Linux-Misc Digest #198, Volume #26 Tue, 31 Oct 00 20:13:02 EST
Contents:
color prompt in tcsh (Brad Friedman)
Re: Shared Memory (Randy Feeney)
Re: unresolved symbol (Dan Amborn)
Re: cdrecord error on 80Min CD-R's (Paul Lew)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Eric Bourland")
Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which is the best distribution? (John Hasler)
Linux Counter: 159675 registered Linux users ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sound recording (or rather lack of it). ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "No space left on device" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brad Friedman)
Subject: color prompt in tcsh
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:27:38 GMT
I'm having some trouble colorizing my prompt in tcsh. I checked the man
page, but that only gives me specifics on what the prompt contains, not
colors. I also consulted dejanews but couldn't find anything for tcsh. Can
someone please point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Brad
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Freedom of expression. Freedom of belief. Freedom of speech.
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From: Randy Feeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shared Memory
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:51:58 -0800
I have tried
echo 134217728 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
The information I have found says this will increase the shared memory to
128mb
but this does not seem to do anything. What am I doing wrong?
Randy Feeney wrote:
> I am using Linux version 2.2.12-20smp kernel and I am trying to increase
> the amount of shared memory. Is there a way to do this through config
> files or must I recompile the kernel?
>
> I have a 2gig system and it still only shows 43meg shared available. I
> would like to increase this to 128meg or more.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Randy
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From: Dan Amborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unresolved symbol
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:08:57 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 31 Oct 2000 13:26:43 GMT, "Paolo Panizza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
>Dan Amborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:26:22 -0400, "David ...."
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>what does "make mrproper" do anyway?
>
>cleans up the whole sources tree, and clears the .config file as well.
>
>
Thanks for clearing that up for me. Now I know.
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Dan Amborn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: cdrecord error on 80Min CD-R's
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:55:59 GMT
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone had a problem writing a 700MB/80Min CD-recordable disk with
>X-CD-Roast and cdrecord 1.8.1? I can write generic 74Min CD-R's without
>any problem, but when I switch to 80Min CD-R's I get the following error
>from cdrecord:
>
>cdrecord: Cannot get disk type.
>
>
No problem here with the 80 min cd-r even in multi-session mode. My noname
disks were mfg by CMC; probably cdrecord couldn't identify the mfg on
your disks as it does some checking for something or other. Try some other
cheapos since they are cheap now.
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From: "Eric Bourland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:48:05 GMT
Clifton,
Respectfully, I don't agree with you. I have been trying for weeks to
install a Netgear FA-311 card in Linux. I have read all kinds of HOW-TOs,
been to scyld.com, and researched the matter at various web sites ... but I
am unable to understand the instructions offered in any of these places.
Don't get me wrong, I am very grateful that instructions are there, but I am
having a devil of a time understanding something as basic as getting my
Linux operating system to work with my network interface card. Arctic Storm
is right -- in many places, Linux instructions are incomprehensible.
Kind regards,
Eric Bourland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Arctic Storm wrote:
> > LinkSys should have given us a working binary files with detailed
> > step-by-step installation instructions. LinkSys wants us to *download*
the
> > necessary files/drivers, but without the drivers, I can't get on the
> > internet to download them. The old catch 22; without experience, can't
get
> > a job, but without a job, can't get experience.
>
> Yet somehow you got on the Internet to bitch.
>
> > I went to the tulip web site http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html ,
but
> > the instructions there were so poor and ambiguous that an average user
could
> > never follow.
>
> It appears a lot of average users have already followed them quite nicely.
>
> > The web site leaves you wondering if there are multiple ways
> > of installing the driver, or one way, but different steps.
>
> Only if you decline to read it and instead just scan for the download
link.
>
> > Do I do either "Using the Source RPM Package" or "Installing the
Individual
> > Drivers", or do I do both? What does it mean to install "individual"
> > drivers? I have *one* card, which needs *one* driver! What do you mean
by
> > individual?!
>
> I bet your kid sister could tell you if you had her read the site.
