Linux-Misc Digest #412, Volume #25 Fri, 11 Aug 00 06:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: i am heaven (Beekeeper)
RTFM'ed DUX ("Skip Adams and Leslie Adams, M.H.")
Re: What would cause disk thrashing while idle? (E J)
Re: RealPlayer for RH 6.2 (E J)
Re: init problem (Lew Pitcher)
Re: those damn ^M characters from win files... (druuna)
Re: those damn ^M characters from win files... (Villy Kruse)
Re: those damn ^M characters from win files... (Villy Kruse)
Re: automount for windows shares with spaces (Amish Chana)
Re: automount for windows shares with spaces (Amish Chana)
Re: What would cause disk thrashing while idle? (Kousik Nandy)
Re: Problem with dosemu (Andres Soolo)
Re: Java ide (Glitch)
Re: Linux Installation on Compaq Laptop (Glitch)
How to start the ftp? ("Alan Po")
Re: Linux on AMD (J Bland)
Re: Does anybody know how to make work XFree86 with the NeoMagic 256 LX+ (Peter
Mitchell)
Re: sound card recommendation (Tino Keitel)
Re: those damn ^M characters from win files... (Tino Keitel)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beekeeper)
Crossposted-To: alt.non.sequitur,alt.sex.fetish.linux,rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata
Subject: Re: i am heaven
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:36:57 -0400
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:50:19 -0500, Axel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>translated from the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Beekeeper):
>
>>mahwah, new jersey? eh, forget it. i used to know people from other
>>places around there. BIG PLACES.
>>
>>then there's rahway. i tell you these people don't know when to quit.
>>
>>what's that? oh, right. bottom of glass. gotcha. wink nudge.
>>
>>she's not gorgeous, she's leaning towards the left. wait, back
>>towards the middle again. shit, there she goes, someone give 'er a
>>hand, huh?
>>
>>new jersey. fuckin' figures.
>>
>
>i park around the back. i knew that no one i ever knew visited cecil
>county, but my red mazda miata with the linux sticker in back was rather
>obvious.
>
>i walk into the club. the entrance has all manner of artwork depicting the
>wonders to be found inside. for the first time, i am not ashamed to be
>here.
>
>what shame is there? you open the door to your conjugal room to find the
>lips of your lifemate wrapped around someone else's baby-maker, and you'll
>find you have a DAMN GOOD EXCUSE to be here too. and the pulsing music is
>drawing me inside.
>
>hellicopters circled the pentagon like so many vultures.
>
>inside is smoke and flashing light, and the smell of testosterone, tobacco,
>and silicone. i am easily the oldest male in the room, by far. young boys
>with hairless faces are staring up in fascination, dollar bills clenched in
>their teeth, awaiting the moment they can cream their jeans and go home
>satiated.
>
>i order my $5 obligatory mountain dew. for the first time since age 8, i
>am completely unaroused.
>
>"candi" approaches me, buttoning up her mini-vest around her perfectly
>round, balanaced, plastic globes.
>
>"you look like the sort we rarely get in here. woman problems?"
>
>i then realize that the suse iso image i was downloading was probably done.
>
>meanwhile, a small central american nation is being overthrown; my tax
>dollars at work.
after work, i noticed a couple of oranges hanging around my car's
tires. i ran that fucking shit RIGHT over.
stopped the car, and decided to take a cab home. the cabbie was
dripping. perhaps, my thought process went, i needed a tire iron to
correct the student's math errors from that day. i paid the driver in
afghans. one particular green knit glared at me when i handed it off
to its random future.
stopped at the deli and got a dozen eggs. took turns running for 20
seconds, then walking for 3. swallowed an egg every damn second. my
throat was bleeding.
my pillow slapped me in the face, my alarm shook me.
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From: "Skip Adams and Leslie Adams, M.H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RTFM'ed DUX
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:10:09 -0500
First off, Thanks for all that responded to my post. UPDATE.. Well, first
off Bill it looks like I have one com port and one lpt.. So I haven't gone
into BIOS yet.. FWIW.. I get a "modem is busy" report when I try to get the
modem to respond from KDE using the Kppp app. (luck of all luck.. I have no
cu manual page(s)....... Bob..I have named the device ttyS0.. I have given
the command to the modem of +++ATZ and just ATZ . I did go out on the net
and get the longer init string but have not used it as of yet.
I did discover the /proc/ dir and got a listing for ioports and interrupts.
Someone did ask if I worked from the console or from X. Well, I start at the
console then go to windoz and will work from both.. I would rather use a
command line and rock and roll ..
Okay, I am going to go back into Linux and look. I thought I saw that
something was using IRQ 4.
