Linux-Misc Digest #169, Volume #25 Tue, 18 Jul 00 15:13:02 EDT
Contents:
ARM Linux and EDB7211 boot problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: K shell (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux? ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: How to install soundcard? ("Nathan Appleton")
No audio on SuperMicro-DM3 ("Robert L. Klungle")
Re: ARM Linux and EDB7211 boot problems (Pete Zaitcev)
Re: problem installing kppp 1.6.25 (Klaus Singvogel)
Re: Voice Recording (Dances With Crows)
Re: Modprobe runs all the time (-ljl-)
ext2 filesystems, i/o cacheing? (James Ferguson)
Project for Linux? ("Miguel Mart�nez")
Re: Voice Recording ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need Library File (Mike Fontenot)
lilo error (Ken R.)
Use "force" with rpm? (Mike Fontenot)
YP (NFS) (sylvain hutchison)
mkisofs | cdrecord, appends 000 to filename (Unix Geek)
Re: Need Library File ("Peter T. Breuer")
Prompt for root account: Bash Shell problems ("Chris Pollock")
Re: Modprobe runs all the time (-ljl-)
Re: capture screen output during booting (Perry Pip)
How to watch or scan a directory? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hard Linux Crash (Stewart Honsberger)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ARM Linux and EDB7211 boot problems
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:23:41 GMT
Hi!
I'me trying to load a linux kernel V-2.2.2 builded for the arm
architecture into the evaluation board EDB7211 of cirrus logic.
This board comes with a demo cd with a program to load a demo version
of linux (Is the royal linux from ISDCorp). It works very fine, but is
impossible to modify the disk image of the demo.
I've also a program that can load code into the flash of this board.
I've tried to load a kernel image built for the ARM architecture, but
in this way it does'nt works.
I think that I need a bootloader (like the loadlin or lilo) that load
the kernel and the ramdisk image, but i'm not sure and also i don't
know what kind of operation must do this loader.
Can somebody help me ??
Thank you.
Gabriele.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: K shell
Date: 18 Jul 2000 12:53:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8l1obe$ne4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need to use ksh for Unix hw. Could someone let me know how to
> install or download one. I have redhat 6.2 standard version.
You can try the free (libre) ksh imitator pdksh (or even zsh), which
Red Hat should supply, or the restricted-license, true-blue ksh from
http://www.kornshell.com/.
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:59:53 GMT
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 04:20:45 +0000, Andras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Check out http://penguin.lvcm.com/ click on "Video Capture" in the
>> sidebar. There is a family of chipsets from Brooktree (Bttv this and
>> that) that are used in a lot of video tuner cards (including my own
>> STB TV card), and well supported under linux. If you know how to rebuild
>> a kernel, when doing a "make config" or better, a "make menuconfig" or
>> "make xconfig", there is a section in the build devoted to TV cards.
>>
>Depending of course on the kernel version.
Actually, I've been using my WinTV 401 since the 2.0 kernels...
[deletia]
--
The LGPL does infact tend to be used instead of the GPL in instances
where merely reusing a component, while not actually altering that
component, would be unecessarily burdensome to people seeking to build
their own works.
This dramatically alters the nature and usefulness of Free Software
in practice, contrary to the 'all viral all the time' fantasy the
anti-GPL cabal here would prefer one to believe.
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:06:56 -0700
Linux Hardware Database (www.linhardware.com) has a fair bit of information
on TV/Video Capture cards under Linux.
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=17
"Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:963860775.307675@sj-nntpcache-3...
> Hi,
> Has anyone found a Video Capture Card (e.g. Intel Smart Video Recorder
III)
> that has Linux drivers?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: How to install soundcard?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:15:19 -0700
Have a look at this page:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?444
"Siw Sang Yau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anybody know how to install a soundcard to the Linux? I got a Aztech PCI
> 288 Q3D II soundcard and using RedHat 6.2.
>
> sylvain
>
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No audio on SuperMicro-DM3
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:09:17 GMT
I have a SuperMicro-DM3 (dual PIII/800) board on which everything works
(Linux-2.2.16) except audio (no sound except a click when powered on).
The book and BIOS indicate an AC97 codec enabled.
The ac97_codec.0 module loads but remains unused.
gnome, kde, fvwm2 all unable to make sounds.
Get a series of messages saying /dev/dsp doesn't exist. Doing ls -l on
/dev/dsp shows it with all rw permissions.
Anybody got any ideas??
TKSIA....bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Zaitcev)
Subject: Re: ARM Linux and EDB7211 boot problems
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:19:01 GMT
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:23:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'me trying to load a linux kernel V-2.2.2 builded for the arm
> architecture into the evaluation board EDB7211 of cirrus logic.
