Linux-Misc Digest #115, Volume #25 Wed, 12 Jul 00 12:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Linuxconf starts in character mode. (Oswald Knoppers)
Re: X display garbled - SiS 5597/5598 - any fix? ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Avinash
Chopde; ))
Re: kdat restore problem (Thomas)
Re: Application required - Word Processor (John Hasler)
Re: Consequences of a new kernel (John Hasler)
Re: Why isn't [X]Emacs a word processor? (John Hasler)
Help finding sources for the perl package ("Brian Rowe")
Re: Help finding sources for the perl package (blair christensen)
maximum uid? (blair christensen)
Re: Application required - Word Processor (Grant Edwards)
Re: XUSERFILESEARCHPATH (Nigel Wade)
GCC ("Micromans")
Read Linux CD? ("Micromans")
Re: Microsoft (Roger Blake)
Re: GCC (emwafol)
emacs seg fault (Dan Austin)
Re: Installing Gnome from cdrom RH6.2 ("David ..")
Re: problems compiling 2.4.0-test3? (Robert Lynch)
Re: Help finding sources for the perl package ("David ..")
Re: GCC ("David ..")
npasswd for linux (Christoph Krempe)
Re: Read Linux CD? ("David ..")
Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux won't install under SuSE 6.4 (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux won't install under SuSE 6.4 (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: conf.modules & modules.conf (Krzys Majewski)
Re: Microsoft (Grant Edwards)
How can a script tell if X is running? (Krzys Majewski)
xdm and chooser question (Krzys Majewski)
Re: DDS compression (Bob Hauck)
Re: Dithering in gs on Linux (Al Anderson)
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From: Oswald Knoppers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linuxconf starts in character mode.
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:16:27 +0200
Hi,
Running Mandrake 7.1 and linuxconf will not start with its X GUI. In
this case I have telnetted to this system and set the DISPLAY variable
to my local system.
Other X applications work fine this way.
Any ideas on what to check?
Thanks,
Oswald
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Subject: Re: X display garbled - SiS 5597/5598 - any fix?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Avinash Chopde; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Avinash Chopde)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:22:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
William Adderholdt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Avinash Chopde; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a PC with onboard SiS display - using the 5597/5598 chips.
>> [It does not work with Xfree86 3.3.6 even though it is supposed to be
>> supported]
>This is a bug in XFree86, and it seems to have been introduced in the
>3.3.4 version and still hasn't been fixed. The only workaround I have
In fact, I just noticed that in the latest release, 4.0, they have
removed support for the 5597/98 SiS chipset!
>found is to use a 3.3.3.x server until they fix the problem. I don't
>know what version of Linux you are using, but in my case I just found
>one of my Slackware 4.0 disks and grabbed XFree86 3.3.3.1 off of it.
>William Adderholdt
Thansk! I tried this, and results in a major improvement - I can now
use the mouse, and the text is displayed correctly, and though I still
have problems with screen size/placement (xvidtune helped a bit), the
system is now usable, so I can keep Linux on my PC for occasional use...
I got the 3.3.3.1 release off the ftp.xfree86.org site.
--
Avinash Chopde
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
home page: http://www.aczone.com/
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From: Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,linux.redhat.misc,comp.windows.x.kde
Subject: Re: kdat restore problem
Date: 12 Jul 2000 13:38:41 GMT
the tar method I know about:
tar -t /dev/sc0
for testing (listing)
tar -x /dev/sc0
to unpack in current dir
You might want to try a -z or a -Z with that if compression was used
tar -xz /dev/sc0
or is bzip2 compression has been used the format should be
tar -x /dev/sc0 --use=bzip2
Hope that helps!
In comp.windows.x.kde Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone have problems with recreating tape indexes with kdat? I am
> trying to recreate an index for a 4 gig TR-4 tape (using a scsi tape
> drive on /dev/st0). It seems to recreates the index, but the console
> is full of "QGList::Locate:IndexXXX out of range" errors. All of the
> files seem to be listed in the recreated index, but when I go to
> restore a file with kdat, it just spins for a minute and then the
> restore log pops up without restoring any files.
> If no one has seen this, can someone tell me how to just mount the
> tape, skip the first record (since it is used by kdat) and restore
> using tar?
> Thanks in advance!!
> Mark
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Application required - Word Processor
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:42:38 GMT
Barns writes:
> I specified word processor as opposed to editor as the latter tend not to
> have word wrapping (as best I know) i.e the likes of vi, edit.com etc...
I don't know of any modern text editors that don't offer word wrapping.
