Linux-Misc Digest #79, Volume #25 Sun, 9 Jul 00 06:13:02 EDT
Contents:
sis 6326 (Peter R. Schmitt)
Re: LTWinmodem work with Linux? (Rob Blomquist)
Re: Easiest to install? (Rob Blomquist)
Re: ps2pdf (Prasanth A. Kumar)
GTK+ install problem (Paul Walters)
Apache CGI problems. (walter)
Some Mozilla questions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus. (Alex)
Re: Some Mozilla questions (Hal Burgiss)
Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus. ("Brian")
Re: Apache CGI problems. (Akira Yamanita)
Incorrect Kernel Version in System.map ("Victor")
Re: CD Burner woes (alex)
Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus. (Alex)
Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus. ("Brian")
Re: Incorrect Kernel Version in System.map (Akira Yamanita)
KDE pasting eats spaces and newlines (David Efflandt)
Re: Boot stops when trying to mount partitions. (Olivier ROBERT)
Re: Some Mozilla questions (Andrew Onifer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter R. Schmitt)
Subject: sis 6326
Date: 9 Jul 2000 04:20:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings, gang. Got a little problem here. Perhaps someone has some
experience in this arena.
I finally seduced a buddy of mine to take the plunge and install Slack 7
on his formerly Windominated system that I helped him build.
He's got an amd k6-2 300 on an asus somethingorother motherboard with (and
here's the kicker) an SIS 6326 agp 3d pro video card.
He wants to do it all himself. (I trained him well.) Which is WAY cool.
Unfortunately, he doesn't realize his cluelessness level. Which is bad.
He has virtually no DOS experience, despite acquiring an MCSE (with no NT
hands on, incidentally) so he is just now appreciating the power of the
command line. I got him started with mc, and that just blew him away.
Anyway, now that we have some context established, here's the deal:
He can't get X working right with his card. Searching for references
to it on deja mostly turn up stuff from asia and the former soviet bloc,
none of which we can read.
Does anyone who reads and writes _english_ have this card working with a
non-pcchips motherboard, and what gyrations were required?
I don't want to cheat him of experience. I just want to drop a few hints.
His symptoms seem to be that X comes up, but when he invokes a menu of
any kind, he can't see the menu text. I think he may not have his RAM
size right in his XF86Config file, but since I haven't seen it, I can't
be sure. I sent him on over to slackware support, who sent him to the
same exact page (info for SIS users) at xfree86.org that I did.
Ideas, guys?
Pete.
--
- Nobody moves very much in a Hanna Barbera cartoon! - Zorak
- Kids! Lusers! If I context switch any faster, my brain is gonna burn up!
- Prschmitt at yahoo dot com .
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From: Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LTWinmodem work with Linux?
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:40:27 -0700
In article <8k2d79$6kj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted) wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered in comp.os.linux.misc:
> >
> > >In article <8jq5ed$h64$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >> Has anybody ever gotten an LTWinmodem to work with Linux?
> > >> (Mandrake 6-point-something). Looks like I'm SOL
> > >> --
> > >
>
> Todays your lucky day. All HOWTOs are in http://www.linuxdoc.org
>
> The one you're looking for is
> www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Winmodems-and-Linux-HOWTO.html
>
And the RH 2.2.12 driver for the LT WinModems are at www.lucent.com, but
there are some opensource drivers that are being built around, too.
Rob
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Rob Blomquist
Kirkland, WA
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From: Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Easiest to install?
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:46:09 -0700
In article <O5395.310283$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <tK295.248$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Brimsfield) writes:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Which flavor of linux (RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SUSE,
> > Slackware, etc...) is the easiest to install?
>
> For ease of installation, I'd have to say the top three are:
>
> 1) Caldera
> 2) Corel
> 3) Mandrake
>From my understanding, the list is:
1) Corel
2) Storm
And the rest are still working on being easy to install.
I installed Storm on my machine, and it was very easy. it even formats
and partitions your drive during install.
I am moving over to RH 6.2, however, as there is better support for RH,
RPMs cannot be opened easily on Storm (based on debian), and I am
currently all buggered up in trying to support my V3 video card with XF86
4.0. Right now the mouse is dead. RH supports V3 cards with XF86 3.3.6.
--
Rob Blomquist
Kirkland, WA
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Subject: Re: ps2pdf
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:10:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Brown) writes:
> I'm trying to create some .pdf files for a presentation which will
> use acroread as the screen show application.
>
> WordPerfect8 for Linux will allow me to save a Postscript file. It looks
> good when I print out that Postscript file. But after passing it through
> the ps2pdf utility, the resulting .pdf file looks pretty bad.
>
> Is there any way to tweak ps2pdf? I've seen Postscript renderings that
> looked bad if the settings were for a printer of poor resolution. Is
> that what's happening here? Could it be a font problem? (I was using
> a couple of the WP for Linux fonts, Courier-WP and Roman-WP.)
