Linux-Misc Digest #403, Volume #20 Sat, 29 May 99 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Odd Kernel panic (NEWS)
Netscape doesn't find Int (NEWS)
Re: Redhat 6.0 Questions ("theoddone33")
Recompiling my kernel (NEWS)
Re: Differences between U (NEWS)
Re: first/second/third world (The Ghost In The Machine)
Re: AutoInstall is for ex (NEWS)
Re: Netscape crashes and (NEWS)
Maximum CDE and RedHat 6. (NEWS)
Re: rescue disk (NEWS)
Re: linux for grandfather (Roland Latour)
Re: How to Stay Online - (NEWS)
SETI@home with proxy? (Dave)
Caldera 2.2 Install probl (NEWS)
Re: The Glass Cathedral (Cliff Story)
Re: Is Caldera's OpenLinux 2.2 Free Distributable? (Alex Kaufman)
Seti@home for Red Hat 6.0? (Tim Uckotter)
Re: Rechte :-( (NEWS)
Re: Help with CRON (NEWS)
Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1 (Jim Richardson)
Re: Offline newsreader fo (NEWS)
Re: What is going on? (Or whois [EMAIL PROTECTED]) (Mircea)
unzip 5.31 no longer supports "shrink" (John Forkosh)
Dosemu and Netbios ("Wolfgang Hoelzle")
Re: LD cannot find libX11 on RH6? (Jeremy)
Ensoniq Soundscape Card (Chris Holck)
Re: Offline newsreader for Linux (Gerwin Bijsterbosch)
Procmail ("Jeff Grossman")
Re: UMSDOS question ("Mage...")
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Odd Kernel panic
Date: 28 May 1999 18:47 GMT
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, 25 May 1999, Eric E. Fronheiser wrote:
>
> > I am having this small, but annoying problem, with Redhat 6.0 on a Dell
> > Inspiron 3200 (dual boot linux/win98).
> >
> > If I allow LILO to time out and automatically launch linux I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 00:30
> > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:30
> >
> > If I just hit enter at the LILO prompt to start linux everything works
> > as it should.
> >
>
> It sounds like the default entry in your /etc/lilo.conf file is pointing
> to a non-existent place. Have a look, and if the first entry is something
I have the exact same problem on the same machine as Eric,
but I can't see anything wrong with my /etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
This is a stock RH 6.0 installation, and the IDE drivers are compiled into
the kernel ... it uses the lilo-0.21-6 rpm
I just reran /sbin/lilo, but the problem persists.
David
X-posted to comp.os.linux.setup, since there were some folks with a similar
problem
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape doesn't find Int
Date: 27 May 1999 19:32 GMT
Hallo
Installing Netscape 4.6 worked fine and it started without any errors.
Every try to connect to any URL address ends with an "Netscape is unable to
connect to the server "xxx"..."
The connection (T-Online) is working fine with any other application (eg. kfm,
staroffice, ping, mail, ..)
Is there a link I have to set, any file to edit?
Netscape 4.52 worked before. A try to reinstall it with yast (SuSE 6.1) ended
with the same error.
Thanks for every hint, by, Lutz
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From: "theoddone33" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0 Questions
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 10:16:06 -0500
Thanks
--
theoddone33
"Brevity is the soul of wit"
AGQ2 Configs Page:
http://www.quakefiles.com/agq2configs
My homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/System/2541/
To email, descramble the pig latin
Lev Babiev wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>> Ok, I just changed distros from Slackware 3.5 to RH 6.0. I want the "ls"
>> command to automatically use the options "--color" and "-F". In
Slackware,
>> I gather this was accomplished by the /etc/DIR_COLORS file, but in RH,
this
>> file does nothing. Also, I don't know how to start my default window
>> manager. The X Server works fine, but for some reason I can't get it to
>> launch KDE. What file would I put the "startkde" command in?
