Linux-Misc Digest #99, Volume #21 Tue, 20 Jul 99 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Same Newbie, same problems (monitor, modem, sound, etc.) (JM)
Re: Anyone Get The CMI8330 Sound Card Working ? ("Donald E. Stidwell")
No email to AOL (Roland Latour)
Re: tape backup device under Linux (Bryan)
RedHat 6.0/Squid/Junkbuster trouble (Vito DeFilippo)
Re: Font problem starting X ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does Your KeyBoard Do This Under X ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: kppp setup solution! (Joseph Sollenberger)
Re: Print queue stuck? (JM)
How to change the time? (Trung)
Anyone Get The CMI8330 Sound Card Working ? ("Allix")
Re: Altering BIOS Values w/ Program ? (Doug DeJulio)
Re: Marx vs. Nozick (Matthias Warkus)
linux and midi on a notebook (The Mitochondrion)
Inet access as normal user (Stefan Walter)
Re: ??: Problem With Memory Option in Patch-V2.0.37 - Won't Boot!?!?!? (Douglas E.
Mitton)
Re: kernel compile anamolies ("J. Guy Stalnaker")
Using dlopen/dlsym with C++ under Linux (Richard Nairn)
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Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.servers.general
From: JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Same Newbie, same problems (monitor, modem, sound, etc.)
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:43:53 GMT
The kernel source will be in /usr/src/linux. This will be found there only if
you
chose to install the kernel sources while installation(this is not generally
the
default). If you wish to install and compile the kernel sources follow these
procedures.
- Get the sources
The first place to look for would be your distribution CD-ROM
Or get the source (linux-x.x.xx.tar.gz - 2.2.10 being the latest stable)
from
http:/www1.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/ or any other mirror site
whose links are available at www.kernel.org
- Be aware of the directory structure:
/usr/src/linux is a link (not a real directory) to the kernel source in use
currently (if there is one) under /usr/src. For example if you have the
kernel sources for version 2.2.5 installed in /usr/src then you will see the
following directories
/usr/src/linux-2.2.5
and
/usr/src/linux which shows up as linked to linux-2.2.5
- Unpack the source in /usr/src.
If you have an existing source tree and a /usr/src/linux (link), remove the
link.
use 'rm linux' in /usr/src. Don't fear, this will only remove the link named
linux,
nothing else.
create a new directory with your new source version.
mkdir /usr/src/linux-2.2.10 , for instance.
create a new link
cd /usr/src
ln -s linux-2.2.10 linux
untar the source into /usr/src/linux (Now pointing to the new tree)
Make sure you are doing this from /usr/src/
tar -xvzf linux-x.x.xx.tar.gz
This will create the new source tree..
cd to linux (a.k.a. linux-2.2.10 or so - make sure you do 'cd linux' instead
of the
real directory name)
- Configure and compile the kernel.....
Instructions are in a README or INSTALL (?) in that directory.
More doubts - come back to the group..
Have fun..
JM
Eric Powell wrote:
> 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!!!
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone Get The CMI8330 Sound Card Working ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:06:11 GMT
I have one on a SiS motherboard and got it working using the OSS drivers
from 4Front Technologies. Nothing included with Linux would work, but
the OSS drivers found it and had it working in minutes.
Don
Allix wrote:
>
> If you have the CMI8330 sound card and have got it working under linux
> please emial me. Any help at all will be greatly approciated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Roland Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No email to AOL
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 11:50:41 -0700
I suddenly find I can't send email to my brother at AOL. I contacted
my ISP. They directed me to www.qmail.org, which says:
Having trouble sending mail to AOL? Getting "CNAME lookup failed
temporarily" errors? AOL has done the unthinkable -- increased their
DNS records beyond 512 bytes. Many Unix programs, qmail included,
can only use DNS records <512 bytes. You can fix this (for qmail
anyway).
'fix this' is a link to a patch. So I'm apparently stuck until either
my ISP applies the patch, or AOL changes back (not likely).
