Linux-Misc Digest #601, Volume #26 Thu, 21 Dec 00 05:13:02 EST
Contents:
debian & RPMs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
automated file transfer between UNIX and NT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can any1 tell me why I can't print postscript ? (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: Can any1 tell me why I can't print postscript ? (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: Can I remove KDE, and keep Gnome? (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: install the netscape-browser !! (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: KDE Konsole (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: MANDRAKE 7.2 (modem problem) (Bryan Hoyt)
The disadvantage of the 'fmt' program (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: using elm with pop3 and smtp.....?? (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: Setting my hardware clock to atomic clock? (Ulrich Windl)
'iostat' on linux (morpheus_w)
swapon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: debian & RPMs (Dowe Keller)
Re: How to see all the cron jobs. (Dowe Keller)
Re: swapon ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: Alias under Bash shell not working. ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: swapon (jabba)
Re: swapon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can I remove KDE, and keep Gnome? (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: 'iostat' on linux (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: Do Linux ext2 partition need defrag? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
not a valid block device ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: not a valid block device (David)
Re: ruined my /etc/bashrc. Can I login? (Neil Bird)
Re: alsa (glitch)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.debian.devel
Subject: debian & RPMs
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:10:31 GMT
Hi,
Is Debian compatible with rpm?
Can I use commercial RPMs (not open-source) on a Debian machine?
Thanks
Wroot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: automated file transfer between UNIX and NT
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:34:44 GMT
I am looking for a solution to transfer files automatically between a
UNIX box and a NT box. These two boxes are connected through a LAN.
Each box has two directories, inbound & outbound. Each one send the
files in its outbound directory to another one��s inbound directory.
Does anybody know is there any shareware/freeware/third-party product
which can meet this goal? I have not selected the UNIX type, so any
UNIX, Linux/HP-UX/AIX/Solaris, whatever is OK. However the NT version
is 4.0. I would appreciate if somebody help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Can any1 tell me why I can't print postscript ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:47:36 GMT
Who ever said Peter T. Breuer couldn't write what follows?:
>> I know it works postscript, since I have already used it in the past
>
>Offer other evidence. Such as "echo showpage > /dev/lp0" causes a blank
>page to be emitted.
I think he meant that it works with postscript through a filter. Your
example is useless to anyone, because he said it printed ASCII fine.
>> Thing is : file never reach pool when I launch a print command from a
>> non ASCII origin (like, say "print" in Netscape ...) I suspect the
>
>This is irrelevant. "lpr foo.ps" is the same as "lpr foo.txt". It's
>up to your printer what it does with the result.
Nope. Up to the filter, if it's a non-PS printer. I have an Epson Stylus
600, and it's non-PS, so I'm assuming the 820 is too.
>> filter does not read okay, but i don't know which log file to look at
>
>What filter? If it's a PS printer you don't need one and you shouldn't
>have one!
But if he does have a PS printer...
>That you learn to report properly! How come you suspect you have a
>filter problem and you give us not one single hint of what your filter
>is or how it is configured? Why have you made not a single test of your
>filter on its own? A filter is an executable that takes input A and
>produces output B. What does yours do?
If he wants help, give it to him. Not everyone is a linux guru. It doesn't
hurt anyone to tell what he knows, and it really doesn't affect anyone if
this guy has or hasn't made some checks.
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what he meant.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Can any1 tell me why I can't print postscript ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:47:38 GMT
Who ever said HomerWelch couldn't write what follows?:
>process. I'm guessing you have a driver problem. There is
>a flag to get ghostscript to dump the names of its drivers.
'gs --help' does it for me.
>If your printer emulates an HP printer, try that driver.
No don't, whether your printer emulates it or not. I used uniprint, which is
probably worse, but you should probably use something along the lines of
"stcolor" or "st800" or if there is one "st820". I think the "st" stands for
"stylus color".
