Linux-Misc Digest #459, Volume #21 Thu, 19 Aug 99 06:13:11 EDT
Contents:
OS Wars (Andreas Spengler)
Re: *nix vs. MS security (Mike Dowling)
How to patch XF86_Mach64 ? ("Richard Hudson")
Re: ppp compression missing (W.G. Unruh)
Re: Diskette Longevity (Mike Dowling)
Re: *nix vs. MS security (DanH)
Re: Cracks for Linux? (Christopher W. Aiken)
VMWare & Mandrake (Beat Rupp)
Re: gateway: What am I doing wrong? ("Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)")
Re: mandrake versus redhat? (apollyon)
Re: Troll (was: why not C++?) (Stephan Houben)
Re: VMWare & Mandrake (Luis Paulo)
Re: Linux vs. Unix (James Knott)
Linux PowerPC motherboards. (James Knott)
Re: Dose this ng have a faq? (Gerd Mayer)
PPP not working in 2.3.13 (Andrew Carroll)
Re: Where did my sound card go??? (Me Here)
Re: ppp compression missing (W.G. Unruh)
PostgreSQL tables imported from MS Access ("lcr")
Re: Why did RMS adopt Unix? (and other questions) (Paul Eggert)
Re: Apsfilter: Configuration (James Stafford)
what does "broken pipe" mean? (Carrie Coy)
Re: Capturing video from a digital camcorder/camera through the serial (Steve Macko)
RedHat kernel patches? ("aaa")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Spengler)
Subject: OS Wars
Date: 19 Aug 1999 09:32:45 +0200
Hi folks,
recently on a Linux show in Germany I stumbled
across a person with a T-Shirt with a theme
similar to Star Wars entitled "OS War"...
He told me he bought it from the Atlante Linux
Showcase. Does anyone know where I could get
hold of the Picture as a file ???
Thanks for any help,
Andreas Spengler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Dowling)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: *nix vs. MS security
Date: 19 Aug 1999 08:40:39 GMT
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:43:47 GMT, Christopher Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm taking a class on operating systems. During the last class, the
>instructor mentioned that *nices are less reliable and less secure than
>Microsoft OS's. His reasoning is that because *nices (espeically linux) is
>free and everyone has access to it, it's less secure. Random people can
>hack into a *nix system easier because they can figure out the interrupts
>and stuff, since it's a free OS.
He does have a point. Many of the well known security breaches, such as the
mountd problem, were almost certainly found in the first place by inspecting
the source code. With a commercial product released withour sources, this
cannot happen. On the other hand, when vulnerabilities are found, they are
usually promptly fixed, and the fixes made public. Does Microsoft do this?
Another problem with Unices is that they offer far more network services,
and the more services there are to be cracked, the more opportunity crackers
have to find vulnerabilities. On the other hand, it would take a very
perverted logic to argue that, because Windows 98 does not provide FTP, WWW,
SMTP, TELNET,.... daemons, it is therefore better, beacuse these services
cannot then be abused.
Oh, and somebody has already pointed out, there is the issue of viruses...
Cheers,
Mike Dowling
>I questioned the fact that the majority of servers on the internet use some
>flavor or *nix. He answered saying that only small size companies use *nix.
>Everyone else uses something more secure (he meant MS I'm assuming).
>
>I wanted to know what everyone here thinks about this. I'm a firm believer
>thatn *nix is a very stable, secure system. Granted I haven't had a whole
>lot of experience dealing with *nix but everything I've seen/read/heard has
>led me to that conclusion. But being naive when it came to *nix I was
>unable to counter my instructor with anything substantial.
>
>Thanks!
>
>
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From: "Richard Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to patch XF86_Mach64 ?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:06:58 +0800
Hi everyone,
I am currently trying to install X on my Dell Inspiron 7K with ATI Rage LT
Pro and Redhat 5.2.
I do not really want to move to RH v6.0 yet if I can help it. The details I
am using from the excellant Steve Hsieh and others indicate that I need to
patch my XF86_Mach64 binary with a c src patch supplied. Unfortunately
because of my relative greeness I have not been able to find the source of
XF86 or Make file to create a new binary.
Could anyone briefly outline how I patch the binary given a C source patch.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Richard Hudson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G. Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp compression missing
Date: 18 Aug 99 16:43:55 GMT
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I got that advice earlier too, but what are ppp-compress-21, 24 & 26 in the 1st place?
They are different kinds of software compression. As I said, don't worry about it.
