Linux-Misc Digest #991, Volume #18 Thu, 11 Feb 99 23:13:25 EST
Contents:
Re: Trouble Starting X with correct resolution POST2 ("James Moss")
Re: From RedHat to Slackware ("James Holbrook")
Re: Dual boot with NT and Linux (Dave Stephens)
Re: The Importance of Stable URLs. (Anatol Quabach)
Changing hard drives ("Steve D. Perkins")
Re: swapon -s returning error (Juergen Heinzl)
set up small word-processing system (steve mcadams)
character vs graphics mode (steve mcadams)
Re: linux printing (Frank Hahn)
Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters (Joseph Totleben)
vacation program for Linux? (Daniel Steinberg)
Re: fix for weird login problem (Konrad Rosenbaum)
Re: 2 domains 1 linux ???? ("Albert Want")
Re: creating a bootable CD (Peter Stein)
Re: Europarlement wishes to ban Proxy servers (Tim Laursen)
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From: "James Moss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.binaries.warez.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Trouble Starting X with correct resolution POST2
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 12:05:32 +1000
No the black screen is not a virtual terminal.
Handy hint while I remember: cntrl+alt+backspace to shutdown the Xserver
imediately.
I reckon that it is your monitor settings that are stuffing you up. Sounds
like you need to start from scratch.
Which Xservers do you have installed? use rpm -q XFree86-SVGA to find out. I
would try loading the SVGA server if its not installed.
Run Xconfigurator and choose your mouse as ps/2 compatible. The your actual
card or standard a SVGA card. Then don't probe hardware. Then choose no
clock chip, 4meg (or 8meg? depending on your card) then no or none to the
other question here (I never remember the name of it).
Now when confronted with your monitor selections choose monitor that can do
1024x768@75hz as this is a pretty standard resolution. Then choose only one
resolution from the next box ie 800x600x32 or 1024x768x16 or what ever you
want to run at. This will disable virtual screens.
If it works then great if not then ????????? Good luck
Cheers James.
Quinn wrote in message <79pn2i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Trouble Starting X with correct resolution POST2
>
>I am very new to Linux so please bear with my ignorance and newbie
>questions. The Redhat 5.1 installation from Que seemed clean and
>straightforward. I gave up on the installation automatically selecting my
>actual components (as I get a locked black screen):
>Actual Components:
>PS2 (MS IntelliMouse)
>DEC Compatible NIC
>Optiquest V95 monitor
>STB Velocity 128
>
>Question: Is the black screen considered a virtual terminal?
>
>Several from the newsgroups suggested that I use xf86config to set up X so
I
>did.
>? If I go through and pick all generic devices, X will start but at a
>unbearable 320 x 320 resolution.
>? If I go through and pick 800x600 and the STB Velocity etc� I still get
>the unbearable resolution
>? Sometimes if I pick some various combinations of resolution and Video , x
>will lock. When I say pick various combinations, they are combinations of
>generic drivers and settings that the monitor can actually handle.
>
>Question: Is there a quick and easy Windoze way of changing resolution in
>X?
>
>
>
>I have listened to your suggestions on (CTRL)+(alt)+(+/- on the keypad) but
>I get no response, both when the screen remains black as well as when I am
>in the unbearable 320x320 resolution.
>
>When I exit x I see a bunch of notes on the screen regarding the setup and
>(**) with the selections that were made. Showing that 8 bit color depth,
>320x320 has been selected etc�.
> 1.) Where can I edit manually?
> 2.) How Can I see previous page upon exiting X? (page up command?)
>3.) Could it be a keyboard problem? I am picking a standard 101 keyboard
>in the xf86config setup. The Keyboard is a ps2 NMB????
>4.) Could cards in the PC not recognized screw around with the setup.
>Example sound Card, Cable Modem card, and the modem?
>
>Thank you for your time
>Quinn
>
>Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "James Holbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: From RedHat to Slackware
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 18:53:14 -0700
Funny you should say that 'cause I dumped Slackware for RH and am really
glad I did.
