Linux-Misc Digest #141, Volume #20 Mon, 10 May 99 17:13:18 EDT
Contents:
Re: .inputrc not read in Redhat-6.0 (N. Richard Caldwell)
still have fvwm2 configuration questions ("Joshua C. Marshall")
linux win'98 ("Tom Chu")
Re: Software for drawing flowcharts? (William C. Cheng)
Re: Spawning processes via inittab (Roland Latour)
Ken Thompson on Linux [Clarification] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?) (Tor Slettnes)
I need a 'date' binary (Lee Allen)
Re: cdrecord thinks CD-writer is CD-ROM (Villy Kruse)
Re: building kernel 2.2.6 problem solved, new problem !!! (Propsync)
Re: Cron problems (David)
Re: Card that can do Horiz: 15.75 khz Vert: 45-75 Hz? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Debian: still viable? (Stephen Thomas)
Re: How to mount SCO's EAFS filesystem on linux? ("D. Vrabel")
Re: glib compiling&pthreads ("David E. Kahana")
Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP! ("arnaud.lampaert")
Re: ATI and X Server problem (Jim McCusker)
Kernel 2.2.x/Cabletron booting... (Mark Brooks)
How to config SOCKS5 server on Redhat to work with ICQ ("Ju")
syslog ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
pppd ("Jesse Hodenfield")
Re: Wake-on-Lan support for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Blurry video (Ponzar)
Re: cdrecord thinks CD-writer is CD-ROM (Villy Kruse)
Re: Ken Thompson on Linux (Leslie Mikesell)
Blurry video (Eric Bryant)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (N. Richard Caldwell)
Subject: Re: .inputrc not read in Redhat-6.0
Date: 10 May 1999 17:56:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Keightley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone else noticed that ~/.inputrc isn't read by programs that
>use readline, e.g. bash in Readhat-6.0?
>Is this a know bug, or is it just me?
This seems to be something related to the way gdm sets up your
environment. When I first loaded RH 6.0 it defaulted to gdm and
I had the same problem with readline. I prefer xdm so when I
switched to xdm and the problem went away I didn't pursue it
any further.
--
N. Richard Caldwell
Lucent Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Joshua C. Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: still have fvwm2 configuration questions
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:57:10 -0400
> > How can I persistently change WM settings like "AutoRaise"?
> > I tried putting "AutoRaise 200" into ~/.fvwm2rc.init, and tried tweaking
> > /etc/X11/AnotherLevel/fvwm2rc.*, but got no results.
>
> I think you need to have the FvwmAuto module installed, then put the following
> lines in your .fvwm2rc file:
>
> AddToFunc "InitFunction" "I" Module FvwmAuto 250
> AddToFunc "RestartFunction" "I" Module FvwmAuto 250
>
> Also, make sure the module path is correct in your .fvwm2rc just in case.
The stuff I put in .fvwm2rc seems not to get executed - where are the
path(s) that I should check? Does anyone have an example .fvwm2rc that I
can play with?
Also, is it strange that AutoRaise needs to use a separate module -
FvwmAuto? I see a bunch of enticing things in "man fvwm2" that I'd like
to set, and this man page seems to imply you just need to put things like
"AutoRaise 200", etc into a config file.
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From: "Tom Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux win'98
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:07:39 -0400
Is it possible to view a linux file under Win'98?
The reason I'm asking is that I want to synchronized my Netscape settings
under both linux and Win-98.
I know this is possible using Win NT and Solaris.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William C. Cheng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Software for drawing flowcharts?
Date: 10 May 1999 14:06:38 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
> What software is available in Linux to draw flowcharts? Particular,
>I want tools to do Unified Modeling ( I just want the diagram, no need
>for forward/reverse engineering, but if there exists one, I will also be
>interested in ).
You can give tgif a try. It's not as polished or powerful as Viso (but
it has a better price/performance ratio -- it's free). Its home page is
<URL:http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif/>. You can select objects from
its Shape Menu to draw simple flowchart objects. Currently, it doesn't
support UML objects, but I'm planning to add some support for it in
version 4.2 (I'm hoping to get that out this month).
