Linux-Misc Digest #441, Volume #19 Sat, 13 Mar 99 19:13:10 EST
Contents:
gnome ("Srinivasan, Rajagopalan")
Re: netscape and realplayer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Q: emacs, X, network (Scott Burgess)
Re: SuSE 6.0 feelings please. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Learn the truth - In Dear Recruiter we establish exactly what a recruiter does.
("Charles R. Thompson")
Re: gnome (Michael)
Where r u eth0!! (Michael)
Re: Be and Linux (Barry O'Neill)
Re: COBOL compiler for Linux? (K Lee)
old proprietary cd-rom recognised as scsi? (REPOST)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: best offline newsreader? (Michael Fleming)
Netscape DNS (Len Cuff)
Re: Is Red Hat 5.2 worth fifty notes? (Sparkzz)
Re: VERY easy CHMOD question ("Katherine Davis")
Re: RealPlayer G2 + WMP -- Yes! (William Cornett)
L I N U X + 8 0 8 8 ("news.globalxs.nl")
voice recognition (benjamin j snyder)
Re: Sound card probleme ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Database for Linux (Jim Richardson)
Re: gnome (Matthew Bafford)
ModemSurfer Motorola 56k ("Jacques Neron")
Re: VERY easy CHMOD question (Gary Beldon)
bttv-0.6.3 compile error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Master LILO throws a tantrum (Benjamin HERZOG)
Re: setting linux up to use different IRQ for my modem? (Andrew Comech)
Re: binary Emacs 20.x for i386? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I print this .ps file (kit)
Re: Partition Software Recommendation? (Rez)
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From: "Srinivasan, Rajagopalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gnome
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:43:09 -0500
It appears that getting gnome to my linux box involves downloading close to
a dozen different packages and libraries. Am I missing something?
Is there perhaps one rpm or some such for "gnome". A gnome cd perhaps.
Any info would be appreciated.
regards
srini
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: netscape and realplayer
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:11:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Barwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [ALL SNIPPED]
>
> Here is what is in my /usr/local/netscape/plugins
>
> RAObserver.class
> RAPlayer.class
> librvplayer.so -> /usr/local/rvplayer5.0/librvplayer.so
>
> All I did was copy the two class files and link the library file in the plugin
> directory.
>
> Then, in netscape preferences, I added the following MIME type
>
> name: who cares!
> type: audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin
> extension: rpm
>
> Then selected the plugin name.
>
> Also added
> type: audio/x-pn-relaudio
>
> and
> type: audio/x-realaudio
>
> and linked those to the rvplayer %s executable.
>
> Check "Help/About-plugins" you should see the RealVideo player plugin with the
rpm
> extension.
>
> Caveat: I haven't seen it work yet. The one page I've been to that actually
> wasn't trying the G2 stuff (the G2 stuff wont work) gave me an error23.
>
> But it did TRY to run.
>
> Note: Check for MIME type duplicates and delete 'um! I had a couple dups.
>
> JDB
i did all that, but apparently the librvplayer.so doesn't like my netscape --
when i go to "about:plugins" or try to even start netscape with librvplayer.so
in the "plugins" directory i get "Bus Error" and netscape exits.
anyone else having this problem?
chris erway
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Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:04:42 -0800
From: Scott Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Q: emacs, X, network
Hi all,
When running emacs under X11, emacs refuses to launch when
my network connection dies. The emacs sessions are all listed
as active processes, but no windows appear until the connection
is re-established (then they all appear at once).
Anyway to decouple emacs from my network connection? Is
there some workaround for this?
Much appreciated,
Scott Burgess
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 feelings please.
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:20:33 +0000
Sitaram Chamarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10 Mar 1999 20:33:33 -0500, David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Keith Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>-> I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has installed SuSE
>>-> 6.0. What do you think of the product? How would you compare it to
>>-> other distros like RedHat 5.2 and so forth.
