Linux-Misc Digest #96, Volume #20 Fri, 7 May 99 13:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Donal K. Fellows)
Re: How to switch VTs wben X is running? (Hans Koch)
Re: 3D video card (Edmondo)
PCI Hot plug (Jim Puthukattukaran)
Re: fsck finds errors on HD (Hans Koch)
Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
(Richard Caley)
[Newbie] Make ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem with GTK & Glib ("David Z. Maze")
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Chris Costello)
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (Frank Meisschaert)
Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows (Bill Vermillion)
Re: Win98 and Linux Dual Boot (Sasa Ostrouska)
Problems with HP680C printer. ("Farley Carter")
Re: mounting and unmounting cdrom ("Daniel Thomas")
Re: Any program can generate Gif or Jpg ("G. Sumner Hayes")
Re: Linux, Who to buy from? ("brian l")
Re: Is Unix a single user operating system? (Richard Caley)
Re: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet? (Glenn Stauffer)
Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really) (Frank Sweetser)
Re: meta key doesn't work in xterms with Redhat-6.0 ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: ICQ Java alternative ("Kerry J. Cox")
Re: Small X Window ("Anthony DeLuca")
Re: automatically unload tape? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't open COM1 unless root - how to fix?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: 7 May 1999 15:00:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also, there are more and more applications for Linux; just you wait
> for an IE (or is it there already?) and others... Or are you going
> to answer me that I (and everybody else) should carve out PSN lines
> from the source code?.. Again, there are "non-free" applications,
> when the source code is not available, and there could be more of
> those... Also, there are all those java things and plug-ins, and I
> wonder whether one may use them to turn the PSN on. So far, Linux is
> probably safe; next year it will not be.
Can't turn the PSN on without a processor reset. That will either
reboot the machine or trigger an OS trap (I can't remember which.) No
user-land code will be able to do this on Linux, though if the
get-the-PSN instruction can be trappen on Linux, the OS might
substitute some bogus random number instead... :^)
IOW, the PSN is not (or will not be in the future) an issue on Linux.
This is 'cos Linux does things right - why penalise it for the
iniquitous failings of M$?
Donal.
--
Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- The small advantage of not having California being part of my country would
be overweighed by having California as a heavily-armed rabid weasel on our
borders. -- David Parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s>
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From: Hans Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to switch VTs wben X is running?
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 10:11:52 -0500
>> >>...
>> >>How CAN you switch back into X???
>> >
>> >X usually runs on 7. console (so you have to press Alt+F7, _not_
F6).
>>
>
>> Hans Koch wrote:
>>
>> About the "usually":
>>
>> When you use several virtual consoles
>> (on my PC at home: two per family member)
>> you need a way to find out which are used, andby whom.
>>
>> Does anyone know a place where X keeps a list?
>>
>> My current "hack" consists in saving the stdout from startx
>> in $USER/.startx$N
>> where $N is the number of the display.
>> To list the various VT's,
>> I extract info from these log files and from the output of "who".
>> But I suspect that there is a better way ...
>>
>
>Ursa_M --> This is my problem exactly. I have several VT's going.
Now I
>haven't tried just cycling through all of the alt f(n) combinations....
>Something to think about.
>
>If you come up with a foolproof, or at least somewhat reliable method,
>please post it here. I am currently on RedHat 5.1 on an AMD K6-2 300
and
>generally VERY happy with my Linux installation. (The Sybase SQL
Server was
>a very nice and helpful addition BTW.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ursa_M
The method I mentioned seems reliable to me
(but a more "standard" solution would be preferable,
using e.g. a list of used VT's,
if such a thing already exists).
Here is a variation of what I implemented;
you would need to write a small script to do it:
For VT's 1-6 you can extract the tty info from the output of "who".
For X, determine which displays are being used
(e.g. looking at the sockets in /tmp/.X11-unix)
and then for each display number $N, extract the corresponding
VT number from a file like /tmp/.xdisplay$N
(needs to have write permission for everybody)
written e.g. by a modified (copy of the) startx script.
This script can extract the VT number from the stdout of xinit.
It probably needs to choose the display as well,
if none is specified, e.g., by looping through 0 1 2 ...
and picking the first unused number.
