Linux-Misc Digest #640, Volume #24 Mon, 29 May 00 12:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Mark Wilden)
Re: editor for Linux and IDE (Mark Wilden)
how to configure my on-board agp card!! (Arun Mahajan)
Re: editor for Linux and IDE (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Manipulating pointcolors in Gnuplot? (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Exchange features in Sendmail ??? (Villy Kruse)
Re: Linux SndConfig Problem (Put Music in my Linux) (Steve)
Re: ISO files, without the CD (Steve)
Re: What web server? (Steve)
Re: oldest linux box? (Steve)
Re: Linuxconf seems to be running as a daemon. Why? (Steve)
LILO won't boot after update to 2.2.14: "LIWrong loader: giving up." (Andrei
Dumitrescu)
Netscape Bookmarks/Offline newsreader? ("Rev. James Cort")
Re: democracy? ("Colin R. Day")
Re: Audio spectrum analyzer for RH 6.1 (Steffen Kluge)
Re: wine and CD Encyclopedias (John Thompson)
Kickstart won't work with RedHat 6.2 (Binh Ngo)
Re: How can I get ksh as a login shell ? (Herb Stein)
Re: Netscape Bookmarks/Offline newsreader? (Jaume Guasch)
Re: logon failures (John Gluck)
Re: Can't change video res in kde (Dances With Crows)
Re: ISO files, without the CD (mst)
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:13:08 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> Well, I presume you're talking about lost opportunities for financial
> gain. Yeah, sure, sleeping hurts my pockets a lot!
It doesn't hurt my pockets. :) I've finally come to realise that, at my
age, getting to bed at a reasonable hour, instead of coding the night
away, makes me more productive the next day.
> My loss or my gain? For the kernel contributors, the kudos counts a lot.
Sure. But opportunity cost could include lost kudos. My point is that
even OS development has a cost.
> Besides, [two people fixing the same bug] is the normal "scientific"
> problem.
That's true. But if it's counterproductive, it doesn't have to be that
way. If, as you say, it's not counterproductive, fine.
> No, that's not the question. It's not even relevant. You are missing
> a point here and making one for your opponents:
I have _opponents_? :)
> if you don't even know how to measure if linux is a success or not
I think there's some point-missing on both sides. :) I was saying that
there's no such thing as an absolute value of 'success'--only a relative
one. And unless you think that Linux is perfect, it's not unreasonable
to suggest that whatever success it has achieved, it might achieve even
more.
> how can you possibly
> suggest that something will "Improve" it? By what criteria?
I already gave one: beating Windows.
> If you say that it would be better off with a formal bug tracking
> system instead of the kernel list and archives, plus maintainers
> buglists, then you had better first explain why it is a success without
> it.
Not in the least, as I'll try to show.
> Because according to your theory, a formal bug tracking system is
> important to success, and that seems not to be the case here.
This isn't any theory of mine. I'm not talking about black/white,
success/failure. I'm talking about improving the process. You surely
can't be saying there are no improvements to be made in the Linux
development process? If not, then let's say you (who would know far
better than I) have an idea for an improvement, called X. Now, explain
to yourself why Linux is a success without X.
> I contend that the reasons for that are socio-economic. _My_ theory
> says that anything that makes the actual kernel sources and development
> (and possibly development processes) more open and accessible to
> everybody will help linux occupy more niches.
That makes sense. I wouldn't argue in favour of any bug-tracking system
that would make Linux more closed or less accessible.
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From: Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: editor for Linux and IDE
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:15:28 +0100
"Davide Sanna - Tiscali S.p.A." wrote a message
Emacs.
Its add-ons (JDE for Java, e.g.) won't beat a dedicated IDE for
functionality, but they're sufficient, and you get the extensibility and
large user base of Emacs to make up for it.
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From: Arun Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to configure my on-board agp card!!
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:30:05 GMT
hello Everybody,
I've recently bought a HP brio machine with PentiumIII, 550MHz, 128mb ram,
8mb matrox mga200 agp card. with this i failed to configure it for startx.