>>
>>I had SuSE 5.3 which I thought was pretty good. I only upgraded to
>>6.0 because I wanted to go to a glibc system and catch any bugfixes in
>
> Have they finally gotten around to making dhcpcd a part of the
> installation? That's what turned me completely off SuSE 5.2 - I
> could deal with it (install dhcpcd, patch a few files in /etc and
> /sbin), but it's impossible to evangelise Linux to Windoze folks
> in a DHCP environment without this support!
I believe so.
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From: "Charles R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Learn the truth - In Dear Recruiter we establish exactly what a recruiter
does.
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:10:14 GMT
>This is the first
and last
> in a series of
one
>documents I will be writing to
educate (i.e. give the illusion that I have knowledge in one
particular area of non-interest)
>the computer consulting industry as a whole.
After all.. with an ego like mine, I really think I can change
the world.
>The answer to the question "establish exactly what a recruiter
does" is
>NOTHING.
Geez.. and to think I shaved my head to become enlightened.
Could have saved a ton on razors if I would have read this years
ago.
(:-)
>*********************
>
>Dear Recruiter,
>
>I understand that you believe that you are accomplishing
something in your day
>to day work but I have to tell you that you have been fooled.
>
>Who do you receive job positions from? A Human Resources worker
at a company.
>This same company hired that Human Resources person to find
prospective
>employees for their company. In essence this Human Resources
person is not
>doing the job they were hired to do. It seems like you are
doing the "job"
>that the Human Resources person is not doing themselves.
Actually, you do not
>have the skills to do the job that the Human Resources person
should be
>trained and was hired to do. Each company with it's own
individual
>requirements for each individual job opening. You cannot
possibly have the
>talent of all of the positions of all of the companies your
firm "services".
>Without this talent there is no way you could possibly make a
knowledgeable
>decision. So YOU are not doing the Human Resources persons job
either.
>
>So what do you do? Well, without that individual knowledge, you
use what is
>commonly referred to as "buzzwords". Wait, did I say you
actually look for
>words on resumes? Well, I surely didn't say that you would
actually READ
>THEM. (Not even before an interview with the consultant.) But I
digress. What
>really happened was a CONSULTANT built a program so that the
resumes could be
>searched by keywords. Keywords = "buzzwords" Makes it real hard
to
>find...anything. First - you really don't even know what you
are looking for.
>Next - you are trying to find out if a consultant is qualified
for a job you
>know nothing about. Is this actually working? Do you have the
knowledge to
>make these kind of decisions?
>
>Are you doing the job of the consultant? No, you are not.
Companies have many
>ways to find prospective employees; and consultants "could"
utilize those
>resources to find CLIENTS. But that is not how it works. I have
watched my
>local newspaper go from between five and seven pages of
computer consulting
>job openings down to between one-half and one page of
consulting firm "job
>openings" in a three year span. Since the job of the human
resource person is
>not being filled by ANYONE, this is one of the reason companies
no longer
>advertise. They pick the phone up - call a recruiter - get a
free lunch. You
>getting the picture here? I bet some human resource employees
have had more
>paid lunches than the president of the their company.
>
>Another reason is that consulting firms are just like real
estate agencies.
>The real estate workers drive around and look for houses for
sale by owner
>and try to talk the owners into paying them a large sum to do
very little.
>Same tactic - different field, only everybody in the real
estate business is
>doing a job. So when a company puts a computer consulting ad in
the newspaper
>they are swamped with calls from recruiters - sales people who
want paid a
>large sum while having no knowledge of how to accomplish the
task. The human
>resource person (who was hired to do this job) could very
easily do their job
>and contact the consultants and post ads in the paper and on
the world wide
>web. And if they were smart enough they would know how to find
consultants
>without having to take more of their companies money to pay
you.
>
>I can see where you feel like you have accomplished something.
I know that if
>I could actually do the "job" you do, with the computer
CONSULTING mentality
>you have, that I would feel great about myself to.
