Linux-Misc Digest #68, Volume #25 Fri, 7 Jul 00 18:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Add pictures to LyX (J Bland)
Weird behaviour of "route" ("Robichaud, Jean-Philippe [BAN:6S33:EXCH]")
Re: linux suse 6.4 and dual pentirum (J Bland)
Re: linux suse 6.4 and dual pentirum (J Bland)
synaesthesia help needed (Shawn Smith)
Re: Samba problem (Heinz Ruffieux)
Re: why make clean before making kernel? (J Bland)
Re: -Patition table damage - (Erik Ross)
Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM) ("D F")
Why a Penguin? ("Martin Duspiva")
Device Drivers for HP CD-writer Plus 9300 series (greg tomczyk)
Re: bttv compile and other video questions (mike)
Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM) (Myke Morgan)
Re: Uncompressing Linux...: crc error! (Fabian Gebhardt)
Re: Simple Syslog question ("Jeremy C. Reed")
Anybody using a DFE-530TX+ Ethernet card?! (Craig Hogan)
Re: Partition Magic & Boot Manager (Duane)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Add pictures to LyX
Date: 7 Jul 2000 19:10:05 GMT
>| >I got a problem with insering pictures to a lyx document...
>| >I know it only works using PS files... but it doesn't matter of
>| >what kind I use, everyime LyX tells me something like:
>| >"processing picture" ,but doesn't proceed on any time to show me
>| >its content, also viewing the whole document as DVI doesn't work..
>| >do i somehing wrong ? I need advice badly, because of my work
>| >for studying... without these pictures my work won't look as
>| > it need to be.. :(
>|
>| In general .eps pictures are the best. Maybe you should reconfigure your
>| LyX version. I recommend to ask this question at the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>| mailing list. Checkout www.lyx.org for subsription to this list.
>
>The lyx-users mailinglist is nice for these kind of questions.
>
>Regular PS will not work well with LyX, you need to have your images
>in EPS (encapsulated postscript)
Yes, but PS should at least render in some way (eps is essentially ps with a
different bounding box</generalisation>).
I would suggest checking your ghostscript installation (lyx uses it for
rendering on screen) and maybe your latex install as well. Just had someone
I know have this same problem, it disappeared after she had a bit of a
fiddle with ghostscript (using a more general version than she was using)
and general checking of latex setup.
Basically it does work, but you need to make sure your installation has
everything LyX needs. And to reiterate other people's recommendations, the
lyx mail lists are very helpful indeed.
Frinky (I wanna have LyX's babies)
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From: "Robichaud, Jean-Philippe [BAN:6S33:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,linux.redhat.development,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Weird behaviour of "route"
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:15:48 -0400
Hi, I have a Redhat 6.1 Linux distribution installed. My computer have
2 ethernet cards : eth0, eth1. Normally, my default gateway is defined
for eth0. I do an ifconfig eth0 down and "route del default". When I
do "route", it report the correct routes. If I do "route add default gw
XX.XXX.XX.XX eth1", no error are reported.
Then, If I try to ping inside the subnet address, or outside, I get
unreachable host... If I try "route" it report the correct route except
that the default gateway never apear (it just wait for ever without
doing anything). If I do a cat /proc/net/route, I see the correct
entries : a default gateway is correctly configure for eth1. What is
that ???
I have try doing this in every order, leaving time between commands so
the system have time to get "in sync" (if it needs to). Still, it just
look like I can't use my second interface...
Please help me !
Thanks.
--
Jean-Philippe Robichaud
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(514) 818-7750
(ESN) 888-7750
St-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: linux suse 6.4 and dual pentirum
Date: 7 Jul 2000 19:12:31 GMT
>>I`ld like to know wether my kernel knows about my second intel-processor or
>>not. I cannot figure out where to find information about how many processors
>>the kernel uses!
>
>Most linux distributions don't come preinstalled with multiprocessor support.
>You should consult the FAQ:
>
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/SMP-FAQ
>
>Basically what you have to do is to rebuild the kernel and compile in the SMP
>support. You can find information on rebuilding the kernel in the kernel-HOWTO
>at www.linuxdoc.org.
Or, go to yast, select kernel and choose the nice SMP one precompiled for you.
This gets you started, then go to compiling your kernel at your leisure.
