Linux-Misc Digest #232, Volume #21 Sat, 31 Jul 99 11:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: What I think of linux. (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: CIA assassinations (Phillip Lord)
Re: dselect/dpkg corrupting /var/lib/dpkg/* (John Hasler)
Re: What I think of linux. (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: What I think of linux. (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: What I think of linux. (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: What I think of linux. (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: SuSE kernel....where is it?.... (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: SuSE kernel....where is it?.... (Heeeeeeeez back!)
Re: What I think of linux. (Albert Ulmer)
sound card problem: device or resource busy msg (zackary)
IDE vs scsi? ("Duy D.")
TV Tuner ("Gregor Gregori�")
Re: mouse problem (Charles Gilker)
Re: What I think of linux. (John Hasler)
A Modem Hung up! (Katsunori Michida)
Re: Need: Valid color NAMES for WM config files - list preferable (Matthew Bafford)
Re: What I think of linux. (CJ)
Re: Linux has finally crashed (Paul Anderson)
Re: CIA assassinations ("A.T.Z.")
mouse problem (Chin Yew Tuck)
Re: Permission denied after Slack3.4->4.0 upgrade (John Forkosh)
Permission denied (Julie Zhong)
Re: IDE vs scsi? (coffee)
Re: IDE vs scsi? (John Forkosh)
Soundblaster problem (Matthew Fleming)
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 21:15:40 -0500
DanH wrote:
>
> Donn Miller wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, alann wrote:
> >
> > > You're right, somewhat. I would be curious as to the average age of Linux
> > > users. I'm 34. First computer I ever had my hands on was a Commodore PET.
> >
> > Same here. I can't remeber what year, must have been 1981 or 1982. What
> > processor did the PET have, and how much memory did it have? It seems
> > like it was like the 64, with Microsoft Basic built in, embedded like.
> >
> > > That was a LONG time ago. Right now there are a gazillion Windows users.
> >
> > I'm 30, and started using Linux in 1995. But from 1997 on, I'd been using
> > FreeBSD almost exclusively. It'd be interesting to have someone take a
> > survey on a web site. I think a quick guestimation would be that the
> > average age of FreeBSD users are 10 years greater than those of Linux
> > users.
> >
> > It would be interesting to do a survey, and compare the age of FreeBSD vs.
> > Linux users, complete with mean and std. deviation.
>
> 33 here. Learned to program on a Cray in '78 (it's been downhill ever
> since). Did the TRS 80 CO-CO, Timex Sinclair, Apple IIe, etc until '91
> when I got my first PC.
>
33 - 21 = 12 !!! You were programing a Cray when you were 12?
I'm 58. Fortran on a Honeywell 200 and a CDC 6600 in 1967. Then an
analog computer in 1974 for the physics class I was teaching... An
Apple II+ in 1978, a PC in 1983. About a dozen languages. My favorites
are: Forth, Turbo Pascal 3.02a, BASIC, Prolog... I hate COBOL, RPG...
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JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: 31 Jul 1999 13:13:13 +0100
>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jerry> "my vision" ??? A replay of a common socialist hallucination
Jerry> in which they see themselves as saviors of the "working"
Jerry> class while they battle the "exploiting" class.
I would see myself as socialist. Ive never wanted to be the
saviour of anyone. Im not so arrogant to think that I should have that
much power. The ideas is that the working classes rules themselves,
without any leaders, through a democracy a little more pervasive than
putting a cross on a ballot paper once every five years.
Jerry> Their views are so "heroic" in their own eyes
Jerry> that it could be considered a religious faith
Well this is true for some socialists. Equally its
true for some who venerate the market as the cure to all ills. The
existance of some fanatics doesnt invalidate a whole ideology.
Phil
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dselect/dpkg corrupting /var/lib/dpkg/*
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 04:09:05 GMT
Otavio Exel writes:
> ...90% of the errors were "J"s instead of "\n"s and "`" instead of " "s;
> anyone seen something like this? I'm now telnet'ing from home so I can't
> go into maintenance mode to do some e2fsck'ing but I don't think it has
> to do with disk errors: the pattern s/\n/J/ and s/ /`/ leads me to think
> that probably dpkg and/or dselect are the ones to blame..
"\n" = 0000 1010, "J" = 0100 1010
" " = 0010 0000, "`" = 0110 0000
Do you see the pattern?
IMHO you have a disk problem. If it was a dpkg problem (dselect is just a
dpkg front end) the best place for your question would be the debian-user
mailing list. Go to www.debian.org to subscribe.
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:06:28 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Dragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use SUSE (lately) and I removed their suseppp. TOO complicated for
> such a simple task!
Depends which version of SuSE.
