Linux-Misc Digest #19, Volume #20 Sun, 2 May 99 13:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Stefaan A
Eeckels)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Stefaan A
Eeckels)
Re: Microsoft is the Communist!!! (Stefaan A Eeckels)
Textpad/ultraedit class editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
irc ("Michael Rathburn")
Zip drive -- how do you configure it in RH 5.2? (Benjamin Sher)
Installing KDE - newbie ("Judy")
Re: DAT problem (-bill-)
Re: Installing KDE - newbie (Jonas Pedersen)
Re: irc (Donald)
Re: Microsoft is the Communist!!! (Ed Avis)
Re: Gnome Help ! (-bill-)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Ed Avis)
Minicom (Lian PL)
Re: Linux on WinChip? (Juho Cederstrom)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Ed Avis)
Re: i need a file (Paul Kimoto)
Zip drive configuration (Rev.) -- parallel port (Benjamin Sher)
Problems Installing Redhat 5.2 (Ward Dresser)
Re: Alpha Server + WinNT + DOS progs??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Alpha Server + WinNT + DOS progs??? (Charles Demas)
Got The Bullet Etech E56K external running V90 at 486 DX 2 66 without packet loss
(how I did it). (Jan Panteltje)
Re: How to find amount of Free Disk Space ("Erik")
Re: bttv device not created (2.2.2) ("Erik")
Unable to write after Redhat 5.2 rescur boot (gpro)
I broke KDE: Desktop blank, programs won't run (Alan Fang)
Re: Gnome Help ! (Matthias Warkus)
Re: i need a file (jason)
Re: I am on a quest... (Matthias Warkus)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefaan A Eeckels)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: 2 May 1999 11:06:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Seebach wrote:
>
>>That said, a friend of mine is running *NT*, for crying out loud, on a P166.
>>It works fine.
>
> I'm running NT on an IBM PS/2 Model 80-111. The Model 80 (AFAIK) was
> introduced in 1987, although this is a later model. It has 12MB of
> 160ns RAM, two 115MB ESDI hard disks, and an upgraded CPU (Evergreen
> 486 running at 20MHz).
>
> Okay, so it is NT 3.51 :-P
NT 3.51 ran quite smoothly on a 486/66 with 32Mb and SCSI disks.
One major problem was the speed of the console window - it reminded
me of a 1200 bps terminal. I upgraded to NT4 because "the video
subsystem performance has been dramatically increased", but had to
replace the 486 by a pentium 200; the overall system felt *much*
slower than 3.51, and was a lot less reliable. Maybe it was the
VESA local bus SCSI controller, maybe the video card, maybe the
lack of RAM - I don't know -- a new motherboard, 64Mb RAM, a PCI
video card and a P200 made it into a very usable and stable system.
--
Stefaan
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Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Saint-Exup�ry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefaan A Eeckels)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: 2 May 1999 11:12:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
>
> Microsoft has a higher per-unit profit on sub-$1000 machines than the
> manufacturers, and they have far less risk and capital on the line.
>
> Pretty neat trick, eh?
Not to mention they refer you to the supplier of the machine
for any Windows support. That basically makes Windows a system
component, and the *only* one for which there is no second
source.
Pretty neat trick indeed.
--
Stefaan
--
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Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Saint-Exup�ry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefaan A Eeckels)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Microsoft is the Communist!!!
Date: 2 May 1999 11:28:56 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Prins Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Well i'm sorry about that mix-up with "putatively communist states", but you see
> English isn't my native language so i didn't quite understand, so my bad....
So maybe you'll take the friendly advice of a fellow native Dutch speaker:
follow the accepted English spelling, and mind your capitals and your
punctuation. We should leave experiments to poets :-)
> And i too think that there's something wrong with the methdology to get a
> communist state, it's very vurnerable to a single dictator, in the so called
> dictatorship of the working class...but leaving out the practical implementation
> of communism ( of course that is important because the make a system work you've
> got to implement it)....i think communism is the system to go for ( of course
> most ppl dont agree on what communism really means), maybe Che guevara had good
> practical ideas but also they had flaws, mainly about having a strong leader at
> first.....
The moment you "go for" any form of ideology (or ideologically
defined/constrained system), be it communism, libertarianism,
or the sharia, you are prepared to force people who don't
agree with the ideology to accept it. Unless specific measures
(such as a constitution) exist to limit the extend to which
"leaders" can force others to follow them, such approaches
are doomed.
To succeed, a social order must be built on the consent of
a very large majority of the people. The impact of this on
those who feel morally and intellectually superior to their
fellow human beings can safely be ignored.
