Linux-Misc Digest #270, Volume #24 Tue, 25 Apr 00 12:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Re: need help with a modem config (Conexant) (Steve Fosdick)
Vm Ware problem (Richard Goldberg)
Re: lilo without 1024 cyl. limit (John in SD)
Re: Proxy Server ---- help ??? (Kok-Hong)
Re: About Linux booting? (John in SD)
Re: Red Hat 6.2 -- worth upgrading? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: what is clock skew? ("J. Kossen")
Re: Starting xfs (Hal Burgiss)
Re: News server recommendation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: lilo without 1024 cyl. limit ("Martin Sinot")
Re: News server recommendation (Curt Welch)
Re: HOT HD (David C.)
Re: News server recommendation (bill davidsen)
Re: About Linux booting? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: About Linux booting? (Andrew Williams)
Re: ATI Rage 128 and RH6.2 ("Lien-Fei (Alex) Chu")
Re: Floppy format problem. (David C.)
Re: Linux & Netscape: Cannot increase or decrease font size ("Lien-Fei (Alex) Chu")
Linux PSX software? ("Shane Jarych")
linuxconf problems (Pirooz Javan)
Doomhack (Mircea)
ALI 15xx missing from 2.2.14-5 (RedHat 6.2) (Peter Stein)
Re: About Linux booting? (Grant Edwards)
Re: IRQ Search (Matthew Haley)
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.ppp,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: need help with a modem config (Conexant)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:29:37 +0100
Kirk Wythers wrote:
> I need some help configuring a ppp on a redhat 6.2 box. My modem is a
> Conexant MDP3900V-U modem working under windows on COM2.
Conexant are well know for making winmodems - half a modem that requires
some of the work normally done by a proper modem to be done in a
specialised driver that runs on the host. Very few of these drivers
exist for Linux.
To check if yours in a WinModem look it up at
http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
--
Steve Fosdick Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Voice: +44 1473 642987 MSMAIL: BTEA/BTLIP23/FOSDICSJ
Fax: +44 1473 646656 BOAT: FOSDICSJ
Snail: B29/G34, BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, IP5 7RE, England.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Goldberg)
Subject: Vm Ware problem
Date: 25 Apr 2000 14:05:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi guys,
I had bee running vmware 1.1 for several months with no prolems (NT as
guest Madrake 6.1 as host).
I recenly upgraded my host to VA-linux enhanced redhat 6.1 (very nice
distro for linux nfs servers)) and upgraded vmware to 2.0 (left my
NT installaion alone), and all of the sudden I get some very funny
behaviour.
Networking in general works fine, I can see computers in the network
neighbourhood, go on the web... But I can not see/access one machine in
any way. By this I mean I can't connect to it in the network
neighbourhood, I can't ping it, http to it (by name or IP). This machine
is a DNS, fo if it is my only DNS I can't do an web stuff (but if I
use a secondary DNS I can). This machine is a sun runing solaris
2.7. Its a DNS, web server, mails ever, ftp server, and fle server
(running samba). Several other people in the lab are running vmware
(some 1.1 and some 2.0) but none with VA-linux.
Another strange problem, when I try to ping my virtual machine by name
or IP (or telnet to it, or http to it...), my host computer answers.
This happens if my VM is turned on or off.
I'm assuming the problem is with my linux settings, but I'm not sure.
Any pointers would be helpfull.
Thanks
-Rick Golderg
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: lilo without 1024 cyl. limit
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:30:52 GMT
John,
The whole point of the BIOS is to insulate the user/programmer from
the details of the hardware. The EDD interface is perfectly suited to
a SCSI implementation, IMHO. Why SCSI vendors would no implement it
is probably due more to economics -- programmers cost money -- than
any difficulties implementing the standard.
--John Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 24 Apr 2000 19:50:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock) wrote:
>Thanks for the URL; it's an interesting document. I notice though that
>it's over two years old. So there has been plenty of time for SCSI
>card vendors to have implemented the interface if it is their intention
>to do so. Do you have any particular reason to think that they ever
>will, other then a general expectation that they will put aside their
>differences and act in the customer's best interest? :-( I'm also a
>little dubious about whether it can really be that easy to transfer an
>EIDE interface to SCSI; are you sure this is actually do-able?
