Linux-Misc Digest #924, Volume #27 Tue, 22 May 01 17:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: usb canon powershot s10 camera (Leonard Evens)
Re: How to tell mkisofs to take file/dir names literally? (James Pearson)
Re: How to tell mkisofs to take file/dir names literally? (James Pearson)
Re: child wait process hangs my outgoing emails (Neil W Rickert)
Re: split or compress big file into floppies (Michael Heiming)
BIOS Operating System (BIOSOS) (long). (Hermann Samso)
Re: A CPU cooler for Linux? (Ray)
Re: A CPU cooler for Linux? (Ray)
Re: RedHat 7.1 PS2 mouse problems... (Bernie Borenstein)
Re: What's the best newsreader for binary downloads? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: The Linux Library Issue (Markku Kolkka)
automount with cd's? ("Florian Schmidt")
Re: which linux dist? ("Florian Schmidt")
Re: RedHat 7.1 PS2 mouse problems... (Jeffrey Hood)
Mailing List or Newsgroup for Linux ISPs? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: kmail configuration file (Markku Kolkka)
Re: Java and fonts (Markku Kolkka)
Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why? (Dave Uhring)
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: usb canon powershot s10 camera
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:22:26 -0500
mark stephens wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get my canon powershot s10 camera to work with Linux
> 2.4.4 Redhat 7. I have a Gateway AMD 950 Mhz Athlon with the VIA
> chipset. When I switch the camera to pc mode it doesn't say "PC" in
> the lcd display on the camera. When I do this with windows2000 I can
> transfer photos and see "PC" in the lcd display.
>
> When I switch the camera to pc mode I see the following in my
> /var/log/messages:
>
> kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1 assigned device number
> 7
> kernel: usb.c: USB device 7 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x3041 is not claimed by
> any active driver.
>
> Is there a problem with my linux setup? Also s10sh doesn't recognize
> the camera, it gives a camera not found error.
See www.linux-usb.org. According to them, your camera is partially
supported, and there are comments about what to do.
As far as the comment about not being claimed by an active driver,
that may not be relevant. I have an Olympus C3040 which produces
the same message. Yet my 2.4.2 kernel (under RH7.1) loads the
appropriate usb and scsi modules, and I can access the smartmedia
card by mounting /dev/sda1 as an msdos file 12 bit file system
(-t msdos -o fat=12). Then the images are there to deal with
as normal files. I can't modify camera controls, but I can't
do that either under Windows 98 with Olympus's software.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Pearson)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.cdr
Subject: Re: How to tell mkisofs to take file/dir names literally?
Date: 22 May 2001 11:35:11 -0700
Stuart Summerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Nice idea Bart, but it didn't work. It still complains about not being
> about to create a unique name for the file.
>
> The file in question is closely related to a second file of very
> similar name. They take the form:
>
> <__BIG_MESS_OF_CHARS__>.html
> <__BIG_MESS_OF_CHARS__>_files/
>
> Where, as shown in my original post, <__BIG_MESS_OF_CHARS__> contains
> numerous ";"s.
>
Try without the -U option. This is only really for the very few OS's that
can't read Joliet or Rock Ridge extensions.
James Pearson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Pearson)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.cdr
Subject: Re: How to tell mkisofs to take file/dir names literally?
Date: 22 May 2001 11:59:46 -0700
Stuart Summerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Nice idea Bart, but it didn't work. It still complains about not being
> about to create a unique name for the file.
>
> The file in question is closely related to a second file of very
> similar name. They take the form:
>
> <__BIG_MESS_OF_CHARS__>.html
> <__BIG_MESS_OF_CHARS__>_files/
>
> Where, as shown in my original post, <__BIG_MESS_OF_CHARS__> contains
> numerous ";"s.
>
Just realised what the problem is - Joliet has a 64 character file name limit.
mkisofs just truncates the file names at 64 characters - which in your case
creates non-unique names.
It just so happens, I've been working on an option to preserve the Joliet file
name extension - which may help in your case. Send me an email if you want more
details.
Also note that ';' is an illegal Joliet file name character, so mkisofs will
change this to '_'
James Pearson
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From: Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: child wait process hangs my outgoing emails
Date: 22 May 2001 14:06:58 -0500
Jim Valavanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Neil W Rickert wrote:
>> Jim Valavanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >Neil W Rickert wrote:
>> >> Jim Valavanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> >Yea the other process is doing this...
