Linux-Misc Digest #975, Volume #19 Wed, 28 Apr 99 13:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Support for Linux ("Damian Cooke")
Re: problem with playing mp3s (Stefan Hetzl)
Re: How to start ppp dialup automatically (Villy Kruse)
Adaptec 2940 UW Pro Installation Problem (APPANAH ravi)
Delete Linux's partition : HELP ! (Nguyen-Dai Quy)
Re: Redhat 6.0? ("Gero H. Marten")
Re: DVD movies on Linux ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
help libc6 libc5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Tesla Coil)
Re: Regular system crash (Matthew Kirkwood)
Re: WORDS OF WISDOM!! Upgrading RedHat 5.1 to 2.2.X Kernel (John Thompson)
Really big hd under linux (Yan Seiner)
Re: Regular system crash (Paul Black)
Re: Java and HotSpot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
find command for nt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sending commands to remote shell (Paul Kimoto)
Re: How to get Slackware to recognize my mouse? (**Nick Brown)
Re: How does RH determine the soundcard? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Newbie: Learning Linux And Databases ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (mlw)
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From: "Damian Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Support for Linux
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:41:00 +0100
Does anyone know how to get support for LINUX, ie are there any support
companies out there offering this kind of service ?.
How much do they cost, yearly / per incident .
Any info would be a great help
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From: Stefan Hetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with playing mp3s
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:46:09 GMT
Mark Tranchant wrote:
>
> OK - to start with, playing audio CDs involves nothing more than the
> soundcard's mixer. The output from the CD drive is analogue.
>
> What system do you have? Playing mp3s involves quite a high spec
> machine. I have a 486DX4/120 and I can *just* play mp3s with the latest
> kmp3 so long as I don't do anything else. If I do anything else, the
> playback stops temporarily.
I am using a Pentium 233 and playing MP3 files on the same machine with
Windows works without problems.
> Can you play other sound file formats OK?
Yes, I tried to play some wav and voc files with sox and they play ok.
> Mark.
Thanks for the help...
Any idea what could be wrong ?
Stefan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: How to start ppp dialup automatically
Date: 28 Apr 1999 14:50:26 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, terry tashiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>I'm wondering how to start ppp dialup automatically.
>Of course, I can start ppp dialup using GUI, but don't know how without
>using GUI.
>Kernel: 2.2.6, Redhat 5.2
Suggest downloading the diald package from contrib.redhat.com. But maybe
kernel 2.2.6 now supports the demand options in the pppd program, so you
might want to try this first.
Villy
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From: APPANAH ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Adaptec 2940 UW Pro Installation Problem
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 14:50:37 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi !!!
I want to install a RedHat Linux 5.2 System (kernel 2.0.36) on my
PC...
I have some trouble while installing the SCSI Card. The install
process scanning for a SCSI card find nothing !!!
I have an PCI Adaptec 2940 UW Pro Chipset AIC 7880P. The SCSI Bios
version is 2.11.0.
The Hard drive is a SCSI Quantum Viking II 9.1 WLS.
How can I do with this card ?
Thanks in advance
Regards,
Ravi APPANAH
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From: Nguyen-Dai Quy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Delete Linux's partition : HELP !
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:14:42 +0200
Hi,
I have installed Linux RH-5.2 on partition 1GB of my disk 2.1GB. I use
dual boot Win95/Linux.
Now I have another HDD 2.1 and I would like delete Linux on my old disk
in order to reinstall Linux on my new disk.
How to delete Linux's partition and retrieve this partition for Win95 ?
Thanks in advance !
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Rue Ernest Solvay 21, Bat C3, B-4000, Liege, Belgium.
http://ltas18.ltas.ulg.ac.be/~quy
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From: "Gero H. Marten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:23:42 +0200
Wally McClure wrote:
>
> where can I download the redhat 6.0 distribution from?
You want to download 1GB of software? Better buy the package with
cd-roms.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DVD movies on Linux ?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:07:44 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Micheal MacCana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roy,
> I've got a DVD drive too. Apparently, there's no way to read DVD-ROM or
> movie disks on Linux. At the speed of Linux development, however, this will
> surely change in at most nine months though.Does anyone know of such plans?
Somebody is working on a UDF filesystem driver, which seems to be the main
prerequisite for DVD support. See http://trylinux.com/projects/udf/
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help libc6 libc5
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:23:28 GMT
Hi everybody,
I am working with RedHat 5.2 (libc6 I presume), and I have to compile and
link a Rexx package (a shared lib) which needs libc5.
I tried to install libc5*.rpm by doing 'rpm -iv somepath/libc5*.rpm', and I
got a dozen of errors meesages saying that 'there is already such a file in
/usr/lib'.
Nevertheless, seems that a lot of libs where copied to /usr/i486*/lib.
