Linux-Misc Digest #824, Volume #26 Mon, 15 Jan 01 16:13:04 EST
Contents:
bad hardware. ("Kenny@BUI")
Re: lower case text command (Anthony Ewell)
new on SJC ("Jurgen Roels")
editing netscape preferences- help needed (Jason)
What starts Configure Desktop in KDE? How to Restore Control Center? (Jason Bond)
Re: Command Line Napster Client? ("Ken Liu")
install kernel from rpm fails ( doesn't boot ) ("Vito")
Re: Help: New SCSI Card, Old can still scanned (freedman)
Re: vmware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Tips from Compaq/Linux users? (Christopher Michael Collins)
Re: Which prog for streaming (Tobias Schenk)
What is the community's favorite news reader (and why)? (the softrat)
tools for disabled people (Tobias Schenk)
Re: vmware (Tobias Schenk)
Re: vmware
Re: Linux on Athlon (Tobias Schenk)
distribution recommendation? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: can't print to the screen with gs (fwd) (Rainer Heilke)
OT: Linux IDE RAID Cards (Tobias Schenk)
Netscape 4.7X (Kevin)
Re: Linux on Athlon (John Peach)
no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( redhat 6.2 ) ("Fu")
Re: Term emulator with *real* keypad emulation? (Thomas Dickey)
no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( red hat 6.2 ) ("Fu")
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From: "Kenny@BUI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bad hardware.
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:12:20 -0500
hello,
assume we have linux running on a server and we are connecting to it using a
terminal
emulator from a windows client to run programs, assume again that our
windows pc
is old and very flaky (freezes a lot etc. bad ram etc.) how will this affect
the data on the linux box since we are running a time sharing system and all
we are doing is connecting to the box and sending screen and keyboard
emulations, while the actual processes are being run on the linux server.
thank you,
kenny.
ps. sorry for double posting this topic.
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:17:31 -0800
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: lower case text command
Hi Erik,
Thank you!
--Tony
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
> ? Does anyone now of a perl, awk, sed or other command that
> ? will let me change upper case letter to lower case letters?
> ?
> ? Before: ABCDE
> ? After: abcde
>
> man tr
>
> --
> Erik Max Francis / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.alcyone.com/max/
> __ San Jose, CA, US / 37 20 N 121 53 W / ICQ16063900 / ?tSftDotIotE
> / \ No one should have to dance backward all their lives.
> \__/ Jill Ruckelshaus
> Physics reference / http://www.alcyone.com/max/reference/physics/
> A physics reference.
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From: "Jurgen Roels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new on SJC
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:25:48 +0100
Linux Mandracke The Expirience of Frederik now on SJC visit
http://start.sjc-gent.be/real/
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http://www.sjc-gent.be
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From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: editing netscape preferences- help needed
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:22:54 -0500
I am running Netscape 4.5 on a Linux computer. I want to set it up so
that when I download a gzipped postscript file, ghostview automatically
runs to view the file. This works for me as root, but logged in as a
user it does not work. In fact, when I edit my netscape preferences as
a user, they are not saved. It seems to me this is likely caused by a
file permission error or something. can Anyone give me some pointers on
how to resolve this problem.
Thanks,
Jason
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From: Jason Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What starts Configure Desktop in KDE? How to Restore Control Center?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:27:55 -0500
I've hosed my Control Center in KDE 2...I've erased something(s) and now
the control center window pops up but there are no entires in it. How
does one
restore this. Also, when one right clicks on the desktop in kde 2,
there is aconfigure desktop entry, but when I click it nothing
happens...what is the
program that it tries to run, so that I might try to run it in the
consol and see why it is failing. Thanks,
Jason
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From: "Ken Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Command Line Napster Client?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:28:53 -0500
There is a command-line only napster client called Nap.
You can probably find it on www.freshmeat.net or www.rpmfind.net
It's got a pretty high learning curve, but once you get used to it,
its really fast and easy.
Hope this helps.
Ken
M.Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93spq6$n3q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm looking for a command line Napster client.
>
> I've used both GTKNap and gnapster. Neither provides command line
> interface.
>
> Is there such a beast?
