Linux-Misc Digest #209, Volume #26 Thu, 2 Nov 00 07:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: best CFLAGS for multimedia on mmx cpu and other optimize questions (Martin
Herrman)
Re: Linux File System with errors (Eric)
Re: mp3 (William McBrine)
Editing mp3s? (William McBrine)
URGENT HELP - Login disabled.. ! (Josef Dirnberger)
Re: How to detach a program from a terminal (William McBrine)
kernel panic, no init found ("dick dijk")
Re: An appeal to experts for help! (William McBrine)
Re: Printing in VMware (William McBrine)
Re: Microsoft vs Sony (Glitch)
Re: Netscape sucks: alternatives? (William McBrine)
MOST NORMAL PPP EVER, can't surf anywhere?? (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: Display in X (Anita Lewis)
Re: AOL connection under linux (Pixur)
Re: URGENT HELP - Login disabled.. ! (Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmer?=)
Re: Intel D815EEA sound/audio & Linux problem. ("Dr. Jason J. Hogan-O'Neill")
gnumeric 0.57 + libxml/gnome-xml problem (Martin Herrman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: best CFLAGS for multimedia on mmx cpu and other optimize questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:19:35 +0100
On 1 Nov 2000 22:46:09 GMT, Juergen Heinzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
first of all: thanks for your reply!
> -O6 does the same as -O42 -- nothing -- -O3 is the limit. Avoid -Os
> as it can generate false code (I just ran into that one with the latest
> glibc version and -O2 proved to be fine as far as it's possible to tell).
>
> -fomit-frame-pointer and -fforce-mem are being enabled by -O2 already
> and -fforce-addr on a CPU with such a limited register set as all Intel
> compatibles .. I don't know.
Well, I put in -O2 now and removed the unnecessary things. Yesterday night, I
did recompile things with the optimizations flags I had posted before and
things were somewhat faster. I also installed 'DivX ;-) Release 3' at my
Windows partition and Windows runs the DivX files much faster. Should I also
recompile things like glibc, sound things and video things with some more
optimization? I think for example that my glibc version is an i386 rpm.. And
does anyone know if for my card (Chips & Technologies CT65555, 2MB) It would
be faster to upgrade to a newere XFree86? (currently using 3.3.5)
thanks a lot!
Martin
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.17 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
10:10am up 1:06, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.37, 0.37
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux File System with errors
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:35:11 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
manny wrote:
>
> Help Anyone,
> Booted my linux system today and observed the following messages:
> /dev/hdc6 contains a file system with errors, check forces
> /dev/hdc6
> Inode 107121 has illegal block count
> /dev/hdc6
> unexpected inconsistency RUN fscl manually
>
> File system appears to be readonly.
>
> Any help with be deeply appreciated - school project need help fast
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Do as it says and manually run ext2.fsck on it
And next time you should properly unmount the FS before you shutdown the
PC (this is normally done during the shutdown process)
Eric
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mp3
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:37:11 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because back in the old days, there were problems with enabling certain
> options on certain IDE devices and/or certain chipsets. The hdparm man
> page contains some gory details on that, and suggests that "-m16" is the
> only truly safe option to play with.
On my new Athlon system, after one non-damaging lockup while experimenting,
I ended up with the parameters "-d1 -X66 -u1 -c1". (-m16 was already the
default.) After seeing the tremendous improvement, I decided to try out
hdparm on my old 486 as well. That yielded no performance boost, but did
cause a staggering amount of damage to my ext2fs filesystem in a remarkably
short time. (And there'd been no previous filesystem corruption in its four
years of operation.)
--
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Editing mp3s?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:44:13 GMT
I'm looking for something that will let me cut pieces out of mp3 files,
without having to decode/reencode them. I've found one such program for
Windows, but not yet for Linux. Something like what rmeditor (part of the
free RealProducer package -- check it out if you're at all interested in
RealMedia) does for RM would be great.
--
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Josef Dirnberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: URGENT HELP - Login disabled.. !
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:41:34 +0100
Hello,
I think I've made a great mistake ... modified /etc/profile following:
/etc/profile
....
alias log=clear;logout ###wipe the screen and then logout
alias lo=logout
....
after logging of, the system (SuSE 6.4) doesn't allow to log in, even if
user & password is right ---> automatic logout after login...
Is there any way to get into the system nethertheless ... e.g. by a boot
option (how ?? ... lilo is installed) or by a rescue disk (how to
proceed)
ftp-ing from an other system to my linux-machine isn't allowed (in order
to download /etc/profile, undo my modification and upload again !)
I would be thankfull for every successfull advice ...
Josef Dirnbeger
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to detach a program from a terminal
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:50:29 GMT
ljb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can put it into the background with (in bash) ctrl-Z, then bg, but it
> will be killed when you log out because all your processes will get a
> hangup signal (SIGHUP) at that time. If you really want something to
> keep running after you log out, you generally have to set this up before
> you start it, like using "nohup" (see man nohup) or "at".
