Linux-Misc Digest #785, Volume #27 Sun, 6 May 01 05:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a. JE) (Young4ert)
mandrake installation
Re: Inserting several jpg files into StarOffice presentation ("J-Pip")
Re: cannot make initrd-ver.img ("Bluesky")
xterm and shell environment question (Paul Bradley)
Re: xterm and shell environment question (Drew Roedersheimer)
how to change the password in web page? ("percy")
Re: StarOffice & Xfree 4.0.3 (Michael Perry)
TeraTerm line draw characters (Gregory Laprade)
Re: xterm and shell environment question ("Eric Wertman")
Re: fdisk without restart ("Eric en Jolanda")
not enough RAM during RH 7.1 install ("Waldermar")
Re: Loading modules ("Wayne Osborn")
Re: Lost task bar at bottom of Gnome desktop ("Wayne Osborn")
Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1 ("Eric Chow")
Re: File System going bad (Floyd Davidson)
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a. JE)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 03:10:30 GMT
Todd Knarr wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc
> <1vTI6.1147$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Young4ert
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> support", I get stuck and am confused as to which UHCI support to choose:
>> CONFIG_USB_UHCI or CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (Alternate JE Driver). Can anyone
>> please shed some lights in this matter?
>
> Basically, there's two versions of the UHCI driver. The JE driver is the
> older one. You can check Documentation/usb/uhci.txt for details, but as
> I read it there's only one or two things you might need the JE driver for.
> My suggestion: build both drivers as modules and modprobe the one you
> want at boot-time ( or set up /etc/modules.conf to autoload the correct
> one when anything wants to use USB devices ). I'd also go with the newer
> regular UHCI driver if it doesn't give you trouble, and use the older JE
> driver only if you absolutely have to.
>
Thank you for your response and explanation.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mandrake installation
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 04:30:04 -0000
i have a mandrake 7.2 disk and i need to make a floppy disk to boot
from..everytime i go to make a flopy it tells me their isnt enough space
on it..i was wondering if i could install linux mandrake using a windows
98 start up disk..or if someone casn tell me how to make a boot up disk
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Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 12:35:25 +0800
From: "J-Pip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inserting several jpg files into StarOffice presentation
"Garry Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> There are plenty of image viewers that will create thumbnails from the
> contents of a directory. Clicking on the thumbnail will then display the
> full size image. And most such programs also allow you to zoom, pan,
> edit, run a slide show, and so on. gqview and electric eyes are two such
> programs that come with Mandrake, for example.
>
> There are also programs available that can create a web page containing
> all the images in a directory. http://freshmeat.net/ is one place to look
> for this kind of thing.
>
> --
> Garry Knight
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out.
J-Philippe.
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From: "Bluesky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot make initrd-ver.img
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:42:11 +0900
"John Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bluesky wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
John
> Do you actually have an Adaptec AIC7xxx SCSI host adaptor on your
> system? If not, drop it from the kernel config and recompile.
>
> Do you really need the initrd? If you have an AIC7xxx adaptor,
> try building it into the kernel instead of as a module and drop
> initrd altogether.
>
> NTFS support comes at a much higher level than the HD device
> support. You can configure it under the filesystems section of
> the kernel configuration utility.
>
> --
>
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is (new) initrd not necessary to run/boot, I mean, just use the original one
?
In the lilo.conf it is cited. I do not have AIC7xxx (i guess it is built-in
adaptor in
some old motherboard ??), yet one thing that is not clear to me is kernel
and modules.
If the modules are like functions to be called when in need, then in what
sense such
modules should be built in kernel ?
I just reinstall RH 7.1, make some change in xconfig to support USB and NTFS
filesystem.
In test, using a spare hard disk with 2 partitions, one NTFS, one DOS, now I
can mount
the NTFS partition and read, copy files from there to linux partition. But
USB external MO
is only recognized correctly with manufacturer, unable to mount it.
Anyway, will try again as you suggested. I will post the result here once
more.
Thank you for your reply.
SN
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From: Paul Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xterm and shell environment question
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 23:03:57 -0600
I wasn't certain as to what group to post this question to:
I am running RedHat 7.1. I hvae several HPUX boxes on the network that
access via telnet using xterm. On some of these HPUX boxes there are
apps that I run, such as OmniView or SAM. When I was using Windows and
Exceed to connect to these machines (using xterm)....I would set my
DISPLAY variable to the IP address of my machine; therefore, when I ran
one of these apps, the gui display of these apps would display on my
machine. Since moving to linux as my desktop at work, whenever I try to
run any of these apps and try to have the gui output displayed on my
machine, i get a "cannot connect to display" message. When I set up my
machine's IP for the DISPLAY variable. Is there something I need to
enable on Linux to allow the gui output of an app run on another box to
display on mine?