>
>to get ls to behave the way you want it to, alias ls to ls -F --color,
>for
>example if you're using bash as your main shell. Add this line to your
>~/.bashrc
>
>alias ls='ls --color -F'
>
>as for changing the window manager (as much as I dislike KDE ;-),
>change file ~/.xinitrc
>
> - Lev
>
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recompiling my kernel
Date: 28 May 1999 18:02 GMT
Hello,
I'm wondering how to install the new kernel after I compile it. I boot off a
lilo floppy, so I mounted the floppy as an ext2 fs, and I copied
/usr/src/linux/vmlinux to the floppy's vmlinuz. It did not boot. Lilo came
up, said it was loading linux, and then it stopped. I have a feeling that
the vmlinux file in /usr/src/linux is not the new kernel. I'm using Red Hat
5.2. Could someone explain to me how to do this?
Thanks,
Joseph Dunn
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Differences between U
Date: 28 May 1999 21:47 GMT
Michael Sweeney wrote:
>
> Can someone point me to a site or explain the MAJOR differences between, say
> Linux and Sun's version of Unix?
There are no major differences, only minor ones.
> Can I take a program from a Sun work station and have it run on Unix?
Most source code is portable between the various unices and Linux.
Executables in genertal are not but I understand some binaries from
Sun Solaris x86 (ie intel not sparc processors) can run on linux and
vice versa.
> What about syntax? what about security? what about ...anything you can tell
> me....thanks!
Not a whole lot of difference here except that security problems
are usually fixed much more quickly on Linux than on others.
Erik
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Hiesenbugs - The bugs that go away when you turn on debugging.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: first/second/third world
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 16:27:19 GMT
On 29 May 1999 08:53:48 GMT, Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7imjip$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pspc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>>By analogy, I guess that we could denote the various commercial Unices
>>as "First World" and Microsoft Windows9x/NT as the "Second World."
>>Linux is then a Third World system, but one rapidly approaching First
>>World status.
>
>Only if you go by popularity. If you go by technological superiority
>then all Unices are Second World and Windoze is Third World. First
>World should be reserved for modern OSes, not obsolete designs.
OK, dumb question. What would be considered a "modern OS"?
BeOS, maybe, though it's not open source?
QNX, mostly because it's got real time response capabilities?
Windows NT, because it's there?
Hurd?
Um....did I miss one? :-)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- can't be Linux; that's Unix... :-) But just maybe...?
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AutoInstall is for ex
Date: 28 May 1999 22:32 GMT
On Fri, 28 May 1999, Gilles Pelletier wrote:
> Interesting. I couldn't use KDE or GNOME anyhow with my 486 16 megs 1
> meg video.
I have a 486, 20MB RAM, 256K video card, etc here that runs Definite Linux
6 and Gnome 1.0. It is not fast(!) but it does run it.
Actually it only ran it for testing purposes. The system is now
decommissioned until next week when it becomes a router for the leased
line here again.
Jason Clifford http://www.jasonclifford.com/
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape crashes and
Date: 27 May 1999 10:32 GMT
Well I'm not using RH 6.0, but you're probably better off unistalling
Netscape 4.6 and using something like 4.08 which is known to be more
stable. Also, by default RH configures their systems to trap the
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combinations. Look at
/etc/inittab for instance.
To allow/disallow networking connections you usually have to edit
/etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. They should already exist and have
explanatory text on editing them.
Do-Hoon Kwon wrote:
>
> Hello,
> Netscape 4.6 on my RedHat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.9 SMP) sometimes hangs the
> whole machine! No, I should say the only times this occurs is
> when I'm on the net with netscape.
> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't work, Ctrl+Alt+F[1-6] doesn't
> repond. I cannot telnet in, either.
> This has happened 3 times during 3 weeks' period or so.
> The video card is Matrox Millenium G200 8MB version and I'm running
> the latest SVGA server from XFree86-3.3.3.1.
> The machine has two Linksys 10/100TX ethernet cards and I'm using the
> latest tulip driver as well, if that helps.
> Does this sound familiar to anyone?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Do-Hoon Kwon
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maximum CDE and RedHat 6.
Date: 28 May 1999 17:32 GMT
Anyone have Maximum CDE working on RedHat 6.0.
Could you post what you needed to do to get it
working.
Thx
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rescue disk
Date: 28 May 1999 17:17 GMT
Linux has no "system files" as such, except for maybe everything in /boot
You should probably back up at least /etc too, and depending on what you're
running, some other things too...
It should be quite easy to write a script to write these to [floppies|cdrom|tape].
However, if you want to get your system back quickly after problems I'd advise
just making a complete image of your hd every now and again.
