Linux-Misc Digest #395, Volume #24 Sun, 7 May 00 21:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help on inittab file ... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: BEOWULF Project ("Supernews")
Re: K7V support (Ed Camacho)
Re: configuration for iomega zip 100M parallel port drive ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Modules (lanbaba)
Re: Need to find my IP address (brian moore)
Re: Need to find my IP address (brian moore)
Re: mail server (J Bland)
Re: seyon location (Bob Martin)
Re: Toshiba Laptop and Linux (Munge)
Re: computer viruses on LINUX (Francois Labreque)
Re: howto setup vi style cmdln editing with bash (Robert Lynch)
Re: mail server ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Abit BP6 motherboard (Bob Martin)
Need to send/receive fax (Dmitry)
Re: Toshiba Laptop and Linux (Peter Buelow)
Re: segmentation fault ? (Dave Thompson)
Voicemail prog (Peter Buelow)
Re: Abit BP6 motherboard (Peter Buelow)
Re: Abit BP6 motherboard (Dave Thompson)
Re: segmentation fault ? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) - (Peter Buelow)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on inittab file ...
Date: 7 May 2000 23:04:29 GMT
Peter Buijsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: # Run gettys in standard runlevels
: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
: .....
: I noticed they appear in my 'ps -aux' list like this (line might be
: truncated):
: root 429 0.0 1.2 1060 380 tty1 S May07 0:00
: /sbin/mingetty tty1
: What is the purpose of all this? Why are there 6 of these started, and
: what is their task??
man getty. They're there to let you log in!
Peter
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From: "Supernews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BEOWULF Project
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 16:32:20 -0000
Would like to receive donations of Intel P-75 thru P-233 mhz processors and
attendant motherboards, FP ram, and any older rack mount cases for a BeoWulf
project.
Project is supported by HYPERCERULEAN, INC., a HIT LAB (University of
Washington) spin-off startup company. We'll pay for your shipping costs, or
drop-off the equipment at Hypercerulean, Inc., 2815 Eastlake Avenue E.,
Suite 300, Seattle, Wa. 98102, between the hours of 7:30pm till Midnite.
Telephone 1-206-336-5590. Email Jaan Sunderlin at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For those of you who live in Kitsap County, Wa. telephone 1-360-415-9271 or
email Jaan Sunderlin at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mention of your name will be placed upon our list of those donating at the
Hypercerulean web site.
Thank you
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From: Ed Camacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: K7V support
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 23:30:03 GMT
Sandhitsu R Das wrote:
>
>
> Asus K7V w/ Athlon and WD 7200 ATA/66 HDD - is this combination well
> supported in Linux ?
>
I'm running an Athlon 750 w/ a K7V and 2 WD 7200 ATA/66 drives. I tried to
install Mandrake 6.1 (I think I got that ver right) and it flaked out
everytime when trying to boot (MTRR error I think). I just got a hold of
Mandrake 7.0, installed it, and away I went. I dumbed down the drive that
runs linux to ATA33, but I've heard there is ATA66 support in Kernel 2.3.x?
I'll look into it, but as for now, a K7V and Athlon will run Mandrake 7 (and
consequently RH I guess) beautifully. No problems at all.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configuration for iomega zip 100M parallel port drive
Date: 7 May 2000 23:24:01 GMT
kwl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I wonder if someone can help and advise how to configure the
: Iomega Zip 100M parallel port drive. Is there any file/driver
: to be installed? Many thanks!
Read the ZIP-HOWTO. It's on your disk, under /usr/doc/faq, probably.
Peter
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From: lanbaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modules
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 19:34:11 -0400
Thanks for your help. I indeed meant the drivers that is compiled into
the kernel. The reason that I am asking these questions is that I am
trying to make my ATAPI CD-Writer work under Mandrake linux 7.0. I
followed the steps described in CD-Writing-Howto, however I found that I
can not find two of the modules that mentioned in the HOW-TO in my
system module directory.(sr_mod, and scsi_mod) So I am wondering whether
the drivers are compiled into the kernel already. Although it seems that
as long as I load ide-scsi by modprobe, the CD-writer will work. I next
want to know whether I can set up the kernel to load the module on
demand. I set up an alia in conf.modules as "alias scd0 ide-scsi".