>anyway, to connect this session I used kppp in AfterStep & along with the use missing
>compress modules i got these 2 extra lines :
>Aug 19 00:25:27 localhost pppd[1060]: Unsupported protocol (0x829) received
>Aug 19 00:25:27 localhost pppd[1060]: Unsupported protocol (0x82b) received
Your ISP requested some protocols that ppp does not support-- it does not
support everythng, not least because some are proprietary, and cannot be
supported in an open source system. Again, do not worry about it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Dowling)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Diskette Longevity
Date: 19 Aug 1999 09:15:03 GMT
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:52:22 GMT, Richard Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7pejko$2t4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Steve Jobs was right, in spite of all the Wintel complaining, to drop
>floppies drives from Macs. Anything is better than floppies, and all those
>iMac buyers (close to 2-million this year) seem to be doing nicely without
>them.
The only problem people can have with floppies is to trust them. However,
trashing floppies altogether seems to me like cutting off your nose to spite
your face. They are a very useful medium for transferring small amounts of
data. I transfer data daily from the office to my home computer, and that,
for me, is the sole purpose of having floppies. I would certainly miss them
if I no longer had them. All you have to remember is not to use the floppy
as a storeage device, and to keep all data elsewhere if a floppy gives up
the ghost.
Cheers,
Mike Dowling
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: *nix vs. MS security
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 04:50:22 -0400
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:43:47 GMT, Christopher Lu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm taking a class on operating systems. During the last class, the
>instructor mentioned that *nices are less reliable and less secure than
>Microsoft OS's. His reasoning is that because *nices (espeically linux) is
>free and everyone has access to it, it's less secure. Random people can
>hack into a *nix system easier because they can figure out the interrupts
>and stuff, since it's a free OS.
>
>I questioned the fact that the majority of servers on the internet use some
>flavor or *nix. He answered saying that only small size companies use *nix.
>Everyone else uses something more secure (he meant MS I'm assuming).
>
>I wanted to know what everyone here thinks about this. I'm a firm believer
>thatn *nix is a very stable, secure system. Granted I haven't had a whole
>lot of experience dealing with *nix but everything I've seen/read/heard has
>led me to that conclusion. But being naive when it came to *nix I was
>unable to counter my instructor with anything substantial.
This person is TEACHING cs courses? Oh my God.
Almost ALL critical machines are *NIX for most of the 'net for a reason.
Here's on to ask your professor. "If we have a classified LAN to do
research or contracts for the Government, the inspectors will come in
and do a site survey to ensure the computers and other equipment will
not pose a risk of leak. What OS will they require us use?" The answer
will not be any version of WIN(anything).
You cannot get any security certificates with any version of WIN on a
machine that has a network card or modem. Ask you professor why that
is.
It's because everyone sees the code that make *NIX more secure. Do you
turn in a term paper with no one proof-reading it? I hope not. Why
not? Because you're likely to overlook your own mistakes and keep
overlooking them. Now if you let the whole world proof-read your term
paper, there may be some discussion on exact wording, but do you think
you'd have a better or worse paper for it?
Also ask him why MS did not put basic security precautions into Office.
Melissa is not a *NIX phenomona. Do you think that would have gone out
if a couple hundred more people had looked over the code? Why are all
the viruii for WIN? There's like two viruses for *NIX and they're
pretty feeble.
Does he think virus attacks are not to be classified as a security
risk?
Here are some URLs for reference:
http://xforce.iss.net/library/bill_stout/ntexploits.htm
http://www.ntsecurity.net/
http://www.flash.net/~kahanek/platform_security.htm
http://www.deter.com/unix/
http://www.fish.com/
http://www.cert.org/
Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher W. Aiken)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cracks for Linux?
Date: 18 Aug 1999 16:03:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
He He He He Nice one....
Jason Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
->
->I got it to work by typing in (as root):
->
->cd /
->rm -rf *
->
->After that I didn't have any problems with OSS/Linux asking me to register it.
->I think that it removes the nagware config file or something.
->
->Good Luck,
->Jason
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SuSE 6.1, Kernel 2.2.7
Mandrake 6.0, Kernel 2.2.9
The box said 'WIN95/98 or better.' so I installed LINUX!
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From: Beat Rupp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VMWare & Mandrake
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:47:46 GMT
Has anyone been able to install VMWare on Mandrake 6.0 with Kernel=20
2.2.9-27mdk?? I get a memory access error (=BBSpeicherzugriffsfehler=AB =
in=20
German) as soon as I try to start a correct installed VMWare as normal=20
user (W98 as guest os).
=BB./install.pl redhat=AB doens't do anything (I assume that this only=20
works for the tools).
