Linux-Misc Digest #153, Volume #20 Tue, 11 May 99 14:13:10 EDT
Contents:
More troubles with 2.2.7 (David Steuber)
Re: Card that can do Horiz: 15.75 khz Vert: 45-75 Hz? ("Marc E. Christensen")
X-Windows does'nt start anymore ("Geert Van Loy")
Re: KDE very slow (Marco Anglesio)
Re: Card that can do Horiz: 15.75 khz Vert: 45-75 Hz? ("Marc E. Christensen")
Re: zip drive only mountable once? (Ken Moore)
Re: Tape Backup software (Edward Vigmond)
Re: Debian: still viable? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Linux system ("Patrik")
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: More troubles with 2.2.7
Date: 11 May 1999 08:36:59 -0400
I am running SuSE 6.0 on a GW2K Solo 5150. I can now boot into the
2.2.7 kernel (thanks, Jeffrey Stanton!). Now I have some other
troubles.
1) When booting, I get the following message a whole bunch of times:
modprobe: can't locate module char-major-4
What does this mean and how do I get rid of this message?
2) xosview seems to have stopped working. I can start it, but it
never shows up on the display.
3) shutdown -h no longer turns off the computer. apm is enabled in
the kernel. apmd is running. apm seems to give sensible
information.
Diagnostic information:
david@solo:~ > uname -a
Linux solo 2.2.7 #2 Tue May 11 07:18:46 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
david@solo:~ > sudo tail -100 /var/log/messages
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: cs: cb_enable(bus 32)
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: bridge io map 0 (flags 0x21): 0x280-0x2ff
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: bridge mem map 0 (flags 0x1): 0xa0000000-0xa0021fff
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: vortex_attach(bus 32, function 0, device 5157)
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: eth0: 3Com 3CCFE575 Cyclone CardBus at 0x280,
00:10:4b:f6:87:55, IRQ 3
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: eth0: CardBus functions mapped a0020000->c803f000
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.
May 11 07:44:36 solo cardmgr[171]: executing: './network start eth0'
May 11 07:44:36 solo cardmgr[171]: + ioctl: Operation not supported
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7809.
May 11 07:44:36 solo kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
May 11 07:44:44 solo kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
May 11 07:44:44 solo kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued!
May 11 07:44:44 solo kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
May 11 07:44:49 solo kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
May 11 07:44:49 solo kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued!
May 11 07:44:49 solo kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
May 11 07:44:49 solo kernel: lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-111
May 11 07:44:54 solo kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
May 11 07:44:54 solo kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued!
May 11 07:44:54 solo kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
May 11 07:44:54 solo cardmgr[171]: + interloper:/ on /interloper type nfs
(rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=10.7.7.9)
May 11 07:45:00 solo /USR/SBIN/CRON[282]: (root) CMD ( test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons
&& /usr/lib/cron/run-crons )
May 11 07:50:00 solo /USR/SBIN/CRON[336]: (root) CMD (/root/auto-halt)
May 11 07:58:33 solo apmd[112]: Battery: * * * (89% 0:01)
May 11 07:59:05 solo apmd[112]: Charge: * * * (88% 0:01)
May 11 08:00:00 solo /USR/SBIN/CRON[375]: (root) CMD ( test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons
&& /usr/lib/cron/run-crons )
May 11 08:00:00 solo /USR/SBIN/CRON[376]: (root) CMD ( test -x /usr/sbin/faxqclean &&
/usr/sbin/faxqclean)
May 11 08:00:00 solo /USR/SBIN/CRON[379]: (root) CMD (/root/auto-halt)
May 11 08:00:03 solo sudo: david : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/home/david ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/sbin/shutdown -h now
May 11 08:00:03 solo init: Switching to runlevel: 0
May 11 08:00:06 solo apmd[112]: Exiting
May 11 08:00:08 solo kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
May 11 08:00:08 solo kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
May 11 08:00:09 solo exiting on signal 15
May 11 08:03:18 solo syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
May 11 08:03:19 solo kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
May 11 08:03:19 solo kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
May 11 08:03:19 solo kernel: Symbol table has incorrect version number.
May 11 08:03:19 solo kernel: Cannot find map file.
May 11 08:03:19 solo kernel: No module symbols loaded.
