Linux-Misc Digest #242, Volume #21 Sun, 1 Aug 99 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Mandrake 6.0, Netscape 4.6, and rvplayer 5.0 (Allen Black)
Re: DOSLinux Questions (mike murray)
Re: change system mailbox/procmail (NF Stevens)
Re: IDE I/O errors in newer 2.2.x kernels ?! ("Bobby D. Bryant")
detailed step setting up email for dial-up (Kurt Hindenburg)
Re: IDE I/O errors in newer 2.2.x kernels ?! (Greg Lee)
Re: Increasing the Swap size after Linux Installation (John Doe)
Re: spin down HDD (Simon Hosie)
Re: VM-Ware won't start on Mandrake 6.0 (Regit Young)
Re: cdrecord not working (Regit Young)
Re: LILO & Booting from "hdc", the third hard disk. (Robert Heller)
Re: latest netscape (Paul Wilkins)
Word Perfect filters in SO 5.1? (Richard Hinton)
Re: spin down HDD (Robert V. Grizzard)
Fdisk can no longer read from /dev/hda (Jeff Workman)
Re: IDE vs scsi? (Albert Ulmer)
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From: Allen Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 6.0, Netscape 4.6, and rvplayer 5.0
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 09:29:03 -0400
I have been unable to configure rvplayer 5.0 to work with Netscape 4.6
and Mandrake 6.0. Are there some file compatibility problems to be
considered here? I had no problems with Netscape 4.5 and Mandrake 5.3.
Any help would be appreciated.
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From: mike murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DOSLinux Questions
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 08:33:07 -0500
Adam wrote:
> I just installed DOSLinux. It was easy. :P
>
> Now I have a few questions.
> What is LOOP?
> What is ELF?
> How do they work?
> What are the Other ways that Linux runs?
> How they compare? Performance/Size etc?
>
> Why can't I see any thing in DOS/Windows?
> If it runs over a DOS partition, I would expect to see the directory
> Structure like PHAT Linux. Is it (including my files that I create)
> stored in the tgz file?
> Where is the SOURCE code for DOSLinux files?
> Could all of those source files be compliled with PGCC?
>
> Adam
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
I have a question for You.
What is DosLinux & where can I read about it..??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: change system mailbox/procmail
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:51:10 GMT
Rico Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>the standard system mailbox (linux redhat) is /var/spool/mail.
>If procmail is used and this location is changed then the
>mails are deliverd to this new location - fine. But the mail
>clients (e.g. netscape) don't search at this new location,
>but still in /var/spool/mail.
>
>Is there a standard solution?
Try setting the MAIL environment variable to point to the new
mailbox.
Norman
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: IDE I/O errors in newer 2.2.x kernels ?!
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 09:29:13 -0500
Juergen Hammelmann wrote:
> I have a Quantum Bigfoot 2.5 GB harddisk: this drive has I/O errors
> since I use kernels
> 2.2.5 or newer!
Don't know anything about that.
> Another PC which has RedHat 6.0 and kernel 2.2.5-22 shows I/O-errors
> with an atapi-zip-drive.
> Every time larger files are written to the zip drive, there are
> I/O-errors, and the files get corrupted!
This is a problem with that kernel. You can fix it by going to
www.kernel.org, finding a mirror, and downloading the 2.2.10 kernel from the
kernel/ directory and a patch for it in the alan/ directory. (I upgraded to
2.2.10-ac10, but I think he has put out a higher-numbered patch since then.)
There is at least one other workaround available if you don't want to run a
patched kernel, but I haven't tried it. You can dig the instructions out of
dejanews if no one else responds.
> Is this a known problem, especially to Alan Cox?!
Yes; I found the solution above by digging up one of his posts registered at
dejanews.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
--
"But the real-world Windows system can and does bite you regularly, and then
all that Computer Knows Best stuff is a hostile foe you have defeat in battle,
rather than a friendly labor saver." -- /me, c.o.l.a
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kurt Hindenburg)
Subject: detailed step setting up email for dial-up
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:40:44 GMT
Anyone know of a detailed help for setting up email for a one user
machine that uses ppp for dialing out.
I've seen some general help, but not specifily for this config.
Kurt
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From: Greg Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: IDE I/O errors in newer 2.2.x kernels ?!
Date: 1 Aug 1999 14:34:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Juergen Hammelmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
: I have a Quantum Bigfoot 2.5 GB harddisk: this drive has I/O errors
: since I use kernels
: 2.2.5 or newer!
Exactly this happened to me. I finally found my problem, which
probably isn't yours, but maybe is worth mentioning. The fan
in my power supply stopped working.
...
--
Greg Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Increasing the Swap size after Linux Installation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Aug 1999 09:58:24 -0500
On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 07:19:08 GMT, Rick Westmacott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the case of Redhat 5.2, Fips is included on the CDROM installation disk
>in the dosutils/... directory.
>
>However, I believe Fips is intended to dynamically adjust DOS partitions
>only.
>
>Rick
>
>Biophage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:5n1m3.78$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Use fips. I'm not sure where to download it, so you'll hafta search the
>net
>> for it.
>> Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > During linux installation, I had set my swap size (39 MB) , a little
>> > more than the size of my RAM(32 MB). When I run StarOffice or Netscape
>> > or any other large application, the swap size becomes 0( 'free' command)
>> > . The concern is that once or twice, my native partition got jacked
>> > after running these big applications.
>> > I had to run 'fsck' to clear errors (inode inconsistencies) on my native
>> > partition.
>> >
>> > To be able to run these applications, I was thinking of increasing my
>> > swap size.
>> >
>> > Is there any way of increasing the swap size on my PC without
>> > reinstallation.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Rajesh
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
You can create a swap file or another swap partition and then add
those. Do
man mkswap
man swapon
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From: Simon Hosie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: spin down HDD
Date: 1 Aug 1999 14:10:30 +1200
xander:
> You could terminate bdflush at night hours and use hdparm to sleep the
> drive after a certain amount of inactivity, or kick out bdflush
> altogether. The last alternative works quite fine.
Well, not at night, that's when I'm home. What might be a good way of
detecting that the system has been unused for a period?
--
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# If you also quote my .Sig then I hate you and I hope you get hiccups.
#
# email: Gumboot, at an ISP named Clear.Net, in New Zealand.
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VM-Ware won't start on Mandrake 6.0
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 21:47:47 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1.) Install "make"
2.) Recompile the kernel ... making sure that includes files like
version.h, uts.h ... etc, doesn't include any funny business from
mandrake.
"Joseph S. White" wrote:
>
> Hi Al,
>
> I downloaded VM-Ware for Linux and have been trying to
> install it, without much luck. We got it running at school
> with NT Server as the guest OS, pretty slick. So I thought
> I'd give it a shot at home, the following is the error I
> keep getting:
>
> It starts off as it will procede as normal the gives me
> this,
>
> ===============================================================================
> No exact match for vmmon-up-2.2.9-19mdk
> checking working alternatives
> No Alternatives found, please build drivers locally
> None of the pre-built modules seems to work on this machine
> sh: make: command not found
>
> Something is wrong with the system include files on your
> machine. The file <linux/version.h> is for a linux system
> but you are running a 2.2.9-19mdk kernel. this will not work
> for building VM-Ware device drivers; you must have include
> files that match the version of your operating system.
>
>
>==========================================================================================
>
> Any Ideas Greatly Apprieciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.nmia.com/~jwhite
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From: Regit Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cdrecord not working
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 21:52:04 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds more like a problem with the drive than is with cdrecord ...
Matt Garman wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I have an internal SCSI Plextor PlexWriter CD-R 4/12 max CD recorder.
> It is attached to an Adaptec 2940UW pci SCSI controller card. I am
> running Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 ("slink") with Linux kernel version
> 2.2.10. This CD recorder worked flawlessly for the first six to eight
> months that I owned it. Then it started given occational errors. Now
> I cannot get through a "dummy" cd burn with cdrecord, without seeing
> some errors.
>
> I get the following types of errors:
>
> Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg Schilling
> TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
> scsidev: '0,4,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 4 lun: 0
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 2
> Response Format: 2
> Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
> Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR '
> Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-R412C '
> Revision : '1.04'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-R.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> Track 01: audio 53 MB (05:18.02) no preemp
> Track 02: audio 38 MB (03:49.20) no preemp
> Track 03: audio 80 MB (07:56.21) no preemp
> Track 04: audio 47 MB (04:43.72) no preemp
> Track 05: audio 54 MB (05:21.96) no preemp
> Total size: 275 MB (27:17.12) = 122784 sectors
> Lout start: 275 MB (27:19/09) = 122784 sectors
> ATIP info from disk:
> Indicated writing power: 4
> Is unrestricted
> Is not erasable
> ATIP start of lead in: -11580 (97:27/45)
> ATIP start of lead out: 333226 (74:05/01)
> Disk type: Phthalocyanine or similar
> Manufacturer: Kodak Japan Limited
> Blocks total: 333226 Blocks remaining: 21988
> cdrecord: WARNING: Data may not fit on current disk.
> Starting to write CD at speed 4 in dummy mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
> Starting new track at sector: 311238
> Track 01: 1 of 53 MB written (fifo 99%).
> ...
> cdrecord: Success. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB: 2A 00 00 05 15 A5 00 00 0D 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 09 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 80 0A 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x9 Vendor Unique, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x80 Qual 0x0A (limited laser life) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.002s timeout 40s
>
> write track data: error after 51704016 bytes
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Writing time: 80.402s
> Fixating...
> WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
> cdrecord: Success. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 09 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 80 01 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x9 Vendor Unique, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x80 Qual 0x01 (limited laser life) [No matching qualifier] Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 480s
> Fixating time: 0.003s
> cdrecord: fifo had 1819 puts and 1692 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 1094 times full, min fill was 96%.
>
> Does anyone have any hints/suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> --
> Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "And through the window in the wall
> Come streaming in on sunlight wings
> A million bright ambassadors of morning."
> --Pink Floyd, "Echoes"
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO & Booting from "hdc", the third hard disk.
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:11:07 GMT
Bono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Sun, 01 Aug 1999 16:00:27 +0900, wrote :
B> Hi
B>
B> I have three hard disks intalled in my system.