Emacs and vi certainly do.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Consequences of a new kernel
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:26:21 GMT
David E. Smith writes:
> Upgrading the C library, though, can be anywhere from unwise (upgrading
> from one minor release to the next) to darn near impossible (upgrading
> from libc5 to glibc/libc6).
Unless you are running Debian.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why isn't [X]Emacs a word processor?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:22:11 GMT
Neil writes:
> A program can be powerful and elegant but if it just works with text it
> will forever be a text editor.
However, a text editor plus a markup language interpreter is a word
processor: that is exactly what word processors were before WYSIWIG.
> Many people consider Emacs to be the best software in existance -- but a
> word proccesor it will never be.
Don't bet on it.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: "Brian Rowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help finding sources for the perl package
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:10:51 GMT
I'm trying to follow the "Linux From Scratch" howto and it says I
need the perl sources, but the url it has (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/perl)
does not exist. I have looked everywhere and no luck.
What's up with this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (blair christensen)
Subject: Re: Help finding sources for the perl package
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:13:38 GMT
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:10:51 GMT, Brian Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to follow the "Linux From Scratch" howto and it says I
>need the perl sources, but the url it has (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/perl)
>does not exist. I have looked everywhere and no luck.
>What's up with this?
>
ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/perl/CPAN/src/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (blair christensen)
Subject: maximum uid?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:15:50 GMT
hello,
i'm in the process of migrating from a solaris to a redhat 6.2 file
server. however, many of the uid's are not registering properly on
the linux box starting in the vicinity of 65500. i've been poking
through the kernel source (2.2.16) trying to find what the max uid is
defined at, but so far, no luck.
thanks,
blair christensen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Application required - Word Processor
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:20:51 GMT
In article <396c1896$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barns wrote:
>I've ended up using Galahad from some university (written in 89). I
>specified word processor as opposed to editor as the latter tend not to have
>word wrapping (as best I know) i.e the likes of vi, edit.com etc...
All the editors I've seen in the past several years (emacs,
jed, vim, ...) do word-wrapping. Many have outline modes,
folding, spell checking, etc.
>I really just wanted something to write with. I haven't
>understood whether LaTeX is an editor capable of word wrapping.
LaTeX is a typesetting system based on a mark-up language. It's
like [gnt]roff -- or perhaps more like HTML. You edit a text
file with the editor of preference, then run the file through
LaTeX to produce a device independant file, which you run
trough another program to print/display on the device of your
choice.
[One of the more recent "devices" that has been supported is
PDF. You can generate PDF files with hyperlinks, tables of
content, indexes, etc.]
LaTeX (which is actually a set of macros for TeX) is a
professional quality typesetting system which is often used to
typeset books and technical journals. It is particularly good
at typesetting equations. It is the definitive method for
preparing technical documents in mathematics (include computer
science), and the physical sciences.
It has sophisticated line/word wrapping algorithms and a
hyphenation system that's the best on the planet. It supports
a slew of languages and character sets, and does all of the
things required to produce acceptible output: kerning,
ligatures, etc.
LaTeX does tables of conent, indexes, list of figures, list of
tables, footnotes, endnotes, marginnotes, automatic
cross-references, and tons of other things that MS Word doesn't
do (or doesn't do right).
Compared to something produced with TeX/LaTeX, the output of
programs like MS Word is completely unacceptible garbage.
LaTeX is not well suited for things like newspaper or magazine
layout where you want to plop a whole slew of different objects
around the pages in varying ways. It is suited for letters,
reports, and technical papers (especially things with
equations).
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hey, I LIKE that
at POINT!!
visi.com
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From: Nigel Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:15:45 +0100
Lack Mr G M wrote:
>
> I'm setting XUSERFILESEARCHPATH on a Mandrake 7.0 system in the same
> way as I do for Solaris and Irix systems (to $HOME/app-defaults/%N).
> However xterm doesn't seem to pick up its resource file from it.
>
> Running strace shows that it isn't looking for
>
> $HOME/app-defaults/XTerm
>
> but rather is trying
>
> $HOME/en_GB/XTerm
> $HOME/en/XTerm
> $HOME/XTerm
>
> (and "Color" options). It then looks along the XFILESEARCHPATH as i
> would expect.
>
> The "en_GB" and "en" parts seem to come from various language
> environment variebales which are set (if I unset all of them it looks in
> a sub-directory C).
>
> So, does anyone know how to get the value of XUSERFILESEARCHPATH to
> be used? The string does appear in libXt. Or does anyone know what the
> resource file search order is that is used here, and why it is different
> to the "standard" X?
