Linux-Misc Digest #218, Volume #25 Sun, 23 Jul 00 15:13:02 EDT
Contents:
industrial flat-panel Linux computer ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Fisher))
Re: lockdsvc: Invalid argument (Mark White)
removing LILO BOOT?? (RAPH)
Re: industrial flat-panel Linux computer (Smitty)
WTD: Info on imwheel ... (Stephen Anthony)
CFLAGS: optimize for i586 (Martin Herrman)
tmp directory (Daniel)
Re: missing RAM (Mike Goldsbury)
Re: missing RAM ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (William Burrow)
Re: disk geometry swifty (Markus Kossmann)
Re: removing LILO BOOT?? (Dmitri V)
Re: tmp directory (Dances With Crows)
su problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Creative Webcam 3 (usb) problem (Roger Kristiansen)
Re: Memory usage of StarOffice under Linux (Heinz Ruffieux)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (sibo)
Re: just wondering.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: vi wouldn't work after rootdisk boot (Gary Krupa)
Re: Apparently slow modem speed (David Efflandt)
Re: disk geometry swifty (David Efflandt)
Re: Terminal is not fully functional ??? (William R. Mattil)
Re: Power Management with APMD (Anil kumar Karanam)
Grub/Lilo - How do you start with GRUB? (Alberto)
Re: recovering my /usr/src/linux/.config file? (David Efflandt)
Re: tmp directory (David Efflandt)
Re: Apparently slow modem speed (Mark Hymers)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Will Lee)
Re: just wondering.. ("David ..")
esd is a bitch (shawn)
Re: removing LILO BOOT?? (Bob Martin)
HD LED always on ("Jolyon Hallel")
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From: frc(removefirstplease)@eznet.net (David Fisher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: industrial flat-panel Linux computer
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:23:02 GMT
Can anyone suggest an industrial flat-panel computer known to work
reliably with Linux? Thank you!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark White)
Subject: Re: lockdsvc: Invalid argument
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:47 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David
Greeson) wrote:
> fine except for nfslock. I get the error message, lockdsvc: Invalid
> argument. I'm running RH-6.2. I've looked through the Documentation
Exactly the same here!
Let me know if you get any replies by mail?
Ta,
Mark...
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From: RAPH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: removing LILO BOOT??
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:30:02 GMT
HI,
Curious to know how to remove the LILO boot, after it is no longer
required??
I am no longer dual booting my machine and need to remove the LILO as it
always comes up at the begining of the boot sequence!
Thanx,
Raph....
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From: Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: industrial flat-panel Linux computer
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:16:55 -0400
removefirstplease David Fisher wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest an industrial flat-panel computer known to work
> reliably with Linux? Thank you!
Try http://www.cdynamics.com
The prices are not cheap, but you can get whatever you want.
Smitty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Anthony)
Subject: WTD: Info on imwheel ...
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:26:56 GMT
Is there a way to specify that all processes use imwheel settings EXCEPT
the ones I specify for it not to use?
I tried @EXCLUDE, but it doesn't seem to work as intended.
Thanks for any info,
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: CFLAGS: optimize for i586
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:30:40 GMT
Dear reader,
I'm building a wine rpm and in the spec file I can easily add some CFLAGS. Now
it says:"-03 -WALL". But I also want the rpm to be optimized for i586 CPU's.
Which option should I add?
much thanks in advance,
Martin
--
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Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
5:20pm up 20 days, 10:59, 4 users, load average: 0.41, 0.30, 0.60
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.linux,linux.help
Subject: tmp directory
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:33:30 -0400
Hi!
Can I safely delete all the files in the tmp directory of Linux
Thank in advance
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From: Mike Goldsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: missing RAM
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:50:01 GMT
Thomas Zajic wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> =-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
> - Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux-2.2.16/slrn-0.9.6.2+ -
> - "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." (M. C.) -
> =-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
After upgrading my BIOS on a Abit BX6/rev2 all memory was seen.
Mike
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: missing RAM
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:07:13 -0600
> > 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.
Well, here's another quirk: The machine on which I recently had to use
the "mem=" workaround has exactly the same motherboard that I've used
before, and it worked. The only difference was the RAM. However, if I put
that RAM into a windows machine, it's all detected just fine.
Odd indeed. ; )
steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: 23 Jul 2000 15:44:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 23:33:31 +0200,
Karl B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl B) wrote:
>> > Kelly and Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > There's the Macintosh (MacOS) Next computer I get will be a Ma=c.
