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| Cannot configure Sound Card, RH9, New Box Posted: 26 Aug 2004 05:45 PM PDT Scratch the sound card problem, I got that fixed. -- Joseph |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2004 03:42 PM PDT On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:27:21 -0700, Paul Lutus wrote: Again, You are talking out of your ass. Not only will it work, it has been working on all my computers since I first tried it with Suse 7.2 and Win2K. I presently boot Windows 98SE and Win2K from hde without issues. I can also boot Windows from hdc or hdg if I choose. My present Windows stanza from /grub/menu.lst; title Windows E root (hd2,0) map (hd2) (hd0) map (hd0) (hd2) makeactive chainloader +1 I suppose I'll have to destroy a perfectly good system, because you proclaim it cannot exist. For a guy with your background, your ignorance is appalling. -- imotgm |
| Posted: 26 Aug 2004 11:38 AM PDT "Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez" <com> wrote in message news:SktXc.110485$eresmas.com... Disk caching. Why not leave the last N megabytes of disk accessed in the cache if you're not otherwise using it, to reduce the latency of disk requests? |
| how can I upgrade an old RedHat distro ? Posted: 26 Aug 2004 12:40 AM PDT Richard Steiner wrote: .... while i agree with what you're saying, overall, i'd be of the opinion to use slackware for older hardware. i just cant shake the feeling that mandrake, admittedly very popular, is not a very *serious* distro. .. -- << http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >> "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased." - Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2004 06:09 PM PDT -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 NotDashEscaped: You need GnuPG to verify this message In comp.os.linux.setup L. Mark Bruffey <edu> suggested: Sounds like the Kiosk-HOWTO (www.tldp.org) is what you want. Good luck -- Michael Heiming (GPG-Key ID: 0xEDD27B94) mail: echo qr | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBLjSwAkPEju3Se5QRAlKgAKCtYgS118lb0CKFAZJzAK 1s1JN0agCePnC8 73NX46vRyEA9SEFHhoz3Grk= =6+KA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
| Need some help on kernel modules Posted: 25 Aug 2004 05:08 PM PDT Andreas Janssen wrote: Thanks I now just need to learn about kernel modules -- There are 10 types of people in this world Those that understand binary and those that don't /* If Linux community doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem */ |
| Posted: 25 Aug 2004 04:54 PM PDT On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:47:14 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia <net> wrote: You should, however, specify ibs=xxx matching the actual block size of the tape used when the tape was written. For default block size of tar tapes would be ibs=20b. Failure do specify the block size may result in truncated tape blocks and thus an unusable tarball file. Villy |
| Fedora Core 2 (FC2) and sis 7012 sound card error Posted: 25 Aug 2004 03:25 PM PDT Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: This is the result of exectute de configuratin from console, it recognices my Silicon Integrated Systems sound card but I can't hear test. [root@algomu root]# system-config-soundcard Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] |
| Newbie Question About Swap Partition Posted: 24 Aug 2004 12:33 PM PDT On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 12:33 -0700, Google Mike wrote: The swap partition will never, ever just change size automatically; you will always need to manually trigger any changes to it. No, it will not increase, or decrease; see above. That depends on exactly how your disk is laid out; if you're at all unsure, I'd say no. Otherwise, find a local guru and ask them to show you (not 'do it for you'). Changing the size of the swap partition generally involves pulling out a partitioning tool, backing up your entire disk, and repartitioning the drive; unless you really need to, I wouldn't bother. It sounds like you already have a swap partition that is easily big enough for anything you'd probably need to do. The magic formula used to be 'RAMx2', but that's not really a good way of judging it. The real question you want to ask now is, "Do I need more than 2GB of memory?", because that's what you've got with 1GB RAM and 1GB swap. Remember, though, that accessing swap is many, many times slower than RAM. Chances are good you could probably reduce your swap partition and nothing would even notice, even now before you add the extra 512MB. Think of swap as 'emergency memory' which the system can use when it runs out of RAM so that it doesn't completely flake out. Assuming typical desktop use, an average Linux