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USB to Serial interface to Meade Telescope
by Chuck Sterling 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I'm trying to get KStars to control my Meade telescope mount with #497 controller. The setup is a USB to serial converter to the scope controller. It does work under Windoze, so I'm confident that the basic idea is sound. But KStars does not find the scope. Can anybody provide insight or a link to info that might help me move ahead with this? Chuck Sterling

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compiling FC2 kernel
by abhijit kumar 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

dear all! i want to edit bootloader configuration for my kernel. i do n't understand how to modify the grub.conf file. i 'm n't clear to modify the " root=LABEL=/ " in grub.conf (i.e. it is /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2 or something else).( i 'm using Windows XP as other OS on system.) My Grub.conf file is :-- # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,2) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=1 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img title Other rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 My /etc/fstab file is :-- LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 df -a output is :-- Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 25395572 7120984 16984552 30% / none 0 0 0 - /proc none 0 0 0 - /sys none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts usbdevfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb /dev/hda3 99075 7320 86640 8% /boot none 254168 0 254168 0% /dev/shm sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs I 'm trying to modify the lnux kernel parameters. so; my kernel is ought to be crashed. is there any shortcut for compiling the linux kernel. i found very cumbersome that i 've to set parameters every time i do " make config". Thanking You Abhijit Kumar

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[Fwd: MPlayer / xine]
by Joe Dumais 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I forgot to add that I am using Fedora Core 1 with RIVA128 graphics card.

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Friends afraid of Linux?
by Tim 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Some one told me about www.knoppix.org the guy made a CD that will boot to KDE and not touch the hard drive. They suggest 128 MB of ram as it only runs off of the CD and has to run in memory. You can run it with less memory but check the site to see how. I downloaded the ISO and burned a CD, and it seemed to find everything on my machine. I never thought it would make it through my firewall but I could just hop on the net or use open office. A little slow, but hey your working off the CD drive. Now you can say "see Linux ain't so bad as Microsoft said" And when you are done all you need to do is shut down and remove the CD and reboot to what ever is on the hard drive. Now when FC3 comes out they'll want it installed on their machine. Tim...

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Was this ever dealt-with?
by Brian Fahrlander 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

"Package galeon needs mozilla = 37:1.7.2, this is not available." Sound familiar? I've been using "--include" to get past it, but was there ever an epoch-37 version of Mozilla made and maybe I'm just not finding it? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Fahrländer Christian, Conservative, and Technomad Evansville, IN http://www.fahrlander.net ICQ 5119262 AIM: WheelDweller ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Driver for TOSHIBA AMR modem
by windtim＠libero.i 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi i've Toshiba Satellite M30 with Toshiba AMR modem and Fedora Core 2. I've looked for drivers for this device without success. I've read on this mailing list that someone has my same problemand other has resolved it. My question is: does slmr works well with this hardware? Does it work well? Can you use modem under Fedora Core 2? Thanks in advance for the help ____________________________________________________________ Libero ADSL: navighi gratis a 1.2 Mega, senza canone e costi di attivazione. Abbonati subito su http://www.libero.it

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Re: 16x9 aspect ratio display
by Lewis Bloch 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Jeff Vian suggested: > If you look at the image ratio of the 1280X1024 it is actually 4:3.2 > (commonly referred to as 4:3). 1280:1024 is exactly 4:3. How do you get 3.2?

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sis modem
by adel.essafi＠laposte.net 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

