Linux-Misc Digest #246, Volume #19 Mon, 1 Mar 99 12:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: Hurd should run linux binaries (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Re: Problem while booting linux through LILO or boot-disk (Parag Batavia)
Re: PnP & Yamaha OPL-SA: Can't find it... ("Loren Cook")
Re: CD-RW ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Netscape and NFS deadly slow??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Paul Hughett)
CD audio --> MP3 (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
cvs - colpile - e ("Jeraimee")
Re: Win 95 Loadlin (Alex Nichol)
Strange XDM problem (John Groves)
disabling touch pad (Stuart Allen)
Re: mkisofs AND loopback mount ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
print in gv ("Marco B.")
Re: More bad news for NT (Harry)
Re: adobe acrobat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux/FreeBSD compatability (Was Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)) (Paul
Hughett)
Re: irc? icq? newsgroup? e-mail? (Paul 'Tok' Kiela)
Re: Win95 vs. Win98 and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ls command ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Automounting DOS floppy? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Hurd should run linux binaries
Date: 01 Mar 1999 09:52:57 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward Betts) writes:
> Hurd showed be able to run linux binaries on the same arch. They are both
> glibc2 just add a couple of linux syscalls and hurd can do most linux
> binaries. Linus wants cross unix binary compatablilty.
Yes, this is in fact a goal. There are some inconsistencies in the
libc interface right now, which we hope to slowly iron out over time,
but the end result should be that Linux binaries which confine
themselves to shared library interfaces will run on the Hurd.
Who knows, we may even add a system call emulator at some point.
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From: Parag Batavia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,cmu.comp.os.linux,cmu.cs.linux.forum
Subject: Re: Problem while booting linux through LILO or boot-disk
Date: 01 Mar 1999 09:51:40 -0500
Hello - if you are using a 2940UW card, the supplied driver on the RH 5.2
boot disk doesn't work. You'll need to go to www.redhat.com/support, and
dig through the 5.2 stuff 'till you find the new boot/supp disks.
If you are running something other than 2940UW, this doesn't apply.
Parag
Kumar Dwarakanath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> I have a SCSI (AHA2740-2840-2940) card for my CD-ROM drive. While doing
> the
> installation (Redhat 5.2) the program is able to probe and find out the
> card and initialize
> the CD-ROM to function properly. This helps me in completing the
> installation.
>
> When I want to boot using LILO or the boot disk I get the following
> error and the
> system stops booting:
> Loading aic7xxx module..
> (SCSI0) found at EISA slot....
> (SCSI0) Twin channel....
> (SCSI0) Downloading sequencer code... 423 instructions downloaded
> (SCSI0) BRKADRINT error (0x8):
> Sequencer Ram Parity error
>
> Kernel Panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT
> Aieee: scheduling in interrupt 0016d2a0
> Aieee: scheduling in interrupt 0016d2a0
> Aieee: scheduling in interrupt 0016d2a0
> Aieee: scheduling in interrupt 0016d2a0
> Aieee: scheduling in interrupt 0016d2a0
>
>
> Please help with any suggestions. I have been trying various things
> but it does not seem to work. Have spent so much time just getting
> the system to boot!!!
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Kumar.
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From: "Loren Cook" <[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, 1 Mar 1999 07:16:53 -0800
Another thing you should look at is your BIOS settings. If you set your BIOS
for "PnP OS" and also for "Win95 OS" Linux will not see the PnP card. The
correct setting is "PnP OS" type "diabled". This will allow the BIOS to
configure for any OS PnP.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
J Sako wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-RW
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:33:16 +0000
Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> Reading the CD-Writing Howto gives me some information, but not
:> enough...I think it may be slightly out of date. I know now that I can
:> make an ext2fs on the disk,...but what I don't know is how to make it
:> work like it does in windows....like a normal disk.
: Currently Linux does not support packet writing to CDs so you cannot do
: this.
Even if packet writing worked, I am still not sure that it would be
possible. Don't CD-RW drives require a specific ERASE command? If so, the
file system will certainly not be set up to generate it.
Also, such a system would be incredibly slow and I can't see the point of
it.
--
============================================================================
Richard Simpson
Farnborough, Hants, Uk Fax: 01252 392118
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am not aware of any views shared by myself and my employers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Netscape and NFS deadly slow???
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 13:48:04 GMT
I'm setting up some diskless workstations, and at this point have /usr and
/opt mounted by NFS. The root directory is still local, until I get the final
configuration figured out. One problem is that Netscape is just incredibly
slow. Like about two minutes to start up, another minute at least to find
it's home page and open Messenger. I've got /usr and /opt exported from the
boot server, while /home/ with the user's home directories is exported from
the NIS server. I've got rsize-8192, wsize=8192 on all these. Any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hughett)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 1 Mar 1999 15:59:20 GMT
jik- ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > Woops, I just violated the copyright by not
: > distributing it verbatim! :-/
: That would fall under acceptable use. Actually, I don't think those are
: the words, but I am too tired to think them out of my head :P
The legal term (at least in the US) is "fair use".
: It pretty much states that it is ok to quote a part of a copyrighted
: work for the perpose of reffering to a portion,...among other tings.