system, today, generally requires at least 256MB of total memory (that's both RAM and swap combined), with at least half of that being real RAM instead of swap; real RAM is always better than swap, when it can be afforded. With 512MB or more of RAM, you probably won't ever need more than 256MB of swap. However, this all depends on exactly what you do. If you run a lot of applications at once, or applications that consume a lot of RAM (eg: GIMP, editing a 4000x4000x32bit image), you'll want to set up a relatively large swap partition, to ensure that the system has plenty of combined memory for those times that it needs it. As a general rule, however, don't ever set up a swap partition that is more than double your available RAM; it's not that it will hurt anything, but it is pointless. If you have 1GB of RAM, and (therefore, following the swap=RAMx2 rule) set up a 2GB swap, you have a combined total of 3GB of memory. Before your system comes anywhere near consuming that 3GB, it's performance will have slowed to a crawl, as it spends most of its time paging memory in and out of the swap partition (remember, swap is hundreds, if not thousands of times slower than RAM). In fact, chances are good that by the time your hypothetical system has consumed a mere 1GB of its swap space, it will have slowed down to unusability, perhaps even acting like it has frozen. The general rule of thumb I'm seeing today is: set your swap partition to be equal to your RAM, assuming you have 512MB or more; also, don't ever bother making your swap partition larger than 1GB, especially if you have more than 1GB of RAM. And this is only if you're a hard-core power user who runs applications that consume memory like water. If not, a swap partition no larger than 512MB is probably more than sufficient. If you have less than 512MB, the old RAMx2 formula is probably good enough for most uses. Personally, I've got my swap set to 1GB, but that's because hard drive space is dirt cheap nowadays, so it doesn't really hurt. With 1GB of RAM, though, I've rarely seen it use more than 200Kb of my swap space. Ever. Even when I *was* editing those huge 4000x4000 images in the GIMP (to be fair, though, GIMP 2 does a pretty good job of paging itself out to disk without relying on the swap partition, so this may not be a good example). Remember though, real RAM is *always* better than swap, when you can afford it. Finally, I'd recommend using swap partitions over swap files, but that's just me. Swap files just strike me as being too easy to screw with, although that might just be my Windows bias seeping through. |
| resize causes a boot to grub prompt Posted: 24 Aug 2004 07:03 AM PDT "P Gentry" <com> wrote in message news:google.com... news:<supernews.com>... <snip> Thanks for the references below, I usually get as far as "man xxxx" and anything beyond that and not found by google is an incantation AFAICT. It appears my problems it that the disk I am duping the image on is a SCSI and the system on the "acronis backup image" was built before the SCSI controller was added. I edited /etc/modules.conf and added "alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx" but it seems there is more to it then that. I see the aix7 drivers in lib/modules... but it still fails to boot. I did go to the acronis forum and posted much this same question and got no response yet. I tried the latest version of true image (8.0) and saw a warning that what I was about to do would require that I have a linux boot diskette ready. It gave (acronis true image 8) instructions on working with lilo, but not with grub. In any event I suspect the problem is the scsi controller being used to boot a linux image that was built with no controller present. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/GNU-Linux.html#GNU%2fLinux http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Command-line-and-menu-entry-commands.html#Command-line%20and%20menu%20entry%20commands |
| Advice on mixed Linux/Windows student lab? Posted: 23 Aug 2004 06:45 PM PDT Jem Berkes wrote: .... Cool! I think this qualifies as another "way cool stuff you can do with Linux that other OSes never even thought of". Cheers! Rich |
| syslinux: more than one diskette? Posted: 22 Aug 2004 12:48 PM PDT On 25 Aug 2004 13:13:30 -0700, john hrdo <com> wrote: dd if=minifs.gz of=/dev/fd0 bs=1028 Or something like that. You don't mount the floppy and will probably have to do it as root. AC |
| Posted: 22 Aug 2004 10:06 AM PDT Bill Marcum <com.urgent> wrote in message news:<localnet>... Yes I was, thank you. |
