Re: Oops...i did it again!
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:26:37 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it was exec: - that wasn't found. Its all fixed now, so i'm not too concerned. and the fix was? I'm asking because the exact same thing is happening here now =( -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Poor Man's Remote Admin
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 19:25:07 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look around for something called dailyscript. I still have it (and have customized it heavily, so it probably won't work for you). I just mash it around a bit for each distro/release. Wouldn't be without it. found it here... http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=dailyscript -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: logging...
On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:55:10 -0500 Bill Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. Thats not my entire syslog.conf, jsut the pertinent spots. Also I notice that messages is no longer receiving messages either the only thing I added to that line was named. silly question, but did you stop/start syslog after you edited syslog.conf? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: xfree-4.2+
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:33:10 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greetings. the crosspost is because this will perhaps be of interest to everybody. a couple hours ago i did a cvs harvest from xfree, it having been noted that the release 4.2 had a couple of fairly gruesome bugs which have since been fixed. Really? I've been running 4.2 for a few days already... snipped a buch of stuff so, anyway, to the extent that one anecdote is evidence, the xfree code in the head branch of their cvs server right now is highly recommended, and a piece of cake. Errmm... not really a piece of cake :( I installed CVSup lastnight 'cuz the cvs commands listed on the xfree86 site refused to work here for me. CVSup worked well, brought down everything I was looking for - but it won't build in it's current condition. By that I mean the Makefile looks like Makefile,v (all filesnames appear to have the ',v' at the end) and I can't seem to figure out wtf to do to get it to build. So far I've tried make -f Makefile. make -f Makefile,v and autogen.sh and I've (very quickly) run out of ideers. Help anyone? TIA -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: xfree-4.2+
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:02:43 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2002 10:26, Myles Green wrote: | Errmm... not really a piece of cake :( I installed CVSup lastnight | 'cuz the cvs commands listed on the xfree86 site refused to work | here for me. CVSup worked well, brought down everything I was | looking for - but it won't build in it's current condition. By that | I mean the Makefile looks like Makefile,v (all filesnames | appear to have the ',v' at the end) and I can't seem to figure out | wtf to do to get it to build. So far I've tried make -f Makefile. | make -f Makefile,v and autogen.sh and I've (very quickly) run | out of ideers. Help anyone? weird. got nothing even faintly resembling that here. Then it must be something I did wrong (duh!). Which method do you use to pull the sources down from CVS? I used CVSup xfree86.cvsup and this is the contents of my xfree86.cvsup: --- *default release=cvs host=anoncvs.xfree86.org base=/home/mylesg/cvs_xfree86*default prefix=/home/mylesg/xfree86_head delete use-rel-suffix*default compress *default tar=. xc-all doctools-all --- *sigh* maybe I'd better go back and re-read the directions and examples... Thanks, -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: another xfree 4.2.0 gotcha
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 01:47:39 -0500 Joshua Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 January 2002 12:09 am, Myles Green wrote: Must be a problem with GDM (you did say that was what you were using, correct?) because I use KDM when using RL5 and haven't had any problems. Is there a quick and dirty way for me to change to using GDM so I can What distro are you using? In SuSE you can change one line in /etc/rc.config (DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm) to gdm. Using RH 7.2 right now and I found it by digging around in /etc/X11/prefdm which led me to /etc/sysconfig/desktop where the line DESKTOP=KDE will get you KDM or DESKTOP=GNOME for GDM. Thanks for your reply though =) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: background splash-screen, RH72 was Re: another xfree 4.2.0 gotcha
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:43:12 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:21, Myles Green wrote: OK, this was pretty simple actually, /etc/X11/prefdm points the way. In Ok, wizards. Since this is still all fresh in your mind, i have an annoying problem with the KDE user login screen (RH72) I've set the background to something I want and it flashes briefly for 2 seconds or so, then gets overwritten by a Rehdat logo et al. Any clues folks where to look? Yes. Try looking in /etc/X11, can't recall the filename but I did see something in there somewhere pertaining to the background et al. Sorry I can't be more helpful right now but I'm still waiting for the coffee to finish brewing, give me a little time and I'll go looking for that file again. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: another xfree 4.2.0 gotcha
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:02:50 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really depends on which distro you're running. Unless you have Gnome installed, there is no quick or easy way to get gdm. Yeah. Well, I would not have suggested it if I wasn't running something similar to you Lonnie... using RedHat 7.2 w/ gnome 1.4.1, kde 2.2.2 and xfce-3.8.14d. I mostly use XFce so I could care less which *DM I use... I'm just doing this to assist you in figuring out your problems. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: another xfree 4.2.0 gotcha
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:11:13 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:02:50 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It really depends on which distro you're running. Unless you have Gnome installed, there is no quick or easy way to get gdm. Yeah. Well, I would not have suggested it if I wasn't running something similar to you Lonnie... using RedHat 7.2 w/ gnome 1.4.1, kde 2.2.2 and xfce-3.8.14d. I mostly use XFce so I could care less which *DM I use... I'm just doing this to assist you in figuring out your problems. I'm running XFCE as well. I'm not 100% on what you need to do to switch login managers. I figured it out once a few months ago, but it was far from obvious. All i know is that i had to dig through the various shell scripts under /etc/X11/ to find it. OK, I'll poke around and see what I can find under /etc/X11 - we were given the rest of the day off due to a snow storm so I'll have time to play with this ;) I know that with Debian all I had to do was apt-get install gdm (IIRC) and it removed kdm and installed gdm whereas Slackware required me to edit one of the startup scripts. I'll get back to you in a couple of hours on this. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: another xfree 4.2.0 gotcha
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:21:55 -0700 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 11:11:13 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running XFCE as well. I'm not 100% on what you need to do to switch login managers. I figured it out once a few months ago, but it was far from obvious. All i know is that i had to dig through the various shell scripts under /etc/X11/ to find it. OK, I'll poke around and see what I can find under /etc/X11 - we were given the rest of the day off due to a snow storm so I'll have time to play with this ;) I know that with Debian all I had to do was apt-get install gdm (IIRC) and it removed kdm and installed gdm whereas Slackware required me to edit one of the startup scripts. I'll get back to you in a couple of hours on this. OK, this was pretty simple actually, /etc/X11/prefdm points the way. In /etc/sysconfig/desktop you'll find either DESKTOP=KDE or DESKTOP=GNOME, whichever one you have dictates which DM you get - KDE gets you KDM and GNOME gets you GDM. FWIW, I changed mine so I got GDM in RL5 and was able to login to XFce, the only thing I can find wrong is the system sounds are completely FUBAR'd (much like what unshielded sparkplug cables do for a car radio). So, now we need to figure out what's different with X between your system and mine... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: another xfree 4.2.0 gotcha
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:08:20 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, this was pretty simple actually, /etc/X11/prefdm points the way. In /etc/sysconfig/desktop you'll find either DESKTOP=KDE or DESKTOP=GNOME, whichever one you have dictates which DM you get - KDE gets you KDM and GNOME gets you GDM. FWIW, I changed mine so I got GDM in RL5 and was able to login to XFce, the only thing I can find wrong is the system sounds are completely FUBAR'd (much like what unshielded sparkplug cables do for a car radio). So, now we need to figure out what's different with X between your system and mine... Did you build 4.2.0 from source, or install the binaries? Mine was from source. My system is mostly RH-7.1 stuff, with some older 6.2 here there, and a very small amount of 7.2 packages. I built 4.2.0 from source as well. My system is mostly RH-7.2 with any newer packages all built from source (into rpms and installed that way whenever possible). Did you reconfigure X after installing 4.2.0 or keep your old config? (I kept the old one myself) I'll send you whichever config files you'd like to see (off list) if you think it would help at all. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: [ot] seti
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:47:26 +0800 Chang[linuxism] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can your clients talk to seti headquarter? ?? well, their servers were down for a little while but they seem to be back online again now. HTH?? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Bad Track Record
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:58:20 -0700 Tyler Regas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is what I've been trying to send to the right place, but seemingly cannot. Please forgive my bumbling. I'm drunk. Ok, I'm not drunk, but its a good excuse. Tyler PS: Thanks to Tim for pointing things out. TCR ***OLD MESSAGE*** So far I have received 22 name/loc statements. Would it be possible to get a member count for this list? I'd like to get more statements before I produce the map, but It's not all that hard to do. The posting address is: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You know, the beer'll be nice but I can't wait to see the party hats!! Yup. Brand-new Kurtwerks Model I vintage N.O.S. units... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: another xfree 4.2.0 gotcha
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:04:27 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: noticing on the kde lists a lot of people complaining about ugly/messed up fonts after upgrading. seems that the new 4.2.0 of xfree86 contains new fonts and some old fonts have new names... watch out everyone I've been running XF86-4.2 for about 2.5 or 3 days now without any of the problems (touch wood) that have been brought up on the list lately. One thing I do that may be different is: I grab the MS webfonts from microsoft.com and mostly use those. For the record though, I do see some errors listed in the logs (I just looked now ;) pertaining to certain font paths and the disabling of the offending ones but it/they don't seem to be a problem here. Am I just lucky or what? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: another xfree 4.2.0 gotcha
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:15:35 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:04:27 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: noticing on the kde lists a lot of people complaining about ugly/messed up fonts after upgrading. seems that the new 4.2.0 of xfree86 contains new fonts and some old fonts have new names... watch out everyone I've been running XF86-4.2 for about 2.5 or 3 days now without any of the problems (touch wood) that have been brought up on the list lately. One thing I do that may be different is: I grab the MS webfonts from microsoft.com and mostly use those. For the record though, I do see some errors listed in the logs (I just looked now ;) pertaining to certain font paths and the disabling of the offending ones but it/they don't seem to be a problem here. Am I just lucky or what? Other than the weird problem that i am having going directly to RL5, 4.2.0 is running flawlessly for me as well. Must be a problem with GDM (you did say that was what you were using, correct?) because I use KDM when using RL5 and haven't had any problems. Is there a quick and dirty way for me to change to using GDM so I can check it out? There gotta be a way, I used to do it with Slackware all the time... Anyway, I thought that if I could try it out and (hopefully) get it to work alright here then maybe we could compare config files and figure out your problem... or provide more fuel for a bug report. Just an idea... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: SOME ITEMS THAT YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN OR BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME ON
