Linux-Misc Digest #108, Volume #28 Thu, 14 Jun 01 12:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problems configuring Network connection Mandrake-8.0 (Rajesh Radhakrishnan)
Re: depmod required? ("Tom Edelbrok")
Re: Using CD-RW for backups (Lee Allen)
COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:- The World's Cheapest Sun Cobalt RaQ4 Servers are here in
Australia - au$99 / US$49 / GBP 35 - per month (Tim Rignold)
Re: what is the format of a mp3 cd? ("joseph")
Re: depmod required? (Michael Heiming)
MPEG I/II video compressor for Linux? (=?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Cox?=)
Re: Agenda PDA (Gerald Willmann)
Re: is WINE super slow? (Marc Ulrich)
Excel on an Intranet (Cliff)
Re: "GDM Mysteriously Murdered"? ("joseph")
Re: help!!:MAC ADDRESS ("Jay")
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From: Rajesh Radhakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problems configuring Network connection Mandrake-8.0
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:17:42 -0400
Hi,
I tried the 3c5x9 setup program and got the foll reply for the following
options:
./3c5x9 -p 220 -F 10baseT -Q 7
3c5x9setup.c:v1.00 6/19/2000 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
No interrupt sources are pending.
A potential 3c5*9 has been found, but it appears to still be active.
Only limited information is available without disturbing network
operation.
Either shutdown the network, or use the '-f' flag to see all
registers.
Available Tx room 3068 bytes, Tx/Rx Status 0080 / 0000.
An interrupt occured only 170 ticks ago!
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Can't figure out what I am supposed to do next. I still get the string
of error messages after running 'dhcpd -h <name> eth0'
eth0: infinte loop from interrupt, status 2001
FYI, the card was working fine with Redhat-7.0. Only with Mandrake-8.0
did I start having problems.
Any suggestions?
Rajesh
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From: "Tom Edelbrok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: depmod required?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:29:52 GMT
That's interesting! However, we don't have a "boot" under /etc/rc.d. Are you
using RedHat or something else? I use RedHat 6.0 and have upgraded the
kernel from 2.2.5-15 to 2.2.14. Under Redhat what would the equivalent of
"/etc/rc.d/boot" be?
Thanks,
Tom
"Michael Heiming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Tom Edelbrok wrote:
> >
> > When I finish building a kernel (making bzimage, modules,
modules_install,
> > etc) I am told by one person that I should always do a "depmod -a <new
> > kernel version>".
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > depmod -a 2.2.14
> >
> > However, several other Linux-type gurus tell me that this step is not
> > required.
>
> It can't be a mistake to run it. However, it's run from /etc/rc.d/boot
> case you reboot, so you really don't need to do it...
>
> Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Subject: Re: Using CD-RW for backups
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:33:52 GMT
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:58:25 +0200, "Peet Grobler" <peetgr at
absa.co.za> wrote:
>I've been using CDRW for automated backups for a while now. It's very
>reliable, provided you test the first few disks that are created. I'd say if
>the first one works, and you can restore from it, the following ones will
>work. Except for CDRW failure, of course. It's a good idea to try and mount
>CD's once you backed up to them, and see if you can read the files (pick a
>few).
That's exactly the sort of experience & feedback I was looking for.
I think I will incorporate the mount & read-back test in my backup
script.
Thank you!
-Lee Allen
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Subject: COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:- The World's Cheapest Sun Cobalt RaQ4 Servers are
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Date: 14 Jun 2001 08:48:40 -0700
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From: "joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is the format of a mp3 cd?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:46:40 -0400
Check the documentation of the players.
They have restrictions on the number of files in a directory and the nesting
level of the subdirectories. Stay within these limits and you should be
fine.
Why not burn a few test cases, and see what happens ?
For the record, I have been using cd's with mp3's on them for since last
year, and have had only one problem:
they see only the first session in a multi session disc.
later.
joseph
"Ronald Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I like the idea of putting nearly 700 minutes of music on one cd and
> so I've been considering getting a cd player that can play mp3 files
> stored on a cd. I'd like to create such a cd to take with me to demo
> some players, but I don't know the layout on the disc.
>
> I gather it's just a directory tree structure that I convert to iso9660
> with mkisofs and burn onto a cd with cdrecord, but I have some questions.
>
> What is the tree structure supposed look like? How does an mp3 cd
> player know where to start playing mp3 files on the disc? What are
> the file names supposed to look like? Can I use rock ridge extensions
> for long file names?