>> > MacOS X will be real great
>>
>> If you understand the server version is just a cosmetically altered
>> versi=on ofBSD unix, and you dont mind shelling out 4000 bucks for a
>> computer
>
>But I'm not talking about X Server. I talking about X. (Cant wait 'till
>September...)
Lets start the nominations for computer of the year: the G4 Cube....
http://www.userfriendly/cartoons/archives/00jul/20000723.html
'Nuff said.
--
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Copyright 2000 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disk geometry swifty
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:49:35 +0200
chs wrote:
>
> 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?
Try the kernel parameter hdx=cyl,head,sec
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Markus Kossmann
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From: Dmitri V <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removing LILO BOOT??
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:26:53 +0000
I guess you use Windows only; if however Linux is the sole OS on the
box, you need LILO anyway. If the former is correct, then issue the
following command from within Windows:
fdisk /mbr
This will remove LILO and make it boot WIndows by default.
HTH
Dmitri
RAPH wrote:
>
> HI,
> Curious to know how to remove the LILO boot, after it is no longer
> required??
> I am no longer dual booting my machine and need to remove the LILO as it
> always comes up at the begining of the boot sequence!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: tmp directory
Date: 23 Jul 2000 16:52:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newsgroups snipped]
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:33:30 -0400, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Can I safely delete all the files in the tmp directory of Linux
Depends on what's in there, and what you mean by "tmp directory". If
you mean /tmp , then you can probably remove everything in there without
a problem. Most distros run a cron job every day at about 2 AM that
clears all files in /tmp that are older than 7 days--is this job
running?
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin/ That which does not kill us
http://www.brainbench.com / makes us stranger.
============================/ ==Trevor Goodchild
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: su problem
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:50:24 GMT
I can no longer use su to become root. When I execute su I get the
following error:
su: can't resolve symbol '__argz_stringify'
Anyone ever seen this before?
Registered Linux User #180882
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From: Roger Kristiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Webcam 3 (usb) problem
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:23:37 GMT
I've finally got the usb working (at least partially?) on my linux-box,
and now I'm trying to get my webcam working properly.
The cam is a Creative Webcam 3, and I've tried both the "vidcat" and the
xawtv "webcam" utility to grab pictures. You can see the result on
www.rogerk.f2s.com/webcam.jpg .. The thing is, I know the "picture" is
from the webcam itself, cause it changes according to the brightness in
the room and what I'm pointing it against.
The result seems to be the same with both "vidcat" and "webcam"..
But of course, I would like it to take _proper_ pictures. Have anyone
had
this same problem? Any suggestions as to what I might do to fix it?
I don't know what kind of info you guys would need, but I'm running a
2.2.16 kernel with the usb-patch from www.liux-usb.org, and using the
policy-files from the same site.
Any help would be appreciated! :)
---
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From: Heinz Ruffieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory usage of StarOffice under Linux
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:30:03 GMT
Thanks Reinhard,
But still 43MB is a lot!
No MS Office Product takes that much. And MS is know to us a lot of memory.
So I assume Sun was not able to correct this in the newest (5.2)
Version......kind of sad isn't it?
Thanks
Heinz
Reinhard Karcher wrote:
>
> 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] (sibo)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:35:01 +0000
William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lets start the nominations for computer of the year: the G4 Cube....
>
> http://www.userfriendly/cartoons/archives/00jul/20000723.html
>
> 'Nuff said.
It's not y'know, that URL gives a not found!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: just wondering..
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:04:29 +0100
David .. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> You do know about the bug in all kernels prior to 2.2.16 don't you?
What's that then? (If it's something serious, I might bother to upgrade...
But I'm reluctant to because I use OSS and recompiling the kernel tends to
f*&k it up).
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From: Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vi wouldn't work after rootdisk boot
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:50:56 GMT
Thank you so much for the helpful advice. I did as you suggested, and came
up with the following results.
1) since the dynamic linker looks for the libraries in /lib, I first tried
booting with the rescue disks and copying the libtermcap.so.2.0.8 file from
my hard disk on /mnt/lib to the /lib dir in RAM, and creating a symlink to
that file. Then I was able to run the vi program successfully.
2) I still couldn't run the chroot command you gave in your message.
3) Having concluded that my bootdisk and rootdisk were too old (kernel v.
1.2.8), I decided to create new rescue floppies with the most current
kernel version I could find, which turned out to be 2.2.16. After booting
from these, I found that most all of the libraries on my hard disk (I'm
using v.2.2.9), including libtermcap.so.2, were present in the /lib dir in
RAM.
