Linux-Misc Digest #863, Volume #19 Fri, 16 Apr 99 07:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: VMWare speed ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: Linux and Netscape 4.51 (tar/gz format) (Don Martin)
Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft??? (Jim McCusker)
Re: SCSI scanners anyone? (Matthew Kirkwood)
gcc >=2.8 for RedHat (Dirk Borchers)
Exciting opportunities for exceptional Internet developers - Boston, MA ("Paul
Wiles")
Re: [LILO] Trying to boot, just get "L 01 01 01..." - Fixed (mostly) (brian moore)
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Christopher Browne)
Re: Help choosing distribution (Ken Moore)
How to install DEC RWZ01 optical disk. (Chow Sui Sen Edwin)
Re: hard disk stops (Alumne OSCAR RENALIAS GRENO FIB)
Error after 'startx' command ("Mulder")
Re: resultion of KDE ? (Don)
Re: PPP problems dialing up (Mike Plummer)
Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPci64 (Patrick Mcginley)
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: VMWare speed
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:41:21 -0400
I WAS using a virtual disk... too scared of screwing up my
Win98 partition to try the raw option.
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Martin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux and Netscape 4.51 (tar/gz format)
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 04:46:00 GMT
I have downloaded this Program. Now I have saved it at my "C" Drive
which is a Win 98 Platform. How do I get Linux to access this
Directory and install this File? My Linux is located at my "D" Drive.
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 23:02:25 -0500, wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Peter DeSimone wrote:
>
>> Has anyone installed this version? What I am supposed to do after I
>> untar/ungz it? What directory should I put it ? Any specific commands
>> I should use? Thanks... Peter
>> --
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Peter DeSimone
>> Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Web Address:
>> Http://www.bigfoot.com/~desimonp ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Hi Peter;
>
>If your runing redhat you can get the 4.51 in rpm format off there
>rawhide site. Its what I'm running at this very moment. Still lots
>of bugs.
>
>Dave
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From: Jim McCusker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft???
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:22:59 -0400
Chris Welch wrote:
>
> In comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Edwin E. Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > And when will this start happening? Sure I've had to use
> > control-alt-delete to kill a program now and then, but it's not so frequent
> > as you make it sound. Say, doesn't Unix have commands to kill processes?
> > Gee, I wonder why. I'll bet they're not as easy to use as picking the
> > process off a dialog box list either.
>
> Type 'ps' at the command line and kill the offending app (almost always
> Netscape for me)
It's even easier. Just type 'xkill' andpoint and shoot. You can make an
icon for it (many people do)
Jim
--
Jim McCusker | Class of '99, BA Computer Science & Cognitive Science
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://cif.rochester.edu/~fprefect
~Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.~
~~Henry
Spencer
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From: Matthew Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: SCSI scanners anyone?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:12:02 +0100
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Rob Fisher wrote:
> I've just got hold of an Epson GT7000 SCSI scanner. It works just fine
> under Win95/Photoshop 4, but obviously I'd rather use it under Unix with
> the GIMP 1.1.4. Has anyone tried/accomplished this, and if so is there
> anything I should know about it? Can anyone point me to any useful
> resources? If I get the thing working I'll be putting the whole process
> on the web, so helping me now could work to lots of people's advantage
> later.
SANE (http://www.mostang.com/sane/) is the definitive scanner support
package for Linux/Unix. Your GT7000 isn't on their list of supported
scanners, but that page is quite often out of date - you might have
some luck asking the maintainer or on the mailing list.
Matthew.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Borchers)
Subject: gcc >=2.8 for RedHat
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:16:13 +0200
Does anybody know where I can get it from? Compiling the source from
gno.org seems to be very awful ...
Dirk
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From: "Paul Wiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.lang.java,comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,us.jobs,us.jobs.misc,us.jobs.offered
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:12:18 +0100
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [LILO] Trying to boot, just get "L 01 01 01..." - Fixed (mostly)
Date: 16 Apr 1999 01:35:11 GMT
On 15 Apr 1999 22:46:07 GMT,
Alex Taylor <alex@ifurita.> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, brian moore wrote:
> >On 14 Apr 1999 02:05:47 GMT,
> > Alex Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> (1) I didn't like the messages about /dev/hda in the lilo output, since
> >> that's my floppy drive, which shouldn't even enter into the picture! So
> >> I made certain I had no disks in the drive (I thought I'd tried that
> >> already, but I could be wrong).
