Linux-Misc Digest #240, Volume #25 Wed, 26 Jul 00 10:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Clueless Apache Admin Needs Help (Davide Bianchi)
Re: PCMCIA probs solved (Bernd Eggink)
Re: Redhat 6.2 and fork problem. Urgent Help needed!!!!!!!!!!!! (Villy Kruse)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (raf)
Re: Clueless Apache Admin Needs Help (Akira Yamanita)
Re: apache autostart on boot? (J Sloan)
Re: Partitioning - was Re: xfs fails during start up (Jan Johansson)
Saving desktop configuration will not work,.. (Julian Gomez)
Re: Dumb tar question ("Willy Reinhardt")
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Richard Watson)
Re: Modem & Mouse problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Partitioning - was Re: xfs fails during start up ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fido (Ron Nicholls)
Flash Plugin for netscape+xmms = Netscape freezing? (Fung Wai Keung)
Re: ppp error ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Apparently slow modem speed (Mark Hymers)
jre installation (Jared)
Re: ftp (Rasputin)
Re: CFLAGS: optimize for i586 (Martin Herrman)
adding users non-interactively in debian (useradd/newusers) (Ulrich Borchers)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Kelly and Sandy)
Re: Netscape Mail Problem (Rasputin)
Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated (Leonard Evens)
MP3's skip : How I solved it
Re: MP3's skip when I perform other activities (Richard Watson)
Re: Frontend program for lm_sensors? ("Tom Brinkman")
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with the sebang combo in any script file... (Rasputin)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Davide Bianchi)
Subject: Re: Clueless Apache Admin Needs Help
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:10:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 16:36:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm sorry if this is covered somewhere, but I could not find it.
>
>Yes, I know this is old software, but it will have to do for now.
>
>I am running RedHat Linux 5.0 with Apache 1.2.4 on an old pentium
>system.
>
>I can't for the life of me get the server to hand out .doc files in such
>a way that the browser requesting the file asks the user if he wants to
>save the file or launch it.
<ZAP>
Usually, the browser try to download everything it does not know (eg.
file .zip) or execute them prompting the user. If the browser is MS
on a MS System, and the file is a "known" one (eg. doc files), it
will automatically call an available viewer and then open directly
the file.
I suppose you have to specify the mime type as binary/application to
force the system to interpretate the file as a binary one.
Davide
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From: Bernd Eggink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA probs solved
Date: 26 Jul 2000 07:13:49 GMT
Bernd Eggink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> whenever I reboot my notebook from Win98 to Linux, the
> PCMCIA ethernet card (EZ PC Card 10) won't come up. I have
> to power the machine down and up again in order to get it
> working.
The problem disappeared after upgrading to pcmcia version
3.1.19.
Bernd
--
Bernd Eggink
Regionales Rechenzentrum der Uni Hamburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/eggink/BEggink.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 and fork problem. Urgent Help needed!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 26 Jul 2000 07:18:54 GMT
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:23:39 -0500, Mohammad Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> We have a customer who is using our paging software, which uses the cu
>command to connect to paging terminals. Our Software uses the fork command
>and pipes to call and communicate with cu command, respectively. This
>software runs fine on Redhat 5.x and 6.0 version, but on 6.2 version, it as
>soon as it calls cu, it get SIGCHLD signals as shown below from the logfile.
>
There is a wonderfull utility called strace. Used with the -o and the -ff
option it can tell a lot about what went wrong if anything did.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (raf)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,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
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:30:13 GMT
Doc Shipley wrote:
>raf wrote:
>> Give her time. She's still learning how to type. And if you understand
>> Hawaiian Pidgin English, you are in for a treat. And if you think she's
>> frail, ask her neighbor's kid who got the mangos off the tree.
>
>I have two grandmothers still extant, both roughly 3 years younger than God. I don't
>think I even
>thought "frail". "Boot leather, tougher than" comes more to mind.
>
Extant? My god, we ARE getting off topic. I had to bust out my old
Webster for that.
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From: Akira Yamanita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clueless Apache Admin Needs Help
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:48:28 GMT
Davide Bianchi wrote:
>
> Usually, the browser try to download everything it does not know (eg.
> file .zip) or execute them prompting the user. If the browser is MS
> on a MS System, and the file is a "known" one (eg. doc files), it
> will automatically call an available viewer and then open directly
> the file.
>
> I suppose you have to specify the mime type as binary/application to
> force the system to interpretate the file as a binary one.
>
> Davide
To be specific, I believe application/octect-stream is the one
that's normally used for that. The mime.types file on my RH 6.1
system has application/msword for the doc extension.