Could you pleas let me know if it is possible to configure the on-board
graphics card. if yes, a deatiled instruction will be highly appeciated.
thanks in advance for the help.
regards,
Arun mahajan
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From: Andreas Kahari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: editor for Linux and IDE
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 14:27:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Davide Sanna - Tiscali S.p.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> is there an X-editor with syntax hilight and other
> features (like UltraEdit for windoze ?) available
> for Linux ? (free, GPL, OpenSource)...
Well, Emacs (and XEmacs) does that. How did you miss it?
/A
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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot
Subject: Re: Manipulating pointcolors in Gnuplot?
Date: 29 May 2000 14:43:33 GMT
In comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot Eduardo Cuansing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. What appears to be the problem is although the colors
> that I defined are being used when I just plot in gnuplot (after
> xrdb-ing), when I set terminal to postscript, the default colors are again
> being used.
Yes, they are. Each terminal driver in gnuplot is allowed to have its
own idea of what the linetype numbers should be interpreted as. For
color-capable terminals, this means the colors, and the method to
modify them, if any, can be different for every choice of 'set
terminal'. The .Xresources only affect the X11 terminal.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 29 May 2000 14:44:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> If you say that it would be better off with a formal bug tracking
:> system instead of the kernel list and archives, plus maintainers
:> buglists, then you had better first explain why it is a success without
:> it.
: Not in the least, as I'll try to show.
:> Because according to your theory, a formal bug tracking system is
:> important to success, and that seems not to be the case here.
: This isn't any theory of mine. I'm not talking about black/white,
: success/failure. I'm talking about improving the process. You surely
: can't be saying there are no improvements to be made in the Linux
: development process? If not, then let's say you (who would know far
No. I am questioning your basic tenets. One of those tenets is that
linux development is an engineering process, with objectives, plans,
milestones, problem tracking and so on. I have likened it instead
to an evolutionary process. I also think that it is a social process,
though I'll not go into that.
Once you accept that it is possibly not what you think it is, then
you will have to start rethinking your assumptions about how to
"improve" it. Or whether improvement is good. For example, once
you think of it as an evolutionary process, then you should see that
"waste is good". The more duplicated effort the better. That's
redundancy and exploration of all possible code avenues.
I could go on, but I won't ...
: better than I) have an idea for an improvement, called X. Now, explain
: to yourself why Linux is a success without X.
Indeed, one has to, when the improvement one is proposing is
organizational. These are insubstantial things, and one can't
"just try" them to see how it goes.
:> I contend that the reasons for that are socio-economic. _My_ theory
:> says that anything that makes the actual kernel sources and development
:> (and possibly development processes) more open and accessible to
:> everybody will help linux occupy more niches.
: That makes sense. I wouldn't argue in favour of any bug-tracking system
: that would make Linux more closed or less accessible.
Irrespective of even whether it would do that or not, one has to
consider its social acceptability. It's pointless to say that it's
better or not until you propose a mechanism that ensures its accetance
and use. That mechanism would be something like "linus only takes
changes proposed via the bugtrack system". Once you put it like
that, it rapidly begins to seem unlikely!
What has succeeded in the past is people making "change summaries"
that explain the kernel changes made after the fact. This documentation
is better than none at all. But it's a huge task nowadays.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Exchange features in Sendmail ???
Date: 29 May 2000 14:51:05 GMT
On Mon, 29 May 2000 17:33:40 -0700, Benson Lei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just want to know that :
>
>I know, in Exchange Server, there is a global Email address list ( listing
>all users's email server whenever
>connecting the Exchange Server by using Outlook2000).
>
>Does anybody know that if Sendmail has such a features ? If yes, how ??
>
>Since only except this feature, any feature in Exchange can be replaced by
>Sendmail, and I am going to
>use Sendmail to replace the Exchange Server.
>
You can set up a ldap server for this purpose.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Linux SndConfig Problem (Put Music in my Linux)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 May 2000 15:54:23 GMT
What's the date of the list that you saw the card on and what's
the date of your distro?
I suppose you've tried just accepting the setting that sndconfig
chooses, and if you havn't try that it might work just fine.
