Linux-Setup Digest #291, Volume #20 Wed, 27 Dec 00 13:13:06 EST
Contents:
Updating ghostscript ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Updating ghostscript ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem wirh Ring and DTMF detection in voice mode (PanelSoft)
Re: Soundblaster AWE64 Value & Linux (Andrew McDonald)
Uninstalling software in Linux ("Neil Guinto")
Mandrake 7.1 kicks DEC 21041 PCI out? (none)
RH 7.0 cannot find address of localhost (Victor S. Miller)
Re: Network card/insmod problems (Victor S. Miller)
exim as a remote mta but it uses a smarthost, help ("max barwell")
Re: RH 7.0 cannot find address of localhost (Hal Burgiss)
Re: exim as a remote mta but it uses a smarthost, help (Joerg Morbitzer)
Re: Soundblaster AWE64 Value & Linux (Craig)
Re: PartitionMagic: can't boot ("Eric en Jolanda")
SYSLOG not behaving ("Geoff Campbell")
Re: Uninstalling software in Linux (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 kicks DEC 21041 PCI out? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: postgresql 7.0.3-2 rpm installation question
newbie question..... sound card doesn't work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Uninstalling software in Linux (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Updating ghostscript
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:02:24 GMT
I'm running redhat 7.0 and I need to update ghostscript. Redhat comes
with gnu ghostscript 5.50 and I just installed the apsmagic filter and
the installation program told me I needed ghostscript 6.0 (aladdin). The
most recent release is 6.0 so I thought that I would put that in.
My question is, How do I go about installing Aladdin ghostscript 6.50
over GNU ghostscript 5.50 without screwing everything up. The GNU
version is in rpm form, and the alladin is a .tar.gz. My thoughts were
to remove the gnu version (rpm -e) just before I installed the aladdin.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Updating ghostscript
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:10:56 GMT
In article <92cp8u$6al$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running redhat 7.0 and I need to update ghostscript. Redhat comes
> with gnu ghostscript 5.50 and I just installed the apsmagic filter and
> the installation program told me I needed ghostscript 6.0 (aladdin).
The
> most recent release is 6.0 so I thought that I would put that in.
> My question is, How do I go about installing Aladdin ghostscript 6.50
> over GNU ghostscript 5.50 without screwing everything up. The GNU
> version is in rpm form, and the alladin is a .tar.gz. My thoughts were
> to remove the gnu version (rpm -e) just before I installed the
aladdin.
>
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Everywhere in this message that I said aladdin, I ment to say AFPL.
Sorry.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PanelSoft)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up;
Subject: Problem wirh Ring and DTMF detection in voice mode
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:25:08 GMT
I am trying to write a C program on Linux to answer the phone in voice
mode. When the phone rings I get a <DLE>R (as expected), but for the
following rings I get bytes that I can not interpret. (In voice mode
the ring's come in differently to data mode).
I use at+fclass=8 to get into voice mode.
It all works fine under minicom, and under Hyperterminal on windows,
and I have tried 2 different PC's (but same modem) - and with 2
different Linux distributions
On minicom I can see <DLE>R<DLE>R .. several times - one R for each
ring of the phone. In my C program I used a debugger to look at the
bytes and the following bytes in this order
10 <DLE>
52 R
00
60
0C
E6
If I get more rings the pattern 60,0C, E6 repeats but I get no more R
characters.
If I am in data mode (not voice), then I get the RING sequence
repeatedly, with no problem, so it is only a problem when <DLE> is
involved and there is no carriage return - but I do not know if
either of these points is significant.
I thought maybe the serial port speed was changing after the first
ring. I set the serial port to slower rates but it made no difference.
If I type AT after the first ring, and get an OK back, then the
following ring comes in fine (as <DLE>R). So sending something from
the computer to the modem seems to reset whatever has gone wrong.
Maybe it is possible that there is some autobauding happening every
time a carriage return goes from the computer to the modem, but I can
not find any way to control this. I have tried looking at the source
of minicom to learn more, but it does not seem to be doing anything
special in this department.
