Linux-Misc Digest #736, Volume #24 Wed, 7 Jun 00 04:13:02 EDT
Contents:
root tar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Partition Problem (1024 Cylinders) (Akira Yamanita)
Re: System time setup? ("David ..")
Re: System time setup? (Akira Yamanita)
Re: Compilation Error ("David ..")
Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD (Vilmos Soti)
Re: Need advice for smallbiz setup (Julian Bordas)
2 gateways possible? (behapy)
compiling and installing ("ajohnno")
How to use a 3com Home connect ADSL modem ethernet? ("Antony Mak")
Any cool .emacs file out there (Jon)
PCMCIA Internet Phone Card from DIALPAD.COM -- any good? ("Donald Whalen")
Re: MS Word in Linux (Martin Herrman)
Linux Dual Boot Trouble ("news.socket.net")
Re: Freewwweb slow ? (Oshuma (Christopher Campbell))
Re: Freewwweb slow ? (Oshuma (Christopher Campbell))
Re: Resetting Video Card from console ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does Linux support Multiprocessors? (Terrence Wong)
Re: Can a 486 handle PPPoE + ipMASQ for 3 comps ? ("Jin Rid")
Copyright Infringement - OT (HELP Linux friends!) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does Linux support Multiprocessors? (Martin Herrman)
Re: Modem Config. Problem using Kppp (Jim Jerzycke)
File splitting (fwd) (Simon Kongshoj)
SOX:Invalid audio buffer size 0? (Kihong Lee)
Re: Red Hat 6.2 and Old a.out Binaries (Villy Kruse)
Re: Any cool .emacs file out there ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
New features in Mandrake 7.1 (Jonathan)
Re: Mandrake 7 setup question (Karel Jansens)
Re: Mandrake 7 setup question (Karel Jansens)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: root tar
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 04:58:39 GMT
I use tar version 1.13.17 from Debian Frozen distro.
I download latest qt library qt-x11-2.1.1.tar.gz
If I am regular user and try to gunzip untar it using command
tar xvzf qt-x11.2.1.1.tar.gz everything works fine, and file ownership
becomes of regular user
If I am root, tar xvzf qt-x11.2.1.1.tar.gz unzips everything, but the
owners of files become users with ID 500 - probably because that's how
they are stored inside the tar file. Is this expected and designed
behaviour? It seems that this should happen only when I use the -s flag,
and at all other times thing should be smooth.
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Problem (1024 Cylinders)
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 05:31:21 GMT
Paul Eisenberg wrote:
>
> After I boot off the disk, is the newer version of LILO simple to
> install? Also if I don't get the newer version of LILO and the old
> one isn't in the 1024 range, then how can I tell it to boot to Win98
> when the boot disk isn't in? Because right now nothing happens at
> all. Thanks. Paul
Remove LILO and you'll boot to Windows. I'm not sure if you can
keep LILO from installing but you can remove it from the MBR
later on. Just make a boot disk before you do that. When you
want to boot into Linux, just boot from the disk. When you
want to boot to Windows, just leave it out.
Upgrading should be relatively easy. Decompress the tarball.
Compile and install. Run lilo to write to the MBR. I haven't
done it though. There's two success comments and one comment
to the contrary on http://freshmeat.net/
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System time setup?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:24:49 -0500
Eric Chow wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Would you please to teach me how I can change the system time to local time
> but not GMT time ?
>
> When I installed the Linux, I set the System time to GMT, how can I change it
> to my local time ? I use RedHat6.0
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Before making any changes to your system configuration here is a simple
step to see if this could be
the problem.
To check to see if this could be the problem:
cat /etc/sysconfig/clock
This will show you the clock file. If this could be causing the problem
it will probably look like the
one shown.