>[...]
Russell King is your only saviour
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
--Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Klaus Singvogel)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: problem installing kppp 1.6.25
Date: 18 Jul 2000 19:20:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>hi,
>i wanted to install kppp 1.6.25 since i have a new kernel (2.2.16).
>however, i have the following problem about X includes during the
>configure.
>what should i do?
Install package XFree86-devel-<<version>> and try to rerun configure.
If it still fails (I wonder why), rerun it with options:
./configure --x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/libs
Do these with any further upcoming error.
For all options of configure, run it as: ./configure --help
Regards,
Klaus.
Note: For e-mails remove the spamfree from my address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Voice Recording
Date: 18 Jul 2000 17:36:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:08:10 GMT, Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>> How do I record my voice (from the microphone) to wav or, better yet,
>> mp3? (My system is RH6.2)
>Just do a
>cat /dev/audio > soundfile
>and then you can convert your soundfile to anything you want.
Um. This doesn't work on all soundcards (most, though) and the audio
quality is not very good. A program like wavrec would provide a
better bare-bones command-line solution, while you can go to
http://freshmeat.net and search for "ecasound" if you need more power
and flexibility. /dev/audio samples at 8KHz, which is OK for voice, but
horrible for anything musical....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
"We should have a policy against using personal resources for company
business." "The Company didn't pay for these pants, so I'm taking them
off at the door!" --J. Moore and A. DeBoer, the Monastery
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modprobe runs all the time
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:43:49 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it necessary for Modprobe to run constantly?
My experience is that it is run at boot-time, rc-files;
but kmod may make use of it.
cat /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
Could your system be reloading modules that were autoclean-ed?
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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From: James Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ext2 filesystems, i/o cacheing?
Date: 18 Jul 2000 17:58:49 GMT
Hi,
Just a quick question for anyone who knows about Linux and ext2
filesystems...
If I have a mail-checking tool running, that's going to be looking at
my mail file every say, 30 seconds, and the machine isn't generally
doing anything else, will the disk be physically checked, or will it
all happen in a memory cache?
I'm wondering whether there's any reason to shut down mail-checking
progs if my machine is permanently up, to prevent the disk being hit
frequently. I suspect it's not really a problem due to cacheing.
Thanks in advance,
James.
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From: "Miguel Mart�nez" <miguel.mp@navegaliaPUNTOcom>
Subject: Project for Linux?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:37:11 GMT
Does anyone know about a Microsoft Project like program for Linux (free or
comercial)?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Voice Recording
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:55:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > How do I record my voice (from the microphone) to wav or, better
yet,
> > mp3? (My system is RH6.2)
>
> Just do a
>
> cat /dev/audio > soundfile
>
> and then you can convert your soundfile to anything you want.
>
> Vilmos
>
and the soundfile is a wav file?
Wroot
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From: Mike Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Library File
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:24:11 GMT
I need to replace a library file,
libasound.so.1
that somehow got deleted from my system. (It's in
the /usr/lib directory). Can anyone
tell me how to get a copy somewhere? Everywhere I've
looked (including on my own SuSE 6.4 cd's), there are
only packages (bundles of files), not individual files.
Mike Fontenot
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ken R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo error
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:22:12 GMT
Hi,
I just installed a new hard drive( Seagate Barracuda 9.1gig *IDE*),
when lilo is supposed to load i get L and the screen just fills up with
zeros(0). I have reinstalled lilo and tried it with linear, lba and
lba32 (after i upgraded lilo to the newest version) It is the only hard
drive and is hda1. I used the MBR for the boot loader. If anyone has an
idea on something to try that be a big help.
Thanks, Ken
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From: Mike Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Use "force" with rpm?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:36:06 GMT
I've been told that (in order to get my ATAPI EIDE
tape drive (/dev/ht0) to work properly), I need to
update my kernel from 2.2.14 to 2.2.16. I was told
to download an rpm from SuSE called "k_eide.rpm".
When I did an "rpm -U k_eide.rpm", it listed four
conflicts (involving vmlinuz, vmlinuz.autoconf.h,
vmlinuz.config, and vmlinuz.version.h).
Should I use "--force" when I do the rpm?
Mike Fontenot
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: YP (NFS)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:36:03 -0700
Hi,
I've got a little more info now, I'm using Red Hat 6.1 right now, and I
was asked to configure the yp, ypinit, ypbind etc, whatever that is.
Once I've done that I should be able to look at all the maps, like the
passwd file, the hosts, file etc.
Another thing I need to do is set up the automounter, which will do the
dynamic
mounting of directories from other machine.
