Linux-Misc Digest #448, Volume #20 Tue, 1 Jun 99 14:13:19 EDT
Contents:
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (David Filion)
Re: SATAN v1.1.1 [released] and v1.1.4 [experimental] both do not compile on Redhat
6.0. ("IBL")
desperate with "kernel: khm" error (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: You can earn $50,000 40686 ("Kent Dahl")
Re: NT the best web platform? (Miguel Cruz)
Re: Is Gnome slow? (Hans Wolters)
Respawning too quickly (David L. Bilbey)
/dev/sda4 not a valid block device? (Phillip George Geiger)
Moving /usr to separate partition. (Walter Francis)
Re: RAID 1 setup ("Art S. Kagel")
Gigabyte 6BXC problem ("Kemal E. Tepe")
Suppressing Screensaver (Mark J. Tilford)
Re: Moving files from Win95 to Linux (TurkBear)
Re: CD-R SCSI HELP, please ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Respawning too quickly (Tom Fawcett)
Re: Respawning too quickly (David L. Bilbey)
Specialix Serial Board on Linux 2.2.9? (azfar)
Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested (Dinesh Nair)
Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did... (Randy Olinger)
swapon: operation not permitted by device (Scott Lanning)
syntax of cron commands (Otavio Exel)
Re: Hot Horny Young Teen (Barry Hamill)
Re: About RealPlayer G2... (Andy Piper)
Re: Can I use RPM in Slackware? (Rob Komar)
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From: David Filion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:19:39 -0400
The only problem I've found with Redhat is that for a few things there is
the Linux way and then there is the RedHat way. I try to aviod the Redhat
way because I like to understand what is happening behind the scenes and
Redhat sometimes hides this.
The only other problem I've found with Redhat is the price hike. I bould
my version of Redhat, 5.1, as part of the powertools package for $14.99
CDN. The distribution is now up to $80 CDN and powertools is not too far
behind.
Remember it's not broken, it's just missing duct tape.
On Sun, 30 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> > i am currently in the market to buy Linux,
> and cannot decide whether
> > to get SuSE 6.1 or Red Hat Linux 6? any input on
> the matter would be
> > most appreciated.
> > thanks
> >
>
> I'm a total newbie to Linux, although I have
> years of experience as a DOS/Windows user/support
> person/administrator. I recently bought several
> cheap CDs of various Linux distributions (SuSE
[ some stuff removed here ... ]
> to someone with little or no experience using it.
> I'm still struggling with how to get my floppy &
> CD-ROM drives to automount & be user-available,
> but I have to admit, I'm getting quite an
> education in the process. :-)
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
>
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From: "IBL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.security,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general,redhat.hardware.arch.intel,redhat.security.general
Subject: Re: SATAN v1.1.1 [released] and v1.1.4 [experimental] both do not compile on
Redhat 6.0.
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 15:31:59 +0200
hi,
there is a newer release for satan called saint.
haven't tried it, but than again i didn't try satan either.
maybe you'll have more luck with this one.
http://www.wwdsi.com/saint/
hope it works
ivo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: desperate with "kernel: khm" error
Date: 1 Jun 1999 12:15:51 GMT
Hi,
I have posted this a couple of times, but the problems remain...
In short, when I su to root, many programs do not seem to work any more.
On the console I see: "[date] [hostname] kernel: khm", but I cannot
understand what that means, nor I found any info on kernel error messages
around. More details follow
1) I can see that programs that wnat to use the X server hang in a
"connect()" function. I am no X programmer so this might mean to you more
than it means to me.
2) Other programs that do not work are httpd, and also unmounting smbfs
shares. There may be more.
3) I have tried 2 kernels (2.1.129 from my original redhat 5.2
distribution, 2.2.3 custom compiled), same behaviour. I have had the
custom 2.2.3 kernel for 2 months roughly before any problems came out.
5) Some time ago I made a stupid mistake as root, a "chown . /*" instead
of "chown ./*". Problems manifested roughly at the same time, but I
repaired the error with "rpm --setugids" and now "rpm -Va" does not signal
anything troubling. I also checked that important files, e.g. libraries
and devices have sensible ownership/permissions.
6) I received a suggestion (thanks!) to remove kerneld from my boot
procedure, since it's not needed by 2.2.3 and to upgrade some rpms. I did
both but didn't help. I still get the following errors at boot time:
Error seeking in /dev/kmem
Error adding kernel module table entry.
I would really appreciate any kind of directions since I have no clue
what's going on!
Thanks everyone,
Stefano
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From: "Kent Dahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.tcl,comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: You can earn $50,000 40686
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 17:09:40 +0200
Jochem Huhmann skrev i meldingen <7j0s5m$hi8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>(I don't recommend mail bombing, it does more harm to others than to
>it's target)
I wasn't suggesting bombing as such (repeated large e-mails), but a single
one from me, a single one from you... makes one big whale on their account,
and doesn't block the line I'm on too much.