recorders in regular production. The 240L, at a price of $269.50 used a special long-playing wire cartridge that held 4 hours of wire. Otherwise it looked like both the tape model and the 240S, which used a 2-hour wire cartridge and sold for $249.50. Another innovation was the introduction of more conventional recorders. After years of offering only half of a complete dictation system, Minifon finally developed a restyled, non-portable office machine, mainly for use by a transcriber, with pedal controls. By the mid-1960s, Minifon was trying to market its machines as multi-purpose devices suitable for nearly any recording need. In addition to the hi-fi and long-playing machines, the company offered an astounding variety of optional equipment such as foot controls, microphones, external amplifiers and loudspeakers, headsets, external power supplies, telephone recording attachments, conference recording adapters. One of the most interesting options were the miniature microphones intended to allow users to make spy recordings. In addition to a small tie-clip microphone, the Minifon could be equipped with a microphone disguised as a wrist- watch. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: SOME ITEMS THAT YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN OR BE ABLE TO ADVISE ME ON
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 05:43:06 - kriss rolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped a bunch of crap So... who was it that was asking what was wrong with having a newsgroup? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: opinions on this iptables script
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:51:03 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myles Green babbled on about: Is that in your script Doug? If so, I'm gonna give it a whirl 'cause I've got 6 or 7 IIS ...errm.. Users... contributing to excessivly large http_access logs =( nope. the code for that is in hte archives of this list over at mail-archive.com Ta. if it's just logging you're concerned with, you can do: This is probably what I should do ;) ## ## httpd.conf -- Apache HTTP server configuration file ## snip Ahhh...I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again... let's hope she doesn't ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: IHOP OT
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:10:58 -0500 Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like the closest to me here in Cincy is in Indy. If I don't get there sooner, I will have to make a stop off at one there when I go to see the Brickyard 400 in August. Maybe pay Kurt a visit since he is a Hoosier nowadays. :-) Eh? What'sat? Kurt's a Hoser? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: ping
... pong? On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:40:42 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://linux.nf Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
an interesting experience
Recently, my father (who is an OS/2 die-hard) purchaced a SCSI CDRW (Yamaha) which he could not get to work. After two weeks of trying, he asked me to see if I could get it to work in my Linux box. Now, my linux box is based on Red Hat 7.2 and has been updated to kernel 2.4.17 - nothing out of the ordinary. Usually, I custom build my kernels with only the things needed for the hardware in the particular box being used. This time I chose to use the RedHat config scripts contained in the RedHat supplied kernel sources (I used the 2.4.9 sources obtained via the up2date utility) and did a make oldconfig. Yes, this resulted in a rather large vmlinuz image and a downright HUGE /lib/modules/2.4.17 but the end result was very surprising. In less than one hour I was able to install the hardware, have the system detect it (kudzu), read /var/log/messages to see which module the Adaptec SCSI card needed, modprobe the module and add a line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (modprobe aic7xxx), reboot and mount a CD. Then I linked /dev/cdrom2 to /dev/scd2, added a line to /etc/fstab and proceeded to burn a CD at 4x using Xcdroast. Oh, and I also removed the hardware again in that hour. I was impressed to say the least. Just thought I'd pass on this experience... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: an interesting experience
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:08:28 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:58 am, Myles Green wrote: In less than one hour I was able to install the hardware, have the system detect it (kudzu), read /var/log/messages to see which module the Adaptec SCSI card needed, modprobe the module and add a line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local (modprobe aic7xxx), reboot and mount a CD. Then I linked /dev/cdrom2 to /dev/scd2, added a line to /etc/fstab and proceeded to burn a CD at 4x using Xcdroast. Oh, and I also removed the hardware again in that hour. I was impressed to say the least. Just thought I'd pass on this experience... Ok... write that up into a 'getting started' couple of paragraphs that can be placed into the manual that comes with the CD-RW. :o) OK, but do you think they'd actually include it? =) Impressive yes but there is a long, long way to go. True enough but this would not have been possible even a year ago - I would have had to work much harder at getting it to work. BTW Bruce, are you still using OS/2 anywhere? Are you aware of any GUI software besides RSJ for burning CD-R(W)'s? Seems my father wasn't impressed enough to make the switch to Linux. Oh, and he's legally blind so it pretty much has to be a GUI application to suit him. Thanks. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [Fwd: Screem]
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:05:36 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:19:33 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream: [snip] Not related to your main questions, but you are aware that a Ctl-Alt-ESC in X will give you a skull-and-crossbones for a cursor? After getting that, just click in any window and that window will be killed. OK, well, it's not an X function. It's either a KDE (window manager) function, or a Gnome (middleware) function. But this doesn't work in Blackbox, Ion, or XFCE (my choices in order of preference). FWIW, I use xkill in XFce if I need to -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. -- Peter H. Coffin ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Microsoft Support OT
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:37:48 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about: Mentally Crippled Self Evangelists - sort of what windows zealots are! Keith B. Condon Thomas A KPWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have told them that MCSE stands for Must Consult with Someone Else, Mouse Certified System Engineer Mandrake Consultant Suse Expert My Certification Somewhat Exaggerated Mine-sweeper Consultant, Solitaire Expert -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Attn: Doug Hunley re forum software.
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:55:00 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas wern't you looking for something like this?? AnyBoard Forum Rated: 3 Penguins - Category: TUCOWS Linux Internet Web Based Applications Version: 8.3 License: Freeware AnyBoard is a fully featured web community and collaboration tool Try it: http://lyris.tucows.com/cgi-bin/nph-t.pl?U=24774M=425664MS=41514 The local L.U.G. use[s,d] a WikiWiki board (http://calgary.linux.ca/) which seemed to work well, last I saw. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
New URL for Alberta mirror
http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ The old site will remain for a short while, probably until the end of January. Thanks, -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean idiot. ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: IBM whitepaper: securing Linux servers
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:36:44 -0700 Glenn Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hung my mail client - never downloaded the .pdf file... http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/whitepapers/security/ try accessing it now, you should see a bunch of files listed in a tree -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. -- Peter H. Coffin ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Xscreensaver-4.0
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:11:56 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scribbling feverishly on January 17, Net Llama managed to emit: Anyone successfully built Xscreensaver-4.00 from source? I'm running into annoying gtk errors when compiling. I've never had problems building previous versions. It went okay here. Whassa matter? Is this on your Slackware box? I've attempted it on a RH7.x box and i get errors like these during 'make': snip I just built it on a RH7.2 box using the included (in the source) spec file (rpm -ba --target i686 xscreensaver.spec) no problem. HTH -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://mylesg.homelinux.net/ -- Unix is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. -- Peter H. Coffin ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: FreeBSD again ot
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 02:25:20 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:46, David A. Bandel wrote: I may be mistaken (often am), but I believe me too is trademarked AOLusers. ;-) moi aussie? non, vous et norfolker, n'est pas? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, Ya get 1 whacked with a service pack, Now there's 63,005 bugs in the code! -- from a Slashdot post ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: StepXStep CD BURNERS-IDE
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:11:55 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just want to see if I understand. If you add the append=hdb=ide-scsi line to your lilo.conf, then does that line cause the scsi module to load? Or do you need to compile scsi support in to the kernel, AND use that line? And if you have hdb and hdc, cd-rw and dvd, do you need to add hdc=ide-scsi to that append? I have a CDRW and DVD player on hdc and hdd and had to append hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi for them to be seen as anything other than plain ol' CDROMs. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- 63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs, Ya get 1 whacked with a service pack, Now there's 63,005 bugs in the code! -- from a Slashdot post ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Memory lapse
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 10:45:33 + Declan Moriarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was it Myles Green who wrote on Thursday 03 January 2002 05:12: On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:49 -0700 [snip] dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 Pardon a detail improvement, but I believe it actually is bs=512. This can be checked by simply doing ls -l /boot/boot.0300. The MBR is 512 bytes long, so the memory creaks out. Well, I wrote that verbatum (actually it was a C P) from the Doc I refered to (lilo mini-howto) but now that you mention it, I do seem to recall using bs=512 when I last used it. Sorry for the confusion :( -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Memory lapse
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:48:38 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On January 02, Myles Green enlightened our ignorance thusly: On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:49 -0700 [deletia] As Ian pointed out, you can do this with LiLo itself or here's another one from the lilo mini-howto that will work as well (I can verify this as I've used it more than once with success): dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 The reason bs=446 is correct is that boot loaders use the first 446 bytes of the MBR. The next 64 bytes contain the partition table. The last 2 bytes store a magic number typically used to store a value that confirms that the indicated sector is a boot sector. Thanks for explaining that Kurt, I was begining to wonder which value (512 vs. 446) was the correct one. I know I've used bs=512 in the past and it worked but the Doc I referenced yesterday had bs=446 which I didn't really notice until I saw the post from Declan this morning. Between having Microsoft rammed down my throat at school and running into changes in the Linux documents like the above it's no wonder I'm constant state of confusion these days. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: opinions on iptables scripts?
