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<title>Linux Gazette MailBag LG #43</title>
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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H2><a NAME="mail"><IMG SRC="../gx/mailbox.gif" ALIGN=MIDDLE ALT=" ">
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The Mailbag!</a> </H2>
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Write the Gazette at <A HREF="mailto:gazette@ssc.com"> gazette@ssc.com</A>
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<li><a HREF="#help">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</a>
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<center><H3><font color="maroon">Help Wanted -- Article Ideas</font></H3></center>
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Answers to these questions should be sent directly to the e-mail address of
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the inquirer with or without a copy to gazette@ssc.com. Answers that are
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copied to <I>LG</I> will be printed in the next issue in the Tips column.
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Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:33:42 -0230 (NDT)
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<BR>From: Neil Zanella <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>call for article: wireless ethernet</FONT>
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<P> It would be nice if someone wrote an article on wireless ethernet on Linux
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(eg. WaveLAN). I think it would make a good article.
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Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 16:06:20 +0000
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<BR>From: Jeffrey Bell (jfbell@earthlink.net)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Article idea</FONT>
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I don't know if this has already been done but how about an article
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about setting up a network printer between to GNU/Linux boxes.
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--
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Jeffrey A. Bell
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:27:30 -0700 (PDT)<BR>
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<BR>From: Kenneth Scharf (scharkalvin@yahoo.com)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>How to format floppies with an LS120</FONT>
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<P> I have installed an LS120 IDE drive in my linux machine and it works
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fine. I compiled the kernel with ide-floppy support for this. There
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is only one thing missing, a utility that will format floppies in the
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LS120 drive. Once I get this I can rip out the 'real' floppy disk
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drive and grap it's interrupt for a second lan card. Any Ideas here?
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 11:55:19 -0600
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<BR>From: Terry Singleton (terry@dynavar.com)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>gazette</FONT>
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<P> Is the gazette not searchable? I am trying to find out if linux supports
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multilink PPP? with the built in pptd or a custom one?
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<P> Terry Singleton, Network Engineer<BR>
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Dynavar Networking
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
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(In response to the many letters we have received on searching:
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there is a link to a new </EM>LG<EM> search engine on The Front Page.
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--Editor.)
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</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:57:36 GMT
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<BR>From: d@fnmail.com (daniel)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>suggestions and comments</FONT>
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<P> Hi. read your "Getting started with Linux" and as it says it gives a brief
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introduction to Linux. I've just started with linux, slakware, and comming from
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windows there are some problems that are hard to figure out for yourself. First
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of all it's this thing with devices. It took me two hours to get my cd-rom to
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work. it's simple, but if you don't know how to mount your cd or you don't know
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what a mounted hd/cd etc. is then it's quite tricky. And very often you need
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your cd. Then it took me about three more hours to connect to internet. This
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was also quite tricky comparing to just use the dial-up networking in windows.
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Since much information about linux can be found on the internet it's not good
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if you can't connect to it. I don't need this information, but I think these
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two things are stuff you should put in your article, espescially how to connect
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to an internet provider so you can serch for information on the web. daniel,
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d@fnmail.com
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:53:27 -0500
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<BR>From: Tom Wyrick (twyrick@paulo.com)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>RedHat Linux 6.0 on a Tecra 8000</FONT>
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<P> I recently attempted to install RedHat Linux 6.0 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000
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notebook computer, and ran into a couple of problems. The first time I
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installed it, everything appeared to be working properly, except the
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keyboard keys were too "touchy". Many times, it would act like the keys
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were sticking and print a character twice when it was pressed once.
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(I've seen a couple other references to this issue on Usenet, but no
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solutions were posted.)
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<P> After I used Linux for several days on the notebook, I encountered a
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situation where it didn't unlock the hard drive for read/write usage
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after it finished performing a disk check with fsck, and subsequent
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reboots failed due to the file system being stuck in "read only" mode.
