Linux-Misc Digest #351, Volume #27 Tue, 13 Mar 01 14:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: No swap being used (Michael Lee Yohe)
Re: Redhat Linux7.0 i386 version BUG report ! (Michael Lee Yohe)
Re: "Requires RedHat" other Linux distributions (Grant Edwards)
Re: lost root passwd (Jan Schaumann)
Re: Does Linux support Pentium 4 CPU (peter hinkle)
Re: KDE must learn from GNOME (peter hinkle)
Less space used by Reiserfs ("Justin R. Smith")
Re: Less space used by Reiserfs (Adam K Kirchhoff)
Re: wine desktop (fred smith)
How do you specify a new virtual console/terminal to run minicom? (Alex Yung)
fuser -v /dev/dsp ... (Gaurav Navlakha)
Re: How do you specify a new virtual console/terminal to run minicom? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Why did kernel jump to 2.4? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Free ISP for Linux Users? ("higgy")
Re: Patching the kernel - more info needed (John-Paul Stewart)
Re: using an ATAPI tape drive with Linux 2.2.17 kernel (John-Paul Stewart)
Re: lost root passwd ("Chad Whitten")
Re: Memory and other hardware tests? (David)
Re: Does Linux support Pentium 4 CPU ("Chad Whitten")
Re: Extracting the bootimage from a bootable (El Torito) CD ? (David)
Help on COM ports ("Ken Reed, KRB Engineering Inc.")
Re: how to install linux on windows NT
Re: fuser -v /dev/dsp ... (Esa Tikka)
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From: Michael Lee Yohe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No swap being used
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:03:59 -0600
> I've just noticed that according to "top" although I have 136512k allocated
> as swap
> 0k is in use.
>
> Is this normal?
It is absolutely normal. Linux attempts to be very intelligent with its memory
allocation. If programs do not need the physical memory, Linux will allocate
the remaining bit for buffers and cache (assists the filesystem in handing out data.
Mem: 255212K av, 251656K used, 3556K free, 0K shrd, 59432K buff
Swap: 256960K av, 8K used, 256952K free 37696K cached
--
Michael Lee Yohe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software Developer, Engineering Services
Red Hat, Inc.
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From: Michael Lee Yohe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Linux7.0 i386 version BUG report !
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:09:03 -0600
>> I'm sure everything I've done is correct when I install 7.0 on my machine
>> with Monitor type "Mitisubishi Diamond Scan 50", but It just can't detect
>> it correctly, and after I start X, all applications on screen appear
>> TRANSPARENT WINDOW, I got no clue if that's not BUG.
>>
>> Any ideas on what the problem may be if that's not bug?
Red Hat's setup does attempt to detect the monitor. However, it's not always
accurate because 1) your video card is masking the DDC ID of your monitor 2)
your monitor is not in the aging database. Also, detection of the monitor has
nothing to do with how X displays information on the screen (graphically) -
it attempts to configure X so that your refresh rates and resolution are
compliant with the capabilities of your monitor. It sounds to me more like
a video card driver problem. Which X-server are you running (e.g. what video
card do you have?)
--
Michael Lee Yohe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Software Developer, Engineering Services
Red Hat, Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: "Requires RedHat" other Linux distributions
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:28:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>Grant Edwards wrote (in part):
>
>> If you think there's such a large market for commerical Linux
>> databases, stop sitting on the sidelines and complaining.
>> Write a database and support it on 20-30 Linux distributions.
>
>I know you are being sarcastic,
Yup. ;)
>but that is quite a tall order.
Exactly. That's the point I've been arguing.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm meditating on
at the FORMALDEHYDE and the
visi.com ASBESTOS leaking into my
PERSONAL SPACE!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Schaumann)
Subject: Re: lost root passwd
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:31:55 GMT
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Jon Tsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I have lost the root password on my Linux box. Can it be recovered?
>
> > Reboot your machine, when "LILO" is displayed type linux 1 or linux
> > single, this will bring you in single-user mode. At that point, you
> > are root. Use passwd to change the root password. Use init 3 or init 5
> > to hop into normal-user-mode.
