Linux-Misc Digest #989, Volume #23 Wed, 29 Mar 00 15:13:03 EST
Contents:
Monitor off by blank: Can I disable it? ("Joseph")
Has anyone used LINEO ? (Ishikawa)
Re: staroffice running slowly (Karel Jansens)
Re: how to use DBI with PostGres? (Roland Roberts)
Re: frequent crashes related to kswapd "kernel paging request" (Silviu Minut)
SV: Editing MIME types ... ("Efraim Mostrom")
Re: Re-sizing partition -- What's the best tool? (D G)
Re: Do you hate vi? (Tim Ottinger)
Re: i'm an idiot and sorry for wasting your time (Drewbie)
Lilo question:How to move Linux Drive to secondary IDE port. (Blackstar)
Re: Problem: mpg123 stalls everytime ("Catilina")
Re: XWindows ("Peter T. Breuer")
IRIX and linux ("ma")
Re: SSH authentication ? ("Peter T. Breuer")
XFMail refuses to open mail (Hans-Joachim Zierke)
Re: XWindows ("Tushar Jog")
Re: Precision of Linux's libm??? (David Konerding)
password about \\Linux\ipc$ ("Jacky")
Re: Precision of Linux's libm??? (bill davidsen)
Re: Software RAID-0 causes jitters (David Konerding)
Re: Lilo question:How to move Linux Drive to secondary IDE port. (Dances With Crows)
Re: PPP problem (David Turley)
Question on a new Red Hat 6.0 Linux install (Dave LaPorte)
howto: mount points ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor off by blank: Can I disable it?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:02:25 -0500
Hello, everyone.
One of the nice things about linux that i find is that if there is no user
activity for some period of time, the monitor is blanked out, by default.
Most new monitors will take that as a sign to "sleep" or something , and
power down, eventually turn off. ( My gt775 does it :)
Most old monitors just sit there. ( No problem)
How do I gain control of this feature?
Why would I want to ?
a) To change the inactivity time limit.
b) specify how the "Monitor off" is to be done.
c) I have - among others - a 486 computer that runs only Linux (used for
MASQ ), connected to an old monitor ( which is usually kept turned off ),
and no keyboard. I've directed the logs to send it to tty1 but I can't see
the text,unless I attach a keyboard, and hit some key . Here's the thing: I
do not want to attach a keyboard _just_ to check tty1 once in a while .
Ideal situation would be : Go to comp, check log, and may be leave it on
,over the next several hours while I experiment and watch the results
unfold!
If anybody has any clue, even some idea as to where I might look, I'd love
to read it .
Thanks.
joseph
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From: Ishikawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.liux.questions
Subject: Has anyone used LINEO ?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:26:31 +0900
www.lineo.com distributes "embedix" which
is an embedded version of linux.
Has anyone used it and would like to share the
"feel" of the distribution?
Since the download requires input private information before we can
do so, I would rather find out how the distribution works.
One article found via deja.com search mentioned it lacked
DiskOnChip driver.
But other than that, I can't find any mention of the
size, ease of installation, functionality, etc..
Anyone?
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Subject: Re: staroffice running slowly
Date: 29 Mar 2000 18:52:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2000 23:29:55 EST Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >If all you're doing is word processing, try AbiWord out. It's much
> >leaner.
>
> Of course, if you need tables, or mail merge, or any of several other
> features, you have to wait, since they haven't been added to AbiWord
> yet. (I like the program, but it's not a word processor yet, being
> more comparable to the old Windows Write.)
> --
Then buy Applix Office. It's both lean and with all the usual features
(Oh, and it also puts text on paper <G>).
*And* it doesn't take over your desktop.
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
========================================================
"How to make God laugh?"
"Tell Him your plans."
(paraphrased from "Foundation's Fear" - Gregory Benford)
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From: Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.postgres,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: how to use DBI with PostGres?