>
> > There's also the section, "Building updated drivers into the kernel".
Do I
> > do this in addition to the above instrucitons, or is this something
> > separate?!
>
> I bet your kid sister could tell you if you had her read the site.
>
> > I went to the web site http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html , but
this
> > web site also has poor instructions, and refers you to somewhere else to
> > learn how to install modules.
>
> The instructions are all there, but you have to read them to know that.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to use the floppy drive in Linux
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:45:59 GMT
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> <ginsu-announcer-voice>
> in linux, the floppy can be used like a tape!
> </ginsu-announcer-voice>
This works with zip disks as well, very convenient.
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Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"Windows: The only computer virus with a user interface."
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which is the best distribution?
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:50:01 GMT
Victor Dods writes:
> I've always wondered if, for example when you install KDE or something
> which provides headers for development later, those Debian/rpm packages
> install the program as well as the source code?
I don't understand what you are asking.
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John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Counter: 159675 registered Linux users
Date: 1 Nov 2000 01:00:09 GMT
This is the monthly report from the Linux Usage Counter.
It is posted on the 1st of every month on the newsgroup
comp.os.linux.misc, and on the Linux Counter "announce" list.
Registration and information is available via the World
Wide Web; connect to URL http://counter.li.org/
This is the preferred interface to the counter.
NOTE: You can UPDATE your record in the counter if you have
your registration key, which was sent to you when you registered.
EMAIL:
To enter your registration into the statistics, send an E-mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], with the SUBJECT line containing the word "Linux",
such as:
I use Linux at home
I use Linux at work
I use Linux at school
Any questions should be adressed to the maintainer of the counter,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good luck!
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This is the Linux Counter summary as of Wed Nov 1 00:41:36 2000
There are 159675 persons registerd.
3023 users have been registered by friends.
There are 83346 machines registered.
I guesstimate that between 0.2% and 5% of all Linux users have
registered with the Linux Counter.
So the total number of Linux users is probably between
3,193,500 and 79,837,500 people.
WHERE LINUX USERS LIVE
The table is sorted by number of Linux users divided by population
No Country Pers Fri Mach P/Mpop Mpop
======================================================================
1 IS Iceland 228 4 104 843.5 0.3
2 NO Norway 3384 49 1524 771.9 4.4
