Re: Via C3 processor?

2003-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
Ted Ozolins wrote:


Net Llama! wrote:


crap.  C3 basically equals the performance of a slow PII.  sure its 
usable, but not for anything other than email  casual web surfing.

On 01/03/03 19:52, Ken Moffat wrote:

Any opinions on this Via C3 processor? Just wondered if what WalMart 
is trying to sell is usable.



The C3 motherboards I've seen come with everyting but the kitchen_sink 
built in.  They have very small footprints and are a great choice if 
you are thinking of making a mobile MP3 player. For anything more 
intensive , get a real cpu and mb.

Okay, that's pretty much what I thought. Thanks.

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OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint?
I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides.

Thanks,
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Re: OT XFS Build Problems

2003-01-04 Thread Collins
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 20:46:55 -0700
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 Collins wrote:
 snip
  Nor has EXT3 ever failed this (usually unintentional) test for me. 
  I did have a reiserfs system fail to recover after a lockup (about 3
  years ago), but I'm user the current reiserfs is stable now.
  
 
   I truly wish I could say the same, but unfortunately that was one of
   
 the failings we could demonstrate fairly consistently. During a 2 hour
 
 evaluation before our Chief Justice, CEO, and CIO, as well as the 
 management team, ext3 never did survive 5 hard resets in a row. We 
 rebuilt the machines exactly the same, only difference being on an xfs
 
 filesystem, all packages were the same. xfs still, to this day, has 
 never failed to recover itself, even under almost 100% load. We
 migrated our Informix database from raw logical partitions under AIX
 to xfs partitions under linux and the data set was monitored for
 corruption at the moment of impact with absolutely NO loss. 

[ snips ]

   Ext3 works great for most people, but I've had and seen too many 
 problems to consider it ready for a production machine in our 
 environment. I'm glad you've had good luck with it though.
 
 -- 

Good to know.  

I'll probably move to XFS when it becomes part of the
mainstream in the 2.6 kernel.  I hate patches, most especially patches
that aren't always compatible with the rest of kernel development. 
Also, in the past, not every distro has XFS support, so I would get into
the catch-22 situation of needing something from an XFS partition and
not being able to mount it.

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Re: CD-RW disks

2003-01-04 Thread Collins
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 19:49:07 -0800
Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Collins wrote:
 
 
 I'll have to try some new media (sigh).  All of these were still in
 shrink-wrap, however.  Blanking them also does not work.
 
   
 
 I may have missed something here, but do music cd's play in that unit?
 
 -- 

Yes.  And I can burn audio cd's (CD-R) as well and they work in external
cd-players,  I can also burn (CD-R) isos with no problems.

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OTInternet birthday was Wednesday.

2003-01-04 Thread Harry G
It was the 20th anniversary Wed. for the internet
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/ap/20030103/ap_on_hi_te/techbits_internet_bday_3

Thank you Al Gore!  ;-)


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Re: Motherboards

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
My bias against VIA has come from years in the newsgroups where VIA has 
again and again been the culprit because it wasn't compatible with (sound, 
video, put product name here) cards.  You may have to lower the sound card 
acceleration for example.  Yes, many of these have been windows systems but 
at this point it was a hardware level problem.  Yes, many of these are game 
machines but they do test the hardware G and when other chipsets had no 
problems with the same setup - it's very suspiciouis.  And yes, VIA has 
issued driver updates to fix these but why should I have to hassle with 
this again and again - they need to do it right.  Any chipset manufacturer 
can have a problem but VIA has had far too many over the years to suit me 
so I don't allow them on the vendor list when I look at motherboards.


 
 My $0.02 worth...
 
 VIA chipsets aren't that bad. In fact, it's the most common chipset that
 I'me exposed to, both at home and at work.
 
 As far as brands go. I'm totally amazed at how well SOYO motherboards
 work. Also MSI. My most recent purchase has been an MSI KT3 ULTRA2.
 Excellent, fast and decently priced.
 
 As for Intel cpu's... I go out of my way to avoid them.
 

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New Step

2003-01-04 Thread Nobody
Thanks to Kurt Wall we now have a Step on Setting up the GNU Mailman listserver.
You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman.html
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linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-04 Thread Collins
Anyone familiar with linux/fireware/adapters etc.?

I'm looking to attach my JVC DVL805 camcorder to my linux box. 
Obviously I will need to add a firewire adapter to the box and software.

I would love to hear your suggestions

TIA
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Labels in /etc/fstab

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I'm trying to use labels in /etc/fstab.  According to man fstab(5) I should 
put

LABEL=files

but this gives me an error when it boots and goes to maintenance mode.  I 
must be missing something simple but I've been over the man pages and can't 
find it.  The partition does have a label on it.  Any ideas on what I'm 
doing wrong?

