Linux-Misc Digest #71, Volume #20 Wed, 5 May 99 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux and y2k on intel (brian moore)
Re: newbie linux questions (mist)
Re: Netscape 4.51 question (Rene Bauer)
RH6.0 clock skew ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Slackware to Redhat Qns. (John Strange)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Andrew Carol)
Looking for "cross-platform" RAD tool for linux/Windows95 (Al Dev)
Re: Netscape 4.51 question (Unclebob)
Re: 'screen' and dselect/lynx/mutt/slrn (terminfo?) (Jeffrey Altman)
Re: Linux to Dos ("SEATTLE")
Re: Linux damaging hardware through kernel patch???? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Linux and y2k on intel (Mark Tranchant)
Re: Ugent! Help with xv! (Mark Tranchant)
Re: GNU reeks of Communism (Roger Espel Llima)
Re: Multibooting redhat linux 5.2 and SCO OSR5.0.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tape backups w/ SCSI inteface in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ugent! Help with xv! (Marc Mutz)
Re: I'd like to run another x-windows on F8. (William Cherry)
Re: AGP Video Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux damaging hardware through kernel patch???? (TurkBear)
Problems compiling Kernel 2.2.7 (Sellaro)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Linux and y2k on intel
Date: 5 May 1999 16:07:23 GMT
On Wed, 05 May 1999 13:48:35 +0100,
Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, but if the BIOS reports on boot that it is e.g. 1980, Linux has no
> choice but to go with that. You will either need a BIOS fix or a
> compensation program (e.g. add 20 years to the date on bootup, if that
> is the failure mode of your machine).
"no choice"?
There are plenty of if's in the kernel considering there is "no choice".
> This is not Linux's fault, true, but it is a problem that will affect
> Linux because it reads a potentially wrong date on boot.
Won't affect any of my systems, nor any systems I know of.
Have you tried it?
(Hint: the year doesn't wrap around to 1980 on any clock chip I know
of.)
--
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: mist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie linux questions
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 10:55:30 +0100
Reply-To: mist <new$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Albert Goins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
> mist wrote:
>> Albert Goins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribed to us that -
>> >I have installed Red Hat 5.1 on my new machine after not having
>> a
>> >machine to put Linux on for 3 years. A lot has changed in that
>> time and
>> >I have a few questions I am having trouble finding answers to.
>> >
>> >1. Why doesn't LILO work?
>
>> <snip> Most likely because the windows 98 partition is
>> formatted as
>> FAT32 and the two are incompatible. (Lilo and FAT32).
>>
>
> So there is no way to have LILO on a Win98 system?
I didn't say that. 8-)
Yes, you can use LILO with win98, so long as you can alter the Win98
file structure to plain old FAT. Perhaps using a tool like Partition
Magic 4. (You could probably use the bootloader from that too.)
Alternatively, you could use a boot disk, a small FAT boot partition
before win98, remove win98 completely, or use Loadlin.
<snip>
> how do I mount my cdrom and how do I mount my win98 partition?
The CDROM, usuaully with *mind goes blank* something like -
mount /dev/hd[letter position of CD ROM]0 -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
> Can Linux handle mounting a Win98 Fat32 partition?
Yes. Mount the drive as VFAT -
mount /dev/hd[drive letter][drive partition number] -t vfat /mnt/here
Replacing [drive letter] and [drive partition number] with the
appropriate places. (This assumes an IDE drive.) eg mine is
mount /dev/hdc5 -t vfat /mnt/windoze
Note that the directory /mnt/windoze needs to exist first.
--
Mist.
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Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 13:37:17 +0200
From: Rene Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51 question
Jim Bailey wrote:
>
> Reading newsgroups I sometimes want to mark a message or group of
> messages as unread so the next time I open it, I can remind myself whats
> going on. SURELY there's a way to mark a message as unread. I guess I
> just can't find it. BTW - can anyone recommend another browser or
> mailer or newsreader. Netscape is driving me nuts !
>
> -- jim bailey
Click and hold the left mouse button a little longer on the
"Mark"-Button. You will get a menue with different choices. One of them
is "Mark message unread". An alternativ would be to "Watch a thread".
Just right-click on the message and choose "Watch thread". This will put
a little pic infront of the message. All new messages in this thread
will also have that little sign.
