How to get lpd not to print userid pages
How can I disable the userid/printjob identifier pages using lpd? I just moved a Canon BJC-4000 which used to be attached to a Win95 machine on the LAN; I used to use samba to print to it. Now I've got it on my machine, but it's printing those id pages, which is a waste of paper and ink. Do the fq, mx#0, or sh fields in /etc/printcap have to do with it? (I couldn't find fq or mx in the man page) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
multifunction device support? HP LaserJet 3100
My dad just bought one of those new-fangled multi-function devices, for faxing, copying, scanning (in a limited sense I guess, not a flatbed color scanner), and printing. It's an HP LaserJet 3100. I checked the manufacture date: Apr 8, 1998, so it's pretty damn new. Of course everything will be fine and dandy in Windows, but I never boot into Windows anymore, nor do I want to. We have a little 3-node LAN set up here on coax with ancient SMC 8013 cards that works for us so far. My dad used to have a Canon BJC-4000, and I used to print to it using the bjc-600 magicfilter filter (slightly tweaked to 600 dpi, I think). I was wondering... does anyone know what filter this new device is best suited for? Should I use the ghostscript laserjet driver, ljetplus, ljet3, 4, or what? As far as I can tell it ain't a postscript printer... so I'm hesitant to select any of the ones I listed. Thanks for your help. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
support for NEC SuperScript 660plus?
My dad returend the HP LaserJet 3100 multifunction devices, and got a NEC SuperScript 660plus. Of course everything will be fine and dandy in Windows, but I never boot into Windows anymore, nor do I want to. We have a little 3-node LAN set up here on coax with ancient SMC 8013 cards that works for us so far. My dad used to have a Canon BJC-4000, and I used to print to it using the bjc-600 magicfilter filter (slightly tweaked to 600 dpi, I think). My main fear is that this is a part of that appalling new trend to manufacture hardware that is incompatible with anything but Windows because the company only releases industry non-standard Win95 drivers for it, and won't release specs. Worse, it could be one of those printers that require CPUsage on the Window$ client machine. Can anyone tell me if this is true? If not, I was wondering... does anyone know what filter this new device is best suited for? Should I use the ghostscript laserjet driver, ljetplus, ljet3, 4, or what? Thanks for your help. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck - End forwarded message - -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Help making a 486 into an X Terminal
I had an idea recently. I would like to install a very minimal Linux/Debian base on the family 486. I already have a little LAN going here, using the 192.168.1.X subnet. We have three (sometimes four) computers connected, using coax/BNC and terminators. Everything is great, I even have samba set up so I can print, through magicfilter, to the BJC-4000 on my father's win95 machine. But the 486 is unsuited for connecting to the net. My brothers and mother use it for word processing (which I will leave that way, since I don't want to teach them LaTeX) and browsing the web. They do this fairly often but not for long periods. The 486 has a 14.4 modem, unfortunately. What I was hoping to do was to install a tiny linux distro on, say, 80 megs of HD space (it only has 400 megs total). I would install just the bare minimum for net connectivity, rudimentary system administration, and XFree86. I was wondering if this is possible in 80 megs? The purpose would be to start X in broadcast mode (or whatever it's called) so that the machine would basically become a glorified X terminal to my computer, so that my brothers can log on to MY box, and use MY netscape, and most importantly, my ppp connection at 33.6 kbps. This would double their bandwidth, and Netscape wouldn't be so piggish loading javascript and so forth. Is this possible? If so, what is the bare minimum I need. How do I get started? Is there a bootdisk package? I can copy any debs I need from my computer over to the share drive on the win95 machine, but I'm wondering how I should go about creating a partition for ext2fs, and how to install the kernel, etc. Should I just compile a tiny minimalist kernel there? And most importantly, where do I get fips? Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck pgpDOjLnKxoF2.pgp Description: PGP signature
How to handle lots of mail
Ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Thursday May 14. I'll read first (right now that's OCLUG and all ARM and netwinder related ones). I consider everything else low priority mail - I'll browse it when I get the chance. I also get spam. Lots of it. This mail goes into a folder called spamcan. [Simple example: If I got the message from a mailing list that I'm not on.] Later, I'll look at it and move it to a folder called spam, which I use to train another one of my spam filters. Mail sent directly to me (To: or Cc:) gets my immediate attention, if it passes through a spam filter called SpamBeGone unscathed. It ends up in a folder called personal. Now I don't want to read another complaint about volume on this list! :-) It is easy to handle, even if you don't subscribe to the OCLUG digest. If I can do it with hundreds of messages per day, so can you with far fewer! I haven't the faintest idea how to go about filtering spam. Seriously, I have no clue how people do it. But my most immediate question has to do with handling mail that is sent BOTH to you, and to a mailing list (doesn't matter which is to: and which is cc:) I want to get this mail in my inbox but also in the list box. This is what I have so far: (only OCLUG group shown) PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin DEFAULT=/var/spool/mail/kiyan MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail #you'd better make sure it exists LOGFILE=$HOME/log/procmail.log #recommended :0c * (^To:|^Cc:).*kiyan\@ * (^To:|^Cc:).*oclug $DEFAULT :0 * (^To:|^Cc:).*oclug OCLUG :0c * (^Subject:).* ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Right now this sends a carbon copy of all mail that is BOTH to/cc me AND to/cc the list, to my inbox... and the next recipe sends it off to the list box. The only thing is, because of the addressing facts, I obviously get TWO copies (one from the listserver, and one directly to me). So I end up with a duplicate in my inbox and the listbox. How do I handle this more elegantly? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck pgpuZJbT8xE3z.pgp Description: PGP signature
Help with X and signal 11
Over the past four days, I have struggled with this recurring problem. It first occurred when I installed the newest package version of xbase and xserver-svga from the debian mirrors. I had also switched to WindowMaker, so I thought maybe the problem was there. So far: it hasn't happened to me in another WM, but I've only tried a couple and never stay in them for more than a few mins. Anyway, for a period X would crash on me within about five minutes after login. Everytime it was the same. The xdm-errors log said something like Caught signal 11, server aborted. Same error everytime. I then attempted to recompile X, in X. X itself crashed about six mins into it. So I compiled XFree86 3.3.2 to use only the matrox mga chipset, and after compiling, did a make install, and put a hold on the parallel debian packages. (xbase and xserver) I also recompiled WindowMaker myself, and installed. All was fine for about 24 hrs, when X crashed on me again while I was in it. The crashes occur whether or not I'm doing something at the time... i.e. not only when I am moving something around or causing mouse or keyboard events. Sometimes I'm not even here when it happens. Besides recompiling things, I have taken several steps to remedy this. First, I opened my case and left it open, and screwed the fan onto my CPU even tighter. I don't think it's overheating, though... I have one of the low-power revisions of the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 PR200+ on an Asus T2P4 HX pentium M/B. Second, I stopped running the rc5des client, but then I started it again after I recompiled, because all seemed well. Third, I changed the RAM settings in the BIOS to 70ns ( I am supposed to have 60 ns EDO ). Anyway, last night I left it in WMaker, and woke up this morning to find the xdm login. The xdm-errors file didn't reveal any errors this time, though. It may very well be a problem with the RAM I've got. I just bought an extra 32 megs (two 16 meg simms) about 1.5 mths ago. To make a long story short, one of the simms must be bad, because I only get a total of 48MB now (even though I put them both in, because the Motherboard won't recognize a single simm). I am hoping this is the problem a bad simm, or just bad memory in general. Or heat, but there's not much I can do about that. I have taken the new simms out, and am back to my old 32. I brought the RAM back up to 60 ns. And the rc5des client is still going. If it was the RAM, it shouldn't happen anymore. I hope to get my RAM changed soon, because 32 just doesn't cut it anymore. One last thing: the problem is only in X. I don't get any kernel messages about memory allocation (I do sometimes, but I think that's just my 2.0.32 kernel). This thing only crashes X. Whether I use xdm or not, i get signal11. Compiling X, or anything else not in X, never gives me any problems. If there is anyway of tracking down the problem, I would appreciate it. I was hoping I could trap signal 11 and ignore it, but I have a feeling that's impossible. If anyone has any advice or experience with this , PLEASE let me know. This is the most frustrating experience I have had so far with Linux. I can't even do my work for fear of X dying. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck pgpSPKgEdXTvr.pgp Description: PGP signature
XBASE crashing. Is it my chip overheating?
