Linux-Misc Digest #401, Volume #21 Sat, 14 Aug 99 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound problem with RH6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read (Wayne Power)
Re: I'm going mad!!!! over a Microcom Deskporte 28.8P External Modem (brian moore)
Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error ("JMNugent")
Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux? (brian moore)
Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce? (Axel Boldt)
Re: Swap , Sound -- Urgent HELp!!! (brian moore)
Re: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce? (Justin B Willoughby)
Re: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce? (Chris Costello)
Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read (Johan Kullstam)
kupdate vs. mobile-update in 2.2.11 (David Plaut)
Re: tcp/ip printing (Chuck McKinnis)
Re: Cant get modem to connect with 'chat' and 'pppd' (Clifford Kite)
Real Player G2 for Linux? (Steve Gage)
Re: minimum linux for playing sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
conversion tool ?? (naftali)
Re: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error (Me)
Automated PPP Scripts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: /etc/bashrc file (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error ("Andrew Ebling")
Re: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce? (Arthur)
external midi? (Brian A Denny)
Re: "serial line is looped back"? (Bruce Stephens)
Re: Can't add partition to drive (Craig)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sound problem with RH6
Date: 14 Aug 1999 18:51:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Following the RH manual, I tried to use sndconfig. It successfully
> detects and identifies the card, but when it tries to play a sample, it
> gives me the following error message:
> modprobe error
> The following error occurred running
> the modprobe program:
> sh: insmod: command not found
> sound: No such file or directory
> sound: No such file or directory
> It then runs through a manual configuration, correctly detects all
> the settings (IRQ etc), but gives the same error when it tries to
> play.
The problem you're describing is not a sound-specific problem. Rather, you
either do not have the appropriate programs on your system, or (more likely)
you're path doesn't include the dirctory where these files live. Check your
path to see if /usr/sbin is in it, and if it is, check in /usr/sbin to see
if insmod is there.
If you're not sure about how to check your path, read the bash man page
('man bash').
Good luck,
Paul Archer
_______________________________________________________________
"Can't you recognize bullshit? Don't you think it would be a
useful item to add to your intellectual toolkits to be capable
of saying, when a ton of wet steaming bullshit lands on your
head, 'My goodness, this appears to be bullshit'?
_____________Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"__________________
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From: Wayne Power <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:24:32 -0400
For somebody running Win9x with one hard drive, downloading and installing Linux
from Win9x is impractical at best. You need at least 2 disk partitions (root and
swap)
for Linux and more (/usr /var /boot /home ...) is better. Running from a Win tmp
directory or a floppy is not going to work.
As a minimum, I'd recommend an extra hard drive (a lowly 1Gb will do just fine)
and
a CD distribution with a good reputation for easy installation. From there,
setting up
a dual boot machine is pretty straight ahead and is fully covered in the RedHat
5.2
installation guide. If you had to mothball that old 486 to run Win9x in the
first place,
now is a good time to dig it out. :-)
I've installed Win95 and RedHat 5.2 on a lot of different machines. I find the
RedHat
5.2 install real easy and the Win95 install a major annoyance.
--wmp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: I'm going mad!!!! over a Microcom Deskporte 28.8P External Modem
Date: 14 Aug 1999 19:51:57 GMT
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 20:01:35 -0400,
dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's the pitch:
>
>
> Can someone please, please, please help me set this up.I've used
> setserial -a -g (even tried autoconfig) to probe the ports and can't find a
> damn thing. I've used kppp(?- I think that's what it's called) to try and
> find the modem but it tells me that either it can't find anything or it's
> busy. How do I get the info on the parallel ports? Is the parallel port what
> external modems use? Or is it some com port? I've probed ttyS0-3 and my
Most modems use the serial port. The Microcom 'P' series, though, uses
the parallel port.
I have no idea how to make that work under Linux, but it is certainly
not on ttyS[0-3], since those are the traditional serial ports.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "JMNugent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:09:43 -0600
First off----I DONT HAVE A WINMODEM.....(just wanted to get that out of the
way first)....its a internal ISA USRobotics 56k Voice V.90 .....
