Re: No Sound with Kernel 2.6.7

Hi Peter, The 2.4 & 2.6 kernels use different, incompatible module formats, so you can't just copy the 2.4 modules over to 2.6. Instead you will need to install a 2.6 kernel module for your soundcard. If your kernel was already configured to build your soundcards drivers as modules, all you shou

Re: cron job for rsync

There's a couple of different versions of cron available, and you don't specify which one you use, so I'll just answer with what I'm most familiar with. Dillon's cron (the cron used in Slackware - crond) says this in it's man page: "Whenever crond must run a job, it first creates a daemon-owned t

Re: Damn unmouted root

I've never myself done anything w/ SCSI drives (other than ide-scsi emulation for CD-Writing pre kernel 2.6), but I thought SCSI harddrives were usually /dev/sd?, while IDE drives were /dev/hd?. >From /usr/src/linux-2.6.7/Documentation/devices.txt: 8 block SCSI disk devices (0-15)

Re: shrunken console on laptop problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Miller wrote: > I'm having some display problems on a couple of laptops: one has Gentoo, > the other Debian Sid. The difference in the nature of the problem between > the two laptops is that one has an Xwindows display that looks fine > (Gentoo)

Re: mounting vfat partitions

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would recommend something like: /dev/hdb1 /dosd vfatdefaults,umask=0,utf8,uid=1000,gid=100 /dev/hda1 /dosc vfatdefaults,umask=0,utf8,uid=1000,gid=100 Most importantly, the umask=0 option tells mount to grant all permissions

Re: Remote X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've never done this, so I don't have much info for you. But the one thing I can think of, is you might want to make sure you are using cygwin/X, not just cygwin. cygwin is just a port of the standard *nix console commands (ls, cp, cat, dd, etc.), wh

Re: longstanding Linux irritants: suggested solutions?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Miller wrote: > On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > >>I can only give you partial answers here, James. I hope they are enough to >>be of some help. > > > >>"stdout" is short for "standard output" and is, by default, the terminal >>d

Re: Remote X

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That's correct. The only step you left out, is you need to tell the XServer to allow the remote computer to display on the XServer, with xhost. For example: host1$:XFree86 :(a) vt(b) host1$:xhost +host2 host2$:wmaker -display host1:(a) HTH, Conway

Re: multiple X displays and nvidia

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I want to rephrase your description, just to make sure I understand your issue correctly. On your PII machine you have a nVidia graphics card with dual-head, connected to two monitors; configured using Xinerama. One of the monitors was set to display

Re: inittab

runlevel 4, change the inittab line to: c7:4:respawn:/usr/X11/bin/XFree86 -query 192.168.0.1 :1 vt08 Good luck, Conway S. Smith Beolach wrote: > Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: > >>>Good morning, >>> >>>Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9

Re: inittab

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: > Good morning, > > Following is from /etc/inittab on a client running Slackware-9.0. > > # These are the standard console login getties in multiuser mode: > c1:1235:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux > c2:1235:respawn:/

Re: unicode under Linux question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Miller wrote: > I don't know if this list is the right place to ask questions about using > unicode fonts under Linux. But maybe it's at least a place to start. You can always ask. You just might not get answered. I just skimmed through the U

Re: running X programs as another user

Just on quick comment: rather than using 'xhost +' I would recommend using 'xhost +localhost'. The former allows connections to the X server from any host, while the latter only allows connections from the localhost. Usually wouldn't matter, but it is more secure. Just my $0.02, Conway S. Smith

Re: LILO configuration

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Tiefenbrunn wrote: | Hi, all. | | I bought a (used) computer that came with SuSe linux installed. I would | like to set it up so I can boot either Linux or WIN98 (I know, yuck, but I | still have some stuff that I need to use there) | | The HD is

Re: moving partion to newer drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ray Olszewski wrote: | At 08:25 PM 2/24/2004 -0500, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: | |>Hello, |> |>I have a dual-boot system (with windows-98 and redhat 7.3) setup on an old |>hard disk. I recently obtained a new hard drive and have their order |>configured

Re: Black Box Time

Edit your ~/.blackboxrc file so that it has a line like this: session.screen0.strftimeFormat %H:%M session.screen.strftimeFormat [string] A C language date format string, any combination of specifiers can be used. The default is %I:%M %p which generates a 12 hour clock

Re: error message interpretation help?

