Linux-Misc Digest #776, Volume #27 Fri, 4 May 01 06:13:01 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: Agenda Computing @ NBLUG (Sebastopol, CA) (William Kendrick)
Re: PCI code on solaris 5.6 (vardhan)
Re: Windows 2000 and Linux ("Arctic Storm")
How to configure my Windows keys in Gnome v1.4? (Phillip Pi)
Re: Upgrade from RH6.2 to RH7.1? ("g.montgomery")
Re: clear bootflag of /dev/hda2 (2nd try) ("Eric")
Re: resize video from mpeg2dec (Matthias Rieber)
kppp! connection not responding.. ("plato")
Re: Can't telnet into RH box from Windows 98 laptop (telnetd[27627]: ("D. Stimits")
Re: ZIP ext2 vs fat16 and speed (Tim Moore)
Re: clear bootflag of /dev/hda2 (2nd try) (peter pilsl)
Re: kppp! connection not responding.. (Dean Thompson)
Re: clear bootflag of /dev/hda2 (2nd try) ("Eric")
Re: ZIP ext2 vs fat16 and speed (Nigel Jewell)
Visual file comparision tool ? (Martin Vonwald)
Re: HPFS (Skylar Thompson)
Re: HPFS (John Thompson)
Re: HPFS (John Thompson)
Re: Visual file comparision tool ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: scrolling a gnome xterm (Thomas Dickey)
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From: William Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Agenda Computing @ NBLUG (Sebastopol, CA)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 03:36:39 GMT
What:
North Bay Linux Users' Group (NBLUG) Meeting
When:
Tuesday, May 8th
7:30pm
Where:
O'Reilly And Associates
103B Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA
Topic:
Agenda Computing
Makers of the "Agenda VR3," Linux-based PDA
"We've got a pretty cool meeting lined up for you this month.
Agenda Computing will be coming by to talk about their Linux-based PDA
device that they recently announced. This is a shipping Linux PDA that
you can order today.
"Agenda will have a techy on hand to answer all of your technical questions,
as well as someone on the product/marketing side to answer those questions
as well. Agenda will also be giving NBLUG an Agenda VR3 to give away at
the door prize drawing, so be sure to get there slightly before 7:30PM, as
we stop handing out tickets for the drawing once the meeting starts."
Contact:
Dustin Mollo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.nblug.org/
-bill!
(I posted this on behalf of NBLUG, since it looks like they didn't already)
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From: vardhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: PCI code on solaris 5.6
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 09:25:44 +0530
Richard Masoner wrote:
> vardhan wrote:
>
> > I get a compilation error 'undeclared ddi_acc_handle_t' and warning
> > 'implicit declaration of function
> > pci_config_setup' though Ive included the relevant header files (sys/ddi
> > and sys/sunddi).
>
> > #include <sys/ddi.h>
> > #include <sys/sunddi.h>
> >
> > int main () {
>
> "ddi" stands for "Device Driver Interface." You're trying to use kernel
> functions and structures in a user program. If you read the header files
> you included, you'll see an "#ifdef _KERNEL" in them.
hi, thanks for the mail.
I am not very familiar with writing device drivers. I wrote a few small kernel
modules
on Linux. For Solaris, where can I get information about writing such code?
should I follow
similar procedure to Linux ie. rebooting the kernel, loading the kernel
modules etc.?
Is it not enough to just compile and run the code as 'root'? (I guess not! but
I just want to be sure)
Also, is it not possible that atleast code compilation takes place at user
level even for
Kernel modules? Or is there a separate procedure followed?
Id appreciate any help in terms of books/links.
thanks,
Vardhan
>
> Richard Masoner
--
Vardhan Walavalkar
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Windows 2000 and Linux
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 05:02:46 GMT
> I have two machines at home, machine A is running windows2000 and is
> connected to the internet. machine B is running redhat Linux 7.1. what i
> want to do is connect the two machines together, and I would also like to
> connect machine B to the internet as well. how should i go about doing
this
If you have no knowledge of Linux or BSD, and only know windows, and don't
have time/patience to learn Linux or BSD, then you'll have less headache if
you installed Win2K on both.
