Linux-Misc Digest #249, Volume #24 Tue, 25 Apr 00 11:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: linux programs, tools and functionality for windows? (Leejay Wu)
Re: templates and g++ (Leejay Wu)
Re: alsa modprobe? (Marcel Pol)
Sound for the VIA82C686A (K7V motherboard) chipset??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to enable 'fastboot' option in rc.sysinit (Lawrence Rachman)
Re: Freeedom to Innovate Network ("David ..")
Re: Can't get "Applets" to work ("David ..")
ICQ masquerading problems (Jean-Sebastien Morisset)
Re: Setting CMOS time/date? (Ricky Crow)
Re: Sound for the VIA82C686A (K7V motherboard) chipset??? (Duane)
supermount (jeff lang)
Re: Acrobat PDF files (M Sweger)
I think I have been HACKED!!! (JoeB)
Re: EMERGENCY!!! (Dave Brown)
Re: forced umount not supported yet?? (Robie Basak)
Location of 9wm, 9term, 9menu, sam, wily.. (ish rattan)
Re: Kernel Compile problem (Robie Basak)
Installing Linux over Win98 (Nathan Weston)
Re: ICQ masquerading problems (Johann Maas)
Re: Creating multiple pages automatically (Robie Basak)
Re: comparsions between ipmasq firewall and wingate (Sean LeBlanc)
Re: voodoo 2000 video card problem ("Barry Kiernan")
Re: DBF Databases for Linux? (Leslie Mikesell)
window sizes too large for the screen (Ramin Sina)
Starting xfs (David Rolfe)
Re: Starting xfs (Hal Burgiss)
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux programs, tools and functionality for windows?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:06:34 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 23-Apr-100 Re: linux programs,
tools a.. by Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <mQDM4.114$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Hutchison wrote:
> >
> >SAP User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:8dkhou$g35$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> due to a job change I have to work with windows instead of linux :-(((
> >>
> >> Are there any sites of information about programs for windows which
> >> provide some of the functionality of a nice linux system?
> >>
> >> For example:
> >> * bash
[snip]
sourceware.cygnus.com: check out 'cygwin', which appears to include
bash and a horde of nifty CLI tools, ranging from tar, to, apparently,
egcs.
> >> * emacs
> >I am sure there are some Win equivalent files around.,
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
Or if you want a much, *MUCH* smaller version, try searching for
MicroEmacs.
[snip]
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
|--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
| #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: templates and g++
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:20:40 -0400
[ More of a C++ Q than Linux, but... Advocacy NG trimmed from header. ]
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 23-Apr-100 templates and g++
by Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Does anyone here know how to get templates working with g++ ?
You've already figured it out. Got a copy of Lippman, or any
other C++ textbook? The examples in, say, Lippman, do the exact
same thing... #including the source file(s).
> For example, I have a file graph.cpp and graph.h, and main.cpp.
> It refuses to link unless I use #include "graph.cpp" in the file
> main.cpp
[code snipped]
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| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
|--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
| #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
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From: Marcel Pol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa modprobe?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 13:07:37 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
12stcentury wrote:
> the problem is that when I try to "modprobe snd-card-trident" I
> get a "can't locate module snd-card-trident".
Try the command depmod -a
That might solve your problem.
================
Marcel Pol
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/marcelpol
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Sound for the VIA82C686A (K7V motherboard) chipset???
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:00:32 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
Does anyone have any idea how to get the sound working
for the VIA82C686A chipset.
I have the new ASUS K7V motherboard and have been trying to get the
sound working, and frankly have tried all I know...
My BIOS is all enables re sound (I have onboard sound AC97).
My kernel is 2.2.14 and it is compiled with sound, VIA and OSS
support set to yes by menu config.
Has anyone else been successful in getting the sound device
working on a k7v motherboard???
Thanks,
Luben
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From: Lawrence Rachman <"_lr_"@(nospam).yahoo.com>
Reply-To: nospam <[email protected]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: How to enable 'fastboot' option in rc.sysinit
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:02:33 GMT
The subject says it all: How do I enable the 'fastboot' option found in
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. I've checked the faqs and my usual q+a sites, but
can't seem to find anything.
(Yes, I know that turning this on is a bad idea, but I need to do it
anyway.)
