Linux-Misc Digest #197, Volume #21 Wed, 28 Jul 99 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux-Backup dump (Leonard Evens)
Re: Quicken clone? (John C. Peterson)
Re: CD player ? (Valentin Guillen)
Re: help on gcc (Jan Andres)
Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++??? (Simon Wright)
System Move and MBR fix ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "You have new mail" (Leonard Evens)
Re: How to reduce the desktop size (Leonard Evens)
Re: RH6 timezone (Leonard Evens)
Re: Resize /usr partition... Is it wise? (Leonard Evens)
Re: Unresolved symbols in module... (Allen Ashley)
Re: Linux has finally crashed (Ray Eads)
Re: Hey has the matrox g400 out yet??? not the drivers , the card itself
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X-server Crash ("Matthew D. Melbert")
Re: Hauppauge TV-card full screen (Michael McConnell)
Re: Linux has finally crashed (Craig Graham)
Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++??? (Michael Hasenstein)
Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - dirty Yank cant pronounce (Pik0)
VMELinux memory mapping (Thomas Hutchins)
Re: [Fwd: Linux port!] (Derrick J Brashear)
Re: IDE Tape Problems (Leonard Evens)
starting KDE on Redhat 6 ("www.Boxing-Connection.com")
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux-Backup dump
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:48:22 -0500
Thomas Scheffler wrote:
>
> Hi to all,
>
> I am trying to backup my HDD to a file
> (to put it on a CD-R on a Windows Box)
>
> The computer is a P133 with Suse 5.2
> and just runs all day long as a
> RADIUS-server for an Ascend-Router.
>
> The Installation is just minimal.
> 100 MegB on one 'big' /-Partition (dev/hdb2)
>
>
> I then tried to make a full backup
> to have a working copy of the system
> with its 100's of changes in dozens
> of configfiles.
>
> I tried
> dump 0f /mnt/archiv.dmp /dev/hdb2
> where /mnt is a second disk
>
> I get the following message:
> dump: master/slave protocol botched
>
> just seconds after: Pass III (dumping directories)
>
> Before this it tells me:
> mapping (Pass I und II)
> estimated 118565 tape blocks on 3.05 tapes
>
> The archiv.dmp file is touched, and maybe 30K in size.
>
> Any idea how I should do this?
>
> By the way I also tried to output to <stdout> but this
> gives the same result.
>
> Regards
> Thomas
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
You may have to specify a size for the dump file. There
are other problems with dumping to a file. Namely, you
can to null out the file before hand or if the dump is
smaller than the existing dump file, dump doesn't change
the size of the file, os it has garbage at the end.
You would probably be better off using tar. The GNU tar used
by Linux has lots of options and is very flexible. The
only feature possessed by dump that tar lacks is that when
restoring from incremental dumps, you can in principle
recreate your file system exactly as it was after the
last incremental dump. With tar you can also do incremental
tars by use of dates, but you won't have a record of what
was removed as well as what was added. But if you are
dumping the whole file system, this is irrelevant.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John C. Peterson)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Quicken clone?
Date: 28 Jul 1999 18:19:01 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () said, and
I quote:
>On Wed, 21 Jul 1999 19:55:40 -0500, Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Are there any open software checkbook programs out there?
>>
>>Since 1982 I have been using my own program which I wrote
>>on an original IBM PC (without a hard disk) in Pascal.
>>I recently started using Quicken for reasons I won't go
>>into here, but comparing it with my program, it does not
>>seem to do that much more. Of course Quicken has a nice graphical
>>user interface and lots of bells and whistles, but that
>>doesn't seem so hard to arrange with the programming tools
>>now available. And one could easily store the data in
>>Quicken QIF format for interchangeability. I can't imagine
>>that I am the only one who has ever written such a program.
>
>i run the Mac version of Quicken 6.0 using Executor under Linux
>
>>Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
>>Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
This is an area where old fashioned pencil and paper seem to be the
most efficent approach for my (personal) needs. With the caveat that I've
just given them a quick look, here are some Linux apps I'm aware
of;
CBB (Tcl/Tk based)
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/cbb/
Moneydance (Shareware, Java based)
http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/
Many good links ...
http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/financelinux.html
Regards, John
--
___|___ | John C. Peterson, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "Once you have flown,
-(*)- | you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there
o/ \o | you have been, there you long to return." -- Leonardo da Vinci.