Apparently, it did not work. modprobe -c shows that there are two
entries looks suspicious
alias scsi-hostadapter off
alias scsi-hostadapter ide-scsi
I know the second entry is in my conf.modules, I do not know where the
first entry come from, presumely come from the default setting because
the entries in modprobe -c is much larger than the ones in conf.modules.
So I want know whether the settings in conf.modules will override the
default settings.
thanks
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 May 2000 18:25:46 -0400, lanbaba
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >
> >Can someone provide answers to the following two questions:
> >1. How can I find out which module is compiled into kernel?
>
> If a particular driver is compiled into the kernel, it isn't a module. If
> that driver is compiled as a module, it isn't compiled into the kernel. I
> think you meant, "How do I find out which drivers are compiled into the
> kernel?" and the answer to that question is usually found in
> /usr/src/linux/.config . Or if /boot/System.map is current, you could
> look there too.
>
> >2. Will the settings in conf.modules override the default module
> >settings?
>
> They *ARE* the default module settings.
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: 7 May 2000 23:39:45 GMT
On Sun, 07 May 2000 20:27:15 GMT,
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7 May 2000 01:25:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) wrote in
> comp.os.linux.development.apps:
>
> >> People who write device drivers or kernel modules should provide a proper
> >> man(2) or man(3) page. Ideally, we should kill off the ioctl() function
> >> and place all accessible driver variables in /proc.
> >
> >If you remove ioctl(), how will you plan on maintaining compatibility
> >with other Unix systems?
>
> Who says that using ioctl() preserves compatability? It's a catch-all
> function that was written so that programmers could access features of
> specific device drivers in a non-standardized way. An ioctl() to a device
> in Linux won't be portable to another system unless the underlying device
> drivers use identical symbols, argument counts and types, etc. As Linux
> stops playing catch-up with the commercial versions and forges ahead into
> new territory, the likelihood that applications will remain portable
> diminishes.
Huh? The ioctl cited works the same way on Linux, Solaris,
(Free|Net|Open)BSD, BSDI, HP-UX, AIX, etc... It isn't official Posix,
but it is quite portable.
Certainly ioctl() has a shady history, but that doesn't mean it's not
effective and surprisingly portable, especially for things like
networking which were added relatively recently.
> Are we planning to rewrite our drivers if the commercial vendors choose to
> use different symbols? Or are you assuming that commercial Unix system
> developers will voluntarily copy the Linux drivers?
Why would they change symbols? You really think Sun wants to break all
the Solaris applications? You think HP wants to do the same for HP-UX?
What would their justification be to break everything?
They don't need to copy Linux on this -- Linux already copied them. I
doubt Linus (despite his insistence on doing things the 'right' way
instead of hacks like ioctl()) would choose to break things in a way
that broke lots of user space programs.
> There are so many other non-"Unix" diversions on the table that commercial
> compatibility is obviously not a holy grail for some people.
Um, right. So Linux should support the Winsock calls? What other
non-Unix "diversions" are you talking about?
Sorry, until POSIX specifies a replacement for all the ioctl()'s, it's
here to stay. (They have specified some, like tcgetattr(), but there
are dozens of commonly used ioctls that would need an alternative
interface defined.)
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Need to find my IP address
Date: 7 May 2000 23:41:53 GMT
On Sun, 07 May 2000 20:27:15 GMT,
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 May 2000 09:34:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Anderberg)
> wrote in comp.os.linux.development.apps:
>
> >>programmers shouldn't have to resort to sifting through the kernel source
> >>code to figure out how to perform simple and common tasks.
> >
> >Usually people don't wade through the kernel source for "simple
> >and common" tasks. Rather to see how a certain driver, part of
> >kernel and so on work, to gain deeper knowledge of the
> >operating system, they need to fix something, or out of plain
> >interest.