Now, what should I do to tell the linker-loader (ld) to take
/usr/i486*/lib/libc.so.5 instead of /usr/lib/libc ?
And how to do it just for that package, and not definitivly ?
Seems that inverting the order of search in '/etc/ld.so.conf' will do it, but
should I modify it every time I have to exchange libc and libc5 ?
Thanks to any brave guy that could help
Henri Henault.
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From: Tesla Coil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:24:25 -0500
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 Filargiropoulos Stavros wrote:
>> Well, despite what you think, communism is a great ideology.
Same day, The Ghost In The Machine replied:
> Yeah, sure it is. That's why the USSR is dominating our butts...
> oh, wait, it doesn't exist anymore.
>
> Hmmm....that should tell you something... :-)
Read carefully:
"...state capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the
present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. If in approximately
six months' time state capitalism became established in our Republic,
this would be a great success and a sure guarantee that within a year
socialism will have gained a permanently firm hold and will have
become invincible in our country."
--V.I. Lenin, one-half year after the 1917 Russian Revolution.
http://gate.cruzio.com/~marx2mao/Lenin/LWC18.html
Some forty years later, Lenny Bruce would look at Russia and say:
"Communism, man, that's like one big phone company."
Communism, like monopoly capitalism.
Karl Marx calculated capitalism to be unsustainable in a monopoly
stage--he didn't say socialism was guaranteed to follow.
Rather unlikely when people are ignorant of the difference.
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From: Matthew Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Regular system crash
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:16:26 +0100
On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Richard Lewin wrote:
> One of our servers crashes regularly (at least once a week, sometimes more
> often). The server is running inn 2.2 and the latest version of bind. It
> is quite heavily loaded with inn - we are receiving a full news feed.
> Usually there is no indication as to why it crashed but today I saw the
> following in the syslog and dmesg.
Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt and post the results to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000014
> current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
[..]
> Call Trace: [<c01198f6>] [<c011e4bf>] [<c01ca6cd>] [<c011e567>] [<c010733f>]
The aforementioned file will assist you to turn this into something
readable at which point kernel people can start trying to help.
> Also the kswapd process is permanently a zombie at the moment. The only
> way to get it running again is to reboot.
Don't expect your system to stay up long if kswapd has died..
> When it crashes it still responds to ping and you can switch between the
> virtual terminals but apart from that it is completely frozen. We are
> now using kernel 2.2.6 but up until recently we were using 2.0.36 with
> exactly the same problem. The hardware is a 333 MHz AMD processor,
> 256MB ram, two 9 GB scsi disks and one 6 GB IDE disk.
If 2.0 and 2.2 are both showing signs of flakiness, I'd be tempted to
suggest dodgy hardware, though the clean NULL pointer dereference
contradicts this. Could you try underclocking the CPU and/or putting
different RAM in?
You can get more information by pressing Shift+Scroll Lock, Alt-Gr+Scroll
Lock and Ctrl-Scroll Lock. One of those (I forget which) will give you a
task list, which may also help the kernel folks..
> I would appreciate replies by email. Thanks very much in advance.
And I would appreciate it if, after taking the trouble to try to help, you
would at least put in some effort to read my reply.
Matthew.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: WORDS OF WISDOM!! Upgrading RedHat 5.1 to 2.2.X Kernel
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:50:27 -0600
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Pendell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >RedHat has created an interesting problem in upgrading RH 5.1 to the
> >2.2.X kernel.
>
> 5.1 was never intended to be upgraded to the 2.2 kernels. That was
> precisely one of the features of 5.2.
>
> Besides why do you want to "upgrade" 5.1 to the 2.2 kernels?
>
> ...
> >This would not bother me much except that RedHat has chosen NOT to
> >support 5.1 anymore. (The RPMS for the 2.2.X upgrade are for 5.2 ONLY.)
>
> Huh? the Upgrades are for 5.2 because it was 5.2 which was designed to
> be upgradable. 5.1 was not. Besides, 5.2 IS the upgrade to mke 5.1 ready
> for the 2.2 kernels.
>
> >This means that anyone who wants to upgrade has to do it manually and
> >will run into this problem.
>
> Get 6.0 and use that! Why do you want to upgrade? Why are you resistant
> to getting the 5.2 distro, and using that? Why don't you complain that
> 4.3 (or 2.0) are not 2.2 ready?
Hmmm.
What exactly is the purported problem with updating RH5.1 to
kernel 2.2.x? I moved this machine running RH5.1 from
kernel 2.0.34 to kernel 2.2.1 a couple months ago already
and besides a couple trivial issues with printers and serial
ports and xosview not working until I updated that, it's
been rock-solid stable and fine as far as I can tell.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Really big hd under linux
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:20:31 -0400
I will need to upgrade my HD sometime soon. My data disk is 6.4 GB and
it's getting squeezed. I am looking at the new 25 GB EIDE drives from
IBM. Is it possible to format these as one large partition?