Any help?
Thanks
Beat
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From: "Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: gateway: What am I doing wrong?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 08:20:59 +0100
Youjip Won wrote:
>
> Hi,
> With all the answer from various experts, I am still having problems
> in installing network.
>
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 => fine
> route add -net 127.0.0.0 ==> fine
> ifconfig eth0 166.104.88.108 => fine
> route add -net 166.104.88.0 ==> fine
> route add default gw 166.104.88.1 ==> Ouch!!!
>
> After executing the previous steps, if I type 'route' it shows the
> first two lines(networks) and stalls. 'route -n' shows the third
> entry(gateway) properly.
>
I have seen this before. You need an entry in /etc/networks to give a
symbolic name for 166.104.88.0 for example 'localnet'
The command 'route -n' prevents this name expansion so it works. I found
diald would bring up the modem link when trying to sort this out ;-)
>From my machine
/etc/networks
loopback 127.0.0.0
localnet 47.101.112.0
Execute 'route'
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
localnet * 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 8523
eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 48
lo
default tharr1a3p0-4.eu 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 6623
eth0
For reference 'route -n'
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
47.101.112.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 8524
eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 48
lo
0.0.0.0 47.101.112.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 6624
eth0
HTH
Regards
Phil Q
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From: apollyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: mandrake versus redhat?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 00:34:57 -0700
Mandrake 6.0 is basically Redhat plus everything they forgot, so I'd advise
Mandrake all the way. It comes with more programs and utilities than Redhat.
As for the problem mentioned by John Doe, it is corrected by downloading the fix
of the internet.... One of the coolest Mandrake features is an automatic update
program, which connects to Mandrake's servers and shows you what needs to be
updated on your system...
Mandrake 4 Life...
John Doe wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:36:15 GMT, SS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm currently running Redhat 5.2, and am interested in upgrading. However,
> >I am a bit at odds as to whether I should make a lateral move to the
> >Mandrake distribution, which I have seen on the shelves everywhere. It
> >seems just as good and as easy to use as Redhat, while also being a lot
> >cheaper for the CD itself.
> >
> >Can anyone give me some advice as to which distribution would be the best
> >choice? Please cc your response to my email address if that is possible.
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
>
> I'm against going for mandrake if you are already happy with red hat.
>
> I switched from rh 6 to m6 and now I'm back to rh 6.
>
> Your mileage may vary; my problem may be is that I don't not install
> kde or gnome on either system.
>
> My decision to go back to rh 6 was because my ppp-off script won't work
> with m6. Although I could force it to work I really hated how
> m6 did things in general.
>
> I am also pissed off with stupid linuxworld for choosing mandrake over
> red hat.
>
> They say pentium optimization is good. Big deal! There is absolutely
> no frigging benchmark except the words from mandrakesoft. I am
> completely astounded that stupid linuxworld just thinks highly
> of m6 'pentium optimization' without coming up numbers on how
> this stupid optimization affects the system performance.
>
> To get to the point, if you are not addicted to
> brain-dead-point-and-click thing and happy with red hat going for
> mandrake will be a mistake.
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From: Stephan Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Troll (was: why not C++?)
Date: 19 Aug 1999 09:42:06 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Joswig) writes:
> A Lisp users says: I don't care what language the kernel
> is written in, as long as it is Lisp.
IMHO, a supposedly "general purpose OS" should do more than
just please the Lisp users. (Any estimates of the precentage
of the programming community which consider themselves
Lisp users?)
> The difference between a Lisp machine and a Linux
> system is huge. The Lisp Machine has an open, incrementally
> changeable and dynamic OS. The OS is written in a
> pure OOP style. That means that things like
> IP-Packets or Processes are objects. And operations
> on them are implemented as methods.
But all this could be provided by a Lisp library which interfaces
with the underlying OS. Have the Linux kernel start up a Lisp
interpreter directly after booting and presto: your Lisp OS is
ready to run. You can then write a GUI or whatever in Lisp and
have *that* executed on startup.
Of course, the advantage that this gives you from just running
a Lisp interpreter from the shell is debatable. At least, you can
pretend you're not using Linux...
Now I think of it, there's also a C++ interpreter floating around
somewhere. So the same technique could be used to create a "C++ OS",
thereby answering the question of the original poster.
(And a Java OS, and a Perl OS, and a... Python OS. Mmm, perhaps
this is a cool idea after all.)