WinNT/2K borrowed a lot of code from BSD, because due to the licensing of
BSD, MS, or any company for that matter, can borrow code without revealing
it. As long as you stay away from Win9x, you should be fine.
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From: Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to configure my Windows keys in Gnome v1.4?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 05:47:19 GMT
I have been reading the newsgroups and trying to use xmodmap to
configure Windows keys in RedHat Linux v7.1. So far, I have been unable
to make them do anything. This is what I have so far in .Xmodmap file:
!Left Windows Key
keycode 115 = Alt_L
!Right Windows Key
keycode 116 = Meta_R
!Windows Menu Key
keycode 117 = Menu
I would like to make my Windows keys to bring up my Gnome Start
Favorites menu. I can't even make my Windows keys to do anything (i.e.
make CAPS on and off.
Any ideas on what I did wrong? I look forward to receiving replies
soon. :)
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From: "g.montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade from RH6.2 to RH7.1?
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 05:53:34 GMT
wroot wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if it makes sense to upgrade from RH6.2 to RH7.1? My current
> RH6.2 functionality pretty much satisfies me (except for minor quircks with
> CD-RWing: if I boot it with SCSI emulation, it does not recognize audio
> CDs, so I can not play them on my computer)
>
> How stable and secure is the new Redhat?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wroot
Pretty damn stable. I have it on three machines.
Only problems were that one of my cdrom drives
didn't like dma, resulting in it getting added
to the dma blacklist for anaconda (Bug # 38397),
and a learning curve I am going through now
to set up the host to host communications, now
that the security deal has been beefed up a
little. As it says in the Bug recommendation,
at the boot prompt I had to do:
boot: linux ide=nodma
and that solved the problem - anaconda didn't
crash that time.
I couldn't get my CDRW to work with 6.2 at all,
nor with 7.1 (beta), Wolverine, but it works
great under 7.1 Seawolf's X-CD-Roast which is on the
start menu with KDE 2. I play audio CDs on it
and then burn software, then audio CDs, then
go back and listen. It does it all, correctly.
I even tried both CD-R and CD-RW, and everything
worked fine.
You'll like the new KDE and the 2.4 kernel also.
--
Gene Montgomery
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: clear bootflag of /dev/hda2 (2nd try)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 08:24:16 +0200
> I need a tool that disables the bootflag of my /dev/hda2 at every boot.
> (This partition is a suspend2disk-partition of my laptop and I cant
> suspend again, if this flag is set.)
>
LILO can do this for you.
See the lilo User_Guide.ps
(The activate/deactivate directives)
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Rieber)
Subject: Re: resize video from mpeg2dec
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 07:35:21 +0200
Hello,
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<9crvuu$747$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
[..]
>You may want to have a look at mplayer, a very nice movie player
>which handles mpeg (via mpeg2dec) and avi (via Windows DLLs)
>files, and does resize. Maybe the code could help you out with
>your application.
Thanks for you help, I will take a look to the sourcecode.
matthias
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From: "plato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,free.comp.linux.misc
Subject: kppp! connection not responding..
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 10:58:29 +0300
i just set up my modem to work with Linux Mandrake 7.1. the connection
works when i run it from LinuxConf (ppp/slip/plip) but not from kppp. in
kppp, the connection is established BUT nothing works! i tried netscape and
it
couldn't open any site. i thought it's a DNS problem, but when i tried to
ping a machine i know from the console, it didn't reply. my kppp settings
are as follows:
authentication: PAP
pppd arguments: noauth
IP: Dynamic IP Address
Auto-configure hostname from this IP: Unchecked
DNS: tried to leave it empty and to put in a couple of DNSs
Disable existing DNS Servers during Connection: Unchecked
Domain Name: empty
Gateway: Default Gateway
Assign the Default Route to this Gateway: Checked
Login Script: None
Device: /dev/modem (i know it's working)
Flow Control: CRTSCTS
Line Terminator: CR
Connection Speed: 57600
Use Lock File: Checked
Modem Timeout: 60 Seconds
Modem Busy Wait: 0 Seconds
PPP Timeout: 30 Seconds
any ideas??
karim
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Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 02:12:04 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can't telnet into RH box from Windows 98 laptop (telnetd[27627]:
DMcBee wrote:
>
> I'd go to the windows update website and get all of the updates/fixes to
> update your lap first.