>
> Just to add to the systems where that will not work... Mandrake
> defaults to requiring a password on a single user boot...
Since when? I ditched Mandrake for Debian a few months ago, I think it
was mandrake 6.2, and I clearly remember that single-user mode was not
password-protected.
Anyway, as other people have pointed out (here in this thread and in
other threads every so often), if a person has physical access to your
machine, this password protection doesn't do dick for you. After all,
that person might as well open your machine and take out the HD itself
and run away with it.
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
"Saying Windows 2000 is the most powerful OS in the Microsoft family is
like saying Moe was the smart Stooge." --Kevin Barkes
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From: peter hinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux support Pentium 4 CPU
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:40:27 GMT
Wong Ching Kuen Frederick wrote:
> have u tried other distro?! redhat is buggy. some of my machines fail to
> install too.
>
> "Morris M M Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ���g��l��
> news:98medq$f6g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Dear Linux users,
> >
> > Did anyone run Linux on Pentium 4 1.5GHz CPU? I just want to instead
> > in one of the new machine that run the above processor and the
> installation
> > fail when booting the kernel.
> >
> > I am using RH 7.0. Both CDROM and network install failed.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any comments.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Morris Law
> > Assistant Computer Officer Address : 224 Waterloo Road, KLN, Hong
> > Kong
> > Science Faculty Tel : (852) 23395909 Fax : (852)
> > 23395862
> > Hong Kong Baptist University WWW : http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk/~morris
> > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ :
> > 6380626
> >
=========================================================================
>
>
Morris, I am currently running a pentium 4 with SuSE Linux 7.1 with no
problems...
--
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines"..
Peter C. Hinkle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCHServices
SuSE Linux 7.1 2.4.0
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From: peter hinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE must learn from GNOME
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:44:33 GMT
Dowe Keller wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Well, this really is not a KDE v. Gnome situation - the issue lies with
> >with
> >the RPM format... I used a debian system once, and was very impressed
> >with how dpgk (apt-get was just starting to come out) was able to tell me
> >about all the dependencies, and offered to install all of the packages
> >that
> >were required. I've often had some rather inappropriate things to say
> >about
> >RPM because of this. I just spent a good chunk of time trying to install
> >the newer packages for gnome that galeon requires... ALl I had were
> >similar
> >packages, but they were too old. However, earch ROM just says it needs
> >file xyz, but neglects to say where to find it. Aggravating! At least
> >that is where rpmfind.net comes in very handy... :-)
> >
> >Just my two bits worth...
> >
> >Kris
>
> Your not alone Kris, I am a Redhat user that misses the
> Ease-of-Use (TM) that Debian's dpkg system offered, IMO rpmfind.net is
> a poor substitute.
>
> BTW: Anyone know where I can get dpkg as an RPM or tarball?
>
Why not install dpkg on your redhat box? I have it on my suse box and it
runs very well....
--
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines"..
Peter C. Hinkle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PCHServices
SuSE Linux 7.1 2.4.0
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From: "Justin R. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Less space used by Reiserfs
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:46:52 GMT
I'm running the 2.4.2 kernel and
I converted my /usr/local partition to the reiserfs (copying everything
to another directory, unmounting /usr/local, mkreiserfs , etc, and copy
back).
The odd thing is that the amount of disk space used has gone down by more
than half. Before the conversion, df reported 61% of the partition used,
and afterwards, it reports 25%! Yet nothing APEARS to be missing...
Possible reasons:
1. df underreports reiserfs partitions
2. the reiserfs is more efficient in storing small files (this partition
contained thousands of very small files).
Any ideas?
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From: Adam K Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Less space used by Reiserfs
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:55:03 GMT
Justin R. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running the 2.4.2 kernel and
> I converted my /usr/local partition to the reiserfs (copying everything
> to another directory, unmounting /usr/local, mkreiserfs , etc, and copy
> back).
> The odd thing is that the amount of disk space used has gone down by more
> than half. Before the conversion, df reported 61% of the partition used,
> and afterwards, it reports 25%! Yet nothing APEARS to be missing...
> Possible reasons:
> 1. df underreports reiserfs partitions
Not on my system...