>
>But really are you actually doing anything?
>
>You may not like me but we are all entitled to our opinion and
this is my
>opinion.
>
>CLIENTS AND COMPANY OWNERS: I charge between $35 and $50 to
create MS Access
>databases as an independent consultant through telecommuting.
How much are the
>consulting firms charging you? Please include your Human
Resources employees
>free lunch we both paid for.
>
>I will except opinions from all QUALIFIED COMPUTER CONSULTANTS.
Everyone else
>will be ignored.
>
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gnome
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:10:07 GMT
No...start downloading, baby!
Srinivasan, Rajagopalan wrote:
> It appears that getting gnome to my linux box involves downloading close to
> a dozen different packages and libraries. Am I missing something?
>
> Is there perhaps one rpm or some such for "gnome". A gnome cd perhaps.
>
> Any info would be appreciated.
>
> regards
> srini
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where r u eth0!!
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:10:59 GMT
Running SuSE 6.0 Kern 2.2.3
Installed suse 6.0 (beautiful distribution) replacing RH5.2 on thinkpad
770. Compiled/installed kernel 2.2.3 as bzImage and compiled/installed
pcmcia 3.0.9 modules.
When booting, error comes up as eth0 is unknown interface (as it flies
by). AFTER that, it does catch the cardmgr and sets up the nic catching
the mac address and irq etc.There is still no network connectivity yet.
If you so an "ifconfig", it just shows the "lo" interface saying the
loopback is cool. Of course there is no eth0 interface, hence cannot
ping the nic. Now, if I run from the CL
"ifconfig -i eth0 11.11.11.69 netmask 255.0.0.0 up" ALL IS FINE FROM
THAT POINT ON. I have modified the /etc/rc.config to reflect all of
this...and it shows it in the config file, just doesn't execute it, and
have to do a manual "ifconfig -i eth0 blah blah"....What am
Imissing????? BTW Besides this, the new kernel smokes!
Thanks brothers and sisters(?)
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From: Barry O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Be and Linux
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:58:03 GMT
Jolly Roger wrote:
>
> Anyone tried mixing Be and Linux on the same system?
Yes.
regards,
Barry
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Who needs Micro$lop?
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From: K Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: COBOL compiler for Linux?
Date: 13 Mar 1999 22:32:02 GMT
Heh, Cobol? I didn't know people still used it save for some Y to K
work...and what's up with that?? I mean, how are we supposed to read
stuff when "sky" becomes "skk" and my girlfriend's name becomes "Kolanda"
from "Yolanda"?? I don't get it..I don't get it at all...
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:16:44 -0000, Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >Is there one?
: Several. See URL below...
: --
: Wow! Windows now can do everything using shared library DLLs, just
: like Multics did back in the 1960s! Maybe someday they'll discover
: separate processes and pipes, which came out in the 1970s!
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/langcobol.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: old proprietary cd-rom recognised as scsi? (REPOST)
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:08:50 GMT
Hi, i just compiled the 2.2.1 kernel and noticed that it seemed to recognize
my old proprietary cd rom (which i previously had to use via dos cause i
couldn't get linux to recognize it). but "seemed" is the key word here, this
is what it told me upon bootup:
Kernel detected SCSI CDROM drive /dev/, checking for a disc:
mount: /dev/ is not a block device
now in NT the driver for this drive is a scsi driver so i guess it makes
sense for linux to see it as a scsi device but as you can see it detects a
cdrom at /dev/ not /dev/cdrom (or /dev/anything for htat matter)
i would really like to get this cd-rom working with linux (good for using for
music or accessing little used small files on backup cds) so if anyone out
there have any ideas as to what i might be able to do to get linux to
recognize my cdrom properly?
thank you,
-Gaiko
Gaikokujin Kyofusho
Student Extraordinare & UN*X Guru Wannbe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fleming)
Subject: Re: best offline newsreader?
