Linuxers October 2001

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Re: Re: Re: Re: X bit depth adjustment
by Parul Mathur 10 Oct '01

10 Oct '01

Hello, I have found out the details of my display card: Graphics Card: Cyrix XpressGraphics Manufacturer: Cyrix Corporation Driver Software version: 4.10.01.1207 The video RAM is 2560 kB (note the extra zero). Earlier I had mentioned this as 256 kB RAM - I'm sorry. My CPU is Cyrix MediaGX MMX Enhanced 233 MHz. While looking for help on google I found this: http://www.exocore.com/linux/section.php?section=Xwindow#Xwindow_id7 Accordingly, I modified the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as follows: --------------------/etc/X11/XF86Config-4------------ <snip> Section "Device" # no known options Identifier "Cyrix XpressGraphics" Driver "cyrix" VendorName "Cyrix Corporation" BoardName "Generic VGA compatible" VideoRam 2496 Chipset "mediagx" #BusID EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Cyrix XpressGraphics" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 8 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "800x600" EndSubsection EndSection <snip> ----------------------------------------------------- After this, when I typed "startx" at the command prompt, the screen turned green and after a minute the monitor got hung. I think that I am nearly there and the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file needs a final tweak to get X working. I know that there are several Cyrix users on this mailing list. I'll be very grateful if one of them could send me his/her relevant portion of the XF86Config file. Thank you. Parul

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X crashes mysteriously
by Philip S Tellis 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

A friend's machine (PCQ7.1) hangs mysteriously after an X crash. What we found was this: When running at a high resolution, there is insufficient memory to load the direct rendering manager (drm), and the server runs properly. When the resolution is lowered, there is more video memory available, and hence the drm is loaded. In particular, the RENDER extension, which is used for Anti Aliased fonts. When drm is loaded, OpenGL programs crash X and the entire system. When drm is not loaded, OpenGL programs run slowly. Any ideas? The card is Matrox Millenium with 8MB VRAM. Philip -- panic("esp: what could it be... I wonder..."); 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/esp.c Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis AIM philiptellis ICQ 129711328

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ANSI C replacement for isatty
by Philip S Tellis 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Is there an ansi C replacement for isatty? Basically, I need to know if stdout is connected to a tty or not. Philip -- My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the seashore. Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/ MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis AIM philiptellis ICQ 129711328

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mail problem
by Mahesh Gharat 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

Hello everybody, I'm getting the following warning in the bounced back message from my mailserver(qmail on redhat linux 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2) Remote host said: perl: warning: Setting locale failed What might be the problem? Mahesh Gharat

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glibc version
by Keyur Shroff 09 Oct '01

09 Oct '01

How can I know which glibc version has been installed on a linux machine? glibcbug script shows version of glibc but it is hard coded in the script. Is there any other way? - Keyur

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Re: Re: X bit depth adjustment
by Parul Mathur 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001 S. Krishnan wrote: > Which video display adapter are you using, and with I'm afraid I don't know. How can I find out? > how much RAM? 256 kB RAM. Thanks. Parul Mathur

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[OT] Satyam Online & nttp
by Harshal Patil 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

anybody using satyam's interenet conn.? i can connect to their service, brows the web, send/recieve emails. but i cannot connect to my nttp server (no the server is not down, i can conn. through VSNL). it seems that they might have disabled port 119.(don't know why?) is there any way still left. can i make use of any other port? how? like emulating something (please bear with me, i donno much about networking & TCP/IP). by the way i tried to contact to their help desk, but the no. always returns with no reply. i'm using knode & pan. (in windows i also tried OE, but same results :-( Linux-Mandrake 8.0 -- Registered GNU/Linux User #188850

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ibm linux challenge
by Kishore Saxena 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

hi people, all students please check this page out ! its a contest for actually developing applications on linux.. open to students .. http://www-4.ibm.com/software/info/students/contests/linux/ -rahul

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by Darshan.Wakchaure＠lntinfotech.com 08 Oct '01

08 Oct '01

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Docs on the Linux TCP/IP stack
by Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe 07 Oct '01

07 Oct '01

hi, I am looking for good documentation of the working and implementation of the Linux TCP/IP stack ... any pointers?? SameerDS. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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