Thanks in advance, and please cc your reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
LR
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Freeedom to Innovate Network
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:29:45 -0500
Tony Lawrence wrote:
>
> Please be sure to check out
> http://www.microsoft.com/freedomtoinnovate/ which is (try
> not to gag):
"FUD"
Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get "Applets" to work
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:49:51 -0500
Charles P Koerner wrote:
>
> Running RH 6.1 and Netscape 6.
>
> I can get Netscape 6 to run if I go to File Manager, cd/ Netscape6, cd
> package, double click on "Netscape".
> The above path is "/Netscape6/package/netscape".
>
> When I type the above path in a command line for an appalet (similiar
> to an Icon) it dosen't work. Nothing happens.
>
> Any help?
> Pete Koerner
You can cd /path/to/package/
Then ./netscape
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Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Jean-Sebastien Morisset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ICQ masquerading problems
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 17:14:06 -0400
I've installed the ICQ module, and it seems to be working fine, but my ICQ
won't go online. If I take a look at my firewall logs, I can see the UDP
packet being sent, but nothing comes back! Here's a snippet of my log:
Apr 23 17:05:24 marvin kernel: ip_masq_icq: LOGIN
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:13417<-60211/3429, protocol v5
Apr 23 17:05:24 marvin kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth1 PROTO=17
24.201.24.83:61469 205.188.153.106:4000 L=163 S=0x00 I=20702 F=0x0000 T=127
(#84)
I have full logging on (input AND output) so I would see any incoming
packet.
I'm running ICQ on a Windows98 box within my private LAN. From the logs, you
can see the internal IP for this box (10.1.1.20). I'm wondering if the ICQ
server is trying to reply to this IP.
Anyone had a similar problem?
Thanks,
js.
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Personal Homepage <http://www.jsmoriss.dyndns.org/>
UNIX, Internet, Homebrewing, Cigars, PCS, CP2020 and other Fun Stuff...
This is Linux Country. On a quiet night you can hear Windows NT reboot!
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From: Ricky Crow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting CMOS time/date?
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:19:23 -0500
Supposedly, you can do a "clock -w" and it will write the time.
Ricky
Stewart Honsberger wrote:
> sets the date/time under Linux, not the CMOS clock. How does one go about
> setting the CMOS clock with the values present under Linux?
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Sound for the VIA82C686A (K7V motherboard) chipset???
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:23:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to get the sound working
> for the VIA82C686A chipset.
>
> I have the new ASUS K7V motherboard and have been trying to get the
> sound working, and frankly have tried all I know...
>
> My BIOS is all enables re sound (I have onboard sound AC97).
> My kernel is 2.2.14 and it is compiled with sound, VIA and OSS
> support set to yes by menu config.
>
> Has anyone else been successful in getting the sound device
> working on a k7v motherboard???
>
> Thanks,
> Luben
Get the ALSA sound driver at http://www.alsa-project.org
It works great on my system; not a Asus motherboard, but it does
use the VIA82C686A.
--
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Before you buy.
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From: jeff lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: supermount
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 21:30:08 GMT
i have supermount compiled into the Kernal. how do i get it to mount my 2
cdrom drives and my floppy?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Acrobat PDF files
Date: 23 Apr 2000 21:57:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What about all the other variations such as .eps and the encrytped pdf
stuff?
--
Mike,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: I think I have been HACKED!!!
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:00:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I think our mail server has been hacked into. These are some traces I
saw.
Can someone please confirm the fact that we have been hacked into and
how to prevent such actions in future:
I saw these Traces:
ps -aux | grep inetd ; ps -aux|grep portmap ; rm /sbin/portmap ;
rm /tmp /h ; rm /usr/sbin/rpc.portmap ; rm -rf .bash* ; rm -rf
/root/.bash_history ;
rm -rf /usr/sbin/named
pico /etc/shadow
pico /etc/passwd
rm /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
mv login /bin/login
chgrp bin /usr/bin/xstat
chmod 555 /usr/bin/xstat
rm /bin/login
cp /bin/login /usr/bin old
ftp 202.235.7.158
gcc -o login bj.c
chown root bin login
./lkp eth0 &
cat The_10gz | more -- This file contains all of our mail including user
ID's and Passwords. I do not know how this file was generated
Other IP addresses: 209.91.80.42
203.109.201.68
Please help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown)
Subject: Re: EMERGENCY!!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Apr 2000 17:16:14 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, mh wrote:
>...