>
> Is there a HOWTO or a FAQ for creating an mp3 cd on linux? I've spent
> an hour looking on google, but couldn't find any pertinent information
> (other than a suggestion to use "MusicMatch Jukebox" on Windows;
> bleah).
>
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Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:58:54 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: depmod required?
Tom Edelbrok wrote:
>
> That's interesting! However, we don't have a "boot" under /etc/rc.d. Are you
> using RedHat or something else? I use RedHat 6.0 and have upgraded the
> kernel from 2.2.5-15 to 2.2.14. Under Redhat what would the equivalent of
> "/etc/rc.d/boot" be?
> > It can't be a mistake to run it. However, it's run from /etc/rc.d/boot
> > case you reboot, so you really don't need to do it...
> >
> > Michael Heiming
Hello,
please don't top post, it makes following of the conversation kind of
hard...:-(
I use SuSE 7.0/7.1, this script is the first script executed from init
during system startup. I don't know how it's called with RH, checking
the
RH docs or even faster, grep through /etc should show it.
Michael Heiming
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?q?David=20Cox?=)
Subject: MPEG I/II video compressor for Linux?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 15:59:25 +0000 (UTC)
Hello,
I'm experimenting with the 3D animation capabilities of POVRay 3. Does
anybody know of any software I could use on my Mandrake 7.1 or Redhat
6.1 distros to turn a sequence of several hundred .tga files (for
example) into a .mpg file?
Ciao,
Dave
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Agenda PDA
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 17:54:06 +0200
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Mads Villadsen wrote:
> Giorgio> 3) I Wrote to the customer service but i can't get an
> Giorgio> answer...
>
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From: Marc Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: is WINE super slow?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 09:08:04 -0400
That's the big issue -- I get lots of errors on the xterm window. Here's a
small portion of them. (BTW, the 32MB is the video card. the system has 128MB.)
err:event:EVENT_ProcessEvent Got event ConfigureNotify for unknown Window
0223d45b
err:toolbar:ToolbarWindowProc unknown msg 5403 wp=000000eb lp=00000000
err:toolbar:ToolbarWindowProc unknown msg 5404 wp=0000235a lp=00000000
err:toolbar:ToolbarWindowProc unknown msg 5403 wp=00002383 lp=00000000
err:toolbar:ToolbarWindowProc unknown msg 5404 wp=0000235a lp=00000000
err:toolbar:ToolbarWindowProc unknown msg 5403 wp=0000235a lp=00000000
err:toolbar:ToolbarWindowProc unknown msg 5404 wp=0000235a lp=00000000
err:toolbar:ToolbarWindowProc unknown msg 5403 wp=0000235a lp=00000000
err:toolbar:ToolbarWindowProc unknown msg 5404 wp=00002384 lp=00000000
err:trackbar:TRACKBAR_WindowProc unknown msg 5409 wp=00000001 lp=40eff994
err:trackbar:TRACKBAR_WindowProc unknown msg 5403 wp=000000eb lp=00000000
err:trackbar:TRACKBAR_WindowProc unknown msg 5404 wp=0000238a lp=00000000
err:dc:DCE_FreeWindowDCE [238a] GetDC() without ReleaseDC()!
err:dc:DCE_FreeWindowDCE [238a] GetDC() without ReleaseDC()!
err:dc:DCE_FreeWindowDCE [238a] GetDC() without ReleaseDC()!
err:dc:DCE_FreeWindowDCE [238a] GetDC() without ReleaseDC()!
These most often happen on the dialogs. They most often occur when the mouse
moves over a button or a trackbar or something like that. I bet this is the
problem -- but how do I fix it?
Thanks,
Marc
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:30:40 -0400, Marc Ulrich staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
> >I installed Corel's photopaint 9 (b/c I'm used to corel & think it is
> >easier than the Gimp) for linux on my Redhat 7.0 / 2.4.2 kernel.
> >However, the windowing runs extremely slowly (meaning dialog boxes,
> >menus, etc.) Is this a standard problem with the WINE or is it possibly
> >something in photopaint? My system is a Pentium III 800Mhz running
> >XFree86 4.0.3 on a Matrox G400 dualhead, 32MB.
>
> ...er, hang on. Is this Photopaint for 'Doze running under Wine, or is
> this a Linux binary of Photopaint? If it's a non-native binary under
> Wine, things will run very slowly no matter what you do, though you can
> tweak some things in ~/.wine/config to try and speed stuff up.
>
> If this is a native Linux binary, it's something with the application
> itself. Have you tried starting it from an xterm and watching to see if
> any error or diagnostic messages pop up on said xterm?
