Linux-Misc Digest #132, Volume #26 Tue, 24 Oct 00 19:13:01 EDT
Contents:
psnup (David Berg)
Re: How can I move a harddisk containing Linux from a computer to (Arnt Karlsen)
Linux killed my computer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X-CD-Roast ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: running star/open office (Daniel J. Bodony)
sector to file translation? (Stephen Waite)
Re: how add another SCSI controller? (Robert Heller)
RH7 and Crystal CS4237B (Charlie Zender)
Re: psnup ("Marvin Greenberg")
SuSE Linux 7.0 problems (Brendan Heading)
Slackware 7.1 / Telnet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: X-CD-Roast (Rich Birch)
Re: SuSE Linux 7.0 problems (Grahame Kelly)
Re: SuSE Linux 7.0 problems (Brendan Heading)
Re: printing from Linux thru SGI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mandrake 7.1 only recognizes 64mb of 256mb (Robert Clayton)
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From: David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: psnup
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:14:00 -0500
I have a Postscript document that I would like to print in 4up format. When I
convert with psnup (psnup 1.4 9/1/90 (cc.utexas.edu)) the document looks o.k.
with gs except for the first frame on the first page which is only the upper
quarter of the first "slide". When I try to print the file it overflows the
printer memory. There's 1Meg of printer memory on my HP LaserJet III and the
file is only 72Kb. Does anyone know why this is? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Dave
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From: Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,alt.os.linux,no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse
Subject: Re: How can I move a harddisk containing Linux from a computer to
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:21:05 GMT
Anita Lewis wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:38:05 GMT, Tobias i t�rnet wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I have recently bought another PC, and want to run Linux on it in addition
> >to Win98. I have an old PC with Redhat 6.2 on it. Redhat is installed on a
> >harddisk that I bought in addition to the one who originally sat in the old
> >PC. Now I want to move that disk over to the new PC. Guess I'll accomplish
> >that on my own...
> >
> >So - what I'm looking for, is an easy way to make the new PC aware of the OS
> >that's in it, and make it a dual boot (lilo) PC just like the old one.
> >Having moved the harddisk - what is the next step?
> >
> >/Simen
>
> You can put the installation cdrom in and do Upgrade instead of Install.
> Choose some small thing to install, like joe. Then you will get the option
> to install lilo in the mbr. Do that. You will also have to edit /etc/fstab
> unless this is in the same place on the new computer as it was on the old
> one. For example, if it was secondary master on the old computer and is the
> same on the new computer, then /etc/fstab would not need to be changed.
> Otherwise you will have to edit.
>
> You can put the install cdrom in again and type in 'rescue' at the boot
> prompt. That will put linux into RAM. Then you will need to mount your /
> partition. Do:
>
> mkdir /mnt/rh
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/rh (You have to choose the place where it is
> now not what it used to be)
>
> cd /mnt/rh/etc
>
> I think the rescue on rh has pico instead of vi. Try
> pico fstab
>
> Pico has the commands right there for you. Change the linux partitions from
> the old to the new (like /dev/hda2 becomes /dev/hdc2 or whatever.)
>
> That should do it, because the other procedure would have changed lilo.conf.
..after having fixed /etc/lilo.conf,
do '/sbin/lilo -v -v -v', _before_ you...
> Try booting.
.. ;-)
> Later make a new boot floppy with mkboot. See the man on that.
>
> Anita
--
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux killed my computer
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:24:03 GMT
After using Disk Druid to partition my harddrive, the Linux setup asked
me to reboot. Upon rebooting, the computer froze just after displaying
that it had found the various drives and their sizes. The computer
will not boot to an operating system to either the hard drive or the
floppy drive. I tried tearing out all the NIC's and such to see if
there was a conflict somehow but of course that didn't work. The bios
sees the harddrive and I can access the setup utility, but the computer
will not boot. I now have a big metal paperweight. Does anyone know
how Linux killed my computer and how I can revive it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X-CD-Roast
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:27:08 GMT
Has anyone seen the errors below when running X-CD-Roast? I am running
an IDE CD-R as a SCSI device and the CDR seems to be recognized fine. I
can read the source CD no problem. When I try to write I get these
errors every time. I have used 5 new CD-recordable CD's just to make
sure it wasn't the media. I am using cdrecord 1.9.
Thanks in advance,
-Brian
pregap1: -1
Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'MITSUMI '
Identifikation : 'CR-2801TE '
Revision : '1.07'
Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 409600 = 400 KB
FIFO size : 8388608 = 8192 KB
Track 01: data 384 MB padsize: 30 KB
Total size: 441 MB (43:43.48) = 196761 sectors
Lout start: 441 MB (43:45/36) = 196761 sectors
Current Secsize: 2352
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 4
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11640 (97:26/60)
ATIP start of lead out: 337350 (75:00/00)
Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
Manuf. index: 3
Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
Blocks total: 337350 Blocks current: 337350 Blocks remaining: 140589
RBlocks total: 349030 RBlocks current: 349030 RBlocks remaining: 152269
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ...
input buffer ready.
cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
error
CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00
cdrecord: Warning: using default CD write parameter data.
