Linux-Misc Digest #634, Volume #25 Thu, 31 Aug 00 16:13:03 EDT
Contents:
i cant telnet myself anymore (tolan)
Margins don't work in AbiWord (Andrew J. Perrin)
cvd/F90 'allocate' problen (bill lowery)
Re: ATA-66 Help (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Finding your clock speed ("Peter T. Breuer")
tar Files (Rob)
Re: Netscape Sucks, I need another option. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Netscape Sucks, I need another option. ("Peter T. Breuer")
Improve X performance, how? ("Matt O'Toole")
Re: Netscape is the best web brower for Linux? Where is the alternative? ("Gareth
Williams")
Is it possible to recover file from a deleted dos drive? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Update Agent ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: tar Files (Martin Racette)
Re: Is it possible to recover file from a deleted dos drive? (Vilmos Soti)
Re: tar Files ("Sjoerd Langkemper")
Re: How to get directory size and free disk space under RH with Gnome? (Leonard
Evens)
Re: tar Files (Leonard Evens)
Re: Margins don't work in AbiWord (Leonard Evens)
Re: what's up with Sun? (Dave Martel)
Re: Port forwarding on RedHat 6.2 ????? (Cannon Fodder)
loading the Megaraid.o module (K. C. Adams)
Re: Improve X performance, how? (The Darkener)
Re: Setting up ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0 Solution (mike)
Re: Networking (The Darkener)
Re: tar Files (philo)
Re: loading the Megaraid.o module (Glitch)
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From: tolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: i cant telnet myself anymore
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 06:19:20 +0100
I could yesterday, but ive been generally messing about with system
setting and know i cant. since login doesnt seems to work ive been
using this to change user to do various things. Any ideas as to what i
might of done, how to get it back.
(im using suse 6.4 and have been using yast, so i havent done anything
to drastic, cant remember/find out what ive done though)
thanks and, i know, im a dufus.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew J. Perrin)
Subject: Margins don't work in AbiWord
Date: 31 Aug 2000 13:44:33 -0400
Has anyone seen this behavior? Using AbiWord 0.7 under Linux (debian
2.2), text doesn't obey margins, it just keeps going off to the right
until a hard return. Same behavior whether typed in or importing Word
docs. Same verson of AbiWord for Windows works fine :(((.
Thanks.
--
======================================================================
Andrew Perrin - Solaris-Linux-NT-Samba-Perl-Access-Postgres Consulting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
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From: bill lowery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cvd/F90 'allocate' problen
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:03:50 -0400
Unable to determine the values of the array GRID using WorkShop debugger
Example code follows: (File name: tst.F90)
program tst
!
!
implicit none
integer :: ntau,itau,nvar,ivar,npatches,ipatch
integer :: j,k,id
integer :: i1,j1,k1,kstart,kstop,nfiles,ifile,njmax,nkmax
real :: xmin,xmax,ymin,ymax,zmin,zmax,dx,dy,dz
real :: psi0dat,dtau, tau
real, allocatable :: qcell(:,:)
type :: patch_type
integer :: nj,nk
real, pointer, dimension(:,:) :: x,y,z
end type patch_type
type (patch_type), dimension(2) :: GRID
!
! assume 3 input data on a cube
nvar = 5
npatches = 2
!
! set up grid(1)
xmin = 0.0
xmax = 1.0
dx = 0.1
ymin = 0.0
ymax = 1.0
dy = 0.1
zmin = 0.0
zmax = 1.0
dz = 0.1
!
GRID(1)%nj = 10
GRID(1)%nk = 10
allocate (GRID(1)%x(GRID(1)%nj,GRID(1)%nk),&
GRID(1)%y(GRID(1)%nj,GRID(1)%nk),&
GRID(1)%z(GRID(1)%nj,GRID(1)%nk))
do j = 1,GRID(1)%nj
do k=1,GRID(1)%nk
GRID(1)%x(j,k) = xmin
GRID(1)%y(j,k) = ymax - dy*(j-1)
GRID(1)%z(j,k) = zmin + dz*(k-1)
enddo
enddo
! set up grid(2)
xmin = 0.0
xmax = 1.0
dx = 0.05
ymin = 0.0
ymax = 1.0
dy = 0.05
zmin = 0.0
zmax = 1.0
dz = 0.05
!