>I ran "cfdisk /dev/sdb" and cfdisk reported the entire drive (single
>partition) as "free space"!! I ran "e2fsck /dev/sdb" and it reports
>problems with several inodes and prompts me to "relocate". I am afraid
>to do this, since I fear losing ALL data and have no other backup.
>Unless disk druid did something to sdb, the drive should be intact. I'm
>hoping the errors have something to do with the way the extended
>filesystem/super block was written on sda rather than a problem with
>sdb.
>
>Suggestions/recommendations will be much appreciated.
I'd suggest booting up with a rescue diskette and looking at the partition
tables of each drive with fdisk. I've not been impressed with cfdisk.
(In fact, I'm not even sure I like the latest version of fdisk... you
now have to type a device name on the command line--it no longer defaults
to anything.) If you had the original partitioning of the disks, you
could probably rewrite those same parameters using fdisk and find that
the data is still there. (I usually make a copy of "fdisk -l" output
just in case.)
--
Dave Brown Austin, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: forced umount not supported yet??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Apr 2000 22:24:55 GMT
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:25:02 +0800, Calvin said:
>
>I found none of them being umounted ......
[entering diagnostic mode]
Drop down to runlevel 3 if you are in 5 by typing:
init 3
as root. I'm not asking you to go down to 1 as I no longer trust your
system to do it right :-)
Then shutdown all daemons:
for i in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S*; do $i stop; done
Now try unmounting all filesystems:
umount -a
and remount root read-only:
mount -n -o remount,ro /
What are the errors (and can you list /proc/mounts at this point)?
Check the integrity of umount by typing:
rpm -V mount
if OK, then this should give nothing. Otherwise, show us the output.
Bring the system back up by typing:
mount -n -o remount,rw /
mount -a
for i in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S*; do $i start;done
(and if required)
init 5
Robie.
>
>Robie Basak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:52:49 +0800, Calvin said:
>> >Yes, i have mounted a ext2 partition to /boot and a vfat partition to
>> >/win98.
>> >Is there any way that i can check which process isn't terminated??
>>
>> Place the command:
>> /sbin/sulogin
>> in the shutdown script; in Redhat 5.2 it is /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt IIRC.
>> This should appear just after all filesystems are unmounted (except for
>> /, which is remounted read-only).
>>
>> Then do:
>> cat /proc/mounts
>> to see which are remaining.
>>
>> Press Ctrl-D to continue shutdown.
>>
>> Robie.
>>
>> >
>> >Best regards
>> >Calvin
>> >
>> >Reid Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >> Redhat 5.2 isn't all that great. You will have alot less problems by
>> >> upgrading to 6.2
>> >>
>> >> It seems you have programs that are not getting terminated and that are
>> >> still keeping your drives mounted. umount still as of today does not
>> >support
>> >> force unmounting. It's best if you manually attempt to unmount your
>drives
>> >> before rebooting. I'm guessing you're mounted drives other then your
>root
>> >> / ) drive.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Calvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> >> news:8dq3ek$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> > I am using redhat 5.2. After i updated a few rpm packages, the
>> >> following
>> >> > error messages is shown everytime i shutdown my linux box.
>> >> >
>> >> > Turning off swap [ok]
>> >> > Turning off quotas [ok]
>> >> > Unmounting file system umount: forced umount not supported yet [fail]
>> >> > Unmounting file system umount: forced umount not supported yet [fail]
>> >> > Unmounting file system umount: forced umount not supported yet [fail]
>> >> >
>> >> > The rpm packages i updated are as following:
>> >> > initscripts-5.09-1
>> >> > e2fsprogs-1.18-5
>> >> > console-tools-19990829-10
>> >> > procps-2.0.6-5
>> >> > modutils-2.3.9-6
>> >> > sysklogd-1.3.31-16
>> >> > setup-2.1.8-1
>> >> > timeconfig-3.0.3-2
>> >> > vixie-cron-3.0.1-40
>> >> >
>> >> > I think the problem comes from the initscripts package. Do anyone
>> >know
>> >> > how to solve it?? My kernel is 2.2.9
>> >> >
>> >> > Best regards
>> >> > Calvin
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>
>
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 18:23:29 -0400
From: ish rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Location of 9wm, 9term, 9menu, sam, wily..
Where can I find the sources (compile under Linux), RPM or SRPM for
Plan9 utilities: 9wm, 9term, 9menu, sam, wily?
