Linux-Misc Digest #217, Volume #25 Sun, 23 Jul 00 09:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: Voice Recording (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=)
Re: StarOffice =?iso-8859-1?Q?doesn=B4t?= show vfat partition (Thomas Zajic)
Re: wvdial - modem disconnect possibility ("robin")
Re: missing RAM (Thomas Zajic)
Re: kernel problem (John Thompson)
recovering my /usr/src/linux/.config file? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries? (Kai
=?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
StarOffice 5.2 on LinuxMandrake 7.0 (Boguslaw Swierczewski)
Re: Memory usage of StarOffice under Linux (Reinhard Karcher)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Richard Steiner)
Re: Best Linux distribution for newbie (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: RealPlayer 7 and Netscape (Neil Zanella)
Re: unknown disk fromat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Startup in RedHat 6.0 (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: StarOffice 5.2 on LinuxMandrake 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
disk geometry swifty (chs)
Re: netscape windows (Andrew Purugganan)
Apparently slow modem speed (Mark Hymers)
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=
Subject: Re: Voice Recording
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:00:03 GMT
Hi Wroot:
>
> Hi,
>
> How do I record my voice (from the microphone) to wav or, better yet,
> mp3? (My system is RH6.2)
>
> Thanks a bunch.
>
> Wroot
Get the wavplay tarball (includes wavrec, for recording, and wavplay, for
playing).
Get any mp3 encoder (better a console-based one). I use gogo (a LAME
derivative) and works fine. Launch your preferred audio mixer and set the
microphone on record mode.
Then create a script like the following, and name it record_music, for
example:
#! /bin/bash
TIME=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
MKFIFO=/usr/bin/mkfifo
GOGO=/usr/local/bin/gogo
RM=/bin/rm
FILENAME_PIPE=music$TIME
FILENAME_MP3=music$TIME.mp3
WAVREC=/usr/local/bin/wavrec
SAMPLE_RATE=44100
BITS_SAMPLE=16
KBPS_MP3=128
case $1 in
"")
echo "Program to record audio from any audio source set for
recording"
echo -n "Records with CD-audio quality: 44100 Hz, 16 bits, stereo =>
"
echo "MP3@128 kbps"
echo "Use: record_music length_in_seconds"
exit 1
;;
esac
echo -n "Creating temporary file "; echo -n $FILENAME_PIPE; echo " ..."
$MKFIFO $FILENAME_PIPE
echo "Done."
echo
echo -n "Recording and compressing sound to file "
echo -n $FILENAME_MP3; echo " ..."
$WAVREC -s $SAMPLE_RATE -b $BITS_SAMPLE -M -t $1 $FILENAME_PIPE | \
$GOGO $FILENAME_PIPE $FILENAME_MP3 -b $KBPS_MP3 -m s
echo "Done."
echo
echo -n "Removing temporary file "; echo -n $FILENAME_PIPE; echo " ..."
$RM -f $FILENAME_PIPE
echo "Done."
echo
echo "Finished."
When you execute "record_music 300" the script will record for 300 seconds
directly to a file in MP3 format. Notice the pipe between the program
recording audio (wavrec) and the program compressing audio (gogo). Haven't
found a good way to execute "record_music" to record until a CTRL-C pressed
without breaking the resulting MP3.
One final note: first check if your computer is powerful enough to compress
MP3 at the specified rate (compression speed a bit greater than 1.0x), or
the intermediate pipe (really a FIFO 4096-byte size) will overflow and sound
quality will degrade.
Jose Luis Domingo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: StarOffice =?iso-8859-1?Q?doesn=B4t?= show vfat partition
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:08:07 GMT
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:54:52 +0200, Karel Jansens wrote:
> Like it says basically: StarOffice 5.1 doesn't recognize my vfat
> partition.
> The /etc/fstab line says: /dev/hda2 /mnt/DOS_hda2 vfat
> user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 ^^^
> [ ... ]
This is some weird bug in SO, IIRC. The mount point of your vfat
partition must not contain any uppercase characters (!) - try
mounting it on /mnt/dos_hda2 and see if it helps.
AFAIK this bug has been confirmed by StarDivision/Sun, and the
"rename your mount point to lowercase" fix has been mentioned
in the SO help newsgroups. I don't know whether this was fixed
in SO 5.2.
HTH,
Thomas
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From: "robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: wvdial - modem disconnect possibility
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:19:47 +0000
On a related note, my ppp seems to reliably dial out on demand, but when I
use wget and the isp terminates the connection after two hours (freeserve
unlimited) wget doesn't seem to reconnect in the right way to make the
dialout happen. Anybody got any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: missing RAM
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:23:30 GMT
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 01:03:05 -0600, Steve Wolfe wrote:
> OK, I have a question about this. Up until last week, every time
> I've had linux on a machine, it's always found the correct amount of
> RAM on it's own. However, last time I put some in, it pulled the
> classic trick of only finding 64 megs, and I had to use the mem=
> line to get it to work.