>
> -Michael
>
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From: "Vito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install kernel from rpm fails ( doesn't boot )
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:32:34 +0100
Hello,
I installed kernel-2.4.0-0.43.12-i686.rpm, not as an upgrade but
additional to 2.2.16-22. But when I boot from the new kernel I get this:
request-modules[block-major-3]: root fs not mounted
VFS:cannot open root device "305" or 03:05
please append a correct "root= " boot option
kernel panic: VFS : unable to mount root fs on 03:05
.... and booting stops, I just have to reset the puter.
This is part of my lilo.conf :
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0-0.43.12
label=new_linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda5
Notice that 2.2.16-22 works with no probs and also starts with
root=/dev/hda5
All help welcome.
Thanks
Vito ( from Flanders - Belgium )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (freedman)
Subject: Re: Help: New SCSI Card, Old can still scanned
Date: 15 Jan 2001 19:39:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:55:33 GMT, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:15:36 GMT, George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Help
>> >
>> >System
>> >
>> >RedHat 7.0, P200, 132 Ram, 1 Gig IDE, SCSI CDROM and HardDrives
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Removed Future Domain SCSI Card (seagate driver).
>> >
>> >Installed a BusLogic SCSI Card
>> >
>> >With KDE setup for BusLogic Card, deleted seagate
>> >
>> >On boot it still looks for the seagate card
>> >On boot NEVER looks for the BusLogic card
>> >
>> >???? How can I fix this ????
>> >
>> >I booted the system off an install floppy disk, used the driver disk
>> >and indicated that I had a local CDROM, selected BusLogic SCSI and
>> >Anaconda came right up. Indicated that I wanted an upgrade using
>> >the Buslogic SCSI driver for my CDROM. When the process completed
>> >I thought that it would fix the problem.
>> >On boot still uses the seagate and never the BusLogic.
>> >
>> >Suggestions !!!!
>> >
>> >
>> >George
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >Sent via Deja.com
>> >http://www.deja.com/
>>
>> You probably need to change your /etc/conf.modules ( or modules.conf)
>file to
>> load the correct module for your new card. look for line with
>> scsi_host_adapter.
>
>In rhe file /etc/modules.conf there is an alias option for
>BusLogic.
>
>This appears to do nothing. The system is always looking for
>the seagate driver, is this somekind of default ?
>
>George
>
>
>> --
>> Dick Freedman
>>
>>
>
>
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I am aware of no defaults for scsi. You (as root) might do a
grep -r nameoftheseagatemodule in the /etc directory to see if it in any
setup file. Is the Seagate module compiled into the Kernel? Also, do things
work if you load your module using the modprobe command. Finally, are you
sure the subject module is resident on your system?
--
Dick Freedman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vmware
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:38:00 GMT
Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> VMware works quite well, you will need a relatively fast machine and a
> decent amount of memory.
I'll second that, and provide two other options:
If you do not mind another machine, but don't want the second
monitor and keyboard on your desk, look into VNC from
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ It's free software that lets you
view a Windows desktop in a window under X, or, working the other way,
an X desktop in a window (or full-screen) under Windows. It's not as
fast as being on the console, but it's faster than vmware is on my
450MHz K6-2 with 256M of RAM (which is quite usable).
I've not tried it, but I've read about a less expensive alternative to
vmware called win4lin, at http://www.netraverse.com/ It looks
interesting.
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=================== http://www.buchanan1.net/ ==========================
"Sing me a song, you're a singer, Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil.
The devil is never a maker, the less that you give, you're a taker."
-Ronnie James Dio
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Michael Collins)
Subject: Re: Tips from Compaq/Linux users?
Date: 15 Jan 2001 19:54:12 GMT
net name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone successfully used linux on a presario 1610? If so,
>>
>>Get as much RAM as you can afford, and you'll be fine
I installed Linux on my Compaq Presario 1685 this
weekend. I used ManDrake 7.2. This distribution
comes with Linux 2.2.17, I needed the newer 2.2.18
kernel to properly use my Synaptics Touchpad PS/2
mouse. I downloaded the newest 2.2.x kernel and
recompiled it on my 1685. Everything works, except
DVD movies. I also used ALSA for my sound system.
Slackware 7.1 allows you to do the smallest, tightest
most customized installation, but it requires more
reading and learning and decision making. Use it as
soon as you are comfortable with configuring linux
and you will be able to maximize linux on your
Presario 1610.
--Chris
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From: Tobias Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which prog for streaming
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:01:30 +0100
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:41:54 +0100, Michael Heiming
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You quite right with backups on large systems where you have
>robots/jukeboxes that change tapes automagically.
