Linux-Setup Digest #45, Volume #20 Wed, 15 Nov 00 14:13:10 EST
Contents:
Word97 File conversion / usage ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: xanim, QuickTime 4, "Sorenson video" (mst)
Re: Lilo and moving an IDE disk (Gunther Piez)
Re: repartioning my swap (Wouter Verhelst)
Re: scsi pcmcia? (mst)
Re: auto power off (Wouter Verhelst)
please help me - i can't login ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can somebody tell me how to partition my Harddrive. ("Steinar Jordbakke")
need urgent help re glib-2.2 (stupid)
Re: set -o vi for r.h6.2? (Villy Kruse)
Re: ISDN modprobe failure ... (Alex Crowther)
/dev/lp* newbie question ("Nikola Milosavljevic")
USB Logitech Quickcam (Michel Dubois)
Need help with TA configuration on RH7 ("Charif Lakchiri")
Laptop won't boot after upgrade (J. Robert Buchanan)
Presario HCF miniPCI moden or miniPCI Ethernet NIC? ("Eric")
Secure Copy (Scott Smith)
Help setting up anonymous ftp server with wu-ftpd-2.6.1 (Charlie Zender)
Re: cd rom drive will no longer mount ("The infamous \"Brian\"")
Re: how install Intellimouse (Murray Eisenberg)
Re: xanim, QuickTime 4, "Sorenson video" (Mike Oliver)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Word97 File conversion / usage
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:37:50 GMT
I have gotten mixed responses on StarOffice, though the Sun marketing
material on 5.2 sounds good :-)
Has anyone had a good Linux compatible solution gettign access to MS
Word Equation Editor objects and drawing items?
How about WordPerfect8?
Satisfactory conversion to LaTeX seems complete impossible.
Thanks!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xanim, QuickTime 4, "Sorenson video"
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:49:18 -0500
Udo Wolter wrote:
>
> At this time the Sorenson codec is not supported under Linux. There will
> be some workaround soon with a new real player. The real server from
> RealNetworks can handle files with this codec, the problem is that at
> this time there is no linux player from real. But I think it's a matter
> of time. In maybe half a year it should be possible to play
> Quicktime and even other Sorenson codec movies.
>
AFAIK, it may never be supported. Sorenson says Apple won't let them
license the codec to third parties, Apple says it's Sorenson that won't
let them use the codec in a player for other OSs than macos and windoze.
Go figure.
MST
------------------------------
From: Gunther Piez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lilo and moving an IDE disk
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:00:42 +0100
hi phil,
> I wish to have the following IDE config
>
> CD Mobo Pri
> CDRW Mobo Sec
> IBM HD HPT370 Pri
> ST HD HPT370 Sec
depending on your bios setup (onboard controller boots first or pci
controller boots first, for the latter you need a seperate bios in your
highpoint) you need a line
boot=/dev/hda
or
boot=/dev/hde
in your lilo.conf.
> "Fatal : Not a number : "/dev/hde2"
this happens if /dev/hde doesn't exist at the time you ran lilo.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
system engineer innominate AG
the linux architects
tel: +49.30.308806-48 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.de
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wouter Verhelst)
Subject: Re: repartioning my swap
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:01:04 GMT
In article <8utjnj$2qn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jerry Segers, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<snip>
> that having been said, his (her? what sex is a wouter?)
He's a male ;-)
> instructions were incomplete.
After re-reading, I agree.
> before using fdisk (I reccomend cfdisk tho')
me too. Is a lot easier than fdisk. However, some time ago, I ran
across a distribution that didn't have cfdisk, so you can only be sure
that every distribution includes fdisk, not cfdisk.
<snip the rest of a very clear and -- especially -- complete
explanation>
--
wouter punt verhelst op advalvas in Belgi�
5:57pm up 1:09, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.04, 1.00
Voor een vertaling van Documentation/Configure.help naar het Nederlands:
http://users.pandora.be/wouter.verhelst/configure.html
[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming...]
-- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
------------------------------
From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi pcmcia?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:58:30 -0500
Chris Ripp wrote:
>
> Doubtful if you'll be able to boot from a PCMCIA adapter, though. Maybe if
> you could construct a boot floppy that could somehow load up the pcmcia
> services....
>
See this:
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.4
MST
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wouter Verhelst)
Subject: Re: auto power off
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:04:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In comp.os.linux.development.system [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>| I just recently had this problem when I upgraded to the 2.2.17 kernel,
>| and found that recompiling with APM (Automatic Power Management) allows
>| the kernel to power off the machine. Apparently, RedHat automatically
>| compiles this feature into their kernels, but it is not a selected
>| option for the source from kernel.org
>
> Then how do you select it? Is there any confining compile symbol?
By selecting the appropriate option in make config, make menuconfig or
make xconfig...
--
wouter punt verhelst op advalvas in Belgi�
6:04pm up 1:16, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 1.06, 1.00
Voor een vertaling van Documentation/Configure.help naar het Nederlands:
http://users.pandora.be/wouter.verhelst/configure.html
Some men rob you with a six-gun -- others with a fountain pen.
-- Woodie Guthrie
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: please help me - i can't login
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:57:26 GMT
We lost power to our machine running RH 6.2.
( PIII 800, 13GB hd & 64MB ram )
We can not get a login to complete on the console and a telnet session
just keep display the login over and over. The console is display
the following message "unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2".
All the server daemons (httpd, sendmail, mysqld, etc..) work fine.
Any ideas.
Thanks
Paolo PxM Menzaghi
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
------------------------------
From: "Steinar Jordbakke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can somebody tell me how to partition my Harddrive.
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:11:37 +0100
Hi!
I have one partition with MS Windows ME, and one With MS Windows 2000.
My question is: How shall I set up my linux partition? Has somebody done
this?
------------------------------
From: stupid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.gcc.help
Subject: need urgent help re glib-2.2
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:13:14 +0100
I did something monumentally stupid, and now I�m completely screwed. I
could really use some help...
I wanted to install glibc-2.2 on my RH6.0 box. I was previously using
glibc-2.1.1. The later was installed in /usr/lib. I compiled and
installed the former (2.2) in /usr/local/lib. But then I added
/usr/local/lib at the front of /etc/ld.so.conf and ran ldconfig on it.
Now I get these messages:
/lib/ld-linux.so.2: version 'GLIBC_2.1.1' not found (required by
/usr/local/lib/libc.so.6)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2: version 'GLIBC_2.2' not found (required by
/usr/local/lib/libc.so.6)
So basically I cannot do anything. My boot procedure ends with these
errors right after
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Maybe I didn't read the install instructions clearly, but all I did was
build glibc-2.2 (with the linuxthreads add-on) and do a 'make install'
which installed in /usr/local. I am guessing that all I need to do is
boot from a floppy, mount the HD, edit /etc/ld.so.conf, and possibly
'make uninstall' glibc-2.2. Is this accurate? Can anyone offer some
constructive advise? Thanks.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: set -o vi for r.h6.2?
Date: 15 Nov 2000 17:57:21 GMT
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:27:46 +0000, iksrazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone know how to fix the bashrc file to get this command to work?
>
You fix in /etc/inputrc with the following contents
set editing-mode vi
Villy
------------------------------
From: Alex Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: ISDN modprobe failure ...
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:58:14 +0000
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:15:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
wrote:
>Alex Crowther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>[...]
>
>>/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/hisax.o: init_module: Device or resource
>>busy
>
>[...]
ASUSCOM ISDN PCI 128k
Could also be called ASUS ISDNLink as well I think ..
>
>What kind of ISDN card is that? Does the kernel detect it at all?
>
>Michael
------------------------------
From: "Nikola Milosavljevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/lp* newbie question
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 17:44:47 +0100
I am running Red Hat Linux 6.1.
When I try to do anything with /dev/lp*, I get 'No such device' message.
Module lp.o is loaded at boot time.
Files /dev/lp* exist, but links to actual device drivers are obviously
missing. How can I fix this ?
I am not running X, so I can't use printtol.