Date: 29 Mar 2000 12:51:19 -0500
>>>>> "Markus" == Markus Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Markus> install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't locate DBD/Pg.pm in @INC (@INC
Markus> contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
Markus> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
Markus> .) at (eval 1) line 3.
Markus> Perhaps the DBD::Pg perl module hasn't been fully installed,
Markus> or perhaps the capitalisation of 'Pg' isn't right.
Markus> Available drivers: ADO, ExampleP, Proxy, mysql.
Markus> at hellodbhandle.pl line 24
What does
find /usr/lib/perl5 -name 'Pg.pm'
show? Maybe the module is not installed?
roland
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Muller Data Corp, 395 Hudson Avenue, New York, NY 10014 USA
Tel: 212 807-5143; Fax: 212 989-7193
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: frequent crashes related to kswapd "kernel paging request"
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:02:33 -0500
I was getting this kind of error messages when one of my ram modules went
bad. I didn't know, and I went through hell trying to reinstall, to no
avail, of course. Then I took the modules out one at the time. When the
bad one was out, everything was fine. I shouldn't have wiped out
everything trying to reinstall, thinking that I had bad blocks on the
disk.
paul wrote:
> I just upgraded my computer and am now getting
> frequent crashes usually when the computer is accessing the hard drive
> heavily. When I reset and check the logs it is always related to a
> kswapd problem, and a "couldn't handle kernel paging request". I was
> wondering if since it was paging could it be a problem with my RAM?
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Paul
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From: "Efraim Mostrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SV: Editing MIME types ...
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:10:57 +0200
> /usr/local/Acrobat4/bin/acroread %f
>=20
Hm, try %s instead, it could work.
/Efraim
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Re-sizing partition -- What's the best tool?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:08:47 -0800
Jean-Sebastien Morisset wrote:
>
> Are there any good tools to re-size partitions on Linux? I'm talking about
> shrinking/growing "on the fly" w/o needing to backup/restore, etc.
Partition Magic is probably the best
(http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/index.html),
but most expensive.
For less expensive, check out:
Paragon Partition Manager
http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/n_pm.htm
For free, check out:
Ranish Partition Manager
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/
FIPS
http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/
The Partition Resizer (presizer)
http://members.xoom.com/Zeleps/
parted
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/
Of these, I think the only ones that can both resize and move are
Paragon, Partition Magic, Partition Resizer, and parted.
Note that ALL of these programs say *back up your data just in case!*
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Ottinger)
Crossposted-To: comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:17:28 GMT
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:59:59 GMT, David Steuber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have modifiers-sticky turned on, but I am still tiring of the
>excessive finger travel to do simple things. I am working on learning
>VIM to see if that will make programming any easier.
I have abbreviations and line and word completions and all, along with
the VIM command set being parsimonious on keystrokes, and hardly type
at all. One coworker describes my editing as "a blur". :-)
Tim
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From: Drewbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i'm an idiot and sorry for wasting your time
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:26:52 -0800
3com external modem works just fine(although more expensive then
internal win modems). I don't know of any pci modem that works with
linux.
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From: Blackstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo question:How to move Linux Drive to secondary IDE port.
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:25:33 -0500
I would like to move my Linux RHv6.1 drive(/dev/hdb) to the secondary
IDE port(/dev/hdc). I recently removed my IDE CD and CD-R drives from
my system and installed a SCSI Plextor CD-RW drive and Seagate SCSI
Hornet NS20 Travan tape drive. By doing this I have freed up the
secondary IDE port.
Lilo is on the MBR of /dev/hda (Windoze98). Lilo fails to boot Linux if
I move the drive to /dev/hdc. I know I can change the Lilo to the MBR of
the second drive and restore the MBR of /dev/hda with FDISK /MBR. I want
to use my bios at boot up to select which drive to boot.
