Linux-Misc Digest #293, Volume #19 Thu, 4 Mar 99 05:13:17 EST
Contents:
Cyrus/Sendmail problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Email program for multiple accounts like Outlook ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
OS with a seamless object model (Francois-Rene Rideau)
Some (more) Questions (Ken Arromdee)
looking for openGL, or Mesa... (neurogame)
Memory leak? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: KDE and KOffice (Peter Polman)
Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX (T. William Wells)
Re: Public license question (Rick Onanian)
Speed of accessing tousands of files in a directory? ("J. S. Jensen")
snftobdf or snftopcf??? (Uwe Brauer)
Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion (Bernhard Reiter)
Re: More bad news for NT (Harry)
Re: More bad news for NT (Harry)
RHL5.2 and lsof (Neil Zanella)
Re: More bad news for NT (gs)
Weird network card behaviour; changes duplex mode all the time! (Tomas Halvarsson)
oracle/glibc problems (Chris Poultney)
Re: More bad news for NT (Harry)
Quake II and Linux (Myke Morgan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Cyrus/Sendmail problem
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 06:40:34 GMT
Having Red-Hat Linux 5.0.Ive installed Cyrus Imap server ver 1.5.14 as my
mail server.I observed that some mails, once in a while are routed to the
wrong receipient . Im unable to conclude or find whether this is bcos of
Cyrus server or sendmail. This is a highly complicated issue as confidential
mails caan be routed to wrong receipient . Can u please solve the prob or
suggest me how to get this prob solved. Any reply is highly appreciated.
Thanx Suniln
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Email program for multiple accounts like Outlook
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:25:06 GMT
On 3 Mar 1999 14:44:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Martin Opitz) wrote:
kmail works pretty good. requires the KDE libs to compile/run
>Hi,
>Linux that supports multiple Accounts ?
>I especially mean the following.
>E.g. I have a account account1 with pop-address pop1 and
>smtp address smtp1 and another account with pop2 and smtp2.
>So, without configuring sendmail itself I would like to
>e.g. send emails depending on my Email adress to smtp1 or
>smtp2. Thus I would need to have 2 Email addresses of myself
>in the Email program, I mean 2 Accounts in the Email program.
>I *think* a program like Outlook can handle this.
>But with programs like mutt,elm,etc. I always have only
>ONE From: address to give and cannot handle 2 accounts
>with them.
>
>So, is there something under Linux available ?
>
>Thanks!
>Martin
>
>--
>_____________________________________________________________ /--i--\ . __
>| Martin Opitz - Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ''''||\___/| |
>| University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany (computer science) ||o - o| |
>| "As to Gina winning her gamble... | /---\ \ |
>| that's a secret between her and me." Fio, "Porco Rosso" E/^ ^ ^\W |
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From: Francois-Rene Rideau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: OS with a seamless object model
Date: 04 Mar 1999 05:12:50 +0100
CK> Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
REL> Roger Espel Llima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Microkernels...
[About a system allowing the user to seamlessly combine components]
CK>As far as I'm concerned, [UNIX] *is* a computerized lego:
CK>cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd | tail +15 | sort | uniq | mail -s "here's our
CK>user list" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
REL> Exactly. Traditional Unix programs and utilities are lego-able objects
REL> at the command-line level.
What when a program has two outputs or two inputs?
The pipe only handles linear expressions? Too baaaaaaaad!
Oh, sure, you can do named pipe, and in a relatively portable way,
now that most significant unix ports have more-or-less POSIX semantics.
Named pipes are a mess to use without race conditions? Sooo baaaaaaad!
And every program in the pipe must marshall/unmarshall data using
ad-hoc techniques in the absence of a standard representation?
And every program has its own incompatible set of command-line options?
And the way things are documented is inconsistent between programs?
Pardon me, but even if files and pipes
(and ptys, and sockets, and other devices, etc)
were a satisfying programming paradigm (and they are NOT),
the Unix shell way to access them is not quite seamless.
Perl makes it *much* better, but is not very interactive.
I remember a time, when I didn't know UNIX, but had heard of it,
when I invented a syntax for a shell that would extend COMMAND.COM
with multiple input and output pipes for asynchronous communication.
Well, UNIX just doesn't have anything like that.