Maybe this sounds too cumbersome?
If necessary, I could cleanup the sripts that I use
and e-mail them to you, but I am a bit busy right now.
- Hans Koch
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From: Edmondo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3D video card
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 16:59:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
everett wrote:
> I was thinking of buying new 3dfx card. And i want to use it under linux as
> well.. any suggestion??
> can linux support AGP??
I use Linux 2.2.5 with a 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 card. No problem at all.
At this URL you can find some rpm to install you Card under X
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/
ciao
edmondo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Puthukattukaran)
Subject: PCI Hot plug
Date: 7 May 1999 14:50:37 GMT
Is there anyone who is doing PCI Hot Plug support for Linux? Any help will be
appreciated.
thanks,
Jim
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From: Hans Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fsck finds errors on HD
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 10:24:02 -0500
>>> Every time when 'fsck' reaches the max. count,
>>> it always
>>>finds many-many errors (lost clusters, inodes,...).
>
>> I had a similar problem and it turned out to be bad RAM
>> that lead fsck to report non-existing disk errors.
>> You may want to run a memory check.
>
>How can I do a memory check ?
I used a diagnostic disk
that came with the machine (Dell).
- Hans Koch
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From: Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pro-Unix vs anti-WinTel (was: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?)
Date: 07 May 1999 11:45:40 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, zenin (z) writes:
z> True, however Linux is pushing for the standard desktop market *far*
z> more then Sun ever has, and it shows.
But that's different. yes, linux seems to want to commodityize(if
there is such a word, and bu god there shouldn't be). But that's not
the same as pushing to be a desktop system. It involves being pretty
and having easy ways to do easy things (generally at the expense of
making mildly interesting things a pain in the backside). None of that
implies a pressure to compromise multi-user support, though it may
reduce the pressure to improve it. Most of the multi-user features
are actually very useful on a single user machine. File protections to
stop yourself damaging important information for instance.
z> Every day Linux looks more and more like Windows/Mac
z> and less and less like Unix, for better or worse.
I don't see it matters what it looks like. So long as it has a
reasonably stable kernal and a C compiler, I could live on it. I could
live on NT if someone shot Gates and spent a couple of years cutting
away the bloat an pretended user friendliness.
z> On the flip side *BSD is mostly pushing for a better Unix and could
z> really care less about the traditional WinTel/Mac desktop market.
z> *BSD isn't anti-WinTel, it's pro-Unix. There is a *big* difference
z> between the two both in the motive and the result.
Personally I'm pretty anti windoze, can say I have much of a problem
(except aesthetically) with intel. I think anyone pro-Unix is a bit
odd. Odder than people'round here usually are I mean:-). I'm pro
anything which works and is reasonably elegant. Unix is just the least
worst easily available. I don't want a better Unix, I want a better
system, I'd jump ship to, say, BeOs or plan9 or Oberon or whatever in
an instant if it were better for what I need.
Epoc on a full sized system would be nice...
--
Mail me as rjc not [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Newbie] Make
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 14:56:06 GMT
just a quick question, and one that I'm sure has a very simple answer :)
I've just installed Red Hat 5.1 and am trying to set up my 3DFX Voodoo2, I'm
using rpm to put in the glide runtime libraries (as in
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS.html). Anyway, I'm stuck on step 3.1 of
the installation, I get the error "make : command not found".
Have I done something wrong in my Red Hat installation, or is it just a case
of
installing make ?
If it is, where do I get the needed files and how do install them ?
thanks in advance,
Lemon459
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with GTK & Glib
Date: 07 May 1999 12:01:13 -0400
Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JB> And I am trying to install glib-1.2.1 and gtk+-1.2.1
JB>
JB> Gtk requires Glib so after I install Glib (which looks like it
JB> installs without any problems) which installs itself into
JB> /usr/local/lib/glib...ok so when I go to try and install gtk and I run
JB> ./configure, it says that it can't find glib...more precisely:
JB>
JB> checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.1... no
Right, because you don't have glib-config installed on your system.
(There's also a corresponding gtk-config program for Gtk.) If you
want to compile (not just run) programs using either of these
libraries (and libraries in general), you need to install the
corresponding -devel packages (glib-devel and gtk+-devel, probably).