>> >> >sendmail: ./f4KFaJA14105 ppp1.mydomain.com [192.168.1.41]: DATA
>> >> Then the body of the message is currently being sent.
>> >> If there is a problem here, it is likely to be a network problem --
>> >> not all of the message is getting through, and your sendmail is still
>> >> waiting for that final "." on a line by itself, to indicate the end
>> >> of transmission.
>> >I've tested the mail from the localhost using standard mail with a "."
>> >at the end, and this seems to work fine. Why is that when I first
>> >restart sendmail the first message from a pop client goes through fine,
>> >though. But after that the transmission does not complete properly.
>> >In netscape, for example, I'll get "message sent" then waiting for
>> >reply, until it just times out.
>> >Any other clues? You think something got broken in Redhat 7.0, which is
>> >what I'm running with kernel 2.2.16 (smp)?
>> You can look in the queue directory. Corresponding to message
>> f4KFaJA14105, we would expect the file "dff4KFaJA14105". What
>> is in there will tell you roughly what sendmail has received
>> so far. Since you can expect some data to be sitting in
>> buffers, this won't tell you everything.
>> Also look at the "netstat" line for this connection, to see if it
>> indicates any data sitting in system network buffers, but not read or
>> not sent.
>> From the PC that is sending the mail, try uploading a moderatly large
>> file (20K or more) with FTP. See if that also hangs.
>The FTP's seem to work fine for small and big files.
>
>The netstat shows 0's for both Recv and Send Queues.
>In the /var/spool/mqueue directory there are files from a couple of days
>ago and they show all the emails I've been trying to send, but received
>timeouts on.
That still looks like network problems.
>Here is the message from /var/log/maillog...
>May 21 11:06:19 corp sendmail[14105]:f4L926K14716:
>to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:30:00, pri=31200, stat=timeout waiting
>for input during message collect.
And that too still looks like a network problem.
Sorry to sound like a broken record. But I don't know of anything,
other than a network problem, that would cause this.
It is conceivable that there is some RedHat problem. I did have a
similar problem on a solaris system several weeks ago, that was fixed
by killing and restarting the "nscd" process (name service caching
daemon). This was apparently causing host or password lookups to
hang in an RPC, apparently not interruptable by sendmail's alarm
clock timer. But that's a long shot, and the network error is the
more likely explanation.
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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 21:14:22 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: split or compress big file into floppies
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>
> Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> > >
> > > Jinsong Liang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > How can I split or compress a big file into several floppies? I have
>
> What I have heard works is to first tar AND gzip /bzip the file, then tar it
> again onto floppies directly...?
>
> Stefan Viljoen
Nope, you tar and compress in one pass, using -z or -I option GNU tar
has,
why should you tar it again?
Michael Heiming
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From: Hermann Samso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.arch,comp.os.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: BIOS Operating System (BIOSOS) (long).
Date: 22 May 2001 19:18:51 GMT
Summary:
With the advent of cheap ROMs and flash memory, it
would be delightful to have a small Boot Up Operating System.
The Story:
Having just bought two second hand PCs, I had to realize
that they didn't have any Operating System installed, and
oh poor me! forgot to buy the last update/release of my
favourite OS (Linux/Windows/etc). What to do?
The Solution:
Not only for test reasons, but to really boot up a System
from scratch, it would be helpful to have a BIOS "glue"
or some other kind of ROM installed in everyday use PCs.
This would help mantain the System and also help in software
developement.
This idea is not new. We fount it in old 8 bit and 16 bit
Home Computers. The like of Basic ROMs in Sinclairs/Commodores/
Amstrad/Ataris or TOS/Workbench in Amigas and Atari STs.
This would suppose a level of abstraction between plain ol'
BIOS and your favourite OS. It would be a simple kind of DOS,
nowadays to find in the Public Domain (FreeDos,...) and
would help in recovery and simple machine testing operations.
Call it BIOSOS.
Such a low profile System can be packed easily in a 512KB ROM
or Flash alike piece. It wouldn't overprice a Motherboard much,
and certainly would be very helpful to gain a rapid insight of
the System at view, at last, without having to boot up from any
removable or soft image.