Michael Powe wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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>>>>>> "Jason" == White Home <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Jason> I recently installed RedHat but am wanting to give
> Jason> Slackware a shot. The machine I have can read a CD while
> Jason> running the RedHat. I also have access to Windoze machines
> Jason> to use rawrite if I need to. The slackware install isn't
> Jason> quite as simple as the RedHat, all the same, I'd like to go
> Jason> ahead with it. The RedHat is simple enough to go back to.
> Jason> Any pointers for good resources on installing slackware.
>
>Just stick it in the drive and go. Read the documentation that came
>with the CD, that's all you need. It's that basic. You don't need a
>manual and you don't need 5 trips to the web site to d/l patches.
>
>I dumped Really Horrible for Slackware 3.5 & am I ever glad I did.
>Finally, everything works the way it's supposed to.
>
>mp
>
>- --
>Michael Powe Portland, Oregon USA
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
> "Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write."
> -- Anthony Trollope
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Stephens)
Subject: Re: Dual boot with NT and Linux
Date: 10 Feb 1999 14:42:02 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:27:39 -0600,
saleem akhtar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello:
>
>I like to know the steps to install Linux on a windows NT 4.0 machine. Any
>Pro's and Con's?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
There are several ways, here is what i did
Install nt 4.0 (or if you already have it
good. I installed linux to another
partition, on a different drive.
In the setup under SuSe (redhat
has something similar) it asks
what other partitions you want
bootable, I did hda1 where
NT was. Now when lilo starts,
it goes into linux after a few
seconds unless I type dos, then it
goes to the nt/95 boot menu that
NT made. There is also a way
to add linux to the NT boot menu,
but that is more complicated.
I have a win95 bootdisk handy
too, for the couple times
I screwed up with lilo and
had it hangin with
LI....
the bootdisk has fdisk on it,
so at that point I simply
did
fdisk /mbr
to put things back to the regular
nt boot menu before lilo screwed
it up.
--
Dave
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From: Anatol Quabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Importance of Stable URLs.
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:10:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wow, a creative spammer.
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From: "Steve D. Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing hard drives
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 01:39:21 +0000
I hope not to sound TOO ignorant here... but I am planning to soon
replace the old hard drive in my home Linux box with a newer and much
bigger one. I've done this kind of thing a thousand times with
DOS/Windows boxes... but this will be my first attempt at completely
transferring a Linux system from one hard drive to another and have it
still boot.
I have a couple of questions about the process I'm planning.
1) First... I plan to attach the new hard drive as a slave drive,
partition and format it, then copy all the data from the first drive to
the second. What I don't know is how you format a new drive in Linux
(the setup scripts on the installation CD-ROM have always handled that
for me! <smile>). There is a "fdisk", of course... but I haven't
exactly found a "format" DOS-equivalent command yet...
Also... I was planning to copy all my files from the old drive to
new using a command like "cp -R /* <new-drive-mount-point>/". Will I
need to be running in single-user mode to get all the files that might
otherwise be in use? Is this the best way to go about transferring the
data like this?
2) I am assuming that all I have to do to make the system bootable
again (after switching the new drive into the master position) is boot
from floppy and re-run LILO... am I correct here?
Thanks for any help anyone can give!
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: swapon -s returning error
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:07:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Carville wrote:
>mike burrell wrote:
[...]
>> | When I run swapon -s I get this:
>> | swapon: /proc/swaps: No such file or directory
>>
>> does your kernel have support for the /proc filesystem? if not, this would
>> explain it
>
>Is there any way to tell? I have a stock RH5.2 install and there is a
>/proc filesystem on my drive. I can peruse the contents of /proc and there
>is lots of system information in it but I get the same error from the
>'swapon -s' command.
Ladies and Gentlemen :: man swapon ...
[...]
-s Display swap usage summary by device. This option
is only available if /proc/swaps exists (probably
not before kernel 2.1.25).