Files suck anyway. While 80% of UNIX code deals with files, opening them,
creating them, marshalling them, unmarshalling them, doing gobs of
error-checking (or sacrificing chicken so that errors do not happen), etc,
all these operations are NOPs when you use an orthogonally persistent OS.
Eumel did that in the early 1980's on commodity hardware.
An HP 48 calculator does that, too.
Anyone interested in getting 5 times more productive?
I also know of LISP Machines, where you could click anywhere on the display,
and browse and edit an OBJECT, without having ANY application-specific code
to achieve that: just everything was an object (ever heard of CLOS?),
and when you displayed an object, you didn't just display
a bitmap representation of it, but the object itself.
HP48 calculators also share this everything is an object approach,
and although they don't provide the same power as LISP Machines,
and particularly not easy multiprogramming, they are quite nice beasts.
[ "Far�" | VN: Уng-V� B�n | Join the TUNES project! http://www.tunes.org/ ]
[ FR: Fran�ois-Ren� Rideau | TUNES is a Useful, Nevertheless Expedient System ]
[ Reflection&Cybernethics | Project for a Free Reflective Computing System ]
Because people confuse information and information-related services
(which include searching, creating, processing, transforming, selecting,
teaching, making available, guaranteeing, supporting, etc), they are afraid
that Free (libre) Information mean free (gratis) information-related services,
which would indeed kill the industry of said services. On the contrary,
Free Information would create a Free Market in these services, instead of
current monopolies, which means they will be available at a fair price,
so the result would be a flourishment of that industry! -- Far�
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Subject: Some (more) Questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Arromdee)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 3 Mar 1999 14:11:35 -0500
I am planning to install Linux fairly soon.
Is there any place which has a basic summary of what features various window
managers provide, and what their system requirements are, to help me decide
which one to install?
Do all programs work with all window managers, or are there window-manager-
specific programs?
When is the next Red Hat release expected, approximately?
Mandrake sells a modified Red Hat distribution with KDE, a 2.2 kernel, and
some other features. But their home page also lists no American distributor
for their Powerpack version, nor any way to order directly from them. Is
there any way I can buy one at all?
--
Ken Arromdee |They said it was *daft* to build a space
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |station in a swamp, but I showed them! It
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |sank into the swamp. So I built a second
http://www.inetnow.net/~arromdee|space station. That sank into the swamp too.
================================+My third space station sank into the swamp.
So I built a fourth one. That fell into a time warp and _then_ sank into the
swamp. But the fifth one... stayed up! --Monty Python/Babylon 5
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From: neurogame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: looking for openGL, or Mesa...
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 21:05:16 +0100
Hi everybody!
I'm a newbie in Linux and in Usenet! ( and I'm french, so my english
might be very bad, sorry... :-/ )
I'm developping a RPG game in 3D, and I want to use openGL, or Mesa, but
I don't know where to find the necessary libraries and tutorials.( I
have look for those on the Web, trough yahoo, altavista or metacrawler,
but my search was a loss of time :-( )
Could you help me please.
P.S. : I'm in a shop providing Internet connexion, and so I can't read
often the message on Usenet, so if you want to answer myself, I prefer
the e-mail
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Memory leak?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:18:55 GMT
Here's the deal:
I've got a PII-350 running Red Hat 5.2, with all the latest updated packages.
I recently upgraded to kernel 2.2.2 and have a slight, intermittent problem.
Under the new kernel, X appears to be leaking RAM. The system functions fine
for a while, but after some time (usually 6-24 hours), the system becomes
sluggish. Checking memory usage, I can see that my 128M of RAM is exhausted,
and that it's starting to chew up my swap. Running top, I can see that most
(70% or so) of the memory is being eaten by the X server. If I don't kill
and restart the X server, it will eventually exhaust all RAM and swap and
lock the machine.
I upgraded to XFree86 3.3.3 from the XFree86 3.3.2 I had been using, hoping
this would fix it, but to no avail. It's a Matrox G200 8MB video card, using
the SVGA X server.
Anyone else seen anything like this under kernel 2.2? 2.0.36 doesn't do this
on my machine, under identical usage patterns.