May 11 08:03:20 solo apmd[112]: Version 2.4 (APM BIOS 1.2, Linux driver 1.9)
May 11 08:03:20 solo apmd[112]: Charge: * * * (90% 0:01)
May 11 08:03:22 solo lpd[131]: restarted
May 11 08:03:23 solo /usr/sbin/cron[149]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
May 11 08:03:24 solo su: (to postgres) root on /dev/console
May 11 08:03:26 solo kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.9
May 11 08:03:26 solo kernel: kernel build: 2.2.7 #1 Tue May 11 02:32:42 EDT 1999
May 11 08:03:26 solo kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm]
May 11 08:03:26 solo kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
May 11 08:03:26 solo kernel: TI 1250A PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 10, mem
0x68000000, 2 sockets
May 11 08:03:26 solo kernel: host opts [0]: [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci
irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34]
May 11 08:03:26 solo kernel: host opts [1]: [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci
irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37]
May 11 08:03:26 solo kernel: ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,10,11 status change on irq
11
May 11 08:03:27 solo cardmgr[171]: starting, version is 3.0.9
May 11 08:03:27 solo cardmgr[171]: watching 2 sockets
May 11 08:03:27 solo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1040-0x104f
May 11 08:03:27 solo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f
0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7
May 11 08:03:27 solo kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
May 11 08:03:27 solo cardmgr[171]: initializing socket 0
May 11 08:03:27 solo cardmgr[171]: socket 0: 3Com 3CCFE575B/3CXFE575B Fast EtherLink XL
May 11 08:03:27 solo cardmgr[171]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.7/pcmcia/cb_enabler.o'
May 11 08:03:28 solo cardmgr[171]: executing: 'insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.7/pcmcia/3c575_cb.o'
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: cs: cb_config(bus 32): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5157
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: fn 0 bar 1: io 0x280-0x2ff
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: fn 0 bar 2: mem 0xa0021000-0xa002107f
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: fn 0 bar 3: mem 0xa0020000-0xa002007f
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: fn 0 rom: mem 0xa0000000-0xa001ffff
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: cs: cb_enable(bus 32)
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: bridge io map 0 (flags 0x21): 0x280-0x2ff
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: bridge mem map 0 (flags 0x1): 0xa0000000-0xa0021fff
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: vortex_attach(bus 32, function 0, device 5157)
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: eth0: 3Com 3CCFE575 Cyclone CardBus at 0x280,
00:10:4b:f6:87:55, IRQ 3
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: eth0: CardBus functions mapped a0020000->c803f000
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.
May 11 08:03:28 solo cardmgr[171]: executing: './network start eth0'
May 11 08:03:29 solo cardmgr[171]: + ioctl: Operation not supported
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7809.
May 11 08:03:28 solo kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
May 11 08:03:35 solo kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
May 11 08:03:35 solo kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued!
May 11 08:03:35 solo kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
May 11 08:03:40 solo kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
May 11 08:03:40 solo kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued!
May 11 08:03:40 solo kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
May 11 08:03:40 solo kernel: lockd_up: makesock failed, error=-111
May 11 08:03:45 solo kernel: portmap: RPC call returned error 111
May 11 08:03:45 solo kernel: RPC: task of released request still queued!
May 11 08:03:45 solo kernel: RPC: (task is on xprt_pending)
May 11 08:03:45 solo cardmgr[171]: + interloper:/ on /interloper type nfs
(rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=10.7.7.9)
May 11 08:09:08 solo sudo: david : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/home/david ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/bin/vim /etc/rc.config
May 11 08:10:00 solo /USR/SBIN/CRON[313]: (root) CMD (/root/auto-halt)
May 11 08:15:00 solo /USR/SBIN/CRON[317]: (root) CMD ( test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons
&& /usr/lib/cron/run-crons )
May 11 08:20:01 solo /USR/SBIN/CRON[354]: (root) CMD (/root/auto-halt)
May 11 08:24:04 solo sudo: david : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/home/david ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/bin/tail /var/log/faillog
May 11 08:24:18 solo sudo: david : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/home/david ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/bin/ls -l /var/log
May 11 08:28:36 solo sudo: david : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/home/david ; USER=root ;
COMMAND=/usr/bin/tail -100 /var/log/messages
--
David Steuber | s/trashcan/david/ if you wish to reply by mail
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than
about 10^12 to 1.