[...]
... and swapon -s (2.2.1) ...
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sdb1 partition 65516 0 -1
/dev/sda1 partition 66556 0 -2
...
Cheers,
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Subject: set up small word-processing system
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:11:36 GMT
I've scavenged enough spare parts to put together a system for my son.
He's 21, knows little about computers; says he wants to use it as a
word-processor, basically no more than a typewriter with a disk
system.
The system I've put together is based on a Packard-Bell DX2-50
multimedia system. The thing seems only to have 4meg of ram, and
Win95 won't run on it. Rather than scrounge for simms, I'm thinking
that I'll just put Linux on it, I expect Linux would be pleased as
punch to have a new roomy 4meg home (though I don't know this for a
fact yet).
Anyway, I'm concerned that as a near-computer-illterate user, he might
have trouble learning emacs or whatever. I personally like mcedit or
the editor in ktdesk, but then I haven't had time to read the emacs
book yet because I'm busy scrounging parts for my kids.
So does this sound like a decent plan, if so what would you recommend
as a WYSIWYG editor that will provide print support? I've also
scrounged a Decwriter-65, not sure if Linux has a driver that will
support it.
Any/all advice appreciated. I'm a relative Linux newbie myself, still
learning lots. -steve
=================================================================
if you're -really- bored, visit http://www.codetools.com/showcase
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Subject: character vs graphics mode
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 03:11:41 GMT
I'm kicking around some user-interface design these days. One of the
problems with switching between character mode and X is the 1 or
2-second delay while the physical monitor makes some kind of
transition.
So, what libraries are for character mode that will also allow
high-res graphics? Or is there a way to run a TTY in Linux in
graphics mode other than running X? And finally, can anyone recommend
a url where I can learn about the differences between these two
operating modes of monitors? -steve
=================================================================
if you're -really- bored, visit http://www.codetools.com/showcase
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: linux printing
Date: 12 Feb 1999 03:17:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:49:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>My printer is locally connected. I typed lpr myFile, and saw the
>myFile got spooled to the /var/spool/lpd/lp0 as specified in the
>/etc/printcap file. However, I got the message saying that
>"wait for lp0 to be ready. (offline?)" and nothing came out from
>the Deskjet. I do have a device file at /dev/lp0 and I know my
>printer is connected to LPT1 (I can print it from Win95), which
>presumably is /dev/lp0.
>
Don't assume that because you print to LPT1 in MSDOS that that is
what Linux is going to print to. I think MSDOS just assigns everything
to LPT1 if you only have one parallel port. Linux does not do this.
At least the 2.0 kernels don't.
Try to "cat" a plain text file to lp0, then lp1, then lp2 and see
if you can find out which port your printer is actually on. I'm
not sure if looking at your boot messages will give a hint or not.
Of course, if you don't have support for parallel ports compiled in,
then all bets are off. :)
--
Frank Hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Totleben)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Advice for Microsoft-haters
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:45:50 GMT
On 10 Feb 1999 04:29:57 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian T. J. Midgley)
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Joseph Totleben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I'm still in high school, and we still say the pledge.
>
>Well, don't! It rots your brain, and increases your bogon generation
>rate by a factor of four or so.
Saying the pledge has pretty much become a neutral act. It's mumbled
without devotion quickly before first period, mostly because it has
been said at my school for so long, that it is just become a natural
part of the routine.
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From: Daniel Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vacation program for Linux?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:28:49 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am looking for sources to the 'vacation' program suitable for Linux
compilation (or an exectuable compatible with Intel P-II 350/Linux
2.0.36/glibc). I'd appreciate any pointers...i looked on some source
servers and could not find it. Please email replies to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
thanks!
daniel
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From: Konrad Rosenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: fix for weird login problem
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:14:45 +0100
"Michael E. Goldsby" wrote:
> My system (Slackware with 2.0.34 kernel) suddenly and for no
> apparent reason stopped letting me log in (as root or anyone else).
