Linux-Misc Digest #926, Volume #23 Wed, 22 Mar 00 18:13:03 EST
Contents:
sound modules aren't loaded automatically ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Where?? $79.00 dedicated linux server (Tim Hockin)
Re: User password required to reboot (Harlan Grove)
Re: I Broke It (Yan Seiner)
mail client (The Dude)
Re: Do you hate vi? ("Tim Haynes")
Re: mail client (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Linux Shell Accounts (Big Daddy)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Matt Chiglinsky)
Window Maker (Real Virtuality)
Re: afbackup.deb install on RedHat?
suse 6.3 + win2000 (Robin Becker)
Re: Need help defragmenting... (Jayan M)
Re: Can wine handle kid's games? (Mircea)
Re: Does Linux (2.0.30) work with AGP graphic cards? (James Szinger)
Re: Primary Partition Frustration (David Efflandt)
Sony laptop screen blank in Linux? (David Efflandt)
Re: monitor configuration (Dances With Crows)
Re: mail client (Sacha Kaercher)
Openlinux gives busy signal on modem
Re: Linux ISP (John Ledesma)
Re: suse 6.3 + win2000 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Ken Pizzini)
emachines (john mcclelland)
Re: Linux ISP ("E. Robert Tisdale")
Tuning X ("Scott Bate")
Re: I Broke It (Raquel Rice)
Re: Can't Download Tar Files (binyomin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sound modules aren't loaded automatically
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:59:02 GMT
I have kernel 2.2.13 and opl3sa2 sound card
When I "insmod" modules by hand
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod mpu401
insmod ad1848
insmod opl3sa2 io=0x100 irq=7 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x300 dma=0 dma2=3
insmod opl3 io=0x388
and then run "cdplay"
my sound card work fine and I hear the music.
But modules are not loaded automatically when just run "cdplay".
My /etc/conf.modules contains lines
alias char-major-14 opl3sa2
pre-install opl3sa2 modprobe "-k" "ad1848"
post-install opl3sa2 modprobe "-k" "opl3"
options opl3sa io=0x100 irq=7 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x300 dma=0 dma2=3
options opl3 io=0x388
/lib/modules/2.2.13/modules.dep seems Ok.
While booting kernel doesn't write something strange to log files.
When I used kernel 2.2.4 the result was the same.
What's wrong?
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From: Tim Hockin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where?? $79.00 dedicated linux server
Date: 22 Mar 2000 21:01:01 GMT
BodaBagHarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: A friend read a press release (and can't remember where) on some website that
: a new company was coming online with $79.00 a month dedicated linux webservers
: with root access.
: Is this true????? Anyone have the URL, phone or more info???????
: Is this a REALLY a dedicated machine on the net for cheap??? If so I want
: one...
I'm not sure about pricing, but places like SimpleNet and Rackspace have
pretty cheap dedicated hosting plans on Cobalt systems (www.cobalt.com).
Tim
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From: Harlan Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: User password required to reboot
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:13:33 -0800
In article <8bbarc$mvv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, johnand@my-
deja.com wrote:
>In article <%lDB4.76$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein) wrote:
>> Normal users are not supposed to do that.
>>
>I thought GNOME asks for the root password, not the
>logged-in user's.
>But I could be wrong...
Running Gnome on Red Hat 6.0, I type in my user password to
reboot or shutdown. Maybe user password is OK if that user
ID has shutdown priviledges, but root password is required
otherwise (?).
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I Broke It
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:37:06 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oops - I did not mean to say that you should not have asked; rather,
there may be some other solutions available if you search dejanews.
OK, time for some other tricks:
# lpc
and type ? to see what you can do.
Try
lpc> abort lp0
and you should see
printing disabled
no daemon to abort
Now type
lpc> up lp0
and you should see
printing enabled
daemon started
lpc>
If you see anything else let us know.
Do a man lpc and lpd to see what they do.
What's your printcap look like?
# cat /etc/printcap and post it.
This printer is connected to the parallel port, right?
What version of linux are you running? Also post the results of
# lsmod
(man that too to see what it does.)
(Yes the learning curve is steep....)
--Yan
Raquel Rice wrote:
>
> Yan,
>
> I'm sorry this has been rehashed in the past. I've only been using Linux
> for 10 days and am trying to learn instead of relying on a GUI to do
> everything for me.
>
> I've done everything suggested 3 or 4 times and continue to get the same
> error:
> /usr/bin/lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>
> Since I'm so new using Linux I'm not really familiar with were everything
> is or how it all works yet. Could I have messed something else up?
>
> Thank you again for your help.
> Raquel Rice
>
--
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ride a recumbent
use Linux.
