Linux-Misc Digest #683, Volume #24 Fri, 2 Jun 00 10:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Program: Output protokoll to a serial interface and to a file ? ("Rachid Broum")
Origin-like program for Linux? ("G. Hugh Song")
[Q] sound mixing & EsounD Compatible S/W (Bomshik Kim)
Re: Abit Hot Rot or Promise UDMA66 with Linux? (Yarick Rastrigin)
GNU Emacs as Default Editor in Helix GNOME 1.2 (D. D. Brierton)
Re: partition lost ("Jeroen")
Re: Can I delete "core"?
Q: Console-based Organizer/Calendar apps? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: partition lost (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
kickstart problem (Binh Ngo)
running checkergcc on i686 + mandrake 6.0 + pgcc-2.91.66 ? (Philippe JAUFFRET)
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From: "Rachid Broum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Program: Output protokoll to a serial interface and to a file ?
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:07:25 +0200
Reply-To: "Rachid Broum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello Everyone !
Does somebody find out witch Programm use the output protokoll to a serial
interface and in the same time link that output to a file ?
Best regards
Rachid Broum
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From: "G. Hugh Song" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Origin-like program for Linux?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:19:09 +0900
Is there a scientific visualization software that is almost
similar to Origin for Windows. IDL/pv~wave is a monster
rather than Origin-like. Especially, I am looking for a
plotting program that does insets easily.
Thanks.
--
G. Hugh Song
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From: Bomshik Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Q] sound mixing & EsounD Compatible S/W
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 21:20:25 +0900
Hello
I want to know how to mix two sound source(16 bit PCM) concurrently.
I receive two voice data sent by two different people via packet.
so If two people send voice data simultaneously, I received the data
from both A person and B person, and them mix them to one sound
play back /dev/dsp.
In order to make two sound sources to be felt one sound,
how to mix them ???
As the data were sent by UDP packet, the receiving data are saved to
string
(characters buffer) with very odd character. So I don't know how to
treat them.
and.. One more question.
How to make the ESD compatible S/W.
ESD support sound mixing which means you can play game with its own
sound and
listen music from mp3 concurrently.
You can get ESD from http://www.tux.org/~ricdude/EsounD.html.
In that page, they do not describe the method to develope ESD compatible
S/W.
Cheers..
@Thanx in advance
--
Bomshik Kim, M.S. Candidate
Programming Language Lab.
Division of CS, Dept. of EECS, KAIST
http://ropas.kaist.ac.kr/~bskim
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From: Yarick Rastrigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Abit Hot Rot or Promise UDMA66 with Linux?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:15:27 +0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello !
> They both are reported to work under Linux. I however own an
> Abit BE6 motherboard with the HPT366 controller built in and
> am not even using it with my UDMA/66 drive. I could go into
> details if you want, but I think the consensus would
> agree--stay away from the Highpoint controller. I've had
> nothing but trouble with it and there have been BIOS updates
> after BIOS updates.
>
> Also consider that I have no experience with the Promise
> controller, so... I'm biased. You should get opinions from
> people who have experience with both.
>
We're selling Abit motherboards for a while (I currently work in sales
dept of a small computer firm),
and recently I've noticed a very interesting CD along with Abit BE6-II
MoBo - Gentus Linux.
It's Abit version of RH6.0 with patched kernel with support of UDMA66
HPT controller and packages for PC health monitoring.
Maybe, this info will be useful. Look at Abit homepage.
Personally I think Abit makes very good MBs, and BIOS updates ain't that
bad.
--
With all the best, [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA 2:5025/17
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. D. Brierton)
Crossposted-To: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: GNU Emacs as Default Editor in Helix GNOME 1.2
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 13:13:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running GNU Emacs 20.5.1 in Linux Mandrake 7.0 with the Helix GNOME 1.2
desktop. One of the configurable options in the GNOME Control Centre is the
selection of a default editor, from a drop down list box. I've selected "Emacs"
as my default editor, but right-clicking on any file in the GNOME file manager
and selecting "edit" fires up a new instance of emacs, whether or not one is
already running, and WITHOUT the file loaded.
I have (server-start) in my .emacs, and my .bash_profile has EDITOR=emacsclient
in it.
Note: the problem is NOT simply that a new instance of emacs is always started,
but more importantly that the file to be editted is NEVER opened.
Has anyone got this working in GNOME?