- ishwar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Apr 2000 22:36:56 GMT
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 07:49:14 +0800, Yanie said:
>Assuming that '/dev/hda1' is the root disk used by the existing kernel, that
>was exactly what I did.
Do you mean to solve your problem, an attempt to solve your problem
which didn't work, or to cause your problem?
> It looks like kernel won't run if it's mounting a root disk which
>doesn't belong to it. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it ?
Sorry, I'm not sure I understand you. What do you mean by 'doesn\'t belong
to it'?
Robie.
>
>>>So, I altered /etc/lilo.conf manually, ran lilo -C, lilo accepted my new
>>>lilo.conf. When I boot, I came to a point that a message saying "Kernel
>>
>>Edit /etc/lilo.conf, add the option:
>> root=/dev/hda1
>>changing hda1 to whatever it is in your case (/etc/fstab should tell you).
>>
>>Robie.
>>--
>
>
--
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From: Nathan Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux over Win98
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:30:20 GMT
I was looking into setting up my win98 machine as a linux/win98 dual-
boot, when I discovered several linux distributions that can share a
partition with windows (DragonLinux, PHATLinux, ArmedLinux). This seems
like an easier solution than creating a separate Linux partition. But I
couldn't find much info about these distributions. Does anyone have any
experience with them? How do they stack up to each other and the more
common distributions?
BTW I have experience with setting up/maintaining a Linux system,
although I have used RedHat a fair amount, mostly for programming in my
CS classes.
Thanks,
Nathan
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From: Johann Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ICQ masquerading problems
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:38:27 GMT
Jean-Sebastien Morisset schrieb:
> I've installed the ICQ module, and it seems to be working fine, but my ICQ
> won't go online. If I take a look at my firewall logs, I can see the UDP
> packet being sent, but nothing comes back! Here's a snippet of my log:
>
> Apr 23 17:05:24 marvin kernel: ip_masq_icq: LOGIN
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:13417<-60211/3429, protocol v5
> Apr 23 17:05:24 marvin kernel: Packet log: output ACCEPT eth1 PROTO=17
> 24.201.24.83:61469 205.188.153.106:4000 L=163 S=0x00 I=20702 F=0x0000 T=127
> (#84)
>
> I have full logging on (input AND output) so I would see any incoming
> packet.
>
> I'm running ICQ on a Windows98 box within my private LAN. From the logs, you
> can see the internal IP for this box (10.1.1.20). I'm wondering if the ICQ
> server is trying to reply to this IP.
>
> Anyone had a similar problem?
>
> Thanks,
> js.
> --
>
You have to change the timeouts. This is discribed in the Masquerading HOWTO.
Johann
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Creating multiple pages automatically
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Apr 2000 22:41:01 GMT
This isn't really a Linux question.
Try writing a Perl script. I'm not sure exactly what you want, though.
Robie.
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000 03:06:55 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Hi,
>
> I have a huge list of guitar's tablatures (about 10 MB) and I want to make
>them available to the public, but it'd be almost impossible to only one
>person to make all the HTML files with all these tablatures.
> My question is: are there any kind of program (for Linux, if possible; if
>not, for any other operating system) to automatically generate HTMLs using
>a list of pre-defined Links and Text and splitting them in multiple pages?
> For example:
>I make a file called led_zeppelin.txt and this file contains:
>Song 1
>http://www.blah.org/blah/song1.txt
>
>Song 2
>http://www.blah.org/blah/song2.txt
>...
>
> And the program will automatically create a HTML named led_zeppelin.html,
>with the links pre-defined at led_zeppelin.txt, and having a default "style"
>of how to design the page.
>
> I already tried to create a Java script, but I figured that it's not a good
>idea to put Java script in all pages.
> I appreciate any help
--
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: comparsions between ipmasq firewall and wingate
From: Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:43:36 GMT
So if you weren't using squid, how would you go
w/o a hard drive? Can a boot disk be made that
has enough stuff on it to do ipmasq?
Cheers,
Sean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak) writes:
> On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:02:05 -0500, Henry Su said:
> >[snip]
> >
> >so here again is the question:
> >why should one prefer linux/ipmasq/squid over win/wingate?
>
> I think that a problem with this question is that many people here may
> not know anything about wingate :-)
>
> The only thing I can think of, is that your computer can be an old 486
> and handle an average net speed nicely, and does not need a keyboard,
> monitor or even a graphics card (nor a hard drive). Can wingate double
> as a firewall?
