Linux-Misc Digest #834, Volume #24 Fri, 16 Jun 00 16:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: winTV 401 and Soundblaster live (Andrey Vlasov)
Anyone running CommunicationGate Pro? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Which program to copy cd's exactly? CDRDAO?
Re: Anyone running CommunicationGate Pro? (Pete Zaitcev)
Re: Mandrake 7.1: is it fixed yet? (kamborg)
Re: Why does linuxconf see 5 NICs? (Roger Blake)
sound problem (debtman)
Re: Why does linuxconf see 5 NICs? (Buchan Milne)
Re: Give me a general advice on X please. (The Darkener)
Re: The scout vs. the wraith (The Darkener)
Re: Cable Moden Setup Questions (Akira Yamanita)
Re: installing packages in Redhat (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: shell scripts (TomG)
Re: Cable Moden Setup Questions ("Larry")
Re: Blocking news servers? ("Steve Wolfe")
mounting as NTFS (Yao Wang)
grep ? extract part of BIG file ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Secure/Clean Distrobution (Joeri Sebrechts)
Helix Gnome ("David ..")
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: winTV 401 and Soundblaster live
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:14:49 -0700
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Hi there,
yes, this configuration works and very vell in RedHat 6.1. Can not provide
with config at the moment as the system at home. If you interested drop
email and I will try to help. (I don't know anythigh about debian but hope
that it not too diffrent from RedHat in sence of installation steps)
NOTE: I had to follow steps from BTTV source to get picture and sound.
Andrey
shadow wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just got a winTV 401 tv tuner and soundblaster live value card. I have
> the tv tuner working but no sound, works fine under windows. Anybody
> have this combination hardware and have it working give me some help?
>
> I'm running debian potato with xawtv 3.06.
>
> Thanks,
>
> shadow
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H<tt>i there,</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>yes, this configuration works and very vell in RedHat 6.1. Can not
provide</tt>
<br><tt>with config at the moment as the system at home. If you interested
drop</tt>
<br><tt>email and I will try to help. (I don't know anythigh about debian
but hope</tt>
<br><tt>that it not too diffrent from RedHat in sence of installation
steps)</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>NOTE: I had to follow steps from BTTV source to get picture
and sound.</tt>
<br><tt> </tt>
<br><tt>Andrey</tt><tt></tt>
<p>shadow wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi all,
<p>Just got a winTV 401 tv tuner and soundblaster live value card.
I have
<br>the tv tuner working but no sound, works fine under windows.
Anybody
<br>have this combination hardware and have it working give me some help?
<p>I'm running debian potato with xawtv 3.06.
<p>Thanks,
<p>shadow</blockquote>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Anyone running CommunicationGate Pro?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:18:11 GMT
Is anyone running CommunicationGate Pro? If so, I am curious to know
how you like it.
B&B
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which program to copy cd's exactly? CDRDAO?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:30:06 GMT
Hey,
I am looking for some software that will make exact copies of cd's, even
if they are all audio, all data, mixed, or multisession. I think cdrdao
is what I am looking for, but I just wanted to ask and make sure. If it
is cdrdao, will it copy a multisession cd in one fell swoop? or do I just
have to copy each session individualy (using the -multi option)
Thanks!
-Pete
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Zaitcev)
Subject: Re: Anyone running CommunicationGate Pro?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:37:13 GMT
> Is anyone running CommunicationGate Pro? If so, I am curious to know
> how you like it.
>
> B&B
Demos.su use it on solaris for customer mailboxes, they
seen content with it. They are a veteran user, so they have
a version without the clustering AFAIK. I may be out of date though.
--Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kamborg)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1: is it fixed yet?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:51:23 GMT
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:06:05 -0700, Jared Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>kamborg wrote:
>
>> I've simply dispensed with crond. I determined it was the program accessing
>> my HD 1-2 times every 60 sec, preventing the drive from powering down when
>> nobody's using the machine. (And the only problem that would incline me to
>> turn it off at night.) Now it doesn't start rattling away every 00:00
>> running some security script (with a path too long to remember. I can find
>
>Why dispense with cron, why not just spend a couple minutes reading about it and
>fix it yourself.
>
Because there doesn't appear to be any other way to stop crond from reading
the disk every 60 seconds, which it does to see whether its `crontab' has
changed, and because there's no reason for a single-user desktop PC, w/o a
permanent network connection, to be putting mechanical wear on the disk
24h/day. at is probably better for scheduling such a system anyway; does
it suffer from the same compulsive behavior ? --`kamborg'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Why does linuxconf see 5 NICs?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:57:40 GMT
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:53:48 +0100, Lee Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>only the first two have net device names (e.g. eth0 etc.) so I think it is
>just space in the UI for you to add more entries.