Does anyone know if there is a program simpler than mimcom, that does
really dumb mapping from the terminal to a serial port?
When I get the phone to manually answer I want to interpret DTMF
codes, but I run into exactly the same problem.
Any help appreciated,
Niall Murphy
===========================
See the User Interfaces for Embedded Systems Page
at http://www.panelsoft.com
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From: Andrew McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Soundblaster AWE64 Value & Linux
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:52:25 +0000
Hi Craig,
Yep it is old but checking things out before having a bash at ver 7.0 ;),
Btw it was sndconfig that was kicking back that error ;(
Craig wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 23:33:11 +0000, Andrew McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Just tried pluging it in to my linux box but it will not configure
> >properly, something to do with a '(CONFIGURE.......' line in
> >isapnp.conf.
>
> Redhat 6.1? blimey.. old!
>
> Run sndconfig.. should be installed :)
>
> --
>
> Craig
>
> http://www.linux2k.freeserve.co.uk
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From: "Neil Guinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Uninstalling software in Linux
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:54:36 -0600
I recently installed StarOffice for Linux on my old P100 machine (32MB
ram,4GB disk) and sadly the performance is too slow (it crawls!) for me. I
want to uninstall it, how do I do that?
BTW, if you have an alternative office suite for Linux, that will run a
little faster on my machine let me know, thanks.
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Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:50:23 -0500
From: none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.1 kicks DEC 21041 PCI out?
My system runs Mandrake 7.1 without the NIC. When bootup Linux, says eth0
- OK, I use PING to another computer, it says no response and nothing. Is
there something wrong with tulip.o ??? or another drivers?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: RH 7.0 cannot find address of localhost
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:39:46 GMT
I have RH 7.0 running on a 166Mhz Pentium MMX with 32MB of memory.
The system is dual boot (using LILO) with Windows '98, and a network
card Intel EtherExpress 10Mb. Everything had been running ok until
this morning, when I noticed that I didn't seem to be able to
communicate with the outside net. When I looked at dmesg I saw a
bunch of XMT errors (but I have a suspicion about that -- see below).
Doing ifconfig eth0 down following by ifconfig eth0 up (as root), made
things worse -- now name service didn't work! So, I decided that the
best thing to do was to shutdown and restart. Everything seemed to be
going ok (including initializing lo0 and eth0) until booting got to
the point of "Starting lpd:" -- things then hung up for about 2
minutes, and then I got a message saying that it couldn't obtain the
IP address of localhost. It wouldn't proceed any further. I tried
shutting down, powering off, and rebooting with the same thing. When
I boot Win '98, everything works fine (including communicating with
the outside network).
I'm connected to my cable modem via a Linksys 4 port router. One
thing that I do notice is that when I've booted Linux from a power off
state, that the full duplex light on the Linksys is off, but when I
boot Win '98, the full duplex light comes on. And, if I reboot into
Linux (without powering off), the full duplex light stays on. It's
under those circumstances that I get lots of XMT errors on dmesg.
So, I'm rather desparate at this point. Does anyone have a
suggestions as to how I can fix my problem?
--
Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Network card/insmod problems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:42:14 GMT
>>>>> "Tim" == TIM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tim> I cannot get linux to recognize my network card: smc 1211TX I
Tim> have tried epic100, tulip and smc9194. All give the same error:
Tim> insmod failed: device or resource busy One variation clued me
Tim> into the fact that there may be an irq conflict, so I tried
Tim> adding options to insmod: insmod epic100 irq=11 but I only get an
Tim> error, saying param_irq unrecognized
Tim> Any ideas????
Tim, is your network card plug 'n play? I had a similar problem with
my network card. I finally had to go into /etc/isapnp.conf and
comment out the sections having to do with the card. When I rebooted,
everything came up fine.
Good luck!