Forth, a JavaVM or a minimal Linux, are implementations that
instantly pop up to mind (SUN's, PowerPc's CHRP,...)
The system would consist of basic operations needed to rescue
a system or boot up a new one, the like of edit, fdisk, filesystem
operations (ls/dir, fdisk, cd, ...) an assembler or compiler, ...
In an extreme case where all your software has gone corrupted,
and you can't find any 3rd party to deliver you a new System,
an experienced man, call him a software developer or programmer :)
would have at least the possibility of bringing the machine again
to work. This is not possible nowadays in existing PCs, because,
although they have a low level system layer (Basic Input/Output
System), they lack another level over it that provides basic
maintenance applications.
It is not meant to replace any existing Operating Systems,
only to extend the all present PC BIOSes to be able to
boot up a barebones machine.
So this is my please to BIOS and motherboard facturers,
but also to any hobbiests that like the idea.
saludos,
hermann samso
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: A CPU cooler for Linux?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:19:15 -0000
On Wed, 16 May 2001 09:45:42 +0200, Christian Capito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>on Wednesday 16 May 2001 05:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoth:
>
>> the CPU temperature low. In Linux, it is higher. I thought Linux had a
>> CPU cooler code. Did I miss something? I am a Linux newbie, so hopefully
>
>Have you checked the fan speeds in both systems? I could imagine that under
>Linux, the cpu fan runs slower...
>
>But who cares as long as your cpu is within safe limits?
What makes you say that? With a few exceptions there is NO control over the
cpu fan in either hardware or software. It's hard wired to 12V and that's
where it stays.
--
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: A CPU cooler for Linux?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:35:40 -0000
On Sun, 20 May 2001 23:44:00 GMT, H Dziardziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 19 May 2001 13:21:54 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(SammyTheSnake) wrote:
>Hello, this thread had been very instructive, thank you all. If I
>could add to it; my ammeter checks on several laptops (fairly easy to
>tap into the power for measuring) have have shown that for the mobile
>pentium family, hlt enabled w9x (either intrinsic or with a utility)
>gave about 10-20% better (lower) consumption when ostensibly idle ie.,
>no keyboard, network, program etc input, over Linux in terminal and/or
>X.
What do you mean "intrinsic"? Win9x does not have this functionality built
in. Also I'm curious if you took into account things like hard drive
spindown and what background apps. were running. One thing with linux is
that it likes to touch the disk very frequently thus preventing the hard
disk from spinning down (or staying spun down). A utility called "noflushd"
can prevent this and gives me around 20% longer run times on my P120 based
Toshiba.
> I have not checked the wNT family.
NT4 does have this function built in and it seems roughly as effective as in
Linux. The only catch is that on NT this feature is disabled with 2 or more
cpus.
> Based on my very limited
>knowledge of Linux I wonder if perhaps the clock being a soft clock as
>opposed to w9x using the hardware clock, and the other Linux network,
>housekeeping scheduled processes are what account for the difference?
>This small difference would be significant in a laptop only if the
>normal laptop usage pattern is well ruminated text (adding perhaps
>10-15 minutes to the average battery life)? And the cooling equally
>not that much different. Regards
Interesting post, thanks.
--
Ray
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From: Bernie Borenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 PS2 mouse problems...
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:25:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Thanks... but I should have posted that it is a symlink to /dev/psaux...
> changing the reference from one to the other doesn't seem to help...
> same errors...
>
> I haven't recompiled the kernel, so that isn't the problem... mostly I
> am wondering why it worked during the install, but not now after the
> install...
>
> Thanks,
> JH
>
> > /dev/mouse is likely a symbolic link pointing at the actual /dev/ file.
> > What is the result of:
> > ls -l /dev/mouse ???
> >
> > It should point at something else. For a PS2 mouse, it should point to
> > /dev/psaux. If it points elsewhere, this is your problem. If so, you can
> > remove symbolic links without hurting the file it points at, so cd to
> > /dev/, then "rm /dev/mouse", and recreate pointing to psaux:
> > ln -s psaux mouse
> >
> > I'm fairly sure that install kernels have ps2 support, so it is unlikely
> > the problem, but if you have recompiled the kernel, you must also add
> > support for ps2 mice there.