Thanks.

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Re: Labels in /etc/fstab

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Never mind - I found it!  I had another error on the line - I used 0,0 
instead of 0 0!!!

Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

 I'm trying to use labels in /etc/fstab.  According to man fstab(5) I
 should put
 
 LABEL=files
 
 but this gives me an error when it boots and goes to maintenance mode.  I
 must be missing something simple but I've been over the man pages and
 can't
 find it.  The partition does have a label on it.  Any ideas on what I'm
 doing wrong?
 
 Thanks.
 

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persistent new kernel woes

2003-01-04 Thread Bonez
I have pestered the list about this, but I'd really like to get my kernel 
upgrade working with 2.4.20 from 2.4.2. 

If anyone on the list would oblige me in a short real time discussion, using 
ICQ; 12212330 or Yahoo: sanchiro12

Thanks for any help, 

Scott

p.s. What I am hoping can happen is that I can get help identifying exactly 
what hardware I have, and to see what modules are loading at boot time, and 
then to review and list what I need to specifically compile in to the new 
kernel. Also, hoping to review my /var/log/messages to see what clues it can 
provide. I appreciate your help Lonni, and the help of others..I just think 
this would happen much more efficiently in a real time conversation. 
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USB keyboard

2003-01-04 Thread Susan Macchia
Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a good holiday.  I spent some time trying to get my
second PC installed with RH 8.0.  I had some problems that I was
wondering if anyone enountered or has any ideas about:

The machine is a Compaq Presario, 700 mhz AMD Duron, 256MB RAM, 20G HD.
 It has a usb keyboard and PS/2 wheel mouse and ran W2K. I wanted to
keep it dual boot in case of problems and because there were files that
I might need on it.   These are the steps I took to get linux
installed:

1) It used partition magic to create the initial set of partitions and
to squish windows into the first 7G, leaving the rest for linux.

2) Put RH 8.0 CD and rebooted machine.  The initial screen to boot off
the CD came up fine and I could type with no problem.  

3) Next screen asking whether to verify the CD or skip froze solid.

I tried some other installing 7.3 using and when got a kernel panic
error right off on boot.  Then I thought, hmmm, usb keyboard?  I
removed the usb keyboard and put a generic non-usb keyboard on it;the
8.0 install went without a hitch.  So I know have a working 8.0 system
that I can experiment with networking and the like.  I also have my son
using it to browse the net :-)

But the real question for me is, why couldn't the installation deal
with the usb keyboard?  If I plug the keyboard back in, will it work? 
I haven't found too much on usb keyboards on the web or on the SxS
site.

Thoughts?

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Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint?
I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides.

Have you thought of doing the presentation using html and a standard
browser instead?  That way it's not proprietary, and can be viewed
anywhere.

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Re: linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:17:24AM -0700, Collins wrote:
Anyone familiar with linux/fireware/adapters etc.?

I'm looking to attach my JVC DVL805 camcorder to my linux box. 
Obviously I will need to add a firewire adapter to the box and software.

I'm using an Adaptec unit (downstairs so I can't see the model).

When I was in CompUSA last week, I saw some adapters that have both USB 2
and FireWare on the same PCI card.

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Knoppix does it again, in style

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Just a line to plug knoppix some more.
I tried it today on a computer at work. A compaq deskpro EN.
Loaded and ran well, although I think memory was a problem for me. Only
128megs in the machine and graphics slowed things down.
It played well with my USB nikon camera, to my surprise.
This make 2 old AT machines, a newer ATX machine, an HP laptop, and the
compaq, all without any diffculty.
I was surprised to see cdrecord installed. They really haven't left much
out.
One thing they did leave out seems to be a decent dictionary for ispell.
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Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Ralph Sanford
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 07:26, Joel Hammer wrote:
 Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint?
 I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides.
 
 Thanks,
 Joel
 
 

Hi Joel,

I did a fair amount of OO Impress to Powerpoint a couple of months ago. 
The conversion is generally OK -say 85 to 95% -, but there are little
glitches. 

1.  Bullets in Impress will still look like bullets when the converted
file is viewed on your linux computer using OO.  (The Impress file
fileanme.sxi has been saved as filename.ppt and is being viewed using OO
Impress.)  When the same filename.ppt is viewed in MS Powerpoint the
bullets will likely be seen as a small happy face rather than as a small
black dot.

2.  Picture / Graphic placement may be slightly different between the
sxi file and the ppt file.  The result is that the picture and the
adjacent text may overlap.

I have not tried animated or motion presentation, so I can not comment
on any possible issues.

Overall the problems are not insurmountable.  The text, graphics,
backgrounds, styles, and notes are all converted from sxi to ppt.  Using
a common font -arial or times new roman- will help but this still has
the bullets problem (I was using Arial and encoding set at ISO-8859-1).