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From: The Dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mail client
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:17:14 GMT
Hey guys,
I need you to recomand me a good mail client, and pls not kmail not
Netscape.
--
Regards
The Dude
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Before you buy.
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From: "Tim Haynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 22 Mar 2000 21:35:27 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) writes:
> I try to write anything in "vi" (Linux), if I want to copy/paste lines
> I try to write anything in "emacs" (Linux), if I don't need copy/paste
Wibble?! Is something wrong with c&p in emacs??
> PS. Besides I use a 3-button-mouse (only 2 active) on the Mac. Also I
> use the identical mouse (and keyboard) under Win98/Linux on my PC as
> well.
Oh goodie, they can cope? :)
My notebook died last night, probably terminally.
I have subscribed to a lot of uk.* newsgroups this evening ;8)
~Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: mail client
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:34:50 GMT
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:17:14 GMT, The Dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need you to recomand me a good mail client, and pls not kmail not
mutt. Why? Because I like it ;)
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Hal B
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From: Big Daddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Shell Accounts
Date: 22 Mar 2000 21:38:42 GMT
: Can anyone setup me up with a Linux shell account, or point me in the
: right direction where to get one ?
http://www.grex.org/
--
Big Daddy
A cheap shot is a terrible thing to waste.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Chiglinsky)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 22 Mar 2000 21:42:03 GMT
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:11:11 +0100, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Oh hey, what the heck to Mac users use? It must feel mightly strange
>> going from a one-button mouse to vi. heh ;) Mac users?
>
>I used to write everthing in "1stWord" (Atari)
>I write small config files in "simpletext" (Mac)
>I write docs in "Word 6" (Mac)
>I write the rest in "BBedit" (Mac)
>I write small config files in "notepad" (Win)
>I write large config files in "wordpad" (Win)
>I write docs in "Office97" in (Win)
>I try to write anything in "vi" (Linux), if I want to copy/paste lines
>I try to write anything in "emacs" (Linux), if I don't need copy/paste
Copy/paste in emacs you don't like? I'll have to admit one thing I
don't like about vi that you can do in emacs is place a region mark in
the middle of a line. vi only allows you to yank words, whole lines,
and groups of lines which isn't quite as precise as is sometimes
needs.
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From: Real Virtuality <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Window Maker
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 23:08:14 +0100
Hi there
I've got the Window Maker 0.60 and I've got the following problem :
If I install some themes in my ~/GNUStep/... it works well,
but I install them in /usr/local/share/WindowMaker/..., it doesn't work
!
Some can send me a clue ?
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Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: afbackup.deb install on RedHat?
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Mar 2000 20:26:04 +0000
"Bob Cent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to test backup utility afbackup on my RedHat server. The problem is
> that afbackup is distributed as a .deb file. Both kpackage and alien failed
> for me.
>
> The KDE kpackage utility exited without warning while processing afbackup.
> I also tried alien (alien -r afbackup_3_1beta1-1_1.deb) and it failed too
> and gave this message:
>
> alien : rpm --show rc failed
>
> Any suggestions what to do?
1) Install rpm.
2) Try to find out *why* alien thinks "rpm --showrc" failed.
3) Tell us which versions of alien and rpm you've got.
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From: Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: suse 6.3 + win2000
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:54:11 +0000
I'm trying to learn too many things at once; I have to connect my suse
6.3 linux box to a win2000 server. I believe I need to use a dynamically
assigned ether net address. Any pointers to how this should be done?
--
Robin Becker
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From: Jayan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help defragmenting...
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:20:56 -0600
AFAIK, there's some commandline option to defrag to move those
files off too.. And I think if those files are referred to by
their physical location by some program, it ain't worth keeping
that stupid program anyways.. get rid of that.
I have seen some of the windows system files (io.sys etc..) being
shown as unmovable, and the above rule applies to them too. After
all, you're going to install a real operating system and then
you would not need windows :-)
Jayan
Andreas Kahari wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sacgonepro) wrote:
> > i have an old pentium box that i want to convert to linux from
> win98...
> > i used the windows defrag to get all of the data together on the
> "front" of the
> > drive, so that i can use FIPS to create new partition ( i want to dual
> boot )
> > Although i have 629M of free space on my hard drive, FDIS is only
> giving me the
> > option to create a 29M (or smaller) new partition. i believe this is
> because
> > the defragmenter program has not moved all of the data to the
> "front"... the
> > "show detail" option shows me that there are a few clusters towards
> the back of
> > the drive that it "cant move" (it's marked as a white square with red
> in the
> > upper right corner) any ideas, anyone? is there a better defragmenter
> that
> > will move these clusters?