> 2. the reiserfs is more efficient in storing small files (this partition
> contained thousands of very small files).
This is definately true. However, that's pretty damn efficient, and I have
my doubts that that's the case.
> Any ideas?
Double check all your files :-)
Adam
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wine desktop
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:23:35 GMT
Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Esa Tikka wrote:
:> On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 10:22:23 -0800, The Webbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>
:>> i have seen the wine desktop. It looks like windows 95 or 3.1. The problem
:>> is I
:>> don't get this desktop, went i run the wine command it says all the usage
:>> info,
:>> it doesn't show the desktop. Is there something I'm missing? If so, where is
:> AFAIK Wine can only start programs, it's not the desktop environment
:> itself. So, you should give the name of some windows program for it as
:> parameter.
: actually reading the Usage printed to the screen would hav given him the
: same info, he just didnt want to read it
Actually,... using the "--desktop" option doesn't give anything that
resembles a real windows desktop. All it seems to do is to allow your
application to, if it opens multiple windows, to have them all locked up
inside a main window which is labeled "wine desktop" or something like that.
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of
heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
============================== Matthew 7:21 (niv) =============================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: How do you specify a new virtual console/terminal to run minicom?
Date: 13 Mar 2001 17:17:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to specify an arbitrary virtual console to run minicom?
This is what I tried in my "inittab":
12:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/minicom
It did not work. I am trying to start minicom from system reboot
and have the I/O in tty12 (Ctrl-Alt-Fn12). This special VC will
monitor my headless Sparc console. Let's forget about security for
the moment. Can this be done at all? Would someone point me to some
reading materials? Thanks.
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From: Gaurav Navlakha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fuser -v /dev/dsp ...
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:35:39 -0600
Hi,
When I type this on my system, it says:
<supermount>: No such file or directory.
I'm trying to get "xmms"/Realplayer for linux, to be able to use the
sound card. Currently it cannot because it says that some other program is
accessing the audio device. But I don't think that's true!
If anyone has a clue as to what's going on, please let me know.
Thanks,
Gaurav.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: How do you specify a new virtual console/terminal to run minicom?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:39:21 GMT
On 13 Mar 2001 17:17:56 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung) wrote:
>Is it possible to specify an arbitrary virtual console to run minicom?
>This is what I tried in my "inittab":
>
>12:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/minicom
let's see here. You define an inittab entry
- named "12"
- which will be used in runstates 2, 3, 4, and 5
- where the program will be restarted ('respawn') by
init when it terminates, and
- where the program and parameters are "/usr/bin/minicom"
As always, stdin, stdout, and stderr default to /dev/null.
>It did not work. I am trying to start minicom from system reboot
>and have the I/O in tty12 (Ctrl-Alt-Fn12). This special VC will
>monitor my headless Sparc console.
Ok, try this:
12:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/minicom </dev/tty12 >/dev/tty12
> Let's forget about security for
>the moment. Can this be done at all? Would someone point me to some
>reading materials? Thanks.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Why did kernel jump to 2.4?
Date: 13 Mar 2001 18:01:01 GMT
In <98l87l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan) writes:
>I was just curious why we were all using 2.2.something and suddenly 2.4
>came out? Was there a reason, like 2.3 is bad luck in Finland ;-)
The standard in Linux is that odd minor numbers indicate developement
kernels. Thus 2.3 has been out for a long time already ( up to version
36 or something). 2.4 is the stable kernel series into which all of the
successful experiemnts tried out in the 2.3 series have been installed.
2.5 will be starting very soon (if it has not already) as the unstable
test version building on the 2.4 series.
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From: "higgy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free ISP for Linux Users?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:00:19 -0000
"David Griffith" wrote:
> "f@m4ma" wrote:
>
> > If you're in the UK try freeserve :)
> >
> > J Garcia wrote:
> >
> > > I am looking for a free ISP for Linux users just like
> > > NetZero is available for Windows users. Anybody know
> > > if there is one? Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > > __________________________________________________
> > > Do You Yahoo!?
> > > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices.