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<P> At this point, I decided to reformat and do another install from
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scratch. This time around, the only changes I made were #1, not to put
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the system in runlevel 5 so it started in X immediately upon boot-up,
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and #2, enabled the apmd service for advanced power management. When
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this install completed, I had problems right away where Linux would boot
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- and then I wouldn't be able to type on the keyboard at all. (Every so
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often, I was able to get control of the keyboard back - but only after
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multiple reboots by hitting the power button on the notebook.)
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<P> Has anyone else out there had any luck running Linux on a Tecra 8000?
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Thanks, Tom.
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<BR>From: "box2.tin.it" (toblett@tin.it)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Extrenal ISDN adapters</FONT>
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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 21:44:36 +0200
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<P> Is it possible to get ISDN adapters to work under Linux though they are =
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not supportet by the manufacturer on gessing there details?
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<P>--<BR>
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Peter
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Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 23:43:34 -0400
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<BR>From: "Jay Bramble" (shipkiller@earthlink.net)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>IPChaining and Firewall rules</FONT>
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<P>I have a small home network with 5 systems. I use Linux as my
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proxy/firewall/dial-upon demand internet server and fileserver.
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Before I upgraded to RH6 I could go to any site on the Web. Now with RH6 I
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cannot get to some sites. ie: www.hotmail.com, www.outpost.com and
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www.iomega.com to name a few. I can get to them from my Linux box but not
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from the network. It sends the request and I see some data return but then
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everything stops.
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Here is my rc.firewall file:
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# In rc.d make a script called rc.firewall. Make it mod 700.
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# Makes it read/write/execute by owner(root)
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# chmod 700 rc.firewall
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#!/bin/sh
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#
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#rc.firewall - Initial SIMPLE IP Masquerade test for 2.2.3 kernels
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#using IPCHAINS
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#enable dynamic IP address
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echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
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/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 60
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#
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#Home Area Network
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#192.168.28.0/24
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#
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ipchains -P forward DENY
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ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQ
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ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.1/24 -j MASQ
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ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.2/24 -j MASQ
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ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.4/24 -j MASQ
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ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.1.5/24 -j MASQ
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</PRE>
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<P> It looks like those sites don't like how my proxy/firewall is setup. This
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only happened when I upgraded to RH6 and the 2.2 series of kernels.
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<P> Any Ideas?????????
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:43:21 -0400
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<BR>From: "Edward G. Prentice" (egp@egp.net)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>NFS boot RH6.0 Alpha?</FONT>
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<P> I have a few old Alpha (UDB Multia) systems. All but one have no disks.
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I'm hoping to figure out how to NFS boot one of them to become a diskless
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firewall box. I noticed while configuring the kernel that there is an option
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for NFS mount of the root, so I suspect all the software pieces are there -
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just a small matter of configuring the server to listen for NFS requests. The
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primary question I have, is: does anyone know if it is possible (through the
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SRM or ARC consoles) to boot directly from the net, or do I have to boot a
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floppy first that then boots from the net? I think there's also a way to put
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milo into flash memory so I don't need the floppy for milo, but I don't know
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how to tell milo to see the ethernet device. If I can't do it directly, how do
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I do it indirectly? - it sure would be nice to have one (or more) diskless
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alphas. On a somewhat related topic - is there any problem with adding a PCI
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NIC card to the Multia to get a second ethernet device for my firewall effort?
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Thanks in advance. /egp
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 03:34:53 -0400
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<BR>From: zak (zak@acadia.net)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>KODAK Picture Disk & gimp</FONT>
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<P> Hi, again. I've started saving my photos with a KODAK Picture Disk when I
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have them developed. When I was using Windows this was no problem, but now
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that I'm using Linux there is. KODAK does not support Linux with the software
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that comes with their disks. When I save my images to my HD using MCOPY, the
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images are upside down, but not reversed edge-wise. I've tried using gimp to
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turn them 'right-side-up', and have managed to do just about everything else
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with those images using gimp *but* that. (I fully admit I have no knowledge
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about image manipulation, and really only want to know enough to accomplish
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this one thing.) Can someone please tell me how to do this with gimp? I'm
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using RH 5.1. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.<BR>
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Zak
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:47:07 +0200
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<BR>From: khreis (septcs@cybercable.tm.fr)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Linux as Xterminal with SGI</FONT>
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<P> I'd like to ask about a strange thing I am getting when I run an SGI
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application displayed on a Linux Xserver(PC )
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<P>The Linux Xserver is running with RedHat 5.2 as following:
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<PRE>
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Driver "accel"
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Device "Trio32/Trio64"
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Monitor "Standard VGA, 640x480 @ 60 Hz"
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Subsection "Display"
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Depth 32
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Modes "640x480"
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ViewPort 0 0
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Virtual 800 600
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</PRE>
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<P> If I open a tiff image (RGB 24bits) on the SGI it shows ok with all colors.