-- Ernest Rutherford
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From: "Marc E. Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Card that can do Horiz: 15.75 khz Vert: 45-75 Hz?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:42:47 -0600
Yes, that's right. According to the tachnical manual, the projector is
capable of SECAM, PAL, M-NTSC, and NTSC. It has composit, S-video and
RGB inputs.
If you have modelines, I'd be very interested. Thanks. Is there any
other information you need?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Marc E. Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I have a Panasonic PT-101Y projector that claims to be able to display
> : up to 900 scan lines through it's RGB inputs. However, I have been
>
> : Horizontal: 15.75 +- .75 khz
> : Vertical: 45 - 75 Hz
>
> That looks like Standard PAL/NTSC-Frequencies!
>
> With a special Modeline, you may optain
>
> 768x576@50Hz(interlaced), or 768x440@60Hz(interlaced).
>
> Most VGA card are capable of producing the necessary pixelclock
> of 14.336MHz(PAL?)/14.1818(NTSC?). Sometimes, you will
> have to set the option "clkdiv2", if you card can't produce
> the frequency (then you have i.e. 28.6/2=14.3MHz)
> (Have a look at "man XF86_VGA16", but i can remember that
> the clkdiv2-option was available with XF86_S3 as well)
>
> If you need the Modelines -> mail me (i will dig them out
> at home)
>
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Marc C.
http://www.mecworks.com
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From: "Geert Van Loy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X-Windows does'nt start anymore
Date: 11 May 1999 17:43:52 GMT
Hi,
Recently my linux crashed (yes, this is sometimes possible :-)). I was
running X-windows at that time. Ctrl+Alt+Back didn't help so I had to use
the reset button.
After rebooting my X-window doesn't start anymore. I get an error with a
font that can't be found. However these X-fonts were loaded fine when
booting.
And when I shut down my system now, it fails to shut down these X-fonts.
Can anyone help me with this problem?
Thx anyway
Geert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Anglesio)
Subject: Re: KDE very slow
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:27:20 GMT
On Tue, 11 May 1999 07:09:32 GMT, mikerego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>icon. I had to wait and keep moving my mouse so the screensaver wouldn't
>come back on so I wouldn't have to start all over again my mouse was jerky
>and most of the time was frozen until it got its turn from the processor and
>then shoot across the desktop. Is this normal for KDE to be slow? Do I need
>a "faster computer" or is something wrong?
It's not so much a matter of needing a faster computer as one that isn't
starved for RAM. KDE is a memory hog - no two ways about it. The more
applications you run - and kde tempts you to run as many as possible - the
more you spend.
Likewise, to avoid further nastiness, you should probably add more swap,
too. The rule of thumb for servers is to have 2-1/2 times as much swap as
RAM; for a workstation, you don't want so much (since a process operating
entirely in pagespace is going to be ve-e-ery slow) but still adequate
amounts: I'd day the same amount of swap as RAM.
marco
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From: "Marc E. Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Card that can do Horiz: 15.75 khz Vert: 45-75 Hz?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:46:14 -0600
Bill Unruh wrote:
> > Horizontal: 15.75 +- .75 khz
> > Vertical: 45 - 75 Hz
>
[snip]
> is, which would give the max hor dots, but vertical maybe 400 with
> double scan ( and at a slow refresh rate-- read flicker)
It shouldn't be worse than television. Whish is what I'm using it for
at the moment. It's my tv monitor...I just thought it would be nice to
use it for my computer monitor once in a while.
--
Marc C.
http://www.mecworks.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Moore)
Subject: Re: zip drive only mountable once?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:44:57 -0800
>>However, if I insert the Zip disk anytime AFTER booting, it will not
mount.
I have seen different aspects of this problem in various posts.
My own system uses an external scsi zip drive.
What I have observed on my system is:
1. This system will mount a zip disk that is in the drive when the system
is booted.
2. This disk can be umount and mount repeatedly as long as the disk stays
in the drive.
3. If the disk is ejected and reinserted (or a different disk inserted),
mount will not work.
The mount and fdisk commands will hang, they never complete or give any
error messages.
a. The system is booted without a zip disk in the drive.
b. The mount (and fdisk?) commands return error messages.
c. A disk is inserted into the drive.
d. The mount and fdisk commands will hang, they never complete or give any
error messages.