System:
PII 350Mhz
128 mb ram
Voodoo Banshee AGP card
Sound Card: ES1371 (SB PCI 128)
Ethernet: Linksys 10/100 (Cable Modem Access)
SCSI:
PLEXTOR 32/12/4X CD-RW
Seagate NS20 Travan Tape Drive
/dev/hda: Maxtor 20G drive (Windoze98)
/dev/hdb: Maxtor 8G (Linux RHv6.1) Want it to be /dev/hdc
I have read the HOWTO on adding drives, etc. They don't expressly say
how to do the lilo change without moving files to a new HD.
Any help would be appreciated!: )
My present /etc/lilo.conf file:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
vga=0
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20.scsi
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
read-only
root=/dev/hdb7
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20-1
label=linux.old
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
read-only
root=/dev/hdb7
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
label=linux.org
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
read-only
root=/dev/hdb7
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
Thanx,
Pete McDade
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Catilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem: mpg123 stalls everytime
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:29:38 +0200
The problem seems to be related to the speed of my drive. Since it's only
5200 rpm (or something like that), it's not fast enough. I'm currently using
mp3blaster, which seems a little more crash-resistant ;-)
I still find it rather strange, maybe something to look into in future
versions?
Catilina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:954177738.561779@marvin...
> Has anyone else experienced problems with mpg123? If i use my drive for
> anything else while playing an mp3, it just stalls, and i have to press
> ctrl-c to end it. I'm using debian 2.2, celeron 300, 128 MB ram.
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> C.
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XWindows
Date: 29 Mar 2000 18:29:08 GMT
Jens Grivolla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 29 Mar 2000 03:13:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) wrote:
:>The mail program is setuid, and it's owned by some user other than
:>you (probably root). You can either use xhost to let anyone local
:>run X programs, or chown the mailer to be owned by you.
:>
:>Look at "man xhost" and "man chown". For info on setuid files,
:>"man chmod".
: Why would a mail program be setuid? If this was really the case I
It's suid so it can write in /var/spool/mqueue. If it weren't, then
/var/spool/mqueue would have to be publicly writable. And then of
course it has to be root in order to talk on port 25!
: would consider this a _major_ security problem and would definitely
Then you consider up a gum tree. Every mailer has to go root to mail
out.
: Just opening your Xserver to everyone is definitely not the way to go.
You can choose who everyone is. Usually it's just me :-).
Peter
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From: "ma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IRIX and linux
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:37:34 +0100
Hi all,
I have some IRIX Optical drives that I need to read them. I install a
Corel Linux ( a debian one) and tried to read these disks but I am not
successful. How I can do this?
what is the file system on IRIX? I tried sysv but not successful.
any help appreciated.
Regards.
Ps: Please send a replay to my email too. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SSH authentication ?
Date: 29 Mar 2000 18:38:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Below is a summary of the steps that have been described in the man
: pages of the SSH1 protocol authentication. However I'm hoping someone
: can clerify them for me since it does not make any logical sense.
: Here is where my confusion is:
: a). In # 2 the MAN page said that the Server send it's Public key and
: the Clients Public key to the Client. However what is there to prevent
: a fake Server from sending that same Public key and the Clients Public
: key to the client ?
What do you mean by fake? The server is the machine you connected to.
It's a separate question as to how you authenticate it. The point
here is that the server sends its own public key in the clear to the
client. If the client has seen that server before it can (a) check
that its the same as before and (b) immediately start using it to code
its replies with. Only the REAL server will be able to decode those
messages!
I.e. nothing stops a fake server doing that, and it's completely
useless.
: b). In # 4 the the client then generates a random 256 bit number which
: is encrypted using the Clients Public key and the Server Public key. If
: that is the case how is the Server supose to decrypt the random number
: since it would only know the Server Private key and not the Clients
: Private key ?
It's probably a doc mistake. It could better encode the number using its
private key and then the servers public key. The server then decodes
it using its private key and then the clients public key. The client
didn't even have to bother using its own key in this exchange, but
it did, presumably so that the server can verify that it's who it says
it is.
