Linux-Misc Digest #237, Volume #20 Mon, 17 May 99 08:13:09 EDT
Contents:
New dumb question.... ("Peter F. DeMos")
Loooking for bzip2-aware tar (Michal Szymanski)
Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines ("M.V. Ramana")
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key (Khairul Azmi Abu Bakar)
Re: Token-ring cards (Owen Brotherwood)
Recompiling Kernel (David Tansley)
Re: Linux's Programming? ("D. Vrabel")
Re: set RELAYCLIENT, Re: can't send email through qmail ("Curt")
Re: Display X on TV? ("Oliver D. Bedford")
Re: kernel too large, what now? (Frank Waarsenburg)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (Tom Hall)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (Marc)
Re: Creating Linux/Dos shared partition? ("TAiNiUM")
Re: wine ? (Uwe Bonnes)
Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes (Stuart Miles)
Re: proc filesystem (Jon Skeet)
Re: Linux's Programming? ("Oliver D. Bedford")
Re: In defence of UNIX man pages (John Thompson)
Re: Windows Tape backup compatible with Linux? (John Thompson)
Loading Boot Failed -- what is going on?!? (Bio Hazard)
Re: FTP with Resume feature? (Bruce Schultz)
Re: SB Vibra16 Problems. (Jim McCusker)
Re: Linux penguin in ASCII art (74Pantera)
Re: Loooking for bzip2-aware tar (gus)
Re: pc speaker (Tom Fawcett)
Re: AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!! (Barry O'Neill)
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From: "Peter F. DeMos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New dumb question....
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 00:10:39 -0700
I am accessing the CDRom now, but when I do an ls, ls -al, or whatever,
I see no files. Only the . and ..
How do I read what files are on the disk in the CDRom? And yes, they are
*nix disks.
TIA
peterd
--The original peterd. Accept no Substitutes.--
http://www.peterd.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Szymanski)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Loooking for bzip2-aware tar
Date: 17 May 1999 07:10:00 GMT
Hello,
I'm looking for a 'tar' version which would support 'bzip2'-compession in
similar way as it currently supports 'gzip' and 'compress' through
"z/Z" options.
Any pointers would be welcome.
regards, Michal.
--
Michal Szymanski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND
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Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 00:33:38 -0500
From: "M.V. Ramana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Hi,
I am thinking of building a simple dual-processor machine (2 P-II 400Mhz
CPUs). The most challenging task for this machine, if an when built,
would be running some serious number crunching (linux) applications from
mathematical optimization, computational algebra etc.
If some of you out there have built similar machine configurations, I
would
much appreciate if you can share your experiences. A few questions on
on my mind are:
1) On applications (built say, using gcc) that are not designed with
parallel processing in mind, can you get any speed up at all?
2) A P-III 500 Mhz machine from Dell with similar specs costs about the
same as above, and so, is it worth my time to build the dual processor
machine?
3) What are the best places (on the internet or otherwise) to shop for
parts? I looked at www.tcu-inc.com, and they had fairly decent prices
on most items (256MB memory being a notable exception).
I should also mention that I have never "built" (assembled is a more
accurate
term, I guess) a PC before.
Thanks in advance.
best
Ram
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From: Khairul Azmi Abu Bakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:37:05 +0800
I don;t know why but after upgrading my pc to redhat 6.0, i could not run
any xwindows application from an xterm windows. The only way to run it is
by clicking the icon. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
2.2.9 redhat-6.0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2: xhost +
Xlib: connection to "cel4.mimos.my:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
xhost: unable to open display "cel4.mimos.my:0"
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From: Owen Brotherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Token-ring cards
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:42:44 +0200
Madge has just released linux drivers for their non "true blue" TR cards
on their web site.
- I'm using a PCMCIA Madge card on a RH6.0/Dell Latitude and it works.
Madge have PCI cards so Linux TR hits the PCI bus at last?
I don't like the ibmtr driver that has been available until now(which may
work with certain 100% IBM TR compatible cards)
- it can hang the system with a cable error: the madge driver doesn't.
I don't know if IBM will sudenly release more drivers (also for PCI)
Olicom also have drivers: but the guy who was maintaining them left the
company(?)
- it is also an installation that patches the kernal source which may mean
it ill not work with RH60
Fulajtar Pal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a 3com Velocity ISA16/4 token-ring card. Does anybody know,
> where can i find Linux driver for it?
> In the kernel I found only two supported cards. No more cards has Linux
> support?
