Linux-Misc Digest #85, Volume #19 Thu, 18 Feb 99 17:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Sound help w/ ESS Technologies PnP sound card ("Arog")
How does X choose fonts? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux suxxxx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sound help w/ ESS Technologies PnP sound card ("Arog")
Dial-In TTY Help! ("Randy")
dial in tty / sorry ("Randy")
RedHat 5.2 Printer problem (Dan Noe)
Re: Always as root - is it dangerous? (Michael Powe)
Re: Emacs (Was: Re: The Arachne Browser) (Michael Powe)
Re: Compiling kernel, get errors (Michael Powe)
Re: Need final word on Linux and MS-Exchange (Robert Lynch)
Help with S3 Trio 3D aka 86C365 ("Edgar Manik")
Linux as PPP client for Win98 PtP Network ("Eric Powell")
Re: why can't I get BIG newsgroups easily? only want to pick over the new stuff
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to search a keyword in ghostview? (Raymond Li)
Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers (Michael Powe)
Dial in TTY HELP! ("Randy")
Help! Courier i-modem ISDN? ("Eric Webster")
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From: "Arog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Sound help w/ ESS Technologies PnP sound card
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:01:36 -0500
I have Red Hat 5.2 and an ESS 1869. I got the same error. I went to
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/modutils-2.1.121-
3.i386.html and downloaded the RPM file. I installed it, rebooted (sorry,
still used to the MS world) and then reran sndconfig and everything was
fine.
I can't promise anything as I am a newbie myself, but it worked for me.
Arog
kurzon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Anyone else have a similar card?
>I tried sndconfig but it returns an error: Error running modprobe.
>
>I've tried posting to other newsgroups but didn't get a response.
>Of all the things i've configured, getting the soundcard seems to be the
>most difficult. People seem to have little knowledge of the procedures
>too.
>
>Please help. ksonet @ usa.net
>ps i'm rather desparate now :(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How does X choose fonts?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 18:38:04 GMT
I'm new at this, but I'm learning. Where does X go to figure out what fonts
to use for a particular purpose? I've read some FAQs, followed some threads.
I've seen a couple of references to "Netscape*FontList ..." in X86config.
I've played with that, and it works. (I've even got xfstt working.) But is
there some way I'm supposed to know that it works? What about other apps? I
tried a similar thing with xman (just as another example), and nothing
happened.
How does this work? What's the syntax? What're the options? Is there
documentation?
Thanks for your mercy,
Gary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux suxxxx
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 19:34:42 GMT
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:25:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Perseverence. That's definitely the name of the game when it comes to Linux.
>But it's worth it.
>
>I've been a Windows user/developer for 9 years, also. However, I'm ashamed to
>say, I've also been 'dumbed-down' to the point where my brain would boil if I
>tried to code a 'Hello, World' program in C. My job as a consultant doesn't
>require me to know Linux, but I can see it happening. But it doesn't matter.
>So when I decided to find out what this thing was all about, I was pleasantly
>suprised. That's not to say I don't get frustrated when I try to do this or
>that, but with a little patience and help, I have a private network running
>over Fast-Ethernet, and I'm having a ball.
I am head admin at an ISP that runs solid linux. you wont find
microsoft here.
>
>Let it be fun. And if you see a problem with Linux documentation, change it.
>You can do that. I'd like to think I'll be able to contribute something
>along the way. I'll have to get better, certainly, but that's the whole
>point, isn't it? God knows there are a lot of good resources out there,
>including those who live on these newsgroups.
Part of my job. Make sure the news server stays running. keep up
with the changing times in linux. Know of potential problems that
might come up and have an answere ready. So, not only to I play/live
in these groups, I use them to my advantage at works
tng
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From: "Arog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Sound help w/ ESS Technologies PnP sound card
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:14:24 -0500
Damn it - the link didn't quite work, here is the correct one...
http://rufus.w3.org/linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/modutils-2.1.121-
3.i386.html
kurzon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Anyone else have a similar card?
>I tried sndconfig but it returns an error: Error running modprobe.
>
>I've tried posting to other newsgroups but didn't get a response.
>Of all the things i've configured, getting the soundcard seems to be the
>most difficult. People seem to have little knowledge of the procedures
>too.
>
>Please help. ksonet @ usa.net
>ps i'm rather desparate now :(
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From: "Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dial-In TTY Help!