HTH

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Re: CD-RW disks

2003-01-04 Thread Ted Ozolins
Collins wrote:


 

I may have missed something here, but do music cd's play in that unit?

--
   


Yes.  And I can burn audio cd's (CD-R) as well and they work in external
cd-players,  I can also burn (CD-R) isos with no problems.

 

I use cdr/w quite a bit for large file transfers between computers at 
work and home. I just tried blanking one (out of the box) and it failed. 
I've had these for about 6 months.  using another rewritable that is 
from the same batch but has been used several times works just fine. Out 
of eight rewritables left in this batch, five failed, this is terrible, 
I've never had problems with Memorex in the past.  I'll have to check 
some of the ones at work and see if they have the same problem (thats 
over 150 units). I'm now wondering if this is a time related problem 
associated with rewriteable media?  

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Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Hmmm

What I am going to have are four or five directories, each containing 4 or
5 jpg images. The contents of each directory must be displayed in proper
order, but the order of presentation at the directory level will be random.

Since these presentations are at least a weekly event, what I am trying
to do is work out a system where presentations can be generated with
very little effort. I was wondering how I could generate Powerpoint
presentations semi-automatically. That idea sounds dumb, when I write
it down and look at it on paper.

HTML might be better suited for this. It would be no sweat to create the html
with sed and a little knowledge of html (That's describes my knowledge of
html). Given the excellent results I have been getting with html2ps and
ps2pdf, maybe the whole thing can be made into one big pdf file. In full
screen mode, this might make a very nice presentation.  Now, that would
give 'em something to talk about.

It is interesting how many possibilities come to mind when you stop
thinking in terms of MS software!

This idea has merit. Got any more ideas?

Thanks,

Joel

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:27:55AM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
 On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 09:26:33AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
 Does anyone have experience exporting from OpenOffice to PowerPoint?
 I want to export simple presentations, just images slides and text slides.
 
 Have you thought of doing the presentation using html and a standard
 browser instead?  That way it's not proprietary, and can be viewed
 anywhere.
 
 Bill
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Re: Knoppix does it again, in style

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
I was using kde. Maybe that caused the slowness, since they say kde is
a bit bloated.

Joel
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 01:34:38PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
 Loaded and ran well, although I think memory was a problem for me. Only
 128megs in the machine and graphics slowed things down.
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Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread Bill Campbell

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 02:22:51PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
Hmmm

What I am going to have are four or five directories, each containing 4 or
5 jpg images. The contents of each directory must be displayed in proper
order, but the order of presentation at the directory level will be random.

Since these presentations are at least a weekly event, what I am trying
to do is work out a system where presentations can be generated with
very little effort. I was wondering how I could generate Powerpoint
presentations semi-automatically. That idea sounds dumb, when I write
it down and look at it on paper.

Computers are best when they automate repetitive tasks.  One of
my primary gripes with M$ GUI programs like Word is that they
make many jobs more difficult.  I've been automating reports from
databases using perl scripts and groff for years.

HTML might be better suited for this. It would be no sweat to create the html
with sed and a little knowledge of html (That's describes my knowledge of
html). Given the excellent results I have been getting with html2ps and
ps2pdf, maybe the whole thing can be made into one big pdf file. In full
screen mode, this might make a very nice presentation.  Now, that would
give 'em something to talk about.

It is interesting how many possibilities come to mind when you stop
thinking in terms of MS software!

This idea has merit. Got any more ideas?

I'm attaching a quicky script I wrote to create web pages with
thumbnails to catalog images in a directory.  This is crude, but
should give you some ideas.

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#!/usr/local/bin/perl
eval ' exec /usr/local/bin/perl -S $0 $@ '
if $running_under_some_shell;
shift if(join(, @ARGV) eq ); # Xenix Kludge

# $Header: /u/usr/cvs/lbin/getopt.perl,v 1.14 2000/10/19 23:04:35 bill Exp $
# $Date: 2000/10/19 23:04:35 $
# @(#) $Id: getopt.perl,v 1.14 2000/10/19 23:04:35 bill Exp $

use File::Basename;
my ($progname, $dirname) = fileparse($0); # save this very early
chop($dirname);

do /usr/bin/csspath.perl unless $ENV{'USR_BIN_CSSPATH'};

$USAGE = 
#
#   Usage: $progname [-v] [-e var=value]
#
# Options   ArgumentDescription
#   -f  filenameFile containing images to index
#   -c  integer Number of columns (default 5)
#   -v  Verbose
#
;

sub usage {
die join(\n,@_) .
\n$USAGE\n;
}
# This is in the prototype because it's frequently fiddled on a
# case by case basis for local debugging.
sub run {
my $cmd = shift;
print STDERR system($cmd) if $verbose;
system($cmd);
}
# do getopts.pl;

use strict;

use Getopt::Long;
Getopt::Long::Configure qw {require_order bundling};

