Linux-Misc Digest #650, Volume #24 Tue, 30 May 00 08:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Real Player 7 -- No sound and poor video (david grant)
SuSE 6.2 install on EIDE CDROM drive (Helge Preuss)
Re: Can't boot from CD (Shimon)
Re: RedHat 6.2 ISO Image (NDQ)
Re: Real Player 7 -- No sound and poor video (Stephen Cornell)
Re: SuSE 6.2 install on EIDE CDROM drive (Andrew Williams)
Re: how to enter a bug report against linux? (s@-)
Custom RedHat Install Floppy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 6 certifications in 30 Days and 15+ College Credits!!! (jbritton)
Chuckle for the day (Yan Seiner)
Random lockups in Redhat 6.2 (Stephen Cornell)
Re: Random lockups in Redhat 6.2 (Martin Herrman)
Re: FTP & TELNET (bill davidsen)
Re: DHCP kills kppp - please help ("knud")
Cards for x? (Jerry McBride)
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From: david grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real Player 7 -- No sound and poor video
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 19:00:21 +1000
Such a smart arse but there again your name is spike(1). Perhaps you
are really a goon!
Hey, is Lonnie Donegan still alive or has the song be re-recorded by
some pathetic new-age Brit group?
Anyhow, how about giving me some help since you were interested euough
to look at the message
On Tue, 30 May 2000 00:41:56 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
>> Does your
>
>chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight?
E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: (613) 96869775 Fax: (613) 98248890
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:33:31 +0100
From: Helge Preuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.2 install on EIDE CDROM drive
hi all,
i got 2 problems which add up to a real bitch.
1) my 5 year old harddisk which contains my root partition recently
finally smoked itself up. well i won't ask you for advice on that...
1a) when i try the boot disk i made my kernel panicks because it can't
find the root partition. looks like i did something wrong then but no
need dwelling on that, it has happened.
2) the SuSE 6.2 distro i have on CD doesn't get read by my EIDE CDROM.
more specifically: i need the SCSI CDROM emulation kernel module to read
it at all (system completely hangs with default CD support). i can't
read the module from the distro CD, so there goes catch 22...
when i first installed 6.2 i needed 3 days cursing, swearing, sweating
and a final (but brief) enlightenment to get it to work. i didn't write
down then, how i finally made it (WRITE monkey WRITE! well maybe that
teaches me a lesson...). i don't have as much time now as i had half a
year back. also lacking the spirit of that time...
i have an ancient slackware boot/root disk set ready. the 2.0.27 kernel
has no problem with my CD drive...
so, has anyone had this install problem too and REMEMBERS how to solve
it?
thanks,
helge
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From: Shimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't boot from CD
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:55:32 +0300
> > I think, it can't read from my CD ROM (by the way I
> >have a CD-RW also and tried to install from there and it also doesn't work)
My BIOS does boot from CDROM, so this might be irrelevant, but...
I *must* have the bootable CD in the RW drive, since on my IDE
channel, the RW is the one jumpered as master. The BIOS doesnt
recognize the second CDROM drive.
so i was wondering, when you boot the startup floppy, does it
see the drive you want to use.
Shimon
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 ISO Image
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:29:42 +0200
Reply-To: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jan Johansson wrote:
>
> >Can someone tell me what i might have done wrong?
>
> You must burn it in ISO9660 with RockRidge extensions.
It was already created with mkisofs inside of image.
You can not change with "writing" program (like cdrecord)
> You should have just downloaded the 'real' ISO.
Yes, in this case it's better look for another image .
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real Player 7 -- No sound and poor video
Date: 30 May 2000 11:41:34 +0100
Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
>
>
Oops, I guess I pressed `C-c C-c' rather than `C-X k'. I was about to
ask `does your sound card work with other applications, e.g. CD
players', but on re-reading your post I concluded that it did.
--
Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel/fax +44-1223-336644
University of Cambridge, Zoology Department, Downing Street, CAMBRIDGE CB2 3EJ
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From: Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.2 install on EIDE CDROM drive
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 12:47:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How I would go about this:
- set up a dos system with drivers for the CD-Rom, it does not even need to
occupy a partition - a diskette would do fine
- boot this and then execute that .exe on the first CD
- enjoy :-)
Helge Preuss wrote:
> hi all,
> i got 2 problems which add up to a real bitch.
> 1) my 5 year old harddisk which contains my root partition recently
> finally smoked itself up. well i won't ask you for advice on that...
> 1a) when i try the boot disk i made my kernel panicks because it can't
> find the root partition. looks like i did something wrong then but no
> need dwelling on that, it has happened.
> 2) the SuSE 6.2 distro i have on CD doesn't get read by my EIDE CDROM.