[cut]
> Now I can only run Xwindow as root--it gives me an error message
> "xf86OpenCOnsole: Server must be suid root" otherwise--why should
> an application like Xwindow know or care about shadow passwords?
> Anyway, that's tomorrow's problem.
/usr/X11R6/bin/X (wherever this link points to) must be suid root - X
uses direct access on hardware to work, only root is allowed to do that
- only root may hop around kernel.
The whole problem sounds a little bit more critical: are you sure your
harddisk still works fine? I had a similiar problem with an old HD:
randomly changed data. After installing a new one all works fine (runs
for weeks now without reboot, before that it only ran two or three days
before crashing).
My personal experience with Linux is that hardware tends to be more
unstable than the OS.
Konrad
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From: "Albert Want" <al-want@#--remove--#usa.net>
Subject: Re: 2 domains 1 linux ????
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:31:01 -0000
Try to have a look at the Virtual-server HOWTO...
softalk wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Could someone please help ?
>
>I have 2 domains registered domain1.co.uk & domain2.co.uk. I currently have
>both with ISP's and dial in to them from a win98 machine. I have just
>installed a linux Redhat 5.1 system on a 64k leased with a cisco router.
The
>ISP issued me with 16 static IP addresses plus 1 for the router. I have set
>the router as the gateway and I can send and receive email from the
>domain1.co.uk cos I put it in the domain box in Linux (I get that much) + I
>can browse the web, but I would like to host both my domains on the linux
>system and receive mail for them both. This is where I am lost. I get the
>idea that it is possible to have 2 seperate web sites for 2 domains on the
>same linux system. If so, could you please give me an idea as to what to
put
>in the network settings box in x windows to make this happen. I am a linux
>newcomer as you may have gathered.
>
>If you can help, thank you very very much.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: creating a bootable CD
Date: 10 Feb 1999 16:59:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>man mkisofs
>
>Phil.
>
>On 9 Feb 1999 22:40:31 GMT, Peter Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>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]
>
>
>--
>Philip Charles. My home page:- http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~philipc
>
If you can deduce how to make an El Torito Linux CD just from the
mkisofs man page without having any doubts then I salute you. Had
I not discovered the Phoenix white paper on El Torito I wouldn't
even know what the man page was talking about with "boot_catalog".
Well sure, anyone can infer boot_catalog and boot_image have
something to do with booting, but how does that translate into
making a disk?
I still don't know with any level of comfort what all the steps
are. What needs to be done before mkisofs? After? I don't want to
know all the gory details. Give me an integrated tool (like
xcdroast which supposedly will have El Torito capability added in
the near future) or at least a procedure that describes what
components need to be executed when. It's hard to believe that
this is so cutting edge that a HOWTO doesn't exist. Maybe I should
write one (groan). :-)
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tim Laursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Europarlement wishes to ban Proxy servers
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:31:20 +0100
"James D. McIninch" wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, the proposition from the EU would not only
> ban proxying, but also ban transient copies of the program, including
> memory caches. Technically speaking, you would need to disable the
> hardware caches on all your hardware.
>
> This is akin to the enlightened legislation in the states that
> prevents the US from using secure computer protocols in international
> banking and commerce.
Anyone know where this proposition can be found? I'd like to see it
myself before I believe it. How official is it? Just because someone
proposed something doesn't mean that it has any chance of becoming
reality. Taking down all proxies in the EU would obviously be a very
expensive adventure (due to the extra need for band width it would cause
and the man hours it would take to remove the servers, plus the
recourses it would take to enforce the ban), and if there is one thing
that politicians understand, it is when private enterprise lose great
sums of money. Remember that their primary obsession is that EU should
be able to compete with the rest of the world, and in that context
banning proxies is incredibly stupid.
Oh well, I'd better stop here. This is a technical forum, not a place
for discussing politics.
--
(\ Best regards, /)
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