ZONE="US/Central"
UTC=true
ARC=false
It should look similar to this with the correct country and timezone in
the first line. The second
line tells Linux to assume the BIOS clock is set to the UTC or GMT
timezone. If this is what yours
looks like then you should change the UTC line to correct it as shown
below.
vi /etc/sysconfig/clock
UTC=false
Be sure to save the change when done then reset the correct time. You
can use "timetool" as root in an xterm.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System time setup?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 05:38:10 GMT
Eric Chow wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Would you please to teach me how I can change the system time to local time
> but not GMT time ?
>
> When I installed the Linux, I set the System time to GMT, how can I change it
> to my local time ? I use RedHat6.0
>
> Best regards,
> Eric
In addition to David's advice, you can use "setup" or "tzselect".
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compilation Error
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:28:12 -0500
Kaushik Kuila wrote:
>
> I'm new to compiling linux, and this is the first I'm trying this
> exercise. I do the following steps:
> make menuconfig
> make dep
> make clean
> until this step everything seems fine. Then when I do a
> make zImage
Try "make bzImage" instead of "make zImage"
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 05:47:20 GMT
Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FreeBSD is an open source unix op sys. The kernel has been audited for
> security holes many times.
You are confusing FreeBSD with OpenBSD. That was audited for sec holes.
Vilmos
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From: Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: Need advice for smallbiz setup
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:50:11 +1000
Sarah wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of running a 3-way network, with a win95/98 box
> for home use, a MAC G3 for the database/webserver, and Linux
> for the network protocol.
>
> How would I set this up? What do I need?
You could use a Linux PC for home use. A linux PC for the web/database
server and a Linux PC for the network protocol (Do you mean Router)
Julian
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From: behapy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 gateways possible?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:59:10 +0900
Hi all,
I'd like to ask about something below. Would please tell me the answer?
81.200.1.2 ----- 81.200.1.1 ----- 210.xx.xx.xx
----- to the internet
. 81.200.2.1 (something
firewall)
internet .
.
.
81.200.2.200
(PCs) (routers) (internet
gateway)
51.202.3.250
.
.
.
+------------------ 51.202.3.2
(servers)
|
|
51.200.1.2 ----- 51.200.1.1 ----------- 49.100.1.1
----- 49.100.1.2
. 51.200.2.1 49.100.2.1
.
LAN . 51.202.3.1
.
.
.
.
51.200.5.200
49.100.2.200
(PCs) (routers) (routers)
(servers)
I've 2 NICs. eth0 81.200.1.200(gw81.200.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0) and eth1
51.200.1.251(no gateway, mask 255.0.0.0). So I can login to 51.202.3.2 by telnet.
And I can also login to ftp.kde.org by an ftp program.
But if I login to 49.100.2.200, I can not connect to the server. Because the
server 49.100.2.200 is not the same network address to my eth1. So I changed eth1 as
51.200.1.251(gw51.200.1.1, mask 255.255.255.0) and it is not worked. I don't know why.
If I login to 49.100.2.200 then, eth0 will send packets to its gateway
81.200.1.1 and eth1 also will send packets to its gateway 51.200.1.1 then eth0 will
reply something timeout or response if there is 49.100.2.200 on the internet. Anyhow
eth1 absoultly receive the response from 49.100.2.200 I think. 51.200.1.251 ->
request is not its network address. SO -> 51.200.1.1 -> 49.100.2.1 (something?) ->
49.100.2.200 ??? Am I wrong?
the PC eth0 and eth1 have is win95 and 49.100.2.200 is linux. Is there any
solution to solve the problem?
many many thanks to the responsers,
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From: "ajohnno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compiling and installing
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 13:40:17 +0800
I am having difficulty installing some programmes. I run ./configure and
lots of stuff happens, but at the end it fails when checking the KDE
Libraries, saying that it fails linking a small application. I can't make at
this stage. I would appreciate some assistance with this one. I am using
Redhat 6.1 with KDE
Cheers
Andrew
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From: "Antony Mak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to use a 3com Home connect ADSL modem ethernet?