GRID(2)%nj = 20
GRID(2)%nk = 20
allocate (GRID(2)%x(GRID(2)%nj,GRID(2)%nk),&
GRID(2)%y(GRID(2)%nj,GRID(2)%nk),&
GRID(2)%z(GRID(2)%nj,GRID(2)%nk))
do j = 1,GRID(2)%nj
do k=1,GRID(2)%nk
GRID(2)%x(j,k) = xmin
GRID(2)%y(j,k) = ymax - dy*(j-1)
GRID(2)%z(j,k) = zmin + dz*(k-1)
enddo
enddo
write(6,*) 'after grid(2) assignments'
!
!
!
do ipatch = 1,npatches
!
! compute the data
!
if (allocated(qcell)) deallocate(qcell)
allocate(qcell( GRID(ipatch)%nj-1,nvar ))
do j=1,GRID(ipatch)%nj-1
!
qcell(j,1) = 1.0
qcell(j,2) = 2.0
qcell(j,3) = 3.0
qcell(j,4) = 4.0
qcell(j,5) = 5.0
enddo
call donothing( GRID(ipatch)%nj-1,nvar,qcell)
enddo
!
stop
end program tst
subroutine donothing(idim,jdim,q)
real :: q(idim,jdim)
integer :: i,j
write(6,'(2i6)')idim,jdim
do i = 1,idim
do j=1,jdim
write(6,'(f10.4)') q(i,j)
enddo
enddo
return
end subroutine donothing
--
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Bill Lowery SGI Federal
Office: 757.873.4300 11832 Rocklanding Drive Suite 104
Direct: 757.873.4306 Newport News, VA 23606
FAX: 757.873.4302 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA-66 Help
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:07:31 +0200
Dave Barcelo wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm still kinda new to Linux and I have a problem. I have a Abit HA66
> ATA controller card in my system running my only hard drive. Apparently
> Linux can't see the card or the Hard drive because when I try to do an
> install it tells me I have no where to place the file system.
Did you read the Linux HPT366 mini-HOWTO
(http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/ )
and used the suggested kernel parameters to recognize the controller ?
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Finding your clock speed
Date: 31 Aug 2000 18:13:12 GMT
Sjoerd Langkemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Naren Devaiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> cat /proc/cpuinfo
: Argh! The first line indicates I have zero CPU's in my computer! So what's
: my clock speed?
The first line indicates you can't count :-). Or can't read singular
nouns. Or have too high a sarcasm content.
: processor : 0
: bogomips : 31.85
man bogomips. Or read the bogosity howto.
Peter
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:18:06 -0400
From: Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tar Files
How do I expand a tar file? Where can I find out how to use tar files?
Thanks,
Rob
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Sucks, I need another option.
Date: 31 Aug 2000 18:21:30 GMT
Jerry L Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I happen to agree with Gabe. Netscape does 'suck'. The most stable
: version I've
: found is 4.73, and it hangs on java scripts that display certain
: graphic images,
I have no trouble with netscape 3.0gold, or 4.50. Periodically I try
newer ones without finding anything to want.
: Work on your bedside manner, Rinaldi. Arrogance makes a poor
: instructor. Do you
Well, it works well for some doctors. The ones that don't want to have
to spend their lives by the bedsides of other people, at least!
: remember when you first started out? What did you think of all those
: air heads who sent your 'rtfm' responses to your questions? Or responses
Presumably he said "thank you for the reference". Just like you ought.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Sucks, I need another option.
Date: 31 Aug 2000 18:23:15 GMT
Ben Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> For what values of "correctly?"
: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ for one - with Netscape 4.74 (and most, probably all
: previous 4.xx). They may well just be using some IE-specific garbage to display
This works fine for me. I watch the TV news from there using netscape
and realplayer.
: images, but Netscape doesn't manage to display everything correctly.
?? I don't see any problem.
Sometimes I choose the "no images" frames, to speed downloading.
Peter
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Reply-To: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Improve X performance, how?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:36:36 -0700
I find myself using Linux more and more these days, and Windows less and
less. However, while Linux itself is very fast and efficient, X is not,
compared to Windows or Mac GUIs. What can I do to upgrade X' performance?
Do I need a faster processor, or will a newer/faster video card help? Right
now I'm running original Pentiums in the 150-200 Mhz range. I have enough
system RAM. Video cards are ATI Mach 64 with 2-4 MB, or similar. Would
better video cards help, or do I need faster CPUs? BTW, this is for plain
old 2D stuff, no 3D or games.