: If someone can clerify the whole process that would be great.
: Thanks.
: ------------------------------------------------
: 1. First a user types: ssh servername.ca
: In Unix\Linux the client computer reads the ~user/.ssh/config and
: the /etc/ssh/ssh_config files.
: (Each client has a 1024 bit key to identify itself, and each server key
: is 768 bits, and this RSA key is regenerated by the Server every hour it
: is used or when the daemon starts.)
: 2. Once the client connects to the Server, the Server uses the RSA
: Cipher algorighm and sends:
: Server Public Key + Client Public Key which is stored on the server
: /etc/ssh_known_hosts
: (Client Public key was already on the Server since it was placed there
: during the very first connection to the Server.)
: 3. Now the client check the Server Public Key against the one in it's
: own list of ssh_known_hosts, and if
: it's a match then we know it's the same Server. (Prevents Spoofing.)
: 4. The client then generates a 256 bit random number and encrypts it
: using the client public key and the Server public key. This encrypted
: number is then send to the server which only the Server can decrypt
: using it's private key.
: 5. Now both sides use this random number as a session key to encrypt all
: the communication during the connection. The rest of the session is
: encrypted using the default cypher IDEA.
: 6. In the final step the client tries to authenticate itself using
: password authentication. The .rhosts authentication is disabled by
: default on the Server, since it is insecure. The Server can be
: configured using command line options which will override the config
: file.
: Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
: Before you buy.
--
=====================================================================
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Area de Ingenieria Telematica E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dpto. Ingenieria Tel: +34 91 624 91 80
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Fax: +34 91 624 94 30/65
Butarque 15, E-28911 Leganes URL: http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb
Spain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans-Joachim Zierke)
Subject: XFMail refuses to open mail
Date: 29 Mar 2000 17:56:56 GMT
Suse 6.1, xfmail 1.3 on XFree/Windowmaker
Has worked well for several months.
Now: XFMail does not show reaction to open mail command, not to doubleclick
left, not to single click middle, not to menue entry, not to keyboard
shortcut.
Any ideas about how to get it going again?
hajo
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From: "Tushar Jog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XWindows
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:41:51 -0600
this happens sometimes when you try to telnet
you need to add the new machine on your xhost lisk
xhost machinename
"Glennzo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all. Can anyone give me a little insight as to what the following
> messages mean?
>
> Xlib: Connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to server
> kmail: cannot connect to xserver :0
>
> This happens when I try to run the mail program in KDE. When I click on
the
> icon for the mail program, I hear some disk activity for a second or two,
> but the program never comes up. Was also happening yesterday when trying
to
> run Netscape, which I'm using right now to send this message. (Netscape
> started working by itself today.)
>
> Thank you...
>
> Glenn Johnson
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Konerding)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Precision of Linux's libm???
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:19:54 GMT
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:01:19 -0800, Tom Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>> From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: Precision of Linux's libm???
>>
>> chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > I am looking into doing so molecular modeling on Linux platforms because
>> > they are cost effective. After running some tests, I find errors,
>> > albeit small, in the results as compared to similar tests on SGIs or
>> > SUNs.
What do you mean errors? All floating point calculations on CPUs
involve some sort of approximation. There is round-off error and
truncation error. Each CPU implements floating point a little bit
different internally,
We get the same #'s in our molecular modelling code, on the various
CPUs: HP PA-RISC, MIPS, Alpha, ix86. A lot of work has gone into the
calculation of the potential, its derivative, and doing the timestep
integration to make sure that the calculation is accurate as possible.
In the past, the code was not "conserative" (it didn't compute the same
value across platforms), but with general improvement of the calculation
algorithm, it became the same across all platforms. I attribute this
to pretty much IEEE compliance on the part of these CPUs.
have you verified that what you ascribe to "errors" is not a value which
is "correct" within the limits of typical CPU precision? I assume you
are using double precision #s, right?
