Linux-Misc Digest #27, Volume #20 Sun, 2 May 99 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (returning to %252522GNU Communism%252522) (Ed Avis)
Help in installing Red Hat 5.2 on Dell PowerEdge SP 5166 (Leslie Smith)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Frank Sweetser)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Loren Petrich)
Multibooting redhat linux 5.2 and SCO OSR5.0.4 (Salman Ashraf)
Re: how do i detect if x is running? (Jim Richardson)
Re: I am on a quest... (Jim Richardson)
Re: Module problems since Linux 2.2.6 (Salman Ashraf)
Compiled program seems too large (Evan Wolenzik)
md5sum - improvement? (Herwig Huener & Josella Simone Playton)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)^ (Bill Bonde)
XANIM and .avi files (Stephen Speicher)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks (Tesla
Coil)
Re: CTRL-S (Patrik Israelsson)
Re: Java app under linux limited to 16 meg of memory (Bob Sutherland)
Re: A new video card ("Matt O'Toole")
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Chris Costello)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Chris Costello)
Re: unmount cdrom problem (**Nick Brown)
Re: Question (NF Stevens)
Re: No sound playing CD's (Gerald Willmann)
Re: want fvwm back, now it is kde when I type startx (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE
SIG **)
Re: SB AWE64 & audio CDs (William Cattell)
PostgreSQL help needed. ("[...M...]")
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)^
Re: question... (Jim Cochrane)
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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 22:48:51 +0100
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
>I still wonder why Microsoft didn't manage to get the console window
>up to the speed of XFree (which isn't the fastest of X implementations)
>as they don't have to run a client/server model.
It's got less to do with Windows' graphics than with the console
window itself. Or perhaps it's because the bitmap font engine in
Windows is slow compared to X's. In any case, you can run a fairly
cheesy X server on Windows (for example MI/X), get an xterm to talk to
that, and it will be much faster than the native console window.
However, many DOS or Win32 console programs won't work in it, as they
use direct screen access or the Win32 Console API respectively.
(Using ANSI escape sequences and standard output, as one 'should', is
so slow programmers have to work around it. But then the program
won't run in anything except the 'official' console window.)
--
Ed Avis
Advertise here! [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Smith)
Subject: Help in installing Red Hat 5.2 on Dell PowerEdge SP 5166
Date: 1 May 1999 14:10:09 +0100
Can help me out here, I have got a Dell PowerEdge server
SP 5166 Dual CPU.
I'm using Red Hat 5.2, when I am using the boot disk to boot
the machine I only get three dot's then the machine stops dead,
this also happens with Red Hat 5.1 too. I am able to load Red
Hat 5.0 OK.
Machine Spec:
CPU = 2 x 166
SCSI HD = 1 x 1GB
2 x 2GB
1 x 450GB
MEM = 128MB
Display = 1 x Vodoo 4MB
REgards
Leslie...UK:-)
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 02 May 1999 17:43:23 -0400
Chris Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Not to mention ESR _threatened_ Bruce Perens not to long ago. He was
> serious, and I've heard he's a gun nut.
read it on slashdot. ESR quickly said that he had *no* intenvions for
physical violence whatsoever.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
Any false value is gonna be fairly boring in Perl, mathematicians
notwithstanding.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Crossposted-To:
talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.activism,alt.society.liberalism
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 21:55:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christopher B. Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To a "true-believer Capitalist" of the Mark S. Bilk variety, it must
>be quite acceptable to sell one's own children into slavery.
Certainly true -- if there is money to be made, then why not?
[Mark Bilk:]
>>This is basically because in Capitalism, it is OK to harm
>>other people in order to benefit oneself (this is a good
>>definition of "evil") as long as one can induce the victim
>>to "voluntarily" bite the hook.
>No, this is not an example of the Principles of Absolute Capitalism;
>this is an example of the Principles of Insanely Blind Greed.
So crooked capitalists are not Real Capitalists?
--
Loren Petrich Happiness is a fast Macintosh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] And a fast train
My home page: http://www.petrich.com/home.html
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From: Salman Ashraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Multibooting redhat linux 5.2 and SCO OSR5.0.4
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:47:55 GMT
I have Redhat 5.2 and SCO OpenServer 5.0.4 on a machine and I would like
to use LILO as a boot loader. Linux is installed on /dev/hdb and lilo is
in the MBR. I installed SCO on /dev/hda, which already has win 98 on it.