The nice thing about linux is that you hardly ever need your backup... Except
when you thought you where in /usr/local/unimportant and did a rm -rf *, and
then noticed you'd just cd d to / :-)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel TONG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I believe there must be way (as in NT) to back up the system files of
> my RH52 and in case of failure have it retrieved.
>
> Would anyone advise me as to where to find the info' required.
>
> Any suggestion would be appreciated.
>
> Daniel at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Toronto
>
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From: Roland Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux for grandfather
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 08:23:36 -0700
Clare Durst wrote:
>
> My husband wants to get a laptop and be able to run his favorite
> programs, using linux, without any real change in the way he does things
> now. But it's unfair to our son to ask him to do all the setup, research
> for a laptop, etc.
So don't do the setup. Buy a laptop preloaded, just as you would for
any other PC. See http://www.linux.org/vendors/systems.html
--
Retired TechSupport Engr. Linux@CDSnet:http://home.cdsnet.net/~rolandl
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the
urge to rule." -H. L.Mencken
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to Stay Online -
Date: 28 May 1999 00:17 GMT
That doesn't work with most ISP's KAS
Ben Short wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Does anyone out there know of a program that automatically sends out a
> > packet every (specified) amount of time?
> > My damn ISP kicks me off if I'm inactive for something like 5
> > minutes....and it's starting to get annoying. I used to use Netprophet
> > for windows....is there something similiar for Linux? Thanks kindly,
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
> hehe, have a cron job perhaps?
>
> 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * ping -c 3 <someIP> >/dev/null
> 2>&1
>
> I'm sure theres programs out there, but they would all work on a similar
> method ;)
>
> Ben
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From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SETI@home with proxy?
Date: 29 May 1999 11:38:04 -0500
Does the Linux version work via a proxy server? I have the Win and Mac
versions running fine here thru my proxy, but the Linux version doesn't
connect.
Dave
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Caldera 2.2 Install probl
Date: 28 May 1999 16:32 GMT
Has any one out there come across this type of install problem?
I was told Caldera Open Linux 2.2 was the best of all the Linux
installs, so I purchased it directly from Caldera. I already have
Redhat Linux 5.2 on my system, so I'm just going to over write
Redhat with Open Linux 2.2
I use the same partitions, and the same mount points as I had
for Redhat. I asked that all mounts be reformatted except for
/home ( where I have all of my data files).
The install goes great, all hardware is automatically recognized.
I asked to "install everything" since I have 10.5GB dedicated to
Linux (separate drive /dev/hdb). At the end of the install, when the
final "Finish" button is picked, I am informed that OpenLinux will now
boot. These are the errors that I get:
ln: when making multiple links, last argument must be a directory
ln: cannot symbolic link 'XF86_SVGA' to '/mnt/root/user/X11R6/bin/X' :
no such file or directory
cp: /mnt/root/etc/skel: no such file or directory
chown: /mnt/root/root: no such file or directory
vfs: mounted (ext2 filesystem) readonly
change_root: old root has d_count=2
freeing unused kernel memory: 72K freed
warning: unable to open a initial console
kernel panic: no init found. try passing init=option to kernel
Then the system hangs.
If I reinstall my copy of Redhat 5.2 (or 6.0 for that matter) every
thing works OK. I installed S.u.S.E. 6.1 and it works OK. ( Yeah
I know I have a lot of different versions of Linux, and I have Debean
and FreeBSD on order. But I feel this is the best way to learn Linux
and find the best one for my needs. Besides, CD's are cheap.) Any
one know why OpenLinux gives me the above errors ?? I don't
understand the 'XF86_SVGA' error reported above since my chip
uses Mach64 and the OpenLinux "probe" found it
and tested and displayed it correctly.
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From: Cliff Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Glass Cathedral
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:48:03 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> A: If we continue to grow our user rate at the level we've been doing
> now, [Raymond writes an arithmetic formula to determine this] we'd get
> six doubling periods, which means just shy of a billion people, 860
> million in fact. I'm not expecting it to be quite that high because
> trends like this tend to show logistic growth rather than exponential,
> and it's not clear what the threshold is. I'd say somewhere near 750
> million would be a good conservative estimate.
This is funny! Going from six doublings (in five years) to about 5.9
makes the estimate "conservative"?