--
David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/
"Hey, Doug, do you mind if I push the Emergency Booth Self-Destruct Button?"
"Oh, sure, Dave, whatever...you _do_ know what that does, right?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To: talk.politics.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.activism
Subject: Re: The GNU Fragrance of Sharing vs. the Stench of Greed (was: GNU reeks of
Communism (really)
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 15:03:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > The GPL is not inherenly bad for any great social reason. The real reason it
> > doesn't work is because it encorages inefficient software engineering models
> > which results in a lot of very bad software being not just written, but
> > propegated.
>
> Explain further how the GPL (as opposed to laziness) encourages this,
> please?
It doesn't. He's speaking nonsense again.
>
> --
> Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
>
> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
> Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
> --Eric Crampton
--
Chris Costello
Computer programmers do it byte by byte.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Meisschaert)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?
Date: 7 May 1999 11:57:38 GMT
Jesus Monroy, Jr. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: On Wed, 05 May 1999 00:17:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: > Thomas Keto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >
: >> I really hate to see Unix and Unix software marketed like single user
: >> operating systems.
....
question: Is unix a single user operating system?
answer: No.
Just as simple as that.
Frank
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 14:01:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7gokjq$ri5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leslie Mikesell (lm) writes:
>>> Never reboot, never appologise. An unplanned reboot is a sign of
>>> major system brain death.
>lm> Just a practical matter.
>Yes, I have to reboot windoze a great deal too.
>lm> Linux can take all the load you *should* be giving a system.
>>> Who is it to be telling me what I should and shouldn't do?
>lm> If jobs are starting faster than they are completing (say a web
>lm> server running CGI programs) the result isn't going to be pretty.
>Then surely the system should do something about it.
It's hard to protect a system against stupid mistreaks. :-)
I made a mistake on a sendmail configuration, and the system
started sending undeliverable messages so quickly the system
immediately started a slowdown.
Thank goodness for killall . Between 10 and 15 minutes later
killall had caught up with the last of the processes and
performance returned to normal so I could clean up the 20,000+
messages in the mail queue :-(. (Experience is a humbling
teacher).
--
Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com
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From: Sasa Ostrouska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 and Linux Dual Boot
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 17:28:29 +0200
Robear wrote:
> Please bare with me on this. It is not covered in any FAQ or newsgroup that
> I have come across.
>
> I have two IDE HD. First hard disk has Win98 32 Bit partition installed on
> it. The second HD has Linux.
>
> At present, I use a floppy to boot Linux, and automatically load Windows 98
> when I want to use it.
>
> What I would like to do, is have a menu on the first HD to be able to choose
> Win98 or Linux...
>
> Ah hah I here you say, use LOADLIN.
>
No Use LILO !
>
Install LILO and configure it should be the best thing for you.
Bye Sasa
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From: "Farley Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with HP680C printer.
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:15:41 GMT
I am trying to get my HP680C to work in Linux. I am new to Linux and would
appreciate some help.
The problem.
The printer wants to step each line because Linux only sends a line feed
I read that if I set up the following input filter it would solve the
problem. Basically the idea is to add a carriage return to each line.
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$1" = -c ] then
cat
else
sed -e s/$/^M/
fi
echo -en \\f
The result of this is that each line gets a ^ and an M appended to it. Not a
Ctrl-M as required.
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Farley Carter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"to err is human to really screw things up takes a computer"
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From: "Daniel Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting and unmounting cdrom
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 21:16:23 +1000
Check the /etc/mtab file for anylines referencing the cdrom and delete them,
then try remounting and unmounting
Hope this helps,
Daniel Thomas
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From: "G. Sumner Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Any program can generate Gif or Jpg
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 08:17:32 -0400
[This has nothing to do with linux system development.
comp.os.linux.misc seems like the most appropriate group, so I've
directed followups there]
Dove wrote:
> In Linux, is there any program or script can generate a Gif or Jpg
> chart according to some ASCII data?
Check out gnuplot. It's quite powerful.
There's no GUI afaik, so if you're coming from an MS-Windows background
you might be in for a bit of a shock.
-Sumner
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From: "brian l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, Who to buy from?
