Linux-Misc Digest #781, Volume #27 Sat, 5 May 01 07:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it (William Wong)
Re: Argh, Linux 2.4.0 does not boot! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: gcc 2.95... installation problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: gcc 2.95... installation problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kernel panic every night (Cevat Ustun)
Re: Compiler for P200MMX (Tim Lines)
Re: kernel panic every night (Terry Porter)
Re: Ext2fs structure ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Journaling Filesystem with Individual File Compression? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Functions plotter (Cevat Ustun)
fdisk without restart (Dicky)
Re: Xfree and presario 1600 (K. B. Lee)
Re: time adjustment (Torsten Beekhuis)
Re: StarOffice & Xfree 4.0.3 ("Mike Everett")
IP Connection Log ("Chorng Shiuan CHEN")
Linux crashes under X (Jeannot Lapin)
Dynamic Fonts in Linux? (Ruchira Datta)
Re: time adjustment ("HS")
just installed xcdroast .98alpha8 but got a problem ("Glitch")
Re: kernel panic every night ("Glitch")
cannot make initrd-ver.img ("Bluesky")
RH7.1 Refuses to Install over 6.2 (Ian Sovor)
RH7.1 Installs Kitchen Sink when doing Upgrade (Ian Sovor)
RH7.1 Subscription Support Confusing and Difficult (Ian Sovor)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: William Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 13:17:13 +0800
I think u need to find out the chip set come with the USB-IDE case. You
have to select the right components during a kernel re-compile.
I am using 2.4.3...I heard that 2.4.4 might be a little bit better...but
haven't tried.
Finally, I use slackware-current. somewhere between 7.1 and 7.2.
John Hong wrote:
>
> William Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >I am using kernel 2.4.3 and I have attached a USB-IDE harddisk to my
> >thinkpad 600.
>
> How did you get your USB hard drive going? I've been trying to
> get mine up and running, but so far nadda. Did you get this working under
> the 2.4.2 kernel? That is what I'm running with Red Hat 7.1. What
> distribution are you running?
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Argh, Linux 2.4.0 does not boot!
Date: 4 May 2001 20:05:08 GMT
You're using RH6.2 or earlier, right? You need to do a number of things:
1) run /sbin/lilo after adding the new kernel to /etc/lilo.conf
2) upgrade a bunch of utilities, RH6.2 is not kernel 2.4.0 compliant
3) reboot and pray
Justin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Igor4584
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a linux system with a number of 2.2.* kernels. (in /boot)
>they all work fine. I also added a newly compiled 2.4.0. kernel
>in /vmlinuz.
>
>When I try to boot it, lilo says "uncompressing kernel............"
>and then it hangs.
>
>Any help will be appreciated.
>
>igor
----- Posted via NewsOne.Net: Free (anonymous) Usenet News via the Web -----
http://newsone.net/ -- Free reading and anonymous posting to 60,000+ groups
NewsOne.Net prohibits users from posting spam. If this or other posts
made through NewsOne.Net violate posting guidelines, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: gcc 2.95... installation problem
Date: 4 May 2001 20:09:25 GMT
Uh...This is telling you that your current version is required by your
current
compiler. Just do a 'rpm -U gcc-2.95 cpp-2.95, gcc-g++-2.95 etc...' and it
will reorder them for you. Oh, by the way, don't use cpp-2.96, you want
cpp-2.95
2.96 is broken!
Justin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <172.173.85.96> writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to install gcc-2.95 in my redhat 6.1 system. When i try to do rpm
-Uhv gcc-2.96.rpm, it gives me an error saying that it needs cpp-2.96.
>
>When I try to install cpp-2.96, I get the following errors:
>
># rpm -Uhv cpp-2.96~1.rpm
>
>error: failed dependencies:
> cpp = 1.1.2 is needed by egcs-1.1.2-24
> cpp = 1.1.2 is needed by egcs-objc-1.1.2-24
> cpp = 1.1.2 is needed by egcs-c++-1.1.2-24
>
>When I query the rpm database for the cpp and egcs installed. It gives me
following output:
>
>#rpm -q -a | grep cpp
>cpp-1.1.2-24
>
>#rpm -q -a | grep egcs
>egcs-1.1.2-24
>egcs-g77-1.1.2-24
>egcs-objc-1.1.2-24
>egcs-c++-1.1.2-24
>
>It clearly shows that cpp-1.1.2 is already installed so why is cpp-2.96 not
able to find it?