>
> Regards,
>
> Pal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Tansley)
Subject: Recompiling Kernel
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 08:25:02 GMT
I'm trying to recompile my kernel (SUSE 6.0) to include sound module
support (for the SBLive drivers) and PPP support. The kernel I'm using at
the moment, the one that came with the distribution, works fine, apart
from the omission of these two things.
However, when I try to use the newly recompiled kernel, it works fine up
until I fire up X (KDE) in which case it locks up without fail. Is there
any option in the kernel config that I may have missed/included that
would cause this problem?
Also, is there anyway of looking at a precompiled kernel to ascertain
what options were included, so I can just replicate that and add the
sound ppp options?
Thanks
--
Dave
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux's Programming?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:24:18 +0100
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Raymond Yung wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Could anyone tell me how to run the program (XXX.o) in my Linux
> system?
>
> I write a simple C's program, named TMP.C and after compile, the
> file TMP.o will exist, but why I type this file will not any respone?
You need to link it.
gcc -oexe_name object_file.o
David
--
David Vrabel
Engineering Undergraduate at University of Cambridge, UK.
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Reply-To: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Curt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: set RELAYCLIENT, Re: can't send email through qmail
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 05:48:49 -0500
Take a look at selective relay links http://www.qmail.org/top.html
Cameron Spitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7hn0hn$kj1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yow! This belongs in the Qmail FAQ!
>
> In article <ahw%2.1352$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Curt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Sorry, I didn't read your original post as carefully as I should have.
> >
> >add the following to hosts.allow , replacing 'local network' with my IPs
> >(i.e. 192.168.2. )
> >
> >tcp-env: 'local netowrk' : setenv=RELAYCLIENT
> >tcp-env: ALL
> >
> >and the following in to inetd.conf ( you probably have this)
> >
> >smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /usr/sbin/tcpd
> >/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
>
> Don't forget to add qmaild to /etc/services. Most distros say "mail"
> for port 540.
>
>
> Now, how do I tell my Qmail server (fixed IP address) to be smarthost
> for my home Qmail system, with its ever-changing IP address?
> The only way I can figure is to send through uucp.
> I tried a dynamic DNS (ez-ip.net) but it doesn't work because
> the Qmail server can't verify my home system in rDNS (I think).
>
> Cameron
>
>
> >This will allow clients on your local net to use this system as a relay.
>
>
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From: "Oliver D. Bedford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Display X on TV?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:42:43 +0200
Peter Caffin wrote:
>
> Oliver D. Bedford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do I display a X-session on a TV-set? What type of extra hardware
>
> I wrote a Mini-HOWTO for the AITech range of VGA to TV adaptors that might
> be useful. It's at http://it.net.au/~pc/comp/linux/psc1106.html
Thanks!
> > and how much money do I need?
>
> I have no idea what they're charging for their hardware these days.
According to their web-page a VGA2TV converter is at least as
expensive as
a new graphic card with included converter. Of course, I have no clue
about the
display qualities. On the other hand the wireless version is pretty cool
;-)
Other problem is the availability of their products in Germany. The
only retailer
I could find on the webpage is a bit dubious (offering me mainly erotica
stuff on the
webpage).
Bye,
Oliver
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From: Frank Waarsenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel too large, what now?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:00:18 +0200
Maybe you need to upgrade LILO as well. My bzImage is 630k and loads without
problems on a 486DX66 w 16M RAM...
Frank
brian moore wrote:
> On 12 May 1999 21:03:32 -0400,
> David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > David Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > -> I am trying to compile the kernel 2.2.6... well, okay, I already
> > -> compiled it. I had to do a make bzImage because it was too large for
> > -> make zImage. but, Lilo doesn't seem to like it either! The file is
> > -> about 600K but lilo says it is too large.. I cannot make it any smaller
> > -> without removing things that I need from this kernel, so what do I do
> > -> now?>
> >
> > make bzImage
> >
> > It uses bzip2 instead of gzip to compress vmlinuz. You have to do
> > this with all the 2.2 kernels now.
>
> Not true.
>
> bzImage is a "big zImage". It has nothing to do with bz2.
>
> --
> 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: Tom Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:55:17 +0100
Marc wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> >
> > According to M.V. Ramana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > I am thinking of building a simple dual-processor machine (2 P-II 400Mhz
> > > CPUs).
> >
> > I'd actually recomend running dual Celerons. They are every bit as
> > fast as the PII and about half the price. In fact, my single-CPU
> > Celeron 333 is actually a bit faster than my dual-CPU PII-333 when
> > running on just one CPU.