Another possibility is to use "screen". This handy program lets you run
multiple virtual terminals within a single terminal, AND detach them, log
in on another terminal, and reattach them. Since I found it, I use it
constantly and do very nearly all my non-graphical work in it.
Screen is at:
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/screen/
if it's not already included in your distro.
--
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "dick dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel panic, no init found
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 10:47:31 +0100
Hello,
I messed around a litlle bit with LILO and now I have the following problem.
When I boot Linux, the status messages show like:
...
"Partition check"
...
"Freeing unused kernel memory"
But then (after "Freeing unused kernel memory"), I get:
"Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"
and the system hangs...
When I boot from the Linux Bootdisk, go through the first questions and then
choose "Boot installed system", ( I have to supply the partition to boot
from, /dev/hdc1) the system comes up normally. So I think something in my
boot config is not quite right.
Does anyone know how to fix this, so I can boot from harddisk.
Thanks,
Dick
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: An appeal to experts for help!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:58:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Anil Trivedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to get Linux/MacOS preinstalled on one machine?
No problem. You can even run MacOS from _within_ Linux.
> Is it wiser to get Linux on a separate machine?
Not unless you have money to burn. Maybe not even then.
> In that case, is there anything to choose between Intel and PPC?
Precompiled binaries are more widely available for Linux/x86 than for
Linux/PPC; but non-open-source software is only a small fraction of what's
available for Linux, and most stuff will work fine on PPC.
--
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing in VMware
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:10:55 GMT
Stephen Marotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Editor to configure LPT1 to be "parport0", "lp0", and various higher
> numbers of both of those devices, without any luck. VMware is telling
> me I don't have permission to those devices. Does anyone have any idea
> why this doesn't work?
I imagine it's because you don't have permission to access those devices.
Although VMware is setuid root, it seems to give up those privileges
after it does whatever setup it wants them for (and before it gets to the
printer)... On my Mandrake 7.1 system, /dev/parportN were only writable
by root; I chmod'ed them for the sake of VMware, after which I had no
trouble using my parallel-port scanner (not supported by SANE, alas). Oh,
I also had to set the port to ECP mode in my system's BIOS -- EPP wasn't
adequate.
If all you want to do is print, and you don't need direct access to the
parallel port, you might try another approach: print over the "network"
to the host system.
--
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 03:20:38 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft vs Sony
Derek Jolly wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], in message
> <KcML5.1046$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote
>
> >Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >: Apparently the DreamCast uses one of the Hitachi "Super-H" family of
> >: processors; this implies that if it is running a form of Windows, that
> >: would be WinCE.
> >
> >My understanding of the dreamcast is this:
> >
> >Developers have a choice of WinCE or the DreamcastOS
> >the OS is loaded directly from the CD (I believe)
>
> If using WinCE, the OS is loaded from the CD. Most games
> use the Dreamcast's OS directly, and not WinCE.
>
> >Some folks choose to go w/ WinCE for easier porting of already
> >established Windows games.
>
> Yep. That was the reason Sega made it compatible with WinCE.
WinCE drives the winmodem that is installed :)
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape sucks: alternatives?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:43:18 GMT
Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> user_pref("browser.cache.directory", "/home/jdbeyer/.netscape/cache/");
> >>>---------------------------^
> This final slash is the key: it must be there.
Fascinating... I'll have to test that. I'd been assuming that the clutter
arose from all times when I had to kill -9 netscape; I guessed that when
that happened, it lost track of the files it had downloaded in that
session, and so never purged them.
--
William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: MOST NORMAL PPP EVER, can't surf anywhere??
Date: 2 Nov 2000 10:41:56 GMT
This is what /var/log/messages show, nothing extraordinary. The only
difference I've noticed is the kernel-specific messages which seem
to always appear now. But Netscape & w3m won't go anywhere, neither can I
telnet out. Is there a kppp keyword or ppp keyword that I'm missing? I
know the modem is okay since I can minicom out...
Nov 2 05:19:18 mondo kernel: registered device ppp0
Nov 2 05:19:18 mondo pppd[807]: pppd 2.3.8 started by andy, uid 500
Nov 2 05:19:18 mondo pppd[807]: Using interface ppp0
Nov 2 05:19:18 mondo pppd[807]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Nov 2 05:19:21 mondo kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Nov 2 05:19:22 mondo kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Nov 2 05:19:24 mondo pppd[807]: local IP address xxx.xx.xxx.x
Nov 2 05:19:24 mondo pppd[807]: remote IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
This has me stumped. I have a Win98 box connected to this Mandrake 6.0
2-2.13mdk (IIRC) kernel Linux box with IPmasq (that worked perfectly fine
before!) The IPmasq could still be working,t here's just no way for me to
tell. COuld Ethernet connection problems prevent netsurfing (don't get me
started on pinging the Win98SE box)
Thanks for any assistance.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Display in X
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 10:56:38 GMT
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 04:37:02 GMT, Rahul Asave wrote:
>Hi Everyone!