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
cdrecord: Cannot open new session.
Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
Mode Select Data 00 10 00 00 05 32 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
cdrecord: fifo had 255 puts and 0 gets.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J. Bodony)
Subject: Re: running star/open office
Date: 24 Oct 2000 14:55:54 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 24 Oct 2000 10:35:45 -0500, John Hunter wrote:
>>
>>I just installed the open office 6.05 binaries for linux (RHL6.2) as
>>root to /usr/local/openoffice60/. When I run the program
>>/usr/local/openoffice60/program/soffice as a user, it restarts the
>>install script asking if I want to modify, deinstall etc... But I
>>cannot get the actual program to run. Mysteriously, I find nothing on
>>the openoffice.org website to help me out.
>>
>>Could someone please give me some advice as to how to actually ruin
>>these programs?
>
>I know that with Star Office I had to run a second setup program as
>an ordinary user, from something like /usr/opt/ then it installs some
>stuff to your home directory, and you run it from there.
This is indeed true for previous versions of StarOffice as well. As a user,
selecting 'install' (or the nearest word to 'install') will create a directory
in ${HOME}. The same binary soffice should be used.
I don't like this form of setup for the reason you posted: it causes undo
confusion.
Dan
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From: Stephen Waite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sector to file translation?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 17:53:50 -0400
Oct 23 23:39:01 linux kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
14804
Oct 23 23:39:05 linux kernel: Current error sd08:01: sense key Medium
Error
Oct 23 23:39:05 linux kernel: Additional sense indicates Data
synchronization mark error
This is the error that reoccurs about 1000 times in my /var/log/messages
file (Red Hat 6.0, intel).
I would like to find out more about this problem. For instance, what
file on the disk is this?
Thanks
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how add another SCSI controller?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:00:16 -0000
jhecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on 24 Oct 2000 13:53:12 -0400, wrote :
j> I am trying to get my Mandrake 7.1 system to recognize a SCSI controller
j> added after installation, that is listed as supported (a DTC 3180). This
j> is an old-style ISA controller. How does one do this?
One fires up kernelcfg and adds the proper driver module. Make sure
kernelcfg *adds* the controller and does not *replace* the existing one.
Check /etc/conf.modules before and after.
One could also just edit /etc/conf.modules and add an additional line:
alias scsi_hostadapter dtc
Once /etc/conf.modules has been adjusted, you'll want to remake your
initrd:
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-`uname -r`.img `uname -r`
and re-run lilo:
/sbin/lilo
You can do an insmod to load the module into the running system:
/sbin/insmod dtc
(or use modprobe:
/sbin/modprobe dtc
)
j>
j> TIA -
j>
j> Regards,
j> jh
j> --
j> Jared Hecker
j> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
j> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
j>
j>
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From: Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: RH7 and Crystal CS4237B
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:50:58 -0700
Hi,
I'm trying to get RealPlayer audio/video streaming on my
RedHat Linux 7.0 intel system, a dual processor Dell PIII
Precision 610 with an integrated Crystal CS4237B soundchip
(soundblaster compatible).
The error message from the Real Audio 7.01 Unix player is:
"Cannot open audio device, another application may be using it"
How can I determine what other application, if any, is indeed using
the audio device? Is there a test program which will tell me
whether the problem is a hardware or software problem?
I have RealPlayer working fine on RedHat 7 on my laptop, so I know
this is possible as long as the hardware is supported.
Thanks,
Charlie
--
Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
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From: "Marvin Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: psnup
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:03:27 -0400
The amount of memory that the printer requires when it is rendering
postscript is totally different than the number of bytes in the file.
Rendering
postscript is basically drawing pixels onto a logical page. Printing
four-up
requires 4x as much memory, generally speaking, although lots of other
things will affect the memory usage.
"David Berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Postscript document that I would like to print in 4up format.
When I
> convert with psnup (psnup 1.4 9/1/90 (cc.utexas.edu)) the document looks
o.k.
> with gs except for the first frame on the first page which is only the
upper
> quarter of the first "slide". When I try to print the file it overflows
the
> printer memory. There's 1Meg of printer memory on my HP LaserJet III and
the
> file is only 72Kb. Does anyone know why this is? Any help would be
greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Dave
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From: Brendan Heading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE Linux 7.0 problems
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:07:39 +0100
Hi all,
I've just made the splash and bought the full distro of Suse Linux 7.0,
with all the manuals and all the CDs etc. However I'm having some nasty
problems with X Window. For some reason, it periodically blanks the
screen (the monitor switches to "suspend" mode) and the system has to be
rebooted. SuSE have described this problem as an NVidia driver problem
on their site, and have posted fixes.. but these don't work either, the
same problem still persists.