> >
> >Actually, /dev/hda is the primary drive on the first IDE controller.
> >Your floppy is /dev/fd0.
>
> Not so, my floppy is an LS-120 drive on the first IDE controller, and is
> my only IDE device. Hence, /dev/hda.
It is also the primary drive on the first controller, no?
This story makes MUCH more sense now that you've explained you're not
talking about a floppy, but a removable IDE drive.
> I have no devices on /dev/fd* - in fact, I've disabled my MB's floppy
> controller in the BIOS, since I have no need of it.
Have you disabled booting from the IDE drive in your BIOS?
Many BIOS'es really insist on booting IDE if they find one.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 05:47:34 GMT
On 8 Apr 1999 17:07:45 -0400, Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>not if you're from a commonwealth country - which includes new zealand
>>(where is the old zealand btw?). in *english* (as opposed to american
> ^^^^^^^ - Zeeland.
>
> Gaak... Across the North Sea (looking from England, that is).
>Netherlands. Heck, they *really* don't teach history and geography
>in schools, or what?
Not even in commonwealth countries... :-(
I was not aware of that; the surprising factor is that it was named
after a "foreign" nation, or am I showing *complete* ignorance in being
unaware of a transition of New Zealand from Dutch control to English
control?
--
"UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that would also stop you from doing clever things." -- Doug Gwyn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: Ken Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Help choosing distribution
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:38:25 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Kelley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Bloody Viking wrote:
>>[...]
> However, with Red Hat, you have to avoid letting it install LILO
>> on the hard drive.
>>[...]
>
>I can't recall ever having a problem with lilo, after installing Red
>Hat, Caldera and Suse at least 60 times. I can't imagine what sort of
>problems you're having ...
Don't encourage him:-).
--
Ken Moore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chow Sui Sen Edwin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: How to install DEC RWZ01 optical disk.
Date: 16 Apr 1999 09:48:21 GMT
Hello,
I have problem installing the DEC RWZ01 optical disk.
This is my configuration:
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c810 detected
ncr53c810-0: rev=0x02, base=0xfaf90000, io_port=0xd800, irq=11
ncr53c810-0: ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
ncr53c810-0: restart (scsi reset).
scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 2.5f.1
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST12400N Rev: 8010
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: DEC Model: RWZ01 (C) DEC Rev: 2.16
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
ncr53c810-0-<0,0>: FAST-5 SCSI 5.0 MB/s (200 ns, offset 8)
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4194685 [2048 MB] [2.0 GB]
sda: sda1
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 576999 [281 MB] [0.3 GB]
sdb: Write Protect is on
sdb: unknown partition table
My /etc/fstab file is:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /staff ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /work1 ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb /mnt/od ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0
I really do not know if I can install this drive into linux machine. Could someone
advice me. How do I
actually install from the beginning.
Thank You
EDWIN CHOW
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From: Alumne OSCAR RENALIAS GRENO FIB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: hard disk stops
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 12:41:13 +0200
David Murray wrote:
> sounds like either:
>
> 1) hardware failure
> 2) BIOS power management
>
> > hda: timeout waiting for DMA
> > hda: irq timeout: status=0xd2 { Busy }
> > hda: DMA disabled
> > hdb: DMA disabled
But if it was a software failure, it should also happen under window$,
but it doesn't!
Any other idea?
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From: "Mulder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Error after 'startx' command
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 05:47:47 GMT
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From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: resultion of KDE ?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 06:01:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> All my windows in KDE are so big ! Most of them are bigger than my screen. How
> can I fix this roblem ? Can I incrase the resultion ?
>
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Edit the XF85Config file. Look for some lines that start with Virtual.
On these lines, change the size numbers to match with the ones for the
resolution that you normally use, ie , if you normally use 800X600,
then set the virtual line to that also. I havent found any way to get
rid of this rediculous virtual window crap for more than one mode. If
you leave out the virtual statement, it just sets it to the largest
mode that you have configured, so you are still screwed if you change
resolutions while running the xwindows. I guess its just another bug,
but most people find that one particular mode is pretty much all they
run for a given monitor size, so it isnt too bad.