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: apache autostart on boot?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:55:10 GMT
Devon Harding wrote:
> When I do a:
>
> chkconfig --list httpd
>
> I get:
>
> [root@santa /root]# chkconfig --list httpd
>
> error reading information on service httpd: No such file or directory
That simply means there's no standard startup script in /etc/rc.d/init.d
So, you probably installed apache from scratch -
You can put something in rc.local like:
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start
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From: Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Partitioning - was Re: xfs fails during start up
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:55:21 GMT
>A carry over from the small disk era? I do, however, see the
>benefits to fsck (especially here in South Florida!) yet with the
>udma66 drives and mobo's my 13 gig drive checks in less than a
>minute. My 6.4 gig udma33 takes longer!
Then multiply that to what happens to my fileserver (6 disks, all over
25Gbyte )
Also, i have a few sets of the SAP R/3 html help kits on a cpl of
disks, they are about 700.000 files in 250.000 dirs _each_ That wrecks
havoc with the speed a fsdk takes :)
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:22:15 +0800
From: Julian Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Saving desktop configuration will not work,..
Hi,
I am having a rather silly problem and I'd appreciate any tips
available. I'm running Enlightenment with KDE. Everything was running
fine, but just now, I stopped and restarted X. All of a sudden, there
are popping up 15 xterms, where I usually only have 4. I tried killing
the rest and saving the config using the ``Save current session`` option,
but it is not doing it right, or I have something confused. I've tried
checking the config files, unfortunately, it seems _ALOT_ of things have
changed since RH5.1 and RH6.1. If anyone can tell why the hell 15 xterms
have decided to invade me, I'd appreciate it.
Its currently more of an annoyance than anything else, I'm just killing
all of them, feel free to Cc to my e-mail address. Thanks kindly in
advance.
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From: "Willy Reinhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]@onlineautomation.ch>
Subject: Re: Dumb tar question
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:58:12 +0200
Try
tar -tvvf /dev/nst0 | less
Willy
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,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
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: 26 Jul 2000 09:58:13 +0100
Kelly and Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think the KDE GUI is delightful work.
KDE2 is not too bad, but gnome/sawfish is much better IMO.
> X-Windows Linux is still too geeky, hmm, that's too weak
> a word for it. Obstinate, officious, and snitty.
What? But KDE runs on X! If you just loaded X by itself with no window
manager I can understand what you mean. But no-one still does that do
they? Even so I've no experience of X being any of the above.
> Vi and emacs might be great for computy, wizardry
> work, but it's a total F-off for someone who's got to send of 20,000 to
> their publisher by next Tuesday.
Are you sure about this? Doesn't your publisher typeset stuff
themselves anyway? In which case the plain text which (e.g.) emacs
generates is ideal. It makes emailing it so much easier too as
wordprocesser files are not the most compact format.
> UNIX: A command-line system
> which kicks off by replying that the word 'help' is not meaningful.
Someone should have told her about "man -k".
And "help"? Well that all depends on your shell.
[rich@bluesharp rich]$ help
GNU bash, version 2.04.3(1)-release (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu)
These shell commands are defined internally. Type `help' to see this list.
Type `help name' to find out more about the function `name'.
Use `info bash' to find out more about the shell in general.
A star (*) next to a name means that the command is disabled.
<snip lots of helpful stuff>
I agree that the VMS help is more helpful than the bash help though,
however at least I don't have to write an essay in bash before it
copies a few files.
--
Richard Watson | Pentagon Web Design Ltd | Reading, UK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fax: +44(0)870 706 5282 | ICQ: 65274884
======================= Reg. Linux User #183315 ================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Modem & Mouse problem
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:04:30 GMT
Sounds like an irq conflict. What have you recently installed?
You could run "setup" to check the mouse config.
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 23:14:26 -0700, "DarcKode"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok,
>
>I have a rh6.2 system and up to about 3 days ago everything was working
>fine. Now my mouse will not work with gpm or in x, my modem also stopped
>working and I cannot even send commands to it or verify that it is there
>through minicom. Anyone think it might be a conflict? if so how do i resolve
>a conflict. thanks for help ahead of time! =0)
>
>DarcKode
>
>
====================
Dragged
"RTFM? Yeah, I read the manual, but what does Particle Physics have to do with setting
up Sendmail?"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Partitioning - was Re: xfs fails during start up
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:07:51 GMT
erm, that much static data is just sitting on your drive?
Spend the $60 and get a cd burner or more money on a 4-8GB dvd writer.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:55:21 GMT, Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>A carry over from the small disk era? I do, however, see the
>>benefits to fsck (especially here in South Florida!) yet with the
>>udma66 drives and mobo's my 13 gig drive checks in less than a
>>minute. My 6.4 gig udma33 takes longer!
