Linux-Misc Digest #35, Volume #27 Tue, 6 Feb 01 02:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: Z52 (David Efflandt)
Re: Which Linux distribution is best? (bhogak)
Re: ALD - Assembly Language Debugger - where? (JCA)
Re: RedHat 7.0 and WABI (E J)
Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer? (Manatee)
Re: Cant run Acrobat Reader on RH 7.0 (E J)
Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer? (sfcybear)
Re: Z52 (Mark Bratcher)
Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer? (Manatee)
Shared memory question - RH 6.1 (Stearns28)
Re: Which Linux distribution is best? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Copying Linux partition using Ghost (Raymond)
Re: How can I install RH 7.0 on an ATA100 harddrive ? ("pascal gauthier")
Re: Which Linux distribution is best? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel NFS problems...help (Bob Sully)
Tuesday 6 February 2001 LXNY Meeting: David Sugar, head of Bayonne, will speak on
the present situation and the coming struggle ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Z52
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 03:15:05 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <A1Bf6.13$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, lenny wrote:
>>Hey...
>>
>>Anyone tried the Lexmark z52 on
>>redhat or mandrake or any dist.
>>If you have it working please let
>>me know so i know there is still hope.
>>I have the driver from lexmark
>>it tries to work but can't find
>>the printer. if i use another
>>driver it sends info to the printer,
>>bad info but it is sending something.
>>Any special instructions??
>>
>>Thanks
>>lenny
>
>Lenny,
>
>Check out www.linprinting.org and look up Lexmark Z52.
Make that www.linuxprinting.org
I played around with the z32 driver (Mandrake 7.0). The first thing I
noticed is that it said that interrupts had to be enabled for the parport.
Buy default Linux prints using polling instead of interrupts. However,
this message was not on the xterm I was logged in on, it appeared in the
root console. So I changed /etc/conf.modules to comment out the line
that pre-installed plip and added port and irq options for parport_pc:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
#pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
I wasn't quite sure how to get that to take effect, so I rebooted and logs
reported that paraport was using the irq. However, the z32 driver (and
nice GUI tools) still did nothing for my Lexmark 5700, but I had not
installed required ghostscript 6.01 or later yet, and Lexmark does not
list this driver for the 5700 anyway (although, same resolution as z32 and
uses same Photo cartridge).
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From: bhogak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux distribution is best?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 03:09:48 GMT
Thanks Mike. I will try with the DriveMax Card. I have EDO RAM and I
think they are pretty expensive to upgrade.
Bhogak
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I believe that Linux does not have bios limitations.
> I have a Pentium 166 and it has a bios with an 8.4 GB limit.
> I purchased a Promise Bios DriveMAX card that allows up to
> mayb 128 GB. The card cost about $17. It works great. Well
> worth it.
> I have found that for a 486 machine that there is a great
> difference in performance when I went from 16mb to 32 mb
> in running Linux. It was as if 16mb was a critical threshold.
> On my Pentium 166, I started with 16mb and then went to
> 64mb. I can't say about the Linux difference, because when
> I upgraded, it was before I ran Linux. I will say that
> when I went from 16mb to 64mb, it made a world of difference
> with Win95C.
>
> Mike
>
>
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From: JCA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ALD - Assembly Language Debugger - where?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 07:28:19 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks, will try that too. It is only a debugger with
> GUI, not a disassembler though.
> -dan
It's not clear to me at this point what you are expecting.
Like I said, with gdb I can step through my code one line
of assembly language code at a time, seeing the symbolic
opcodes at each step. I can also disassemble any portion
of code I choose to.
I don't use myself any GUI when running gdb, since I
notice I can do things faster using the command line.
However, GUIs are available, if that's your preference.
Could you describe what ALD is supposed to that gdb
doesn't? I am not challenging you here, I am just curious.
If ALD is that good, I want one ;-)
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0 and WABI
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 03:12:41 GMT
WABI is pretty old and was tested to run the top 10 Windows programs at
the time.
You should switch to WINE. It is much improved and can run some of the
current windows based game (suprise!!!)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have recently rebuilt my long-standing system which has run
> several releases of slackware and then redhat 6.x. Since
> the rebuild to RH7.0, I have been unable to run WABI (Sun's old
> Windoze 3.x-under-linux environment). Has anyone else tried
> to run WABI under RH7, and, if so, did it still work?
