Linux-Misc Digest #91, Volume #21 Tue, 20 Jul 99 03:13:07 EDT
Contents:
printer not detected (John Garrison)
Re: Sony SDT-2000 Can't mount KDE's tape backup. ("William B. Cattell")
ld/ar -> HELP!!!! (Nicolas De Rico)
Same Newbie, same problems (monitor, modem, sound, etc.) (Eric Powell)
Re: Selecting GUIs? (Brett Lanham)
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From: John Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer not detected
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:15:24 GMT
I have parrellel port printer (canon bjc600) it works fine on my old
linux computer. However I had the printer when I installed linux on that
computer and let redhat set it up for me. Now I moved it to my new
computer and used printtool to setup printcap and such.
The problem is it will never print. A look a dmesg show something along
the lines of
"lp: driver loaded but no devices found"
If I try to do a MAKEDEV for lp I get this error
"./MAKEDEV: device: unknown major number for lp"
The printer is connected fine, when the computer restarts so does the
printer. I couldn't tell you if it works in windows. Everytime I told a
win98 program to print it opened up bitware fax for some strange and
unknown reason.
Any suggestions?
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Sony SDT-2000 Can't mount KDE's tape backup.
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:41:13 GMT
Spotillius Maximus aka \"Spot\" wrote:
>
> So far, I'm slowly getting the system where I want it. I tried mounting it
> with /dev/st0 or /dev/tape and it say's it can't find tape. Is there a
> driver needed for this drive? Thanks again for the help.
>
> Ed
I was seeing the same message when logged in as myself. It
can mount a tape if I start the program up from the root
account though. Try to log in as root or su to it. It
works both ways for me.
Bill
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From: Nicolas De Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ld/ar -> HELP!!!!
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 05:31:14 +0000
Hi, I am having some serious problems with ld.
When I create a shared library like this:
ld -shared -t test.o test.a -o test.so
all c files compiled like this: gcc -c test.c
it works if test.a is composed of normal c files (hello world type).
However, the program I am writing uses header files which contain tons
of #define and typedefs and a bunch of structures. More importantly,
the header files contain hundreds of protoypes of functions located
throughout my source directory structure.
What I am wondering is is there a maximum number of definitions per file
that ar can handle? The reason I am asking about ar is that when I do
the ld command as described above I get the output of test.o being
linked but not test.a.
I truly don't understand. Everything compiles well and if I link the
components of my shared library to a program as object files (.o) with
gcc, everything works fine. ex: gcc test.o test1.o test2.o -o test.
This is very frustrating because I really don't have a clue as to what
is wrong...
Nick
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From: Eric Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.servers.general
Subject: Same Newbie, same problems (monitor, modem, sound, etc.)
Date: 20 Jul 1999 05:31:07 GMT
O.K., I haven't really improved much (although I did get rid of that stupid
virtual screen thing). I downloaded a driver (is that also called a
server, yeah that probably is a dumb question) that claims to work, onto a
floppy, is there a way to install it? Remember, I need step by step
instructions, I know next to nothing. Also, I followed the directions in
the Linux for Dummies book (where I got Linux, Redhat 5.something), it said
the kernel should be in root/usr/src/linux and to run "make menuconfig".
The directory doesn't exist (yes, I'm logged on as root, and I'm running
this on my PC at home), it says there is no command. So I'm pretty much
lost. HELP!!!
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From: Brett Lanham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.sux
Subject: Re: Selecting GUIs?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 00:44:47 -0500
Isn't gnome actually a desktop environment like kde is whereas afterstep
is just a window manager. I'd recommend window maker. Yes I know your
asking how to switch and this had nothing to do with that, sorry.
brett
Brent Davies wrote:
>
> I _know_ this is a lame question, but I'm not affraid to admit that I'm
> still a beginner.
>
> I just installed RH6 and Gnome was the default Xwindows GUI. I switched to
> AfterStep (because I like it), but I noticed that there isn't a nice easy
> (graphical) way to switch it back to Gnome.
>
> How to I manually edit the Xwindows environment to reflect the fact that I'd
> like the X Server to load Gnome instead of AfterStep?
>
> Thanks!
> -Brent
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