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Nvidia video card drivers & DVD
by millward 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

I'm running Red Hat 9.0. My video card is an Nvidia FX5200 128 DDR. XFree86 sees it as a generic FX. Is that good enough to view DVD movies with? I just bought a CD-RW/DVD-ROM for that specific purpose. Will I have to install the Nvidia driver file: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run or is the XFree86 generic driver good enough? I'd hate to have to install that NVIDIA driver since it demands I patch the kernel. I hate messing with kernels. Something always goes very wrong when I touch a kernel. Any advice would me most welcome!

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cable modem activity
by Mel Seder 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

I left the computer on and went for lunch. The computer wasn't doing anything that used the modem and I had no scheduled jobs. When I came back from lunch the cable model was going at full blast. Is there a command or something I can do to see what processes are running instead of just shutting down the computer? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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Re: [RndTbl] SATA drives, nVidia GeForce, supported by FC1?
by Gilles Detillieux 20 Apr '04

20 Apr '04

Thanks, John. Better late than never. So it seems SATA is supported in 2.4 now only for some controllers and drives, but will be better supported in 2.4.27. It's still bleeding edge enough that I wouldn't recommend it to someone who isn't willing to fiddle a bit (or a lot) with it. We're hoping for something that will install and run "out of the box", so to speak. Good to know that progress is being made, though. According to John Lange: > This is certainly a late reply but I stumbled on this discussion about > Serial ATA today: > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2926 > > John > > On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 21:10, Gilles Detillieux wrote: > > Hi, folks. One of our colleagues wants to put together a fairly sup'ed > > up PC to run our Linux based data capture and analysis software. He is > > planning on getting a Dell Optiplex GX270 Small MiniTower system (he's > > very keen on getting it from Dell), with a 120 GB SATA hard drive. > > > > Does anyone on this list have any experience with using SATA hard drives > > under Linux? I'd like him to use Fedora Core 1, as Red Hat's flavour of > > Linux is what I'm used to supporting (and our software is RPM packaged > > for Red Hat). I also think he might need to stick to the 2.4 kernel, > > as the driver for the A/D card we use hasn't (to my knowledge) ever been > > tested on anything but 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, so I'm a bit dubious about it > > working well with 2.6 for at least the next while. What I've read so far > > about SATA support on Linux, which isn't much, led me to believe not many > > SATA controllers are supported yet, and that SATA support seems to be in > > the 2.6 kernel. Has anyone tried SATA drives and do they work with 2.4? > > > > I've recommended he stick to standard ATA unless I hear of some success > > stories with SATA. > > > > A somewhat unrelated question: he was going to get this PC with an nVidia > > GeForce 4MX (with DVI & VGA outputs). I've never used this card (or any > > nVidia card for that matter - we tend to stick with ATI most of the time), > > so I was wondering if anyone knows if it plays well with FC1. I did > > a bit of quick googling this afternoon, but got somewhat mixed stories > > with some folks complaining of nVidia's drivers breaking after a kernel > > update, while some posts suggested no special drivers were needed for FC1. > > I'm not quite sure they were all talking about the same card though. > > Any words of wisdom? > > > > Thanks, > > Gilles > -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil(a)scrc.umanitoba.ca> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada)

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Fedora Core 2 on DVD vs CD
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Hi all. At last night's MUUG meeting, several people expressed interest in getting Fedora Core 2, when it's released(*), on a DVD-ROM rather than the 4 CD-ROM's it will take, while others had a clear preference for CD's. What we'll likely do, though this still needs to be discussed at our next board meeting, is some of each. This is assuming, of course, that we have ready access to everything we need at the time. (*) Someone mentioned May 17 as the release date, which seems to agree with the currently posted schedule... http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/ This means things have slipped a week since last time I checked. I had hoped we'd be able to distribute this new release at the May 11th meeting, which would have been kind of tight, but now that's not going to happen. So, even if the schedule slips a couple more weeks, we'll have no problems having Fedora Core 2 ready for distribution at the June 8th meeting. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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burning a DVD with xcdroast
by Mel Seder 10 Apr '04