Thanks in advance,
Darren
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D. D. Brierton, Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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Reply-To: "Jeroen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Jeroen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: partition lost
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 15:40:01 +0200
> One option: Get Findpart at http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
> boot to DOS or Windows, do:
>
> findpart all +fat fp.txt
>
> and post the content of fp.txt in a follow-up to this message. Maybe I
> can help.
Findpart, version 3.7.
Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2000.
Searches for partitions type 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, 83,
logical partitions type 82, plus Fdisk F6 and Lilo sectors.
Information based on bootsectors is marked B (ID guessed).
If the disk is larger than supported by BIOS, the supported
part of the disk is examined. Disks are numbered from 1.
OS: DOS 7.10 WINDOWS 4.10
Disk: 1 Cylinders: 784 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 6150
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 - 06 63 4192902 2047 0 1 1 260 254 63 B OK
261 1*83 63 4192902 2047 261 1 1 521 254 63 NB OK
261 2 05 4192965 2104515 1027 522 0 1 652 254 63 261 OK
Lilo sector 261 0 1
261 - 83 63 4192896 2047 261 1 1 521 254 57 B0 OK
522 1 83 63 2104452 1027 522 1 1 652 254 63 NB OK
522 2 05 6297480 2104515 1027 653 0 1 783 254 63 261 OK
522 - 0B 63 2104452 1027 522 1 1 652 254 63 B OK
653 1 06 63 2104452 1027 653 1 1 783 254 63 OK OK
=====FAT CHS =Size Cl ==Root =Good =Rep. Maybe ==Bad YYMMDD DataMB
0 1 2 256 32 512 256 0 0 0 000410 1656
522 1 46 2055 4 2 2055 0 0 0 810
653 1 2 129 32 512 129 0 0 0 981109 15
Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk:
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1*06 63 4192902 2047 0 1 1 260 254 63 OK OK
0 2 05 4192965 8401995 4102 261 0 1 783 254 63 OK
261 1*83 63 4192902 2047 261 1 1 521 254 63 NB OK
261 2 05 4192965 2104515 1027 522 0 1 652 254 63 OK
522 1 83 63 2104452 1027 522 1 1 652 254 63 NB OK
522 2 05 6297480 2104515 1027 653 0 1 783 254 63 OK
653 1 06 63 2104452 1027 653 1 1 783 254 63 OK OK
Disk: 2 Cylinders: 1826 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 14324
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
Fdisk F6 sector 0 1 1
Fdisk F6 sector 0 2 1
1 1 0B 63 10490382 5122 1 1 1 653 254 63 R0 OK
1 2 05 10490445 10490445 5122 654 0 1 1306*254 63 1 OK
0 - 0B 16128 10490382 5122 1 1 1 653 254 63 B OK
Fdisk F6 sector 653 0 1
Fdisk F6 sector 653 1 1
654 1 0B 63 10490382 5122 654 1 1 1306*254 63 R0 OK
654 2 05 20980890 8337735 4071 1306* 0 1 1824*254 63 +1306OK
0 - 0B 10506573 10490382 5122 654 1 1 1306 254 63 B OK
1307 1 83 63 8337672 4071 1307* 1 1 1825*254 63 NB OK
0 - 0B 20997018 8337672 4071 1307 1 1 1825 254 63 B OK
=====FAT CHS =Size Cl ==Root =Good =Rep. Maybe ==Bad YYMMDD DataMB
1 1 33 10235 4 2 10235 0 0 0 000321 3181
654 1 33 10235 4 2 10235 0 0 0 000321 1812
1307 1 33 8135 4 2 8135 0 0 0 2419
Partitions according to partition tables on second harddisk:
-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
0 1 0F 16065 29318625 14315 1 0 1 1825*254 63 OK
1 1 0B 63 10490382 5122 1 1 1 653 254 63 R0 OK
1 2 05 10490445 10490445 5122 654 0 1 1306*254 63 OK
654 1 0B 63 10490382 5122 654 1 1 1306*254 63 R0 OK
654 2 05 20980890 8337735 4071 1307* 0 1 1825*254 63 OK
1307 1 83 63 8337672 4071 1307* 1 1 1825*254 63 NB OK
>
> Do you have email and web access from another PC at the location of
> the problem PC?
I can still use both Linux and M$ Win98, i just cant acces my other linux
partitions. E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . about findpart: i dont
think u can do anything with this, the only thing i see is OK OK OK....
:)
Jeroen
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I delete "core"?
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 09:44:09 -0400
That file contains what is called a "core dump".I am sure you have seen in
Windows messages like "This program has performed an illegal operation and
will be terminated ".