> http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
>
> Drew M
>
> "Kenny McCormack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9csg4l$dtg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have an RH 6.something box that works just fine - has been working just
> > fine for over a year. I just recently acquired a standard issue laptop
> > running Windows 98, but I've found that I can't telnet from the laptop to
> > the RH box. When I use a(ny) telnet client on the Windows machine, it
> > connects and then hangs. In the RH box, in /var/log/messages, appears the
> > following:
> >
> > telnetd[27627]: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or
> wide character
> >
> > I can telnet into the RH box from other systems with no problems, but not
> > from this laptop.
> >
> > Anyone seen this before? Is there a fix? Should I be posting this in a
> > Windows NG (since it actually sounds like a Windows problem)...
I have seen this also going from win 2k to linux (RH 7.1 beta), never
did find out why. The win machine I see it on has had all updates from
the windowsupdate URL listed above. I suspect it is something stupid,
like end-of-line termination quirks.
D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ZIP ext2 vs fat16 and speed
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:16:51 GMT
> Copy 250Mb to a FAT16 filesystem can take a couple of minutes. Copying
> 250Mb to a EXT2 filesystem can take most of the day. Is there anything
> that I can do to speed up the EXT2 writes?
I average about 1.1MB/s regardless of vfat or ext2. What does the zip look
like at boot time in dmesg? What is the output of dumpe2fs /dev/sda? How
do you mount it?
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: peter pilsl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: clear bootflag of /dev/hda2 (2nd try)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 10:35:02 +0200
In article <9cthuh$50p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > I need a tool that disables the bootflag of my /dev/hda2 at every boot.
> > (This partition is a suspend2disk-partition of my laptop and I cant
> > suspend again, if this flag is set.)
> >
>
> LILO can do this for you.
>
> See the lilo User_Guide.ps
> (The activate/deactivate directives)
>
thnx a lot. Unfortunately this directives can only be used in 'other'-
sections and not in image-sections :-(
At least I downloaded recent lilo-sourcecode and found a programm called
activate coming with it. I wonder if I can rewrite the source to make it a
deactivate ...
peter
--
pilsl@
goldfisch.at
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,free.comp.linux.misc
Subject: Re: kppp! connection not responding..
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 18:52:43 +1000
Hi Karim,
> i just set up my modem to work with Linux Mandrake 7.1. the connection
> works when i run it from LinuxConf (ppp/slip/plip) but not from kppp. in
> kppp, the connection is established BUT nothing works! i tried netscape and
> it couldn't open any site. i thought it's a DNS problem, but when i tried
> to ping a machine i know from the console, it didn't reply. my kppp
> settings are as follows:
>
> authentication: PAP
> pppd arguments: noauth
> IP: Dynamic IP Address
> Auto-configure hostname from this IP: Unchecked
> DNS: tried to leave it empty and to put in a couple of DNSs
> Disable existing DNS Servers during Connection: Unchecked
> Domain Name: empty
> Gateway: Default Gateway
> Assign the Default Route to this Gateway: Checked
> Login Script: None
> Device: /dev/modem (i know it's working)
> Flow Control: CRTSCTS
> Line Terminator: CR
> Connection Speed: 57600
> Use Lock File: Checked
> Modem Timeout: 60 Seconds
> Modem Busy Wait: 0 Seconds
> PPP Timeout: 30 Seconds
Is it possible to see the output of your debugging log and the actual
"options" file that you are using. The debug log normally provides a lot of
valuable information. You might like to check your routing table after you
have formed a connection. This should tell you whether or not a route was
created or not. It is quite possible that a default route is not being
inserted into your system.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: clear bootflag of /dev/hda2 (2nd try)
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 11:02:50 +0200
> > > I need a tool that disables the bootflag of my /dev/hda2 at every
boot.
> > > (This partition is a suspend2disk-partition of my laptop and I cant
> > > suspend again, if this flag is set.)
> > >
> >
> > LILO can do this for you.