>
> I would think that finding the address(es) of a specific interface should
> be a simple task. The need is certainly common, judging by the amount of
> bandwidth wasted by news posts every other week asking how to do it.
It usually is. (Hint -- the vast majority of people that want such
information are on a dynamic IP, assigned through either DHCP or PPP
negotiation, both of which have trivial hooks for scripts that will be
passed the assigned IP number.)
--
Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be waiting
Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: 7 May 2000 23:45:46 GMT
>> I want to setup a little mail server on my machine (running Mandrake
>> 7.0). There's a need for only four or five mail accounts. I want to
>> know which server to use and how to set this up. I already have a web
>> server with a domain name, if it helps... I want these email addresses
>> to be @domainname.com.
>>
>
>Mandrake comes with sendmail AFAIK. Just read through the
>sendmail-documentation - it's farily easy to set up. it might very well be,
if there was one thing I would never even suggest to a new user, it would be
to even try to work out the structure and syntax of sendmail.cf. This is
for pure Sys Admins and even then I wonder. It is not easy to understand in
any way.
>that it' s already running on your system and you just need to adjust the
>domain-name and the like. check you /etc/sendmail.cf...
If you can. I've yet to personally come across someone who *could*
understand sendmail.cf. Is there a decent guide to what is most probably the
most obscure and infuriating configuration in Unix?
All power to tools like postfix that have config files you can, at least,
make sense from at an english language level.
PJF
(I considered using sendmail then looked at sendmail.cf and thought that my
sanity was worth more than a standard service, I've yet to find any need to
not use postfix but my site isn't that complex. Maybe I'm just thick.)
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: seyon location
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 21:44:29 -0500
Kevin Bree wrote:
>
> I am trying to find a version of seyon to run with RH60,RH61 or RH62.
> Is there an RPM or tgz available?
>
> Regards
www.rpmfind.net
--
Bob Martin
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From: Munge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Toshiba Laptop and Linux
Date: 7 May 2000 13:24:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Oh, I suppose the big question is will I have any problem get XF86free
: working?
You'd be lucky to get a console only install with 202 MB of hard drive.
Minimum of around 600MB for an X11 installation for it to be useful.
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Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 20:01:05 -0400
From: Francois Labreque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: computer viruses on LINUX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> MerefBast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> > Hi. I am looking for information to compare the susceptibility of various
> > operating systems to computer viruses.
>
> > I am particularly interested in references for factual information about the
> > kinds, nature, and number of security holes, as well as the number of actual
> > viruses, worms, and Trojan Horses for each operating system.
>
> I've heard there're two "theoretical" viruses capable of infecting linux.
> There are none in the wild. The multi-user architecture of unixes helps
> prevent them from doing anything serious. (If anything at all).
The traditional "boot-sector virus" is probably close to impossible to
implement for Linux, but trojan horses are still possible.
--
Francois Labreque | Make you a deal, I'll show you mine if you show
flabreq | me yours.
@ |
attglobal.net | - Pandora.
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Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 17:11:23 -0700
From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: howto setup vi style cmdln editing with bash
Herb Stein wrote:
>
> Well, bash has command line editing, but it is not vi-style editing, where vi
> commands can be used. I don't use bash, so I can't be much more help. Use ksh
> and you get vi-style editing.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >On Sat, 06 May 2000 19:19:37 +0200, lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>set -o vi
> >>
> >>is obviously not enough. I remember one has to put some funny string
> >>into some file but can not figure that out any more. Can someone help,
> >>please?
> >
> >You only need that for the real 'sh', bash has command line editing by
> >default. What did you do to mess that up, or are you really running a
> >different shell? Try typing bash and see if it works differently than
> >your login shell.
> >
>
> --
> Herb Stein
> The Herb Stein Group
> www.herbstein.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 314 215-3584
Take a look at:
http://faq.oreillynet.com/linux/tfaq2.shtm
directed towards RedHat oddities, but should otherwise work.