--
Bill Cheng // [EMAIL PROTECTED] <URL:http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/william/>
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From: Roland Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Spawning processes via inittab
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 07:45:10 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm wondering what the proper way is of spawning a process via the
> inittab is. What I want to do is set the inittab to respawn tn5250,
> which is a login to our as400, versus doing the current /sbin/mingetty.
>
> I've tried the following
> 3:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/tn5250 newton -s TESTPC tty3
>
> (When specifying tty3, I get an error indicating that the process is
> respawning to fast and is being disabled. When I take out the tty3 the
> process doesn't respawn when ended, and shows up on the first terminal.)
Consider what you're trying to do here. What exactly does this tn5250
program do? Is it written as a daemon, or is it meant to talk to an
X display or a plain old ascii terminal? Is tty3 connected to anything
when this happens? Does disconnecting tty3 make any difference?
> For kicks I tried this as well
> ..
> 2:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/top tty2
>
> (I get errors that t is an invalid argument to top, which begs the
> question, how does one separate arguments to the process from terminal
> type information? Again the process respawns too fast and is disabled.)
'top' just sends data to stdout. That data changes periodically. If you
send such data to tty2, is there anything attached that responds with
(say) 'login failed'? How do you think 'top' would respond in a terminal
or xterm or rxvt if you typed 'login failed'? And if CD isn't asserted,
you (or 'top') wouldn't have a stdout. That would cause exit & respawn.
--
Retired Tech Support Engineer http://home.cdsnet.net/~rolandl
No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats --
approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Ken Thompson on Linux [Clarification]
Date: 8 May 1999 12:00:39 GMT
Tom Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In a recent interview in IEEE's Computer magazine
>(http://computer.org/computer/thompson.htm), Ken Thompson, the
>originator of Unix, had the following to say about Linux:
See the clarification at http://linuxtoday.com/stories/5722.html
Ray
--
Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Proper use of /usr/local (Re: The Best Linux distribution?)
From: Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 May 1999 12:02:52 -0700
>>>>> "zenin" == zenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
zenin> Wrong. See `man pkg_delete'
Mea culpa.
Point nonwithstanding - packages from the ports collection are built
locally, and it does make sense to put it in /usr/local. Under
e.g. RedHat and Debian, where you get pre-built packages, this
directory should not be used by the distribution at all. (Debian is
good about this, not sure about RedHat).
zenin> I've never seen a system where sbin wasn't sysadmin
zenin> tools. Do you have any references to this static vs
zenin> non-static design?
Actually I picked that up from a discussion in this very group.
You can also check out the following quote from a support document for
the old Yggdrasil Linux distribution:
http://ftp.yggdrasil.com/bible/sag-0.2/sag/node9.html
On some systems with shared libraries, the directory /sbin holds
statically linked versions of some of the most important
programs. The intent is that if the shared library images become
corrupt or are accidentally removed, it is still possible to fix
things without having to boot. Typical binaries would be ln , cp ,
mount , and sync .
If you are interested in more references, web-searching is an easy
thing to do these days. Hint, hint.
-tor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: I need a 'date' binary
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:30:53 GMT
I need a 'date' binary (/bin/date) from a glibc distribution. Could
someone please email it to me, or send me an email telling me where on
the 'net I can find it? I am [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
In case you're wondering why anyone would ask such a silly thing...
I have two running Linux systems that are pre-glibc (hey, they work),
and one 'mini' (LRP) system that is glibc. I need a 'date' binary to
run on the glibc system. I don't have such a binary. I can't compile
on the glibc system (no compiler and a host of other reasons).
I've spend about a day trying to find the $@$@!# binary on the
Internet somewhere, to no avail. Yeah, I know it's out there, I just
don't know where.
Thanks.