Date: 13 Mar 1999 22:34:40 GMT
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I'm glad Jolly Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said this and not me..
[Much discussion of newsreaders, X and Linux in general]
> May I ask why you use Linux & X?
Stability and flexibility.
> I boot up in windows and use forte Agent for this. I suppose you
> could network a 95 or NT machine and access the data folder in the
> agent directory with some linux programs.
Agent's data files are in a proprietary format, seemingly only really
understood by Forte and the alt.offline-reader.forte-agent.modified folks ;-)
> You do have more than one
> computer? :-)
No, just the one here.
> I use Linux but haven't tried any X news readers. Most of the X stuff
> looks like shit and you can hardly read the fonts.
X just draws primitives / shapes, handles mouse actions and basically acts as
the "building blocks" for drawing widgets. Your complaint is about particular
widget sets and/or window managers - I point you to Enlightenment (window
manager) or GTK+ (widget set) as evidence that "X doesn't look like shit"
(X _can't_ look like shit, it doesn't _have_ a look!)
There are font servers that handle True Type fonts - look for freetype /
xfsft or xfstt. I run the latter here and it's very good.
> However, Linux
> (not X) is an excellent OS.
That I can definitely agree with. :-)
> JR
Michael Fleming.
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From: Len Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape DNS
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:32:41 +0000
Reply-To: Len Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can any help please. I have Netscape Communicator 4.5 installed
under SuSE 6. I connect to my ISP no problem but when I go into
Netscape, it always complains that it can't find the home page first
time- no DNS entry. If I select 'HOME' again then it finds it and away I
go.
I have just downloaded Navigator 4.08 to try it out but this one never
finds any sites - always complaining that there is no DNS entry yet if I
stay connected and bring up Communicator, it finds sites fine.
Very perplexed !
Cheers,
Len
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sparkzz)
Subject: Re: Is Red Hat 5.2 worth fifty notes?
Date: 13 Mar 1999 22:55:19 GMT
You need to check out Linux Central.
They sell cd's for only $1.89.
I just ordered Slackware, Mandrake,
and Suse distributions for about $10.50,
including the shipping.
.
.
....Ken
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From: "Katherine Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config
Subject: Re: VERY easy CHMOD question
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:28:21 -0600
The first line of the script is:
#!/bin/sh
/bin/sh is actually a link to bash (/bin/sh -> bash)
ls -al /usr/sbin/ppp-on says:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Feb 13 09:21 ppp-on -> /etc/ppp/ppp-on
ls -al /etc/ppp/ppp-on says:
-rwx------ 1 root root 15 Feb 13 09:17 /etc/ppp/ppp-on
In the ppp-on script, I have:
DIALER_SCRIPT=/etc/ppp/ppp-on-dialer
then, later:
exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 connect $DIALER_SCRIPT
ttyS1 is correct (I'm on COM1 and minicom has confirmed that)
/usr/sbin/pppd is correct.
I could paste the entire contents of my scripts here, but I was hoping it
would be a lot easier of a question than that.
I'll do that if I need to. Thanks,
-Kat Davis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Cornett)
Subject: Re: RealPlayer G2 + WMP -- Yes!
Date: 13 Mar 1999 08:10:29 GMT
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:05:24 -0800, Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Anti-Microsoft stuff]
: --
: Cheers,
: Bev
: oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
: No NO, Olaf! FIRST rape and pillage, THEN burn!
:
That's deep.
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From: "news.globalxs.nl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: L I N U X + 8 0 8 8
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:41:58 +0100
Is it possibel to run Linux on a 8088 or 8086????
I have already heard of the Elks project
(http://macintrash.cymru.net/ELKS-Home/ELKSfaq.html)
Anybody?
Bob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (benjamin j snyder)
Subject: voice recognition
Date: 13 Mar 1999 23:23:16 GMT
I doubt there's anything like this out there e(I havent found any yet), but does
anyone know of any voice recognition software for linux (preferably open
source)? I am attempting to do some research of my own (for personal benefit,
not money or anything else of the like) and this would come in handy for me.
