Linux-Setup Digest #317, Volume #20 Sun, 31 Dec 00 15:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: 3Com 3c905 cards: here's how (Jacco van Schaik)
Re: X 4.0.2, kernel 2.4.0-test12: sound freezes machine (Ivo Naninck)
Re: creating rpms from tar.gr (David)
Re: IBM EduQuest Forty -- How install any Linux? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: changing IRQs on PCI devices (Chris Rankin)
Re: No LILO on bootup ("NA")
RH7 slows processor? (Robert Morelli)
Re: 3Com 3c905 cards: here's how (Hal Burgiss)
Netscape mail/username (P Read)
Help with partitioning ("Nigel Fitchard")
Re: Help with partitioning (Dragan Colak)
Re: Determine IP information for Eth0: Operation failed (Kevin)
Re: Help with partitioning (E J)
Yahoo Messenger for Linux now gives a segmentation fault (E J)
Re: lilo and minimize linux (David)
LDT allocated for cloned task! (Victor S. Miller)
Re: Help with partitioning (David)
Re: Netscape mail/username (David)
Re: CD-RW Trouble... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to make linux "sleep"? (Bryan Hoyt)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacco van Schaik)
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905 cards: here's how
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:10:22 GMT
So [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards) says:
>
> Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> +
> + 905 apparently stopped having its own module and works on the 59x module.
>
> That's the impression that I had received, too. All I can say is that
> under 2.2.18, it /doesn't/ work on the 59x module. Apparently (by your
> example) this is fixed in 2.4, which is very good.
As far as I know the 3c905 was always supported by the 59x driver, with
the 3c905 driver provided by 3com themselves. So it was never part
of the core linux kernel, at least for the 2.2 kernels. I don't know
what the situation with the 2.4 kernels is.
Groeten, - Jacco
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|
If the wheel had never been | Mail me: jacco at frontier dot nl
reinvented, we'd still be | Spam bait: postmaster@localhost
driving on logs... | See also: http://www.frontier.nl/
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From: Ivo Naninck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X 4.0.2, kernel 2.4.0-test12: sound freezes machine
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:33:45 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Peter Tieleman wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've installed kernel 2.4.0-test12 and XFree 4.0.2 on a redhat 7.0
> installation.My soundcard is a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz. It uses the 46xx
> driver, and works fine under older kernels (2.2.16-22, with same X). I use
> the same modules as with 2.2.16 but everytime sound is accessed the machine
> hangs completely, even caps lock stops working. No useful messages in any of
> the log files that I could see. Does anyone have an idea what the problem
> might be?
>
> Thanks.
> Peter
You wrote the most likely answer yourself: kernel 2.4.0-_*_TEST_*_12.
It is common knowledge that you run test kernels 'at your own risk' and
that you must
keep a stable production kernel at hand when the test kernel fails...
The least you can do is send some usefull information to the kernel
developers.
--
Best regards, Ivo Naninck.
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as
it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
~
:wq!
cd /pub
more beer
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: creating rpms from tar.gr
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:49:15 GMT
Peter Tselios wrote:
>
> Hallo to everyone,
> I would like to create rpms from tarballs. Rpm's man says that I can use the
> command:
> "rpm --tarbuild tarball" which I translate it as: "rpm --tarbuild
> package.tar.gz".
> Sometimes I have the reply "tarbuild unknown option" but always I have a
> segmentation fault.
> The rpm I use is version 3.0.3 in SuSe 6.3
> I do not want to use alien since alien creates rpms with no prefix install
> directory and thats the main reason I want to create rpms (install -
> unistall).
> Any ideas?
> --
> Peter Tselios
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If the tarball was made to build into an rpm you would enter.
rpm -ta tarball.tar.gz
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM EduQuest Forty -- How install any Linux?
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:29:53 +0100
Pat Minnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could this be a memory issue causing boot failure? It reports about 3M
> + 640k conventional when I enter bios setup and set to ROM-DOS boot.
That's not enough for a modern kernel. You can do it, but you don't
want to, and you clearly don't know how.
> Finally found a boot/root combination that might have worked but ran out
> of memory for the ramdisk load of root.
You need about 4 to 8MB extra for a ramdisk. So don't use
one! (obviously?). Use the floppy as th eroot device, not a ramdisk.
I..e boot with root=/dev/fd0 as a parameter. Read slackwares
instructions on low memory installs.
I have a 3MB 386sx16 on which I run linux (2.0.36 kernel) occasionally,
just for a party trick. There was an article about it in linux gazette
a few years ago. Look for "linuxita".