>
>But from the original poster it doesn't sound as if he has such
>enviroment, with only a couple of server you can
>easily go the way I described, as a human has always to change the
>tapes....:-(
>
>
>Michael Heiming
You are right. Our LAN is very small. So we have no robots apart from
me ;-). But in the meantime another problem came up. Nowadays hard
disks big and cheap. Since the workstations have those >40GB, how to
keep up with an 12GB streamer?
I thought it would be good to make a complete backup by using drive
image because they are win-boxes and stream the created file. But also
I think streaming that spans multiple tape is a bad idea. Even if I
partition the win clients in system / programs / data, it almost seems
to be more effecient to use changeable hard disks of massive size to
do the backup. How about this?
To top all this a colleague of mine argued that streamer tapes would
wither within months so that tapes made half a year ago could be
corrupted. I cant imagine that since IMHO tape streaming counts to the
most reliable method.
Thank you for your attention
Tobias
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From: the softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is the community's favorite news reader (and why)?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:02:10 -0800
Netscrape does not have all the functionality I desire. It keeps
screwing up the message counts. It does not seem to permit block marking
of messages as read. What else is there out there that people like to
use (with Linux). Thanks for your help.
--
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From: Tobias Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tools for disabled people
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:05:52 +0100
Hi,
here im speaking for a friend of mine who is disabled. That makes it
difficult for him to use key combinations as ctrl+alt+del (I know not
so often used under linux) but also other combinations are difficult
because he can only press keys sequentially one after another.
He would use mainly KDE.
Are there any tools to open the wide world of linux to him?
Or pages where help could be found?
Thank you
Tobias
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From: Tobias Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vmware
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:11:49 +0100
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:09:04 -0500, "Chip Piller"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>VMware works quite well, you will need a relatively fast machine and a
>decent amount of memory.
>Hope this helps,
>Chip
>
A colleague of mine told that vmware 2.0 works very slow on his
machine though it is PIII-800 256MB RAM.
What is your experience? Is his machine simply bad configured or do
one need more power than this to run vmware smoothly?
Tobias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: vmware
Date: 15 Jan 2001 14:08:17 -0600
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:11:49 +0100, Tobias Schenk
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:09:04 -0500, "Chip Piller"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>>VMware works quite well, you will need a relatively fast machine and a
>>decent amount of memory.
>>Hope this helps,
>>Chip
>>
>A colleague of mine told that vmware 2.0 works very slow on his
>machine though it is PIII-800 256MB RAM.
>What is your experience? Is his machine simply bad configured or do
>one need more power than this to run vmware smoothly?
I have vmware running on a 128mb PIII-500. It runs fine; faster than
windoze 95 does natively on a 200mhz pentium.
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From: Tobias Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:18:29 +0100
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:12:19 +1100, Pat Heuvel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Gday Eric,
>
>Eric Headley wrote:
>>
>> I am thinking of buying a new machine with an Athlon chip instead of a
>> Pentium 4. Are there any problems with running Linux on Athlon ?
>>
>
>Absolutely - you'll never want to log off - your SO will crack the sads
>and you'll be in deep doo-doo. The mongrel thing screams.
>
Could you please translate that so that a poor german can understand
it. You talk to me in riddles.
Thank you
Tobias.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: distribution recommendation?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:12:20 GMT
Can someone recommend a distribution that can do this:
firewall
IP Masq w/VPN support
apache webserver
Perl
this is for a DSL circuit.
Thanks!
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: Rainer Heilke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.postscript,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: can't print to the screen with gs (fwd)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:32:29 -0700
Also, don't forget that some "professional" Unices have X-Windows with
Display PS. This was one of the beauties about NeXT, for example (though
I could never afford one at the time...).
Rainer Heilke
Bob Hauck wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 16:37:42 GMT, Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Whenever I execute the command gs -q -sOutputFile=- <file.ps> in a
> >text console, the screen flickers wildly until I press Ctl-C.
>
> That would be because gs is sending output to standard out, which is
> your screen. Said output is probably some binary bitmap format.
>
> >Can anyone point me in the right direction for printing to stdout?
>
> You're doing it right, but probably for the wrong reason. What are you
> trying to do? If you want to view ps on a text screen, then you need
> something like ps2ascii.
>
> >If we're not meant to print to the screen with ghostscript outside of
> >x-windows, why would the above command even be described in the man page?
