Linux-Hardware Digest #402, Volume #9 Wed, 10 Feb 99 13:13:21 EST
Contents:
Re: Gtk+ and compilation errors making a newbie go MAD! :-) (Lyle Taylor)
SONY AIT AUTOLOADER TSL-SA300C (Rakesh Jain)
Help with sound on AL440LX motherboard ("Christian Tagtachian")
Re: Which laptop (Kristian Nielsen)
Lilith Banshee 16MB AGP XF86 ? (Mike Austin)
Re: 850Hd linux prb with CHS settings, EzDrive, old bios. - Advice? ("Jeff
Kowalczyk")
MegaRAID & Tape errors (Toby Boreham)
Re: Can't see Modem ("Brian Pribis")
Thinkpad i Series and Red Hat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
hp netserver e50 (Ilya Alexander S)
Emulex SCSI MD21 with SPARC (Martin Pineault)
NT Convert needs security help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: K6-400 "kernel paging request" errors (Jeff McWilliams)
Re: Creating my own bootable, installable cd (Peter Stein)
Re: Linux Redhat 5.2 with Compaq proliant 1500 ("ziphnab")
creating a bootable CD (Peter Stein)
Re: Matrox G200 AGP card? (Alex Korves)
What means: Can not load interpreter (Norbert Goebel)
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From: Lyle Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gtk+ and compilation errors making a newbie go MAD! :-)
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:00:38 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where did Gtk install itself? If it installed in /usr/local/lib, then
you may need to make sure that /usr/local/lib is either in your
LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or in /etc/ld.so.conf.
Just a thought. Good luck.
Lyle
The Grogers wrote:
>
> Whenever I try to compile some program, when configure gets to where it
> tests for gtk, it gives me a message that it is incorrectly installed.
> However, I just installed the newest version that came with gnome, and I
> know I didn't move it, (I don't even know where it is). The installation
> didn't get any errors, either. Could someone please help me with this!!
> There's all kinds of programs I need, but don't have binaries, (or at lease
> they don't have recent ones), and I'm a getting to be a very discouraged
> Linux newbie!! (Can't I just switch back to Windoze?) :-)
>
> checking for gtk-config... /usr/bin/gtk-config
>
> checking for GTK - version >= 1.1.12... no
>
> *** Could not run GTK test program, checking why...
>
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for
> the
>
> *** exact error that occured. This usually means GTK was incorrectly
> installed
>
> *** or that you have moved GTK since it was installed. In the latter case,
> you
>
> *** may want to edit the gtk-config script: /usr/bin/gtk-config
>
> configure: error: GTK not installed
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From: Rakesh Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SONY AIT AUTOLOADER TSL-SA300C
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:47:16 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there,
Does anyone has the drivers for a sony AIT TSL-SA300C tape drive with
autoloader running on linux. I have it on a dell 4300 system with redhat
5.2. I need to get the autoloader drivers. The mt stuff works fine but
have not figured out a way to use the magazine with it.
Thanks
rakesh
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From: "Christian Tagtachian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with sound on AL440LX motherboard
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:07:54 -0300
Hello everybody,
I have a pentium 200mhz running on a AL440LX Intel motherboard running
RH5.0, I tried getting the sound devices running but I couldn't success, I
know has to be handled as a PNP device...
Has anybody have the isapnp config file to make it work?
Plus if there are other things to keep in mind to make it work, would you
tell me?
Thanks in advance.
Christian
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From: Kristian Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Which laptop
Date: 10 Feb 1999 14:09:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olivier Treger) writes:
> Did anyone experiment something nice?
I have used an IBM ThinkPad 380ED with Debian GNU/Linux 2.0, and it
works well. Not sure about sound, though.
- Kristian.
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From: Mike Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilith Banshee 16MB AGP XF86 ?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:35:57 -0700
Does anyone have an XF86Config for Lilith Banshee 16MB AGP?