Students in Norway protested against... uh, what was it again? Can't
remember... Anyway, we didn't "bomb" the government representatives, but
someone make a script that would send a generic letter, with the name you
wrote, to a dousin representatives. Small thing, but a lot of students did
it...
I do not call this bombing, but the communications company just dropped the
whole bunch of e-mails. Sort of the postal service burning postcards if the
sack gets too heavy. *grrr*
Democracy my butt-cheeks!
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Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT the best web platform?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz)
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:00:40 GMT
Chad Mulligan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> *NT* afaik is *not* free.
>
> Either is a professional UNIX.
I take it your definition of a professional Unix is "one that is not
available for free."
miguel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Wolters)
Subject: Re: Is Gnome slow?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 12:56:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cliff Story <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a keyboard
and wrote the following ....
>I've just installed Red Hat 6.0 (on top on 5.2 -- the "upgrade" option
>didn't work, it killed the mouse)
You had to change the mouse settings to ttySx (where x is the comport)
>which comes with a new X window
>manager (seems to be more than a window manager, though) called
>"Gnome". This looks real good but it runs like MacPaint on a 128K Mac,
>maybe a little slower. My brother suggests increasing my RAM from the
>present 16 MB to 64 MB, and I'm sure that would help, but even with 16
>MB I'd expect a menu response in less than two or three seconds, which
>is what Gnome gives me.
Gnome is nice but uses a lot of memory. I have a P120 with 48 mb of ram and
it's still slow. I changed back to Window Maker which runs fine.
Regards Hans
--
22 Linux Search Engines in one applet
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/
Linux Links/CMI8330 Soundpro HOWTO
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/linux.htm
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From: David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Respawning too quickly
Date: 1 Jun 1999 15:50:39 GMT
I've added a program to inittab that should respawn in runlevel 2:
bm:2:respawn:/bin/bam
However, I get an error message on boot:
bam respawning too quickly, disabling for 5 minutes
(or something like that)
Then, 5 minutes later, it does it again. 5 minutes later: again, etc.
Why is this happening, and how do I fix it? I need this program to start on
boot. Thanks for the help.
David Bilbey
--
"Police Detective Riley was a no-nonsense kind of guy. Before, he really
loved nonsense, and would use it a lot in his murder investigations. But
he found that most people didn't appreciate it, especially the family of
the victim." --Jack Handey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip George Geiger)
Subject: /dev/sda4 not a valid block device?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 12:49:53 GMT
I'm trying to mount a parallel port zip drive.
insmod parport
insmod ppa
appear to work correctly, the drive even grunts once or twice.
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zipdrive
produces the error in the subject line. Any suggestions?
This is on a Red Hat 6.0 system running the provided 2.2.5-15smp
kernel. Thanks.
--
Phil Geiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Moving /usr to separate partition.
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:33:27 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Initially, I had 720M dedicated to the root parition in Linux, and an
80M swap file. Turns out this is way small for the stuff I wanted to
install, so I shrank my Win98 parition freeing up 1.3G, set it up,
formatted, mounted as /usr2 so no problem there.
What I did was 'cp -dpR /usr /usr2' (which turns out I made a
subdirectory in the nature of /usr2/usr/* but I moved them back out) and
as far as I can tell all permissions and ownerships were preserved.
So I renamed /usr /usr3, changed /ect/fstab to reflect the new /usr
partition mounted on /usr, now the system uses the new parition for
/usr, no problem.
Just wanted to make *real* sure that everything should be okay with the
method I used before I rm -R /usr2.
I did a du -s on both partitions, coming up with the same bytes, but
permissions I am more scared of.. (hehe, first time I tried it I didn't
put in the d flag in cp, that was ugly.. :)
I had to delete /usr2/doc because I was at 100% capacity, and I figured
that was a quick way to free up some non-critical space, other than that
it's as it was then. I'm sure the current /usr has changed a bit.
Anyway, if 'cp -dpR' is acceptable I'd appreciate the thumbs-up so I can
free up the rest of my disk space.. :) (And yes, a 720M root parition
is huge, hopefully I can get a BIG drive before I start running out of
space again and I can do the partitions *right* this time..)
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by RedHat 6.0
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From: "Art S. Kagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RAID 1 setup
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:03:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Al Nios wrote:
>
> I'm trying to implement a RAID 1 (software) using linux 2.2.5 - I've read
> all the relevant FAQs.
> I've created two partitions /usr and /usr2 on different disks and would like
> to mirror them. When I follow the instructions (mkraid /dev/md0) in the new
> software FAQ, I get a "device is busy" error and I cannot umount the
> partition. If there a way (and is it a good idea) to create the raid before
> the devices are mounted?