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD audio --> MP3
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:47:49 +0100
Hi,
I'm looking for software allowing to convert audio tracks to MP3 format for
Linux RH5.2.
Thank very much if you CC me your message.
QUY.
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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: cvs - colpile - e
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 09:13:30 -0500
Hey all...
Any ideas on what causes or where the home for @MAINTAINER_MODE_TRUE@
error(s).
I am compiling the newest CVS for Enlightenment. I'm working on glib now and
keep getting these errors when I "make".
TiA
Jeraimee
--
Who says we can't all get along? Bring `em over here... I'll show them
gettin` along!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Nichol)
Subject: Re: Win 95 Loadlin
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:14:22 GMT
Reply-To: alexn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lee Howes wrote:
>Firstly Is there a version of Loadlin (or similar) that can be run from
>Win95 itself rather than rebooting into DOS or rebooting entirely and using
>LILO).
I doubt it, because it would either leave win95 in memory (taking up
almost all of it) or would crash it out (a bad thing). What you could
do is to run loadlin from a shortcut, and set the shortcut's
properties to run in DOS mode - which will do much the same as a
reboot, but a little less tidily.
What I do is use Win9x's config.sys menu - starting it with
SWITCHES=/F
[MENU]
menuitem=W98, Windows 98
menuitem=LNX, Linux
menudefault=W98,3
[LNX]
SET LX=1
[W98]
and then continuing with the win98 lines, then in autoexec.bat
starting with
@ECHO OFF
IF "%LX%"=="" GOTO WINBOOT
CLS
C:\loadlin\loadlin <loadlin parameters>
:WINBOOT
--
Alex Nichol
Bournemouth, U.K.
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From: John Groves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Strange XDM problem
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 09:09:41 -0500
Greetings:
I'm running RedHat 5.2 on a Dell Latitude 233 CP laptop. Using
XFree86 3.3.3 and KDE 1.1. I also have a docking station with a
Dell Ultrascan monitor.
I'm having a weird problem with XDM (actually with KDM, but XDM
has the same problem). It starts properly in runlevel 5 when my
computer is plugged into the docking station. I can also startx
if I boot into runlevel 3. This is using the Ultrascan monitor in
1024x768 mode with 16 colors
However, when running without the docking station, for some reason
KDM will startup, but will not display on the LCD screen. The screen
just goes black, as if turned off. However, I know that KDM is running
because if I type a login name and password, the disk spins and I hear
the login sound which corresponds to that account.
The weird part is that if I boot into runlevel 3 and start KDM from
the command line, it works fine. I can also startx in laptop mode,
and that works fine, too. BTW, I'm running the laptop in 1024x768
mode with 16 colors, but with different modelines than for the
Ultrascan to account for the lower refresh frequencies.
I have two XF86Config files, one for laptop mode and one for docking
station mode, but since everything works from the command line, I'm
inclined not to suspect these files.
Anyone know what the problem might be?
Cheers,
John
email: groves at nortelnetworks dot com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Allen)
Subject: disabling touch pad
Date: 1 Mar 1999 10:58:55 -0500
I am using a laptop (Sony VAIO) with a built-in touch pad,
but I normally use an attached external mouse.
I want to be able to disable the touch pad, leaving just
the external mouse active, because I often accidentally
tap the pad with my thumbs, screwing up my input stream.
The best outcome would be a way to deactivate the touch pad
when the mouse is plugged in, and reactivate it when the
mouse is unplugged.
An acceptable outcome would be simply to deactivate the touch pad,
leaving the mouse operation intact.
Hopefully,
Stuart Allen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mkisofs AND loopback mount
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:36:42 GMT
In article <7b6if2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Ray) wrote:
> I am running redhat 5.1 (kernel 2.0.34) witht he latest cdrecord/mkisofs:
>
> cdrecord-1.8a17
> mkisofs-1.12b4
>
> I create a raw image with mkisofs and the following options:
>
> -v -r -a -l
>
> The raw image creation works fine -- with no errors. It even says it wrote
> the rockridge extensions:
>
> Total extents actually written = 282547
> Total translation table size: 0
> Total rockridge attributes bytes: 3211677
> Total directory bytes: 7622656
> Path table size(bytes): 27688
> Max brk space used f58000
> 282547 extents written (551 Mb)
>
> When I do a simple loopback mount to test :
>
> mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 rawimage /mountpoint
>
> Directories below 8 levels have dissappeared and a simple find comes up with
> No such file or directory -- and stops. Looking at the mounted filesystem,
> the directories in question have no "." or "..".
>
> I think the image is being written correctly. Could it be kernel verions?
> IE.. im running 2.0.34.
>
I think it's a Linux bug - I had exactly the same problem. It went away when I
upgraded to 2.0.3[56]
James Pearson
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From: "Marco B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: print in gv
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 14:23:02 +0100
Hi all,
I've a problem when printing under ghostview:
I'm printing some documents and when comes the first picture, jumps to next
page, print it and then stops printing. My printer is a canon BJC-620
configured as a BJC-600. I dont know what can i do or read about this
problem.