There's a Sound-HOWTO and a Sound-Playing-HOWTO which may be of some
help, ( http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ ). I had a look at the HOWTO
a while back and it seemed quite complicated and involved, but I
didn't have a sound problem at the time and my impression might have
been different if I was reading the document in order to solve a
problem.
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Cheers
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or http://start.at/zero-pps
12:47pm up 3 days, 23:41, 1 user, load average: 2.15, 2.07, 2.02
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: ISO files, without the CD
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 May 2000 15:54:22 GMT
On Mon, 29 May 2000 05:34:30 GMT, william wrote:
>Hi,
>Is it possible to install linux from and ISO file already on a hard drive,
>or does
>it have to be converted to a CD?
>
>If it's possible, how easy is it?
>Trying to install Mandrake from an ISO file.
>
>Thanks for any assistance or pointers.
You can mount the images as file systems. From the RedHat-CD-HOWTO
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 /tmp/redhat.img /mnt/cdrom
Hope this points you in the right direction.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.pc,microsoft.public.inetserver.iis,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: What web server?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 May 2000 15:54:24 GMT
On Sun, 28 May 2000 02:50:40 +0800, James wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>Your few words wake me up and solve my question. This is really amazing and
>surprising, Hotmail is using Apache and FreeBSD. I always suppose they should
>use MS technology and MS IIS.
When MS took over they did switch to NT but the system just died so they went
back to something that works really well.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: oldest linux box?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 May 2000 15:54:24 GMT
On 26 May 2000 13:17:12 GMT, James Stevenson wrote:
>Hi
>
>i have a small 486/SX33 i think not sure cpu does not show up in
>/proc/cpuinfo ??
>
>but its been up around 90 days i hop to put together a few 386 when i get
>the time i have the bits laying around anyone got any 16 pin simms kicking
>around that are > 1MB ?
>
I've got some in a butty box somewhere but I've tidied up recently so can't
findi anything useful anymore. If I find them soon I'll send you a mail.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Linuxconf seems to be running as a daemon. Why?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 May 2000 15:54:25 GMT
I jsut stopped it from starting up at boot time as linuxconf insists or
reconfiguring my sendmail and totally buggaring it up.
I stopped it from running by running /usr/sbin/setup which letts you chose
what starts at boot time. A few other little problems have gone away aswell
since I stopped it from loading at boot time.
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From: Andrei Dumitrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,hannover.uni.comp.linux,de.comp.os.unix.linux.newusers,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: LILO won't boot after update to 2.2.14: "LIWrong loader: giving up."
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:00:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there folks,
maybe some of you could help me (please please please) with my problem
here.
I have a PC with Win NT and Linux. I'm using NT's boot manager to select
what OS to boot. Last week I updated my linux distro (SuSE 6.2) to 2.2.14
(SuSE 6.4), using the (semi)automatic update procedure from SuSE's setup
tool. After completion of the process I tried to reboot from hdd, but
after selecting Linux (as usual) from NT's boot manager, LILO wouldn't
boot linux, saying
LIWrong loader: giving up.
I then tried to reinstall/reconfigure LILO either using Yast (the SuSE
setup tool), or manually by editing lilo.conf and then running /sbin/lilo,
but it still wouldn't work, and I can still boot linux only from the
boot/install floppy, which is quite cumbersome esp. since I frequently
need apps from both Linux and NT.
Here's what my lilo.conf looks like at the moment:
# LILO configuration file
# Start LILO global Section
# If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash,
# restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the option
# restricted.
#password=bootpwd
#restricted
boot=/dev/hda5
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
vga=normal
read-only
prompt
timeout=050
# End LILO global Section
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda5
label = linux
Please post any suggestions.
TIA,
Andrei
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From: "Rev. James Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape Bookmarks/Offline newsreader?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:12:04 +0100
Hi,
Two questions:
I'm using Red Hat 6.0, recently upgraded Netscape to 4.7
Since the upgrade, Netscape informs me that there was an "Error saving
bookmarks file!" shortly after startup. This happens if I'm logged in as
root or as an ordinary, unpriveliged user. I've tried wiping the
.netscape directory (not as if I use Netscape for anything important),
didn't help.
The other problem is that, as a .uk user, local phone calls are metered.