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: CD player ?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:13:03 +0000
When shopping around for a cd player, or indeed, other software for your
box, keep in mind the requirements for which library it needs. You
could obtain the actual program, and later discover that you also need
another library to go along with it.
Best Regards,
--
Valentin Guillen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
remove capitalized letters to e-mail me
remueve mayusculas para enviarme e-mail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Andres)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: help on gcc
Date: 28 Jul 1999 18:13:43 GMT
In article <7nmons$l2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter.vanHelden wrote:
| jievis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
| : Hi, All:
| : When I try to compile a c files, I want gcc output a middle files in
| : which the expression is computed and enumeration is also computed, the
| : output files should be also .c format. So who can tell me the switcher?
| : Thanx in advance
|
| man gcc?
Or, maybe, info gcc. AFAIK, the man page is not maintained any more,
and the info page is more complete anyway.
--
Jan Andres [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ham radio: DH2JAN
"Emacs is WYSIWYG. What you see is text, what you get is text." --Kaz
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From: Simon Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++???
Date: 28 Jul 1999 19:58:48 +0100
Tim Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tony Houghton wrote:
> >
> > In <7nk7b6$1q9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > So just what is going on here?
> > > Did C++ disappear from Suse 6.1 egcs package by accident?
> > >
> > > Where is __null, iostream.h, g++ ?
> > > How can people compile KDE apps under Suse 6.1?
> >
> > Yes, I noticed that g++ was missing from SuSE 6.0, but I didn't have
> > the other problems. I linked g++ to gcc which seemed to do the trick,
> > I suppose gcc reads what command it was called with and works out
> > whether you want to compile C or C++.
>
> This is what I did but it only got me as far as the __null problem.
> It doesn't seem to be a genuine c++ compiler in this state as it doesn't
> know about things like iostream which should be in it's internal include
> paths.
I only know the GCC-2.8.1 versions, in which c++ and g++ are hard
links to the same executable which is _not_ the same as gcc.
I don't know what the differences actually are, but you might try
something like
$ gcc foo.cc -I/usr/include/g++ -lstdc++
(however, gcc seems to know enough to put /usr/include/g++ in the
include path anyway. Have you tried "-v" to see what gcc is getting up
to?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: System Move and MBR fix
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:41:40 GMT
I want to move my existing Linux installation from one machine to
another....
If I just move the HDD from the existing box to the new box, it freezes
on boot.
What is the easiest and best way to rewrite the MBR/LILO so it will
work on the new system?
I am also not sure what the best way to copy the partitions is.
If I use DD, do I have to make sure all of the partition sizes are 100%
the same??
I could try to use Drive Image or Ghost to do this. Has anyone ever
tried this??
What utilities are there for copying file systems and permissions from
one partition to the next?
I have a CDR-RW drive which I could try to use as a backup device for
this purpose....
How can I back up with permissions onto CDRW under Linux??
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "You have new mail"
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:21:24 -0500
"Noah Roberts (jik-)" wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (david grant) writes:
>
> > Sometime ago I saw the way to stop the sendmail daemon from sending
> > messages to the spool file at startup on RH6.0 but unfortunately I
> > never saved the response.
> >
> > Can somebody tell me how to inhibit this as I would like to use
> > fetchmail plus an email client to read my (real) messages and stop
> > using VMWare+ Eudora even though the latter is so easy to do.
> >
> > I have tried all the X-windows based linux email programs but the only
> > decent one catering for multiple pop servers is XFMail, which crashes
> > and is not being maintained.
>
> XEmacs has a mail reader called VM which is capable of multi pop
> sessions among other things.
I don't think you want to do anything to sendmail on your machine.
What you need to do is to tell your mail server to keep mail
on it rather than forwarding it to your machine. This will
probably have to be done by the system administrator of that
machine---unless you happen to be doing it by a .forward
in your directory on the mail server. Then, assuming
pop service is set up on your mail server, you can use fetchmail
and use it to download your mail, which you can read by any
of the many mailer readers provided by Linux. Alternately,
you can read your mail using Netscape Communicator, which can
be set up as a pop mail client. You can also use Netscape to
send your mail, as I am now doing since I use it to read news.
(With Netscape you don't need to run fetchmail, since Netscape
gets your mail from the server for you.) You might prefer
Netscape since it is vaguely Eudora like.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to reduce the desktop size
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:35:56 -0500
Brian Rectanus wrote:
>
> "J.N. Subrahmanyam" wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends,
> > Previously, I used to do ctrl+alt+"+" to change the size of the desktop.
