Linux-Misc Digest #500, Volume #20 Sat, 5 Jun 99 02:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't connect to my ISP yet, here's the pppd-output... (Bill Unruh)
Re: Copy entire hard drive? ("Ferdinand V. Mendoza")
Re: Does Java run well on Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Q. re automated download tools ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
how to print duplex via lpr to network printer (Andrew T. Phillips)
ANNOUNCE: JASSPA distribution of MicroEmacs '99 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: colour depth (Scott Smith)
Re: Peeling off HTML code... (Scott Lanning)
Re: Windowmaker 0.60 and dockable apps ("Bill K.")
Re: CRAZY IDEA: Linux Box as TCP/IP Network Audio/Visual Server? ("Seth Rightmer")
Re: Leafnode Problem with TRN (William Adderholdt)
Re: Mice recommendations ("D. Vrabel")
Re: Linux training in Austin, Texas (Linux Louie)
Re: RedHat 5.2 - sndconfig - SB AWE64 - HELP (coffee)
Cannot setting the Modem on Linux Redhat 6.0? ("Raymond Yung")
Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory! ("Seth Rightmer")
Re: Can't connect to my ISP yet, here's the pppd-output... (fahlis)
FREE HARDCORE TEEN PICS 4875 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL? (Don Baccus)
Re: SUSE 6.1 and (unfortunately!) MS Windows 9X Install Question ("muzh")
Re: Test your knowledge of Linux at new site! (Rick Miller)
Re: Mount CD-ROM over network and report as CD-ROM (Onno Ebbinge)
Re: KDE is giving me huge fucking headaches... (Jonathan Dlouhy)
Re: Organizing files ("David Means")
Re: Black Screen of Death (Andrew Comech)
Re: CRW4416 crashes my system .. a little help please (Gale L McMurray)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Can't connect to my ISP yet, here's the pppd-output...
Date: 5 Jun 1999 03:40:29 GMT
In <7j92tv$p8h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Melle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]Hi,
]it's me again and the problem is still alive ... I can't connect to my ISP
]running RH5.2.
]But I got the idea of posting the pppd-output, maybe one of you out there
]can do something with it to help me ;-)) It would be great.
]Here it is:
]----------------------------------------------------------------------------
]-------------------
]Jun 4 19:19:18 PC pppd[456]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
]Jun 4 19:19:18 PC pppd[456]: Using interface ppp0
]Jun 4 19:19:18 PC pppd[456]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS3
]Jun 4 19:19:18 PC pppd[456]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xfba16783>
]<pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jun 4 19:19:21 PC pppd[456]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xfba16783>
]<pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jun 4 19:19:21 PC pppd[456]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth
]chap 80> <magic 0x7d7f> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jun 4 19:19:21 PC pppd[456]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x0 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth
]chap 80> <magic 0x7d7f> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jun 4 19:19:21 PC pppd[456]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <magic 0xfba16783>
]<pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jun 4 19:19:44 PC pppd[456]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
]Jun 4 19:19:44 PC pppd[456]: Modem hangup
]Jun 4 19:19:44 PC pppd[456]: Connection terminated.
]Jun 4 19:19:45 PC pppd[456]: Exit.
]----------------------------------------------------------------------------
]-------------
Get rid of kppp. I still do not know why people use it-- it seems to
cause more problems than it is worth.
Just write a script to give your ISP what it wants. See
axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
for instructions as to how to do it.
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From: "Ferdinand V. Mendoza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Copy entire hard drive?
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 07:49:57 +0400
> Copying all the files individually: "cp -a", some people recommend a pipe or
>
This one worked for me because I don't have identical drives.
Ferdinand
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Does Java run well on Linux?
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 02:54:05 GMT
Thats interesting.
Where can we get this $20 Solaris for hte PC?
Plz advise. ThankU.
In article <7j600s$19$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (benjamin j snyder) wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Stephan Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >First I used Win95, then I upgraded to Linux. While many things
> ^^^^^^^^
> While I totally agree, this shows how many people feel about MS
products. I
> use Windows for what I feel its intended purpose is - GAMES! But when
we want
> to do something constructive we 'upgrade' to linux. And the games
issue will
> change when people like Loki are finished.
>
> Sorry that had nothing to do with Java, it's just something that
struck me when
> I read that.
>
> I dont KNOW Java, but have had a little experience with it...I can
agree that
> linux will run Java with more stability than Win32 machines (as it
will run
> most anything with more stability), speed difference is negligable
(sp?).