>
> --
> Chris Cox, N0UK/G4JEC NIC Handle: CC345
> UnitedHealthGroup, Inc., MN10-W116, UNIX Services & Consulting
> 6300 Olson Memorial Highway, Golden Valley, MN 55427
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home)
> A computer without MS Windows is like a dog without bricks
> tied to its head.
> LINUX - aka Microsoft Windows/NT - The Final Service Pack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 03:29:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manatee wrote:
>Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> When you ran printtool, did you try selecting cdj550 or hpdj?
>> If so, what were your results?
>
>I did not see either option. How can I select one of those?
>
>
Sorry. That's what they're called in Ghostscript (the underlying filter).
I think these would be "HP Deskjet 550C" and "HP DeskJet/DeskJet Plus" in
Printtool.
--
Mark Bratcher
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From: Manatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer?
Date: 5 Feb 2001 19:38:41 PDT
Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry. That's what they're called in Ghostscript (the underlying filter).
> I think these would be "HP Deskjet 550C" and "HP DeskJet/DeskJet Plus" in
> Printtool.
Yes, I tried teh 550C and several other HP's with no luck. The green light,
that should blink, stays a solid green. No response at all from the printer.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cant run Acrobat Reader on RH 7.0
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 03:22:31 GMT
My acroread is located in /usr/local/bin/acroread
cd $HOME
vi .bash_profile
# add this line
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
# end of this line
Eduardo M Kalinowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded to RedHat 7.0, but I have not been able to run
> Acrobat Reader and some other programs (like Maple V). I get an error
> message like this when I run the programs:
>
> path:No such file or directory
>
> where path is the path of the executable program. Has anybody found a
> solution to this problem?
>
> --
> Eduardo M Kalinowski
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://move.to/hpkb
>
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From: sfcybear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 03:25:53 GMT
I know that Mandrake 7.2 now uses Cups which has more print drivers. But
HP has released drivers for 44 of the HP's printers (series: 600, 800
and 900). There is a good chance that HP has the print driver you need.
Go to HP and do a search for Linux printer drivers (don't use the
regular driver down load)
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Manatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am using Red Hat 6.1. And I cannot figure out how to setup my
printer.
> I've used printtool and tried using printers listed that seemed close
to
> the 842C but got no response from my printer.
>
> I went to www.linuxprinting.org but do not understand what I need to
do to
> get this printer working.
>
> Could someone explain in simple terms how I can get my printer
working?
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
>
> Manatee
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Z52
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 03:37:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Efflandt wrote:
>On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Lenny,
>>
>>Check out www.linprinting.org and look up Lexmark Z52.
>
>Make that www.linuxprinting.org
>
Doh! Thanks for the correction. I keep getting that mixed up with
www.linhardware.com. :-/
--
Mark Bratcher
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From: Manatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I setup an HP 842C printer?
Date: 5 Feb 2001 19:46:18 PDT
sfcybear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know that Mandrake 7.2 now uses Cups which has more print drivers. But
> HP has released drivers for 44 of the HP's printers (series: 600, 800
> and 900). There is a good chance that HP has the print driver you need.
> Go to HP and do a search for Linux printer drivers (don't use the
> regular driver down load)
I looked up the 842C and they only have Windows and Mac drivers. It is too
bad they don't consider Linux to be part of the mix.
--
Manatee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stearns28)
Date: 06 Feb 2001 04:02:39 GMT
Subject: Shared memory question - RH 6.1
Hi all,
I need some help on setting the max shared memory.
I have a couple of RH 6.1 server with 256M RAM running Sybase 11.9 and Oracle.
Since Sybase is such a memory eater that I was advised by the Sybase
consultants to increase the Linux Shared Memory limit to 150M.
I did the following to set the limit:
echo 120000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
but the output of 'free' did not show the change. It still showed the same
amount before I changed shmmax.
Do I need to reboot after modifying shmmax? Am I missing something here?
thanks for any info/comments/suggestions.
-stearns
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux distribution is best?
Date: 5 Feb 2001 22:06:15 -0600
bhogak a �crit :
>
> I have a P133 with 32MB RAM and 10G HD, but my System Bios has this 8.4
> Gig barrier. I am not getting BIOS upgrade for the motherboard. When I
> try to install Win 98, at the time of installation, the scandisk
> freezes the machine.