Thanks,
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: xterm and shell environment question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 05:15:30 GMT
On Sat, 05 May 2001 23:03:57 -0600, Paul Bradley wrote:
>I wasn't certain as to what group to post this question to:
>
>I am running RedHat 7.1. I hvae several HPUX boxes on the network that
>access via telnet using xterm. On some of these HPUX boxes there are
>apps that I run, such as OmniView or SAM. When I was using Windows and
>Exceed to connect to these machines (using xterm)....I would set my
>DISPLAY variable to the IP address of my machine; therefore, when I ran
>one of these apps, the gui display of these apps would display on my
>machine. Since moving to linux as my desktop at work, whenever I try to
>run any of these apps and try to have the gui output displayed on my
>machine, i get a "cannot connect to display" message. When I set up my
>machine's IP for the DISPLAY variable. Is there something I need to
>enable on Linux to allow the gui output of an app run on another box to
>display on mine?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Paul
I think what you need to do on your Linux box, is use the xhost command
to allow these machines to connect to your local X-server. Assuming
the machine which has the apps to run is 192.168.0.1, you would issue
(on your local machine):
xhost +192.168.0.1
Note that you can also use valid hostnames. Also, you still need to
set the DISPLAY variable to the IP address of your machine, and make
sure you're not *disallowing* connections to your machine's X-server
through the "-nolisten tcp" option to startx...
Also note that if you're running these apps over an insecure network,
an attacker can see all the data, as well as keystrokes, etc in clear
text. Other security risks apply, but I'm no expert on it... Tunnel
the X traffic through ssh if you're really paranoid...
HTH
-DR
--
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo
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From: "percy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security,tw.bbs.comp.unix,tw.bbs.comp.xwindow
Subject: how to change the password in web page?
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:08:42 +0800
how to change the password in web page?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: StarOffice & Xfree 4.0.3
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 05:26:31 -0000
On Sat, 5 May 2001 20:58:05 -0500, Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Perry wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 5 May 2001 08:05:40 -0500, Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm running StarOffice 5.2 on a Sony VAIO P166 with 64MB of RAM that has
>> > SuSE 7.1 installed. It takes about 75 seconds to load but after that
>> > the speed is acceptable.
>> > Now on my 1GHz Athlon Beast with 512MB RAM, also running SuSE 7.1, it
>> > talkes less than 2 seconds to load. SO5.2 is great!
>> > JLK
>> >
>> Great? I have a 1g Athlon beast too. I use staroffice on it on occasion.
>> SO5.2 does not seem so great to me. It consumes several different
>> processes, crashed the X session with the athlon on the 2.2 kernel,
>> and seems to be just as unwieldy as previous versions were.
>>
>> Great is not the word I would use to describe SO5.2. Perhaps acceptable
>> is... But acceptable definitely is NOT the word for slower machines and
>> SO5.2. I would use the word "frustrating" for those machines.
>>
>
> Crashes? SO has yet to crash on either machine. If you have problems with
> GUI apps crashing then perhaps your Xserver is misadjusted. ??
>
>
Could be. I would rather wager that SO5.2 is misadjusted :) It became
readjusted under the 2.4 kernel with the latest X server and the nvidia
supplied drivers. I don't consider an application which launches seven
different processes when it runs to be my most favored... Check this out...
merwyn ~: ps ax |grep soffice
1391 tty1 S 0:08 /usr/local/office52/program/soffice.bin
1408 tty1 S 0:00 /usr/local/office52/program/soffice.bin
1409 tty1 S 0:00 /usr/local/office52/program/soffice.bin
1410 tty1 S 0:00 /usr/local/office52/program/soffice.bin
1411 tty1 S 0:00 /usr/local/office52/program/soffice.bin
1412 tty1 S 0:00 /usr/local/office52/program/soffice.bin
1414 tty1 S 0:00 /usr/local/office52/program/soffice.bin
1423 pts/1 S 0:00 grep soffice
Wonder why it needs 7 different processes. Possibly for the
desktop shell it insists on running each time?
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gregory Laprade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.terminals
Subject: TeraTerm line draw characters
Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 23:32:15 -0700
When I install TeraTerm on a WinNT 4 or a Win2k box, it works fine. The
line draw chars (like the boxes around "mc" in Linux, or the box around
the name of the node you are telneting in to on VMS) appear correctly.
BUT when I reboot the computer these chars stop being displayed properly
(they turn in to little boxes or boxes with Xs in the middle of them).
I've verified this on several different hosts. Does anyone have a
solution to this problem?
--
G
composed with Mozilla on Debian Linux...Live free...use Linux!
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From: "Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xterm and shell environment question
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 02:25:05 -0400
You need to authorize the other machine on the local display. Use:
xhost the_hp_node
locally, should do the trick.
Eric
"Paul Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I wasn't certain as to what group to post this question to:
>
> I am running RedHat 7.1. I hvae several HPUX boxes on the network that
> access via telnet using xterm. On some of these HPUX boxes there are
> apps that I run, such as OmniView or SAM. When I was using Windows and
> Exceed to connect to these machines (using xterm)....I would set my
> DISPLAY variable to the IP address of my machine; therefore, when I ran
> one of these apps, the gui display of these apps would display on my
> machine. Since moving to linux as my desktop at work, whenever I try to
> run any of these apps and try to have the gui output displayed on my
> machine, i get a "cannot connect to display" message. When I set up my
> machine's IP for the DISPLAY variable. Is there something I need to
> enable on Linux to allow the gui output of an app run on another box to
> display on mine?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk without restart
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 08:23:48 +0200
> >Is there any method that I don't need to
> >reboot the machine after fdisk a new partition
> >and can format and use it ?