Thanks in advance to those who reply.
--
Ben Snyder
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sound card probleme
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 22:51:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
derriedo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a compatible sound card, i can read 8 bit audio but
you mean cat audiofile > /dev/audio ? if so, the only problem is to install
some players for mp3 I use x11amp and for wav - bplay ( which is included
into standard distribution ). For x11amp to work correct you also must
specify SYSTEM V IPC = ON when modifying kernel config.
> i can't read mp3 or other wav file what is the problem ?
>
> - i need a new driver for my sound card
> - i need a new kernel (best as 2.0.36 or RedHat5.2)
> - i need new music player
> - i need to change my sound card !
>
> Please answer me
> Thanks,
>
> Dominique
If this doesn't help, look through Sound-HOWTO ( I have it in /usr/doc/HOWTO
). This should me of a real help
Sergey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: Database for Linux
Date: 13 Mar 1999 23:07:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12 Mar 1999 06:05:31 -0500,
David Steuber, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne) writes:
>
>-> "the much vaunted 'performance' of mySQL over postgres is a figment of
>-> someone's beta testing. In a real life environment, I cannot see that
>-> mySQL is significantly faster."
>
>I've been leaning towards Postgre. I guess this tips the balance.
>PHP3 can talk to both natively. But who wants to learn a whole bunch
>of data bases?
>
>It is so cool that a Linux distribution comes with all the tools you
>need to create simple database backed web applications. The stuff I
>don't have, I can download for free.
I don't know squat re: databases. I need a relatively simple database for
work, to track production and repairs/customer service data on
a relatively small production line. About 100-1000 items per year.
(but expensive:) So a handfull of fields, date of man, p/n, revision,
firmware etc, plus a big text area for notes regarding testing and
service. At the moment I use html encoded text, and write up the forms
by hand, and grep for the important keywords. This is not an acceptable long
term solution. I would like a web front end to build/maintain/search
and modify the database. Would MySQL or postgreSQL be better? some other
db? thanks for any and all info.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Bafford)
Subject: Re: gnome
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:34:44 GMT
Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:43:09 -0500 -- Srinivasan, Rajagopalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
-> It appears that getting gnome to my linux box involves downloading close to
-> a dozen different packages and libraries. Am I missing something?
Yes! Multiple ftp files are just as easy to get as one:
% cd <where you want to download to>
% ftp <whatever server they tell you>
Username: anonymous
Password: your@emailaddress
ftp> cd <directory where rpms are>
ftp> prompt
ftp> hash (if you have a slow connection, this lets you know it's still moving)
ftp> mget *
ftp> quit
%
-> Is there perhaps one rpm or some such for "gnome". A gnome cd perhaps.
Not that I know of...
-> Any info would be appreciated.
->
-> regards
HTH!
-> srini
--Matthew
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From: "Jacques Neron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ModemSurfer Motorola 56k
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:16:28 -0500
HI
I am using Red hat 5.1 and i am having problem setting up my modem. My modem
is dialing and try to connect (hearing weird sound,usually heard when
cennecting) and then it hang up. I know that ther is people who use this
modem and I would like to know how did you finally get that modem work.
Thank
Jac.
e-mal:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Beldon)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,redhat.config
Subject: Re: VERY easy CHMOD question
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:23:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:28:21 -0600, "Katherine Davis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> exec /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 115200 connect $DIALER_SCRIPT
Does $DIALER_SCRIPT (I guess ppp-on-dialer) contain the full path
to chat? I suspect that the error is actually the ppp-on script
saying that it can't find something...