>
>
On a RedHat 6.1 with the supplied XFree86 3.3.5 it ignores
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH.
On a RedHat 6.2 system, where I have installed XFree86 4.0, it works.
So it's probably something wrong with XFree86 which has been fixed in
the
latest release.
--
===========================================================
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone : +44 (0)116 2523568, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
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From: "Micromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GCC
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:40:51 -0700
I am trying to "make" squid on Linux RedHat 6.0.
There was no "make" on the machine so I used RPM to put it there.
Then I have to do a "./configure" from the directory containing the squid
release.
When I dot the "./configure" I get error messages as follows:
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the c compiler (gcc -g) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: c compiler cannot
create executables
What else do I need to install or configure to make this work?
Thanks,
Mark M.
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From: "Micromans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Read Linux CD?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:38:12 -0700
Whenever I want to read the RedHat linux CD I can't. I do a "cd /mnt/cdrom"
and ls.
It is defined as ISO something or other (ISO9066??) in the fstab.
So to read it I do a "mount /mnt/cdrom" and get in fine. I can then do "ls".
How come? What file system does the CD use?
Mark M.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: Microsoft
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:42:43 GMT
On 12 Jul 2000 07:00:10 GMT, RealCea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>And, why are we still using BIOs/IRQ architecture? Microsoft's plug and play
In all fairness, this particular bit of brain-damaged architecture should
be blamed on Intel and IBM. In the IBM-compatible PC world we're still
suffering from all the bad decisions made 20 years ago. Too bad DEC
management didn't allow their engineers to develop microcomputers in
the early 1970s as they wanted to, we might have gotten a different
standard. (DEC management's long-standing disdain for micros ultimately
cost the company its existence.) Then again, PDP-8 architecture is no great
shakes in a lot of ways either, and that's what a 1970s DEC PC would
have used...
Windows is a mistake on top of a mistake on top of a mistake on top of a
mistake, ad nauseum -- but to give the devil his due, not all of the
mistakes were Microsoft's doing.
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: emwafol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:46:35 +0200
I think i had a similar problem...
i needed the devel. files too. If you installed gcc as an RPM then get
the ...devel.. packagte too :)
hope this works for you :)
--Anders Folkesson
Micromans wrote:
>
> I am trying to "make" squid on Linux RedHat 6.0.
>
> There was no "make" on the machine so I used RPM to put it there.
>
> Then I have to do a "./configure" from the directory containing the squid
> release.
>
> When I dot the "./configure" I get error messages as follows:
>
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the c compiler (gcc -g) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: c compiler cannot
> create executables
>
> What else do I need to install or configure to make this work?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark M.
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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:52:38 -0400
From: Dan Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: emacs seg fault
I'm not sure if this is emacs or the filesystem, but when i run emacs
with no X when i close it I get a seg fault, anyone else seen this?
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Gnome from cdrom RH6.2
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:51:55 -0500
Zeus wrote:
>
> Hello !
>
> I want to install Gnome as desktop manager from Redhat 6.2 cdrom without
> reinstalling the hole thing. Is there another way then to install every
> package in the RPMS ?
http://www.helixcode.com
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: problems compiling 2.4.0-test3?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:09:43 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brien Sullivan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:39:23 GMT, Tyler Durden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Is anyone else having problems trying to compile the 2.4.0-test3 (not 2)
> >kernel? It's failing on make bzImage when trying to compile timer.c
> >with the following error messages:
>
> >make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test3/kernel'
> >gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test3/include [...] -c -o
> >timer.o timer.c
> >timer.c: In function `update_process_times':
> >timer.c:580: structure has no member named `priority'
> >timer.c:580: `DEF_PRIORITY' undeclared (first use in this function)
> >[...]
> >make[2]: *** [timer.o] Error 1
> >make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test3/kernel'
> >make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> >make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test3/kernel'
> >make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
>
> >I initially patched the 2.4.0-test2 source tree, so I also tried
> >downloading the entire source, but I get the same error message either
> >way. I don't speak C, so I can't go in and try to fix whatever it is
> >that's fucking up.
>
> You don't need to be bilingual: cd to "/usr/src/linux/kernel" and
> then open "timer.c" with your favorite test editor. Comment out
> lines 580 & 581 like so:
>
> /* if (p->priority < DEF_PRIORITY)
> kstat.cpu_nice += user_tick; */
>
> Then compile.
> It's working for me, so far.
> --
> Brien
> {[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
I did this instead in kernel/timer.c:
=====
...