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:43:11 +0100
RedHat seems to be the current favourite - this company's had a lot of money
popped into it by some of the Big Boys. This means it'll probably stick
some proprietry stuff in its distributions (it already uses a different
directory structure than most of the other distributions).
After all, it is a profit making organisation - they want to take business
away from their competitors, and with the financial backing of their friends
in the industry, they might just do that.
So RedHat is a wise bet.
If you want to stick the the spirit of commercial independence, get Debian,
Suse or Cladera etc.
I myself liked the release of Pacific Hi-Tech's TurboLinux 2.0, but I
haven't seen any of the more recent releases.
Don't forget - you don't have to buy your distribution from the actual
distributer - go to www.cheapbytes.com and get your CD for a couple of
pounds/dollars
If you're in England, try the Linux Emporium
Kyle Gearhart wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have done a great deal looking into Linux and have finally decided that I
>would buy it. I don't know which one to buy Redhat, Caldera, etc. Does
any one
>have any advice?
>
>Kyle Gearhart
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Richard Caley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is Unix a single user operating system?
Date: 07 May 1999 14:25:56 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jesus Monroy, (jm) writes:
jm> win95 can share, but it is entirely with other
jm> winXX systems and only if you install the network
jm> portion and ONLY if set the sharing.
Funny, I had no problem sharing filesystems between BSD and win95. And
as I remember, you don't have to go out of your way to insatll
networking on win95, it's in the standard instalation if you have
a network card. Of course you have to turn on sharing, just as you'd
have to export an NFS filesystem on unix.
jm> Additionally, win95 has no facilities to have programs started
jm> remotely; unless special packages are installed.
Since it likely comes with IE installed...
--
Mail me as rjc not [EMAIL PROTECTED] _O_
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Crossposted-To:
comp.databases,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.database.oracle
Subject: Re: Oracle8i for Linux: Anyone recieved their CD yet?
From: Glenn Stauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 12:33:40 GMT
I received an email from Oracle this week that stated shipment will begin
in late May and most people should receive the CD's within the first couple
of weeks of June. About a month late.
Jared Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<7fg3io$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I thought Oracle said they weren't mailing them out until next month.
>
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From: Frank Sweetser <[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: 03 May 1999 10:50:11 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello) writes:
> > 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.
"better" implies that there is a single best solution for everyone. GPL
and BSD licenses are simply different. if you want to forcibly keep your
code open, use GPL. if you want to allow companies to make closed
modifications, use BSD.
--
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
Elwood: What kind of music do you get here ma'am?
Barmaid: Why, we get both kinds of music, Country and Western.
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: meta key doesn't work in xterms with Redhat-6.0
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 12:58:50 GMT
Michael Keightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just installed Redhat-6.0. The Meta key no longer works in bash in xterms
> (i.e. the Alt Key of PC keyboards). It works ok in Redhat-5.2. The
> xterms seem to be producing 8-bit characters now, which I definitely
> don't want. Any idea how to fix it? (Using the Escape key isn't the answer!)
probably someone changed a resource setting, or else they've dropped
nxterm (a good idea) - in the manpage:
eightBitInput (class EightBitInput)
If true, Meta characters input from the keyboard are
presented as a single character with the eighth bit
turned on. If false, Meta characters are converted
into a two-character sequence with the character
itself preceded by ESC. The default is ``true.''
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: "Kerry J. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ICQ Java alternative
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 16:41:58 +0000
Thomas,
Just a quick question. I tried licq sometime back and was really hoping to get
it to work. But I am running the very latest KDE from the rpms. When I tried
to compile licq it couldn't find the header files for QT. Should I also compile
QT from source rather than simply install QT from the rpms or do I also need the
qt-debel rpm (which I don't have)?
[root@quasi /root]# rpm -q qt
qt-1.42-3rh51
[root@quasi /root]# rpm -q qt-devel
package qt-devel is not installed
Thanks for your help.
KJ
Thomas Zajic wrote:
> On Thu, 06 May 1999 05:41:37 GMT, Roy Varghese wrote:
>
> > ICQ Java for Linux sucks. Anybody know which is the best alternative
> > for it ? I need features and I need stablilty and I need a small memory
> > footprint!!