Question: is 03F8h (info from Win 95) the same as ioports regestry given by
/proc/..
without the "h". As a point of interest, the closest thing I have addressing
03Fx is 03F6-03F6 for ide0 (assuming that would be the HD)
Still, the point here is to get on the net via Linux and this 33.6 ext.
BTW.. Bill... When I run a 12 page report form SYS and Hardware Devices all
I show is a COM 1 and an LPT 1... I have yanked all cards from the machine
except for sound an video (which are hardwired on the board.
Thanks for the help ya'll.
Skip
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What would cause disk thrashing while idle?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:02:48 -0700
Try running top to see what programs are running.
I remember my harddisk was thrashing for no reason, with top I still don't
know why but I know what was running
The process was "slocate".
$ top
Andrew Purugganan wrote:
> I have a 233Mhz Intel PC with voodoo1+Stealth
> Rarely run lpd, httpd is brought up occasionally, 4 VCs
> I usually bring up Windowmaker with 4 desktops
> Use kppp to dial, and netscape to surf. Prefernces in nscape are: 10M for
> cache & 10M for memory cache. Once in a while XMMS. Later on I exit XMMS,
> disconnect XMMS.Then I forgot to exit Netscape. I leave the PC in X, do
> some stuff around the house away from the PC. Suddenly you hear it firing
> up, that annoying noise the hard drive makes when it gets busy, the
> loadmeter shows green turning yellow and then red and stays that way
> while the thrashing builds up. My keyboard becomes useless, the thrashing
> continues, and the only way to get back to a usable state is to turn the
> thing off. WHat would cause this? I am beginning to suspect it's Nscape
> 4.61 because it seems to be the only thing open.
> ANy help would be appreciated. I am on Mandrake 6, with kernel 2-2.13mdk
> --
> jazz
> Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
> Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
> --- OUT THERE??
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer for RH 6.2
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:07:51 -0700
Had the same problem trying to install on RH6.0. Don't use real player
5.0. Get Real Player 7. Works great!!!
Ramin Sina wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I installed rvplayer 5.0 ( ELF version) on my RH 6.2 and I get
> segmentation file. Does anyone know if there is a more recent version
> that works with linux or any other application/plugins I can use to
> browse sound and video?
>
> Thanks,
> Ramin Sina
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: init problem
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:23:41 -0400
Charles Stroom wrote:
>
> On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 04:13:19 GMT, Prasanth A. Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Stroom) writes:
> >
> >> I have upgraded my SuSE 6.1 with the patches available
> >> from their download site and when I rebooted the machine
> >> I am getting now (before the first login prompt) the
> >> following message repeatedly:
> >>
> >> fiume init: Id "mo" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> >>
> >> With a "ctrl-c", I could kill that and I got indeed the
> >> normal login prompt and everything seems to be running ok.
> >> Does anyone know what the cause could be?
> ><snip>
> >
> >This 'respawning too fast' error generally means that an attempt by
> >init to run that program failed so it kept trying again and again. So
> >look in your file /etc/inittab and see if there is a line starting
> >with 'mo'. I don't have such a line on my system so if you can't make
> >sense of it, then followup with details.
> >
>
> Thanks, yes there is such line in the /etc/inittab:
>
> # fax getty (hylafax)
> mo:23:respawn:/usr/lib/fax/faxgetty /dev/ttyS1
>
> However, the strange thing is that my inittab file is from
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2679 Jul 13 1999 /etc/inittab
>
> and, as this file has been modified by me on that date and is
> under rcs control, I am sure it has not been modified since, I
> checked that. Actually, on that date the above line was added!
> I think I have to read the manuals:-(
So, sometime between July 13 and now, the /usr/lib/fax/faxgetty
program stopped working. What else has changed in that time?
libraries? permissions on /dev/ttyS1? upgrade to the kernel?
> --
> Charles Stroom
>
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> url: http://www.fiume.demon.nl/
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (druuna)
Subject: Re: those damn ^M characters from win files...
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 06:35:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:44:56 -0500, "Kirk R. Wythers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone suggest a utility or better yet an option in an editor
>(emacs, xemacs, vi, whatever...) that can search for and remove the
>return characters (^M) from windows files? I'd appreciate it. Thanks,
If you're using Vim:
In command mode:
set ff=unix
You get rid of a lot of 'nasty' dos/window sh*t.
PS: Don't forget to save the file ;-)))
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: those damn ^M characters from win files...
Date: 11 Aug 2000 06:50:50 GMT
On 10 Aug 2000 14:10:05 -0800, Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Can anyone suggest a utility or better yet an option in an editor
>>(emacs, xemacs, vi, whatever...) that can search for and remove the
>>return characters (^M) from windows files? I'd appreciate it. Thanks,
>>
>>Kirk
>
>Use the oldest UNIX tool that was made just to remove extra
>control code:
>
> col -xb < infile > outfile
>
Watch out if you don't want to expand tabs as well, or insert tabs
when you leave out the -x option.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: those damn ^M characters from win files...