Hmmm, I checked and all 5 "active" NICs on my system have device names
assigned, though they are all either eth0 or eth1. Weird. I probably
shouldn't worry about it since everything is working, it just makes
me a bit paranoid about what linuxconf might be doing that I'm not
seeing and/or understanding...
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: debtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound problem
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:54:33 GMT
I'm having trouble getting sound working right. Basically, whenever I
try to use the sound card, I randomly get a loud screeching sound where
everything will lock up (X, mouse, the music being played, apps, etc).
This happens somewhat random, in that it will screech and hang for maybe
a splitsecond, or maybe a few seconds, then play sound for a brief
amount of time and then do it again. Any idea what might cause this?
Basic hardware setup is an AMD 850, VIA KX133 motherboard, Matrox G400
video card, and Ensoniq ES1371 sound card. Origionally, linux reported
the sound card along at IRQ9, however the bios showed that it was shared
with an ACPI Controller (whatever that is...). So I turned off a serial
controller and the parallel port in the bios, which moved the sound card
to IRQ7 and both linux and the BIOS say it's all alone there. But, I
don't see an entry for my video card in the bios or /proc/interrupts...
Any idea what might be going on here?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:05:00 +0200
From: Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Why does linuxconf see 5 NICs?
As far as I know, linuxconf does no detection of cards, so the phantom cards
might have been entires entered by mistake or generated during an upgrande ??
Should be no problem to remove the entries. You might want to look at your
/etc/conf.modules (although your guess is as good as mine ...)
Buchan
Roger Blake wrote:
> I'm running a Mandrake 6.0 system with 2 network cards installed. However,
> linuxconf (version 1.18R6) is showing a total of 5 NICs active! Number 1, 2,
> 3, 5, and 6 to be precise. (The original version of linuxconf that came
> with this distribution showed the same thing.) I don't see any matching
> files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts or anywhere else.
>
> Everything appears to work OK on this system otherwise. Why is
> linuxconf showing these "phantom" network cards? Is there any danger
> in disabling/deleting these apparently bogus entries?
>
> I frankly get a little nervous about some of the things linuxconf might do,
> especially when I see stuff like this. (When I updated to this version
> it even enabled itself in inetd.conf without being asked. Yikes!) However
> I can't always remember in what config files to make the appropriate mystical
> incantations to effect system changes, so it's handy when it works...
>
> --
> Roger Blake
> (remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:03:25 -0700
From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Give me a general advice on X please.
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My personal opinion is to get a different WM. I use BlackBox, and it is
completely awesome. Uses minimal RAM/HDD space (which is the complete
oposite of GNome) and it has never crashed on me (have been using it for
about 5 months now). Netscape is buggy no matter what - I recently
upgraded to 4.73 128-bit, and it seems to work much better than 4.7.
BlackBox doesn't have all of the "features" that GNome does, but it's
extremely configurable, VERY fast, and you can customize it to look like
anything you want. It also supports native GNome/KDE apps (whatever
that means). I love it. (can you tell?) Hehe.. also, go to
bb.themes.org to check out how cool people can make it. (I currently
use the cryptix theme)
Good luck!
Tijmen Stam wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have a pc I use sometimes in console, mostly in X. But I'm growing
> more and more tired of X. It gives random crashes nobody can resolve
> (vertical bars on the screen, mostly (but not always) when scrolling
> with the mouse) and netscape (my main X reason) crashes quite often
> too. (about once per mail I reply, that's often!)
> I have a 2.2.5-15 kernel, Redhat 6.0, Gnome, Enligtenement, netscape
> 4.51, a S3 trio 3d/2x video card, svga server, 1024x7?? display and
> 64M of ram (wich is enough) and a AMD k6-2-450.
>
> Reinstalling Redhat doesn't resolve these problems.
>
> What do you advice me: downloading X 4, or X3.5 and installing it
> myself, or maybe netscape 6 (which is said to be unstable too)???,
> another WM?
> What should you all do in my place?
>
> Tijmen
>
> mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> --
> From Tijmen Stam - "I believe in Linux" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> counter.li.org reg#178552-54654, Machine#78930 & #78931
> ---
> I'm a signature virus.
> Please help me spread and set me as your signature. ;-)
>
>
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My personal opinion is to get a different WM. I use BlackBox, and
it is completely awesome. Uses minimal RAM/HDD space (which is the
complete oposite of GNome) and it has never crashed on me (have been using
it for about 5 months now). Netscape is buggy no matter what - I
recently upgraded to 4.73 128-bit, and it seems to work much better than
4.7. BlackBox doesn't have all of the "features" that GNome does,
but it's extremely configurable, VERY fast, and you can customize it to
look like anything you want. It also supports native GNome/KDE apps
(whatever that means). I love it. (can you tell?) Hehe.. also,
go to bb.themes.org to check out how cool people can make it. (I
currently use the cryptix theme)
<p>Good luck!