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:06:52 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at Freshmeat, I see like 50 different firewall scripts (iptables based). What are you guys using? rc.firewall? shorewall? mon mothma? others? I'm using 'narc' available here: http://www.knowplace.org/dl/narc-0.5.1.tgz I found it at freshmeat.net -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: elx
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 16:01:05 -0800 Vern W Heesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 03:22 pm, you wrote: [ snips ] On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 14:10:46 -0800 Ted Ozolins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 December 2001 01:48 pm, you wrote: If your typos are in a product you're selling, I won't buy it. If you can't proofread, how good are you at testing your software Yes, you are. I didn't find any typos in Mandrake or Caldera distros that failed to install on my PC or in Redhat distros that had a flaky compiler/glibc environment for everyone's PC, but I'm too picky to use them any more. I am in agreement with Dave. Typo's are unacceptable. It truely shows how much 'true' effort was put into the thing. I see more and more companies putting things out with typo's in them, it's pathetic. Typo's or no typo's, my greatest bitch with elx is that I had to go change permissions on quite a few items in order to use them as a user. This is not the first distro I've tried (nor probably the last) Most machines at this site run Caldera other than this one (my lab rat). I've not had to go through so many changes on the other machines as I had to on this one. I'm constantly looking for distro's that can be installed and used by wintendo converts and at first thought that elx would fill this requirement. But for now, I'll continue playing with it and see what the 1.0 release is like and hopefully they'll see that running primarily as root is really not an option. Can you imagine a wintendo convert running linux as root? Good grief, I shudder just thinking about it. JMHO and this to me is a BFD! You pays you money, you takes you chances. In my case, I paid absolutely zip and got an extremely well-crafted and functional product for the price of a few hours download and two burnt CDs. I also got access to a professionally constructed web site with a well grounded plan to encourage Windows users to migrate to linux as well as an offer to help with that endeavor. I got a desktop environment that will probably appeal to a lot of Windows refugees. I got immediate response for my questions from the developers. I got all-in-all fewer bugs than I ever did from Mandrake and Caldera and SuSE and gentoo distros I've used in the past. And just for a bonus, I got one #@! typo in a pre-release distro, and that fact has you anal types in an uproar. Now Ted has a slightly more rational complaint - ease of use for device allocation which is one of the not-so-user-friendly areas of a *nix system. Every distro is going to handle this differently. Either you set permissions to permit anyone access to devices and deal with the security ramifications, or you set exclusive permissions and require use of root to alter those permissions as required. I've had much grief on Caldera distros and others just getting pppd functions to work. This is nothing new. Granted, no distro is going to recommend running as root other than briefly to accomplish brief tasks, nor does elx do that, but every new Linux user is going to need to learn how and how not to use the power of root. I don't have any serial devices, Ted, so I can't comiserate. The elx distro has been easier for me to install, manipulate, and tailor than any I've used in the past. I would not hesitate to recommend this one to a newbie. Us anal types? uncool, unnecessary.and with that I'm done. Vern, i hope that's only with this thread... there is another solution it's called a killfile. i'm about to use it right now... collins -- PLONK have a nice day. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OTRe: Is This Thing On?
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:18:44 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 30, Tony Alfrey enlightened our ignorance thusly: On Sunday 30 December 2001 09:47 pm,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *still* dislike sendmail On what?? On drugs? g Well, I've often wondered if Eric Allman, because he was at Berkeley, was using another famous Berkeley product when he designed the sendmail configuration syntax... might have... ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Memory lapse
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:49 -0700 Glenn Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Group: I want to delete this Linux and the associated partitions from my hard drive. Currently, I dual-boot SuSE 7.2 and Windows XP. I think LILO was installed in the MBR. IIRC, that's what boot=/dev/hda means. I've attached my /etc/lilo.conf in hopes some kind reader will verify that this is so. I remember that there's a command line exercise that will restore the original MBR, but I can't find it and don't remember it. As Ian pointed out, you can do this with LiLo itself or here's another one from the lilo mini-howto that will work as well (I can verify this as I've used it more than once with success): dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 I suppose if all else fails I can boot with a Windows 9x boot disk and restore the original MBR with fdisk /MBR. this will work also, in *most* cases, however I have run into situations where this wasn't successful and the end result was a drive that wouldn't boot and a screen that scrolled 1's and 0's (binary) endlessly when you tried. the cure was to use the dd command. as always, YMMV but it worked well for me. Any help? Here's /etc/lilo.conf: # LILO configuration file # Start LILO global Section # If you want to prevent console users to boot with init=/bin/bash, # restrict usage of boot params by setting a passwd and using the option # restricted. #password=bootpwd #restricted append=BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi boot=/dev/hda #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems. vga=771 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=Wg:kw:Wg:Wg read-only prompt timeout=80 # End LILO global Section # image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hda3 label = linux initrd = /boot/initrd # image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse root = /dev/hda3 label = suse initrd = /boot/initrd.suse optional # other = /dev/hda1 label = windows table = /dev/hda # image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86 Thanks, best regards, and Happy New Year to all who may choose to observe the custom. Glenn -- Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #135678 Powered by SuSE 7.2 Linux Professional ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OTHapppy B-day Doug
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:18:58 -0500 Tina M. Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congrats.. Have a good one Doug! -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Win95 replacement
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 22:52:09 -0500 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously, Anita Lewis chose to write: that's the general idea. I just finished installing slackware on a laptop with 4Mb RAM and using floppies. First there was the boot floppy with the So there might be a use for my old 486SX-33 Gateway laptop with 8MB RAM? Hmmm. Maybe I could turn it into a linux terminal... It needs a NIC, though... Anybody done this? Made a linux terminal using an old laptop. Is 8MB and a 486SX-33 enough horsepower for an X-Terminal? perhaps as a terminal it might, but i tried an installation using a DX2-50 w/ 8MB... X managed to start but it took about 5 minutes and it wasn't usable except (of course) at the command line. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ping - ignore
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:36:42 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate sendmail. me too ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ -- There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: cd as scsi
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:00:19 +1000
Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My burner is seen as ascsi device, obviously if I am going to burn
with it.
However I also want to see my dvd/cdrom reader as a scsi device so as
I can
use it for DAO burning. Stuffed if I can get /dev/sr1 to be
'seen'..
I have hdc=ide-scsi in lilo, I have changed /dev/dvd to point to
/dev/sr1.
do you have both drives on the same ide cable? both of mine are and i
have hdc=ide-scsi (for CDR-RW) and hdd=ide-scsi (for DVD) in lilo.conf.
my /dev/dvd points to /dev/scd1 ('coz i'm using redhat).
Whwn I try a mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr1 /dvd it says that dvd is an
unknown
device. Yet I can mount it on sr0 which is noramlly where
/dev/cdrecorder
mounts for the burner. I tried a direct mount to /dev/sr1 with the
same error.
what does your fstab look like? here's a peek at that part of mine:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdromiso9660 user,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1/mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 user,kudzu,ro 0 0
obviously, /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/scd0 and /dev/cdrom1 is a link
to /dev/scd1. your mount points will be different...
