Linux-Misc Digest #676, Volume #23 Fri, 25 Feb 00 23:13:03 EST
Contents:
Kernel bzImage and zImage problem (GriffD2000)
Re: Ipchains for a newbie (Ursa_M)
Had win98 and Linux, now 98 won't boot, please help. (Hugh Liang)
- su to root fails - (Ben Ng)
Re: - su to root fails - (Juergen Heinzl)
/proc/sys/vm/bdflush parameters. (Leif Karlsson)
Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure ! ("sstuart1")
Re: - su to root fails - (Ben Ng)
Re: Linux... what is it? (Ray Riedel)
Re: Linux... what is it? (Francois Labreque)
Help w/ setuid-root please? (Dave Critelli)
Re: Had win98 and Linux, now 98 won't boot, please help. (David Efflandt)
Re: Journaling file system (Ext3 or SGI's) (Christopher Browne)
Re: Non-X GUI? (Christopher Browne)
Re: General Ledger/Accounting Package for Linux? (Christopher Browne)
Re: setting my display to 1024x769 (David Efflandt)
Re: Telnet into Linux box problem (David Efflandt)
Re: Help w/ setuid-root please? (Bit Twister)
Re: Hollywood plus DVD Decoder card (PCI) drivers needed (Charles Blackburn)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GriffD2000)
Subject: Kernel bzImage and zImage problem
Date: 26 Feb 2000 00:41:36 GMT
I have kernel 2.2.14 and when doing a "make zImage" or "make bzImage" i run
into the following problem. Skipping most of the messages, i come to this:
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
make all_targets
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -DCPU=486 -c -o
checksum.o checksum.c
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
checksum.c:200: redefinition of 'csum_partial_copy'
checksum.c:105: 'csum_partial_copy' previously defined here
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:185: Fatal error: Symbol csum_partial_copy already defined
make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 'usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 'usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
make: *** [dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
Before this, I did a make dep, clean, and before that even a mrproper. Does
anyone know what is causing this problem, and how can i fix it?
Thanx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ursa_M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ipchains for a newbie
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 19:43:43 -0500
I agree with Greg. I got the tip here and now have my Linux box, RedHat 6.1
upgraded from 5.1, working like a champ with my cable modem. I went to
www.grc.com to "test" the firewall and it passed with flying colors. FYI,
depending on how your cable modem provider sets things up you may need to
fuss with either your host name, the MAC address on your ethernet card or
both. Post here if you have trouble. The group is very helpful. The cable
people installed the modem first on my Win98 desktop and I later moved it to
my Linux box. It appears that the MAC address is cached and I had to trick it
to match the one in my Win98 machine to get things to work, using ifconfig.
Good luck.
Ursa_M
Greg Goodrich wrote:
> Well, I recommend a package called ipchains-firewall by Ian Hall-Beyer at
> http://ipchains.nerdherd.org. This is a good starting point. You will
> still have to use the HOWTO to get some stuff set up properly. Mandrake
> 6.1 default distribution kernel seems to have everything needed for
> masquerading builtin. Other distros may also, but I'm not sure, so not
> listing them. If your distro doesn't, then you'll have to do some
> reading as to which options to turn on and build into the kernel. You
> will also have to ensure that /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward file has a 1
> in it, etc. This should get you started.
>
> cyric wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a good, step by step, set up for ipchains?
> > I am trying to set up NAT on my Linux box with my one static I.P. and
> > have been told that ipchains is the best method. unfortunately all of
> > the HOW-To pages are a bit over my head.
> > Any help greatly appreciated
>
> --
> Greg Goodrich
> Senior Software Engineer
> MediNotes Corp.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Had win98 and Linux, now 98 won't boot, please help.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Liang)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:58:36 GMT
Hello,
I'd like to get some help with my linux problem. I have a laptop with 98
and linux running. Everything was fine until few days ago when I started
to miss with partitions too much and now 98 won't boot. Here's the
timeline leading to the non-boot of 98.