> Would I have the same problem with Linux too? If not, which
> distribution is good?
>
SuSE would work very well. Caldera works great on a small system.
Mandrake would run in molasse in your system, they load too much slow
shit. You need the top of the line hardware with 200G of RAM so it seems,
to get it to work. Joke aside, at work I put Mandrake on a 166Mhz PC and
it crawled. SuSE was acceptable and Caldera was quite fast.
The speed will depend on how much you install. I would suggest to go
up in RAM to at least 64M of ram, 128M would be much better. Better yet
invest the $120-150 or so needed to get a 450Mhz K6 motherboard and
128MB of ram. It screems with SuSE 7.0 and a Voodoo 3 video card.
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat
We have all kinds of links
and many SuSE 7.0 Linux RPM packages
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From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Copying Linux partition using Ghost
Date: 6 Feb 2001 04:32:59 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc japhilp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ghost seens to be doing the equivalent of dd , and does not understand the
> underlying file system.
> Solution :
> Move the data to a safe place .
> Mark the 4 gig partition with the partitioning tool of your choice .
> Make a filesystem on the partition.
> now mount the partition into a temporary mount point and copy over the files
> .
> "cp -r -p -d -v source destination"
The copying process will stop without any progress(the harddisk indicator is off), so
I use this instead "tar c -p * | tar x --same-owner -C new_partition".
Is this new method okay and safe?
Raymond
> hth
> "Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:95l7ni$4m5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> I have used Ghost to copy a 1GB partition to a 4GB partition. There was
> originally around 300MB of free space in the 1GB partition. After copying to
> the 4GB partition, my Linux can only see this 300MB of free space, i.e. I
> have lost 3GB of space.
>>
>> My question is how can I let my Linux aware of the remaining 3GB.
>>
>> Raymond
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From: "pascal gauthier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I install RH 7.0 on an ATA100 harddrive ?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 05:02:48 GMT
In article <95ffop$tis$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a FAQ for that, look at : http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/
> I have an Assus motherboard with a Promise controller and I have Win98
> installed on an IBM hard drive supporting ATA 100. The problem is I
> cannot instal RH 7.0 on this drive because the installer does not detect
> my drive. I searched for solutions. I found that I should try to put my
> drive on the other controller not using ATA 100 and install RH there.
> Then I should recompile the kernel to have support for the Promise
> controller. I could then setup lilo to recognize my ATA100 and then I
> could FINALLY switch back to the ATA100 controller. MY QUESTION IS: Do
> you know of any other simpler solution? If you do please share it with
> me.
>
> PLEASE REPLY. Thank you in advance.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which Linux distribution is best?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 05:27:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold Stevens ** PLEASE SEE SIG **) writes:
> Amen. Comments like "RAM is cheap; accept buggy hogware" is what The
> Lords of Redmond propose. I run olwm with Lynx as a browser and
> positively avoid any sites that insist I have java/javascript and/or
> hogs like Netscape for passing their muster. Call me a Luddite if
> you like, but they don't pay me enough to put up with that
> aggravation.
Bloat is very much in the eye of the beholder.
I've got code that I wrote a couple years ago that was pretty "bloated
and slow" back then that happens NOW to work really very well now that
I can easily throw 128MB of RAM at an application.
The unfortunate tendancy of some applications is to just eat more
memory any time you turn around, but I have _NO_ disappointment when I
find that an extra 128MB of RAM gets used as cache or otherwise
eliminates disk access, suddenly making a formerly slow application
fast.
With Netscrape, the best one can say is that with lots of RAM around,
it is "less slow," which is quite a different thing...
--
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http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/sgml.html
Q: How many Newtons does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Faux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup!
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From: Bob Sully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: Kernel NFS problems...help
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:37:37 -0800
Peter:
Looking at the MAINTAINERS list for both 2.2.18 and 2.4.1, it appears
that Alan Cox isn't maintaing the VFAT code any longer:
VFAT FILESYSTEM:
P: Gordon Chaffee
M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
L: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee
S: Maintained
(this is from 2.2.18). Alan is listed as maintaining a couple of
Ethernet drivers, Video for Linux, and a sound driver.
I'll send the info to Gordon and see what I get back. I had previously
sent a message to Trond Myklebust in Norway (he's maintaining the NFS
client) but haven't yet gotten a come-back.