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From: "Jeff Kowalczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 850Hd linux prb with CHS settings, EzDrive, old bios. - Advice?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:23:46 -0500
I temporarily used the drive in a modern machine, and noted the three
addressing modes from autodetect:
Size Cyl Heads PreComp Landz Sect Mode
853 827 32 0 1653 63 LBA
853 1654 16 65535 1653 63 Normal
853 827 32 65535 1653 63 Large
Should I use the 'Normal' parameters with EZdrive on an ancient machine with
540Mb limitation, or Large? What about LBA (which the old bios has no clue
about) and using that append linear setting in lilo.conf?
Jeff Kowalczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:NP0w2.412$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an old Western Digital Caviar 850 drive, which I was using with
RH5.2
> to some success a couple of weeks ago. The computer it's in is a heap of a
> 486, with an old bios that has the 540Mb limitation. We always used EZ
drive
> with the 850 on this machine, and there were some bogus CHS parameters in
> the BIOS (which has no concept of LBA, btw) set that worked.
>
> Noticing that linux was capable of dealing with the drive CHS directly, I
> got fancy and removed EZdrive, and set the bios to the real drive CHS
> values. I don't think it liked that. As expected, I lost the ability to
boot lilo
> from the HD, but with a boot disk, everything appeared to work ok on
linux.
> Granted, I wasn't doing much taxing work with the machine.
>
> The actual drive CHS, btw, are 1654, 16, 63.
> I currently have the BIOS set to:
> Type 47=user 826,32,(wpcomp=65535),(lzone=65535), 63
>
> I don't know about those precomp and landing zone values, how is that
> calculated. I though a wrong setting there might have to do with the
knock.
>
>
>
> So now, the drive fails RH5.2 CD installation somewhere in the middle,
with
> different errors each time. Sometimes they are termination codes,
sometimes
> a hang, once it did that knocking drives do when they go toes-up.
>
>
>
> The drive is checking out OK in WDDIAG, but of course I've forgotten what
> those old CHS paramters were. They didn't match the drive, that's for
sure,
> but they did work with DOS, Win9x, and recently linux.
>
>
>
> I don't have the CompuAdd manuals, and they didn't address big drives
> anyway. Anyone have any idea how I'd guess the old CHS parameters, so I
> could slap EzDrive back on there and get a linux box back? Thanks.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Toby Boreham)
Subject: MegaRAID & Tape errors
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 21:22:20 GMT
Hi,
I have an AMI MegaRAID 428 card working with RedHat Linux 5.2. The
drives and CD Rom work great, but I have a HP C1554A DDS-3 DAT drive,
which won't work at all. It works fine under NT4 on the same machine.
I can't get mt to work with it, and I get these errors:
Script started on Tue Feb 9 21:14:38 1999
[root@orion /root]# mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=-1, block number=-1, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x25 (DDS-3).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (1010000):
ONLINE IM_REP_EN
st0: Error 250400f0
[root@orion /root]# mt -f /dev/st0 offline
/dev/st0: Input/output error
st0: Error with sense data: extra data not valid Current error st
09:00: sense key aborted command
Additional sense indicates Overlapped commands attempted
[root@orion /root]# exit
Script done on Tue Feb 9 21:15:22 1999
On the offline command, although it reports an error, the tape does
eject.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Toby
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From: "Brian Pribis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't see Modem
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 16:36:01 -0500
Is it a PNP modem? If so you may have to use isapnptools to detect it.
This is described in the Linux installation guide that came with Linux (if
you bought it off the shelf), if not go to /usr/doc/isapnptools.....(don't
remember the exact name of the HOWTO) and read the HOWTO.
(P.S. becarefull if you have a BIOS that configures PNP stuff for
you....there is reading on that as well. You may have to disable this).
Good luck.
Brian.
(P.S.S. If you don't want to mess with a PNP modem if that is what you
have...get a cheap nonPNP (uses jumpers instead) and use an available port.
It works O.K. with both for linux. Just disable that com port in windows so
windows dosn't look for it and harass you).
JimQ wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello All,
>
>I just installed RedHat 5.2. Everything is running fine, expect, I
>can't see my
>modem. When I try to connect (PPP) I don't see anything happening on
>modem.
>How can I check my com ports? How can I check my modem. The modem and
>com
>ports work just fine when I boot 95 or NT. Any help would be
>appreciated.