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From: Peter Polman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE and KOffice
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:07:18 -0800
Haven't tried the KOffice package yet but as far as KDE you should keep
the version levels consistent for all packages. Some of the programs from
the other version may work but others may not. The dependencies from
version to version change for some of the packages and it's much better to
just get it all and upgrade everything.
rhino wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone here use KDE and have KOffice installed? I am a Linux
> newbie with KDE1.1-0.1 installed and running on my system. However,
> I'm interested in installing KOffice, which is said to require (plus a
> bunch of other stuff) the development version of KDE libs, which is
> ver 1.1-3. My question is: can I just download the RPM for
> kdelib.xxx.i386.rpm and rpm -Uvh that, or do I have to download the
> whole collection of kde*****.i.386 (base, support, apps, etc) RPMs to
> use KOffice?
>
> Pls email if possible... thanks for any advice.
>
> rhi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (T. William Wells)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs LINUX
Date: 3 Mar 1999 14:24:09 -0500
In article <7bk0m6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <7bjv4m$ncs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: T. William Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >SysV and BSD have differences in behavior in some of those calls
: >and since Linux is more SysVish than BSDish, I'd expect things to
: >break. Signals, in particular.
: Linux uses BSD semantics for signals, complete with sigaltstack().
That's one important potential problem resolved....
: >: Now, hardware-related stuff
: >: in rc scripts will act funny. setserial, hwtime, hdparm and friends
: >: will not work.
: >
: >That's for sure.
:
: D'oh. uname works, so it's a question of appropriate ifs - names are different
: anyway. In the worst case - mkdir /usr/ucb and there we go ;-/
Still gotta have appropriate driver support....
: >: But most likely you will be able to boot into
: >: single-user.
: >
: >That's possible. The places where init is likely to break probably
: >aren't hit when going into single user mode.
:
: Again, I don't think that init will break.
The proof is in the pudding. :)
: >Oops.... I just checked... It's in the list of "Undocumented
: >options", which we skipped because, well, they're undocumented.
: >So, what exactly is involved in dealing with ext2fs? Just setting
: >options "EXT2FS"? Are any other things required?
: EXT2FS is enough. Isn't Handbook useful? ;-) See also (referenced
: from the Handbook) Linux+FreeBSD mini-HOWTO (on sunsite^Wmetalab.unc.edu
: in /pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/).
I gotta remind my guy to use the handbook....his introduction to
FreeBSD was along the lines of "Here, boot this disk and I'll go
through the install with you". So he's missed some of the
"learning experiences" that are essential to being an effective
admin. Time to remedy that....
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From: Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Public license question
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:21:44 -0500
Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> It was the Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:36:48 -0500...
> ..and Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have been told that you can copyright something simply by saying
> > copyright all over it, however, I don't know how that would hold in
> > a court of law.
>
> You are completely wrong.
> Everything you create is your intellectual property, and it remains so
> for at least 70 years (that is IIRC, and in Germany). You don't need
> to say it's Copyright (c) xxxx by me. You don't need to register it.
> It's yours. Full stop.
I'm glad that I'm wrong. It's a good thing that copyrights are that
way... Authors should be protected.
However...If I write something, and someone else writes the same thing,
and I take them to court, neither of us having mentioned any copyright,
how do we prove who did it first? Carbon dating on the paper? :)
> mawa
> --
> You probably didn't notice, but during the past year, the moon slipped
> about one and a half inches farther from the earth
> --
>Joel Bloch, "Stardate", NPR
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From: "J. S. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Speed of accessing tousands of files in a directory?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:50:28 -0700
We have a filesystem connection (NFS/SMB/whatelese) into an AS/400
library that contains 430,000+ different file entries.
I plan on doing something like this (not a UUOC is it? :-):
foo is a \n delimited list of all files on which we will operate. There
might be 3000 lines.
for i in `cat foo` ; do
operate $i
done
Will there be a problem with the command line length if there are 3k
lines in foo?
Would:
while read ; do
operate ${REPLY}
done <foo
be better? The for contruct seems to work in bash in Linux, even
upwards of 7k, but seems to just hang on an old AIX bourne shell.
Another question for filesystem experts though, when I call my `operate'
on a small set of 430k+ files, will the shell take an indecently long
time to search the directory inodes?