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>John,
>>
>>The EDD packet call interface is so straightforward that I would
>>expect SCSI vendors to begin implementing it. SCSI-2 uses 32-bit,
>>0-based addressing, and that is exactly what the standard is set up
>>for. (Actually the standard uses 64-bit addressing, but disks aren't
>>THAT big yet.)
>>
>>The EDD standard is available from:
>>
>> http://www.phoenix.com/products/specs.html
>
>>On 24 Apr 2000 13:57:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock) wrote:
>>
>>>I assume that you are talking about the Int 13 Extensions to the EIDE
>>>interface. Is that correct? If so, what about SCSI? My Adaptec SCSI
>>>card has two modes; in one mode 1024cyl = 1GB, in the other mode
>>>1024cyl = 7.8GB (or something like that). Since SCSI is not as
>>>standardized as EIDE, and every vendor seems to do things in a slightly
>>>different and incompatible way, is there any hope that LILO can be
>>>patched to boot from above the 1024th cylinder on a SCSI disk? Or have
>>>I totally misunderstood everything? :-)
>
>>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>>Joerg Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>I have written a patch for lilo.
>>>>Now you can access up to 2 Terrabytes of harddisk with lilo, if your
>>>>BIOS has EDD or EBD extensions (should be present in recent BIOSes since
>>>>1998)
>>>>Please, test it and report bugs to me.
>>>>You can find the files under
>>>>http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~jgbauman/lilo/
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From: Kok-Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Proxy Server ---- help ???
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:30:08 GMT
Most likely in your /usr/local/squid/etc/squid.conf
you have a line that says:
http_access deny all
Change it to:
http_access allow all
Benson Lei wrote:
>
>
> Hi, when I set up a proxy Server, I got the error message, any expert
tells
> me why ??
>
>
>
> The following error was encountered:
>
> a.. Access Denied.
> Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed
at
> this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is
> incorrect.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your help
>
>
>
>
>
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About Linux booting?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:33:48 GMT
The 1024 cylinder limitation is not a Linux, or Windows for that
matter, limitation. It is, rather, a BIOS limitation.
Newer BIOSs (post-1998) support booting beyond 1024 cylinders. Check
out my other posts on this subject.
--John Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:14:11 +0800, OrangeDino
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does Linux still have limitation that the root partition should be
>within 1024 cylinder of a hard disk for bootup from hard disk?
>Thanks for your concern!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2 -- worth upgrading?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:38:35 GMT
On 25 Apr 2000 07:27:47 PST, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>What do people think of Red Hat 6.2?
>
>Is it worth upgrading?
Yes.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "J. Kossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is clock skew?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 16:32:52 +0200
Maybe you should just set your clock right in your
BIOS/Windows/Linux(timetool).
Clockskew's happen when the compile-time/creation-date of files are after the
system's date...
Juergen Heinzl wrote:
> In article <8d84lm$c6e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Unruh wrote:
> >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>> when I try to complile such a source like kernel
> >>> I use to see these warnings
> >>> clock skew dectected. your build may not completed.
> >>> what does clock skew mean?
> >
> >I believe it means that there are files on the system which were
> >compiled tomorrow (ie, at a time later than the time shown on the
> >clock.) Since timetravel is not a known technology, the makers of linux
> >assumed that this state indictes an error situation, and warn you about
> >it.
> [...]
>
> ... and it can happen, as an example, if files reside on a NFS volume
> with the machines in question not synchronising their system time. Some
> other option would be the day where the system changes to daylight saving
> time.
>
> A Q&D solution is to do (in your case) a ...
> cd /usr/src/linux
> find * -exec touch {} \;
> ... and then the usual make config, make dep, make clean etc. to
> be on the safe side later on too.
