Linux-Setup Digest #824, Volume #19 Sat, 14 Oct 00 04:13:11 EDT
Contents:
How do I find the details of my hardware in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7 ("Michael Matthews")
Re: Redhat 7.0 + ApplixWare 4.37 (s. keeling)
Netscape uses cache more than its quota? ("Kousik Nandy")
Re: Netscape uses cache more than its quota? (Hal Burgiss)
how do i get dhcp for cable modem working? (Michael Mitchell)
Re: How do I find the details of my hardware in Linux (E J)
RH7 & Win2K Dual boot Question (Cosmo Kramer)
What is NIC? ("StudeNT")
Re: What is NIC? ("Clifford W. Racz")
Re: X question (gnome) ("bluster")
YOUR MESSAGES WILL BE CENSORED Unless you TELL THE FCC to STOP CENSORSHIP & SPEED
CAPPING! Direct Link to FCC HERE! 9757 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How addopt kernel 2.2.15 to RedHat 7.0 (Rafael)
Thanks! ("StudeNT")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How do I find the details of my hardware in Linux
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 03:56:26 GMT
I wanted to get information about my sound card - which file is that
information kept. I have looked everywhere in /etc but cannot find
anything that matches it
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Michael Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:06:40 -0400
"Bill Pringlemeir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> cat /proc/pci
> ...
> Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
> Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 3).
> Vendor id=1102. Device id=2.
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable.
Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
> I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
> ...
>
> These values are assigned by your BIOS. You should have Plug and Play
> support disabled. These values are statically assigned at boot by the
BIOS
> and Linux retrieves the values. I think that the drivers just read the
> `proc' files. For older hardware, you may have had to assign the I/O and
> interrupt values.
>
> Is Linux seeing the device at all in these files?
I don't see anything. The motherboard is brand new, ASUS CUSL2. PNP support
is disabled. I had to do that do get it to see the NIC. When I had PnP set
the card was detected and recognized as SBLive but I had no drivers. Now
linux sees the NIC but not the SB card.
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 612278 XT-PIC timer
1: 4908 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 109248 XT-PIC aic7xxx, usb-uhci
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci
12: 49397 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 467 XT-PIC DC21041 (eth0)
Maybe I should go into the bios and assign interrupts.
Also, do you know anything about this kgcc BS that is circulating around?
Does it apply to drivers? I am having difficulty compiling the drivers.
thanks for the help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (s. keeling)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.applixware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 + ApplixWare 4.37
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 04:22:37 GMT
On 12 Oct 2000 16:43:50 GMT, Anders Nilsson <andersn@//no-spam//isy.liu.se> wrote:
> Hi There!
>
> I have just made a fresh install of Redhat 7.0 and then added ApplixWare 4.37,
> but when I run applix it says the following and then exits:
>
> /usr/bin/ldd: /opt/applix/applix: No such file or directory
> /bin/applix: /opt/applix/applix: No such file or directory
> /bin/applix: /opt/applix/applix: No such file or directory
>
> However the file /opt/applix/applix does indeed exist.
What do you have installed for libraries, possibly
libcN-compat.blah.blah? ldd is the shared lib info util. What's in
/etc/ld.so.conf? what does ldd /opt/applix/applix say? As root, do
ldconfig. man * :-)
--
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s/\.INVALID// Contract programmer, server bum.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
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From: "Kousik Nandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Netscape uses cache more than its quota?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:04:07 +0530
Hi,
Did anyone notice if Netscape is eating up more
disk space as cache than it is asked to use?
$ rpm -q netscape-communicator
netscape-communicator-4.75-0.6.2
$ du -h ~/.netscape/cache/ | tail -1
51M /home/kouzik/.netscape/cache
$ cat ~/.netscape/preferences.js | grep disk_cache_size
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_size", 8192);
$ cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman)
Kernel 2.2.14-12 on an i686
Anyone has any idea why netscape uses 51M of cache when
I asked it to use 8M? How do I limit this usage?