Dual boot system, with Win98 and Redhat 6.0, modem is on Com2 ( I think
TTYS1.....right??)
So, I'm trying to setup PPP, I think I've got it all setup correctly(w/ all
my ISP's info ) , Currently I'm logged in as ROOT and trying to dial out.
PPPD trys to dial but gives me the following error...
"Sorry, the modem is busy" retry/cancel
Not sure where to go from here, I've read alot of documentation (about three
hours worth), I dont think its a permissions problem since I'm logged in as
ROOT.
Secondly, I've created a user account in my name, and gave it the
permissions I want, but when I log in under that account, and try to dial
out, I get an error like
"you need to remove the lock option"..blah blah blah......(makes me think I
dont have permissions to some folder I need ....)
So then I thought...I'll create a "dial-out" group, and add my user account
into it,...but after I add myself in and go back and check, my membership
has dissapeared.....What gives..???
I would think its a bad idea to dial-out logged in as ROOT, so I would like
a clean option that entails me logging in as my user account and being able
to dial out....
THANKS......jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux?
Date: 14 Aug 1999 19:59:58 GMT
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:30:47 GMT,
Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got my modem up and running and only my soundcard and scsi don't work.
> The guy who wrote the OSS drivers told me that I couldn't get my Audiotrix
> 3D-XG soundcard to work under Linux. So which low cost ISA soundcard is
> the best? I don't want a really awfull one but I don't want a really
> expensive one (50-60$ would be nice :) and I want it to work with Linux
> very well. Could anyone help me with this?
You can get an AWE64 "value" (ie, with only 512k of RAM for the wave
table) for $15 or so used without looking hard at all.
Works great, though the midi sucks (but, then midi always sucks compared
to mp3's or mods) unless you use timidity, and then it still sucks, but
that's midi's fault, not the card's. :)
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: Axel Boldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce?
Date: 14 Aug 1999 22:00:38 +0200
Hi,
does anybody know about a searchable archive for
comp.os.linux.announce? I know about www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html,
but it is not searchable. AltaVisat and DejaNews don't carry cola.
Thanks,
--
Axel Boldt ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/
Sponsor free software at the Free Software Bazaar visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Subject: Re: Swap , Sound -- Urgent HELp!!!
Date: 14 Aug 1999 20:02:15 GMT
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:25:23 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have some problems with linux , which i had install recently.
> I have RH Linux 6 installed on my machine.
> Ok , Let me come to the point.
> My problems are :
>
> 1.) My swap partition is not mounted when Linux starts. It gives the
> following error msg when Linux is loaded.
>
> /dev/hda8 has insecure permission 660. 600 suggested.
> /dev/hda8 no such device.
>
> I have even tried the "swap -a" command at the terminal. But get the
> same error message.
chmod 0600 /dev/hda8
> I have a primary partition of 2 GB ( win 98) , 2 GB extended partition
> - which again has 2 logical partitions(1 GB each). One of the logical
> partitions was the one i chose to install linux. Also, when i use
> software like partition magic, it gives msg "Fat coruption"
> I have only 32 MB of RAM, so I need to correct this problem very badly.
>
> 2.) Is it possible to resize my Linux swap partition ? if yes, pls tell
> me some ezy way of doing it.
Same way you'd resize any other partition: with fips or partition magic.
Or you can have multiple swap partitions.
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce?
Date: 14 Aug 1999 20:41:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby)
Axel Boldt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Hi,
>
> does anybody know about a searchable archive for
> comp.os.linux.announce? I know about www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html,
> but it is not searchable. AltaVisat and DejaNews don't carry cola.
>
I don't have direct answer to your question but... many announcements and
updates about Linux & Un*x programs are at www.freshmeat.net
When I am looking for a Linux program I know the name for (or keyword) I
use freshmeat to search for it.
Cheers,
- Justin
--
_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ RULES!! * LINUX RULES *
_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ Justin Willoughby
_/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ http://justinw.net
_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ ---- Jesus Is Lord ----
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From: Chris Costello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:01:07 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Axel Boldt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> does anybody know about a searchable archive for
> comp.os.linux.announce? I know about www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html,
> but it is not searchable. AltaVisat and DejaNews don't carry cola.
