Linux-Setup Digest #56, Volume #19 Sun, 2 Jul 00 19:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: ??perl scripts for Unix system administration ("Stig Sørensen")
Re: Font server and XFree 4.0 (Reid Rivenburgh)
Nice utility to write bootdisks in Windows 9x/NT4/2000 (nobody)
Re: Wrong major/minor number ("Andrew E. Schulman")
help!! mouse-problems ("Bart Buil")
Can't get modem detected ("Theodore J. Mooney")
Re: jumping mouse (Ruth Vance)
Re: Network printing (Andy Kinsey)
Re: resizing virtual desktop (Andy Kinsey)
Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
problems with alsa drivers and sblive ("Yaseen Dadabhay")
Re: not able to setup 3com card ("Mestre")
Re: Weird problem with Red Hat & Storm setup - text displays black on (Jim Harback)
Re: Xwindows and an ATI Rage Fury Pro (AGP) (Dan Davis)
RedHat 6.1/Win98 LILO Problem ("David Johnson")
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Cliff Pennock)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Cliff Pennock)
OpenLinux2.4 + Lucent "linmodem" problem (Allyn B. Brodsky)
Re: invalid profile in WINE (James Alan Brown)
Install OpenGL on TNT 2 (Major Easy)
Re: Wrong major/minor number (Steve Emmett)
linux tutor (need one) ("Kraylus")
Re: No Sound for XMMS or CDP (David Efflandt)
Re: Wrong major/minor number (Steve Emmett)
Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue (B'ichela)
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From: "Stig Sørensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: ??perl scripts for Unix system administration
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 22:19:16 +0200
Have you tried Webmin?
/Stig
"!! Tonnere de Brest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Are there any good web sites or ftp sites where I can find perl scripts
that do
> things like create new user accounts etc. (I would like eventually to be
able
> to make them accessible via a cgi script). Is that feasible and how safe
it
> is?
>
> Thank you very much.
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
> Thanks, Ghaouar Camij Toschian,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], 510 5408013, 2500 Durant # 310, Bk, CA 94704
> http://www.domainmart.net/InternetAccess/buildings.htm
> http://www.istanbulexpress.com/oldsite/sweetener.html
>
> Visualize that the smoke of cigarettes is unpleasant to other people.
> Visualize that peoples' civic duties do NOT include having to breathe the
> smoke from cigarettes.
> Visualize that astrologers, fortune tellers, tarot card readers, psychics
and
> palm readers are Crooks, Fools or Both.
> Visualize using the Metric System.
>
>
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From: Reid Rivenburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Font server and XFree 4.0
Date: 02 Jul 2000 14:24:49 -0600
James Franklin writes:
> I disagree with you regarding the necessity of xfs. I read your
> comment about it not being needed. Since I am the only user of my
> system, and I log in only at the computer, I appeared not to need
> xfs. I promptly removed it from startup etc, and found that my
> computer would not go into graphical mode (X) anymore. I had to
> put it back the way it was for X to start.
James,
Your X configuration was probably still set up to get its fonts from
xfs. If you had a line like this in your XF86Config file:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
and you weren't running xfs, then it would choke. You could change
the above line to something like the following instead:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
The X server would then read the fonts directly itself, including any
TrueType fonts, if you're using XFree86 4.x.
Or maybe you had some other problem that prevented it from working....
Hope that helps,
Reid
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nobody)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Nice utility to write bootdisks in Windows 9x/NT4/2000
Date: 2 Jul 2000 20:55:33 GMT
Hi all,
I just would like to let you know I found I nice utility to write bootdisks
in Windows 9x/NT4/2000. It's called 'Diskwriter' and can be
found at:
http://www.daansystems.com (at Free stuff).
N. Obody
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Wrong major/minor number
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 16:57:03 -0400
> when I execute
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> i received the error
>
> mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number.
>
> I'm assuming I've munged the floppy device and have to use MAKEDEV to
> reconstruct it. The question is how do I go about doing just that?
rm /dev/fd0
MAKEDEV fd0
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From: "Bart Buil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help!! mouse-problems
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 22:55:53 +0200
Hi,
I've installed Suse 5.3 on my pentium 75/16 mb ram. I can't get my mouse to
work in SaX (setting up X). I've found settings for a mouse in Yast, but
this also doesn't seem to work. The mouse is a two-button no-brand mouse on
serial port one, and is microsoft compatible (it does work under
windows).Can somebody tell me a succesfull way to install the mouse?
thanks, Bart
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From: "Theodore J. Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get modem detected
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 16:11:31 -0500
I installed Storm Linux 2000 Rain edition.
