General Linux

problem cross compiling glibc-2.3.3 for target board
Hi, I am trying to build glibc-2.3.3 for our target board(Da Vinci) from my i686 machine using arm_v5t_le-gcc compiler and linux 2.4.20-8. Can anyone tell me the different configuration options to set for successful compilation. I tried with options --build=i686 --host=arm but make is giving lot of errors like ... 17 Oct 2006 05:35

investigation
> Investigate (and figure out) why you cannot install the world's most compatible bootloader on your hard disk. Then proceed to fix this. My Ubuntu install failed twice to set up GRUB on the MBR. Before it, Knoppix and SUSE also failed on the same machine. I learnt my lesson: the MBR belongs to Windows, the ... 17 Oct 2006 05:35

boot record vs. MBR
OK, let me try again. GRUB is not on the MBR because it failed twice to install on it with partitions messed up and heavy repair work. It is instead on the boot record of the Ubuntu partition. To access this boot record, a floppy is used - totally irrelevant detail since the problem also shows when triggering... 16 Oct 2006 17:05

no graphic screen, X cannot start
Hi, I install Mandriva 2007 with KDE 3.5.4, GNOME 2.16 etc. But, I cannot get graphic screen. When it start, I get a console with this error message: couldn't find charset data for locale C; using ISO 8859-1. I search online and I don't get some response. I don't know what to do for having KDE in graphic. I'm begi... 16 Oct 2006 00:47

mplayer vs mplayer plugin
Hey folks, Using Ubuntu breezy 5.10 (not dapper yet) mozilla-mplayer 3.17-1ubuntu1~breezy1 mplayer-386 1.0-pre7cvs20050716-0.1ubuntu9 I don't really care about getting the latest and greatest version of mplayer, but i do have all the codecs. Not really a big... 7 Oct 2006 11:55

What is Linux built with? (or, what does this question mean?)
Hello. We are running Suse 10.1, and Matlab R2006a. Mathworks tech support has finally traced a bug down and wants us to install a different library. My post doc has asked me the following question, and I have no idea what it means, or how to find out the anser. If anyone has any helpful clarification about how I c... 6 Oct 2006 14:31

root password
i dont know what my root password is in ubuntu ... when i install packages in command line it asks for a super user password ...i gui it accepts my user's password ... during installation it didnt ask for a root password .... so what is my root password .... please help ..[i'm a linux newbie] Bala... 11 Oct 2006 10:37

Is there an mp3 player that works?
Upgraded to FC5 and am still trying to get any sound extracted from Turtle Beach Roadie. mpg3 wise: mpg123 Track0.mp3 High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3 version 0.60; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others free software (LGPL/GPL) without any warrant... 12 Oct 2006 01:19

"noauth" pppd snit with kubuntu
I'm giving kubuntu a testdrive and generally find it very worthwhile. But I'm having a bit of a tussle with pppd, compared to other distros like SuSE. It seems kubuntu really doesn't like the "noauth" pppd option. From /etc/ppp/options on kubuntu 6.06 ("dapper"): # Require the peer to authenticate itself b... 5 Oct 2006 20:10

Sun says not ECC error. What do you think?
c0mput3r...(a)hotmail.com wrote: (posted in comp.os.linux.misc, since we're running rhel4u3 AS smp x86_64, and there's some debate from Sun on the merits of /var/log/mcelog. So I thought I'd ask in a linux newsgroup) In an attempt to try to stay openminded, I thought I'd post this and see how othe... 1 Oct 2006 00:25