>
>Thx --- JIMQ
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thinkpad i Series and Red Hat 5.2
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:34:32 GMT
Anyone ever get Red Hat (5.2) runnig on the new IBM Thinkpads (i
series). I am preparing to purchase a new laptop and wanted to see if
anyone has run into problems with this model Thinkpad.
Thanks
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 11:42:35 +0700
From: Ilya Alexander S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hp netserver e50
greetings all.
before purchasing HP Netserver E50,
i want to make sure if the SCSI adapter on it works with RH52.
does anybody has any experience with E50 and H52?
thanks.. :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Pineault)
Subject: Emulex SCSI MD21 with SPARC
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 04:32:45 GMT
We have set a external ShowBox from old SUN-3 SCSI. The boot SCSI
scan and PROM from the SPARC IPX detected OK.
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: EMULEX Model: MD21/S2 ESDI Rev: A00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01
But can seem to get the geometry correctly.
FDISK report:
SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 4 lun 0 return code = 28000000
extra data not valid Current error sd08:10: sense key Not Ready
Additionnal sense indicates Illegal function (should use 20 00, 24 00,
26 00)
scsi I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0, absolute sector 0
"Unable to read /dev/sdb"
Help!
Martin Pineault /* Keep looking for it, soon you will find it. */
OSG Inc. /* Those who search, will live till the end. */
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /* Have we ever met, be gentle and polite. */
http://www.osginformatique.com /* Suggestions? French available. */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: NT Convert needs security help!
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:11:18 GMT
Hello all... Yes, another NT --> Redhat convert. :)
I have been successful in setting up our site and Apache; we have multiple
sites running well, both under shared IP's and individual IP's.
I do have one question though regarding FTP "security".
What we want to do is this:
Have a "home" partition, 50 (or so) users, each with their own directory and 2
subdirectories: html & cgi-bin, set up like this:
Home
Home / User 1
Home / User 1 / html
Home / User 1 / cgi-bin
Home / User 2
Home / User 2 / html
Home / User 2 / cgi-bin
Home / User 3
Home / User 3 / html
Home / User 3 / cgi-bin
... etc ...
We are defining users OK, giving them their own group (by default) and
pointing their "starting" directory to, for example, HOME/USER3/HTML. This
is working fine. Each user can FTP in to their HTML directory (this is set
in the user profile). However, we write proprietary scripts & don't want
them to access either the cgi-bin or other client's sites. Basically, we
can't let them click on a "directory up" link in FTP allowing them out of
their directory or a "change directory" option that lets them go somewhere
else on the server.
So basically, we want User1 to get to
Home/User1/html
but we don't want them to get to:
Home/User1/cgi-bin
or
Home/User*
or
Home
or any other partition on the system.
Is there a straight forward way to configure this? This is the last
impediment to us going forward, as our scripts are proprietary & we can't let
our clients have access to them or to the other clients' sites.
Thanks in advance. I look forward to some wise words...
Regards,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff McWilliams)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: K6-400 "kernel paging request" errors
Date: 10 Feb 1999 01:08:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christian Aasland wrote:
>
>Stefan Lucke wrote:
>
>> Did you try other FSB clock rates?
>> With my K6-2 400 it is impossible to compile the kernel with FSB 100MHz
Might be a bad CPU, I'm running 100MHz FSB on a K6-2 300 using an Asus P5-A
and have compiled the 2.2.0-pre5, 6, 7 kernels a couple times without
trouble.
Jeff
--
Jeff McWilliams
"The mystery boy has gone to war, in the fields of death you'll find him."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Creating my own bootable, installable cd
Date: 10 Feb 1999 17:16:42 GMT
In article <79rag7$1cv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jon Masami Kuroda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here are the basic steps:
>
>Run mkisofs which creates a CD/iso9660 fs image
>
>mkisofs does useful things like putting boot blocks and the like
>onto the right place on the iso file image. It can also do rockridge
>extentions so you can have long filenames and the like.