>
> Oh, if you're using squid, you'll most likely want a hard drive :-)
>
> Robie.
> --
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From: "Barry Kiernan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: voodoo 2000 video card problem
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:47:00 +0100
Well you must be a charmed man Steve because my Voodoo 3 2000 AGP card
refused to work
under the SVGA 3.3.3 and according to all the sites I visited in an attempt
to rectify the problem, you need 3.3.5.
Barry Kiernan
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Doc Shipley wrote:
>
> > The Voodoo3 is only supported in XFree86 v3.3.5 and later.
>
> Not quite true... it's supported by the SVGA driver in
> 3.3.3, as that's what I'm running right now. I'm currently
> typing this on a system with a VooDoo3 2000 running 1024x768x32
> and it works like a charm.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: DBF Databases for Linux?
Date: 23 Apr 2000 17:40:52 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I can't give you specifics, but DBF is a rare bird on Linux/Unix.
>>> Everything is SQL.
>>
>>DBF is a file format. SQL is a query language. On Windows, Visual FoxPro
>>uses each, as can ODBC.
>
>And? I think what he wants is a DBF compatible solution that works Mac,
>Linux, Windows with the emphasis on finding a Linux way of doing what he
>is now doing.
It isn't clear whether he wants separate instances of the same
database running on different platforms or one copy accessable
from all platforms at once. If the latter, moving to an
sql backend with ODBC or JDBC interfaces from the MAC and windows
programs would be best. I doubt if file locking would work
well enough to trust in a cross-platform setup. There are
some perl DBF tools on CPAN if you do stay with DBF files.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: window sizes too large for the screen
Date: 23 Apr 2000 18:52:26 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I recently installed 6.2 on my machine and chose 600 x 800
pixels for my screen. Now when I some applications their
window are too big. Putting a command in the .Xdefaults doesn't
really help. How do I change the default setting so that the
windows and fonts as well fit my screen?
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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From: David Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Starting xfs
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:49:15 +0000
So ... I said let's get true type fonts working! I have redhat 6.0 so
xfs is supposed to support it! And I have it working .... But not with
xfs the way it starts on boot. If I do a ps -ax |grep xfs, it is there
alright but there is no info about a port number. I have the line:
FontPath "unix/:-1" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. If I try to startx it
fails complaining about the font path and having no fixed font. If,
however, I su to root and issue:
xfs -config /etc/X11/fs/config -port 7100 & and then exit back to user
mode and THEN issue startx everybody is very happy. And if I do a ps -ax
|grep xfs, xfs shows up with a port. I pokked around and the code that
starts xfs at boot looks like:
start)
echo -n "Starting X Font Server: "
rm -fr /tmp/.font-unix
daemon --check xfs su xfs -c xfs -s /bin/sh
touch /var/lock/subsys/xfs
echo
;;
Any thoughts on what is going on? As I said earlier, if I go through the
rather ugly procedure mentioned above everything works. Oh yea and
putting the command in .xinitrc does not work. I think root must execute
it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Starting xfs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:02:14 GMT
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 22:49:15 +0000, David Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>So ... I said let's get true type fonts working! I have redhat 6.0 so
>xfs is supposed to support it! And I have it working .... But not with
>xfs the way it starts on boot. If I do a ps -ax |grep xfs, it is there
>alright but there is no info about a port number. I have the line:
>FontPath "unix/:-1" in /etc/X11/XF86Config. If I try to startx it
>fails complaining about the font path and having no fixed font. If,
>however, I su to root and issue:
> xfs -config /etc/X11/fs/config -port 7100 & and then exit back to user
>mode and THEN issue startx everybody is very happy. And if I do a ps -ax
>|grep xfs, xfs shows up with a port. I pokked around and the code that
>starts xfs at boot looks like:
>
>start)
> echo -n "Starting X Font Server: "
> rm -fr /tmp/.font-unix
> daemon --check xfs su xfs -c xfs -s /bin/sh
> touch /var/lock/subsys/xfs
> echo
> ;;
>
>Any thoughts on what is going on? As I said earlier, if I go through the
>rather ugly procedure mentioned above everything works. Oh yea and
>putting the command in .xinitrc does not work. I think root must execute
>it.
If it works as root and not as $USER, likely there is a permission
problem on /tmp, or the filesystem is full to the point only root can
write to it. RH has xfs starting as a non-root user.
http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/xfs.html#trouble
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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