Linux-Misc Digest #956, Volume #25 Fri, 6 Oct 00 05:13:03 EDT
Contents:
LM 7.1 rookie with a laptop/CD problem (cnm)
LNe100Tx 4.1 with corel linux (Balsu)
Re: Best Linux? (Richard Steiner)
Re: KDE Interface v Microsoft Windows (Richard Steiner)
Re: lp port hacking (Lew Pitcher)
www doesn't look nice (dick dijk)
Re: Inkjet Printer CYMK Colorspace Correction (Tom van Rijswijk)
Re: Changing Hostname differnces between LinuxConf and NetCfg (Villy Kruse)
Re: Get rid of localhost? (Villy Kruse)
Re: getting rid of mingetty (Villy Kruse)
Re: problem installing rpm >3 (Villy Kruse)
Re: KDE Interface v Microsoft Windows (Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmer?=)
Re: silly lpd (Christoph Kukulies)
Fetchmail suddenly running very slow (Anthony Campbell)
Re: www doesn't look nice ("David ..")
Re: Problem backing up hard drive onto CDR's (James Pearson)
Re: Procomm-like comm package? ("Techtonik")
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From: cnm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LM 7.1 rookie with a laptop/CD problem
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 05:30:03 -0000
I followed the instructions, downladed the ISO files, made the 2 CD's and
the installation went smoothly through the first CD. However when it
tells me to put in the second CD in and press OK, I run into trouble...
first of all the CD drawer won't open..... no probem, I just use the
paperclip to open it up. I put the second CD in and he laptop won't read
it. I click OK.. no luck. The CD spools up, but the little CD LCD
indicator won't indicate the CD activity.
If there were a xterm/command prompt somewhere I could get to, I think I
would be in business, but in GUI land there I can't find any untried
options.
(gateway 2500 or so, fixed CD and floppy, pII233, 32MB)
anyone have similar difficulties or ideas?
thanks.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Balsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LNe100Tx 4.1 with corel linux
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 05:30:05 -0000
Hi
I recently bought a linksys lne100tx version 4.1 network card. I'm having
big
problems trying to get it work. My computer has two network cards 3com
3c509x on eth0 and linksys (tulip.o ) on eth1. I tried to probe the card
with modprobe tulip.o and i get device or resource busy error. I tried to
compile the new tulip.c file (v 0.92) for scyld.com with the necessary
pciscan.c and other files now the error is very big and starts with " In
file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:37 from tulip.c:143 /usr
include/asm/string.h:39:parse error before `size_t`". Then the error goes
for close to two pages. I did download the files under linux.
I would really appreciate any help provided
Balsu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: Best Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 00:36:43 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, Glen Stromquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>After a bad experience with installing Corel linux, (it over wrote my
>WIN 98 partition on my C: drive even though I pointed it to install on
>the D: drive) I plan on re installing linux - again on it's own
>separate physical drive with a dual boot option... the things I am
>taking in to consideration are:
>
>1. which one has the best GUI
Most distributions come with XFree86 (on which you can install almost
any window manager or desktop you want), and most come with KDE now.
I rather like Mandrake 6.1 myself. Older, yes, but it works for me.
>2. best dual boot capability (I may just use XOSL)
LILO is LILO the workd over.
>3. best for accessing WINxx data
This is normally a kernel function, meaning most new distros are close
to equivalent when it comes to reading WinXX filesystems.
>4. free version
Red Hat, Slackware, Mandrake, Storm, Debian, and many others have a
free variant.
>5. best application suite available
I like StarOffice, but it's top-heavy.
>I've heard SuSE is a very good product - but I know very little about
>all of the different "flavours" out there.
I used SuSE, but I prefer Linuxconf to SuSE's configuration tool.
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Misspelled? Impossible. My modem is error correcting.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: KDE Interface v Microsoft Windows
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 00:40:39 -0500
Here in comp.os.linux.misc, derbhil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>Which is better, the KDE or the Microsoft Windows interface,
The OS/2 WorkPlace Shell, actually. ;-)
>where would I find material from which to research this question more
>thoroughly????