>
> Sun has released Solaris for PC (it'll cost you like $20 to order from
them,
> which includes shipping). It's stable and has native Java supoprt
(even though
> I know you can compile Java support into the kernel, but I think Sun's
might be
> a touch better since Java is their baby.
>
> My thought anyway.
>
> --
> Ben Snyder
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Q. re automated download tools
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:19:52 GMT
Hi there.
I'm wondering about automatic download tools which I can set up to
search and fetch files.
Ideally, what I want to do is this:
keep my PC running
at a specified time dial out to ISP
confirm for good ISP connection // with hang-up and retry a number
of times
for each type of search
access a given web page
run a query (fill in a search box & hit RETURN)
detect the search return
grab a "snap-shot" of the results page
for each link on the results page
check against a database to see if it's already
downloaded
if not, download the item
next link on page
next type of search
check to see if any downloads still in progress OR 10 min timeout
drop the connection to ISP
type of thing.
HowdoIdothat??
Thanks
?:^) brodders
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From: [email protected] (Andrew T. Phillips)
Subject: how to print duplex via lpr to network printer
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 19:22:47 GMT
I have an HP LaserJet 4000N printer installed on a network with its
own IP address. I can print to it from my RedHat 6.0 machine just
fine, except I can't get duplex mode. The printer supports duplex
since NT machines print duplex just fine. How do you set up a
printcap entry to do duplex mode?? Or is it more complicated that
that?
Thanks for any help.
Andy Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: ANNOUNCE: JASSPA distribution of MicroEmacs '99
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 18:19:16 GMT
ANNOUNCE: 4th June 1999
JASSPA distribution of MicroEmacs '99
New Beta available
* Improved font support. UNIX and MS-Window platforms
provide improved font support. Decoupling of the Font
box characters enables ANSI and OEM fonts to be
supported on windows, within the UNIX domain more
fixed fonts may be selected even if they do not
support box drawing characters.
* Multi-language support. Improved support of foreign
languages through better support of the ISO-Latin
character set. All dictionaries are defined in terms
of ISO-Latin character sets. Macros provide
conversion of MS-DOS OEM <=> ISO-Latin. Added support
for French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.
* Much improved user-setup dialog with configuration
options for most used features.
* Extended undo, with undo past last save and redo
capability.
* Ipipe shell windows stabilized and made more robust.
* The Microsoft Windows environments support an
interactive shell window using Cygwin.
* Introduction of 'local variables' and 'macro specific
variables' into the macro language. Improves
readability of the macro language and tightens the
scope of variables.
* Reorganization of the color schemes in an attempt to
unify the color scheme definitions. Creation of a
color scheme editor
* Support for Client/Server interface to allow external
programs to communication to MicroEmacs, also allows
re-use of the same editor with the '-o' command line
option.
* Minor bug fixes in all areas, Win32s support for
Microsoft Win3.x environments. Additional support for
more file types and extended documentation.
Available for download from:-
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Thinktank/7109/
OR
http://members.xoom.com/jasspa/index.html
Comments and any problems on the new beta would be
welcomed prior to final release:-
Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Smith)
Subject: Re: colour depth
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 03:46:15 GMT
On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 12:12:12 +1000, Groggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>does any1 know how to start x in a better colur depth that the default
>8bpp/256 colour?
>when I change my XF86Config it wont start x saying that the default 8bpp is
>missing.
Leave the 8bpp in there and add the other color depths/specs to XF86Config.
Then in .xserverrc add the command/commandline to get higher depth.
bugfree:~$ cat .xserverrc
exec X -bpp 16
bugfree:~$
You can aslo do this on a system wide basis, I think, by editing xserverrc
in one of the XF86 directories.
Good luck,
--
Scott Lacy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Student of Computer Science
"Nullus Anxietas" Denton, Texas, US
The University of North Texas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Peeling off HTML code...
Date: 5 Jun 1999 03:54:39 GMT
Ding-Jung Han ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm trying to launch RealPlayer to listen to CNN headline news -- more
: precisely I use at command to start the broadcasting at a specific time
: (e.g. morning call). Unfortunately the exact URL for the headline news
: ram stream is buried inside javascript code. Now the challenge: is it
: possible to 'peel off' the javascript code and get to the correct ram
: URL, so that command-line playback is possible? How? What tools are
: necessary?