Peter
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From: Chris Rankin <au.com.zipworld@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: changing IRQs on PCI devices
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:06:51 +0000
Travis Hein wrote:
> I have the 3com 3c905 series ethernet controller, and the adaptec 3940uw
> PCI scsi adapter.
> The 3940uw card requires two IRQ's, one for each channel. I notice the 3com
> card is taking the same irq as teh second SCSI channel.
>
> Is there a way to change the irq selected for the 3com card, or the scsi
> card such that I do not have this overlap ?
Before you start: do both devices work? PCI devices are designed to
share IRQs quite happily and so I suspect that there is nothing wrong at
all. Linux and the PNP-BIOS have sorted everything out quite nicely at
boot-time.
Only ISA cards need exclusive use of an IRQ (unless there's something
wrong with your BIOS), so my advice is "relax and enjoy".
Chris
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From: "NA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No LILO on bootup
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:13:35 GMT
"James Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >What do you mean by making the linux boot partition active? Ill give a
bit
> >more info to make things a bit clearer. (I know this can be done I just
cant
> >do it).
>
> run fdisk from whatever you can, windows should have it I think, and
> find out what command to run under fdisk that says "set active
> partition" or something like that. Choose the partition that has LILO
> installed on it.
>
> >I have Win98 installed onto a disk on the Motherboard IDE which boots
fine.
> >I installed RedHat onto a seperate disk, dedicated to Linux attached to
the
> >Promise Controller card. LILO was told to install onto the Linux disk
only.
> >The Win98 disk was never touched.
> >
> >I cannot even see the contents of the boot disks /etc/lilo.conf. as I
cannot
> >boot Linux at all. Event the RedHat install with Alt-F2 does not let me
read
> >the floppy drive. (unless I have not mounted something correct).
> >
> >With regard to making the Linux partition active, what do I have to do to
it
> >to make it active?
> >
> >The /boot partition is 16Mb, swap is 500Mb and about 5Gb for /.
> >
> >Thanks for the help
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >
>
Hi James,
I gave that a try but it will not let you make an active partition on
anything but disk 1. It did however have an A beside the boot partition so I
assume that the installation process did that much for me. I am beginning to
think that there is something fundamentally wrong and I am tempted just to
move some disks around although, I still want to beat this thing. :-)
Thanks for the help
Chris
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 10:32:00 -0500
From: Robert Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH7 slows processor?
I have installed Red Hat 7.0 on a laptop with a P166 and
64 MB ram. Apparently, due to some kind of bug with the
installation, linux slows the processor down during booting.
(I suppose it turns off the 'turbo mode.') Naturally,
this makes the system run unaccepably slowly. Even if I
shut down linux and reboot the system continues to run
slowly. For instance, the power on memory self test
runs about 5 or 10 times more slowly than normal, and if
I boot to Win95 or OS/2 those systems run abnormally slowly.
Does anyone know what RH might be doing to slow the processor
and how I could fix it?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905 cards: here's how
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 31 Dec 2000 12:41:01 -0500
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:10:22 GMT, Jacco van Schaik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>As far as I know the 3c905 was always supported by the 59x driver, with
>the 3c905 driver provided by 3com themselves. So it was never part
>of the core linux kernel, at least for the 2.2 kernels. I don't know
>what the situation with the 2.4 kernels is.
Actually, I believe it is part of kernel source. I've been using it for
some time with no problems whatsoever.
[hal@feenix hal]$ locate 3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre17aa1/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre19/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.15aa1/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.19pre3/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14pre18/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.15pre9/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.15/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.16pre3/net/3c59x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.18pre15/net/3c59x.o
--
Hal B
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: P Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape mail/username
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:55:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Loaded Mandrake 7.2, started ppp, started netscape, can access the
internet, used preferences to set mail server, username, and news
server. When I try to get mail I get "username not set, use preferences
to set". I check the .netscape/preferences.js and it appears my username
is there......what gives???
Thanks.
P.S isp is using pop3 and that was set also.
Paul
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From: "Nigel Fitchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with partitioning
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:06:19 -0000
OK, I admit it - I fell at the first hurdle.
I wanted to learn Linux, so I went and bought a book which includes a
Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 CD. I took my son's Windows 98 PC (he got a
replacement for Christmas) and fdisked the HDD into oblivion.
Ran fips from the Linux CD and it errored with "No primary partition". Oops
!