>I'm pretty new to linux, and I just installed RHAT 7.0 (the normal dload
>iso and burn them and install).
>However, when I start with GNOME (or KDE) the display is way too large
>(looks like 640x480 would in windows). How do I get it to look like
>1024x768 format?
>Thanks a lot
>Rahul
>
First try running xf86config to configure X.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pixur)
Subject: Re: AOL connection under linux
Date: 02 Nov 2000 11:22:47 GMT
<< I am wondering whether there is any way to use AOL (America OnLine) system
to get connected to the net under linux. >>
I too was wondering the same. I requested info from AOL and this was the
response I got:
"I want to personally thank you for taking the time to write with your concerns
about using the America Online (AOL) software on the Linux, OS2, Unix, or BeOS
operating systems.
AOL for Linux, OS2, Unix, or BeOS is currently in research and development.
AOL Member Services is currently "collecting the data" on requests for AOL for
Linux, OS2, Unix, or BeOS and I assure you that your feelings and input are
being used to help AOL make the best possible online experience.
I am excited about any improvements to the service and will be able to answer
questions about AOL for Linux, OS2, Unix, or BeOS as soon as information and a
possible release date are available. "
Unfortunately, they missed my point of just using my AOL account as a dial-up
connection to the internet. I requested more info again, and am patiently
awaiting a reply.
I am also curious how they are "collecting the data" on requests, since I
haven't seen any surveys, as such. Perhaps if they are bombarded with requests
from Linux users it would happen sooner.
Julie Wagaman
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From: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT HELP - Login disabled.. !
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:43:53 +0100
Josef Dirnberger wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I think I've made a great mistake ... modified /etc/profile following:
>
> /etc/profile
> ....
> alias log=clear;logout ###wipe the screen and then logout
> alias lo=logout
> ....
>
> after logging of, the system (SuSE 6.4) doesn't allow to log in, even if
> user & password is right ---> automatic logout after login...
>
> Is there any way to get into the system nethertheless ... e.g. by a boot
> option (how ?? ... lilo is installed) or by a rescue disk (how to
> proceed)
>
> ftp-ing from an other system to my linux-machine isn't allowed (in order
> to download /etc/profile, undo my modification and upload again !)
>
> I would be thankfull for every successfull advice ...
>
> Josef Dirnbeger
at the lilo prompt try
linux init=/bin/sh
the it boots linux and ends in a shell.
Now mount your filesystems and edit the /etc/profile.
hope that works.
regards Markus
--
Markus Boehmer
Systemadministrator & Datenbankentwickler
SSI Schaefer Shop GmbH
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dr. Jason J. Hogan-O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: intel.motherboards.pentium_ii,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel D815EEA sound/audio & Linux problem.
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:51:55 +0200
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This sounds very similar to me. I have the intel i810 though.
I got a list of sites that play music from a friend of mine (sorry but
I cant remember the web address). I can play the radio from these but not
mp3 for some reason. Maybe yuo shoudl try getting one of these
'radio-websites' and testing to see if they play.
>From what you say it sounds like your card/chip has been unmuted and so it
should play as it is recognising the chip when you run sndconfig.
Do 'cat /proc/modules' and see if it produces a file that is NOT empty. If
it is not empty then your sound should be ready to work. Just seems like
you have missed something simple. You can also see what modules you have
installed by doing 'lsmod' as root.
Sorry I cant be more help. I only got my thing to work after WEEKS of
trying.
Jas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Intel D815EEA sound/audio & Linux problem.
>
> I have Intel D815EEA motherboard, which has integrated sound/audio,
> video, & LAN.
> I'm running RedHat Linux 7.0, which has kernel 2.2.16.
> When I try to play an MP3 file using XMMS, it seems to play, but I
> don't hear anything.
> When I switch the OS to Win98SE (I have dual boot), I'm able to play
> and hear the music without problems. When I switch back to Linux, XMMS
> seems to play the MP3 file, but I don't hear anything out of the
> speakers.
> I tried sndconfig from the root account.
> It seems to identify the sound card as,
> Model: Intel Corporation|82801AB AC'97 Audio
> It tries to play a sample sound as a test, but I don't hear anything.
> Then it presents me with a list of soundcards.
> I choose Intel i810 AC97 Audio, because it's already selected, and it
> seems like the closest model. It tests the sound driver again and
> fails.
> I contacted Intel tech support, but they couldn' help me because they
> don't officially support Linux.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> ---
>
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>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: gnumeric 0.57 + libxml/gnome-xml problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:52:12 +0100
Hi all,
I want to upgrade my gnumeric version (0.54 -> 0.57) so I downloaded the
source, decompressed it and dit './configure'. Error: libxml (aka gnome-xml)
libraries 1.8.5 <= version < 2.0.0 not found. So I download the libxml
version 1.8.9 and install that, no problem. Again ./configure the gnumeric
package: same error!
What's going on? How to solve it?
thanks!
Martin
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.17 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
12:50pm up 3:46, 5 users, load average: 2.02, 1.74, 1.46
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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