Well, something similar happened in some program you are running, and the OS
captured all the memory in use at the time and saved it to this "core" file
after halting the program. It would be useful to someone who knows how to
use a "core" file to determine the cause. Otherwise , you can safely remove
it.
I noticed someting funny about GNOME on RH 6.0 : The first time I start it
up ( after a fresh install ) it generates a core dump. Thereafter, things
are just fine....
also run "locate -u" as root and look for core files lying around in other
directories.
man locate for info on it.
-joseph
Jackie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8h7oqr$eku$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can I safely delete the file "core" in home directory to release disk
space?
> What is the use of that file anyway?
>
> - Jackie
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Q: Console-based Organizer/Calendar apps?
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:46:28 +0100
Reply-To: no_replyto@oursite
This message has been posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ewart)
Does anyone have any recommendations for a _console_-based app
that has various calendar/scheduling facilities?
Under X, I have tried KOrganizer, which is OK, but I want to run
the app on a system _without_ X ...
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Ewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Manager
ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford UK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: be.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: partition lost
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:04:53 GMT
"Jeroen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One option: Get Findpart at http://inet.uni2.dk/~svolaf/utilities.htm
>> boot to DOS or Windows, do:
>>
>> findpart all +fat fp.txt
>>
>> and post the content of fp.txt in a follow-up to this message. Maybe I
>> can help.
>
>Findpart, version 3.7.
>Copyright Svend Olaf Mikkelsen, 2000.
>
>Searches for partitions type 01, 04, 06, 07, 0B, 0C, 0E, 83,
>logical partitions type 82, plus Fdisk F6 and Lilo sectors.
>Information based on bootsectors is marked B (ID guessed).
>If the disk is larger than supported by BIOS, the supported
>part of the disk is examined. Disks are numbered from 1.
>
>OS: DOS 7.10 WINDOWS 4.10
>
>Disk: 1 Cylinders: 784 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 6150
>
>-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
> 0 - 06 63 4192902 2047 0 1 1 260 254 63 B OK
> 261 1*83 63 4192902 2047 261 1 1 521 254 63 NB OK
> 261 2 05 4192965 2104515 1027 522 0 1 652 254 63 261 OK
> Lilo sector 261 0 1
> 261 - 83 63 4192896 2047 261 1 1 521 254 57 B0 OK
> 522 1 83 63 2104452 1027 522 1 1 652 254 63 NB OK
> 522 2 05 6297480 2104515 1027 653 0 1 783 254 63 261 OK
> 522 - 0B 63 2104452 1027 522 1 1 652 254 63 B OK
> 653 1 06 63 2104452 1027 653 1 1 783 254 63 OK OK
>
>-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
> 0 1 2 256 32 512 256 0 0 0 000410 1656
> 522 1 46 2055 4 2 2055 0 0 0 810
> 653 1 2 129 32 512 129 0 0 0 981109 15
>
>Partitions according to partition tables on first harddisk:
>
>-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
> 0 1*06 63 4192902 2047 0 1 1 260 254 63 OK OK
> 0 2 05 4192965 8401995 4102 261 0 1 783 254 63 OK
>
> 261 1*83 63 4192902 2047 261 1 1 521 254 63 NB OK
> 261 2 05 4192965 2104515 1027 522 0 1 652 254 63 OK
>
> 522 1 83 63 2104452 1027 522 1 1 652 254 63 NB OK
> 522 2 05 6297480 2104515 1027 653 0 1 783 254 63 OK
>
> 653 1 06 63 2104452 1027 653 1 1 783 254 63 OK OK
>
>Disk: 2 Cylinders: 1826 Heads: 255 Sectors: 63 MB: 14324
>
>-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
> Fdisk F6 sector 0 1 1
> Fdisk F6 sector 0 2 1
> 1 1 0B 63 10490382 5122 1 1 1 653 254 63 R0 OK
> 1 2 05 10490445 10490445 5122 654 0 1 1306*254 63 1 OK
> 0 - 0B 16128 10490382 5122 1 1 1 653 254 63 B OK
> Fdisk F6 sector 653 0 1
> Fdisk F6 sector 653 1 1
> 654 1 0B 63 10490382 5122 654 1 1 1306*254 63 R0 OK
> 654 2 05 20980890 8337735 4071 1306* 0 1 1824*254 63 +1306OK
> 0 - 0B 10506573 10490382 5122 654 1 1 1306 254 63 B OK
> 1307 1 83 63 8337672 4071 1307* 1 1 1825*254 63 NB OK
> 0 - 0B 20997018 8337672 4071 1307 1 1 1825 254 63 B OK
>
>-----FAT CHS -Size Cl --Root -Good -Rep. Maybe --Bad YYMMDD DataMB
> 1 1 33 10235 4 2 10235 0 0 0 000321 3181
> 654 1 33 10235 4 2 10235 0 0 0 000321 1812
> 1307 1 33 8135 4 2 8135 0 0 0 2419
>
>Partitions according to partition tables on second harddisk:
>
>-PCyl N ID -----Rel -----Num ---MB -Start CHS- --End CHS-- BS CHS
> 0 1 0F 16065 29318625 14315 1 0 1 1825*254 63 OK
>
> 1 1 0B 63 10490382 5122 1 1 1 653 254 63 R0 OK
> 1 2 05 10490445 10490445 5122 654 0 1 1306*254 63 OK
>
> 654 1 0B 63 10490382 5122 654 1 1 1306*254 63 R0 OK
> 654 2 05 20980890 8337735 4071 1307* 0 1 1825*254 63 OK
>
> 1307 1 83 63 8337672 4071 1307* 1 1 1825*254 63 NB OK
>
>>
>> Do you have email and web access from another PC at the location of
>> the problem PC?