>
> Because you may want to use gs in a pipeline.
>
> --
> -| Bob Hauck
> -| To Whom You Are Speaking
> -| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: Tobias Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OT: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:43:07 +0100
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:41:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post) wrote:
>>Before doing this I ran a lot of benchmarks using
>>bonnie++ and in a striped/mirrored configuration we see speeds comparable
>>or faster than a single Ultra160 75 GB 10krpm seagate drive. We saw even
>>better speeds with 60 GB IBM IDE drives attached to the 3ware controller,
>>but decided we wanted capacity over speed for our application.
A little off topic:
Isnt that an evidence that SCSI is no longer the superior technology?
What makes these devices apart from IDE devices?
I think it is the same hardware using another hardware interface. And
therefore one should be as reliable as the other.
Apart from the ability to attach more than four drives what justifies
the higher price? I dont want to sound polemic but Im truly interested
in arguments since I have an SCSI system and have to hold against my
colleagues.
Thank you
Tobias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Netscape 4.7X
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:42:43 GMT
I've noticed something odd with netscape 4.7x, where "x" is any
digit they've released. At some point during a netscape session,
links quit working -- that is, clicking on a link only changes
the color of the link but doesn't actually take me to the link.
I can't remember seeing this with 4.7, but all of the versions
since then seem to have this behavior. In order to get good
behavior, I have to quit, then kill, then restart netscape.
Anyone else notice this? Anyone got a workaround?
Thanks....
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opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Peach)
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:44:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tobias Schenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:12:19 +1100, Pat Heuvel
|><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|>
|>>Gday Eric,
|>>
|>>Eric Headley wrote:
|>>>
|>>> I am thinking of buying a new machine with an Athlon chip instead of a
|>>> Pentium 4. Are there any problems with running Linux on Athlon ?
|>>>
|>>
|>>Absolutely - you'll never want to log off - your SO will crack the sads
|>>and you'll be in deep doo-doo. The mongrel thing screams.
|>>
|>Could you please translate that so that a poor german can understand
|>it. You talk to me in riddles.
Never mind German; I'm British, living in the US and I don't understand
it :-(
|>
|>Thank you
|>
|>Tobias.
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From: "Fu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,git.unix.linux
Subject: no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( redhat 6.2 )
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:56:17 -0500
i have been able to configure my realtek 8029as chipset nic on eth0 with
ne2k-pci. however when i try to load the module for my sound card, it tells
me no device found ( paraphrased ) but i can see my sound card in /proc/pci
has been given an irq of 10.
any suggestions?? assume that i didn't try your idea.
thanks in advance again.
--
know Jesus, know peace... no Jesus, no peace.
fu
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Term emulator with *real* keypad emulation?
Date: 15 Jan 2001 21:01:01 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Roger Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a terminal emulator for X that accurately emulates the VT100
> application keypad, including the use of NumLock as the DEC "Gold"
> editing key?
> I'm trying to install my favorite text editor, "ED," which is a clone
> of the old DEC EDT editor. (Available via anonymous ftp from clio.rice.edu.)
> This editor makes extensive use of the numeric keypad in application mode,
> unfortunately all of the terminal emulators I've tried so far don't
> seem to properly emulate the keypad, particularly that pesky Gold key.
> (Though the Linux console does, ED works fine from a text-mode console.)
Linux console doesn't do the keypad properly either...
> Thus far I've tried xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole, and e-term along
> with their various keyboard settings where available, and no luck so far;
> the only way I can make ED work properly is to switch to one of the
> text-mode consoles.
I'd simply switch xterm into vt220-keyboard mode and use that (the
default is PC-style).
The XFree86 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
There's an faq at
http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html
ftp://dickey.his.com/xterm
(ymmv - some distributors clutter up the xmodmap and X resources with
things that make it unusable on a VMS system).
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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From: "Fu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,git.unix.linux
Subject: no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( red hat 6.2 )
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:58:25 -0500
i have been able to configure my realtek 8029as chipset nic on eth0 with
ne2k-pci. however when i try to load the module for my sound card, it tells
me no device found ( paraphrased ) but i can see my sound card in /proc/pci
has been given an irq of 10.
any suggestions?? assume that i didn't try your idea.
thanks in advance again.
--
know Jesus, know peace... no Jesus, no peace.
fu
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