> > Asking for the moon? : ))
>
> No. :-) Have a look at http://www.portup.com/~gyandl/icq/ ... I personally
> use Licq (http://licq.wibble.net), which is the most complete ICQ clone at
> the moment.
>
> HTH,
> Thomas
> --
> =--- Thomas Zajic aka ZlatkO ThE GoDFatheR, Vienna/Austria ---=
> =-- "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." M.C. --=
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From: "Anthony DeLuca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small X Window
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 12:37:04 -0400
This is frustrating. I even used XF86Setup to configure X and I now get
better resolutions, BUT the screen still only occupies a small area of the
monitors actual avaiable space. I used "xvidtune" to try and adjust the
placement of the window on the monitors screen area, but it would not take
up the proper area aviable on the monitors screen. I really don't know what
to do now. I have searched the web for an answer and the newsgroups, but no
luck so far. Has anyone had this problem with a Matrox Millennium II board
with 4MB RAM? Below you will see the rest of my info from the previous
post. HELP PLEASE.......Thanks in advance.
Tony
Anthony DeLuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7guj54$d5d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sorry I wasn't more specific. Well, I am running Mandrake 5.3 with Kernel
> (2.0.36), Xfree86 (3.3.3.1)and KDE (1.1 Final), I have a Dell D825HT
> Trinitron 15" monitor, a Matrox Millennium II Video card with 4MB RAM with
> the 2164w graphics chip, and the TI 3026 external RAMDAC that runs at 220
> MHz (I think it is shown as 230.000 in XF86Config). I am using a
Microsoft
> Intellimouse with Trackball also. I configured the settings to run at 800
X
> 600 in all modes 8, 16 and 24. I choose the chipset 2164w, the Millennium
> II, when I was prompted for what card I had, I choose CUSTOM for my
monitor
> type, since mine wasn't in the list. I also manually edited "xinit"
> manually to set the Horizontal frequency to 31.5 - 70 kHz (these are
> manufacturers specs) and the Vertical frequency to 50 - 120 kHz (these
are
> manufacturers specs), since I could find the correct ones in the set-up.
I
> also removed the "#" from the file too in front of the amount of RAM that
> the card has too (4096). Finally I specified my keyboard as the Microsoft
> Natural keyboard in the file too. I wish I could get Linux to print so I
> could have a hard copy of this file to send to people, but I need to
tackle
> one problem at a time. The first time I got KDE to work the screen was
huge
> and went off the sides, top and bottom of the monitor. Then I re-ran
> XConfigurator and now the screen occupies a small area of my monitors
total
> space. Plus sometimes the window or dialog box extends below the bottom
of
> the screen and I am unable to click any buttons to make my changes stay.
> thanks in advance.
>
> Tony
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: automatically unload tape?
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:48:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Holzhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there a way to automatically unload a tape-cartridge after use?
>
> I have a dat-stacker here, which switches to the next tape when it
> receives an "unload" command.
> Unfortunately, I have to write to the stacker from a NetApp-Host,
> which can't send an "unload" command.
> the command i use is:
> rsh toaster dump 0Bf 20000000 tapehost:/dev/rmt0,/dev/rmt0 /
> this writes 20GB (approx.) to /dev/rmt0, and the next 20GB to
> /dev/rmt0 :-( So i would need a device that unloads the tape on
> rewind...
>
> Any hints?
Leonard Zubkoff has written MTX for controlling autoloader, see:
http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/
I'm using it with an Archive/Conner/Seagate Python|Diamondback|Sun ???.
You can selectively load and unload cartridges. I think any special needs
could be solved by writting a script including "mtx". Guess that's why
Linux/Unix is considered a tool-box.
--
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Can't open COM1 unless root - how to fix?
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 21:47:06 GMT
On Thu, 06 May 1999 16:13:48 -0500, Michael Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I try to open the COM ports I get permission denied unless I am
>running as root.
>
>Is there a way to allow any group of users to access the port?
>
>I thought about trying a simple chmod on ttyS0 but I was not sure how
>linux would react and I didn't want to hose anything up until I checked
>with others first.
It's fine. Go ahead, and don't let linuxconf or other software change it
without permission. The typical ownership and SUID used is "uucp", for the old
uucp modem software.
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