Roundtable April 2002

roundtable@muug.ca

11 participants
11 discussions

CD, VCD & DVD Burning
by John Lange 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

At a recent MUUG meeting someone was asking about burning VCDs (Video CDs). I believe the consensus at the meeting was that burning under Linux was comprised of a hodge-podge of various command line tools for converting video formats and burning making it quite difficult at best. I recently stumbled on the following software: http://www.k3b.org/ which seems to bring everything under one roof and claims to do CD, VCD, and DVD burning all in one application (it does not appear to be just a GUI front end to command line tools). However, I do not currently have a burner to test it with so I was hoping someone from the group could give it a whirl and report back on success? Thanks. -- John Lange BigHostBox.com ltd (204) 885 0872 Toll free: 1-866-690-8297

4 4

Problem burning cd using cdrtoaster-1.12:
by S/C Conway 14 May '02

14 May '02

Hardware: Sony CRX140S CD ReWritable Recorder Software RH 7.2 kernel 2.4.9-13 sox-12.17.1-4 cdrecord-1.10-4 cdrecord-devel-1.10-4 Using cdrtoaster-1.12 to burn an MP3 to an audio cd results in never recorded before "chipmunks" coaster. The audio sounds like a 33rpm record played at 45rpm. This may be a bad analogy for the CD exposed generation. Analyzing the script from cdrtoaster the creation of a CD takes place in two steps. One step converts the mp3 to wav the next step burns the cd. Audio convert: mpg123 -s sample1.mp3|sox -t raw -w -s -c 2 -r 44100 - -t wav sample1.wav CD burn: cdrecord -v -eject dev=/dev/sg0 speed=4 -audio -pad /home/username/sample1.wav I have tried doing the audio convert manually an it produces a chipmunks wav file. If I change the rate parameter to -r 22050 the wav file is produced correctly. The new file is not in the correct format for cdrecord to handle and produces an error message "Inappropiate audio coding". According to my reading a wav file must be created with 16bit 44100hz sample rate. I have also tried changing the mp3 player to the GPL version mpg321-0.1.5-1 with no success. I have found no indication at the SOX site of any problems with the software. This is my first foray into CD burning using Linux. The burner works fine under windows95 and its software. I have made a decision to eliminate as many windows machines as I can. My project is the burner/scanner box. Sean

2 1

Managing/Growing Disk Space under Solaris
by John Schulz 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

I trying to configure some new storage under Solaris (2.6/8) and wonder if people would have an opinion of which of the following two solutions would be best. I don't have any fancy tools available (like Veritas) and am trying to do this using basic Solaris tools. I'm adding large disks (181GB mirrored with hardware RAID) and would rather that the users not see that they have all the space before I think they need it. We all know that any free space will always be filled when you add new disks. Possible solutions: 1) When you create a filesystem under Solaris you can set a minfree percentage. This percentage (10% by default) of diskspace is kept reserved by the O/S to optimize filesystem usage. This percentage can be changed on the fly with "tunefs" and I was thinking I would start at 60% minfree (40% of disk availabe to user) and increase as necessary. This tunefs change can be done on alive filesystem. 2) It is possible to grow (add sectors) a ufs filesystem under Solaris. When you create a filesystem with newfs you can tell it to use less than all the sectors available on the partition you have specified. You can then grow this filesystem to the max sector count of the partition you are using. The filesystem doesn't need to be unmounted but become read-only during the grow. I believe this was added to support Disksuite objects but also works in ordinary partitions. So, has anyone experience with either of these? Thanks John ****************************************************************** John Schulz, Manager Information Technology jschulz(a)pbl.ca Pollard Banknote Limited 1499 Buffalo Place Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3T 1L7 204 474-2323 ext 256

2 3

Re: [RndTbl] large file support
by S/C Conway 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

G'Day, Thank you for the suggestions. The server is using the ext3 file system. It appears cpio does not support files greater that 2G. If I tarball the structure, the system has no problem. sean "Peter C.J. Graham" wrote: > According to S/C Conway: > > > > G'Day, > > Does anyone have a good links to information on turning on LFS > > (large file support). > > I wish to create files greater than 2G on a RedHat 7.2 install, it > > doesn't permit at the moment. I have had little success crusing the net. > > Does anyone have a pointer? > > It came stock with my install. It is possible that certain > applications still don't use the LFS syscalls. Are you running the > ext3 filesystem? > > Peter > > > > > Sean > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Roundtable mailing list > > Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable > > > > -- > Dr. Peter C.J. Graham <pgraham(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> or > Associate Professor <pgraham(a)acm.org> > Computer Science Phone: +1 (204) 474-8837 > University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB Fax: +1 (204) 474-7609 > Canada R3T 2N2 URL: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pgraham/ > PGP key: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pgraham/pgp_key