Since UI preferences tend to be fairly subjective in nature, I think
I'd suggest installing both Windows and Linux+KDE on a machine of your
own and using them both yourself.
That way you won't be dependent on hearsay. :-)
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
Error finding COLDBEER.CAN - Programmer not loaded!
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lp port hacking
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 21:17:39 -0400
Natanael wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Is it possible to et up the /etc/printcap file so that a
> echo "A" > /dev/lp1
>
> is the same as doing a
> outb('A', 0x378);
> in C program?
/dev/lp1 is not managed by /etc/printcap, but is instead the direct
equvalent of the MSDOS LPT1: device. /etc/printcap is a configuration
file used by a program called lpd. lpd reads print data from file
(where it was stored by the lp program), and writes it to /dev/lp1.
echo "A" >/dev/lp1
will write an 'A' character and a newline character (0x0a) to the
device called /dev/lp1
Your C code cannot be reproduced in userspace programs; the equivalent
of outb() is reserved for device drivers. However, you _can_ open
/dev/lpt1 in a program (after all, lpd does it), and write directly to
it.
The code fragment...
{
int fd;
if ((fd = open("/dev/lp1",O_WRONLY)) != -1)
{
write(fd,"A",1);
close(fd);
}
}
would be how you would write directly to the printer port.
> I would love to maipulate the pin's on the lp port directly from a
> bash script
echo -n 'some text' >/dev/lp1
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 10:36:33 +0200
From: dick dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: www doesn't look nice
WWW on linux doesn't look good because all the time the same font is
used for text. Does amyone know howto configure the browser to show the
right fonts?
Dick
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From: Tom van Rijswijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sci.engr.color,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Inkjet Printer CYMK Colorspace Correction
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 08:57:39 +0200
Kevin,
what scanner and monitor do you use? Both influence the colors when you compare
them on screen.
Also the gamut of the monitor and the printer don't match so you will always have
some colors that can't be displayed on both.
But I think you should take another look at what you're scanner is doing... On my
monitor (Iiyama VisionMaster 400; color temperature 6500K) the scanned image is
much darker and more blue than the digital photo.
How does the picture on your monitor compare to the print (without the scanner)?
succes
Tom
Kevin Adams wrote:
> [View this message in a fixed-width/monospace font like Courier for best
> results.]
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to get the color output from my inkjet printer (an Epson Stylus
> COLOR 600) to match as closely as possible the images I view on my screen under
> Linux. I am looking for advice on whether to increase or decrease the amount
> of Cyan, Yellow, Magenta, and/or Black ink used by my printer.
>
> For Linux people, I am using the following:
>
> SuSE Linux 6.4
> GhostScript 5.5
> Uniprint Driver for Stylus COLOR 600
> (stc600p.upp - 720dpi x 720dpi Plain Paper)
>
> Also for Linux people, here are the colorspace entries from my stc600p.upp
> file:
>
> -dupBlackTransfer="{ 0.0000 0.0329 0.0706 0.1160 0.2392 0.7955 }"
> -dupCyanTransfer="{ 0.0000 0.0602 0.1133 0.1961 0.2945 0.3885 }"
> -dupMagentaTransfer="{ 0.0000 0.0602 0.1113 0.1617 0.1987 0.2328 }"
> -dupYellowTransfer="{ 0.0000 0.0350 0.0914 0.1567 0.2430 0.2934 }"
>
> For Engineering/Physics/Colorspace people:
>
> The table above indicates the relative amount of ink that should be deposited
> on the page for a given pixel, for each color in the CYMK colorspace.
>
> As far as I understand, the driver handles 32 levels of saturation (5-bits,
> binary) for each color represented in the table. Highest-order bit is the
> column to the far right; lowest-order bit is the second column from the left.
> The "zero" column has a function that I personally have not determined... (If
> anyone would like to correct me or elaborate, please do - I am very much still
> a novice at this.)