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:09:54 +0800
Hi all,
Does anyone know how can use a "3com Home connect ADSL modem ethernet"
box on a SuSE6.2 Box?
Thank in advance
Antony
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From: Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any cool .emacs file out there
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 06:14:21 GMT
Hello all,
Does anyone know where I can locate some cool .emacs file
for Linux using KDE desktop?. The default color is pretty yukky
with yellow character on top of a pale background. I do a lot of
C/C++ and Perl programming and would appreciate a good .emacs file
to help with locating closing brackets/paren and syntax highlighting.
Thanks in advance.
Jon
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From: "Donald Whalen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA Internet Phone Card from DIALPAD.COM -- any good?
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 02:20:05 -0400
Crossposted-To:
alt.consumers.free-stuff,alt.internet.providers.screaming.net,comp.com.voice-over-ip,creative.products.sound_blaster.live,comp.dcom.modems.cable,uk.telecom,comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.telecom.tech,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,microsoft.p
Greetings,
Has anyone had any experience with the Internet PhoneCARD that dialpad.com
sells? I have a Dell Latitude laptop that doesn't seem to work in full
duplex mode for dialpad.com or netmeeting. I am wondering if this card will
fix that problem for me. Also, can you tell me how it is to set up, and
what kind of microphone/headset you can use with it.
Thanks in advance,
Don
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: MS Word in Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07 Jun 2000 06:30:49 GMT
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:35:11 -0700, JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I wonder if there is out there a tool that allows me to read, but
> not edit, MS Word
> documents under Linux. I am looking for something lightweight and free;
> i.e.
> StarOffice, VMWare (or whatever it is called) and WP for Linux are not
> for me.
>
> Yes, people still email me Word documents every so often.
>
Abiword (www.abisource.com) is the best ;-)
Martin
>
>
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Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
8:30am up 5 days, 13:05, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "news.socket.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Dual Boot Trouble
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 01:35:17 -0500
Hello, I'm posting tonight at the end of the first session of an attempt to
dual boot my system between Red Hat 6.1 and Windows 2000. I've had Windows
running on my system for some time without error. Tonight I was successful
in installing Red Hat 6.1 to a partition that I had reserved for that
purpose when setting up my system. My problem came in configuring LILO.
Once Red Hat was installed, that was the only OS I was able to boot. It was
the default with no option to start Windows. The only way to boot Windows
was to boot into Red Hat and uninstall LILO with the "lilo -u" command.
This did succeed in getting Windows to boot correctly now, but the situation
was reversed, Windows was now the default again with no option for Red Hat.
So, and this is where I screwed up, checking my Linux documentation, I see
that the command "fdisk /mbr" from DOS will restore LILO to it's previous
configuration. When really, what I did was set the MBR to the primary DOS
partition, which put my original MBR in a mess since NTLDR is now not found,
for when I reboot the system, I get "Missing Operating System". Since this
I have re-installed Red Hat to the partitions I had originally put it on,
and can run it fine, but what I'm asking is what I need to do to restore my
Windows boot loader. Is it possible for me to set up LILO, since I can boot
successfully to Red Hat, to dual boot Red Hat and Win2000 like I had
originally intended to do from the point I am now?
Thanks for any help you can give, I do appreciate it.
Jody Thigpen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Oshuma (Christopher Campbell) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Freewwweb slow ?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 06:29:54 GMT
In article <8hh0s4$t8r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In alt.os.linux David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 27 May 2000 12:51:30 -0400, Jim Kalb apparently wrote:
>
> >> Also, I'm a Linux newbie and just set up freewwweb with wvdial and
> >> Netscape. Two issues:
>
> > You get what you pay for.
>
> Except with Linux... It's free and better than M$!!
>
>
Ha ha, right on!!