I've installed it on my home system, which is based around a 9.1Gb SCSI
drive hanging off an Adaptec 2940. There's a 20MB /boot partition and
root is mounted on a 6GB ReiserFS partition. My graphics card is an STB
Velocity 4400 (Riva TNT2). CPU is an Intel Celeron 450 on a Soyo 6BA+4
motherboard, 96MB RAM is installed.
Does anyone have any ideas what my problem might be ?
--
Brendan Heading, Belfast, Northern Ireland
T�s maith leath na hoibre...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Slackware 7.1 / Telnet
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:12:33 GMT
Does anyone know where the telnet server is started in Slackware 7.1
and/or how to change the port it runs on? I looked through /etc/rc.d/*
but i found no mention of telnet. any help would be greatly
appreciated. thanks.
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Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:25:14 +0100
From: Rich Birch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X-CD-Roast
Please let me know if you find out what the problem is because I've been
getting exactly the same error messages since RH7 with xcdroast 0.98. I
too have a mitsumi drive, but it's a 4804. Perhaps we should buy a decent
make!
Rich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Has anyone seen the errors below when running X-CD-Roast? I am running
> an IDE CD-R as a SCSI device and the CDR seems to be recognized fine. I
> can read the source CD no problem. When I try to write I get these
> errors every time. I have used 5 new CD-recordable CD's just to make
> sure it wasn't the media. I am using cdrecord 1.9.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Brian
>
> pregap1: -1
> Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
> Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> scsidev: '0,1,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> atapi: 1
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info : 'MITSUMI '
> Identifikation : 'CR-2801TE '
> Revision : '1.07'
> Device seems to be: Philips CDD-522.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> Drive buf size : 409600 = 400 KB
> FIFO size : 8388608 = 8192 KB
> Track 01: data 384 MB padsize: 30 KB
> Total size: 441 MB (43:43.48) = 196761 sectors
> Lout start: 441 MB (43:45/36) = 196761 sectors
> Current Secsize: 2352
> ATIP info from disk:
> Indicated writing power: 4
> Is not unrestricted
> Is not erasable
> ATIP start of lead in: -11640 (97:26/60)
> ATIP start of lead out: 337350 (75:00/00)
> Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
> Manuf. index: 3
> Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation
> Blocks total: 337350 Blocks current: 337350 Blocks remaining: 140589
> RBlocks total: 349030 RBlocks current: 349030 RBlocks remaining: 152269
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 1 in write mode for single session.
> Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ...
> input buffer ready.
> cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
> error
> CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 06 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00
> cdrecord: Warning: using default CD write parameter data.
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> cdrecord: Cannot open new session.
> Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
> cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s
> Mode Select Data 00 10 00 00 05 32 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> cdrecord: fifo had 255 puts and 0 gets.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grahame Kelly)
Subject: Re: SuSE Linux 7.0 problems
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:37:53 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brendan Heading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've just made the splash and bought the full distro of Suse Linux 7.0,
> with all the manuals and all the CDs etc. However I'm having some nasty
> problems with X Window. For some reason, it periodically blanks the
> screen (the monitor switches to "suspend" mode) and the system has to be
You should update to X 4.0.1 from suse.com. I did and it fixed the
same problems I had with my Matrox card.
Cheers, Grahame
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From: Brendan Heading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE Linux 7.0 problems
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 23:34:14 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brendan Heading
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Does anyone have any ideas what my problem might be ?
Sorry, to follow up. Obviously the problem is with the graphics card.
What I'm wondering is.. does anyone know of any workarounds, or possibly
why Linux-Mandrake and RedHat might work perfectly on the same machine ?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.admin,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: printing from Linux thru SGI
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:27:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My SGI machine has a printer attached to it,
> > /usr/etc/lpd is one of the running processes there, and bsdlpr is
> > chkconfig'ed on. I'm trying to print from a Linux box to that remote
> > printer, and it doesn't work. (I did configure the Linux box using
> > printtool)
>
> Have you tried to run lpsched on Irix with debug on? Same for Linux
box.
How do I do that?
Also, isn't lpsched a totally different spooler? (lp instead of lpr)
Thanks
Wroot
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From: Robert Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 only recognizes 64mb of 256mb
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:21:17 -0400
Very common problem:
In /etc/lilo.conf
add:
append="mem=256m"
and run /sbin/lilo, reboot
RCC
Scott wrote:
>
> Anyone come across this with Mandrake 7.1 only recognizing 64mb of ram
> anytime it is installed on a machine with over 128mb?
>
> TIA,
> Scott
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"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it,
than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin
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