B> Now, I'm trying to write lilo into a floppy to boot from "hdc", the
B> master drive of the secondary IDE connector.
B> My Bios doesn't support booting from the drives other than the first.
B>
B> Well, I get this error message when I run lilo:
B> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
B> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
B>
B> Then, It fails while booting.
You need to tell the BIOS to assign drive letters/numbers to all drives.
If your BIOS can't do that, you LILO cannot load linux from the hard drive.
B>
B> This is my lilo.conf:
B>
B> boot=/dev/fd0
B> map=/boot/map
B> install=/boot/boot.b
B> prompt
B> timeout=50
B> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
B> label=linux
B> root=/dev/hdb1
B> read-only
B>
B> other=/dev/hdc1
B> label=dos
B> table=/dev/hdc
B>
If you BIOS cannot assign a drive letter/number to your third drive
letter, you will need to make a pure boot floppy:
Copy /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36, /boot/map, and /boot/boot.b to /fd0 and
change your lilo config to:
boot=/dev/fd0
map=/fd0/map
install=/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/fd0/vmlinuz-2.0.36
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb1
read-only
other=/dev/hdc1
label=dos
table=/dev/hdc
Note: you need to have /dev/fd0 mounted on /fd0 in the above when you
run lilo. I *think* this will work. Some linux distibutions include a
program named 'mkbootdisk' -- this program will create a lilo boot
floppy directly, but won't include a hook to boot dos from /dev/hdc1.
B>
B> Any advices will be appreciated
B>
B> Regards,
B>
B> Bono
B>
--
\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: Paul Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: latest netscape
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 02:31:04 +1200
James Gray wrote:
>
> Sure. Make sure in the "FontPath" section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file
> you have the following font lines (add any that are missing):
>
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi
>
> When you've added these, as root in a terminal windows type "xset fp
> rehash". This will force your font server to re-read the FontPath
> section and add any lines you added. I'm using RH6 and I can't
> remember if you need to add a comma (",") or a colon (":") to the end
> of each line in the "FontPath" section, but look at what's there and
> do the same.
Sorry, but when I tried the above it caused X to crash and burn in a
most scary manner. Not even replacing it with the backup (and trying to
rerun the xset command above) would make thingsw come to right. Only a
recreation with Xconfigurator would make X come to rights again.
Can someone give more detailed instructions or examples of what to do?
Paul Wilkins
--
Proudly sent with Linux
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From: Richard Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Word Perfect filters in SO 5.1?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 09:33:00 -0500
8/1/99
Has anyone found an ftp site that has Word Perfect filters in 5.1.
I saw somewhere that there were WP filters in SO 5.1?
Richard N. Hinton
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert V. Grizzard)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: spin down HDD
Date: 1 Aug 1999 15:28:37 GMT
In article <7o0aam$f10$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Well, not at night, that's when I'm home. What might be a good way of
>detecting that the system has been unused for a period?
>
>
>--
># Please try to quote no more than you need to show the context of your post.
># If you also quote my .Sig then I hate you and I hope you get hiccups.
>#
># email: Gumboot, at an ISP named Clear.Net, in New Zealand.
'Tis but a WAG, but I suppose /var/log/messages might be of some assistance.
Were one to count the number of --MARK--s that appear and act when they
indicated a sufficient low-access time --
I'm thinking something along the lines of using "tail /var/log/messages | grep
[whatever option counts the number of hits] MARK -" in a shell script run by
cron with enough instances of --MARK-- delivering a true statement to bash --
which would then invoke the spindown.
NB: I am merely blue-skying here and have not actually done this.
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From: Jeff Workman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fdisk can no longer read from /dev/hda
Date: 01 Aug 1999 12:14:49 -0400
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I was going to make a new partition from some not-yet-partitioned space on the
disk yesterday, but fdisk gives me the following mesage:
Unable to read /dev/hda
The system boots fine though, and can access all of the partitions without
problem. I also tried using the fdisk/disklabel from the OpenBSD boot disk.
These programs can read the partition table but for some reason, are unable
to write to it.
I also get a bunch of kernel errors when the system boots:
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=162963551, sector=0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=162963551, sector=0
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Is there any way I can fix this without reinstalling?
Since fdisk can't read the disk. I don't know if i can even reinstall without
doing a low-level format or doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda first.
TIA,
Jeff
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From: Albert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE vs scsi?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 15:43:53 GMT
> Scsi is quite a bit faster and can perform multiple read/writes where
> ide cannot and thus is quite a bit slower.
Yes. And thanks to tagged command queuing, SCSI devices easily=20
outperform any EIDE device. I tried this with two drives, one SCSI and=20
one EIDE. I ran a HD-benchmark (khdbenchmark) on them. They were both=20
on par when running the sequential test (both ~11 MB/s). But when it=20
comes to random tests, the SCSI device started to use TCQ and=20
rearrange the random reads/writes in a clever way. The EIDE disk ended=20
up with ~3 MB/s, while the SCSI disk was able to sustain a steady 8=20
MB/s.
Both drives had the same amount of cache and were alone on their bus.
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