> >
> > See the lilo User_Guide.ps
> > (The activate/deactivate directives)
> >
>
> thnx a lot. Unfortunately this directives can only be used in 'other'-
> sections and not in image-sections :-(
You can work around this ofcourse, but there may be better solutions:
chain two lilo's.
The first has an others section that can use (de)activate and points to the
partition where the normal LILO is stored
Eric
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: Nigel Jewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZIP ext2 vs fat16 and speed
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:10:39 GMT
Tim,
Your a star! I rechecked the mount options that I'd copied from a
autofs file for a parallel version ...
zip -fstype=ext2,rw,sync
:/dev/hdd1
I removed the sync - and now its SOOO much better!
Nige.
Tim Moore wrote:
>
> > Copy 250Mb to a FAT16 filesystem can take a couple of minutes. Copying
> > 250Mb to a EXT2 filesystem can take most of the day. Is there anything
> > that I can do to speed up the EXT2 writes?
>
> I average about 1.1MB/s regardless of vfat or ext2. What does the zip look
> like at boot time in dmesg? What is the output of dumpe2fs /dev/sda? How
> do you mount it?
> --
> timothymoore
> bigfoot
> com
--
URL: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~jewell
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From: Martin Vonwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Visual file comparision tool ?
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 11:20:37 +0200
Hi all!
I need some file comparision tool (for text files; display all
added/changed lines) like WinMerge - preferable for KDE or at least plain X.
Any recommendations? Thanks in advance,
Martin
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From: Skylar Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPFS
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 16:55:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
> More likely he was thinking about IBM's os/2 filesystem. AFAIK, linux can only
> read IBM HPFS partitions.
IIRC, there is a patch that supposedly allows R/W access to HPFS partitions, but I
have not gotten it to work.
--
--Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
`All that is gold does not glitter/Not all who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither/Deep roots are not reached by the frost
>From the ashes a fire shall be woken/A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken/The crownless again shall be king.'
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPFS
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 20:17:23 -0500
Chris West wrote:
> Is anyone aware of a HPFS format program for linux?
There's a couple on hobbes.nmsu.edu:
hpfs_103.txt 862 2001/04/04 Linux driver for reading and
writing HPFS partitions
hpfs_203.txt 862 2001/04/03 Linux driver for reading and
writing HPFS partitions
The "103" version is for the 2.0.x linux kernels and the "203"
version is for the 2.2.x kernels.
> Also is there a way of writing HPFS extended file attributes from a program?
I'm not aware of any way to read or write OS/2 extended
attributes from linux. You can use the OS/2 "EAUTIL" program to
split the extended attributes into a separate file if you wish.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPFS
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 20:20:20 -0500
Corne Beerse wrote:
> Chris West wrote:
> >
> > Is anyone aware of a HPFS format program for linux?
> > Also is there a way of writing HPFS extended file attributes from a program?
>
> No, I have heard about HPFS in 2 ways:
> - HPFS on HP-UX as in HP's own File system. As far as I know, is it a
> Harddisk filesystem
> - HPFS on Apple (MAC's?) where it is an CD-Rom file system.
>
> As far as I know, there is some support for the latter one in the CD-Rom
> section of the kernel.
I believe the original poster is referring to OS/2's HPFS
filesystem. The stock linux kernel includes read-only support
for HPFS filesystems. There are other patches to give read/write
support for HPFS.
Isn't the Mac's filesystem "HFS"?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Subject: Re: Visual file comparision tool ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 09:45:42 GMT
Martin Vonwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...
> I need some file comparision tool (for text files; display all
> added/changed lines) like WinMerge - preferable for KDE or at least plain X.
>
> Any recommendations? Thanks in advance,
Don't know this WinMerge. I use ediff all the time. It is included with GNU
Emacs.
--
Imre Palik
Microsoft Certified Angry OS Rebooter
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From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scrolling a gnome xterm
Date: 4 May 2001 10:09:53 GMT
Charles Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the interest of conserving screen acreage, I want to eliminate the
> scroll bar from an xterm. Having done this, how can I scroll?
xterm usually binds that to shift pageup/shift pagedown.
(but be precise: there's "gnome terminal", which is only vaguely related to
xterm).
--
Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dickey.his.com
ftp://dickey.his.com
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