Linux-Misc Digest #411, Volume #24 Tue, 9 May 00 08:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Toshiba Laptop and Linux (George Smith)
Re: Is there a way to set the mouse position? (Kari Pahula)
init problem (Duane Evenson)
RAMDISK size (James Linder)
Printjobs get lost (#2) (Hans)
Star office on Red Hat 6.1 ("John P")
Re: Star office on Red Hat 6.1 (Martin Petz)
Re: Need Write Access to Linux ext-fs from DOS/Win95! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to fix staircase effect on printer ("Peet Grobler")
Where to get Gozilla/GetRight-like program on Linux? (YamYam)
Re: Help on inittab file ... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Problems with Lilo ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How to fix staircase effect on printer ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: NFS Problem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: How to fix staircase effect on printer (Michael Hofmann)
KDE: can't launch kvt as user (Ingo Matenaar)
Re: ext2 su CD-ROM (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Problems with Lilo (Atika Mustafa)
ftp monitoring help ("Tom Steinberg")
Re: Canon 5000 (Mark Bratcher)
Minimum Hard Ware Requirement for Windows NT,95,Dos & linex, (uzman ali)
Re: Configuring an *old* WD ISA EtherNet card... (Robert Heller)
Re: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!! (Dave Rolfe)
Re: Newbie need help on configuring eth0 (Damon)
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From: George Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Toshiba Laptop and Linux
Date: 09 May 2000 11:08:31 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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?
[...]
The following URL does not specifically list your model, but it does
have links to information on similar Toshiba models from the same period
(i.e. 486, ca. 200Mb HD, some with even less RAM). If you haven't already
done so, take a look at some of these similar models there.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
I found this page a tremedous help when I set up my laptop (which is a
couple of years younger, so I can't give you any direct help).
Hope this helps,
George Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Germanistik
Universitaet Potsdam
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From: Kari Pahula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to set the mouse position?
Date: 9 May 2000 09:21:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm programming a game for linux in OpenGL using Glut. After looking
>around a bit, I've concluded that I can't set the mouse position using
>only these tools, which means I'm going to have to dive into X and try
>to set the mouse position there. Does anyone know how to do this?
>Preferably what I'd like to do is just make a system call like in
>Windows' SetCursorPos. I'm using Gnome with Enlightenment if that
>matters. Thanks for any help!
XWarpPointer should work. I don't know about OpenGL or Glut
programming, but if you have access to the Display pointer (given by
XOpenDisplay call or some wrapper of it), then just use it as the
first argument for the function. You'll also need to know the window
ids (given by XCreateWindow or XCreateSimpleWindow, or any wrapper of
them) for any windows you want to place the cursor relative to.
If those things aren't available with these interfaces, you'll have to
find another way for doing this.
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From: Duane Evenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: init problem
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 03:14:47 -0600
I have RH 6.1. In the startup output I get:
...
Freeing unused kernel memory: 36k freed
INIT: version 2.78 booting
Unable to load interpreter
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
Welcome to Red Hat Linux
Press 'I' to enter interactive startup.
...
The line of interest is "Unable to load interpreter."
I had this problem with the 2.77 INIT version, upgrading didn't help.
Obviously, the init program has started, but the rc.sysinit doesn't
start to "Welcome to Red Hat ..."
The problem doesn't appear to be in inittab either.
Does anyone know what's wrong?
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From: James Linder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAMDISK size
Date: 09 May 2000 09:29:30 GMT
Hi
can anybody help me to set the ramdisk size. I am booting from a DiskOnChip and use
their modified lilo to load the kernel from the DOC.
Their modified lilo does not accept
ramdisk=16000
and the kernel boots with a ramdisk size of 4096 and croaks very soon after.
initrd -> unwinds ramimg.gz into /dev/ram1 then /dev/ram1 becomes root filesystem.
All is fine except that the /dev/ram1 is too small.
