Linux-Misc Digest #832, Volume #21 Thu, 16 Sep 99 05:13:09 EDT
Contents:
RH 6.0 with ADSL (Pacbell) (KNE110TX) card (Tad Perry)
Re: Majordomo 1.94.4 ("Jonte Myra")
Re: mp3 to wav or cdda? ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Lesstif not up-to-snuff, need full Motif; Options, opinions? (Mike Percy)
scrollback buffer? (Scott Olsson)
Re: ppp problem (Bill Unruh)
Re: Converting MS-Word to other formats under Linux (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Kernel 2.2.5-15 ppa module (Zip Disk) data corruption? (Taura)
Re: Alert: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor (Ted Berg)
Re: PostScript to Word? ("Rolf Marvin B�e Lindgren")
Re: Can't get network connection (Jon Skeet)
Re: Dial in PPP -- the next step (Jon Skeet)
Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent? (Joerg Schilling)
Re: Running a program ? HELP ("Robert L. Klungle")
Re: raw CD copy : how ? (Xavier SERPAGGI)
Re: Install Window Maker ("Luke Th. Bullock")
--> [Q] Linux and IBM RS6000 ?? (Josep Lluis Guallar Esteve)
Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent? (Joerg Schilling)
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From: Tad Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.0 with ADSL (Pacbell) (KNE110TX) card
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 05:31:19 GMT
Anyone using Pacbell ADSL service with Red Hat 6.0? I've had a problem
getting my Linux/OS to configure the NIC with proper driver.(I think this
is the problem) Here is the hardware I have:
Computer: HP Pavillion PII 450, 128RAM, 11G hd (Pavillion model 8396)
NIC: Kingston EthRX 10/100 Fast Ethernet card (KNE110TX)
**By default Linux loads the tulip driver (Digital 21xx?)
Actatel 1000 DSL Modem
Pacbell gave me a static IP address!
***I've read the ADSL mini HOW-TOs, Ethernet HOW-TOs, NET-3 HOW-TOs, gone
to the Kingston site and found thier info on a Linux driver for the
KNE110TX card!..........I'm still stumped, can't seem to make it work.
ADSL does work (on the same box, same equip.) with WIN98.
Any suggestions or advise would be a great help!
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From: "Jonte Myra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Majordomo 1.94.4
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:10:16 +0200
I use Sendmail-8.9.3-10
/Jonte
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: mp3 to wav or cdda?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 06:15:33 GMT
me wrote:
>
> hi
>
> i'm looking for an application to convert mp3's to wav or cdda (or some
> similar) format so that i can create audio CD's from mp3's.
>
> anyone know of anything?
>
> ali
There's an app called cdda2wav. Search for it on freshmeat or
ftp.cdrom.com.
Bill
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:19:08 -0400
From: Mike Percy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Lesstif not up-to-snuff, need full Motif; Options, opinions?
"David M. Cook" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:13:13 -0400, Mike Percy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >We are trying to port some applications from Solaris to Linux (RH6, XF86), and
> >the current lesstif is not up to the task.
>
> Which version? 0.89.1 came out on the 11th.
>
> Dave Cook
Given that I downloaded and compiled on the 9th or 10th, I'd have to guess
89.0. Before that I was using an 88.something RPM. Not entirely sure (was
working at home at the time).
I can't get passed some MrmOpenHeirarchy calls, although converting to
MrmOpenHierarchyPerDisplay helped some, it still just dumps core down in the
depths of the Mrm... call. And the uil compiler still has annoying debugging
output. I don't have to work on lesstif and/or massage our code. If I can't
get it to compile without modification quickly, Linux will likely be tossed for
the project, despite the fact that everything except the MMI works fine. Thus,
commercial Motif may save me. I'd like to be able to replace the Sun
Workstations with Solaris with 'disposable' PCs and Linux and keep the resulting
cost differential!
--
"I don't know about your brain, but mine is really...bossy."
Mike Percy, Senior Computer Scientist, Scientific Research Corp.
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From: Scott Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scrollback buffer?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 01:49:03 -0500
Hi, I'm interested in dumping out video memory (I have assumed that's
where it's stored) pertaining to the scrollback buffer so that I could
parse/search through it. I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas for how I
might get started with this, or just any ideas in general?
thanks,
scott olsson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: ppp problem
Date: 16 Sep 1999 06:28:47 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]I am running Redhat 5.0 with kernel 2.0.32. When I logon as a regular
]user and try to start ppp connection, the system said:
]Permission denied.
]The output of ls -la /etc/ppp/ppp-on is
]rwsr-xr-x ppp-on
The s is useless here as bash will not run a suid root shell script (or
rather it will not run it suid root). You could write a wrapper C
program or do things more standarly and set /usr/sbin/pppd to rx all and
suid root and chat to rx all.
]Then I try to use the su command and logon as root; try to start the ppp
]connection but no dial tone can be heard.
What error messages are logged?
Try
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
for a step by step guide to getting connected but more importantly
debugging a connection.
]I can heard the dial tone when I test my modem using the following
]command:
]# echo "ATDT\n" > /dev/modem
At least it is not a winmodem then.