>
>Then multiply that to what happens to my fileserver (6 disks, all over
>25Gbyte )
>
>Also, i have a few sets of the SAP R/3 html help kits on a cpl of
>disks, they are about 700.000 files in 250.000 dirs _each_ That wrecks
>havoc with the speed a fsdk takes :)
====================
Dragged
"RTFM? Yeah, I read the manual, but what does Particle Physics have to do with setting
up Sendmail?"
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From: Ron Nicholls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fido
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:02:17 -1000
Is a fido mail reader available for linux
--
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-
Regards
message_ends.
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From: Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Flash Plugin for netscape+xmms = Netscape freezing?
Date: 26 Jul 2000 11:40:23 GMT
Hi,
I encounter a strange experience. My linux box is Linux-MAndrake 7.1 with
netscape-communicator-4.73-6mdk package installed. I downloaded flash plugins from
Macromedia
and installed it. The flash plugin works great only if I'm NOT playing mp3 file with
xmms
(xmms-1.2.2-1mdk package). When I'm playing mp3 with xmms, my netscape freezes while
it is
downloading a page with flash support. When I stop playing mp3, the flash supported
page
immediately comes out. The same happens no matter what output plugin (OSS Driver and
ESound) I
use in xmms. I wonder whether there is relationship between xmms and flash plugin.
Does anyone has similar experience? Can you solve it?
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong.
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ppp error ?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:44:48 GMT
I am getting the identical error. I am running RedHat on a Toshiba
460CDT laptop. I am *NOT* using a winmodem.
At first I believe the problem was related to the PCMCIA driver or the
way it is configured on this laptop. When i pushed a network card into
the slot, PPD would fail with that message. When i pulled it out, ppd
worked fine. Now it fails whether I have the card in or out.
I would appreciate you forwarding to me any advice you get on this
problem.
Dan Hurley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted) wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I have run ppp as root using Debian on a PIII. When I attempt
to use
> 'pon' to connect, it instantly fails. I tailed /var/log/ppp.log and
found
> the following entries:
>
> pppd[1518]: pppd2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
> pppd[1518]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
> pppd[1518]: Exit.
>
> I am using a Lucent Winmodem but the driver is properly installed so
that
> it works with Linux, at least with minicom. Can anyone explain this
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Ted Schuman
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Hymers)
Subject: Re: Apparently slow modem speed
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:29:33 GMT
Thanks everyone. From the information I have gained from here and
some from comp.dcom.modems I have got my modem set to /dev/ttyS3 and
irq 4 properly. It now works at a decent speed.
Thanks again.
Mark
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From: Jared <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: jre installation
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:32:02 -0400
Dumb newbie question -
I d/l'd the jre from blackdown. It's easy enough to install, but I was
wondering, where is it commonly installed? /usr/local/bin doesn't seem right,
and their web site didn't have install guidelines that I could see.
TIA -
Regards,
jh
PS: If it is convenient, e-mail will reach me faster.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: ftp
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:37:11 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Anna> wrote:
>Hi
>Users ( I created ) cannot "ftp" to my machine wheras using this machine
>I can "ftp" to other sites. What settings are required so that others
>can "ftp" to my machine.
>
>-Anna
Hi Anna
sounds like you have an FTP client installed, but no ftp server.
There'll be one on the CD; usually wu-ftpd -
if this distro is older than a month or
so, get a fresh RPM from their homepage
(search at freshmeat.net for wu-ftpd)
wu-ftpd has a few 'issues' with security.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: CFLAGS: optimize for i586
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Jul 2000 12:47:01 GMT
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 00:07:55 GMT, -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Check out:
> http://www.rpm.org/
> The book "Maximum RPM" can be downloaded from here (free) plus there
> is a lot of other info on RPM: its the definitive site.
Thanks!!
> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish
> and he can feed himself for life.