>
>TIA,
>anshul
>
>ps: Would appreciate if you can send me a response at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>==================================
>Poster's IP address: 172.173.85.96
>Posted via http://nodevice.com
>Linux Programmer's Site
----- Posted via NewsOne.Net: Free (anonymous) Usenet News via the Web -----
http://newsone.net/ -- Free reading and anonymous posting to 60,000+ groups
NewsOne.Net prohibits users from posting spam. If this or other posts
made through NewsOne.Net violate posting guidelines, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: gcc 2.95... installation problem
Date: 4 May 2001 20:11:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <172.173.85.96> writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am trying to install gcc-2.95 in my redhat 6.1 system. When i try to do rpm
-Uhv gcc-2.96.rpm, it gives me an error saying that it needs cpp-2.96.
>
>When I try to install cpp-2.96, I get the following errors:
>
># rpm -Uhv cpp-2.96~1.rpm
>
>error: failed dependencies:
> cpp = 1.1.2 is needed by egcs-1.1.2-24
> cpp = 1.1.2 is needed by egcs-objc-1.1.2-24
> cpp = 1.1.2 is needed by egcs-c++-1.1.2-24
>
>When I query the rpm database for the cpp and egcs installed. It gives me
following output:
>
>#rpm -q -a | grep cpp
>cpp-1.1.2-24
>
>#rpm -q -a | grep egcs
>egcs-1.1.2-24
>egcs-g77-1.1.2-24
>egcs-objc-1.1.2-24
>egcs-c++-1.1.2-24
>
>It clearly shows that cpp-1.1.2 is already installed so why is cpp-2.96 not
able to find it?
>
>TIA,
>anshul
>
>ps: Would appreciate if you can send me a response at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>==================================
>Poster's IP address: 172.173.85.96
>Posted via http://nodevice.com
>Linux Programmer's Site
----- Posted via NewsOne.Net: Free (anonymous) Usenet News via the Web -----
http://newsone.net/ -- Free reading and anonymous posting to 60,000+ groups
NewsOne.Net prohibits users from posting spam. If this or other posts
made through NewsOne.Net violate posting guidelines, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel panic every night
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 05:22:53 GMT
I have a machine here that freezes almost every other night.
Usually I don't know what went wrong (and I cannot telnet to it ) however
once I caught it displaying a kernel panic message. (It's running
kernel 2.2.14-5.0). I've heard that memory problems can cause this
but the bootup memory test does its thing without problems and I don't
know of any other way to test the memory. Any ideas?
Cev.
------------------------------
From: Tim Lines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiler for P200MMX
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 05:24:48 GMT
Dedicated to all Manson Fans wrote:
> I'm searching for an optimizing compiler for my system. A Pentium 200
> MMX is not as fast as it should be for resource-wasting. Does someone
> know where to get?
>
> Thanks...
In general, Windows is faster at resource wasting than Linux. A
sledgehammer is faster yet.
</smartassmode>
What language are you trying to compile? If you're looking for a free C
compiler with MMX optimization, a look at:
http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/LANG/C-1.html
tends to indicate that there are none.
On the other hand, if you're writing your own code you could take a look
at libmmx (available at http://www.go.dlr.de/fresh/linux/src/).
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terry Porter)
Subject: Re: kernel panic every night
Reply-To: No-Spam
Date: 05 May 2001 05:33:34 GMT
On Sat, 05 May 2001 05:22:53 GMT, Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a machine here that freezes almost every other night.
> Usually I don't know what went wrong (and I cannot telnet to it ) however
> once I caught it displaying a kernel panic message. (It's running
> kernel 2.2.14-5.0). I've heard that memory problems can cause this
> but the bootup memory test does its thing without problems and I don't
> know of any other way to test the memory. Any ideas?
Change the memory module(s)?
Try compiling a kernel, that usually finds memory problems ;-)
>
> Cev.
--
Kind Regards
Terry
--
**** ****
My Desktop is powered by GNU/Linux.
1972 Kawa Mach3, 1974 Kawa Z1B, .. 15 more road bikes..
Current Ride ... a 94 Blade
** Registration Number: 103931, http://counter.li.org **
------------------------------
From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ext2fs structure
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 07:32:28 +0200
Chewy509 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been looking through the Extended 2 Filesystem docs, and cannot find
> mention of the bootsector anywhere. After grabbing the bootsector off the
> partitions, (using dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/hda1 of=./boothda1.sys), and
> the Bootsectors are empty, that is all 00's.
> Does this mean that the Bootsector is not used? If not, can I use for my own
No FS uses any bootsector. It's not part of the partition!
> purposes, like putting in some boot code, so that my kernel can reside on an
That's what it's for.
