Linux-Misc Digest #853, Volume #26 Thu, 18 Jan 01 23:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux on a 64MB flash disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: why can't i find any good GUI file managers? ("dom")
Re: open-source Visio app? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on Athlon ("Horst Simon")
Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux? ("Dave C.")
Re: Future of Linux (Michael Heiming)
Re: RH 6/7 targeted by (Ramen) worm ("Buck Turgidson")
ISP Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problems with Netscape 4.75 and the email addressbook (Blake LeBaron)
dmesg (Harry)
Bios upgrade in linux (Warren Bell)
Questions with Cisco Arrowpoint Intelligent Director (Hung Ngoc Lai)
Re: Cannot load ppa module for ParallelPort ZipDrive (Dances With Crows)
Modem problem with 2.4.0 (Scott)
Re: Bios upgrade in linux (David)
Re: PostgreSQL table access ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: open-source Visio app? (Victor Wagner)
Re: Cannot load ppa module for ParallelPort ZipDrive ("lobotomy")
Re: The Future of Corel Linux (John Hasler)
Re: Help w/ Amptron MB/C-Media 8738 sound ("lobotomy")
Re: subroutines in bash? ("William Shotts")
Re: audio tape to mp3 (Frank Hahn)
Re: The Future of Corel Linux (Andrew Purugganan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject: Re: Linux on a 64MB flash disk
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:58:58 GMT
> 64MB, so I'm wondering if anyone have suggestions on a Linux
> distribution I can use.
Try free cross-platform embedded linux distributor at
http:// www.mvista.com
You won't be sorry :)
> -Nils Magne
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From: "dom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: why can't i find any good GUI file managers?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:13:43 -0500
I use XWC (XWIN Commander) Very simple interface, stable, fast, looks alot
like that ole windows explorer (please forgive me :-)
You can probably find it at rpmfind.net or do an online search, they surely have a
web page. It comes with mandrake 7.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <944p8c$ko0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Anurodh Pokharel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i use linux with window maker as the primary OS on my system. But for
> some reason, i cant find any file managers that i could use with eas
> for ordinary stuff that you day to day. i dunno it might just be me
> but i toyed around with stuff on freshmeat and a search in google but
> nothing is fast nor easy to use. there are so many but often it happens
> to be either slow or just very user unfriendly. I hate to say it but i
> am beginning to appreciate that old win95 explorer more and more right
> now.
> But that can't be true there's gotta be something out there. My system
> is PII 266 with 32 MB RAM. I use Linux with only the stuff i need and
> want becaue it is fast and the general trend with everything is that
> the linux counter part is faster and more reliable than that on windows
> and i'd really hate to go back to that monster. Can someone point me in
> the right direction on this.. thanks
> -Anurodh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.visio,comp.os.linux.development.apps,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: open-source Visio app?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:17:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine) wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.development.apps, buddy_holly
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote
> on Wed, 17 Jan 2001 11:33:07 -0900
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >Is there anything like Visio that runs on Linux?
> >
> >thanks in advance to any help
>
> Xfig isn't too bad. Dunno where you can get it, but it's freeware.
Try:
www.xfig.org
;^)
Jack Walker
>
> >
> >
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- insert random misquote here
> EAC code #191 6d:01h:25m actually running Linux.
> Darn. Just when this message was getting good,
too.
>
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From: "Horst Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:30:23 +1100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dirk Groeneveld"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> Well, the least I can think of is that i've heard that linux doesn't
> support the second ide-driver on the ASUS A7V mainboard ... couldn't
> quite
> believe it and didn't try it either.
>
> Maybe it was something like you couldn't boot from it ... sorry, to the
> best of my recollection, i can't recall ;-)
>
> Dirk
I have an A7V with a DURON and an ATA100 IDE drive on the 2nd (PROMISE)
Controller and running SuSE7.0 and W2K.
For W2K I had to move my disk to the standard IDE controller install WK2
and the promise driver, before I could use the drive on the promise
controller. Not so for SuSE 7.0, it has a bootdisk image, which includes
support for the promise controller and I could install SuSE without
changing to the standard IDE controller..
There is no problem booting from this controller
Horst
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From: "Dave C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.misc,alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Full-featured, reliable POP-mail client for Linux?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:31:39 GMT
Spruce! (Gnome email client). Been using it for as long as I can remember.
Runs great on KDE, if Gnome is also installed. That is, you don't have to
run gnome if you don't want to, but Spruce kicks butt as far as email
oes. -Dave
--
On linuxfreemail dot com, I am user "spamfilter".
