Linux-Misc Digest #797, Volume #27 Sun, 6 May 01 16:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Real Player configuration (Scott)
Re: Lexmark Z52 printer woes! (holcomb)
Re: not enough RAM during RH 7.1 install ("Waldermar")
Re: not enough RAM during RH 7.1 install (Floyd Davidson)
FS: Xi Graphics Laptop Accelerated-X and Dextop v2.1, and more... ("Zippidy DooDah")
news/mail clients (andi)
Re: linux ("thunder")
Re: not enough RAM during RH 7.1 install (Dave Uhring)
Re: Real Player configuration (Dave Uhring)
Re: File System going bad (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: Soundblaster 16 PCI setup (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
CD writer access (long post) (Gavin McCord)
Computer case badges with 3D effect with your own logo. Order (SecurisysAgency)
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From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Real Player configuration
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 11:59:41 -0500
Hmmm. You may have missed the point. I think those scripts
did run. The associations appear to be there, in netscape.
I'm just wondering why the auto-configure feature can't
find a server, and the only whay to get it to work
is to setup real player to use only HTTP protocol.
I figured it should work on install, and I shouldn't
have to mess with the preferences.
-Scott
Dave Uhring wrote:
>
> Scott wrote:
>
> > I've got Slackware 7.12, 2.2.16, and SB PCI 16 card.
> > It's all working. I believe it's good enough.
> >
> > Real Player 8 had trouble playing as anyone but root. I
> > chmod 666 the audio, mixer, dsp, sound, etc... Now it plays
> > as the regular user.
> >
> > But, then I had to set it to http ONLY for all the protocols.
> > Why?
> >
> > I tried running the autoconfig feature in it's preferences, and
> > it fails, saying it can't contact a server.
> >
> > But I can browser the whole world with netscape just fine.
> > I've run real player on my MS Windows box behind the same firewall.
> > It's definitely NOT a network issue, or an issue with networking
> > on this specific linux box.
> >
> > It's working for now, using HTTP, but I'd prefer to have it
> > running correctly.
> >
> > Can anyone give me any ideas about this? Any help is
> > appreciated.
> >
> > -Scott Weber
> >
> >
>
> cd into the RealPlayer8 directory (/usr/local/RealPlayer8). Then execute
> the mimeinstall.sh and pluginstall.sh scripts both as root and as user.
> Kill then restart netscape and your file associations will be fixed.
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From: holcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark Z52 printer woes!
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 17:30:04 -0000
Ron Le Blanc wrote:
>
> Lexmark Z52 printer woes!
>
> I have Redhat 7.1 installed. Yes, 7.1, off "official" Redhat CDs.
>
> Redhat uses LPRng-3.7.4-22 version of the printer drives. The
> printer configuration tool only lists the Z11 and Z32 printers.
> I tried using the Z32 driver, nada.
>
> I then installed the IBM Lexmark printer driver for the Z52, that
> is, cjlx52le.tar.gz as per the included instructions.
>
> Here is the printcap created:
>
> # /etc/printcap
> #
> # DO NOT EDIT! MANUAL CHANGES WILL BE LOST!
> # This file is autogenerated by printconf-backend during lpd init.
> #
> # Hand edited changes can be put in /etc/printcap.local, and will be
> included.
>
>
lexmarkz52::sh::ml=0::mx=0::sd=/var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz52::lp=/dev/lp0::lpd_bounce=true::if=/usr/share/printconf/mf_wrapper:
>
>
###############################################################################
> ## Everything below here is included verbatim from
> /etc/printcap.local ##
>
###############################################################################
> # printcap.local
> #
> # This file is included by printconf's generated printcap,
> # and can be used to specify custom hand edited printers.
>
> As you can see the correct :lp device is selected, but I still get no
> output.
>
> I have tried lpr <filename> and lpr -Plexmarkz52 <filename> and still
> the
> printer sits there fat, dumb, and apparently happy, but no printout.
