Linux-Misc Digest #884, Volume #20 Thu, 1 Jul 99 20:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Beating MS and a manifestation of tradition. (Don't Harvest This Address -->)
Re: How to create /dev/md4 (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Redhat 5.0 SCSI Disk Error (Stuart R. Fuller)
soundcore.o file missing/Soundblaster live (Ronald Haynes)
Re: Running another OS under Linux (U.V. Ravindra)
Re: NT the best web platform? (Jason O'Rourke)
Resizing linux partition (Mike Tuthill)
Re: Tell me I'm wrong... ("J�rgen Exner")
Help on installing StarOffice 5.1 on Red Hat 6.0 (Kelvin Tam)
Re: Best VLB/PCI vid card for RedHat 6.0 (9wands)
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? (Frederic Pont)
Re: vmware review (Mircea)
Re: RH Linux Guru Final Exam (Ricky Sethi)
Re: RH Linux Guru Final Exam ("Ricky J. Sethi")
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? (Donn Cave)
Re: internet speed (johnfarrow)
Re: Need Iomega Ditto 3200 (3.2G) Tape Drive info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Plustek Driver for Kernel 2.2.x (Holger Dahm)
Re: Idea for new *nix site: yes or no? (Kris)
Re: Running another OS under Linux (Goran Milasinovic)
Re: Video timings (Howard Mann)
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From: Don't Harvest This Address --> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Beating MS and a manifestation of tradition.
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:01:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Timothy Rue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 30-Jun-99 17:00:20 Mike Coppins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> MC> Timothy Rue wrote in message
> MC> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> MC> <snip>
>
> MC> To people in comp.os.linux.misc:
>
> MC> Sorry. Tim Rue has infected your newsgroup. Your newsgroup is forever
> MC> cursed :-)
>
> MC> Piece of advice: do not visit the http links in Tim's sig. Bad idea.
>
> Perhaps you'd like to point out what, if any, contridictions you see in
> the picture of people, software and hardware directions that I've been
> communicating and the most recent public communication from Jim Collas?
I hope there are a lot of contradictions between you and Jim Collas;
the last thing we need at this point is for Amiga to take your half-baked
advice and go with the VIC instead of proven solutions like Java or REBOL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: How to create /dev/md4
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:00:03 GMT
Tomoo Nomura ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello,
:
: Default number of md device is four (md0 - md3 ). I need more one.
: I added /dev/md4 by mknod md4 b 9 4 and can see md4 in /dev
: directory.
: However, I could not see md4 entry in /proc/mdstat. What do I need
: to do next ?
# grep MAX_MD_DEV /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/md.c
You'll find that the limit is 4 md devices. You can probably change it to
some larger number and rebuild your kernel. However, there are no guarantees
that it will work with more than 4.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.0 SCSI Disk Error
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:00:03 GMT
Bryan Caudle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: This error has occured more than once on an Intel Pentium machine
: running Redhat 5.0, Kernel 2.0.35.
:
:
: /var/log/messages.2-Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: SCSI disk error :
: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 28000002
: /var/log/messages.2:Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: Current error
: sd08:01: sense key Hardware Error
: /var/log/messages.2:Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: Additional sense
: indicates Track following error
: /var/log/messages.2-Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: scsidisk I/O error:
: dev 08:01, sector 232712, absolute sector 232775
: /var/log/messages.2-Jun 16 01:02:21 openplan kernel: EXT2-fs error
: (device 08:01): ext2_readdir: directory #28779 contains a hole at offset
: 0
:
:
: Here is info on the disk itself:
: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
: Vendor: HP Model: C3325A Rev: 6066
: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
:
: Here is info on the controller:
: General information:
: Chip NCR53C810, device id 0x1, revision id 0x1
: IO port address 0xec00, IRQ number 10
: Using memory mapped IO at virtual address 0x8013f00
: Synchronous period factor 25, max commands per lun 4
:
:
: I am trying to determine if the problem is hardware, if so is it the
: disk or the controller? If not, would updating to a newer kernel help?
: It seems like this is a new problem on a machine that has been running
: OK for a couple of years. Thanks for any help you may have.
:
Start looking for a new disk drive. "Track following error" suggests that the
spindle bearings are starting to go bad. Is the disk noisy, too?
Stu
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From: Ronald Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: soundcore.o file missing/Soundblaster live
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:06:03 -0700
Hi, I have a SUSE 6.1 installation to which I have
been trying to install the Soundblaster Live drivers..