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mail server
Date: 8 May 2000 00:02:56 GMT
J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: if there was one thing I would never even suggest to a new user, it would be
: to even try to work out the structure and syntax of sendmail.cf. This is
: for pure Sys Admins and even then I wonder. It is not easy to understand in
: any way.
It's not that bad. All one usually has to do is edit the domain name and
nominate a smarthost (admittedly, a little bit of comment explaining what that
is might go down well). Nothing else generally needs touching.
: If you can. I've yet to personally come across someone who *could*
: understand sendmail.cf. Is there a decent guide to what is most probably the
: most obscure and infuriating configuration in Unix?
The sendmail book, and www.sendmail.org. sendmail is a distributed
rewrite machine.
Peter
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6 motherboard
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 18:14:33 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here's the problem. I have recently purchased the Abit BP6 motherboard.
> It uses ATA66 (meaning I have 4 IDE ports). The problem is that my
> harddrive and cdrom are on the first 2 (that still use ATA33). My burner
> therefore has to be on the ATA66 side.
>
ATA66 has nothing to do with the number of "ports", ide controller
supports two devices.
> Apparently, RedHat 6.1 doesn't support ATA66 by default. Either one of 2
> fixes (in my mind) should work. Either the linux driver for the burner
> should help the burner (cause I'm not sure whether its the lack of a
> driver, or the OS itself), or I need whatever patch red hat has.
>
RH has nothing to do with supporting something in the kernel, there is
patch for for the 2.2.x kernels for ata66 support.
> Also, on a related topic, my sound card is not working. I most likely need
> drivers, but have been unable to find any.
What sound card and what chipset is it using ?
--
Bob Martin
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From: Dmitry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need to send/receive fax
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 19:13:21 -0500
Hi,
I am trying to send a fax and I found that efax program can work.
Running efax gave me:
[dmitry@home dmitry]$ efax
efax: Sun May 7 18:59:00 2000 efax v 0.8a Copyright 1996 Ed Casas
efax: 59:00 opened /dev/fax
efax: 59:00 Error: wrong response after command: +FCLASS=2
efax: 59:00 Warning: wrong response after command:
+FDCC=1,3,0,2,0,0,0,0
efax: 59:00 Warning: wrong response after command:
+FLID=" "efax: 59:01 done, returning 3
[dmitry@home dmitry]$
How to handle this.
Thank you.
Dmitry
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From: Peter Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Toshiba Laptop and Linux
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 19:42:00 -0500
>From the looks of it, sure, why not. X should work, but this assumes that
you can get X installed with all else. 202 is way small for a good X
install. That, and have you accounted for swap space with only 12 MB o'
ram?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Basically what I need to know is can the below run a cut down RedHat
> with a GUI, emacs and a fortran compilier. I assume I won't be able to
> get GNOME to work, so what else does anyone suggest.
>
> The Laptop is:
>
> Toshiba T1950CT
>
> CPU 486
> Harddrive 202Mb
> Ram 12Mb
> Video card Western Digital
> Display LCD 800x600
>
> Oh, I suppose the big question is will I have any problem get XF86free
> working?
>
> Cheers
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
Pete Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: segmentation fault ?
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 00:43:53 GMT
ok, I'm missing something here:
1) if I try and execute a "signal" command, it does not exist, because
..
2) it seems like I would only access signal.h if I was programming in c,
or hacking the code ...
3) I have no idea how to find unix faq's -- I used hotbot to search, and
found some unix faqs, but nothing relevant to this problem
4) I see a signal.7 under a man7 directory, but it is only a page or so
of cross reference stuff
5) this is a pre-canned part of leafnode, that used to work, that is now
not working (and I don't really know when it stopped - I reinstalled a
couple of months ago, perhaps then)
6) unfortunately the relevant unix faq's are not stuck to the 'nose on
my face' and I don't know how to access them
7) if this is truly a texpire bug, whatever is going on is not likely
fixed by the unix faqs
8) I do understand what a segmentation fault is, however, tracking down
the bug probably means running the code in debug mode somehow (I'm not a
c programmer)
thanks for your help, but obviously I'm on a different wavelength !!