I liked the YaST ppp configuration routine. All you needed to do was spicify
news, mail and nameservers, phone number, gateway IP, username and password,
and whether you were using PAP, CHAP or TERMINAL.
It then set up your scripts and you used ppp-up and ppp-down to
connect/disconnect...
This was VERY nice in 5.2, 5.3 and 6.0.
In 6.1 they removed it for some reason and decided that wvdial was better.
(I would have prefferred the CHOICE)
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:17:14 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, alann wrote:
>> You're right, somewhat. I would be curious as to the average age of Linux
>> users. I'm 34. First computer I ever had my hands on was a Commodore PET.
> Same here. I can't remeber what year, must have been 1981 or 1982. What
> processor did the PET have, and how much memory did it have? It seems
> like it was like the 64, with Microsoft Basic built in, embedded like.
All the desktop computers in those days had BASIC on ROM.
Of course, some had DECENT BASICS (M$ BASIC was the most laughable
implementation ever).
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| |graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc |operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| in |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company,that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
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|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++|
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:13:32 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc alann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're right, somewhat. I would be curious as to the average age of Linux
> users. I'm 34. First computer I ever had my hands on was a Commodore PET.
> That was a LONG time ago. Right now there are a gazillion Windows users.
32. First computer man-handled by me? TRS-80 Model 2.
First computer owned by me... ZX SPectrum.
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:39:46 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>I'm 30, and started using Linux in 1995. But from 1997 on, I'd been using
>>FreeBSD almost exclusively. It'd be interesting to have someone take a
>>survey on a web site. I think a quick guestimation would be that the
>>average age of FreeBSD users are 10 years greater than those of Linux
>>users.
> I am new to all this. <G>
> How is FreeBSD better than Linux?
> Can apps written for Linux run under FreeBSD...
> and vise versa?
They're both Unix derivatives... In fact, some BSD software is commomnly
used in Linux distributions... some of the daemons for example.
> And.. I am guessing that FreeBSD is "free", right?
Right. In fact, the distribution license is less restrictive than GNU.
(which the majority of software on Linux distributions is).
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE kernel....where is it?....
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:51:28 +0100
Nevyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i've got the cut down version of SuSE 6.0 installed, it dont have the ppp
> built in for some reason but i cant find the kernal to rebuild it or edit
> it,......make xconfig in /usr/src/linux dont work as the linux part dont
> exist.....help if you can....
Put SuSE Cd in drive.
Start YaST.
Go into "Choose/Install packages).
Go into "Change/Create configuration"
Select "Developement"
Select the package "lxsuse" (I think). It's the complete kernel source.
Press F10.
Select "Start installation"
When it's finished, press escape a few times.
Now cd /usr/src/linux and make menuconfig (or xconfig)
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From: Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE kernel....where is it?....
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 10:53:16 +0100
Philipp Pagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> i've got the cut down version of SuSE 6.0 installed, it dont have the ppp
>> built in for some reason but i cant find the kernal to rebuild it or edit
>> it,......make xconfig in /usr/src/linux dont work as the linux part dont
>> exist.....help if you can....
> Hi!
> I'm not sure if I get your problem. Is it, that you don't have
> /usr/src/linux ? If so: start yast and install the kernel sources. In the
> normal SuSE distribution this is default anyway. But I have to admit, that
> I haven never seen the "cut down" version. What is it - a free demo
> version given away on some computer fair?
It's the SuSE 6.0 evaluation disk, I think...
One CD with most of the usefull stuff included...
(I was using that for months until I succomed to the temptation about bought
the full 6.1...)
:)
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a |
| |graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
| Andrew Halliwell BSc |operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| in |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company,that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
=============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++|
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: Albert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:34:24 GMT
> I liked the YaST ppp configuration routine. All you needed to do was=20
spicify
> news, mail and nameservers, phone number, gateway IP, username and=20
password,
> and whether you were using PAP, CHAP or TERMINAL.
> In 6.1 they removed it for some reason and decided that wvdial was=20
better.
> (I would have prefferred the CHOICE)
I think it=B4s still there (somewhere on the CD in a directory named=20
/unsorted), so you still can use suseppp.
But you=B4re right, I really didn=B4t get that decision either.
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From: zackary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.hardware.arch.intel,redhat.general
Subject: sound card problem: device or resource busy msg
Date: 31 Jul 1999 12:30:31 GMT
hello
could anyone specifically solve my sound card problem? my pc
configuration is pentium celeron 300mhz, Terrasound with A3D soundcard
which in manual says compatible with sound blaster pro.
The problem is while booting the system,the sound card fail. then in
xterminal i run sndconfig. first ly it can detect any pci or plug and play
card on my motherboard (something like that) then after i choose
sounblaster pro as my sound card as no terrasound in the menu (actually
after this i try several other soundcard on the menu list but result still
fail) and i got this msg:
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sb.o:
init_module: Device or resource busy.
sound: Device or resource busy.