I had it working but no now. I tried to reinstall following
the directions provided by the README file.
I copied the required driver and added
alias sound sblive
pre-install sblive insmod soundcore
post-remove sblive rmmod soundcore
to the /etc/conf.modules files.
When I try to load the driver:
modprobe sblive
I receive an error saying that soundcore.o does not exist.
However, in the first part of the instructions it told
me to remove any sound drivers from /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc
including soundcore, so I removed the file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
R Haynes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (U.V. Ravindra)
Subject: Re: Running another OS under Linux
Date: 01 Jul 1999 12:47:11 -0700
"R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Another solution I've also witnessed (more networking based) is the
> corba
> solution from Oracle Laboratories. That one is free and also handles
> MacOS
> It's called VNC but i can't remember the URL.
VNC is not "another OS". It's just a stateless remote display
system. The URL is
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
It's from ORL. The "O" stands for *Olivetti*, not Oracle :-))
AT&T bought ORL, but VNC is still free. I use it all the time,
and it is simply *FABULOUS*!
Here's a snippet from the VNC website:
--begin quote--
What is VNC? - A practical introduction
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote
display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop'
environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from
anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine
architectures.
--end quote--
> K.
:-R
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason O'Rourke)
Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
Date: 1 Jul 1999 15:43:09 -0700
Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The Kayak may cost more... but I have never heard anyone forced to
>use a Kayak say good things about it. I've also heard some Very
>Bad Things about them.
I don't think I've yet found a major brand computer that I like. All
of them use screwy parts along with some solids ones. I'm much happier
with the systems I've pieced together. But at work you're often stuck
with a single source, so you do what you can.
--
Jason O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.jor.com
'96 BMW r850R
last dive: June 13th, Pescadero Wash Rocks (Carmel), 46 mins at 64ft max
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Tuthill)
Subject: Resizing linux partition
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 21:54:54 GMT
When I installed linux I set up a 128 meg swap partition and a approx.
800 meg root partition. I'm quickly running out of space on the root
partition and wonder if I can increase the size with Partition Magic
and not have linux go screwy on me when I boot up.
TIA
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Tell me I'm wrong...
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:23:05 -0700
Reply-To: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
HellNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7lg94r$jqv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I downloaded a copy of SYSLINUX (linux on a floppy) and ran it of my
> floppy drive...
>
> After loging in as root (*no password*) I had complete access to /root
> after mounting my RH6.0 partition! It seems to have read/write/xecute
> access to all dirs. I even managed to reboot the machine
> using '/mnt/linux/usr/sbin/shutdown -r now' rather than using the
> reboot file that comes with SYSLINUX. Has anyone tried this? Someone
> please tell me I got it all wrong.
What is your problem?
Booting from a floppy (distribution doesn't matter, your SYSLINUX will work
just as well as a RedHat emergency floppy or a Slackware boot/root disk
combo) is the standard way to get access to system, that won't boot from HD
any more.
Or are you upset about this being a potential security hole? Of course it
is. Then fix it by disabling "boot from floppy" in the system BIOS.
Oh, and don't forget to protect the BIOS settings with a password.
Oh, and don't forget to lock the computer case, otherwise someone could
switch the jumper and reset the BIOS settings (including the password and
boot sequence) to default.
Oh, and don't forget to put an armed guard next to the computer, because
otherwise someone could break the lock.
It's your call how much security you need.
jue
--
J�rgen Exner
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kelvin Tam)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.office-pakete.staroffice
Subject: Help on installing StarOffice 5.1 on Red Hat 6.0
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:16:53 GMT
I encounter problem in installing StarOffice5.1 into my Red Hat 6.0
OS. The first problem is it complain it couldn't found certain
library. Then if I proceed to install and start soffice, it complain
it couldn't run because certain library is missing.
Red Hat 6.0 use glibc2.1.1 but Staroffice5.1 use glibc2.0.7. How to
solve this problem? Thanks.
regards,
Kelvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: 9wands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Best VLB/PCI vid card for RedHat 6.0
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 18:14:58 -0500
Dweezel Zappa wrote:
>
> I am going to build an inexpensive PC to run Red Hat 6.0,
> and was wondering what the best Video cards are. I want
> a video card that is very fast in 2-D, and is 101% supported
> in X. Not the most recent vid cards please, (unless is totally rocks
> and dosent cost too much.)