Greetings,
Stephan
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From: Luis Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VMWare & Mandrake
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:14:29 +0100
Beat Rupp wrote:
>
> Has anyone been able to install VMWare on Mandrake 6.0 with Kernel
> 2.2.9-27mdk?? I get a memory access error (�Speicherzugriffsfehler� in
> German) as soon as I try to start a correct installed VMWare as normal
> user (W98 as guest os).
> �./install.pl redhat� doens't do anything (I assume that this only
> works for the tools).
>
I haven't installed VM on Mandrake, but I know there are problems with
its kernel.
I suggest you visit the VMware newsgroups server (news.vmware.com),
where your problem has already beem addressed and discussed by other
people.
Luis Paulo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux vs. Unix
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:39:46 -0400
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <7pdg4t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson) wrote:
>
>Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Chris wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this the same Barrow, Alsaka that's the Northernmost city in
>>> America?
>>>
>>
>>No. Barrow (which is the northermost city in the US) is not the
>>one in America. That would go to Alert, Canada, (if we can call
>>these cities...) which is way north of the (magnetic) north
>>pole.
>
>Alert, Canada??? I've never heard of it!
It's a radar base at the most northern tip of Canada, and about as far
north as you can get anywhere in the world and still have solid land
under your feet. There's only a very small bit of land further north
than it anywhere. Take a look at a globe sometime and you'll find it
right beside the north end of Greenland, about 500 miles south of the
north pole.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Subject: Linux PowerPC motherboards.
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:48:02 -0400
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Check
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990813.pimother.htm
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:01:48 +0200
From: Gerd Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dose this ng have a faq?
> I'm curious if this ng has a faq? What about the other linux
> ngs? Any idea where I might find them?
>
You can find FAQ's of many newsgroups here:
http://www.faqs.org/
Gerd
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From: Andrew Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: PPP not working in 2.3.13
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:11:26 +0000
I've recently downloaded the development kernel 2.3.13.
However, although I have compiled PPP support into the kernel, I can't
use the PPP program in KDE 1.1 .
If I try and run KPPP, I get an error message that my kernel does not
support PPP.
However, if I run dmesg I can clearly see that it says PPP release 2.4.
Any ideas ?
Regards
Andrew
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From: Me Here <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Where did my sound card go???
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 03:14:06 -0500
Ron Gibson wrote:
>
> It seems the sound configuration has changed. Now I've got kernel 2.2.6
> and although the Sound HOWTO says my old PAS 16 is supported when I
> compile the kernel for sound that card never comes up. In fact plain
> old SB 16 doesn't come up either. According to the HOWTO it should.
>
> What am I missing here? I've compiled 1.2.13 and 2.0.30 kernels many
> times for this card and it was never a problem.
>
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You just need to dig a little deeper when configuring the new kernel.
If, for example, you are using menuconfig, checking OSS Sound Modules(or
something like that) brings up a list of many different sound cards. I
think that is what you were looking for.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G. Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ppp compression missing
Date: 18 Aug 99 16:41:06 GMT
"Richard L. Rutledge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am having the same problem. The redhat FAQ avaiable from their web site
>has an entry describing this problem and two possible solutions. One
>involves creation of a few module aliases in conf.module. Adding the
>aliases emilinated the error reporting, but I still do not connect to my
>ISP. Redhat has told me that my problem is beyond the scope of the
>purchased tech support. what a crock!
Their "support" is ONLY for installation, and not for setup. Setting up ppp
is not instllation as far as they are concerned.
One suggestion is to read
axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
for a step by step guide to setting up ppp on linux.
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From: "lcr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PostgreSQL tables imported from MS Access
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:22:09 +0100
I've exported Access Tables to Postgres to set up a Postgres Server/ Access
Client application, and am having some problems due to Postgres not
interpreting upper case characters. For example I have a table called
MediaCosts, which is shown when you do a \dt from within psql. However in
response to :
Select * from MediaCosts;
I get a message saying that mediacosts wasn't found.
Any Ideas how I can get psql to accept Upper Case and spaces in
table/attribute names.
Since I am using Access forms to access these tables via ODBC I do not want
to change the names of the tables/attributes as I would have to amend all of
the Access/Visual Basic code for the client machines.
In the hope of avoiding a lot of work ...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Eggert)
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Why did RMS adopt Unix? (and other questions)
Date: 19 Aug 1999 01:37:15 -0700
Michael Coughlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Andrew Tannenbaum could have done the same thing. After all he
>is a professor, and the author of the important textbooks that
>Linus studied. But he didn't see the importance of the GPL. So
>the student beat the professor, and we have Linux instead of
>Tannenbaumix.
A nice retelling, but Andrew's last name is spelled `Tanenbaum'.