3 FO Faroe Islands 33 0 4 752.4 0.0
4 FI Finland 3532 55 1805 691.8 5.1
5 DK Denmark 3316 17 1290 631.7 5.2
6 SE Sweden 5081 60 2460 570.8 8.9
7 AQ Antarctica 2 0 0 486.0 0.0
8 NF Norfolk Island 1 0 0 452.7 0.0
9 EE Estonia 547 16 341 374.8 1.5
10 SI Slovenia 685 8 180 351.0 2.0
11 GI Gibraltar 8 1 11 278.1 0.0
12 NL Netherlands 4076 51 2083 261.8 15.6
13 MC Monaco 8 1 4 252.2 0.0
14 CA Canada 6505 83 3407 225.7 28.8
15 AT Austria 1780 31 1014 221.9 8.0
16 LU Luxembourg 89 0 49 214.0 0.4
17 IE Ireland 690 5 292 193.4 3.6
18 AU Australia 3492 50 1997 191.2 18.3
19 NZ New Zealand 650 3 391 183.2 3.5
20 CH Switzerland 1279 16 771 177.5 7.2
21 US USA 46949 832 24281 176.2 266.5
22 CY Cyprus 127 0 18 170.6 0.7
23 BE Belgium 1675 525 866 164.7 10.2
24 HU Hungary 1567 48 858 156.7 10.0
25 DE Germany 11078 187 5877 132.6 83.5
26 LI Liechtenstein 4 0 3 128.5 0.0
27 SG Singapore 429 7 164 126.3 3.4
28 PT Portugal 1203 9 365 121.9 9.9
29 FR France 6741 111 2676 115.6 58.3
30 ES Spain 4370 32 1253 111.5 39.2
31 KR Korea (South) 5002 19 513 110.0 45.5
32 AD Andorra 8 0 6 109.9 0.1
33 GB Great Britain 6257 109 3273 107.0 58.5
34 PL Poland 4103 55 1676 106.2 38.6
35 GL Greenland 6 0 1 103.1 0.1
36 IL Israel 537 13 263 99.0 5.4
37 KY Cayman Islands 3 0 3 86.6 0.0
38 VG Virgin Islands (British) 1 0 0 75.8 0.0
39 CZ Czech Republic 760 21 438 73.6 10.3
40 BG Bulgaria 612 6 230 71.1 8.6
41 CR Costa Rica 226 0 92 65.3 3.5
42 LT Lithuania 236 3 112 64.7 3.6
43 HR Croatia 303 6 85 60.6 5.0
44 GR Greece 622 13 242 59.0 10.5
45 PW Palau 1 0 0 59.0 0.0
46 UY Uruguay 191 0 47 59.0 3.2
47 IT Italy 3155 64 1313 54.9 57.5
48 NC New Caledonia 10 0 15 53.3 0.2
49 BM Bermuda 3 0 4 48.3 0.1
50 SV El Salvador 264 0 31 45.3 5.8
51 BR Brazil 7295 59 1479 44.8 162.7
52 VE Venezuela 981 3 169 44.6 22.0
53 GU Guam 7 0 2 44.6 0.2
54 AW Aruba 3 0 0 44.3 0.1
55 BN Brunei 13 0 7 43.3 0.3
56 RO Romania 901 36 441 41.6 21.7
57 MV Maldives 11 0 1 40.6 0.3
58 MT Malta 15 0 10 39.9 0.4
59 BB Barbados 10 0 3 38.9 0.3
60 SC Seychelles 3 0 0 38.7 0.1
61 SK Slovakia 207 1 131 38.5 5.4
62 AR Argentina 1271 6 341 36.7 34.7
63 VI Virgin Islands (U.S.) 3 0 1 30.9 0.1
64 CL Chile 434 6 159 30.3 14.3
65 PR Puerto Rico 112 0 23 29.3 3.8
66 TW Taiwan 626 5 207 29.2 21.5
67 MX Mexico 2781 18 462 29.0 95.8
68 LV Latvia 71 0 48 28.8 2.5
69 ZA South Africa 1145 10 492 27.4 41.7
70 MY Malaysia 543 6 136 27.2 20.0
71 RE Reunion 18 0 6 26.5 0.7
72 TT Trinidad and Tobago 31 1 5 24.4 1.3
73 FM Micronesia, Federated States 3 0 0 23.9 0.1
74 AN Netherlands Antilles 5 0 3 23.9 0.2
75 BS Bahamas 6 0 2 23.1 0.3
76 PF French Polynesia 5 0 4 22.2 0.2
77 MP Northern Mariana Islands 1 0 1 19.1 0.1
78 PA Panama 50 0 22 18.8 2.7
79 BH Bahrain 11 0 5 18.6 0.6
80 KW Kuwait 36 0 13 18.5 2.0
81 BZ Belize 4 0 7 18.2 0.2
82 AM Armenia 61 0 9 17.6 3.5
83 GP Guadeloupe 7 0 5 17.2 0.4
84 MH Marshall Islands 1 0 0 17.1 0.1
85 AS American Samoa 1 0 0 16.8 0.1
86 MO Macau 8 0 1 16.1 0.5
87 AG Antigua and Barbuda 1 0 2 15.2 0.1
88 CO Colombia 556 3 162 15.1 36.8
89 MU Mauritius 17 0 4 14.9 1.1
90 TR Turkey 926 9 193 14.8 62.5
91 RU Russia 2045 34 764 13.8 148.2