* Used partition magic to free 2GB of disk space for RH linux 6.1
* Win98 has 2.6GB left.
* /dev/hda1=win98, /dev/hda6=/, /dev/hda5 = /boot, everyone's happy.
* /dev/hda2 is the extended partions contaning all the linux partisions.
* Trying to slowly squeez out 98, I took another 1.1GB away from 98.
* I used vmware to install another copy of 98 on this partition through
linux using it as a virtual disk.
* Didn't like vmware so I removed it, and decided to use that space for
more linux room.
* Somehow, I can only make primary partitions out of the 1.1GB free space
with fdisk under linux.
* So I tried to make two more primary partitions /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4.
I can mkfs on /dev/hda3 ok, but not /dev/hda4, with error about the
superblock.
* I tried many combinations and just gave up and created one /dev/hda3 for
1.1GB and mkfs and all is ok.
* I then tried to boot into dos through LILO and all I see is "Loading
dos", nothing more.
/dev/hda1, the win98 partition is still there and all the data is intact
and accessible through linux, just won't boot. Now I can't watch DVD's! :
( It seems in my creating and deleting of those partitions /dev/hda3 and
4, something must have happened to hda1.
What tool can I use to restore or fix this? I don't think removing LILO
will help, do you? If so, I can remove LILO and reinstall it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. You can also email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance!!
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From: Ben Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: - su to root fails -
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 01:28:46 GMT
Hello.
Major problem...I can't seem to su to root anymore from
a user shell. Logging in as root from the console or
from a login shell with xterm works fine so I haven't
forgotten my password or anything. The only thing I
can remember doing before this happened was installing
the wu-ftpd and anonftp rpms to set up my ftp server.
Fortunately, my ftp server works fine, but this su thing
is nagging me a bit.
Anyone have any experiences like this before? Any solutions
besides doing a clean install?
Thanks for any help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: - su to root fails -
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 01:43:25 GMT
In article <i%Ft4.8052$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ben Ng wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Major problem...I can't seem to su to root anymore from
> a user shell. Logging in as root from the console or
> from a login shell with xterm works fine so I haven't
[...]
As usual a more detailed problem description would be helpful,
but as a first shot ...
ls -l /bin/su :: root.* mode 4nnn
/etc/suauth :: you�re not allowed to do a su [-] root at all
...
[...]
> Anyone have any experiences like this before? Any solutions
> besides doing a clean install?
This is not Windows 8-(
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: Leif Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /proc/sys/vm/bdflush parameters.
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:52:58 +0000
While I'm running Linux on my laptop I don't want the bdflush daemon to
flush buffers every now and then. So, I have read the proc.txt in the
Documentation direcotry in the linux sourcetree (2.2.11). However, I find
things a bit confusing still. By default, this is what my bdflush look
like:
40 500 64 256 500 3000 500 1884 2
^^^^ ^^^
According to proc.txt these numbers (3000 and 500) are the ones that
specify when to flush.
(quote proc.txt)
age_buffer Time for normal buffer to age before you flush it
age_super Time for superblock to age before you flush it
(endquote)
However, changing these parameters won't do no good. But, it seems that
the number before those two (500) is what I should change to not make
bdflush flush every 5 seconds, which is default. proc.txt says that this
number is dummy unused. However, I can't specify anything larger than
6000, which means bdflush will still flush every one minute. I want it to
flush every hour or so. This was possible using the update program with a
2.0.x kernel, using the update -f option. How can I do it now?
Take care,
leffo.
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From: "sstuart1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Here's why linux programs are so insecure !
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 02:07:21 GMT
>
> "I hear that if you play the NT 4.0 CD backwards, you get a satanic
> message"
> "--That's nothing. If you play it forward, it installs NT 4.0!"
I think I'd rather hear the satanic message...