That all guys.. really pain when i try some advise but to no success. I
hope somebody out there know the right answer.
pls help.
thank you.
-azaria-
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From: "Duy D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE vs scsi?
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 11:58:40 +0000
I'm considering to buy a scsi disk to install Linux on. When i do
hdparm -t /dev/hda on my ide disk, it reads about 15 mb/s most of the
time. Can somebody give me a number on the fastest scsi disk? Thanks.
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From: "Gregor Gregori�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV Tuner
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:02:27 +0200
Hi,
Can I use my ATI TV Tuner on Linux (RedHat 6.0) ?
Thx
Greg
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From: Charles Gilker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouse problem
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 02:45:28 -0400
You mouse is probabely not detected by the OS. Look into the
/var/log/bootlog file to see if you mouse is detected. The /dev/mouse
should be redirected to your com port.
See under the "gpm" label...
Regards,
Charles
Chin Yew Tuck a =E9crit:
> =
> When I tried to start X window by typing "startx" , I got this error ms=
g:
> =
> "Fatal server error:"
> =
> "Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy)"
> =
> For your info, I'm using a Microsoft serial mouse at com1.
> =
> Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
> =
> regards
> =
> Y T Chin
> =
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 11:50:14 GMT
I wrote:
> I used an IBM 1620 with Fortran as my "virgin" computer experience.
Arthur writes:
> Sounds like the University of Wisconsin Engineering
> Computing Lab to me.
Michigan Tech.
> Where the hell is Elmwood?
Between Ellsworth and Menomomie.
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From: Katsunori Michida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A Modem Hung up!
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 22:01:05 +0900
Hi all, this may be a stupid question, but how can I tell if a modem is
gone bad and needs replacement?
I have an internal AT&T Win modem which I had been successfully
using to connect my IBM Aptiva machine to a provider. Now when I use
ppp-d to
dial in, I get connected but a modem hung up!
I tried the command "cu -l /dev/cua0" . But the anser was "Permission
denied!"
What should I do next?
The distribution is SlackWare 3.6.
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From: *@dragons.duesouth.net (Matthew Bafford)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need: Valid color NAMES for WM config files - list preferable
Reply-To: *@dragons.duesouth.net
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 14:09:18 GMT
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 03:10:00 +0000, Valentin Guillen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cut a telephone line, and tapped
the following to comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup using only his
tongue:
: I am customizing my different Window Managers, and am encountering a
: severe shortage of color names to work with. Some config files will
Didn't you send this recently?
Please use Deja (or similar) to search the newsgroups before you post to
them.
Though the file location changes depending on your system, look for a
file 'rgb.txt'.
For example:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt
: Best Regards,
HTH,
: Valentin Guillen
--Matthew
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From: CJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 08:37:22 -0500
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc alann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're right, somewhat. I would be curious as to the average age of Linux
> users. I'm 34. First computer I ever had my hands on was a Commodore PET.
> That was a LONG time ago. Right now there are a gazillion Windows users.
39, OSI Challenger 2P was my first computer. 6502 machine code poked
into a memory location one at a time. When an assembler came along I was
happy as a pig in sh*t. I still have the machine.
CJ
The Obsolete Computer Museum
http://www.ncsc.dni.us/fun/user/tcc/cmuseum/cmuseum.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Anderson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Linux has finally crashed
Date: 31 Jul 1999 00:51:56 -0400
Klamer Schutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Yes, this will mean that you sometimes will loose some data.
>Yes, this will mean that the system will be a lot more useable
>in the situations I mentioned above.
>
Yes, this will mean that sometimes the system will completely flog it's brains
out. When it says to run fsck manually, it should be run manually - sometimes
the system can guess wrong. When it guesses wrong, get out the tapes!
Besides, I've never had a filesystem that thoroughly flogged without flaky
hardware causing it.
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From: "A.T.Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: CIA assassinations
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 15:37:46 +0200
Anthony Ord schreef:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 18:47:33 +0200, "A.T.Z."
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >MK schreef:
> <snip>
> >> I would not count on socialism prevailing again. Socialism is
> >> historical anomaly, a kind of population going bonkers on crazy idea
> >> like seeking philosophical stone or that tulip craziness in
> >> Netherlands in the past.
> >
> >As far as I remember the "tulip craziness" had nothing to do with
> >socialism.
>
> It had everything to do with the short-sightedness and greed
> of speculators. There are quite interesting parallels to be
> drawn between that and current "Internet" stocks.