Thanks
James
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From: Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printjobs get lost (#2)
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:46:00 +0200
Hallo
When a user prints multiple printjobs in a short time, why is only the
first one printed an the rest gets lost?
(Suse 6.3/Samba 2.0.6 / LPRNG printspooler)
Hans
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From: "John P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Star office on Red Hat 6.1
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:56:11 +1000
Hi
I got a copy of star office 5 on an APC mag CD. I try to install it on red
hat 6.1 and when I try to execute the set up file (using doexec under bash
in an xterm) I get segmentation falt. Has anybody here got star office
running on RH 6.1 and if so, how.
The documentation that is supplied (text files) is for the copy on the Sun
cd so the directory structure is different for me.
Thanx
John P
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Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 12:16:27 +0200
From: Martin Petz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star office on Red Hat 6.1
John P schrieb:
> Hi
> I got a copy of star office 5 on an APC mag CD. I try to install it on red
> hat 6.1 and when I try to execute the set up file (using doexec under bash
> in an xterm) I get segmentation falt. Has anybody here got star office
> running on RH 6.1 and if so, how.
>
> The documentation that is supplied (text files) is for the copy on the Sun
> cd so the directory structure is different for me.
>
> Thanx
>
> John P
hi,
i have star-office5.1 running here on rh6.0. i just downloaded it and executed
the setup-file by typing in ./setup in a gnome-terminal. then the
installation-program was running.
martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need Write Access to Linux ext-fs from DOS/Win95!
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 10:11:54 GMT
It sounds like you have access to the internet through your current
computer, I would be more inclined to say download the startdisks from
www.freesoftware.com on the slackware distro. That will use the rawwrite
.exe program from the website. follow the instructions on screen and you
should at least get to a mountable command prompt, or even to your
linux machine. Run lilo from there, edit whatever
jollyroger
In article <8f80lr$s1f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, there,
>
> I tried to re-partition my SCSI HD during the weekend
> to recover some space. Somehow, the partition number
> for the two Linux partitions (from sda8 & sda9 to
> sda6 & sda7). Now Linux won't boot.
>
> I think I have to modify these two files:
> lilo.conf
> fstab
> (is there any files I have to modify?)
>
> Of course, I don't have a Linux boot disk!
> Is there any SW out there that allow me to edit these
> files from DOS/Win95?
>
> Can I jump to a shell from Redhat 6.1 installation
> CD?
>
> Thanks for your help!
> --
> --
> Regards,
> Roger Shum
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: "Peet Grobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: How to fix staircase effect on printer
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 12:21:40 +0200
How do I fix the staircase effect on a printer?
I've got a 132-coloumn Fujitsu printer installed.
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From: YamYam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to get Gozilla/GetRight-like program on Linux?
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 10:30:03 GMT
Hi there...
The subject is enough to not explain any more.
So where do I get a program on linux that can:
1. Resume broken downloads.
2. Find other mirrors for the downloaded file(s).
3. Switch between the other mirrors.
Thanx in advance for ur help.
-YamYam.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on inittab file ...
Date: 9 May 2000 10:32:55 GMT
Peter Buijsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 8 May 2000 01:37:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb) wrote:
:>>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??
:>
:>They run to let you log in on the virtual consoles (tty1-tty6) which
:>are accessed via alt-F1 through alt-F6.
: Is it safe to only start 1 or 2 of them? I hardly ever log in on the
Perfectly safe.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Lilo
Date: 9 May 2000 10:37:05 GMT
Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: A Linux boot partition has to be EXT2 (some exceptions, unimportant here),
No it doesn't. I've often booted linux using a umsdos (over fat32) boot
partition as root, and many of my kernels are on dos fat16 partitions
as /boot!
: I think LOADLIN is what you need to start Linux from a Dos partition.
Well, that is one of the many bootloaders available, and a very good
one.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to fix staircase effect on printer
Date: 9 May 2000 10:37:49 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Peet Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: How do I fix the staircase effect on a printer?