ATM, I can't change my phone company. Therefore, I'm looking for a
newsreader with offline newsreading support. I don't want to set up a
fully-blown news spooler for the sake of 2 or 3 newsgroups. Something
which runs in X but with a certain amount of keyboard shortcuts would be
nice, but not essential. I *definitely* want software which has reached
a stable release. I've looked at PAN but it claims to be at alpha-
release level.
Neither of these things appear to be mentioned in the FAQ. Shame,
really, because offline newsreading is the only thing remaining before I
can move over entirely to linux and officially vapourise all Microsoft
OS's from my hard drive.
TIA,
James Cort
--
Eagles may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.
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From: "Colin R. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: democracy?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:11:38 -0400
"Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
> On Sat, 27 May 2000, Mark Wilden wrote:
>
> + Praedor Tempus wrote:
> + >
> + > Direct democracy would SUCK.
> +
> + I agree.
>
> I third the motion...
>
> +
> + > You would have religious rightwingers and
> + > idiots (the majority of the public)
> +
> + However, I don't think the majority of people are 'idiots'. Compared to
> + what?
>
> Well, for example you have the majority who believe that as of
> January 1st, we started a new millenium. Then you have those
> of us who are smart enough to realize that there was no year 0.
Why wasn't there a year 0. Oh yeah, we left that to "experts" who
didn't believe that there is a zero.
Colin Day
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: Audio spectrum analyzer for RH 6.1
Date: 29 May 2000 15:07:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
D Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a binary or rpm for this? I want to look at the frequency spectra
>from violin notes.
I'm sure there is plenty of software for this out there. Try the
SAL (scientific applications for Linux) web site, for example.
It is at SAL.KachinaTech.com.
If a qualitative view is all you're after, Extace (that comes
with Gnome multimedia) looks quite nice.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wine and CD Encyclopedias
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 07:47:20 -0500
Gerald Willmann wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2000, John Thompson wrote:
>
> > Has anybody managed to get a CD-based encyclopedia to run from
> > wine? I finally got wine installed and configured and although
> > it seems to run the "fluff" programs like sol.exe and
> > freecell.exe, it dies when I try to use Encarta. I have no
> > strong feelings about Encarta so if you've managed to make some
> > other encyclopedia run in wine I'm open to suggestions.
> encyclopedia britannica is available on the web - not sure why you would
> need anything else.
And so is Encarta. And they would indeed be fine for someone
with a high-speed, unmetered connection to the internet. But
lacking that, a local CD based encyclopedia is an attractive
alternative.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Binh Ngo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kickstart won't work with RedHat 6.2
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:42:54 +0000
Hello all,
I am a linux newbie, can someone tell me why I always get an error
message "/tmp/ks.cfg: No such file or directory" when trying to install
RedHat 6.2 using kickstart mode? The error message appears right after
the two image files initrd and vmlinuz are loaded.
I have put a copy of the RedHat 6.2 distribution and the ks.cfg file in
a separate directory on the NFS server.
In the /etc/dhcpd.conf there is an entry of my machine. It also includes
the NFS next_server and the kickstart filename (full path with ks.cfg).
Everything works fine with RedHat 6.1, I only have problem when trying
to install RedHat 6.2. What should I do to resolve the problem?
Thanks in advance,
Binh Ngo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herb Stein)
Subject: Re: How can I get ksh as a login shell ?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:44:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrew N.
McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 28 May 2000, Herb Stein wrote:
>
>[ rearranged for legibility ]
>
>+ In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jose luis fernandez diaz
>+ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>+ >peter pilsl wrote:
>+ >
>+ >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, jose-luis.fdez-
>+ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>+ >> > Hi,
>+ >> >
>+ >> > I have a RH 6.1. The default login shell is bash, but I want ksh as a
>+ >> > login shell. I writed the '/etc/passwd' file to get this, but it haven't
>+ >> >
>+ >> > comman-line editing. If I press 'Esc + K' the term shows:
>+ >> >
>+ >> > instead of repeat the last command. How can I solve this problem ?
>+ >> >
>+ >>
>+ >> so your problem is how to edit passwd ?
>+ >>
>+ >No, the problem is that with a ksh shell I can't edit previous commands with
>+ >the keys 'Esc + k'.