Date: 11 Aug 2000 06:54:32 GMT
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:44:56 -0500,
Kirk R. Wythers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone suggest a utility or better yet an option in an editor
>(emacs, xemacs, vi, whatever...) that can search for and remove the
>return characters (^M) from windows files? I'd appreciate it. Thanks,
>
>Kirk
>
Appart from the tr, col, dos2unix etc utilities, vim has an option
to do the convertion.
Use either
:set fileformat=unix if you want to save in unix format (no <CR>)
:set fileformat=dos if you want to save in dos format (with <CR>)
Villy
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:52:53 -0700
From: Amish Chana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: automount for windows shares with spaces
automount 3.1.4 that comes with slackware 7.1 only appears to read
everything from the ":" to the first space.
If "://winpc/etsi/ a1" is used
the error message in /var/log messages indicates that automount tried to
mount //winpc/etsi/
and
if "://winpc/etsi\ a1" is used
the error message in /var/log messages indicates that automount tried to
mount //winpc/etsi
with "://winpc/etsi\x20a1" automount tries //winpc/etsix20a1
and
with "://winpc/etsi\0x20a1" automount tries //winpc/etsi0x20a1
Glitch wrote:
>
> you have to escape the space, in other words you have to tell the OS
> that the space in the name is actually part of the name instead of a
> separation between arguments of a command, etc.
>
> use "etsi\ al" as hte name...you might have to use the / instead, i
> forget which one it is but one of those should work to escape the space
>
> Amish Chana wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know how to create the entry in the autofs map file for a
> > smbfs mount to a windows share with a space in its name.
> >
> > For example, in the entry below the windows machine has a share named
> > "etsi a1", but according to /etc/log/messages automount only uses
> > "//winpc/etsi" in the mount.
> >
> > share_a1 -fstype=smbfs,username=user,password=pass ://winpc/share a1
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Amish
> > (please reply to this newsgroup as the email address does not work)
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 23:52:53 -0700
From: Amish Chana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: automount for windows shares with spaces
automount 3.1.4 that comes with slackware 7.1 only appears to read
everything from the ":" to the first space.
If "://winpc/etsi/ a1" is used
the error message in /var/log messages indicates that automount tried to
mount //winpc/etsi/
and
if "://winpc/etsi\ a1" is used
the error message in /var/log messages indicates that automount tried to
mount //winpc/etsi
with "://winpc/etsi\x20a1" automount tries //winpc/etsix20a1
and
with "://winpc/etsi\0x20a1" automount tries //winpc/etsi0x20a1
Glitch wrote:
>
> you have to escape the space, in other words you have to tell the OS
> that the space in the name is actually part of the name instead of a
> separation between arguments of a command, etc.
>
> use "etsi\ al" as hte name...you might have to use the / instead, i
> forget which one it is but one of those should work to escape the space
>
> Amish Chana wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know how to create the entry in the autofs map file for a
> > smbfs mount to a windows share with a space in its name.
> >
> > For example, in the entry below the windows machine has a share named
> > "etsi a1", but according to /etc/log/messages automount only uses
> > "//winpc/etsi" in the mount.
> >
> > share_a1 -fstype=smbfs,username=user,password=pass ://winpc/share a1
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Amish
> > (please reply to this newsgroup as the email address does not work)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kousik Nandy)
Subject: Re: What would cause disk thrashing while idle?
Date: 11 Aug 2000 06:10:34 GMT
On 11 Aug 2000 02:13:25 GMT, Andrew Purugganan wrote:
> Suddenly you hear it firing up, that annoying noise the hard drive makes
> when it gets busy, the loadmeter shows green turning yellow and then red
> and stays that way while the thrashing builds up. My keyboard becomes
> useless, the thrashing continues, and the only way to get back to a
> usable state is to turn the thing off.
Well, does it *really* leaves your keyboard unusable? Even if the response
is slow, can you open a console (say have a xterm ready) and use the
command "top" to find out who is the culprit? BTW, does this happen every
time you fire up netscape, or does this happen on certain time of a day
(though this question sounds silly, but I have caught "locate" or "find"
red-handed many times)?
Hope this helps you slightly,
Kousik.
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From: Andres Soolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with dosemu
Date: 11 Aug 2000 07:45:41 GMT
Prasanth A. Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> dosemu 1.0.1 (I think so, it is the lates stable release)
>>
>> Does anyone know the problem, can anyone help me?
> <snip>
> Did you put a bootable dos floppy in the drive? Dosemu create a
> virtual system on which the dos is run and you need to provide this
> yourself. If you don't have one, look into the one called FreeDos.
Unlike Windows, DOS can't live on virtual directories, so dosemu has
to provide it whole virtual disks. Seems the original poster didn't
have that or it isn't defined in dosemu.conf .