> 1) whether the /proc/partitions and /dev directory structure inconsistency > could be related to renaming the fstab entry for the CD drive Not directly. Both could possibly be caused by devfs, which is what is almost definetly causing the /proc/partition & /dev inconsistency, and might be the r

Re: devfs

Sorry for the length of this reply, I was bored and felt like writing a novel. Well, no you don't *need* to have devfs, and it would be really easy to remove, but I wouldn't recommend it, for a couple reasons. First of all, devfs really is the best way to do what's being done (see below), and sec

Re: Samba

> Hello, > > I recently switched to linux because I was curious what else was out there > and was very annoyed with windows's mismanaged multitasking. So I went and > bought Slackware after trying knoppix for a short while. I know Slack is > sometimes not recommended for newbies, but I think it i

Cooperative Linux

There was a thread on this list recently on running Linux inside windows; to which the general consensus was that it can't really be done. However I was reading through the weekends articles on /. and found this article about a program that does exactly that:

Re: 2 NIC cards not talking

chuck wrote: [snip] OBTW, when I ping -I eth0 192.168.1.1 ping: bad interface address 'eth0' is what I get. I do have an eth0 device. :-| The -I option doesn't take an interface name (ie eth0), but rather the IP address (ie 192.168.0.1) assigned to the interface. Conway S. Smith - To

Re: 2 NIC cards not talking

ping has a -I option that allows you to specify the source interface. I haven't used this option myself, but I would guess Chadha used some thing like this: 'ping -I eth0 192.168.1.1'. Conway S. Smith chuck wrote: Dear Chadha: In (4.) & (5.)... I know how to ping from a host with an 'eth0' o

Re: 2 NIC cards not talking

Oops. I just tried it, and it doesn't take an interface name (eth0), but rather, the IP address for the interface. So instead of ping -I eth0 192.168.1.1 it would be ping -I xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 192.168.1.1 Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of eth0. Beolach wrote: ping has a -I o

Re: 2 NIC cards not talking

It looks to me like you're iptables haven't been setup to NAT. I have attached the output of 'iptables -nvL' on my NATing gateway. Just for the heck of it I obscured my public address too. I used a slightly modified version of the rc.firewall-stronger startup script from the IP-Masquerade HO

Re: X not starting at all

Here are the steps I used to setup X on my computer with a nVidia GeForce4 Ti4200. You should be able to do exactly the same thing with your card. 1: Run 'xf86config'. Choose 18 "NVIDIA (generic)" for the card definition. This generates a good XF86Config file using XFree86's nv driver. This

Re: state of Linux USB networking?

Sorry if this is a repost, I thought I had sent it, but I never saw it come through the list. Here's a good site talking about alot of the different USB networking options: Beyond that I don't have anything elso to tell you. I personally don't much care for net

Re: X not starting at all

Sorry if this is a repost, I thought I had already sent this (and it is in my "Sent Messages") but I never saw it come through the list. > Hello, > it's me again. > Thanks again for the help you guys gave me when I had a problem with my > modules. > from when I had installed Woody, I was not able

Re: Machine to power off automatically.

Lars Bungum wrote: On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 13:50, John Kelly wrote: I can't get my machine to turn itself off automatically (when I tell it to do so in KDE), it just hangs saying "Power Down". Is there some option I have to enable in order to get this working? Looked at the APM/ACPI sections, but

Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection?

two of these, are connected to another one machine. How can i tell my router, wich of those are de two i want to use "bonded" ? Thanks ! - Original Message - From: "Beolach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PR

Re: 2 ethernet jacks -> single net connection?

First off, I have no actual experience with this, and I am just going off the kernel documentation. It is possible, and you even remembered the term correctly - ethernet channel bonding. What will most likely be the deciding factor on whether or not you can actually set this up is if the othe

Re: remote X sessions

Jacob Langley wrote: I've been all over the internet tonight looking for exactly what I want and I can't find it. What I'd like to be able to do is type something like $ startx Maybe with a whole lot of command line options even and be able to open an X session running fluxbox or twm or some oth

Re: Mozilla Mail Threaded messages

If anyone else cares, I found where to change this. In the mozilla browser goto "about:config" and change "mail.quoted_graphical" from true to false. Conway S. Smith Beolach wrote: I recently switched from using Juno Webmail (crap, but I had it forever, which is why

Re: kernel compilation problem

joy wrote: Sorry to find a trivial answer to the Q. The settings were alright . thanks a lot , Jason and Ray, All I needed to do was to to copy the System.map as this Kernel does not use the other two System.map(s) in /boot (they are for kernels compiled with diff options). But still ,I would like