> >
> > D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
>
Try this url and let know if this helps you.
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-062.html
BB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What's the best newsreader for binary downloads?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:56:37 GMT
Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Phillip Pi wrote:
>> I am looking for an easy to use news reader that will let me connect to
>> multiple news server (must accept username and password prompt, and let
>> me add custom news server names/IP addresses), multiple connections to
>> download, be able to resume downloads, etc. The program should be
>> similar to Windows' NewsBin: http://www.newsbin.com, but I would like a
>> Linux version newsreader with similar features.
> Tried Pan? http://pan.rebelbase.com/
Yup, but it doesn't have all the features I want. Oh well. Pan will have
to do since I can't find any better program for Linux. :)
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: The Linux Library Issue
Date: 22 May 2001 22:59:54 +0300
Scott Drumm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As I've seen this problem occur during other package installations /
> compilations, could someone please tell me WHY this happens and HOW the
> Linux run-time library system works?
Actually this has nothing to do with the run-time library system, it's
a "feature" of the RPM installation system (I'm assuming you're using
RPM because you mentioned RH7.0). RPM doesn't check the dependencies
from the filesystem, but from it's database. So it doesn't matter if
the libXxf86dga.so.1 exists somewhere on the disk if the RPM database
doesn't know about it.
Possible solutions:
- check which packages xmms requires (with rpm -qpR), and check the
versions of the installed packages. Maybe your xmms package needs a
specific version of the library.
- reinstall the RPM package containing the library
- rebuild the RPM database (rpm --rebuilddb)
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Florian Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: automount with cd's?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:10:53 +0200
hi..
i ws wondering, if there is a way to reach the following:
whenever i open the directory /cdrom, where i now manually mount my cdrom
as root everytime i need it, i would like the cdrom to be automounted. i
browsed the mountd and automount man-pages, but i just didn't get it..
now, a super-duper-nifty feature would be an autounmount, whenever leave
all the directories on the cd..
is that possible (i think it should)?
i'm using slackware 7.1 on a scsi-only system (tekram dc390 and
aic78xx)..
thanks in advance...
--
florian schmidt
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From: "Florian Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which linux dist?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:10:56 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Stanislaw Flatto"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am currently using Slackware as I find it extremely fast and
>> powerful.
>> Which distribution would you recommend?
>
> Slackware.
full ACK. i use slackware, too.. no need to change (from my point of
view)
--
florian schmidt
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From: Jeffrey Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 PS2 mouse problems...
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 20:17:22 GMT
> Try this url and let know if this helps you.
>
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-062.html
>
Thanks, but I had found that errata and ran both of the updated rpm's...
mouseconfig and Xconfigurator both "work" fine... it's just when X tries
to start that it complains that the device is busy... I have also tried
setting the X conf file by hand to /dev/psaux, to no avail...
Thanks,
JH
--
Jeffrey Hood
HM Consulting, Inc.
jhood [you-know-why] at hmcon.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mailing List or Newsgroup for Linux ISPs?
Date: 22 May 2001 12:47:31 -0700
Hi,
I am working for a mailing list or newsgroup for Linux based ISPs. Are there
any? ( I would be surprised if there wasn't any..... )
JW
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kmail configuration file
Date: 22 May 2001 23:04:50 +0300
r1ckey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anybody know where the Kmail configuration file is located?
~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc
(at least in KDE 2.1.1)
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Java and fonts
Date: 22 May 2001 23:02:54 +0300
Jacob Kristensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Font specified in font.properties not found
> [--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
> (20 times)
> I get the same when i try to run some(but not all) of the programs that
> come with the SUN JDK2 package.
> I'm on a RH 7.0, kernel 2.4.4
> Where did i f*** up??
Nowhere, this is a bug that has been in the Sun JDK for ages. File
another bug report with them, maybe they eventually get it fixed.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: can't compile qt-2.3.0 with -xft. Why?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:39:39 -0500
Juergen Diez wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've the problem that I can't compile qt-2.3.0 witch the xft feature.
> Which libs and wich version of these libs do I need to compile qt with the
> xft feature?
> Or why doesn't it work?
>
> thx
> J�rgen
>
You might want to look at this. I had to fix that header file when I built
qt-2.3.0 on Solaris.
http://qt-interest.trolltech.com/dsw6.html
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