>
>use your favorite software to burn this onto a cd
>
>Below is a shell script wrapper to mkisofs that is found on most
>freebsd systems at /usr/share/examples/worm/makecdfs.sh:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>#
># usage: makecdfs [-b] "cd title" input-tree output-file "copyright string"
>#
># For example:
>#
># makecdfs FreeBSD-2.1.5 /a/cdrom-dist /a/cdimage.cd0 "Walnut Creek CDROM \
># 1-510-674-0783 FAX 1-510-674-0821"
>
>if [ "$1" = "-b" ]; then
> bootable="-b floppies/boot.flp -c floppies/boot.catalog"
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
=============================================================================
How are these created under Linux?
I'm guessing that the floppy image could be captured off a bootable floppy
with 'dd' (what if the boot requires multiple floppies?). But what about
boot.catalog? I've seen descriptions for non-Unix OSes that involve using
a hex editor. Please tell me it isn't that painful.
=============================================================================
> shift
>else
> bootable=""
>fi
>
>if [ $# -lt 4 ]; then
> echo "usage: $0 \"cd-title\" input-tree output-file \"copyright\""
>elif [ ! -d $2 ]; then
> echo "$0: $2 is not a directory tree."
>else
> title="$1"; shift
> tree=$1; shift
> outfile=$1; shift
> copyright="$*"
> mkisofs $bootable -a -d -N -D -R -T -V "$title" -P "$copyright" -o $outfile
>$tree
>fi
>
>It's been a while since I have had to do this so I forgot what is
>required from the burning software but mkisofs is source-code available
>and builds on just about every unix I have seen. The input-tree
>should be something like /export/FreeBSD/2.2.8-RELEASE/ or something.
>You may also want to add the -f flag to your invocation of mkisofs
>so that symlinks will get followed and you will get real files in
>your iso9600 fs image and not symlnks pointing to nowhere.
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "ziphnab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Redhat 5.2 with Compaq proliant 1500
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:57:19 +0100
I can't seem to get a resolution over 640x480 on my presario 4122 (don't
laugh), I've tried to find detailed specs on the vidoe-chip, but I can't
find them
[EMAIL PROTECTED] heeft geschreven in bericht
<79r5hr$mvk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi
etc.
>Let me know if you have any other problems on Compaq hardware with Linux.
>
>
>Regards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: creating a bootable CD
Date: 9 Feb 1999 22:40:31 GMT
I've scoured the ftp archives for a HOWTO and searched the WWW, but can't
find any reference to a procedure for creating a bootable Linux CD. I
have found procedures for other OSes, but not Linux. If you have info
please send email. Thanks.
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Korves)
Subject: Re: Matrox G200 AGP card?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:17:40 +0100
Steffen Kristensen schrieb:
>
> Are there any drivers that support the Matrox G200 AGP card?
> It's not in the driver list, and I get a Server Error when trying to use
> another card.
>
> Regards
> Steffen Kristensen
Yes, but you need an (g)libc update too. Or you have a Lix Version with
kernel 2.0.35 or better...
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From: Norbert Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What means: Can not load interpreter
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:09:05 +0100
Sorry to ask this question in this group, but I think it=B4s a hardware
problem.
Sometimes trying (trying because it hangs) to reboot my linux box, which
worked nice before, the shutting down process gets awfully slow and than
shows the message:
"Can not load interpreter"
and some other error messages (but these change almost randomly
everytime this happens) about not beeing able to shut down eth0 or scsi
timed out, or something other hardware related.
But what does "can not load interpreter" mean?
What does linux try to load?
I realize that this happens not regularily, but sometimes and seems only
after I mounted a FAT32 drive and worked on it for some time, or if I
used my Fritzcard for some time.
I am using Suse Linux 6.0 (kernel 2.0.36) on a =
Tyan Thunder 100 S1836DLU Dual PII mb with onboard 3940UW SCSI
Celeron 300A
128MB PC-100 SD-RAM
2 SCSI Hdd
1 SCSI CD-ROM
Creative Riva TNT
SB 128PCI
AVM Fritzcard Classic
DIGI32 PCI (without drivers for Linux)
NE2000 PCI clone
Hauppauge Win/TV card
Thanks for your help.
Norbert
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