<markbilk> wrote in message news:93l3gv$mcm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm running SuSE Linux 6.4, and the KDE 1 and kmail 1.0.28 that came
> with it. kmail (but nothing else) crashes every few days when fetching
> POP-mail, freezing X(-windows) and requiring a reboot and fsck; none of
> the escapes to text mode work. It often crashes when fetching spam
> containing Big-5 (Chinese) text, but can be killed and restarted. Worst
> of all (in addition to a few more failure modes) it sometimes deletes
> mail on its own initiative. I'd upgrade kmail to its latest version,
> but, according to the kmail website, to do that I'd also have to
> upgrade to KDE 2, which I'd rather not take the time for at the moment.
>
> I'm seeking recommendations for a POP-mail client that has the features
> of kmail -- multiple mbox files ("folders") into which I can move a set
> of selected messages from inbox with only a few key- or mouse-strokes,
> address book, spam filters, multiple sort modes, attachment and MIME
> capability, and compatibility with KDE 1. It doesn't need a builtin
> editor -- I'd be happy to use the one in Midnight Commander. Most of
> all I want it to handle my mail safely, not discarding anything I don't
> tell it to (and even having a "trashcan" where it puts mail I do tell it
> to discard, so I can change my mind). I'd like one that can check at
> least one POP-mail account automatically every few minutes (without
> crashing, of course).
>
> I'm very leery of kmail at this point, but I guess I'd be ok with a later
> version that's known to have fixed these problems, and works with KDE 1.
> Eudora or Pegasus Mail would be great, but they've not been ported to
> Linux. I used to use Elm with Unix, but it doesn't have the features
> and convenience of kmail or Eudora. I don't care whether it's X- or
> curses-based (I still use lynx when I don't need the features of
> Netscape), but I'd rather, e.g., select a destination mbox file from a
> menu than type in its name each time.
>
> I could spend a week trying every MUA in linux.davecentral, but
reliability
> would still be a question. So I'm asking for recommendations from folks
> who've been using a program for at least a couple of months and who know
> that it fulfills the above (admittedly long and picky) wishlist.
>
> Heartfelt thanks in advance!
>
> Mark S Bilk, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:21:52 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Future of Linux
thomas wrote:
> Hello to all,
> especially Steve who asking for hotest news about Corels new buisines
> strategy. Recently I read that Corel avoids to make a clear announcement
> towards finishing the Linux branch in favour for the new Net- strategy of
> MS.
> But I think the next days things will clear up, i.e. if Linux branch will
> be sold to (I have forgotte to whom)
>
> Cheers
> Thomas
Hello,
I read your subject but don't understand what you mean?
What has the future of Linux with Corel or even M$ todo?
As long as there are people around writting all those great GNU/GPL kernel,
apps and
HW producer willing to give specs out....
Thank god it's friday today...:-)
Michael Heiming
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6/7 targeted by (Ramen) worm
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:36:18 GMT
No explosions intended. Just wanted for people to look out for the script kiddies. I
use RH myself.
"Joshua Baker-LePain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:946qod$rln$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Buck Turgidson wrote:
> >>
> >> I ran across this on CNet today, in case anyone is interested.
> >>
> >> http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eBRa0H8Od0U0Z4Qs
>
> > Yeah, thanks. That's what I was hit with a few days ago
> > that I asked about.
>
> Just to clarify before this thread explodes into an anti-RedHat flamefest,
> this worm exploits (on RH6.2) vulnerabilities in wu-ftpd and rpc.statd --
> vulnerabilities which have had fixes released since June 23rd and July 21st,
> respectively.
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ISP Problem
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:38:52 GMT
I have 3ISPs. All the three are working in win98 well. In linux RH6.2,
two ISps are working. Third ISp gave windows autoinstall package.
I have installed it in windows and got the normal user username and
password. The same is working in windows. I have configured it in linux
using RHPPPDialer with same username, passwiord and telephone number. I
checked the wvdial.conf file in /etc/. I didn't
find anydifferance. Still it doesn't work in linux.
FirstISP:
For ETH connection I get like this. IP numbers are changed by me.
Jan 13 08:08:00 lvghomepc pppd[921]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan 13 08:08:08 lvghomepc kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Jan 13 08:08:08 lvghomepc kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module
registered
Jan 13 08:08:08 lvghomepc pppd[921]: local IP address x.x.x.x
Jan 13 08:08:08 lvghomepc pppd[921]: remote IP address x.x.x.x.