Don
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.ppp
From: Mike Plummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPP problems dialing up
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:33:06 GMT
Eric Marquez wrote:
> Going by the PPP-HOWTO file I was able to test pppd with minicom but
> after configuring the ppp-on, ppp-on-dialer, ppp-off.
> When I issue the command
> pppd debug file options.myserver /dev/ttyS1 115200\
> >ppp-on &
> pppd: unrecognized optoin 'ppp-on'
>
> I have ppp-on is listed in the following dir's
> /usr/sbin/ppp-on
> /etc/ppp/script/ppp-on
> Any ideas on how to fix this problem?
> I'm using RedHat 5.2
> kernel 2.0.36
> ppp-2.3.5-1.i386.rpm
I should get a copy of ezppp. It is very easy to use (As long as you are
using X) and I have set up several different connections with it,
including a dialback account to work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Mcginley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPci64
Date: 15 Apr 1999 20:01:42 -0500
I seem to recall Alan W. Jurgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbling somthing about:
: Hi Yall,
: REgarding: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI Sound Card...
: Looks like it works in 2.2.5 Kernel using es1371....
It also works for me in real life ;) Just have to run setup to make sure
it's found. Have fun!
: As Taken from linux/Documentation/sound/es1371:
: ...
: This driver does not support the ALaw/uLaw sample formats.
: ALaw is the default mode when opening a sound device
: using OSS/Free. The reason for the lack of support is
: that the hardware does not support these formats, and adding
: conversion routines to the kernel would lead to very ugly
: code in the presence of the mmap interface to the driver.
: And since xquake uses mmap, mmap is considered important :-)
: and no sane application uses ALaw/uLaw these days anyway.
: In short, playing a Sun .au file as follows:
: cat my_file.au > /dev/dsp
: does not work. Instead, you may use the play script from
: Chris Bagwell's sox-12.14 package (available from the URL
: below) to play many different audio file formats.
: The script automatically determines the audio format
: and does do audio conversions if necessary.
: http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/cbagwell/projects.html
: ...
: ONE Strange Thing is: cat /dev/sndstat Displays nothing!
: Does anyone have any sure-fire procedure for properly loading
: Sound Modules required by this 1371 Card? IE, is an OPL2/3
: driver needed... uart401 needed? what else!?
: Any Help/Comments are appreciated!!
: later,
: al-man
: James Kosin wrote:
: >
: > Dear Rob v.d. Meer,
: >
: > Its supported in RedHat 5.2 and kernel 2.0.36 and later.
: >
: > I haven't figured out how to get Xwindows setup to do sounds like Windows
: > 95/98 yet. I am able to play the .au files and stuff like that.
: >
: > Thanks,
: > James Kosin
: >
: > Rob v.d. Meer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: > news:7f2qdo$k5m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > > Hya,
: > >
: > > I've just bought an Creative Pci64 soundcard (The Ensoniq clone) but Linux
: > > doesn't seem to recognize him.. At bootup it tells: Unknown device at PCI
: > > adres 1237:1381 and the it does not install the sounddriver configured
: > > in sndconfig.. The HOWTO of the AWE64 doesn't get me any further either
: > caus
: > > the AWE is an ISA card..
: > >
: > > I'm running Redhat 5.0 with kernel 2.0.33... Anyone can help ??
: > >
: > > Thnx in advance, Rob
: > >
: > > ---
: > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: > > The Young Technicians Delft
: > > Faculty of Electrical Engineering
: > > University of Technoligy Delft.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel parameter changes over reboot
Date: 16 Apr 1999 11:04:03 GMT
Good day,
I just wanted to see how people normally maintain changes to kernel
parameters over a reboot. For example, if I change shmmax, it will revert
to its default of SHMMAX on reboot. I don't want to change the kernel
source, that's the whole point of tunable parameters :)
Thanks in advance,
Sean
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Matrox M3d
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 06:18:33 GMT
I know the Millenium II is supported. How about a M3d PCI card used in
conjunction with it? Also anyone know where I can obtain a WRAM upgrade for my
video card?
Thanks- JR
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