> >
> > thanks in advance for any help!
> > ad
> >
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron laptop, and when I got it it had Windos 98 on it.
> The defragmentation of the HD was successful but a 64MB chunk of
> unmovable area was, eh, unmovable.
>
> The interesting thing is that 64MB is the same as the amount of RAM in
> the machine and it turns out that the disk space is used for storing the
> state of the machine (i.e. the RAM image) when sending it to sleep
> ("suspend to disk"). I thought that was stupid so I went through all
> manuals and removed the thing from the disk, freeing up >1GB for Linux.
>
> Now I always get splash screen when booting saying "save to disk file is
> enabled blah blah blah". It's annoying, but I know worse things.
>
> You may also try disabling the virtual memory in Windos before rebooting
> and defragging so that the unmovable chunks used for virtual memory is
> freed. This is however NOT A GOOD THING if you haven't enough memory to
> support Windos without virtual memeory turned on.
>
> /A
>
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can wine handle kid's games?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:00:05 -0500
Harlan Grove wrote:
>
> My home PC has both Linux and Win95. My kids are getting
> better at using Linux, and they can't screw up my files
> under Linux. However, they've accumulated a few dozen CD-
> based games over the years. Am I kidding myself that I
> might be able to run them under wine? I'm ready to
> experiment, but if anyone knows of any problems, work-
> arounds I'd be grateful.
>
> Anyone want to guess how long it will be until children's
> educational and game software reaches Linux?
>
I cannot speak of "games" in general, but FWIW here's my experience,
maybe you can use it. I've recently tried one of my old-time favorites,
The Incredible Machine, under both Dosemu 1.0.0 with either MS-DOS 6.22
and FreeDos beta4, and one of the nightly builds of Wine (sometime last
week). Just curious if it worked. Well, it did...sort of. The screen was
all mixed up, with the lower half flashing like crazy, to the point
where the game wasn't playable. Same thing in all cases. Maybe it's just
this particular game that's screwy, but then, chances are many of these
older programs are, using all kinds of hacks which just happened to
work, natively.
MST
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From: James Szinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux (2.0.30) work with AGP graphic cards?
Date: 22 Mar 2000 17:01:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Panteltje) writes:
> Just got a k6-2, running my old harddisk.\No way can I get other graphics then
> VGA16 with my S3Trio3D/2X, downloading xfree.4 (yes its on www.xfree.org),
> that seems to support it.
> HOWEVER this is an AGP card?
> Cannot find anything on AGP in the kernel sources.
> Does the BIOS handle this?
> Or do I have to start writing it ?
> Jan
I think the problem is not AGP. My PC at home has an AGP card made by
ATI and works great. My PC here at work is an IBM with an S3Trio3D on
the mainboard and it was a major pain to get X working. I haven't
tried version 4, but the version 3.3.6 README.S3V says "Please note
that Trio3D support is an initial release and not very well tested".
--
James J. Szinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Yale University Phone (203) 432-6656
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Primary Partition Frustration
Date: 22 Mar 2000 07:23:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am trying to reinstall RH 6.1 in a dual OS mode. My current
>configuration is as follows according to Disk Druid:
>
>hda1 Win95 Fat32 equates to C:\ in Win 98 (Primary)
>hda5 Win95 Fat32 equates to D:\ in Win 98 (Logical)
>hda6 Win95 Fat32 equates to E:\ in Win 98 (Logical)
>
>What Disk Druid doesn�t show is my hda2 Extended Partition (Primary).
>
>When I start using Disk Druid to add partitions such as (Swap/Boot/Root
>etc�) it wants to make everything a Primary partition. I already have two
>primary partitions used hda1 & hda2, leaving 2 primaries left.
I had just the opposite problem, Disk Druid wanted to put everything in
one big extended partition and would not let me make a primary /boot
partition if (per instructions) I set a swap first. So I had to go
to another vt (before Disk Druid screen), use mknod to make /dev/hda and
then Linux fdisk to set partitions the way I wanted them. Then I could go
back to the GUI, go to the Disk Druid screen and assign things to the
Linux partitions I had already created.
>Can I create (I don�t think through Disk Druid) two primaries one for
>solely Swap, and the other I am not sure if that should be specified for
>Root or not with several logical partitions underneath. If I can create
>these partitions, and it will work, how should I go about this?
Unless you download the latest LILO, you need a /boot partition (16 meg)
completely below cyl 1024. But you can put everything else including swap
in 1 extended, even coexisting with FAT32 logical partitions.
>I have tried in Expert using Fdisk to create the two primaries
>partitions. But I cannot continue the �Next� button is shaded out.