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It is also OK if I open the same image on the Linux server using XV or Gimp.
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<P> But if I display the image on the linux monitor while it is running on the
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SGI the colors are not matching at all. The image resolution is perfect but
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for the colors , the white is getting yellowish as if the green channel is
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missing or getting dimmer or I can say as the blue and red channel are swapped.
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<P> I used with a csh login on sgi:
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<PRE>
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setenv DISPLAY linux1:0
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fm /var/tmp
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</PRE>
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<P> On linux The fm window appears and I doubleclick on a tiff image:
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<PRE>Spok.tif</PRE>
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a window open with the image of my cat ( white originally) with yellow
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dominance.
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<P> Today I am asking myself what is wrong and how should I repair. Can
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anybody help on this.
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<P> Thanks in advance
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:45:35 +0200
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<BR>From: ANTONIO SORIA (mpenas@sego.es)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>need help!!!</FONT>
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<P> I have a problem and i hope linuxgazette can help me with it. I'm about
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to buy a Toshiba Satellite S4030CDS which comes with the Trident Cyber 9525
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video card. I've seen in the Xfree86 3.3.3.1 docs that it supports Trident
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cyber 9520. Can i use this driver for the 9525? Please, if you know the answer
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or know somebody who can help me let me know.
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<P> Thanks very much for reading my message and for the great gazzette!!
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:41:42 -0400
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<BR>From: Kedric Bartsch (root@129.190.137.43)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>vertical scroll bars and fvwm95</FONT>
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<P> I have been using fvwm95 on RH5.2. All the xterms have scrollbars on the
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left side of their window. I recently installed SuSE6.1 and found that the
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xterm windows in fvwm95 have no vertical scroll bars at all. This makes it
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tough to look back through a screen's previous display. I tried the "Scroll
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module" in the fvwm95 configuration menue but it scrolls the window itself
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rather than the screen display history. I know the previous lines are there
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because past display lines appear when I resize the window vertically.
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<P> My question is how to I add vertical scroll bars to the xterm displays?
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<P>Thanks,<BR>
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Kedric C. Bartsch
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 17:24:13 +0100
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<BR>From: "Jolt-Freak" (stephen@ph01480.freeserve.co.uk)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>X won't start </FONT>
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<P> I Have Reacently Installed LINUX on an old 486DX2/66 that I bought for
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that specific purpose. I can boot up an login into root but when i issue
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the command the command startx to get X to star this is what i get:
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
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(This message came with MIME-escapes embedded. I'm not sure which
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numbers were typed and which are MIME codes. --Ed.)
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</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<PRE>
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execve failed for /ect/X11/X (errno 2)
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</PRE>
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and then 6
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<PRE>
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_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't Connect: errno =3D 2
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</PRE>
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then
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<PRE>
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Giving up
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</PRE>
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and Finally
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<PRE<
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Xinit:No Such File or directory (errno 2):
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unable to connect to X server followed by xinit: No such process (errno =
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3): Server error.
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</PRE>
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I wonderered if anyone could help a LINUX newbie
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<P>Jolt-Freak<BR>
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(Only playing with the prompt)
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:04:39 +0200
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<BR>From: Izbaner (lizbaner@alfa.c-map.pl)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>set_multmode {Error 0x04}</FONT>
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<P> I have a problem with hard disk (Seagate 4.3MB). On the start appears
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the kernel message:
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<PRE>
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hda: set_multmode 0x51 {DriveStatus SeekComplete Error}
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error 0x04 {DriveStatusError}
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</PRE>
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<P> It appears in all kernel's versions and distributions, which I have
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(SuSE 5.3, 6.0, 6.1; RedHat 5.1, 6.0; kernel from 2.0.34 to 2.2.9).