# declare global variables
use vars (
'%opt_e',   # environment settings
'$opt_h',   # print help
'$opt_v',   # Verbose
'$verbose',
'$opt_c',
'$opt_f',
);
usage(Invalid Option) unless GetOptions (
'-e=s%',# environment variables
'-h|help',
'-v|verbose',
'-c|columns=n',
'-f|file-list=s',
);
for (keys %opt_e) {
$ENV{$_} = $opt_e{$_};
}
$verbose = '-v' if $opt_v;
my $suffix = $$ unless $opt_v;

sub un_taint {
my $PATH = $ENV{'PATH'};
$ENV{'PATH'} = $PATH;
$ = $;# make it ignore taintedness (
$) = $(;# gids )
}
# un_taint();  # make it ignore taintedness

# this sets TMPDIR to the largest available temporary directory.
require 'bigtmp.pl'; my $TMPDIR = bigtmp();

$\ = \n;  # use newlines as separators.

my $seq = 0;
my $fmt = qq(convert '%s' -geometry 80x60 %s);

$opt_c = 5 unless $opt_c;
open(INDEX,  index.html);

print INDEX titleIndex to @ARGV/title;
print INDEX h1Index to @ARGV/h1;
print INDEX table col=$opt_c;

open(INPUT, ($opt_f ? $opt_f : gfind @ARGV -follow -type f | sort |));
my @table_lines = ();

while(INPUT) {
chomp;
next if (/\.xvpics/);
next unless(/\.(jpe{0,1}g|gif|tif{1,2}|png|xpm)$/i);
$seq++;
my $thumbnail = sprintf(image_%04d.jpg, $seq);
my $cmd = sprintf($fmt, $_, $thumbnail);
run($cmd) unless -f $thumbnail;
push(@table_lines,
qq(tdA href=file:$_img src=$thumbnail/a/td));
}
while(@table_lines) {
print INDEX join(\n\t, 'tr',
splice(@table_lines, 0, $opt_c),
'/tr');
}
print INDEX /table;

__END__
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Re: USB keyboard

2003-01-04 Thread Ted Ozolins
Susan Macchia wrote:



I tried some other installing 7.3 using and when got a kernel panic
error right off on boot.  Then I thought, hmmm, usb keyboard?  I
removed the usb keyboard and put a generic non-usb keyboard on it;the
8.0 install went without a hitch.  So I know have a working 8.0 system
that I can experiment with networking and the like.  I also have my son
using it to browse the net :-)

But the real question for me is, why couldn't the installation deal
with the usb keyboard?  If I plug the keyboard back in, will it work? 
I haven't found too much on usb keyboards on the web or on the SxS
site.

Thoughts?

=
 

I've run across this problem countless times doing installs RH and 
Mandrake. For some reason they have not included full support for USB in 
the default kernel. After installing with a standard keyboard and mouse, 
I've had to configure and compile the kernel to include full support for 
usb and usb initial file sys. Usually after a fresh install I got to 
kernel.org and acquire a vanilla kernel since I'll be compiling it 
anyway and go from there. As always YMMV.

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Re: CD-RW disks

2003-01-04 Thread Susan Macchia
I've been using Imation CD-RW 1x-4x compatible for quite a while now with no
problems.  Could be the vendor?  Just my $.02 :-)

Ted Ozolins wrote:

 Collins wrote:
 
  
 
 I may have missed something here, but do music cd's play in that unit?
 
 --

 
 
 Yes.  And I can burn audio cd's (CD-R) as well and they work in external
 cd-players,  I can also burn (CD-R) isos with no problems.
 
  
 
 I use cdr/w quite a bit for large file transfers between computers at
 work and home. I just tried blanking one (out of the box) and it failed.
 I've had these for about 6 months.  using another rewritable that is
 from the same batch but has been used several times works just fine. Out
 of eight rewritables left in this batch, five failed, this is terrible,
 I've never had problems with Memorex in the past.  I'll have to check
 some of the ones at work and see if they have the same problem (thats
 over 150 units). I'm now wondering if this is a time related problem
 associated with rewriteable media?

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Re: persistent new kernel woes

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/04/03 10:00, Bonez wrote:

I have pestered the list about this, but I'd really like to get my kernel 
upgrade working with 2.4.20 from 2.4.2. 

If anyone on the list would oblige me in a short real time discussion, using 
ICQ; 12212330 or Yahoo: sanchiro12

Thanks for any help, 

Scott

p.s. What I am hoping can happen is that I can get help identifying exactly 
what hardware I have, and to see what modules are loading at boot time, and 
then to review and list what I need to specifically compile in to the new 
kernel. Also, hoping to review my /var/log/messages to see what clues it can 
provide. I appreciate your help Lonni, and the help of others..I just think 
this would happen much more efficiently in a real time conversation. 