Yes. You mirror the disk partitions (unmounted) then create the
filesystem on the mirror device (/dev/md0) and mount that.
Art S. Kagel
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From: "Kemal E. Tepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Gigabyte 6BXC problem
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 11:40:48 -0400
Hi Folks,
I recently purchased A Gigabyte GA-6BXC motherboard with Celeron 400 and
64 MB PC100 SDRAM. I am running this with 66 MHz bus speed since system
does not boot at 100 MHz bus speed.
The problem occurs when I try to compile some large programs such as the
compiler egcs-1.1.2, or gcc-2.8.1 with this system, the current compiler
gives FATAL SIGNAL 11 error and stops. But the same system compiles
kernel, 2.2.9 and some small C programs without a problem.
The current compiler is 2.7.2.1 and I am using it with my K6-300 system
and K6 system compiled gcc-2.8.1 without a problem. This eliminates a bug
in the compiler. So the only cause for SIGNAL 11 is hardware.
But I could not locate the source of the problem exactly,
Do you have any ideas in order to fix the problem ?
Can running PC100 SDRAMs at 66 MHZ bus speed create a problem ?
Thanks you for any reply in advance.
Kemal E. Tepe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark J. Tilford)
Subject: Suppressing Screensaver
Date: 1 Jun 1999 13:46:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The act of moving the mouse or pressing a key will cause the screensave to
wait a little longer before activating. Does anybody know how to set
things so that using the joystick also suppresses the screensaver?
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=======================
Mark Jeffrey Tilford
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TurkBear)
Subject: Re: Moving files from Win95 to Linux
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:48:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If your Linux can read the Zip disk, there should be no problem
with the method you want to use...
Be sure it is a binary download................
I D/L to my NT workstation and then FTP the file(s) to my Linux box with no
problems ( I just like the NT clients web client and its extra memory ) , so the
client that gets the file seems to be immaterial
Hope all goes well...
John Greco
Jay Bigelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'd like to download Star Office 5.1 at work (T-1 connection) rather
>than downloading it over my dial-up connection at home and transport it
>on a Zip disk. The machine I'd use at work is a Win95 box and I'd be
>loading it at home on SuSE Linux 6.0. What's the best way to do this?
>Sorry if this has been answered already.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD-R SCSI HELP, please
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:14:53 GMT
In article <7iva15$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>I have a cd/r to scsi question. I am new to Linux. Yet I wonder how I can
>mount my scsi Smart&Friendly to read files. I just can't figure out what dev
>to use. Perhaps somebody can give me an advice. Do I have to create a link
>to the dev? What' s the syntax? The scsi driver is loaded, xcdroast
>recognizes the cd/r. My EIDE cdrom mounts just fine.
>
>I am running RH 5.2, Kernel 2.0.36, AMD 400 Mhz, 192 M RAM, AHA1510 SCSI
>Card (don't laugh, my HP Scanner works just fine with it)
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>
In case no one comes up with a better answer, I mount SCSI
CD/R with the command ' mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom '. I don't know how
I learned to do that, maybe from trial and error after doing an
ls /dev/sc*.
--
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("Moreover, I maintain that Microsoft should not be used." A toned down
adaptation of a sig from Cato the Elder regarding the city of Carthage.
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Respawning too quickly
Date: 01 Jun 1999 12:55:18 -0400
David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've added a program to inittab that should respawn in runlevel 2:
>
> bm:2:respawn:/bin/bam
>
> However, I get an error message on boot:
> bam respawning too quickly, disabling for 5 minutes
> (or something like that)
>
> Then, 5 minutes later, it does it again. 5 minutes later: again, etc.
>
> Why is this happening, and how do I fix it? I need this program to start on
> boot. Thanks for the help.
It's merely telling you that /bin/bam is crashing/exiting as soon as it
starts. Try running /bin/bam from the command line. If it works there,
try re-creating the environment that init runs under, with whatever PATH
and tty settings init uses.
-Tom
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From: David L. Bilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Respawning too quickly
Date: 1 Jun 1999 17:23:02 GMT
+-----On 01 Jun 1999 12:55:18 -0400, Tom Fawcett spoke unto us:----------
[snip]
| > However, I get an error message on boot:
| > bam respawning too quickly, disabling for 5 minutes
| > (or something like that)
[snip]
| > Why is this happening, and how do I fix it? I need this program to start on
| > boot. Thanks for the help.
| It's merely telling you that /bin/bam is crashing/exiting as soon as it
| starts. Try running /bin/bam from the command line. If it works there,
| try re-creating the environment that init runs under, with whatever PATH
| and tty settings init uses.
Thanks for the help, I'll try that when I get home.