-Lee Allen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: cdrecord thinks CD-writer is CD-ROM
Date: 10 May 1999 18:33:20 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > When I try to write to my CD-writer with
>> > 'cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=5,0 cdimage.raw'
>> > it fails to write because it thinks the
>> > device is a CD-ROM...
>
>> Are you uasing the generic scsi device? for the first scsi it would be
>> /dev/sga
>
>No, I'm not sure what you mean by this. How
>would I use the generic scsi device?
>
>Greg
The old cdwrite used the sg device, the newer cdrecord uses the dev
paramater to sepcify the device without refering to the sg device.
Villy
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From: Propsync <"NOSPAM propsync"@stratos.net>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: building kernel 2.2.6 problem solved, new problem !!!
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:36:37 -0400
you could also run 'lilo -v' for more info from lilo.
rob wrote:
> John van der Zanden wrote:
> >
> > Thanks everyone for your answers to my former question, i had not installed
> > the devel of lxdialog. Now a new problem:
> >
> > make menuconfig works just fine !
> > make dep works fine !
> > make clean works fine !
> > But then: make bzImage seems to work fine, but at the end i do not have a
> > bzImage file (error 2). I had this before and what i did then was move my
> > old dir kernel. But this does not work this time. What is up this time ??
> > By the way, i saved my kernel at the end of make menuconfig. Can is start
> > from there out ? i mean: make menuconfig, open my saved file, exit, make
> > dep, make clean, or will i do something totally stupid ??
> >
> > John
>
> Sounds like the /etc/lilo.conf file has a bad pointer ro an old vmlinuz
> or something
>
> run /sbin/lilo and see it it will list right.
> added linux-2.2.8 *
> added linux-2.2.7-ac2
> added dos
> added nt
>
> yours will look diff.
>
> Rob
>
> --
> Rob Seemuth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Home of the ColdBird (AKA The Penguin's Pond!!)
> http://www.coldbird.com ICQ# 272853
> Everyone, to e-mail me, you have to remove the no.SPAM
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Cron problems
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 14:43:59 -0500
Joseph Pamula wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Could someone please help me to correct the below problem. I receive
> the following message:
>
> "Subject: Cron <root@localhost> run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> su: cannot run /bin/sh: Permission denied "
>
> I am using RedHat 5.1.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Joseph
Do you have any cron files in cron.hourly?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Card that can do Horiz: 15.75 khz Vert: 45-75 Hz?
Date: 10 May 1999 19:48:55 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Marc E. Christensen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a Panasonic PT-101Y projector that claims to be able to display
>up to 900 scan lines through it's RGB inputs. However, I have been
...
> Horizontal: 15.75 +- .75 khz
> Vertical: 45 - 75 Hz
15.75kHz/45Hz= 350
which would be the maximum number of horizontal lines this thing can
display without overscanning, and then 700 would be the max. This
statement of 900 just does not fit. It may be that the beam is capable
fo that resolution but the projector sure is not.
15.75 is the standard TV Hor rate, and this thing cannot do much better
than a TV.
>get 1024x768 and 1152x900 etc...
Nope. No way. 640x400 maybe. YOu do not tell us what the max input frequency
is, which would give the max hor dots, but vertical maybe 400 with
double scan ( and at a slow refresh rate-- read flicker)
>How can I get this to work?
>--
>Marc C.
>http://www.mecworks.com
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From: Stephen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian: still viable?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:42:52 -0400
Used it this morning for the first time on ThinkPad 755C with 4 MB RAM and
no CDROM or PCMCIA. Since it has less than 12 MB RAM, I couldn't use
Trinux or any of the "Linux on a floppy" distributions. RedHat and
SuSE want at least 8 MB RAM and need some access to large media. So Debian
did the job and even automated the PPP setup for me. Probably won't do
anything fancy on the machine other than use it as a dumb terminal for
serial link login with via kermit, but at least I don't have to use DOS and
it's another box if I need it.