I haven't tried expert mode, I simply went to another vt (Ctrl-Alt-F2)
to set up partitions with fdisk, before I even got to Disk Druid. But you
have to know how to use mknod, because there were no hd's in /dev.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Sony laptop screen blank in Linux?
Date: 22 Mar 2000 09:08:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know how to turn off the backlight automatically during screen
blanking in the console on Sony PCG-F450 (TFT display) with NeoMagic 256AV
video. I have tried all the usual setterm -powersave and -powerdown
settings (which work for the regular monitor on my main PC). The screen
does blank, but the backlight remains on. Note, even when in blanks in
Win98, the backlight remains on, however, it does go completely black when
it blanks in X.
This has ACPI which is newer than the old APM, so the Fn-D that works in
Win98 and older F3xx models to manually blank the screen and apm -S
standby mode do not work in Linux. It will go into deep suspend (apm -s
or Fn-Esc), but I am just trying to turn off the screen while the CPU
keeps working in the background.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: monitor configuration
Date: 22 Mar 2000 17:30:13 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:09:35 -0800, Gerald Willmann
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Default User wrote:
>
>> I have just installed Mandrake Linux 6.5 on my PC, which came with 17 in
>> monitor (Acer G772, 0.25dpi) capable of running true color(32bit) at
>> 1280x1024 under windows environment. My computer also has a 16mb AGP
>> video card. But during the installation, the x-configurator
>> automatically probed the monitor and determine that the monitor can only
>> work at 8bit and 600x480 display size. The icons are so big that it make
>
>look at your XF86Config file (should be in /etc/X11, otherwise locate with
>locate XF86Config). Spend some hours understanding that file with the help
>of the XFree86-howto which you find at the linux documentation project on
[snip]
For some reason, if Xconfigurator runs at install, it will generate
bad/silly XF86Config files. While Gerald's suggestions have a lot of
merit, you'll find it easier to just switch to a text console
(Ctrl-Alt-F1), log in as root, and enter "Xconfigurator". It'll hold your
hand somewhat, though you might have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config manually
after that and change the color depth to 32-bit.
You didn't tell us the exact make and model of your graphics card. Please
note that Xfree86 has problems with certain cards, especially SiS and
Trident cards. If you have one of those cheap pieces of junk, sell it and
get a nice Matrox G200 or ATi Xpert98, since you seem to care about
graphics a bit....
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Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sacha Kaercher)
Subject: Re: mail client
Date: 22 Mar 2000 22:00:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:17:14 GMT, The Dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey guys,
>I need you to recomand me a good mail client, and pls not kmail not
>Netscape.
Pine is good.
-- Sacha
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Openlinux gives busy signal on modem
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:30:16 GMT
I have already configured my modem and connection on openlinux 2.3 however
my connection got terminated and since then when I try to redial the
message box says that the modem is busy, does anyone know how to shutdown
the modem so that I can reconnect. Thanks.
Rohnn
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:35:29 -0600
From: John Ledesma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux ISP
If you're near a city of 100,000 or more possibly:
http://www.teledyn.com/products/FreeWWW/
for a free ISP. Clear instructions; some busy signals in my
area and I sometimes connect at 28 instead of 50.
rhat wrote:
> How do I get a list of ISP's that cater to Linux OS?
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: suse 6.3 + win2000
Date: 22 Mar 2000 17:38:31 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:54:11 +0000, Robin Becker
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I'm trying to learn too many things at once; I have to connect my suse
>6.3 linux box to a win2000 server. I believe I need to use a dynamically
>assigned ether net address. Any pointers to how this should be done?
To get a dynamically assigned IP address, you probably should run dhclient
(or something similar, like pump) at boot time. You should be able to do
this painlessly.
1. Become root
2. Run YaST
3. "Network Configuration"
4. look for "Should the network be configured through DHCP?" Say YES.
5. exit YaST.
6. # /sbin/init.d/dhclient start
(see, no need to reboot, unless you really really want to. A few things
may have changed; I'm using SuSE 6.1 not 6.3 and they may be using pump
now instead of dhclient...)
Connecting to a Lose2k machine, eh? Check the Samba information in your
SuSE manual if you're accessing shared directories on the Lose2k machine.
SWAT (Samba Web-Based Admin Tool) might be your friend here. Telnet and
ftp to the Lose2k should work fine. HTH, HAND.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Pizzini)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: 22 Mar 2000 22:31:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 Mar 2000 21:42:03 GMT, Matt Chiglinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll have to admit one thing I
>don't like about vi that you can do in emacs is place a region mark in
>the middle of a line.
Huh?
> vi only allows you to yank words, whole lines,
>and groups of lines which isn't quite as precise as is sometimes
>needs.