HTH
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Re: more KDE build problems
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:15:15 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:25:46 -0800 (PST) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, i give up. I'm descending into RPM dependency hell here, where each level gets uglier than the last. I think this is a sign that KDE isn't for me. KDE 2.x.x isn't something I'd want to cuddle up next to either. XFCE is a beauty to behold, and a joy to build. XFCE forever Amen! -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: How to run DVD under Linux
On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:18:39 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Xine quite nicely on Suse 7.3 also vlc does a good job too. But I wonderr what rpms you have installed as well as the xine-lib and xine-ui ?? Xine-d4d ? Xine-alsa ? Xine-w32dll etc ... There are aso some more gotchya libraries needed. Let me know what you have installed and I'll let you know what else you need. I grabbed all the RPM's on this page: http://skyblade.homeip.net/xine/XINE-0.9.6/i686.RPMs/ and installed them. I was just playing around with it again and clicked the d4d button and the the play button and I'm now watching... ermm... Babar, a children's DVD from a box of breakfast cerial because it's the only dvd in the house (not for long though!) g Anyway, I think Xine works quite a bit better than Ogle did, much smoother playback and switching back and forth from fullscreen is a snap even at 1280x1024. Wow, I had no idea it would be that simple to get DVD's playing :o) /me happy camper -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: How to run DVD under Linux
On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:13:32 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have search around and I cannot figure how to use my new DVD drive under Linux. I have SuSE 7.3 Pro with xine-0.9.4 installed. I have a i810 Celeron mobo w/Celeron 366 CPU and kde 2.2.1 installed. I have an ide CDROM @ /dev/hdb and a 10X DVD @ /dev/hdd. I have put a movie in the DVD drive, but it will not play nor is it recognized under xine. I have put hdd=ide-scsi on the command line and have ide-scsi module installed. The start up messages show the DVD @ /dev/hdd. I have symlinked /dev/hdd to /dev/dvd (or should this be rdvd?). What or where is a step x step to show how to get this running? I am tired of the choppiness of windows PowerDVD 3.0 and am hoping Linux is a better choice for viewing DVD's. Thanks in advance. Keith B. I managed to play a DVD (OK, it was a kid's Babar DVD from a cereal box) under Linux (redhat7.2) for the first time lastnight. First I grabbed Ogle and dependencies: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ogle/ follow the link to the ogle download page: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/downloads.shtml and follow the directions there. The install is painless if you use an RPM based distro... Second, I have a CD-RW and a DVD (as hdc and hdd) seen as /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 (zero and one) so I had to make a link: ln -s /dev/scd1 /dev/dvd. next, disable automount if it's running... After that I popped in the disk, opened ogle and -File - Open disk, started the disk playing. I would imagine that as developement progresses it will get better but for now, there are a few problems (that I encountered): * it played right past the menu to the first track on the disk I used to test this. * play is not 100% jitter-free * full screen works but couldn't find a way to quit besides ctrl+alt+backspace With Xine, I could see the files on the dvd (xine-0.9.6) using the playlist viewer but got a blank, black screen when I pressed the play button - I even waited several minutes. FWIW my hardware is: Shuttle AK-31 motherboard AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz 512 MB DDR RAM 266Mhz FSB nVidia GeForce2 400MX 64MB SB Live! LG 16x DVD LG 16x10x40 CDR-RW 15GB Maxtor ATA 100 (/boot and /) 40GB IBM ATA 100 (swap and /home) HTH -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: @home still serving
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 09:43:48 -0500 burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On December 2, 2001 12:36 am, Ian wrote: I for one, will gladly see my service divorced from @home, it was their s#!t email servers that led to my purchasing and hosting of my own domain. I was missing mails, receiving replies to the list, before the post I'd sent, other emails were arriving 10 (yes ten) days late. Precisely. Ditto here. In fact, I'm now looking at alternatives. Rogers does not seem to be able top come up with a Linux friendly way of running their dhcp servers. There are some silly Windowsizations (e.g. winbios identities) that make it very difficult to successfully get a dhcp lease. My server here keeps coming back reporting that the udp packet returned from Rogers dhcp sever was of a non-standard length and was not recognized. Has anyone heard anything (good or bad) about IStop (www.istop.com )? They say they officially support Linux and offer a variety of bandwidth schemes including fixed IPs and no prohibition on legitimately-used servers. I've heard nothing either way about IStop, but if Telus is in your neck o' the woods you might want to give give them a try. They don't 'officially' support Linux but I've been using them for years, first with dial-up and later with aDSL, and I've had zero problems so far. HTH -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: [Fwd: Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter - Issue #20]
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 21:27:26 -0500 (EST) Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Lee wrote: Please excuse forwarding this to the list, but I think you might find the first item interesting. It's about time some Linux distro kicks M$ in the knee caps, even if they are French. Lee Hey, we're not all French ;^) Good to be back on the list folks. Welcome back Stew! -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Quake...
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 19:23:34 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:00:57 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:36:45PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: I'm a bit sheepish to admit this... but I've just rediscovered QUAKE. It Your secret's safe with me. Totally OT, but I'm probably the only living linux afficionado who has never played or dreamed of playing QUAKE. grin nope... there's at least two of us ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: recompiles on Suse 7.3
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:44:37 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 26 November 2001 10:10, Net Llama enunciated: The problem with 15, to the best of my understanding is that it forgets to write all changes to disk when you shutdown the system. Thus, you end up with massive amounts of fs corruption, especially on boxes that have had long uptimes. It has nothing to do with the fs being used. Thanks Lonni.. yes, thanks for that bit of info... I'm now running 2.4.16pre1 as well. I haven't come across any fs corruption yet either but my uptime was only something like 50 hrs. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: A quick review. Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:54:10 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 19:51, Myles Green wrote: I'm not having the kdesud problem here, for whatever reason. I just ran xcdroast as root and setup my 'mere-mortal' user as a user of xcdroast and I've burned *many* copies of RH7.2 to pass out at the college - as 'me' not 'root' - since then. /usr/bin/whatever - 'consolehelper' consolehelper then wants root password. The 'fix' is rm /usr/bin/whatever ln -s /usr/SBIN/whatever /usr/bin/whatever chmod u+s /usr/sbin/whatever I did an xhost +localhost and then 'su -' to root and called xcdroast, did the setup thing and closed it off. You said you upgraded to 7.2 from 7.1? I didn't, I blew away slackware 8 and installed clean. Maybe that's where the difference lays? well, it got my burner but missed the dvd in the append statement, I had to add it but that's about all it missed. I know nuthin about dvd. what are the details please? I know almost as much as you do snivel it's the time, I need more hours in a day! /snivel The Llllama! posted a step on playing avi/divx not long ago and there's also a step on dvd full-screen with nVidia video cards, those will be where I start ...just as soon as I find some of that ellusive thing called 'spare time'. yes, you do have to create (a ~/bin) but isn't that 'normal'? I don't follow your reasoning for that. I see it as 'incomplete'. Perhaps it is, I dunno... I created ~/bin quite some time ago (when you *did* have to do it all by hand) for my own little collection of handy scripts so I just never noticed 'they' didn't, I guess. It's always just been included in all my backups and carried from one distro to the next with me. A person could always just make an /etc/skel/bin so it *would* be created for any new users, if they were so inclined. ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: ext3 query
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 17:47:08 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I have a partition ext2 formatted will using tunefs to make it ext3 compromise that data ? It shouldn't, didn't on mine at least. AFAIK all it does is create a special .journal file under /.journal and (in my case) /home/.journal and /boot/.journal. But if you've rolled your own kernel and haven't patched it with the appropriate ext3 patch then it will still mount as ext2... or at least, it did here. I've got the patch for 2.4.14 if you want it, or IIRC somebody else said to try the latest pre-kernel (2.4.15pre6 I think), that's six patches though ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Web Server Working?
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 12:36:05 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 22 November 2001 12:24 pm, Kurt Wall wrote: Can anyone out there hit my web site, http://www.kurwerks.com? Probably could if you speeled (sp) it right :o) nope, didn't heelp ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 18:16:56 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list, I'm finishing up a chapter for an unspecified book on Red Hat Linux and you have the opportunity to contribute. In particular, if you ran into problems either installing or configuring a stock installation of 7.2 (or, perchance, one of the pre-7.2 betas), tell me what it is and I may be able to add it to a chapter on troubleshooting and problem solving. If you do so and it makes it into the chapter, you will have both my gratitude and a mention in the acknowledgements. Ayup... OK, I did a re-install lastnight so I could nuke everything on hda (way too many partitions). I chose the 'expert' install and then selected 'custom' and went from there. I set my partitions up as follows: hda1 /boot (50MB, ext3) hda2 / (balance of 15GB drive, ext3) hdb1 swap (1024MB) hdb2 /home (balance of 40GB drive, ext3) The only things I've noticed are: - Logitech Marble mouse (USB or PS/2) was seen as a 3 button mouse by anaconda - easily changed during install. - during the lilo config portion the append box had only hdc=ide-scsi, needed to add hdd=ide-scsi. - although X was configured and 'works' outta the box, pressing ctrl+alt+num-pad+ or - does't change resolutions and the truetype fonts I added aren't seen because the fontpath section only points to unix/:7100. - I've found the stock firewall to be quite good but had to add a '-l' (dash ell) to the rules in order to get logging. So far most everything I've checked out 'just works' including burning CD's (haven't tried playing a DVD yet), though I did add xcdroast myself and used that to burn. This install, I included apache and anon ftp but haven't set them up or anything as of yet so, nothing to report there. I will be setting both of these up later this week. Overall, I was/am very impressed with this version of RedHat, including the up2date feature - so much so that I intend to purchace a boxed edition which I haven't done since Caldera released eD2.4 way back when. There you have it, my $0.02 =) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Dual CD's
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 04:43:55 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have both a burner, and a normal cd-rom. The software I'm using needs to see both of these devices as scsi to do cd - cd copying. Does anyone know how to massage /dev/hdc and /dev/hdb BOTH as scsi? as in append=hdb=ide-scsi I have an LG re-writeable burner and a DVD which is seen but not appended in my lilo.conf, the burner is hdc and the dvd is hdd: image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda1 append=hdc=ide-scsi /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 (using RH 7.2) I can mount either or both drives via cli or gui but haven't got the DVD working as anything but a normal cdrom (yet). HTH -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT Volume Down?