> > Now I am using a different linux system. Using ctrl+alt+"+" I am not
> > able to change the desktop size. Could somebody help me in changing the
> > size of my desktop using the above mentioned procedure.
> >
> > Regards,
> > subrahmanyam
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
> Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config for the following option. Make sure this
> option is commented out, then restart X. Also make sure you are using
> the Keypad's +/-.
>
> # Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> mode switching
> # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events.
>
> # DontZoom
>
> -Brian
>
> --
> Brian Rectanus
> Computer Systems Engineer/DBA
> Virginia Tech University
> Administrative Information Systems
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ctrl-Alt-+ under X allows you to cycle among the different
resolutions you have set up under you X configuration. It only
changes the `size' of the desktop if you have extra video memory
so that you ahve avirtual desktop under the lower resolution which
uses all the memory. Many people don't like the virtual desktop.
If you have only selected one resolution, Ctrl-Alt-+/- won't
do anything.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6 timezone
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:40:32 -0500
Tom Furie wrote:
>
> jerrad pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > How do you change a system's timezone in RH6 (EST->GMT)? I've heard from
> previous versions to use /usr/lib/timeinfo or something, but I have no such
> directory on my system.
>
> I don't know if it changed in version 6 but in 5.2 timeconfig does the trick
> and doesn't require a reboot.
There is a symbolic link
/etc/localtime
You have to look to see which file to link to, but it should be
fairly clear with some searching.
But it is probably better to use linuxconf.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resize /usr partition... Is it wise?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:22:41 -0500
Aaron Ginn wrote:
>
> I made the mistake of making my /usr partition too small (~600 Mb) when
> I created it. As such, I am quickly running out of space on it. I have
> a 500 Mb /usr/local partition and two other 500 Mb partitions that
> I want to delete and use the space to increase /usr to ~2 Gb. Is this
> wise, and what is the best way to do it? I use Red Hat, so I plan on
> using Disk Druid to do the dirty work. I can back up my entire system,
> so even if I have to do a complete reinstall, I can live with it, but
> I'd prefer to just mess with the above partitions and keep my system as
> close to its current state as possible. Has anyone done anything
> similar, and how did it go?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Aaron Ginn
If you feel really ambitious, you can try the following. We
actually did this.
Use a boot/rescue disk to run a ramdisk version of Linux.
Use its fdisk to repartition your disk leaving your /usr
partition alone but creating a big enough partition to
tar your /usr partition to a file in that (big) partition.
(Of course you will also have to make a file system on the
(big) partition first.) Then delete your /usr partition and
increase its size, and make a file system on it.
Finally use tar to copy back to your new enlarged /usr
partition. Of course, you would also have to recreate
whatever other partitions you wanted.
As I said, we have actually done this, but I'm not sure
I remember all the details. So it's possible I left out
some steps. Also, we may have used a VAResearch emergency
disk which probably has more capabilities than the boot/rescue
combination, so I am not sure the tar there is adequate for
the task.
Alternately, you could just back up everything that changed
(e.g., tar the entire /etc directory), and take this opportunity
to upgrade. When you repartition, use as few partitons as
you can get away with. If you don't run into the 1024 cylinder
problem, this might be ONE partition plus a swap partition.
If you need to put the kernel below 1024 cylinders, make a
small /boot partition and one other partition (plus a swap
partition). Then you are not likely to have this problem
in the future.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen Ashley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Unresolved symbols in module...
Date: 28 Jul 1999 18:39:11 GMT
"Alex Abreu" <simonet@(spam? no thanx)bhnet.com.br> writes:
>How can I solve the "Unresolved symbols ...." problem?
Delete all the modules that are giving you error messages,
you don't need them with the kernel you compiled. You
can do:
depmod -a >>delfiles
then edit delfiles to change the lines to a series of rm statements,
then execute the file to delete all the unused modules.
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From: Ray Eads <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Linux has finally crashed
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:43:13 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I managed to crash linux once. Put my swap files on a zip disk,
loaded a lot of programs to get the memory up, and then
forcefully ejected the disk. It crashed. Should I call tech
support and complain? ;-)
Gerald Willmann wrote:
>
> > K Kal wrote:
> [...]