>
>I can still use both Linux and M$ Win98, i just cant acces my other linux
>partitions. E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . about findpart: i dont
>think u can do anything with this, the only thing i see is OK OK OK....
>
> :)
> Jeroen
The original description:
Jeroen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>i have 2 harddiscs, hda and hdc i boot from hda1 (win98) or hda5 (linux
>mandrake 7.0) now i installed linux again, mounted the root on hda5
>again (that partition was formatted). and after the installation i
>couldnt find hda6 and hdc7 anymore (two ext2 linux partitions) but all
>my other win98 vfat) partitions were not gone. fdisk can still see
>those two linux partitions, but i cant mount them.... i DONT wanna LOSE
>the data on those partitions, can someone help me out here?
>thanx in advance,
> :)
> Jeroen
Two partitions, hda6 and hdc7, are listed as ext2 partitions in the
partition tables. They are actually FAT32 partitions. Does this ring
any bells? Try to mount them as vfat, and if you feel like it, change
the type (ID) from 83 to 0B using Linux fdisk.
Also, due to Windows bugs, you should change the ID of the extended
partition on disk 1 (hda2) from type 05 to type 0F.
Tell about the result, and ask if there are any problems.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Binh Ngo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: kickstart problem
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:04:58 +0000
Hi,
After floppy boots, I get the message: Error opening: kickstart file
/tmp/ks.cfg: No such file or directory
Eventhough the entry for my PC in the dhcpd.conf is set but still it
couldn't find the kickstart file. No error logs from the dhcp server.
In the dhcpd.conf, the entry of my pc looks like:
next-server 145.122.2.31;
filename "/dist/kickstart/";
option routers 145.122.7.59;
hardware ethernet 00:e0:29:55:9f:dc ;
fixed-address 145.122.7.59;
My ks.cfg looks like:
(/dist/kickstart/145.122.7.59-kickstart)
lang en
network --bootproto dhcp
nfs --server inst.cmc.ec.ca /sw/RedHat62
keyboard us
install
timezone --utc US/Pacific
.................................
Can someone help me please?
Thanks in advance,
Binh Ngo.
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From: Philippe JAUFFRET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: running checkergcc on i686 + mandrake 6.0 + pgcc-2.91.66 ?
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:03:28 +0000
Hey!
Dont know if this is the right group... Nevertheless :
My team encounters pb in developpong a huge software and I suspect
overstepping of arrays :=(
We spent three days trying several memory checking products : Electric Fence,
dbmalloc, ccmalloc, ...
The most promising (on the paper) is a GNU product : Checker,
the others dont give us the requested information.
Current version of checker is 0.9.9.1 for i386.
Unfortunately, the original sources do not compile on my platform
(i686 + mandrake 6.0 + pgcc-2.91.66)
Wilson patches (http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/~cmw32) make it compilable,
but not runnable (segmentation fault on startup).
My question : does anyone know how to make Checker runnable on a platform
like mine ?
Thanks to Cc to my own address.
--
> Philippe Jauffret >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
^ LMIAS (UMR 7512 du CNRS)
^ Universite Louis Pasteur, 1 rue Blaise Pascal 67000 Strasbourg (FRANCE)
^ tel:03 88416820 fax:03 88614049 (from abroad replace 03 by 333)
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