Linux-Misc Digest #641, Volume #24 Mon, 29 May 00 14:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux SndConfig Problem (Put Music in my Linux) (Dances With Crows)
Re: UPS for Linux recommendation (fred smith)
Intellimouse and Red Hat 6.2 Problem ("Matt")
Re: Real Player 7 -- No sound and poor video (Stephen Cornell)
PPP advice after switching from kde to gnome ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What is Enlightenment? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How can I get ksh as a login shell ? ("Andrew N. McGuire ")
Re: What is Enlightenment? (Bit Twister)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Mark Wilden)
no sound from audio CDs in SuSE6.4 (JC Vollmer)
Re: Problem establishing PPP connection (Madhusudan Singh)
Console Fonts ("JNeuffer")
Matlab or MathCad Like Programs (Jon)
Re: editor for Linux and IDE (Duane)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (Ray)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Linux SndConfig Problem (Put Music in my Linux)
Date: 29 May 2000 12:10:18 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 29 May 2000 03:06:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8gsmr2$kdf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>My sound card model is CS4236 and I check
>The linux compatibility list and it said
>that it support the CS423x, so it is compatible.
>I tried using sndconfig and at first it detects
>the wrong card but then I choose the right one an
>tried different settings but all I get are errors
>, I really don't know what the right settings are
>because when a look at the windows sound config it
>gives me too much info. If anybody out there can help
I have one of these. sndconfig worked well for me, but you don't even
need sndconfig... I trimmed the unimportant stuff from the Device Mangler
report, and came up with:
>IRQ
>5 Crystal PNP Audio System Codec
>I/O
>0330-0331 Crystal PnP System MPU-401
>0534-0537 Crystal PnP audio system Codec
>DMA
>01 Crystal pnp Audio System CODEC
>03 Crystal PnP Audio Systems CODEC
I believe all you should have to do is this:
# modprobe cs4232 irq=5 io=0x534 dma=1 dma2=3 mpuio=0x330
If that doesn't work, try using 1 and 0 for the dma values instead of 1
and 3. The IRQ will be 5. The I/O value is probably 0x534, but try 0x530
if that doesn't work. If the module loads correctly, you will hear a
brief click. HTH, good luck....
--
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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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS for Linux recommendation
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:56:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I am looking for a cheap and reliable UPS solution for a Linux
: server, possibly using it as a master in a mixed OS environment
: including NT and Solaris. I am leaning toward APC using apcd daemon.
: Any recommendation on a particular model and software would be
: appreciated.
I'm no guru, I've not got widespread experience, but...
at home here we have two Tripplite OmniSmart UPSes, two different models.
One of them (850va)powers 3 systems (one Linux, 2 windoze, one on 24x7
the other intermittently). The other one (around 600 va) powers my
personal Linux box. The PAPlus software they provide supports Linux
as well as Windoze and several other Unices. The larger of our two UPSes
is connected directly to a serial port on the Linux box, and the two
Windoze boxen that also are powered by it listen on the network for the
server (the direct-connect box) to notify them when the power has gone
off. Each machine can be independently configured to shut itself down
in whatever timeframe you want.
the version of their software that came with the UPSes (about a year ago)
works on Linux, but has some installation problems that are not covered
in the docs, so you have to beat your head on the wall for a while then
contact their tech support who will give you the answers.
OTOH I just downloaded their latest version (since I upgraded from RH 5.2
to 6.2 the one I installed last year no longer worked) and it installs
apparently cleanly. It came up and worked "out of the box", but I
haven't yet rebooted the system (won't until I need to) to make sure it
starts up properly at boot time.
They've also released the PAPlus software as open source, but I found it
less trouble to download the appropriate rpm than to build from source.
YMMV.
Good luck!
Fred
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"And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,
Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government there will be no end. He
will reign on David's throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding
it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever."
=============================== Isaiah 9:7 (niv) ==============================
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From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Intellimouse and Red Hat 6.2 Problem
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 16:27:36 GMT
My ps/2 intellimouse's wheel used to work fine under Redhat 6.1. When I did
a upgrade to 6.2 it also worked fine. I've since wiped the drive clean and
did a fresh install of 6.2. Now it doesn't work all the setting are the
same. Any idea?
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real Player 7 -- No sound and poor video
Date: 29 May 2000 17:29:34 +0100
david grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a PII 266 machine with 96 mb RAM, a Creative Vibra 16 PnP sound
> card and a #9 Revolution 3D 4mb video card.
> On trying to play a Real Player video clip, I get the message "Cannot
> open the audio device. Another application may be using it." No other
> sound application is open and the sound device is working. The various
> sound settings in Preferences make no difference.
