Linux-Misc Digest #703, Volume #23 Mon, 28 Feb 00 20:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux can't find memery of SiS530 (Steve Higgins)
Re: Licq install problem...easy answer (Alexis Bilodeau)
Re: HP Deskjet 695c - slow printing ("Carl S. Isgro")
Re: What happened to the free version of Wordperfect? (Chris Beamis)
Re: Finally Crashed Linux Today ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Winlinux and FAT32 (Monty)
"hdc: lost interrupt" errors (Duane Evenson)
Re: Boot up graphics & screen corruption (James Hollingshead)
Re: Real Player G2 'pauses' ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: patching/upgrading kernel question (Paul Kimoto)
Re: "hdc: lost interrupt" errors (Duane Evenson)
BogoMIPS question (Duane Evenson)
Problems with DELL 4300's and RedHat (Jason Scharlach)
Restrict ftp users to a specific directory ("H.T. Sun")
Re: RealPlayer ("Wesley Felter")
Re: RealPlayer ("Wesley Felter")
Re: Restrict ftp users to a specific directory ("Neil Fenemor")
Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader (nldgr)
Access files on NT from the linux box ? ("Greg")
Re: RealPlayer (Tony Houghton)
Re: No Print Previews? (nldgr)
Re: Help, I need some linux advice! (Antryg Windrose)
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From: Steve Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux can't find memery of SiS530
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:16:48 GMT
download Corel Linux....
it reconizes those just fine.
-Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have install redhat linux to my computer. However, I have a problem when
> I setup the X window. The xconfigurator can't recognize my video card,
> SiS530. This video card has a 8M share memory. Linux report that its video
> memory is too small.
>
> How can I solve this problem?
>
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Licq install problem...easy answer
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:19:36 GMT
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Did you try searching for a qt*.rpm file in the RPMS directory of your disk?
I think it should solve many things....
(the libqt.so.2 is a part of this rpm file)
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Dave Brown a �crit :
> When i try installing the licq rpm binary file their are a few dependencie
> problems, when i try running the "rpm -i <licq file>" it says:
>
> error: failed dependencies:
> qt >= 2.0.2 is needed by licq-0.76-1
> libgt.so.2 is needed by licq 0.76-1
>
> Are these files on my mandrake 6.1 disk? if so what is the name of the rpm?
> If not were can i find these files, and where should i extract them to (if
> tarballed)?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> BTW: Thank you all for helping me setup my modem this place (searchlinux)
> is a goldmine for answers =) I'm now on the internet in linux...Its
> amazing!
>
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Did you try searching for a qt*.rpm file in the RPMS directory of your
disk?
<br>I think it should solve many things....
<br>(the libqt.so.2 is a part of this rpm file)
<br>
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<br>
<p>Dave Brown a écrit :
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>When i try installing the licq rpm binary file their
are a few dependencie
<br>problems, when i try running the "rpm -i <licq file>" it says:
<p>error: failed dependencies:
<br> qt >= 2.0.2 is needed by
licq-0.76-1
<br> libgt.so.2 is needed by
licq 0.76-1
<p>Are these files on my mandrake 6.1 disk? if so what is the name of the
rpm?
<br>If not were can i find these files, and where should i extract them
to (if
<br>tarballed)?
<p>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<p>BTW: Thank you all for helping me setup my modem this place (searchlinux)
<br>is a goldmine for answers =) I'm now on the internet in linux...Its
<br>amazing!
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From: "Carl S. Isgro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 695c - slow printing
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:11:49 -0500
Richard Goldberg wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I got an HP deskjet 695C a few months back and was able to get it to
> print using ghostscript 5.50. Everything works, the quality is very
> good, but it is very slow. A full page ps file takes sevreral minutes to
> print (in windows on lowest quality it takes just a few seconds).
>
> On an old Ebson ink jet I used the -rXxY option to specify lower
> resolutions and hence faster printing. When I try the same options on
> the HP it prints a little faster, but the printout is half the size.
>
> Has anyone been able high speed printing on this printer?
>
> Thanks.
>
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> "If you don't invest very much, the defeat doesn't hurt,
> But winning isn't very exciting."
Change your printer port to polling. The reason it is slow is because it
triggers many interrupts (status of ink etc.) see the 'tunelp' command.