> > > http://auctions.yahoo.com/
>
> If you can put up with waiting to connect every time
>
> ATDT08440402001
>
> BUSY
>
> ATDT08440402001
>
> BUSY
>
> ATDT08440402001
>
> BUSY
>
> etc
Try changing the 2001 part to the alternate 4951. Both cack-up occasionally,
but usually one works.
Dave.
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From: John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Patching the kernel - more info needed
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:14:01 GMT
Paul Kimoto wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Lew wrote:
> > Something must be wrong as it is takeing VERY much longer to patch than
> > to update the kernel from scratch....will probably kill the process after
> > watching tv....oh, I used "patch -e -p0 -i patch-2.4.2-ac18".
>
> Why are you using "-e"? Alan Cox's patches are not ed(1) scripts.
> (Are you sure that "-p0" is correct? It depends on where you start from,
> and names of _your_ directory and the name of the _patch writer's_
> directory. It is usually more reliable to go to the source-code top level
> and use "-p1".)
>
With Alan's patches definitely use -p1 where the howto says
-p0. Last week I tried using the -p0 switch as per the
howto's instructions--no go. Read the patch file itself,
read the patch manpage, used -p1, and it took only a minute
or two to apply the patch.
In short, if your kernel source is in /usr/src/linux the
howto says 'patch -p0 <patchfile' in /usr/src. For Alan's
patch *I say* 'patch -p1 <patchfile' in /usr/src/linux
should work. Of course YMMV.
HTH,
J-P Stewart
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From: John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: using an ATAPI tape drive with Linux 2.2.17 kernel
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:14:01 GMT
Shane wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Travan 4gig IDE tape drive running under Mandrake 7.2 (2.2.17
> stock kernel), which is detected at boot as HDD ("found ATAPI tape drive..."
> is what it says)... Unfortunately, I cannot work out how to use it with
> taper or tar.
> tar keeps saying "Cowardly refusing to build empty data set" and taper says
> "illegal tape drive".
>
> Trying /dev/nht0 does not work with either program. kudzu did not appear to
> do anything to set it up either...
>
> Any suggestions? I've read what I can find in all the man pages, and on
> taper..
>
> Thanks
> Shane.
I know this sounds kind of screwy, but my tape drive didn't
like my distro's (Corel) stock kernel. After inserting the
ide-tape module I'd get all kinds of errors out of my Travan
20gig IDE drive. Compiling a custom kernel (even using the
distro's own sources!) fixed the problem. Obviously,
something was different between my kernel and theirs, but I
don't know what. Try it yourself if you think it'll help.
J-P Stewart
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From: "Chad Whitten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lost root passwd
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:29:33 -0600
reboot, at lilo prompt type
linux single rw init=/bin/bash
just rebooting with linux 1 or linux single has never worked for me, I
always get a login prompt. If the above or no one elses suggestions work,
get a slackware 3.x series boot and rescue disk, reboot with the disks,
mount your root partition someplace like /mnt, open /mnt/etc/shadow and take
out the encrypted password for root and just leave nothing where it was, so
its like root:: then reboot
login as root with no password, reset the password and you are good to go
"Jon Tsu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98kv14$1tk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I have lost the root password on my Linux box. Can it be recovered? I am
> running RH7.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Jon Tsu
>
>
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory and other hardware tests?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:28:17 GMT
Leonard Evens wrote:
>
>
> My latest conjecture is that the problem is not with memory but
> with the power supply. It seems quite hot to the touch, and the
> symptoms of rebooting are very similar to what happens when there
> are transient power dips. In any case, I am going to replace the
> poweer supply and see if that fixes the problem. Any comments?
I know this may not be the cause of your trouble, just personal
experience.
I worked on my cousin's system a while back (old IBM system) and found
that the power supply was full of dust. Even the motherboard had a layer
on it. I cleaned it out the best I could, it must of had between an 1/8
& 1/4 inch of dust/insulation in it to trap all of the heat it produced.