Any idea?
p.s.: I m only at page 9 of 2000 :)))
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 08:57:51 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Of course, at some point, there should be a clear definition of
the
> term "operating system". At least with Linux I have a fighting
chance
> of identifying the major system components:
>
> - hardware
> - Linux kernel
> - various accessory programs that most Unix and Unix-like
operating
> systems provide (cp, rm, ls, ifconfig, /bin/bash, X, ...)
> - mid-level stuff such as widget libraries (Athena (it looks like
> slop, but it's useful), Motif, gtk++, various image
> manipulation libraries and utilities, etc.
> - high-level apps (Netscape, Gimp, TeX, G++ and make, etc.)
>
> Now, on Windows NT, um, erm, well, there's this nifty neato
> thing called Office '97 and these control applets... :-)
>
> Now part of it might simply be my familiarity with Linux in
> particular and Unix in general (I've used variants since college).
Let's see if I've got you right - you find it hard to identify
hardware, OS kernel components, utilities, and applications on an NT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: adobe acrobat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 15:37:24 GMT
F. Heitkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> glibc-2.1. Now it doesn't work. I think its because it is linked
> to libc-5. This in itself shouldn't cause a problem. When it
set:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib
in your script that starts acroread
and keep libc5 versions of libraries around for compatability.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hughett)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux/FreeBSD compatability (Was Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?))
Date: 1 Mar 1999 16:05:56 GMT
Graffiti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Quite often, the people writing non-portable, Linux-only code do it for
: one of two reasons:
: 1) They don't have access to a non-Linux mahcine.
: 2) They just started playing with Linux, and have no idea what
: portability is.
: Either way, why not cut them some slack? Point out where the code is
: non-portable to them. Make suggestions. Soon, they'll realise how
: valuable being able to write portable programs are, and they'll learn.
: If not, their programs probably aren't that useful, anyways.
And point out to them that sticking to standards such as ANSI/ISO C,
Posix, X, and so on gets most of the portability problem done almost
for free, even if you can only afford one platform to develop and
test on.
Paul Hughett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul 'Tok' Kiela)
Subject: Re: irc? icq? newsgroup? e-mail?
Date: 1 Mar 1999 09:07:44 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Night Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was wondering if any one would be kindly enough to recommend to me
>some cool programs for linux:
>1) IRC
I definitely recommend BitchX, or ircii, but if you are coming
from the realm of that... other.. windows-based.. irc client, then you may
feel more at home with X-Chat. I don't have the URL on me right now,
but you can easily find it via a search for IRC at
http://news.freshmeat.net (hint: its a great place to go for linux
applications). I'm not a big fan of KDE applications, so I'm not going to
recommend any, but they are available.
>2) ICQ
GTK-icq (also grab the url from freshmeat). Alternately, try licq,
which may have more features, and is a dockable windowmaker applet, should
you have a need for such a feature.
>3) newsgroup
trn. it comes with just about every, if not all, linux
distribution. Its text based, but its extremely easy to use once you get
the hang of it. I definitely recommend reading the man page :>.. If GUI is
more your style, try Netscape's Communicator suite. It has a fully
featured graphical news reader, though booting up Communicator may be a
tad much bloat just to read usenet. For alternatives, just search for
usenet or news readers on freshmeat.
>4) e-mail
Mutt, definitely.
.. pine is pretty standard, and will probably be recommended by
98% of the people you ask, but i thought i'd throw mutt in just to toss
things up :>
>Thanks a lot!!
>
No problem. When in doubt, you can always do a keyword search on
http://news.freshmeat.net, or http://www.linuxapps.com. Both are excellent
resources for software applications, and if you want to keep informed, you
might also want to check out http://web.slashdot.org and
http://www.linuxgames.com.
Regards,
Paul.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Win95 vs. Win98 and Linux
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:50:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > under win 3.1 (e.g. FreeIBComponents for use with Delphi & Interbase). So,
> > considering all aspects - which is the least grief? Which occupies the least
> > disk space? Which is easier to handle in a mixed environment (using Wine
> > etc.)?
>
> w95a, which I still use for video editing, is fairly stable if you don't
> mess with it, and straight forward (e.g.- no IE crap).
>
> w98 possesses all the characteristics of a virus *and* you pay $100 to get
> it.
> --
> [Replies: make the double y a single]
>
Thanks, everybody. I got the answer I sought. I wanted to hear from
penguin-heads because the two systems will have to coexist with Wine etc. in
play. 95 it is.
> "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
> WS Burroughs.
>
John Culleton
url http://www.carr.lib.md.us/~john/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ls command
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:26:07 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Chris Severn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got it on my system, but I like to use "ls -al" to list files, and so
> often the list is larger than the screen, and hence I have to pipe it to a
> pager. But, more and less seem to destroy the colours which ls puts in.
ls --color=tty will suppress colour codes to anything other than terminal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Automounting DOS floppy?
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:22:38 GMT
How can I set up a very simple to use DOS floppy access for my users in
RH5.2? It needs to be just a icon click, or better yet, something like
Solaris's vold automounter. I know Caldera's OpenLinux has something like
this, but I don't have a copy of that distribution here to see how they do
it
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