I have a primary HD that has all the OS and swap on, so this one needs
to be a big space for data.
TIA,
Yan
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From: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Regular system crash
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:12:49 +0100
Reply-To: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Richard Lewin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> One of our servers crashes regularly (at least once a week, sometimes more
> often). The server is running inn 2.2 and the latest version of bind. It
> is quite heavily loaded with inn - we are receiving a full news feed.
> Usually there is no indication as to why it crashed but today I saw the
> following in the syslog and dmesg.
The only times I've had stuff like that happen (and it's been more than once)
were when I was playing about with swap (adding, taking away and other
meddling). Are all the swap files correctly set up (e.g. run mkswap on
them).
> I would appreciate replies by email. Thanks very much in advance.
You post here, you read it here. If you can't be bothered with that,
learn how to use DejaNews.
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Java and HotSpot
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:00:48 GMT
According to Sun, there will only be ports for Windows and Solaris in the near
future.
Remember that Hotspot is NO JIT!!! It is a dynamic compiler, that optimizes
the program during execution (The longer the program is running, the faster
it will become). A JIT compiles only at startup.
In article <7g637n$7v1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Has anyone heard any rumblings if Sun's HotSpot
> JIT compiler will be available for Linux?
> If not, will they make it available for someone
> to port, like they did for blackdown.org and the
> JVM?
>
> Greg
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: find command for nt
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:03:45 GMT
Does anyone know of a preferably public domain "find" command that works on
Windows nt? I know there are variations of the dir command that search
sub-directories. But, I need the output to be exactly what UNIX find outputs.
Regards,
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: sending commands to remote shell
Date: 28 Apr 1999 11:38:58 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neil Zanella wrote:
[spurious blank lines removed]
> Say I am using a Linux network of computers and I am logged into
> two computers, call them A and B. Suppose that by accident, I find
> myself in this situation because I logged into A through xdm and am now
> sitting at B, and forgot to log out at A. Can I send commands to the
> xterms open at A without having to walk over to A (comands such as
> logout)? Can I redirect the X output of A to B
Not that I know of.
A way to take care of this, however, is something like
- open a shell running on A, displaying on B (e.g., through telnet)
- run "tty" to find out what TTY that shell is using
- run "ps x" to get a list of your processes running on A
- run "kill [PID]" or "kill -HUP [PID]" on the process IDs that
you want to die (i.e., all but those on the current tty)
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get Slackware to recognize my mouse?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:57:30 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check that you have a /dev/psaux entry, and that IRQ 12 is indeed
assigned to the mouse port.
Otherwise, XF86Setup can be counterintuitive at best for newbies, when
setting up the mouse in keyboard mode. I tore my hair out for a while
until I discovered the need to click Apply all the time.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have Slackware (2.0.34) and a Microsoft "Mouse Port Compatible" mouse. I
> unerstand that this is a PS2 mouse. Anyway, when I run XF86Setup and try to
> use the mouse, I get no response. I tried it as a Microsoft mouse as well. I
> also tried a Logitech mouse. No luck.
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How does RH determine the soundcard?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:59:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the sound card is plug and play, it might be able to ask the BIOS.
Otherwise it could poll the I/O ports, which is time-consuming to do
comprehensively, but not if you just check obvious values like 220h and
300h/330h.
The bit about "not installing a new kernel" works by just adding a
module to the installable modules list.
Thomas Adams wrote:
>
> I installed RH 5.2 on a P-II yesterday and I was amazed that it had a tool
> which scanned the computer for the soundcard. It not only told me which one
> it found but also installed drivers for it without installing a new kernel
> as far as I could tell.
>
> How exactly does this work and can I use this on other kinds of Linux as
> well? I have a couple of machines with unknown soundcards which I can't open
> for various reasons. A tool that can tell me which type of soundcard there
> is would be very welcome.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie: Learning Linux And Databases
Date: 28 Apr 1999 15:25:14 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Jose Santiago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
eloquently scribe:
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From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:42:53 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst Jim Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>eloquently scribe:
> : P.S. This is intended as humor (and a troll) ;-)
>
> There's nothing wrong with Communism.
> The fact that no government on earth has managed to actually abide by
> Marksist doctrine proves nothing.
>
> (And don't try to tell me Lenin was a Marksist.)
I think any absolute adherence to any one belief is bound to fail. Pure
communism will always fail. Pure capitalism will as well. It is when the
two differing philosophies are carefully combined does a society
prosper.
There needs to be a self interest (profit) motive to drive individual
participation.
There needs to be communal endeavors and responsibility to bind
individuals together.
Any society that attempts one without another is destined to fail.
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