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:49:05 -0500 Burns MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it my imagination, or is the volume on this list way down over what it was just a month or two ago? either that, or we have the same imagination... 8^0 Did we lose a bunch or people that never re-subbed during the hardware failure crisis? It seems we lost a bunch during the 'crisis' who just haven't made their way back yet =( -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: kernel 2.4.10 blues
Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the release notes, it looks to me that most of the changes are *alot* of Alan Cox merges and other assorted stupid bug fixes. Not much in the way of new features (as it should be). ...but I thought new features were introduced in the devel series (2.1.x, 2.3.x, 2.5.x) and only patches and fixes went into the stable series (2.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.6.x). or have I got that wrong? Version level=2, Release level=4, Patch level=x just wondering... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: who has suse 7.3
David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one who thinks that this business model of shipping distros via mail is getting rather outdated? nope. Burning your own cds seems so much more convenient (saves lots of shipping time) and a lot cheaper when shipping costs are cut out. Of course if you're were desperate for printed documentation or something stuff like that could be shippable.. but for the rest why not just burn your own cds. show me the iso's and I'll gladly burn them... just haven't found any yet myself. I'm thinking of a payment method sorta along the lines of Mandrake's donations page... but this time nonoptional and with a charge per gigabyte of data downloaded from suse's ftp servers or something buy an ftp account and transfer quota instead of paying for a nice box. works if you have a credit card - I don't use them myself as the intrest rate is absurd. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: who has suse 7.3
Ian Marchak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myles Green wrote: works if you have a credit card - I don't use them myself as the intrest rate is absurd. It's paying more to have a company ship me something at bulk rates and charge me 2 times as much as it would cost me to ship it myself that burns me off. Myles, if you pay 'em at the end of the month they don't charge interest. ;) heh heh, Ooohh!! So _that's_ how that works... ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: who has suse 7.3
Ian Marchak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas J Hunley wrote: anyone? Losta people who live in Germany...not many on this side of the pond. I've been in touch with several software retailers and even they couldn't tel me when it would show up at their stores. same here - no luck. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SuSE isos are back
Douglas J Hunley wrote: I think you'll find SuSE very nice once you settle into it... but it will take some settling first... Thanks for the heads up, I'm looking forward to using it. Didn't SuSe start as a derivative of slackware, or have I got my wires crossed? (I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere...) Myles ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OTHappy Birthday Myles
Michael Scottaline wrote: This one's for you Myles!! ;o) A virtual digital beer!! |:-) Mike -- He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you., he really is an idiot. -Groucho Marx Name: confer-L.jpg confer-L.jpgType: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) Encoding: base64 Thanks Mike... but I think I had more than my fill of the real stuff last night. My liver is pretty much shot due to hepatitis C and booze is a no-no but last night I decided a 'few' wouldn't hurt me... boy was I wrong, still very much 'green around the gills' this evening. I'm gonna print this virtual beer out and look at it whenever I feel like having the real thing. In this light, your signature is *very* fitting and I feel like I'm the guy good old Groucho was referring to way back when. As Keith put it so very well, there's no fool like an old fool. (even if that fool is only middle aged) and now I think I'll lay down again =) Myles ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OTHappy Birthday Myles
Net Llama wrote: --- Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: Best wishes! blush thanks! You don't look a day over 20. LOL... thanks! ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OTHappy Birthday Myles
Keith Antoine wrote: On Sat, 20 Oct 2001 03:32, you whispered in my pinkie: DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote: Best wishes! blush thanks! Myles Geez, how does it feel to be 21 Oh, yeah! My you do dress up well, don't ya. Thanks Keith, I needed that =) ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SuSE isos are back
Douglas J Hunley wrote: SuSE 7.2 pro isos are back at http://hunley.homeip.net/iso/ discs 1-5 are there now, with 6 and 7 later today. MD5 sums are there also. Please read the README. Thanks! Awesome! I'm d/l'ing the first one right now =) I was going to wait for 7.3 to ship (or at least arrive at my local geek emporium) before booting win2k off this box but now I don't have to. Of course I'm still going to buy 7.3 when it does arrive... Thanks again Doug!! Myles ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT New Grandson
At 10:23 PM 02/10/2001 -0400, you wrote: On October 2, 2001 09:15 pm, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lisyt wll I have been hard at work here slaving over this that, BUT Sunday afternoon, it all came to a head. My second grandson was born, he is also my third grandchild. We are a strutten like a Peacock here. If you would like to see a couple 0of pictures of this little guy, soon to be a Linux user as his dad is, go to this url: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/s/sandoval/ A cute little cuss indeed. Congrats Gramps. BTW, I hate to say this, but I think he may be a Windows user. He's holding up his three fingers, poised to invoke the Microsoft kernel management tool... 'control-alt-delete' BWAAHAHAHAHA! Thanks... now I have to clean my keyboard and get the coffee outta my sinuses ;-) --- Myles Green, Calgary Alberta Alberta Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux
Hi Shane, Yes, you can use software compiled for Debian 'Potato' 2.2r3. In fact, with the correct lines in /etc/apt/sources.list you can continue upgrading and updating to your hearts content. The apt utility is quite handy ( see man apt ). You'll need to comment out or remove any/all lines in your sources.list that point to stormix's ftp site... but if you go to their web site (it was still working last time I looked) and look for the 'Mirrors' page you find, I believe, at least one that still works - also ftp.sourceforge.net contains a storm directory under the mirrors directory. Use that before you go after the 'pure' debian stuff and you'll be able to keep using the graphical config. and package manager supplied by stormix. I have a remote box still running Storm but it looks as though the owner has it shut down (probably to save on the power bill) right now so I can't grab a copy of the custom sources.list for you. You might want to check out the archives of the debian users mailing list as there were many many posts within the last year detailing how to keep storm up to date. HTH Myles Shane Broomhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have serveral boxed copies of Linux at home. I am planning on spending some time with all of them. I have heard that Debian is one of the most stable Dists. I have purchased 4-6 months ago a boxed set of storm, it is based on Debian. I have heard Storm have ceased trading. As Storm is based on Debian, does that mean that I can use it and get the Debian files to add to what I already have in the way of utilities I need ??? For Example, can I use a normal Debina Kernal to upgrade my setup if I choose to run storm ?? I have found a site that has Win Modem drivers for Linux, but mainly Debian, Could I use these with Storm ?? Thanks in advance, I appreciate any assistance anyone might offer. Shane Broomhall Brisbane Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Webserver config (permissions?)
Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously, Myles Green chose to write: I just tried it from here and it seems to work just fine =) The Fathers Club St. Ursula School The above is what I see... Thanks Myles. Now, all I need to do is make a real web site. Might even get myself a domain name... You're welcome. Oh, it wasn't real? I didn't try going beyond the index page. There are a few places where you can get dynamic redirecting to your machine if you don't have a permanent IP address... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
God Bless The U.S.A.
Pardon my late posting on this but I've been trying desparately for the last week to come to grips with the events that took place on September 11. I am not a person who usually sheds tears freely, in fact I can't remember the last time I sobed uncontrolably over anything. As I write this, I am droping tears onto my keyboard - in fact I can't even see my keyboard right now for the tears. Please accept my condolances to those who lost loved ones and/or friends in the tragedies of last week and know that I and Canadians in general share in your grief. In closing, I would like to present a link to a tribute to America that was sent to my by my Father. It is a Flash media presentation and it took a while to fully load on my DSL connection but it is well worth waiting for. http://sa750.com/other/91101.htm Respectfully, Myles -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: syslog.conf: avoiding disk writes
Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I sit here typing away, my hard drive is constantly going on and off as those nasty worms try to infect (invade?) my computer. There is a way to prevent immediate syncing to the disk with syslog, but I can't figure it out and there are no examples in the man pages. The man page says to put a - in front of the selection. I did that, and things may have slowed down, but the drive is still pretty active. Does the entry below seem about right? -*.info;news,mail,authpriv,auth.none/var/log/messages I believe the dash goes here instead: *.info;news,mail,authpriv,auth.none - /var/log/messages but I may be wrong... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SETI...
