Linux-Misc Digest #245, Volume #19 Mon, 1 Mar 99 09:13:44 EST
Contents:
Re: I'm having problems upgrading XFree86 to ver. 3.3.3 (Bruno Barberi Gnecco)
PnP & Yamaha OPL-SA: Can't find it... (J Sako)
#include <linux/time.h> ?? (MK)
Re: Linux - install on new G3 Macintosh? Q's... (Matthew Pritzker)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Michael Powe)
Re: Public license question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Michael Powe)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Michael Powe)
DB2 beta for Linux - Install problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems with Monitor Set-up under Rh 5.2/x-windows (Sean)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Edward Avis)
Re: LiLo boot Vs Partition-It (Ulf Bohman)
Q: tv tuner window on a remote xterminal? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PnP & Yamaha OPL-SA: Can't find it... (Youngser Park)
how to automate server log on ? (Dmitriy)
Free Personal FlagShip ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Michael Powe)
Re: These newsgroups are riduculous... ("Jeraimee")
Re: SCSI Incompatibility ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm having problems upgrading XFree86 to ver. 3.3.3
Date: 1 Mar 1999 06:15:06 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cesar Freitas wrote:
>
> I'm having problems upgrading XFree86 to ver. 3.3.3, so always I tried to do
> it using "rpm -Uvh XFree*" where the files .rpm are some of them returns the
> msg "libttf.so.2 is needed to install XFree..... ". I have already instaled
> freetype 1.2 and the file libttf.so.2 is present.
Try to run ldconfig.
--
Did you *REALLY* check that interface between the chair and the keyboard?
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ #1383173 - PGP 5.0i user
[I'm running Linux] -=-=- Electric Engineering at Politechnic School, USP
Check my homepage at http://graphx.home.ml.org * C, 3D graphics, and more
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 06:15:30 -0600
From: J Sako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: PnP & Yamaha OPL-SA: Can't find it...
I'm trying to configure sound for a Yamaha OPL3-SA card, but I cannot
get PnP to see the card. A pnpdump does not pick it up - nothing shows
except my modem. When I try to configure it manually by adding the
following (which I got from the Win95 settings) to isapnp.conf:
(CONFIGURE YMH0800/-1 (LD 0
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
(IO 1 (BASE 0x0530))
(IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
(IO 3 (BASE 0x0330))
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 1))
(ACT Y)
))
I get:
Executing CONFIGURE YMH0800/-1
Board YMH0800/-1 not found - skipping
I'm not real familiar with the PnP conf parms, but I tried making LD 1,
with the same results. How do get PnP to work when a pnpdump doesn't
even find the card.
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From: MK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: #include <linux/time.h> ??
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:22:30 +0100
Hi !
I got some problems with a make compilation. There is one Header wich
has a
#include <linux/time.h>
instruction in it. So where (on wich path) does the compiler look for
time.h?
If i execute make it gives the message :
'linux/time.h' couldn't find file or directory
altough time.h exist in varius directories.
greetings Marcus
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From: Matthew Pritzker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,news.groups.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Linux - install on new G3 Macintosh? Q's...
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 07:43:25 -0500
Blake Patterson wrote:
>
> I have a new 400MHz, blue&white G3 Mac. I want to install Linux as a
> 2nd OS. Can I do this, even though the HD is one big Mac partition
> (6GB) - is there a way to safely section off a bit for Linux, without
> having to reformat and loose all? Thanks.
The ng to check with is comp.os.linux.powerpc, but AFAIK LinuxPPC is not
yet booting on yosemite's. Check also www.linuxppc.org or
www.linuxppc.com
--
====================
Matthew Pritzker Graduate Research Assistant
[EMAIL PROTECTED] IU Physics Dept.