Ciao,
Rene
--
Rene Bauer
TESIS SYSware GmbH, Munich (Germany)
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +49 (0)89 747377-26
Never trust a programmer with a screwdriver!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH6.0 clock skew
Date: 5 May 1999 12:51:38 GMT
I've got a clean install of RH6.0 under VMWare on my 5.2 box (no time
to mess with the production box right now, but still wanted to check it
out :). During installation, I did _not_ indicate that my hardware
clock is set to GMT (which it isn't), and I chose Eastern as my time
zone. I confirmed that /etc/sysconfig/clock shows UTC=false
and that /etc/localtime points to the right file (just like on my 5.2
box). However, the clock in my 6.0 install is exactly 4 hours behind
the proper time. NT under a VM reads the correct time, so it's not a problem
with VMWare. I've also heard of people with a 5 hr clock skew
on natively installed 6.0 boxen.
Has anybody else run into this? Anybody know of a fix? I've also futzed
with /etc/adjtime to no effect.
Thanks,
--
====================================
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Strange)
Subject: Re: Slackware to Redhat Qns.
Date: 5 May 1999 11:55:14 GMT
Whoops, forgot to add
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/games
As root you might want to do a
updatedb # runs for about a minute
Now you can do a
locate fortune
root ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Thanks a bunch, the color thing worked GREAT. However, the fortune program is
: not found., Is there another way?
: John Strange wrote:
: > added the following to /etc/bashrc
: >
: > alias ls="ls --color"
: > fortune -a all
: >
: > root ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: > : I am giving Red Hat 6.0 a shot. I really really miss Slackware, though.
: > : I have a few question that might hopefully make the transition easier:
: > : 1. Why does my "Backspace" key no longer work?
: > : 2. I really did like the colored text mode that Slackware offered, where
: > : different types of files might be differentiated oby color. Red Hat
: > : Shows all grey, much like MSDOS. Is there a way to change this? The same
: > : goes for Color Xterm.
: > : 3. I also loved the Fortune cookies I got on startup. Is there something
: > : analagous to that here?
: >
: > : I must say, RedHat is neat too. I just gotta finish exploring it.
: > : Any Answers would be GREATLY appreciated.
: > : Allen
--
While Alcatel may claim ownership of all my ideas (on or off the job),
Alcatel does not claim any responsibility for them. Warranty expired when u
opened this article and I will not be responsible for its contents or use.
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From: Andrew Carol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 12:29:57 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So? Free Software doesn't have to live and die by the market.
>
> That's it's prime utility. It's really the only other sort of
> thing in the same position as WinDOS (immune to market pressure).
It doesn't live or die by the market, but it's revalence does go with
the market. Unused Free Softare is neat, but has no impact on the
world.
To succeed, Free Software must compete for consumers interest. This
can be based on cost, quality, features, etc. If it doesn't compete,
it will become simply irrelavant.
-- Andrew
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From: Al Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Looking for "cross-platform" RAD tool for linux/Windows95
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 11:14:55 -0500
Do you know of any C++ RAD tool which will work for both Linux and
Windows95 and solaris.
There should be no code change between linux, Windows95 and solaris. All
coding to be in C++.
Commercial or freeware/shareware is ok.
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From: Unclebob <unclebob@this-ain't-it.net>
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.51 question
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 16:26:47 +0000
Jim Bailey wrote:
>Reading newsgroups I sometimes want to mark a message or group of
>messages as unread so the next time I open it, I can remind myself whats
>going on. SURELY there's a way to mark a message as unread. I guess I
>just can't find it. BTW - can anyone recommend another browser or
>mailer or newsreader. Netscape is driving me nuts !
>jim bailey
--
Jim;
See that little green button right beside the date in the
message winder? click on it. Also, select a group by using
the shift key and clicking. You can flag them the same way.
The best newsgroup reader, IMO, is Forte Inc's Agent.
hope they port it to Linux, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
--
ub
==================================
idiot box (id'ee-ut) n. singular;
linux box connected to an idiot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey Altman)
Crossposted-To: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: 'screen' and dselect/lynx/mutt/slrn (terminfo?)
Date: 5 May 1999 13:22:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 30 Apr 1999 08:20:04 GMT, Tim Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: wrote:
: >So the "bce" problem is a slang problem then?
:
: Slang does not support terminals that do not use the currently
: selected background color for erasing. In my opinion, such terminals
: are brain-dead and there is really no way of properly optimizing the
: screen redrawing on these terminals.
: [...]
:
: For these reasons, I have decided not to support such poorly designed
: terminals with the hope that the terminal software itself will get
: fixed. I modified rxvt to provide the bce capability and I believe
: that the new color xterms work this way as well. Now someone needs to
: fix screen to make it bce-compliant.