Yes it does. Enter `comp.os.linux.advocacy' in the `Group'
field when searching Deja.
> Thanks,
> --
> Axel Boldt ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/
> Sponsor free software at the Free Software Bazaar visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/
--
|Chris Costello
|Be careful when a loop exits to the same place from side and bottom.
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Subject: Re: Linux BIGGEST Problem-Must Read
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Aug 1999 16:43:43 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (MattCero) writes:
> Ok everyone, like me I'm sure most of you reading this want Linux ....
[snip massive block of text.]
> can then, for the most part, use the GUI to figure things out.
> Does this make any sense to people or am I just philosiphising
> pointlessly?
it'd make more sense if you broke your screed into paragraphs. also,
using lines slightly less long might help too. i found the visual
formatting too awful to actually concentrate upon what you were trying
to say.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Plaut)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: kupdate vs. mobile-update in 2.2.11
Date: 14 Aug 1999 20:26:45 GMT
I have been running Ulrich Neumerkel's mobile-update as a replacement for
/sbin/update in order to minimize disk access on my laptop when it is on
battery power (mobile-update monitors /proc/stat in order to execute bdflush
only when there is disk access for other reasons).
In 2.2.11, the update function is now run in kernel space in the form of a
kernel thread, kupdate (in fs/buffer.c). User-space functions like
/sbin/update and mobile-update exit on the first call to sys_bdflush.
Two questions:
1) Is there any way to reinstate the functionality of mobile-update within
kupdate. My initial attempts failed because I couldn't work out how to get
information out of /proc/stat from within the kupdate function;
mobile-update uses standard file I/O routines but the relevant libararies are
not linked in the kernel.
2) Failing (1), how does one control the bdflush parameters of kupdate? Will
calls to /sbin/update work?
Thanks for any help,
-Dave
--
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
David Plaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dept. of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Mellon Institute 115--CNBC, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh PA 15213-2683
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut, MI 115I, 412/268-5145 (fax -5060)
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Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:58:25 -0600
From: Chuck McKinnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: tcp/ip printing
First, open up the TCP/IP configuration, make sure you have lpd,
lprportd, and routed to start, go to the printing page and set the lpr
ports to 4 (you probably will only use one). If you want to print from
your laptop to both an attached printer as well as the Linux printer,
you will need to create another printer object (which could be a copy of
your attached printer object). Open the properties of the printer you
are going to use for Linux, go to the output port page and point to
\PIPE\LPD0. You now need to RMB on the \PIPE\LPD0 port and select its
properties. Enter the name of the Linux server and its printer.
John Thompson wrote:
>
> I'd like to be able to print over my home LAN from a laptop
> running Warp Connect to a printer connected to a machine running
> linux. The LAN is running fine with just tcp/ip but I have been
> unable to get IBM Peer/Samba configured properly yet so I have no
> network printer templates on the laptop. As Warp Connect
> includes lpd, lpr, lprportd, etc. that appear to be analogous to
> those on the linux machine it occurs to me that I should be able
> to print over the network using these tools.
>
> So, how do I do this? I suspect I could print to a file and then
> lpr the file to the linux machine, but is there a way to
> configure an existing OS/2 printer object to do this
> automatically? Specify a named pipe as an output port or
> something?
>
> On the linux side, how do I make the linux machine handle the
> print request? I use ghostscript to print from linux now; does
> this mean I should be sending postscript output from the OS/2
> machine for ghostscript to process? Or can I take
> printer-specific output from the OS/2 printer driver and feed it
> directly to the printer on the linux machine without passing it
> through ghostscript? Do I need to set up a separate queue on the
> linux machine to handle this?
>
> Anything else I should be concerned about?
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
Chuck McKinnis
IBM Senior Systems Engineer (retired)
Denver Solutions Group, Inc.
IBM Business Partner
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From: kite@NoSpam.%inetport.com (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.newbie
Subject: Re: Cant get modem to connect with 'chat' and 'pppd'
Date: 13 Aug 1999 07:39:22 -0500
Kalgoorlie Assay Labs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I swear it's chat's problem.