> more specifically: i need the SCSI CDROM emulation kernel module to read
>
> it at all (system completely hangs with default CD support). i can't
> read the module from the distro CD, so there goes catch 22...
> when i first installed 6.2 i needed 3 days cursing, swearing, sweating
> and a final (but brief) enlightenment to get it to work. i didn't write
> down then, how i finally made it (WRITE monkey WRITE! well maybe that
> teaches me a lesson...). i don't have as much time now as i had half a
> year back. also lacking the spirit of that time...
> i have an ancient slackware boot/root disk set ready. the 2.0.27 kernel
> has no problem with my CD drive...
> so, has anyone had this install problem too and REMEMBERS how to solve
> it?
> thanks,
> helge
--
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From: s@-
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: how to enter a bug report against linux?
Date: 30 May 2000 03:14:59 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark says...
>
>A couple of points: first, when they first started building bridges
>(especially the first iron bridges),
But linux is not the first OS.
>Second, a computer program is far more complex than a bridge. It's much
>harder to design. I've read estimates that the average computer program
>has more parts than a 747.
>
It looks like you never looked at an engineering mathematics book
before. Structural engineering is far harder subject that generic
software. proof, almost any idiot can learn to program in VB or
Java. But you need to be really smart to pass all those advanced
engineering courses.
>Third, a computer program _can_ be blown up and started over.
Yes it can. and so can a bridge. If you do not care for the cost
and waste resulting from such an act.
>
>Fourth, the needs of a bridge are pretty simple. How many use cases does
>a bridge support (so to speak)?
>
huh? You really need to go take a course in structural engineering, you
do not how dumb you sound.
Other idiotic points skiped.
>All that said, I do believe in analysis and design and agree that Linux
>could use more of it (if it's true that there's no specification for its
>components at all).
Not only there are no design, looking at the linux kernel code,
you look at a function, and you have no idea what is the input
and output. no function headers to give one an idea
about it, nothing. If I where a manager at such a sw project, I'll fire
those programers who write such code.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Custom RedHat Install Floppy
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 10:42:13 GMT
Hi Folks,
Could anyone give me a step-by-step guide to creating a custom
PCMCIA/NET install disk for RedHat 6.2?
I have a laptop that I would like to install it onto, but it has no
CDROM drive (or rather, the CDROM drive broke and was discarded) and my
PCMCIA ethernet card is not supported on the disk. I have the linux
module, etc (and source) for the driver on my other box all compiled..
I just need to find a way of putting it onto the RedHat install disk so
that I can do a network install.
Many Thanks
Chris Masters
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: jbritton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.certification.cisco,alt.certification.mcse,alt.certification.network-plus,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 6 certifications in 30 Days and 15+ College Credits!!!
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 05:25:45 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Qwagga wrote:
> Tell me bout it.... what if.....you bought some kegs and kegs of
> beer? not real beer only one beer, the best brew in the world, yep
> real home brew.What about a nice ve-hi-cle, something snazzy, like I
> dont know.... porsche or something?
>
> jbritton wrote in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...Andrew Dacey wrote:
>
> > "A. G." wrote:
> > >
> > > If I had $20,000 I wouldn't need to take any test.
> > <snip>
> >
> > <snip>
>
> Hell what if the company you work for has a huge CCIE lab
> and you use it any time you wanted to.
>
> For $20,000 hmmm
>
> 1. New Truck
> 2. Kegs and Kegs and Kegs of real Beer
> 3. PARTYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 4. Lawyers cause im bound to end up in jail with all that
> beer ;-)
> 5. fines and court costs
>
> $20,000 should cover that ???
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>
Porsche do they make a truck?? I need to haul more then a pony kegs ya
know. I like my Killians and lots of it ;-)
--
Jon
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<blockquote TYPE=CITE> <font size=-1>Tell me bout it.... what if.....you
bought some kegs and kegs of beer? not real beer only one beer, the best
brew in the world, yep real home brew.What about a nice ve-hi-cle, something
snazzy, like I dont know.... porsche or something?</font>
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in message <<a
href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>>...Andrew
Dacey wrote:
<blockquote TYPE="CITE">"A. G." wrote:
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<br>> If I had $20,000 I wouldn't need to take any test.
<br><snip>
<p><snip></blockquote>
Hell what if the company you work for has a huge CCIE lab and you use it
any time you wanted to.
<p>For $20,000 hmmm
<p>1. New Truck
<br>2. Kegs and Kegs and Kegs of real Beer
<br>3. PARTYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<br>4. Lawyers cause im bound to end up in jail with all that beer ;-)
<br>5. fines and court costs
<p>$20,000 should cover that ???