After SCO was installed, I guess it put its boot loader in the MBR
because I'd get the SCO Boot: prompt when I'd boot my machine. So,
I booted linux from the floppy and reran lilo after adding a clause for
SCO in lilo.conf. It's something like
other=/dev/hda3
loader=/boot/chain.b
label=sco
But when I tried to boot into SCO, it wouldn't boot. It would just hang
saying booting sco. I have to use the SCO boot and root disk to get into
SCO, but then I suppose I need to mount my root filesystem from the hard
disk or something because what I get from the floppy isn't all of it. If
someone has a similar setup and can boot SCO successfully from lilo or
just knows how to do this, I'd really appreciate any help. I need to get
this running pretty soon. Thanks in advance.
Salman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: how do i detect if x is running?
Date: 2 May 1999 21:38:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2 May 1999 01:05:27 -0500,
Paul Kimoto, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, digs wrote:
>> I'm trying to write a script that will choose an editor for mutt based on
>> my enviroment.
>>
>> If at the console I'd like to use vim
>> if using x11 then nedit
>>
>> The use of the DISPLAY variable wont work because that could be
>> defined in /etc/profile or elsewhere.
>
>But DISPLAY should not be set if there is no display. It is wrong
>to set it elsewhere.
Setting DISPLAY with no valid target, will not cause any problems except
that any X aware progs will not work. (some progs, like Emacs, which
have x and console modes, may need to be told explicitly to open in
console mode.)
>
>Anyway, you could try to run some program that requires that X be
>available, for example
>
>if xrdb -query > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> # it worked; X is available
> nedit "$@"
>else
> vim "$@"
>fi
>
>--
>Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.slackware.linux
Subject: Re: I am on a quest...
Date: 2 May 1999 21:38:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 02 May 1999 08:19:57 GMT,
Jeffery Cann, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>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:
>
> Netscape Communicator
<snip>
>KDE Kmail
<snip>
>Star Office
<snip>
>
>What do you use? How does it rate with the above wish list?
>
>Jeffery Cann
>
I used XFmail for a while, then I went backto pine, GUI looks cool, but
frankly, it doesn't add anything for me, but you might want to check out
XFmail.
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: Salman Ashraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Module problems since Linux 2.2.6
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:54:10 GMT
I had a similar problems with unresolved symbol names in a different module. What
worked for me was cleaning my kernel distribution and recompiling. After compiling
and installing the kernel and modules over, everything worked. You might want to
try it once if you haven't already. Hope it works for you.
Salman
Peter Lieverdink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been running linux for a few years now without problems, but a few weeks
> ago, after compiling 2.2.6 it started. The kernel booted fine, depmod -a ran
> fine from rc.modules, but when modprobe started to install modules all I got
> were a bunch of 'unresolved symbols'. I was told to upgrade modutils, which I
> did. Running version 2.1.121 now, but still no joy when trying to load modules.
>
> I waited for 2.2.7 to see if that'd fix the problem, but alas, same thing.
>
> Here's a few of the errors I get, most of my other modules fail on the same
> symbol names.
>
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol global_bh_lock
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol global_bh_count
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_cli
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol tqueue_lock
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_save_flags
> floppy.o: unresolved symbol __global_restore_flags
>
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From: Evan Wolenzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiled program seems too large
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:58:12 GMT
Hi,
When I compile the following code, my executable is 25k! Am I doing
something wrong?
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("Hello World!\n");
return(0);
}
I just use gcc -o hello hello.c . Using -O[2,3] makes no difference.
Thanks,
Evan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herwig Huener & Josella Simone Playton)
Subject: md5sum - improvement?
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 00:01:59 +0200
1999-05-02 23:48:00 MEST
Hi,
two questions came up my mind:
(1) Are there two strings of non-zero-length and not equal to each other
known to mankind, which have the same MD5-checksum (or "fingerprint")?
(2) If I had two such strings, (not-equal to each other and having the
same
checksum,) I could subject both to some bit-operation, such as
inversion,
or xor-ing with a *.jpg of Pamela Anderson, or something like that. Then
I could md5sum the two results. How large is the probability that these
new
MD5 checksums are also equal?