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to mount SCO's EAFS filesystem on linux?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:09:33 +0100
On Mon, 10 May 1999, I_and_me wrote:
>
> I have installed linux on a seperate drive and have a SCO Unix on the
> other drive. I would like to copy many of the files I have been using
> on SCO, but can not mount SCO filesystem on linux. I am using RH 5.X
> linux and defautl configurations. Can anyone help?
I don't know if this is relevant but you can compile into the kernel
support for certain other UNIX file systems. I don't know if the one you
want is available.
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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From: "David E. Kahana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: glib compiling&pthreads
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:44:54 -0400
pces wrote:
> I think it was last year 'round Sept./Oct. that I finally got glib/gtk
> (can't remember which version) compiled
> and installed(and then got E running too). However, after my HD
> crashed, I lost everything aside for the
> tar files which I saved on a ZIP disk.
>
> Anyway, I remember going through this before, but I cannot remember how
> I fixed this problem. I'm
> trying to compile glib1.1.2 (or was it 1.2.2?) and it keeps on reporting
> that I don't have pthreads enabled
> or something like that. How would I go about in fixing it? I've been
> to the gtk.org webpage and
> unless I missed a page, I couldn't find anything about pthreads..
> well..aside for the Changelogs.
>
> Any help appreciated.
I just finished installing glib/gtk 1.2.2, and even though I have pthreads installed,
the glib/gtk compilation choked on them. I just disabled the threads in configure.
Maybe you don't have them installed at all? If so, you want to re-install glibc,
and include the linuxthreads package. To disable them you use:
./configure -with-threads=none
cheers,
-dave k.
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From: "arnaud.lampaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,nl.comp.os.linux,worldonline.linux
Subject: Re: HELP I can't connect to my ISP!
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:15:17 +0200
Maybe your ISP use pap authentification
van Leur a �crit dans le message <7h4o6p$l9d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have problems setting up an PPP-Conection to my ISP. When I try to
connect
>to my ISP, PPPD returns code 2 (???) or some other programs say the modem
>doesn't respond or can't initialize.
>My modem is connected to COM3 in DOS/WINDOWS and works fine in Windows.
>Linux should recognize my modem, because it once connected but the
>connection was broke after 2 minutes (I wasn't able to surf on the WWW). I
>used the programs KPPP (from The K Desktop Environment) and X-ISP. I'm new
>to linux so please help me!!!
>
>Thanks
>
>Bram van Leur
>
>P.S. Sorry for my bad English. I'm from Holland
>
>
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From: Jim McCusker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI and X Server problem
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:13:36 -0400
TS Stahl wrote:
>
> Sorry, Mladden, Redhat did not license the metroX server for 5.2. However,
> JPC, all is not lost. Surf over to Redhat and grab the XFree86 3.3.3.1 RPM
> upgrade. I don't know if the Rage II is specifically supported, but it
> will drive your card.
I'm using his exact card and I have no troubles with it. It should run
fine. THe only thing is that autoprobing doens't work (but it does
detect fine), you'll have to set the memory and such yourself.
Jim
--
Jim McCusker | Class of '99, BA Computer Science & Cognitive Science
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://cif.rochester.edu/~fprefect
~Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.~
~~Henry
Spencer
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From: Mark Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Kernel 2.2.x/Cabletron booting...
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 13:02:23 -0400
Hi! has anyone managed to get Calbletron 2100 ethernet cards working in Linux?
Every time I boot a new 2.2.x kernel with the e2100.o module loading at boot
time, I get:
"Aieee, killling interrupt handler" and "code errors" and stuff.
This also happens when I use the bootnet.img to try and do an FTP install....
Even when I install RH6.0 and then insert the e2100 module at boot, the
computer crashes and kills the interrupt handler.
All this happens on 2 intel computers which are pretty different, except there
are Cabletron cards in them.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Mark
Mak Brooks,
Inst. Pathology,
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH, 44106 USA.