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After that I can work in text mode, but in X Window some applications
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hang up the system (no key work, no actions, no way to exit or shutdown
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the system...).
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<P> Help me, please!!!
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<P>
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__________________<BR>
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Lucas z Izbanerowic
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:12:04 +0200
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<BR>From: rakeshm@za.ibm.com
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>FAT32 and Linux</FONT>
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<P> Hi everyone...
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<P> I just got a new PC and it came with Win 98 (and FAT32) pre-installed. I
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also recently read an article saying that Linux does not get along with
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FAT32. =&gr; LILO can;t be loaded on FAT32. Is this correct ?
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<P> I plan on installing Red Hat Linux 6.0 on a seperate slave drive, and
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having a dual boot. I need to keep my Win98 as well as everyone in the
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family uses it, and likes Games.
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Has anyone had any problems with Win98 and Linux ? Is there anything that I
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have to watch out for ?
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<P> Thanks<BR>
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Regards<BR>
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Rakesh Mistry
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Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:51:20 +0800
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<BR>From: Haji Mokhtar Stork (znur@pl.jaring.my)
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Installation of REDHAT with Win98</FONT>
|
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|
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<P> By now you would have become the fifth person I have tried to contact
|
||
over the above mentioned subject. The closest I got was to a detailed
|
||
description on how to partition and install Dos/Win95/OS-2, but when I
|
||
tried contacting the person through his e-mail, apparently it no longer
|
||
exists. So I am back to square one.
|
||
|
||
<P> I have purchased REDHAT 6.0 at a local Linux fair. Unfortunately I go
|
||
not get them to partition and install it on my computer for free as I
|
||
was leaving for China the next day. Now I am trying to do so with great
|
||
hardship. The material I have downloaded from Linuz.com and
|
||
metalab.unc.edu etc does not serve my needs, so I need your expertise in
|
||
detail on how to go about it.
|
||
|
||
<P> I have formatted my HardDisk 4.5GB.<BR>
|
||
It has a DOS 6.2 pre-partition of26%<BR>
|
||
The Extended partition is 74%<BR>
|
||
Logical Drives E: and F: are each 37%<BR>
|
||
Drive E: has Win98. F: is for Linux.<BR>
|
||
I have a second slave Hard Disk as D:<BR>
|
||
|
||
<P> Problem arise when I boot REDHAT 6.0, its an auto generated process
|
||
which guides me through. First question: SCSI [select: No/Yes?Back].
|
||
When selecting Yes, a selection is provided but on choosing and going to
|
||
auto verification, all proposals are rejected because my system has an
|
||
Adaptec AVA-1502 SCSI Host Adaptor. I can't go any further!
|
||
|
||
<P> First, I have gone about the right partitioning?
|
||
|
||
<P> I can't read the README file on my REDHAT CD Rom because I cannot get it
|
||
started.
|
||
|
||
<P> Please kindly assist me. Thank you.
|
||
|
||
<P> Haji Mokhtar Stork<BR>
|
||
Malaysia.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
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<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
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<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 03:20:09 PDT
|
||
<BR>From: Marek fastcom (mfastcom@hotmail.com)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>LINUX Ghostscripts *.DWG into *.EPS </FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> Are there any LINUX scripts (Ghostscripts) available for
|
||
converting *.DWG into *.EPS alternatively JPG, TIF,etc.