I am new to Linux, but the behavior i am seeing (as well as the posts) seems
to indicate a problem
in the driver handling the zip drive.
If anyone else can confirm (extend) the scope of the problem, or has found a
solution, please repsond.
Thanks
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From: Edward Vigmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup software
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:50:11 GMT
Wolfgang Ganzert wrote:
>
> For the KDE window environment there is the kdat program. It allows
> multiple tars on a single tape and has a GUI which is easy to use. On my
> systems it does not run stable but maybe this is because I'm using KDE
> 1.0. Maybe with 1.1 the problem is fixed, I don't known.
>
> Wolfgang
>
> Ron Flory wrote:
>
> > > I'm looking for a very easy & good DAT tape backup software.
> > > Any idea?
> >
> > depends how fancy it needs to be. 'cat file.tar.gz > /dev/st0' works
> > fine for me.
> >
> > ron
There is a program called taper which is very easy to use. It uses
curses and allows you to traverse what you have on backup and pick out
only the files you need as well as select individual files to backup or
exclude from a backup. etc.
--
Ed Vigmond
Institut de Genie Biomedical, Universite de Montreal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Debian: still viable?
Date: 11 May 1999 07:40:11 GMT
Gene Wilburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't hear as much about the Debian distro as I used to.
It may be a relative thing: you're hearing more about the other
distributions.
Debian has alway been very mailing list centric, and is thus not discussed
on Usenet as much.
Debian isn't a commercial distribution, and thus doesn't have a huge
advertisement budget.
>I visited the website today and it seems to be a bit behind the more
>commercial releases (Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE).
I think this is the result of the "tag" game that results from different
distributions releasing new versions at different times. It'll probably turn
around with the next Debian release.
>There's a 'non-stable' release called 'Potato' that runs on the Linux 2.2.X
>kernel but the 'stable' release (2.1) is back at 2.0.36.
'Slink' (the current 'stable') went into code freeze in November; there was
no 2.2 kernel available at that time. During code freeze, no new versions
are introduced (except when absolutely necessary).
It is mostly 2.2-ready; see http://www.debian.org/~rcw/2.2/warnings.html for
details.
>What's the word on Debian these days? Is it losing ground to the slicker
>distros or is it holding its own?
It's doing great IMO. We're currently at 400+ maintainers, who are quite
active: there were 23 upload announcement (improved or new packages) today;
currently there are 3364 packages available (main + contrib + non-free +
non-US). Corel will be basing its Linux distribution on Debian
(http://www.debian.org/News/1999/19990421a). At the moment, there are 6
Linux distributions based on Debian (http://www.debian.org/related_links).
We have extensive support options (http://www.debian.org/support), including
commercial ones (which is what many companies look for).
Traditionally, Debian has mostly attracted converts from other Linux
distributions more than new users: new users don't get exposed to the
"Debian" brand a lot, and some of the advantages of Debian are difficult to
explain to people who have no prior experience with Linux.
>I'd be interested in hearing from Debian users about what they see as the
>advantages of the Debian distro.
I'm a Debian developer (which implies a user too). To me the biggest
advantages of Debian are:
- Careful attention to licensing issues, allowing one to have a fully free
Linux system. (http://www.debian.org/social_contract)
- Stable and powerful package management system (see
http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkg-comp.html).
- Good upgradability between releases.
- Open development process, and open bug tracking (www.debian.org/Bugs).
- High-quality packages. Packages are maintained by individuals who have
a strong sense of responsibility for their packages.
- Non-commercialism. Not being a commercial distribution, we don't have
deadlines to make releases, and can happily spend more time when that's
needed to bring the release candidate distribution up to our standards.
>I applaud it naming itself GNU/Linux and am half tempted to install it but
>I don't want to cut myself off from the Linux mainstream. Is it
>straightforward to install packages like Applixware on Debian?
Using "alien", as others pointed out, yes. Unless there are real problems
with such a package. For instance, Red Hat used to have a CDE product whose
binaries had hardwired library search paths which didn't work on Debian (our
/usr/X11R6/lib had glibc X libraries; the libc5 X libraries were outside the
hardwired search path).
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking
his name in vain.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: "Patrik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux system
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 11:24:56 +0800
GO SELL YOUR BUSINESS SOMEWHERE ELSE !!!!
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