Linux-Misc Digest #915, Volume #19 Wed, 21 Apr 99 01:13:14 EDT
Contents:
printing in 2.2.x (Pavel Greenfield)
SB16 and isapnp (Steve Muir)
Re: rsh, rcp, what is going on? (Clifford Kite)
Re: Newbie in need of help w/ gnome (El Capitan)
Re: Changing virtual window manager in RH5.2 ("William H. Pridgen")
Re: Need Sound Card Suggestions (Dan Stephenson)
Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet? (Christoff Gouws)
Re: Mouse problem in RedHat Linux 5.2! (I am sending this to multiple NGs)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Software Apps (Ed Hurst)
Re: IE5 under Linux (Stefan Magnusson)
dial-up problems via PPP (The Good Guy)
Linux and Zip Drive ("Jonathan Wiens")
Re: X Programming (jik-)
Netscape 4.51 and plug-ins problem ("William B. Cattell")
Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft??? (brian moore)
Auto mount floppy?? (Albert Hurd)
Re: Applixware Office vs StarOffice (Charles E Taylor IV)
Re: rsh, rcp, what is going on? (brian moore)
Problems getting APM to work with 2.2.5 ("Eric")
Re: Auto mount floppy?? (jik-)
Re: dial-up problems via PPP (Peter Rodriguez)
Re: Any RealAudio G2 compatible players out there? (Charles E Taylor IV)
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From: Pavel Greenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: printing in 2.2.x
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 22:48:07 +0000
Hi,
I know that "switch to /dev/lp0" is supposed to be the answer, but it
doesn't seem to be for me!
I could print fine in 2.0.36, but now in 2.2.6 - no luck! Please help...
Symptoms:
1) The result of # dmesg | grep lp:
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
2) The result of /dev# ./MAKEDEV lp
./MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for lp
3) The result of /dev# ./MAKEDEV lp0
./MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "lp0"
4) The result of # cat file > /dev/lp0
/dev/lp0: No such device.
5) Just in case this might be helpful. The content of /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 65714 XT-PIC timer
1: 2953 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 26538 XT-PIC bttv
5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
7: 107 XT-PIC eth0
10: 904 XT-PIC aic7xxx
12: 9301 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 6326 XT-PIC ide0
15: 5 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
6) cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
36 netlink
81 video_capture
128 ptm
136 pts
Block devices:
2 fd
3 ide0
7 loop
8 sd
22 ide1
Thanks a lot in advance!
Pavel
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From: Steve Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB16 and isapnp
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:43:49 +1000
Hi All...
I am having trouble getting sound to work correctly on my Redhat 5.2
installation. The symptoms are as follows...
1. When I run sndconfig it goes out and finds my SB16 with all the
correct settings and says it will update the /etc/isapnp.conf file and
the /etc/conf.modules file.
2. It then tries to play a sound and fails saying it is unable to open
the /dev/audio file. I have the checked this file and it looks ok as far
as type and permissions are concerned.
3. The sndconfig program then gives me a chance to do it all manually
but this fails with the same message.
4. When I quit the sndconfig program I find that it has moved the
/etc/conf.modules file to /etc/conf.modules.bak so at my next boot my
network card no longer works (no real problem I just move the file back,
but annoying)
5. After doing all this if I try and play a CD through the sound card no
sound happens.
6. If I run isapnp using the /etc/isapnp.conf file as the argument it
runs ok and then if I try and play a CD through the sound card I get
sound, but of low volume, quality and the mix is out (ie some frequency
ranges are much lower output than others)
7. OK I thought, let me try and re-mix. Well the mixer programs all come
back complaining about not being able to open /dev/mixer - this file
also looks OK...
Has anyone seen anything like this and if so how do I fix it ?
Thanks
Steve
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: rsh, rcp, what is going on?
Date: 20 Apr 1999 20:39:51 -0500
David Steuber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have also been unable to rcp a 2GB file from solo to interloper.
: Trying that trick kills the network connection. I have to eject and
: reinsert the PCMCIA NIC in solo to get things working again (hardware
: problem?). Solo is a laptop computer.
: Both systems are running SuSE 6.0 with the 2.0.36 kernel. Solo is
: using PCMCIA CS 3.0.8. I posted about the 2GB file in another thread
: in comp.os.linux.misc.
Linux i386 architecture has a 2 Gb file size limit.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* A salute to Inspector Baynes, of the Surry Constabulary, the only
police Inspector to ever best Mr. Sherlock Holmes at his own game.