Frinky
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: linux suse 6.4 and dual pentirum
Date: 7 Jul 2000 19:14:37 GMT
>>I`ld like to know wether my kernel knows about my second intel-processor or
>>not. I cannot figure out where to find information about how many processors
>>the kernel uses!
Quickest, cheapest, simplest way:
cat /proc/cpu
If you have two cpus there should be separate entries in that file for
processor 0 and processor 1. If not, you're not running an SMP-aware kernel.
Frinky
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From: Shawn Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: synaesthesia help needed
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:28:39 -0500
Hello all,
I can't seem to get synaesthesia working. I have synaesthesia v. 1.6-3 rpm
installed, RH 6.1.
The error I get is:
[root@shawn /root]# synaesthesia-x cd
synaesthesia: Error talking to CD device
[root@shawn /root]#
Here is my .synaesthesia:
# begin Synaesthesia config file
# Window position and size under X:
x 10
y 30
width 320
height 200
# Brightness:
brightness 0.125
# Volume: (uncomment to set)
#volume 1.0
# Devices (for computers with more than one soundcard)
dsp /dev/dsp
mixer /dev/mixer
cd /dev/cdrom
# end Synaesthesia config file
TIA,
Shawn
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From: Heinz Ruffieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba problem
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:30:05 GMT
Pete,
I experienced the same problem but with Windows 2000. I did not loose too
much time on this issue and returned to good old nfs. Why would you want to
use a "3rd party" protocoll when there is nfs, which is offered with the
OS?
This is how I got around the problem.....but I assume this is not what you
where looking for :-).
Heinz
Pete Barrett wrote:
>
> I hope someone will be able to help me with this.
>
> I have a small network at home, consisting of a Linux server (intended
> to be used for backup and as a documentation server), another Linux
> machine, and a Windows 98 machine. Because of the Windows machine, all
> the Linux computers are running Samba, the server 1.9 something, the
> other 2.0 something.
>
> The Windows machine can see the Samba shares on both the Linux
> machines without problem, reading and writing (where it's allowed to)
> them, so there can't be that much wrong with the setup. But when the
> Linux workstation tries to smbmount a Samba share on the server, there
> are problems.
>
> First, smbclient can see the exports on the other machine.
> Second, smbmount appears to mount one of the shares on the other
> machine correctly (it appears on the mount list, and so on).
> Third, it can be umounted without problem.
> BUT, if I smbmount one of the shares on /docs (which does exist), and
> try to ls /docs, the server thrashes its HD, and the ls command
> eventually fails. The same happens whenever I actually try to access a
> smbmounted share from a Linux machine.
>
> I've looked through the man pages for smb.conf, smbmount, smbclient,
> and anything else I think might be relevant. I've looked through the
> SMB HowTo. I've made some changes to the server's smb.conf file (such
> as having it not display recursive directory structures), but none of
> them have made any difference. If anyone knows what is going on, and
> can point me towards the solution, I'd be thankful.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Pete Barrett
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: why make clean before making kernel?
Date: 7 Jul 2000 19:23:18 GMT
>I bascally don't. I installed my kernel sources in a backup dir
>(/usr/src/kernel-backup/linux-2.2.14/) and every time I want to make a
>new kernel (have done it +-15 times this way), I
>
>rm -fr /usr/src/linux-2.2.14 && cp -rvxaR
>/usr/src/lkernel-backup/linux-2.2.14/ /usr/src/ && cd
>/usr/src/linux2.2.14 && make mrproper && make menuconfig
Seems a bit of a carry on when make clean (or make mrproper if you really
want)should do everything you want.
(Why are you loading in a presumably clean and bare source tree *then*
running make mrproper on it, which cleans up the source tree of all
compiled/configured stuff??)
>Note: everyone who uses x should look at make menuconfig. I find it way
>better to use than make xconfig...
Exactly, loads up quicker, works better on remote machines, and particularly
with newer kernel's xconfig, much quicker navigation.
Xconfig *seems* better but when you use it it just gets in the way. Still,
nice try ;).