I can do this with 20k+ 0 byte files? I don't yet have the filesystem
available to me to test, but also don't have the resources to produce
the 430k 50-300kb files.
Any guesses?
--
J. S. Jensen
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http://www.Paramin.COM
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From: Uwe Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: snftobdf or snftopcf???
Date: 03 Mar 1999 20:53:35 +0000
Hello
I received some fonts with the extension .snf
and it seems that my linux system only understand fonts of the
pcf type. Does there exist a snftopcf or snftobdf (a bdftopcf
exists)??
Thanks in advance
Uwe Brauer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernhard Reiter)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microkernels are an abstraction inversion
Date: 3 Mar 1999 21:07:13 GMT
On 3 Mar 1999 18:01:59 GMT, Roger Espel Llima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>As far as I'm concerned, this *is* a computerized lego:
>>
>>cut -f1 -d: /etc/passwd | tail +15 | sort | uniq | mail -s "here's our
>>user list" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Exactly. Traditional Unix programs and utilities are lego-able objects
>at the command-line level.
>
>What is missing is a standardized (and recognized) way to do this for
>GUI programs, *and* accomodate the fact that different programs may
>provide the same kind of service with different user interfaces, so the
>user should be able to select his favorite, and have it invoked.
I second that.
>So the idea of object-ifying programs amounts to defining interfaces for
>programs to request services from each other, and standardizing these
>interfaces for common tasks so that multiple programs can provide them
>in a compatible way.
>
>Add in a glue language, and the whole desktop is scriptable.
>
>None of these are new ideas ...
True again and except from the glue scripting Language,
NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP was a real system running with object-ifyed programs
and program components (like the open dialog) and it was running very
nicely.
So let's hope for GNUSTEP. :-)
GNOME is slowly adapting to that view, too.
Bernhard
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 03:52:14 -0500
> luser <
This is an appalling way to refer to your end-users! Why do shop
staff and help desk people always hate dealing with the public?
Harry
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 03:59:00 -0500
> Everybody's writing Window Managers today. <
I'm not writing a window manager ... should I worry? Am I missing
out? Will I find myself in ten years time the only one of my peers
not to have his own help desk and disgruntled users?
Harry
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RHL5.2 and lsof
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:06:33 -0330
Hello,
I just upgraded lsof on my RHL5.2 system but things don't seem to be working:
I get the following error when I run lsof:
lsof: kernel symbol address mismatch: get_options
get_kernel_syms() value is 0x108d48; /boot/System.map value is
0x108ce0.
There were 384 additional mismatches.
/boot/System.map and the booted kernel may not be a matched set.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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From: gs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 15:03:48 -0500
Jim Ross wrote:
>
> Jim Ross wrote in message ...
> >
> >Paul Farber wrote in message ...
> >>There is a simple test to see if the OS is "HUNG" or just to busy doing
> >>something else. Press the CAPS LOCK key and look at the keyboard. If the
> >>light goes ON/OFF then the CPU is running and the 'puter is running. The
> >>OS may be executing an errant program.. but it is definately alive. IF it
> >>wasn't what would cause the HDD to spin?
> >>
> >>If you could telnet into the system (on a netowrk of course) and do a
> >>ps xa you would see the processes gobbeling up CPU time, try "top" or
> >>vmstat.. that will point you in the direction of the problem.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Paul D. Farber II
> >>Farber Technology
> >>Ph. 570-628-5303
> >>Fax 570-628-5545
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >That's an interesting trick to try Caps Lock.
> >I have ruled out kernel version.
> >The KDE Control Center has a bad memory leak which I did observe in the KDE
> >Process Manager. After using all the memory the system goes heavy swap and
> >is hung. I will try Caps Lock but I assume the CPU is ok. So its seems
> >that this leak can hang the system. I thought this won't happen. Is there
> >anything I can do besides avoid leaky apps like this?
> >Thanks, Jim
>
> I can easily reproduce this hang condition.
> Also after hitting Caps Lock the light will go on but it takes 10 seconds.