>
> --
> Dave Brown Austin, TX
Maybe try a newer version (6.0) of Ghostscript? It is available at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get601.html
I must say I never tried this newer version yet but remember the
changelog stating some improvements in the pdf fonts stuff.
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Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Paul Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GTK+ install problem
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:30:05 GMT
I am new to linux and open source is definetely different. I need help. I
am using Corel Linux and all is good but I can install NOTHING because gtk+
won't play nice. I downloaded both glib-1.2.8 and gtk+-1.2.8 from the same
site. Glib went in fine (as near as I can tell) I untar gtk and go to
configure it and I get this message at the end of my ./configure
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.8...
*** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.8, but GLIB (1.2.6)
*** was found! If glib-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLIB. You may also be able to fix the
error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf Make sure you run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If glib-config was wrong, set the environment variable GLIB_CONFIG
***to pint to the correct copy of glib-config, and remove the file
config.cache
*** before re-running configure
Now, please don't tell me RTFM because I am and I have and it deosn't say
anything about problems like this (which seems to always happen) I would
like anyone's help on this. So far I am really intrigued by Linux and I use
exclusively on the job, BUT if I can't add a couple critical programs for
the job then its useless. I have been tinkering with it for over a month
and I'm not frustrated yetbut I am losing patience. Installing programs
should not be this difficult.HELP PLEASE!!!
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From: walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apache CGI problems.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:30:04 GMT
I can't get cgi scripts to work anywhere, not in the defined cgi bin, not
in the public_html, I've tried everything suggested by the 100 other
messages on this same subject. I have a copy of a working web site, the
scripts fun fine on my ISP site but on the SuSe box it just says that the
scripts ended prematurely. Does anyone have anthing new to add to this or
has ANYONE actually fixed this on their system? I've been working on this
for about 2 months and I am about ready to destroy this infernal machine!!!
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some Mozilla questions
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:26:44 GMT
I use Mozilla Milestone 15 (need to upgrade again) on RH Linux 6.0. For
some reason, when I try to add a bookmark, nothing happens. The current
page is not added to the Bookmark list. I do have the file
/root/.mozilla/mozProfile/bookmarks.html.
I also set my cache to /root/.mozilla/cache. But after some navigation,
the directory is still empty.
Most annoying is the the left panel "My Sidebar customizer...". How
can I completely get rid of it and never show it again?
Thanks for any help.
(I just solved another annoying thing. If the page is idle for some
time, it automatically changes to the Mozilla homepage. I went
Preferences changed the homepage to blank. It doesn't seem to do that
any more. But changing font in Preferences doesn't seem to work.)
--
Yong Huang
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Before you buy.
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 02:03:49 -0400
Brian wrote:
>
>
> Do what I do, go and buy a copy of Windows from your local friendly pirate,
> I paid about $20 for W98.
>
I am not sure if Windoz 98 worth that much.... I would say $20 bucks for that
crap is too much...
Best regards
Alex.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Some Mozilla questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 06:04:01 GMT
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:26:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I use Mozilla Milestone 15 (need to upgrade again) on RH Linux 6.0. For
>some reason, when I try to add a bookmark, nothing happens. The current
>page is not added to the Bookmark list. I do have the file
>/root/.mozilla/mozProfile/bookmarks.html.
>
>I also set my cache to /root/.mozilla/cache. But after some navigation,
>the directory is still empty.
Suring as root? Bad boy. AFAICT, disk does not work on Linux. I've been
through several milestones, including M16, which doesn't cache either.
It does seem to me that there is some memory cacing with M16.
>Most annoying is the the left panel "My Sidebar customizer...". How
>can I completely get rid of it and never show it again?
Don't know the for sure answer, but my suggestion is upgrade first, then
get some of the skins from alphanumerica. Follow the links from
mozillazine.org. I like the Aphrodite skin. It doesn't have that sidebar
(which I don't care for either). There are several skins included. There
probably is a preference for this somewhere in .mozilla/*.
M16 is still using a lot of memory. But it doesn't crash (much?). Maybe
a bit faster too.
--
Hal B
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 06:12:42 GMT
Hey Alex:
Alex wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Brian wrote:
>> Do what I do, go and buy a copy of Windows from your local friendly
pirate,
>> I paid about $20 for W98.
>I am not sure if Windoz 98 worth that much.... I would say $20 bucks for
that
>crap is too much...
Ya, but the pirate has to eat - he is a computer science student at UBC.
Best regards,
Brian
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache CGI problems.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 06:23:18 GMT
walter wrote:
>
> I can't get cgi scripts to work anywhere, not in the defined cgi bin, not
> in the public_html, I've tried everything suggested by the 100 other
> messages on this same subject. I have a copy of a working web site, the
> scripts fun fine on my ISP site but on the SuSe box it just says that the
> scripts ended prematurely. Does anyone have anthing new to add to this or
> has ANYONE actually fixed this on their system? I've been working on this
> for about 2 months and I am about ready to destroy this infernal machine!!!
You mean premature end of script headers? What's the exact error?