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: % On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 08:55:39 -0400 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % ---snipi-- % % Piddly:o) % % 2,199 units done the last time I looked.Over 5 years worth. % % % I...errr... my computer... just finished the first unit... :.) 471 last time I checked... 724 completed here... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT MSDOS Rescue Neededototot
Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2001 20:55, Keith Antoine wrote: burns wrote: I'm running Suse 7.2 Pro and this thing flies! It's hard to concentrate on the screen with all this wind in my hair g. I am running very similar 1.2 gig Athlon 256mb DDR and Soltek MB 60 gig HD space. What this skiting about hair, in your case; What hair ?? You lost it there Skippy, it's an old Kanuck tradition that on those rare occaisons they have a success, they stand on a chair , open their trenchcoat.. ROFLMAO /me wipes tears of laughter from eyes -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: star Office new video card
Ronnie Gauthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XF86Setup not if he's using xfree86-4.x, that tool went the way of the dinosaur along with xfree86-3.x (for better or worse). Xfree86-4.x uses either the original cli tool xf86config, or one of xf86cfg or, in the latest version, X -configure to get you up and running. FWIW, I still prefer to use xf86config - I guess old habits die hard. myles On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:41, Keith Antoine wrote: Had a problem installing Star Office, d/l it to a dir and called 'setup' but that fell over staright away as it could not seem to find a stsrting point, Anyone else setup this 638 version ? New video card inserted and it now falls over on X startup; now that lizardx is defunct and I have not used any other what do i call rather than doing a total install, just to reset to a new video card. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Ronnie == Life can be a dream; or it can be a nightmare it's all in your mind ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: tar troubles
Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I moved from eDesktop 2.4 to Redhat 7.1 and when backing up and saving personal stuff, I tarred up my mail directory and bzip2 it up on to a zip disk. Now when trying to retrieve my mail directory, it bunzip2's ok but it won't untar. tar xvf mail.tar puts me right back to a prompt with it still listed as mail.tar. No error messages no nothing. Just the mail.tar file staring mockingly at me. Nothing I try with the tar command works. It just always goes back to the prompt. Any ideas of how I can untar this? I hate to lose all those e-mail tips I've received over the years. A few questions, if I may. When you tar'd your mail folder what was the command you used? Did you check the file size of the .tar file against the original folder (IIRC, they should be very close to the same)? Did you try unpacking the .tar.bz2 file with 'tar xyvf file.tar.bz2'? Can you see what's in the .tar file using some utility like KDE's Archiver or maybe midnight commander? And lastly, have you done this successfully in the past? Sorry for all the questions but those are what came to mind. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT MSDOS Rescue NeededTID
Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Myles Green wrote: burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Suse 7.2 Pro and this thing flies! It's hard to concentrate on the screen with all this wind in my hair g. OK, now I'm jealous... /me who has to wear a hat just to keep from blinding passing pilots when the sun is shining ;-) So *that's* what the pilot on my flight yesterday was cursing about. ;-) err... prolly was... I ran out with the garbage and forgot to put a hat on ;-) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: freshmeat?
Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone else getting strange results from freshmeat tonight? as in using the search engine? no, not really... just did a search a little while ago and it seemed to be fine. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: jblinux experiences
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:13:53 +0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:37:21 -0600 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the pointer... looks like it might be interesting. Do you happen to know if there is an FTP install? You can ftp all the packages to a directory and install from that OK, that works for me =) thanks again. directory, but there is no fetch the packages on the fly like there is with gentoo. The only other flaw I forgot to mention: jbl doesn't provide the sr_mod.o module, so you will need to customize the kernel to get support for CD-RW. This is OK too, one of the first things I do on my systems is build a new kernel. The installer found my sound card (esssolo1) and NIC (tulip) without a hitch, and DHCP is selectable. I have cups working for my printer as well. USB support is there, but I've been unable to get past printing the test page with slackware 8 / apsfilter and I've just installed cups / qtcups and and am now trying to get everything setup and working. Having it all setup and ready to configure would be nice though g. I can't check it out with my equipment; nor do I know how the system will fare with SCSI disk and/or PMCIA for laptops. I use neither of these as well but I do have a USB mouse. I don't expect any problems... Thanks for your review =) Myles The only user group is the forum on the jbl site, and the traffic is pretty light there, but I'm sure the heavy weights on this list can answer most questions. Collins On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:23:27 +0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI I think this is the greatest distro ever!!! Except for a very few things omitted from the Desktop+Development install option, the system has everything I could possibly want and more (both GNOME and KDE are onboard). Here are some of the good and bad (nothing disastrous). 1) For those of us used to the Sysvinit form of init, the jbl approach takes some getting used to. Instead of the directories with Sxxx and Kxxx links for each run level, there is a single unified script for each run level. You turn on or off scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d by adding/removing execute permission. 2) I like the jbl package stuff, but there is no way to do a pretend install. The provided rpm2jbl program works. There is also a patched version of check install that works quite well and converts the tarballs to a jbl package on the fly. 3) I had to install a few packages to get the prereqs for xfce, sylpheed, and opera. Some were on the cdrom, some were tarballs, all installed without a hitch, as did the afformentioned products. 4) I can't think of much else right now; jbl is darn near perfect for my needs. ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: linux 2.4.9 not ready for prime time
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:31:17 + Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:56:39 -0600 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I'm running 2.4.9 on a K6-2/500 - have been since the day it was released. No problems with it here... -- Well, after I discovered that something (not me) changed my Processor type setting, and after I changed that back to i586, life is a little better. The system boots, but there are a few irregularities. The first time I booted, none of my modules got loaded. I did a depmod -a, and depmod didn't like my esssolo1 (soundcard) module. I've never had to run depmod before when going from kernel to kernel. Modprobe for all modules except esssolo1 was successful - unresolved symbols. On the second boot, all the modules loaded, but esssolo1 is still doa. hmmm... i don't think can help too much you here =( ...i still use an ancient sb16 that 'just works'... but when you went through the sound section, did you unselect the stuff that isn't related to the esssolo1? did you select 'm' for modules or, perhaps you selected a 'y' instead ? (been there done that! g) FWIW, i build everything 'sound' as modules... in fact, there isn't much that i build directly into my kernels. Other than that, 2.4.9 appears to be working ok. this is good news =) I need to go back through the kernel config with a fine tooth comb. Maybe something else has been altered automagically. that's a good plan... something isn't right in there. good luck! hope you find the culprit... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: linux 2.4.9 not ready for prime time
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, the instability that i had experienced with 2.4.8 completely disapeared when i upgraded to 2.4.9. I'm using NFS without a single problem. THis is on a i686 though, so i can't comment on the i585 weirdness. Well, I'm running 2.4.9 on a K6-2/500 - have been since the day it was released. No problems with it here... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
LiLo and the MBR...
I found a little something about restoring MBR's today after totally hosing one on a Compac Presario 5050 earlier this morning. In a nutshell, there is an 8MB drive as hda with win98 installed, the cdrom is at hdc and I added a second HD with Linux on it as hdd. My job was to restore windows to an 'as new' state and then update/patch it as required and add the second drive with Linux and allow dual booting. At any rate, I hosed the lilo.conf and then hosed the MBR by running LiLo and got the dreaded scrolling lines of 1's and 0's upon a reboot. I tried the 'fdisk /mbr' trick which did nothing and I started sweating =( After a few deep breaths, I poked around in the HOWTO's and found a LILO mini-howto... all is well again =) it seems that when you install lilo to the mbr, it creates a file under /boot - in my case boot.0300 which is your unmolested MBR in all it's glory... to restore it you use dd, like so: dd if=/boot/boot.0300 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1 a quick reboot and *viola*: windows startup screen I lost about 5 pounds worth of sweat over this today before i found the answer so, here's hoping somebody here can/will benefit from my little experience... -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: SOLVED! Re: I'm in LILO hell
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:37:32 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- John Hiemenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2001 11:04, Net Llama wrote: Linuxcare Emergency boot CD (think Tom's RBD on crack). Its a 40MB CD the size of a business card that has basically 95% of /sbin, /bin /usr on it, making it a mini-OS on a CD. Anyone interested in getting an ISO of this CD, let me know, and i will gladly post it somewhere publicly accessible. Granted, you'd not be able to squeeze EBCD is always nice thing to have. Post it, please. Done: ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/support/lfriedman/disk/ER-iso Burn it to a CD like an ISO, and you're good to go. Thank you! /me hoping this one includes midnight commander =) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: suggestion for step-by-step site
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 07:37:06 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Linuxism Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the one that was posted a while ago. http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239 This page appears to be nothing more than banner ads. time to switch browsers? In netscape 4.77 it shows, yes a few banner I *was* using Netscape-4.77. Also tried with Mozilla. Oh, sorry 'bout that then, I thought you were using Opera. You know,come to think of it, I've experienced something like this before w/ netscape. Sometimes I can go to a site and I see what you must have seen, all the adds and other page components but the text, or article, isn't there yet. After a *very* pregnant pause the rest of the page usually comes up - though it took me quite a while before I stumbled onto this. It's annoying to be sure. Perhaps that's what is going on in this case too? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Administrivia - Everyone please read!