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:25:25 -0600
I have red hat 5.2 and a US Robitics 56k external modem on com 2 and i have
been trying for days to get the modem setup for serial dial in.
In inittab I inserted a line:
7:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttys1 F115200
In rc.local I added:
setserial -a -v /dev/cua1 uart 16550 baud_base 115200
I also programed the modem for DTR high and Auto Answer on
When the pc boots up i get a message saying init 7 respawing to fast
Can you please tell me what i am doing wrong?
Thanks in Advance
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From: "Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dial in tty / sorry
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:30:43 -0600
please excuse my dual post.
news reader problems
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:55:12 -0500
From: Dan Noe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 5.2 Printer problem
I have a new machine with RedHat 5.2 and a HP DeskJet 560C printer.
When printing postscript or ascii the printer prints a page saying "
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops
(1488)op_array(486)0x817b0d4:e "
The printer works fine when printing ascii directly to the port. Thanks
in advance for your help.
Dan
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Always as root - is it dangerous?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 12:51:06 -0800
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>>>>> "Nils" == Nils Westerlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nils> I installed SuSE Linux 5.3 two days ago and I'm really
Nils> impressed so far. After ten years in MSWindows-environment
Nils> there are some things that are a bit confusing. Could it be
Nils> "dangerous" to always log in as root? I don't want to
Nils> re-login or su everytime I want to mount a zip or something
Nils> like that, and therefore I always log in as root. How do you
Nils> guys usually do?
I normally log into 3 consoles: vt1 is my normal user's shell login;
vt2 is root; vt3 is my normal user running X. When I need to do
something as root, like compile a new program or edit a system config
file, I just switch to vt2, do it & switch back. I set my shell
prompts so that I always know when I'm acting as root (not likely to
forget, but just to be safe).
I spend most of my time in vt1 but when I need something graphical
like netscrape, it's immediately available; and when I need to do
something as root, it's immediately available. Best of all possible
worlds -- I do love those virtual terminals!
mp
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Emacs (Was: Re: The Arachne Browser)
Date: 18 Feb 1999 12:56:06 -0800
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>>>>> "Tristan" == Tristan Wibberley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > And probably it does all the graphics with VESA BIOS calls,
>> which > would have to be rewritten into GGI or svgalib calls,
>> if not X. > > Porting Arachne is a *major* effort. Remember
>> how its memory > management works? It uses a kind of swap
>> daemon to swap pages between > lower memory and XMS. It seems
>> to have its own font system. It's half > an operating system,
>> AFAICS. > > mawa
>> Oh no. Does that mean we'll soon be looking at discussions a
>> la "Is Arachne better than Linux?"
Tristan> /me dons aspestos underwear
Tristan> Maybe, but emacs is certainly better than Linux.
Tristan> /me runs away
Shoot! Run linux as a subprocess in emacs -- best of both worlds!
"That's right, The Mascara Snake, fast and bulbous!"
mp
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling kernel, get errors
Date: 18 Feb 1999 12:30:24 -0800
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>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> In article <7afirb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian says...
>>
Brian> Okay, I got this situation solved by rechecking the README
Brian> file and with a helpful email from someone. Thanks!
Brian> However, now I have a compiled kernel file, bzImage. I did
Brian> "cp /vmlinuz /vmlinuz.old", "cp bzImage /vmlinuz", then
Brian> "/sbin/lilo", then rebooted. Now, I can't boot at all. It
Brian> boots up, gets to where it would show LILO and boot Linux,
Brian> then the machine reboots back to the memory check. I
Brian> booted from my rescue disk, copied vmlinuz.old back to
Brian> vmlinuz, and rebooted, and it does the same thing.
Cool! ;-)
Did you run lilo while you were in / ? You have to be in the same dir
as the kernel when you do it.
You might need to do `fdisk /mbr' to clear your MBR and then go back
and run lilo again to set it up correctly. Sounds like something
might have gotten dorked there.
mp
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:45:09 -0800
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need final word on Linux and MS-Exchange
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've been going through postings for a few months, and none of them have
> yielded any usable results. Here's the situtation:
>
> I work for a Fortune 500 company who has "standardized" on MS products.
> Currently we are using Exchange on NT 4.0 to handle company e-mail. I use
> Linux exclusively at home, since Win 95 successfully screwed up one hard
> drive (completely fubar). I can dial in to our network, connect to all the
> boxes I need (HP3000 for the system I support, plus mainframe, and the local
> LAN on Netware -- so much for "standardization"). I have been completely
> unsuccessful in getting anything to work for retrieving and viewing mail from
> the Exchange server. I've read over a year's worth of posts on different
> newsgroups, and there are several things I've discovered:
>
> 1. Exchange does not support POP3, IMAP, or HTTP out of the box. These items
> must be turned on.