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 28 Feb 1999 22:57:38 -0800
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>>>>> "Dai-Shan" == Dai-Shan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> As long as we're doing lists, here's mine:
>> Biggest wastes of time on a PC
>> 1.TV Tuner Cards 2."Themes" in window managers 3.DVD players
>> 4."3D" games
Dai-Shan> shows you must be a complete freak if you think 3d games
Dai-Shan> are a waste of time - let me see you have as much fun on
Dai-Shan> your precious linux box as I do when I play a 16 player
Dai-Shan> vs 16player teammatch of tribes on a PII450 with 25 ram
Dai-Shan> - 19" monitor and 2 voodoo2 sli cards on top of the tnt
Dai-Shan> primary card - oh they dont make that for your precious
Dai-Shan> linux box do they - sorry forgot - anyway I am not
White collar plastic game player
Pointin' your plastic finger at me
I'm gonna wave my freak flag high! High!
Go on -- you can't dress like me.
I'm the one that's gotta die
When it's time for me to die,
So let me live my life ...
... the way I want to.
"With apologies to Jimi."
You play games because you have nothing better to do. That's fine --
but spending hundreds of dollars on toy games and defining your use of
computers around them is lame. I dare say I've had every bit as much
fun playing in a chess tournament ... and I actually used my -- brain!
(Sorry, I know the notion of thinking scares you.)
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:51:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) wrote:
> If you change a GPL'd program, you need to provide source.
>
> A program you write from scratch you can do what you want with.
> (Witness Oracle, WordPerfect and a slew of other commercial packages
> that don't provide source.)
> If you -change- the kernel, you need to provide source to your changes.
> If you have a loadable kernel module (say, for the
> "ExtraFastFileSystem"), you don't need to provide the source to the
> module. (Of course, if it's derived from existing GPL'd code, you
> would: so hacking the e2fs code would still need to be GPL'd.)
One may argue that kernel modules, whether loadable or not, are always based
on GPL'ed code, since they specifically #include<> it.... How is this
handled?
-Mark
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 28 Feb 1999 22:40:39 -0800
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>>>>> "mtrausch" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mtrausch> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:44:23 -0800, Ryan Cumming
mtrausch> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Matthias Warkus wrote:
>>> > 1. Better GUI
>>> Hmph. Depends on how you define a GUI and what kind of GUI you
>>> are using on Linux.
>> I dont't think any UI in Linux even touches Windows ease of
>> use. Some of the new fangled desktop enviroments (Gnome, KDE,
>> etc.) come close, but MS has done a good job of allowing the
>> newbie be able to use the OS right away,
mtrausch> And you know what? Years ago, people expected computers
mtrausch> to be pretty damn cryptic... and you had to do something
mtrausch> that you don't have to do with MS operating systems: Put
mtrausch> TONS of effort into what you learn!!! With
mtrausch> UNIX/Linux/etc., you have to TRY to learn it, and be
mtrausch> WILLING to try! IMHO, Windows is for those who don't
mtrausch> want to put up with effort and learning. Thus, they
mtrausch> have nothing to feel proud of -- yay, you've figured out
mtrausch> what "File --> Save As" does as compared to "File -->
mtrausch> Save".
mtrausch> Sheesh.
This kind of petulant arrogance is one of the most dislikable things
about linux newsgroups.
Choice of computer operating system is not indicative of moral
character; and you appear to be living demonstration that use of linux
makes an individual neither credible nor honorable.
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]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: 28 Feb 1999 23:06:06 -0800
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>>>>> "Dai-Shan" == Dai-Shan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dai-Shan> Michael Powe wrote in message
Dai-Shan> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... lol- bet you think any
Dai-Shan> colors over 16 is extravagant also - and "hell with that
Dai-Shan> DVD - i've got my 16mm projector - works fine-
Dai-Shan> microwave? what the hell for I enjoy cooking over the
Dai-Shan> fire that I started - and dont even think of matches
Dai-Shan> good lord man why do you need them - two sticks work
Dai-Shan> fine" - sorry couldnt resist a little sarcasm ;)
>> As long as we're doing lists, here's mine:
>> Biggest wastes of time on a PC
>>
>> 1.TV Tuner Cards 2."Themes" in window managers 3.DVD players
>> 4."3D" games
Well, perhaps if you'd spent more time reading and less time "gaming,"
you be in a position to be "sarcastic" more effectively.