You see, where I am aiming to: to improve MD5 by a simple algorithm
which just calculates some derivative of a string, computes the
MD5-sum of this derivative and append the result to the MD5 sum
already obtained for the original. This way one can have a 256-bit,
a 384-bit, a 512-bit etc. checksum - question is, is this checksum
of higher quality than MD5 alone?
--
Herwig Huener [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 8095 2230
Josella Simone Playton [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 8095 2230
http://www.Josella-Simone-Playton.de
GruberStrasse 10 A / D-85655 GrossHelfenDorf / Bavaria / EU
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From: Bill Bonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.activism,alt.society.liberalism
Subject: Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)^
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 15:02:32 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Loren Petrich wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark S. Bilk wrote:
>
> >> Amazing! Exactly what "class of individuals" is enabled
> >> to "take advantage of others" by means of the GPL? All of
> >> humanity minus Bill Gates?
>
> > The GPL is a crock. It forces openness. That's not freedom.
>
> The way that anti-slavery laws make one not free to own slaves?
>
Is it wrong to keep software proprietary?
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From: Stephen Speicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XANIM and .avi files
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 22:06:59 GMT
I tried the xanim that came with RH5.2, and then tried the
latest version (2.80.0) that I downloaded from a website,
but both give me the following error:
----
XAnim Rev 2.80.0 by Mark Podlipec Copyright (C) 1991-1999. All Rights Reserved
comp 49563530 49563530 49563530
AVI Video Codec: Unknown IV50(49563530) is unsupported by this executable.(E18)
Can't Open /dev/dsp device
AVI Notice: No supported Video frames found.
----
Can anyone point me to a compiled version of xanim that will
support this IV50? Alternatively, is there another compiled
Linux program available for viewing .avi that I can try?
Stephen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Save the photons--don't look!
Printed using 100% recycled electrons.
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From: Tesla Coil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.activism,alt.society.liberalism
Subject: Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 17:26:01 -0500
On 2 May 1999, Christopher B. Browne wrote:
> To a "true-believer Capitalist" of the Mark S. Bilk variety, it must
> be quite acceptable to sell one's own children into slavery.
Heavens no, not *one's own* children. They inherit the business.
Doing that to other people's children might be lucrative, but the
damned radicals managed to get it illegalized.
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From: Patrik Israelsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: CTRL-S
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 19:27:57 +0200
Stu wrote:
> I've noticed that within a virtual console CTRL-S disables the keyboard.
> I am sure this is not a bug, so what is its purpose. I can only think
> that it could be to lock the console for whilst away from the keyboard,
> but if so how do you unlock it ?
Well, I really don't think I've seen any good answers to this in other
answers (sorry guys =P), so I'll just answer your question: Ctrl+S does the
same as Scroll Lock. Unlock it by pressing Scroll Lock again...
/ Patrik
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From: Bob Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Java app under linux limited to 16 meg of memory
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:21:12 -0500
Bruce Ritchie wrote:
>
> Neal Williams wrote:
> >
> > I'm running my Java application under linux, and I can't get more that 16
> > meg of memory for it. My machine has 128 meg, and linux can see all of
> > it, but my java app can't use over 16 meg. What's going on and how do I
> > change it?
> >
> > -Neal
>
> What jdk version are you using???
>
> If you are using 1.1.7, try something like
>
> java -ms16M -mx48M class
>
> type java --help for information on the above parameters.
>
> I believe jdk 1.2 (java 2) takes care of this automatically . but I'm known to
> be wrong from time to time.
>
Under 1.2 use java -Xmx48M class
Bob S.
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From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A new video card
Date: 02 May 1999 15:12:16 PDT
brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> With 2M of video RAM, you should be able to do 1024x768x16bpp just fine.
> It sounds like your 800x600 is still 8bit color.
Doh! I never realized that 8bpp was the default setting. I assumed it was
16bpp. 16bpp does run, although my monitor flickers too much.
> I was doing 1152x900x16bpp with my Mach64. But make sure your chipset
> can support that: 'Mach64' is, alas, a huge variety of chipsets and some
> can't do decent color.
