Linux-Misc Digest #922, Volume #24 Sun, 25 Jun 00 09:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: repeated hangs with strange kernel messages (fred smith)
[JOB] Debian installer needed near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape & Video (Thomas Weinbrenner)
Re: How to speed up Netscape under Linux? (alan)
Just a little drawing heralding the arrival of Windows ME *shudder* - dclareg032.jpg
(0/1) (Dwayne)
Re: Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse (David Efflandt)
Re: CD burning software (besides cdrecord)! (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Who is loading the system and why? ("David ..")
Re: gcc-2.95.2 rpm? Where? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: linux as a client :-( (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Netscape & Video (Thierry Cornelis)
RE: Setting console fonts... (Uncle Meat)
Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver (herman dumont)
Re: cant install prog because outdated libraries ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Just a little drawing heralding the arrival of Windows ME *shudder* -
dclareg032.jpg (0/1) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Any recommendations for distributions? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setting console fonts... (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: getting rid of Linux (Andrew Purugganan)
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From: fred smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: repeated hangs with strange kernel messages
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 18:57:15 GMT
Michal Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi all,
: For quite a while already, I have been struggling with repeated hangs
: of a machine working in a remote observing site (Chile), causing
: lot of troubles to the observers, not all of which are Linux experts.
: And, of course, whenever I am there, it usually works flawlessly ;-))
Of course! Isn't that normal? :^)
<snip>
: Lately we attached a monitor in order to try to trace down the crashes,
: as it never logs anything in any of system log files. When it crashed
: yesterday, the monitor was showing kernel panic messages, many hex
: numbers (probably processor and stack dumps) and two following textual
: messages:
: Attempt to kill idle task
: In interrupted handler not syncing
: I have no idea what this could mean. Any hints helping to debug these
: strange hangs would be greatly appreciated.
I'm no crash-diagnosing-whiz,... but FWIW my guess would be that those
two messages are not the orignal cause of the failure, but some sort
of cascading error that occurred well after the original error.
Have you run hardware diagnostics? I don't know of any good OSS diags
EXCEPT for a good RAM diagnostic: MEMTEST86, which you can get from:
http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86
It may be worthwhile to boot up that diagnostic and let it run overnight
some night when you can spare the machine.
Good luck!
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---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------
"For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his
glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior
be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before
all ages, now and forevermore! Amen."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: [JOB] Debian installer needed near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Date: 25 Jun 2000 03:59:08 -0400
We have need of a person who can install Debian on an IBM Aptiva peecee.
This is a one shot install. The peecee is in a place called something like
"Hollywood", which is near Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Thanks!
Old News Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Thomas Weinbrenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Netscape & Video
Date: 25 Jun 2000 09:58:50 +0200
Reply-To: Thomas Weinbrenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thierry Cornelis wrote:
>
> > What do you use to view .mpg? I have no problem with 'mtv' and 'plugger
> > 3.0' as a plugin for netscape.
>
> Where does one get these plug-ins?
http://www.hubbe.net/~hubbe/plugger.html
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Thomas Weinbrenner
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From: alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to speed up Netscape under Linux?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 08:30:23 GMT
Charles Philip Chan wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Hal" == Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:06:10 -0230, Hendrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >> I really hate to admitt this, but he's right....!!! I find
> >> that I am running at half speed compared to that of my Windows
> >> operation.... Is the bottleneck in Linux or Netscape.....???
> >> I think the Linux version of Netscape isn't using it's caching
> >> option effectively... Anyone else having problems like
> >> this...???????
>
> > NS is a red herring. Optimize your serial port and pppd.
>
> I have been using a program called irqtune for the past few years to
> reprioritise the irq's to make internet connections faster. It has
> worked quite well for me. Do a search on freshmeat.
>
> Charles
>
Optimize your serial port and pppd; how?
-Alan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dwayne)
Subject: Just a little drawing heralding the arrival of Windows ME *shudder* -
dclareg032.jpg (0/1)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 08:51:51 GMT
Feel free to use it or pass it around but please let me know if you
want to modify it or use it on your homepage.
Dwayne
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse
Date: 25 Jun 2000 09:30:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Charles Tryon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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What's with all the html posting lately. Please use plain text.