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what he meant.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Subject: Re: Can I remove KDE, and keep Gnome?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:47:42 GMT
Who ever said Paul Colquhoun couldn't write what follows?:
>It sure does support wildcards. Try putting several .rpm files into a separate
>folder and type "rpm -ivh *".
>
>All that will show is that the shell you are using supports wildcards.
And besides, it is only installing from files. Querying the database is a
rather different matter.
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A drama critic is a person who surprises a playwright by informing him
what he meant.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Subject: Re: install the netscape-browser !!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:47:44 GMT
Who ever said Stephen Hui couldn't write what follows?:
>IIRC, you would install the netscape-common and netscape-navigator
>packages. That *should* do it (although I could be wrong; it's been a
>while since I've installed the netscape-navigator package).
>
>Hope this helps!
>Stephen.
>
Yup. Dead Right.
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such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Subject: Re: KDE Konsole
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:47:46 GMT
Who ever said John Hasler couldn't write what follows?:
>Richard writes:
>> I should have thought that by the time something gets to version 2.0 this
>> sort of problem should have been ironed out.
>
>This sort of thing is more the fault of the distribution than the upstream
>maintainers.
And his version of Mandrake appears to be up to 7.2. I would have thought
that by the time something gets to version 2.0 this sort of problem should
have been ironed out. :-)
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Command, n.:
Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in
such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Subject: Re: MANDRAKE 7.2 (modem problem)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:47:47 GMT
Who ever said Daniel Bechard couldn't write what follows?:
>Hi!,
>
>I'm a little new at this linux, actually I tried a few distribution
>and Mandrake is the one I like the most.
>
>The installation went ok but my modem does not work (U.S Robotics 56k
>Fax Ext) i get this error message:
>" Could not find the ppp daemon! Make sure that pppd is installed."
>
In RedHat, you would install the pppd package, and it'll all be done for
you. The package (on the cdrom or install image or whatever) is
RedHat/RPMS/pppd-<VersionNumber>.rpm
type 'rpm -ihv <PackageFileName>' to install it.
Mandrake ought to be similar to RedHat. It's based thereupon.
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Command, n.:
Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in
such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Subject: The disadvantage of the 'fmt' program
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:47:58 GMT
Hello,
I have found a rather annoying disadvantage of the fmt program. The
problem lies in things like numbered lists, or a poem, or anything that
requires lines to end at a certain point, and a new line to start at a
certain point. For example: (an email header)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fmt prog has a bug which formats my harddrive instead of a text file
Gets formatted to:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fmt prog has a
bug which formats my harddrive instead of a text file
I can work around specific situations like this, if I know what the
string at the beginning of the line is (i.e. From:, To:, and Subject:), with
a small script. However, I won't always, of course.
After thinking for a bit, I've decided that if I could get fmt not
to operate on lines which are shorter than the wrap length, it would serve
my purpose.
Does anyone know of a way to get fmt to do this? Any ideas for a
simple script which would preprocess the file before sending it to fmt?
I've also tried writing my own script to do something like what fmt
does, but gave up probably a bit too soon. I'll try that again too, I think.
Any ideas here would be appreciated too.
Thanks in advance for help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Subject: Re: using elm with pop3 and smtp.....??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:48:00 GMT
Who ever said Lee soonki couldn't write what follows?:
>Is is possible to use elm like outlook express?
>Namely, Can elm fetch mails from a remote mail server using pop3?
>Can elm send mails to a remote mail server using smtp?
Never used elm, so I don't know. Type 'man elm', and 'man sendmail' to see
if you can find out anything.
>If possible, how can I configurate elm?
Again, I don't know about elm itself, but that is not generally the linux
way, I think. What you probably want is fetchmail, a separate program which
gets mail from just about any type of mail server there is, and stores it in
whatever mailbox you tell it to. Type 'man fetchmail' for more info. You'll
have to do a bit of fiddling around with it to make it work smoothly with
your email reader (elm.)