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
/* 7-10-00 missing define? (from 2.2 linux/sched.h)*/
#define DEF_PRIORITY (20*HZ/100) /* 210 ms time slices */
...
/* 7-10-00 error in source code?
if (p->priority < DEF_PRIORITY) */
if (p->rt_priority < DEF_PRIORITY)
...
=====
I also had to do this in drivers/mtd/vmax301.c
=====
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/malloc.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
/* 7-10-00 because spinlock stuff defined in
linux/spinlock.h, called by linux/module.h */
#if 0
#include <asm/spinlock.h>
#endif
#include <asm/io.h>
...
=====
It also works for me so far. :)
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help finding sources for the perl package
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:57:37 -0500
Brian Rowe wrote:
>
> I'm trying to follow the "Linux From Scratch" howto and it says I
> need the perl sources, but the url it has (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/perl)
> does not exist. I have looked everywhere and no luck.
> What's up with this?
http://www.google.com/linux
search for "perl"
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ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GCC
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 09:59:15 -0500
Micromans wrote:
>
> I am trying to "make" squid on Linux RedHat 6.0.
>
> There was no "make" on the machine so I used RPM to put it there.
>
> Then I have to do a "./configure" from the directory containing the squid
> release.
>
> When I dot the "./configure" I get error messages as follows:
>
> checking for gcc... gcc
> checking whether the c compiler (gcc -g) works... no
> configure: error: installation or configuration problem: c compiler cannot
> create executables
>
> What else do I need to install or configure to make this work?
I guess you know there is a squid rpm available.
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ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Krempe)
Subject: npasswd for linux
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:19:18 GMT
Where can I configure the shadow password system for linux when I
compile "npasswd"? The man-page tells me npasswd works with shadow,
but how?
Thanks,
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Read Linux CD?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:05:44 -0500
Micromans wrote:
>
> Whenever I want to read the RedHat linux CD I can't. I do a "cd /mnt/cdrom"
> and ls.
>
> It is defined as ISO something or other (ISO9066??) in the fstab.
>
> So to read it I do a "mount /mnt/cdrom" and get in fine. I can then do "ls".
>
> How come? What file system does the CD use?
>
> Mark M.
The CD_Rom is a device which has to be mounted (module loaded) first
before being able to read it.
--
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ID # 123538
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux won't install under SuSE 6.4
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:30:53 GMT
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:43:33 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I've tried it with the stock SuSE kernel, a newly compiled kernel.org
>> 2.2.14, and now with 2.4.0-test2, and none of it works. I've updated most
>> of my libraries, even including the fact that SuSE 6.4 now uses GlibC2.1
>> while the older versions used GlibC2.0. Could this be the cause?
>
>Why bother to download it? WP8 is included on the SuSE CD set.
>(If you're using the SuSE 6.4 evaluation CD, what error messages are you
>getting that causes the install to fail?)
I'd love to capture them, but they fly by so quickly I have no hope in hell
of even reading them.
The behaviour of note is that right after asking me if I've untarred the
files I downloaded, it starts as if it's going to work, and then when the
"Progress Indicator" should/would appear, the error messages start. At
this point, I start to get directory structures appearing in the root of
my filesystem (wpbin, wplib, wphelp, etc..).
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 for Linux won't install under SuSE 6.4
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:31:51 GMT
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:43:33 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I've got WordPerfect 8 for Linux sitting here, downloaded from LinuxBerg,
>> and it refuses to install. I've installed it without a hitch on SuSE 6.2
>> and SuSE 6.0, but with SuSE 6.4 it just refuses to install.
>Why bother to download it? WP8 is included on the SuSE CD set.
Sorry, missed this part. I'm using the downloaded ISO version of SuSE.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test2
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: conf.modules & modules.conf
Date: 12 Jul 2000 15:32:43 GMT
Yes, they are the same thing. -chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: Microsoft
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:43:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Blake wrote:
>>And, why are we still using BIOs/IRQ architecture? Microsoft's plug and play
>
>In all fairness, this particular bit of brain-damaged
>architecture should be blamed on Intel and IBM. In the
>IBM-compatible PC world we're still suffering from all the bad
>decisions made 20 years ago. Too bad DEC management didn't
>allow their engineers to develop microcomputers in the early
>1970s as they wanted to, we might have gotten a different
>standard. (DEC management's long-standing disdain for micros
>ultimately cost the company its existence.) Then again, PDP-8
>architecture is no great shakes in a lot of ways either, and
>that's what a 1970s DEC PC would have used...