92 YU Yugoslavia (Serbia and Monte 146 6 81 13.6 10.8
93 AE United Arab Emirates 40 1 15 13.1 3.1
94 PY Paraguay 67 0 15 12.2 5.5
95 DM Dominica 1 0 0 12.1 0.1
96 NA Namibia 20 0 11 11.9 1.7
97 TN Tunisia 105 0 16 11.6 9.0
98 BA Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 0 5 11.3 2.7
99 VU Vanuatu 2 0 3 11.3 0.2
100 QA Qatar 6 1 3 11.0 0.5
101 UA Ukraine 526 10 226 10.3 50.9
102 CU Cuba 110 6 27 10.0 11.0
103 MQ Martinique 4 0 2 10.0 0.4
104 PE Peru 208 0 35 8.5 24.5
105 VC Saint Vincent and the Grenad 1 0 0 8.4 0.1
106 MK Macedonia 17 2 4 8.1 2.1
107 LB Lebanon 30 1 6 7.9 3.8
108 JP Japan 951 6 291 7.6 125.4
109 BO Bolivia 53 0 12 7.4 7.2
110 BY Belarus 74 5 31 7.1 10.4
111 ST Sao Tome and Principe 1 0 0 6.9 0.1
112 EC Ecuador 75 0 15 6.5 11.5
113 LC Saint Lucia 1 0 0 6.3 0.2
114 PH Philippines 468 4 96 6.3 74.5
115 MD Moldova 27 0 8 6.0 4.5
116 JM Jamaica 13 0 3 5.0 2.6
117 DO Dominican Republic 40 0 12 4.9 8.1
118 GT Guatemala 54 0 12 4.8 11.3
119 SR Suriname 2 0 4 4.6 0.4
120 EH Western Sahara 1 0 1 4.5 0.2
121 CM Cameroon 64 0 8 4.5 14.3
122 TH Thailand 247 3 91 4.2 58.9
123 BW Botswana 6 0 3 4.1 1.5
124 HN Honduras 21 0 7 3.7 5.6
125 NI Nicaragua 16 0 4 3.7 4.3
126 OM Oman 7 0 1 3.2 2.2
127 GY Guyana 2 0 0 2.8 0.7
128 MN Mongolia 7 0 8 2.8 2.5
129 PS Palestine 7 0 0 2.7 2.6
130 KZ Kazakhstan 45 0 19 2.7 16.9
131 ID Indonesia 549 34 161 2.7 206.6
132 JO Jordan 9 0 3 2.1 4.2
133 GE Georgia 10 0 29 1.9 5.2
134 LK Sri Lanka 30 1 2 1.6 18.6
135 SA Saudi Arabia 30 0 11 1.5 19.4
136 KG Kyrgyzstan 7 0 2 1.5 4.5
137 AL Albania 5 1 4 1.5 3.2
138 AZ Azerbaijan 11 0 3 1.4 7.7
139 IN India 1290 16 325 1.4 952.1
140 ZM Zambia 12 0 4 1.3 9.2
141 NP Nepal 28 0 0 1.3 22.1
142 ZW Zimbabwe 14 0 8 1.2 11.3
143 EG Egypt 74 1 12 1.2 63.6
144 CN China 1384 4 238 1.1 1210.0
145 PG Papua New Guinea 5 0 1 1.1 4.4
146 MA Morocco 32 0 14 1.1 29.8
147 UZ Uzbekistan 25 0 8 1.1 23.4
148 DZ Algeria 27 0 10 0.9 29.2
149 GA Gabon 1 0 3 0.9 1.2
150 PK Pakistan 95 5 17 0.7 129.3
151 IR Iran 47 0 23 0.7 66.1
152 MG Madagascar 9 0 4 0.7 13.7
153 CI Cote d'Ivoire 9 0 5 0.6 14.8
154 LY Libya 3 0 1 0.6 5.4
155 NE Niger 5 0 0 0.5 9.1
156 KE Kenya 15 0 4 0.5 28.2
157 VN Vietnam 38 0 5 0.5 74.0
158 SN Senegal 4 0 0 0.4 9.1
159 MR Mauritania 1 0 0 0.4 2.3
160 MZ Mozambique 6 0 2 0.3 17.9
161 BD Bangladesh 41 0 8 0.3 123.1
162 CF Central African Republic 1 0 0 0.3 3.3
163 RW Rwanda 2 0 0 0.3 6.9
164 ER Eritrea 1 0 0 0.3 3.4
165 BF Burkina Faso 3 0 1 0.3 10.6
166 TM Turkmenistan 1 0 1 0.2 4.1
167 TG Togo 1 0 0 0.2 4.6
168 TZ Tanzania 6 0 0 0.2 29.1
169 LA Laos 1 0 2 0.2 5.0
170 KH Cambodia 2 0 1 0.2 10.9
171 TJ Tajikistan 1 0 1 0.2 5.9
172 HT Haiti 1 0 1 0.1 6.7
173 MW Malawi 1 0 0 0.1 9.5
174 UG Uganda 2 0 0 0.1 20.2
175 AO Angola 1 0 0 0.1 10.3
176 YE Yemen 1 0 1 0.1 13.5
177 SY Syria 1 0 0 0.1 15.6
178 NG Nigeria 6 0 1 0.1 103.9
179 ET Ethiopia 3 0 0 0.1 57.2
180 XW The World (Somewhere in it) 271 207 1 0.0 5771.9
181 SD Sudan 1 0 0 0.0 31.5
182 CD Democratic Congo 1 0 0 0.0 46.5
183 WF Wallis and Futuna Islands 1 0 1 0.0 0.0
WHERE PEOPLE USE LINUX
Place Users Percent
==============================