> > > /dev/hda6: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENSY; RUN fsck MANUALLY
> > > (ie, without -a or -p options)
> > > *** An error occurred during the file system check
> > > *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> > > *** when you leave the shell.
> > > Give root password for maintenance
> > > (or type Control-D for normal startup):
> > > Do you have any clue as to what the problem might be or even how to fix
> > > it/get around it??? I'm afraid I might have to re-format!!
>
> so have you tried checking it manually? log in as root, run fsck manually
> and see what it says then. Is hda6 your / ?
> Gerald
> --
--
Ray Eads ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.setup.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Hey has the matrox g400 out yet??? not the drivers , the card itself
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:50:25 GMT
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:35:04, Brian McKerr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > hi there
> >
> > i want to upgrade my video card, and i think the g400 would be nice,
> > there is a bunch of info on it but i cant find one anywhere.
> >
> > whats the scoop??
>
> I just read a review that said it kicked Voodoo & TNT2 butt !
>
> Interesting.
>
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From: "Matthew D. Melbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X-server Crash
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:22:58 -0400
Yesterday my X-server crashed and it crashed hard. When I tried to restart
the X-server I got the real nice and famous "_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect :
Can's connect: errno = 111 " Joy. Anyway I rebooted the computer and tried
to use the "XF86Setup" command and well..nothing happend...just got that
same message again and again (I tried both options at the start of XF86Setup
and they both gave me the same result). I went into Lisa and tried to
configure it that way to no avail. I also tried MANY MANY MANY times using
"xf86config". I am sure that my moniter settings were ok and pretty darn
sure that my card settings were correct (I tried every different possibility
there is just about". Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling
(which I really dont want to do)???? I even removed and reinstalled all of
the "X" rpms. I need some HELP.
TIA
Matthew D. Melbert
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From: Michael McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hauppauge TV-card full screen
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:57:27 +0100
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Berco van Gool wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since a couple of days, I m watching TV on my Linux system. It works
> good in a window (400x300), but in full screen mode (800x600) It looks
> bad. (Especially fast movements).
>
> Full screen under windows95 is OK.
> I want to use full screen mode, what I have to do?
Have you compared your screen refresh rates between X and Windoze? That may
have something to do with it.
-- Michael "Soruk" McConnell [Red Hat 6.0 Available!]
Eridani Star System -- The Most Up-to-Date Red Hat Linux CDROMs Available
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.amush.cx/linux/ Fax: +44-8701-600807
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From: Craig Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Linux has finally crashed
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 19:44:58 +0000
K Kal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello guys,
>
>I have a big problem on my hands!
>
>I think I've crashed my Linux system. I was running some applications
>in the background, and all of a sudden the system froze. I know that
>doesn't make sense, but that's what happened!
I've seen this problem - it was caused by Netscape on my system.
Once it started happening to a user, it would happen every time=20
Netscape was run by that user (but other users would still be ok).
It manifests itself as X windows locking up, and you not being able
to swap to another console, or kill the server. It's definitely a bug
in Netscape, in conjunction with X (wasn't linux supposed to stop
that sort of thing). Anyway, once you've fsck'ed the drive, deleting
the directory ~/.fullcircle from the users directory cleared the problem
for me (although it does crop up again occasionally if you run Nutscrape
a lot).
>Thanks
>K.Kal
Craig.
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From: Michael Hasenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Did SUSE 6.1 egcs lose C++???
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 21:01:40 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Errr..I'm trying to compile with the gcc from the egcs package, that is
> the whole point of this thread. The g++ was merely a vain symlink
> attempt to gcc because 'g++' is what the KDE app expected and there is
So why don�t you just install g++ (package �gpp�).
> no g++ on my system. This got me thru 'configure' but when I did the
> make it barked about __null, not having a clue what it was (this is at
> compiling stage). This made me think I might need 'g++' as a separate
> program.
...
> So permit me to remain sceptical that the egcs in Suse 6.1 specifically
> is kind of lacking something. I know it might boil down to a package I
> haven't installed but I did a full dependency check in Yast and it
Exactly.
> didn't say I was missing anything required for egcs.
>
> Try compiling latest kppp (or any KDE app) on Suse 6.1 with egcs 1.1.2
> (i think - whatever egcs came with Suse 6.1).
>
> rpm -qfi `which gcc` -> egcs
>
> Sorry if I bang on about 'Suse 6.1' too much it's just that I'm sure
> that if this _IS_ a real problem then it's something to do with how
> Suse was packaged up and not Linux in general. I've seen someone else
Don�t make your problems a �SuSE problem�. They can�t hold your hand all
the time.