Frinky
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From: Erik Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: -Patition table damage -
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:19:51 -0400
I've done the same thing many a time. Use the boot.img disk that you used to
install linux on your system. try at the LILO prompt:
"mount root=/dev/hd<# of root partition>"
if your partition will still not boot, then your partition tables are
overlapped.
you'll have to load an installation version of linux in your ramdrive (as if you
were reinstalling linux), run "fdisk" and print the partition table.
review the starting and stopping points of the partitions. TRY NOT TO SCREW UP
ANY FAT partitions or any other partitions that have your work files!
gook luck
Lotto Alessandro wrote:
> Hi,
> (
> I have already write at this newsgroup for the same problem:
> --VFS: Unable to mount root-- Help!
> but i think that the damage at the partition table is fundamental.
> )
>
> I have used from win95 the utility "esplore2fs" to view the ext2
> filesystem (hda3).
> When I tried to copy a large file (18Mb) from linux in win95 with
> explore2fs i had a system crash
> due to insufficient space in /dev/hda1 (explore2fs work very well, all this
> is my fault)
>
> I have do great damage at the partition table.
>
> fdisk says:
> - all the partition has different physical/logical endings:
> - all the partition does not end on cylinder boundary
> - partition1 overap partition2, partition3, partition4
> - total allocated sector 1952874772 greater than the maximun 4124736
> - etc etc .....
>
> I can boot in win95 but i can't boot in my linux partition.
>
> My computer has:
> - 2G
> - 32Mb
> - AMD 166
> - Win95 (1G)
> - Linux RedHat 6.1 (1G)
>
> My computer has 4 partitions:
> - /dev/hda1 Win95, FAT32 (O.S. partition)
> - /dev/hda2 Win95, FAT32
> - /dev/hda3 Linux Native
> - /dev/hda4 Linux Swap
>
> For recover the partition table ?!?
> Thank'you.
>
> Lotto Alessandro (Italy)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "D F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM)
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:04:39 -0400
J Bland wrote in message ...
>>>Before you start yelling, yes I have the append =
"mem-512m" line in my
>>>lilo.conf file. But the only way I can get Linux to see
all the memory is
>>>if I enter mem=512m from the boot line. I am booting to a
SCSI root disk,
>>>and have four IDE drives.
>>>
>>>Here's my lilo.conf:
>>
>>remove the "append="; (change it to just "mem=512m")
>>try putting it in the images sections, like "mem=512m"
just after the "root="
>>line.
>
>Alternitavely, leave it exactly where it is and make that m
upper case ;).
>
>ie
>
>append="mem=512M"
>
>otherwise it won't work.
>
>Frinky
As far as I know, the append= portion is required. The upper
or lower case on the M is immaterial. I'll wager that moving
that exact statement to the image section will get it
working for you. append = is an image-specific modifier, and
needs to be within the image section. Try this:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout = 50
linear
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x81
default = linux
vga = normal
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
label = linux
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
read-only
root = /dev/sda1
append = "mem=512m"
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label = linux-up
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root = /dev/sda1
append = "mem=512m"
Dave Fluri
North Bay, Ontario Canada
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From: "Martin Duspiva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why a Penguin?
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 22:24:00 +0200
Hello !
May be it's a funny question, but why is a Penguin the logo of Linux .
I know that Linus Torvalds is from Findland - a country of snow and ice, but
penguins live on the opposite side of earth - on the south pole.
So why a penguin? Does anyone know the answer?
Anyway, Linux is the best OS in the world !
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From: greg tomczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Device Drivers for HP CD-writer Plus 9300 series
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:50:14 -0700
I am looking for drivers for my HP CD-writer Plus 9300. it is an
internal drive and my system can not find it or recognize it. Are there
drivers for it yet?
thanks
Greg
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bttv compile and other video questions
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:10:35 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
() wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 01:02:27 -0800, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>Hi,
>> All day today I've been playing with getting my WinTV card(Hauppage,
>>bt878 based) working with RedHat 6.0. I'm at the point that I can view
>>broadcast TV via antenna(I need a longer coax to reach my cable), I can
>>view videos played on my vcr, and I can capture avi video with xawtv.
>>
>>So what's the problem you ask? Well when I tried to compile bttv it
>>wouldn't even get going complaining that my kernel didn't support
>>loadable modules. This is not true, this is how I got it working,
>>manually
>
> Make sure that the kernel source been configured at least once. If you
> are using the source straight from the installation for either Redhat
> or Mandrake, you can just run the configuration once and save it.
