Linux-Misc Digest #516, Volume #21 Mon, 23 Aug 99 12:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: I failed to install XFree86 (Dr H. T. Leung)
Re: eznet & wvdial (W.G. Unruh)
Re: Printing from Netscape (Lew Pitcher)
Re: route problem II: Can't add gateway address (Cornel Popescu)
Printer Defaults (ORRIN)
Re: make errors on RH6.0 (Frank da Cruz)
Re: lilo and Ontrack (Wolfgang Feierabend)
Re: WTF is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD??? (Roland Latour)
Re: A ? about Samba ("Matthew Knight")
Change LILO from MBR to a local partition? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LS120 Super Drive (Jared Hecker)
Re: Linux text editor .. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux text editor .. (steve mcadams)
Re: What I think of linux. (John Thompson)
shutdown problem (john connolly)
Random Lockups and Freezes (Mike Brown)
Re: anybody know of BeOS newsgroup? ("gm")
Re: LS120 Super Drive ("Christopher W. Aiken")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr H. T. Leung)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I failed to install XFree86
Date: 23 Aug 1999 11:50:13 GMT
There is a XFree86-HOWTO around (probably already in your system - look under
/usr/doc/HOWTO or somewhere around there). "man 5 XF86Config" is also good.
Since your X is not running yet, your man path might be a bit funny at the
moment, so you might have to man the manpage explicitly with the full path:
man /usr/X11R6/man/man5/XF86Config.5x.gz
S3 should be straight forward - what's your problem?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruno NICOLAS
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Hi,
|> I failed to install XFree, I try to follow the steps from
|> XFreeConfig to params and run X,
|> but It doesnt work : I like to find a detailed howTo or web site
|> that explains the steps and common mistakes.
|> I have HP Vectra 386 with integrated S3 video chipset.
|> Where are the good info to get from the computer and
|> to tell in set-up ?
|> Thanks
--
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"What you don't care cannot hurt you." Chap. 7a, AMS-NS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W.G. Unruh)
Subject: Re: eznet & wvdial
Date: 23 Aug 99 11:54:24 GMT
Jon DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>forward, simple(if anything in Linux can be simple) instructions on setting up
>PPP. There are two: wvdial and eznet.
When they work, they make things simple. When they do not work, they
give no clue as to what to do next.
They both (all-- there are others- kppp if yourun KDE, gppp I think it is for
Gnome,...) make assumptions about what your ISP wants. If those assumptions
are `good, then you will connect easily. If those assumptions are not good,
you tend to left hanging with no clue as to how to get out of the problem.
So, by all means try them. If they work, great. If they do not, you might want
to look at
axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
for a step by step procedure which covers both setting up and debugging (and
discovering what it is that your ISP really wants, rather than what they say
they want).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Printing from Netscape
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:30:58 GMT
You should be able to either...
a) set up the Netscape print command to
pipe output through gs to lpr
(make sure that you choose a lpr printer
that's configured for 'raw' output, and
a gs configuration that matches the printer), or
b) set up an lpr magic filter (apsfilter, magicfilter, or other)
that invokes gs and requeues the output, then print directly
to that printer via lpr in the Netscape print command (Netscape
generates postscript, and the magic filter transforms it to 'raw'
output and routes it to the proper printer).
I've got my HP660C inkjet printer set up like (a) above, and Netscape
prints beautifully. However, I'm looking into (b) so that I can use
the printer with other postscript applications without having to code
a long (and redundant) print command pipeline.
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:02:59 -0400, Yury Donskoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Jared Hecker wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an HPLJ 5P attached to a RH5.2 system. It prints text great, but
>> Netscape wants to print in Postscript. Is there a translator utility or
>> something I can do to get it to print in PCL?
>
>Jared,
>
>I ran into the exactly the same problem, only with a Canon-4100 inkjet. My
>solution was to allow Netscape to print in Postscript to a file, then run
>that file through GhostView and print it out. A little cumbersome, perhaps,
>but it does get the job done.
>
>Hope this helps.
>Yury.
>
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Cornel Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: route problem II: Can't add gateway address
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:04:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Youjip Won <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1. 'route -n' seems to generate what I expected.
> 2. 'route' stalls.
> 3. ping 166.104.88.107(host in the same subnet) works properly.
> 4. traceroute 166.104.88.107 stalls.
> 5. ping 166.104.88.1(gateway) stalls.
> 6. traceroute 166.104.88.1 generates interesting trace.