That's what irc is for.  join #linux-users on irc.freenode.net

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New Step

2003-01-04 Thread Nobody
Thanks to Brett Holcomb we now have a Step on Setting up ALSA on Gentoo Linux.
You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/gentoo_also.html
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Re: OpenOffice and Powerpoint

2003-01-04 Thread C M Reinehr
Joel Hammer wrote:

 
 HTML might be better suited for this. It would be no sweat to create the
 html with sed and a little knowledge of html (That's describes my
 knowledge of html). Given the excellent results I have been getting with
 html2ps and ps2pdf, maybe the whole thing can be made into one big pdf
 file. In full screen mode, this might make a very nice presentation.  Now,
 that would give 'em something to talk about.
 
 

Hi,

I'm afraid I know absolutely nothing about PP, but here's something that 
might interest you.  Check out a slide presentation on the Knoppix website 
(www.knoppix.org - select the USA/British flag for the English pages) 
entitled Slides for the Knoppix Presentation at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 
2002.  They actually are PP/Impress type presentations, but done in PDF.

I came across them on the Knoppix iso I downloaded a couple of weeks ago. I 
didn't even know you could do this in PDF, but it looks great. If you can 
find out how they built them, this might be the way to go.

Cheers!

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Re: New Step

2003-01-04 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Nobody wrote:
% Thanks to Brett Holcomb we now have a Step on Setting up ALSA on Gentoo Linux.
% You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/gentoo_also.html

Um, gentoo-also.html? Perchance that should (or should have) been 
gentoo_alsa.html?

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Re: New Step

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/04/03 12:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Feigning erudition, Nobody wrote:
% Thanks to Brett Holcomb we now have a Step on Setting up ALSA on Gentoo Linux.
% You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/gentoo_also.html

Um, gentoo-also.html? Perchance that should (or should have) been 
gentoo_alsa.html?

errr..yea, that.  sorry.

doug needs to fix this now, since its all DB driven.  ugh.

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Re: New Step

2003-01-04 Thread Douglas J Hunley
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  Um, gentoo-also.html? Perchance that should (or should have) been
  gentoo_alsa.html?

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Re: ghostscript compile

2003-01-04 Thread harley7
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 21:05:22 -0800
Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 01/03/03 20:31, Joel Hammer wrote:
  You might find it easier just to get a version of gs which has your
  driver compiled in it. As I recall, trying to compile gs was beyond
  me.
  
  Joel
  
  
  On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 09:29:47PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I've been trying to get my printer, lexmark 3200, working under
  debian. It worked under mandrake before so I know it works with
  linux. After much RTFM, I found out the driver for this printer
  wasn't compiled into the debian pre-packaged gs. So my question is
  how do you compile a driver into gs that doesn't come standard? Has
  anyone needed to do this before?
 
 Agreed.  I remember attempting to help a friend compile a print driver
 in ghostscript about 2 years ago.  I was praying to be thrown into a 
 circle of hell after fighting with it for a few hours.  ghostscript is
 one of those ancient UNIX legacy apps that really needs a massive 
 overhaul.  Its been ported to death and really is utterly frightening
 in its internals.

Well, I got it done. Perhaps I should have RTFMed a bit more before
posting to the list. I found my answers in the README in the source dir
for my driver, and the Make.html and Drivers.html files in the 'doc/'
dir of my ghostscript source tree. At first glance I thought the
Drivers.html file was aimed at developers, but only some of it is. The
README file helped me understand what was in there.

Once I cd'ed into the top level dir of the ghostscript source tree, I
copied my driver source file into 'src/' and added a few lines to
'src/contrib.mak'. Then I ran ./configure and edited the resulting
Makefile, adding one small entry there, then 'make' and 'make install'.

I ran apsfilterconfig and now I have fully functional lexmark 3200
printer, and I now know more about printing than I thought I wanted to.
;-)

Bill
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Re: Server Distros -- Update

2003-01-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 11:56:07 -0800 
Condon Thomas A KPWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

snip

Great!  I'm glad to hear that you had good results and enjoyed it. 
David's book is on my shelf as well, and you're right: it's great.  Happy
Linning!

 Thanks for all the help this list has offered in the past, recent and
 remote.  I consider each day's reading a learning experience.
 
 
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Re: ghostscript compile

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/04/03 13:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Well, I got it done. Perhaps I should have RTFMed a bit more before
posting to the list. I found my answers in the README in the source dir
for my driver, and the Make.html and Drivers.html files in the 'doc/'
dir of my ghostscript source tree. At first glance I thought the
Drivers.html file was aimed at developers, but only some of it is. The
README file helped me understand what was in there.

