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How to play audio CDs with linux?

Posted: 06 Jul 2006 07:04 PM PDT

Michael Mauch wrote: 

THANKS! I've done as you suggested and now CD audio works
perfectly for the non-root user. So, everything is now set all right.

Unruh wrote: 

Actually, by running 'gpasswd -a your_user cdrom' user was
added to group cdrom in /etc/gpasswd and /etc/group and this
achieved the objective. As Aragorn pointed out later, I do have
udev on my system, which would reset permissions at bootup.
The system now works fine, so I'm not going to experiment
further with permissions...

Aragorn wrote: 

I want to thank everyone who participated in this thread for all the
precious advice I got here. These newsgroups are truly a goldmine
of knowledge, and you guys are what makes this a reality.

So, to resume the steps which solved the sound problems
in my system:

1) Initially I would get an error message when attempting to run
KsCD to play an audio CD as the non-root user. By running KsCD
as root, which took care of the error message, it was established
that there was an access permission problem. But still there was
no sound.

2) Some suggested that a missing cable between cdrom drive
and sound card could be the problem. Others said it could
not be an issue here. I checked and there was no cable.
I added a cable connecting cdrom drive and cd audio connector
on the motherboard. Still no sound for su. But the music
could be played by plugging a set of earphones directly into
the cdrom drive.

3) Sound for root was made possible by unmuting and turning
up the cd volume control in alsamixer. (Very stupid, isn't it?
but I had overlooked it).

4) Finally, access permissions for non-root user.
'ls -lL /dev/cdrom' produced:

brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 Jul 7 08:25 /dev/cdrom

showing that non-root user had no access to /dev/cdrom.
Non-root user was given access permission and added
to group cdrom by running:

'gpasswd -a user_name cdrom'

After logging out of XWindows then logging in again, audio CD
playing now works perfectly also for the non-root user.

Again, thank you all!!!

Gianni

GRUB advanced configuration

Posted: 06 Jul 2006 11:55 AM PDT

In message <com>
"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <net> wrote:
 

The simple way, and the default in most cases, is to allow the
installer to set up GRUP with a choice of Linux versions plus a
Windows version. Choosing Windows then uses the contents of boot.ini
to present a Windows boot menu. This doesn't get quite what you want,
but it is simple, and pretty standard.

You might find that the installer has detected both windows versions
and put them into GRUB - in that case I would first try editing the
boot.ini in one of the Windows versions to get it to offer a choice,
and when that is successful, change the grub config file so it only
offers that version of Windows (and change the description maybe to
"Windows boot menu")



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SATA drives insanely hot and lm-sensors not working

Posted: 06 Jul 2006 03:02 AM PDT

Jean-David Beyer wrote: 

Hmmm. They are not quite painful to touch, but I would say not far off.
IME all SATA drives run at a temp where I can handle them but they feel
noticeably not. I would not call it painful, but it would be painful if
it was only a little hotter.

I guess this is hotter than drives ought to be, but I don't see any
solution. Like I said, *all* my SATA drives run that hot, regardless of
which mfr, which machine they're in, how many fans etc.

CC

How to backup the files printing from graphics window?

Posted: 06 Jul 2006 02:24 AM PDT

The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> writes:
 
 
 

The unix print jobs go to a print controller which caches the files into a
directory while they are being printed. That directory is /var/spool/cups,
with files starting with c being control files. On my system, those control
files are not erased. This leaves you with the name of the files printed,
the person, the format, the time, etc. (It is a partly text partly binary
file).

Fedora and Wireless

Posted: 05 Jul 2006 10:13 AM PDT

Davide Bianchi <net> writes:
 
 

IF it uses ipw2200 then the Linux driver works well, and should be a part
of FC5.


 
 

RPM 'failed dependancies' needed for OpenOffice rpm install

Posted: 04 Jul 2006 06:29 AM PDT

Thanks everyone.

John-Paul Stewart emailed this: 

Second serial ATA drive does not work

Posted: 04 Jul 2006 04:23 AM PDT

Yes, here everything is up to date. Both drives are listed.
Greetings, Volker

bootup problem

Posted: 04 Jul 2006 03:37 AM PDT

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:23:54 +0000, dave frost wrote:
 

First, let me correct my mis-statement above:
Usually, the root filesystem is mounted readonly, until the kernel is
ready.
 

Apparently, /proc is an exception to the readonly rule. The mount
command for /proc is successful, I guess, because proc is a
pseudo-filesystem which indicates the state of the kernel. The state of
the kernel is dynamic. BTW, for the mount command to be successful, the
mount point /proc must exist. For example, this command fails on a
readonly filesystem:

mkdir /proc

But, this command is successful (if /proc already exists):

mount -n proc /proc -t proc
 
Note: comments inline.