"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. */
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From: El Capitan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie in need of help w/ gnome
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 16:49:30 -0500
Matthias Warkus wrote:
> It was the Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:37:26 -0500...
> ..and El Capitan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want get gnome off my system. How do I do that?
>
> I haven't got my crystal ball ready. Tell me what kind of installation
> you have made. Why do you want do uninstall it, anyway?
>
> mawa
> --
> ..Roxanne falls in love with Christian, a cavileer in Cyrano's
> regiment who hasn't got the brains god gave an eclair...
> -- reviewer on NPR
I just have that regular install.....the one where you run that perl
script off the CD. I wanted to start messin around w/ enlightenment and
gnome doesn't work for me anymore so I just want to free up the space.
Besides I think I don't quit know how to delete an app in it's entirety.
Thanks for the help btw.
The Admiral
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From: "William H. Pridgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing virtual window manager in RH5.2
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:51:17 -0500
Russell S. DiPesa wrote:
>
> To all,
> How do you change the virtual window manager by hand? I was using the
> window manager that is similar to Windows 95. This one had a menu that
> allowed you to switch to several diferent window managers. I switched to
> one that doesn't have that menu, and now I would like to switch back. How
> do I do it?
>
> Russ
Right-click (or left click?) on an empty space on the desktop, and you
should get a menu for it.
--
Bill Pridgen
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From: Dan Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Need Sound Card Suggestions
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:47:22 -0500
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Chun Lin wrote:
>"Ferdinand V. Mendoza" wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Mine is SoundBlaster AWE 64. It works great
>> with Linux_Mandrake. No pain in setting up.
>>
>> Bud
>
>how to setup AWE 64 under RH linux? when I use
>sndconfig, it always has some problem, everything
>is ok until it try to play a sound sample.
>
>Chun
What's sndconfig? I haven't gotten my AWE64 working yet, either.
Dan
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From: Christoff Gouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 19:43:12 -0400
Yep,
I received mine not long after I bought them online. Guess I'm one of
the lucky guys.
Christoff
=====Original Message=====
From: Lesser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Posted At: Sunday, April 18, 1999 3:54 PM
Posted To: misc
Conversation: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet?
Subject: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet?
I haven't gotten mine yet. I was wondering if anyone else has though.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Mouse problem in RedHat Linux 5.2! (I am sending this to multiple NGs)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:27:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Werner Peters) wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:54:53 -0500, "Tim McDonough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >If it's the M$ IntelliMouse, you might try this:
> >http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
>
> Nope. I have just a plain jane MS mouse. It won't work.. yet.
>
>
I also have a regular Microsoft mouse and it just stays in the far right
corner in the X Windows environment. This is an extremely annoying problem,
let alone I can't too much use X Windows. However, my mouse works fine in
the regular terminal environment. Please help!
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:42:30 -0500
From: Ed Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Software Apps
Connie,
I hardly know where to begin. Just type "linux" into any browser and you
should find listing of too many sites to visit. More specific to your
question: my favorite is <http://www.ssc.com/linux/apps/index.html>. There
you will find links to several indexes and links to other sites.
Good hunting.
Ed
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From: Stefan Magnusson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: IE5 under Linux
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:36:27 +0200
One minor detail: NS3 does not support JScript, it supports JavaScript.
JScript is Micro$haft's attempt to impose their own ideas on an already
established language.
BTW NS 3x Gold's capabilities as a useful tool for creating Web pages is
at best poor. WYSIWYG will never give you the control a text editor
gives you. But for prototyping it could be used if nothing else is
available.
Stefan
Emile van Bergen skrev:
>
> Andy Piper wrote:
> >
> > James Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > > WARGY wrote:
> > >
> > > > M$ IE5 is out and it can run on Solaris Unix. Can that Solaris package
> > > > be installed in Linux? (especially Slackware 3.6 distro)
> > >
> > > Why would you even want to? I mean really....what would be the point...
> > > it would crash far to often to be useable.
> >
> > Well, Netscape 4.5 does, so why should IE 5 be any
> > different?
>
> Just stick to Netscape 3.04 Gold. Has an html editor, mail/newsreader,
> the complete package is much smaller (on disk and in memory) than even
> the standalone Navigator 4.0x or 4.5 (leave alone communicator), and
> crashes far, far less often. I was tempted many times to try one of
> those 4 series, but only to switch back to 3.04 in a few days.