--
Oshuma
Christopher Dale Campbell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ - 62720935
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From: Oshuma (Christopher Campbell) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Freewwweb slow ?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 06:37:52 GMT
In article <PHa%4.1425$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Zbigniew Sienkiewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree that email is the worst part of freewwweb but they're getting (most
> likely) enough money from advertising to fix it. They claim to have
> membership growing by 10000 per day! I'm sure that's the perfect opportunity
> for advertisers. It would be nice to have less busy signals during prime
> time.
> But - as far as I know - that's the only free ISP without banners. You can't
> beat that!
> Zbigniew
>
It is a great deal, but here in Tampa, FL I've been getting busy signals for
around two weeks. Not sure if it's their rapid growth that's slowing them up
or what. -- Oshuma Christopher Dale Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ - 62720935
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Resetting Video Card from console
Date: 7 Jun 2000 06:49:15 GMT
John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately neither one of them worked.
there is a utility for this: check out the 'textmode' manpage.
It helped me to recover from those situations.
>From the manpage:
These are simple scripts to save the SVGA register state
when in textmode to the files /tmp/fontdata and /tmp/tex-
tregs or to restore it from these files.
The actual utilities used are restorefont(1), restore-
textmode(1), and restorepalette(1).
The purpose of these scripts program is usually to recover
from a crashed console due to an svgalib, Xfree or other
program bug.
hope it helps
Rolf
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:53:37 +0800
From: Terrence Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Does Linux support Multiprocessors?
On this note, how can I tell if the SMP support is being used. For NT at
least, there task-bar shows 2 resource indicators. I am looking for
something that shows the status of the CPU, "top" cannot tell.
Pardon my novice question.
Terrence
Ps. Am trying hard to educate myself having coming from a windoze user.
mike burrell wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.help jmt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I gots me a dual processor motherboard running 2 pentiums II's. Will Linux
> > use them? If so, is there anything extra has to be installed to have the
> > kernal see them or special bootup cmds?
>
> depending on your distribution, you may have to a kernel recompile.
>
> talking from a 'make menuconfig' perspective ('make xconfig' may use
> slightly different names), go to "Processor type and features" and then make
> sure that "Symmetric multi-processor support" is set.
>
> that's it. if "Symmetric multi-processor support" is already set, then you
> probably don't need to recompile the kernel (since your present kernel more
> than likely already has support compiled in).
>
> --
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> X AGAINST HTML MAIL
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From: "Jin Rid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can a 486 handle PPPoE + ipMASQ for 3 comps ?
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:54:30 +0800
hi
I understand the default Linux distribution kernel does not comes with
pppoe. May I know where can I download it?
Beside IPMasq, does Linux support port mapping?
regards
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8hji46$ifi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> So... my cpu is good enough for it.Roger that.
> And I'm already scouting around for more memory . If I can live without
> swapping , it would be great.
>
>
> Neil Wolvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a 486 dx33 520 mb hdd with 20 meg ram firewall for 4 computers,
3
> > windows 1 linux with bellatlantic dsl. On occasion all 4 are connected
to
> the
> > internet at the same time and I find no slowdown in performance. Before
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.slackware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Copyright Infringement - OT (HELP Linux friends!)
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 07:13:00 GMT
Calling all Linux friends - please help!
The company I currently sysadmin for has recently received a threatening
letter from a lawyer representing a major software company specializing
in high-end software that runs on Windows.
The letter was in regards to licensing and stated covertly that they
believe we are running unlicensing/unpurchased software, and to respond
immediately regarding the violation of possible copyright infringement
laws. The letter also clearly demanded that we do not uninstall any
currently installed versions of the software, nor purchase any new
licenses of the software.
The company is known for it's strong-arm tactics against small
businesses who practice poor license management. They are not a small
company.
You see, dear linux friends, the company has indeed installed unlicensed
versions of the software . I suppose that I should state that on Day 1
that I started (about a year ago) I told them that they must get
compliant on their licensing or this would happen, sooner or later. But
they did not listen and continued to run unlicensed versions. It is
quite ironic however, that they were finally making arrangements this
fiscal quarter to purchase the needed licenses - but then the letter
arrived.
