Linux-Misc Digest #326, Volume #21 Sun, 8 Aug 99 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: One more LILO prints LI & the Solution Plus a Technical Question (Cameron L.
Spitzer)
Re: Max files sizes under ext2? (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: Sound Blaster PCI128 Sound Card with Mandrake 6.0 (Paul Thompson)
Re: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!? (Carl Fink)
Re: Which POP3 Server? ("Bill Dunn")
Re: Curious and bizarre RH6 message (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Re: .tar.bz2 file extensions (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Modules for OPTi924 Sound Card ("Pedro Kiefer")
Re: 2.2.6 kernel is too big (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Can Linux make ufs file systems? (Darrel Davis)
X a bit weird on AGP SiS 6326 video card. (text, cursor invisible)B ("G. Georgiev")
How to install CLE 8.0 in SuSE 6.1 ("Billy Lau")
I want my OLE!! (Lucas Vogel)
linux isn't finding my adaptec aha-1542cp scsi adapter? (Gaiko Kyofusho)
Re: "starve the rotten little bastards" (Mr Williams)
Redhat 6.0 WITHOUT SOUND !!!!!!!!! ("Unknown")
Re: WINE help, please? (Wine Development)
Re: Backup main disk on second disk? (Wine Development)
Re: I want my OLE!! (Lucas Vogel)
Re: I want my OLE!! (Vilmos Soti)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: One more LILO prints LI & the Solution Plus a Technical Question
Date: 8 Aug 1999 01:59:41 GMT
Thanks for posting a solution. Those go in the HOWTO.
In article <01bee119$b123d4a0$caea4e0c@nilrem>, Norm Dresner wrote:
>Which brings me to my question: Was LILO confused because one of the HD's
>was an LBA and the other one wasn't? Or is it something deeper and more
>mysterious?
No hard drive "is" LBA. Linear, or Logical, Block Addressing is a kludge
that some BIOSes do in order to show an OS a drive it couldn't see
unaided.
As I understand it, BIOS passes drive "geometry" numbers to LILO, which
has no choice to believe them, unless you intervene.
Then LILO launches the kernel, which sometimes
second-guesses the numbers it gets from BIOS[+EZ-Drive]+LILO.
(Kernel can read the registers in the drive itself. LILO can't,
or rather LILO doesn't.)
Now, the /sbin/lilo installer (lilo(8)) has no access to the data LILO gave;
all it's got is the numbers the kernel give it through its special
GET_GEOM ioctl system call. So, if you don't intervene, the numbers in
the map lilo(8) builds reflect linux' possible disbelief of what it
was told. In the case linux is using different numbers than BIOS,
you have to tell lilo(8), no no no, use *these* numbers please.
Which is why there are "bios =", sectors=, heads=, and cylinders=,
commands in lilo.conf. These commands tell LILO what numbers the kernel
was using, so it doesn't have to use the wrong numbers BIOS just gave it.
I don't think this has anything to do with whether two drives were addressed
the same way. Each drive has its own switches, in BIOS and in the kernel.
Cameron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.kernel.general
Subject: Re: Max files sizes under ext2?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 00:33:16 GMT
On Sat, 07 Aug 1999 23:30:40 GMT, Phil Launchbury
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>Hi,
>I have a problem - I am trying to back the rest of my network (2 Win98 &
>and NT server) up to my linux box.
>The problem seems to occur when the size of the backup file on the linux
>backup drive exceeds 2G - Win98 backup fails with a 'reached media
>capacity' error and NT backup just quits!
>
>Is there a max size of a file under ext2? I am running kernel 2.0.36 on a
>RH 5.1 box and something like 12G of free space on the backup partition.
>
>I have tried adjusting the /proc/sys/kernel/inode-max parameter but that
>did not seem to make much difference...
See: /usr/src/linux/fs/ext2/file.c for the gory details; the size of
files on IA-32 is limited to that expressible in 2^31-1. On 64 bit
architectures, the maximum is based on 64 bit values.
Some people Consider This Unacceptable; until such time as they volunteer
to rewrite all memory management code, the situation will persist...
--
You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: thompson@n0$pam.athenet.net (Paul Thompson)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI128 Sound Card with Mandrake 6.0
Date: 8 Aug 1999 02:24:00 GMT
This inserted into conf.modules corrected my problem:
(If your PCI128 does not use the ES1370 chipset insert your chipset
instead.)
alias char-major-14 es1370
Paul
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Strunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When I run Red Hat's sndconfig, it detects that I have a PCI128 installed but
> gives an error when it tries to test it.