So, would some kind soul please advise how I set up my paritions from
scratch ? Is there another utility I need to get hold of ?
Thanks and regards
NJF
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From: Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with partitioning
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:15:59 +0100
Nigel Fitchard wrote:
> OK, I admit it - I fell at the first hurdle.
>
> I wanted to learn Linux, so I went and bought a book which includes a
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 CD. I took my son's Windows 98 PC (he got a
> replacement for Christmas) and fdisked the HDD into oblivion.
>
> Ran fips from the Linux CD and it errored with "No primary partition".
> Oops !
>
> So, would some kind soul please advise how I set up my paritions from
> scratch ? Is there another utility I need to get hold of ?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> NJF
>
>
AFAIK fips is a tool to change the size of an existing partition without
loosing data (like Partitionmagic). You should use fdisk from the Linux
CD to create new partitions.
Hope this helps
Dragan
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From: Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Determine IP information for Eth0: Operation failed
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 18:23:36 GMT
You may want to check your /etc/resolv.conf on the router. Get rid of the
"search localhost" line, and insert your DNS's in this format:
nameserver ip.of.your.nameserver1
nameserver ip.of.your.nameserver2
save it, and run
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
or reboot
HTH,
Kevin
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:53:14 GMT, jazmarc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've setup DHCP on eth0 through Linuxconf and receive Determine IP Info
>for eth0, operation failed. I'm trying to setup a Internet
>router/firewall connecting to a TimeWarner SurfBoard cable modem. Eth1
>is setup with a 192.168.x.x address.
>I'm sure the cable modem and cable work, it's usually connected to my
>Win98 PC.
>How do I setup Linux 7 to receive DHCP. Do I have to setup the same
><name>.nc.rr.com in order for Time Warner to correctly identify me?
>Any links to informative sites would be appreciated.
>Thanks,
>jazmarc
>
>
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with partitioning
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:05:36 GMT
Who parted? :)
Get "parted" from www.gnu.org and transfer it a floppy to partition your
harddisk and preconfigure your
partition to linux, linux swap, fat32, etc.
There is instructions in "parted" in www.gnu.org.
I am sorry I have no experience with "parted" but will with my next computer.
Here is the man page for parted.
parted(8) parted(8)
NAME
GNU Parted - a partition manipulation program
SYNOPSIS
parted [options] [device [command [options]]]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the parted command. Complete
documenta�
tion is distributed with the package.
parted is a disk partitioning and partition resizing program. It allows
you
to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, FAT and FAT32
partitions.
This is useful for creating space for new operating systems,
reorganising
disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.
Nigel Fitchard wrote:
> OK, I admit it - I fell at the first hurdle.
>
> I wanted to learn Linux, so I went and bought a book which includes a
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 CD. I took my son's Windows 98 PC (he got a
> replacement for Christmas) and fdisked the HDD into oblivion.
>
> Ran fips from the Linux CD and it errored with "No primary partition". Oops
> !
>
> So, would some kind soul please advise how I set up my paritions from
> scratch ? Is there another utility I need to get hold of ?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> NJF
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Yahoo Messenger for Linux now gives a segmentation fault
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:22:29 GMT
After months of faithful service, Yahoo Messenger now gives a
segmentation fault.
I removed all the yahoo messenger files and downloaded and reinstall
yahoo messenger.
When I input my yahoo id and password, Yahoo Messanger would come up
briefly with my
buddy list and their status and give a segmentation fault.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: lilo and minimize linux
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 22:43:21 +0100
Hung P. Tran wrote:
> I am trying to fit linux onto a 60 MB harddrive. Obviously, the
> drive is too small for a standard linux installation.
>
> My first question is how to install lilo on the drive and make it
> boot linux. I tried to partition the drive using: fdisk /dev/hdc (the
> drive is connected as secondary IDE master). I just assign
> a single partition #1 (hdc1). Then I make the file system using mkfs, and
> then mount the harddrive as /mnt/d. Then I copy a few file from
> my original RedHat 6.1 over. Here is an output from "ls -l /mnt/d"
>
> total 927
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 17 14:33 boot.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285018 Oct 17 16:19 initrd.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 250 Oct 17 17:17 lilo.conf
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 17 14:30 lost+found
> -rw------- 1 root root 13312 Oct 17 16:21 map
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622784 Oct 17 16:18 vmlinuz
>
> The new modified lilo.config is as followed:
>
> boot=/dev/hdc
> map=/mnt/d/map
> install=/mnt/d/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
>
> image=/mnt/d/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> initrd=/mnt/d/initrd.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdc1
>
> I then run: /sbin/lilo -C /mnt/d/lilo.conf
>
> I then reboot the system and configure the BIOS to boot from the
> secondary master IDE (it can boot up fine from a secondary master IDE
> with DOS). However, I only get a bunch of 01 01 01 ... on the screen.
