
anything. The changes that happen from year to year, are usually
built upon pre-existing foundations....so having knowledge of the
past, will help us learn in the future.
DrGreer
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Installing Slackware 3.6 on a system running Windows NT 4.0
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:34:00 +0000
mike burrell wrote:
>
> In article <R4tf2.2235$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Steve Sanyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> *snip*
> >My question is -- when I create bootdisks, will the LINUX installation
> >program be able to see my NTFS partition, as NTFS partitions are only
> >visible to Windows NT as far as I am aware.
>
> afaik, the kernel on the slackware bootdisk does NOT have ntfs support
> compiled in, which means you will NOT be able to mount the ntfs drive
>
> what i recommend you DO do is get someone (i'm sure anyone on here would be
> nice enough to do it) to make you a new bootdisk, with ntfs support compiled
> in (along with any other specific hardware needs you have)
>
> anyway, once this new kernel is loaded, you should be able to use the
> slackware rootdisk as normal, except now you have ntfs support
>
I thought that ntfs support is read only. I compiled the kernel
2.2.0 this afternoon and noticed that. What is the fstab command
to recognize my ntfs partition?
--
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Installing Slackware 3.6 on a system running Windows NT 4.0
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:35:29 +0000
"Wildman, the Cuberstalker" wrote:
>
> I think you may be SOL at the moment. Naturally, Linux *will* read NTFS in
> the near future (and it is possible that NTFS support is already available
> in the dev kernels...)
>
It is available in read only mode with the stable kernel 2.2.0
--
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