Are you assuming that there is something in my distro that perhaps is
not here ? Are these somewhere on the internet ?? I tried a number of
different things, but this is not jumping out at me.
Dave Thompson
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From: Peter Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voicemail prog
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 19:46:02 -0500
Can anyone suggest a good vm program? I searched freshmeat and I could
possibly use gnuvoice, but the website doesn't seem to be responding and
it hasn't been updated in almost 8 months. I suspect it isn't being
maintained anymore, but I am not sure.
My needs are simple. VoiceMail for Linux. Anything else is fluff. I
gots an empty 10GB drive just waiting for messages and a mostly unused
dual PPro that needs more of a job than internet firewall/masq box. Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
--
Pete Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Peter Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6 motherboard
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 19:53:01 -0500
I'm confused. ATA66 is just a new type of IDE controller that supports 66MBit
burst transfer for devices designed to work with the controller. You should
have no problem plugging a regular IDE device in there. I am running a MB with
ATA66 and regular devices and an ATA66 controller with regular devices. No
problems.
Some things to try. IDE works in a master/slave configuration. There are two
connectors. Each connector can support two drives (1 master, 1 slave). Make
sure that you have the drives jumpered correctly for their spot on the chain.
If there is only one drive, then it is a master. Most hardrives (the only
current ide device that supports ATA66 cause it is the only fast enough to use
it) come set to run in ATA33 mode be default requiring you to turn on ATA66
with a small utility. At least this is the way that WD does things, so I make
an assumption about Maxtor, so cope. Also, check the BIOS and make sure there
isn't a setting for this. On Off sort of thing. Good luck.
Sound is tricky in Linux. Reply with the make and model for help if you want
to.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's the problem. I have recently purchased the Abit BP6 motherboard.
> It uses ATA66 (meaning I have 4 IDE ports). The problem is that my
> harddrive and cdrom are on the first 2 (that still use ATA33). My burner
> therefore has to be on the ATA66 side.
>
> Apparently, RedHat 6.1 doesn't support ATA66 by default. Either one of 2
> fixes (in my mind) should work. Either the linux driver for the burner
> should help the burner (cause I'm not sure whether its the lack of a
> driver, or the OS itself), or I need whatever patch red hat has.
>
> I have emailed red hat twice now in the last 2 weeks with nothing but
> automated responses. If any one has had this problem before, and knows
> what to do, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Also, on a related topic, my sound card is not working. I most likely need
> drivers, but have been unable to find any.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
--
Pete Buelow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Abit BP6 motherboard
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 00:58:56 GMT
I believe that according to the bp6 documentation, the ata66 channel is
100% backward compatible, so you should be able to attach the cdrom.
you either need the kernel patch, or add the 'append' entry in your
lilo.conf -- there is a howto, but I can't find it at the moment.
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Sun, 07 May 2000 22:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Here's the problem. I have recently purchased the Abit BP6
> >motherboard. It uses ATA66 (meaning I have 4 IDE ports). The problem
> >is that my harddrive and cdrom are on the first 2 (that still use
> >ATA33). My burner therefore has to be on the ATA66 side.
>
> I don't think so. Nothing is going to work there except real ATA66
> devices. The std controller supports a total of 4 devices (master and
> slave on each connection), so stick it there as a slave.
>
> >Also, on a related topic, my sound card is not working. I most likely
> >need drivers, but have been unable to find any.
>
> You need to supply more info here. What soundcard? What have you tried?
> sndconfig? Any errors anywhere along the way?
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: segmentation fault ?
Date: 8 May 2000 00:59:09 GMT
Dave Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: ok, I'm missing something here:
: 1) if I try and execute a "signal" command, it does not exist, because
Don't try.