> [..]
> Hi
> A Celeron isn't capable of SMP. You'd have to go into a lot of extra
> work in order to get it done. this involves more than just a
> screwdriver.
several companies manufacture Socket370 to slot 1 convertors that also enable
smp for the celeron.
eg www.powerleap.com
--
tom
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:36:45 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
> According to M.V. Ramana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > I am thinking of building a simple dual-processor machine (2 P-II 400Mhz
> > CPUs).
>
> I'd actually recomend running dual Celerons. They are every bit as
> fast as the PII and about half the price. In fact, my single-CPU
> Celeron 333 is actually a bit faster than my dual-CPU PII-333 when
> running on just one CPU.
[..]
Hi
A Celeron isn't capable of SMP. You'd have to go into a lot of extra
work in order to get it done. this involves more than just a
screwdriver.
Bye
Marc
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From: "TAiNiUM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Creating Linux/Dos shared partition?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:41:31 -0700
if you use pmagic before you install, and free up disk space, the
workstation install will just use the free space but will leave any
non-linux partitions alone. this worked flawlessly for me
Anita wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 15:26:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>[snip for focus]
>
>> 2. Use some sort of partitioning program (i.e. partition magic) to free
up
>>space while preserving all the files on your partition. -Personally, I
>>repartitioned my hd, but when I installed redhat, I used the 'workstation'
>>installation. Redhat consequently repartitioned my c: drive, freeing
enough
>>space for yet another partition. The thing about the server or workstation
>>install is that it automatically does this partitioning for you. You could
>>just remake your original linux partition into your communial parition,
and
>>you would be all set.
>
>This is probably the dumbest of questions, but when Redhat
>repartitioned your c: drive, did that wipe out the contents of that
>drive? (My experience is with DOS and Windows, newbie to Linux.)
>
>- Vegas Annie
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wine ?
Date: 17 May 1999 10:13:38 GMT
James Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi there
: I have installed wine release 98061 on my machine.
: Could anybody tell me how to use the program?
: The man help manual is not sufficient to me. My kernel version is 2.0.34.
: Someone told me minimum kernel version is 2.0.7x Is it right.
: Please tell me minimum requirement.
: Thanks in advane
: I prefer email (HeHe)
http://www.winehq.com
--
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
========= Tel. 06151 162516 ======== Fax. 06151 164321 ==========
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From: Stuart Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diald dials out every 15 minutes
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:20:36 +0100
marco tephlant wrote:
>
> couple of hours and didnt touch anything, but logs still showed it
> connecting every fifteen minutes.
>
> Any tips as to what this could be?
Sendmail -q15 ?
--
Stuart Miles Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alenia Marconi Systems Phone: +44 1276 63311
Views expressed are mine and not those of Alenia Marconi Systems
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: proc filesystem
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:35:54 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Maybe someone in this group could answer this question I have about
> /proc. How come when I type 'mount' at the command-line, the line for
> /proc is listed as "none on /proc type /proc (rw)"? Does this mean that
> the proc fs is not mounted since it should say /proc instead of none?
> Probably a stupid question, but I'm just curious.
The "none" comes because it's not really a proper device - it's a sort of
virtual file system. Here's the relevant part of the man page:
- The proc file system is not associated with a special
- device, and when mounting it, an arbitrary keyword, such
- as proc can be used instead of a device specification.
- (The customary choice none is less fortunate: the error
- message `none busy' from umount can be confusing.)
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: "Oliver D. Bedford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux's Programming?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:40:50 +0200
D. Vrabel wrote:
> > I write a simple C's program, named TMP.C and after compile, the
> > file TMP.o will exist, but why I type this file will not any respone?
> You need to link it.
> gcc -oexe_name object_file.o
And to avoid further problems if using mathematical functions you
have to link with the math-library, e.g.
gcc foo.c -o foo -lm
Oliver
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: In defence of UNIX man pages
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 19:48:47 -0600
Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >What I want in a man page is EXAMPLES.
>
> I agree completely.
> There are a few man entries with examples
Quite so. It would go a long way to making it easier for
new users to come up to speed. I wonder...the man pages
already come with a number of sections defined; eg,
"User commands" "System calls" "Devices" etc. and some
commands have entries in several sections. Would it be
possible to perhaps graft on another section called "Usage
examples" so when you want to see examples of a command in
action all you have to do is summon up that section? Makes
sense to me, anyway, but what do I know about man pages?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows Tape backup compatible with Linux?