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From: Ben Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: - su to root fails -
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 02:16:38 GMT
Juergen Heinzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Major problem...I can't seem to su to root anymore from
>> a user shell. Logging in as root from the console or
>> from a login shell with xterm works fine so I haven't
> [...]
> As usual a more detailed problem description would be helpful,
> but as a first shot ...
> ls -l /bin/su :: root.* mode 4nnn
> /etc/suauth :: you�re not allowed to do a su [-] root at all
> ...
> [...]
Sorry for the vague description. The su to root from a
user shell reports 'su: incorrect password'. I can login as
root from the console (ie. my password is still correct).
Very discouraging problem. Running 'login' passed to the
-e option in xterm also prevents me from logging in as
root...it returns 'login incorrect'. What's going on?
And no, I don't have my caps-lock key depressed...heh..
>> Anyone have any experiences like this before? Any solutions
>> besides doing a clean install?
> This is not Windows 8-(
Yes, I realize this is not Windows, however, the RedHat
setup process is so automated and simple (In more ways even
faster and more simplified than Windows x...but not MacOS..
heh..) on my vanilla PC that re-installing an entire linux
distribution from scratch deserves the term 'clean install',
in my opinion! You want something hard, you should try
installing Debian/Linux-m68k on a 7 year-old Macintosh
Quadra 610! Or better yet, NetBSD-68k <grin>.
Thanks for the help...
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From: Ray Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux... what is it?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:28:28 -0500
Allan wrote:
> Sorry, dumb question.
>
> What is linux and what is it good for? Who uses it and what do you think
> of it?
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
I use Linux for Netscape. My system has 128 MB of RAM, but win3.1 couldn't
use it very well and I would get crashes due to low GDI memory. This is
not a problem with Linux. If you remember windows as a graphical interface
for DOS (not the windows 95 and more recent junk) think of Linux as a very
big, very powerful DOS. There are a lot of GUI's to choose from for a look
and functionality similar to (many feel better than) Windows.
Because Linux is a POSIX language it has inherited many UNIX applications
and programmers. It is built for net working. On my home system every
user has a password and the graphical user interface, software choices,
file access, even Netscape user ID and mail accounts are set up for each
user as they log in. No one sees or messes with anyone else's stuff on the
same machine -unless the owner of the file chooses to share it. (Keeps the
kids out of my business files.)
The applications available for Linux: Spreadsheet, Word processor,
presentation, photo editing, games, etc. either rival or are the same as
Windows applications.
Linux is where Windows NT is still trying to get to.
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:42:29 -0500
From: Francois Labreque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux... what is it?
Rusty Cooper wrote:
>
> Linux is an opertaing system like Windows. However, it is open-source
> and available for free. There are many different flavors of Linux
> which are knwo as distrobutions or distros. Examples are Red Hat,
> Corel, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, Storm Linux, etc, etc, etc.
So far so good.
> It is
> used in settings where stability is paramount, such as mission
> critical servers.
Gasp! wha? Serious site will not use Linux for mission critical stuff,
but will rely on *proven* and *expensive* hardware and software from the
likes of IBM, Sun or Tandem.
> The majority of the web is run off of Linux based
> servers for example.
Wrong again. While it may be true that some studies report that Apache
is the preferred web server, you will find in the same studies that the
majority of the web runs on Solaris or the many flavors of BSD.
>
> For more info, try these:
>
> www.linux.com
> www.linux.org
> www.ldp.org
>
--
Francois Labreque | The surest sign of the existence of extra-
flabreq | terrestrial intelligence is that they never
@ | bothered to come down here and visit us!
attglobal.net - Calvin
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:08:18 -0500
From: Dave Critelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help w/ setuid-root please?
Hello:
I can run pppd in root with no problems but when I try to run it as a
(non-root) user I get the following message;
/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
setuid-root
What does this mean and how do I circumvent it?
Thanks.
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Had win98 and Linux, now 98 won't boot, please help.