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From: Chris Beamis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What happened to the free version of Wordperfect?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:15:15 -0800
I got both WP and StarOffice with my LibraNet distribution,
http://www.libranet.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Get it from any tucows site near your region.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Finally Crashed Linux Today
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 21:24:22 +0000
And verily, didst Neil hastily scribble thusly:
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 04:15:39 -0600, Josh Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>> I won't try that again. But if I get myself in a jam like this again, is
>>> there a way out?
>>
>>Compiling in the "Magic Sys Rq" option to the kernel might help. Then
>>memorize the keys.
> which are ???
Press an incorrect key combination, and it brings up the usage list.
ALT Sys-Req z for example calls this up in Virtual Console 8 on my machine.
SysRq: unRaw Boot Sync Unmount showPc showTasks showMem loglevel0-8 tErm
kIll killalL
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From: Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Winlinux and FAT32
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:31:57 GMT
I am unable to run winlinux 2000. I have windows 98 and when i try to
start winlinux it stops at the line that says "warning: FAT32 support is
still ALPHA." I would like to run this distribution if possible because i
only have a 56k modem, and do not want to download another version. What
should i do?
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From: Duane Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "hdc: lost interrupt" errors
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:58:34 -0700
When I access my harddrive extensively (tar -xf usrdoc, rgrep ...,
etc.), I get:
hdc: lost interrupt
ide1(?): unexpected interrupt, status=0x58, count=625
errors where the count goes from 1 and up.
What's causing this and what's the fix?
Thank you. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Hollingshead)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Boot up graphics & screen corruption
Date: 28 Feb 2000 23:53:39 GMT
On 28 Feb 2000 11:11:30 +0000, Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes) writes:
>
>> In article <89brda$t12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, James Hollingshead wrote:
>>
>> >Well it is a bit of a hack, but I suppose you could just put
>> >"chvt 2 ; chvt 1" in a script, and then link it into /etc/rc0.d and
>> >/etc/rc6.d as something like K02cleanup so that it gets called immediately
>> >that kde exits.
>> >
>> >I imagine it may be a kernel issue with the framebuffer drivers which
>> >isn't very easily solved properly though.
>>
>> I have since found that a simple 'clear' command will clear the terminal
>> of video corruption. Any ideas how to issue 'clear' after exiting KDM/X?
>
>Oh, in that case, can't you stick 'clear' on the end of
>/usr/X11R6/bin/startx ? :)
If he is using KDM then I don't think the startx script will be being
called. I think the best bet is probably to add the clear command onto
the end of the command which shuts down kde. You say your distro is
debian based, so you want to find the file /etc/init.d/kdm. This file
should be in the following format:
......
case "$1" in
start)
......
stop)
......
restart)
......
In order to make the command run after kde has shut down then you want
to put it at the end of the stop) section.
Hope that does the trick,
James Hollingshead
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Real Player G2 'pauses'
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:12:11 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark
J. Tilford) wrote:
> I installed G2 some time ago, but whenever I play a file (which happens to
> be stored locally), the player pauses every two minutes or so to rebuffer.
> I don't mind so much if the video freezes, but I find it to be rather
> distracting whenever the audio pauses. Has anybody else had this problem,
> and can anybody help me fix it?
I have had the same problem, but I don't think it's the player.
try this out : http://broadcast.go.com/radio/ and you tell me?
it buffers all over broadcast.coms site, but not the other.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: patching/upgrading kernel question
Date: 28 Feb 2000 19:18:49 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <yVCu4.3499$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ken Overly wrote:
> I'm a Linux newbie running Red Hat 6.0 with kernel 2.2.5 on my Dell Inspiron
> 7500. I'd like upgrade my kernel to 2.2.14 to enable support for my Maestro
> sound card. Should I (can I) upgrade my kernel by applying the 2.2.14 patch
> or should I download and compile the full kernel? Are the patches
> cumulative, i.e., does the 2.2.14 patch contain all the changes included in
> previous patches?
No, after all, "all the changes" would have to go back to Linux 0.1 or
whatever. The 2.2.14 patch contains exactly the differences between 2.2.13
and 2.2.14. _If_ you are starting with 2.2.5, then you need all of the
patches starting with patch-2.2.6. However, be warned that the source code
shipped by your distributor may not be exactly the 2.2.5 code provided by
Linus Torvalds, and if so, patching may be difficult. (It is fine to get
the full sources, of course. Also be aware that the next 2.2 kernel may be
coming soon; Alan Cox has released 10 pre-patches on the road to 2.2.15.)