: [...]
Oh, what an interesting thread. :-) This really belongs in comp.terminals.
There is only one problem with this rationale, most of the terminal
designs were implemented in hardware and in order for software to
emulate them properly the software must do exactly what the hardware
did.
There are actually two issues that are tightly related here:
(1) what color is used for filling in erased/scrolled areas of the
screen: "current" or "default"?
(2) what happens to the "current" color when a "reset attributes"
command is received (ANSI X3.64-1979/ISO 6429 - CSI 0m):
does it get reset to the "default" color or not?
These two feature choices have been implemented in different ways
because the ANSI X3.64-1979 standard (withdrawn) did not specify
how color should be used in these situations.
There are few terminals that actually implement "erase with default
color". The QNX console is one example, older Xterm implementations
are another. Many of the so called "ANSI"* terminals (SCOANSI, AT386,
...) implement both and can be toggled between the two modes with:
Set Fill Mode
CSI = Ps L
Ps = 0, use current color
Ps = 1, use default color
However, when it comes to the question of "reset color with attributes"
there is about a 50/50 split. The DEC VT line of terminals and those
derived from them (Linux console, Wyse 3xx series, SNI, ...) implement
"reset colors with attributes" whereas those derived from the IBM
High Function Terminal (AIXterm, SCO Console, PCANSI, ...) do not
reset the colors when attributes are reset.
When one or both of these capabilities are implemented incorrectly in
a terminal emulator the result is similar when used with form based
applications: white space tends to be in the wrong color. However,
the cause of the problems are very different.
Now I completely agree that "erasing with the default color" makes
screen optimization must more difficult. However, it is a feature of
many terminals and since terminals do not go away it should be
supported. 'screen' implemented it years ago, while it might not be
very efficient it can't be very hard.
(*) There is no terminal called "ANSI". ANSI never produced a terminal
definition. X3.64-1979 is a standard (withdrawn) that outlines
a framework upon which terminal definitions could be built. There
is so much flexibility in the standard that it would be almost
impossible for two terminal designers to come up with interoperable
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "SEATTLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux to Dos
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 08:42:41 -0600
Try this site...Linux Tutorials & More
HTH
http://home.att.net/~aubreyb
Click the linux Link
Scroll down to converting to Dos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Linux damaging hardware through kernel patch????
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 17:14:17 GMT
If you had read closely, you would have noticed that I had encapsulated
the remarks in an <facetious></facetious> construct.
The remarks were meant to be humourous, and not to be taken seriously.
I have no knowledge of any patch (as described in my prior post), and
seriously doubt that (a) such a patch *could* be written, and (b) Linus
would permit such a patch to make it into the Linux kernel.
My apologies if my (obviously poor) attempt at humour were taken seriously.
On Mon, 03 May 1999 23:19:25 +0200, Shaun Schembri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
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>A few days ago I posted a message about a problem I recently came
>through. I thank everybody who helped both my this newsgroups and by
>mail
>
>But one of the messages made me think. Here is the message as sent by
>Mr. Lew Pitcher.
>
>Actually, a Microsoft programmer surreptitiously introduced a patch to
>the
>2.0 series kernels that would randomly destroy hardware by introducing
>conflicting analogue signals through programmed RF induction.
>Unfortunately, these patches weren't caught by Linux (being both source
>code obfuscated,
>and supplied through a South African software house *not* associated
>with Microsoft), and the buggy code has been propagated to the 2.2
>kernels.
>
>The goal of this code was to physically destroy the hardware of any
>Linux user, providing physical punishment for not using Microsoft
>operating
>systems, and forcing the user to purchase new hardware with Microsoft OS
>
>pre installed.
>
>I am a computer technician with quite some years of experience and I am
>not new to software development but I cannot figure out any method that
>can be used to induce RF in almost purely digital hardware through a
>software algorithm. Here are my questions....
>
>1. Does this really exist? If Yes then give some suitable
>explanation
>2. Do the people which produce the Linux kernel know what the problem
>is, because the bug has made it through all the testing stages of the
>2.2 kernel.
>3. If its true that a Microsoft programmer made this to promote
>Windows, then can Linux take some kind of legal action against Microsoft
>as this infringes the right to choose which OS to use thus producing
>non-fair competition?
>
>Thank You
>Shaun
>
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>A few days ago I posted a message about a problem I recently came through.
>I thank everybody who helped both my this newsgroups and by mail
><p>But one of the messages made me think. Here is the message as
>sent by Mr. Lew Pitcher.