]Can anybody solve my problem?
Not yet. There is not enough information as to what the problem is.
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Converting MS-Word to other formats under Linux
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 16:09:03 +1000
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >And verily, didst Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
>
> >> Is it possible to convert MS-Word to other formats like Corel Word
> >> Perfect, LaTeX, etc... under Linux (or other OSs but preferably Linux)
> >> with commercial or free software?
> >> Does Corel WP for Linux do this?
>
> Word Perfect does Word 2 2a 2b 6 7
> Mind you I have a number of Word 2b files which the translator just
> gives up on. Not sure why, since they seem no different from others
> which work.
>
> Staroffice claims to do Word 6/95
I'm using it here and it opens Word97 as well. It seems to have a little
trouble with some files but I'm not sure why.
Erik
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From: Taura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Kernel 2.2.5-15 ppa module (Zip Disk) data corruption?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 00:05:13 PDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm having files apparently being corrupted when being coppied to any
zip 100
disk.
Below is a log that should articulate the problem:
[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al nebula
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3686418 Sep 15 23:50 nebula
[root@localhost /tmp]# gzip nebula
[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al nebula.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 389531 Sep 15 23:50 nebula.gz
[root@localhost /tmp]# gunzip nebula.gz
[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al nebula
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3686418 Sep 15 23:50 nebula
[root@localhost /tmp]# gzip nebula
[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al nebula
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3686418 Sep 15 23:50 nebula
[root@localhost /tmp]# gzip nebula
[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al nebula.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 389531 Sep 15 23:50 nebula.gz
[root@localhost /tmp]# modprobe ppa
[root@localhost /tmp]# mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /zip
[root@localhost /tmp]# mv nebula.gz /zip
nebula.gz -> /zip/nebula.gz
removing nebula.gz
[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al /zip/nebula.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 389531 Sep 15 23:50 /zip/nebula.gz
root@localhost /tmp]# umount /zip
[root@localhost /tmp]# mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /zip
[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al /zip/nebula.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 389531 Sep 15 23:50 /zip/nebula.gz
[root@localhost /tmp]# mv /zip/nebula.gz .
/zip/nebula.gz -> ./nebula.gz
removing /zip/nebula.gz
[root@localhost /tmp]# ls -al nebula.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 389531 Sep 15 23:50 nebula.gz
[root@localhost /tmp]# gunzip nebula.gz
gunzip: nebula.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated
I've tried 10 different files and each one produced the same problem.
I compiled my kernel with ppa (zip disk) support and even specified the
(slow and safe) methoid. What should I do?
(Please reply on this news group)
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From: Ted Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Alert: AMD K6-2 350 Mhz processor
Date: 16 Sep 1999 05:53:59 GMT
"Cameron L. Spitzer" wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, fred smith wrote:
> >Jim Shaffer, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >: There is a well-known problem with particular versions of Windows 95 and the
> >: K6-2 and K6-3 at 350 MHz or above. Apparently, some sequence of instructions
> >: peculiar to that version of W95 result in an internal timing problem.
>
> In other words, there is a race condition bug in Microsoft's OS,
> and AMD's instruction pipelining is efficient enough to expose it.
>
What is a race condiditon?
>
> >: On the other hand, I've heard for a long time that K6 processors run hotter than
> >: Intels, so maybe the problem lies there instead.
> >
> >I have no high-end Intel for comparison, but my K6-2/350 doesn't get hot.
> >True, it's got a big hairy heatsink with fan, but the heatsink never
> >even gets warm to the touch.
>
> FWIW I have been using AMD's microprocessors on and off since 1979.
> (I started with a board-level CPU built around the Am2901 4-bit
> processor slice and the Am2911 and 29811 microsequencer...)
> and whatever other faults they may have, I have never seen one with thermal
> problems.
>
> Cameron
<Insert history> We have a pair of K6-233s. Running Win95 the heat sink is painfully
hot to the touch, and these are *not* little heat sinks. One of the computers gets
up(?)graded to Win98. While playing a game of Total Annihilation (rough on
processors) that machine crashes, from that point on *no* video game would run on that
machine for more than 2 or 3 minutes. I blew out Win98 and reinstalled 95, same
thing. Traded processors, and as long as I keep it cool the twitchy one works
fine.<end history>
FWIW, under Linux the heat sink on the twitchy processor is cool to the touch, unless
I'm running at capacity. The only thing I can think of is that the load monitor under
95 doesn't tell the whole story.
I am convinced that the K6 line (not necessarily K62 or the K63) has heat problems.
Every machine I ever built with them ran hot, and I used to assemble machines for a
living.
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From: "Rolf Marvin B�e Lindgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: PostScript to Word?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 09:09:56 +0200
[T P Harte]
| Does anyone know if it is possible to convert .ps documents
| created by, say LaTeX and dvips, into MS Word 6.0 .doc files?
no, it's not.
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Rolf Lindgren http://www.uio.no/~roffe/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Subject: Re: Can't get network connection
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:22:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How would I know if my linux installation detected the card ?
When you did the installation, it would probably ask you what kind of
card you'd got and test it...