>
> Cheers,
> Juergen
>
> --
> \ Real name : J�rgen Heinzl \ no flames /
> \ EMail Private : [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ send money instead /
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Starting xfs
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:40:53 GMT
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:46:32 +0000, David Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It is working. I know about the font paths in XF86Config. And I know
>about X looking for xfs. And it is a little strange that the ONLY
>invocation in XF86Config that allows X to find xfs is unix/:-1. Any
>reference to port 7100 just fails. I don't know why. Maybe it is a bug
>in X. But my stuff is definitely working now. I have the kde font
>manager up right now and am looking at the ms verdana font. So why does
>it work? Who knows?
I guess no point in rocking the boat. By the sounds of it, it should not
be working. But maybe there is a compiled in default somewhere that they
are not telling us about ...
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: news.software.nn,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: News server recommendation
Date: 25 Apr 2000 10:22:11 -0400
"David Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 2. A web page interface to the same server for users that do not have NNTP
> clients
who has a web browser but not a nntp client? unless you're running
some stone-age browser like mosaic, web browsers have a (albeit poor)
nntp client built-in.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: "Martin Sinot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: lilo without 1024 cyl. limit
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:54:03 GMT
Why is this thread in comp.os.linux.alpha? Alphas do not
use LILO.
--
Martin Sinot
Nijmegen, Netherlands
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: News server recommendation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Welch)
Date: 25 Apr 2000 15:08:15 GMT
Crossposted-To: news.software.nn,news.software.nntp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "David Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 2. A web page interface to the same server for users that do not have
> > NNTP clients
>
> who has a web browser but not a nntp client?
Web-TV is one of many good examples. Various web-browser kiosks
you find in places like airports is another. More and more of these
will be showing up over time.
And there are also lots of reasons why people don't want to use the
built-in NNTP client -- like when you sit down at some random
web browser and want to read a little news. You don't want to
set up a new NNTP account on some stranger's PC but using the
web browser to access your web-based Usenet account works fine.
With the good web-based interfaces all the newsrc info is stored
on the server so you can access your account from any web browser
and still have all your personal configuration available. You
don't get that type of portability with most NNTP based clients.
--
Curt Welch http://CurtWelch.Com/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster for http://NewsReader.Com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: HOT HD
Date: 25 Apr 2000 11:29:00 -0400
"Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> A 12 volt fan normally carries a label claiming it might draw 280
> milliamps, or .28 amps. I've never measured one that actually drew
> that much. At any rate, 12*.28=3.36 watts. Not all of that is
> instant heat mind you, but some of that input energy will be used to
> create the turbulance that moves the air around, delaying its total
> conversion to heat by several seconds. 1=1 however if the observation
> continues long enough.
Of course, this is only applicable if your fan is in a sealed box.
Most fans (when properly installed) draw fresh air into the case and
blow warm air out of the case. They normally move enough air to cool
the case, despite the fact that 4W of power is being consumed. (If it
didn't, nobody would want to use it.)
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: news.software.nntp,news.software.nn
Subject: Re: News server recommendation
Date: 25 Apr 2000 15:25:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| In news.software.nntp, bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > David Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > | 3. A way to password protect either the whole server, or each newsgroup, or
| > | the web page interface.
|
| > You can do this with INN 2.3, it's moderately ugly if you really want to
| > do each of 40k newsgroups.
|
| It's not bad if you use the Perl authentication hooks instead of
| readers.conf, and for that particular application I'd recommend it. You'd
| have to write a bit of code, but you could then use an external database
| or the like.
However you run the auth code, a list of 40k or so newsgroups, each
with an individual password, is going to be ugly. And unless you have
more than 40k readers, you might as well have a group set for each
reader, rather than authenticate for every group.
We've talked elsewhere about having the auth module called by
readers.conf return a permitted groups list for read and post, and I
still think that's the way to do it.
| > | 4 (nice extra). It would be nice if the user authentication mechanism (web
| > | page or built-in to NNTP server) could authenticate users over an LDAP
| > | interface against a user list that was on a separate LDAP server.
|
| > You can write authentication modules in your favorite language with INN
| > 2.3. There may be the right thing there, I don't remember.
|
| It should let you do this with some programming, yeah. At some point,
| either I'll write an LDAP authenticator or someone else will and
| contribute it, but there isn't one in 2.3 yet.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979"(tm)
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: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About Linux booting?