Matt O.
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From: "Gareth Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape is the best web brower for Linux? Where is the alternative?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:41:54 +0000
Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake unto the multitude, saying:
I need an web browser is more stable than
> Netscape. :-)
The latest version of Netscape (no, not 6.0 beta/aka Mozilla), i.e. 4.75
hasn't caused me any problems at all yet. I've left Java disabled just
in case, but who needs Java all the time? I suggest if you want a good
graphical browser with all the features upgrade to Netscape 4.75.
Unless, of course, that's the version you're currently suffering with, in
which case I'm talking out of my behind.
--
All the best, GH Williams.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is it possible to recover file from a deleted dos drive?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:44:04 GMT
I just deleted a dos drive on a extended partition
to make room for linux. But I forget to save some
useful files on that drive. Is it possible to recover them?
Thanks for any tips.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Update Agent
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:43:11 GMT
To register for the update agent you need to register a product. I
downloaded my .iso image and I don't have a product id? Do I really
need one, or how do I go about getting one?
Thanks in advance
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Martin Racette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar Files
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:00:36 GMT
To expand a TAR file:
tar -xzvf the_file_name_exactly_as it_appear_in_terminal
To find out how to use it, go to a terminal and type "man tar"=20
(without the quotes)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 8/31/00, 12:18:06 PM, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding tar=20
Files:
> How do I expand a tar file? Where can I find out how to use tar=20
files?
> Thanks,
> Rob
Good Luck
Bonne Chance
Martin
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Subject: Re: Is it possible to recover file from a deleted dos drive?
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:06:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I just deleted a dos drive on a extended partition
> to make room for linux. But I forget to save some
> useful files on that drive. Is it possible to recover them?
> Thanks for any tips.
If you have already created a new filesystem on it then say
goodbye to them. If not, then try to copy partition to a file,
loopback mount it, and play with it.
If all you did is deleted the partition entry then you just
have to recreate it with fdisk and mount it.
Here are some quick instructions to copying the partition
and mounting through loopback.
cat /dev/hdb6 > dos.image
mount -o loop dos.image /mnt/dos
cd /mnt/dos
...
Check man mount. I don't remember the exact parameters for loopback.
Vilmos
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From: "Sjoerd Langkemper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar Files
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:06:58 GMT
"Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I expand a tar file? Where can I find out how to use tar files?
It's very important to not ask dump questions in a newsgroup. Not only is it
bad for your image, it's also disturbing for people on the newsgroup. How to
unpack a tar file is the most common question and is asked a thousands of
times. Search the answer with a search engine, look in newsgroups or type
"man tar" at the command prompt.
The answer is out there.
Sjoerd
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get directory size and free disk space under RH with Gnome?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:56:52 -0500
Akbar ERKINIVICH Avliyaev wrote:
>
> Title says all
Open a terminal window.
The command
df
will tell you how much each space each file system is using and
how much is free. You might note that the numbers don't quite
balance. This is because the system reserves some space in each
partition its use in manipulating the file system.
You can also get this information from the Gnome system monitor
utility.
To see how much disk space a subdirectory of the current directory
is using, use the command
du -s dir_name
putting in the appropriate directory name.
There may be a GUI method of doing this from one of the menus,
but I haven't been able to find one.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar Files
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:59:35 -0500
Rob wrote:
>
> How do I expand a tar file? Where can I find out how to use tar files?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
Try
info tar
But you will first have to learn how to navigate through the info
system, which you can do by entering
info
Or under gnome, you can access the info pages more simply through
the Gnome help borwser. You can probably also do something similar
under KDE.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Margins don't work in AbiWord
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:03:14 -0500
"Andrew J. Perrin" wrote:
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior? Using AbiWord 0.7 under Linux (debian
> 2.2), text doesn't obey margins, it just keeps going off to the right
> until a hard return. Same behavior whether typed in or importing Word
> docs. Same verson of AbiWord for Windows works fine :(((.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Perrin - Solaris-Linux-NT-Samba-Perl-Access-Postgres Consulting
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I have version 0.7.9 which I am running under RedHat 6.2. I haven't
noticed what you describe.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Dave Martel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:07:51 -0500
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:20:32 +0000, dpace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is a yeoulos?