You could use lynx -dump, along with perl. From command line, something
like:
# lynx -dump http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/04/kosovo.peace.02| \
perl -ne'if(/script:vod/){s#.*/#http://www.cnn.com/blahblahblah/#;\
s/html.*/ram/;print}'
This prints out some URLs, but maybe not exactly what you're looking
for, as I didn't find exactly what you're talking about, the headline
news ram stream... If you tell me exactly, maybe I could hone it down
to the specific URL; probably each day it changes according to the
date, etc..
--
Scott Lanning: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://physics.bu.edu/~slanning
"If lightning is the anger of the gods, the gods are concerned mostly
with trees." --Lao Tse
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From: "Bill K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windowmaker 0.60 and dockable apps
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 04:34:02 GMT
"Kerry J. Cox" wrote:
>
> Since upgrading to RedHat 6.0 and now to Window Maker 0.60 I have had
> trouble running any of my dockable apps, i.e. wminet, wmmon, wmifs, and
> wmtime. I think it's either the DISPLAY variable (I've seen other
> comments from people about this) or else Window Maker itself, more
> likely. I went back to WM 0.53.0 but to no avail so I've resigned
> myself to 0.60.
> Has anyone else has problems? Please email me directly.
> KJ
How many colours is your X server set at? If it's 8-bpp or less, that
might just be the problem. The same thing had me wondering and confused
for a while.
--
Bill K. ( b i l l y @ c a f e . n e t )
**** WARNING **** All unsolicited bulk e-mail received at this address
will be promptly reported to the sender's system administrator, and to
law enforcement authorities whenever applicable.
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From: "Seth Rightmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: CRAZY IDEA: Linux Box as TCP/IP Network Audio/Visual Server?
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:30:06 -1000
Cyrus, I think you are on to something, my man. I haven't heard of anything
like that, but if people are putting toasters and coffee pots on the
internet, how hard could it be? I expect to see this kind of thing Real
Soon Now(tm), with a half dozen different incompatible protocols at first,
of course. Know any electronics wizards?
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Subject: Re: Leafnode Problem with TRN
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Adderholdt)
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 04:53:30 GMT
In article <wpR53.568$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dr Vincent C Jones PE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is anyone out there using trn with leafnode successfully? Trn has a
>nasty habit of messing up the .newsrc file when marking xrefs as read,
>causing it to reset the pointers. A search of deja news only finds
>others asking this same question, but no answers...
Yes, I posted this question a couple of months ago, didn't get an
answer, but I've since managed to find a fix to the problem.
I upgraded to the latest beta versions of trn and leafnode, and the
problem went away. You can get them here:
leafnode-1.10b2 -- ftp://wpxx02.toxi.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/
trn4.0-test72 -- ftp://ftp.clari.net/private/trn
I'm using trn and leafnode to post this response, and they're working
just fine.
Hope this helps!
William Adderholdt
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mice recommendations
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 20:40:45 +0100
On 4 Jun 1999, Johan Kullstam wrote:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What mice do most people recommend to use with Linux?
>
> get a three button mouse.
>
> i am not sure if the wheel gizmo constitutes a third button in linux
> but i am thinking it does.
According to the XFree86 docs the wheel is interpreted as a z-axis
movement. Since not many programs understand the z-axis it's a bit
useless. Bear in mind this is only what I remember reading -- I don't
have ne of these mice.
> but definately avoid two button jobs w/o wheelies.
Agreed.
David Vrabel
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From: Linux Louie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux training in Austin, Texas
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 20:01:58 GMT
Hey -
There's Linux treaining in Austin, Texas. Check out
http://training.three-sixteen.com.
LL
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2 - sndconfig - SB AWE64 - HELP
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 15:33:22 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get my sound up and running. When I run sndconfig
> (either in or out of X) I get an error in line 367 and the system asks
> me to add "NOTIFYLD N" or something like that (not in front of system)
> to the top of the isapnp.conf file. I did that but when I run
> sndconfig again it renames my updated file!!! How do I get it not to
> rename the file or get around this error??
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
When I ran 5.2 (and 6.0 now too) I would get the same
error. I just did a manuel configuration and accepted
the default values for irq and mem addresses. Then
tested. I think after the error it will prompt you for
manual configuration. Email me and let me know. Im
running the same sound card and did run 5.2.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Raymond Yung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,hk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Cannot setting the Modem on Linux Redhat 6.0?