Everything comes round in the end.
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.databases.ibm-db2
Subject: DB2 beta for Linux - Install problem
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 10:55:09 GMT
Hi folks.
I downloaded DB2 for Linux (beta) from the IBM site 2 weeks ago, but I'm
having *major* hassel installing it. I have a Caldera system running a
2.0.36 kernel, and when I run the 'db2setup' script, I get:
/beta1123/db2setup: /beta1123/db2/install/db2inst: No such file or directory
I checked and the file _does_ exist, the path is okay, and it is a 32-bit ELF
binary. Permissions are set up okay too. When I go into the db2/install
directory and run the file directly, it still says "No such file or
directory" -- but it IS there, honest!! It's driving me crazy!!!
Have I downloaded the wrong binary ?
Am I missing something (apart from grey matter) ?
Any help would be MUCH appreciated.
Thanks,
alan
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Monitor Set-up under Rh 5.2/x-windows
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 05:15:45 -0800
I am having problems setting up an NEC XE17 monitor to run at 1280x1024
under x-windows. I have a Diamond Stealth S220 II which is recognized
correctly (with the latest XFree86-3.3.3.1-1 i386 RPM release patch) but
whenever i set the monitor using the default setting i get a garbled
(75%) screen area. Advice or recommendations would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance and please email me!
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From: Edward Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:12:34 +0000
Bill Vermillion wrote:
>So if you order something and say you want three pounds worth,
>does that mean you want the amount which 3 pounds sterling will
>buy, or do you get 3 pounds by weight - which may cost a lot more
>than 3 pounds sterling.
"3 pounds' worth" == "amount you can buy for 3 GBP"
"3 pounds" == "3lb"
Also 'two pounds a pound' means (AFAIK) that 1lb of product costs 2
GBP.
There was a Slashdot poll on this a while ago:
<http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=pronouncepound>.
--
Ed Avis
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From: Ulf Bohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LiLo boot Vs Partition-It
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:33:54 +0100
Maybe Partition-It changed the partitions' ID's. Try booting off a Linux
floppy and mount the boot partition by hand. If the boot partition was,
say hda4 before, try mounting hda3 or hda5 now. When you've found the
new ID for the Linux boot partition change the boot entry in
/etc/lilo.conf and rerun /sbin/lilo.
/Ulf
"M. Kluit" wrote:
> I changed my partition sizes with Quarterdeck Partition-It, but I
> didn't do anything with my linux partitions.
> Now I get a Kernel Panic: can't mount root...
> What can I do?
>
> Maarten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Q: tv tuner window on a remote xterminal?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:29:17 GMT
Can someone tell me if a 10mbit ethernet network is fast enough to
support a pci based tv tuner in a linux server (p233 128 meg) to allow
running a reasonable tv window on a remote xterminal (tektronix or
hds) or is the video data so extreme it needs to be hard wired and
available only on console?
Thanks
ps: can someone recommend a VERY stable tv tuner card to look for for
linux redhat 5.2?
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From: Youngser Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: PnP & Yamaha OPL-SA: Can't find it...
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:47:48 GMT
J Sako wrote:
>
> I'm trying to configure sound for a Yamaha OPL3-SA card, but I cannot
> get PnP to see the card. A pnpdump does not pick it up - nothing shows
> except my modem. When I try to configure it manually by adding the
> following (which I got from the Win95 settings) to isapnp.conf:
>
> (CONFIGURE YMH0800/-1 (LD 0
> (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
> (IO 1 (BASE 0x0530))
> (IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
> (IO 3 (BASE 0x0330))
> (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
> (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 1))
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> I get:
>
> Executing CONFIGURE YMH0800/-1
> Board YMH0800/-1 not found - skipping
>
> I'm not real familiar with the PnP conf parms, but I tried making LD 1,
> with the same results. How do get PnP to work when a pnpdump doesn't
> even find the card.
Take a look at http://thor.prohosting.com/~savant/.