school 32907 20.90%
home 139840 88.82%
not used 21 0.01%
work 67505 42.88%
somewhere 2902 1.84%
==============================
TOTAL 157435 100.00%
NOTE: The total is the 157435 users who answered this question.
Some gave more than one answer, so the number of answers is 243175
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sound recording (or rather lack of it).
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:59:19 GMT
"Barry Samuels" <Barry Samuels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.17pre6 and a SoundBlaster Live using
> the Creative/Emu module.
> Try as I might I cannot record anything!
[...]
> I am running KMix and am using the line input socket on the card.
> Recording volume for line input is at maximum. I put all recording
> sliders up to be on the safe side and there is sound coming out of the
> speakers.
I had a similar problem earlier this year. I couldn't record anything
more than a faint hiss, even though I could listen to the sound on the
speakers.
I discovered, while trying desperately weird ideas, that I could record
when the audio source was connected to the microphone jack, but not
when it was connected to the line-in jack.
Weird, but it works.
I'm using a "Sound Blaster 16" Model SB4171. It's pretty old, the box
says it requires a 486DX-66 and 8M of RAM, with a P133
recommended... :-)
This machine does not have Windows, so I did not try that to see if
the line in worked under Windows.
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"...But were oddly afflicted with a monomania for building what, in the
ancient Amriccon, was denominated 'churches' -a kind of pagoda instituted
for the worship of two idols that went by the names of Wealth and Fashion"
-Poe, Mellonta Tauta
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "No space left on device"
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:06:58 GMT
Adam Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [05:21am] /tmp$ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda5 289M 232M 42M 85% /
> /dev/hda6 3.2G 1.2G 1.9G 38% /home
> /dev/hda7 8.2G 2.1G 5.6G 27% /usr
> [05:35am] /tmp$ touch /tmp/anything
> touch: /tmp/anything: No space left on device
The poster who suggested you might be out of inodes is likely
right. This is a known Mandrake 7.1 problem.
First go into /var/log/news and do a "find . | xargs rm -f" Expect it
to run for a *long* time. Then do the same in /var/log/news.
Then go to a Mandrake mirror site and download the
logrotate-3.3-9mdk.i586.rpm and the sysklogd-1.3.31-19mdk.i586.rpm
packages and install them.
That ought to prevent this.
Other than this and having to execute /etc/rc.d/init.d/crond stop and
/etc/rc.d/init.d/crond start when a user's crontab has to be changed
(this should *not* be required, and is not on any other Unix I've used
including Mandrake 7.0), I've been pretty pleased with Mandrake 7.1
--
Jim Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
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Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
-Coleridge
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