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 12:46:59 +0800
Hello all,
I'm a newbie on Linux, I use the "cat" command to view the file of
"/proc/interrupts" and list as follow:
CPU0
0: 800739 XT-PIC timer
1: 2306 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
12: 458342 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 108901 XT-PIC ide0
15: 5 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
As the above, the Int 3 and 4 is not enable for Serial device,
therefore, I use the "setserial /dev/ttys0 irq3" to enable this device, but
the console will prompt an error message "/dev/ttys0: Input/Output error".
Could anyone tell me, how to setting the modem on Redhat 6.0? My
modem is connected to COM1 == ttys0.
Thank You! :)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raymond Yung
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From: "Seth Rightmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory!
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:59:47 -1000
Free Memory is a Bad Thing(tm). If there isn't anything in it, what the
hell good is it doing you? Linux is very smart this way. If there are bits
of programs that haven't been used in a long time, while there is lots of
disk access that could be cached, it just makes sense to swap those bits out
and cache more disk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fahlis)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Can't connect to my ISP yet, here's the pppd-output...
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:50:12 +0200
Well,I had almost the exact same output,I solved it by
putting in my ISP�s nameserver in networkconfiguration in Yast.
Hope it helps.
/fahlis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FREE HARDCORE TEEN PICS 4875
Date: 5 Jun 1999 04:26:53 GMT
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.lang.java.databases
Subject: Re: What are the differences between mySQL and mSQL?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Baccus)
Date: 4 Jun 1999 12:59:19 PST
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>absolutely. actually, as it turns out, while all Free Software
>(http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) is Open Source
>(www.opensource.org)
The simple english word "free" has a meaning very different
than the formalized "Free Software" as defined by RMS and
his crony, and I suspect the OED will honor that distinction
for many decades to come.
If you're saying that folks who post to the linux newsgroups
don't understand English, who am I to argue with you?
Meanwhile, Sybase is free. It is not Open Source.
--
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nature photos, on-line guides, at http://donb.photo.net
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From: "muzh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SUSE 6.1 and (unfortunately!) MS Windows 9X Install Question
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 17:07:09 +1200
Dan Star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7j93ms$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> muzh wrote:
> >
> > Windows 9x is so selfish it takes the first partition on the C drive and
the
> > whole Master Boot Record to itself!
> > Might be easiest if you bought another hard disk, made it master (ie
c: ),
> > and jumpered the Linux disk to be slave.
> > Make a boot disk for Linux and test it works.
> > Install windows.
> > Boot linux with the boot disk.
> > Configure and run Lilo, and you should be right -- ie back to dual-boot
> > system
>
> With this setup, could the Windows "C:" disk be mountable from Linux so
> that "Windows" files could be read from and writen to from within the
> Linux environment?
Yes, certainly.
Make sure MSDOS and VFAT support are compiled into the kernel or as modules.
The do a mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos (or whatever)
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From: Rick Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Test your knowledge of Linux at new site!
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 01:00:51 -0400
Ben Short wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > Dear Linux Administrator,
> >
> > We are currently beta testing our web-based 'Linux Administrator'
> > knowledge test. The format is multiple choice. To take the test,
> > simply go to http://www.tekmetrics.com/betapins.html. The rest should
> > be
> self-explanatory.
> [snip]
> >
> I'll give you a 1, because when I tried to go to the site, I got a 404
> not found error ;)
I connected fine and had no problems whatsoever...
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From: Onno Ebbinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mount CD-ROM over network and report as CD-ROM
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 22:02:36 +0200
Joel Burton wrote:
>
> I need some clarification: are you mounting this as a samba share, but to
> WinNT it looks like a HD?
Yep.
Onno.
>
> Onno Ebbinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I want to mount a CD-ROM (or ISO file, or directory) that
> > resides on my RH Linux 6.0 server over my network and my
> > WIN NT 4 machine must report it as a CD-ROM.
> >
> > I've posted this question on some NT newsgroups but there
> > were mostly brain dead people...
> >
> > I think I need a NT 4 device driver who can pull this off
> > but I can't find one. If it's really necessary I can write
> > the driver (I have the NT 4 DDK stuff) but I prefer a download...
> >
> > Onno.
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From: Jonathan Dlouhy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE is giving me huge fucking headaches...
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:15:33 -0400
Zeleng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It's been a week since I first tried to install the K Desktop
>Environment... and for a week now, I still haven't been able to pass
>the "./configure" stage.
>
>At some point during the configuration, it gives me an error message:
>
>=09checking for KDE... configure: error:
>=09in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed.