I couldn't get Netscape to call out, so I asked someone
here how to set up Dial-Up Networking.
That nice person said to use SAT to install it. (Thanks)
But it doesn't work. I use auto-detect to find it but it just
puts up a small window I can't get rid of and just sits there.
(I waited over a half-hour.) It says "Dialing (something or other)"
I guess I could figure out all the stuff to put in the boxes, but
there's no way to tell it the com and irq number it's on to
find it.
It's not a major brand modem (Jaton, 56k) and it's in an ISA
slot. I have the CD that came with it with drivers for Windows
but that's all the drivers that are on there.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruth Vance)
Subject: Re: jumping mouse
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:21:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kristinn R. Kristinsson) wrote in
<8j7enj$4jn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>This sounds like a classic case of the Battle of the Buttons (tada!)
>
>On a more serious note, this sounds to me like you have a three button
>mouse with a sliding switch somewhere on the bottom of the mouse that
>lets you choose between using 2 or 3 buttons. Either you have your mouse
>set to use 2 buttons and GPM and X to use 3 buttons, or vice versa.
>
>just my 0.0214 euros...
All three of the mice I have tried have been 2 button mice. No switches, No
fancy stuff at all. I have tired both 2 button and emulate 3 button
settings in gpm and X. No go. I also checked my irq's the sound card is on
irq 5 as it should be. I still haven't gotten around to pulling cards out.
How tedious! I am thinking of sticking in a PS2 card and running a PS2
mouse to see if that works. I'm waiting for a friend to dig up the one he
promised me. Still stuck. So far. Ruth
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From: Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network printing
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:30:03 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a Epson Laser printer on my network with IP 192.168.1.26 and the
> IP of my Red Hat Linux 6.0 machine is 192.168.1.2. So how do I print
> from this machine to the printer.
>
> I know that you may answer to use printtool but what should I select,
> ofcourse not a local printer, then a remote Unix printer or SMB/Win...
> printer. Please do try to explain assuming other parameters. I would be
> very greatful since I require it very desparately.
>
> Customised configuration links can be given but nothing like your
> explanation.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
You didn't specify what type of print server you are using, or if lpd is
installed and running. I am going to assume you have lpd up and running,
and you have a UNIX-compatible TCP/IP print server that the printer is
connected to:
While in Printtool, click "Add"
For printer type, click "Remote Unix (lpd) Queue"
Assuming this is the first printer being set up, add the following:
Name: lp0
Spool directory: /var/spool/lpd/lp0
File limit: 0
Remote Host: 192.168.1.26
Remote Queue: RAW (In my case this HAD to be in all capital
letters...)
Select your printer in the input filter. While in the filter
selection, check "Fix stair-stepping of text?"
This is how I set up my Laserjet III, which is connected to an
HP jetdirect EX Plus print server. I also have a Milan Fastport 3100 print
server that works the same way.
Let me know how you make out.
Regards,
Andy
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From: Andy Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: resizing virtual desktop
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:35:39 +0000
rob wrote:
> How do you start gnome without being in a virtual desktop? When gnome
> starts, everything is so big as to be unusable. I looked at my xf86config
> file, and the virtual line seems to be commented out. I would like to use a
> resolution of 1024 x 768, and am using the svga driver. rob
Rob,
I just found out how to do this myself, from the FAQ located at
www.xfree86.org. Basically you have to go to the "Screen" section of the
XF86Config file, and delete any resolution HIGHER than the 1024x768 that you
are going to use.
Hope this helps.
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems partitioning 40Gb drive w/ SuSE 6.4
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:37:07 GMT
Hopefully, some of you experienced folks can help me out.
Just so you'll know what my system is, though most of it doesn't have
to do with the problem:
K7 650Mhz processor
Abit K7V mobo
128 MB memory
SB Live Value
3dfx Voodoo3 3000
4 GB HD as the master on EIDE 1
Plexor ATAPI CD-RW as the slave on EIDE1
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB HD as the master on EIDE2.
