Linux-Misc Digest #874, Volume #26 Sun, 21 Jan 01 14:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: Strange problem with cooledit/VNC ("David Quinn")
Help setting clock to bios time (Warren Bell)
Re: Help setting clock to bios time (Warren Bell)
Re: PlexWriter 12/10/32S (Dragan Colak)
How to use accented characters in BitchX? (GYULAI Mihaly)
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0 ("Arctic Storm")
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0 (Arctic Storm)
soundcard setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New to Linux, need HELP with download and intall (Arctic Storm)
Re: New to Linux, need HELP with download and intall (Arctic Storm)
Re: DOS, WIN98 and LINUX ?! (GYULAI Mihaly)
Re: HELP: General Protection Fault (James Knott)
Re: cups printing and staroffice (and gv) (Ralf Rinne)
Re: Lib problems (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Help installing KDE 2.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Re: Linux not free anymore? (Steve Ackman)
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From: "David Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange problem with cooledit/VNC
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:18:55 -0000
Thanks for the reply Rod - the plot thickens!
I wonder what it is about VNC that makes it present keystrokes to an
application in a different way to a local keyboard?
David Quinn
Rod Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:4vma6.41823$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "David Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I have been trying out cooledit for script editing etc. and so far it
seems
> > great except for one small problem:
> >
> > Everything works fine if I use cooledit from the Linux box itself, but
if I
> > use it via VNCViewer running on a W98 machine, I can do everything
except
> > type a '#' character. Cooledit will accept all other characters except
this
> > one.
> >
> > I can type a '#' in a terminal window in VNCViewer Ok so VNC is not
blocking
> > the keystroke, but only cooledit seems to be affected.
>
> Interesting. I've found that Nedit just plain doesn't work via VNC; it
> accepts NO keystrokes, although other applications are fine, and Nedit
> is fine via normal remote X servers. I'd say CoolEdit is getting off
> easy. ;-)
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help setting clock to bios time
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:26:13 -0800
I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and my date was always set right. I recently
changed my motherboard and after I set the time in the bios I booted
back up and the system time was way off. I looked around on how to set
the time and used this:
hwclock --hctosys
That set my system time to the bios time. The only problem is when I
reboot my system time is off again.
Where can I make a change that will keep the system time even if I
reboot?
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From: Warren Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help setting clock to bios time
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:33:47 -0800
Warren Bell wrote:
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2 and my date was always set right. I recently
> changed my motherboard and after I set the time in the bios I booted
> back up and the system time was way off. I looked around on how to set
> the time and used this:
>
> hwclock --hctosys
>
> That set my system time to the bios time. The only problem is when I
> reboot my system time is off again.
>
> Where can I make a change that will keep the system time even if I
> reboot?
I just noticed that when it boots up it's starting with the right time
but it changes to somthing else right after it checks the filesystem.
It jumps from 08:17 to 00:17. Here's a section of the logs:
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux date: Sun Jan 21 08:17:31 /etc/localtime 2001
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Setting clock (utc): Sun Jan 21
08:17:31 /etc/localtime 2001
succeeded
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions: succeeded
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Setting hostname linux: succeeded
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux fsck: /dev/hda1: clean, 15193/76912 files,
78725/306904 blocks
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Checking root filesystem succeeded
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Setting up ISA PNP devices: succeeded
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in
read-write mode: succeeded
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies succeeded
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux fsck: /dev/hda9: clean, 582/195456 files,
10086/390340 blocks
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux fsck: /dev/hda6: clean, 53053/384000 files,
203210/767962 blocks
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux fsck: /dev/hda7: clean, 254/128000 files,
4357/255898 blocks
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux fsck: /dev/hda8: clean, 2258/256000 files,
22993/511930 blocks
Jan 21 08:17:32 linux rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded
Jan 21 00:17:34 linux rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems succeeded
Jan 21 00:17:34 linux rc.sysinit: Checking loopback filesystems
succeeded
Jan 21 00:17:34 linux rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems:
succeeded
Jan 21 00:17:34 linux rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for
local filesystems:
succeeded
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From: Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: PlexWriter 12/10/32S
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:39:16 +0100
Anthony Ewell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone running Plextor's PlexWriter 12/10/32S
> (scsi-2) CD-RW drive? And, do you have any
> opinions on it?
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Have it running here for about a month. Attached it to an
Adaptec 29160 (Ultra160, 64 bit PCI) with a bunch of
other drives (3x HDD, HP DAT40i, DVD-ROM, ZIP100).
Works perfectly, haven't srewed a single CD-R or
CD-RW (always writing at max speed).
Dragan
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to use accented characters in BitchX?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:32:32 GMT
I use BitchX 1.0c18 on the console.
My problem is that I can't use accented characters.
(In other programs I can).
Can anyone help me to set it?
--
GYULAI Mihaly
http://gyulai.freeyellow.com
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:49:27 GMT
> > >I just downloaded KDE 2.0 RPM's.