Someone mentioned it could be a heating problem on my chip . I was running the rc5des client fulltime, the computer was up almost a week nonstop (or more). I've played a bit with the idea that it was heating. I turned the computer off for a couple of hours, killed rc5des, and came back up. After about 10 mins it went down again, signal 11. Does this sound like hardware or a problem with my xbase? Just installed the newest debs. Maybe I should recompile X myself. Or maybe get a new kernel? Test my simms? Dip my computer in ice? This is really unnerving. Any help greatly appreciated. I can't do any work because X keeps getting trashed. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting sounds nasty. I hope it isn't a nasty hardware problem. It just started last night. And it has so far only happened in WindowMaker it might be a problem there. I have tried other WM's but never stayed in them long enough to see if they crashed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
new xbase shuts down consistently
Hi. Just installed the new xbase package, and every few minutes X just quits by itself, no prompting. Sometimes I'm not even in X when it happens. Here's what I get in /var/log/xdm-errors: XFree86 Version 3.3.2 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: March 2 1998 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: Linux 2.0.32 i686 [ELF] Configured drivers: SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0): NV1, STG2000, RIVA128, ET4000, ET4000W32, ET4000W32i, SNIP (using VT number 7) XF86Config: /etc/X11/XF86Config (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values (**) XKB: keymap: mymap(us_dvorak) (overrides other XKB settings) (**) Mouse: type: PS/2, device: /dev/mouse, buttons: 3 (**) Mouse: 3 button emulation (timeout: 70ms) (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: Matrox Mystique (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: AcerView 78ie (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 87.50 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1152x864 needs hsync freq of 89.62 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 91.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 93.75 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1600x1200 needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1280x1024 needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted. (--) SVGA: Mode 1800X1440 needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ (--) SVGA: PCI: Matrox MGA 1064SG rev 2, Memory @ 0xe680, 0xe780 (--) SVGA: Linear framebuffer at 0xE780 (--) SVGA: MMIO registers at 0xE680 (--) SVGA: Video BIOS info block at 0x000c7da0 (--) SVGA: Found and verified enhanced Video BIOS info block Using BIOS value for maxPixelClock: 17 kHz (--) SVGA: chipset: mga1064sg (--) SVGA: videoram: 4096k (**) SVGA: Option dac_8_bit (**) SVGA: Using 32 bpp, Depth 24, Color weight: 888 (--) SVGA: Maximum allowed dot-clock: 170.000 MHz (**) SVGA: Mode 1024x768: mode clock = 98.900 (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture) (--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles (--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy (--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 color expand pattern fill (--) SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (TE/NonTE imagetext, TE/NonTE polytext) (--) SVGA: XAA: Using 8 128x128 areas for pixmap caching (--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples (--) SVGA: XAA: General lines and segments (--) SVGA: XAA: Dashed lines and segments System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m us_dvorak -em1 The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: -emp -eml Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server keymap/mymap compiled/mymap.xkm' Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages xdm error (pid 199): Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly: 1536 -- Any insight would be appreciated, though from this error I don't think anyone can tell what's wrong unless it's a known problem. How do I get the previous version again... is there a place that archives old .debs? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with update-menus RXVT-XPM