Startup scripts are distribution dependant. The SYSV startup scripts
that are used by most distributions are complex. I don't envy your
task of reinventing all of the startup scripts. Probably, the starting
point is a thorough understanding of the jobs performed by the existing
scripts before attempting to change or replace them. Without proper
startup, your system may lack the functionality that you'd expect. One
way to visualize this is to boot using only the kernel and root
filesystem by performing a simple exercise. Try this: specify the
kernel's init process as the bash shell. (Note: init=/bin/bash can be
specified as a kernel argurment.) Once booted in that environment you'll
be able to see what a minimal system looks like. This shows what the
kernel looks like without runlevels which are managed by the standard
"init" in combination with the startup scripts. You'll see a lot is missing.

More Info
There are two "schools" of startup scripts: SYSV and BSD-style. For me, it
is easier to understand and decipher the BSD-style scripts provided by the
Slackware distribution. IME, before changing the SYSV startup scripts,
you'll need to get a "secret decoder ring"- they're too complex. So,
before jumping right in and rewriting the scripts yourself, study both
styles. Perhaps, the other "school" will be more to your liking. In
any case, the concept of an "init" process and "runlevels" are fundamental
to a unix-like OS. If you stray too far, you might end up with something
else.

--
Douglas Mayne

Debian on G3 upgraded PPC 8500

Posted: 04 Jul 2006 01:01 AM PDT

In article <com>,
"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <net> wrote:
 

Thanks for your response. Was tinkering to see if I could find some use
for this old 8500. I've upgraded to a newer Mac Mini for my daily use
but was wondering if Linux could give it a new lease of life. Mac OS 9
has been great but it's now "ancient". It would be nice if Linux can
bring it up to date for me in terms of browser and networking capability
(wireless perhaps, or is that wishing too much?). There's not much
hardware info I can view from the machine at boot up. I do wonder if the
onboard video chipset is supported by Debian. Was hoping that perhaps
someone has gone this way before and could give me a tip or two.

YF

How to free the memory?

Posted: 03 Jul 2006 08:49 PM PDT

"tech11" <com> wrote in news:e8d9qk$eol$cn99.com:
 

You might try top and sort by cPu usage to see what's grabbing all the
cycles, but it could also be a memory leak in some app too I suppose.
The list of hardware on/in the machine might help as well.

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popcorn-like email client for Linux?

Posted: 03 Jul 2006 01:12 PM PDT


"Michael Black" <Carleton.CA> wrote in message
news:e8mk58$i50$ncf.ca... 
Oh, I guess I was just feeling a little cranky. It just doesn't seem right
to dual boot back into Windows because you want to save 50MB on your hard
drive. I thought about writing a little POP3 client in Python that fit the
OPs requirements, but then there's the issue of an 80MB Python install :o)
Louis

need some help partitioning a large (250GB) usb external hard drive

Posted: 02 Jul 2006 10:26 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup Markku Kolkka <fi>: 
 

Indeed! If this isn't a typo it seems the problem...


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Fedora Command Line configuration tool

Posted: 30 Jun 2006 10:11 AM PDT

Michael Heiming wrote: 

Oh, it's succeeded in becoming almost as usable as Linuxconf was before
RedHat, properly, threw it out the window and went to individual system-*
tools. If you need that level of management for most tools, I highly
recommend Webmin for most UNIX or Linux systems, and for package management
on SuSE use fou4s, from www.fou4s.org.
 

And take a good look at Eric Raymond's famous rant about badly made
open-source GUI's, based on his experience with CUPS, at
http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/cups-horror.html.

DNS - Primary / Secondary on one machine

Posted: 28 Jun 2006 01:55 AM PDT

Michael Heiming wrote: 

Ah, yes indeed - absolutely right. Unfortunately if I configure that on
my own (elderly) linux server, the max bandwidth that I am going to get
is 125K upstream.

So you can setup things faster if you 

Yes indeed - but will they actually RUN faster?
 

Na, I do actually know how DNS works - I have used ethereal to analyze
many DNS queries from right here - FFSake, I teach this shit!!

The DNS howto (www.tldp.org) should have more 
Thanks Michael - once again an interesting discussion :)

Slow Keyboard Response

Posted: 28 Jun 2006 12:45 AM PDT

Hi,
Just want to say that this problem seemed to be solved on its own!
Yesterday, I just started my system, and no longer does my keyboard behave
as erratic as that.