Thanks in advance,
Kousik.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Netscape uses cache more than its quota?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 04:50:19 GMT
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 10:04:07 +0530, Kousik Nandy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Anyone has any idea why netscape uses 51M of cache when
>I asked it to use 8M? How do I limit this usage?
AFAIK, it has been this way for some time. I use a cron job to delete
the whole bloody thing once a week.
--
Hal B
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how do i get dhcp for cable modem working?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 04:53:12 GMT
How do I get dhcp for a Cable modem working???? plz hurry and quickly
tell me I need this bad
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I find the details of my hardware in Linux
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:10:40 -0700
$ cat /etc/modules.conf
or
$ cat /etc/conf.modules
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wanted to get information about my sound card - which file is that
> information kept. I have looked everywhere in /etc but cannot find
> anything that matches it
> Thanks
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Cosmo Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH7 & Win2K Dual boot Question
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:15:23 -0700
Hi people
I would like to do a Linux Win2k dual boot install and am not quite
sure how to go about it. Here is my setup.
Abit KT7-RAID w/ Thunderbird 700 mhz
128 meg Ram
2 IBM Deskstar ATA100 15 gig drives on IDE 3 & 4 in Raid 0
configuration. IDE3 & IDE4 supports the ATA100 specification. Also
this RAID array has two partiontions on it in which Windows 2000 is
loaded on it.
1 Quantum Fireball LM 30 gig with 3 10 gig partitions on it.
What I would really like to is load Redhat 7 on the 2nd partition of
the RAID array but from my understanding Linux does not support the
HPT370 RAID Hardware. So I would lieke to do is load RH7 on the 1st
partition of my Quantum drive. Is there any way to do this without
loosing my RAID and still be able to do a dual boot?
Any advice would be greatly appriecated.
Thanks
Greg
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From: "StudeNT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is NIC?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:40:52 +0400
What is NIC? A
nswer somebody
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From: "Clifford W. Racz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is NIC?
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 00:53:23 -0500
Network Interface Card.
Cliff
"StudeNT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8s8rsu$1i8f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What is NIC? A
> nswer somebody
>
>
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X question (gnome)
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 03:13:24 -0400
Hagbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> well, i've *pretty much* got it going at this point.
> using the switchdesk command from the terminal window did nothing at
> all.
> so, using the info from bluster i was able to track down the files i
> needed to modify and futz around with them until i can now load into
> either kde or gnome.
I'm glad it's working that well at least :-)
> however, i now have a new 'problem' (it's not a big deal, just
> bothersome). switchdesk still doesn't really work for me. i edited
> following files in my home directory
>
> .Xclients
> .xinitrc
>
> to point to kde, but if i switchdesk to gnome (works ok), i can't
> switchdesk back (stays in gnome - no matter what). i think i know why
> this is happening, but i'm not entirely sure how to fix it.
> apparently once in gnome it stays in gnome because that's the setup in
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> switchdesk renames the file
> /[user]/.xinitrc
> to
> /[user]/.xinitrc.switchdesk (thus causing it to use the default gnome
> from the /etc/X11/xinit directory ? )...
>
> any suggestions on how i can fix this would be appreciated.
You shouldn't need to have a /home/[user]/.xinitrc file, the desktop
settings are handled by the .Xclients file. Plus, the default
xinitrc (in /etc/X11/xinit) does some resource setup that you need.
I poked around the files a little more and see a "feature" I hadn't
noticed before (that's not in the docs). The /home/[user]/.Xclients
script redhat is using is a wrapper for starting a different
.Xclients for each different host+display.
My /home/[user]/.Xclients looks like this:
<.Xclients>
# Created by Red Hat Desktop Switcher
if [ -e "$HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY" ]; then
exec $HOME/.Xclients-$HOSTNAME$DISPLAY
else
exec $HOME/.Xclients-default
fi
<.Xclients>
In english, the .Xclients program just runs a script called
.Xclients-default unless you're doing something fancy.