> > >It's approximately 26 files; all RPM's.
> > >I issued the following commands.
> > >rpm -Uvh qt*
> > >rpm -Uvh lib*
> > >rpm -Uvh htdig*
> > >So far so good.
> > >And then I tried issuing the following command.
> > >rpm -Uvh kde*
> > >I got tons of failed dependencies errors.
> > >Any help?
> >
> > Install the required dependencies.
>
> If Arctic Storm had KDE1 previously installed, the problem may be with
> packages that depend on the old KDE packages that would be replaced by
> KDE2 ones. So the solution may be to _remove_ the packages giving
> dependency errors.
>
> KDE2 installs easily on a "clean" system using only the RPMs from KDE
> download site.
I think you're right.
I originally had KDE1.x that came with RedHat 7.
I took Kevin Croxen's advice and issue this command.
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps kde*
I got a few errors saying that such and such directories could not be
removed because they were not empty, but no other errors, and the
installation went on.
Then I loged out, and issued the command startx, and everything worked
great!
Thanks.
=====
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:55:22 GMT
>> I just downloaded KDE 2.0 RPM's.
>> It's approximately 26 files; all RPM's.
>> I issued the following commands.
>> rpm -Uvh qt*
>> rpm -Uvh lib*
>> rpm -Uvh htdig*
>> So far so good.
>> And then I tried issuing the following command.
>> rpm -Uvh kde*
>> I got tons of failed dependencies errors.
>> Any help?
>
> Install the required dependencies.
The problem arose from the original KDE 1.x that came with RedHat 7.
I issued the following command.
rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps kde*
I got a few errors saying that such and such directories could not be
removed because they were not empty, but no other errors, and the
installation went on.
Then I loged out, and issued the command startx, and everything worked
great!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: soundcard setup
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:49:37 GMT
i can play sounds without any problem, but cannot record or do any input from
the mike. everything sent from the mike comes straight out of the speakers,
what's wrong with that? suggestions please.
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to Linux, need HELP with download and intall
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:17:56 GMT
> When I download a application from the Net where should I put it(is there
> some special folder I should use like Home or Usr) and after I download do
> I just click on the file or do I need to do something special....
Since you're new to Linux, don't download the source and try to compile it
yourself. You'll run into problems and quickly give up in frustration.
Download the rpm's. I think rpm stands for "RedHat Package Manager".
Create a directory called, e.g., temp, or downloads, or rpms, in your
/home/"someusername" directory. For example, if you login with the user
name JohnDoe, then there should be a directory called JohnDoe in the /home
directory. Go into the directory /home/JohnDoe and create a directory, and
put all your downloads in it. If you're downloading and installing KDE
2.0.1, then I would create a directory called kde2 and put all the files
in there.
To install rpm's, you issue the following command.
rpm -Uvh filename.rpm
Use -Uvh instead of -ivh, because -Uvh can do what -ivh can do, plus more,
and it automatically figures out what to do.
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New to Linux, need HELP with download and intall
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:22:28 GMT
>> When I download a application from the Net where should I put it(is there
>> some special folder I should use like Home or Usr) and after I download do
>> I just click on the file or do I need to do something special....
>
> Since you're new to Linux, don't download the source and try to compile it
> yourself. You'll run into problems and quickly give up in frustration.
> Download the rpm's. I think rpm stands for "RedHat Package Manager".
> Create a directory called, e.g., temp, or downloads, or rpms, in your
> /home/"someusername" directory. For example, if you login with the user
> name JohnDoe, then there should be a directory called JohnDoe in the /home
> directory. Go into the directory /home/JohnDoe and create a directory, and
> put all your downloads in it. If you're downloading and installing KDE
> 2.0.1, then I would create a directory called kde2 and put all the files
> in there.
> To install rpm's, you issue the following command.
> rpm -Uvh filename.rpm
> Use -Uvh instead of -ivh, because -Uvh can do what -ivh can do, plus more,
> and it automatically figures out what to do.
I forgot to tell you that some (many) require that you be in root
account for installation.
Another thing,... Some programs, like Netscape 6 or StarOffice, come
with installation instructions. When you read the installation
instructions, it'll usually tell you to run a script or the binary
installer, in which case you do not need to issue the rpm command.
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From: GYULAI Mihaly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DOS, WIN98 and LINUX ?!
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:18:39 GMT
In article <ZRA96.325$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mr. Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to have 3 systems on one drive. I made 3 partitions
> for FAT16, FAT32 and LINUX and tried to set it up with BOOTMAGIC.
> ... run WIN98 and Linux, but DOS 6.22 doesn't work.
> Has anyone tried to do that ??
I did this, however I use FAT16, as I needed the C: partition
both under DOS and Win98. (and DOS can't use FAT32...)
So, first I created the DOS partition, formatted it, then installed
Win98 over it.
Linux use another partitions.
--
GYULAI Mihaly
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From: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: HELP: General Protection Fault
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:30:57 GMT
John Bury wrote:
>
> All you gurus...