I know, I know.. but a man is lazy sometimes ;-)
Martin
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
2:40pm up 21 days, 1:16, 3 users, load average: 0.21, 0.12, 0.15
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: Ulrich Borchers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adding users non-interactively in debian (useradd/newusers)
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:50:31 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings,
How can one add new users without having to interact with useradd/passwd
in an automated fashion ? (and not edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow)
useradd obviously does not provide any functionality without interaction
but newusers seems to BUT Debian is probably paranoid according to security:
users.conf:
zick:zack::::/home/zick:/bin/bash
newusers users.conf
adds
zick:!:1005:1014::/home/zick:/bin/bash
to /etc/passwd
and
zick:179gGnglg4Zrg:11164:0:99999:7:::
to /etc/shadow
On RedHat the zick account now works fine but not so on Debian until you
change
the password manually or replace :!: by :x:
Is there any workaround for Debian ? What did I miss ?
thx in advance
uli
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From: Kelly and Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.misc,comp.sys.be.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:00:22 +0100
In a alt.os.linux.mandrake newsletter entitled "Operating systems for
personal-computers?", Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>The KDE 2.0 betas look really nice... </shameless plug>
Amen to that. I'm getting my wife a new (translucent see-though)
Mac shortly, and when I do, I myself can say good-bye to Microsoft
(NT4sp3) and switch to Linux. Funny how people just "know". I have a
friend who's a writer -- a 100+ icons on the Win98 desktop guy -- and
his wife's got a Performa Mac, and without apprehending anything
consciously, he says things like, "well the Mac -- and the Psion
actually -- it just gives you this good feeling whenever you use it."
When I tried to set up Suse Linux at the beginning of this year, my wife
had a really terrible time for a while getting angry with everything.
I, ehem, only got angry at some things.
Thank you for all your suggestions and comments.
With kind regards,
Sandy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: Netscape Mail Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:10:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Michel Catudal> wrote:
>Boddhisatva Troutwaxer a �crit :
>>
>> Netscape works fine as a browser, but will not get my mail. I
>> Netscape cannot get your mail because you have not entered a user
>> name. Please enter a username under the "Preferences" window.
>>
>> Now this all sounds straight forward, except that I've entered
>> exactly the same username (and other information) in the
>> "Preferences" which I also entered months ago in the
>> "Preferences" section of my Windows 98 machine. The Netscape in
>> 1.) Renamed the "nsmail" directory in my user file to
>> "nsmail.old" so that Netscape would write a new, and hopefully
>> uncorrupted "nsmail" directory. No help there.
>> 2.) Tried logging on with Kppp using both the "script" and
>> "terminal" login options. No luck.
Kppp has got jack to do with mail;
you say you can surf, so PPP and DNS are cool.
The connection is OK; leave it alone.
>> Any suggestions?
Why don't you try this:
<replace mailserver and login details as appropriate>
================================
1.
telnet mailserver.domain.com 110
You'll get something like:
"Mail server so-and-so: date , versino , blurb..."
2.
user myusername
pass mypassword
list
================================
See if you get a list of mails in your POP box.
If this works, something is hosed in netscape; go ahead and un/reinstall it.
If you get errors, check your mail servers, username and password.
You'll at least know what end of the connection is at fault.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cannot install Linux, any help appreciated
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 07:34:00 -0500
Robert Schumacher wrote:
>
> I am having a problem installing Linux (tried four distributions thus far).
> Keeping the differences between distributions in mind, basically what is
> happening is that the installers either a) freeze at language selection or
> b) the keyboard and mouse will not work in the installer. I can't tell for
> sure which is the case, but at any rate I boot up with the Linux CD in the
> drive, the installer runs, I get the language selection screen and that is
> it...I have no way to provide any input or continue the installation
> process. I don't believe it's a hardware problem, at least not with the
> keyboard or mouse (and the computer itself is less than a year old and
> performs flawlessly in Windows). That is the dilemma. I've poured through
> www.linuxnewbie.org, and the sites for the distributions I've tried
> (Mandrake 7.1, Red Hat 6.2, WinLinux 2000, and Corel), and found no answers
> (I haven't even seen a similar problem listed). Has anyone encountered
> this, or have any suggestions for a workaround. My computer setup is as
> follows:
> Pentium III 450 MHz
> 96 MB RAM
> 6.8 GB HDD (6.0 GB Windows, 1.8 GB Linux partition with 125 MB Linux swap
> partition, set up using Partition Magic 5)
> Toshiba 40X CDROM and HP 8210i CDRW
> 3Com EtherLink 3C905C-TX NIC with Internet access via cable modem
> Microsoft Intellieye Explorer PS/2 mouse (but tried each installation with a
> "plain" PS/2 mouse also, no difference).
> Plain, garden variety 102 key US keyboard
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Robert Schumacher
> remove IDONTTHINKSO to reply by e-mail
> "I've always wondered why the needle is sterilized for execution by lethal
> injection."
Along with others, I would suggest you try a text install. That
eliminates the issue of the graphics card and mouse.
You might also delete the Linux partitions you created, and let
your installer do the partitioning. It is possible there is
something bizarre about the way PM set up the master boot record.