Cliff
"If you wanna end war 'n' stuff, you gotta sing loud."
- Arlo Guthrie
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From: Alex Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Caldera's OpenLinux 2.2 Free Distributable?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:50:53 -0400
no, because on the CD there is commercial software like Partition Magic.
What you can distribute is what they've got on their FTP site.
Brian Lavender wrote:
>
> If I buy a copy, can I freely make copies and give it to my friends?
>
> brian
> --------------------
> Brian Lavender
> Sacramento, CA
> http://www.brie.com/brian/
>
> "If a train station is where the train stops,
> what is a workstation?" -- Phil Adamson
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Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:38:53 -0400
From: Tim Uckotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Seti@home for Red Hat 6.0?
I'm still new at Linux so it may be that I'm not doing something right.
I downloaded the Seti gnulib2.1 version to see if I could run it but it
won't work.
Which version should I be downloading for Red Hat 6.0 and after
extracting the files, what else, if anything, do I need to do to run the
software?
Tim
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rechte :-(
Date: 28 May 1999 22:17 GMT
On Fri, 28 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> chmod u+w ... hier bin ich der User, ok.
> chmod a+w ... das gilt wohl fuer alle und jedermann, oder?
> chmod g+w ... das sollte fuer die Gruppe gelten, doch welche Gruppe?
>
> Wie kann ich expliziet einer Gruppe bestimmte Rechte einraeumen?
bei using chgrp to give the file to any group you want
can't tell you anything about vfat partitions as I don't have any.
I would recommend only using ext2 :)
GErald
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with CRON
Date: 28 May 1999 21:02 GMT
Jason Bond wrote:
>
> I'm trying to display a message to myself using xmessage
> and cron (actually I'm using kcrontab). The problem is that
> even though the crontab is setup correctly, the xmessage
> is not displayed on my screen...does anyone know why this
> might be so? Thanks much in advance,
>
> Jason
You can't start X app's with cron. They try to open a display, but
cannot (not allowed, not knowing which, etc). I guess you could try with
'at', but maybe that works only as long as you stay logged in, and maybe
not even that...
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: About SuSE Linux 6.1
Date: 29 May 1999 16:58:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The only problem I am having with SuSe 6.1 is getting mp3 files to play
properly using the oss drivers. They worked fine on this machine with RH5.2
but play as if the lower byte is not coming through.
Wavs and cds play fine (audio cds).
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: NEWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Offline newsreader fo
Date: 29 May 1999 00:32 GMT
Steve wrote:
:Well, is there an offline newsreader for Linux?
I've just started using leafnode to make my machine into a little private
mail server. Then read them at your leisure using slrn (or whatever you
prefer).
It was a little Sunday afternoon job to install -- just a few files and a
bit of tweaking, as I recall.
Ian
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is going on? (Or whois [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 10:13:33 -0400
Same here, prodigy.net in the US; seems to have stopped since 9am EDT,
however.
MST
Jonas wrote:
>
> Is everyone getting these multiple re-postings of old articles by
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Subject: unzip 5.31 no longer supports "shrink"
Date: 29 May 1999 13:15:55 -0400
I have to support many "legacy" zipped files,
and recently discovered some of them that use
(what pkzip calls) "shrink" compression.
Unfortunately, the current (Slackware 3.6)
version of unzip, version 5.31, just spits out
a message that shrink is no longer supported.
I went back to an old Slackware 3.4 CD,
and pulled out unzip version 5.20, and this
unzipped the shrinked files just fine.
Anyone know why the shrink support was
removed? Will I have to keep unzip 5.20 around
forever (there are too many files for me to
unzip/re-zip them all)? Thanks,
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Wolfgang Hoelzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dosemu and Netbios
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:19:11 -0400
Hi!
Is it possible to use netbios-calls within Dosemu using the netcard's dos
drivers or does Linux prohibit this? Searching dejanews and the Linux-docs
did not help so far.
If it IS possible, how do I do it and what are the caveats?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Wolfgang Hoelzle
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From: Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LD cannot find libX11 on RH6?
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:44:59 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> : Hi! Got an interesting problem. I am trying to compile xv on my
> freshly
> : installed RedHat 6 system. xv Compiles, but when it gets to the linker
>
> : stage, it gives an error that ld cannot find -lX11. I tried replacing
>
> So give us the error then ...