Read the Printing-HOWTO and find out.
: I've got a 132-coloumn Fujitsu printer installed.
Now a 1320 column one :')
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: NFS Problem
Date: 9 May 2000 10:35:00 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Peet Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi there.
: I've read through the NFS howto, and successfully setup my box for it
: previously. I had to re-install Linux on it, since then I can't get it
: working.
: eth0 device : NE2000 Compatible NIC
: rpc.portmap is running.
: When I manually type (as root) :
: rpc.mountd --> I get the response :
: "mountd[689]: unable to register (mountd,1,udp)"
That's a fatal error. Find out why it can't register with the
portmapper. Is it excluded by hosts.deny? Try rpcinfo -p localhost
and report what it says.
Peter
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From: Michael Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How to fix staircase effect on printer
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 12:40:33 +0200
Peet Grobler wrote:
>
> How do I fix the staircase effect on a printer?
>
> I've got a 132-coloumn Fujitsu printer installed.
Depending on your distribution there may be tools to do so.
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From: Ingo Matenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE: can't launch kvt as user
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 11:56:55 +0000
I somehow messed things up with my user preferences.
when I try to start kvt in KDE nothing happens. when I switch to command line I
can read the following:
kvt: Can't open a pseudo teletype
kvt: quitting
As root I don't have any problems launching kvt. I don't know what I have done,
but I created a file permission mess-up in the past. I am operating LInux on a
single computer and I am the only user.
the kvt permissions are as follows: 755
Any suggestions why kvt doesn't work?
Thanks in advance
Ingo
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ext2 su CD-ROM
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 07:12:54 -0400
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Nicola Attico wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> someone can explain me how can I create a
> EXT2 filesystem on a CD-ROM, in the same
> way in which I create a ISO9660 filesystem
> with mkisofs/cdrecord utilities?
> I usually use Linux Red Hat 6.1 and
> I masterize in two steps:
> 1) I create a iso9660 filesystem with:
>
> mkisofs -o File.img Directory
>
> 2) I copy the file with the 1:1 copy
> of the filesystem image with
>
> cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,1,0 File.img
>
> How can I create a 1:1 copy of a Ext2
> filesystem? The mke2fs command exists but it has different
> intent apparently, with respect to mkisofs.
>
> A second question. Can I have long file names on a
> iso9660 filesystem? It is enough to create the
> image with the joilet extension flag?
>
> mkisofs -J -o File.img Directory
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nicola
Nicola,
I don't know why everyone so far is saying that either you _can't_ do
ext2 on CD-ROM, or you don't want to.
I do it all the time for backup and it works great. Read the
CD-Writing-HOWTO and it explains how to do it.
In short:
1. First create a blank image file (in this case, I call it
'bimage.ex2':
dd if=/dev/zero of=bimage.ex2 bs=1024k count=650
2. Then make the ext2 file system on it
/sbin/mke2fs -q -F -b 2048 bimage.ex2
3. Mount the file as an ext2 drive (NOTE you need the loopback device
enabled in the kernel) (NOTE I created a /mnt/file directory for this
purpose):
mount -t ext2 -o loop=/dev/loop1 bimage.ex2 /mnt/file
4. Copy whatever files/directories you want to /mnt/file. If you want to
preserve file attributes, use 'cp -a' (see man cp).
5. Unmount the /mnt/file "drive".
umount /mnt/file
6. Use cdrecord to copy the bimage.ex2 image file to the CD.
Of course, you can only mount and read the CDs on your Linux system. If
you want portability to other OSes, you need to use the ISO 9660 format.
HTH,
--
Mark Bratcher
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From: Atika Mustafa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Lilo
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:13:55 GMT
Check the bios settings of your hard disk. The problem of 0 and 1 comes
when the hard disk is not set correctly in bios.