--
Stefaan
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Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Saint-Exup�ry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Textpad/ultraedit class editor
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 12:10:21 GMT
Hello
I�m looking for a medium weight X11 text editor, in the category that textpad
and ultraedit have for Win.
I find XEmacs bloated and cumbersome; and nedit, edith, fte, kwrite and
gnotepad too weak.
Visual Slick Edit 4 is the closest I�ve found so far, but it is way too
expensive.
Does anybody know an nice one (gtk, motif, qt), that handles multiple large
files, has syntax highlighting (perl, sh, maybe html and C++) and does well on
search/replace operations? Project management, scripting and debugger are not
necessary.
Or has somebody ever seen a crack for Visual Slick Edit?
Thanks
Zia
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From: "Michael Rathburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: irc
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 14:15:26 +0100
Can some one tell me the the command structure for for using irc
from Xterm.
I have tried :-irc /server Dalnet davis.dal.net.6667 and I get cannot
resolve host
what do i put for host and where ? I assume its my username and password but
I can't seem to get it right.
also I have after a lot of hassle managed to connect using Kppp I get the
Daemon died unexpectedly but I can still load Netscape and surf the net is
this Normal or should it drop the connection when the pppd daemon dies.
Thanks in advance
Ratty....
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From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zip drive -- how do you configure it in RH 5.2?
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 13:41:12 GMT
Dear friends:
I have tried to configure my standard Zip100 in RH 5.2 by using the
Kernel Configurator. It looks quite easy: you select the "scsi_adaptor"
module, then the "ppa" module type. But then they ask you for options. I
have no idea what option values to put in there. No choices are given,
and even they were, I probably would have no idea how to proceed. Same
in RH Installation Guide (p. 339).
What options are they talking about?
Most people have a Zip drive and a printer with their RH 5.2 and
obviously must have succeeded in configuring their Zip drive so they can
then alternate between Zip and printer (insmod ppa, insmod lp, etc.).
Are there other ways of configuring the Zip drive?
I would be very grateful for help on this matter.
Thank you so much.
Benjamin
--
Benjamin Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
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From: "Judy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Installing KDE - newbie
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 16:06:04 +0200
I've spent the week-end installing RedHat 5.2 and getting X it to work with
my bro's dumb ATI Fury card (yes!!! it works!!) I'm currently trying to
install KDE, but I can't get through the *required* QT installation step.
I'm stuck where the INSTALL file says to :
"Set some environment variables in the file .profile (or .login, depending
on your shell) in your home directory."
Right, so what are these files? which one do I make (.profile or .login)?
and where do I place them? Should I log on as root, or another user?
Anyway, I tried to get something going, but when I executed
make linux-g++-shared
It grumbled something strange about $PWD and stopped.
I know, this isn't a lady's world, but anyone care to help a poor damzel in
distress? Thanx guys :)
JuDe
PS: BTW, does anyone know how to get the [Alt Gr] key to work in Linux,
using a French keyboard? It acts like the regular [Alt] key which means I
cannot type characters like '{', '@', '#'. It does, however recognise the
AZERTY layout.
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From: -bill- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DAT problem
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 09:56:04 -0400
I had this problem. It was a misconfiguration in the scsi adaptor. I
will need to reboot to look at the settings.
--
-bill-
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From: Jonas Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Installing KDE - newbie
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:22:05 +0000
Judy wrote:
> I've spent the week-end installing RedHat 5.2 and getting X it to work with
> my bro's dumb ATI Fury card (yes!!! it works!!) I'm currently trying to
> install KDE, but I can't get through the *required* QT installation step.
> I'm stuck where the INSTALL file says to :
>
> "Set some environment variables in the file .profile (or .login, depending
> on your shell) in your home directory."
>
> Right, so what are these files? which one do I make (.profile or .login)?
> and where do I place them? Should I log on as root, or another user?
>
> Anyway, I tried to get something going, but when I executed
> make linux-g++-shared
>
> It grumbled something strange about $PWD and stopped.
>
> I know, this isn't a lady's world, but anyone care to help a poor damzel in
> distress? Thanx guys :)
>
> JuDe
>
> PS: BTW, does anyone know how to get the [Alt Gr] key to work in Linux,
> using a French keyboard? It acts like the regular [Alt] key which means I
> cannot type characters like '{', '@', '#'. It does, however recognise the
> AZERTY layout.
You could place it in /etc/profile. Then logout of your box and login again.
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From: Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: irc
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 11:19:31 -0400
try this: irc /server davis.dal.net:6667
On Sun, 2 May 1999, Michael Rathburn wrote:
>
> Can some one tell me the the command structure for for using irc
> from Xterm.