> RP7 for Windows works normally with the same sound and video cards
> under native Windows but does not work under VMWare with Linux as a
> host. MS Media Player works under VMWare without difficulty.
> Has anybody else experienced similar problems with RealPlayer?
>
Does your
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Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PPP advice after switching from kde to gnome
Date: 29 May 2000 09:35:52 PST
I just upgraded from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.2. I thought I'd try Gnome
for awhile. I have the PPP connection that I configured under kde
and I can still connect through that. I was wondering how PPP is
typically done in Gnome?
For example, kde has something called kppp that works great. Also,
I was wondering if there is a nice gui email program that works with
Gnome? My girlfriend uses Eudora Pro in Windows, but if I could find
something as user friendly as Eudora then the need to boot into the
Windows partition would be reduced. Thanks.
--
Neil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What is Enlightenment?
Date: 29 May 2000 09:39:30 PST
I just upgraded from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.2 and am trying out Gnome.
It works with something called Enlightenment.
Could someone help me understand. What is Enlightenment?
As a matter of fact what are the aspects that make X work on a system?
In a nutshell what is the Gnome part and what is the Enlightenment
part? What is a Windows Manager?
--
Neil
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From: "Andrew N. McGuire " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I get ksh as a login shell ?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:43:59 -0500
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Herb Stein wrote:
+ 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 $EDITOR.
+ >
+ >Best Wishes,
+ >
+ >anm
+ As I recall, your suggestion works as well, but setting and exporting either
+ the EDITOR or VISUAL shell variables to vi also works.
sh-2.03$ export EDITOR=vi
sh-2.03$ ls
#pico08111# Desktop Mail dead.letter images mail nsmail scripts
themes
sh-2.03$
^^^^^
ESC+K
This is what I got in bash. I got the results you specified in ksh..
However if I explicitly say set -o emacs then it won't matter what
$EDITOR contains.. So in essence if you want to *ensure* that you
use an editing mode, then you should set -o mode, otherwise your mode
might be overwritten the next time someone does a set -o mode.
What I mean is this, note $EDITOR is emacs, yet I have vi editing:
[falcon]$ ksh
[falcon]$ echo $EDITOR
[falcon]$ export EDITOR=emacs
[falcon]$ set -o vi
[falcon]$ echo $EDITOR
emacs
[falcon]$ echo $EDITOR
^^^^^
ESC+K
This is what I get in ksh.
Obviously, I can't show precisely what I mean as I cant show the results
of ESC+K easily.. But try it out, all I am saying is set -o mode is
more 'final'.
Regards,
anm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: What is Enlightenment?
Reply-To: This_news_group
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:08:27 GMT
My, my, such a thrist for knowledge.
Commendable, beware you might drown it though.
Have you looked on http://www.enlightenment.org/
Try man X
On 29 May 2000 09:39:30 PST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could someone help me understand. What is Enlightenment?
>
>As a matter of fact what are the aspects that make X work on a system?
>In a nutshell what is the Gnome part and what is the Enlightenment
>part? What is a Windows Manager?
>
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If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
Do a, man every_command_here, before doing anything or running a script.
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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 18:07:44 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> 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 think you're replying to someone else. I have never made any statement
espousing such tenets. In particular, I think OS's lack of schedules is
one of its biggest strengths.
> Once you accept that it is possibly not what you think it is
First you need to accept that you've gravely misunderstood my position.
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From: JC Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: no sound from audio CDs in SuSE6.4
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:20:23 GMT
Hello.
I've just installed SuSE Linux 6.4 on my PentiumII/450.
I've noticed that when I try to play an audio CD with Kscd,
I can see the readout indicating that it is playing, but I
get no sound.
I have no difficulty playing .wav files, so I know that the
SoundBlaster16 is working. Still, I'd like to be able to play
audio CDs.
Is there something I've neglected to enable?
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From: Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem establishing PPP connection
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:33:02 +0000
Though I cannot answer this question per se, I would suggest your using
kppp.
Madhusudan Singh.
Atika Mustafa wrote:
> I am trying to connect to the Internet from Red Hat Linux 6.0 through
> the following command:
>
> /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 38400 debug connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v
> ATD13111111 CONNECT ogin: user assword-BREAK-assword: pass"
>
> (user=userid and pass=password)
>
> I have the following questions
> 1) why does it take so long (40secs to 1 minute) from the time I enter
> the command and the time when the modem actually dials out?
>
> 2) How do I establish ppp connection?
>
> Apparantely this method dials out, authenticates the user and then
> disconnects. Are there any changes or additional configuration that
> needs to be done?