Once I cd'ed into the top level dir of the ghostscript source tree, I
copied my driver source file into 'src/' and added a few lines to
'src/contrib.mak'. Then I ran ./configure and edited the resulting
Makefile, adding one small entry there, then 'make' and 'make install'.

I ran apsfilterconfig and now I have fully functional lexmark 3200
printer, and I now know more about printing than I thought I wanted to.


Excellent, congrats.  Could you write up a SxS on the process and send 
it to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?

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Re: 2002 Remembrances

2003-01-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:05:44 -0500
Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:09:44 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  Memorable moments for me in 2002 included:
  
 
 Mine...
 
 * layed off and called back to work, before I even left the building on
 two separate occasions. What a night mare! A age 46 I've learned alot
 about human foibles and frailties and how cheap some humans appear in
 the eyes of other humans. I'll never be the same.
 
I'm still having to cope with these lessons...  Not laid off or fired, but
sometimes I wonder how far I am from it.  Then again, if I ran Windows at
work like everyone else I'd probably annoy my boss less...  

 * compiled kde 3.10 on a whim and fell in love with the pig... Really
 nice.

I can hardly wait...

 
  * On the cusp of the new year I slayed the CUPS dragon and put up an
  lprng printing system (thanks to Joel's help)
  
 
 * ditto... CUPS sucks so bad that your ears pop when you install it...

Ok, now I can't sit by and let this one slide...  lprng is a great daemon
for sharing a local printer.  CUPS is great for printing to non-PS
printers.  Sure, you can make lprng do it, but it sure ain't nice and
friendly.  Biggest problems I've had with CUPS is setting a wrong printer
driver and getting NOTHING printed as the print jobs evaporate, and:
remote print server goes away temporarily, and CUPS stops the local print
queue... not to start back up without manual intervention.
But my nightmares with lprng on a desktop machine still live, burned
eternally into my memory.  CUPS is a good desktop system.


 * Built my first real performance computer; msi kt3 ultra, xp 1600@2000+
 water cooled.
 
 * Paid off the mortgage on our house... It's like being born again.
 Imagine having an extra $1000.00 a month in your pocket. :')

This is where I get SUPER jealous on both counts.  You must have done
something right to have the house paid off by 46.  My wife and I are
refinancing taking the 26 years on our mortgage and rolling them into a 15
year, paying off one piece of land and the school loan.  At 29 years and 4
days, we're working on it :)
As for the performance machine, I'm still subsisting ona Celeron 300A
(overclocked to 450MHz) and a Diamond Viper 330 which doesn't accelerate
in X (I bought it before I met Linux), a mammoth NEC 5FGp 17 boat of a
monitor, and several other lesser machines which make great servers.

Happy New Year and Merry Christmas (day 10)

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Re: raid

2003-01-04 Thread Keith Antoine
At 05:22 PM 3/01/2003 -0800, you wrote:

On 01/03/03 17:10, Keith Antoine wrote:

At 03:53 PM 3/01/2003 -0800, you wrote:


On 01/03/03 15:40, Keith Antoine wrote:


Well the holidays are over and all my family have gone, just the two of 
us again. I have been using
windows for two reasons, one is that I had problems with mandrake 9.0 
and went The problem arose i that when I went to re-install the drives 
were shown as hac,hdd and hde; no hda
hdc as I used to have with cd drives on b and d. looked as if they are 
now hda and hdb ??
This is real wierd and I do not seem to be able to change the to what 
they should be., was thinkingbof taking the
raid out of circuit for the install but!


Is this hardware or software RAID?  If its hardware, what kind of 
controller is it?  Perhaps a BIOS problem?

Its a promise chip in an Asus A7V333.


So did you change anything in its BIOS?


No, but I have delved into what is happening and its wierd. Lets take 
windows first with raid enabled: its XP pro.

It boots and allocates primary master with C and D partitions. Then it 
allocated the raid drive as G. Then the two
dvd drives, ones a burner as E  F.

Linux will not boot at all in this state but will when I disable raid on 
the MB.

It comes up with the following drive configuration when raid is enabled:
hdd = raid drive
hde = primary master
hdf  = Samsung dvd reader
hdg = Secondary master
hdh = Dvd Burner

hda, hdc do not appear at all !

Now it cannot be bios otherwise windows would exhibit the same problem but 
it does not, so what is there that causes
linux to differ ???

Keith aka skippy




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Re: Distirbuitions

2003-01-04 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:06:22 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
 % On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 %  Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote:
 % 
 %  [distribution and window manager preferences]
 % 
 %  % I can post screenshots of both XFCE-3.8.18  XFCE-4.x (from
 yesterday's%  % cvs checkout) if anyone is interested.
 % 
 %  I'd be interested in the XFCE version 4 stuff.
 % 
 % otay, here's my latest desktop:
 % http://linux-sxs.org/~netllama/xfce4.png
 
 Hmm. It just stalls while loading.
 