Though I find it strange that it works on your ISPs server (also
uncommon that you can run your own CGI scripts) but the error I
mentioned is a script error. You need to make sure you've defined
the content type in the script.
In perl: print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
or whatever content type that the CGI script is serving up.
If this is obvious to you, then post the exact error message.
I don't know what previous responses you've gotten so sorry
if this is all repeated information.
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From: "Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Incorrect Kernel Version in System.map
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 06:52:42 GMT
I am getting following messages:
Incorrect kernel Version in System.map
Any ideas how to fix it ???
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alex)
Subject: Re: CD Burner woes
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 06:57:43 GMT
On 07 Jul 2000 23:22:01 EDT, "Hiawatha Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I've just installed a Ricoh MP 6200A CD burner in my Red Hat 6.0 box, and
>tried to recompile the kernel to make it work. The idea was to remove ATAPI
>CD-ROM support from the kernel and replace it with SCSI. But my cdrecord
>software still says it can't see a SCSI device on the computer. That's
>especially weird, because the burner now shows up as a SCSI device on
>bootup. I checked dmesg and sure enough, there it was, listed 9 times.
>
>Another thing: since recompiling the kernel, my network card no longer
>works. When booting, the computer says it can't find it. I saved my
>previous kernel, so this isn't exactly a disaster, but I can't figure out
>what is going wrong. Anybody got a clue? Thanks!
>
You need to modprobe ide-scsi (actually, insmod ide-scsi should work
too). This installs the scsi emulation driver. From your message, I
can't understand if you had done this already
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 03:10:06 -0400
Brian wrote:
>
> Ya, but the pirate has to eat - he is a computer science student at UBC.
>
Sorry, I don't mean that he charges too much...
What I was trying to say was, "Windoz worth less then $20 bucks."
Sincerely.
Alex.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: The Big Dogs and the Tech Shitzus.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 07:21:11 GMT
Alex wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Brian wrote:
>> Ya, but the pirate has to eat - he is a computer science student at UBC.
>Sorry, I don't mean that he charges too much...
>What I was trying to say was, "Windoz worth less then $20 bucks."
Ah, understood.
8^)
Brian
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Incorrect Kernel Version in System.map
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 08:15:43 GMT
Victor wrote:
>
> I am getting following messages:
>
> Incorrect kernel Version in System.map
>
> Any ideas how to fix it ???
>
> Thanks
Copy the new System.map file from the kernel source tree.
ex. cp /usr/src/linux-2.2.16/System.map /boot/System.map-2.2.16
The specific location of where to place it depends on your system.
Just look for the existing System.map file.
find / -name System.map
If the old System.map file is just System.map and not
System.map-kernel.version then rename it as such.
Then create a new symbolic link to the file.
ln -fs /boot/System.map-2.2.16 /boot/System.map
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: KDE pasting eats spaces and newlines
Date: 9 Jul 2000 08:32:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I get KDE to paste text with original spaces and newlines intact?
Every other wm, gnome and the console paste with original spacing intact
(except for converting tabs to spaces). But KDE eats spaces and converts
newlines to spaces so multiline pasting is all run together.
Is there some other key I have to press to get KDE to paste with original
formatting?
This is Mandrake 7.0 on a Sony laptop w/2 button touch pad set to
Emulate3Button.
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From: Olivier ROBERT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot stops when trying to mount partitions.
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:01:34 +0200
> I changed fstab to get access to a windows partition. Then I changed
> mtab as well. I tried to shutdown and reboot. It would not shutdown
> because it could not unmount partitions. (I probably should not have
> changed mtab).
Oooh no, you shouldn't have! /etc/mtab contains information about your
*currently mounted* filesystems, and you don't have to write to it. Here
is what I propose to you:
1) Try to boot the system in single user mode. To achieve this, you have
to get the LILO prompt, and type the name of your LILO image followed by
"s"... For example "linux s" if "linux" is the name of your image. Hit
tab at the prompt to get a list of images. In single user mode the
system does the minimal work just to give you a shell prompt... Let's
say it's the equivalent of the Windows failsafe mode.
2) If it works (i.e. you get a shell prompt), there are a few
possibilities: try to remove or comment out the line corresponding to
your Windows partition in /etc/fstab (or mark it "noauto"), and reboot.
If if doesn't work you can try removing it from /etc/mtab too, but I
don't think it will be necessary
3) If it doesn't work, try to get a mini-linux distribution, and boot on
it... There are linuxes fitting on a floppy and very easy to install
from DOS (or Linux)... go check http://www.toms.net/rb/ for example. If
it works you can then mount the root filesystem of your big Linux and
try step 2 again.
4) If it still doesn't work, well, hum... it will work!
O.R.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Onifer)
Subject: Re: Some Mozilla questions
Date: 9 Jul 2000 09:27:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 06:04:01 GMT, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:26:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>>Most annoying is the the left panel "My Sidebar customizer...". How
>>can I completely get rid of it and never show it again?
>Don't know the for sure answer, but my suggestion is upgrade first, then
Go to View/Sidebar in the menu.
jay
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