This /home/[user]/.Xclients-default file is the one switchdesk
should be changing.
My .Xclients-default file contains one of these two commands,
(put there by switchdesk) depending on which desktop I've chosen:
exec gnome-session
OR
exec startkde
So all you *should* need is to have one or the other of those
commands in a one line /home/[user]/.Xclients-defaults file.
Is switchdesk changing this file correctly when you select KDE?
Bluster
>
> tia,
>
> hagbard
>
> pii-400
> 128m
> creative annihilator 2 GTS
> redhat 6.1
> 2.2.12
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: YOUR MESSAGES WILL BE CENSORED Unless you TELL THE FCC to STOP CENSORSHIP &
SPEED CAPPING! Direct Link to FCC HERE! 9757
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 07:27:16 GMT
The merger between AOL & Time Warner will be approved -
BUT - the F.C.C. is going to require some form of open access.
The question is - open access for WHOM? Will the conditions
protect ONLY THE CORPORATIONS or will they also protect YOU
the END USER?
This is what AOL and Time Warner have to say about censorship
and speed capping:
IF TIME WARNER DETERMINES THAT THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FAILED TO
COMPLY WITH THE SERVICE'S STANDARDS OF CONDUCT OR LIMITS ON
BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION, TIME WARNER MAY SUSPEND SUBSCRIBER'S
ACCOUNT. TIME WARNER COMMUNICATIONS SHALL HAVE THE SOLE AND
UNREVIEWABLE RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHETHER CONTENT VIOLATES
THESE STANDARDS.
DID YOU KNOW:
These are the things that Colette Lantelme, Security Administrator
of Road Runner, claims are against the Road Runner Acceptable Use
Policy.
1. Posting a message on any "For Sale" message board.
2. Listing a product on any Ebay, Ubid, or similar service. (Boy, is
EBAY gonna be PISSED!)
3. Announcing a job availability.
4. Replying to a job availability.
5. Mentioning that the user had tried any product and found
it satisfactory - or unsatisfactory.
6. Posting a message to any "personals" board.
7. Asking a user for a date.
8. Calling attention to any commercial or non-commercial
website, including personal websites provided as part
of the purchase price of the service sold by Time-Warner.
9. Calling attention to any IRC chat channel.
DID YOU KNOW:
AOL cancelled the account of the President of the Chemically
Disabled Americans - they said it was a commercial usage! The
president ran it from his bedroom. As a public service. His
comment expressing his outrage is contained in the F.C.C. file.
Want to say that Al Gore can't be elected because he is a democrat?
No problem! Want to say that Leiberman can't be elected because he
is Jewish? BANNED FROM AOL!
A very small effort on your part can well induce the F.C.C. to
outlaw this censorship and Speed Capping, and protect YOU as well
as the corporations. You have some powerful allies; Consumer's Union,
Disney, and many commercial software companies. Even the Attorney
General of the State of Connecticut is on YOUR side - you may read
their petitions at the link below.
But YOU MUST HELP!
You can F.I.L.E YOUR C.O.M.M.E.N.T IN THE O.F.F.I.C.I.A.L C.A.S.E FILE!
---> This is NOT merely a EMAIL message which will be ignored <---
Any response which you file will be an OFFICIAL document included in
the F.C.C. FILINGS!
It will appear in the OFFICIAL CASE FILE as a comment
read by ALL THE ATTORNEYS who are participating in the action, as well
as ALL THE F.C.C. C.O.M.M.I.S.S.I.O.N.E.R.S! It will remain there
FOREVER as part of the O.F.F.I.C.I.A.L R.E.C.O.R.D of the AOL - Time
Warner merger! With YOUR name on it!
Since this internet campaign started, approximately 250 comments have
been received by the F.C.C from individuals. (Some are funny as hell!)
We need twice that!
The FCC is on the verge of requiring the protections this letter asks
for. Your letter might PUSH THEM OVER THE EDGE and make the internet
a BETTER PLACE for EVERYONE, INCLUDING YOU!