David Bilbey
--
"If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to
lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that
much." --Jack Handey
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From: azfar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Specialix Serial Board on Linux 2.2.9?
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 22:44:40 -0800
I was told that 2.0.36+ kernels support Specialix Multiport
Serial Boards. I ran make menuconfig in 2.2.9 [the latest
stable] and tried to find its driver but failed. How can I
use this board [8-ports] on Redhat 5.2 kernel 2.2.9?
Thanks.
--
Azfar Kazmi
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From: Dinesh Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:11:47 +0800
Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> writing is causing a slowdown. The sync vs. async setting would
> be more directly involved in write timing.
arent modtimes written to disk if noatime is _not_ specified ?
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From: Randy Olinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Communism dosn't even exist, never did...
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:36:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Taxes already produce free software. Or do you think the
FSF (Free Software Foundation) was supported in full by
private donations?
Not that I mind, GNU software is the best.
Randy
witra wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve) wrote:
> >If IBM wanted a tax on all personal computers to make up for piracy
> >and infringed copyrights, chances are quite good they would be able to
> >push it through.
>
> Leaving aside the question of whether they could or could not do it,
> they would not. It's one step too close to using those tax to finance
> free software. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Lanning)
Subject: swapon: operation not permitted by device
Date: 1 Jun 1999 17:35:40 GMT
Hi, can someone with advanced "swap enabling" experience please
help me?
Here is my analysis so far:
I installed Red Hat 5.1 on my 486 machine, 2.1 GB hard drive.
During bootup, I saw "swapon: operation not supported by device", so
I used 'free' and 'cat /proc/meminfo' to see
Swap: 0 0 0
so swap isn't on, apparently. My swap partition was formatted during
installation as /dev/hda7. Using 'fdisk', I saw that /dev/hda7 is
in an extended partition, 64 MB in size; however, I saw an example
with /dev/hda8 in the Red Hat 5.1 installation guide, so I don't
think being an extended partition is a problem.
I tried 'swapon /dev/hda7', and swapon emitted "operation not
permitted by device". I tried 'mkswap /dev/hda7', and mkswap emitted
something like "partition must be greater than 40 KB". I tried
'mkswap /dev/hda7 65992', and mkswap emitted "unable to write
signature page". I thought maybe I should leave some space for the
signature page, so I tried 64968 but got the same result (probably
that was stupid anyway).
I read swapon and mkswap manpages, but they are minimal. I tried to
find a swapon-HOWTO, but I found (linked from Linux-FAQ 3.12) only
an unmaintained mini-HOWTO which only describes sharing swap between
with Windows. Linux-FAQ question 4.6 "My swap area isn't working"
describes things I've already tried. If someone has a link to
appropriate documentation, a solution, or even an educated guess,
could you pass it along? Thanks. --Scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otavio Exel)
Subject: syntax of cron commands
Date: 1 Jun 1999 13:09:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello all,
I have a mailbox that I'd like to keep in separate 'per month' files; so
I have this line in my personal crontab:
1 0 1 * * mv mailbox mailbox.$(date "+%Y%m" --date "last month")
looks like there is a quote-related problem going on! I have tried with
single and double quotes but I always get an error message by mail like
that:
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/username>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=username>
>
> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"'
> /bin/sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
any clues?
TIA!
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From: Barry Hamill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hot Horny Young Teen
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:34:21 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what version are they running?
--
barry hamill
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From: Andy Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About RealPlayer G2...
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:39:57 +0100
Jim wrote:
>
> > Thanks guys. G2 now works. The linux-base-5.2 update solved the problem.
> > It includes a fix for chrooted files which was the problem. That url is
> > now part of my bookmarks. It contains some
> > nice current info for Linux emulation.
>
> I folloxed along on this thread, and I have had about half good luck. I
> can run the Linux G2 player, yet all I get from my speakers is static.
> The old player would work fine, but this one just does not want to work.
> The video displays as well. Anyone know where I should look on this one?
I can't get any sound at all out of the RealPlayer G2 alpha.
It loads OK (I had to spoof the registration though as it
kept complaining of errors in the regional data when I said
I was in the UK), but I can't get any sound. Ideas?
Andy
--
Andy Piper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fareham, Hampshire
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Subject: Re: Can I use RPM in Slackware?
Date: 1 Jun 1999 17:19:20 GMT
Beed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi
:
: I downloaded RPM Software and installed it. everything went
: fine. but, When I tried to installed a software with RPM extension, I
: always got a message saying that there file can't be found? anyone has
: any ideas as to why this is happening? Thank you in advance.
:
There's a program called `rpm2targz' that comes with Slackware
that you can use to convert the RPM to a tarball. You can then
use pkgtool to install the tarball. It's probably not ideal,
but is better than nothing if the rpm executable route fails.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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