> 2. We supposedly support HTTP -- but I can only get it to work with IE under
> Win95. Even Netscape under Win 95 can't log in correctly.
> 3. I've tried every combination I can think of/have read, and nothing seems to
> work.
>
> I've probably just missed something vital, but if any of you really know how
> to get this to work, I'd appreciate hearing from you. I can tell you now
> that there is no way to get IS to change any of the configuration of the
> Exchange server. I've tried setting up a rule to forward my mail to my ISP
> account -- and it won't do this (it WILL work with an internal (company)
> address). If you need any more info, I'd be glad to get it for you -- I'm
> sure there are many others out there who would love to get their hands on
> this info...
>
> TIA!!!!
>
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I can't tell if this will be useful, but in the Feb. 99 Linux Journal
there is an article by Brian Harvey about VNC (a sort of freebie PC
Anywhere):
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
The author winds up the article by saying that one use he makes of VNC
is to read his Exchange mail from home, where he runs Linux...
HTH. Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.best.com/~rmlynch/
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From: "Edgar Manik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Help with S3 Trio 3D aka 86C365
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:09:38 +0700
Hi,
I have tried to configure my Xserver for S3 365 but I always get VGA16 (16
colors 640x480) running since it seems like there's no support yet for the
chip, while in the documentation it is mentioned about alpha support in SVGA
server. Anybody managed to run SVGA/accelerated server for this chip? Can
you send me your config file? BTW, I have XFree86 3.3.3 installed on my PC
with generic S3 365 AGP graphic controller. Please email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Edgar Manik
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From: "Eric Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux as PPP client for Win98 PtP Network
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:54:20 -0500
I am considering trying to sell this idea to management (who have the
"Pointy-Haired Boss" mentality):
I would like to deploy an older machine running Linux as a PPP connection to
our Win98 Peer-to-Peer network so that remote users can access the network
via a dial-up connection and access the TCP/IP protocol on the network to
check their POP3 mail and also share files.
Do I need to deploy Samba on the Linux box, or will Network Neighborhood
show the Win98 boxes on the when the PPP connection is made (I can put File
and Printer Sharing on the TCP/IP protocol to simplify this)?
Other data- all machines have static IP addresses and specific names. We run
TCP/IP and NetBEUI protocols.
TIA
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: why can't I get BIG newsgroups easily? only want to pick over the new
stuff
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:15:01 GMT
On 14 Feb 1999 22:51:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>On 1999-02-12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >Apparently, one can use pine, an email application, to read news.
> >You can get away with using a screwdriver as a chisel, too
> >But to expect a screwdriver to work as well as a chisel for
> >chiseling a big job is ludicrous.
> >I suggest you use a news application for news.
>
>Well I can see your point except that pine was written to do both...
>And it is still able to get other newsgroups...
>
>AND except that I have a simular problem trying to access
>comp.os.linux.misc with tin and trn too...
>
>AND I AM LOOKING FOR A NEWS PROGRAM... only I don't want annother be all
>things super aplication. I want some thing I can use to feed any front end
>with. It just happens that I like the front end of pine better than the
>ones of those other news only programs that didn't do any better...
>
>
>Hey I just did a news run with my dos program... it took less than 5
>minutes to download new subject headers even though it went back to the
>last artical number that IT knew I'd told it to mark as read... then it
>disconnected and freed up the phone while I selected the few interesting
>ones I wanted. then when I was ready to take over the phone line again
>It took me again less than 5 minues of on line time...
>
>With any linux text based news program I've tried so far it either
>doesn't want me to be able to select the individual articals I want to
>spend my hard drive space on but will insist on whole groups <minus
>killfile matches> or it wants to do all the sorting while on line with
>my isp making me wonder if it's actualy trying to get the isp to do the
>sorting???
>
> Of course I'm not including the gui design programs that want to
> require that I install xfree again to try them... And why should I.
> The very idea that a text intensive function like reading newgroups
> should require that the user accept a graphical interface???
> I find that unacceptable So why do I have to run a multi user advanced
> root level news spool on my pc just to download a few aticals in to
> user deleteable messages in a folder or install a gui so I can get
> what a free agent fan would call off-line newsreading???