Atika
In article <8f8hhe$edi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I try to install Lilo during the installation of Linux, but, when i
> reboot, i only have lines of 0 and 1... And if i want to restart it, i
> have to use a boot diskette. My hard disk is a maxtor, and i just send
> it also to maxtor, and the sector i want to install lilo is in fat16.
>
> Is anyone got any solution for that !!!
>
> --
> Laurent de Lasteyrie
> URL:http://www.ima.uco.fr/~hobbes
> email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Tom Steinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ftp monitoring help
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 12:22:54 +0100
This one is really very thick indeed. I need to know how to monitor my ftp
server. I am a bit of a newbie, and I can't figure out what tools I need to
use to see who is on my ftp site ( RedHat out of the box ) what they are
doing, how fast connects are and so on.
Can someone please help me out of my childlike morass?
Tom
===========================================
Tom Steinberg,
Institute of Economic Affairs,
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon 5000
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 07:17:00 -0400
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phil wrote:
>
> I need drivers for Canon 5000 printer to run under corel-Linux OS. Does
> anybody know where can I find them?
>
First, you must determine if it's windows-only printer (I don't recall
if the 5000 is or isn't). If you have the user guide, the big clue is
the section describing printing under DOS. If such printing is not
allowed, or if it requires printing from a DOS window under Windows,
then it's probably a windows-only printer and you are out of luck on
Linux.
If it's not a windows-only printer, then check the manual for printer
emulations. You need to find an older Canon or other emulated printer in
the list of supported printers for Ghostscript that would match it.
HTH
--
Mark Bratcher
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From: uzman ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Minimum Hard Ware Requirement for Windows NT,95,Dos & linex,
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:30:02 GMT
My Name is Uzman,I want to ask the minimum(complete)hardware requirement
for WindowsNT,95,98,Dos,Linex.
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuring an *old* WD ISA EtherNet card...
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:37:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan),
In a message on 9 May 2000 01:05:09 GMT, wrote :
AP> Robert Heller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
AP>
AP> : The card itself IS seen by the kernel:
AP>
AP> : Extracted from /var/log/messages:
AP>
AP> <snip>
AP> I also had an old card, but what my job easier was I had KDE and in one
AP> of the control center panels it identifies what IRQ and memory addr was
AP> being reserved for the NIC.
AP> Then I got the NET1-2 (or something) HOWTO which advises how to run
AP> modprobe, and which er driver to use in conjunction with the settings
AP> from above. Who knows, maybe the coax thing is working but then...
Connecting the driver to the card is NOT my problem. The card has a
jumper for IRQ/port address and the driver has no trouble finding the
card. I don't know about this partitular NIC -- my main experience is
with 3c509's. With 3c509 'combo' cards (cards with multiple
connectors), the card has an EEPROM which can be set (with the config
util that 3Com provides) to whichever port you would like to use.
AP>
AP> --
AP> jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org Registered linux user no. 164098
AP> Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
AP> --- OUT THERE??
AP>
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From: Dave Rolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Horrible colors in konsole, kvt and xterm!!
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 08:01:49 -0400
Dave Rolfe wrote:
> I have been using mandrake 7 for awhile and noticed that the konsole
> colors were horrible but was living with it. Now I tried to do a compile
> and the error messages are coming out unreadable. (turquoise on white
> !!! the person who picked that is clearly not from this planet) And all
> the schemes are very bad. I want a 2 color scheme. So I said, I will use
> kvt ... same problem! So I went back to xterm .... same Problem!!! So
> ... How do I turn these colors off! I just want to be able to read the
> text ... you know black on white.
>
> Dave
Actually I solved this problem. It turns out there are a bunch of
undocumented schema files in someting like .../share/apps/konsole that your
can edit.
Dave
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From: Damon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Newbie need help on configuring eth0
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 20:07:42 +0800
Thanks for the advice, i'm trying to contact the company, Compex
(www.compex.com.sg) to see if they have any drivers.
Hope they can provide some assistance.
Thank you, Linux mates.
Regards
Damon
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