|
||
|
||
<P>Regards.<BR>
|
||
Marek
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
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|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:14:20 -0700 (PDT)
|
||
<BR>From: "Allen D. Tate" (computermantate@yahoo.com)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Dell Optiplex GX1 and the PS/2 Mouse</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> I have a Dell OptiPlex GX1, Pentium II w/64 MB RAM and I'm trying to
|
||
get XWindow up and running but when I run startx, I get no response
|
||
from the mouse. Has anyone ran into a similar problem? If so how did
|
||
you fix it? I tried changing the mouse settings in the X86Config file
|
||
but it didn't seem to help. Any comments or suggestions will be
|
||
greatly appreciated.
|
||
|
||
<P> Thanks,<BR>
|
||
Allen Tate<BR>
|
||
Evansville, Indiana
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
|
||
<P> Hello to all in the linux community, I would like to ask anyone who
|
||
might have some idea on how to mount a cdrom in linux, when I go into
|
||
the /mnt directory and type mount cdrom the response I get is something
|
||
like Linux does not recognise hdc as a block device. I am running linux
|
||
6.0 and I have no idea what manufacturer or driver my cdrom drive is,
|
||
can anyone help ???
|
||
|
||
<P> thanks<BR>
|
||
Dave
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:41:38 +0200
|
||
<BR>From: Thomas H (thomas@snt.nu)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Cable modem problems + graphical ftp client</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> Hi!<BR>
|
||
<P> I am a new GNU/Linux user (coming from the OS/2 world). I find the Linux
|
||
programs powerful, although it often is quite frustrating to learn to
|
||
use all of them.
|
||
|
||
<P> It's a shame to say, but I write this from a Windoze machine. The reason
|
||
is that my cable modem provider (Telia in Sweden) pops out my connection
|
||
in 175 seconds when using dhclient under SuSE Linux 6.0. Anyone got a
|
||
solution?
|
||
|
||
<P> Another question I would be very grateful to have an answer to regards
|
||
FTP. Which good FTP-programs for X do you recommend? I need one that
|
||
supports the PASV (passive) mode. I also would like to have a program
|
||
that can sync files between my /home/thomas and my ftp server. I have
|
||
heard about "rsync" but don't know anything about it.
|
||
|
||
<P> Thanks for any help!
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:17:25 -0700
|
||
<BR>From: Ricky Deitemeyer (ricky@mediabase.premrad.com)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>FAT Compatibility</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> At work I have a Linux (Redhat 6.0) workstation and at home I have a
|
||
WinnNT machine. What are some good utils that I could use to write to a
|
||
disk with a FAT fs under Linux? (I'm assuming that this would be easier
|
||
than trying to get NT to read ext2...)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:52:38 +0100
|
||
<BR>From: Network Management (Netman@fastnet-systems.com)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Netflex3 cards on RedHat 5.2</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> I am a new user to Linux and am running a Compaq Deskpro (for my sins).
|
||
I have seen several mails about using the integrated Netflex3 cards but
|
||
have not seen any replies which mean anything to me. Can someone please
|
||
send me instructions on how to find and install a driver for this card.
|
||
|
||
<P>Thanks in advance for anyone who can help.<BR>
|
||
Andy
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:45:17 +0200
|
||
<BR>From: Horacio Antunez (hantunez@ippt.gov.pl)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Installation problems</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> While trying to install
|
||
RedHat 6.0, after checking CDROM and Floppy disk I got the message
|
||
|
||
<PRE>
|
||
scsi : 0 hosts
|
||
scsi : detected total
|
||
Partition check
|
||
VFS: Cannot open device 08:21
|
||
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:21
|
||
</PRE>
|
||
|
||
<P> Configuration:<BR>
|
||
Dell Precision 610, P.III Xeon 500 MHz, 1GB RAM, NT 4.0<BR>
|
||
HD: 2x 9 GB SCSI<BR>
|
||
M.O. drive (also with SCSI controller)<BR>
|
||
|
||
<P> The thing is that I had no problems on an identical machine except for:
|
||
256MB RAM, only 1 HD 9GB SCSI, no M.O. drive.
|
||
|
||
<P> Is there any upper limit for RAM?
|
||
<P> Does Linux support:
|
||
<UL>
|
||
<LI> more than 1 hard disk?,
|
||
<LI> magneto-optic drives?