>
> And oh, it already has full java/jscript/https support. No CSS, though.
>
> --
>
> M.vr.gr. / Best regards,
>
> Emile van Bergen (e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> This e-mail message is 100% electronically degradeable and produced
> on a GNU/Linux system.
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From: The Good Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: dial-up problems via PPP
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 19:45:24 -0700
Hello,
Not too long ago I successfully installed RedHat Linux 5.1... which
comes with kernel 2.0.34. I am having problems setting up an internet
connection through PPP. Now, I have HAD this exact same copy of Linux on
the machine before with an internet connection running fine (through
Minicom and PPPD) but I deleted Linux and now decided to reinstall it.
I cannot connect to the internet. At first I tried using Minicom and
PPPD like i always have before but noticed PPPD was generating an error
message because there was no PPP kernel support, so I sucessfully
recompiled the kernel.
Still Minicom doesn't work. no more error messages but it just
dials, asks for login and password but it won't connect. I pick up the
phone to find a dial tone.
I also tried configuring the /etc/ppp/ppp-on script and its components
to function but when I run it it justs makes the modem click (I guess
like an ATZ command). That's it, it won't even dial. it just quits. I
tried to get it to log the messages to the system log but the paths it
wanted didn't exist so I stopped bothering with it.
What can i do? No error messages, it just won't even dial!! My modem
is a SupraExpress 288i PnP. Even though it is a PnP it HAS worked
perfectly before!
Any help would be much appreciated! :)
Thanks,
Bart Trzynadlowski
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From: "Jonathan Wiens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Linux and Zip Drive
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:11:33 -0500
Reply-To: "Jonathan Wiens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am considering picking up a Iomega Zip 250 drive for my Linux box (Red Hat
5.1, kernel 2.0.35). I would like to get the parallel port type. Is any
one currently using such I drive with Linux? I would like to know before I
go out to buy one whether or not the are very difficult to set up under
Linux, and whether or not I can still use my printer off the same parallel
port. I am relatively new to Linux and I don't know much about
reconfiguring the kernel and the like. If anyone has any suggestions, could
you let me know. Thanks.
Jonathan Wiens
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:22:02 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Programming
> Learning Xlib is completely unnecessary,
Oh really, what planet are you from?
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netscape 4.51 and plug-ins problem
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:17:52 GMT
I have NS 4.51 installed on RH Linux 5.2/kernel 2.2.3. I can start
Netscape up fine, browse the web, look at newgroups, etc. When I get to
a site or click on a link wants to access one of the plugins Netscape
will shutdown completely.
I have the Netscape Default Plugin, Shockwave Flash and Plugger 3.0
plugins installed. I can see this when logged in as a normal user or as
root. Netscape acts the same under either account so that tells me that
access rights isn't the problem.
My sound system is working, I can cat xxx.au/.wav/.mid to /dev/audio and
hear them ok. Any thoughts on where I should begin working on this
problem? TIA.
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: VMware sell-out to Microsoft???
Date: 20 Apr 1999 00:17:23 GMT
[followups rectified]
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:36:01 -0400,
Bill Frisbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> VI? Come on give me a break I have used it... you cannot tell me VI is
> easier than Notepad.
Why not? It is certainly easier to use for anything that is nontrivial.
If you want an editor for trivial applications, use Pico or GNotepad.
> Java2 IS NOT available for Linux. And Corba is KIND of like OLE but not the
> same.
Java2 is available for Winodws? Curious: Sun says that the current is
1.2. Or is this the "Java" that Microsoft innovated?
> I however like em a lot. EAW and WW2 Fighters are two of the best WW2 flight
> sims to see the light of day, then Falcon4, Janes F-15 and TAW all are the
> current champs in the jet market. This are REAL sims, not games for the most
> part (well WW2 fighters is very gamish in nature but the graphics are
> unbeliveable).
"Real" sims? Goodness. Take a break from the games, boy: they're just
-games-. Ask your local Air Force recruiter for a real simulator.
> And linux DOES NOTHING that I need it to. Hell I have been using it since
> Slackware 1.2 (I THINK it was) and keep current running RedHat 5.2 and SuSE
> 6.0 currently. But it STILL is not for me or most people.
Then why are you running it?
You do have -choice-, you know.
--
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: Albert Hurd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Auto mount floppy??