So much for XFCE being fast :)

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Re: Server Distros -- Update

2003-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat



Great!  I'm glad to hear that you had good results and enjoyed it. 
David's book is on my shelf as well, and you're right: it's great. 


Forgive me; I missed which book this is?

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Re: raid

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/04/03 13:59, Keith Antoine wrote:


So did you change anything in its BIOS?



No, but I have delved into what is happening and its wierd. Lets take 
windows first with raid enabled: its XP pro.

It boots and allocates primary master with C and D partitions. Then it 
allocated the raid drive as G. Then the two
dvd drives, ones a burner as E  F.

Linux will not boot at all in this state but will when I disable raid on 
the MB.

It comes up with the following drive configuration when raid is enabled:
hdd = raid drive
hde = primary master
hdf  = Samsung dvd reader
hdg = Secondary master
hdh = Dvd Burner

hda, hdc do not appear at all !

Now it cannot be bios otherwise windows would exhibit the same problem 
but it does not, so what is there that causes
linux to differ ???

I've never done IDE RAID, so perhaps i'm way off base here.  Are you 
sure its not supposed to work this way?  Is the problem that you can't 
install Linux like this, or can't get a preinstalled version to boot?

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SCSI device detected multiple times

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I've notice that when my system boots and is doing SCSI device discovery 
that it lists a scanner multiple times.  The RAID, SCSI CD, are discovered 
and then the scanner shows up as filling all the luns on a card.  It's like 
it answers to the query for each lun.  It is an old Microteck Scanmaker 
IIsp so maybe that's it?

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Re: SCSI device detected multiple times

2003-01-04 Thread Net Llama!
Perhaps a termination problem?  I could swear someone else had this 
problem months ago.  Check the list archives perhaps?

On 01/04/03 15:36, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I've notice that when my system boots and is doing SCSI device discovery 
that it lists a scanner multiple times.  The RAID, SCSI CD, are discovered 
and then the scanner shows up as filling all the luns on a card.  It's like 
it answers to the query for each lun.  It is an old Microteck Scanmaker 
IIsp so maybe that's it?


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Gimp Question: Multiple cuts and pastes

2003-01-04 Thread Joel Hammer
Is there a way in gimp to do multiple copies from an image and then
paste them back into the image in random order, like klipper does for kde? I
suppose you could put them into another layer as a workaround, but, it might
be nice to have a direct way of doing this.

Thanks,

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Re: SCSI device detected multiple times

2003-01-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Hmm, could be.  I'll check into it.

Net Llama! wrote:

 Perhaps a termination problem?  I could swear someone else had this
 problem months ago.  Check the list archives perhaps?
 
 On 01/04/03 15:36, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
 I've notice that when my system boots and is doing SCSI device discovery
 that it lists a scanner multiple times.  The RAID, SCSI CD, are
 discovered
 and then the scanner shows up as filling all the luns on a card.  It's
 like
 it answers to the query for each lun.  It is an old Microteck Scanmaker
 IIsp so maybe that's it?
 
 

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Slackware Mailing List

2003-01-04 Thread kwall
Hello, list,

I'm pleased to announce that KurtWerks now hosts a mailing list for
users of Slackware. List information and subscription instructions
available at http://www.kurtwerks.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/slackware.
I look forward to seeing all the Slackware users on this list on 
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To try to head off any criticism of posting this here, let me make
perfectly clear that KurtWerks hosting a Slackware mailing list is
*no* way suggests *any* dissatisfaction with this list or the job
Doug has done running the Steps site. IMHO, linux-sxs.org is the
premier site for Linux support and [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the
all-around best general list for supporting general Linux users.

I created [EMAIL PROTECTED] to meet a distinct need for a
Slackware-specific mailing list -- slackware.com does not have such
a list and I no longer venture out to Usenet. I also created the
list out of a desire to run my own mailing list.

I'll continue to be an active participant here and will continue
in my role as an editor, hopefully a more prominent one. I hope to
be just as busy over at KurtWerks. After all, it is my own site and
I've been wanting to do something more interesting with it for
quite some time.

Finally, I have not official affiliation with the Slackware site.
This is strictly my own undertaking.

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Re: Gimp Question: Multiple cuts and pastes

2003-01-04 Thread Ken Moffat
Joel Hammer wrote:


Is there a way in gimp to do multiple copies from an image and then
paste them back into the image in random order, like klipper does for kde? I
suppose you could put them into another layer as a workaround, but, it might
be nice to have a direct way of doing this.