Mozilla Mail Threaded messages

I recently switched from using Juno Webmail (crap, but I had it forever, which is why I kept it... vicious circle) to using Mozilla Mail with this address. Mostly I really like it, but there's one thing I personally find annoying, and it seems like something I should be able to change, but I c

Re: Compiled new kernel, Gnome not working

Flemming Greve Skovengaard wrote: No, I don't have frame buffer support and I have a ATI Radeon 8500 graphics card. The only solution that comes to mind, and don't hade me if it is stupid, is that I have to re-compile X, Gnome or both with the new kernel. I would guess that you should not have to

Re: Save data on DVD+R Drive??

Ray Olszewski wrote: At 10:21 AM 12/20/2003 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote: Greetings: I just acquired a HP 300i DVD+R drive, learning the ropes with it.. I've fetched Chris Stoddard's tome using the drive to burn video but I would like to use it for simple data storage, taking advantage of it's 4.7gB,

Re: Compiled new kernel, Gnome not working

What type of video card do you have? If you have a nvidia card & use nvidia's drivers, you will need to reinstall the driver module after compiling a new kernel version. Also, is it just gnome that won't start, or X? In the case I'm describing, X won't start at all. If you do have a nvidia c

Re: boot with numlock?

Hi, Pete For brief answer just skip to the down to the indented part. This question is addressed in The Linux Documentation Project at (which turns ten years old today! Hurray!). There are two HOWTOs that pertain too your question: The Linux Keyboard and Console HOWTO in m

Re: windowsNT-network

You should be able to set it up in the fstab to give all users rw permissions. You will probably just need to set the fmask and dmask to values you want (see the mount(8) & smbmount(8) man pages). fmask= sets the file mask. This determines the permissions that remote files have in th

Re: USB Hotplug??

Hey, Hal Now that you've mastered USB Hotpluging, are you ready to start hotswapping your CPU? Just saw this on Slashdot /. Links inside <>

Re: Public & private IP addresses via IP Aliasing?

Thanks, Ray. Dhcp-relay is exactly what I wanted to know about. Unfortunatly, some of the machines on the local network are running M$ Windows, which from googling I learn lacks real IP Aliasing support - you can get multiple static IPs, but not static & DHCP at the same time. So at least for th

Public & private IP addresses via IP Aliasing?

On my home network, I am currently using IP-masquerading (aka NAT) on my linux gateway to provide internet access for the local net. This has been working fine in general, but I have some problems with internet multiplayer in certain games that I believe are due to the IP-masqing. My ISP provides

(OT) Re: Compiling sg.o only (2.4.20)

What does EXTRAVERSION do? -- pa3gcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > edit the Makefile change line 4 from; > EXTRAVERSION = > to > EXTRAVERSION = -1 > save file; The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the

Re: Strange Boot Behavior (cont.)

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:48:29 -0700 Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 08:22 AM 8/22/2003 -0700, Christopher Swope wrote: > [...] > > > Have you tried putting the old drive on the Secondary IDE > channel? > > > (In > > > practice, this workaround may be your best bet.) > > > >I didn't.

Re: USB Flash Drive??

Here are a couple more comments on filesystems. This may be getting a little off-topic from your initial question, but I think it is still relevant. Sorry if some of it is really common knowledge, I just like building up from the basics. With the FAT filesytems, there are a number of variations.

Re:basicnetworkingqueries

First off I want to agree with Jeff; it might be easiest to setup a DHCP server on your home network, and always leave your laptop as a DHCP client. One thing I want to add on this, is that you can have your DHCP server reserve a specific IP address for your laptop, using the laptop's MAC address

Re: USB Flash Drive??

I have no personal experience with memory sticks, but I think you should be able to reformat them with any filesystem you want to, but keep in mind that it would then be unreadable in M$. So if you want it to be portable at all, keep it as vfat. For somewhat related info see:

Re: is there some ps-to-text extractor ?