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From: Duane Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "hdc: lost interrupt" errors
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:03:34 -0700
Oops, forgot to add my specs:
RH 6.1; kernel 2.2.12; Cyrix 586 100MHz; 36MB RAM; most of Linux on
hda2, hda5; 3 drives, 6.4G, 13G, 1G; 34x Asus CD.
Duane Evenson wrote:
> When I access my harddrive extensively (tar -xf usrdoc, rgrep ...,
> etc.), I get:
>
> hdc: lost interrupt
> ide1(?): unexpected interrupt, status=0x58, count=625
>
> errors where the count goes from 1 and up.
> What's causing this and what's the fix?
> Thank you. :)
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From: Duane Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BogoMIPS question
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:08:16 -0700
Reading the BogoMIPS docs, I see that Cyrix 586 x100 's are listed as
giving BogoMIPS values of about 100. I get about 30 on my system. Am I
suffering a performance problem?
Does the BogoMIPS routine use the kernel, ie would recompiling my kernel
speed things up? It's compiled for a 486. Isn't that right?
Thanks. :)
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From: Jason Scharlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems with DELL 4300's and RedHat
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:21:18 -0500
I've been having problems with a recently purchased DELL 4300
preinstalled with RedHat 6.0. In an attempt to resolve these problems I
have been in contact with DELL and have attempted to contact RedHat but
they don't seem to read their e-mail there so I figured I'd ask out
here.
Firstly, is there anyone out there who has actually successfully
gotten a response from RedHat on an e-mail support contract? If so, let
me know how you managed to get to somebody.
Anyways, here's the message I sent to RH. If anyone has any ideas
please let me know.
=========================================
I've been fighting with this problem for the past week and after going
through DELL tech support they told me to contact you guys.
Here's the problem.
We recently purchased a DELL Poweredge 4300 server pre-installed with
Redhat 6.0. Incidently, the 4300 is on the list of Certified Hardware
for RH 6.0. The system was working fine until we installed and
attempted to use a second hard disk in the 8x1 backplane. As soon as
you attempt to access partitions on both hard disks at the same time
corruption occurs - usually trashing the partitions you were just
accessing and forcing a re-install of the OS. This is 100%
reproducable. Infact, if you attempt to perform an install of all
components and have it automatically mount partitions on both disks the
install will fail 100% of the time. It does not matter what hard drives
you use - I have performed installs on both disks and they work
perfectly
until you attempt to access the second drive (ie: by mounting it or
using fdisk to modify the partition table).
I went through all of the DELL provided hardware diagnostics and
everything checked out. Not conviced, I then proceeded to attempt
installing RH 6.1 which also gave the problems. I then installed NT4.0
on the system and it appears to work perfectly and access both hard
disks with no problem. So, in my opinion what is wrong is one of 2
things. 1) The DELL 8x1 backplane is faulty but NT somehow manages to
mask this or 2) Redhat (Linux) does not support the backplane
technology.
What I need to know is, has Redhat ever tested their product in a DELL
4300 with multiple hard disks? If they have and it works, I need to
know so I can get the hardware replaced by DELL. If they have never
tested this how can you possibly be including an OS with a machine that
can't scale to multiple hard drives?
Please respond ASAP.
Jason Scharlach
Quarry Integrated Communications
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
From: "H.T. Sun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Restrict ftp users to a specific directory
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:03:00 GMT
Hi,
I am using wu-ftp in my linux box, I want to set up a ftp site so that
the ftp users would be restricted to a particular ftp directory say,
/usr/local/ftp and can not escape from it.
Could someone show me how this can be done ?
Thanks a lot
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From: "Wesley Felter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: RealPlayer
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:11:57 -0600
phil hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Does anyone know if there is an open source program that does the
> same as RealPlayer? Especially if it can read RealPlayer datastreams?
The Free Expression project, http://www.free-expression.org/ is working on
something like that; it may be ready in a few years.
Wesley Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Wesley Felter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: RealPlayer
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:12:55 -0600
Karl Brodowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Why not set up a local installation of a webserver, for example apache
> or roxen? Then you can provide your saved music file by having it on
> your local web server.