>
> sox: Effect '/dev/dsp' is not known!
>
> Does anybody know what I need to do or how to do a manual configuration in
> modules.conf?
> thanks
> Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Gateway ISP - no DNS IP's ?!?
Date: 7 Aug 1999 23:21:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7 Aug 1999 00:56:50 -0400 Coy A Hile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
.
.
.
>eg, pick two of these IP addresses at random . . .
>DNS doesn't give a damn which nameserver you use; it doesn't matter if you
>use "yours" or someone else's.
This is true, and I've used the trick you refer to. At the same time,
obviously using a DNS "close" to you on the 'net is faster and avoids
unnecessary traffic on the backbone(s).
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: "Bill Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Which POP3 Server?
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 21:26:20 -0500
Qpopper is easy to configure and runs well. It has a bulletins option if
you want to be able to provide common messages to your customers without
actually sending them an email. It doesn't run standalone. It supports APOP.
Cucipop has the capability to run standalone and also supports APOP.
Bill Dunn
Brian E. Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7oes8n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm in the initial stages of trying to setup a POP3 Server and I was
> wondering which POP server would do the job better. I'm still learning
as
> I go. I'm thinking of either using qpopper or cucipop. what are the
> benefits of either of these? Can I use Sendmail to act as the POP3
Server.
> This will be setup to run on a machine running Redhat 6.0. Any good
> documentation for this out there?
>
> I'd appreciate any assistance.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Seppanen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collin W. Hitchcock)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Curious and bizarre RH6 message
Date: 07 Aug 1999 19:33:42 -0400
> Weirdest damn thing the other day. I`d been doing some work as root,
> logged out and logged back in as a normal user, and immediately the
> system said "Message from root: System shutting down in 60 seconds."
> Needless to say I was more than a touch perplexed, so I sat there...
> And nothing ever happened.
>
> Does anyone have ANY clue what was going on? (I`m not hooked to the
> net through Linux, so it`s not like someone has hacked me.)
Do you perhaps call the "fortune" program to print out a humorous
message each time you log in?
Collin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: .tar.bz2 file extensions
Date: 8 Aug 1999 02:16:21 GMT
In article <7oi99j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Justin B Willoughby wrote:
>
>Wlmet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
>> I was trying to unpack the kernel sources from the Slackware CDROM disks. I
>> found them to have .tar.bz2 extensions. What is this all about?
>
>Its bzip & bzip2 offer better compression over gzip. You should have a
>uncompression program for this, but I don't remember its name. Perhaps
>bunzip or some thing, I am not a my box to look. After uncompressing it
>just untar it (or pipe the output from bunzip (if that is the name) to tar.
See http://www.digistar.com/bzip2/ but fetch bzip2 (if you don't have it)
through your nearest www.kernel.org mirror please.
Install kernel source this way:
cd /usr/src
mv linux linux.distro # or whatever
bzip2 -dc < /wherever/it/is/linux-2.2.10.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
mv linux linux-2.2.10
ln -s linux-2.2.10 linux
cd linux
make mrproper
Notice that you never have a decompressed linux-2.2.10.tar file on disk.
There is no need to waste space with that. Pipes work correctly in
unix, they're not faked with temporary files.
Beware disk space depletion. You might want to unpack this thing
on some other partition and adjust your /usr/src/linux symlink for it.
On my system, /usr/src/linux-2.2.10/ occupies about 70 MB. YMMV
Cameron
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From: "Pedro Kiefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Modules for OPTi924 Sound Card
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 23:58:39 -0300
I configured my sound card using isapnp. But now i don't know which modules
should i load.
Can Any body help me? My dumped my isapnp down here.
Board 1 has Identity 1f 08 00 00 00 24 09 14 3e: OPT0924 Serial No
134217728 [checksum 1f]
OPT0924/134217728[0]{Pro Audio 16 }: Ports 0x220 0x130 0x380; IRQ5
DMA0 --- Enabled OK
OPT0924/134217728[1]{Game Port }: Port 0x201; --- Enabled OK
OPT0924/134217728[2]{MPU401 }: Port 0x300; IRQ10 --- Enabled OK
OPT0924/134217728[5]{OPT924 }: Port 0x30D; --- Enabled OK
Thanx
Pedro Kiefer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Subject: Re: 2.2.6 kernel is too big
Date: 8 Aug 1999 02:25:00 GMT
In article <7oi693$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bob wrote:
>You could try "make bzImage" as recommended. Or you could try what I did and
>go back to "make config, or make xconfig, or whatever" and make just about
>everything that offers "y/m/n" into a module (select 'm'). This worked for
>me.
