Linux-Misc Digest #210, Volume #26 Thu, 2 Nov 00 10:13:02 EST
Contents:
linux red hat 7 virtual desktop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: bringing eth0 up question ("dalroth5")
Re: AOL connection under linux (Robert Jones)
scsi module not loading at boot, but can insmod it ("Dennis Leiterman")
Re: decent synaptics driver? (Alexander Clouter)
Re: Linux Routing (Quad)
Re: Encyppt whole Linux system ? ("Ola S Pedersen")
Need help (Montaz Ali)
Re: lilo configuration for SCSI hard drives? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: Detect number of CPU's from within a program? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: GNapster vs GNOME-Napster (Mike Castle)
Yamaha CRW8824 and Tekram 390F ("Aris Basic")
Re: Intel D815EEA sound/audio & Linux problem. (Dana Echtner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux red hat 7 virtual desktop
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:56:30 GMT
I've a problem with linux 7 it seems that my virtual desktop is much
larger than my actual screen size, so i can't see the whole desktop at
once. Can anyone tell me what to do. (my screen resolution is 1024 *
768)
furthermore: after installing red hat 7 i can't use the functions on my
monitor anymore they are simply not accessible, this only happens in
GUI
mode and not in TEXT mode.
(monitor type is BELINEA 10 30 15) this wouldn't be a problem, but the
desktop isn't centered but on the left or right side (depending on the
resolution) of my screen
thanks / muchos gracias
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From: "dalroth5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: bringing eth0 up question
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 13:01:26 +0100
TM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> using ifconfig it is easy to bring down the eth0 interface. Bringing it
> up back using ifconfig eth0 up command doesn't work properly. tcpdump
> reports only arp requests and anyway the DHCP isn't activated anymore
> after this command. ping doesn't work either.
>
> Any advice?
I just use (as root): 'ifdown eth0' then 'ifup eth0'. They work for me every
time. HTH.
;^P
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From: Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOL connection under linux
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 06:25:23 -0600
Pixur wrote:
> << 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.
More likely, if they were bombarded with tens of thousands of terminations in the
span of a couple days, with each departing subscriber citing "failure to support
*nix" as the only reason for bailing.
--
6:18am up 19 days, 43 min, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.09, 0.03
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From: "Dennis Leiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: scsi module not loading at boot, but can insmod it
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:32:00 GMT
Hi,
Just upgraded from RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7.0. Was running 6.2 ok with no
problems. After I upgraded, my adaptec 2930 scsi controller is not seen at
boot. If I log in as root and do
insmod aic7xxx
it finds it and it works fine. I checked and in the /etc/modules.conf the
line is there. I also have a line for my etherned adapter and sound card
that seems to work fine. I tried moving it down in the file but that didn't
work either. Thanks in advance.
-Dennis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Clouter)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: decent synaptics driver?
Date: 2 Nov 2000 12:34:48 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:34:46 -0500, Cameron Jay Erens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The syaptics.com website is down...what's wrong?
>
and what about the www.synaptics.com site?? This may not even be the
website, run "synaptics homepage" through www.google.com and see what it
comes up with
Alex
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From: Quad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux Routing
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:56:48 GMT
Thank you for your reply.
As far as what info I read, it was man route man arp man ifconfig etc.
I can set the ips and such on the nics, but what is 100% new to me is
routing.
What all has to be setup on the router for it to work, what commands I
put in so that all 3 networks can passs through the router etc.
I started on the adv-routing howto, then i tried going back to the site
where I had found it and it said the page was gone off the server. I
am just not having much luck is all.
I am sure that this setup couldnt be too hard to perform, its just I am
sooo ignorant to these proceedures, that there must be a good online
resource I could read and get caught up on just how routing works and
how to implement it?
Again thanks SO much for your reply and I will read the mans again.
When I do figure out, just what route add commands have to be
implemented. Will I just place them in a script and call from
rc.local? Or is there a better way to do this when routing?