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:00:40 -0600
Bruce (the other) McCrea wrote:
>
> I want to migrate a Win98 box to Linux, but I first need to back it up.
> I don't have another disk big enough. I'll have to buy me a SCSI
> controller and an external SCSI tape drive.
> I'll need 4 or 5 GB tapes atleast.
> Is there a Windows backup program that can put a plain Unix standard tar
> image onto a SCSI tape drive?
Not sure about Win programs for this, but why couldn't you
just boot linux from a floppy, mount the Win partition and
use linux' tar to write the archive to the tape?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bio Hazard)
Subject: Loading Boot Failed -- what is going on?!?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:30:25 GMT
Trying to install RedHat 6.0 for hours now with no luck. Booting from
floppy gives me the startup installation screen, I hit enter at the
"Boot:" prompt, and I get "Loading Boot Failed". I tried the boot
image that came with RedHat 6.0, I tried a newer boot disk image I got
off ftp://updates.redhat.com, I even tried a RedHat 5.2 boot floppy.
All the boot floppies gave me the same error. I can boot with a DOS
boot disk just fine.
How can I get through this "Loading Boot Failed"?? Has anyone even
seen this error before? I don't see it documented anywhere.
Could this error be caused by a very old (but still functional)
Adaptec controller card?
The system:
AMD K6 200MHz MMX
Abit IT5H motherboard
Two 32MB EDO and two 8MB EDO (80MB total) RAM
Quantum Fireball 3.5" 3GB SCSI
Toshiba XM-3501B 4x CDROM SCSI
Adaptec AHA-1542A SCSI ISA controller, dated 1989
Diamond Stealth 4MB PCI
SMC 10/100 Ethercard PCI
Epson 3.5" 1.44MB floppy
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biohazard(at)email(period)com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Schultz)
Subject: Re: FTP with Resume feature?
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 16:09:37 -04-59
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 16 May 1999 19:12:03 +1200, Rob Brown-Bayliss
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Can some one recoment a download or FTP prog for linux that supports
>resume?
>
>Thanks
Try ncftp. It is very likely already installed on your system.
--
Bruce Schultz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jim McCusker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: SB Vibra16 Problems.
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 00:35:11 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> According to Kevin MacPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Has nayone had any experience with a SB Vibra16 PnP Sound card.
> > I try to get it to install but under Sndconfig when it goes to test I get a
> > Modprobe error?
>
> Go read: http://linux.umbc.edu/fom/fom-serve/cache/75.html
>
> Also, be aware that there are several different versions of the SB16
> PnP, so what works fine for someone else may not work for you...
I had trouble with my Vibra card under 2.0.x kernels. The 2nd DMA (which
is usually 16 bit) is actually 8 bit to save some pennies. The 2.0.x
kernels can't handle this by default. I had to change a line in
sb_common.c to allow it to look for dma numbers that are less than 5.
The kernel that comes with Redhat 6.0 (2.2.5), BTW, doesn't have this
"problem". It autodetects, configures, and tests perfectly.
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (74Pantera)
Subject: Re: Linux penguin in ASCII art
Date: 17 May 1999 10:55:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mutters ...
>
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>
>
>About a year ago I've created the following ascii-art.
Cute.
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Loooking for bzip2-aware tar
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:54:23 +0100
Michal Szymanski wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for a 'tar' version which would support 'bzip2'-compession in
> similar way as it currently supports 'gzip' and 'compress' through
> "z/Z" options.
>
> Any pointers would be welcome.
>
> regards, Michal.
>
Not sure how "global" it is, but my machine (without any patches applied
by *me*) (SuSE 6.0) does the following:
tar xvzf tarfile.tar.gz
OR
tar xvIf tarfile.tar.bz2
gus
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pc speaker
Date: 17 May 1999 07:57:59 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear) writes:
> I would like to change the default pitch and volume of my pc speaker. I
> did look in the sound-howto and browsed around the kernel source tree,
> but didn't find anything. I assume it is adjustable in the source for a
> driver somewhere, it must be in /usr/src/linux, but I'm a little lost as
> to where. Any help?
If you want to change the beep, use xset under X or setterm with a console.
-Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry O'Neill)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AutoInstall is for experts, not beginners!!!
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:13:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> > Whereas an expert might save time using autoinstall, it's most
> > certainly a waste of time for a beginner. If there's a distribution
> > like the one I'm describing here, please advise me.
>
> Give Slackware a shot.
The back of the head works best, I'm told.
regards,
Barry
--
Linux Redhat 5.2. BeOS R4.
Who needs Micro$lop?
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