So I went looking for specs for DNS records. RFC883: Domain Names-
Implementation & Specification, didn't seem to have any indication
of a 512byte limit. Is this a genuine qmail bug? Or is AOL trying to
pull a Microsoft? Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
--
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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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:13:21 +0000
From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: tape backup device under Linux
Matthew Hixson wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a tape backup device for use under Linux? This is
> to go into a machine with an ASUS P2B-DS motherboard (supports SCSI).
> The machine is currently running kernel 2.2.6, but I can upgrade it if
> necessary.
> Any adivce is welcomed.
> -M@
I love my NS/20 FAST SCSI drive. It's made by one company but branded
by various companies such as Seagate, Tandberg Data, etc. and is NS/8
backwards compatible, supports hardware compression, etc.
Got mine at Buy.com for a good deal, with two tapes, total of about
$400.
You could probably find them at local computer shops for a little less.
-- Bryan Scott
-- CTR Online Systems Administration
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From: Vito DeFilippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.0/Squid/Junkbuster trouble
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:16:35 GMT
Hello all,
RedHat 6.0 on AMD K6-233, ABIT TX5, 64Megs RAM.
I'm trying to use Squid 2.2-stable1, and the Internet Junkbuster 2.0.2.
The latter I had no trouble with when I used RedHat5.1, but I can't get
either to work and it's driving me batty.
Both were installed via rpm. I configure the proxy in Netscape but
neither program seems to be able to access the localhost proxy (port
3128 for squid, 8000 for junkbuster). I tried them separately with the
different port numbers, but both can't access the proxy.
On startup, junkbuster starts, but dies with this error:
/usr/sbin/junkbuster: can't bind 127.0.0.1:8000: Cannot assign requested
address
There may be another junkbuster or some other proxy running on port 8000
Squid starts up and keeps running, but shows this error in the log,
obviously related:
1999/07/20 14:45:26| commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 1 to 127.0.0.1:0:
(99) Cannot assign requested address
1999/07/20 14:45:26| ipcCreate: Failed to create child FD.
1999/07/20 14:45:26| WARNING: Cannot run '/usr/lib/squid/dnsserver'
process.
Yes, I've RTFM, the FAQS, I've looked through the config files, I've
done searches. Can't figure it out. Any suggestions would be most
welcome!
Thanks a million.
Vito DeFilippo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
remove INVALID to email me if you wish.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Font problem starting X
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:42:29 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Naber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When my system boots it says soemthing like this.
> Element #0 (starting at 0) of font path is bad or has a bad font.
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc .. etc..
> When I try to do a startx, the server crashes and says it cannot find the
> font fixed.
Well, that's a very informative error message. Either you've edited your
font path and mangled it somehow, or you are trying to use a font server
that is not running.
-ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Does Your KeyBoard Do This Under X ?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:45:56 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stephen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (the Word key! the IE key! the registration key!)
are you serious? I haven't seen those yet. Actually, the
extra keys are kind of handy--I have control-left window_key
start an xterm in Afterstep.
-ckm
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From: Joseph Sollenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: kppp setup solution!
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:24:22 -0400
Christopher Chan wrote:
> Bernie wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I had kppp dial-up setup proplems with kde in the Mandrake 6
> > distribution (which is based on RedHat 6).
> >
> > The problem was that whatever I tried, the error message was:
> >
> > the ppp daemon died unexpectedly
> >
> > The current official solution to this setup problem which appears to
> > be caused by the distribution is:
> >
> > Change the modem speed under the modem tab of the kppp setup once.
> >
> > After the change, (I set it up from 57,000 to 115,000) you
> > can change it back to what you like.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bernie
>
> What kind of modem are you using?
>
> I had the same problem with my US Robotics voice ext. My init string
> was ATZ and my modem was no longer using the hardware flow control
> default setting in the modem.
>
> I changed it to AT&F1 which loaded the hardware flow control default
> setting.
>
> .......................
Christopher, you have supplied the answer to my KPPP problems. The US
Robotics modems of other flavors (mine is a 56K Fax/Data external modem)
also neet the AT&F1 modem init string under KPPP. Thank you for adding
your information to the KPPP discussion! I am using COL 1.3 -- and loving
it!
--
[This mail was generated under Linux - an alternative to Windows.]