--
Andres Soolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you.
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:21:31 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Java ide
i dont know what kawa is like but Cygnus seems to be coming out with
great products for Linux dev.
emiel wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Under windows I use Kawa and I like it a lot (Kawa, not windows ;) ). Is
> there a similair IDE available for Linux?
>
> thanks,
> Emiel.
>
> --
> "I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree
> with them"
> -George Bush
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Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:30:19 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Installation on Compaq Laptop
i had to use the NFS install for my sony laptop as it does not have a
built in cdrom and the pcmcia dvd couldn't be recognized as a cdrom. So
i chose the nfs install and it asked for the ip address of the nfs
server and i entered that info and i think it asked for soem more info.
I also had to learn real fast how to export filesystems from the nfs
server which was a computer that i had just installed linux on with an
nfs server configuraiton just a couple hours beforehand.
HTH
Brandon
Michael wrote:
>
> I've installed it on laptops without cdrom drives.
> You need a supplemental disk that has a pcmcia driver on it. It will
> connect the laptop to the network and allow you to install it from a
> network share.
>
> I have done it with a Dell laptop and a 3com pcmcia network card. It
> kinda impressed me how smooth the install went.
>
> Any other Guru's out there might want to add more to this response since
> I still am fairly new at Linux.
>
> Michael
>
> Jaffar Shaikh wrote in message ...
> >I need help about Red Hat Linux istallation on a Compaq Laptop. The
> Laptop
> >does not have CDROM drive. Is there any way I can install it from the
> >network?
> >
> >I know I can install it on another system by using bootable floppy and
> a
> >Linux CD. Just wondering is there any other way for the Laptop without
> CD
> >ROM?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Jaffar
> >
> >
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From: "Alan Po" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: How to start the ftp?
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 17:18:26 +0800
Dear sir
I am using Mandrake Linux and I find that the ftp server is not
automatically startup. How can I run a ftp server on my Linux? Please give
me some idea.
Furhtermore, I found that Mandrake Linux request to run many servers by
manual such as Apache or Samba. How can I config the Linux so that these
servers will run when startup?
Alan Po
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: 11 Aug 2000 09:56:50 GMT
>> >SuSE 6.4 have default K6-3DNow optimisation as well.
>>
>> Do they? Never seen it myself. I wonder how you get 3dnow optimisations in
>> an i386 rpm...
>
>Yes SuSE does. It's in the kernel. You can chose AMD-3D support during
>setup in YaST2. :-)
Heh, that's like saying if you choose a pentium optimised kernel the whole
distro is pentium optimised.
The majority (everything apart from the kernel) of SuSE, even 6.4, is
compiled for i386 (or ppc, apx etc) and does not use 3dnow. The kernel
doesn't do enough maths for the 3dnow patch to make a significant
difference. If you want 3dnow support in packages that will make real use of
it you need to recompile them yourself (things like xmms/mpg123 spring to
mind).
The kernel is optimised for it, everything else isn't.
Frinky
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From: Peter Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anybody know how to make work XFree86 with the NeoMagic 256 LX+
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 03:49:01 -0700
I have an ACER with a NeoMagic 128ZV+ and 800x600 LCD
screen. This was not recognised properly by Slackware 3.6 or
redhat 5.2, and ran only in 640x480, which was pretty awful.
I got a replacement SVGA X-server, and config file from
somwhere out there (sorry - I can't remember where), and
this worked. However I have now put in a recent Corel Linux,
and this worked straight off the CD.
The SVGA driver (dated 1998) was patched, and I expect the
patch has now become part of the release. If you need it and
can't find it email me, and I will send it.
Good luck
Peter
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From: Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: sound card recommendation
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:13:27 +0200
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> Stephen Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I need to buy a sound card for my computer that i just put together.
> > What is a good generic sound card(preferably pci) compatible with Linux
> > and FreeBSD.
>
> i have this card and like it --
>
> soundblaster ensonique pci 128.
>
> cheap, easy to install, works in linux. i don't know about freebsd.
A friend of mine tried hard to get a sb 128 pci working (linux). Both
cards he tried came along with a ES 1373 chip. No success, both cards
doesn't work. He tried kernel/OSS drivers 1370 and 1371 as well as the
ALSA driver. The kernel module loads, but syslog says "frequency
converter timeout" afair. The ALSA driver also loads but he got no sound
output.
Tino
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From: Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: those damn ^M characters from win files...
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:15:22 +0200
"Kirk R. Wythers" wrote:
>
> Can anyone suggest a utility or better yet an option in an editor
> (emacs, xemacs, vi, whatever...) that can search for and remove the
> return characters (^M) from windows files? I'd appreciate it. Thanks,
>
> Kirk
man dos2unix
Tino
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