Second ISP:
For VSNL connection I get like this. IP numbers are changed by me.
Jan 12 06:48:01 lvghomepc pppd[1803]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan 12 06:48:08 lvghomepc kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Jan 12 06:48:09 lvghomepc kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module
registered
Jan 12 06:48:09 lvghomepc pppd[1803]: local IP address x.x.x.x
Jan 12 06:48:09 lvghomepc pppd[1803]: remote IP address x.x.x.x
For third ISP:
For HCLINFINET connection I get like this.
Jan 14 06:10:35 lvghomepc kernel: registered device ppp0
Jan 14 06:10:35 lvghomepc pppd[930]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Jan 14 06:10:35 lvghomepc pppd[930]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 14 06:10:35 lvghomepc pppd[930]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Jan 14 06:10:59 lvghomepc kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered
Jan 14 06:10:59 lvghomepc kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module
registered
Jan 14 06:10:59 lvghomepc pppd[930]: Could not determine remote IP
address
Jan 14 06:11:05 lvghomepc pppd[930]: Connection terminated.
Jan 14 06:11:05 lvghomepc pppd[930]: Connect time 0.4 minutes.
Jan 14 06:11:05 lvghomepc pppd[930]: Sent 481 bytes, received 261 byte
Jan 14 06:11:05 lvghomepc pppd[930]: Exit
I have tried in terminal also. I got the foolwing lines in terminal.
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Sun Jan 14 06:10:35 2001
--> PPP daemon has died! (exit code = 10)
--> Disconnecting at Sun Jan 14 06:11:05 2001
--> Auto Reconnect will be attempted in 5 seconds
--> pppd error! Look at files in /var/log for an explanation.
I tried with kppp also. I get same log messages as for wvdial in
/var/log/messages.
How to get connected to HCLINFINET. Any solutions.
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From: Blake LeBaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with Netscape 4.75 and the email addressbook
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:14:13 GMT
I'm using netscape 4.75 under RH 7.0. I seem to be unable to get my own
personal address book functioning. I put addresses in, and I have the
preferences set to look for names in my own address book, but it doesn't
find them.
When I change it to use the netscape general address books it works ok,
but I don't want their giant address book.
Is the best solution just to upgrade Netscape to the latest version?
Also, where are the best sources for netscape documentation on the web?
I often find the help info related to the windows version, and not the
linux version.
Blake LeBaron
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dmesg
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:11:27 +0000
Can anyone point me to a document that describes the linux boot
process in detail (ie a work through the lines of dmesg, I suppose)?
Many thanks
Harry
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From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bios upgrade in linux
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:12:56 -0800
I want to upgrade my bios on a machine that's just running Linux. The
MB company has the flash utility and the .bin file but the utility is an
.exe file. How do I boot to and run that to upgrade the bios under
Linux?
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From: Hung Ngoc Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Questions with Cisco Arrowpoint Intelligent Director
Date: 19 Jan 2001 02:11:58 GMT
Hello Everyone,
I am working for a company that is going to deploy Cisco Intelligent
Director (formerly Arrowpoint) to achieve load balancing between
servers (mainly http and https web traffic). This arrowpoint will be
sitting in front of the web servers and Cisco claims that this box can
perform load balancing between web servers for incoming web
traffics. Cisco also claims that the box is very secure.
Here is my dilemma. I have been ordered to deploy this box without
ensuring that the box is absolutely secure (due to pressure from the
marketing and sale department). When I try to scan to scan the box
with nmap (prior to deployment), this is what I come up with:
Starting nmap V. 2.53 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Interesting ports on (199.0.216.222):
(The 1518 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
23/tcp open telnet
80/tcp filtered http
5001/tcp open commplex-link
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=64K rule
Difficulty=1 (Trivial joke)
Remote operating system guess: Neoware (was HDS) NetOS V. 2.0.1 or
HP ENTRIA C3230A
Can anyone tell me what is the probability that someone can hijack the
session if the TCP sequence is predictable? I use the same scan on my
linux server and I get a difficulty of 4782341. How easy is it to hijack
a TCP session like spoofing?
After running nmap, I run nessus (vulnerability accessment) and I
discovered the following security hole:
It was possible to make the remote FTP server
crash by issuing this command :
CEL aaaa[...]aaaa
This problem is known has the 'aix ftpd' overflow and
may allow the remote user to gain root easily.
How serious is this problem? I would like to know if anyone outthere
Who has experiences regarding security with Arrowpoint
Intelligent Director because I certainly do want to put this
device on the Internet without knowing fully the security
implication aspect of this.