Gary.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: bttv-0.6.3 compile error
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:35:59 GMT
I am trying to install the video4linux bttv drivers so I can use my STB
TV-PCI card. I get the following errors when i run make :
bttv.c:4015: too few arguments to function
`pcibios_read_config_dwordR9c25afd5` bttv.c:4017: too few arguments to
function `pcibios_write_config_dword_R755c3eec`
I am running RedHat5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 (x86). I understand that the bttv
drivers are standard with the newer kernels, but i'm not ready to upgrade my
system just yet.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
- brian parks
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From: Benjamin HERZOG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Master LILO throws a tantrum
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:48:51 +0100
Hello ,
I am runing Linux Red Hat 5.1, Kernel 2.0.34.
I have got two IDE: hda where MSDOS is, and hdb where LINUX is.
hda is the first disk (the master) and to run linux, i have got a floppy
disk wich runs LILO and boots linux on hdb.
I want now, that hdb becomes the master, and i want LILO to be runed
from hdb at the boot.
So, i edited /etc/lilo.conf and it seems in order. Then, i changed
hdb=master and hda=slave, and reboot: there is the problem !
1) if i boot without my floppy, LILO seems to begin, but i only have
this on my screen:
LI
And i have to shutdown (with button) and re-change hda=master ... and
then reboot linux with the floppy.
2) if i boot with the floppy, LILO is booting normally, but i get the
following error message :
"Unable to open initial console"
and i have to shutdown ...
I have got 3 partitions on hdb:
/dev/hdb1 * (=> bootable) /root
/dev/hdb2 swap
/dev/hdb3 /root
Please, help me to get out definitly from MSDOS !
Thank you.
(Please, try to answer in the forum AND at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thank you)
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From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: setting linux up to use different IRQ for my modem?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: 13 Mar 1999 18:59:46 -0500
Hi, I hope you could get the answers from
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/StonyBrookPPP.html#jumpstart
Best,
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: binary Emacs 20.x for i386?
Date: 14 Mar 1999 00:26:19 +0100
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> turn to your redhat 5.2 cd-rom or favorite redhat mirror site and get
> the emacs rpm.
Lots of people have reported problems with the Emacs rpms from I think
older versions of Redhat. Is Emacs in 5.2 okay? Is XEmacs in 5.2
okay? Or should we continue to advise people to fetch fixed rpms from
the Redhat site?
kai
--
I like _b_o_t_h kinds of music.
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From: kit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I print this .ps file
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 23:36:17 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>
>Any pointers on how to proceed will be gratefully received.
>
Thanks to all those who helped by posting or by mail.
Once it had been pointed out that the man page for ghostscript was man
gs and *not* ghostscript, I spent an entertaining Saturday learning
about Linux, printers and ghostscript.
Thank you.
--
kit
"Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same
reactions in the brain as marijuana ... The researchers also discovered
other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are."
--Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22
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From: Rez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Partition Software Recommendation?
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 05:38:15 GMT
In article <7capiv$v8q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My fdisk program from Win95 does not work for some reason;
That's because it's buggy. I've heard of this problem over and over.
> Is there any free disk partitioning program available on the net, like a clone
> of Partition Magic or Sys Comm?
PowerQuest supposedly has a 30 day trial version of Partition Magic available
for free download. Folk who've used it say it's fully functional. (I bought
the full version & have only used it for whacking off chunks of a disk that
were going bad, but it seems to work well.) I think it's something obvious
like www.powerquest.com :)
The FDISK in DR/OpenDOS works well and has some advantages over M$DOS's
FDISK. For one thing it doesn't try to insist that the 2nd HD has to
be bootable. You can download the entire OpenDOS package -- check out
www.caldera.com (I think there's a new URL, someone can probably cough
it up)
> Has anyone used FreeDOS (www.freedos.org) and is it any good? I am thinking
> about downloading FreeDOS and using fdisk utility from FreeDOS to create
> partitions but would like to know any opinions on this. Thanks for any help.
Don't know about FreeDOS other than last time I went by there, they had
info to the effect it was up to about DOS3.2 level. Looking forward to a
modernized version :)
~REZ~
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