1 0

large file support
by S/C Conway 25 Apr '02

25 Apr '02

G'Day, Does anyone have a good links to information on turning on LFS (large file support). I wish to create files greater than 2G on a RedHat 7.2 install, it doesn't permit at the moment. I have had little success crusing the net. Does anyone have a pointer? Sean

1 0

Linux on MTS ADSL
by Brian Doob 23 Apr '02

23 Apr '02

I just moved to an apartment where I'll be getting MTS ADSL (Shaw High Speed is not available). How do I set up Linux to use it? I know you need to use PPPoE, but I don't know how to do that. I have heard that you need to make other adjustments to take proper advantage of it. I'm getting "Starter DSL" (to start with), but I don't think that makes a difference. I'm currently running both Red Hat 7.2 and Gentoo 1.1a. How do I set things up? Thanks. -Brian

6 5

X remote login
by Ihor Jakowec 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

I would like to login to the University of Winnipeg's mainframe, with an X window interface, from my personal computer at home. Up to now I have just been logging in with telnet ( in text mode). Remote login in to the University of Manitoba's computer can be accomplished with just a one line command. However, this does not work with the University of Winnipeg's machine. I suspect that an xconfigure file or possibly environment settings could be required, either for my home machine or on my account at the University of Winnipeg (or at both places). Are there any recommendations as to how I can remote login (with an X interface), to the University of Winnipeg? -Ihor

4 3

Microsoft and Unisys at it again?...
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 17 Apr '02

17 Apr '02

A friend forwarded a copy of one of yesterday's Top5 "Little Fivers" to me, which pokes fun at a new anti-Unix campaign by Microsoft and Unisys... http://topica.com/lists/Top5Internet/read/message.html?mid=1606707057&sort=… The list is amusing, but I found the included link to this c|net news article even more interesting and also rather amusing... http://news.com.com/2100-1001-870805.html I remeber a time when Unisys was actually a big proponent of Unix, but they haven't done much lately to endear themselves to the open source community! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

1 0

used HIPAD Plus 9018E digitizing tablet available
by Gilles Detillieux 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

Hi. Would any of you happen to know of anyone who might be interested in a slighly used HIPAD Plus 9018E digitizing tablet? It's a 12 x 18 inch tablet that comes with stylus, 4-button puck cursor, AC adapter, serial cable, menu overlays and documentation. It can emulate the following tablets: - Houston Instrument HIPAD (serial format) - Houston Instrument HIPAD Plus - Houston Instrument TRUE GRID TG-1000 - Summagraphics SummaSketch/MM 1201 (default) - Summagraphics Bit Pad Plus - Summagraphics Bit Pad 1 - Summagraphics Bit Pad 2 - Calcomp Drawing Board 2300 - Calcomp 2000 - Kurta Series One - Kurta IS/ONE - Hitachi Tiger Tablet (partial emulation, no remote commands) - GTCO Digi-Pad Type 5 (partial emulation, no remote commands) If you're interested, make us an offer. If you know of anyone who is, please pass this on to them. It was originally in the thousand dollar ballpark if I recall, but that was almost 13 years ago. It was only used lightly for the first 4 years, on a Masscomp UNIX system we no longer have, but I'm sure it would be easy to get it to work on Linux or any other OS. (I don't have any drivers for it, though.) I don't really know what we can expect to get at this point - I'm open to just about any reasonable offers, especially if someone's willing to come and pick it up. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil(a)scrc.umanitoba.ca> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930

1 0

Linux 2.4 kernel swapping problem
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 10 Apr '02

10 Apr '02

Further to the discussion at last night's meeting, regarding swapping problems under the Linux 2.4 kernels, I found the following bug report at Red Hat's bugzilla site... http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60079 There's also a new, open bug report that seems to describe the same thing... http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61007 ... but that one hasn't been dealt with by Red Hat support staff yet. The solution for now seems to be to upgrade to the 2.4.18 kernel, which has a newer and more aggressive page reclamation algorithm. For now, this means either compiling your own, or using the kernel*-2.4.18-0.13 RPM's from the "skipjack" beta, or the kernel*-2.4.18-0.18 RPM's from rawhide. To use the RPM's, you'll also likely need to upgrade a few other support packages (initscripts, dev, and iptables, for example) from the same distribution. As of today, there aren't any packages available for supported versions yet. So, you can either go for an unsupported upgrade (beta or otherwise), or wait for the next official Red Hat release. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609

1 0

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

Roundtable April 2002