Do you know about the distinction between the motion commands
` and ' ?
--Ken Pizzini
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From: john mcclelland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: emachines
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:07:51 -0800
I am trying to get RH 6.1 to work on an Emachines Eone. Has anyone done
this before?
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From: "E. Robert Tisdale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux ISP
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:43:10 +0000
rhat wrote:
> How do I get a list of ISP's that cater to Linux OS?
Very few ISPs "cater" to Linux
even if they run their server under Linux.
I don't know of any that distribute a browser
that will run under Linux for example.
I had to drop GTE because I couldn't post news articles
using Netscape Communicator.
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From: "Scott Bate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tuning X
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:50:00 +1100
Dear People,
I would like to thank those out there who took the time to answer earlier
queries of mine which allowed me to get Xwindows up for the first time.
I am now tuning Xwindows for best resolution, refresh rates and color depth.
I have XFree86 v3.3.5 on Redhat v6.1. My video card has a S3Trio3D/2X
chipset with 4M VRAM. The monitor is not listed in any of the Xsetup/config
utilities but is a 'KTX' 15" on which I am able to run 1024X768 in MS
Windows (unsure of refresh rates). Anyway I have had a lot of trouble
getting good color depth in X. Does anyone know what server is best and
which monitor I should select in XF86Setup or Xconfigurator?
Finally can one run XF86Setup from within X (terminal window) and have the
changes actually take effect, if so then do you need to reboot or just exit
X. Oh while I am on that, I edited my inittab file to change the line
id:5:initdefault: to read a 3 instead of the 5. This now brings up a prompt
asking which run level I want at startup. I thought the 3 would default to
character-mode on startup. I don't know what the problem is.
Yours in Linuxing, Scott.
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From: Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I Broke It
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:52:41 -0800
Yan Seiner wrote:
> Oops - I did not mean to say that you should not have asked; rather,
> there may be some other solutions available if you search dejanews.
I'm sorry. It's my fault. I just got barked at by a couple guys elsewhere
because I didn't sweat enough blood before asking questions. I thought I was
doing pretty good for just starting out.
While I start checking out the other tricks, here is what I have.
6 year old Pentium 90 that I had been running NT 3.51 on. I got tired of it
crashing so removed the os ... leaving all my data on FAT partitions, along
with a few Windoze applications, added memory bringing the box up to 64 MB and
put a new 13.6 GB harddrive as the master with the thought of later using the
old 1 GB drive for a 486/66 that was networked to this machine and installing
Linux on it too, removing WFWG.
The printer is indeed connected to a parallel port (the only one) on this
box. I read all the HOW-TOs and posts here and on other ng, Yesterday I
finally figured out why the printer wasn't working and fixed it. Then I did
the stupid thing that caused this problem.
Okay, now I'll get busy trying all the things you've suggested and I'll post
the results later.
Thanks!
>
>
> OK, time for some other tricks:
>
> # lpc
>
> and type ? to see what you can do.
>
> Try
> lpc> abort lp0
>
> and you should see
>
> printing disabled
> no daemon to abort
>
> Now type
> lpc> up lp0
>
> and you should see
> printing enabled
> daemon started
>
> lpc>
>
> If you see anything else let us know.
>
> Do a man lpc and lpd to see what they do.
>
> What's your printcap look like?
>
> # cat /etc/printcap and post it.
>
> This printer is connected to the parallel port, right?
> What version of linux are you running? Also post the results of
> # lsmod
>
> (man that too to see what it does.)
>
> (Yes the learning curve is steep....)
>
> --Yan
>
> Raquel Rice wrote:
> >
> > Yan,
> >
> > I'm sorry this has been rehashed in the past. I've only been using Linux
> > for 10 days and am trying to learn instead of relying on a GUI to do
> > everything for me.
> >
> > I've done everything suggested 3 or 4 times and continue to get the same
> > error:
> > /usr/bin/lpr: connect: Connection refused
> > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> >
> > Since I'm so new using Linux I'm not really familiar with were everything
> > is or how it all works yet. Could I have messed something else up?
> >
> > Thank you again for your help.
> > Raquel Rice
> >
> --
>
> Think different
> ride a recumbent
> use Linux.
--
Raquel
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Subject: Re: Can't Download Tar Files
From: binyomin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:51:07 -0800
O.K., someone helped me figure out
what the problem was. ch2_tar.tar was
what Windows renamed a file called ch2.tar.gz.
So I needed to fix the name so that it would
be recognized that the file needed to be gunzipped
and then untarred. Under windows one can
use .tgz.
Thankyou to everyone who posted an answer,
Binyomin
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