--
Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
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From: "max barwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: exim as a remote mta but it uses a smarthost, help
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 04:44:33 +1300
at the moment i have exim and mutt on my workstation and i like the
combo, exim uses my isp's smtp server as a smart host to send mail .
i am about to set up a firewall/server for my box and one other as
a masqued network, do i need exim on both w/stations, or can i install it
on the server and forward the mail from my box to the server where exim
will use my isp to send the mail. does this sound strange? is it the done
thing? i dont want to use sendmail ( too complex, and overkill i feel ),
but is exim the right decision, it's the only mtu i have used and is
simple to setup.
flames, suggestions etc greatly appreciated.
cheers max
ps a simple solution would be preferable, but i am not lazy and will do
research etc if needs be.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 cannot find address of localhost
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Dec 2000 10:50:32 -0500
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:39:46 GMT, Victor S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>the point of "Starting lpd:" -- things then hung up for about 2
>minutes, and then I got a message saying that it couldn't obtain the
>IP address of localhost. It wouldn't proceed any further. I tried
>shutting down, powering off, and rebooting with the same thing. When
Do you have a line like this in /etc/hosts?
[hal@feenix hal]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
[...]
Or do you have any ipchains rules that might be inadvertantly blocking
access to that IP?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joerg Morbitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: exim as a remote mta but it uses a smarthost, help
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:22:00 +0100
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, max barwell wrote:
> at the moment i have exim and mutt on my workstation and i like the
> combo, exim uses my isp's smtp server as a smart host to send mail .
> i am about to set up a firewall/server for my box and one other as
> a masqued network, do i need exim on both w/stations, or can i install it
> on the server and forward the mail from my box to the server where exim
> will use my isp to send the mail. does this sound strange? is it the done
> thing? i dont want to use sendmail ( too complex, and overkill i feel ),
> but is exim the right decision, it's the only mtu i have used and is
> simple to setup.
>
> flames, suggestions etc greatly appreciated.
>
> cheers max
>
> ps a simple solution would be preferable, but i am not lazy and will do
> research etc if needs be.
>
>
If you get ip masquerading up and running you can use on every
client machine of your new network exim and mutt who still point
to your isp's smtp server.
Check out this page how to set up masquerading:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
Regards, Joerg.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Soundblaster AWE64 Value & Linux
Date: 27 Dec 2000 16:44:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:52:25 +0000, Andrew McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Yep it is old but checking things out before having a bash at ver 7.0 ;),
Ah I see :)
>Btw it was sndconfig that was kicking back that error ;(
Okay your best bet is to do the following
Do this in root
isapnp > /etc/isapnp.conf
You may have to have a look at the isapnp.conf and uncomment some in there.
then sndconfig
that should be working then.
If not, then get drunk and come back tomorrow and retry ;)
--
Craig
http://www.linux2k.freeserve.co.uk
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PartitionMagic: can't boot
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:03:28 +0100
> I made a partition for Linux (logical and swap) on my second hard
> driver and installed mandrake 7.1, then I rebooted the computer and
> from grub I selected windows in order to reactivate my BootMagic and
> add the new OS (linux) to the menu of OS to be booted. I restarted the
> computer and in the BootMagic menu I chose Linux but it doesn't boot
> (it boots up windows without problem). What went wrong?
How can we tell???
> I thank you in advance for you valuable information.
You won't get much.
This doesn't sound like a linux problem to me. More a bootmagic one.
Can you boot linux from a floppy? Then go that way, and read up on what
might be the problem.
Eric
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From: "Geoff Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SYSLOG not behaving
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:06:06 -0700
Hi All -
I'm trying to understand the syslogd and klogd. I'm experimenting with
different configuations in my syslog.conf file. It seems that all other
"facilities" behave as expected except "kern". "kern" seems to do it's own
thing and respond only to one rule (if that). I'm using logger to test it -
maybe that's the problem. BTW, the syslogd and klogd I'm using are RH7
binaries.
Thanks - Geoff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Uninstalling software in Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:10:04 GMT
Neil Guinto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I recently installed StarOffice for Linux on my old P100 machine (32MB
: ram,4GB disk) and sadly the performance is too slow (it crawls!) for me. I
: want to uninstall it, how do I do that?