Thanks in advance.
------------------------------
From: Michel Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
uk.comp.os.linux,linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.devel,at.linux,aus.computers.linux,be.comp.os.linux,ch.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,free.comp.linux.misc,utah.linux,linux.sources.kernel
Subject: USB Logitech Quickcam
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:21:28 +0100
Hello,
I have a Logitech quickcam USB, and I downloaded the sources of modules,
following :
quickcam.c
quickcam.h
makefile
I put all them in a new directory and I typed make. I had an error
message like this :
/Makefile : any file or diretory present
'; needed by 'all'. Stop.target 'quickcam.o'
I have the last compilateur like automake 1.4, autoconf 2.13,
gcc-2.95.2, and qt 2.2.1, I thought that I needn't the last one.
I compiled these threes and insert them in my kernel 2.2.16. I all ready
compiled the USB modules, like usb-uhci.o, usbcore.o, etc... but it was
easy I did it with "make xconfig", etc.....
My question will be simple, how I could do for have quickam.o???
Thanks in Advance.
Thanks in Advance.
------------------------------
From: "Charif Lakchiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help with TA configuration on RH7
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 03:07:16 +0900
Hi to all,
I am newbie to Linux. I have recentely installed Red Hat 7 and don't know
how to do the settings for ISDN's TA connected to serial port.
Could anyone tell me how to do it?
Thanks in advance for any help.
charif [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Robert Buchanan)
Subject: Laptop won't boot after upgrade
Date: 15 Nov 2000 13:36:41 -0500
Hello,
I have a Gateway Solo 9150 laptop which until a few days ago was
running RH 6.2 happily. I bought the RH 7.0 in order to upgrade and
I'm having some problems. The upgrade process appears to proceed
correctly until it gets to the stage where I am prompted to insert a
blank floppy in order to create a boot disk. Since this laptop has a
superfloppy drive, located in the /dev system at /dev/hdd rather than
at /dev/fd0 (as I believe the upgrade software is expecting), I am
informed that an error has occurred whenever I try to create the boot
floppy. Eventually I checked the box that says "skip creating boot
disk", the upgrade congratulates me on a successful upgrade, ejects all
media and tries to reboot. However, after the power on tests, the
system hangs. I don't get the LILO boot: prompt or the graphical LILO
screen. How can I get things working again? Is there another way to
create a boot disk that I can use in this laptop? If I get the laptop
booted, can I run /sbin/lilo by hand and fix this problem?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob Buchanan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Phone: 717-872-3659, FAX: 717-871-2320, http://www.millersville.edu/~jbuchana
Mathematics Dept. Millersville University
P.O. Box 1002, Millersville, PA 17551-0302
------------------------------
From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Presario HCF miniPCI moden or miniPCI Ethernet NIC?
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:18:09 -0500
Has anyone had any success using either the HCF miniPCI modem or the miniPCI
ethernet NIC that comes in the Compaq Presario? Is there any hope of
networking in Linux with this setup?
thanks,
Eric
------------------------------
From: Scott Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Secure Copy
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:30:20 -0600
I have setup a SSH connection between Mandrake 7.1, and Mandrake 7.2.
I can connect and pass traffic through the Secure connection, however we can't get the
Secure Copy to work. We can't transfer files through the SSH connection. Any one
have any ideas, or specific directions we can use to get this to work?
Thanks.
--
Scott Smith
Network Engineering Services
Southern Illinois University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Charlie Zender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os..linux.misc
Subject: Help setting up anonymous ftp server with wu-ftpd-2.6.1
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 10:47:58 -0800
Hi,
I installed wu-ftpd-2.6.1-6.i386.rpm on my Intel Linux server
and am having some problems accessing it from remote machines.
If I access the server anonymously using the ncftp FTP client
from a Solaris machine, there are no problems.
However, when I try to access the server anonymously using the Solaris
FTP client (ftp), the client does not see any of the ftp directories
on the server (see sessions appended below).
I am not sure if this is a problem with the wu-ftpd daemon setup
on the server or with the Solaris ftp client or what.