>
> Below are links to two sets of pictures. Each set contains the following:
>
> A.) A digital photograph (the "control" image).
> B.) A scan of the photograph as printed from my Stylus COLOR 600.
>
> I have attempted to make the scans (of the printed images) match the printed
> images as closely as possible, without adjusting the brightness, contrast, or
> colorspace of my computer monitor. This is so people can make accurate
> analyses and recommendations.
>
> Set #1:
>
> 1A.) Source Photograph (Control Image):
> http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/processor-on-board.jpg
>
> 1B.) Printed Photograph (Scanned Image):
> http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/processor-on-board-print.jpg
>
> Set #2:
>
> 2A.) Source Photograph (Control Image):
> http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/parts-layout.jpg
>
> 2B.) Printed Photograph (Scanned Image):
> http://www.netdotcom.com/kadams/photo/parts-layout-print.jpg
>
> I realize that by using a 5-bit CYMK color driver, and printing on plain,
> uncoated, white inkjet paper, I am going to lose some ability to accurately
> represent the image I am attempting to print - especially things like lens
> flare, sparkle, metallic luster, etc....
>
> But I would at least like the overall color (or more appropriately, hue and
> saturation) to be accurately rendered.
>
> Any help or advice would be much appreciated! Thanks in Advance...
>
> Best Regards,
> Kevin Adams
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Changing Hostname differnces between LinuxConf and NetCfg
Date: 6 Oct 2000 07:03:56 GMT
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 03:38:21 +0000 (UTC),
David Efflandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:51:20 GMT, Phil Hedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>How can I change the hostname on the fly ?
>>
>>Currently I'm changing the files:-
>>/etc/sysconfig/network
>>/proc/sys/kernel/hostname
>>
>>I 've noticed LinuxConf and NetCfg both do things differently. Which is
>>correct ?
>
>You could use the 'hostname' command to change it temporarily, but if you
>are in X, things in X may stop working if you have not enabled that xhost.
>
And you change /etc/sysconfig/network for the hostname to change after
the next reboot. It won't affect a running system.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Get rid of localhost?
Date: 6 Oct 2000 07:07:04 GMT
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 14:37:03 GMT, David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, you could run Slackware. It lets you control your box.
>:-)
Or you can run xxxx and it lets you control your box.
Replace xxxx with Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, Redhat, Caldera, or any
other name you could think of.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: getting rid of mingetty
Date: 6 Oct 2000 07:11:33 GMT
On 6 Oct 2000 01:41:07 GMT, Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Note that if you really want to get rid of them, go to
>/etc/inittab, and comment out the lines where they are started.
>
>
A real radical solution would be to add
append = "init=/bin/sh" to lilo and you don't get any init, no getty,
no login, no rc scripts, no network setup, just a bare bashprompt.
Wouldn't recommend this, though.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: problem installing rpm >3
Date: 6 Oct 2000 07:16:57 GMT
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 20:52:55 -0700, MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Don't know why the 4.0 version doesn't work, but 3.0.5 will. I read
>somewhere that it isn't recommended to upgrade to to 4.0 from any
>version earlier than 3.0.5.
You need 3.0.5 to decode the rpm file for release 4.0. The 3.0.5
version was specifically built for RH6.x and RH5.x for this purpose
and is available from the redhat update collection.
The alternative way is to do a full RH7.0 upgrade.
Villy
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From: Markus =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6hmer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE Interface v Microsoft Windows
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 09:28:21 +0200
>
> The OS/2 WorkPlace Shell, actually. ;-)
>
Well, you're right. It's a bad thing, that there are no other operating
systems which have such a great gui like OS/2.
I always liked to use it and it had many great features.
But for me this is past. Now I'm using linux. Never liked windows.
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Markus Boehmer
Systemadministrator & Datenbankentwickler
SSI Schaefer Shop GmbH
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From: Christoph Kukulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: silly lpd
Date: 6 Oct 2000 08:05:09 GMT
Debian User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Well, it's been like 5 months since i last bothered with
: this, but now that i'm going back to school, i find myself
: needing to print more often and i've recently been giving
: this unix printing thing another shot. i'm running a
: debian/linux system, here's my status:
: cat asdlfkhasdf >/dev/lp0
: works. i got that far.