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:18:40 -0400 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 August 2001 21:10, Myles Green wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:47:46 -0500 John Hiemenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 14 August 2001 16:42, Douglas J. Hunley wrote: On Tuesday 14 August 2001 16:44, Terence McCarthy babbled: I think I may have to unsub myself, Douglas, if you have to take similar action again, because of what appears to be a few people's reactions. One of the things I cannot stand is the idea of Political Correctness, and one-size-fits-all ideas and opinions. nor I in all honesty. In fact, I found the humor refreshing, and I added the pic to my rotating backgrounds.. I can't stand it anymore. I missed the pic. Someone send to me via private email so I can see what all the hubaloo is about. I missed it too =( Same here... yet I have lots of other email that arrived around the same time. Makes me think that it never arrived here and I wonder why. Can I be offended? Oh, I should *think* so... I know I was snif, snif until an un-named saviour sent it to me thereby giving me the oportunity to be offended in the proper mam.. err.. manner =) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Alberta Step by Step Mirror: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mylesg/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sound in slackware
David, sorry for getting back to you so late, was away for a few days... comments below On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 22:27:01 -0700 David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, how did you set up your sound? If you haven't done this yet you might want to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to uncomment your sound card and Well in /usr/src/linux/Doc...n/sound I discovered which driver supported my sound card and modprobed it into the kernel. you did this from a command line? any errors? what sound card is this again? I then added a line for it to rc.modules, b/c even a commented out one did not already exist, although the module was available. OK but you might need to modify how you entered it (IRQ/DMA etc) then either modprobe the sound module or reboot. Are you running the stock kernel? If so which version 2.2.19 or 2.4.5? Still running stock 2.2.19 (never noticed the option to go 2.4.5 when setting up slackware although it apparently was there) lol, I seem to keep procrastinating on learning the art of kernel compilation. it's not that bad, really, if you have a few hours to spend. just remember to keep a copy of a working kernel, it's System.map and it's modules directory around in case you mess things up - even if you don't you can still boot from either the install floppy/CD or the emergency boot disk you made during installation and repair things if need be. hint: in slackware 8, if you replace 'make bzImage' (when you get to that step) with 'make bzlilo', it moves your old kernel to vmlinuz.old for you (along with System.old), then all you need to do is modify /etc/lilo to point to it before you do the 'make bzlilo', it will run /sbin/lilo for you when it's done. --- from /etc/lilo.conf --- image = /vmlinuz.old label = old_kernel root= /dev/hda1 vga = normal read-only --- end snip --- HTH Myles -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sound in slackware
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 16:07:21 -0700 David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On August 8, 2001 06:05 am, Mike Andrew wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2001 19:13, David Aikema wrote: Well the card seems to work in realplayer, xmms, play, etc basically anything that doesn't use artsd This is part of the kde package? There's a known bug that causes it to permanently hold onto the /dev it is fixed in the new kde2.2 due 'real soon now' Ya that's what I think the problem is. I think miles stated earlier that when he built the latest kde2.2 from cvs this fixed those problems. Yes, my system now has sound under kde after compiling the code from cvs last week. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sound in slackware
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:51:51 -0700 David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never bothered setting up my sound before the upgrade to kde2.2beta1 so I don't know if this is a problem with my configuration or what... but, although I've got sound when i execute from a prompt /usr/bin/play nameof.wav I can't seem to get any sound whatsoever in kde2.2beta1. I don't have a solution for you but I can confirm that you aren't alone on this. Sound works everywhere *but* under kde2.2beta1 here. As I usually use XFce this isn't a bother to me but it's still a curious thing. I've grabbed more recent snapshots of kde2.2 (from July 27th) and will try those to see if it was something that got fixed or not. I also grabbed koffice-1.1rc1 and will see if I get the same errors as you got with that... I'll get back to you later today on that. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sound in slackware
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 01:51:51 -0700 David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to get any sound whatsoever in kde2.2beta1. David, I just finished building the kde2.2 snapshot from july 27 and 'viola' we have sound once again. They're supposed to release kde2.2 final next week so you may want to wait until then to grab the source. BTW, how did you set up your sound? If you haven't done this yet you might want to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules to uncomment your sound card and then either modprobe the sound module or reboot. Are you running the stock kernel? If so which version 2.2.19 or 2.4.5? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Way off topic
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:18:44 + Terence McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just how is beer Way Off Topic on a Linux list? for a non-drinker? waaay out there ;) Terence (CAMRA member) CAMRA? wha'sat? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: The Strangest Things In My Mailbox!
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 02:37:20 -0600 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:26:25AM -0600, Myles Green wrote: [snippage] in fact, it was one of their dial-up help-desk people who first turned me on to linux way back when - right after i said 'what do you mean reformat the drive and reinstall !?! again !!? blah! blah! blah! there's got to be *something* better than this!!'. all he said was 'do a search on google.com for linux... but you didn't hear that from me' =) I downloaded my first few Slackware disks Way Back When (c) from, of all places, America Online. Talk about dripping with irony. ;-) Wow, I'll say!! Betcha couldn't find it there now tho ;-) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: The Strangest Things In My Mailbox!
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:42:28 -0700 (PST) Shawn Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, I have yet to receive a single copy, other than the ones emailed, thank you gentlemen. I must hang out in the wrong crowd same here I guess... either that or I've harped at my win32 using friends enough to cause them to be more aware than the average bear. =) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: The Strangest Things In My Mailbox!
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:17:43 -0400 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or you have a clue-enabled isp who knows his way around filters. i've ok, that sounds more like it ;) gotten scads of 'em on the earthlink account, but nothing on any of the others. which is about what i would have expected -- in my experience, earthlink sucketh bigtime. my other provider is exacting and security-conscious, a small operation that is run by a guy who is responsible for what happens there. that would make all the difference in the world alright, small is good in this case. iirc, my provider (telus) bills itself as #2 in size here in Canada and they seem to be pretty much on the ball. quite a few of their adsl techies are *nix freaks - which is kinda handy when things go *bang* and you're not sure if it was them or you that b0rked things. ;) in fact, it was one of their dial-up help-desk people who first turned me on to linux way back when - right after i said 'what do you mean reformat the drive and reinstall !?! again !!? blah! blah! blah! there's got to be *something* better than this!!'. all he said was 'do a search on google.com for linux... but you didn't hear that from me' =) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: kde2.2
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 00:05:24 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you also rebuild (or obtain) new qt2 libraries? I have had zilch crashes on kde2.1.1 under rh7.1 Am interested to know if it's a kde build problem for certain distros or a qt error. this was definately a kde build problem as i left qt alone (qt-2.3.1) to make sure it was kde and not qt. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Problems with i810 under SuSE 7.2.