>
> yes
>
> edit /etc/fstab to reflect where you want to mount the new partition (see
> man 5 fstab) and then mount -a
>
No!
Don't try this if fdisk mentions to reboot.
(Well trying to mount it wont hurt, running mkfs is more dangerous)
You can alter the partitiontable on a disk that has no other partitions
mounted.
Then the kernel will be able to update the table correctly.
If you changed a partitiontable, check /proc/partitions to see if the change
came through. If so, no need to reboot, if it's not there, reboot. Do not
attempt to run mkfs unless you're sure the kernel uses the same table as you
do.
Eric
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From: "Waldermar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: not enough RAM during RH 7.1 install
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 07:35:26 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to set up RedHat 7.1 on a 486x16M machine.
Guess what - 7.1 wants more RAM (32???) and fails to install.
I know, memory is cheap, etc., but the question is can I make
it work with 16? Anyone bypassed it somehow?
Thanks for any info,
--V.
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Loading modules
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 15:39:52 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Using Slackware 7.1, kernel 2.2.16:
>
> When I rebuilt the kernel with drivers as modules, they didn't load. I'm
> trying to trace the boot flow to see how they are loaded, and can't
> quite figure it out. It looks like it's called from rc.S.
>
> I added modules to /etc/rc.d/modules.rc but that didn't seem to do it.
> Can anyone explain this, or point me to something besides the howto?
>
> When I do a kernel rebuild, and 'make modules' the modules are compiled,
> but not moved to /lib/modules/2.2.16/... Do I have to move them
> manually?
> 'make bzlilo' installs the kernel for me, am I just too spoiled by this?
>
> As an example, I added sound support to my kernel. Was it even
> nessesary to rebuild? Could I have just loaded sound.o and es1371.o? I
> couldn't figure out where to get those to load. (lsmod didn't show them
> as loaded)
>
> kerneld is specified as needed to load and unload modules. But the only
> place it appears is in rc.modules, and it's commented out.
>
> I'm a little lost on modules. If I knew at least one place to start, I
> could slowly start to learn this. But none of the stuff I can find
> starts out that simple. It all seems to assume a lot further
> understanding than where I'm starting from.
>
> Thanks for any help.
> -Scott Weber
>
Somewere on the RedHat site is a detailed walk through of the boot
process. Sorry I don't have the URL, just a print out.
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
3:30pm up 1 day, 21:57, 2 users, load average: 1.18, 1.10, 1.49
...Your files are now being encrypted and thrown into the bit bucket.
EOF
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lost task bar at bottom of Gnome desktop
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 15:49:38 +0800
In article <OI0J6.6151$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Will Cardwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have RH 7 with Gnome. I clicked something that removed the Netscape
> icon button and all of the task bars at the bottom of the screen. It
> even warned me before I said OK but I didn't understand it would take
> this action and for some reason I thought it was what I needed at the
> time to fix something else...
> Can I get it back like it was? Possibly I need to reinstall
> Gnome?...If so can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> I need Netscape especially, and I don't know how to launch it without
> the
> desktop button. Thanks.
>
If your panel has gone you can bring it back by opening a terminal and
typing "panel".
To create a shortcut to Netscape, open the menu with Netscape on it, and
drag the Netscape icon to the panel.
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
3:40pm up 1 day, 22:07, 1 user, load average: 1.45, 1.21, 1.33
...All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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From: "Eric Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 16:04:59 +0800
Hello,
I installed RedHat Linux 7.1, but when I tried to use ftp in other PC(which
in the same LAN). It always show "Login failed". The messages as following :
C:\>ftp 192.168.0.1
Connected to 192.168.0.1.
220 ns.ericjoey.com FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1-16) ready.
User (192.168.0.1:(none)): eric
331 Password required for eric.
Password:
530 Login incorrect.
Login failed.
ftp>
I don't know what caused this. When I use RedHat 6.2, I just installed
everything, and it can use as a FTP server. But in RedHat 7.1, it can't. Is
there any config to to that ? Would you please to teach me what should I do
?
Best regards,
Eric
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux.slakware
Subject: Re: File System going bad
Date: 05 May 2001 23:50:56 -0800
Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Naw, just got new memory, and am waiting to see what happens.
>
>Took a power hit last night, and reboot's fsck gave me
>'Deleted inode xxxx has zero dtime. FIXED'
If that is the only kind of problem fsck is coming up with, then
you probably don't really have a problem.
What kernel are you using and what version of e2fsck and mke2fs
are you using?
>Those are the kind of things that got accumulated before,
>without hostile shutdowns.
>
>We'll see..
>
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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