>
> Has anyone gotten a Lexmark z52 to work with either Redhat 7.0 or 7.1?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks!
I do not know how much help I can be but I am willing to work with you.
I have RedHat 7.1 which I downloaded from the RedHat FTP. I bought a Z52
this weekend because I like Lexmark printers (I already own an
unsupported in Linux Z42) and I wanted to print in Linux. I installed
the Z52 driver from Lexmark and nothing would print. I decided to try
rebooting. During the boot process a bunch of Windbond parrallel port
configuration stuff showed up for the first time and printing worked. In
the readme file that comes with the driver it shows how to make a small
modification for USB operation, but I have not tried it. Here is my
printcap, if it may help.
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
lexmarkz52: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lexmarkz52: :mx#0: :sh: :lp=/dev/lp0:
:if=/usr/local/lexmark/z52/z52.sh:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
z52-outfiles: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/z52-outfiles: :mx#0: :sh:
:lp=/dev/lp0:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
lp: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp: :mx#0: :sh: :lp=/dev/lp0:
:if=/usr/local/lexmark/z52/z52.sh:
Let me know if I can help. JH
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From: "Waldermar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: not enough RAM during RH 7.1 install
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 17:33:46 GMT
Remember the rule?
Don't upgrade your system on Fridays because stores are closed on
weekends, he-he...
I feel I'll end up doing that but it'll delay it by a couple of days,
and I want it now :)
As the matter of fact I installed RH on another machine with enough
RAM (that RAM didn't work in the comp. I'm trying to set up RH on)
and then transplanted the hard drive to my low-budget machine,
and surprisingly it works. Not sure if this the right way to do it.
Can somebody tell me if Linux configures itself during installation
for the specific motherboard resources or it reconfigures itself
on every boot, so what I did is actually OK?
You're right , 32M requirement is bogus, for the services I run it takes
less than 16M of RAM.
Cheers,
-V.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dave Uhring"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Waldermar wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Some OS's require more RAM for the install than they do when they
> actually run. Maybe you can borrow some memory just to do the install.
>
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: not enough RAM during RH 7.1 install
Date: 06 May 2001 08:51:32 -0800
"Waldermar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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,
Ten years ago running X in 16Mb was _painful_. 20Mb or better
yet 32Mb made it reasonable (or, what was reasonable when a
486DX66 was about as good as it got without a second mortgage to
do better). I doubt in the years since that X or anything else
has gotten smaller.
Personally though, I would NOT buy more memory for a 486Mb, but
instead would go look for a pentium motherboard. Pentium boards
that are several times faster than a 486 cost peanuts...
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Zippidy DooDah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FS: Xi Graphics Laptop Accelerated-X and Dextop v2.1, and more...
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 12:14:03 -0600
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andi)
Subject: news/mail clients
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 18:46:42 GMT
I'm in the process of a slow migration to linux - but I need
recommendations regarding mail and news clients.
Mandrake 7.1 kernel 2.2.15-4 KDE desktop
On my windows box I am using, and am totally satisfied with Forte Free
Agent for news, which newsclient would people suggest for my linux
machine. The features of the Forte package I particularly like are the
ease of navigation, the automatic expansion of threads, and the fact
that I can mark threads for automatic download of message bodies when
only downloading headers. Had a go with KNews but having trouble
getting it to play as I want :-)
____________________________________
"A Single Open Mind,
can open any door"
Sonia Rutstein
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From: "thunder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 14:50:13 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "darkntrue"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to know if there is any place on the internet where i
> can practice linux commands without downloading the software
> redhat?
>
There are free shell accounts available, do a search. However, most
will limit the commands you can use.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: not enough RAM during RH 7.1 install
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:52:35 -0500
Waldermar wrote:
> Remember the rule?
> Don't upgrade your system on Fridays because stores are closed on
> weekends, he-he...