|
||
</UL>
|
||
|
||
<P> TIA for any help<BR>
|
||
Horacio Antunez
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 13:53:51 -0500
|
||
<BR>From: Gregory Buck (GBuck@sbsway.com)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Tseng Labs</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> Does Tseng Labs have an e-mail address I can get in touch with them through?
|
||
I have been to their web site and e-mailed them at: 'financial@tseng.com'
|
||
and 'prodsupp@tseng.com' (both addresses generate an "unknown e-mail
|
||
address" type of error).
|
||
|
||
<P> Thank you for your help.<BR>
|
||
Gregory Buck
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:00:48 -0600
|
||
<BR>From: Bryan Anderson (byran@sykes.com)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Compiling problems</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> I am currently running redhat 4.2 for SPARC on a SPARC IPC. I have been
|
||
programming C and C++ for about four years now, but this problem has me
|
||
stumped. I am trying to port a few apps over from i386 linux to Sparc
|
||
linux. I downloaded the source files and untarred them just fine, but from
|
||
then on the horrors begin. I have read the docs for each app and followed
|
||
the instructions meticulously, and even tried some of my own homebrewed
|
||
fixes to try and get the sources to run, but I still can not get anywhere.
|
||
The problems seem to lie in not the source itself, but in the libs
|
||
installed on my machine. I get tons of warnings and one error that seems
|
||
to stand out. The error is transcribed as something like this:
|
||
|
||
<PRE>
|
||
/usr/include/time.h:58 -- Parse error for fd_func
|
||
</PRE>
|
||
|
||
<P> The only other problem I have found is on perusal of the *.h files, I have
|
||
found numerous references to header files in directories that don't EVEN
|
||
EXIST!!! Is this a standard thing, or just on the SPARC port for linux?
|
||
For example, I am looking inside my /usr/include/sys/time.h and find
|
||
references to a linux/time.h, when there is not a linux directory
|
||
anywhere!! Is this a standard? If it is, it seems that someone got a
|
||
little sloppy in their porting. I have managed to fix this problem by
|
||
going in and removing references to files that don't exist or redirecting
|
||
them to files that do exist, but the error above has definitely stumped me.
|
||
Does anyone have experience with this error and how it can be fixed? I
|
||
don't have much experience in building my own header files, but when I did
|
||
do it, I never saw that error. I would be much obliged to anyone who could
|
||
provide some guidence in this issue.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 01:17:20 +0200
|
||
<BR>From: "Bgsoft" (maximiliam@agarde.it)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Info sulla Red Hat!</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P>Spett.le Direttoredel Linux Gazzette,
|
||
|
||
<P> Mi chiamo Nino Brando, e dato che ho visto in edicola una promozione(se si
|
||
pu<EFBFBD> chiamarla cos<6F>) della red hat di linux, contenente 4 CD.
|
||
|
||
<P> Vengo al nocciolo, e possibile che ci sia il sistema operativo Linux? Anche
|
||
perch<EFBFBD> il prezzo non supera le <20>.25.000, e poi la Red Hat <20> un sistema
|
||
operativo?
|
||
|
||
<P> Chiedo scusa per la mia ignoranza ma <20> da poco che vorrei entrare nel mondo
|
||
Linux, sarei lieto di una risposta ed anche di qualche consiglio.
|
||
|
||
<P>La ringrazio,<BR>
|
||
distinti saluti<BR>
|
||
Nino Brando
|
||
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
|
||
(Can somebody who speaks Italian please help this person? He sent me
|
||
an English version but I couldn't understand it either. :) I think he
|
||
saw a Red Hat disk set and is wondering if it's the real Linux.
|
||
--Ed.)
|
||
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:20:31 PDT
|
||
<BR>From: junainah sarian (ainina76@hotmail.com)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Installing Linux in Windows 98</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> I've difficulties in installing the Linux. Can you help me in solving this
|
||
matter?