> I have tried :-irc /server Dalnet davis.dal.net.6667 and I get cannot
> resolve host
> what do i put for host and where ? I assume its my username and password but
> I can't seem to get it right.
>
> also I have after a lot of hassle managed to connect using Kppp I get the
> Daemon died unexpectedly but I can still load Netscape and surf the net is
> this Normal or should it drop the connection when the pppd daemon dies.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Ratty....
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Microsoft is the Communist!!!
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 15:16:24 +0100
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
>The moment you "go for" any form of ideology (or ideologically
>defined/constrained system), be it communism, libertarianism,
>or the sharia, you are prepared to force people who don't
>agree with the ideology to accept it.
I thought the idea of libertarianism is that you don't have to follow
it if you don't want to :-)
--
Ed Avis
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From: -bill- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome Help !
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 09:52:57 -0400
I'm even more of a nubie than you are, what is GNOME ?
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-bill-
Technical Service Systems - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 15:22:53 +0100
Matthias Warkus wrote:
>>So, I think, RMS is not quite an anarchist communist, even in the software
>>sense.
>
>He's neither anarchist nor communist as far as I can see. ESR is
>anarchist.
RMS has commented on this, see
<http://eatthestate.org/02-41/FreeSoftwareAnyone.htm>:
>I'm used to occasional accusations of being a Communist, but usually this is
>done by people who would rather argue against Communism than against my
>actual views. But it's a new experience to see someone who means me well by
>it.
>
>It isn't accurate, though. I work on free software to give software users
>freedom, which is nothing at all like Communism. I've been partly influenced
>by leftist Anarchism, by the idea of a world in which people voluntarily
>arrange to work together for the general good, but not at all by Communism.
As for ESR, I don't think he is an anarchist. Certainly he claims to
support copyright law and proprietary software (in principle, even if
he thinks it leads to bad products). An anarchist would not support
such state intervention to grant monopolies to particular companies.
--
Ed Avis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lian PL)
Subject: Minicom
Date: 19 Apr 1999 03:22:36 GMT
My Minicom program does not respond to Control A and Z .Is there
something wrong. I have checked the setting but to no avail. Olse help by
emailing to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juho Cederstrom)
Subject: Re: Linux on WinChip?
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 20:55:16 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 1 May 1999 20:48:28 +1000,
Matthew B. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's a Winchip?
It's a processor.
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From: Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522)
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 15:15:06 +0100
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
>NT 3.51 ran quite smoothly on a 486/66 with 32Mb and SCSI disks.
>One major problem was the speed of the console window - it reminded
>me of a 1200 bps terminal.
It's reasonable on my PS/2. But then, I do use 640x480x16 graphics,
and an 8x7 console font.
>I upgraded to NT4 because "the video
>subsystem performance has been dramatically increased",
Ie, the video drivers and windowing stuff now run in kernel mode.
>but had to
>replace the 486 by a pentium 200; the overall system felt *much*
>slower than 3.51, and was a lot less reliable.
See above.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: i need a file
Date: 2 May 1999 11:01:08 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, aamon wrote:
> i have installed libpng many times
>From source? From a distribution?
> but it keeps asking for a file
> called libpng.so.0
> does any one have this or know how to fix it???
What is "it" that is asking?
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From: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zip drive configuration (Rev.) -- parallel port
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 15:02:22 GMT
Dear friends:
[I forgot to mention the most important thing: it's a parallel port Zip
drive.-- Benjamin]
I have tried to configure my standard Zip100 in RH 5.2 by using the
Kernel Configurator. It looks quite easy: you select the "scsi_adaptor"
module, then the "ppa" module type. But then they ask you for options. I
have no idea what option values to put in there. No choices are given,
and even they were, I probably would have no idea how to proceed. Same
in RH Installation Guide (p. 339).
What options are they talking about?
Most people have a Zip drive and a printer with their RH 5.2 and
obviously must have succeeded in configuring their Zip drive so they can
then alternate between Zip and printer (insmod ppa, insmod lp, etc.).
Are there other ways of configuring the Zip drive?
I would be very grateful for help on this matter.
Thank you so much.
--
Benjamin Sher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sher's Russian Web
http://www.websher.net
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Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 08:53:38 -0700
From: Ward Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Problems Installing Redhat 5.2
Installation successful, but when I re-boot after I get 30+ lines of output
I
get the following error message:
ll_rw_block: device 16:41 only 1024-char blocks implemented (4096)
My system hangs at this point.
I have installed Linux on my second ide harddrive & it is below the 1023rd
cylinder.
Any help?
Thanks,
W. Dresser
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Alpha Server + WinNT + DOS progs???