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:00:59 GMT
The Next OS has the capability of automatically recognizing when a
floppy is inserted, and mounting it so that the files appear in the file
manager under the directory given by fsab (and presumably unmounting
when the floppy is removed. Is there anything like this available for
Linux.
Albet Hurd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Applixware Office vs StarOffice
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:57:25 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Robert P. Ouellette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've just installed my Redhat 5.2 Linux on PC, and I'm ready to do some
> office stuff. I used to use MS Office 97. Can anyone recommend a good
> office suite for Linux under X Window. I've heard of Applix Office,
> StarOffice, and also WordPerfect (just the word processor, so I'm less
> interested in this).
First, I'd try Star Office. The reason for this is simple - it's free
for home use. If it suits your needs, no need to worry about spending
extra cash. For the same reason, you might also want to get
Wordperfect. Both of these are downloadable, though the SO download
might take a while (it's 80 megs or so).
How much RAM do you have? If it's less than 64 megs, you'll probably
want to get a less "fat" suite like Applixware (available sub-$100
from various online shops).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: rsh, rcp, what is going on?
Date: 21 Apr 1999 00:28:38 GMT
On 19 Apr 1999 05:02:14 -0400,
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone please tell me what is going on here? I am getting error
> messages when I attempt to copy files from interloper to solo. I am
> not using:
>
> david@solo:~/tmp/foo/bar/baz > rcp interloper:tmp/* .
> bash: /usr/bin/rcp: Argument list too long
rcp interloper:tmp/\* .
Replace the 'rcp' with 'echo' to see why.
> because of the error message (there are about 500,000 files). So I
> threw together a little perl script to do the job one file at a time.
> Well, guess what?
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> @files = `rsh interloper ls tmp`;
>
> foreach $file (@files) {
> chomp $file;
> `rcp interloper:tmp/$file .`;
> }
Why the backticks?
Backticks aren't the same as system(), you know.
> There is clearly some security feature or bug that I am not aware of.
> Can anyone enlighten me? solo is in interloper's /etc/hosts.equiv
> file, but interloper is not in solo's.
No, it has to do with shell expansion. Your second problem is because
you're pounding the server. Inetd probably killed rcp until it cooled
down. See your logs.
> I have also been unable to rcp a 2GB file from solo to interloper.
> Trying that trick kills the network connection. I have to eject and
> reinsert the PCMCIA NIC in solo to get things working again (hardware
> problem?). Solo is a laptop computer.
No idea.
--
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: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems getting APM to work with 2.2.5
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:30:00 GMT
I've recently tried upgrading to Kernel 2.2.5, but am running into a couple
of problems. I'm running RH5.0, with all the upgrades as per the 2.2
changes doc.
My is with the APM. I am upgrading from 2.0.32. I'm running
this on a PII (ATX motherboard), but for some reason, the "poweroff on
shutdown" feature doesn't work with 2.2.5. Under kernel 2.0.32, it would
automatically poweroff my PC, but 2.2.5 just displays the "System halted"
message. The system is running on an Asus P2B motherboard. Are there any
special things I have to do to get 2.2.5 to auto-powerdown the system?
I've installed the new syslogd and klog daemons, as well as the new sysvinit
toolkit (which has the new halt -p functionality, etc), but they don't seem
to make any differences.
Does anyone know what I can check or do to get my PC to auto-power-off upon
a halt -p or a shutdown -h command?
Thanks!
Eric
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:40:12 -0700
From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Auto mount floppy??
Albert Hurd wrote:
>
> The Next OS has the capability of automatically recognizing when a
> floppy is inserted, and mounting it so that the files appear in the file
> manager under the directory given by fsab (and presumably unmounting
> when the floppy is removed. Is there anything like this available for
> Linux.
automount will mount when you cd into and out of the directory. I think
it works on floppies but I have never used it.
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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:44:13 +1200
From: Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: dial-up problems via PPP
I had a similar problem with re-configuring PPP. I
found that it was solved by using PAP then editing
the chat-ppp script to remove the last ".
--
Peter Rodriguez
136, Kolmar Road, Papatoetoe, Auckland
NEW ZEALAND
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Any RealAudio G2 compatible players out there?
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:02:28 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Linuts writes:
> Are there any players out there that can recognize the G2 format?
Write Real Networks and ask them to please finish/release the G2
player for Linux. Their FAQ says they're working on it ...
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