Thanks
Quad
In article <8tpohs$qvq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David K. Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is pretty straightforward (where did you say you had
> looked? :-) )
> Your eth0 interface should have an address on 192.168.0.x
> where x is in [1:254]
> Your eth1 interface should have an address on 24.231.45.y
> where y is in [1:6]
> Your eth2 interface should have an address on 67.45.221.z
> where z is in [1:126]
> Then your routing table should look like this:
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags ...
Iface
> 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U eth0
> 24.231.45.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.248 U eth1
> 67.45.221.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.128 U eth2
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0
U lo
> 0.0.0.0 67.45.221.1 0.0.0.0 UG
eth2
> The only thing I am unsure of is the Gateway address in the last line.
> It should be the address of the *other* end of your link to the
> Internet, not the address of your machine on that link.
> To find out how to create this routing table, read man route
> To find out how to set the IP addresses of the interfaces, man
ifconfig
> To make it all automatic (on reboot) use linuxconf, or dig through
the
> scripts beginning at /etc/rc.d/init.d/network
>
> "Quad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8tp9ek$td3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> >
> > I want to route a local subnet 192.168.0.* 255.255.255.0 through 2
> > different gateways. Can reach this from(eth0)
> >
> >
> > 1 will be a direct line to another company and I want all traffic
for
> > that company to go there. 24.231.45.1 SM 255.255.255.248. can reach
> > this from (eth1)
> >
> > 2 will be a route out to the internet so that users can check email
> > etc. 67.45.221.1 sm 255.255.255.128. this can be reached from (eth2)
> >
> > I am sure linux can do this, I am wondering if someone will give me
> > some tips/tricks on this. I have read the man pages, and have
searched
> > on the net but it seems there is not much info...at least where I
was
> > looking.
> >
> > Any help here would be GREATLY appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Quad
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
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From: "Ola S Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Encyppt whole Linux system ?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:25:20 GMT
Beggar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I am developing a product that base on Linux box. Is there any method
> that can
> encypt the whole file system that cannot be read by someone who have
> access
> the machine physically.
> At least, I don't want people use other system boot up the machine and
> mount the Linux system.
>
> Many thanks for any help!!
>
> Dicky
>
Hi!
go to www.kerneli.org
there u`ll find everything you need.
Ola
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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 15:23:40 +0200
From: Montaz Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help
Hi Everyone;
I am a pascal programmer and used to do programming in Unix environment.
Now I am in a new place where it has only Linux machine. I would like to
call a fortran routine from a main pascal program. I used to do this in
Sun machine using the following command
pc -o output pascal.p fortran.o
where fortran.o is made using f77 -c fortran.f
In my current machine I have g77 (fortran equivalent) and gpc
I am trying to same way but it does not work. Can anybody give me some
pointer (may be appropriate newsgroups)
Thank you
Dr M Ali
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University of the Witwatersrand
Private Bag 3, Wits, 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo configuration for SCSI hard drives?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:44:04 -0500
Ilya wrote:
> I installed a second SCSI hard drive in my all SCSI machine.
I have two SCSI hard drives. I also have a DDS-2 tape drive on a separate
SCSI. There is a floppy drive on ISA (I guess that is where it is), and a
CDROM drive on there too.
> Where is a
> good example of a /etc/lilo.conf file that allows for a 10 second
> window to select the OS to boot?
Here is my /etc/lilo.conf (I think it gives me only 5 seconds to decide.
Change timeout to 100 to get 10 seconds, I guess:
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
linear
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0.14csmp
label=linux
root=/dev/sda5
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0.14c
label=linux-up
root=/dev/sda5
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-0.1smp
label=linuxOld
root=/dev/sda5
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-0.1
label=linux-upOld
root=/dev/sda5
read-only
image=/boot2/vmlinuz-2.2.12-0.1smp
label=linux2Old
root=/dev/sda5
read-only
image=/boot2/vmlinuz-2.2.12-0.1
label=linux-up2Old
root=/dev/sda5
read-only
valinux:jdbeyer[~]$
You will probably want a simpler file than this. I have new and old
versions of both my normal SMP kernel and the UP kernel in case I have
problems with SMP. I also have a separate boot partition on the second
drive. I have never tried to boot from there, but I suppose it would work.