Your gateway is not accesible. Are you sure the subnet in which 108 is
located owns the entire 166.104.88.x class ? If it is a subnet then I
don't think it does. So, you should check again: gateway's IP address
for the network card which belongs to local net (net with 107 & 108),
netmask and broadcast addresses. If 107 works fine then see which
gateway it uses ...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ORRIN)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Printer Defaults
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:15:14 GMT
When Using KDE in SuSE 6.1, most of the windows have a print option,
but no way to set margins, etc. The printed result is a 1 inch left
margin and the long lines running off the paper on the right.
Is there as way to set the default left margin that is buried
somewhere in KDE.?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank da Cruz)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: make errors on RH6.0
Date: 23 Aug 1999 13:49:47 GMT
In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.990823190228.21414A-100000@giasbma>,
kiran.k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: on compiling c-kermit 7.0.195 Beta.09 on RH 6.0 this is the result----
:
: | [slick@localhost ~] $ make linux
: .
: .
: .
: kuusx.c:30: term.h: No such file or directory
: ckuusx.c:3573: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
: make[2]: *** [ckuusx.o] Error 1
: make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/slick'
: make[1]: *** [linuxa] Error 2
: make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/slick'
: make: *** [linux] Error 2
: ---------------------------------------------
: line 30 in ckuusx.c
: reads---> #include <term.h> its the same for ncurses.h the same errors
: are reported for "make linuxc/linuxnc/linuxa/linuxso" no files such as
: ncurses.h or term.h exists on my system the only similar files are
: ncurses.ph and term.ph
:
I think you must have an unusual or modified Red Hat 6.0 setup. I do believe
that the Linux File System Standard has, for the past several years, REQUIRED
the presence of ncurses.h.
Please read the ckuins.txt (C-Kermit for UNIX Installation text) file.
Search for "curses". Find entries like:
. For the curses-based fullscreen file-ransfer display, the curses or
ncurses header file(s) and library, and probably also the termcap and/or
termlib library. Note that the names and locations of these files and
libraries are likely to change capriciously with every new release of your
UNIX product. If you discover that the C-Kermit build procedure fails
because your curses and/or termxxx headers or libraries are not named or
located as expected, please let us know. In the meantime, work around by
installing symlinks.
and:
"Can't find shared library libc.so.2.1"
"Can't find shared library libncurses.so.3.0", etc...
You are trying to run a binary that was built on a system that has
different library versions that the local system, and the local system's
loader is picky about library version numbers. Rebuild from source
locally.
and:
This problem only gets worse over time. In the Linux and *BSD world, we
also have totally different libraries (each with their own names and
numbering systems) that cover the same territory; for example, curses vs
ncurses, libc versus glibc. Combinations proliferate and any given PC might
have any combination. For this reason it is becoming increasingly difficult
to produce a "Linux binary" for a given architecture (e.g. PC or Alpha).
There has to be a separate binary for (at least) every combination of curses
vs ncurses and libc vs glibc.
(end quotes)
I think you must have installed some other package that renamed your
ncurses.h and term.h files. If you don't have these files available under
their normal names, you won't be able to build any software that uses
(n)curses, either.
I wouldn't even dare to guess how this might have happened, so I'm copying
the Linux newsgroup in case anybody there can offer an explanation.
Meanwhile, are you sure that "make linuxnc" didn't work? That's the target
that omits everything to do with curses (linuxnc = Linux No Curses).
- Frank
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From: Wolfgang Feierabend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo and Ontrack
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:06:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Yannick Arnoud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I recently bought a 10.1 Go DD as a second disk.
>
> In order to be seen as a 10.1 Go disk by the motherboard (Intel 440
LX),
Neither Linux nor any Windoze 95,98,NT use the BIOS HD parametrs. They
just need to be informed, if any HD is installed or not. I had the same
Problem with my Gigabyte Mainboard. After HD-Autodetection my BIOS shows
my 4GB disk as 80MB. I told the BIOS the disk should be used in "logical
block mode", stored those values and that's it. My disk is partitioned
to two 2GB partiitions, one for W95, one for Linux. Both is running
perfectly. No problems at all. Beleive me. Linux and the newer Windows
(95+) have their own "BIOS".
Good luck, Yannick
Wolfgang
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From: Roland Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WTF is the difference between Linux and FreeBSD???
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:00:12 -0700
William Burrow wrote:
>
> AT&T was not interested in making an operating system.
> The founders of Unix had to fight to get the equipment and funding for
> their OS.