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From: JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Print queue stuck?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:23:40 GMT
Is lpd (printer daemon) running / configured?
what does /etc/printcap say?
Is the print spool directory (/var/spool/lpd/lp?) "rw" enabled
for the current user (or world?)
Andy Johnson wrote:
> I have recently installed SuSE 6.1 and compiled a kernel (2.2.7) for my
> machine. The modules and hardware seem to work, because I can cat
> >/dev/lp0, type a few lines, control-L control-D and get a
> (stair-stepped) printed page. However, when I lpr a file, it just sits
> in the queue. What do I have to do to get this going?
>
> Andy Johnson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Trung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How to change the time?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 13:35:43 -0500
Hello folks,
I have RH6.0 (Linux ver 2.2.5-15) w/ KDE. Currently, I have 2 problems:
modem & time.
1/ Is there anyone who makes Compaq Presario 336-VSC modem work? In
Win98, my modem is connected to COM2, IRQ=3. Using the command "dmesg |
less" I get the following info:
.Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
enabled
.ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4 ) is a 16550A
.pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
2/ How to change the time? I have the time correct in Win98 & NT but not
in Linux
Thanks so much in advance for any help.
Trung Do
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From: "Allix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone Get The CMI8330 Sound Card Working ?
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:48:15 -0400
If you have the CMI8330 sound card and have got it working under linux
please emial me. Any help at all will be greatly approciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug DeJulio)
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Altering BIOS Values w/ Program ?
Date: 20 Jul 1999 14:59:58 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Erik Lins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>is there a possibility to alter bios setup values without using the
>internal bios setup program (hit del to enter...) but some other program
I believe you can compile "nvram" support into recent Linux kernels,
and then create "/dev/nvram" to get access to the same area of memory
that stores BIOS settings. I'm pretty sure that different machines
don't use that memory in the same way, so you would have to figure out
how to get the effect you want on your particular machine.
One easy trick might be to set the settings by hand one way, store the
current NVRAM contents, set the settings by hand the other way, store
the current NVRAM contents, and then compare them to see what you need
to do (or simply restore them at will, if you don't care about the
details).
I have not tried this on an x86 box.
--
Doug DeJulio | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HKS, Incorporated | http://www.hks.net/~ddj/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Marx vs. Nozick
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:14:33 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the 20 Jul 1999 05:56:51 GMT...
..and Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It was the 19 Jul 1999 05:29:54 GMT...
> >..and Richard Kulisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Free market => large-scale competition => large-scale conflict == war
> >
> >Nonsense. A working free market is always regulated competition, and
> >if you argue that even regulated competition is just a scale-down war,
> >you could claim that anyone advocating competitive sports is a
> >warmonger. The silliness of that argument should be obvious.
>
> In "competitive" sports, there aren't any vultures preying upon the
> athletes. In the "free market" such vultures are called consumers.
In competitive sports, they're called fans and sponsors. Sheesh.
[schnibble]
Why do I even bother?
mawa
--
It seems that MicroSloth did not follow the rules as stated by
Motorola for determining whether or not an FPU is present in the
system.
-- Marc Barrett
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From: The Mitochondrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux and midi on a notebook
Date: 20 Jul 1999 15:39:26 -0400
I need to get external midi working under linux on a *notebook*
computer. It seems like the way to go is to use some sort of
serial/midi interface, but I dont really know anything about the
subject.
Is there anyone out there who is using a laptop with linux to use midi
to control (and be controlled by) external devices? If so, please let
me know what hardware and software you are using, and whether or not
you had to do anything funny to get it all working.
Please reply by email as well as to the list.
Thanks in advance,
Greg
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From: Stefan Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Inet access as normal user
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:38:06 +0200
Hi everyone,
I have the following problem:
I configured my Linux box (RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.2.9) for internet access
using RedHat's netcfg. Everything works fine, but only as long as I am
root! I can establish a connection as a normal user with "/sbin/ifup
ppp0", but Lynx, for instance, keeps saying "Alert!: Unable to connect
to remote host" when I try to go to a non-local address. When I try as
root, it works just fine.