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THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #10: SIMPLE
SIMPLE is an acronym for Sheer Idiot's Monopurpose Programming Language
Environment. This language, developed at the Hanover College for
Technological Misfits, was designed to make it impossible to write code
with errors in it. The statements are, therefore, confined to BEGIN,
END and STOP. No matter how you arrange the statements, you can't make
a syntax error. Programs written in SIMPLE do nothing useful. Thus
they achieve the results of programs written in other languages without
the tedious, frustrating process of testing and debugging.
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From: Ulrich Windl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: Setting my hardware clock to atomic clock?
Date: 21 Dec 2000 08:16:22 +0100
Bob Bawcutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Hi,
> I'm also trying to have my hardware clock use the net for updates but I'm a new bee
>and
> therefore limited - for now.
> I tried the two command mentioned in this thread (rdate & ntpdate) from a Konsole
>but neither
> command was found. I'm running 7.1 so maybe that makes a difference.
You were "root", were you? These commands may be is a special
directory like /usr/sbin, so an ordinary user won't use them by
default. If you were root, have you checked whether your installation
media has additional network add-ons? I know this sounds trivial, but
you said you are a beginner.
rdate is available from many sources. Use a search engine to find some.
When desperate try http://www.ntp.org/ for a great time ;-)
> Any suggests? I'd like to just get it to run from a command line first then move up
>to a cron
> job later. Oh ya, I'm on cable so I don't run PPP.
> Thanks in advance the help
>
> Regards,
> Bob
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From: morpheus_w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 'iostat' on linux
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:30:05 -0000
Is there any 'iostat' alike command on RedHat Linux ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: swapon
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:29:09 GMT
Hi,
When I boot up, swapon fails.
Same thing, when I manually do
swapon -a
or
swapon -v /dev/sda7
it tells me that
/dev/sda7 is an invalid argument
Why???
I got "/dev/sda7" from /etc/fstab, which was obviously written
automatically when I installed RH7.0.
How can I go about trying to handle this error?
Thanks in advance!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowe Keller)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.debian.devel
Subject: Re: debian & RPMs
Date: 20 Dec 2000 22:32:13 -0800
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:10:31 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is Debian compatible with rpm?
If you want to install software from RPMs on a Debian system, you'll
need Alien
http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/alien.html
>Can I use commercial RPMs (not open-source) on a Debian machine?
Sure, just because the fine people at Debian believe in free software
doesn't mean you have to.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dowe Keller)
Subject: Re: How to see all the cron jobs.
Date: 20 Dec 2000 22:48:21 -0800
Thaddeus L Olczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Title says it all. As root I want to see all the cronjobs scheduled.
>Right now I only see root's jobs ( of which there are none ).
>Can anyone help?
if your using bash:
for i in `cat /etc/passwd`
do
user=`echo $i | cut -d: -f1`
crontab -u $user -l # the -u option allows root to check out
# another user's crontab.
done
Hope this helps.
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: swapon
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:26:06 +0100
> When I boot up, swapon fails.
> Same thing, when I manually do
> swapon -a
> or
> swapon -v /dev/sda7
> it tells me that
> /dev/sda7 is an invalid argument
>
> Why???
>
> I got "/dev/sda7" from /etc/fstab, which was obviously written
> automatically when I installed RH7.0.
>
> How can I go about trying to handle this error?
>
Too little information.
Post the output of `fdisk -l /dev/sda`
I wouldn't try to run mkswap yet. Your partitiontable may be wrong.
Eric
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alias under Bash shell not working.
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:31:17 +0100
> .bash_profile:
> alias l='ls -al'
>
Don't use single quotes. Use " instead
Put this in:
alias l="\ls -al"
and now do
`. $HOME/.bashrc`
This will source .bashrc, so you don't have to reboot for the changes to
take effect. You know this is linux!!! Rebooting is what you had to do in
windows.