| Unable to get net connection with Fedora Linux Posted: 21 Aug 2004 03:13 PM PDT Hi, The output to route -n is [root@localhost root]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 203.55.231.88 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 203.55.231.88 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 To my innocent eyes that looks OK. I contacted the ISP and they suggested putting the following in etc/resolv.conf search iinet.net.au nameserver 203.0.178.191 nameserver 203.109.250.50 This was sufficient to get an internet connection up and running. Fantastic! Thanks Paul and Moe, your help is very much appreciated by this Linux newbie. I feel I've just gone thru a rite of passage :) Roy |
| Updatedb -- is it truly necessary to run? Posted: 21 Aug 2004 02:31 PM PDT Thanx for the help everybody! Jean-David Beyer wrote: |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2004 01:50 PM PDT Someone claiming to be Luis wrote: You are shutting down as root, aren't you? Some information regarding your hardware would be beneficial. Have you checked /var/log/messages for clues? Something is preventing a clean shutdown. If you don't get "Halt completed" then, well, the halt hasn't completed. Tim -- Fedora Core 2, Kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2, KDE 3.2.3, Xorg 6.7.0 21:30:00 up 9 days, 13:56, 22 users, load average: 0.51, 0.34, 0.26 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts |
| Posted: 21 Aug 2004 06:38 AM PDT Appreciate all the responses and advice. I will check more on the configuration files for tmpwatch. I am still curious to know if anyone else on this planet has experienced such an incident were tmpwatch removed files mounted via NFS in /tmp.? Thanks, Ihab Paul Lutus <zzz> wrote in message news:<supernews.com>... |
| Posted: 20 Aug 2004 06:01 PM PDT jeremiah256 wrote: hal91 is easy to install, even for a beginner like me, and it does fit on one floppy. I don't know if it has all of the features you want. jimbo |
| Posted: 19 Aug 2004 07:35 AM PDT Maurice Batey wrote: I tried this on Fedora Core 2 just now, YMMV: $ man -t partimage > partimage_manpage.ps Optional second step: $ kghostview partimage_manpage.ps Or print the output. Looks better than the original. -- Paul Lutus http://www.arachnoid.com |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2004 11:05 PM PDT This is excellent, thanks much for the link! Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: |
| Posted: 18 Aug 2004 11:26 AM PDT On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 03:18:34 -0400, Bill Marcum <com.urgent> wrote: If "lba32", or "lilo -L" is not recognized, get a more recent version of LILO that can read beyond the 1024 cylinder limit. Versions after 21.4.4 of 4 years ago support "lba32" addressing. You'll still have to use the separate /boot partition on low cylinder numbers if your BIOS does not support LBA32 addressing. --John |
| Starting Gnome Terminal in a directory Posted: 18 Aug 2004 04:21 AM PDT On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:21:49 +0200, Ulf Samuelsson <dot.com> wrote: Could that script be ~/.bashrc ? If so, fix it so it doesn't change directory. -- Liberals don't believe they deserve anything they own; conservatives think they're entitled to everything they've stolen. |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2004 01:23 PM PDT John Bahran wrote: Hi John, If you mean on the desktop in Linux, those files most likely exist in a directory called /home/john/desktop or something similar. At the shell/console, maybe try typing "man konqueror" or "which konqueror" to see if they are installed. If a man page comes up when you type man konqueror, it could well mean that konqueror is on the system...if so, try simply entering konqueror and you'll be in business. You can try the same test for nautilus, which is the gnome file manager. If neither of those work, you might also want to go to this page... http://freshmeat.net/projects/gentoo/ and download this program which is a file manager reasonably similar to what you might want. There's a link to RPMs for it there as well. |
| Is a swap partition still necessary in Linux? Posted: 17 Aug 2004 01:21 PM PDT In comp.os.linux.misc P.T. Breuer <it.uc3m.es> wrote: And I want cool, I forgot to add. The server is in a cupboard under the desk, running nicely underclocked, with no fan. Silent as the mice .. Peter |
| Posted: 17 Aug 2004 04:30 AM PDT On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:16:18 +0200, Samuel Tribehou <com> wrote: I use screen and vi and have no problems at all. In fact, screen uses some vi keybindings and there still isn't any conflict. I'm using both of them right here. Your problem isn't with screen, it is with your choice of editors. Some applications just aren't compatible. Some, like emacs, aren't compatible with anything, which is why they had to turn it into a self-contained desktop environment with its own programming language. AC |
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