Oh, what to do?
Has anyone experienced this sort of treachery? Part of me wants to say
"I told you so", but the other cares for the company (it is a good
company and they are nice people - they let me run Linux servers).
I am counting on you, my Linux friends.
Please help and sorry for the cross-posts!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Does Linux support Multiprocessors?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 07 Jun 2000 07:21:36 GMT
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:53:37 +0800, Terrence Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On this note, how can I tell if the SMP support is being used. For NT at
> least, there task-bar shows 2 resource indicators. I am looking for
> something that shows the status of the CPU, "top" cannot tell.
I think (i'm not sure), you can get that information from
/proc/cpuinfo
Otherwise, I think it will be somewhere else in the /proc file system.
Just type:
'less /proc/cpuinfo'
and get surprised (i hope :-)
>
> Pardon my novice question.
>
that's okay :-)
> Terrence
> Ps. Am trying hard to educate myself having coming from a windoze user.
I guess we all did one day :-)
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Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
9:10am up 5 days, 13:45, 3 users, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.14
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Config. Problem using Kppp
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 07:26:17 +0000
You may have to run pnpdump to detect it. If it has jumpers, make sure
they're set to a known good com port / irq. Look at the dmesg output to
see if it found it on boot up, and go from there.
Regards, Jim
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From: Simon Kongshoj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: File splitting (fwd)
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 07:35:31 GMT
Hey,
Since I want to install DRI on my system (MGA G400-powered Debian potato,
with XFree86 4.0.0 installed from source tarballs), I need to find some
quick and easy way to split the >15MB source tarball I downloaded from
dri.sourceforge.net into 1.44M floppy-sized chunks to transport it
between my university's Solaris machines and my home Linux box.
Do I need a dedicated file-splitter program for this, or is there some
Smart And Cunning trick for tar that lets me do this with an existing
tarball? Alternately, I can use a WinNT machine to WinZip the tarball --
if there is some way to get a Linux box to put it back together again.
Please help, even though I fully realize that having a non-netconnected
Linux box qualifies me as clinically insane. ;)
--
Simon Kongshoj - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.cs.auc.dk/~simon
It's dark and I'm wearing sunglasses.
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From: Kihong Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SOX:Invalid audio buffer size 0?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 16:39:07 +0900
What's problem? T_T;;
I used sound card very well.
But one day, it don't work.
So, I tried to reconfig with "sndconfig" command.
And, it detected my sound card very well(Ensoniq).
But when playing sample file for testing, it popuped window
"SOX: Invalid audio buffer size 0" message box.
And, i can't any more sound.
Please Help me..
What can i do? T_T
P.S In MS-Windows OS, it works very well.
Sorry for my poor english ^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2 and Old a.out Binaries
Date: 7 Jun 2000 07:50:00 GMT
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 01:56:17 GMT,
fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On my 6.2 (upgrade from 5.2) I noted that a.out binaries will run, but
>only if I manually insmod binfmt-aout.o. It does not seem to want to
>autoload that module. Is this a bug, or a feature?
>
It is a registered and open bug in redhat's bugzilla system. It
is reported against redhat 6.1 for the modutils package, although
this is realy a kernel problem.
I don't know who is responsible for changing the kernel to request the
binfmt module by a different "magic" number. The 2.0.x kernels would
use the first two bytes in a binary file as a magic number and request
the module binfmt-xxx, where xxx is the magic number in decimal.
Current 2.2 kernel would use the second halfword in the binary file
as a magic number ans request binfmt-xxxx where xxxx is a 4 digit
hex number. This breaks both autoloading of binfmt.aout as well as
autoloading the iBCS module.
You can check fs/exec.c int the linux source tree and search for "binfmt-"
to find exactly where this happens.