hi list I am fed up using windows (and its virus) !!! please help me to configure my SIS winmodem driver!! I have downloaded pctel-FC1 0.96 and these are outputs: checking for running kernel version...2.4.22 checking for ptserial...ptserial-2.4.7.c checking for gcc...3.3.2 searching for kernel includes...found at /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/include/ checking for modversions.h.../usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/include//linux/modversions.h checking for kernel_version...UTS_RELEASE is 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl detecting your modem...found. Your modem is a sis type modem. installing device file...done installing driver...done installation done Making it permananently loadable at the time of system startup. This is not the part of original script. And this has been tested only on my Fedora core 1 installation With PCT786 chipset You will do this at your own risk. Do you want me to do that?(y/n) Looking for a driver installation...... Done..... Detecting lspci existence on your system..... Done..... It appears that PCTel module is already configured to load at system startup. Do it only when you are sure what you are doing! Do you want to do it?(y/n) : Exiting.....! Next , I have run scanmodem and make cat /proc/pci and these are the outputs!! What have I to do now!! and where is my modem (/dev/ttyS1?????) Bus 0, device 1, function 6: Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] (rev 160). IRQ 3. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. I/O at 0xe400 [0xe47f]. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: /******************************************************************/ UPDATE=2004_Oct_26 ONLY use scanModem downloaded as: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/scanModem.gz scanModem should ONLY be run within a Linux/UNIX partition. If within a MicroSoft/DOS partition, abort with Ctrl-C now !!! Copy scanModem.gz to your Linux partition and restart. Providing detail for device at PCI_bus 00:01.6 with vendor-ID:device-ID ----:---- Class 0703: 1039:7013 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Intel 537 [56k Winmodem] (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) SubSystem 1019:0a01 Elitegroup Computer Systems: Unknown device 0a01 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3 I/O ports at e000 [size=256] I/O ports at e400 [size=128] Due to a PCI ID database error, the Intel 537 designation is commonly incorrect. The soft modem Subsystem operates under a controller 1039:7013 SIS 630 capable of supporting under Linux AT LEAST modem Subsystem chips from manufacturers: Pctel AgereSystems Intel Smartlink From prior reports, the codec of the Subsystem is: The Codec is not recognized. Accédez au courrier électronique de La Poste : www.laposte.net ; 3615 LAPOSTENET (0,34/mn) ; tél : 08 92 68 13 50 (0,34/mn)

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lp and lpr "stdin is empty"
by lyamimlgnqfa＠spammotel.com 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

I just upgraded to Fedora core 2 from core 1, and now lp and lpr cannot read from standard input. [allan@mybox bin]$ /usr/bin/lp < /etc/hosts lp: stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. [allan@mybox bin]$ /usr/bin/lp /etc/hosts request id is laserjet-977 (1 file(s)) Printing a file works, but as you see printing from a pipe was busted, and so any programs that relied on pipes were SOL. I did notice a nonexistent printer in the /etc/cups/lpoptions file, and I fixed that. Strange though that only printing a file works. I wrote a workaround perl script, and noticing that /usr/local/bin was in the path before /usr/bin, I put it there as a wrapper for the real lp and lpr programs. At least I can print now. Any thoughts? Here is my workaround, I named it lp, and symlinked it to lpr: > #!/usr/bin/perl > # -*- cperl -*- > > # quick wrapper around lp for stdin bug > # pedaa_at_rockefeller.edu > # Time-stamp: <2004-10-29 12:15:44 allan> > use strict; > use Carp; > use File::Temp qw( tempfile ); > use File::Basename qw(basename ); > my $LPEXE = "/usr/bin/".basename( $0 ); > > # if given stdin, buffer to file, else call prog directly > unless( defined($ARGV[$#ARGV]) and (-f $ARGV[$#ARGV]) ){ > my $fbuff = new File::Temp( TEMPLATE => 'lpXXXXX', > DIR => '/tmp', > SUFFIX => '.cups' ); > > print $fbuff <STDIN>; > system( $LPEXE, @ARGV, $fbuff ); > } else { > exec( $LPEXE, @ARGV ); > }

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Re: Run something at GNOME login
by Richard E Miles 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

> Hi, > > For a while now I've been pondering about how get stuff to run when I > login to GNOME. I tried the "Save current setup" option at logoff but to > no avail. Basically I would like gDesklets to start whenever I login (or > some other program for that matter). > > There does not seem to be any default script under my home directory by > default that I can edit to achieve this. > > Thanks in advance for any replies, > -M You can make it one of your startup programs by clicking on preferences/sessions. Then under the startup tab enter the gDesklets program in the provided window. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097

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