10 Apr '04

I am reading through documentation I found in http://www.xcdroast.org/manual/dvd.html It says ==11111=============================================================== Make sure you have a kernel version 2.4.x or higher. (you can test this with the command uname -a). Next, download the appropiate binary of cdrecord-ProDVD for your system from: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD For current linux distributions this would be the binary that ends in -i586-pc-linux-gnu, e.g. cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu What you downloaded is a binary, that means, it can directly be used. So, copy it to the xcdroast-bin directory (mostly /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin or /usr/local/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin). Name it "cdrecord.prodvd". (I spent 2 hours of error tracking because I renamed it to "cdrecord-prodvd", what is wrong!) Call chmod 755 cdrecord.prodvd to make it executable. ==11111================================================================= ==22222================================================================= uname -a returned the following for me: Linux p4 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux the above was on one line but Yahoo Mail's word wrap forced "i386 GNU/Linux" to be on a seperate line. ==22222================================================================= ==33333================================================================= Im running an Intel P4 and going to ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD provides me with a list of files. My best guess for the file to download is cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a27-i686-pc-linux-gnu I was hoping to find a 2.4 in the file name but... Can anyone tell me if that is the correct file? ==33333================================================================= Is there perhaps a newer/other program that has DVD burning built right in to the application? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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MUUG Meeting, April 13, 7:30PM -- Handheld Linux
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <c4v0m7$ae5$3(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 13. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Handheld Linux Brian Doob will discuss running (and installing) Linux on a handheld computer. This will include a demonstration of a Compaq (now HP) iPaq running OPIE (the Open Palmtop Integrated Environment). OPIE is a complete open source environment for handheld computers. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web site: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains several mailing lists, including these: "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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Fwd: Re: [RndTbl] "cannot stat /dev/cdrom" error message and problem
by Mel Seder 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

My son came over deleted the cdrom from fstab and when we rebooted the computer something wrote the line into fstab and the computer booted with no error. Go figure that one out? Anyways it works now :-) --- "Michael J. Dikkema" <mjd(a)moot.ca> wrote: > From: "Michael J. Dikkema" <mjd(a)moot.ca> > To: Mel Seder <melseder(a)yahoo.com> > CC: roundtable <roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca> > Subject: Re: [RndTbl] "cannot stat /dev/cdrom" error message and > problem > Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:19:35 -0600 (CST) > > > > The following is the contents of my /etc/fstab. > > > > When my computer boots I get the message "cannot stat /dev/cdrom" > and > > the cdrom is not useable. My cdrom1 has been broken for sometime > now. > > I have removed some spaces because of wordwrap in yahoo mail. > > Either the symlink to /dev/hd? is missing, or the device is not > recognized > by linux anymore. (dead?) > > Check dmesg for funny things regarding the device, and ls -l > /dev/cdrom > would help too. > > --- > Michael J. Dikkema, CCNP, CCIP > mjd(a)moot.ca > > > _______________________________________________ > Roundtable mailing list > Roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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"cannot stat /dev/cdrom" error message and problem
by Mel Seder 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

The following is the contents of my /etc/fstab. When my computer boots I get the message "cannot stat /dev/cdrom" and the cdrom is not useable. My cdrom1 has been broken for sometime now. I have removed some spaces because of wordwrap in yahoo mail. LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0 # /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/data vfat auto,user,rw,gid=vfatusers,umask=002 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0 5 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 It was working fine yesterday. Can anyone tell me what might be wrong? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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Dissertation Research Survey (fwd)
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Anyone interested in helping this guy with his research, please feel free to complete the survey on Free and Open Source Softwae at the web site he indicates. Don't be put off by the legalese on the the initial disclaimer page - the actual survey page seems rather innocuous. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <001a01c4129b$6a41e230$47954c0c@frank> From: "Franklin Valier" <f.valier(a)worldnet.att.net> To: <info(a)muug.mb.ca> Subject: Dissertation Research Survey Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 14:00:17 -0500 Dear LUG Administrator, Would you be interested in helping me obtain some of the perceptions about Free Software or Open Source Software. I am conducting an dissertation survey as a requirement for a doctoral degree in Information Technology Management. If you click on the link below it will take you to a survey developed for electronic research in this field. http://www.appilistic.com/form-magic/GPL_Survey/Research_Entry.html. If this meets with your approval would be interested in passing this on this request to your list members via e-mail so that I can reach as many respondents as possible? I appreciate the time you take to review this request. If you have any questions or comments please contact me. Thank you. LUG Authorization Code: LU2126XP Best Wishes, Frank M. Valier f.valier(a)worldnet.att.net

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Darwin x86 6.6.2
by millward 25 Mar '04

25 Mar '04

Has anyone installed Darwin x86 6.6.2 on a IDE hard drive? I downloaded the iso but the install text sounds rather discouraging. A failed install isn't my main concern though. Is it easy to get rid off if I don't like it? I'm not keen on those licences, but I'd like to see what it does, or doesn't do. Any information would be welcome.

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