I'm trying to start an rxvt with an xpm background Everything's cool, except that I have to run rxvt-xpm instead of rxvt (when did this happen, BTW? It used to be different) However, I can't get a -scale option to work. The best I can do is: rxvt-xpm -pixmap /path/to/pixmap\;100x100 Which scales it fine. However, it's the damn semicolon that's doing me in. You have to use a backslash in bash, obviously, for the stuff after it to even get to rxvt-xpm. The problem I have is in the /etc/menu files... I'm using Joost's update (update-menus) package, for keeping track of stuff. I'm trying to have a few different rxvt's started as different menu options (different as in, with different backgrounds). However, setting the command to: command=rxvt-xpm -pixmap /path/to/pixmap\;100x100 doesn't work, nor does leaving out the backslash. In both cases the geometry string isn't getting to rxvt-xpm, because it just loads the pixmap without scaling (if the rxvt is resized, one can see that it is being tiled, effectively) Is there any way to get around this? Obviously, update-menus is stripping out the backslash, or something along the way is. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck pgpRrrExTN47n.pgp Description: PGP signature
X crashes when switched from console w/ mouse event
Hi. I was wondering if anyone else had had this problem. It seems really major. If I'm in console mode, then switch back to X with alt-f7, and then move the mouse in anticipation of X showing up, it very often crashes X. The whole thing just comes down and xdm restarts. I don't know how else to explain it, but I've only had these problems since I upgraded to hamm. I'm running the SVGA server since I have a Mystique. It's very disconcerting... sometimes I just lose everything. Also, today, in bash, I was entering a really long command with a lot of tab completion, and once it hit about two lines full, the whole computer froze. I couldn't even telnet in from the other machines on the home LAN here. I could ping my machine (it responded)but telnet, although connected, did nothing. Any help on these matters appreciated, especially the first one, as it happens to me A LOT. I usually switch to X, then wait for about two seconds, then timidly move the mouse to make sure it doesn't crash. That's quite pathetic. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.32 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck pgpUFD61GW03w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Uh-oh, is it WMaker or my 2.0.33 kernel?
Just had another nasty crash to top off the night (in addition to multiple SVGA server crashes when I move the mouse TOO EARLY after switching from console mode). Everything just fried itself, then I found this in the syslog: May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e90833c4 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: current-tss.cr3 = 00299000, %cr3 = 00299000 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: *pde = May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: Oops: May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: CPU:0 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: EIP:0010:[add_timer+257/348] May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: EFLAGS: 00010082 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: eax: ebx: 0026332c ecx: 00872f7c edx: 002d May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: esi: 0206 edi: 0026332d ebp: 00872f5c esp: 00872f54 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: Process WindowMaker (pid: 517, process nr: 32, stackpage=00872000) May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: Stack: 00d51810 0026332d 00872f90 001126cb 00872f7c 0026332d 0001 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel:0026332d 01264018 0293bebc 0026332d 00d51810 00112424 00872fb4 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel:00113b47 00d51810 08081a57 0804c0a0 020c5550 541b 004c4b40 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: Call Trace: [schedule+543/652] [process_timeout+0/128] [sys_nanosleep+271/348] [system_call+85/124] May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: Code: 00 89 48 04 89 0c 95 08 e6 19 00 8d 04 95 08 e6 19 00 89 41 May 11 03:22:42 palantir kernel: task not on run-queue Anyone understand what's up? Is it just a problem with the memory management of the 2.0.33 kernel? Maybe I should switch back to 2.0.32, or perhaps the new 2.0 kernel is out and is stable? This sucks. Bash crashed my whole system today too. NOT a good day. And to think, I was actually beginning to yearn for an uptime of over a week (I used to shut my computer off at night, but now I've got the rc5des client running nonstop, so...) ANY HELP APPRECIATED IN THE EXTREME. Thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.32 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck pgpFtdZv9Pzcu.pgp Description: PGP signature
Distributed computing, stellar computation