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:52:26 -0600 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: next: kdelibs there is no more kdesupport so this is now the first one to build. i used this for ALL the kde packages: ./configure --disable-debug make make install my appologies, this line should have read: ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/lib/qt --disable-debug make make install NB: i did post a correction right after sending this lastnight but the the correction got bounced by linux.nf -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Problems with i810 under SuSE 7.2.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 15:25:35 -0700 (PDT) Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whoa...slackware packages? I'm using the precompiled binary packages for XFree86-4.1.0 directly from xfree86.org. I have no clue what slackware is distributing. They distribute binaries for xf-4.1.0 compiled under Slackware with AA fonts built in. There have been a couple of complaints about X on the slackware-devel list but mostly it boiled down to PEBKAC type errors and none mentioned the i810 specifically that i saw. Mine was one of those complaints and, in my case, it was a collection of dust puppies wreaking havoc - a half hour spent cleaning out the case worked wonders. The one thing that is most definately screwed up with Slackware is KDE, whoever built it did *something* very wrong. I just built kde2.2beta1 here and it works way better - faster starts, no crashes and all the kde menu items actually work including all the koffice stuff. myles --- David Aikema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... that device section looks exactly like what I've got these distortion problems happened to me also when I tried to install eworkstation 3.1 or I'd be inquiring if there might be a problem with some of the slackware packages. Quite frankly, I'm stumped now. David Aikema - Original Message - From: Net Llama [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:42 AM Subject: Re: Problems with i810 under SuSE 7.2. Wow, that's pretty messed up. I can gladly say that i don't have any problems, especially like those. I'm guessing that you were referring to the Graphics Device section: Section Device Identifier i810 Driver i810 #VideoRam4096 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection = Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ Step-by-step help:http://netllama.ipfox.com . __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sylpheed test
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 00:46:54 -0500 Ronnie Gauthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lart.com ohhh... now i get it... i think? kurt larted bruce for bein' cranky with mathew? sounds reasonable i guess... /me slow on the uptake tonight... as usual :o) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT linux stuff
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:32:50 -0500 Eddie Arteaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nah Myles, I wasn't trolling for flames. And I was talking Linux. there's a difference between talking linux and complaining nothing works with whichever distro you try followed by comments like my win2k box never does this or that. As for Win2000, I just mentioned it doesn't crash for me. I have no great love for Microsoft. nor does most anyone on this list i'd wager Yes I read the info with the distros, yes I took my time. Yes I did edited /etc/rc.d/modules under Slackware. I do support Linux, and I don't see anything wrong with pointing out stuff on it that doesn't work well or to my expectations. OK, you edited the rc.modules file, uncommented the sb16 line and still no sound under the 2.4 kernel but you do get sound under the 2.2.19 kernel? Did you try building your own 2.4 kernel yet? FWIW, i could not get any sounds under XFce (added by me) using a 'stock' kernel but yet i did have sounds under kde and gnome. once i built a 2.4.6 kernel there was sound under XFce as well. Yes KDE would hang up particularly under Slackware. Total hangs killing the mouse and keyboard. So I ran xf86config to see if that's what was causing it. i think whoever built the slacware kde 2.1.2 packages did a piss poor job of it as it is extremely buggy with koffice segfaulting every time - and not just here either As for the NIC, Caldera with the 2.4.x kernel gives the error garbage in the relay string. Suse gives a timeout error during dhcp and snip i forgot, are you using cable or dsl? (perhaps you never said?) do you need to use pppoe perhaps? just a thought. Slackware just sits for a bit, then goes on to X, with DHCP not working. Only with the 2.4.x kernels. and you ran netconfig? hmmm something strange with that which kernel did you select, the one from the boot floppy or one off the CD? Hardware on all three machines is fine. And I do know what I'm doing, and I read most everything. The problem is in the distros. I'll keep messing with them. well, i'm glad you know what you're doing... and you're right: it's gotta be the distro fault. yep. sure thing... Like I said, I wasn't trolling, just pointing stuff out. I still use Caldera 2.4, and everything works. huh? but what about the 'garbage strings' thing? i thought that was a problem... say... wait a minute... you wouldn't be related to hayseeds would you ?? -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada *Slackware 8.0* -- Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ -- Calgary Linux Users Group (CLUG): http://www.calgary.linux.ca ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sylpheed test
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 23:08:44 -0600 Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I'm completely lost here. I wanted to test sylpheed to see if it had any features I wanted. I created one message to test the word wrap at 72 and no html so as not to offend anyone else. I have no idea why Bruce would want to killfile me because of that. Not like we had a flame war or anything. My sig is the same as I've used for a couple of years now, and is listed in the SxS. Oh well, I try to be courteous and verify I'm not violating the common rules and someone gets their knickers in a twist. Maybe Les Bell wasn't so wrong after all. But before I go, What's a LART? Andrew, I have no idea what a LART is either... nor do I have any idea what the PLONK was all about... must be something in the air today? In any event it would be a shame to see you go as your contributions would surely be missed. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Compiling SRPMs and i386, versus i686
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:06:39 -0700 (PST) Shawn Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 00:15:14 -0700, Vern W Heesch wrote: It's been a while, but if I remember correctly rpm --rebuild --target=i686 whatever.rpm should work. Vern Thanks Vern, The man pages on rpm didn't show a --target option, but I will give it a try. IIRC the --target option only works when you've installed the srpm via rpm -ivh name-of-srpm.srpm, which will place the actual source files (plus any patches) under /usr/src/OpenLinux/SOURCES/ and a name.spec under /usr/src/OpenLinux/SPECS. To use the --target option cd to the directory containing the .spec file(s) and then as root issue: rpm -bb --target=ix86 name.spec you might want to first look in the RPMS directory first to make sure that the target exists, if not create it and carry on. please note: it's been a very long time since I've worked with RPMS so, be warned, YMMV and RTFM just to be sure =) HTH -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada *Slackware 8.0* -- Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ -- Calgary Linux Users Group (CLUG): http://www.calgary.linux.ca ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Compiling SRPMs and i386, versus i686
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:29:05 -0700 (PST) Shawn Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 07:21:48 -0600, Myles Green wrote: please note: it's been a very long time since I've worked with RPMS so, be warned, YMMV and RTFM just to be sure =) Thanks Myles I'll let these build as they are. I fiddle later with the optimazation sure, build a few like that to get comfortable with rpm before trying to get fancy - gotta learn to crawl before walking and all that ;) stuff. I figure that since this is a stock OL 3.1 install, maybe these rpms would be useful to other who want to upgrade to 2.1.1 I hope so at least. as long as you haven't changed changed or added too much (library-wise) other's should be able to install them as well. -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada *Slackware 8.0* -- Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ -- Calgary Linux Users Group (CLUG): http://www.calgary.linux.ca ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: quanta compile troubles
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:18:33 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 10 July 2001 02:17, Myles Green wrote: I compiled quanta+ on gcc 2.95 / glibc 2.2.2 (egcs 2.91.66~85) sans problems yeah, but how many goats did you have to sacrifice? i'm down to just a few piddly chicken feet and i don't think they have enough voodoo in them for the job ;) I used up the one remaining goat that Les Bell airmailed me for kicq. Useless bugger (either Les, or the goat, were no bl**dy good). I lined up 3 beady-eyed chickens for quanta+, but it turned out to be unecessary, so I'm keeping the eggs produced during their 'period of stress' for any further attempts at getting k bl**dy icq running. I'm gonna give quanta+ another go later this evening. I poped the cpu fan and heatsink off today and and cleaned up a downright *ugly* mess of crap - since then I've built a 2.4.6 kernel with no errors... that's gotta be A Good Thing(tm) doesn't it? Didn't even need one chicken or his/her foot ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada *Slackware 8.0* -- Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ -- Calgary Linux Users Group (CLUG): http://www.calgary.linux.ca ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT Test
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 23:01:40 -0400 Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Testing 1,2,3. Is there anybody out there? shhh don't answer him snicker -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada *Slackware 8.0* -- Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ -- Calgary Linux Users Group (CLUG): http://www.calgary.linux.ca ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: quanta compile troubles
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 22:44:54 -0500 Bill Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 06 July 2001 21:38, you wrote: I just rsync'd quanta from hunley.homeip.net and tried to build it but no matter what I do the make craps out as follows: snip That looks like the same errors Jim I ran into when putting Quanta 2 onto kde 2.1.1 This is how Jim fixed it up: SxS for a CVS compile for Quanta2 pr2 on KDE2.1.1 and COL eD2.4 1: Make a new directory to download the CVS code to. 'cd ... to that directory. 2: from a console or terminal, $cvs-d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/kde login 3: password$ JUST HIT ENTER 4: $cvs -z3 -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/kde co quanta 5: You will notice it get all of the code and place it in the directory that you created. 6: $make -f Makefile.cvs 7: $./configure --prefix=/opt/kde2 8: $make 9: $make install *: You may have to create an Icon for it in kde menu if you so desire. The binary file is in /opt/kde2/bin/quanta. There should be an Icon somewhere in /opt/kde2/share/icons/* for it as well HTH, Thanks Bill =) I'll give those a try. I *may* have solved my problem by... uhn.. *cough* cleaning my cpu fan and heatsink? Yup, it seems too much crapola coupled with 30 deg C (that's 85+ F) heat makes the old amd k6-2 cranky. Imagine that! g -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada *Slackware 8.0* -- Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ -- Calgary Linux Users Group (CLUG): http://www.calgary.linux.ca ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Redhat Tux 2.0 blows away all other webservers
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:56:35 -0400 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2001 09:00, burns wrote: Auyeung at Technet Systems wrote: Interesting, Burns, Not only this article, but also your use of the Japanese fonts, which makes me wonder if you are in Japan enjoying your vacation,watching Mikado, or eating Sushi ! Excuse me? According to my setup, I'm using Western encoding and adobe times and adobe helvetica. Unless someone else is seeing this problem, I think it may be on your end. I see the problem here.. Your posts (read in Kmail) have gone from a nice readable font to the 'ungodly ugly' large fonts. gee, everything looked just fine here (read in sylpheed ;) -- Myles Green Calgary AB Canada *Slackware 8.0* -- Linux Step by Step Mirror: http://linuxsteps.webjump.com/ -- Calgary Linux Users Group (CLUG): http://www.calgary.linux.ca ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