There's Win98 on the entire HD on the first controller. On the second
drive I had partitioned out a primary DOS partition of 10 GB or about
1260 cylinders.That would put me over the 1024 cylinder LILO limit. No
problem, I just resized the DOS partition down to 7.5 GB. That placed
the upper limit of the DOS partition cylinder usage at about 950.
I then started the SuSE install. I booted Yast2 from the CD and got to
the point to where I started doling out the Linux partitions. I
decided to manually generate them. Yast2 indicated that the drive only
had 1026 cylinders on it. I thought it was just a mistake so I
continued. I decided to use 2 cylinders, 15+ MB, for /boot. Next I
selected to generate the swap partition of 128 MB and it actually got
rounded up to 133+ MB due to cylinder rounding. I adjusted the setting
back one cylinder to about 125 MB. Still looking good. Next I
attempted to build the root partition but I was stuck with a cylinder
limit of 1026. How come?
BTW, I had the same problem when I tried to use plain old Yast.
I really looking forward to getting Linux on my box so I'm looking
forward to getting this problem resolved.
Thanks,
skeeter
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From: "Yaseen Dadabhay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with alsa drivers and sblive
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:36:25 +0200
hi . i am running suse 6.4 using the 0.58 alsa drivers for my sound blaster
live and i am not able to use my gravis game pad pro which is connected to
the sblives joystick port . if i do a insmod joystick and then insmod
joy-gravis i get a resources busy eror message
however using the 0.4 creative drivers that also come installed with suse
6.4 i can use my joystick . however some of my games dont work with the
creative drivers ( flight gear and tux a quest for herrings) which just hang
when i have the creative drivers installed .
my question is : is there a way to use my gamepad using the alsa drivers and
if not is there way of making the creative drivers work with my games .
thanking you in advance
Yaseen .
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From: "Mestre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: not able to setup 3com card
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 21:50:07 GMT
Scott Brewster wrote:
>I dont know if you will find the answer here - but I have in the past when
I got the same error:
>cd to /etc/sysconfig and examine the network file. Make sure there are no
typos, etc. If all looks ok here, cd
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and examine the ifcfg-eth0 file. Again,
verify that there are no typos (mine somehow had eht0
>Hope this helps figure out your problem.
Thanks, Scott. I ended up buying another card, 3c905b, which was recognized
successfully when I reinstalled RedHat.
Regards,
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From: Jim Harback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weird problem with Red Hat & Storm setup - text displays black on
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 23:47:55 +0200
Christopher
Do a text install. When done run the following command from the
command prompt as root to set up your xwindows environment:
xf86config
The graphical installs appear to have problems with some graphics cards.
Good Luck,
Jim
Christopher Adams wrote:
> Help!
>
> I've decided to try another set of distributions in order to get a
> working Linux system. Whenever I try to install Linux in graphics
> mode, I get black text on a black background. All other icons, etc,
> seem to display properly.....
>
> What's wrong, and is there anything I can do about it? My video is
> on the motherboard, and it is a SIS 5798 (I can double check this
> later), and I have no problems with display in either the Caldera
> distribution or in Windows (aargh!) environments.
>
> I can't afford to keep playing with new distributions - I want
> something that will work! I know Linux is a great o/s - I've seen it
> in action on other computers. All I want is to get it working on my
> system. Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks....
>
> Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Davis)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Xwindows and an ATI Rage Fury Pro (AGP)
Date: 2 Jul 2000 14:38:25 -0700
You are in luck. I had the same problem (almost, 64M). Big pain in the
neck. Nothing worked, including the XFcomr_128 from Suse. Finally
found a spot in the ATI pages under developer relations.
http://www.ati.com/na/pages/resource_centre/dev_rel/OSDriver_Chart.pdf
All I ever really needed was the ChipId to set in the config
file. XF86_SVGA in RH 6.2 worked just fine after that. Well, still a
bug or two, but reasonably functional.
Buy Buy -- Dan Davis
Kirkland, Washington 425 889 8071
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone been able to get X working with an ATI Rage Fury Pro (32m
>> AGP) video card? If so, how did you do it? I've tried everthing that
>> I could think of with no luck. I'm getting a little frustrated.
>> Any/all help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> remove the obvious to email me.
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
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From: "David Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.1/Win98 LILO Problem
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:07:56 -0400
I have a Promise ATA66 card and finally was able to install RedHat 6.1 onto
my second hard drive with Win98 SE on the first.
After I had install everything onto my hard disk, I restarted my computer,
expecting to see the "LILO boot:" prompt to start either Win98SE or RedHat
6.1.