It was developed internally at Bell Labs. AT&T, as a regulated
monopoly, was forbidden by law from entering the software or any
other business. This restriction was lifted when AT&T was broken
up. This also explains why AT&T *gave away* source on tape to
universities for quite awhile. That's how BSD got its start.
--
Linux@CDSnet: http://home.cdsnet.net/~rolandl
"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go
around a deal faster." -- The Duchess, "Through the Looking Glass"
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From: "Matthew Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A ? about Samba
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:25:01 +0100
Reply-To: "Matthew Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jack
Try "server string = Samba Server %v" or something like. "Server String" is
the global equivalent of "comment", as far as I can tell, and %v is a
variable that returns the current version. See man pages for more (lots
more!).
Matthew Knight
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> RH 6.0 and Samba 2.0.5a, get rid of the 2.0.3 version included in RH.
>
> In the /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf, I changed the "comment" value
> from "Samba Server" to "Samba Server 2.0.5a". Then restart the Samba
>
> Issue "smbclient -L <machine name> -N", the display like following:
>
> one line of the first part is:
>
> "Sharename Type Comment"
> IPC$ IPC IPC Service(Samba Server 2.0.5a)
>
> one line of the 2nd part is:
>
> Server Comment
> <machine name> Samba Server 2.0.3
>
> Here's my question: since I already update the 'comment' value in
> 'smb.conf' file, the first 'comment' value in the display is correct and
> understandable, but what about the 2nd 'comment' value in the display?
> Where does the 'Samba Server 2.0.3" come from? it even doesn't match
> the old 'comment' value which is 'Samba Server'! I know it should relate
> to the upgrade of Samba package. But I don't know why.
>
> Could anyone explain this to me? Thanks a lot!!!
>
> Please also email me!
>
> Jack
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Change LILO from MBR to a local partition?
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:13:02 GMT
Hi, I have win95+RH6.0 with LILO installed in the MBR of /dev/hda, recently
I added a second hard drive and decided to install NT in C:\(/dev/hda1, linux
was in /dev/hda3), so there I went, everthing seemed to be fine, I partitioned
the second Hard drive to be NTFS, and NT system was installed in C:\, then
for some unfortunate reason my linux crashed several times and when I finally
got it back, I found when I'm in NT, the NTFS parttion was gone, it's still
visible under linux, and since my LILO is in MBR, the NT emergency disk doesn't
work, all I can think of is reinstall NT4.0, however this time I'm thinking of
putting LILO in the boot sector of /dev/hda3 instead of MBR of /dev/hda, my
question is, since my /dev/hda3 is the linux native partition with a lot of
data in it(I use linux most of the time), will uninstall LILO(shouldn't be
a problem) and reinstall it "locally" damage the file system that's already
in /dev/hda3? I've checked the LILO HOWTO but couldn't seem to find the
proper answer, can somebody give me some hint about this? Thanks in advance.
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From: Jared Hecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS120 Super Drive
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:41:05 GMT
I don't think there are any drivers around for it for the IDE version (if
you hear of any please let me know) - if it's a SCSI version you should be
able to set it up as any other SCSI device.
hth -
Regards,
jh
cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone help me set up a LS120 Super Drive.
> I can get it to 1.44mb, but do not know how to get it to 120 mb.
> cedric
--
Jared Hecker | HWA Inc. - Oracle architecture and Administration
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ** serving NYC and New Jersey **
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux text editor ..
Date: 23 Aug 1999 16:55:48 +0100
SkAtAn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> vi
> I know vi :-) it's not what I am looking for
emacs then ;-)
--
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: steve mcadams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux text editor ..
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:58:00 -0600
Midnight Commander (mc) has a built-in editor that is the one i've found
most similar to the MS edit.com, have you tried it?
SkAtAn wrote:
> I am looking for a text editor under linux (console)
> that looks and works like edit.com (microshaft) ..
> for example pico ..
>
> SkAtAn/freax
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: What I think of linux.
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:01:50 -0600
Technobyte wrote:
>
> as the record goes i am 14 linux master and code cracker ex-hacker...
> hmm. what i have to say is linux taught me what i know... i am first
> used a computer when i was 9 years old the experience was great even
> though it occured in windows.. but at the age of 10 i got on the net and
> secrectly ordered a linux cd and erased my whole windows hd to put on
> linux but i got a shock i couldnt get on the net was i isntalled and set
> up linux currectly and i thought i was left with a useless piece of shit
> os.. but then i started playing with it useing ms-dos commands i knew
> and the commands were similar so is started to like it more and more and
> i never put windows back on that computer...