PLEASE - can you HELP PROTECT IRC and USENET? SEND the SAMPLE COMMENT
to the F.C.C!
MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO USENET AND IRC! This letter WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
if there are enough of them received by the FCC. If at least 500
letters are received, we can probably count on the FCC to take decisive
action to prohibit both censorship and speed capping - and to protect
the users, not merely the corporations.
GET A CHAIN RESPONSE STARTED! I can do only so much. I can only post
to so many newsgroups - I can't do it alone. WE ALL NEED YOUR HELP!
Copy this message and post it to (at least) 3 newsgroups where it does
not appear! Then, Send this message by EMAIL to (at least) 5 friends!
If everyone does that, we can FLOOD THE F.C.C. with comments and THEY
WILL LISTEN!
The major ccorporations and the politicians are coonducting this merger
on their terms, for their benefit, and giving no thought whatsoever to
the users. They are all fighting over our dollars, but do they give any
concern whatsoever to us? Does a fish ride a bicycle?
They believe that the internet, which WE, not them, made great, is now
too valuable to be left the users. Their attitude is, "let them comment,
they don't count, they are not rich corporations, they are merely poor
users. Will YOU let them get away with this?
They can ignore 250 users. They can't ignore thousands of users.
LET THE F.C.C. know that THE INTERNET DOSEN'T STAND FOR ANY BULL! Tell
the F.C.C. I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!
The future of USENET and IRC depends on the FCC forcing all ISP's
starting with Time Warner and AOL to recognize free speech and fair
marketing practices. PLEASE HELP!
TO FILE YOUR COMMENT WITH THE F.C.C:
1. Copy the letter to a file. You can put it on your letterhead
with MS Word or just use a text file. You can make any change to
the letter you want, or add any comment you have. CHANGES ARE GOOD!
They show you READ THE LETTER and REALLY CARE! If you had a bad
experience with AOL or Time Warner PUT IT IN!
2. go to:
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/websql/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.hts
(This is the official FCC page where electronic filing of petitions
is accomplished)
3. Fill out Cover sheet
Put your name, Address, Email address, and all other required
information on the form. (Remember this is an OFFICIAL FILING so
the FCC requires this information. It is not published unless you
put it in the letter as well as the form)
Proceeding is
00 - 30
(Leave out the spaces, they are there to get by the spam filter.
Put in the -)
(this is VERY IMPORTANT, it is the case number of the AOL TIME
WARNER APPLICATION for merger. If you get it wrong, your comment
WILL NOT BE FILED!)
4. Send Cover Sheet.
5. After you send the Cover Sheet, THEN select the filename of the
letter you are sending, and send that.
6. After you send the file, you will receive an official
confirmation of the filing from the FCC.
7. You can TYPE a comment instead of sending this sample comment, but
DON'T PASTE THE SAMPLE COMMENT into the Short Comment box - it
DOESN'T FIT!
Comment will appear for all to read in about 4 hours
(but won't appear after business hours or on the weekend.)
8. If you want to see your letter, or read the other submissions,
other letters, the AOL petition, the Disney or Consumer's Union
objections, etc, here is the URL - Its long! Put in the case
number, 00 - 30 (no spaces) and nothing else.
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/websql/prod/ecfs/comsrch_v2.hts?ws_mode=retrieve_list&id_proceeding=00-30&start=1
IF YOU LIVE N A FOREIGN COUNTRY and wish to make a comment (This is a
world wide problem) the Cover Sheet will not accept your address. You
can do this: Enter your real name and address including country in
the address lines, but in the STATE box put CA and in the ZIP (first
field) put 90001. Ignore the 2nd zip field. Ignore the 2nd form, and
TYPE your SHORT COMMENT in the 3rd form. Please identify the country
you live in the message. Don't use the sample letter supplied
because it isn't appropriate for non-US residents.