The problem resides that instead of "LILO boot:", all I get is "LI". The
computer will not accept any input save for good old control-alt-delete.
The problem is within the Master Boot Record, as the DOS command
fdisk /mbr
fixed the problem. Is this a general RedHat 6.1 problem, or did I do
something wrong?
My E-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you'd like to respond.
Thanks in advance...
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From: Cliff Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:13:27 +0200
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 12:00:04 +0200, Cliff Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I've posted this on other newsgroups before, but nobody seems to be able
> >to answer my question so I'll try in this newsgroup too...
> >
> >Hardware: Celeron500, 128 Mb Samsung 15.3Gb UDMA mode4 HDD, SiS5513 IDE
> > controller.
> >Kernel : 2.2.16, patched with ide-2.2.16.20000630
> >BIOS : Detects the harddisk as PIO4 and UDMA4
> >hdparm : 3.9-1, params: -d1 -m16 -c1 -A1 (even tried -X66)
> > (for some reason, after installing 3.9-1 my hdparm
> > manpages were gone)
> >
> >Enabled SiS5513 support in the kernel, including CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO
> >(yes, and even recompiled and installed the new kernel :) ).
>
> Have you played around with some of the other kernel config options
> included with the ide patch? Unfortunately, some of these are not well
> documented AFAICT. I had a problem with a drive that would not keep DMA
> set, it would turn it off automagically. I know this isn't the same
> problem, but I eventually solved it with that patch and trial and error
> on various IDE config settings.
I've tried lots and lots of settings, none of them seem to make any
difference...
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From: Cliff Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 00:14:18 +0200
C.J. wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Pennock
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I've posted this on other newsgroups before, but nobody seems to be able
> >to answer my question so I'll try in this newsgroup too...
> >
> >Hardware: Celeron500, 128 Mb Samsung 15.3Gb UDMA mode4 HDD, SiS5513 IDE
> > controller.
> >Kernel : 2.2.16, patched with ide-2.2.16.20000630
> >BIOS : Detects the harddisk as PIO4 and UDMA4
> >hdparm : 3.9-1, params: -d1 -m16 -c1 -A1 (even tried -X66)
> > (for some reason, after installing 3.9-1 my hdparm
> > manpages were gone)
>
> You might want to take a look at
> http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html
>
> for some tips on other settings to try in hdparm
Thanks, but I had tried anything they suggested on that page already and
it didn't make any difference...
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From: ABB (Allyn B. Brodsky)
Subject: OpenLinux2.4 + Lucent "linmodem" problem
Date: 2 Jul 2000 22:29:13 GMT
I have installed Caldera openLinux edesktop 2.4 on a Thinkpad 390.
Using the Lucent download (Linux568, I think) to turn the built-in
winmodem into a "linmodem," I have succesfully assigned the modem to
ttyS0, a.k.a. com1.
Minicom is configured to look for the modem at ttyS0, but does not
respond to "AT."
When kppp still wouldnt work, I edited resolv.conf, pap-secrets,
options, PPP-on, and PPP-off as suggested, in order to set up a
manual PPP dialup connection to my local Mindspring/Netcom account.
Last error message on the manual (console) connection was that it
couldn't determine terminal settings, so input-output error and
failure. Before that, it didin't recognize my username in the options
file, so I #ed that line out.
I realize I should probably give up and get an external card modem,
but does anyone have a clue about how this one might be made to work,
if possible?
I do recall reading that the Lucent drivers may reference an older
version of the kernal. If so, is there a way to recompile the
drivers/kernal to make them compatible?
Thanks in advance for any suggestrions,
Allyn
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From: James Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: invalid profile in WINE
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 22:30:05 GMT
torus2000 wrote:
>
> I loaded wine-20000526-7 rpm package on my RH linux 6.0. I set up the
> wine.conf....When I tried to execute calc.exe on windows partition. The
> screen said Invalid path C:\windows\user.dat for profile directory.
>
> I thought that I should point the profile in [wine] category as
> C:\windows\user.dat ( since user.dat is located /mnt/win98/windows/ )
> Is this path incorrect? Could anyone help me how to fix this problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> Torus2000
You need to do a little reading on how to set-up and use Wine...
to run programs your need to run the program this way...
wine "name of program" -managed
you also need to understand how to set up the paths in wine.conf
for example if your windows partition is mounted in Linux as "/win95".