Mine is onboard, with no documentation, so who knows. I can get into the
16bpp range now, but I would stil like snappier performance. I also want to
upggrade to a bigger monitor, with faster refresh rates. I'm not sure the
card can handle that.
Thanks,
Matt O.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To:
talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.activism,alt.society.liberalism
Subject: Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 22:39:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Loren Petrich wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark S. Bilk wrote:
>
> >> Amazing! Exactly what "class of individuals" is enabled
> >> to "take advantage of others" by means of the GPL? All of
> >> humanity minus Bill Gates?
>
> > The GPL is a crock. It forces openness. That's not freedom.
>
> The way that anti-slavery laws make one not free to own slaves?
Totally different. There is absolutely nothing wrong with
proprietary software.
>
> --
> Loren Petrich Happiness is a fast Macintosh
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] And a fast train
> My home page: http://www.petrich.com/home.html
--
Chris Costello
Compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To:
talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.activism,alt.society.liberalism
Subject: Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 22:41:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 02 May 1999 20:52:34 GMT, Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark S. Bilk wrote:
> >> >For each person, it depends on timescale or personal
> >> >interest. Some systems elevate a "class" of individuals to take
> >> >advantage of others ("practical communism" and GPL),
> >>
> >> Amazing! Exactly what "class of individuals" is enabled
> >> to "take advantage of others" by means of the GPL? All of
> >> humanity minus Bill Gates?
> >
> > The GPL is a crock. It forces openness. That's not freedom.
> >You like walking outside sometimes, I would bet. Would you like
> >being *FORCED* to walk outside all the time? That's the key
> >problem with the GPL and many recognize it.
>
> It's equally extreme as what it was meant to replace.
Nonetheless, there are better licenses out there than the GPL,
such as the BSD-style license shipped with FreeBSD. I also have
nothing against the real BSD license.
>
> --
>
> Microsoft subjected the world to DOS until 1995. |||
> A little spite is more than justified. / | \
>
>
> In search of sane PPP Docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
--
Chris Costello
A hacker does for love what others would not do for money. - Laura Creighton
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unmount cdrom problem
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:53:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the error message ? If it's that the device is in use, make sure
you close all processes which might have something on the CD as their
current directoty.
Mars wrote:
> I'm running red hat linux. The user option is added to the line mounting
> the cdrom in /etc/fstab. Now any user can mount the cdrom but not
> unmount it(only root can). Do anything i do wrong? Pls advise. Thanks.
--
===============================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: Question
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 20:48:04 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rizwan Syed) wrote:
[snip]
> Ok.. here's the actual question I had, I guess I'm going to have to be a
> little more specific. Is it possible to 'hide' a user so that other users
> don't know he exists? So that it doesn't show up under /home/ and doesn't
> show up under /var/spool/mail/ ??? I want those files to be hidden so that
> only root can see, but noone else can. Is that possible?
No. You could put the home directory somewhere other than /home,
and redirect all mail to root so that the user never gets any
mail. But the user would have to be listed in the passwd file.
That file has to be readable.
Norman
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound playing CD's
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 15:03:19 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm a newbie and I've followed the procedure as far as configuring my sound
> card, and can hear the sound sample given, but when I attempt to play a CD
> I'm getting no sound. Any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance...
Allan: you can play audio CDs w/o a soundcard. Try different CD-players
(xplaycd, xmcd, workman ...), make sure /dev/cdrom points to your actual
CD (/dev/hd? or /dev/scd0) and also try it as root in case there is a
permission problem. To hear something plug a headset into the front
of your CDrom drive. Now, if you want to hear it via your soundcard you
need an audio cable to connect your CDrom drive to your soundcard.
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **)
Subject: Re: want fvwm back, now it is kde when I type startx
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 15:36:08 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Schultz:
[Snip...]
|> >Joern Smock wrote:
|> >>> I have installed KDE. Now when I type startx, KDE is launched. I don't
|> >>> want that. I want to use fvwm. Typing startx fvwm doesn't help. How do I
|> >>> get fvwm back?
[Snip...]
|> Try deleting your .Xclients in your home directory.
[Snip...]
That may work for fvwm (I haven't tried) but I have another suggestion.