><p><i>Actually, a Microsoft programmer surreptitiously introduced a patch
>to the</i>
><br><i>2.0 series kernels that would randomly destroy hardware by introducing</i>
><br><i>conflicting analogue signals through programmed RF induction.</i>
><br><i>Unfortunately, these patches weren't caught by Linux (being both
>source code obfuscated,</i>
><br><i>and supplied through a South African software house *not* associated</i>
><br><i>with Microsoft), and the buggy code has been propagated to the 2.2
>kernels.</i><i></i>
><p><i>The goal of this code was to physically destroy the hardware of any</i>
><br><i>Linux user, providing physical punishment for not using Microsoft
>operating</i>
><br><i>systems, and forcing the user to purchase new hardware with Microsoft
>OS</i>
><br><i>pre installed.</i><i></i>
><p>I am a computer technician with quite some years of experience and I
>am not new to software development but I cannot figure out any method that
>can be used to induce RF in almost purely digital hardware through a software
>algorithm. Here are my questions....
><p>1. Does this really exist? If Yes then give
>some suitable explanation
><br>2. Do the people which produce the Linux kernel know
>what the problem is, because the bug has made it through all the testing
>stages of the 2.2 kernel.
><br>3. If its true that a Microsoft programmer made this
>to promote Windows, then can Linux take some kind of legal action against
>Microsoft as this infringes the right to choose which OS to use thus producing
>non-fair competition?
><p>Thank You
><br>Shaun</html>
>
>--------------77BEBF54C6830FDD873CCCEF--
>
>
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and y2k on intel
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 13:48:35 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, but if the BIOS reports on boot that it is e.g. 1980, Linux has no
choice but to go with that. You will either need a BIOS fix or a
compensation program (e.g. add 20 years to the date on bootup, if that
is the failure mode of your machine).
This is not Linux's fault, true, but it is a problem that will affect
Linux because it reads a potentially wrong date on boot.
Mark.
**Nick Brown wrote:
>
> Linux is not the BIOS. It uses a time representation which works until
> 2037 or so. If an _application_ chooses to represent the date wrong,
> it's not Linux's problem.
>
> Graham Daniell wrote:
> > There are a number of patches / TSR's available for the DOS / Windows
> > world to "fix" the Bios of many Intel PC's to ensure the clock rolls
> > over to year 2000 correctly and stays there.
>
> --
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)int)
>
> Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Ugent! Help with xv!
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 13:50:43 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK - xv doesn't use Ghostscript, and it can only display and convert
Postscript files if a bitmap preview is included in the file. Even so,
xv only manipulates the (possibly low quality) preview, not the ps file
itself.
Ghostscript has a GIF output facility (as a pseudo-output device, if
it's compiled in), which is what pstogif uses, I expect.
Mark.
Marc Mutz wrote:
>
> Kenny Zhu wrote:
> >
> > Hi there. I need to convert ps images to gif or jpeg. I know xv can do
> > that but I couldn't manage to display ps files even thought I have
> > ghostscript package installed. Please help me. This is urgent! Thanks in
> > advance.
> >
> > Kenny
>
> Use pstogif.
>
> Marc Mutz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Espel Llima)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: GNU reeks of Communism
Date: 5 May 1999 17:06:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew Carol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The cracking of one over confidant system does not make other systems
>weaker. Is anybody any closer to cracking IDEA? Triple DES? It's not
>going to happen in our lifetimes.
it's basically not the same. with IDEA and triple DES, cryptographers
are trying to break a puzzle which, for all we know, might well have no
solution faster than brute force (trying all keys).
with your decoding CPUs (which include public-key crypto hardwired, and
whose protocol requires active communication betwen Intel and every
single software vendor), the attackers are trying to break a puzzle
where they *know* that all the pieces are in front of them, if only
hidden inside the CPU.
a company could make millions and millions, by reverse engineering such
a CPU, extracting the key on just one, buying every software package out
there with that key, and selling cracked versions of everything for
cheap.
>Oh well.....
is "oh well..." your .sig or what? :)
btw, I'm looking forward to this future of yours. I don't think it'll
happen, but I sure wouldn't mind it if it did.
one of the very best things that could happen to the free software world
is for "piracy" of non-free programs to actually became impossible.
--
Roger Espel Llima, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Multibooting redhat linux 5.2 and SCO OSR5.0.4
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 17:07:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Salman Ashraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
FWIW:
I have OpenServer 5.0.5 and Redhat 6.0 (just upgraded from 5.2)
dual-booting with lilo. Here is how I did it.. YMMV.