Wine needs to see that mount and name it c:\ (are you mounting your Drive C
and as a FAT32 and with a mountpoint)?
look in the /usr/doc/wine directory and read up on how to config the paths.
when your set-up then via your file manager hilight the windows exe you
want and select open with and type in wine "its filename.exe" -managed.
When you get that file to run then make a kdelink to that file (again
follow the same format with your command line).
wine --help will list all the commands
Regards,
James
JAB Computers Bristol UK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Major Easy)
Subject: Install OpenGL on TNT 2
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 06:37:28 GMT
I am having many problems installing The OpenGL drivers for a TNT 2 card. I
downloaded the drivers from the NVidia web site and it refuses to install them
saying XFree86 must have a version >= 4.0. I am pretty sure that I have
installed XFree86 4.0 so what the hell is wrong?
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From: Steve Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Wrong major/minor number
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:40:27 -0500
Andrew
Sorry, but thats it?!
Thanks
"Andrew E. Schulman" wrote:
> > when I execute
> >
> > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> >
> > i received the error
> >
> > mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number.
> >
> > I'm assuming I've munged the floppy device and have to use MAKEDEV to
> > reconstruct it. The question is how do I go about doing just that?
>
> rm /dev/fd0
> MAKEDEV fd0
--
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"A mind that is stretched to a new idea
never returns to its original dimension"
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From: "Kraylus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux tutor (need one)
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 15:47:29 -0700
greetings.
some may ridicule me. accuse me of being an idiot. assault my
intelligence. point out my laziness.
oh well. this is directed to all linux power users who have nothing but
time on their hands. to those who live in bc, canada (preferably
vancouver), i would like to make you an offer.
i will pay 10 U.S. dollars/per hour to someone who is willing to teach me
linux in person, and will walk me through advanced setup.
it's great that newer distros are doing it for you, but i want to know how
to do it the "old-fashioned" way. eventually, i too, would like to be able
to setup linux on any pc and get it running.
so, 10 U.S dollars/per hour to teach a lazy, fatass how to work linux.
and... if you teach me well, and i'm actually at a point where i'm
comfortable with it, i'll end the lessons with hundred dollar bonus.
if that's too cheap for you, too bad. i'm not made of money, and i don't
want to spend 500 dollars on a college course.
please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if possible.
good day,
ryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: No Sound for XMMS or CDP
Date: 2 Jul 2000 22:52:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, David M. Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have no output from either XMMS or CDP. I used to have both. I've also
>noticed that my Red Hat 6.1system doesn't boot the sound module at
>startup, though it still boots the midi module. (Probably my problem)
>
>I have a SoundBlaster 16 ISA PnP card.
>
>All the Helix Gnome stuff like it's CD Player still work.
The CD player is hard wired to the soundcard so CD music doesn't use Linux
drivers other than to start/stop/position the cd and volume (mixer).
>What's it going to take to get EVERYTHING working?
>
>David
Either run 'sndconfig --noprobe' or see if you have the following
in /etc/conf.modules (adjust irq and dma to your settings):
alias sound sb
pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=3 dma16=7 mpu_io=0x330
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From: Steve Emmett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Wrong major/minor number
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 17:52:44 -0500
Andrew
Just tried it and am still getting the major/minor number error.
If you have any trouble shooting suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing.
Thanks
"Andrew E. Schulman" wrote:
> > when I execute
> >
> > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> >
> > i received the error
> >
> > mount: /dev/fd0 has wrong major or minor number.
> >
> > I'm assuming I've munged the floppy device and have to use MAKEDEV to
> > reconstruct it. The question is how do I go about doing just that?
>
> rm /dev/fd0
> MAKEDEV fd0
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Steve
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Steve Emmett
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"A mind that is stretched to a new idea
never returns to its original dimension"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: RH6.0, SCSI tape & rescue
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 18:11:28 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 06:35:36 -0600, Robert Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You're right, of course! The thought of block vs character floated through
>my mind at some point yesterday but I had some distractions.
>mknod -m 660 /dev/st0 c 9 0 and
>mknod -m 660 /dev/nst0 c 9 128
>are the ticket. Next project: Document all the stuff I have to do to restore
>from tape in my notebook. (And probably misplace the notebook about
>30ms before I really need it :-()
>
>Thanks for straightening me out!
>
No problem.
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