>
>At that rate I'll be glad I have nettamer... ...
>
>hmmnnn I wonder if I can use nettamer as a news transport method and
>point pines foler collection at thr dlu files.... worth a try
>
I agree compleatly, text based news readers in linux are lousy at
best.
I do e-mail and browsing from the command line but the only news
programs I find that work well in linux are gui based. I have X
installed for the purpose of wysiwyg word processing.
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Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 10:23:37 +0800
From: Raymond Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to search a keyword in ghostview?
Hello,
How can I search for a keyword in ghostview? Or, are there other
software that I can search keyword within postscript document?
Besides, are there any software for converting postscript to pdf?
Thanks in advance for your advice!
Yours,
Raymond Li
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Bunch of pretentious Wankers
Date: 17 Feb 1999 11:37:22 -0800
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>>>>> "david" == david perron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I think we all have opinions about subjects read in the
>> newspapers. None of those opinions have force of law. Without
>> being on a jury and hearing the evidence presented in a
>> courtroom, there's no way to accurately judge what he did or
>> didn't do. His involvement with the Paula Jones lawsuit was as
>> a citizen, not as President. All his conduct in that case,
>> right or wrong, was as a citizen, not as President. There is
>> no resemblance whatever to the Watergate case, in which the
>> President and his employees used their government positions to
>> cover up the illegal activities of some 2-bit morons who
>> happened to work for them.
david> It seems as if you are claiming that he did not in fact use
david> any Presidential power whatsoever in obstructing justice in
david> this case. It's hard to imagine he could act as a private
david> citizen in the case of obstruction. If he did use his
It's not at all hard to imagine. As far as I am aware, the
obstruction charge consists of having lied during his deposition. No
presidential behavior involved there.
>> I've been listening to this crap for six years and I'm sick of
>> it. Republicans have never been able to come to grips with the
>> fact that they are the Party of the Corrupt and for 25 years
>> have been trying to shovel the dirt of Watergate off on
>> somebody else. They never grokked the simple truth "you can't
>> make yourself look good by making somebody else look bad." $50
david> Your bias is showing, Michael. If you truly believe that
david> either party is more free of corruption than the other, I
david> think you are deluding yourself. And the investigation
david> would have cost NOTHING if Bill had just told the truth to
david> start with. So who should be morally responsible for that
david> bill? (pun not intended)
You seem to forget how we got here. Six years ago, Lord Kenneth Starr
was hired to investigate WHITEWATER. He couldn't get any dirt on
Clinton there, so he just keep investigating every other aspect of the
Clintons' life that he could find. Clinton may have been an idiot who
let himself be victimized by a lying slut (you think anybody would
believe her on the witness stand? Get real) but in the moral
pantheon, he's leagues ahead of Lord Starr and his hemmorhoidal
groupies in the Republican Party.
>> If a jury hears testimony & convicts Clinton of a crime, fine.
>> Let him pay his dues. Until then, everything everyone says
>> against him or for him is just speculation. Fun and games, but
>> otherwise worthless.
david> That was more or less the objective in removing him from
david> office in the first place, IMNSHO. I guess the question is,
david> should the President of the United States be held to more,
david> or less stringent rules than everyone else. I say more. I
Then you must hold in contempt about 50% of our past presidents. That
would seem to me to indicate there's something wrong with your
prejudiced views of the Presidency.
Clinton seems to be a jerk but he's done a decent job of running the
country -- which is the job for which he was hired. I don't look to
the President to be more moral than me or my next-door neighbor; in
fact, I think that's silly.
mp
- --
Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
"Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
-- Anthony Trollope
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From: "Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dial in TTY HELP!
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 20:20:49 -0600
I have red hat 5.2 and a US Robitics 56k external modem on com 2 and i have
been trying for days to get the modem setup for serial dial in.
In inittab I inserted a line:
7:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttys1 F115200
In rc.local I added:
setserial -a -v /dev/cua1 uart 16550 baud_base 115200
I also programed the modem for DTR high and Auto Answer on
When the pc boots up i get a message saying init 7 respawing to fast
Can you please tell me what i am doing wrong?
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From: "Eric Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Help! Courier i-modem ISDN?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:27:58 -0600
Does anyone know if the INTERNAL Courier ISDN I-Modem works with Linux?
Currently I have RH5.2 with the stock 2.0.x kernel; if the 2.2.x kernel
helps I can upgrade.
Thanks!
Eric
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