System has 3 disks. 1 SCO 2 Linux. SCO disk is active and is /dev/sda
Linux disks are /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc. Here is my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
other=/dev/sda4
label=sco
table=/dev/sda
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/sdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only
The SCO partition is active. When lilo is ran from Linux it writes the
loader to the MBR. When rebooting the lilo prompt comes up and typing in
sco will load the SCO boot prompt. Kinda flakey but it works for me.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tape backups w/ SCSI inteface in Linux
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 13:37:16 GMT
I've been looking for a stutable 10gb+ backup solution for
usage on a Linux box. I've come across several Tape/DAT
backups that use the SCSI inteface.
I wasn't even aware that SCSI could be used for streaming media.
My question is; will these backups typically work in Linux?
I.e., can I use tar paramters > /dev/sdXXX?
Any other recommendations and/or warnings concerning Linux
backup hardware?
Oh, and btw: Anyone had any sucess with DVD-RAMs on Linux?
I've been asking around and searching the web, but my
findings are equivocal.
Thanks!
/ Peter Schuller
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Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 13:08:40 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Ugent! Help with xv!
Mark Tranchant wrote:
>
> OK - xv doesn't use Ghostscript, and it can only display and convert
> Postscript files if a bitmap preview is included in the file. Even so,
> xv only manipulates the (possibly low quality) preview, not the ps file
> itself.
>
> Mark.
xv *does* use gs.
Marc Mutz
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From: William Cherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'd like to run another x-windows on F8.
Date: 05 May 1999 12:22:56 -0500
behapy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I useually login by init5 runlevel. So kde starts automatical at F7 by
> user behapy. And I'd like to startx at F3 by user guest. Pushing
> ctrl+alt+F3, login by guest. and startx could not be run. I have heard
> about the command like this "startx --0:1", but I'm not sure. And it
> does not work. How do I make this work?
>
> thanks all
> Jingun
On my system the command
startx -- :1
does exactly what you want.
If you want to specify the virtual console number you can do
startx -- :1 vt08
for example. Depending on your X server though this might put it on
virtual console 7 8 or 9 (mine puts it on 9, vt07 would put it on 8, etc.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: AGP Video Card
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 12:46:34 GMT
In article <7gotg4$uv5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to replace my existing 2D video card, with an AGP one (to free
> up slots). Does anyone have any recommendations ? It only needs to
> be 2-D as I have a Voodoo card, and I don't really want to spend a
> huge amount of money.
>
> Any suggestions ?
What about an ATI XPERT 98 AGP 2X, 8M, about US$50.00.
http://www.atitech.ca/ca_us/products/pc/xpert98/index.html
it is supported by XFree86, search SuSE's database:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TurkBear)
Subject: Re: Linux damaging hardware through kernel patch????
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 17:22:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shaun Schembri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>A few days ago I posted a message about a problem I recently came
>through. I thank everybody who helped both my this newsgroups and by
>mail
>
>But one of the messages made me think. Here is the message as sent by
>Mr. Lew Pitcher.
>
>Actually, a Microsoft programmer surreptitiously introduced a patch to
>the
>2.0
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Mr Pitcher has been looking for the black helicopters for too long....
Actually the code that MS inserted generates a Alpha wave modulator that
immediately reduces your IQ by 100 points - at that point you will decide that
Windows is actually a superior OS and abandon your installation of Linux.....
Remember even paranoids have real enemies.....
Have fun.....
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From: Sellaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems compiling Kernel 2.2.7
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 13:43:17 -0300
Hello ALL
When I try to compile kernel 2.2.7 (and other 2.2.x kernels) in my
system (Pentium II 233 MHz, with 64 MB RAM, running Slackware 3.6 with
kernel 2.0.36) I get the following error message:
make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
gcc -D__kernel__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototype -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2
-malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686 -c -o checksum.o
checksum.c
checksum.c:204: redefinition of 'csum_partial_copy'
checksum.c:109: 'csum_partial_copy' previously defined here
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:185: Fatal error: Symbol csum_partial_copy already
defined.
make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/lib'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
I've already checked the file <kernel source>/Documentation/Changes and
verified all the requirements to properly compile the new kernel. Here
they are:
Kernel Modutils: 2.1.121
GCC: 2.8.1
Binutils: 2.9.1
libc5: 5.4.46
Dynamic Linker: 1.9.9
any help will be greatly appreciated. Please, drop it also to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
T.I.A.
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