I've also struggled with this card for a long time, and finally found
this great infomation from the net. I forgot his name, but "Thanks
again!"
Hope this helps.
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From: Dmitriy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to automate server log on ?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:44:48 GMT
Hi, I am trying to set up a Linux server, Red Hat 5.2, and I need to be
able to let the server come up after it was rebooted by the watch dog
and log on automatically, just like NT does.
What do I need to do ?
Thanks for help in advance.
Dmitriy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Free Personal FlagShip
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:47:06 GMT
NEW: Free Personal Flagship
In the effort to further support the growing Linux community, multisoft
has now released a Free Personal FlagShip for Linux. It is available for
a free download at
http://www.fship.com/free.html
The "Free Personal FlagShip" is a unlimited 2-user version similar to
the commercial Personal license, but intended strictly for personal use
or for development of database applications distributed for free (i.e.
public domain, Open Source or GPL licensed).
This Free Personal FlagShip version cannot be used for commercial or
company in-house applications where the commercial, licensed FlagShip
(PRO or Personal) is required; see http://www.fship.com/priceUSD.html
You will receive the Activation Key automatically (and may optionally
download the media) via the http://www.fship.com/free.html site.
FlagShip is the "Clipper for Unix". It offers in addition to the full
compatibility a number or extension. These enables a quick and smooth
development of database software. The migration of Clipper- and Fox
applications on all common Unix brands becomes an easy task and acquires
almost no changes in the code.
Paul
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
Date: 28 Feb 1999 23:22:34 -0800
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>>>>> "Arthur" == Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arthur> Mayor Of R'lyeh wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:01:53 -0800, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> chose to bless us all with this bit of wisdom:
>> >Mayor Of R'lyeh wrote: >
Arthur> [snip]
>> >You may have the facts right in the instance cited where 3
>> women >died - you haven't cited any source.
>>
>> Look it up if you don't believe me.
Arthur> I did - didn't find anything except someplace where I
Arthur> could buy the transcript of the trial. I never said I
Arthur> didn't believe you, or that I believe you either.
>> > Michael did cite one source >for an out of court settlement
>> in a different case involving the >Pinto gas tank.
>> Micheal cited one Ford report and then deliberately
>> misinterpreted it.
Arthur> I don't recall that he did any misinterpretation at all.
Well, the old saying is, "You can lead a man to a idea, but you can't
make him think." In the case of the "Mayor," if a top Ford executive
came out on the Larry King show and said, "Yeah, we knew those tanks
were defective," the "Mayor" would persist in his state of denial.
If a written report won't sway his opinion, it simply shows that his
opinion is not based on fact but on prejudice.
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: "Jeraimee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: These newsgroups are riduculous...
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 08:54:03 -0500
nope... nada...
attempting to try another aproch... I've gotten the CVS from GNOME.org, now
I get a nice little compile error (I'll post under the sub. : e -
cvs -compile)
<shrug>
Oh well... just can't stay away from these newsgroups.
btw: #e on effnet was NO help
Rene Wonnink wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Well, did you get replies or didn't you?
>
>
>Jeraimee wrote:
>
>> I'll try them again... let's see if the mail goes through this time...
>>
>> Jeraimee
>>
>> David M. Cook wrote in message ...
>> >On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:21:07 -0500, Jeraimee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >>Was my question listing errors like "Gtk-CRITICAL **: filegtkbox.c :
line
>> >>324..." etc... to complex for you all?
>> >
>> >The best place for Gtk programming questions are the Gtk mailing lists.
I
>> >prefer the gtk-app list to the gtk list.
>> >
>> >Dave Cook
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI Incompatibility
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:48:55 GMT
In article <7bck75$hce$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ray York" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to install RH5.1 and I just discovered that my SCSI Controller
> (Adaptec AHA-2940U/AHA-2940UW PCI SCSI Controller) is not compatible. Is
> there anything that I can do, besides getting RH5.2, that will make this
> thing work? thanks for your help!
>
> ray at nwnexus dot com
>
Try going to RH site, and download the boot and root image that is compatable
for that controller. That's what I had to do.
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