> The device files for the disks
> are /dev/sda and probably /dev/sdb. I don't know what the name for the
> second Windows disk is since it obviously does not show up in Linux df
> command.
It would if you made an entry for it in your /etc/fstab file. Something
like this (from my other machine):
touchl:jdbeyer[~]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb13 / ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw,usrquota 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb5 /data ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw 1 2
/dev/hdb7 /home ext2 exec,dev,suid,rw,usrquota 1 2
/dev/hdb6 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb12 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb9 /usr/src ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb8 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /w95 vfat defaults,umask=002,uid=500,gid=500
0 0
/dev/hdb10 Swap000 swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb11 Swap001 swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,exec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,nodev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
valinux:/usr/local/Downloaded /mnt/valinux/Downloaded nfs
ro,soft,bg,nosuid 0 0
valinux:/usr/local/girls /mnt/valinux/girls nfs
ro,soft,bg,nosuid 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
0
touchl:jdbeyer[~]$
(That system has too many partitions, but I cannot be bothered to fix it.)
The w95 entry looks at the Windows partition on the hda drive.
> Right now I manually plug in the correponding hard drive to
> boot either into Redhat 6.1 or Windows 2000 Pro. My Linux disk is SCSI
> id of 0, my Windows has SCSI id of 1, tape drive 4 and CDROM 6 so there
> is no conflict there.
>
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Detect number of CPU's from within a program?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:50:36 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a very simple-minded question, but it's driving me nuts.
>
> From within a C program, how can I tell how many processors
> are in the system?
>
> I know that from the command line, I can do "cat /proc/cpuinfo",
> but I don't want to try to parse that within a program.
> Also, ideally I could use a POSIX system call so that the
> code could be ported to Solaris.
>
> Thanks very much for your help.
>
> Robert Dodier
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>From a program-portability point of view, that may be a bad idea.
Your program should not need to know how many CPUs there are. If
the OS is working correctly, the only difference you should see if
there are more processors would be more throughput. And you program
should not need to know what that is. It should do the best it can.
It seems to me that it will just make your program more complex to
get this information (the easy part) and to use it (the hard part
to get correct).
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/V\ Registered Machine 73926.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey
^^-^^ 8:45am up 8 days, 21:04, 2 users, load average: 2.01, 2.07, 2.08
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: GNapster vs GNOME-Napster
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:09:12 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Which is better? Which one should I choose?
nap from ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/nap
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From: "Aris Basic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yamaha CRW8824 and Tekram 390F
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:42:43 -0500
Hi
i have Tekram 390F controler adn it was working with very old CDROM
and with external ORB Drive so i suppose its ok
but i cannt bring it to work properly with Yamah8824 Drive i allways get
some scsi errors
(linux 2.2.16 sym875 kernal driver)
on cdrecord -scanbus i usaly get some kernel SCSI errors and cdrecord tells
something like
Drive returned more data ten it should
drive gets recognized on booting (i triedn turning on 512 block feature but
that made more troubles)
can anyone have an idea what could be wrong ?
(Firmware upadate of controler or drive or both) ?
or anything else
thx
Aris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dana Echtner)
Crossposted-To: intel.motherboards.pentium_ii,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Intel D815EEA sound/audio & Linux problem.
Date: 2 Nov 2000 15:02:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dr. Jason J. Hogan-O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The D815EE comes with two different versions of the sound card. One is
the Soundblaster Ensoniq PCI card and one is a "soft audio" card of some
sort.
Check out
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d815eea/audio.htm
too see how to figure out which one you have. If it's the Soundblaster
then you'll need to recompile your kernel to support it. If it's the soft
audio card you'll have to do more research. (I don't really know anything
about it, sorry)
Also, as has been pointed out, normally the volumes are set very very
low in Linux, use aumix or mp3blaster or some such to crank it up and see
if it might actually be working.
Good luck!
Dana
>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.
>
>> 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.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>
>Before you buy.
>
>>
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