Yeah, but how do you save the files in the first place? The RealProtocols
are RealUndocumented.
Wesley Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Neil Fenemor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Restrict ftp users to a specific directory
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:38:31 +1300
The root ftpers directory is set by whatever the home directory is in
/etc/passwd (well in slackware anyway)
so if you edit /etc/passwd and change the home directory of ftp from
/home/ftp to /usr/local/ftp then all should be sweet.
Any other questions ask in group as I'll be reading it all day.
Neil
H.T. Sun wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
> I am using wu-ftp in my linux box, I want to set up a ftp site so that
>
> the ftp users would be restricted to a particular ftp directory say,
> /usr/local/ftp and can not escape from it.
>
> Could someone show me how this can be done ?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
>
>
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat Reader
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:44:38 GMT
Bob Hauck wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 04:49:00 GMT, ndg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >lpr % s
>
> Try just "lpr".
>
Printer went off to the races printing one diddy a page; had to whoa it with
lprm.
Also tried lpr /home/temp/f1040.pdf which is the file in the directory I wanted
to print; same result as just using lpr.
Oh well, guess I won't be able to file my tax return this year; I'm sure good
ol' Uncle Sam will understand my dilemna.
Thanks anyways guys; I'll figure it out eventually.
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From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Access files on NT from the linux box ?
Date: 28 Feb 2000 18:44:12 -0600
Reply-To: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I have a small network with NT and Linux,
What I want to do is back up my Linux data to the NT machine over the
network, I could then automate this process.
My network works fine and from NT I can access the Linux box, but how do
access files / transfer files from the Linux box via the command line.
Thank you
Greg
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From: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: RealPlayer
Reply-To: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 Feb 2000 00:49:20 GMT
In <89f2p3$s34$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wesley Felter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Karl Brodowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Why not set up a local installation of a webserver, for example apache
> > or roxen? Then you can provide your saved music file by having it on
> > your local web server.
>
> Yeah, but how do you save the files in the first place? The RealProtocols
> are RealUndocumented.
Usually you can get at them by reading the HTML. IIRC, the HTML usually
contains a reference to a .rpm file (nothing to do with Linux RPM) which
is text-based, containing the name of the .rm file, which is the thing
you want to save. Realplayer can play them from disc, it doesn't have to
come from a server.
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From: nldgr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Print Previews?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 00:54:12 GMT
Hans Dumbrajs wrote:
> nldgr wrote:
>
> > Why Leenux got no print previews???
>
> what do you mean?
I'll rephrase that question since I am using a limited number of Linux
apps.
Are there applications for Linux that have a 'print preview' similar to
that of the Windows print preview?
You click on the icon and you get a screen that shows you what the
document you want to print will look like on paper.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antryg Windrose)
Subject: Re: Help, I need some linux advice!
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:05:00 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:23:31 GMT,
Oolon Colluphid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 14:16:54 +0100, Thomas Amm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Tandem Guy wrote:
>>>Hello. I'm a C/C++ programmer who's decided it's time to learn UNIX.
>>>Unfortunately, I don't have access to UNIX at work. Someone suggested I
>>>give Linux a try at home. This seems reasonable, but I have a lot of
>>>questions. I'd like to by a PC on which I would run LINUX and LINUX
>>>only. What would be the minimum system requirements I'd need? I'm not
>>>looking to do much more than some basic C/C++ development. Also where
>>>can I get a copy of the OS and does it come with a C/C++ compiler. I
>>>know these are pretty basic questions and I apologize if there is a FAQ,
>>>but I didn't see one. Thanks in advance for any replies to this post.
[...]
>I would even say: if you do not need the fanciest GUI there is you
>could run Linux even on an old 486 with 16MB of RAM. Moreover,
>ther are distributions, which cost you less than 50Bucks and do
>also come with a whole bunch of compilers for almost any language
>you can think of.
Technically, if you are mainly looking at command-line stuff, you
could install Linux on an old 8088. I'm not sure why you'd want to,
but... :)
As for me, I'm running RedHat Linux 6.0 on an i486/66MHz with 20MB ram
with LessTif as my window manager and cc as my compiler of choice
and I think it's great.
Antryg
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