It ran a lot cooler when I was finished since it was able to breath
again. But it ran M$ junk so the crashes weren't from a hardware
problem.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
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Completed more W/U's than 99.108% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "Chad Whitten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux support Pentium 4 CPU
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:30:35 -0600
I know suse had some patches so it would run on the p4, other vendors may
have patches out as well. the new 2.4.2 kernel has support for the p4 built
in though
"Morris M M Law" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98medq$f6g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear Linux users,
>
> Did anyone run Linux on Pentium 4 1.5GHz CPU? I just want to instead
> in one of the new machine that run the above processor and the
installation
> fail when booting the kernel.
>
> I am using RH 7.0. Both CDROM and network install failed.
>
> Thanks in advance for any comments.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Morris Law
> Assistant Computer Officer Address : 224 Waterloo Road, KLN, Hong Kong
> Science Faculty Tel : (852) 23395909 Fax : (852) 23395862
> Hong Kong Baptist University WWW : http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk/~morris
> Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 6380626
> =========================================================================
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Extracting the bootimage from a bootable (El Torito) CD ?
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 18:35:38 GMT
Rainer Krienke wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> does anyone know how to extract the boot image from a CD that is on bootable
> CDs. If you create a bootable CD you have to give a disk image file (1.44 or 2.88
> MBytes) that is placed according to the El Torito standard
> somewhere in the iso9660 image.
>
> What I'd like to have is a utility which extracts exactly this image from a
> existing bootable CD.
>
> Does anyone know such a tool (for linux)?
Extract it to where?
To a floppy in linux:
dd if=/path/to/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
To a floppy in DOS/win:
cd \path\to\dosutils
rawrite [enter]
\path\to\boot.img [enter]
A: {enter} # drive to write image to
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Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
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Completed more W/U's than 99.108% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "Ken Reed, KRB Engineering Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on COM ports
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:28:54 -0800
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Folks - can anyone help with this? Using RH 6.1.
There seems to be a problem with continuous open/close/open..... of =
ttySn. To summarize, the port opens with a valid fd, and works OK =
initial pass (sees hardware handshakes, data etc.)
If I do multiple open/close, the port opens w/valid fd but does not seem =
to be really "open". I add the fd with FD_SET then test for RxD with =
FD_ISSET and never get data although it is being received and it does =
work on the first pass. This open/scan-ports/close happens every 1 =
second.
The logic looks OK (works 1st time perfectly). There is a problem too =
with close/re-open of a port with held data (CTS low), I have not gone =
back to that but it may be connected. Every pass is preceded by an =
FD_ZERO so I doubt the fd setup is wrong.
By chance I found tcflush() in the termios stuff. I have sprinkled it =
around ("tcflush( fd, TCIOFLUSH)") but it doesn't seem to help.
Thank you - Ken.
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Folks - can anyone help with this? Using RH=20
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>There seems to be a problem with continuous=20
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it does=20
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second.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>The logic looks OK (works 1st time perfectly). There =
is a=20
problem too with close/re-open of a port with held data (CTS low), =
I have=20
not gone back to that but it may be connected. Every pass is preceded by =
an=20
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have=20
sprinkled it around ("<EM>tcflush( fd, TCIOFLUSH</EM>)") but it doesn't =
seem to=20
help.</FONT></DIV>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to install linux on windows NT
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:01:50 -0500
check the linux docs( howto.tucows.com is one place) for linux-nt dualboot
howto.
This has been documented ad nauseum.
Great Oracle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:98l4gt$3mi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> any idea how to have dual partition with 2 OS; windows NT and linux on a
> single box? I used to use fips and lilo for win95 but I am clueless on
> windows nt. anyone has any idea to this, please write to me. Thanks alot!
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Esa Tikka)
Subject: Re: fuser -v /dev/dsp ...
Date: 13 Mar 2001 18:08:32 GMT
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Gaurav Navlakha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I type this on my system, it says:
>
><supermount>: No such file or directory.
>
>I'm trying to get "xmms"/Realplayer for linux, to be able to use the
>sound card. Currently it cannot because it says that some other program is
>accessing the audio device. But I don't think that's true!
It's not true, that's right. But do you really have /dev/dsp then?
If 'ls /dev/dsp' does show the file there's something strange, but I
believe the problem is sound card driver misconfiguration (or mere
non-existence of it).
Have you compiled correct sound card support in kernel?
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