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2 May 1999 11:54:10 -0500
On 1999-05-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Hi Everybody !
>My question;
>On my job I have a ALPHA server running UNIX,
>is it possible to change that to a WinNT server running DOS
>programs ??
Why on earth would you want to?
Net-Tamer V 1.08X - Test Drive
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Demas)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Alpha Server + WinNT + DOS progs???
Date: 2 May 1999 17:17:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On 1999-05-02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >Hi Everybody !
> >My question;
> >On my job I have a ALPHA server running UNIX,
> >is it possible to change that to a WinNT server running DOS
> >programs ??
>Why on earth would you want to?
My guess is one or more of the following:
1. He has no Unix experience.
2. He wants to do a web-server with M$ Frontpage or other M$ stuff.
3. He likes being called when the system misbehaves.
4. He's a troll.
My bet is on number 4.
Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Panteltje)
Subject: Got The Bullet Etech E56K external running V90 at 486 DX 2 66 without packet
loss (how I did it).
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 99 12:44:04 GMT
Bought external, as advised in this group.
However severe packet loss (about 20 %) resulted (ifconfig)
To cure the problem I did the following:
Bought a serial card with a 16550A UART. (shop around,
I bought mine form PC doc overtoom Amsterdam, for about 19 $).
test your UART version with setserial -a /dev/cua3.
Install the program irqtune (free available from:
http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune).
Set it for highest priority on irq 3 (com 4, cua3)
(I still have my old 14k4 internal on com 2, just for experimenting).
Set hdparm -u 1 for the hard disk you are running.
I had to stop any running wav files (via play, or else reboot after the thing
crashed, so be VERY careful with the -u option, file system corruption may
occur).
Here is the result of my last V90 connection:
at&v1
TERMINATION REASON.......... RETRAIN FAILURE
LAST TX rate................ 28800 BPS
HIGHEST TX rate............. 28800 BPS
LAST RX rate................ 49333 BPS
HIGHEST RX rate............. 49333 BPS
PROTOCOL.................... LAPM
COMPRESSION................. V42Bis
Line QUALITY................ 127
Rx LEVEL.................... 018
Highest Rx State............ 67
Highest TX State............ 84
EQM Sum..................... 00A3
Min Distance................ 0000
RBS Pattern................. 00
Rate Drop................... 00
Digital Loss................ 2000
Local Rtrn Count............ 00
Remote Rtrn Count........... 00
Flex 9481814347E4
This last line does not indicate the connection was Flex, you can see it
was v90 from the 49333 BPS line (one of the v90 speeds).
This 49333 is also is an indication for the line speed / quality possible,
this seems to be all I can get (out in the wild here).
I think that on this session ifconfig reported 2 packets lost, this normally
does not happen.
This is the irqtune setting in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:
/root/compile/irqtune/irqtune/sbin/irqtune 3
This is the hdparm setting in /etc/rc.d/rc.S:
/usr/sbin/hdparm -c 3 -m 16
This is the connect script:
NOTE hdparm -u 1 is set here, and hdparm -u 0 in the disconnect script!!!!
Just in case, I do not want to mess up my 6.8G hdb again.
For the same reason any sound playing is stopped.
Also note, since I used different ISP's, named is rebooted with a different
ini file, this is not relevant to the subject however.
killall play
hdparm -u 1 /dev/hdb
pidof named | xargs kill -s KILL
named -b /etc/named.boot.de
/usr/sbin/pppd connect ' /usr/sbin/chat -t 45 -v \
ABORT DIALTONE ABORT BUSY ABORT DELAYED "" \
"ATZ" OK \
"AT+MS=12,1,34667,56000" OK \
"ATW1" OK \
"ATM0" OK \
"ATDT99999999" CONNECT \
"" login: \
USERNAME word: \
PASSWORD Protocol: \
ppp HELLO ""' \
/dev/cua3 115200 debug crtscts modem \
defaultroute noipdefault passive persist
On some files, 115200 baudrate is not enough, even my 14k4 needs it.
So a faster serial port or internal PCI perhaps?
This would require a different xtal in the serial port card, not sure the
modem can cope though.
Finally of cause I could have bought a pentium 3 with all the other stuff,
but this 486 has been serving me very well over the years, and now I have
some money for a holiday.
J.
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From: "Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to find amount of Free Disk Space
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 18:15:54 +0200
Bryan Gaetjens heeft geschreven in bericht
<7gf72v$6rf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>OK, bash me for being stupid if you like, but I'm at a loss.
>
>How do you determine the amount of free space left on a disk under
>Linux???????