-- Bob --
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.help Bob Sully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> > Peter - I will take a look at the patch code.
>
> > I'll be happy to notify Alan Cox, if you'll send me his e-mail address.
>
> Nobody needs to send you alan's address. It's plastered all over the kernel
> source. He constructed the 2.2.18 release that you are talking about.
> Look at the MAINTAINERS list.
>
> I'll take a look at the patch increments now, as I need to do a port of
> something anyway.
>
> Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Tuesday 6 February 2001 LXNY Meeting: David Sugar, head of Bayonne, will
speak on the present situation and the coming struggle
Date: 6 Feb 2001 01:43:53 -0500
LXNY will have a general meeting Tuesday 6 February 2001.
This meeting is free and open to the public.
The meeting runs from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. After the meeting full and
precise instructions on how to get to our traditional place of refreshment
will be given in clear.
Thanks to support of the IBM Corporation, the meeting is at their building
at 590 Madison Avenue at East 57th Street on the Island of Manhattan.
Enter the building at the corner of Madison and 57th and ask at the desk
for the floor and room number.
<blockquote
from="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-02-03-002-21-NW-CY"
edit-level="light">
David Sugar writes:
On the evening of Tuesday, Feb. 6, I will be speaking before LXNY to
discuss recent events and future plans for Bayonne, the telephony
application server of the GNU project (http://www.bayonne.cx), in
particular the Free Telephony Summit (22 January 2001), where leaders from
many free telephony software projects, including myself, Craig Southern
from openh323 (http://www.openh323.org), Zaphir from pre-viking
(http://www.bellworldwide.net), Kevin Lenzo from CMU sphinx
(http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx), Luan Dang from Vovida Org
(http://www.vovida.org), and several people representing the Voxeo
community site (http://community.voxeo.org) recently gathered at the
offices of Open Source Telecom to discuss the current status of,
interoperation with, and further advancement of free telephony software in
general.
In addressing LXNY, I do hope to talk further about Bayonne, where it
actually fits in the GNU project as a whole, and particularly the effort to
promote GNU Enterprise solutions, and certainly how we will work to further
support many of the other free telephony projects currently under way. I
plan to cover Bayonne architecture and how usable applications can be
deployed, whether for SOHO, enterprise voice applications such as call
centers and voice mail, or for deploying Bayonne hosted carrier services
for the current and next generation telephone network.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2001-01-21-004-04-PS-KN
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-10-25-009-20-PS
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-25-010-20-NW-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-25-008-06-PS-SV-SW
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-21-005-20-NW-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-21-001-20-NW-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-18-018-04-NW-CY-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-18-011-20-NW-EM
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-16-014-20-PS
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-09-10-004-21-NW-BD
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=3D2000-05-03-007-04-OS
</blockquote>
<blockquote
from="http://www.softseek.com/Linux/Internet/Web_Publishing_Tools/Servers/Review_44696_index.html"
edit-level="light">
Bayonne is the multiple-line, "voice response" telephony server of the GNU
project.
The purpose of Bayonne is to provide a service daemon which can automatically
process telephone callers on a GNU operating system in an extensible manner.
It uses extension scripting to specify and control call flow, and is suitable
for building applications involving "Interactive Voice Response",
telephone-based system administration and control, and voice messaging.
In addition to scripting, Bayonne is fully modular and can be integrated with
many common GNU system services.
Perl scripts and system applications can be invoked through TGI (Telephony
Gateway Interface) offering Web integration and v-commerce solutions.
Plug-ins can be developed to directly extend the Bayonne server and to
introduce services not yet envisioned.
More information:
Bayonne Home Page
http://bayonne.sourceforge.net/
</blockquote>
David Sugar will also present a short overview of the situation along a
front too little reported on: the telephony front in the protracted
struggle for freedom on the Net.
http://www.fsf.org
http://www.eff.org
http://cryptome.org
LXNY needs volunteers for the hard work of education and propaganda ahead
of us. If you want to help come to this meeting.
Jay Sulzberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
PS: Congratulations and many many thank you!s to NYLUG and LILUG and BNL
and FreeStandards and Windowmaker and LTSP and Debian and LDP and NetBSD
and SEUL and Free Verse and all the rest of the Organizations and Members
who helped make the Pavilion of ORGs the center of the Free Software Expo
just now held at The Javits!
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