Date: 26 Feb 2000 03:35:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:58:36 GMT, Hugh Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I'd like to get some help with my linux problem. I have a laptop with 98
>and linux running. Everything was fine until few days ago when I started
>to miss with partitions too much and now 98 won't boot. Here's the
>timeline leading to the non-boot of 98.
>
>* Used partition magic to free 2GB of disk space for RH linux 6.1
>* Win98 has 2.6GB left.
>* /dev/hda1=win98, /dev/hda6=/, /dev/hda5 = /boot, everyone's happy.
>* /dev/hda2 is the extended partions contaning all the linux partisions.
>* Trying to slowly squeez out 98, I took another 1.1GB away from 98.
>* I used vmware to install another copy of 98 on this partition through
>linux using it as a virtual disk.
>* Didn't like vmware so I removed it, and decided to use that space for
>more linux room.
>* Somehow, I can only make primary partitions out of the 1.1GB free space
>with fdisk under linux.
>* So I tried to make two more primary partitions /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4.
>I can mkfs on /dev/hda3 ok, but not /dev/hda4, with error about the
>superblock.
>* I tried many combinations and just gave up and created one /dev/hda3 for
>1.1GB and mkfs and all is ok.
>* I then tried to boot into dos through LILO and all I see is "Loading
>dos", nothing more.
DOS/Win is probably confused about partitions being in the wrong order.
You might try making a note about all partition sizes, start and end
points, and types. Boot rescue disk (or install img, then switch to
another vt). If /dev/hda does not exist, 'mknod /dev/hda2 b 3 0'. Then
from Linux fdisk, remove all partitions after the 1st. Set primary hda2
with params currently used for hda3. Make make hda3 extended and then
make logical partitions. You should not have to format anything and if
you get all the numbers right, it should work.
Since you are using logical partitions for Linux those should still be the
same so you shouldn't have to do anything with fstab except temproarily
remove any reference to hda3 and later change that to hda2. Since the
kernel is still at the same physical location on the drive, LILO should
work okay too.
>/dev/hda1, the win98 partition is still there and all the data is intact
>and accessible through linux, just won't boot. Now I can't watch DVD's! :
>( It seems in my creating and deleting of those partitions /dev/hda3 and
>4, something must have happened to hda1.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Journaling file system (Ext3 or SGI's)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:43:18 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Peter Cherriman would say:
>>I have no firsthand experience, nor do I know how far along SGI's project
>>is, but it's XFS, not JFS. I'm aware of FOUR journaling filesystems that
>>are available in early stages or have been announced for Linux:
>>
>>1) ext3fs -- An extension of ext2fs.
>>2) Reiserfs -- A new open source filesystem.
>>3) XFS -- SGI's filesystem, now or soon to be released as open source.
>>4) JFS -- IBM's filesystem, now or soon to be released as open source.
>>
>
>Can someone tell me what a journaling filesystem is, and what use is it for.
Basic idea: Updates to the filesystem are first placed in a "journal"
before hitting the "filesystem proper."
The result of this is that if Something Bad Happens, like someone
pulling the cord out of the wall whilst the updates are taking place,
the changes-in-progress can be read out of the log and
reapplied/rolled-back as seems appropriate when the system restarts.
In effect, this means that fsck doesn't have to look at all
files/inodes/directories; it can restrict itself to what's in the
journal.
The (possibly apocryphal) story I heard was that some guy at HP had a
UNIX workstation at home, and a daughter who liked to run around.
This turned into the bad situation of:
"Oops! Jenny knocked the power cord out of the wall."
This naturally led to lots of fsck runs, and occasionally in files
getting messed up in the process.
Other options could have been to secure the hardware, but it seemed
like a neat idea to try to create a filesystem that would behave
better when outages take place. And so the inspiration for
journalling was born...
--
What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Non-X GUI?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:44:17 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Erik Steffl would say:
>Arthur Corliss wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2000 03:53:15 GMT, Christopher Browne
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >Your alternatives are three:
>> >a) GGI
>> >b) SVGAlib
>
> I think these two are not really GUIs, these are graphic packages.