<pre>--
Jon</pre>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<p><br>Porsche do they make a truck?? I need to haul more then a pony
kegs ya know. I like my Killians and lots of it ;-)
<pre>--
Jon</pre>
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Chuckle for the day
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 06:42:47 -0400
Did anyone read the big spread on MS 2K in Newsweek last week?
MS bought about half the mag for a "special advertising section".
In it we find the jewel of MS stability: in one of the "customer"
testimonials, a MS admin gushes: "I hear you can get up to 90 days
uptime with Windows 2000. My customers will be happy with that."
Or something similar - I am going from memory.
Never mind that 90 days between crashes is still way too short. My old
Sun system ran for several years at one stretch.
My hacked up p5/166 home computer has longer uptimes than 90 days. Of
course, it runs linux and windows only in a win4lin box. That way, when
windows crashes, I can just open another session.
Leave it to MS to convince the public that going from totally
unacceptable lack of stability to an unacceptable lack of stability is
progress.
--Yan
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From: Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Random lockups in Redhat 6.2
Date: 30 May 2000 12:34:35 +0100
Does anyone else have stability problems with Redhat 6.2?
I installed Red Hat 6.2 on my laptop at the weekend. This machine had
been happily running 5.2 for 18 months, but since I wanted to
repartition my disk (to make way for a hibernation partition) I
decided to wipe the disk and install from scratch. To my horror, the
machine has changed from being generally reliable to being pretty
unstable - the machine has already, several times, locked up
completely without provocation.
Under 5.2, I used to get the occasional lockup when using XFree86, but
since I started using the Metro X-server this problem went away. I'm
also using MetroX with Red Hat 6.2, since the new version of XFree
(3.3.5, IIRC) gives noise on the screen (curiously, this didn't use to
happen with 3.3.3). This morning, running Metro X, the display
spontaneously changed into black and white stripes, and the machine
hung - no response to the keyboard or mouse, and since the PCMCIA LCD
light didn't flash when I inserted or removed a card I conclude that
the kernel (or, at least, cardmgr) was locked. When I rebooted, there
was no message in the system logs to indicate what had happened.
I also observe random lockups soon after resuming from a save-to-disk.
After resuming, the machine appears to function happily for a few
minutes, but then locks up as described in the previous paragraph
(except without the video corruption).
The lockups mainly seem to occur after hibernation (though the machine
has sometimes run happily for hours after resuming), so I'm wondering
whether the problems are related to this.
I know that the stock Redhat 6.2 kernel is meant to have `issues', but
I had updated it (and all other packages) to the most recent versions
in accordance with Redhat's security/bugfix webpages. This is my 5th
Linux installation, and while I don't consider myself an expert I'm
confident that there aren't any glaring errors or inconsistencies.
Anyone have any sugestions?
--
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] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: Random lockups in Redhat 6.2
Date: 30 May 2000 11:41:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 May 2000 12:34:35 +0100, Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<CUT: redhat problems>
> Anyone have any sugestions?
I heard some other people with problems after upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2.
I think RedHat might get a too much commercial vison: often new versions,
so companies will think it is good. In fact, the dependencies etc. aren't
checked thoroughly and the system gets unstable. I hope this will change,
or that i'm wrong, otherwise the linux OS is going to look like windows
for the average user. Or they should be warned and noticed about Debian
or something like that. In fact, i'm using redhat now too, but i would
like to change.. just not time enough :-(
greetings,
Martin
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
1:30pm up 1 day, 23:07, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.08, 0.08
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FTP & TELNET
Date: 30 May 2000 11:47:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, AfterFX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Can you explain this in a little more detail - where do I find out about the
| auth service?
|
| The one thing that gets me down more than anything else about Linux is the
| seemingly endless configuration that must be performed just to get a simple
| service running...
Well, unless you have done something with a firewall to create the
problem you don't need to be solving it. Most versions of Linux come
with the auth service enables (see /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf) by
default. It's only when someone who doesn't really understand what's
happening starts blocking auth the wrong way that you get problems.
Your problem is more likely to be related to DNS, if your ISP is
providing that for you it may be slow (or missing). And if you have DNS
wrong, Win9x will behave badly, too.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979"(tm)
The hardest test of maturity is knowing the difference between
resisting temptation and missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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From: "knud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DHCP kills kppp - please help
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 07:58:50 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "L. Friedman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> They're text files. You edit them like you would any text file, in a
> text editor.
>
Yes but what to I type in them to make the ppp connection become then end
as the default route?
Thanks,
knud
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Subject: Cards for x?
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 06:56:29 -0400
Is anyone aware of a k or x program that emulates the windows CARDS program?
I've been a long-tiem user of an OS/2 version and since stepping over to Linux
and KDE, I find I really miss that application.
Anyone?
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