I've really not investigated on what really had happened, but, at the first
thought, I think the re-boot did all the trick. Never knew that Linux also
needs a reboot for solving problems ;-)

Thanks for all your suggestions though; they've atleast enlightened me on
what I should check before I send out an SOS.

Regards,
Arvind.

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How to setup linux without cdrom?

Posted: 27 Jun 2006 02:11 AM PDT

left_coast <not>: 

fwiw, ditto debian.


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How to enable setuid scripts in Linux?

Posted: 27 Jun 2006 01:38 AM PDT

d and need to read the manual pages for both. 

Ignore my pervious post - the OP missed an important point about how
things are done, and I didn't even think of it as worthwhile or even
think of the possibility actually.

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I may need to re-link library files, please help

Posted: 26 Jun 2006 07:19 PM PDT

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:19:41 -0700, Gary Krupa wrote:
 

as root:
# ldconfig

and
$ man ldconfig
 
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/Thomas

yum.conf exclude pattern

Posted: 26 Jun 2006 09:48 AM PDT

david walcroft wrote: 

I don't think the yum "exclude" syntax can tolerate the "!", inverted
syntax. I don't have yum capable system in front of me, but can it work with
an "include" statment?

Default Login Suse Linux 10

Posted: 26 Jun 2006 07:01 AM PDT


Lutz Mueller wrote: 

I would suggest a reinstall then. If it didn't ask you for a password,
there was something wrong with the install process.

Downloading files

Posted: 26 Jun 2006 05:53 AM PDT

"Scorp118" <net> wrote in
news:googlegroups.com:
 

A specific example of one file. Most of those I run into are the source
code for a package (but that's what I download). Try using Midnight
Commander to see what's in it first before you copy anything:

<user>#mc

at which point you get an win explorer (or norton commander for those
who know) type screen) use your cursor keys to switch to the directory
of the file (tab to change from left to right panes) enter to enter (or
exit with the /.. file) a directory and then press enter on the file
when you get there. You can view any file with F3 (the single key not
"F" "3") and exit viewing with F10 (same as above).


Oh, and F10 to exit midnight commander.
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Problems with booting from external USB drive

Posted: 26 Jun 2006 01:19 AM PDT

Thats a rather strange behaviour !

Tell me something:
1.Do you have an internal hardisk or not ?, give all details of your
hard disk.

In amy case do this -
mount your fedora somehow, under knoppix or something,
copy /usbinitrd.img to a temporary location,
cp usbinitrd.img /tmp/usbinitrd.gz
gunzip usbinitrd.gz
mkdir tmp2
cd tmp2
cpio -id < ../usbinitrd

now you should have a lot of files in /tmp/tmp2 directory
edit the "init" file and copy and paste the contents here,
and also list the contents of /tmp/tmp2/lib (which contains modules
loaded at runtime)
or probably you could fix it up yourself,you just have to be able to
load the usb mass storage modules before making /dev/sda1 the root
partition.
I think this is the only problem,
It boots up sometimes and not other times is really strange!
may be the modules do not get enough time to initialize your hard disk
sometimes and in between the kernel tries to mount the root patition.

video trouble

Posted: 26 Jun 2006 12:08 AM PDT

Dushan Mitrovich <org>: 

"Works" is good. Enjoy. Install often. Each install is a learning
experience. Strength and honour!


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How to edit initrd.img in FC5

Posted: 24 Jun 2006 01:27 AM PDT

Thanks ! that worked ..
but one thing, that took lot of my time -
cpio by default compresses files into an 'old binary format'
however initrd images nedded by fc5 kernels are compresses using the
'newc' format

that means you can incompresses the initrd , modify it, then
recompress,
but if you do not explicitly mention the 'newc' format duing
compression , the kernel will hang after loading itself and not budge
any further.---

(no! no! ) find | cpio --create > /boot/initrd_new.img (Wont ! work !)
find | cpio --create --format=newc > /boot/initrd_new.img (Will work
!)


Allen Kistler wrote: 

cannot change time on Fedora

Posted: 23 Jun 2006 01:53 AM PDT

On 23 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<lightlink.com>, Paul Kimoto wrote:
 
 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 
 

Ah, you never noticed that a significant number of the messages posted have
that zonetime? When you post via google.groups, the "G2/0.2 User-Agent"
posts a lot of information (look _in_ the headers - try pressing the 't'
key in slrn while reading the article) and uses the local time in
Mountain View, California (about 27 miles / 43 KM Southeast of San
Francisco) as the posting time.

Old guy