If anybody has any info or knows a site where I can get that info I will
very thankful,
Thanks a lot,
Sly.
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From: Unix Geek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mkisofs | cdrecord, appends 000 to filename
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:31:50 GMT
Urgently Need Help With This one!
Running the following command changes the names of several filenames
from their filename to filename000. I have found no common reason for
this; however, I was able to apply some non-iso9660 flags to the mkisofs
command to reduce the number of files that are changed. Has anyone seen
this problem and if so has anyone been able to resolve it. I am simply
trying to burn a directory structure and its content to cd.
The actual error goes something like this:
Using /private/directory/sub-directory/filename000 for
/private/directory/sub-directory/filename
What I have noticed is the problem is not a 32 character issue and it is
not a filename != 8.3 so make 8.3 issue. Again after careful review I
have found no common reason for the problem.
mkisofs -r (along with any number of non-iso9660 compliant flags)
/private/ |cdrecord speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data -
Thanks for any and all input and help!
--
Eric Sammons
Federal Reserve Automation Services
=============================================
The information I give here are of my opinion only
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Library File
Date: 18 Jul 2000 18:31:44 GMT
Mike Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I need to replace a library file,
: libasound.so.1
: that somehow got deleted from my system. (It's in
: the /usr/lib directory). Can anyone
: tell me how to get a copy somewhere? Everywhere I've
: looked (including on my own SuSE 6.4 cd's), there are
: only packages (bundles of files), not individual files.
Open one up and take out the file you need.
rpm -aql | less or similar should tell you
which package it came from. If you don't have anything to read
rpm's with directly (and you can always just reinstall it), turn
it into a tgz using alien, and take out what you want.
Sorry, but it's not on my 6.3 machine. I'd guess it's in a libs or
sound package!
Peter
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Reply-To: "Chris Pollock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Chris Pollock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Prompt for root account: Bash Shell problems
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:48:21 -0400
I'm using Redhat 6.1 and I'm having problems getting my prompt to display
correctly for my root account in the bash shell. It works fine under all
other accounts.
What's happening is when I either use su from another account or I logon
directly at the machine as root, my prompt shows up as \u@\h \W\$> (under
any other account this shows up as username@hostname workingdirectory $>)
In my /etc/bashrc file, I have a PS1 line that reads PS1="\u@\h \W\$>" and
nothing else (yet)
In my /etc/profile file, I have a line that reads:
"export PS1 USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE INPUTRC"
I have nothing relating to PS1 in my ~/.bashrc or my ~/.bash_profile for
myroot account
Can someone please explain to me how I can fix this? It's driving me nuts!
It seems like the bash shell is not processing the PS1 line for rootaccount,
and is just outputting it to the screen as a string. Any help
isappreciated!
--
Chris Pollock
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modprobe runs all the time
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:35:30 GMT
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is it necessary for Modprobe to run constantly? This a.m. I had 4
> instances of it and they're using a LOT of processor time. It seems
> modprobe is using any spare processor time but it goes down when
> something else starts.
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> December 1999
The combination of kmod and modprobe can loop, especially if modprobe
uses a system call that requires a module. If modules.dep does not
exist and modprobe was started with the -s option (kmod does this),
modprobe tries to syslog() a message. syslog() needs Unix sockets,
if Unix sockets are modular then kmod runs "modprobe -s net-pf-1".
This runs a second copy of modprobe which complains that modules.dep
does not exist, tries to use syslog() and starts yet another copy of
modprobe. This is not the only possible kmod/modprobe loop, just the
most common.
...
I found this tidbit in a post, kernel 2.3 patch.
http://www.dejanews.com
Power Search for:
linux & kmod/modprobe & loop
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Pip)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: capture screen output during booting
Date: 18 Jul 2000 18:52:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just type 'dmesg' after you have booted and logged in.
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:57:14 GMT,
mikey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is there a way to capture screen output from the kernel during
>booting ??
>
>Regards,
>Mike
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to watch or scan a directory?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:54:47 +0200
I want to filter all files, a user copies to a directory.
My filter-script is used like this: filter.sh [file to filter]
Does anybody know a way? I don't want to use a cronjob.
cu
Oliver
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: Hard Linux Crash
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:59:37 GMT
On 18 Jul 2000 12:02:39 GMT, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>: Netiquette states that you should trim your quotes, put your response after
>: the quote (the English language is read left to right, top to bottom), and
>: give an informative answer. Your response was derrogatory, curt, and likely
>
>Well, I thought his response was amusing, on the money, and witty to
>boot.
{sigh} People wonder why Usenet carries a bad name.
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Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test4
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