Many thanks.
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cannot load ppa module for ParallelPort ZipDrive
Date: 19 Jan 2001 02:29:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:36:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>I have been unable to get my RedHat installation (Release 6.2) to see
>the external PP ZipDrive connected to my PC. Here's what I tried:
>
>insmod ppa (to load the ppa module)
>Here's what I got:
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
>parport_enumerate_Rdcb625ab
>
>When I do a 'rpm -q ppa' it tells me ppa is not installed. How do I
>install this?
That's because the "ppa" you're using is *not* an RPM in and of itself,
it's a kernel module. The ppa module is included in all stock RedHat
installs since about 6.0, and it should be located in
/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION/scsi/ppa.o . If it didn't exist, you would
not see the error messages from "insmod" that you got.
First, use "modprobe" instead of "insmod" in most cases. modprobe looks
in /etc/modules.conf and /lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION/modules.dep to see
if the module you're loading requires another module to be loaded first,
then loads that module if it can. ppa support requires that the modules
for Parallel Port, PC-Style Parallel Ports, and Line Printer Support be
loaded. THese modules are also called "parport", "parport_pc", and
"lp".
Finally, please note that ppa is only useful for older ZIP drives.
Newer ZIP drives use imm. Once the module is loaded, the ZIP drive
should appear as /dev/sda, and you can mount DOS-formatted ZIP disks on
/dev/sda4 and Macintosh-formatted ZIP disks on /dev/sda (with filesystem
type "hfs", naturally.)
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=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem problem with 2.4.0
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 21:40:09 -0500
Hello. I want to pass this by ya'll before I report a bug.
I upgraged to 2.4.0-test6 and my modoem works fine.
I am using it now. I downloaded 2.4.0, compiled it, and when I run this
kernal the
modem says that it is busy.
I used the same configuration building 2.4.0-test6 that I use on 2.4.0.
Is there something different in 2.4.0 than 2.4.0-test6 that I don't know
about?
Thanks
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bios upgrade in linux
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:15:02 GMT
Warren Bell wrote:
>
> I want to upgrade my bios on a machine that's just running Linux. The
> MB company has the flash utility and the .bin file but the utility is an
> .exe file. How do I boot to and run that to upgrade the bios under
> Linux?
Boot with a windoz/DOS boot disk and run it from the command line should
work if the upgrade files will fit on a floppy.
--
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ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.004% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL table access
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:01:29 GMT
Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have created tables both using the interactive sql monitor and using
: PGaccess GUI. The command "\dt" in the interactive monitor yields the
: expected list of tables, but "select * from foo" yields "ERROR: foo:
: Tables does not exist" for all tables created through the GUI, but is OK
: with tables created in the interactive monitor. Using the GUI, I can
: access all tables without problems.
I don't know, never have used the GUI.
But have a look into the directories where postgres stores the
tables. Look for differences there. Maybe it's a permission problem?
Regards,
Friedhelm
--
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The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Wagner)
Crossposted-To: alt.visio,comp.os.linux.development.apps,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: open-source Visio app?
Date: 19 Jan 2001 00:04:06 +0300
In comp.os.linux.development.apps buddy_holly
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is there anything like Visio that runs on Linux?
dia
tgif
xfig
tkpaint
--
I think $[ is more like a coelacanth than a mastadon.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "lobotomy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannot load ppa module for ParallelPort ZipDrive
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:18:47 GMT
Are you running the SCSI core and parallel port drivers as modules, or
compiled into the kernel? I found that with ppa as a module, and scsi
compiled into the kernel, it would not work. It looks like the
dependency problem is with the parallel port driver. If you have this
compiled as a module, you could always try 'modprobe ppa.o' rather than
insmod. This will load all the modules ppa depends on if not loaded
prior to loading ppa itself, if they aren't already running.
I can't see what difference getting the newest driver source would make
if you are running a recent kernel. The ppa-based zip drives are no
longer being made, anyway; all newish parallel port zip drives use the
imm driver. However, if you had one of these, it just would just not
detect a drive. However you might try imm.o also if nothing else works.
In article <947d2s$jik$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have been unable to get my RedHat installation (Release 6.2) to see
> the external PP ZipDrive connected to my PC. Here's what I tried:
>
> insmod ppa (to load the ppa module)
>
> Here's what I got:
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_enumerate_Rdcb625ab
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_claim_R46138e04
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_unregister_device_R857406d1
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_release_Re207d4f8
>
> When I do a 'rpm -q ppa' it tells me ppa is not installed. How do I
> install this? The ZipDrive-HOWTO suggests I should get the latest source
> of ppa (1.42?) and compile it into my kernel. Is this what I need to do
> to get my Zipdrive working? Help!