4) I was then able to run vi and chroot successfully. Note that the
interactive shell wasn't any longer necessary to run vi, although it made
it a bit easier to access my hard disk.
So my problem of running programs using the rescue disks is resolved. I
just need to have the most up-to-date disks. Again, thanks!
Gary Krupa
On 22 Jul 2000, Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:46:55 GMT, Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I made a mistake editing rc.inet2, and the system wouldn't boot. I used the
> >bootdisk / rootdisk combination to access the system, but found that I
> >couldn't use either vi or ed on the hard disk to edit the file. For vi,
> >there was a message saying, "can't find libtermcap.so.2". So I gave up
> >trying to edit the file, and finally succeeded in running ed after booting
> >from the installation cd-rom. Vi still wouldn't work after booting from the
> >cd.
> >
> >Why couldn't I use vi (and many other commands), even after I mounted the
> >hard disk after booting from both the ramdisk and the cd-rom?
>
> When you boot from an install disk or rescue floppy, the root filesystem
> is mounted from the medium you booted from. Typically, the root
> filesystems of install and rescue media don't contain every shared
> library you'd need for running every program you'd want, because of
> space constraints. Sure, you can mount your normal / under /mnt, but
> the dynamic linker will not be able to find all the shared libraries
> since they're all under /mnt/lib instead of /lib.
>
> There's a fix, though.
> mount /dev/hdXY /mnt && chroot /mnt
>
> will start an interactive shell running with the "real" root filesystem
> as its /. Then you should be able to use vi without problems. Do not
> try this if your real root filesystem has been damaged in some way and
> requires fscking!
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin/ That which does not kill us
> http://www.brainbench.com / makes us stranger.
> ----------------------------/ --Trevor Goodchild
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Apparently slow modem speed
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:13:48 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Mark Hymers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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...
A good test would be to download a 1 MB compressed file when nothing else
is using the connection. See if ifconfig shows any dropped packets or
errors.
Sounds like you may have an irq problem, but then you would probably have
trouble connecting at all. Do you have a hard jumpered modem or is it a
PnP modem using isapnp.conf to set the port and irq. If the port or irq
are non-standard (other than irq 4 for ttyS0 or ttyS1 or irq 3 for ttyS1
or ttyS3) you have to tell Linux about it with setserial (see 'man
setserial').
You can often tell the speed your modem connected at and retrained to from
minicom after disconnecting ppp. For modems with Rockwell chipset it is
'at&v1' and for Lucent modems it is 'ati11'.
Or see REPORT STRINGS 'man chat', but that may require a modem init string
in your chat script to display modem connect speed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: disk geometry swifty
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:22:40 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:09:25 +1000, chs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?
The partition table specifies the translated geometry. Normally if you
had partitioned the drive at all in DOS/Win it would have been translated
to something under 1024 cyl (if possible). It sounds like your BIOS or
some OS semi-translated your second drive to unusual geometry. You can
change it with the expert (x) mode of Linux fdisk, but you should probably
remove all partitions from it first and then change the setting, because
mixed geometries may not mix well.
Otherwise if it is only used for Linux, you can leave it as it is and it
should work fine.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William R. Mattil)
Subject: Re: Terminal is not fully functional ???
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:37:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
S�bastien Cottalorda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The message writen above is the message I get each time I try to see a
>man page or when i try to "vi" a file :
>--> WARNING Terminal is not fully functional
>
>When I "vi" a file, I cannot do it.
>but concerning the man pages, after pressing <RETURN>, I manage to see
>something.
>
>Any help will be greatly apreciate.
This is because vi and man pages require a TERM type so that they can
manipulate the screen. Try
export TERM=vt100
(this assumes bash or ksh and *not* c-shell)
this should help .....
Regards
Bill
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From: Anil kumar Karanam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Power Management with APMD
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:26:16 -0400
Hi ,
Thanks for the response,
There is no owner's manual as such as I have built it from barebones myself.
My motherboard manual briefly describes my BIOS APM settings, it talks about
the Suspend timeout settings and boot up based on the network card access. but
nothing about waking from suspend without booting up again.
All I wanted was to have some way the system goes into some sort of low power
mode after some specified period of inactivity . Since I am running linux I
wanted to keep it up 24x7 and hopefully access it over the network.
yesterday I had tried using kapm a applet interface to apm . I could not wake
the system up after intentionally suspending it through that either.
I will still do some exploring and see if I can figure out anything useful.