>
<SNIP>
I'm running a Creative Graphics Blaster Exxtreme (4mb) and it does
1600X1200 up to 24-bit just fine. I usually run it at 16-bit color
depth for speed, though. 3 bytes per pixel at that resolution is a LOT
of data to move, even with 100 mHz vRAM and a 230 mHz RAMDAC.
Cost me about $100 roughly a year and a half ago, probably considerably
less, now.
Regards,
--
Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden
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From: Frederic Pont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:17:41 GMT
I'm very happy with my Dell Inspiron 3500, and looks like I'm not the
only one.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David J. Topper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've run Linux on desktop machines since kernel 1.0.x. I also use it
in
> our lab. The time has come, however, to explore laptop issues. My
> employer has a deal with Dell, which offers competative discounts for
> laptops. I must say that the Dell Inspiron line looks pretty good!
>
> I'd love to hear comments / get input from folks. I've already
> contacted the OSS folks about audio support, but have yet to hear.
I'm
> of course concerned about support for various components like the 3com
> combo 56k + 10/100 that comes with the Dell. DVD? PCMCIA? Video
Card?
>
> Email responses preferred.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> DT
> --
> David Topper
> Technical Director - Virginia Center for Computer Music
> Programmer Analyst - School of Arts and Sciences
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
> (804) 924-6887
>
>
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vmware review
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 18:25:47 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (..)
> [minor] vmware seems not to remember where its configuration
> guest operating system files are. It should. For now, you
> have to invoke it as $ /usr/local/bin/vmware
> directory/operatingsystem.cfg
You can run the config files directly, they're actually scripts that
call the executable.
> [major] minimal personal email-based support. This is a
> complex program, and not everything can be answered by the WWW
> site. There is also a lot of info on the WWW site, but much
> of it is poorly organized and difficult to interpret. Again,
> this is because vmware is a complex program, as are its guest
> operating systems.
The way their licensing works, you can get personal e-mail support, but
only if you buy a commercial license, $299; there's no support other
than their newsgroups (on news.vmware.com) for evaluation and
non-commercial licenses. But some of their techs are all the time on the
newsgroups, and really useful.
>
> [major] programs ala mtools that allow one to move files from
> and to the virtual disks from the linux system. (I know that
> some of this can be done via networking when the virtual
> system is running.)
Have you tried their vmware-mount perl script? It allows to mount the
virtual disk through loopback in a directory in the host OS.
http://www.vmware.com/download/downloadaddons.html
MST
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From: Ricky Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH Linux Guru Final Exam
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:39:21 -0700
Hi Rich,
Nope, although I did try installing them once to see if I could force it to
update and include the latest. I've also tried manually updating using
/sbin/route all to no avail (except for when I remove all the interfaces and
then add them back again, including the routes).
Regards,
Rick.
Rich Sena ras*at*tiac.net wrote:
> did you install gated? or anyother routing daemon (routed) it may be
> riping and then removing the routes that it thinks are dead...
>
> --
> <T.I.A.C.>
> There Is A Cabal
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From: "Ricky J. Sethi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH Linux Guru Final Exam
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:35:20 -0700
Hi Rich,
Nope, although I did try installing them once to see if I could force it to
update an include the latest. I've also tried manually updating using
/sbin/route all to no avail (except for when I remove all the interfaces and
then add them back again, including the routes).
Regards,
Rick.
Rich Sena ras*at*tiac.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> did you install gated? or anyother routing daemon (routed) it may be
> riping and then removing the routes that it thinks are dead...
>
> --
> <T.I.A.C.>
> There Is A Cabal
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donn Cave)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop?
Date: 1 Jul 1999 22:15:47 GMT
Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
...
| Of course if you get a laptop from a Linux platform provider
| like VAResearch or Penguin, you won't have to worry about
| these matters, but they tend to concentrate on high end
| expensive machines. Still it is worth checking their
| web pages.
URL for ``Linux Laptops'': http://www.linuxlaptops.com/
I have no experience with them, someone just gave me the URL.
I do have one of the machines they sell, the Chembook 7400, and it's
somewhat comparable to an Inspiron 7000, possibly with a little more
workable BIOS setup. Their price looks good, and I gather it comes
with Debian, X11 etc. I don't run Linux on mine (BeOS only), but I
did try to configure XFree86 under OpenBSD. If they make any money
on these laptops, they earn it.
Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: johnfarrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: internet speed
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 16:32:37 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Two things, first check your /var/log/message file if should tell you
> at what speed you connected to your ISP. Second check KKKP setup, look
> for modem speed set it to 115200.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Hey Thanks a lot!
After clicking on 115200, it ran a lot faster. Preciate it a lot.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: Need Iomega Ditto 3200 (3.2G) Tape Drive info
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:50:47 -0700
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/01/99
at 03:48 AM, James Moe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Recently I got an ORB removable hard drive. $200 for the drive,
>$30 per 2.2GB disk. I could not retire my tape drives fast enough
>(except the DAT)!
I have heard various things about lack of OS/2 support for the ORB
drives. Is yours IDE or SCSI? Any problems with it under OS/2?
--
===========================================================
Bob Stephan [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Happily using OS/2 Warp on the Central California Coast.
http://www.redshift.com/~bstephan
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From: Holger Dahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Plustek Driver for Kernel 2.2.x
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:25:29 +0200
In former days i worked with kernel 2.0.36 (DLD). There was no problem
to compile the alpha plustek scanner driver for SANE (see
www.efn.org/~rick/plustek/plustek_sane-0.x1.tar.gz). Now i=B4m working
with kernel 2.2.5 (SuSe 6.1). It seems, that some struct=B4s were changed=
in the kernel source (e.g. file_operations). so the struct=B4s of the old=
plustek driver source are initialed wrong by compiling time. this
affects only in some warnings, but the result is, that every scan
results in a black image. However, is there someone who has already run
into this problem and has a solution.
greetings, dahm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kris)
Subject: Re: Idea for new *nix site: yes or no?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 22:59:54 GMT
Hi Chris Harshman,
>Sites like that quickly grow unwieldy and cumbersome.
>Also, there's really no way of standing behind a script's
>quality, especially once it surpasses a couple of dozen
>lines and becomes a program in its own right. It might
>be worth doing still, however. You'd need a comprehensive
>way of indexing and cataloging contributions, and a
>very effective search engine.
A simple, complete tarball of all the entire site would be better IMO.
That way people could browse it at their leisure. I doubt people would
go there searching for a particular thing - I doubt it would get to the
point of being like developer.com.
>If you undertake this beast, I might also suggest
>putting up a discussion forum of sorts (where newbies
>can ask simple BASH questions, etc), links to
>tutorials on the various shells
Yep, that'd be done.
>and a links to the
>appropriate O'Reilly and Associates titles (maybe
>an Amazon.com tie-in?) that will quickly become
>essential:
>
>- linux in a nutshell
>- Practical C programming
Also the Perl ones, too.
Hmmm. If I chose to do this, it *could* become a complete archive of
hundreds of scripts and bits of sources. Eeek. I have my doubts as to
whether people would contribute their home-made things, though. Like...
if someone did a simple web interface so users on a network could change
their smbpasswd and passwd, then I don't think they'd submit it. I'd
just be scrambling around searching for nifty things at college (I have
lots of free time...).
Anyway, I'll decide eventually. Thanks for the input.
--
Kris
For a faster reply, use:
smaug [{at}] dufas [{dot}] globalnet.co.uk
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Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 01:15:49 +0200
From: Goran Milasinovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Running another OS under Linux
Look here :
http://www.vmware.com/
I tried it as well (currenty ythe evaluation) and I have Windows NT 4.0
running under
SuSE Linux 6.1 .... great stuff...
Cheers
Goran
Alan Lake wrote:
> I saw a software package that runs Windows (and possibly other Operating
>
> Systems) under Linux. Does anyone know the URL of anyone marketing such
>
> software? Thanx.
>
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> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video timings
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:30:46 GMT
Dave Hammond wrote:
> I'm trying to configure XFree86 for my monitor (CTX VL700),
> but have no clue how to determine the video timings. I've
> read the video timings how-to, but it's far over my head.
>
> The scan rate for 1024x768 is 68.7 Khz horizontal and
> 85 Hz vertical.
>
> Can anyone help with the correct dot clock and video timings?
Firstly, here is an URL for your monitor specs:
http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitors/CTX52.html
It provides horizon and vertical sync ranges for your monitor.
Now, peruse : http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/Xwoes.html
and http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/modelines.html
You should not have to "determine" the video timings per se.
Use the specs and a configuration program like "xf86config"
to write the XF86Config file.
Cheers,
Howard Mann.
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