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Reminder: Meeting Sunday@Syleham
by John Woodard 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Memory Jog Meeting this Sunday at Syleham Village Hall 2:00 - 6:00pm bring kit if you want. The bar will be open. Details on http://www.alug.org.uk/meetings. Cheers, BJ -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.2 - Release Date: 24/11/2004

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Further video info/questions
by Chris Green 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

Further to my lat post my Xorg.0.log file also has the following lines:- (II) GLINT(0): Manufacturer's mask: 10 (II) GLINT(0): Supported Future Video Modes: (II) GLINT(0): #0: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 60 vid: 16433 (II) GLINT(0): #1: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 85 vid: 22853 (II) GLINT(0): #2: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 85 vid: 22881 (II) GLINT(0): #3: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 75 vid: 36737 (II) GLINT(0): #4: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 85 vid: 39297 (II) GLINT(0): #5: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 75 vid: 20393 (II) GLINT(0): #6: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 85 vid: 22953 (II) GLINT(0): #7: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 75 vid: 20337 Does this mean it thinks I *can* have a 1600x1200 setup? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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xorgconfig, video resolution, xdm and gdm - queries and tips
by Chris Green 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

This is as much a story of my upgrade as anything but there are some tips and questions embedded in it as well. As I said the Slackware 9.1 to 10 upgrade went pretty smoothly, all the really vital things like the networking started up with no problems at all after the upgrade. The two things that needed some work were the xfree -> xorg move and xdm. After finding xorgconfig (thank you whoever it was) the basics of video configuration were quite easy. Just copying my xfree config file to xorg.conf worked reasonably well and I then ran xorgconfig to check it as much as to change it. The next issue was that xdm didn't work, since I use a Win2k system to display my Linux desktop (via the Cygwin/X server) this was rather vital to me. I found that 'startx' would bring my xfce desktop up OK on the local display but xdm gave an error in its log file saying that XDMCP failed to open a socket with errno 97. A bit of investigation (Google search) suggested that this might be that the xdm I had was expecting IPV6. So I sidestepped the problem by trying gdm instead, this works perfectly and looks a bit prettier too so I'm happy. I did have a bit of a problem initially when trying to login on my Win2k machine but that turned out to be because I was typing away on the wrong keyboard! The one remaining video issue is that I can't get the native video resolution that I want, the card supports the 1600x1200 that I want and so does the display but I can't get it to actually do it. The remote desktop via gdm is at 1600x1200 but when I fire up a local desktop I get only 1024x768. I've put the 1600x1200 resolutions as my first choice in the xorg.conf file, what is limiting it to less? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Printer fonts
by Chris Green 25 Nov '04

25 Nov '04

What decides the fonts available for printers? I want to make a few more fonts available when printing from knoda (a KDE application) as there isn't a decent sans-serif font at the moment. How do I add a printer font for use in a specific application? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Fonts (well typefaces actually) and printers in Linux
by Chris Green 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

My upgrade to Slackware 10 went fairly smoothly last night and I seem to have most of the system back to normal - with the intended bonus that I now have a set of compatible and reasonably up to date libraries to build against. The next task in my migration of an Access 97 application to Linux is to make more fonts available for printing from a couple of KDE applications. I can't at the moment get my mind round where the fonts on the system come from as each application I run seems to have a different view of what's available. However the particular requirement at the moment is to get a decent looking sans-serif font for knoda to print with. Many applications (and most of KDE) seem to have the Bitstream Vera font family available as screen and print fonts. However knoda doesn't show these as available, all it shows is an odd collection (from memory):- Courier Utopia Cursor Monospace a.n.other (Dingbats?) In reality when I print anything in size 10 from knoda it looks like Courier to me. I installed knoda using a Slackware package (i.e. it was pre-compiled in a .tgz file), could this be the problem? I.e. whoever built knoda and packaged it had a different set of fonts which don't match what I have? If so it's not a problem to build it myself. As a more generic question it would be useful to know how applications decide what printer fonts are available. All the FAQs and HOWTOs I've looked at don't seem to address the issue of printer fonts at all, they seem to assume that once you can see the font on screen everything is done. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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xdm error
by Chris Green 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