Now all you need to do is use the correct command :-)
Eric
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From: jabba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: swapon
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:09:55 +0300
Hi,
Try to do "fdisk -l /dev/sda", it will show right swap device,
then replace it in /etc/fstab and swapon -a.
If fdisk says that /dev/sda7 is Linux swap, try to "mkswap /dev/sda7".
JaBBa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I boot up, swapon fails.
> Same thing, when I manually do
> swapon -a
> or
> swapon -v /dev/sda7
> it tells me that
> /dev/sda7 is an invalid argument
>
> Why???
>
> I got "/dev/sda7" from /etc/fstab, which was obviously written
> automatically when I installed RH7.0.
>
> How can I go about trying to handle this error?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Wroot
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: swapon
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:57:20 GMT
In article <M6j06.44009$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > When I boot up, swapon fails.
> > Same thing, when I manually do
> > swapon -a
> > or
> > swapon -v /dev/sda7
> > it tells me that
> > /dev/sda7 is an invalid argument
> >
> > Why???
> >
> > I got "/dev/sda7" from /etc/fstab, which was obviously written
> > automatically when I installed RH7.0.
> >
> > How can I go about trying to handle this error?
> >
>
> Too little information.
> Post the output of `fdisk -l /dev/sda`
> I wouldn't try to run mkswap yet. Your partitiontable may be wrong.
>
> Eric
>
>
Disk /dev/sda7: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1912 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda7 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root@cuagpj /etc]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4427 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4 32098+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 5 4427 35527747+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2898 4172 10241406 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 4173 4427 2048256 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda7 5 1917 15366109+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 1918 2897 7871818+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk
order
=======
Turns out, when I reinstalle linux on this machine, I used the old I
copied the old fstab file with the wrong swap entry.
Thanks!!!
Wroot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Subject: Re: Can I remove KDE, and keep Gnome?
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:17:08 GMT
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 06:47:42 GMT, Bryan Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Who ever said Paul Colquhoun couldn't write what follows?:
Statement 1
|>It sure does support wildcards. Try putting several .rpm files into a separate
|>folder and type "rpm -ivh *".
|>
Statement 2
|>All that will show is that the shell you are using supports wildcards.
Your additional content
|And besides, it is only installing from files. Querying the database is a
|rather different matter.
Can you be a little more careful with attributions and quoting levels.
While I did make Statement 2 above, it was in reply to Statement 1,
which was made by another poster.
Your creatively edited post claims I made both statments, one after
the other, claiming 2 different things.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Subject: Re: 'iostat' on linux
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:17:09 GMT
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:30:05 -0000, morpheus_w <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Is there any 'iostat' alike command on RedHat Linux ?
My installation of RedHat 7.0 has an actual 'iostat' command.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Do Linux ext2 partition need defrag?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:07:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My view is that if you are really running a single user machine with
> relatively few processes actively using the disk, the fragmentation
> does not matter much because the machine can do something else while
> waiting for the seeks to complete.
Though I don't agree with that, perhaps I may shorten the discussion a
little bit by referring to the original question and answers. Maybe we
agree on that: no filesystem _has_to_ be defragmented to keep it
working, neither ext2fs nor NTFS. But fragmentation _does_ occur (at
both filesystems). At least that is, what responsible tools show. People
who say there is no fragmentation at all probably haven't used such
tools at all. So, when viewing only the filesystem level (that's what I
did), defragmentation may help maintain performance. Applications may
still evade these benefits by their way of working.
It should be a different issue, whether you consider defragmentation a
useful or useless procedure at all (off-topic for this forum, I
believe). But the measures are not much different between NTFS and
ext2fs (at the filesystem level). If you consider defragmentation a
reasonable organizational measure under NTFS, the same should apply to
ext2fs. It's definitely not the case, that ext2fs is a
fragmentation-free filesystem. If you felt, that defragmentation helped
you under NT, it should most probably do also under Linux. At least
there are optimizations which can be achieved by a defragmentation tool.