>
> Alternatively, spend a few days learning GIMP. It's quite nice if you
> aren't doing fancy prepress work that requires exact CMYK matching.
> Plus, GIMP will still be around when Corel goes belly-up.
>
> --
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> -----------------------------/ to read. --Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cliff)
Subject: Excel on an Intranet
Date: 14 Jun 2001 09:01:42 -0700
I am trying to setup an Excel spreadsheet on a Linux box running
Apache, to be able to be updated by multilple people and written back
to the server so that it will be completely readable and writeable by
the select group of people.
Is this possible? I have had a similar spreadsheet set up but on an NT
server. Can anyone help me out or tell me it is impossible and I will
look at something else.
Thanks
Cliff Jefferson
I will be checking back but if you could email me I would appreciate
it.
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From: "joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "GDM Mysteriously Murdered"?
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:58:34 -0400
Well, once you schedule a cron job ( similar to the At command under NT but
far better ) , the output of the program or what would have been written to
the screen had you run it from a terminal, is mailed to you using the
system's mail spooler.
MDK 7.2 came with 3.3.6 and 4.0.1
Check the X server that you are using. I think the A50 and all are supported
in the 4.0.1
You could of course download the 20 MB tarball for X server and install it
according to the included docs.
I've done that on more than one ocassion, and it seems to go fine.
later.
"Missy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yea, I've been told that I forgot to do some things! I only did make
> xconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage. lol I was looking at an
> older book on compiling, and I don't think it mentioned the part about
> modules. I have a Diamond Speedstar A50, ummm whatever X server that
> came with Mandrake 7.2. No, I didn't install the image! Esp. since it
> didn't work! I'll have to check out the logs, and come back (I'm in
> Windows :P) But thanks, I'll definitely have to check it out....I
> never heard of a computer sending a user 'mail'! lol
>
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:11:48 -0400, "joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >The numbers are the process id's .
> >GDM is responsible for letting you log in.
> >
> >What kind of a video card do you have? What is the version of the X
server
> >that you are running?
> >
> >what about the configuration file?
> >
> >Usually when a kernel compile fails, it does not try to install the new
> >kernel. I wonder you did other than "compiling" the kernel.
> >did you do a "make bzImage install" or something??
> >
> >
> >what does /var/log/messages hold ? IF you are using any X server 4.0 and
> >up, you should have an XFree86.log file in /var/log/ . What does it say ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >about your mail:
> >
> >this is not the "E" - mail that you think of. this is a mail stored in a
> >file on your computer. there are serveral daemons that communicate with
you
> >using the on board mail system.
> >at the prompt, type "mail"
> >when you get some sort of a prompt, type list or somsething.
> >
> >If you see numbers there, those are message numbers. have a look at what
> >happened. ( I think you have to type th message number to open it) .
> >
> >
> >anyways, you can go back to the /usr/src/linux directory and do
> >make clean
> >
> >then do "make menuconfig"
> >Now you should be somewhere where the howto can assist you.
> >
> >Just a note :
> >After you make the kernel ( bzImage or what ever) , you have to make the
> >modules and move them into the appropriate kernel version directory in
> >/lib/modules.
> >
> >have a look see in there to get a feel of the layout.
> >
> >hth.
> >
> >
> >"Missy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> For the first time, I recompiled my Mandrake kernel - never saw so
> >> much text whiz by at once! lol But, I did something wrong, and it
> >> doesn't really work - I can't get Xwindows to work, so I was stuck
> >> with a console. And when I wasn't typed it kept spitting the same
> >> message at me:
> >> according to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (1312), but
> >> seems to have been murdered mysteriously.
> >> It was that same message over and over, but with different numbers
> >> (1339, 1350, 1361, etc). Then when I logged in as root, it told me
> >> that I had mail. :P That's impossible! The modem doesn't work with
> >> Linux, and I'm not on a network. lol I used to make xconfig to
> >> compile, and cut out all the networking stuff (I'm not a on a network
> >> anyways), most of the soundcards. What could have caused this? It also
> >> told me a I had modules missing (one was 180 I think). Like I said
> >> alot of text whizzing by.....
> >>
> >> Melissa
> >> http://missy842.tripod.com/
> >
> >
>
> http://missy842.tripod.com/
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From: "Jay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help!!:MAC ADDRESS
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 16:04:17 GMT
Could be you're not using the correct driver or settings?
"sss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9gaeba$bt5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> how is this possible???????
>
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
> inet addr:10.0.233.2 Bcast:10.0.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:17782 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:2938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xff90
>
>
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