>
> I have an IBM laptop in a dual boot configuration running Redhat 6.2 and
>
> Windows NT 4.0. When booting linux I receive the following gpf error:
>
> hda: general protection fault: 0000
> cpu:0
> eip: 0010: [<c0125904>}
> eflags:: 00010286
> eav: ffffffff ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000300
>
> When booting Windows NT I receive the following error message:
>
> Instruction 0x77f88947 referenced memory at "0x00000018".
> The memory could not be read.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what is causing this problem. Do you think it
>
> is a hardware problem; possibly memory???
It could be. One weak point on Thinkpads is the PCMCIA
slot, which may give you that type of error. It could also
be due to other hardware failures. I'm assuming that Linux
and NT are reading different partitions, which would rule
out corrupted software.
--
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ignored.
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"james.knott".
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Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:47:06 +0100
From: Ralf Rinne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cups printing and staroffice (and gv)
G Pollack schrieb:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ralf Rinne"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > i don't know the applications 'gv' and 'staroffice' (shame on me), but
> > i've had several troubles with printing with cups... maybe you should
> > try the following print-command: lp (or lpr) <your options> -oraw [-l]
> >
> > this options cause the lp(r) not to filter the printjob, but send it
> > directly to the printer.
> >
> > hope to help you Ralf
> Thanks, but my printer is not native postscript, so I have to go through
> a filter. BTW, staroffice is an office suite (like MS Office), and gv is
> ghostview - a postscript viewer.
oh, ooh,
my less english knowlegde ...
sorry, but i know, what staroffice was and is (what kind of software).
;-))
what i ment was, that i do not know anything technical from inside
staroffice (yet).
i would like to migrate my office-work from M$ to staroffice since along
time, but try to find a german boss, that do not use M$ and your'e out
of work...
i hope no one of my friends and colleagues have read this task ;-)))
CU
Ralf
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lib problems
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:16:17 +0100
MONZ wrote:
>
> Got a link to an .asx webpage I couldn't view.
> Found out that .asx should be viewable with realplayer, so I checked
> my netscape plugins.
> Believe I remember from download of flashplayer that realplayer is part
> of flash; correct me if wrong. Anyway, I got the error(s):
>
> netscape &
> ERROR: libc.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
> Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/CURRENT/plugins/nppdf.so. Ignored.
> (CURRENT is a link to netscape475)
>
Well, your system uses libc-6 as primary C-Library. And so does
Netscape. So it can't load a plugin , which uses libc-5 as C-Library.
nppdf is the pdf plugin coming with Acrobat-reader and you will have to
update to acroread-4.05 to get a version linked with libc-6.
[...]
Ok, I then checked the libs using ldconfig -v og -p; no problemas, but
wait a bit, ldconfig -D chunks out a whole lotta errors like:
/usr/lib:
ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libform.so.1.9.9e has inconsistent soname
(libform.so.3.0)
These are only warnings and caused by the inconsistent versioning used
by older versions of ncurses.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help installing KDE 2.0
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:30:13 GMT
Follow the sequence: kdesupport, kdebase, kdelib, then at random.
Good luck.
laundey
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just downloaded KDE 2.0 RPM's.
> It's approximately 26 files; all RPM's.
> I issued the following commands.
> rpm -Uvh qt*
> rpm -Uvh lib*
> rpm -Uvh htdig*
> So far so good.
> And then I tried issuing the following command.
> rpm -Uvh kde*
> I got tons of failed dependencies errors.
> Any help?
>
> ----
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:55:32 -0500
On 19 Jan 2001 08:39:44 -0500, Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Steve wrote:
>>
>> I can't help with the dump, but I can tell you that when my machine
>> was randomly crashing, I got memtest86, and sure enough, one of my
>> SDRAMs was bad.
>>
>I have been getting too many crashes lately. I got memtest86 and it says
>everything is fine (though the program crashed (locked up) instead of
>exiting after the last of the default tests. I have 512 Meg RAM, so it
>took over two hours to run.
>
>Can you tell if it is a good program? Or is it just giving me a false
>sense of security?
All I can say is that it worked for me. There are the
default tests, and then there's a more extensive set of tests.
I'd try running the complete suite of tests overnight.
>My Linux crashes in the same place when it crashes; when dialing up my
>ISP. All the hand shaking is done and the ISP is just about to tell me
>my IP address and their IP address, but instead, the system is totally
>crashed.
This doesn't sound like a memory problem though. Bad RAM
causes truly "random" crashes. If you're crashing the same
place, that's a pretty good hint that memory isn't at fault.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Ackman)
Subject: Re: Linux not free anymore?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 12:11:41 -0500
On 20 Jan 2001 05:58:43 GMT,
Peter Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Moving off-topic a bit..
>
>In England a few centuries back you had to pay rent (to the Crown) on
>all freehold properties. The point of a freehold was that it could be
>inherited or sold.
Same thing in the States today... only they call it property
tax. Rest assured, if you fail to pay your "rent" you will be
evicted.
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