: killall lpd
: lpd &
: started fresh lpd process
: /var/log# lpr ~/.bashrc
: /var/log# lpq
: no entries
: well hey- it doesn't seem to be even putting the print
: process in the que! weird.. and my syslog happily tells me:
: Sep 25 21:24:03 bitch lpd[1951]: cannot execv /var/lib/\
: apsfilter/filter/aps-hpdj_540-letter-auto-mono
: Sep 25 21:24:03 bitch lpd[1950]: lp: job could not be printed (cfA011bitch)
Have you checked that:
/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-hpdj_540-letter-auto-mono
exists and is executable? (rwx-r-xr-x)
: I have an HP Deskjet 540, I'm trying to run ghostscript and
: apsfilter together. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
: Thanks. Oh- and here's my /etc/printcap:
: # LABEL apsfilter
: # apsfilter setup Sun Jul 2 21:51:03 EST 2000
: #
: #
: ascii|lp1|hpdj_540-letter-ascii-mono|hpdj_540 ascii mono:\
: :lp=/dev/lp0:\
: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-letter-ascii-mono:\
: :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-letter-ascii-mono/log:\
: :af=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-letter-ascii-mono/acct:\
: :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-hpdj_540-letter-ascii-mono:\
: :mx#0:\
: :sh:
: #
: lp|lp2|hpdj_540-letter-auto-mono|hpdj_540 auto mono:\
: :lp=/dev/lp0:\
: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-letter-auto-mono:\
: :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-letter-auto-mono/log:\
: :af=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-letter-auto-mono/acct:\
: :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-hpdj_540-letter-auto-mono:\
: :mx#0:\
: :sh:
: #
: raw|lp3|hpdj_540-letter-raw|hpdj_540 auto raw:\
: :lp=/dev/lp0:\
: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-raw:\
: :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-raw/log:\
: :af=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj_540-raw/acct:\
: :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-hpdj_540-letter-raw:\
: :mx#0:\
: :sh:
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Subject: Fetchmail suddenly running very slow
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:05:59 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the last few days I have a problem with fetchmail. It has slowed down
dramatically.
At each ISP mailserver I connect to the following happens:
Fetchmail starts to read the first message and says it is rewriting
various addresses. It then hang for about 3 minutes before starting to
collect all the mail. This goes normally but the same thing happens at
the next ISP.
Using the -vv switch doesn't show any errors.
I think something must be misconfigured but what? I don't remember
changing anything.
Anthony
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: www doesn't look nice
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 03:19:18 -0500
dick dijk wrote:
>
> WWW on linux doesn't look good because all the time the same font is
> used for text. Does amyone know howto configure the browser to show the
> right fonts?
> Dick
This link should help.
http://people.redhat.com/~scoile/fonts/fixing-1.html
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From: James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem backing up hard drive onto CDR's
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 08:40:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
whippet0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to back up my hard drive onto CDR's. The problem is that I've
> got about 3 gigabytes of data on my hard drive but I don't want to
store
> the files as tar or gzip files on the CDR's. Is there any way of
making
> a backup that spans multiple 650 megabyte ISO images using mkisofs or
> some other utility?
There is something called "cddump" that may do what you want - I've
never used it, but details can be found at:
http://users.gtn.net/fraserm/cddump.html
James Pearson
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From: "Techtonik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Procomm-like comm package?
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 03:19:31 -0600
man minicom there guy....
"fred anger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8riee7$epe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone know of a communications package similar to Procomm+ for
> Linux/X? My first impressions of seyon are less than pleasing.
>
> Basically, I need software that emulates a vt100-like terminal and will
> allow me to use a serial port to connect to another (proprietary
> embedded) system, with support for zmodem file transfers.
>
> --
> fred anger
> BRING BACK DEJANEWS.COM
> 'RATE THIS' SUCKS!
>
>
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