MS-DOS was pretty much a clone of CP/M. CP/M contains a lot
of DECisms (Kildall worked for DEC at one time, didn't he?).
There's no way two independent efforts could both com up with
PIP and damn-near identical FCBs.
I used DEC PCs when they finally came out. They were
horrendous. You had to buy pre-formatted floppies from DEC.
You couldn't run standard CP/M or MS-DOS OSes or applications
-- you had to buy official DEC software. The dual floppy drive
had only a single positioner: using both floppies at the same
time was horribly slow. The keyboards, monitors, and mechanical
designs were otherwise very nice.
They were such a spectacular failure that DEC gave them away by
the truckload to VAX customers for use as VT200 terminals.
>Windows is a mistake on top of a mistake on top of a mistake on
>top of a mistake, ad nauseum -- but to give the devil his due,
>not all of the mistakes were Microsoft's doing.
Copying somebody else's mistakes is a more venal sin than
making your own. The first guy to screw up something has an
excuse. The guy who copies him is just plain stupid.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Now my EMOTIONAL
at RESOURCES are heavily
visi.com committed to 23
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can a script tell if X is running?
Date: 12 Jul 2000 08:46:54 -0700
[ Originally posted on comp.os.linux.x ]
What's the kosher way to say, in a shell script, "Is X running right
now?" Also nice would be a way to tell if either root or some other
administrative type is logged on to the X session on display :0.0 (or
any display, for that matter).
-chris
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xdm and chooser question
Date: 12 Jul 2000 08:48:17 -0700
[ Originally posted on comp.os.linux.x ]
I'm toying with the following idea, but not sure if it's doable or how
(the xdm man page is not helpful):
Instead of getting the usual xdm login window when my machine boots
up, I would be presented with a chooser containing two options.
The first option would be to start an X session on this machine, as
before. The second option would be to start an X session on one of the
computers at school. That is, the second option would make my computer
behave like an X terminal, with all the X clients running on the
remote machine I use at school, and the X server running, of course,
on my machine at home.
Any suggestions appreciated.
-chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Subject: Re: DDS compression
Reply-To: hauck[at]codem{dot}com
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:48:41 GMT
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:30:04 GMT, Elliot
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know how to check if a DDS2 (or any DDS) drive is set for
>Hardware compression? And to turn it on or off?
"mt datcompression" works on my Caldera 2.3 box with an HP DAT tape.
>the datcompression command is not implemented in the
>version of mt I have.
Maybe get a newer one? I imagine you can find it via
<http://www.freshmeat.net>.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| Codem Systems, Inc.
-| http://www.codem.com/
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From: Al Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Dithering in gs on Linux
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:45:43 GMT
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Obi-Wan wrote:
> I'm trying to get an HP inkjet printer (PSC 500) setup to print under
> Linux (Debian). I've got it working using apsfilter, ghostscript 5.10,
> and lprng using gs's cdj550 driver. The problem is the results look
> like crap. The dithering is _very_ low resolution.
>
> The Linux printing HOWTO says to pass the -dDITHERPPI variable in on
> the gs command line in my filter. I've tried that, and even tried it
> by running gs from the command line & dumping to a file (eliminating
> the whole printing process altogether), but gs appears to be ignoring
> the DITHERPPI setting. Regardless of what ppi value I pass in, the
> output file is identical (as compared with diff(1)). The gs(1) man
> page reads:
>
> Note that gs_init.ps makes systemdict read-only, so the
> values of names defined with -D/d/S/s cannot be changed
> (although, of course, they can be superseded by defini-
> tions in userdict or other dictionaries.)
>
> So what's up with that? I can't find any explanation of userdict
> anywhere. What must I do to get gs to print at a decent resolution?
>
> The command line I'm using is:
>
> # gs -q -r300x300 -sDEVICE=cdj550 -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER
>-dDITHERPPI=300 -sOutputFile=/tmp/delme /usr/share/apsfilter/lib/redir_gs_msg.ps
>/usr/doc/gs/examples/colorcir.ps
>
> I've tried with & without redir_gs_msg.ps with no change.
>
> I'm nearing the end of the 100% refund window on this printer, and if I
> can't get it working reasonably well soon, I'm gonna have to return it.
> Yes, I know it's not really a printer problem, but if I can't print worth
> a hoot, what good is even having a printer?
>
> On a barely-related note, while trying to install the scanner software
> for this all-in-one beast for use with wine, my CDROM drive has been
> locking up the shell that's trying to access it. More on that later.
>
> Thanks,
> Obi-Wan
>
> --
> Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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