I wanted olwm (which I had to install from downloaded rpms) rather than fvwm,
which I found annoying at times. I found you must keep .Xclients under RedHat
5.2, no matter which WM you wanted, or whether using xdm or kde. Apparently I
needed to put the olwm startup in .Xclients, then use symbolic links to point
both .xinitrc and .xsession to it. Both kde and xdm were perfectly happy with
starting up the WM of my choice at that point. HTH.
This is probably buried in a FAQ or HOWTO somewhere, but I missed it.
Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) ** IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO **
1. As antispam, I have completely disabled my "adam" email account.
2. Please vent inconvenience at Cyberpromo and their Satanic spawn.
3. Please look for (wyrd) at raytheon, dotted with com. NO UCE/UBE.
4. I detest UCE/UBE. I support CAUCE; http://www.cauce.org HR 1748.
Standard Disclaimer: My opinions, and not Raytheon Systems Company.
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From: William Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB AWE64 & audio CDs
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 15:38:44 GMT
Thanks Brian. I'll start checking out that level. I did try running
cdp and came up with the same error so I'll start checking the cdrom
config in the kernel.
Bill
brian moore wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 21:40:57 GMT,
> William B. Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yo all;
> >
> > I've finally gotten my kernel recompiled (2.2.6) and can 'cat' .au and
> > .wav files to /dev/xxxx. If I try to play an audio CD I get an error
> > message on the console of;
> >
> > CD audio: ioctl error on /dev/cdrom cmd:=CDROMPLAYMSF errno=5
> >
> > If I do 'cat /dev/sndstat' I get nothing listed under 'Installed
> > Drivers:' or 'Card config:' but I do have 'Sound Blaster 16' under
> > 'Audio devices:', 'AWE32-0.4.3' in 'Synth devices', etc - see the
> > attached snd.txt file.
>
> icky --- usenet doesn't like MIME.
>
> > I've re-run the install/setup process to get this far but I'm at a loss
> > as to what I've missed. TIA.
>
> You're looking in the wrong place.
>
> The sound from your CDROM is sorta special: it's not controlled really
> by the kernel sound drivers except for volume (and that's
> just-another-mixer-channel).
>
> You're not even that far, you're getting hit when you try to start
> playing. Errno 5 = 'I/O error', which in this case means that your
> CDROM driver (not your sound driver) didn't like the command.
>
> Are you sure you have the right CD-ROM driver installed?
>
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From: "[...M...]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PostgreSQL help needed.
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:00:54 -0500
I am getting the following error when using PostgreSQL:
$ psql template1
Connection to database 'template1' failed.
FATAL 1: SetUserId: user "marko" is not in "pg_shadow"
So how do I get my userID into pg_shadow???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To:
talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.activism,alt.society.liberalism
Subject: Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)^
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 15:56:20 -0700
On Sun, 02 May 1999 15:02:32 -0700, Bill Bonde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Loren Petrich wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark S. Bilk wrote:
>>
>> >> Amazing! Exactly what "class of individuals" is enabled
>> >> to "take advantage of others" by means of the GPL? All of
>> >> humanity minus Bill Gates?
>>
>> > The GPL is a crock. It forces openness. That's not freedom.
>>
>> The way that anti-slavery laws make one not free to own slaves?
>>
>Is it wrong to keep software proprietary?
Considering what the legal justifications are for allowing the
goverment (US at least) to exercise power in this regard, yes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Cochrane)
Subject: Re: question...
Date: 2 May 1999 16:51:28 -0600
You could also take a look at the touch command.
(A little hint - if you put a very brief summary of your question in the
subject line (such as "How to change the date of a file?"), you're more
likely to get a response. If someone who knows the answer to your question
sees what it's about in the subject line, he's more likely to take the
time to read your post rather than just skip over it, especially in a
high-volume NG like this one.)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Kimoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hellraiser wrote:
>> is there any way to manipulate or change the date a file was created?
>
>Unix filesystems have no idea when a file was created. There is a
>"last-modified" time stored, though.
>
>> like, for example, if i had a file made on may 2, could i change the
>> date to something else, like march 5?
>
>To modify this time, see the man page for utime(2). (Alternatively,
>if a perl user, try "perldoc -f utime".)
>
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