> Jim
I've had KDE hang my whole system before, which was why I use Window
Maker now. Once was while using the find utility, the one that comes
with KDE, and I can't remember what the other one was. Anyway, that
nifty little Caps Lock / Num Lock trick showed a major hang,
Ctrl+Alt+anything didn't work, and since I'm not on a network, I had to
reboot. This was on 1.0 of kde and 2.0.34 kernel, and I never got it to
reproduce.
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From: Tomas Halvarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weird network card behaviour; changes duplex mode all the time!
Date: 3 Mar 1999 20:02:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hiyall.
A few minutes ago, I looked in my logs
(/var/log/{messages,syslog,kern.log}) and I found _a_lot_ of
these entries in those files:
Mar 3 20:39:43 andre kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #8 link partner
capability of 45e1.
Mar 3 20:40:53 andre kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on MII #8 link partner
capability of 0000.
Mar 3 20:41:03 andre kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #8 link partner
capability of 45e1.
Mar 3 20:53:23 andre kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on MII #8 link partner
capability of 0000.
Mar 3 20:53:33 andre kernel: eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #8 link partner
capability of 45e1.
How the heck can I stop that madness? The computer on the other
end (my secondary computer) is normally turned off, I guess that
may have something to do with it. But anyway, there's got to be a
way to specify half or full duplex for an interface, to avoid
that jumping back and forth thing. The card (at both ends) is a
D-Link DFE-530TX using the via-rhine driver under kernel 2.2.1,
compiled static, not as a module.
/Tomas
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From: Chris Poultney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: oracle/glibc problems
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 11:51:45 -0500
I'm trying to install oracle 8.0.5 on my Slackware linux 2.0.30. I will
need to upgrade to at least 2.0.34 before the final install; however, I
was hoping to do a trial install before upgrading. I downloaded and
installed the glibc 2.0.7 runtime package (not the beta compilation
package) from metalab, and the installation went smoothly until it
attempted to run the linker. Each step which required the nsl library
failed. Has anyone else had similar experiences? Could this be because
I haven't upgraded to 2.0.34 yet? Where can I find a glibc 2.0.7 nsl
library? Etc, etc. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
-Chris P.
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More bad news for NT
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 04:03:51 -0500
> Perhaps one would prefer not to have a GUI running taking up large
portions of the systems resources unnecessarily. <
Here's a common fallacy! A program (GUI or otherwise) only uses CPU
when it's doing something. If your system is sitting quietly in the
corner, the GUI is taking no processor cycles and requiring little
system memory (though it probably consumes quite a bit of your
graphics card's memory) and other resources.
Harry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Myke Morgan)
Subject: Quake II and Linux
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:39:34 GMT
Hi there.
After many years of developing on Linux I have taken it upon myself to
have a little fun. I figured QuakeII was the best way to do that :). I
got the latest version (3.20) and it will run, but not much else. I have
two problems that I could use some help with:
1. No sound. I have a 2.0.33 kernel with aSoundBlaster 16 card and the
sound driver installed:
% cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Sat Feb 20 11:36:06 /etc/localtime 1999 root,
Linux moyo 2.0.33 #35 Tue Feb 16 14:02:45 /etc/localtime 1999 i686 unknown)
Kernel: Linux moyo 2.0.33 #37 Sat Feb 20 11:44:11 /etc/localtime 1999 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 7: SB MPU-401
Card config:
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,7
(SB MPU-401 irq 1 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
But I cannot get the game to produce sound. Neither the music or effects
will work. The sound 'driver' seems to be set up in Quake, as I get the
following message at startup:
======= sound initialization =======
sound sampling rate: 11025
====================================
but still no sound.
I have a SCSI CDROM, and it the program seems to access it, I guess for
the music, but I get:
CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST
on the console, and no music either.
2. libvga only runs in 320x200 mode. Ok I know this is a question for
another thread, but I may be able to get a quick answer. I have a 3DLabs
Permedia II video card. The libvga version I have does not support it, and
I the latest version I could find does not either. I use a commercial
XWindows server (from Xi Graphics) but XFree86 now does support this card,
so does anyone know if/when libvga will? Or some hack that I can use to
get better resolution? I would attempt to write a driver myself, but if
the 'real' version is in the works, I won't bother.
I really don't want to boot to NT just to play Quake, so thanks for any
help you can give.
Playing grainy QuakeII with no sound,
myke
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