>+ >
>+ You probably need something like:
>+ EDITOR=vi
>+ in your .profile to support vi-style command line editting.
>
>No, I would say that his problem has to do with the fact
>that he wants to use vi editing mode....
>
>set -o vi
>
>is the command you want, which has nothing to do with $EDITOR.
>
>Best Wishes,
>
>anm
As I recall, your suggestion works as well, but setting and exporting either
the EDITOR or VISUAL shell variables to vi also works.
--
Herb Stein
The Herb Stein Group
www.herbstein.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
314 215-3584
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From: Jaume Guasch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Bookmarks/Offline newsreader?
Date: 29 May 2000 18:00:00 +0200
"Rev. James Cort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Two questions:
[...]
>
> The other problem is that, as a .uk user, local phone calls are metered.
> ATM, I can't change my phone company. Therefore, I'm looking for a
> newsreader with offline newsreading support. I don't want to set up a
> fully-blown news spooler for the sake of 2 or 3 newsgroups. Something
> which runs in X but with a certain amount of keyboard shortcuts would be
> nice, but not essential. I *definitely* want software which has reached
> a stable release. I've looked at PAN but it claims to be at alpha-
> release level.
>
Gnus, a newsreader that runs inside GNU Emacs or XEmacs can do that. It
should already be installed with the default Emacs. The latest version
can be found at http://www.gnus.org.
For the documentation, look into (X)Emacs, under the menu:
Help->Manuals->Info, here look for "Gnus", that is the manual. To search
for the offline capabilities type "s" (for search) "offline".
A Newsgroup is available: gnu.emacs.gnus
This is just one possibility, a search at www.freshmeat.com should come
with more programs.
Hope this helps,
Jaume
--
guasch at itp dot uni-karlsruhe dot de
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From: John Gluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: logon failures
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:45:54 -0400
bob wrote:
>
> I am having some problems with terminal logons on a small linux (RH5.2)
> network.
> From time to time and for reasons I have not yet ascertained various
> terminals are unable to logon. The user is able to enter username but when
> entering the password the system replies (after only a couple characters
> have been entered) with an incorrect logon message and returns the logon
> prompt. I have been able to overcome this problem by logging in as root and
> changing the user's password to a single character. The user can then logon
> (using this new password) after which I restore their original password. If
> the user logs out at this point they can then log back in without any
> problems.
> The network runs several PC's via TCP/IP (no problems there) and several
> dumb terminals connected via a DIGI 8 port serial board. Any ideas????
It is possible that when the system load gets high that the serial lines
are losing data.
I would suggest you try and see how busy the system is when this
happens.
It is also possible that the wiring to your terminals is too long. If
you are using RS232 you should keep the line lengths at < 50 ft. You can
also try running at lower baud rates.
--
John Gluck (Passport Kernel Design Group)
(613) 765-8392 ESN 395-8392
Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed here are strictly my own
and do not reflect any official position of Nortel Networks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Can't change video res in kde
Date: 29 May 2000 12:01:41 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 29 May 2000 14:40:42 +0200, Mario Franses Aparicio
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>HI!!
>I'm wondering how one may change the video resolution in the kde
>workstation.
>The res on this shared computer is way to high. It's really starting to
>bug me....
KDE has nothing to do with the screen resolution. When you're running X,
the command to change screen resolution is Ctrl-Alt-(Keypad +) or
Ctrl-Alt-(Keypad -). Have fun with the "virtual screen" feature of X...
--
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 \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISO files, without the CD
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:02:12 -0400
william wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Is it possible to install linux from and ISO file already on a hard drive,
> or does
> it have to be converted to a CD?
>
> If it's possible, how easy is it?
> Trying to install Mandrake from an ISO file.
>
I know it's possible for Slackware, I've already done it :) I have no
idea about the Mandrake installer, depends on how "user-friendly"
</grin> it is. Basically, you need to have a bootdisk with loopback
device support, then during the install you mount the iso image via
loopback, say:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path-to-image/cd-image.iso /mnt/cdrom
then you point the installer to the mount point you chose when it asks
for the distribution tree.
MST
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