I miss monolithic kernels. <sniff> This module stuff is too fragile.
It's hard to have two different versions of (e.g.) 2.2.10 in certain
distros (e.g. Red Hat 5.). But, life is hard and monolithic kernels
are dead. There are still drivers you're safer to compile in (e.g. 3c509.o)
but modules work for most things.
With 2.2.10, zImage is dead. I couldn't move enough stuff into modules
to make it fit. This is a generic machine, boots from IDE/ATAPI.
Long live bzImage.
Cameron
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Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 22:45:17 -0400
From: Darrel Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can Linux make ufs file systems?
I am trying to install Solaris 7 on another p
partition and, i gotta tell you, the install
process makes Linux looks completely problem
free (actually, I usually don't have any problems
installing Linux anyway).
There are some strange situations with the Solaris
fdisk and it would be nice if I could create the
ufs partitions in Linux fdisk but ufs doesn't
seem to be listed in fdisk's partition type
table.
Does anybody know of a way to create ufs partitions
in Linux?
TIA
-darrel
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Darrel Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "G. Georgiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: X a bit weird on AGP SiS 6326 video card. (text, cursor invisible)B
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 22:54:22 -0400
Reply-To: "G. Georgiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I did install XFree86 3.3.3.1 from the slackware 4.0 (Thanks,
Patrick!) cdrom and it behaves a bit strange, the main problem being
there are not any letters in xterm and in the menus or whatever text in
any program. Programs function normal, except there is nothing to read in,
like if all letters are the same color as the background. I did try xterm,
color_xterm, rxvt, file managers, others.
The other problem is that the pointer appears as a big white
square, not an arrow or the well-known cross ('X'). xsetroot -def does
change the background, but not the pointer.
The video card is on-board SiS 6326 chipset with 8M of memory, I
run the distribution-supplied 2.2.6 kernel. I was forced to use the
'noaccel' option, will try to improve the performance later.
When I use KDE window manager some programs have their text visible,
some doesn't, when I switch to fvwm95 window manager almost all programs
come without any visible letter.
So, how to make fonts visible and the cursor better?
Thanks, George.
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From: "Billy Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to install CLE 8.0 in SuSE 6.1
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 11:03:17 +0800
HI,
I'm a newbie in using Linux.
I got a CLE 8.0 for SuSE 6.1 but didn't know how to install and activate it.
Does anyone has successfully work around with it and point out the steps to
me.
Thanks
Billy Lau
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lucas Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I want my OLE!!
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 03:30:58 GMT
I have heard various rumours here and there, and would like to hear it
from someone...
I want to be able to cut and paste ( if anything ) between applications
without a hassle. For example, I want to be able to take some text out
of kedit(KDE notepad) and paste it into my Netscape email that I'm
preparing right now. Is there code that will enable me to do this? Where
is it and how do I get it? If not, how long before someone comes up with
it?
Thanks guys
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From: Gaiko Kyofusho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: linux isn't finding my adaptec aha-1542cp scsi adapter?
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 03:44:37 GMT
Hi, i got a adaptec aha-1542cp ISA scsi adapter card and tried putting
it in my 486 linux box. I have some other scsi devices (drives and
cdrom) that i hooked up to it if that matters. I then booted up (with a
boot disk that had aha-1542cp support compiled in already) and it didn't
see my card, it said that zero scsi hosts were detected (that that is
the only scsi anything that the kernel told me during bootup). I
tried some slackware boot disks that had all the different adaptec
adpaters on them <compiled in> and even the slackware generic scsi
boot disk and still no luck. Now i am *very* much a scsi newbie and
could have the dip switches setup wrong (though i read over a whole
bunch of lit. on setting up scsi devices. Even if i did set it up wrong
would that make it "invisable" to linux? *Any* help here would be
*greatly* appricated since i am not sure what i should try next.
-Gaiko
Gaikokujin Kyofusho
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From: Mr Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: "starve the rotten little bastards"
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 00:22:49 +0600
Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
> The evidence has been right in front of your eyes for decades but you,
> blinded by idology, never see it.
Give him hell, Jerry. I'm with you. And I like the "idology" thing <g>.