I have yet to check if this is a redhat thing or something that comes
from the official linux kernel.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any cool .emacs file out there
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 07:40:43 GMT
Add this in to get syntax highlighting
(if(eq window-system 'x) (global-font-lock-mode t))
Duncan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Does anyone know where I can locate some cool .emacs file
> for Linux using KDE desktop?. The default color is pretty yukky
> with yellow character on top of a pale background. I do a lot of
> C/C++ and Perl programming and would appreciate a good .emacs file
> to help with locating closing brackets/paren and syntax highlighting.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jon
>
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New features in Mandrake 7.1
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 07:44:28 GMT
Hi,
I'm planning to upgrade my company's web server to Mandrake's latest
ver: 7.1 (as soon as i finish downloading it!). I read from their
website that they have some new features such as Journal File System
and a new bootloader apart from LILO. Is it advisable to use them(for
production purposes)?
TIA,
Jonathan
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7 setup question
Date: 7 Jun 2000 08:59:18 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt) wrote:
> On 5 Jun 2000 23:36:28 GMT, Karel Jansens <jansens_at_ibm_dot_net> wrote:
> >If I let Mandrake set itself up semi-automatically (i.e. no "expert"
> >mode), will I still be able to stick lilo somewhere else than on the
> >MBR of the root partition, like /dev/hda6? I use OS/2's Boot Manager
> >as my primary booting tool, and it is now set up to boot lilo off the
> >linux partition. I would be seriously p*ssed off if Mandrake were to
> >overwrite Boot Manager.
>
> Mandrake 7 lets you put LILO where you want to. When I got a 27.3G hard
> drive I specifically put a couple of 16MB /boot partitions on it before
> Win98se. I have the LILO for RH 6.1 in hda1 and LILO for Mandrake 7.0 in
> hda2. Then I can make either the active boot partition and can totally
> reinstall anything without having to worry about anything (like Windows or
> virus detection) messing with the MBR.
>
I just found that out too (got a little impatient and went ahead with
the custom install anyway). The Mandrake installation routine offers
the default choice of /dev/hda for lilo (which is a big no-no as far
as Boot Manager is concerned!), but the drop-down menu offers all
other accessible partitions, including /dev/hda6 (which was what I
needed).
Thanks all.
Of course, _now_ I descover that my cheap Mandrake copy comes without
sources! It promises to be great fun to get my parallel port Zip going
(this is the one thing the installation process fell over). That'll be
one for next weekend.
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
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"We seem to be made to suffer. It is our lot in life."
C3P0 - 'Star Wars IV, a New Hope'
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From: jansens_at_ibm_dot_net (Karel Jansens)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7 setup question
Date: 7 Jun 2000 08:59:19 GMT
Eugene Grob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 5 Jun 2000 23:36:28 GMT, Karel Jansens <jansens_at_ibm_dot_net> wrote:
> > >If I let Mandrake set itself up semi-automatically (i.e. no "expert"
> > >mode), will I still be able to stick lilo somewhere else than on the
> > >MBR of the root partition, like /dev/hda6? I use OS/2's Boot Manager
> > >as my primary booting tool, and it is now set up to boot lilo off the
> > >linux partition. I would be seriously p*ssed off if Mandrake were to
> > >overwrite Boot Manager.
>
> I'm running OS2 with it's BootManager together with DOS and Linux
> Mandrake 7.
>
> First make a partition for Linux under OS2 and declare it to the
> BootManager.
> Then install your Mandrake into this partition, in my case it was
> /dev/hda5, and dont forget to install lilo in this partition too and not
> into the MBR.
>
> Then you should be able to start your LInux directly from the
> Bootmanager's menu !
>
> Hope it helps
> Eugene
Thanks (I had already done that, but it might help another soul).
Karel Jansens
jansens_at_attglobal_dot_net
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C3P0 - 'Star Wars IV, a New Hope'
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