Peter
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Journaling Filesystem with Individual File Compression?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 05:47:59 GMT
"Adam Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know of a journaling filesystem being developed for
> Linux that includes individual file compression (like NTFS?)
Compression has generally been fairly much pooh-poohed; that
_destroys_ the ability to do random access within files, and hurts
performance due to eating CPU time.
> The filesystem would also have to work well with a small cluster
> size (perhaps 1kB).
Ext2 allows you to configure cluster size at format time; if you've
got a desperate desire to have lots of very small files, tuning that
might be worthwhile.
And ReiserFS has the ability to do what they call "tail merging,"
where very small files share some of their space with the i-node
entry.
Do you have some specific application in mind? If you define your
"problem" as being:
"I want a journaling filesystem that does data compression and
allows tiny block sizes"
the answer may simply be "The Answer to Your Question is NO."
In contrast, in the real world, people have problems that need to be
solved that sound more like "I'm storing _some format of file_ on a
filesystem, and am running out of disk space. What might I do about
this?"
To which there might be much more fruitful answers.
--
(reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.gultn@" "enworbbc"))
http://vip.hyperusa.com/~cbbrowne/resume.html
You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers.
------------------------------
From: Cevat Ustun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Functions plotter
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 06:25:52 GMT
Reto Wigger wrote:
> hi
>
> Does anybody know a good functions plotter under linux.
> A print feature should implemented. And would like to print the function
> in the metrical system (centimeter):
>
> ^
> f(x):y |_
> |_
> |_
> |_
> |_
> |_ 1cm 2cm 3cm.........
> |____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|____|__>
>
> i hope you check that :-)
>
> rewi
>
>
Have you tried xmgrace? It does publish quality graphics:
http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/
Cevat
------------------------------
From: Dicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fdisk without restart
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 14:24:04 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any method that I don't need to
reboot the machine after fdisk a new partition
and can format and use it ?
Thanks~
------------------------------
Subject: Re: Xfree and presario 1600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K. B. Lee)
Date: 05 May 2001 02:21:32 -0500
Alex,
I am using presario 1270. I didn't have any manual or anything about
this laptop, but I successfuly loaded Windows2000, and from windows 2000,
I found what "video card" I had. Then I had no problem in configuring X
for my linux.
-KB
------------------------------
From: Torsten Beekhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: time adjustment
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 09:06:10 +0200
Hi wroot !
> I've heard that there are time servers or something that a UNIX
> system can connect to to adjust its clock. Is it true and is it
> possible to do it under Linux?
Of course, it is :-)
Take a look at "xntp" or "netdate". The latter is much easier to
handle.
Some days ago, I have posted a list of international time servers.
Regards, Torsten
--
- Linux is like a Wig-Wam: No Gates, No Windows, Apache inside
- Episode X: May the TuX be with You !
- registered Linux user #194586
------------------------------
From: "Mike Everett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: StarOffice & Xfree 4.0.3
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 09:07:01 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dave Uhring"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Everett wrote:
>
>> I've just upgraded to Xfree86 version 4.0.3 (to accomodate a new
>> graphics card) and now StarOffice causes the machine to lock-up
>> completely - the only solution being a reboot. The lock-up happens on
>> the first or second mouse action after StarOffice starts. No other
>> program seems to give any problems.
Thanks for the info - >> I'm running RedHat 7.0 with kernel 2.2.17. Any ideas please ?
>> TIA
>> Mike
>>
> I don't see any mouse specific problems mentioned in the patch
> description, but you might find a solution by applying patch 109939-02
> from Sun.
> http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=patches/patch-access
> Then enter 109939-02 in the Patch Finder.
Thanks for that, I've eventually bottomed the problem - and its with the
driver for the new card (Savage4). All I needed to do was to set an
environmental variabel (SAL_DO_NOT_INVERT50) to true. This is described
in the README, unfortunately in an earlier attempt to solve the problem I
had removed SO52 and tried to reinstall - and couldn't read the README
until I'd done that - and couldn't reinstall 'cos I hadn't set the
variable -DOH!
cheers
Mike
------------------------------
From: "Chorng Shiuan CHEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IP Connection Log
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 18:38:15 +1000
Hi all,
Is there a log somewhere in redhat linux 7 that has all the details of
Source/Destination IP addresses and time that has been connnected to/from in
the computer?
Basically I need a firewall log that shows all the IP Addresses of computers
on the net connected to my linux computer and also all the connection from
my linux box to other computer/webpages..