:)
: Connect script is:
: pppd connect 'chat "" "ATZ" "" ATD 90917055 CONNECT "" ogin: login word:
: password' /dev/modem 57600 modem
Maybe your problem is related to the fact that the space in ATD 90917055
causes 90917055 to be an chat expect string and so hangs chat.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
/* I gave up on politics when no matter who I voted for, I regretted it.
* -- Pepper...and Salt, WSJ */
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Real Player G2 for Linux?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:22:31 GMT
Hey gang,
I seem to have heard that there is a G2 Real Player available for Linux,
but at the download area of their website, they say that Linux versions
are "5.0 and below". If there is a free G2 player, how does one go about
getting it? Or do you have to pay for the Plus version?
TIA,
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: minimum linux for playing sound
Date: 14 Aug 1999 18:45:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.misc Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My friends,
>
> What should be the minimum setup for a standalone linux box to play sound
> (mp3)?
> Can I erase /usr/bin and alike?
> Should I keep most daemons?
>
Rather than create you're own stripped=down version of
Linux, do some searches for minimal distributions on
www.linux.org and the like. Several groups have made very
small distributions that are available (Linux on a floppy,
anyone?).
_______________________________________________________________
"Can't you recognize bullshit? Don't you think it would be a
useful item to add to your intellectual toolkits to be capable
of saying, when a ton of wet steaming bullshit lands on your
head, 'My goodness, this appears to be bullshit'?
_____________Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"__________________
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From: naftali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: conversion tool ??
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 00:24:10 +0300
hello everyone
Is there any conversion tool from a device driver in windows to something
parallel in Linux ?
my screen doesnt function well, so I hacked into the configuration file and
rearanged the vertical and horizontal frequencies according to what the monitor
manual said,and it worked, but Im uncomfortable with that kind of hacking
especially since after I go back to a terminal mode it gets very warped. I would feel
very comfortable if i could just translate the windows device driver or
find a similar amicable solution to both mode, super vga mode and terminal mode
if that sort of thing is possible.
I would very much appriciate any help i could get.
I have both a redhat 6.0 and a SuSE 6.1 installed, and I would like some sort
of a general solution for both of them if possible.
I would very much be in debt to anyone so capable as to help me
thanks in advance
Naftali
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From: Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:31:13 -0500
JMNugent wrote:
> First off----I DONT HAVE A WINMODEM.....(just wanted to get that out of the
> way first)....its a internal ISA USRobotics 56k Voice V.90 .....
>
> Dual boot system, with Win98 and Redhat 6.0, modem is on Com2 ( I think
> TTYS1.....right??
If you have another modem installed that you use with Win98 you need to
physically remove it. Also, is your modem harware jumpered for COM2 or pnp. If
pnp disable it and jumper for COM2. Hope that helps, I had the same problem and
thats what worked for me with COL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Automated PPP Scripts
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:31:02 -0400
I have been trying to get the 'ppp-on' and 'ppp-on-dialer' scripts
working with Red Hat 6.0. Everytime I run 'ppp-on' it calls on
'ppp-on-dialer' but fails during the modem initialization.
When I send a AT (or ATZ) I get not 'OK' in responce.
I am able to connect via the 'linuxconf' application -- I just
select the appropiate PPP properties and hit 'Connect' in the dial up
script editor. This works fine, but it is just a little more work then
I want. :)
The reason I am trying to get this to work is I downloaded "wmppp"
and have it in my dock. It allows me to turn on and off the
PPP conncetion via scripts -- so I am trying to get those scripts to
work correctlly.
If anyone can help me get these scripts to work, or point me to some
other scripts that might do the trick, I would greatly appreciate it.
(if possible, please respond via e-mail too).
Nick
P.S. I did look into the scripts that 'linuxconf' writes to create
and destroy the connection. I tried running them but there are a few
things in the environment that are not set correctly in a command line
operation. I plan on playing with this, but if anyone knows how to get
these scripts to work from a command line, that would be great!!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: /etc/bashrc file
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Aug 1999 16:35:25 -0400
Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 07 Aug 1999 00:57:49 GMT, Jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I know that the /etc/bashrc file can be used if the for "system wide"
> >initializing before the person logs into the the system, but is there
> >a file I can use for when the person logs out? I don't want to use
> >the files that are in the person's home directory.