If optimizations can make a system faster or even slower is another
(mostly weird, I believe) discussion, isn't it? {I-S
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: not a valid block device
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:12:11 GMT
Hi,
After compiling a new kernel, I get this
mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a valid block device
error after I do
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
I didn't find anything mentioning IOMEGA Zip drive in
"make xconfig / Block Devices", so maybe I missed something.
Help
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: not a valid block device
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:36:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After compiling a new kernel, I get this
>
> mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a valid block device
>
> error after I do
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip
>
> I didn't find anything mentioning IOMEGA Zip drive in
> "make xconfig / Block Devices", so maybe I missed something.
>
> Help
>
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You have to make a "ext2" file system on the disk.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive-5.html#ss5.1
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From: Neil Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ruined my /etc/bashrc. Can I login?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:36:50 +0000
Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> > If you switch to runlevel 1 (or whatever runlevel "single user mode" is
> > in your distribution), you should be dumped into /bin/sh, IIRC.
>
> You better not be running Red Hat, then. In my Red Hat Linux 6.0,
> /bin/sh is a symbolic link that points to (you guessed it) /bin/bash.
I wondered that. I think you're better of with (from the LILO prompt,
which you'll get if you don't normally see it by holding CTRL or SHIFT
during/after BIOS bootup, and assuming your linux boot config. is called
'linux' - hit TAB at the LILO prompt for the list of what's available) :
LILO: linux s init=/bin/csh (or /bin/tcsh)
That'll give you *nothing* but you csh process [if it works]! But it
should be enough to cd & mv the duff bashrc out of the way. You will
almost certainly have to manually mount /usr, though! (just 'mount /usr'
may work).
This is all off the top of my head, so it may not be right verbatim!
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 02:43:41 -0500
From: glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa
Hi Jason,
well, I was in the middle of getting together a file that contained the
info you requested (linux is on my laptop and not on this computer i'm
using now) and the first thing I was getting together was the contents
of my modules.conf file. I was deleting all but the first 10 lines or so
of the file since they were irrelevant and I noticed as I was deleting
the last cuople lines there were comments put there to not edit the
lines and tha they were put there by the ALSA install. I looked at the
original modules.conf and sure enough at the end of the file ALSA had
put in its own commands to setup my sound card. Unfortunately it was
modprobing the wrong chipset (I always wondered why I was seeing the
opla32 driver being mentioned in various logs). So i replaced that line
with the ymfpci driver I have in my laptop. After I did that I was able
to open up the mixers, at least with KDE's mixer; the OSS mixer still
won't open but I don't care.
The bad news is that even with the new version of ALSA installed my
sound still doesn't work right so I guess I'll have to wait for yet
another version.
If the ALSA install had told me it was going to edit modules.conf for me
and to make sure the settings were ok I would have done so but it says
in the INSTALL file for you to edit the modules.conf file yourself.
Stupid idiots.
But thanks for your indirect help. At least I was able to get closure
knowing whether the newest version of ALSA works or not.
Jason Byrne wrote:
>
> "glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I also get the following error when tryign to run 'alsamixer' : Failed
> > to open mixer #0/#0: no such file or directory. So where is it looking
> > for the mixer at??
> >
> > Alsasound is running however looking at /proc/asound shows all files are
> > empty so ther eisn't a card being loaded. I thought when I modprobed all
> > the modules it loads all the appropriate files(in /proc/asound) with
> > info?
>
> it would probably help if you posted your /etc/modules.conf, your efforts to
> load the modules (scripts, whatever), the output of /sbin/lsmod - and what
> sound card you happen to have.
>
> off the top of my head... it's better to use modprobe to load things...
> since alsa has a lot of dependencies between the different modules.
>
> also... did you run the 'snddevices' script when you ran through the alsa
> install?
>
> - Jason
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