***>Remember the FORM INFORMATION will NOT appear, only the letter.
NOTE: There is NO WORD WRAPPING on the letter below, to make it
easy for you to format so it may be hard to read until you copy it,
depending on your news reader.
SAMPLE MESSAGE
============cut here==============================================
To the FCC Commissioners
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The internet is in crisis. Your decision will either save it or guarantee its
destruction as a form a communication for the average citizen.
The internet was designed as a form of communication, not as a tool of commercial
concerns to sell "content" to their subscribers. But to communicate on the internet,
first you must get access to the internet.
You are considering a merger between to two most powerful gatekeepers to the internet.
The question is, will I be able to enter through that gate? And, once there, may I
voice my concerns on important social, political, and even commercial concerns, or
will I be summarily banned because the gatekeeper doesn't approve of what I say?
The rules of AOL and Time Warner are extremely clear; if they do not approve my
speech, I cannot speak. I am not allowed on the internet unless I defer to their
opinion, not voice mine. And, if I decide to use the internet to send data, rather
than merely purchase "content" from Time Warner and AOL, I am again summarily speed
capped or banned from the internet. Their Acceptable Use policy states:
IF TIME WARNER DETERMINES THAT THE SUBSCRIBER HAS FAILED TO COMPLY WITH THE SERVICE'S
STANDARDS OF CONDUCT OR LIMITS ON BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION, TIME WARNER MAY SUSPEND
SUBSCRIBER'S ACCOUNT. TIME WARNER COMMUNICATIONS SHALL HAVE THE SOLE AND UNREVIEWABLE
RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHETHER CONTENT VIOLATES THESE STANDARDS.
Why does Time Warner have the SOLE AND UNREVIEWABLE RIGHT TO DETERMINE WHETHER CONTENT
VIOLATES THEIR STANDARDS? Why can't I post comment based on MY standards, not theirs?
And, when I purchase UNLIMITED SERVICE, why can they then establish bandwith
limitations? Is this unlimited service? Is not a company required to deliver what
the customer pays for?
I regularly correspond with users from many foreign countries. Their ISP's cannot
control their speech. Why does not an American citizen have at least the same freedom
of speech as do the citizens of foreign countries? We taught them the value and power
of freedom of speech. Must they now teach us how to avoid its death at the hands of
commercial mega-corporations concerned only with their sale of "content?"
If AOL and Time Warner are allowed to take over the responsibility of deciding who can
say what to whom, how will you return the internet to its stated purpose of a media of
public discourse? How will you put the genie back in the bottle? How will you
explain to me why my viewpoint is so offensive that I must be barred from the internet?
I sincerely entreat you to consider me, and all other citizen users of the internet.
Please, when you make your decision, insure that I can continue to use the internet,
and specifically that high speed access will not be denied to me based upon the
quantity or content of my speech.
Thank You for your attention.
----> YOUR NAME <----
crwikhtxccfiomndicmczpnke
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From: Rafael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: How addopt kernel 2.2.15 to RedHat 7.0
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 09:54:44 +0200
I have working kernel with my Raid motherboard ( Abit BX-133-RAID) with
two additional ide controllers UATA 100. (from Gentus linux)
With the motherboard I got Gentus Linux which is based on RedHat 6.2
with kernel 2.2.15-3. Kernel from RedHat 7.0 do not work with my ide2
and 3 controllers, but when I add kernell parameters during boot ( linux
ide2=0x8000 etc...) it work but not in UDMA mode therefore speed is 10
times slower.
I decided to adopt Kernel from Gentus to RedHAt 7.0. I installed first
Gentus, than Upgrade to RH 7.0 and then remove kernel 2.2.16 and
replaced with kernel 2.2.15 from Gentus. It is working but I am not sure
if all services will work. Can somebody give me advice how such
procedure should be done.
Please if you know write me email.
Rafael
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From: "StudeNT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Thanks!
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 11:59:48 +0300
I approciate your answer! Now i know, what is NIC
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