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From: "Ju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How to config SOCKS5 server on Redhat to work with ICQ
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 11:03:44 +0700
I want to setup SOCKS5 server on Linux for ICQ client. I've config
/etc/socks5.conf like this.
set SOCKS5_MAXCHILD 3
set SOCKS5_NOIDENT
set SOCKS5_TIMEOUT 5
interface permithost - eth0
auth permithost - -
permit - - permithost - - - -
deny - - - - - - -
permithost is a Unix dial server host. It use SLIRP. Then all user dial in
to this server'll have same IP,right?
When I finished this and try socks5 -f -s. It seem to work. I try to use
ICQ. And it connect to this Linux Server.... There's some message appear on
terminal screen. But ICQ tell me that "Can't connect to 202......blah blah
blah(sorry I can't remember)"
I think my Linux server can connect to icq.mirabilis.com for sure......
But I don't sure about my configuration. Linux server has 2 LAN card. It's
acting like firewall for some other computer(that's not permithost). Please
tell me what's wrong..... Thanks
Ju
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: syslog
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:15:57 GMT
I am looking to log all dhcp output to /var/log/dhcp. It's swamps my
messages file, so I would prefer it in a separate file. I did a man on
"syslog", but get the documentation for the C function. Any help? Here
is what I am attempting, but since I am unsure how /etc/syslog.conf
works, I could be doing this wrong.
Also, where can I get more documentation on syslog and it's syslog.conf?
# Log dhcp services.
dhcp.* /var/log/dhcp
---
Dustin Puryear
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jesse Hodenfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pppd
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:52:39 -0400
Somehow I did something that placed pppd and the chat script into my
initialization routine which runs when I turn on my Linux. This results in
my being already connected to my ISP by the time initialization is complete
and I am at the command prompt.
Somebody please advise on how I can add and remove things from my startup
lineup?
This is a RedHat system(I know RedHat is of ill-repute. I will have Debian
soon!).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Wake-on-Lan support for Linux?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 17:09:50 GMT
Hello,
IBM says : the Wake on LAN magic packet must begin with a sequence of 12
"FF" bytes and then the adress repeated at least 8 times.
As a consequence, I think ping cannot be used, because the sequence will
not begin with "FFFF..."
Andre Couture <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello EveryOne,
>
> I was wandering if anybody had succeeded of using Linux to send a
> "wake-up" magic packet to wake a machine?
>
> The principle is simple,
> A magic packet is a packet where the data contains 16 times the mac
> address of the machine to wakeup.
>
> What I had in mind is to use ping as follow
>
> ping 255.255.255.255 -s 96 -p 0050568a0000 -c 1
>
> Which will send a packet to my private lan only once.
>
> To those expert could that work?
>
> Thanks
> Andre
>
>
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From: Ponzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Blurry video
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:57:31 -0700
I have a small problem with my video. I have set my video resolution
for both 800x600, and 1024x768. In both of these settings, my X-Windows
video resolution is substantially more blurry than in Windows 98. I have
just upgraded to RH 6.0, but this was the same with RH 5.2. I have an
SiS 5598 video card with 2 Megabytes, and an NEC MultiSync 50, which are
both supported nuder RH 6.0. I have set my video settings in XF86Config
according to the output of xvidtune. My settings are as follows:
"800x600" 69.65 800 884 948 1060 600 656 662 760
-hsync -vsync
"1020x768" 85.00 1024 1092 1212 1324 768 836 839 975
Is there anything else I can do to increase the video clarity? I've
tried basically all the settings in xvidtune, but to no avail. My
Windows 98 resolution (dual boot) is clear as a bell. I do notice,
though, that when I press "apply" in xvidtune to test new resolutions,
the screen blanks out to change resolutions, and right before it blanks
out, it turns crystal clear for a split second, which makes me believe
the clarity can be established.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Eric
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: cdrecord thinks CD-writer is CD-ROM
Date: 10 May 1999 18:35:16 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > > When I try to write to my CD-writer...
>
>> > > Are you uasing the generic scsi device? for the first scsi it would be
>> > > /dev/sga
>
>> With cdrecord, you don't: it doesn't want the '/dev' file anyway.
>>
>> Does -scanbus show the drive correctly?