So, umm, how come you're using Win98 to post your message?
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en]C-gatewaynet (Win98; I)
Sorry, I had to ask...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: john connolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shutdown problem
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:28:47 +0000
I have an older slackware distribution which has been modified often,
Presently I am running kernel 2.0.33. Some time ago I installed a 3rd
hard disk and mounted /usr and /home on it. The system works fine but
when I shutdown I get a message that /usr : dev is busy. Consequently
e2fsck checks /usr ( a 7 gbyte partition) on booting which takes over 5
minutes. I would really appreciate suggestions on what to do about this.
Thanks, JWC
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From: Mike Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Random Lockups and Freezes
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:38:17 -0700
I have been having an interrmitent lockup problem with my Linux
system. Randomly the whole machine will lock. Nothing I can do will
free it. There is no response from the keyboard at all so I can't get
to another console or kill X. The mouse completely stops. The only
thing to get it back is a complete hard system reset. Not a good thing
to do. It seems to be generaly associated with some kind of graphic
action. Moving one window over another type of thing. The more graphic
intensive the app the more subceptable to crashing it seems to be.
Using 'Fat Bits' in xpaint is a real killer. It's locked up using 'xv',
'xgraph', netscape.. Can be very random. It doesn't seem to be
associated with temperature because it can freeze within the first five
minutes or after 8 hours. I have had this box new since January and
from the get go it has ocasionaly done this (once a month maybe).
Lately it has been getting much worse. It may be associated with what I
have been doing lately more than anything else. I have bumped up the
color depth to 32 bits because I have been pushing pixels with 'xpaint'
a lot lately. I had been running 15 bit color depth before. One very
strange thing that it does sometimes after a lock up is it starts
displaying a small rectangluar box usually near where the mouse was, or
was going, or at one corner of of an overlapping window. There is some
kind of video action taking place inside of this box. It looks like
high speed video that is out of sync. Nothing intelegable. This box
may appear a few minutes after the lockup, do its thing for a few more,
disapear for a while, maybe come back after another few minutes. Very,
very strange. I am not sure if it is X crashing only and the kernal is
still alive, or if the whole thing is in the weeds. Wrote a small perl
script that beep'd the console bell every 30 seconds. It stopped also.
Not sure if this was a valid test or not (if X crashes will the beeper
still work ?). I have tried numerious things and nothing so far has
giving me a clue as to what is wrong. I am really hoping someone out
there has had experience this kind of problem and can shed some light on
what to try next. Or even if someone can think of something to aid in
trouble shooting this very intermittent problem. Many thanks in
advance...
Below is my system configuration:
Red Hat 5.2
Stock 2.0.36 kernal
Xfree86-SVGA-3.3.3.1-1
SCSI hardrives and CDs
350 MHZ Intel PII (not overclocked)
ASUS P2B motherboard
128 meg system ram
Matrox G200 8 meg AGP video board
Logitech PS2 mouse
What I have tried to no avail....
New Matrox Video board
Pulled all other boards so only video and scsi board where installed.
Ran diagnoistics (memtest86-2.0) on the system memory.
Played with BIOS settings:
Disabled/Enabled Bios Video Shadow RAM
Changed video apperture size (not sure exactly what this does
but it made no difference).
A few other off the wall items, no change
I really would appreciate any help because it is getting worse,
sometimes crashing as many as 4 times a night. One of these crashes is
going to kill a critical system file here soon and I am really going to
be hosed.
Thanks,
Mike
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From: "gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] REMOVE NOSPAM to reply>
Subject: Re: anybody know of BeOS newsgroup?
Reply-To: "gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] remove NO_SPAM to reply>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:42:15 GMT
http://www.be.com/world/wwwlinks.html
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From: "Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS120 Super Drive
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:11:35 -0400
Try: http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
...cwa
Jared Hecker wrote:
> I don't think there are any drivers around for it for the IDE version (if
> you hear of any please let me know) - if it's a SCSI version you should be
> able to set it up as any other SCSI device.
>
> hth -
>
> Regards,
> jh
>
> cedric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Can anyone help me set up a LS120 Super Drive.
>
> > I can get it to 1.44mb, but do not know how to get it to 120 mb.
>
> > cedric
>
> --
> Jared Hecker | HWA Inc. - Oracle architecture and Administration
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ** serving NYC and New Jersey **
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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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