General Linux

agetty question
Hi! Is it possible to write to serial port while agetty is "listening" (inittab) on it? best regards david ... 29 Sep 2006 17:53

HP All In One Printer Scanner Copier
Hi Group, I was given a HP Model 380 Printer Scanner Copier which uses LPT1. The copier works great and the printer works in Black and White only. Xsane attempts to find the scanner but evidently the HP380 is not in the data base. I have not found an xsane plug in on the net. Any recommendations? TIA. D... 27 Sep 2006 15:43

i/o error problem with dvdrecord disks
How do I deal with this: # sha1sum /dev/hdc sha1sum: /dev/hdc: Input/output error this is on FC4 with 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 (the disks I'm writing are FC5 isos :-) never had this problem on slackware 10.1 with 2.4.21: always was able to peel data off a data cd-r with no i/o error at the end dvdrecord reports ... 27 Sep 2006 17:19

flash drive mount and write permission
When I want to mount the floppy drive /dev/fd0 on my ancient (RH 7.1) system, I just execute mount /mnt/floppy and it does it, even if I do so without being logged in as root. In /etc/fstab, the entry for the floppy drive is: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 I can ... 30 Sep 2006 01:13

My experiece installing Ubuntu Lunix
Note: Likely, my critique will invite responses from many Ubuntu fans with helpful advice about what I could have done, or should have done, to make it easier. I don't need workarounds - I have plenty of those. I *expect* it to be easy. -- ................................................................... 22 Sep 2006 16:28

Equivalent of /proc/<pid>/cpu in 2.6?
Hello, Linux 2.4 has got this file /proc/<pid>/cpu which gives the CPU usage for a process. If a system has got more than one CPU's, this file gives the usage for each of them and also the total usage. Unfortunately, I'm not able to see this particular file in Linux 2.6. I checked proc documentation and the ... 21 Sep 2006 13:17

how to backspace in vi?
Hi All, When editing (inserting) in vi from within my xterms: xfterm4 -fn 10x20 -fg blue -bg white -bdc -sb -cc "33:48,37:48,45-47:48,38:48" I get "^?" when I press backspace. I have to press <ctrl><Backspace> to get a real backspace. This is a pain in the neck. How do I tell vi to accept a... 19 Sep 2006 18:22

libusb problem
Hi I'm writing program i c language to access usb devices on system. I'm using libusb library. Problem: During compilation i get message ../lib/lib.so: could not read symbols: Invalid operation coolect2: ld returned 1 exit status What is the problem. I compile program using gcc-cris command/compiler. g... 14 Sep 2006 09:08

Azureus's file preview
Does anyone know how to change the applications launched by Azureus for previewing files. At the moment it's trying to show mpegs in noatun, and it's not working. It may be possible to make noatun show video, but I'd rather just use mplayer. ... 6 Sep 2006 18:31

The beard of sucess!
Too bad I only grow one on vacations.... :-) http://www.usenix.org.uk/unix_beard.php ... 6 Sep 2006 01:24