: 2) it seems like I would only access signal.h if I was programming in c,
: or hacking the code ...
Not even then. What has sigal.h got to do with anything?
: 3) I have no idea how to find unix faq's -- I used hotbot to search, and
: found some unix faqs, but nothing relevant to this problem
Look on your disk, under /usr/doc/faq. Or go over to comp.answers. Or look in
the news group concerned.
: 4) I see a signal.7 under a man7 directory, but it is only a page or so
: of cross reference stuff
That's what you want.
SIGUSR1 | 10 | A | User-defined signal 1
SIGSEGV | 11 | C | Invalid memory reference
SIGUSR2 | 12 | A | User-defined signal 2
Problem?
: 5) this is a pre-canned part of leafnode, that used to work, that is now
: not working (and I don't really know when it stopped - I reinstalled a
: couple of months ago, perhaps then)
Fine.
: 6) unfortunately the relevant unix faq's are not stuck to the 'nose on
: my face' and I don't know how to access them
Try looking on your disk.
: 7) if this is truly a texpire bug, whatever is going on is not likely
: fixed by the unix faqs
But your understanding will.
: 8) I do understand what a segmentation fault is, however, tracking down
: the bug probably means running the code in debug mode somehow (I'm not a
: c programmer)
Yep. (man gdb).
: thanks for your help, but obviously I'm on a different wavelength !!
: Are you assuming that there is something in my distro that perhaps is
: not here ? Are these somewhere on the internet ?? I tried a number of
: different things, but this is not jumping out at me.
I'm not assuming anything. You asked what a segfault is. I'm glad you found
out!
Peter
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From: Peter Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ide-scsi CD-R Problem With Newest Kernels (.14 & .15) -
Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 20:09:22 -0500
This kind of looks like a buffer overrun problem (more data hitting the
CD-R than it is capable of digesting). So, we need some details on the
system. What is on the SCSI bus, what is the usage of any of the SCSI
devices whilst you are recording. Hard to say, but it seems like this is
the problem. Anyone else? A fix would be difficult and could simply be
driver related which puts it out of my domain. Also, what SCSI card is it?
"Douglas E. Mitton" wrote:
> I have done several searches for this issue, there seem to be a lot of
> people experiencing it BUT I have not been able to find a solution
> yet.
>
> In kernels V2.2.14 and .15 I get random cdrecord failures such as:
> (Sorry, it wraps a little.)
>
> Starting new track at sector: 0
> Track 01: 175 of 311 MB written (fifo 100%).cdrecord: Input/output
> error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
> CDB: 2A 00 00 01 5E C0 00 00 10 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: F1 00 05 00 01 5E C0 0C 00 00 00 00 10 02 00 00
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, deferred error, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x10 Qual 0x02 (id crc or ecc error) [No matching
> qualifier] Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 89792 (valid)
> cmd finished after 3.168s timeout 40s
>
> write track data: error after 183894016 bytes
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> Writing time: 310.268s
> Fixating...
> Fixating time: 76.473s
> cdrecord: fifo had 5740 puts and 5613 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 5206 times full, min fill was
> 95%.
>
> This all works perfectly in kernel V2.2.13. I always use the same
> config for each kernel upgrade/compile and use the "make oldconfig"
> to incorporate it.
>
> The other things I've tried are:
> - Searching deja news
> - reading the links off of the cdrecord home page.
> - recompiling cdrecord on my system (V1.8a29)
> - Installing the newest cdrecord (v1.8.1)
>
> Does any one have any other experience to throw at this problem? My
> next tact is to start comparing the SCSI source between 2.2.13 and
> 2.2.14/15. I don't hold out a lot of hope on this. The modules I've
> read so far have revision dates well before this problem showed up.
>
> Thanks in advance for any insight.
>
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> Doug Mitton - Brockville, Ontario, Canada
> 'City of the Thousand Islands'
> EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cybertap.com/dmitton
> Other: mitton.dyndns.org
> SPAM Reduction: Remove "x." from my domain.
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Pete Buelow
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