: BTW, if you have an alternative office suite for Linux, that will run a
: little faster on my machine let me know, thanks.
How did you install it? If you used RPM to install it, then:
rpm -e package-name
will uninstall it.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 kicks DEC 21041 PCI out?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:10:04 GMT
none ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: My system runs Mandrake 7.1 without the NIC. When bootup Linux, says eth0
: - OK, I use PING to another computer, it says no response and nothing. Is
: there something wrong with tulip.o ??? or another drivers?
Since you don't mention anything at all about your setup, the problem can't be
with it, right?
My system is "another computer", and I don't remember getting a ping from you.
If you don't give people details to work with, they can only guess at your
problem.
Stu
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: postgresql 7.0.3-2 rpm installation question
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:30:04 -0000
gmei wrote:
>
>
> Hi:
>
> I have used linux before but never did any admin work on it. And I don't
> have any experience on postgresql.
>
> Today I just installed RedHat 7.0 with GNOME option on our DELL machine
> (intel chip 500 mHZ, 128 meg of ram). After the RedHat installation I did
> not find postgresql package.
>
> Then, I used this box to download from ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/
> binary/v7.0.3/RPMS/RedHat-7.0/
>
> the files
>
> postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
> postgresql-devel-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
> postgresql-server-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
>
> I also created a new linux user called "postgres" and it's home directory
> is /home/postgres. I can login as linux user "postgres" without any
> problems.
>
> Now I am ready to install "postgresql" and here are my questions:
>
> 1. I am assuming I should login as user "postgres" on linux to install
> "Postgres" software, not login as root. Is this right?
>
> 2. Which above rpm file(s) should I install, all of them? or just
> postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm (seems to be the largest in file size)
>
> Do I just type
>
> rpm -e postgresql-7.0.3-2.i386.rpm
>
> and that would do it?
>
> 3. Should I install the Postgresql software at "/home/postgres" or "/usr/
> bin"? I am assuming that if I use "root" to install, I would put it in /
> usr/bin. Ohterwise it would be in /home/postgres?
>
> I looked at various websites trying to find answers to my above
> questions, but I could not find them. Hope I can get some quick help
> here.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Guang
>
>
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Hi.
I think it could be interesting to you the next url
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PostgreSQL-HOWTO.html
Good luck
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie question..... sound card doesn't work
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:32:23 GMT
hi,
i'm trying to get my ESS1868 based ISA sound card to work. i read a few
pages, and i saw that some people had success using isapnptools. i tried
this out, but after i did the "./configure" command and all this stuff
ran down the console, the instructions said to type "make <blahblah>". i
followed the instructions, when i type anything with "make" the console
always says "command not found". i tried typing 'make' in the
/usr/src/linux directory to seee if anything hapens, but it said the
same thing. am i missing a package or something? is there an RPM that i
should install that wasn't installed in the setup?
i'm runing Linux Mandrake 7.0.... luckily i could atleast get the modem
working soi can post this. hehe,... thanks!
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Uninstalling software in Linux
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:50:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Neil Guinto wrote:
> I recently installed StarOffice for Linux on my old P100 machine (32MB
> ram,4GB disk) and sadly the performance is too slow (it crawls!) for me.
> I want to uninstall it, how do I do that?
> BTW, if you have an alternative office suite for Linux, that will run a
> little faster on my machine let me know, thanks.
>
>
>
For your not-so-very-new-machine I would propose Siag (look at freshmeat)
as an Office-Suite. Maybe it�s not uptodate but it works well as far as I
can remember. I use StarOffice only for compatibility with M$-docs and xls,
for daily work I run Applixware 4.4.1. It doesn�t cost too much, but I have
heard the new Version 5.0 is a bit buggy. If you are looking only for a
good wordprocessor, Abiword seems a good choice.
Good luck!
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Auf der Donau 29
45139 Essen
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