Note there is one small point I need to mention here: one of the
bug-fixes we made was to replace the Linux/GNU libc implementation of
the erfc() (error function, complementary) because we found an error
in the libc implementation. The new code has been submitted to the
libc programmers, but I don't know if it's been implemented there. So,
indeed, if your modelling code uses the erfc() function, then you may
see an error.
PS: even if there is a small difference in the values, you're not really
concerned by that. Due to the chaotic nature of molecular dynamics
simulations, a tiny difference *will* accumulate over time to be a
large difference. But you're not so concerned with that, since you'll
usually end up averaging a property over the whole time course of the
simulation, and that value can be measured to be the same even if the
two simulations do deviate on two architectures with slightly different
FPU implementations.
Dave
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From: "Jacky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: password about \\Linux\ipc$
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 03:21:31 +0800
hi~
when i try to conenct my linux server on my win9x computer, it always tells
me password about
\\LINUX\IPX$ ...
what is it ?
how can i do about it ?
thanks
WenTai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Precision of Linux's libm???
Date: 29 Mar 2000 19:23:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Johan Kullstam wrote:
| > From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > Subject: Re: Precision of Linux's libm???
| >
| > chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >
| > > I am looking into doing so molecular modeling on Linux platforms because
| > > they are cost effective. After running some tests, I find errors,
| > > albeit small, in the results as compared to similar tests on SGIs or
| > > SUNs.
| >
| > most CPUs use IEEE 64 bit floating point (or 32 bit sometimes). intel
| > uses 80 bit floating point registers.
| ....
| yes, internal registers....
[ much discussion of numerical analysis deleted ]
I will just note here, gcc supports "long double" to allow use of 80
bit results stored in variables. This is not (a) portable nor (b) a
substitute for good numerical analysis, but it does allow things which
just would not produce any significant digits otherwise.
It also can make some things converge a *lot* faster!
Example:
#include <stdio.h>
#define dodiff(t,x) x = 1 - 3 * x;\
if (x < 0) x = -x;\
printf("%20s %.4Le\n", t, one/x)
main() {
long double foo, one = 1;
double bar;
float zot;
foo = 1; foo /= 3;
bar = 1; bar /= 3;
zot = 1; zot /= 3;
printf("Values:\n%35.30f\n%35.30f\n%35.30Lf\n", zot, bar, foo);
printf("\nError, 1 part in:\n");
dodiff("float", zot);
dodiff("double", bar);
dodiff("long double", foo);
exit(0);
}
--
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The hardest test of maturity is knowing the difference between
resisting temptation and missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Konerding)
Subject: Re: Software RAID-0 causes jitters
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:29:06 GMT
>
>Welcome to the wonderful world of cheap IDE drives.
>
>The whole system "jitters", because while the drives are transferring data,
>interrupts are disabled. So, since the system can't get the interrupt from
>the serial port for the mouse, the pointer appears to jitter.
>
>If you were using a modem at the time of the "jitters", you'd find that you're
>losing data there, too.
This is a very common problem. It gets really bad if you're swapping.
Why, back in the old days, I had a 486 with 4MB RAM and I tried to run X,
emacs, and gcc at the same time. boy did the system "jitter"! Upgrading
to 32MB was much nicer- X, emacs, and gcc could run at the same time
However, there is a way to fix this (somewhat): get multiple ATA/66 cards,
plug each HD (preferably same capacity & make) into its own ATA/66 card.
use ATA/66 drives, make sure ATA/66 support is enabled, use DMA, try
tuning with commands like:
% hdparm -u1 -d1 -m16 /dev/hda
then configure your RAID0 over the drives.
I don't know if you can boot off this sort of thing.
With SCSI if you put a bunch of devices on one channel it's less efficient
than if you put one device each one its own channel.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Lilo question:How to move Linux Drive to secondary IDE port.