<p>Tijmen Stam wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi.
<p>I have a pc I use sometimes in console, mostly in X. But I'm growing
more and more tired of X. It gives random crashes nobody can resolve (vertical
bars on the screen, mostly (but not always) when scrolling with the mouse)
and netscape (my main X reason) crashes quite often too. (about once per
mail I reply, that's often!)
<br>I have a 2.2.5-15 kernel, Redhat 6.0, Gnome, Enligtenement, netscape
4.51, a S3 trio 3d/2x video card, svga server, 1024x7?? display and 64M
of ram (wich is enough) and a AMD k6-2-450.
<p>Reinstalling Redhat doesn't resolve these problems.
<p>What do you advice me: downloading X 4, or X3.5 and installing
it myself, or maybe netscape 6 (which is said to be unstable too)???, another
WM?
<br>What should you all do in my place?
<p>Tijmen
<p>mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<br>
<pre>--
>From Tijmen Stam - "I believe in Linux" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
counter.li.org reg#178552-54654, Machine#78930 & #78931
---
I'm a signature virus.
Please help me spread and set me as your signature. ;-)</pre>
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The scout vs. the wraith
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:10:15 -0700
format c: /u
format d: /u
format your head /u
(ripped off from a hacked website)
=)
Steve Wolter wrote:
> Well, about these two units is not much to say; they have both well
> defined uses, namely air combat.
>
> Here are their statistics:
> Name Size Support Min. Gas Armor HP SP Gr.Att. Air Att.Cool
> Range Sight Build time
> Scout L 3 300 150 0 150 100 8 28e
>30Gnd/22Air 4 8/10 80
> Wraith L 2 150 100 0 120 8 20e
>30Gnd/22Air 5 7 60
>
> (Sorry for that long line)
>
> As you may have noticed, you get 2 wraiths for 1 scout approximately.
> In that comparison, the protoss player uses up 1 supply less and has
> 50 gas on his hands, and with a ratio of 3 wraiths to 2 scouts the
> terran player has extra 150 minerals.
>
> Usually, the limiting factor decides which side is winning. If it is
> the gas, the protoss is better; if minerals are low, terran will win the
> air war.
>
> The wraith range is slightly larger, but that difference usually doesn't
> make the win between these fast air units. As i mention fast: After upgrade,
> the scout has the same speed like the wraith (and the corsair), but before,
> the scout will crawl after them the whole time.
>
> Well, what advances has the scout? He has the slightly better vision, but
> in combat, that doesn't count. He can't cloak, and he can't do the same
> damage to ground units as the wraith; his only advantages are the low gas
> usage and the especially low building time.
>
> So, this fight is like dragoon versus hydralisk: The one has more HPs,
> the other one deals more damage.
>
> Overall, this match is pretty even. In regard to upgrades, you should dig
> a grave for your scouts: You have to pay an endless amount of money to
> upgrade the shields and the armor, while the terran needs only a single
> upgrade for much less money.
>
> Generally, these both units fight in late game, when upgrades are already
> made, and against the capital ships; the other fights are made by the
> corsair
> and the valkyrie.
>
> Generally, in old SC was a closed circle of domination:
>
> The interceptor class is stronger then the capital ships.
> The mutalisk is stronger than the interceptor class.
> The capital ships are stronger than the mutalisk.
>
> Now here comes the new area destruction of the valkyrie and the corsair:
>
> The interceptor class is stronger than the capital ship class.
> The mutalisk is stronger than the interceptor class.
> The area destruction class is stronger than the mutalisk and the interceptor class.
> The capital ship class is stronger than the mutalisk and the area destruction class.
>
> What means that? With the corsair and the valkyrie (well, as soon as
> sprite bug is corrected) the carrier and the BC gained more power,
> because they are the only air counter versus these units.
> And here isn't involved the devourer; here is hard to say what
> effects these units will have.
>
> As a conclusion, I would say the wraith is generally better.
> The scout has only three advantages: High sight and high HP with
> relatively low gas costs.
> --
> Steve Wolter
> ICQ: 58652584
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Moden Setup Questions
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:13:03 GMT
Java__Cat wrote:
>
> I have been trying to set up my cable modem on an SuSE Linux system. I have
> gotten as far as to get my LAN card acknowledged but am having troubles
> connecting to my provider. Is there a place to put your logon password, that
> I may be missing. Is there an other info that I need to gather in order to
> accomplish this task.
> Thanks all.
> Java__Cat
Most cable providers don't use a login system anymore. Usually you
just need DHCP to get everything running.