>I've been running the Linux version of Quake2 for a while, using a serial
>mouse. I just upgraded to another motherboard with a PS/2 mouse. I got
>Linux and X11 to recognize the new mouse, but Quake freaks out - as if it's
>getting a continuous stream of negative coordinates or something. What do
>I need to change in the configuration (or drivers) to get Quake to work?
Quake uses svgalib for the mouse, not gpm. In fact I heard that it is
best to killall gpm before running quake (I used a script to do that, run
q2 and then restart gpm when quitting).
But the problem is that you need to change your mouse in
/etc/vga/libvga.config from 'mouse Microsoft' to 'mouse PS2'. As you
found out, your ammo disappears rather quickly otherwise.
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http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: CD burning software (besides cdrecord)!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:53:29 GMT
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:10:47 +1000, Matthew Lee wrote:
> Try XCDroast attached.
[zlatko@sphere]:~$ echo "comp.os.linux.misc" | grep binary
[zlatko@sphere]:~$
Does that ring a bell? Please stop spamming this group with binary
attachments. These .RPMs are available all over the net, just post
a URL next time.
Some people these days ...
Thoma
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Who is loading the system and why?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 01:42:13 -0500
David Steuber wrote:
>
> My load average is higher than it should be, and I don't know why.
> Can someone give me a clue from this snapshot of top?
>
> 1:08am up 1:40, 3 users, load average: 1.07, 1.03, 1.01
> 49 processes: 48 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 2.7% user, 1.3% system, 0.0% nice, 96.2% idle
> Mem: 127932K av, 123704K used, 4228K free, 47972K shrd, 55456K buff
> Swap: 136072K av, 640K used, 135432K free 21616K cached
Why do you think it is being loaded?
You show a load average of 1.07, 1.03, 1.01 and 96.2% idle
49 processes and 48 of those are sleeping
If you are looking at the memory line? Linux will use memory as cache
which is normal.
If you want to see what kind of load linux will take? Try running a
bunch of seti@home work units. I had 24 running at one time just to see
if it would do it. It never complained or crashed and I still had the
power to run a webserver, mail server, proxy server, junkbuster,
firewall and a few other things and surf the web all at the same time
with about a 15% load average. It was a little bit slower but it didn't
have any trouble. Though I only run 2 of them 24/7 now.
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.2 rpm? Where?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:10:49 GMT
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ' there's also the problem of getting the half dozen or so incompatible
> ' libstdc++ versions from each and every possible version of gcc/egcs.
>
> That doesn't seem to be such a problem when you compile your programs
> from source.
well, to get these libstdc+++, you are going to have to download,
compile and install each and every one of those versions of gcc/egcs.
even if you didn't want that particular compiler.
> With RPM or DEB packages, I could see that being a real problem. By
> default, the build of GCC will produce versioned libstdc++ files. I
> sure would hate to maintain RPMs for all those permutations out
> there...
the libstdc++ rpm is accumulationg the "compatibility" libraries in
binary form.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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Subject: Re: linux as a client :-(
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:13:56 GMT
Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > 1. Are there any plans for making software just as easy to install
> > as in Windows? RPM and DEB packages are a start, but these seem
> > to be distribution specific. I long for the day when all software
> > and drivers will be as simple as double-clicking on setup.exe
>
> Blame RH for properiety extensions.
rpm isn't proprietary. rpm is released under GPL. in fact, many
distributions use it. you can hate it if you like, but at least get
your definitions straight.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Thierry Cornelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Netscape & Video
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:05:44 +0200
Craig McCluskey wrote:
>
> Thierry Cornelis wrote:
>
> > What do you use to view .mpg? I have no problem with 'mtv' and 'plugger
> > 3.0' as a plugin for netscape.
>
> Where does one get these plug-ins?
>
> Craig
Only Plugger is a plug-in.
Thierry
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From: Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: RE: Setting console fonts...
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 06:22:33 -0500 (CDT)
On 25-Jun-2000 Hendrix opined:
> Hi guys,
>
> How can I set the font size for my console...!!! I used to do it in DOS
> with the 'mode' command... Any such command, utility, or setting to use
> for linux... Thanks,
A 'vga=<some_number>' line in lilo.conf is what I use. If there're others,
I dunno.
--
I believe the technical term is "Oops!"
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From: herman dumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:28:30 +0200
Floris Hammer wrote:
>
> I forgot to tell that if I run the 'install.sh' script from the src
> directory of the kernel driver before starting x, everything works fine.