OK, now I have the xorg.conf file on the run I'm left with the xdm error. There is an error in the xdm.log file:- xdm error (pid 7439): XDMCP socket creation failed, errno 97 A Google search hasn't brought up much but the one thing that's possible is that xdm is expecting IPV6 and I don't have IPV6, this seems odd as I've installed a well debugged distribution. Any ideas anyone? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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X problems after upgrade
by Chris Green 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

I have just upgraded my Slackware system from 9.1 to 10. It's all gone pretty smoothly really (I'm here for starters, I still have a network, comms., etc.!). However X, or at least the display side of it seems to have gone a bit wonky and I cant find any useful configuration files, FAQs or HOWTOs at the moment. The issue probably has quite a lot to do with the move from Xfree to Xorg. X is actually up and running and my xfce desktop is working locally (I'm using it now). What I'm missing is:- I can't find any documentation for the xorg.conf file. I just copied my old xf86config file over the top of it and it works but I don't know how to tune it or change it. Apart from anything else the refresh rate is horrible at the moment! xdm isn't working. The win2k system can 'see' the Slackware box and the Slackware box can see the Win2k box but xdm has stopped working. I can't find *any* video/screen setup documentation, where is it? Is there a replacement for the xf86 configuration program? -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Who wants a quad Xeon server?
by Hyperbit 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Greetings, This is my first visit to the list for a few years. I got bogged down with wife and children duties. Brief info : Im John Freeman, 31, from Bury St Edmunds, working in Cambridge as a software engineer. Been using Linux full time for 7 years now (both admin and development). I use Gentoo as my distro of choice. Second reason for post: I have an HP Netserver LH4R for sale. 4 * PIII Xeon (500mhz) 2.5 Gig of Ram RAID 4 * 9.1 GB Hot swap SCSI disks I only want £100 for this baby, my wife is making me sell it as she needs the space back :( I want £100 so I can buy an accoustic guitar, will swap for a decent accoustic guitar. Replies to hyperbit(a)gmail.com please

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SUSE NETWORKING NIGHTMARE!
by RICHARD FLETCHER 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Ok I'm getting all confused now! Just asked around the place and there is no WINS server on our network. Should there be? I think I need to lie down. I did as recomended and set up my smb.conf with the share details. I think I stopped and then restarted smb but I'm not sure. (GOD I'M RAW AT ALL THIS) going to call it a night and get back on the horse tomorrow with a fresher brain. thanks for the help whine at you all later Fletch the moomin! ___________________________________________________________ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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SUSE 9.1 SAMBA NETWORK ERROR
by RICHARD FLETCHER 23 Nov '04

23 Nov '04

Annoying Newbie, back again. After looking around the smb.conf in SUSE 9.1 I finally descovered the problem behind the error "Network unreachable" when trying to browse the LAN in konquorer. After the workgroup name is changed from "TUX-NET" to the one that the rest of the LAN uses "MSHOME" (in YAST samba server setup) the problem occurs. When the name is changed back to "TUX-NET" browsing in konquorer is ok again. Although I have found this out I am still no closer than I was to sorting out my network. I think that I have been asking the wrong questions. What I am trying to achieve is this; I am running SUSE 9.1 on a peer to peer network along with seven WINXP machines. I want to share one folder called "My network share" and its sub folders and files. Allow others on the network to see it and read/write to it. "My network share" is in /home. I still want to be able to browse the network with my Linux box and read/write to the WINXP shares. This should be as simple as setting things up in YAST2 but as I said above, every time I change the workgroup in YAST or smb.conf I loose my ability to browse the network. Please somebody put me out of my misery one way or another as I'm still the laughing stock of this WINXP crowd. Is this a samba problem or is it KDE or SUSE or just ME?! Where am I going wrong? What am I missing? Why is this not simple? Hope someone can help. I had better go now, they mostly come at night......mostly:-) ___________________________________________________________ Moving house? Beach bar in Thailand? New Wardrobe? Win £10k with Yahoo! Mail to make your dream a reality. Get Yahoo! Mail www.yahoo.co.uk/10k

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