>
> My question is, why can't linux see RAM on it's own sometimes?
Buggy implementations of extended BIOS calls on some motherboard/BIOS
combinations, AFAIK.
Thomas
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel problem
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:26:42 -0500
Joris Maes wrote:
> I got the latest kernel version of kernel.org (2.2.16), unpacked it, I
> ran 'make xconfig', but then I encounterd my problem.
> I have a network card with realtek 8139 chip, but I can't choose the
> rtl8139.o module when I run 'make xconfig', it appears in grey. I found out
> that in the modules directory of 2.2.16 there isn't am module rtl8139.o
> present like there is for 2.2.12-20(which came with my RedHat 6.1
> Distribution). I tried 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' but that
> still didn't fix the problem. Any help is appreaciated
You have to select "prompt for experimental and development
drivers" to be able to select the rtl8139 module. In earlier
kernels you didn't have to do this. I'm not sure why it changed.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: recovering my /usr/src/linux/.config file?
Date: 23 Jul 2000 09:01:27 GMT
I accidentally deleted my old /usr/src/linux directory (didn't notice
the softlink), is there any way I can recover the .config file? Perhaps
there is a command that will generate it given a kernel?
I'm having trouble building a new kernel, I'd like to try 'make oldconfig'
instead.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs
Subject: Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries?
Date: 23 Jul 2000 10:08:00 GMT
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, David Steuber wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Gro�johann) writes:
>
> ' It is quite possible to use several news servers from one instance
> ' of Gnus, and you can explicitly tell the Agent which news servers
> ' should be covered by the Agent and which should not be covered.
>
> This sounds good. This means I can have leafnode as one news server
> and server-x as another news server with subscribed groups in each
> maintained seperatly?
Yes.
> ' Try typing `B' in the Group buffer, then follow the prompts. You
> ' can go back to the new server by typing `^' in the Group buffer,
> ' then hitting `RET' on the right server. Use `u' to subscribe to
> ' the groups you like.
>
> Ok, you are confusing me a bit here, but I will play around with it.
Using it for the first time is even easier. Just type `B' and follow
the prompts. You will get a list of groups. Hit `u' on the ones you
want.
That's simple, isn't it?
> ' If you don't add the new server to the agent, it will not be
> ' covered by the agent. That's what you want, right?
>
> I want to use Leafnode as the NNTP server for discussion groups that
> I follow and my ISPs NNTP server for binary groups. I want some
> obviouse distinction between which server serves which groups I
> subscribe too.
Using the above method it will be clear from the group name.
kai
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I like BOTH kinds of music.
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From: Boguslaw Swierczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: StarOffice 5.2 on LinuxMandrake 7.0
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:30:01 GMT
I met big problem with installing Sun SO 5.2 (polish version)on Mandrake 7.
Everytime I have what next:
"glibc version: 2.1.2
File: /tmp/sv001.tmp/f_0000
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the
last disk(s) of this archive.
./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-pl.bin: Could not unpack file '/tmp/sv001.tmp/f_0000'
"
Is there anybody who know how to install this soft?
Thanks, Boguslaw.
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Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 22:37:20 +0200
From: Reinhard Karcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory usage of StarOffice under Linux
Heinz Ruffieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I start StarOffice on my RH6.1 Box and check the running SO processes,
>I get one staroffice process, one child process and 5 child-of-child
>processes.
>Any of those process shows a consumption of residend memory of 43MB!!!
>Is there somebody who can give an explanation on this. Is StarOffice really
>using that much of memory?
They use a lot of shared memory.
Reinhard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.lang.oberon,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 18:28:32 -0500
Here in comp.os.os2.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake unto us, saying:
>On Sun, 22 Jul 3900 00:36:57, Kelly and Sandy
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> There's OS2 Not sure. Is this still ongoing?
>
>What newsgroup is this posting in ??
According to the headers, quite a few. :-)
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OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
All hope abandon, ye who enter messages here.
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Linux distribution for newbie
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 21:20:54 +0000
Edward R Hartung wrote:
> Hello to all!!!
> I've been looking into Linux so I can really learn about what an operating
> system is all about and take a break from Windows. I was wondering which
> would be the best Linux distribution for someone like myself who is
> looking to use it both for my desktop needs and as a way to really learn
> about an operating system? Thanks in advance. ERH
Welcome to Linux-land!
If, repeat if, this has to be a toolbox for building your knowledge and using
the OS at the same time I would strongly recommend Slackware.
Not the easiest, from the point of helper programs which relieve YOU from
doing the administrative work, but after your "newbie" period you can manage
any distribution with the feeling of " I have done it before".
For books: NO books that pertain to versions of distributions, those are
outdated before they leave the printing press, Linux is very dynamic
enviroment and changes are frequent.
Look at books that cover the administration of Unix systems, those and the
usual HOWTO's will let you solve problems as you go.
And quoting SuSE "Have a lot of fun..."
Stanislaw.