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Charlie
zender@goldhill:~$ ncftp dust.ps.uci.edu
NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 17 (February 10, 1999) by Mike Gleason.
Connecting to 128.200.14.25...
dust.ps.uci.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Wed Aug 9 05:54:50 EDT 2000) ready.
Logging in...
Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
Logged in to dust.ps.uci.edu.
ncftp / > ls
bin/ etc/ lib/ pub/
ncftp / > bye
zender@goldhill:~$ ftp dust.ps.uci.edu
Connected to dust.ps.uci.edu.
220 dust.ps.uci.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Wed Aug 9 05:54:50 EDT 2000) ready.
Name (dust.ps.uci.edu:zender): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (128,200,14,25,212,27)
550 No files found.
ftp> bye
221-You have transferred 0 bytes in 0 files.
221-Total traffic for this session was 365 bytes in 0 transfers.
221-Thank you for using the FTP service on dust.ps.uci.edu.
--
Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
------------------------------
From: "The infamous \"Brian\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: cd rom drive will no longer mount
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:52:53 GMT
Hi Long:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote ...
>Dear Mr. Brian,
>I have the same problem with Mr. Jon. Whenever I mount
>the cdrom using this commmand:
>mount /dev/cdrom
>I get this error message:
>mount: Wrong medium type
>I've checked my /etc/fstab and it's ok.
It sounds like your /dev/cdrom may be pointing to the wrong device, remember
that /dev/cdrom is just a symbolic link to the real device.
Is your CDrom SCSI or IDE?
dmesg | grep CD <enter>
If IDE, where is it connected?
dmesg | grep hd <enter>
hdc: MATSHITA CR-585, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: HP CD-Writer+ 7100, ATAPI CDROM drive
(the above if from one of mine - YMMV)
To manually mount a CDrom, you must have the iso9660 filesystem installed as
a module;
/sbin/modprobe isofs <enter>
OR, it must be compiled into the kernel.
Next, you must have an unused mountpoint; do you have a directory called
/cdrom? If no, make one;
mkdir /cdrom <enter>
Lets try a manual mount using my CDroms as an example;
(be sure to have a data CD in the drive)
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom <enter>
Did that work?
ls -l /cdrom <enter>
Good.
Now lets replace your /dev/cdrom symbolic link;
rm /dev/cdrom <enter>
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom <enter>
Let have a look at your /etc/fstab, should like like this;
...
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
...
Remember to change "/dev/hdc" to whatever your CDrom is.
Best regards,
Brian
------------------------------
From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how install Intellimouse
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 19:03:14 GMT
You are undoubtedly correct -- it's been a while since I did the 6.2
installation.
What about scroll wheel -- as scroll wheel or 3rd button?
Eric wrote:
>
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> >
> > When installing Linux (RH 7.0), what mouse should I select for a
> > Microsoft Intellimouse -- the kind with the scroll wheel? Can I get the
> > scroll wheel to act as a scroll wheel, or instead as a third mouse
> > button? How?
> >
> > When I installed RH 6.2 with the same mouse, I didn't see an option for
> > the Intellimouse.
> >
>
> That's odd, IIRC, the choice "microsoft intellimouse" is there.
>
> Eric
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
------------------------------
From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xanim, QuickTime 4, "Sorenson video"
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:05:02 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mst wrote:
>
> Udo Wolter wrote:
> >
> > At this time the Sorenson codec is not supported under Linux. There will
> > be some workaround soon with a new real player. The real server from
> > RealNetworks can handle files with this codec, the problem is that at
> > this time there is no linux player from real. But I think it's a matter
> > of time. In maybe half a year it should be possible to play
> > Quicktime and even other Sorenson codec movies.
> >
>
> AFAIK, it may never be supported. Sorenson says Apple won't let them
> license the codec to third parties, Apple says it's Sorenson that won't
> let them use the codec in a player for other OSs than macos and windoze.
> Go figure.
Is a license needed? What is it, patented? If not, is it so
hard to duplicate?
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.setup) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Setup Digest
******************************