>
>Oh, sorry I just figured it out; "jealous".
Oh. It sounded hebrew to me, I figured it was one of those words you
only know if you're jewish. <g>
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.list
From: Cannon Fodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Port forwarding on RedHat 6.2 ?????
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:33:01 GMT
>
> I don't see why the second line is necessary.
>
Really? *sigh* That'll teach me to learn about
ipchains directly instead of just using pmfirewall
by Rick Johnson.
B'Regards,
C.F.
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From: K. C. Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: loading the Megaraid.o module
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:33:03 GMT
Greetings,
I'm installing Linux on a machine using an HP NetRAID adapter. I need to
load the megaraid.o module at bootup but can't seem to do this (it won't
do it on its own). Can anyone tell how to accomplish this? I can start
up with the boot/rescue disk combination, then insmod the module manually
which gives me access to the logical drives that were set up during the
install. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running Mandrake 7.1
Thanks,
ps. respond via email in addition to posting please.
-K-
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Improve X performance, how?
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:33:48 GMT
One of the most important questions you need to answer is: What windowmanager am
I using?
KDE and GNome are very graphics intensive/memory takers, as others such as
Blackbox/twm are very light on resources and make X behave much faster.
Also, what version of Xfree86 are you running? Pre-4.0? 4.x is supposed to cut
memory usage in half, afaik. It should improve the performance very well.
Matt O'Toole wrote:
> I find myself using Linux more and more these days, and Windows less and
> less. However, while Linux itself is very fast and efficient, X is not,
> compared to Windows or Mac GUIs. What can I do to upgrade X' performance?
> Do I need a faster processor, or will a newer/faster video card help? Right
> now I'm running original Pentiums in the 150-200 Mhz range. I have enough
> system RAM. Video cards are ATI Mach 64 with 2-4 MB, or similar. Would
> better video cards help, or do I need faster CPUs? BTW, this is for plain
> old 2D stuff, no 3D or games.
>
> Matt O.
--
- The Darkener
"I'm Doug, I have greasy hair and no muscles. You're Principal
Wheeler, you have a mustache and you smell like coffee." -The State
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up ide cd recorder in Mandrake 7.0 Solution
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:38:46 -0400
I found the solution to why my ide cd recorder was not
recognized by cdrecord and xcdroast.
The followind line had to be added to lilo.conf :
append="hdbc=ide-scsi"
I think the reason is to tell the kernel to recognize that the
ide scsi emulation linkages would use the /dev/hdbc device
where the cd recorder drive was located.
I also had to load the ide-scsi.o module, which appears to
make the ide drive emulate a scsi device.
The lynch pin was the adding of the line to lilo.conf.
Mike
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Networking
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 19:41:19 GMT
I've got a win3.11 box networked at home w/linux stuff. Works well. I
would highly advise downloading tcp/ip from MS's site instead of trying to
work with ipx for Linux (i've never tried but I'm guessing it's more
difficult to setup) and it's faster and more expandable. Installing
protocols in win3.11 is trivial, just like 9x/NT. Even looks the same.
ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clients/wfw/
Good luck!
Dux wrote:
> Is it possible to network Linux to win3.11 (don't ask why like).
> If there is anyone with any good pointers I would apprieciate it.
> Win 3.11 allows for IPX so I thought this would be the way to do it, but
> I wouldn't know what to do.
> I have used ipx_interface to configure my ethernet card.
> Could anyone point me to any tutorials, I already have the HOWTO.
> Ta.
--
- The Darkener
"I'm Doug, I have greasy hair and no muscles. You're Principal
Wheeler, you have a mustache and you smell like coffee." -The State
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:42:26 -0500
From: philo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tar Files
tar -xvf
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:00:41 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: loading the Megaraid.o module
well what command is being used to load the module automagically? what
errors are being reported? More info would be helpful so we know what
has been tried already and what errors occurred.
"K. C. Adams" wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I'm installing Linux on a machine using an HP NetRAID adapter. I need to
> load the megaraid.o module at bootup but can't seem to do this (it won't
> do it on its own). Can anyone tell how to accomplish this? I can start
> up with the boot/rescue disk combination, then insmod the module manually
> which gives me access to the logical drives that were set up during the
> install. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running Mandrake 7.1
>
> Thanks,
>
> ps. respond via email in addition to posting please.
>
> -K-
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