[vox-tech] Relocation errors and dynamic symbols

2004-12-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
Hi all, Continuing from the previous thread on "hello world", we saw an example of a custom section (.rodata) getting relocated into a canonical section (.text) in obj or exe files. But what exactly is a relocation error? I assume it means there was some kind of directive to relocate a custom se

Re: [vox-tech] Relocation errors and dynamic symbols

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Herron
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: "U" doesn't mean a fatal undefined error; it simply means something that needs to be linked on the fly by ld.so. Right? Is there a way of querying ld.so about whether it "knows" a particular symbol? The dynamic linker doesn't know about particular symbols. The nm exec

Re: [vox-tech] Relocation errors and dynamic symbols

2004-12-01 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 01 Dec 04, 8:45 AM, Ken Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > >"U" doesn't mean a fatal undefined error; it simply means something that > >needs to be linked on the fly by ld.so. Right? Is there a way of querying > >ld.so about whether it "knows" a particular sy

Re: [vox-tech] Relocation errors and dynamic symbols

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Herron
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: The only method I can think of is using ldd to get a list of all the libraries, use objdump on each of the individual libraries, and grep through each individual list. A real pita. I was hoping there was an easier way. That's essentially how to do it, although it'd be muc

Re: [vox-tech] Slack 10 print problem solved

2004-12-01 Thread Shwaine
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Bill Wells wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 11:32 am, Shwaine wrote: Parallel printer support ### if cat /proc/ksyms | grep "\[lp\]" 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then echo "lp support built-in, not loading module" > /dev/null else if [ -r /lib/modules/$RELEASE/misc/l

Re: [vox-tech] Relocation errors and dynamic symbols

2004-12-01 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ken Herron wrote: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > The only method I can think of is using ldd to get a list of all the > > libraries, use objdump on each of the individual libraries, and grep through > > each individual list. A real pita. I was hoping there was an easier way.

[vox-tech] portable mp3 player in linux

2004-12-01 Thread Jennifer Stickel
Hi, I am considering getting a portable mp3 player. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions on ones that work nicely in Linux. Also what is the opinion on the flash memory based devices versus the hard drive based ones? Thanks, Jennifer Stickel __

Re: [vox-tech] portable mp3 player in linux

2004-12-01 Thread David Hummel
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:02:00PM -0800, Jennifer Stickel wrote: > > I am considering getting a portable mp3 player. I was wondering if > anyone had suggestions on ones that work nicely in Linux. Also what > is the opinion on the flash memory based devices versus the hard drive > based ones? I

Re: [vox-tech] portable mp3 player in linux

2004-12-01 Thread boombox
> On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:02:00PM -0800, Jennifer Stickel wrote: >> >> I am considering getting a portable mp3 player. I was wondering if >> anyone had suggestions on ones that work nicely in Linux. Also what >> is the opinion on the flash memory based devices versus the hard drive >> based on

[vox-tech] Installing from .gz archive?

2004-12-01 Thread Richard Crawford
I'm attempting to install LuMiX (http://www.lumixtech.com) from the CD that they sent me. The instructions that came with the CD say to gunzip and untar the files onto a bootable partition on the destination computer's hard drive. Unfortunately, I'm at a loss here. I've installed Linux plenty of

Re: [vox-tech] portable mp3 player in linux

2004-12-01 Thread Bryan Richter
Jennifer Stickel wrote: > Hi, >I am considering getting a portable mp3 player. I was wondering if > anyone had suggestions on ones that work nicely in Linux. Also what is > the opinion on the flash memory based devices versus the hard drive > based ones? Thanks, > If I had the money, I

Re: [vox-tech] Installing from .gz archive?

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:41:37PM -0800, Richard Crawford wrote: > I'm attempting to install LuMiX (http://www.lumixtech.com) from the CD > that they sent me. The instructions that came with the CD say to gunzip > and untar the files onto a bootable partition on the destination > computer's hard

Re: [vox-tech] Installing from .gz archive?

2004-12-01 Thread Mark K. Kim
Knoppix? -Mark =P On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Richard Crawford wrote: > I'm attempting to install LuMiX (http://www.lumixtech.com) from the CD > that they sent me. The instructions that came with the CD say to gunzip > and untar the files onto a bootable partition on the destination > computer's hard

Re: [vox-tech] Slack 10 print problem solved

2004-12-01 Thread Bill Wells
On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:42 am, Shwaine wrote: > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Bill Wells wrote: > > On Monday 29 November 2004 11:32 am, Shwaine wrote: > >> Parallel printer support ### > >> if cat /proc/ksyms | grep "\[lp\]" 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null ; then > >>echo "lp support built-in,

Re: [vox-tech] Slack 10 print problem solved

2004-12-01 Thread Bryan Richter
Bill Wells wrote: > sorry . . . don't work for me. Here is the applicable section of my > rc.modules file. notice that I also changed the parallel port support > section to reflect the same file name difference in the 2.6.7 kernel. > > > > tis perplexing. I can live with the modprobe calls

Re: [vox-tech] Slack 10 print problem solved

2004-12-01 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 20:59:29 -0800 Bill Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 10:42 am, Shwaine wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Bill Wells wrote: > > > On Monday 29 November 2004 11:32 am, Shwaine wrote: > > >> Parallel printer support ### > > >> if cat /proc/ksyms |