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:50:21 +0300
|
||
<BR>From: vintze (vintze@libertatea.ro)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>help me please!</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> I'm from Romania. I install linux in my PowerPC but i can't print. I
|
||
have a 8600/200 Power Mac and a HP 4MV printer. Please HELP me.
|
||
my e-mail addres is vintze@libertatea.ro
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:24:45 +1000
|
||
<BR>From: Zubin Henner (zubinh@one.net.au)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Help! Compatibility problems between linux and windows filesystems;</FONT>
|
||
StarOffice 5.1; Graphics settings
|
||
|
||
<P> Hi Linuxsters, I am a current Win98 user trying to switch to Linux, but
|
||
I have run into a few little problems!
|
||
|
||
<P> Firstly, after successfully partitioning my HDD and installing Red Hat
|
||
Linux 5.2, I wanted to reinstall Win98 as it was getting rather slow.
|
||
So I mounted my (FAT32) C: drive in Linux (mount -t vfat /dev/hda1
|
||
/mnt/c:) and backed up my essential files onto the Linux partition.
|
||
|
||
<P> After reinstalling Windows I copied the files back, only to discover
|
||
that some seemed to be corrupted by the Linux filesystem. Some
|
||
self-extracting programs like WinZip 7.0 and WinBoost 1.24 will not
|
||
execute, giving errors like "Permission denied" or "This is not a Win32
|
||
application". This is not a drama as I can simply download these again,
|
||
however many of my important compressed "zip" files containing Word
|
||
documents are corrupt and some files cannot be extracted. What is the
|
||
sitch? Can these files be "fixed"? Should I completely avoid mixing
|
||
the two filesystems in future? Any help would be gratefully
|
||
appreciated!
|
||
|
||
<P> Another problem I had was installing StarOffice 5.1 Personal Edition for
|
||
Linux - it freezes on page 2 of setup where it asks for the registration
|
||
key number. I downloaded the program from download.com and therefore
|
||
don't have a number. Even if I did it would be no use as the program
|
||
freezes anyway. Also I have since realised that it is probably because
|
||
I only have 15MB RAM (1MB for built-in video card) and not the minimum
|
||
requirement of 32MB (duh!). Which poses the question, "Why does MS
|
||
Office happily run on my system with the flaw-ridden inefficient Windows
|
||
OS, while StarOffice won't?" Please excuse me, I am only new to Linux!
|
||
I plan to upgrade my RAM soon so hopefully this won't be a problem -
|
||
just curious, you know?
|
||
|
||
<P> I am also having problems getting the appropriate graphics settings
|
||
happening on Linux. I have a Socket 7 M571 motherboard with a built-in
|
||
64-bit VGA chip. It is a 1 to 4MB chip and I have set it to 1MB (in
|
||
BIOS) due to my pathetic RAM situation. In Windows I can easily go to
|
||
800x600 and 1024x768 with 16- and 24-bit colour. During Red Hat Linux
|
||
5.2 installation I selected "VGA16" video card and "Custom:
|
||
Non-interlaced SVGA; 800x600@60Hz, 640x480@72Hz" monitor type. But it
|
||
won't go above 640x480 resolution without going into virtual mode. The
|
||
colour settings are also not right. What do I do?
|
||
|
||
<P> And finally (!) every time I exit "X", I get an error message "FreeFont
|
||
count is 2; should be 1; Fixing..." What does this mean and how do I fix
|
||
it? (do I need to?)
|
||
|
||
<P> I love the idea of leaving Windows behind but I can't while I have these
|
||
problems! Could I ask that any responses be reasonably basic as I am
|
||
totally new to Linux (or should I say "Linux is totally new to me!").
|
||
All help will be greatly appreciated! Thank you...
|
||
|
||
<P> Zubin.