Date: 25 Apr 2000 15:16:48 GMT
Grant Edwards <grant@nowhere.> wrote:
: In article <8e4767$5m2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
:>OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>: Does Linux still have limitation that the root partition should be
:>: within 1024 cylinder of a hard disk for bootup from hard disk?
:>
:>It's never had it.
: Yes it has. Sort of. The LILO boot loader commonly used with
: Linux uses standard BIOS calls to read the things it needs off
To state the obvious, how you make the cpu do a jump to your linux
image and start loading the code there is your business, but it's
none of linux's.
: boot-block and the map file all had to be on cylinder 1023 or
: lower on some machines. With some BIOSes it just had to be in
: the first 1G of the disk.
:>Please unconfuse yourself, and you'll concern me less.
: You're not helping things much.
If someone is confused by the truth, then that's a little problem. You
are confusing them as to the difference between linux (the kernel) and
lilo (a boot loader), which I don't think is helping.
Peter
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About Linux booting?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:35:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you suggesting that a relative newbie should write their own boot
loader?
Functionally, for users of the standard loader, this limit exists.
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grant@nowhere.> wrote:
> : In article <8e4767$5m2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> :>OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :>: Does Linux still have limitation that the root partition should be
> :>: within 1024 cylinder of a hard disk for bootup from hard disk?
> :>
> :>It's never had it.
>
> : Yes it has. Sort of. The LILO boot loader commonly used with
> : Linux uses standard BIOS calls to read the things it needs off
>
> To state the obvious, how you make the cpu do a jump to your linux
> image and start loading the code there is your business, but it's
> none of linux's.
>
> : boot-block and the map file all had to be on cylinder 1023 or
> : lower on some machines. With some BIOSes it just had to be in
> : the first 1G of the disk.
>
> :>Please unconfuse yourself, and you'll concern me less.
>
> : You're not helping things much.
>
> If someone is confused by the truth, then that's a little problem. You
> are confusing them as to the difference between linux (the kernel) and
> lilo (a boot loader), which I don't think is helping.
>
> Peter
--
Mielipiteet omiani - Opinions personal, facts suspect, especially on my
http://home.germany.net/101-69082/samba.html
Simple Samba Solutions web page. ICQ 1722461
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From: "Lien-Fei (Alex) Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.list,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 and RH6.2
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:39:03 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Robert L. Ayers" wrote:
> I have three ATI video cards:
>
> ATI Mach 64 (real old)
> ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV
> ATI XPERT 98
Maybe I am lucky... But, I did not have any problem with ATI Xper98 since RH
5.2. I am running RH 6.0 right now with Ati All In Wonder 128 with 18mb of ram
with XFree 3.3.5 and XFcom_r128 driver.
When I was installing RH5.2 with Xpert 98, it automaticlly detected it without
any problem.
>
>
> and I have had various problems with ALL of them on different operating
> systems (Windows 95, 98, NT, Linux).
I hardly use Windoz at all. So, there is really nothing I can say about it...
> Typically, the problems I have
> encountered involve the OS installation software not correctly
> auto-detecting the chip-model, and then installing the wrong software for
> it. Perhaps the auto-detect software is not working correctly, or perhaps
> ATI's different video cards have subtle differences that are not completely
> detectable (or maybe a little bit of both.)
>
> In any event, the best solution seems to be to select "generic VGA" during
> the OS install's, and when finished, then install the latest, correct driver
> from ATI.
>
I can't really recall how the installation went when I was intalling RH 5.2. As
far as installing 6.0, I did not config x when installing the OS. I booted
straight in text mode and installed the driver for the card. Everything work
pretty since then.
Alex.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Floppy format problem.
Date: 25 Apr 2000 11:41:10 -0400
Charles Sullivan writes:
> Gene Heskett wrote in message
>>
>> 2. It may be that the linux writers looked at that bad situation and
>> decided not to cover it. I sure wouldn't, its a disaster looking for
>> a place to happen.