>
> Uday
>
>
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Future of Corel Linux
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:53:05 GMT
Steve Withers writes:
> Corel is based on Debian. OK....so watch where Debian goes. When an
> application that runs on Debian catches up with your Corel
> equivalent....move to it.
There are no applications of which that is not already true.
> You can evolve your system into being closer to a surviving distribution
> if you want to make that effort.
Or point your /etc/apt/sources.list to the Debian archive, do 'apt-get
update; apt-get dist-upgrade' and watch apt make all the effort for you.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: "lobotomy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help w/ Amptron MB/C-Media 8738 sound
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:26:57 GMT
Its possible that your chipset simply doesn't have any MIDI support
(except the external MPU-401 jack) under linux. Many sound chipsets,
especially newer PCI ones, use a partly software-based MIDI system storing
samples in system memory. This rarely gets implemented in linux drivers.
In article <94778a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, hoping someone can point me in the right direction here.
>
> I have RedHat 7.0 (custom 2.2.18 kernel) running on an Amptron PM-598LMR
> motherboard and AMD K6/2-500 processor. The MB has onboard sound via
> the C-Media CMI8738 chipset, and I have downloaded the cmpci-4.03
> drivers from the www.cmedia.com.tw website (which are newer than the
> cmpci-3.21 drivers on the Amptron.com website).
>
> I can't play .mid files because playmidi says it can't open the
> /dev/sequencer. I can, however, write directly to the /dev/midi?
> devices by sending individual MIDI commands/notes.
>
> Under Win998/ME I can play .mid files no problem -- but I noticed it's
> using an "MPU-401 emulator" at I/O addr 0x300, which is also where I
> have the address specified in the Linux sound module configuration.
>
> Also, sndconfig plays the sound sample but doesn't even try to play the
> MIDI sample (which I presume means it doesn't detect /dev/sequencer
> either).
>
> Have I configured something wrong, or am I missing some software? Will
> installing ALSA fix my problem?
>
> Any help appreciated, thanks.
>
>
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From: "William Shotts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: subroutines in bash?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:35:45 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anthony Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know I am being a total mooch here, but
> does anyone know how to correct this (over simplified version of my)
> subroutine so that it runs correctly with
> "find -exec" and "bash"? (I am afraid my modula2
> programming does't help me much with bash!)
>
> #! /bin/bash
> fixit(findvar) {
> echo $fixit","$fixit
> }
> find . -exec fixit {} \;
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you think about this for a minute, you can see what happens here.
Find is executing outside of your script with "fixit" as an argument, but
"fixit" is a function inside of your script, thus find can't see it.
To make this work, code it like this:
for i in $(find . -print); do
fixit $i
done
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: audio tape to mp3
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:50:45 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 15:41:39 +0000, Kae Verens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alessandro Magni wrote:
>> How can I automagically recognize when one song ends and another begins?
>> I know in the Win world there is some program able to do it, and in Linux???
>
>what's the windows one?
>
>I've been converting my vinyls to CD, and have been splitting the songs
>by hand...
>
I'm not familiar with all the ones that may work in MS Windows, but
I really like a program called WaveRepair. Here is an address:
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~abcomp/wavrep.htm
It is a shareware program if you want to use its advanced features,
but it is freeware if you just want to record wav files and then
split them up. While recording, it takes up the whole screen and
is easy to see from across the room while it is recording. It
is very easy to mark and then split the wav files.
I have been using it to record audio tapes and then split the tracks
so that I can put them on CD.
I have not tried to use it with Wine. I like it so much that I went
ahead an registered it even though I may not use the other things
that it does.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: The Future of Corel Linux
Date: 19 Jan 2001 03:51:56 GMT
Steve Withers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ Kernel upgrades and library upgrades may break your Corel-authored
[ software eventually...but that is true of any version of Linux - or any
[ OS for that matter.
I have COREL Second Edition (the CD that came off a UK Linux rag). What's
keeping me from upgrading to the 2.4 kernel is that COREL put in some
[proprietary?] module that recognizes my PCtel modem. I guess I'll have
to wait till the Third Edition; I won't be surprised if it's going to be
called Microsoft Unplugged: The Linux formerly known as COREL :-(
--
jazz
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