> on a linux forum complain about c++ going missing from the std install
> on suse 6.1 and the inability to compile KDE apps with this system. I
> can't find anything in the Suse support archives however.
Because your the first one who�s unable to find a package which even has
�GNU C++ compiler� in it�s description, visible in YaST and in the rpm?!
--
Michael Hasenstein
http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha/
Private Pilot (ASEL) since 1998
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From: Pik0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pronouncing "Linux" - dirty Yank cant pronounce
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:49:29 GMT
But, he didn't speak English...
Andrew
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> if English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for you...
> -ckm
>
--
Java kicks ass!
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From: Thomas Hutchins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: VMELinux memory mapping
Date: 28 Jul 1999 19:31:23 GMT
I am realtively new to Linux and I need to memory map a device in Linux for
a VME bus system. I have the driver loaded for VMELinux. I was wondering
if anyone can help me?
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From: Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Linux port!]
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:30:00 -0400
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jeff Rose wrote:
> Linux Users UNITE!
>
> Let's give Delorme an ear-full!
Why? gpsd and mxmap work just fine with my Earthmate...
-D
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: IDE Tape Problems
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:34:17 -0500
Paul Schmidt wrote:
>
> Has anyone had luck getting a Sony SuperStation 10GB IDE tape drive to
> work? This thing is driving me crazy and I would appreciate any help in
> the matter. The tape drive is recognized at boot up, here is the message I
> get:
>
> Jul 27 19:42:18 bigbertha kernel: hdc: SuperStation-Int, ATAPI TAPE drive
>
> There are two problems. One is when I do a mt -f /dev/ht0 status I get the
> following:
>
> [root@bigbertha /root]# mt -f /dev/ht0 status
> Unknown tape drive type (type code 0)
> File number=0, block number=0.
> mt_resid: 0, mt_erreg: 0x0
> mt_dsreg: 0x400, mt_gstat: 0x0
> General status bits on (0):
I have an HP 2.5/5.0 GB IDE tape drive. The same command
gives me
Unknown tape drive type (type code 0)
File number=0, block number=0.
mt_resid: 0, mt_erreg: 0x0
mt_dsreg: 0x200, mt_gstat: 0x0
General status bits on (0):
which is what you got. But it works fine with tar to do
backups.
>
> Not exactly getting off to a good start :) Just for kicks I tried backing
> up some data anyway with tar and it does write out some data but then it
> timesout after about a minute or so and I get messages like this:
>
> Jul 25 12:34:56 bigbertha kernel: hdc: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
> Jul 25 12:34:56 bigbertha kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
> Jul 25 12:34:56 bigbertha kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key =
> 2, asc = 3a, ascq = 0
> Jul 25 12:34:56 bigbertha last message repeated 18 times
> Jul 25 12:34:56 bigbertha kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key =
> 2, asc = 4, ascq = 1
> Jul 25 12:34:59 bigbertha last message repeated 81 times
> Jul 25 12:34:59 bigbertha kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key =
> 2, asc = 4, ascq = 1
>
> I'm not sure what all this means. Does this mean the tape drive itself is
> hosed, that the media is screwed up, the cabling is fubar or what?
>
> Specs:
> Abit BP6 + dual celeron 450A, 128MB ram,
> RH 6.0 distribution with monolithic kernel 2.2.5-22 SMP build. I also
> tried the non-SMP build just for kicks but I had the same problems.
>
> I'm completely lost :( Sorry for the cross-posting but I'm desperate.
>
> Thanks,
>
Your drive may not yet be supported by the driver.
If you look at the kernel source tree (/usr/src/linux/...)
you should be able to find the source code in a .c or .h file
for the driver for IDE tape drives. This might tell you if
your tape drive is supported. But maybe someone else will
come up with this information.
> --
> Paul Schmidt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "www.Boxing-Connection.com" <@Boxing-Connection.com>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: starting KDE on Redhat 6
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:42:33 -0400
I installed Redhat 6.0. It seems GNOME is the default Windows Manager when
type "startx".
How can I start KDE? Is "kdm" not enough? When I do "kde", it starts
giving me error messages.
I did install KDE when I was installing Linux itself. Do I need to
configure somewhere?
Also, if there is a site that explains, I appreciate.
Thanks in advance.
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