What problems are you having connecting?
What provider do you use?
What version of SuSE?
I know some older versions of pump (the default DHCP for most
distributions) have problems. Did you try upgrading it?
How do you know the NIC is set-up properly if you can't connect
to your provider?
Try reading the Cable Modem Providers HOWTO.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/
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From: Bryan Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing packages in Redhat
Date: 17 Jun 2000 07:20:14 +1200
Tan Chee Sin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found that I did not install some packages which I need. How do I
> install them? For example I need to install the gcc compiler.
Type rpm -i [filename of package]
If you want a graphical frontend to rpm, load 'gnorpm' under X if you
installed it.
--
Bryan Hoyt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.crosswinds.net/~artmusic
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From: TomG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shell scripts
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:30:02 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:31:49 GMT, TomG
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >Is there a practical way to write a shell script which reboots the
system,
> >passing parameters etc to LILO?
>
> /sbin/lilo -R "command line for next boot here"
> /sbin/shutdown -r now
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at
the face
> \----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children
and still
> \There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell
"So did
> But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?"
--/me
Thankyou
much appreciated
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From: "Larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Moden Setup Questions
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:21:58 -0500
> >=20
> > I have been trying to set up my cable modem on an SuSE Linux system. =
I have
> > gotten as far as to get my LAN card acknowledged but am having =
troubles
> > connecting to my provider. Is there a place to put your logon =
password, that
> > I may be missing. Is there an other info that I need to gather in =
order to
> > accomplish this task.
> > Thanks all.
> > Java__Cat
>=20
> Most cable providers don't use a login system anymore. Usually you
> just need DHCP to get everything running.
>=20
I know with my cable modem, I don't have to use a logon name or password =
to connect. Since I have a static IP address I entered the following =
infomation in 'NETCONF' and I was off and running:
IP address
DSN addresses (IP)
Primary gateway (IP)
Net Device of eth0
Kernal Module of smc-ultra (I'm using an SMC Ether-EZ 8416T)
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blocking news servers?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:58:13 -0600
> Is it possible to block access to certain news servers?
> Any suggestions on how to do it?
yep, and it all depends on who you want to bad. Are you trying to ban
people from your network accessing remote news servers, or blocking remote
users from your news servers.... ?
steve
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From: Yao Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting as NTFS
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:02:35 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, all,
I need to rescue an NT SCSI HD and I was wondering about cooking up a
ram-disk with SCSI and NTFS, mount /dev/sda1 as NTFS and replace a
corrupted file. However, I noticed from menuconfig that NTFS read/write
mode is new and DANGEROUS. I am wondering if anyone out there had any
similar experience? how dangerous are we talking about here?
Thanks
--yao
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: grep ? extract part of BIG file
Date: 16 Jun 2000 20:06:32 GMT
Hi,
since I use 'midnight commander' to do all file and content searching
and viewing, editing, I've not found it necessary to learn the 'acrobatic
scripts' : grep etc.
How would I:
extract from a 80Mbyte file (basically a text file with some non ascii chars),
the part starting from <string1> up until <string2> ?
And if possible:
starting N bytes/chars 'before' the first marker: <string1> ?
Thanks also for answers also emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Glur.
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Secure/Clean Distrobution
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:07:37 GMT
Slackware is more for a rool-your-own kind of thing. You're supposed to
define EXACTLY what you want. Everything is left to you.
Debian is also pretty hardcore, but the apt system makes it easy to
install/upgrade apps (easier than rpm)
I'm switching to debian, it's the completely free nature that convinced
me (they don't include proprietary apps)
The Darkener wrote:
>
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I've been using Mandrake 6.0 for about a year now, and am probably going
> to wipe my hdd and start over with a new distrobution and then lay all
> my data back on (I've learned a lot since then and want to start out
> clean w/my knowledge to make sure I haven't left any weird
> configurations from my 'experemental stage' =) ). What I'm looking for
> is a distrobution that 1) focuses on security rather than looks/ease of
> use, and 2) one with a very clean filesystem layout. I've heard
> SlackWare and Debian both do this, but am curious as to the differences
> of the two distros and their pros and cons. Any opinions are greately
> welcome. I've also recently aquired an AST Ascienta laptop (P-100) and
> will be throwing a distro on that as well (WooHoo!) and want to know any
> opinions on what a good, clean (and fairly small) distro is for
> something like that (with an 850mb hdd). I am a hardcore commandline
> freak, but also love BlackBox, mainly because it's an extremely clean
> GUI and it takes up minimal space/memory.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - The Darkener
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Helix Gnome
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:55:28 -0500
Will the helix-gnome installer update the gnome that is already
installed on a system or install a new or second version? Anyone know?
--
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