>>
>> The reasons are pretty basic.
>>
>> a: the tracks laid by that DSQD drive are only about 40% of the width
>> of a true DSDD 360k drive, meaning there is gonna be huge amounts of
>> noise from the old data on either side of the new "formatted" track.
>>
>> b: In addition to double-stepping the heads to make it into a 40
>> track drive, a 48 tpi if you will, the spindle speed must be slowed
>> down from 360 to 300 rpm, and the data pump must be switched down
>> from 500 kilobaud to 250 kilobaud.
>>
>> c: to go along with the spindle speed, data rate changes, the
>> recording currents applied to the heads should also be reduced IF its
>> a DSDD disk, something the drive has no sensors to detect, otherwise
>> the heads would be driven so hard that the recording is actually
>> partially erased by the excess currant.
>>
>> Overall, trying to make a 360k diskette in a 1.2 megger will have to
>> deal with the fact that its probably can only be read in that same
>> drive, no real 360k drive, with its wider heads, would ever give you
>> an error free read.
>>
>> Did I mention its a bad idea? The only snowballs chance of making it
>> work is if you started with a bulk erased diskette, one erased by one
>> of those $30 tape erasers they sell at radio shack. You could
>> probably put that disk in a real 360k drive and read it, but if you
>> ever wrote to it, and then tried to re-write that same area again in
>> the QD drive, at least that file would be trashed forever.
>
> It turns out that using fd0h360 (as suggested by David C) instead
> of fd0d360 works, and if I then use:
> mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0h360
> I get a diskette which is compatible with DOS/Win 98.
>
> What you've dscribed out would have merit were it not for the fact
> that the usual 1.2 Meg drives are designed to at least read 360K
> double density floppies, and I was able to successfully format one
> under DOS/Win 98 (dual boot on the same box). The drives change speed
> and data rate depending on the density.
>
> What is undoubtedly true is that this diskette will be unreadable in a
> standard 360K double density drive with its wider heads. I think my
> 10 year-old drive, a Teac FD55GFR-142, had some sort of dual heads
> which allowed writing either wide or narrow tracks, but I can't find
> the specs for it on Teac's website. (I'm pretty sure I used 360K
> floppies to move files back and forth between one of the antiques I
> used to play with and the PC with the Teac -142.) The specs for the
> new one, FD55GFR-7193, don't mention this. I trashed my last antique
> with a double density 5.25" drive about 5 years ago so can't check it
> out.
If I remember correctly from my DOS days....
A 360K disk in a 1.2M drive is written by double-writing the tracks.
That is, the head writes two adjacent identical tracks for each track
written by the software. This way, the result is wide enough for a 360K
drive to read.
The effect isn't perfect, however, and some 360K drives do have problems
reading disks that are formatted in 1.2M drives, but it works most of
the time. (I never had a problem with 360K drives reading disks
formatted in my Teac 1.2M drive, but I have had problems with 360K disks
formatted in an old IBM PC/AT.)
I'm not sure if all this is done by the drive and controller (after
receiving some kind of mode-setting command) or by software, though. I
suspect there's a strong hardware component to this, since every BIOS
chip made (since the introduction of 1.2M drives) has had support for
this mode.
As for spindle speed and data rate, the drives were designed for this
capability. The software has merely to program the controller and drive
through well-known I/O ports.
-- David
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From: "Lien-Fei (Alex) Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,netscape.public.mozilla.ui,netscape.public.mozilla.unix,netscape.public.mozilla.general
Subject: Re: Linux & Netscape: Cannot increase or decrease font size
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:42:10 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear:
In the ".Xdefaults" file, add this line.
Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 5
This should pull the trick...
stew wrote:
> Cameron Ninham wrote:
>
> > ... when you typically view a Web page, you can use Alt+] or Alt+[ to
> > increase or decrease the page's displayed font size. But these options
> > are grayed out.
>
> I've got the same problem. You probably already know this (but just in case
> you don't) you can still change fonts via edit->preferences->fonts but it's
> a bit more tedious if you want to change them often.