Thanks again
Anil
David Efflandt wrote:
> Usually apmd is only recommended for laptops. You don't usually use it
> for a regular PC, because it puts everything to sleep including any
> network. When a machine goes into suspend, mouse movement will NOT awaken
> it, but any keypress should. What does the owner's manual for your
> computer say about suspend?
>
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From: Alberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Grub/Lilo - How do you start with GRUB?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:30:04 GMT
Hi,
I have recompiled my Mandrake 7.1 kernel and added an entry for the new
kernel both in Lilo and Grub. The I ran /sbin/lilo.
Now, Grub is gone and Lilo boots fine.
How do I get Grub back?
Thanks
Alberto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: recovering my /usr/src/linux/.config file?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:31:59 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Jul 2000 09:01:27 GMT, Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>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.
It might help if you said what you are trying and what error message you
get.
Once you rm something, it is gone. Either reinstall your original kernel
or when adding a new kernel create a /usr/src/linux-<version> directory
and symlink it to /usr/src/linux before untaring the new kernel source.
For a new kernel you should 'make mrproper' before doing anything else.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: linux.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.linux,linux.help
Subject: Re: tmp directory
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:40:28 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:33:30 -0400, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Can I safely delete all the files in the tmp directory of Linux
You can remove old files, but you have to be careful about removing
subdirectories and pipes for things like xfonts (.font-unix), esound
(.esd) and other active tmp files used for current status.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Hymers)
Subject: Re: Apparently slow modem speed
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:42:17 GMT
>Sounds like you may have an irq problem, but then you would probably have
>trouble connecting at all. Do you have a hard jumpered modem or is it a
>PnP modem using isapnp.conf to set the port and irq. If the port or irq
>are non-standard (other than irq 4 for ttyS0 or ttyS1 or irq 3 for ttyS1
>or ttyS3) you have to tell Linux about it with setserial (see 'man
>setserial').
Setserial reports the modem as using irq 0 (!?!). I can't find an
interrupt listed in /proc/interrupts. It is an internal modem with
DIP switches on the back (a Phonic Pro 56K ISA - not in plug and play
mode). There are no other serial ports activated on the computer. I
don't know the configurations for the DIP switches unfortunately - and
Phonic Pro's website gives no information about this. It is on ttyS3.
Any suggestions?
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From: Will Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.lynx
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 18:52:35 GMT
In article <8lfaan$dgd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sibo) wrote:
> William Burrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Lets start the nominations for computer of the year: the G4
Cube....
> >
> > http://www.userfriendly/cartoons/archives/00jul/20000723.html
> >
> > 'Nuff said.
>
> It's not y'know, that URL gives a not found!
>
This seems to work
http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/00jul/20000723.html.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: just wondering..
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:51:43 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> David .. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> > You do know about the bug in all kernels prior to 2.2.16 don't you?
>
> What's that then? (If it's something serious, I might bother to upgrade...
> But I'm reluctant to because I use OSS and recompiling the kernel tends to
> f*&k it up).
Here is the link to the News article about it.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-06-14-018-04-SC-KN
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: esd is a bitch
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:04:19 GMT
greetings...
my question is this:
why oh why does esd keep starting up and killing whatever music i have
playing. run alone it makes some shitty little space noises which i
presume are supposed to serve as a test of some sorts, but whenever i
start xmms and play an mp3, at some random spot it will freeze, thus
crashing xmms as well, and sure enough a "ps ax" shows an esd where
before there was none. this is horribly frustrating, not made better by
the fact that no info or man page exists. i REALLY am getting tired of
listening to a song in apprehension of what i know is coming - an xmms
crash caused by esd. anyways any help would be great.
shawn
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removing LILO BOOT??
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:05:49 +0000
RAPH wrote:
>
> HI,
> Curious to know how to remove the LILO boot, after it is no longer
> required??
> I am no longer dual booting my machine and need to remove the LILO as it
> always comes up at the begining of the boot sequence!
> Thanx,
> Raph....
>
Even if you have removed windoze, you still need lilo to boot linux.
--
Bob Martin
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From: "Jolyon Hallel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD LED always on
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:07:07 +0100
Hi
I've got two operating systems on my HD, Linux, and an-other(!) With the
other operating system, the HD LED behaves itslef, coming on when there is
disk access, and going off when there isn't. However, under Linux, it is on
permanently. Is this normal, and if it isn't, what needs to be done? My main
concern is whether it will cause problems with the HD being "axtive" all the
time.
(I've noticed that it only seems to start behaving "normally" under Linux,
when there is in fact something wrong somewhere, probably with the CD,
requiring a power-off and on.)
Thanks
Jo
(Hope this is the right newsgroup)
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