>
> [deletia]
>
I see, I need to configure the source but not recompile?
I'll give it a shot, thanks
mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Myke Morgan)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Using all of memory (yes I RTFM)
Date: 7 Jul 2000 21:16:04 GMT
Well, thanks for everybody's help. This has been fixed, and apparently not
only do you have to RTFM, you also have to LATFM (Look At The 'F'
Machine). The whole time the box was booting off the floppy drive, thus
negating all my lilo changes :) I'm not a complete moron though: the box
was in a locked server room and I couldn't get to it until today...
Anyway FYI:
- The 512m vs 512M is irrelavent
- My append = "mem=512m" line is outside both of the image sections and is
fine.
- I had to change the bios setting to be "bios=0x80" for my box.
In article <8k56v1$273$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Myke Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having trouble getting Linux to access all of my memory. I have 512mb
>and it only see's 64mb.
>
>Before you start yelling, yes I have the append = "mem-512m" line in my
>lilo.conf file. But the only way I can get Linux to see all the memory is
>if I enter mem=512m from the boot line. I am booting to a SCSI root disk,
>and have four IDE drives.
>
>Here's my lilo.conf:
>
>boot=/dev/sda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout = 50
>linear
>disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x81
>default = linux
> vga = normal
> append = "mem=512m"
>image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
> label = linux
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
> read-only
> root = /dev/sda1
>image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label = linux-up
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
> read-only
> root = /dev/sda1
>
>
>
>--
>I proclaim you, FOUR!
>
--
I proclaim you, FOUR!
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From: Fabian Gebhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Uncompressing Linux...: crc error!
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 23:20:16 +0200
The Disk is clean. The Disk is in a (I don't know the word: a box in which the
disk is, for easy changing the disk or to put it easyly in another computer;
sorry).
So I put the server disk in my client machine and booted the client linux and
ran e2fsck on the (not mounted!) disk and it IS clean. 100%!!!
Do I have to make something different if I change the kernel version?
I made it just by the same way I made all my other kernels.
(Sorry again for my bad English)
--
CU, Fabian Gebhardt
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ#: 77948091
Homepage: http://www.ki.tng.de/~gebhardt
Schul-Seite: http://www.ebg.org
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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Simple Syslog question
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:54:18 -0700
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Jim McIntyre wrote:
> What does the local# entry mean in syslog.conf. I can't find a list
> anywhere. I assume these entries refer to protocols. Is there anywhere I
> can find an explanation of this.
The entry is called a facility. Have a look at the syslog.conf manpage
("The facility specifies the subsystem that produced the message...") and
/usr/include/syslog.h (or /usr/include/sys/syslog.h).
Jeremy C. Reed
=========================================
IWBC ISP Services
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From: Craig Hogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anybody using a DFE-530TX+ Ethernet card?!
Date: 7 Jul 2000 21:59:43 GMT
Hi,
I can't get my DLink DFE-530TX+ ethernet card to work, and I was
wondering if anyone has had success with this card in Linux. Maybe
it's a bad card. I have a DLink DFE-530TX card that I get working
fine, but when I try to use the TX+ it's no go. I'm using RH 6.2 and
it contains the module rtl8138.o which is the driver that is supplied
with the card. It keeps giving me failures for eth0 on bootup.
Could it be a bios problem? I have an old Dell XPS 133MHz (AMI BIOS).
Any info that you can give me on these two cards and their differences
would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Craig
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition Magic & Boot Manager
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 13:51:46 -0700
Jerry Lapham wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/00
> at 09:30 PM, P.T.Gowadia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > BTW,do you know what error 117 is?
>
> According to the version 2.x manual:
>
> #117 Partition's drive letter cannot be identified
>
> Under OS/2, PartitionMagic must know the drive letter for each partition
> before modifications can be made. A driver on your system may change the
> drive letters from their defaults; or your partitions may not have serial
> numbers.
>
> -Jerry
Similar problems occur with Win98 too. The various partitioning programs
such as disk druid and partition magic seem to operate slightly
differently, and can produce partition mappings that are incompatible
with each other. After stumbling over these kinds of errors, I came to
the conclusion that the easy way of handling partitioning is to choose
one program (I chose PM) and do all partitioning with it. Then changes
later on are a much less troublesome.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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