This problem could, of course, be a result of wrong permission settings,
but I couldn't find anything. I would be very grateful if someone out
there sent me some hints.
Regards,
SW
P.S.: Do I have to be on runlevel 3 for internet access?
--
In die Tiefe mu�t du steigen,
soll sich dir das Wesen zeigen.
Schiller
ShadowHQ: http://mercury.spaceports.com/~shadowhq
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Subject: Re: ??: Problem With Memory Option in Patch-V2.0.37 - Won't Boot!?!?!?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:41:59 GMT
[HHhhhmmm, DejaNews is giving me answers now!]
I upgraded to BinUtils 2.9 and now I get an error in the final (?)
compile step ... "objdump: invalid option -- k" (or close to that
anyway.
Any one have any further ideas???
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton) wrote:
>Help! :-)
>
>I am maintaining an "Old Stable Kernel" installation until I'm sure
>all my V2.2.10 installation is working. Yesterday I decided to
>upgrade to V2.0.37. There is a "new" Memory option in the General
>config.
>
>It is not allowing my new kernel to boot. Right about the third line
>during the boot sequence where V2.0.36 displays:
>
>Memory: sized by int13 088h
>
>... there is a pause then it reboots my whole computer. I've read the
>documents directory and the changes file but I can't find any mention.
>I can't seem to find the source file which performs this check and
>displays this message.
>
>The /usr/src/linux/.config entry appears to be:
>
>#
># General setup
>#
>CONFIG_MEM_STD=y
>CONFIG_MAX_MEMSIZE=1024
>
>I am very comfortable with kernel updating, compiling and activating
>so I don't think its anything I am doing wrong BUT I will accept any
>and all solutions! :-)
>
>Has anyone else had any experience with this new "feature"? Any
>solutions or work-arounds? This doesn't seem to be in the 2.2.x
>stream, I don't know how it got into the old stable one.
>
>Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>------------------------------------------------
> Doug Mitton - Brockville, Ontario, Canada
> 'City of the Thousand Islands'
> Amateur Radio: VE3DMZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> http://www.cybertap.com/dmitton
> User Group: http://signals.rmc.ca/klug
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>------------------------------------------------
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Doug Mitton - Brockville, Ontario, Canada
'City of the Thousand Islands'
Amateur Radio: VE3DMZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.cybertap.com/dmitton
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From: "J. Guy Stalnaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: kernel compile anamolies
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 14:45:19 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeff Moyer USG wrote:
>
> > I altered /etc/lilo.conf to accommodate both the old kernel and the new
> > one and then I restart.
>
> Okay straight up to here. did you run lilo? if you don't, then
> the new kernel will not be registered. run lilo, then restart.
>
> -jeff
Good try jeff. I did run lilo to get the new /etc/lilo.conf
configuration installed. No affect. But, this problem no longer
exists, for I did the ultimate dirty work and completely deleted the
header and source files, re-loaded them with rpm, and did a new compile
changing ONLY whether the nic driver was compiledin or a module. When I
boot now, I can see by /var/log/dmesg that the kernel does find the nic
card at the expected IRQ and memory location. Now the problem relates
to dhcp, which is not functioning, even after reinstalling the dhcpd and
dhcpcd packages. I get a
"Determining IP information for eth0 ... operation failed" error. I'm
going ot have to figure out how dhcp is supposed to be configured on a
RedHat 6.0 system (even though the X control panel supposedly takes care
of such things).
Thanks,
Guy
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J. Guy Stalnaker
DoIT-Emerging Media Tech. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1210 W Dayton St Rm 4212 wk. 608.263.8035
Madison WI 53706 fax 608.263.3846
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Nairn)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Using dlopen/dlsym with C++ under Linux
Date: 20 Jul 1999 20:02:09 GMT
I am trying to use dynamic modules under C++ in linux. I can open the
shared libraries fine, but where I run into problems is using dlsym, since
the name gets mangled. Is there an easier way to do it, rather then have a
call like test=dlsym(handle,"test__FiPPc");. I would like to be able to
call the function without having to cut and paste out of the nm output.
Any ideas, pointers?
--
Richard Nairn
Geological Survey of Canada
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