I haven't used most of these, so I can't recommend any one over the others, but it looks like all of these should work. GNU Ghostscript is distributed with several conversion tools, including ps2ascii. However, in the ps2ascii(1) man page, it says "ps2ascii doesn't look at font encoding, and isn'

Re: basic networking queries

I for one applaud you wanting a deeper understanding of the underlying protocol, rather than just wanting a quick-fix. This is one of my favorite aspects of linux; you learn so much more about how something actually works when you set it up, very much unlike, say, M$ Windows. I myself don't have

Re: CD formats

I really don't have much experiencec with Macs, so I couldn't tell you what CD formats they can read. But from my experience with burning CDs, I would recommend using Joliet. Basically, the wat Joliet works actually does not invalidate the iso9660 8.3 filenames; it just provides alternative long

Re: Manually assigning identical cards

A good read on this is in the Ethernet-HOWTO, available online in The Linux Documentation Project, at: . Specifically, you would be interested in Section 2.3 "Using More than one Ethernet Card per Machine" at:

Re: How to update JRE?

> ... It looks > like this might be the 1.4.2 SDK, but it does have the VM and > JRE as well as the SDK. Oops. Didn't look far enough down the page. has downloads for both the SDK (at the top, all I saw at first) and the standard JRE. Conway S. Sm

Re: How to update JRE?

has a link; it goes to . It looks like this might be the 1.4.2 SDK, but it does have the VM and JRE as well as the SDK. If I remember right from when I installed it, it installs to a different location from th

Re: How to update JRE?

Before installing Sun's version of JRE, you might want to look into the differences between Sun's and Blackdown's JRE. As far as I understand it, if you use the latest version of Sun's JRE (1.4.2), it is the best choice, but if you want to use version 1.4.1 or older, you might need to use Blackdow

Re: Linux Networking problem...please help..

I reasonably certain everything below is correct, but don't sue me if it doesn't work. :) Here is what's causing your problem. Because you are using IP addresses 192.168.200.??? and also IPs 192.168.250.???, you need to either use for netmask 255.255.0.0, or change all your IPs so they start wit

Re: Cannot login as non-root user

>Basic questions: > >1. What is root's shell? Is it /bin/bash or /bin/sh? (If the latter, is >/bin/sh a symlink to /bin/bash? It usually is but might not be in your >case.) It is /bin/bash (and /bin/sh is symlink to same). >2. What are permissions on /bin? They should be 755 (rwxr-xr-x). They

Cannot login as non-root user

On my brother's computer, running Slackware 9.0, we have just recently begun experiencing problems signing in as non-root users, either from normal login, su, su -, or ssh. After entering username & password, login prints the error "Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied" and returns to logi

Re: su fails

--- Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>I thought reinstalling shadow had put everything right, but there are >>still hiccups. For example, although I can now su again --that is, it >>now >>recognises the password-- if I give the wrong password I still get >>just 'sorry'. > >I presume yo

Re: tune2fs configuration

I think you have mostly got the command correct. If the command you are using is "tune2fs -c 5", then the only thing you left off is specifying which filesystem/partition you want this option to apply to. For example, on my system my root filesystem is on the partition /dev/hdc1, so if I wanted i

Re: NFS - uid different??

As far as I know, the only mapping done by NFS is the "squashing" that maps to anonuid and anongid. If you only needed to map to one user id, you could change the anonuid and anongid options in the /etc/exports file. The two more elegant solutions I can think of are to use NIS/YP to serve the p

Re: Problem Mounting a Windows partition

Here's an excerpt from my fstab for my windows partitions. Device Mnt point FStype Options, see the mount(8) man page /dev/hda1 /mnt/winc vfat defaults,umask=0,utf8,uid=1000,gid=100 --- "Affan Qureshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, I have RH9 and WinXP on a single hard drive dual-

Re: suddenly the "device" identification changed

What I would guess happened is somehow your IDE channels got reversed. This an option designed for those (like myself) who have their main disk drives on an offboard IDE controller. On a "normal" setup, the motherboards onboard IDE controller's two channels would be ide0 and ide1, and any offboard

Re: Filesystem corruption in kernels 2.4.19, 2.4.20, 2.4.21

I forgot to mention, on kernel 2.4.18+patch, I have had no problems at all. Conway S. Smith On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 14:47:34 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've been having problems with major filesystem corruption on > kernels > 2.4.19, 2.4.20, and 2.4.21. > I'm pretty sure it's a problem with t

Filesystem corruption in kernels 2.4.19, 2.4.20, 2.4.21

I've been having problems with major filesystem corruption on kernels 2.4.19, 2.4.20, and 2.4.21. I'm pretty sure it's a problem with the driver for the PCI expansion IDE controller the drives are on, and I've reported this problem to the manufacturer (Promise Technology Inc, www.promise.com), but