The following is a part of a message on the Ottawa-Carleton LUG list: Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:01:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Ottawa Carlton Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [oclug] Distributed Computing effort(s) ... I'd like to get involved in some kind of distributed computing effort to chew up the idle cycles of my CPU... I'm looked at distributed.net and gone over the list, but there were some not listed there I heard spoken about on the list awhile ago. I'm not interested in spinning my system's wheels (so to speak) on the RCS now. I was involved for the previous attack on it, and would like to move on to something else... The one that most interests me right now I beleive was (I think it was our good Doctor even who mentioned it, although I could be wrong) aiding with stellar traces (or something to do with the stars anyway)... I did not see this one on distributed.net (they seem to only have the various encrytion attacks right now) ... (author name withheld) __ I was wondering if anyone on this list had heard of such a thing. If so, please contact me. I will of course pass on the information to the original poster. I'm crossposting to this list because I am very curious, and I figure a wider readership may be able to help more. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but Ottawa, Canadarather because its opponents eventually die and a Linux 2.0.32 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck pgpRKUZzI2Yuk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Quantum fireball ST 3.2 and kernel 2.0.32
I have a quantum fireball ST, 3.2 gig. It sounds quite nice and fast in Windows, but under Linux it thrashes around quite a bit. I hear much much more disk activity than in Windows, and sometimes it sounds unhealthy (I can hear the drive rattling around). This doesn't give me warm fuzzies since the tech sup guy at Quantum told me to replace my drive SOON (in response to another problem every now and then it makes a horrible head crashing noise). Is this because Win95's virtual memory is not truly virtual memory? When I run top, I usually see all my swap (64mb partition) is gone. Usually it's because of X and XEmacs and gimp. Is there any way to tune the control of my drive? I don't know the first thing about this, so I'm not sure where the code controlling the drive resides. But it just sounds different in Linux. (Also, is it safe to run defrag. I am very afraid to screw up my Linux partition. I'm getting an identical replacement drive in the mail, and I plan to use something like dd to clone the current one before it checks out.. perhaps: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb will that work?) Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A. Kiyan Azarbar Ottawa, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with symlinks and moving /usr to another partition
I have two (non-swap) ext2fs partitions, /dev/hda8 and hda9. I had hda9 mounted on /rep. The thing is, I've been running out of space so I decided to move /usr to the new partition. What I did is do a cd / cp -av usr rep Which resulted in a /rep/usr directory being created. Then I did cd / rm -rf usr ln -s /rep/usr usr This created a symbolic link, and everything seemed to be working. Problem is, now I've got ldconfig problems, where a bunch of libs aren't being found. That's because in /usr/lib (really /rep/usr/lib) there are entries like libm.so - ../../lib/libm.so.6* Now this was broken, because if you go into /usr/lib and type cd ../../lib it works, and it goes into /lib, but pwd will show //lib which is weird. Now if you do ls ../../lib it works. But if you do a ls -l ../.. it lists the contents of /rep, not /. This is where I'm confused about the difference between real absolute paths and those which contain symlinks. I'm thoroughly confused. Anyway, it isn't able to dereference ../../lib/libm.so.6 from /usr/lib, so I went into /rep, and manually made a symlink by: ln -sd /lib lib Now ldconfig is ok. But I'm just wondering if there is an elegant way to get around this problem, maybe using the symlinks package to make the links absolute, or by using some arcane option of ln when I make the original usr link in the / directory. Any help appreciated. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A. Kiyan Azarbar Ottawa, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RealPlayer 5.0b3 problems
Has anyone had success with installing the rvplayer-installer package? I have no idea how to do it correctly. I put the rvplayer tarfile in /tmp, and even manually ran dpkg -i rvplayer.whatever, and it looked ok. However using rvplayer results in that same Error 71, your rvplayer is out of date message. Any thoughts? I think they're up to version 5.0b4 now, but that wasn't the problem then. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] A. Kiyan Azarbar Ottawa, Canada -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