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From: "Shane Jarych" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux PSX software?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:42:17 GMT
Can anyone recommend an app that will correctly backup a PSX
disc? (byte-for-byte)
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From: Pirooz Javan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linuxconf problems
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:41:01 -0400
I installed redhat 6.1 and have had incredible amount of linuxconfig
problems with virtual hosting. any host I add gets added outside of the
white box and side by side each other. This causes each host to sit
horizonatally from each other making the linuxconfig window wider and
wider with each host. I installed all the patches from redhat and the
problem still exists. I have dropped back to 6.0 because of this.
Anybody had this problem?
PJ
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Doomhack
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:47:23 -0400
Hi-
I was trying to find out if there are news of this cool admin utility
(doomhack, later called doom sysadmin), but the homepage the freshmeat
record points to, www.geocities.com/doomhack, doesn't seem to exist
anymore. Does anyone know where I can find it now?
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: ALI 15xx missing from 2.2.14-5 (RedHat 6.2)
Date: 25 Apr 2000 15:48:26 GMT
This is really beginning to hack me off. I install the
2.2.14-5 kernel and it trashes my filesystem. So I take
a closer look at the contents of drivers/block and lo
and behold the support for ali 15xx is gone! Whose
brilliant decision was this? We had a fully functional
15xx driver as far back as 2.2.9 which worked for kernels
all the way up to 2.2.12 (although with some work). Why
hasn't this driver been integrated by now??
The most current 15xx patch is for kernel 2.2.10 which
doesn't help anyone upgrading to 2.2.14-5. So I have to
do the driver upgrade by hand, time which could be better
spent on other things.
IDE driver authors - could we please get this corrected??
Thanks.
Peter Stein
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From: grant@nowhere. (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: About Linux booting?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:55:30 GMT
In article <8e4ct0$747$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>:>: Does Linux still have limitation that the root partition should be
>:>: within 1024 cylinder of a hard disk for bootup from hard disk?
>:>
>:>It's never had it.
>
>: Yes it has. Sort of. The LILO boot loader commonly used with
>: Linux uses standard BIOS calls to read the things it needs off
>
>To state the obvious, how you make the cpu do a jump to your linux
>image and start loading the code there is your business, but it's
>none of linux's.
That's why I said "sort of". Read much?
>: boot-block and the map file all had to be on cylinder 1023 or
>: lower on some machines. With some BIOSes it just had to be in
>: the first 1G of the disk.
>
>:>Please unconfuse yourself, and you'll concern me less.
>
>: You're not helping things much.
>
>If someone is confused by the truth, then that's a little problem.
Yes it is a problem. A lot of people are confused by various
things. That's why they ask questions in Usenet newsgroups. And
some of us try to help explain things to them rather than
posting snotty, misleading comments.
>You are confusing them as to the difference between linux (the
>kernel) and lilo (a boot loader),
No I am not. I stated explicitly that I was talking about the
LILO loader commonly used with Linux. Are you illiterate as
well as obnoxious? If you don't want to be helpful, you don't
have to, but there's no need to be intentionally obtuse when
replying to questions.
>which I don't think is helping.
I'm helping one hell of a lot more than you are. With putzes
like you answering Usenet postings, no wonder people think
Linux newsgroups are inhabitted by rude assholes. Now go play
in alley and leave the adults alone...
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! You can't hurt
at me!! I have an ASSUMABLE
visi.com MORTGAGE!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Haley)
Subject: Re: IRQ Search
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:57:45 GMT
On 25 Apr 2000 08:56:45 GMT,
Jonathan Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a command or program that will give me a list of what IRQs
>are taken, and by what devices? I'm having an IRQ conflict with my pcmcia scsi
>adapter, and although I haven't engrossed myself in discovering what to do, I
>figure if I can find out what device is conflicting with the scsi, I can much
>more easily figure out what to do from there.
cat /proc/interrupts
--
Matthew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Now showing... Mandrake Linux 7.02
9:00am up 3 days, 17:30, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.16, 0.15
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