> Why not put the .bash_logout you want in /etc/skel, make it owned by
> root and not modifiable by them?
it'd probably be easier to get the source for bash. grep for
.bash_logout and code it so it'll run /etc/bashlogout too. compile,
install, voila.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Andrew Ebling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:00:49 +0100
> its a internal ISA USRobotics 56k Voice V.90 .....
OK, I have played this game with an ISA internal USR 33.6 modem!
>
>Dual boot system, with Win98 and Redhat 6.0, modem is on Com2 ( I think
>TTYS1.....right??)
Yup, ttyS1 is right but you are probably going to have to disable comm2 in
your bios (as in disable the chip which makes the comm2 socket on the back
work) and then you should be up and running. I know that linux should be
able to cope with sharing the interupt for comm2 and comm4 but it doesn't
seem to work with USR modems (esp. pnp ones.) Incidentally, I had to set
jumpers on my modem to tell it to use comm2 and to turn of plug and pray.
HTH,
Andrew
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From: Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Searchable archive for comp.os.linux.announce?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 14:09:01 -0700
Axel Boldt wrote:
> Hi,
> does anybody know about a searchable archive for
> comp.os.linux.announce? I know about www.iki.fi/mjr/linux/cola.html,
> but it is not searchable. AltaVisat and DejaNews don't carry cola.
It's available at remarq.com.
Arthur
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From: Brian A Denny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: external midi?
Date: 13 Aug 1999 23:34:15 GMT
i have a midi interface connected to my parallel port -- it's a
Midi Translator PC (from Opcode). i use this interface to connect
my external midi device (a roland sound module).
how do i get this thing to work? i've scoured the sound HOWTO and
the linux sound&midi pages, and can't find any info on this sort
of setup. whenever i try to launch a midi application, i get an
error message saying that [device] wasn't found or can't be opened,
where [device] is either /dev/midi or /dev/sequencer or /dev/music
(depending on which program i'm trying to run).
i'm running RH 5.2. somebody told me that redhat normally installs
with midi support compiled into the kernel, but i'm not sure whether
this is correct. anybody know? (anybody know how i can find out
what support for was compiled into my kernel?)
any help would be greatly appreciated.
tia,
brian
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: "serial line is looped back"?
Date: 14 Aug 1999 22:48:03 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Trying to get ppp going in RedHat v. 6.0 and some progress is being made
> but just after I get the message (peering through 'tail -f
> /var/log/messages') that 'connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0', the error
> message:
>
> 'serial line is looped back'
>
> appears, and the would-be connection is terminated.
>
> I need a clue here.
<URL:http://www.linuxhq.com/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO-18.html>
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From: Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Can't add partition to drive
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:30:45 GMT
I disabled Win95 swap files and then ran the FIPS
utility. It shows that I can create a 61 MB partition.
However, there is 499 MB free on that drive. I re-ran the
Win95 defragmenter. It shows several mostly smallish files
that "will not be moved" near the end of the drive (the
primary partition).
I checked for any image.idx and mirrorsav.fil hidden system
files, but found none. However, there are a lot of hidden
system files on this drive. Are they all non-movable?
I don't know which I can safely delete. Here are some examples:
- Several .au files (probably OK to delete)
- Many .gid files
- In \GCD\CARDS\SYS, many .bmp files
- Many .dir files
- A .cfg file
- Several .wpc files
- A few .dll files
- dao.fts, dao.ftg, dao.gid
- Some .ico files
- Several .dao and .dat files in a backup copy of \windows
- A 4 MB IE4BAK.DAT file
Does anyone have any idea how to figure out which files
are the ones near the end of the drive and which are
safe to delete?
Duy d. wrote:
> linux tells the free space on your disk, not the free space on your
> windows partition. You need to get a partitioning utility, fips, like
> someone down this thread suggested, and use it to shrink your windows
> partition, then you'll have some "real" free space.
>
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