>
>No. If I execute 'cdrecord -scanbus' I get this response;
>
> Cdrecord release 1.6 jCopyright 1995-1998 Jorg Schilling
> cdrecord: No target found
>
>However I have 2 hard drives and the cd-writer on the scsi bus.
>
>--Greg
Should return something like this: (An Intel system if that makes
any difference)
Script started on Mon May 10 18:42:52 1999
[root@twix /root]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord release 1.8a13 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg Schilling
scsibus0:
0) 'CDC ' '94171-9 ' '2569' Disk
1) *
2) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST31200N ' '8008' Disk
3) *
4) *
5) *
6) 'PHILIPS ' 'CDD2600 ' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM
7) *
[root@twix /root]#
Script done on Mon May 10 18:43:04 1999
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: Ken Thompson on Linux
Date: 10 May 1999 12:20:54 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This is interesting. Did he ever (or was he allowed to...) comment
>> on the quality of SysVr4 in its early releases? Linux may have
>> problems, but compared to what?
>
> Okay, so let's say that Linux is better than System V in its earlier
>incarnations. For the sake of the argument, let's even say that Linux is
>better than BSD in its earlier incarnations.
That wasn't really my point, although it wasn't clear from the previous
article that the Linux version reviewed was the current one.
> However, these OSes have since evolved past that point. In fact, I
>would say that they are several years evolved past that point, if not
>decades beyond. Linux is still playing catch-up, and the playing field
>you have is not Linux versus ten-year old System V or BSD, but Linux
>versus *modern* System V or BSD.
>
>
> You can't have your time warp and eat it too.
The point I would like to make and I guess I didn't explain is that
I used SysVr4 in its first couple of years and in that time span
a couple of the worst bugs were fixed but no real improvements
happened and except for the short-lived Dell version I didn't
see any activity in device drivers for non-proprietary cards.
In the two years since Linux 2.0 was released there have been
tremendous improvements. Not just bug fixes but real design
improvements and serious efforts to keep up with current
hardware. If you look at this as a trend, the future is
pretty clear. And to keep things fair, you should compare
systems of equal price so the box using a free OS could have
additional RAM, a better SCSI card, or another CPU instead
of the commercial OS.
>> The thing you have to understand from the start is that the distribution
>> of Linux and related software does not have a single point of control.
>> Thus there are a near-infinite number of ways to do things wrong.
>
> Thank you. If you don't mind, I'd like to quote you on this point.
Sure, but I'd prefer that you not take it out of context to imply
that you are doomed to fail. The same complexity applies to
everything these days. What it does mean is that you should pick
a distribution you trust, track their updates, and test everything
before putting it into production. There is no difference in this
respect from commercial systems except that you have more choices
and are not forced into strictly following this scheme.
The thing that *is* different is that there are no licensing or
machine-id restrictions to keep you from cloning your well-tested
setup across as many machines as you like once you get it right.
Les Mikesell
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From: Eric Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Blurry video
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:59:28 -0700
I have a small problem with my video. I have set my video resolution
for both 800x600, and 1024x768. In both of these settings, my X-Windows
video resolution is substantially more blurry than in Windows 98. I have
just upgraded to RH 6.0, but this was the same with RH 5.2. I have an
SiS 5598 video card with 2 Megabytes, and an NEC MultiSync 50, which are
both supported nuder RH 6.0. I have set my video settings in XF86Config
according to the output of xvidtune. My settings are as follows:
"800x600" 69.65 800 884 948 1060 600 656 662 760
-hsync -vsync
"1020x768" 85.00 1024 1092 1212 1324 768 836 839 975
Is there anything else I can do to increase the video clarity? I've
tried basically all the settings in xvidtune, but to no avail. My
Windows 98 resolution (dual boot) is clear as a bell. I do notice,
though, that when I press "apply" in xvidtune to test new resolutions,
the screen blanks out to change resolutions, and right before it blanks
out, it turns crystal clear for a split second, which makes me believe
the clarity can be established.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Eric
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