Ok,
cc -o xv -O -DDOJPEG -Ijpeg -DDOTIFF -Itiff -DDOPDS xv.o xvevent.o
xvroot.o xvmisc.o xvimage.o xvcolor.o xvsmooth.o xv24to8.o xvgif.o xvpm.o
xvinfo.o xvctrl.o xvscrl.o xvalg.o xvgifwr.o xvdir.o xvbutt.o xvpbm.o
xvxbm.o
xvgam.o xvbmp.o xvdial.o xvgraf.o xvsunras.o xvjpeg.o xvps.o xvpopup.o
xvdflt.o xvtiff.o xvtiffwr.o xvpds.o xvrle.o xviris.o xvgrab.o vprintf.o
xvbrowse.o xvtext.o xvpcx.o xviff.o xvtarga.o xvxpm.o xvcut.o xvxwd.o
xvfits.o
-lX11 jpeg/libjpeg.a tiff/libtiff.a -lm
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -lX11: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [xv] Error 1
As I said, 'ld' is not finding 'libX11.so.6' or 'libX11.a', which I
believe is 'X11'
If I change '-lX11' to '-l/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6' or
'-l/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.a' same results and YES they exist!
>
> : -lX11 with the path of the X11 lib, but no go. I have tried serveral
>
> Who cares? What kind of a lib is it? What are you compiling as? is
> it libX11.a, libX11.so .... ?
>
How Am I suppose to know? I did not write the program. But I have compiled
other programs (including this one) in the past on RedHat 5.0,5.1,5.2 and
Slakware systems and never came up with this error.
>
> : (libXext.so.6) but it is there when I "ls" the X11R6/lib directory.
> : Also, if I a do a "ldconfig -v" all of the 'libX????.so.6' libs are
> : there in the list. Any Ideas??? - Jeremy
>
> You are just confused. Please see the relevant faq.
Name of the faq?
>
>
> If you want dynamically linked libs, you must have libX11.so in your
> link path (-L/usr/X11R6/lib). If you want static linking you must link
> against libX11.a instead.
IT IS! I just told you that! When I do a 'ldconfig -v' it is listed, also
If the lib is missing, How can I be using X right now? libX11 is the
primary lib, right?
>
>
> These libraries must be compiled by the same compiler as you are using
> now
> (without going into nightmarish detail).
As I said, this is a freshly installed RedHat 6 system, I would think they
would of done that.
>
>
> The most likely mishap is that you don't have libX11.so pointing
> anywhere, and
> you don't have libX11.a.
>
As I said, I did a 'ldconfig -v' all the libs are there, how can I use X
when the X11 lib is gone?
Also, why would a freshly (from scratch) installed RedHat system not have
those primary libs?
>
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Holck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Ensoniq Soundscape Card
Date: 29 May 1999 17:26:38 GMT
I am currently upgrading from RedHat 5.1 to 6.0 manually.
I have upgraded the kernel to 2.2.5. I have, of course,
broken many things. One of the things I have broken is
sound support. I have an Ensoniq Soundscape PnP card.
Previously, I used OSS to enable sound support. I am
trying to load sound support as a kernel but can't.
Here is my understanding of what I have to do:
1. Enable kernel module support and configure the sound
support as a module. I have done both of these things.
2. I need to load the microcode to the sound card after
the kernel boots. I compile ssinit.c from snd-util-3.5.tar.gz
with the following macros set:
#define DSPDEV "/dev/dsp"
#define CODEFILE "/usr/local/lib/sndkit/sndscape.co3"
3. When I run ssinit.exe from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, it
should load the correct modules automatically if the
module dependencies are correctly set. This is done in
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit by "depmod -a". I also have to set the
module options correctly in /etc/conf.modules. The
settings are:
#SOUND modules
alias char-major-14 sscape
options sscape io=0x534 irq=11 dma=1 mpu_irq=9 mpu_io=0x330
4. This doesn't work and I get the following message in
/var/log/messages:
May 29 08:50:06 holckster kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Ha
nnu Savolainen 1993-1996
May 29 08:50:06 holckster kernel: Soundscape driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savol
ainen 1993-1996
May 29 08:50:06 holckster insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sscape.o: init_modu
le: Device or resource busy
May 29 08:50:06 holckster modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0
May 29 08:50:06 holckster modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0-3
What am I doing wrong? What are the correct settings for
the sscape module? How do I determine them? If it helps,
here are the settings from the previous OSS setup (devices.cfg):
/SECUREAUDIO OFF
/IRQEXCLUDE 3 4
/DMAEXCLUDE 2
-ENS3081 #Ensoniq Soundscape PnP model 2 (see README.soundscape)
SSCAPE $LOADBIN /doswin/windows/system/sndscape.co3
/PNPDEV ENS0000 P330 P# P# I9 I7 I# D1 D3 D#
SSCAPE OPNP P330 I9 D1 d3
AD1848 OPNP I7
PNP
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University of Pennsylvania
Dept. of Physics
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got it all!" - G. Costanza
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and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerwin Bijsterbosch)
Subject: Re: Offline newsreader for Linux
Date: 29 May 1999 17:27:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>Well, is there an offline newsreader for Linux?