Finally, if you can get far enough in text most, try Alt-Fn for
n=2,3,.... This should give you alternate screens, a couple
of which may give you some messages indicating how far the
installer got and what went wrong.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: MP3's skip : How I solved it
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:23:07 -0400
I've been using X11Amp most of the time., and noticed the skips when the hdd
was being accessed . it was more like a stuttering.
I used hdparm to activate dma transfers, and the problems went away.
Once I got the settings to work, I put them into one of the rc.* files .
Hope this helps.
joseph
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MP3's skip when I perform other activities
Date: 26 Jul 2000 14:09:05 +0100
Gordon Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a CPU monitor running and I noticed that the loss of sound
> occurs whenever the CPU meter spikes and that happens any time
> something major graphically happens on the screen (could be
> something as simple as scrolling in Netscape with my 32-bit color
> screen).
what are you using to play mp3s? Do you have the same problem if you
do
mpg123 mymp3.mp3
from the command prompt?
--
Richard Watson | Pentagon Web Design Ltd | Reading, UK
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Fax: +44(0)870 706 5282 | ICQ: 65274884
======================= Reg. Linux User #183315 ================
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From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Frontend program for lm_sensors?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:25:50 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Hofmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex wrote:
>>
>> Dear all:
>>
>> I finally got lm_sensors up and running. I am looking for a
>> frontend program (able to dock into panel) that using
>> lm_sensors... I use Enlightenment. I have tried klm... But, the
>> display does not seem to work very well with Enlightenment... Any
>> suggestion?
>
> I have not tried it myself, but there is a program called
> KHealthCare on freshmeat.net.
>
> Good luck, Michael
I like it with KDE. It has versions which use lm-sensors.
http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/~hg7229/khealthcare/
Otherwise, a search of 'sensors' at Freshmeat will turn up
just about everything else out there.
--
~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,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
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:43:06 GMT
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:36:57 +0100, Kelly and Sandy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My middle name is "Newbie".
>
>
> I'd like to ask any people who happen to be browsing this
newsletter
> what viable personal computer operating systems are available
today,
> besides your Microsoft.
>
>
> There's the Macintosh (MacOS) Next computer I get will be
a Mac.
> There's Linux Hmm, we all know and love
this one.
> There's Oberon Not cooperative
multitasking?
> There's BeOS Thin, very thin, last I
looked.
> There's EPOC32 Nice. Is this only for
handhelds?
> There's OS2 Not sure. Is this still
ongoing?
>
>
> By "viable", I refer to the intuited meaning: that my
grandmother
> could start use it and begin to think of the computer as her
"personal
> computer".
>
Your grandmother might like a netBook running EPOC. It does not
really HAVE to be for handhelds only, but nobody has made anything
bigger than my 32MB netBook as yet. I find it very useable, and
there are no pitfalls like forgetting to save your file.
My next computer is NOT going to be a Mac - I already have one, and
MacOS 9 crashes worse than Windows 95. Besides, I do not like the
way they force their user interface oddities on me. MacOS X may be
worthwhile, I do not know, but it looks promising.
BeOS is nice, and Compaq are going to use it for their new
handhelds. I think it will be a very good desktop system for the
home user if they manage to get a sufficient software base.
OS2 is very ongoing, but is not really targetted at home users. It
is very easy to get started with, easier than MacOS but not quite
as easy as EPOC. If you want to do advanced things, it is difficult
no matter what kind of OS you use. For developers, I think BeOS is
easiest and MacOS the most difficult.
Unless your grandmother is either very technical or satisfied with
a standard setup somebody makes, she is not likely to like Linux
very much. The price/performance is extremely good, of course...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin)
Subject: Re: Problems with the sebang combo in any script file...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 13:37:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <Mitch Conant> wrote:
>I am running Redhat Linux 6.2 (upgraded from 5.2) and it seems that the
>#! combo as line 1 in a script file will not work. The same message
>appears if I try to run a Perl or TCL script. I build a 1 line script
>(the infamous print "Hello World" program) and it still bombs out.
>
>The first line reads:
>
>#! /usr/bin/perl
>
>I have verified that perl is there ... YES
>I can run Perl by typing perl anywhere ... Runs OK
>I can run the script by using the perl -e commandline ... PERFECT
>
>I CANNOT RUN THE SCRIPT WITH THE SHEBANG LINE!!! YES THE SCRIPT HAS THE
>EXECUTE ATTRIBUTE SET!!!
Sssh...no need to shout. 3 exclamation marks make you look like a lunatic.
shebangs don't have spaces.
Oh , and use the warn flag, -w ; it's very useful for debugging :
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
Should work fine.
--
Rasputin.
Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns.
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