--
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if you must email, reply to:
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From: "Unknown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6.0 WITHOUT SOUND !!!!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 03:44:57 GMT
I CAN NOT FIND SOUND CONFIGURATION (no sound configuration in linuxconf)
I HAVE NO SOUND
in previous Redhat 5.2 I found sound configuration in some kinda utility and
made it
Unfortunately I don.t remember
PLEASE HELP if somebody knows !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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From: Wine Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WINE help, please?
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 12:27:23 +0100
Kevin Breit wrote:
>
> Hey,
> I am trying to setup WINE to run Photoshop in Linux. Well, whenever
> I try to run WINE, I get this error:
>
> Could not stat c:, ignoring drive C:
> Warning: could not find wine.conf [Drive x] entry for current working
> directory /fat-c/Adobe/Photoshop 5.0; starting in windows directory.
> Warning: /fat-c/windows not accessible from a DOS drive
> Invalid path '/fat-c/windows' for windows directory
> Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file.
> This is either /usr/local/etc/wine.conf or $HOME/.winerc
> or it is determined[Drive C] by the -config option or from
> the WINE_INI environment variable.
> Wine has used /home/kbreit/.winerc as configuration file.
>
> I can't seem to figure out how to setup my C:\. What is the proper syntax?
> Kevin
> --
> "Why do I feel the pain everyday?"
> -Godsmack
This is a wine VFAQ. For the full story try looking in dejanews.
The line in wine.conf should give the full Linux path to the directory
you are using
as your Windows 'drive' and should be in Linux form.
e.g. my 'C:' drive is
Path=/dos/drive_c
Type=hd
Label=MS-DOS
All references within wine then relate to this.
If your syntax is correct check:
1. the directory is online
2. The user you are running wine from has write access to that
directory
Also you will get more help by posting in comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine
than here.
--
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node is keith_m
Frequentous Consultants - Linux Services,
Oracle development & database administration
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From: Wine Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup main disk on second disk?
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 12:18:09 +0100
Richard F. wrote:
>
> I have a system with two 9 gig scsi disks. Right now I have a script
> that copies the main disk to the second every night so I can easily
> recover files if I ever want to.
>
> I'd like to take this to the next level and have a plan... will this
> work?
>
> I want to install linux on the second disk in exactly the same way
> that it is installed on the first disk, same filesystems and all.
> Then every night I want to use cpio to sync all the files on the
> second disk to those on the first disk. The goal is, in the event
> that something horrible happened to the first disk, I would be able to
> unplug it and boot from the second with *absolutely no other
> modifications.*
>
> Could it work like this?
Yes, but a better way would be using mirroring - see the root-RAID
HOWTO, probably on your
system under /usr/doc/faq/HOWTO
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From: Lucas Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I want my OLE!!
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 04:21:29 GMT
I stand corrected! Thank you, Vilmos.
Vilmos Soti wrote:
>
> Lucas Vogel wrote:
> >
> > I have heard various rumours here and there, and would like to hear it
> > from someone...
> > I want to be able to cut and paste ( if anything ) between applications
> > without a hassle. For example, I want to be able to take some text out
> > of kedit(KDE notepad) and paste it into my Netscape email that I'm
> > preparing right now. Is there code that will enable me to do this? Where
> > is it and how do I get it? If not, how long before someone comes up with
> > it?
> > Thanks guys
> >
>
> X (and Linux also) already has it for text. If you have configured your
> mouse
> under X to have three buttons, then you can highlight the text with the
> first
> mouse button, and by highlighting it automatically gets into the
> "clipboard",
> and you can paste it with the middle button. Under a terminal, the same
> also
> works provided you are running gpm and is comfigured correctly.
>
> Good Luck, Vilmos
>
> --
> Have you recompiled your kernel today?
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From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I want my OLE!!
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 04:16:08 GMT
Lucas Vogel wrote:
>
> I have heard various rumours here and there, and would like to hear it
> from someone...
> I want to be able to cut and paste ( if anything ) between applications
> without a hassle. For example, I want to be able to take some text out
> of kedit(KDE notepad) and paste it into my Netscape email that I'm
> preparing right now. Is there code that will enable me to do this? Where
> is it and how do I get it? If not, how long before someone comes up with
> it?
> Thanks guys
>
X (and Linux also) already has it for text. If you have configured your
mouse
under X to have three buttons, then you can highlight the text with the
first
mouse button, and by highlighting it automatically gets into the
"clipboard",
and you can paste it with the middle button. Under a terminal, the same
also
works provided you are running gpm and is comfigured correctly.
Good Luck, Vilmos
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