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 02:49:34 PDT
|
||
<BR>From: javafun@excite.com
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>linux in algeria</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> I would thank for your good job, i installed red hat linux 5.1 without much
|
||
trouble except for xwindow my video card is sis 5597 i wonder if it's
|
||
supported under linux.
|
||
|
||
<P> friendly mimoune
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:48:10 +0100
|
||
<BR>From: "ian baker" (ian@pncl.co.uk)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Question!</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> Hi,
|
||
<P> I am growing to like the idea, philosophy behind Linux. I am a home user,
|
||
reasonable non-technical, is this a good move? and what is the difference
|
||
between Redhat and Suse. I hope I'm sending this to the right place and hope
|
||
that you'll give me an answer.
|
||
|
||
<P> Many thanks<BR>
|
||
Ian Baker (UK)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<a name="gen"></a>
|
||
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
<center><H3><font color="maroon">General Mail</font></H3></center>
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:15:14 -0400
|
||
<BR>From: "Pierre Abbat" (phma@oltronics.net)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Garbled HTML in Linux Gazette</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> I found a reliable way to crash KFM: look at the front page, follow the link to
|
||
the current issue, then follow the front page link. A few people have reported
|
||
KFM crashes. I ran Amaya to check the page for errors and found the following:
|
||
|
||
<PRE>
|
||
*** Errors in http://www.linuxgazette.com/ temp file: /home/phma/.amaya/1/www.linuxgazette.com
|
||
line 53, char 51: Unknown attribute "NOSAVE"
|
||
line 57, char 22: Unknown attribute "color-"#BB0000""
|
||
line 107, char 73: Unknown tag </table<
|
||
line 114, char 7: Tag <table> is not allowed here
|
||
</PRE>
|
||
[rest of error message not shown.]
|
||
|
||
<P> Please fix them (I suspect the </table<, but it might be something
|
||
else).
|
||
|
||
phma
|
||
|
||
<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
|
||
(These tags were related to the old search engine. I took them out and
|
||
it works now with my KFM. Please let me know if you have any further
|
||
problems. --Editor)
|
||
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>
|
||
|
||
|
||
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
<!--====================================================================-->
|
||
<IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/envelope.gif">
|
||
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:15:34 -0600
|
||
<BR>From: Coran Fisher (salyavin@verinet.com)
|
||
<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>Setting up mail for a home network using exim</FONT>
|
||
|
||
<P> I was just reading the article "Setting up mail for a home network using
|
||
exim" in issue 42 and I noticed one possible problem. In the suggested .forward
|
||
file any mail that contains Emily in the To header will go to emi's mailbox, if
|
||
someone was to send a message with several addresses in the To field one to
|
||
jbloggs and one address had Emily in it (weather Emily be the Emily on the
|
||
local network or some other Emily). If a person sent mail with only one To
|
||
address and bcc'd or cc'd the rest that problem wouldn't exist but alas not all
|
||
email is sent that way (at least to me). You could probably cut down on the
|
||
possibility of this a bit by having it look for Emily's first and last name.
|
||
|
||
<P>Regards,<BR>
|
||
Coran
|
||
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<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
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(A revised version of the article appears in this issue. --Ed.)
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:30:47 +1000 (EST)
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<BR>From: corprint login <'corprint@mail.netspace.net.au'>
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<BR>Subject: <FONT COLOR=navy>LG Issue 42 - email article</FONT>
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<P> I was most impressed with the following article in Linux Gazette 42,
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June 1999: "Setting up mail for a home network using exim"
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<P> I followed Jan's suggestions on a RedHat 5.1 Linux system and it
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eventually worked. You may care to note the following comments and
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pass them on to the author (as no email address was offered).
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<OL>
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<LI> The "exim" package as supplied with RedHat Linux does not include
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"eximconfig". I pinched a copy from a Debian distribution using ar and tar. The
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configure file is too hard to setup without it.
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<LI> The perl script "outfilt" as published, fails on my system. The
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'@' character in the script should be '\@'.
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<LI> As I do not use a Smarthost for email, I found that taking out the
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reference to it in the ROUTERS CONFIGURATION section of the exim configure
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file, worked fine. (Note that Debian uses exim.conf whereas the RedHat version
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of exim uses the file 'configure').
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</OL>
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<P> I have seen many requests for interfacing MS Internet Mail (???) to
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Linux mail facilities on the Linux User Group discussion lists and
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this article is most timely.
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<P> Thank you for a great magazine.<BR>
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Frank Drew
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