For more about Minix, please see:
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
An amusing thing about that web page is that it doesn't mention Linux,
not even once.
I talked to Tanenbaum several years ago when he was visiting Los
Angeles. He was consulting for a large, traditional print publisher
trying to make money off the net. The publisher was concerned that
people would (horrors!) just read stuff for free and not pay them for
copies. As far as I know, that publisher is still trying to figure out
how to make money off the net.
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Apsfilter: Configuration
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 02:46:35 -0700
Richard, V., Brown, "Sr." wrote:
>
> I am a "Linux neubie [?spell]" with a total of two months experience with
> Caldera's Open-Linux 2.2 distribution. My printer is a new Lexmark Optra
> 45 [post script].
>
> Within my Win 98 OS the printer prints perfectly in mono and color. Within
> my Linux OS the printer prints perfectly in mono ONLY. I was advised to
> download and install the most recent version of apsfilter which I did from
> www.freebsd.org/~andreas.
>
> I was able to extract the gnuzipped tar.
>
> I was able to install the filter using # cd apsfilter
> # ./SETUP
>
> I have attempted to follow the detailed instructions from Andreas but for
> the life of me I do not have the skills to edit the system wide apsfilterrc
> file!
>
> I would be very willing to pay someone to write a "fool proof" set of
> directions that would enable me to get this printer to print in color
> within the Linux OS! It is so frustrating to run that lovely test page
> that comes with apsfilter [which include 4 different heads of a tiger] and
> have the darn thing come out in mono!
>
> Help and thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
Just one question, why are you trying to configure the system wide
apsfilterrc? When you run the apsfilter SETUP you should be asked if the
printer is a color printer, if you answer yes then your printer should
print color. Go to /etc. and look at the printcap file, see which lp is
setup for color. On my computer lp4 is the letter color driver, I've
never had to edit the apsfilterrc file to be able to print in color.
Are you sure that the goshtscript on your computer is setup correctly to
print color?
jamess
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"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:59:57 -0400
From: Carrie Coy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what does "broken pipe" mean?
Somehow I've broken something on my RH6.0 linux box so that all my shell
scripts are failing with a message "broken pipe".
Running gdb on a script like "echo hello" produces:
Starting program: /bin/bash x
Cannot access memory at address 0x401f90d0.
(gdb) bt
#0 0x4000a411 in _dl_debug_state () at dl-debug.c:56
#1 0x40003546 in dl_main (phdr=0x8048034, phent=6,
user_entry=0xbffffa74)
at rtld.c:1107
#2 0x4000bd0c in _dl_sysdep_start (start_argptr=0xbffffd20,
dl_main=0x40001f40 <dl_main>) at ../sysdeps/generic/dl-sysdep.c:170
#3 0x40001ea8 in _dl_start (arg=0xbffffd20) at rtld.c:205
(gdb)
What might I have done? Or better, what might I do to fix it?
--
Carrie Coy
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From: Steve Macko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Capturing video from a digital camcorder/camera through the serial
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:36:40 +0000
"Dr. Ram Samudrala" wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Dr. Ram Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Is there any software for Linux out there that can capture video or
> >still images from a digital camera through the serial port? I have a
> >JVC camcorder and there exists a Windows program that can capture
> >still images through the serial port.
>
> I've found the best solution is to use a TV/video capture card, which
> can capture (with the right software) up to 30 frames a second 640x480
> resolution. This is good enough for editing and putting back to tape
> (if you have a large enough hard disk).
>
> --Ram
>
> --
> email@urls || http://www.ram.org || http://www.twisted-helices.com/th
> \ /
> \/ Valine long
> \/ and prosper.
I have an Olympus 340DL and an Epson 550 that both work with gphoto. The Epson
550 is an odd model and the Win version of the driver is NOT available for
download, because it was produced by another company and there are legal
issues... I gave up trying to call Epson and have the driver shipped. Gphoto
has no such limitations and configured itself for both cameras in all of 30
seconds. The software is better than either of the Win applications for either
of my cameras. Go linux!
Go to www.gnome.org for a complete list of the gnome software......
Steve
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From: "aaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat kernel patches?
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:27:05 +0400
I have RedHat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5-15. I went to RedHat's ftp site and
found in the upgrades only fully kernels 2.2.5.22. Does RedHat offer
patches? Also I know that kernel 2.2.11 is out and I don't know why RedHat
is not offering something higher than 5. I am new to Linux and am not
totally familiar with these details.
Someone in one of the newsgroups said something about stock kernels. What
are they.
Thanks for the help
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