Date: 29 Mar 2000 14:35:28 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:25:33 -0500, Blackstar
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I would like to move my Linux RHv6.1 drive(/dev/hdb) to the secondary
>IDE port(/dev/hdc).
>Lilo is on the MBR of /dev/hda (Windoze98). Lilo fails to boot Linux if
>I move the drive to /dev/hdc. I know I can change the Lilo to the MBR of
>the second drive and restore the MBR of /dev/hda with FDISK /MBR.
It seems as though the BIOS has a hard time reading from anything but the
first two IDE drives on bootup. LILO also won't work unless it's
somewhere on the first hard disk. (From the LILO documentation.)
>I want to use my bios at boot up to select which drive to boot.
Yuck. If you reboot your machine frequently, that means every time you
boot, you have to waste 10-15 seconds messing with the BIOS. Not cool,
plus it might not work the way you expect. I installed LILO on the MBR of
/dev/hdb and told the BIOS to boot from that drive. No go, though the
kernel and the map file were on /dev/hdb well udner the 1024-limit.
If I were you, I'd try this: Put your Linux disk on /dev/hda, and put
your WinXX disk on /dev/hdc. Install LILO in the MBR of your Linux disk,
and have the lilo.conf be like this:
other=/dev/hdc1
label=dos
table=/dev/hdc
I do not know if this will work, though it should with recent BIOSes.
Whether WinXX can handle being on /dev/hdc is another story entirely.
--
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: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: PPP problem
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:36:07 GMT
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:09:11 -0500, Chris Davis apparently wrote:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Why? Use ASCII.
> "This kernel has no PPP support, neither compiled in nor via the kernel
> module loader.
This has been discussed ad infinitum. This isa bug in kppp. It does not
affect how it works. Click okay to dismiss th dialogue and dial in. If ppp
support is there, kppp will dial even if it claims support is not built in.
>
> --------------217E7236E937210982D5BD64
> Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii;
>
And what purpose does this serve?
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David Turley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave LaPorte)
Subject: Question on a new Red Hat 6.0 Linux install
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:36:13 GMT
Could someone help me with the following questions. I have
just recently installed Red Hat linux 6.0 on a new system. I have
installed the os as a server, without preconfiguring any of the
partition sizes, I just let the Red Hat install program set it up as
defualt. Every thing went well with the install except for three
questions.
1. Why, after doing a ' ls ' from the root dir ' / ' do all
the sub dirrectorys have a / after them. ie: etc/, dev/, home/. I
have another server that's the exact same os, ( only a consultant set
that one up ) yet that server doen't have the trailing slash's.
2. Why, after createing a new file on the server that I
loaded the os on, do all filenames end with an '*' ie: firstfile*
secondfile* etc. After doing a ls in any dir, where I created files,
the files end with a *.
3. How do I set the linux xwindow system to kde. What is the
easiest way to do that. I can log in as root, and for some reason (
after clicking on the desktop to get the menu's to come up ) there is
now option to get to linuxconf etc.
Any help would be appreaciated. And sorry for the newbee
questions..!
Thanks
Dave LaPorte.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: howto: mount points
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:27:18 GMT
I need to know how to create a mount point...
the reason for this is as follows:
we just installed a new harddrive onto a linux apache webserver and
copied the old copy of the site to the new drive.
now we are ready to delete the old copy of the site but (obviously) not
the new one.
I The plan for doing this is to mount the old drive (/dev/hda3) onto a
new point (old_mount). Then cd /old_mount and delete the files.
In order to do this, i need to know two things:
1. How do i create the new mount point?
and
2. How do i "cd /old_mount"? I know this may sound like a dumb
question, but i was unable to simply "cd /mnt" when attepmting to
access a mount point previously created. This leads me to the
cunclusion that either the mount point was not correctly created, or i
need to do something special to access. (im leaning toward the former)
Many thanks for all of your help!
Joe
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