This should do the trick:
df
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From: "Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: bttv device not created (2.2.2)
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 18:28:11 +0200
XXX heeft geschreven in bericht <7gcik0$pve$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I recently upgraded to kernel 2.2.2, thinking "Great, it includes the bt848
>driver". I took care to include it in the kernel, and indeed it correctly
>starts and identifies by TV card on booting.
>
>However, no "bttv" or "video" device is or has been created, and so none of
>the applications work.
>
>What have I done wrong, and how can I get my TV card (Hauppauge WinTV PCI
>Primo) to work now?
>
>Any help/advice much appreciated.
>
Funny, in my case all bttv/video devices are created, but my TVcard isn't
detected at bootup. I downloaded the bttv-driver form
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml, maybe it's useful to you.
Regards, Erik Akkermans
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From: gpro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to write after Redhat 5.2 rescur boot
Date: 2 May 1999 16:32:28 GMT
I can boot from a Redhat 5.2 rescue floppy set.
Then I mkdir /mnt/linux and mount -w -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/linux.
I cd /mnt/linux/etc and cp a good inittab to a bad one.
An ls -la init* shows the copy.
After rebooting, the old inittab is still there. How can I
get the system to overwrite the bad one and save it?
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From: Alan Fang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: I broke KDE: Desktop blank, programs won't run
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 05:42:26 -0700
Hi, people
Let's see... the last thing I remember doing was adding some "export"
lines to the end of my /etc/profile file for some Voodoo2 settings
(using pico). After that, I noticed that the KDE desktop icons were
gone, and I couldn't execute any progams from the menus at the bottom.
I then went and removed those lines, but the problem still remains. Did
I accidentally delete a line, or foobar it up somewhere? The last few
lines of the profile file look like:
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
export PATH PS1 HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE USER LOGNAME MAIL INPUTRC
for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do
if [ -x $i ]; then
. $i
fi
done
unset i
The only other thing I remember doing recently was "rpm-e" on a couple
of *-devel.rpm that I didn't think I needed. I didn't get any
complaints about broken dependencies, though.
So that's my story. Any help is appreciated since I'm sorta new at this
Linux stuff (Redhat 6). Oh well, at least I had Linux Quake3 running
for a little while...
ACF
to reply, change the jc in the email address to js. If possible, please
post a reply, as this account will be shutting down soon.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,nl.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux.installat
Subject: Re: Gnome Help !
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 14:04:57 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 30 Apr 1999 19:24:00 +0200...
..and John van der Zanden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unpacked all gnome packages without serious problems, but what to do now ??
> the manual says this
>
> To start gnome, you must edit the X startup files. (which one and how ?)
> a sample x startup file using gnome-session follows:
> #!/bin/bash
> exec gnome-session
> ## end sample
> the default Gnome session configuratio file is
> /usr/share/gnome/default.session. The user gnome session is
> $HOME/.gnome/session.
>
> All nice and well, but what must i do ? I dont have any clue what this all
> means as i am a NEWBIE !!
> Which file must i edit and what should i put in it ??
Simple. It's .xinitrc in your home directory, or .xsession if you are
using xdm, gdm or kdm.
Change the line which says "exec <my-window-manager>" to "exec
gnome-session". Make sure your Gnome directory is in your PATH. Then
everything should work out just fine.
mawa
--
If Jessie don't like it,
It don't get no funds.
We spend taxpayer's money,
On tobacco and guns. -- Louden Wainright III
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i need a file
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 12:49:22 -0400
aamon wrote:
>
> i have installed libpng manyy times but it keeps asking for a file
> called libpng.so.0
> does any one have this or know how to fix it???
Just a shot in the dark, since you're not very specific, but did you run
'ldconfig' as root after installing libpng?
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.slackware.linux
Subject: Re: I am on a quest...
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 17:08:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Sun, 02 May 1999 08:19:57 GMT...
..and Jeffery Cann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> for an X-windows email client for Linux. If my dream of the "perfect"
> email client could be written down, it would have the following
> features:
>
> - stable: never hangs, never blows up!
> - reliable: messages don't evaporate!
> - scalable: if I have 2000 messages saved, performance shouldn't drop.
> - graphical: what can I say, I am not into pine.
> - threaded: this seems to be a hard feature, not sure why.
> - minimal resources: bloatware sucks even with P2/350 (128 MB)
>
> Here are the email clients I have tried:
[schnibble]
Hm. You're looking for a perfect mail client. Methinks it doesn't
exist yet. Write it, or have it written.
TANSTAAFL.
mawa
--
When you look at yourself in an aberrational mirror, you see your real
self, looking back at the twisted you.
-- Dr. (?) Bob Miller, "The Aberrational View of the Universe",
Twisted Science, Heat, National Public Radio
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