>
> What did I do wrong ? What am I missing ?
>
> I apologize for the long email. Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> hung
01 01 01 01 means that lilo is not correct installed.
look for linux one disk. They are little distributions that put linux in
one or two disc.
my lilo config is more simple than you. Try to remove options (for
example map=...)
Last thing. Has you hdc partition activated ???
has you install lilo in mbr (dont say me that look your lilo.conf,
because there was a lot time that I no read one).?
Good luck,
DTM
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Subject: LDT allocated for cloned task!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:29:34 GMT
Can someone explain what the message
LDT allocated for cloned task!
means? It appears a number of times in the output of dmesg, but not
always. Sometimes I can run for days or weeks without it coming up,
and then all of a sudden I get a whole bunch of them. What should I
do about it? I'm running RH 7.0 on a Pentium MMX 166 Mhz with 32MB
ram. Here's a fragment of my dmesg output:
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
LDT allocated for cloned task!
LDT allocated for cloned task!
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
LDT allocated for cloned task!
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation.
parport_probe: succeeded
parport0: Printer, Canon BJC-2100
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0 out of paper
hdc: ATAPI 12X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1860kB Cache
hdc: ATAPI 12X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1860kB Cache
LDT allocated for cloned task!
LDT allocated for cloned task!
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
Victor Miller
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with partitioning
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:44:00 GMT
Nigel Fitchard wrote:
>
> OK, I admit it - I fell at the first hurdle.
>
> I wanted to learn Linux, so I went and bought a book which includes a
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 CD. I took my son's Windows 98 PC (he got a
> replacement for Christmas) and fdisked the HDD into oblivion.
>
> Ran fips from the Linux CD and it errored with "No primary partition". Oops
> !
>
> So, would some kind soul please advise how I set up my paritions from
> scratch ? Is there another utility I need to get hold of ?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> NJF
Since you fdisk'd the whole drive (I take it you deleted all partitions)
just start the install you will make and format all linux partitions
during the installation.
Best of luck.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape mail/username
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:47:36 GMT
P Read wrote:
>
---- snip ----
>
> I check the .netscape/preferences.js and it appears my username
> is there......what gives???
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S isp is using pop3 and that was set also.
>
> Paul
ISP username or system username?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: CD-RW Trouble...
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:48:28 GMT
I had the same problem with cdrecord until I set my speed with speed=2
for my memorex 32x...
In article <92m1bf$ahr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
writes:
>
> ]In article <H4336.69798$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> ]Scott Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ]> I'm having trouble with sporadic error messages from my new
> ]>CD-RW.
> ]>
>
> ]--- snip ---
>
> ]>Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in write mode for single
session.
> ]>
>
> ]Try turning down the write speed. Possibly it's buffer underrun...
>
> If using cdrecord, use the -v option which will report the buffer fill
> factor It sould never drop below about 50%. If it does, run at a
slower
> speed. Note you can use the -dummy option to go through everything as
> though writing without actually putting holes in the disk (laser
turned
> off) See if you get the buffer dropping below 50% .
> (Note that 50% is just a rough guide. It dropping to 0 is the absolute
> danger point. But if it gets below 50% then you should worry ).
>
> If you ae using xcdroast then thee is a little bar graph which keeps
you
> informed of the current buffer fill.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to make linux "sleep"?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:00:12 GMT
Who ever said [EMAIL PROTECTED] couldn't write what follows?:
>On newer keyboard, there are two buttons called "Sleep" and
>"Wake up" each. In M$Win environment, when I push "Sleep",
>the OS enters the "sleep" mode. (I don't know what the mode
>is, it turns off monitor, hd, all of the fans includes power
>supply.) It comes back immediately as soon as I push "Wake up".
>
>Are there any daemons or programs which could handle this task?
>From a previous thread, mapping those extra keys on your keyboard appears to
be quite a task. I can help you with the hard drive part, however. The
program "hdparm" can put IDE harddrives into standby mode. Have a look at
"hdparm -Y" and "hdparm -S <n>". For the monitor you could write a small
shell script to switch to the console and do something with the "setterm"
program.
Hope I've helped.
--
Bryan Hoyt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.crosswinds.net/~artmusic
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