Thanks in advance : )
------------------------------
From: Jeannot Lapin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux crashes under X
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 10:39:44 +0200
Hello,
I installed Linux Mandrake 7.2 on my PC without problem. When I use the
Gnome Desktop Environnement, Linux crashes within 2 minutes. I can't
have a console screen with CTRL - ALT - F(1-6) Touch !!! So I reboot.
Before I used Linux Mandrake 7.2 without problem.
I have a Matrox Mystique 4 Mb, and my PC doesn't crach under WinNT. All
the cooling fan in the Central Unit work fine.
Anyone has an idea ?
Thanks
Jeannot
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruchira Datta)
Subject: Dynamic Fonts in Linux?
Date: 5 May 2001 08:53:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I would like to use dynamic fonts in my web pages. But I can't
even see dynamic fonts in Linux, let alone create them. Does
anyone know how to do this? I am using Netscape 4.77 on Debian
Gnu/Linux.
ADVthanksANCE
Ruchira Datta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: "HS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: time adjustment
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 11:22:02 +0200
yes..you need to install the ntp rpm wich starts your ntp deamon and so you
can give up a ntp-server in your linuxconf (time-section of linuxconf)
like: ntp.tudelft.nl
"wroot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:9cv1l7$h7o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I've heard that there are time servers or something that a UNIX system can
> connect to to adjust its clock. Is it true and is it possible to do it
> under Linux?
>
> Thanks
>
> Wroot
------------------------------
From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: just installed xcdroast .98alpha8 but got a problem
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 02:25:38 -0400
hi,
I just downloaded the newest version of Xcdroast. I had to get cdrecord
1.9 as well.
I can make an image just fine. I add the image as a track to be written
to a cdrw and then Istart the write process. It finishes fine and
finalizes the CD however when I mount teh disc I get an empty directory
listing.
If I attempt to get the CD info using Xcdroast, after a burn, I'm told
there is indeed one track on the disc and the right amount of space is
reportedbut yet I don't see anything with 'ls'...I'm writing the track as
a combination Rock Ridge + Joliet filesystem and im padding the tracks
which is a default setting.
Anyone know what's going on?
thanks
brandon
------------------------------
From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel panic every night
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 02:52:46 -0400
In article <N6MI6.25625$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cevat Ustun"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a machine here that freezes almost every other night. Usually I
> don't know what went wrong (and I cannot telnet to it ) however once I
> caught it displaying a kernel panic message. (It's running kernel
> 2.2.14-5.0). I've heard that memory problems can cause this but the
> bootup memory test does its thing without problems and I don't know of
> any other way to test the memory. Any ideas?
>
> Cev.
check the CPU fan, u might have a heat problem
------------------------------
From: "Bluesky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cannot make initrd-ver.img
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 19:03:58 +0900
hi all,
this is the first time I compile kernel. I want to build support for
Win2000 NTFS filesystem and usb devices (i use MO, digital camera).
The download of kernel 2.4.4, build is OK, but when I use:
mkinitrd initrd-24.4.img 2.4.4
the error message came that no aic7xxx module is found.
The bzImage is built, but no initrd-ver.img, reading some books on
RedHat is not helpful either.
Please give some advice.
TIA,
SN
------------------------------
From: Ian Sovor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7.1 Refuses to Install over 6.2
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 05:50:50 -0400
I tried to get the RH7.1 kit to install over the top of a 6.2 system,
and it refused. It kept dieing in anaconda when it tried to format the
newly created partitions.
When I gave up, I just rebooted the 6.2 system fine. The install never
repartitioned the disks, nor did it do a format.
What's up?
------------------------------
From: Ian Sovor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7.1 Installs Kitchen Sink when doing Upgrade
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 05:52:47 -0400
I then tried upgrading my 6.2 system with the RH7.1 kit, and it seemed
to install every rpm it had. I noticed it installing Espranto for KDE,
Greek, and a number of other language extensions I will never use.
This chewed up a lot of disk space, so after the upgrade, I removed many
unwanted rpm's.
Is this a known bug?
------------------------------
From: Ian Sovor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7.1 Subscription Support Confusing and Difficult
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 05:59:18 -0400
After installing RH7.1, I tried to get the two month trial of their
premium support working. It was a confusing process, and I was asked
questions that were not spelled out in the included flier.
If you folks want developers to get hooked on your services, you have
got to make it simpler to setup. Why not have one of your VP's try it
out of the box and see what I mean? Ha, Ha, they would get a shock.
But, they did include a phone number I could call. I suppose I will have
to call to get some 'premium help' setting up their 'premium help'
system.
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list by posting to comp.os.linux.misc.
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Misc Digest
******************************