> I feel I'll end up doing that but it'll delay it by a couple of days,
> and I want it now :)
>
> As the matter of fact I installed RH on another machine with enough
> RAM (that RAM didn't work in the comp. I'm trying to set up RH on)
> and then transplanted the hard drive to my low-budget machine,
> and surprisingly it works. Not sure if this the right way to do it.
> Can somebody tell me if Linux configures itself during installation
> for the specific motherboard resources or it reconfigures itself
> on every boot, so what I did is actually OK?
>
> You're right , 32M requirement is bogus, for the services I run it takes
> less than 16M of RAM.
>
> Cheers,
> -V.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dave Uhring"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Waldermar wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Some OS's require more RAM for the install than they do when they
>> actually run. Maybe you can borrow some memory just to do the install.
>>
>
Had I known you had another machine, I would have suggested that disk
switch. Glad to hear your up and running.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Real Player configuration
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:56:54 -0500
Scott wrote:
> Hmmm. You may have missed the point. I think those scripts
> did run. The associations appear to be there, in netscape.
>
> I'm just wondering why the auto-configure feature can't
> find a server, and the only whay to get it to work
> is to setup real player to use only HTTP protocol.
> I figured it should work on install, and I shouldn't
> have to mess with the preferences.
>
> -Scott
>
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,alt.linux.slakware
Subject: Re: File System going bad
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 21:28:01 +0200
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Scott wrote:
> Took a power hit last night, and reboot's fsck gave me
> 'Deleted inode xxxx has zero dtime. FIXED'
Took a power hit? Do you mean you just turned off the machine while the
filesystem was mounted? Then you ask for FS errors. ext2 is not
journaling. Besides the above message means, that there were no serious
trouble at all.
> Those are the kind of things that got accumulated before,
> without hostile shutdowns.
You mean that you haven't got any errors (yet) with the new RAM? Sounds
like a bad RAM block...
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Soundblaster 16 PCI setup
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 21:50:53 +0200
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Scott wrote:
> I rebuilt the kernel with ensoniq 1371 loaded. I DO get sound,
> but it's kinda staticy
>
> However, 'cat /dev/sndstat' gives me Device not found.
/dev/sndstat is an OSS (OpenSoundSystem) feature. es1371 is a non-OSS
driver and thus does not support /dev/sndstat (nor /proc/sound).
> It was there when I had tried building the kernel with SB16 support.
> But now it's not there...
You should be able to get it by somehow configuring OSS - but I'm not
100% sure.
I have a SB PCI 64, and I have never used /dev/sndstat nor /proc/sound
but my card works fine anyway.
Rasmus
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From: Gavin McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD writer access (long post)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:39:58 +0100
I've having fun with my Mitsumi CR-4804TE cd-writer. I can
burn and read CDs no problem. As root. When it comes to doing
this as an ordinary user, it's another story.
I use kernel 2.4.3 and kmod. I burn CDs as root and am not
bothered about ordinary users using the writing capability.
But I would like to be able to play audio CDs and mount data
ones without having to be root.
Support for the cd-writer is not compiled into the kernel, but
as modules:
ide-cd, ide-scsi, sr_mod, sg, scsi_mod
Configuration is as follows:
/etc/lilo.conf
=============
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
/etc/modules.conf
=================
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
pre-install sg modprobe -k ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe -k ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe -k ide-cd
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
/etc/fstab
==========
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0
In addition, I've changed the permissions on the
/dev/scd*, /dev/sg*, /dev/sr* so that access is
available, as this seems to be something to
do with permissions.
So, when I try to access the cd device I get the following
error messages:
/var/log/messages
=================
May 6 16:00:16 east kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
May 6 16:00:16 east kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver unloaded
..repeating
/var/log/syslog
===============
May 6 16:00:16 east insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o: pre-install sr_mod
failed
May 6 16:00:16 east insmod:
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o: insmod block-major-11
failed
..repeating
I've done a lot of searching, and have tried many
different suggestions, to no avail. Again, everything
works fine as root.
Any ideas?
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