Yep, but still nothing to do with socialism. The human nature is one of
greed.I invest some money in stocks, but wouldn't dream (nightmare!!) about
the internet stocks. As far as I can remember not even one has really made
big money as an organization. There is no trackrecord, no dividend only big
losses and value on stock exchange goes up like a rocket.
Just like what did happen with the tulips.
> >> Marcin Krol
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------
> >> Reality is something that does not disappear after
> >> you cease believing in it - VALIS, Philip K. Dick
> >> --------------------------------------------------
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> | They fall apart |
> | When the walls come tumbling in |
> | Though we may deserve it |
> | It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
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From: Chin Yew Tuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: mouse problem
Date: 31 Jul 1999 06:30:31 GMT
When I tried to start X window by typing "startx" , I got this error msg:
"Fatal server error:"
"Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy)"
For your info, I'm using a Microsoft serial mouse at com1.
Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.
regards
Y T Chin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Subject: Re: Permission denied after Slack3.4->4.0 upgrade
Date: 31 Jul 1999 10:30:42 -0400
Thanks, Lew, you're right. When I "noauto" the fstab line and
manually mount
# mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /home
then it works okay. Unfortunately, the fstab line looks okay, too.
But I'll play around with it and probably stumble across the
offending field sooner or later. Thanks, again,
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lew Pitcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Take a look at how your Slackware 4.0 setup is mounting your /home directory.
: mount options (and fstab settings) can change the accessability of a directory
: On 30 Jul 1999 10:48:10 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh) wrote:
: >I have several versions of Slackware installed on different
: >partitions, along with a common /home partition that's mounted
: >regardless of which version is booted.
: > I recently installed Slackware 4.0, but am having trouble
: >running executables or scripts that reside on /home. I get
: >a "bash: permission denied" error, even when I try to run
: >as root. All libraries are okay -- if I cp the executable file
: >from /home to my Slack4 / partition, then it runs okay from there.
: >Also, all permissions seem okay -- entire path is 755 or "better".
: >Anyone know what's wrong? Thanks,
: >John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
: Lew Pitcher ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
: System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
: Toronto Dominion Bank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Zhong)
Subject: Permission denied
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 14:31:50 GMT
I compiled a simple C program using gcc but the a.out file
cannot be executed. An error message "permission
denied" appears, but the file mode is 777 already.
Any hints? TIA.
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE vs scsi?
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 09:41:50 -0400
"Duy D." wrote:
>
> I'm considering to buy a scsi disk to install Linux on. When i do
> hdparm -t /dev/hda on my ide disk, it reads about 15 mb/s most of the
> time. Can somebody give me a number on the fastest scsi disk? Thanks.
Well, My scsi quantim says about 40mb/s.
But there are more advantages than just speed. With Scsi you can do
multiple read/writes. Not with ide though. Plus, YOu can chain up to 7
devices per controller.
Best to go scsi.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Forkosh)
Subject: Re: IDE vs scsi?
Date: 31 Jul 1999 10:50:29 -0400
Duy D. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm considering to buy a scsi disk to install Linux on. When i do
: hdparm -t /dev/hda on my ide disk, it reads about 15 mb/s most of the
: time. Can somebody give me a number on the fastest scsi disk? Thanks.
I'm not really sure, though you'd need to consider the
controller/disk combination, not just the disk by itself.
An alternative (probably cheaper and maybe better alternative)
is to buy some more memory. That will let Linux cache more disk
and will probably significantly improve response time. Moreover,
memory accesses are much faster than even the fastest scsi,
so you may do better this way. Of course, it all depends on
your specific situation. Anyway, something to think about.
John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Fleming)
Subject: Soundblaster problem
Date: 31 Jul 1999 14:23:47 GMT
Netmeisters,
I would really, really like to get a sound card working under Linux so
I could play with the nifty new IBM ViaVoice stuff. My current
attempts center around a Creative 16 Plug-'n'-Pray Soundblaster card,
which is identified as a Creative Vibra 16 by its NT drivers and by
sndconfig (the latter program doesn't actually manage to get the card
to work, however). I am using a 2.2.5 kernel under a RedHat 6.0
install. The kernel is configured for SMP and my system has two
processors. I have attempted to follow the instructions under
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/VIBRA16. Problem is that when I get
to insmod sound or insmod sb I get the following errors:
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol __global_cli
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol __global_save_flags
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol
__global_restore_flags
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sb.o: unresolved symbol __global_sti
I see the same if I do a depmod -a. I think isapnp is set OK and there
are no hardware conflicts.
Does anyone know how to fix this or, if not, what would be a good
sound card that would be easy to set up for both NT and Linux?
Previously I have tried several variants of the Ensonique and Creative
AudioPCI, and they all either worked under Linux but not NT or the
reverse.
Thanks very much,
Matthew Fleming
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