>
> My modem is Zoltrix V.34+ (FMVOC336Fi) 33.6kbps attached on COM1
> (ttyS1).
>
> I have also tried using different speeds (38400, 57600 and 115200)in
> the pppd command but with the same result.
>
> After running pppd, the ppp logfile in /var/log which has the output,
> while trying to establish the connection:
>
> ---Start output---
> May 21 17:29:58 jupiter pppd[703]: pppd 2.3.7 started by root, uid 0
> May 21 17:29:59 jupiter chat[704]: send (ATD13111111^M)
> May 21 17:29:59 jupiter chat[704]: expect (CONNECT)
> May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: ATD13111111^M
> May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: CONNECT
> May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: -- got it
> May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: send (^M)
> May 21 17:30:38 jupiter chat[704]: expect (ogin:)
> May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: 38400^M^M
> May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: login:
> May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: -- got it
> May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: send (user^M)
> May 21 17:30:58 jupiter chat[704]: expect (assword)
> May 21 17:31:18 jupiter chat[704]: ser^M
> May 21 17:31:18 jupiter chat[704]: Password
> May 21 17:31:18 jupiter chat[704]: -- got it
> May 21 17:31:18 jupiter chat[704]: send (pass^M)
> May 21 17:31:18 jupiter pppd[703]: Serial connection established.
> May 21 17:31:28 jupiter pppd[703]: Using interface ppp0
> May 21 17:31:28 jupiter pppd[703]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> May 21 17:31:29 jupiter pppd[703]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap
> 0x0> <magic 0x64ac9223> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> May 21 17:31:56 jupiter last message repeated 9 times
> May 21 17:31:59 jupiter pppd[703]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> May 21 17:31:59 jupiter pppd[703]: Connection terminated.
> May 21 17:31:59 jupiter pppd[703]: Connect time 0.6 minutes.
> May 21 17:31:59 jupiter pppd[703]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit
> clean:
> May 21 17:31:59 jupiter pppd[703]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
> ---End output---
>
> Thanks
> Atika
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "JNeuffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Console Fonts
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:40:53 GMT
Hello,
I have seen Slackware users and SuSE users change the console screen fonts
to smaller ones. I use RedHat and was wondering if it supported this
feature... where in would I change the fonts?
Thanks for any ideas.
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From: Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matlab or MathCad Like Programs
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:45:55 GMT
Hello all,
Anyone here knows of a MatLab or MathCad like program
which will work in Linux?. Thanks.
Jon
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: editor for Linux and IDE
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:16:24 -0700
"Davide Sanna - Tiscali S.p.A." wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> is there an X-editor with syntax hilight and other
> features (like UltraEdit for windoze ?) available
> for Linux ? (free, GPL, OpenSource)...
>
> Or, how to make syntax-hiliting for gIDE for
> java sources ? (gIDE = gnome-IDE)
>
> Is there an IDE for java (NOT WRITTEN IN JAVA)
> available for Linux ? (free,GPL,OpenSource).
>
> ok, num questions enough...closing connection...
>
> Thanx!
I have no idea what gIDE is..., but if you are coming from the Windoze
world you will probably be most comfortable with nedit (a truly
excellent program):
http://www.nedit.org/
They have binaries for several Linux distributions. It has java syntax
highlighting, and an easy way to add highlighting for other file types.
So if gIDE is a style that is not yet available, this is your chance to
contribute to the Linux community!
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:07:32 GMT
On Mon, 29 May 2000 07:52:54 +0100, Mark Wilden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ray wrote:
>>
>> One advantage of using a mailing list for
>> bug tracking is that it allows search engines such as deja to tie together
>> the development of various related projects (sane, alsa, apm, etc) in a way
>> that would be difficult with traditional bug tracking systems.
>
>I don't think that's really true. A search engine like DejaNews does
>sophisticated full-text searching of free-form text. Yes, it gives
>weights to terms found in titles (even though the titles may not even
>apply to the subject anymore), and is more clever than simply listing
>all articles where search terms appear. Nevertheless, it's inherently
>unstructured.
<SNIPED discussion of the enhanced searchability of a database>
But the projects I listed arn't even part of the kernel and in one case
isn't even Linux specific. How would a problem reported to the sane
developers ever even make it into the kernel bug tracking database? Are you
saying that a problem reported to the cdrecord developer couldn't
potentially be related to a bug in the Linux SCSI code? Couldn't a bug
fixed by the kernel developers potentially be valuable to the BSD folks?
Would Intels' recent recall of thousands of I820 based motherboards possibly
be related to an unexplained kernel panic? Do you see what I was getting
at?
--
Ray
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