>You know, log on to the ISP, download all new messages in one go and
>then log off, and then read the messages at my leisure.
>Any ideas?
I use slrn in combination with slrnpull, which gets the news (the number
of new articles you want). It is text based, and needs to be configured
with a text-file, but it works superbly. Give it a try and you'll never
want anything else again. I've pasted a sample of my slrnpull.conf below,
so you'll know what to expect.
nl.comp.os.linux 250 14
nl.comp.os.linux.discussie 50 14
nl.comp.os.linux.installatie 50 14
nl.comp.os.ms-windows 50 7
nl.kunst.film 150 7
nl.kunst.sf+fantasy 150 10
alt.destroy.microsoft 50 7
comp.os.linux 50 14
comp.os.linux.advocacy 175 14
comp.os.linux.misc 50 10
The first column is the name of the newsgroup, the second is the number of
messages to retrieve and the third is the amount of days before messages
expire.
Gerwin
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Red Hat Linux 6.0, kernel 2.2.9, K6 166MHz, 48 MB
"The force is strong with this one"
1:42pm up 41 min, 5 users, load average: 0.08, 0.12, 0.05
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From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Procmail
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:41:59 -0700
Hello,
I am trying to set-up Procmail on a Redhat 6.0 system to filter out my
incoming mail. Here is a copy of my .procmailrc file, but it does not seem
to work. And, I just noticed in my sendmail log file, it keeps saying
"suspicious rc file /home/jeff/.procmailrc". Could anybody shed some light
on this problem?
Thanks,
Jeff
VERBOSE=off
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail/jeff
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/log
:0:
* ^Subject:.*linux
Mailing_Lists
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From: "Mage..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UMSDOS question
Date: 29 May 1999 14:37:24 GMT
Ciprian Toader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if UMSDOS supports hard drives compressed with double
> space? I assume it doesn't but since I couldn't find anything about it
> in the UMSDOS HOWTO (which is dated march 96), I thought I might as well
> ask.
> I have an old laptop with a small hard drive and I would very much like
> to have a use for it, hence I plan to install Linux. I was thinking of
> installing DragonLinux, a 20MB distribution that only supports UMSDOS.
>
> Thanks
> Ciprian
Simply, no. I do remember reading it somewhere, but I do not believe it was
in the UMSDOS HOW-TO, it was either in the mini-HOWTO or in the BOOTING.TXT
file from a Slackware distro. You may want to check with DragonLinux's site
and see if they have anything else, but I would doubt it. The problem is
that any compression program (STAC, DOUBLESPACE) is just a DOS program that
runs a compression algorithm on the data that is stored and then stores
this new data in a "virtual drive" that is just a large file on the hard
drive. Since these must be running at boot time to read and write to the
drive, it would be 'impossible' to install Linux in the virtual drive
space.
Now, if someone hacked the Loadlin program to include the compression
algorithm, then they set it up to look to the correct file (and not toast
it in the process) and crossed their fingers and prayed to the bright
goddess, then you possibly could.
If the distro you want to use is only 20MB, you could still install it in
some free space, you can just bootup DOS, run DoubleSpace, then reduce the
amount of drive space DoubleSpace is using, then use the free space to
install.
If your drive is less than 20MB in size, then you do have a problem, and I
am out of ideas.
mage...
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Even had it underlined.
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