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 7 and Netscape
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:22:05 -0230
Thanks for your reply,
I also had to run the script /usr/lRealPlayer7/pluginstall.sh
and then copy the files raclass.zip and rpnp.so from
/root/.netscape/plugins to /usr/local/netscape/plugins.
Strange that the installation program did not do an automatic
global installation rather than a local one as I installed
the package as root.
Thanks,
Neil
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Anil kumar Karanam wrote:
> the following works for me
>
> Description: Real Audio
> MIMEtype :audio/x-pn-realaudio
> Suffixes: ra,ram
>
> Application : /usr/local/lRealPlayer7/realplay %u
>
> Best Wishes
> Anil
>
> Neil Zanella wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anyone know how to configure RealPlayer 7 for Netscape
> > on Linux so that clicking on a file that requires RealPlayer
> > will pop up the application? I tried adding the line:
> >
> > RealAudio: /usr/local/lRealPlayer7/realplay %s
> >
> > In my Netscape preferences and then restrted Netscape but it did
> > not work for some reason.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Neil
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: unknown disk fromat
Date: 23 Jul 2000 07:58:02 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am trying to get some data off of a floppy disk that was written by an
> HP35660A dynamic signal analyzer. This thing has some special disk
> format that I can find nothing about anywhere. I can't copy the disk
> image into a file with dd. Any ideas?
Yes ... but it involves Windows (yecch).
I would try Norton Utilities diskeditor to examine the floppy as a
physical (not logical format which relies on the file system) disk.
It should (provided the physical/sector_layout_format is standard) give
you access to the data in each sector (now, if the hardware used to write
to the disk used a different physical format, all bets are off).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: Startup in RedHat 6.0
Date: 23 Jul 2000 12:02:01 GMT
Micromans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ 1) I am using rc.local in RedHat 6.0 to place a pppd command for connecting
[ to my ISP. It works great. However, I then want to start my caching proxy
[ server (squid), but it should wait about 15 seconds before starting so that
[ the ISP connection has been made. How do I put a pause into the rc.local
[ script?
might try the "at" command...type man at to find out more
e.g. at now + 1 minute < name-of-script
[ 2) What script language does the rc.local use? Where can I get more info on
[ it?
Welcome to Bash. If your distro came with a book, normally it would
include a brief intro to Bash and the others (ash, tcsh, etc)
[ 3) What does the following mean? (Name of the program to run is squid). I
[ see many rc.local's use similar code to this:
[ if [ -f /usr/local/squid/bin/squid ]; then
[ echo -n ' Squid'
[ (/usr/local/squid/bin/squid &)
[ fi
01: If file squid exists in here
make a mention of it (for logging)
run it, in background so that the script can move on
to the next step
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jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.2 on LinuxMandrake 7.0
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:47:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boguslaw Swierczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I met big problem with installing Sun SO 5.2 (polish version)on Mandrake 7.
>Everytime I have what next:
>"glibc version: 2.1.2
>File: /tmp/sv001.tmp/f_0000
>End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this this file is not
>a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
>latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on the
>last disk(s) of this archive.
>./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-pl.bin: Could not unpack file '/tmp/sv001.tmp/f_0000'
>"
Check how much space you have left on /tmp. StarOffice needs a huge
amount of disk space to uncompress the filesets before the actual
install takes place - to me it seems that your /tmp is too small.
HTH,
Uli
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From: chs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disk geometry swifty
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:09:25 +1000
Two 'identical drives' report different disk geometry under Linux.
The drives are a Quantum Fireball ST 3.2K
A reports: C: 782/H:128/S:63
B reports: C:6256/H: 16/S:63 or C1564/H:64/S:63 (depending where I
look).
The BIOS initially reports the same CHS for both namely that of drive A.
Swapping the drives does not help.
Is it possible to override the CHS settings in Linux? Is there a setting
on the drive itself that
makes them appear different?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: netscape windows
Date: 23 Jul 2000 12:11:25 GMT
Ron Nicholls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ "Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
[ >
[ > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Ron Nicholls quoth:
[ >
[ > [] Why is it possible to resize Messager and Composer
[ > [] windows with the corner drag, but not Navigator
[ >
[ > I have no problem resizing navigator with the a
[ > 'corner drag', if I understand what you mean.
[ I am using enlightenment and gnome and the navigator window
[ is fixed in size.
maybe they have navigator start 'borderless'
Check if there are any Navigator entries that you can tweak in .Xresources
follow links from here to see if they have something useful
www.linux.com/tuneup/database.phtml/X11/Netscape/000112.html
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jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Hymers)
Subject: Apparently slow modem speed
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:52:14 GMT
I've recently set up a server running samba and ip-masquerading on a
spare 486. Internet browsing (across a 56K ppp dialup line) seems to
be very slow. Is there any way of getting information on the speed of
the connection - it seems to be a maximum of about 1Kps but I can't
verify this too well. I would like to be able to decide if there was
a problem with the ppp / modem configuration or if it is just that the
computer / network is too slow...
Thanks
Mark Hymers
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