Thanks,

Joel


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This might work...
Right Click - Edit/Buffer/Cut or Copy Named -- several times, then Paste 
Named several times?

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another small problem with networking

2003-01-04 Thread Keith Antoine
I have a friend that has a linux box (mandrake9.0) and an XP plus a ME 
connected. We can get it to the stage where we can ping from
192.168.0.1 to either of the others (3  4) and from them to 1 or 2.
We have 2 inet cards installed in the linux box. However we cannot get to 
the net from either of the windows boxes. Forwarding is active, tried 
masquerade and it locked it up tight.
Have one cable that does not work at all, it has to be a crossover cable ; 
right?

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Re: 2002 Remembrances

2003-01-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Fri, 03 Jan 2003 16:56:05 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:05:44 -0500
 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  On Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:09:44 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   Memorable moments for me in 2002 included:
   
  
  Mine...
  
  * layed off and called back to work, before I even left the building on
  two separate occasions. What a night mare! A age 46 I've learned alot
  about human foibles and frailties and how cheap some humans appear in
  the eyes of other humans. I'll never be the same.
  
 I'm still having to cope with these lessons...  Not laid off or fired, but
 sometimes I wonder how far I am from it.  Then again, if I ran Windows at
 work like everyone else I'd probably annoy my boss less...  
 

If you're on the radar screen for any reason at all, you'll be remembered come
someday. I was sacked twice, once with two weeks notice and once out of the blue
and called back to work before I left the building. It still warms my cheeks
when I think of it. If you've got a supervisor, then you've got a number stamped
on your forehead. Just prepare yourselves as best as possible and try and live
with it, one day at a time. 

  * compiled kde 3.10 on a whim and fell in love with the pig... Really
  nice.
 
 I can hardly wait...
 
  
   * On the cusp of the new year I slayed the CUPS dragon and put up an
   lprng printing system (thanks to Joel's help)
   
  
  * ditto... CUPS sucks so bad that your ears pop when you install it...
 
 Ok, now I can't sit by and let this one slide...  lprng is a great daemon
 for sharing a local printer.  CUPS is great for printing to non-PS
 printers.  Sure, you can make lprng do it, but it sure ain't nice and
 friendly.  Biggest problems I've had with CUPS is setting a wrong printer
 driver and getting NOTHING printed as the print jobs evaporate, and:
 remote print server goes away temporarily, and CUPS stops the local print
 queue... not to start back up without manual intervention.
 But my nightmares with lprng on a desktop machine still live, burned
 eternally into my memory.  CUPS is a good desktop system.
 

I'm waiting for the version that has those particular problems fixed. Then it
will be  a very nice printer daemon. That manual intervention that you mention
is just fine... unless you've got to walk a mile to kick the box that's hung...

  * Built my first real performance computer; msi kt3 ultra, xp 1600@2000+
  water cooled.
  
  * Paid off the mortgage on our house... It's like being born again.
  Imagine having an extra $1000.00 a month in your pocket. :')
 
 This is where I get SUPER jealous on both counts.  You must have done
 something right to have the house paid off by 46.  My wife and I are
 refinancing taking the 26 years on our mortgage and rolling them into a 15
 year, paying off one piece of land and the school loan.  At 29 years and 4
 days, we're working on it :)

It's a tough row to hoe, you want to know the secret?

What we did was; lived like hermits and put every spare dime we had against our
mortgage. And I mean every single one... Any day you want a tip on how to make a
dime cry... just ask.

It's been one big nut cracker, but now it's over. Would I do it all again? Hell
no...  :0)

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Re: another small problem with networking

2003-01-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 14:16:22 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 I have a friend that has a linux box (mandrake9.0) and an XP plus a ME 
 connected. We can get it to the stage where we can ping from
 192.168.0.1 to either of the others (3  4) and from them to 1 or 2.
 We have 2 inet cards installed in the linux box. However we cannot get to 
 the net from either of the windows boxes. Forwarding is active, tried 
 masquerade and it locked it up tight.
 Have one cable that does not work at all, it has to be a crossover cable ; 
 right?
 

All connections into the hub should be straight through cables, including the
server. The only exception is that if you stack hubs, some of them won't have an
expansion port and you'll need a cross over cable. The cable connection from the
server to the inet would depend on how you're getting your inet feed. If it's
over a cable via a cable modem, some use a cross over cable, some use
straight... it depends on what your provider gave you. Your server has two
nic's, one for internet connection, the other feeding into a hub/switch box,
then you should run a firewall script the enables masquerading. That locking up
you mentioned, Did you modify a firewall script for your setup? It could be you
entered a host name incorrectly and iptables/ipchains is waiting to timeout
before it moves on to the next line in your firewall script.

For instance, if I re-run my firewall script when my ISP's smtp server is
off-line, the script will hang there until it times out and then continues on as
normal.


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