>
> I tried doing cat /proc/pci and found out that my soundcard and NVdriver
> were on the same irq, so I removed my sound from the kernel, but that
> didn't work...
>
> any other ideas?
>
> Conan wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I've got the same problem with my geforce card. After many e-mails
> > with [EMAIL PROTECTED], it turned out to be an IRQ conflict. With me
> > - it was the HISAX driver who could not share IRQ. Do a "cat
> > /proc/pci" and check out who shares resources.
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:05:19 +0200, "FROZEN_Steam"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I've installed Nidia's driver for my tnt2 ultra card. When I attempt to
> > >start X, the screen gets black and the system doesn't react to anything. The
> > >only way to get out of this is by restarting with ctrl-alt-del...
> > >
> > >I've already put 'char-major-195 NVdriver' in /etc/conf.modules, but it
> > >still doesn't work.
> > >
> > >Can anyone help?
> > >
> > >thanx,
> > >Floris
> > >
> > >
Hi,
try this one:
in XFConfig put in Section Screen:
Option "NvAgp" "0"
HTH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cant install prog because outdated libraries
Date: 25 Jun 2000 10:32:43 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Matthew Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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> The best thing to do is install the latest versions attached. You can find libc
> here:
> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contirb/libc5/i386/libc-5.4.46-1rh42.i386.rpm
> Mal wrote:
Hay fuckwit don't post binaries to these newsgroups.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Just a little drawing heralding the arrival of Windows ME *shudder* -
dclareg032.jpg (0/1)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:45:47 +0100
Dwayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Feel free to use it or pass it around but please let me know if you
> want to modify it or use it on your homepage.
Eh? What *are* you talking about...
Looks at the subject line...
Ah....
That explains it then.... A Binary... Was it you who posted it? If so, are
you thick? Stupid? Or just ill-informed?
> Dwayne
Dwayne Dibley perhaps?
I'll reiterate, AGAIN...
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| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| in |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any recommendations for distributions?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:53:35 +0100
Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Hello!
> I am a C programmer looking for a stable and proven Linux distribution
> that will meet my needs. It needs to have gcc & etc., web server, news
> server, email server, ftp server, web browser, networking utitlities, X
> window system, Perl, PPP, multi-user, multi-tty, boot-loader that will
> let me choose to boot in Win95 or Linux, and it doesn't have to be very
> user-friendly.
You've just about described every distribution (apart from the mini ones)
out there...
> Any recommendations? I'm leaning towards Slackware 7.0 right now, but I
> want to be sure it will not be like the RedHat 5.0 distribution that I
> bought a few years ago (it had so many problems, I found it to be a
> waste of money and completely useless).
Red Hat is up to 6.2 now... All the distributions are very different now
from how they were back in 1998. Red HAt do have a bit of a reputation for
trying to get things out quickly without proper testing, and the general
consensus is to not buy Red Hat x.0 or x.1 (the problems are usually fixed
by x.2).
> Also, can anyone point me to a good, comlete list of drivers for any
> Linux distribution?
There is a Hardware compatibility list out there somewhere, if that's what
you want... Linux tends not to have "drivers" in the windows sense, instead
it has Kernel modules....
Can't remember where the list is though, sorry.
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| | graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit |
|Andrew Halliwell BSc(hons)| operating system originally coded for a 4 bit |
| in |microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that|
| Computer Science | can't stand 1 bit of competition. |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Setting console fonts...
Date: 25 Jun 2000 12:07:25 GMT
Uncle Meat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ On 25-Jun-2000 Hendrix opined:
[ > Hi guys,
[ >
[ > How can I set the font size for my console...!!! I used to do it in DOS
[ > with the 'mode' command... Any such command, utility, or setting to use
[ > for linux... Thanks,
[ A 'vga=<some_number>' line in lilo.conf is what I use. If there're others,
[ I dunno.
you could also put vga=ask in /etc/lilo.conf to see the choices available
Dont forget to run 'lilo' after putting the line in, and dont go to get
coffee while the machine is booting, cos u will be prompted to make a choice
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jazz annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org
Registered linux user no. 164098
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: getting rid of Linux
Date: 25 Jun 2000 12:11:25 GMT
Harlan Grove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ >How on earth do I get Linux OFF my computer?
[ Pass your harddisk through a strong magnetic field. That'll do it.
</grin> Sulu, impulse power. Take her in slowly...
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Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
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