>=09This will fail. So, check this please and use another prefix!
>
>I've tried EVERYTHING: I've tried depackaging 'kdebase-1.1.1.tar.gz' to
>different directories; I've tried unsucessfully to change some stuff in
>that 'configure' file; I've tried to create symbolic links with some
>headers in every subdirectories inimaginable in /usr/local/kde (where
>KDE Base is unpacked). Hell, I even e-mailed Stephen Kulow, but got no
>answer as of yet...
>
>What the hell is wrong with me? Some help would be most welcomed...
>
>BTW, I'm running Slackware 3.6 with the 2.0.35 Linux kernel.
>
>-- Zeleng --
Have you installed the KDE libraries?
--=20
Jonathan Dlouhy
Principal Oboe,
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Windows Error 018: Unrecoverable error.
System destroyed.
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From: "David Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Organizing files
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:41:45 -0700
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'd like to hear how others organize apps that they
> download onto their computers. I'd also like to hear
> comments on how I organize mine.
>
> I have a standalone system where I'm the only user,
> currently running Red Hat 5.2 but about to give
> SuSE 6.1 a look. To backup my system I just copy /home
> and /usr/local to another disk since everything else
> can be reinstalled from the CD. In /usr/local/ I've
> created 3 new directories, rpms-installed/,
> rpms-notinstalled/, and rpms-temp/. When I download
> new rpms they go into rpms-temp/, I execute
> 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm', then move them to rpms-installed/.
> Invariably there are a few that can't be installed
> because of missing dependencies in which case I move
> those to rpms-notinstalled/. I want those files
> stored somewhere so that I can go on installing other
> files until I track down the missing dependencies
> which may be a few days or weeks later.
>
> I do something similar for source rpms. In /usr/local/
> I've created srpms-compiled/, srpms-notcompiled/, and
> srpms-temp/. New srpms are downloaded into srpms-temp/,
> execute 'rpm --rebuild filename.src.rpm', then moved
> to srpms-compiled/ if successful, or moved to srpms-
> notcompiled/ if not. The newly created rpm is then
> moved to /usr/local/rpms-temp/ and the preceding rpm
> installation steps followed.
>
> Lastly for tarballs, in /usr/local/ I've created
> /src-installed/, src-notinstalled/ and src-temp/.
> New tarballs are downloaded and unzipped in src-
> temp/, execute './configure, make, make install',
> then move the tarball to src-installed/ if successful,
> to src-notinstalled/ if not, and delete the directory
> created from unzipping the tarball.
> [snip]
Sounds like very nearly what I've come up with, except
that instead of putting all this stuff under /usr/local, I've
put it under /home/misc. But according to the folks who
make up standards, at
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html
you have the correct placement. Their description is:
The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when
installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten
when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs
and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts,
but not found in /usr.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Black Screen of Death
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Jun 1999 17:52:15 -0500
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 12:05:13 -0700, Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>For several applications that use full screen mode...glquake for
>example, when the program exits, it doesn't completely quit and I get
>stuck in this text mode...with no prompt.
Are you sure this is not the "first console" or something, from where
X has been started? Did you try pressing ALT-CTRL-F7 (this is where
X usually lives, assuming you have 6 getties running)?
>The only way I know to get out of it is to hit
>ctrl-alt-f11 and then kill the X process as root which loggs me out.
>Another question...is there a way to retrieve the current session once
>ctrl-alt-f11 has been hit and the offending
>process has been killed as root? Thanks kindly in advance,
>
> Jason
>
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From: Gale L McMurray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup.misc
Subject: Re: CRW4416 crashes my system .. a little help please
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 15:02:54 +0100
Join the club. Seems that the 2.2.5 kernel might be the problem. RH 5.2
likes the Yamaha, but not 6.0. I'm trying to get some info from Red Hat about
the problem.
Gale McMurray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi there
>
> i had to disconnect my YAMAHA crw4416s scsi cdrw to even get Suse
> 1.6 to install, Suse is up and running fine but i would like to get
> the cdrw workng any ideas?
>
> everthing goes fine on boot the adaptec 2940 is there but then it
> crashes with errors like
>
> SCSi bus being reset for host 0 channel 0
>
> unable to handle kernel null pointer
>
> yadda yadda
>
> yadda yadda
>
> Aiiiieee!! killing interupt handler
> kernel panic: attempted to kill the idle task! in swapper task - not
> syncing
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