> I thought that once I indicated that the module was to be loaded by
> removing the comment in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules it should load.
> Shouldn't the 3c95x module work for this card ?
I'd imagine so, yes... but if the rest of the kernel hasn't been set up
for networking, that could cause problems...
Personally, I'd do a kernel recompile to check that everything is how it
should be, including which ethernet drivers to use.
--
Jon Skeet - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Skeet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dial in PPP -- the next step
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:20:38 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Got the hosts file working from Win95, thanks.
>
> > Not entirely sure what you're asking for here... What *exactly* would
> > you be wanting to run and see, and on which computer?<<
>
> Can I dial in and automatically get a browser launched on the Win95
> machine, then display a web page from the Linux Apache server on it? All
> this with no intervention on the client side?
Which machine is going to do the dialling? If it's the Windows box, you
need to tell *that* to dial out. If it's the linux box, then no: because
you won't be able to tell it do anything without first being connected to
it.
> > > * What client programs can I use to access the Linux box and the
> > > attached LAN?
> >
> > telnet?
>
> Say, something to browse files. Samba doesn't seem to work over the
> dial-up PPP. Though it may now I am using a hosts file.
I would have thought it *should* work over PPP, yes...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.misc,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 08:03:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ken Pizzini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 15 Sep 1999 22:30:04 GMT, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Star does this since 1885,
>
>Wow! Was star initially written for a Babbage Analytical Engine?
>
> :-)
Does this machine have tape drives ?
Of course it should read 1985
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running a program ? HELP
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 07:50:27 GMT
Sridhar wrote:
> how do i run a program in Linux??
>
> --
> Sridhar
>
> Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. do "which program-name".
2a. do "/full-path-to-program/program-name" (without the quotes)
or
2b. cd to program-name directory. do "./program-name" (without the
quotes)
or
2c. do "./program-name" (without quotes)
or
2d. do "program-name" (without quotes)
3. do any of the above followed by "&" to run in background
If one of these doesn't work, you probably don't have permission, or it
doesn't exist.
cheers....bob
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From: Xavier SERPAGGI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: raw CD copy : how ?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:29:57 +0200
Adrian Hands wrote:
> > Does anyone of you know about a little software able to dump a CD image
> > in order to burn it back with something like cdrecord ?
> For a data CD: mkisofs
> For a audio CD: cdparanoia
Speaking of data CDs only, you first have to mount your CD as iso9660
file system, then make mkisofs read the directory where the CD is
mounted in, in order to create the image.
But, will this image reflect the fact that the CD is bootable or not ?
Will it respect data organasition bit by bit, or even track by track ?
I don't think so, but perhaps I lack some knowledge.
I really wonder....
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From: "Luke Th. Bullock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install Window Maker
Date: 16 Sep 1999 07:51:51 GMT
The GURU EZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm using Zipslack with X Window and am trying to install Window Maker.
>I followed the directions in the INSTALL file and can get
>the LibPropList installed with no errors.
>I can get through the ./configure on the Window Maker directory, but
>when I do a make I get this error:
>raster.c:27: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
>wraster.h:46: (same as above)
>wraster.h:47: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
>any clues
>Thanks.
>remove NODUH from email address to reply
install the X header files.
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/Luke
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From: Josep Lluis Guallar Esteve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: --> [Q] Linux and IBM RS6000 ??
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:43:43 +0200
Hello there,
We have some aeging IBM RS6000 and they had been running AIX. Now they
have their well deserved retirement but...
...can I install Linux on those machines? They can be great for
developing and intranet-web servers.
Any distribution supports this hardware?
Thanks in advance,
Josep L. Guallar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.misc,alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Are tar tapes OS dependent?
Date: 16 Sep 1999 08:05:40 GMT
In article <7rpprf$2vsh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7rp5uo$bki$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>The main reason I like GNUtar is that its --listed-incremental
>>>mode actually gets incrementals right even if you rename a
>>>directory, and when you restore the incremental you can
>>>(optionally) delete files that were deleted between the
>>>full and incremental runs. Does star have equivalent functions?
>>
>>Star has many features that GNUtar doesn't have.
>>
>>Incremental backups and files spanning more than one media are the
>>only important things that star currently doesn't support.
>
>I like to use GNUtar as my main system backup program so the same
>tapes can be used a portable archives should the need arise to
>extract something on a different OS version. Lately, I prefer
>to let amanda automate the backup runs and work out the schedule
>for the full and incremental runs to fit on the nightly tapes.
>
>>Since I started the cdrecord and libscg project, star developement
>>slowed down to a value close to 0. If there were people who helped me,
>>this could probably change.
>
>If you ever feel inspired to add more features it would be nice to
>have another option for amanda besides dump and GNUtar. GNUtar
>has a special feature (besides --listed-incremental) for amanda's
>sake. If it detects that the output device is /dev/null, it doesn't
>actually read the files but will still report the total size. Amanda
>uses this for an estimate to compute the dump level it can make for
>each partition without running out of tape.
I implementd such option by request of the amanda people more than
2 years ago.
Use
star -nullout
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