They're the "seemingly lightweight graphics environments" that
normally get trotted out as alternatives to X.
>> >c) NanoGUI
>
> don't know about this one...
>
> there is also the Berlin project... probably not usable yet... see:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/project/?form_grp=322
Berlin is not ever likely to be a "lightweight alternative to X."
At one time, that was the claim of the then proponents; "X is dead,
we'll write k001 3133t 80386 code that will make it obsolete."
It has since been rearchitected into something of a "spiritual
stepchild of Fresco," combining:
- CORBA as the interfacing mechanism to provide network transparency
- OpenGL as the underlying graphics substrate
- Unicode as the character set support side...
It's nowhere near ready; they have the caveat that:
"Please be aware that the 0.x.x lines will in no way be a useable
replacement for any existing graphical environment -- it's just a
thing for developers to play with and add things to."
> also Java is sort of another GUI (it usually runs on top of some other
>(native) gui though...
On Linux, it runs atop X. And I *think* AWT layers atop Motif...
> another GUI is YAX (at http://yax.netpedia.net/), although it looks
>like it's fairly low level too (more like graphics system then GUI)
Much like the others...
--
If a cow laughed, would milk come out its nose?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: General Ledger/Accounting Package for Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:44:57 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Youngert would say:
>Currently, I am trying to setup a Linux machine that can do accounting
>for a small business firm. Can ayone please recommend some GPLed
>general ledger/accounting package for Linux?
You might take a look at the URL below... Probably the nearest thing
to what you're looking for is "Banal." It's not pretty, but it works.
No guarantee of it being satisfactory.
Note: It *doesn't* use the GPL, and you'll find a low propensity for
financial software to do so. LGPL is somewhat more likely. [I could
expand on that if pressed...]
--
"take USABLE from UNSTABLE and you get NT"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: setting my display to 1024x769
Date: 26 Feb 2000 03:46:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 25 Feb 2000 14:14:25 GMT, robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I have a Red Hat Linux 5.xx.
>My display gives me a 800x600 resolution, but I am sure my monitor and
>video card can do better than that. How could I change my display properties
>to get a 1024x769 resolution?
You cannot set it to 1024x769, but you could set it to 1024x768. If there
is an Xconfigurator you could do it from there. Otherwise simply edit
your XF86Config to add it. Mine is like this with 1024x768 as default:
# The accel server
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "S3 Trio64 (generic)"
Monitor "Panasonic SL70"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Telnet into Linux box problem
Date: 26 Feb 2000 03:48:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:14:54 GMT, T. E. Y. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I set up a Linux box as an IP masq to share Internet access between
>several Win boxes. Now, I use a private IP within the local net.
>
>When I try to telnet into the Linux box, I get several minutes delay
>before I get the login prompt. Everything else is fine. My distr is RH
>6.1.
You are seeing DNS timeout. Try putting names for your IP's in /etc/hosts
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Help w/ setuid-root please?
Reply-To: The news group
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 04:00:28 GMT
As root chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:08:18 -0500, Dave Critelli
>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello:
>
>I can run pppd in root with no problems but when I try to run it as a
>(non-root) user I get the following message;
>
>/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
>setuid-root
>
>What does this mean and how do I circumvent it?
>
>Thanks.
>Dave
>
--
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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man every_command_here, before doing anything or running a script.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Blackburn)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Hollywood plus DVD Decoder card (PCI) drivers needed
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:31:30 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:34:04 GMT, JEDIDIAH wrote:
> The jokers at Sigma are just plain paranoid. When asked about
> the possibility of only using the mpeg decode features of this
> card under Linux, the Sigma representative rambled on about this
> enabling the Linux community to pirate DVD's.
I know it's a silly question, but even windows users can piarate DVD's.
It's called recording on a video!!
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