Linux-Misc Digest #410, Volume #20 Sun, 30 May 99 01:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Commercially speaking....? (David Damerell)
Lilo/ kernel 2.2.9 problems. (fwd) ("G. Georgiev")
Re: Does this OS exist? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Problems with TV-out on X-windows (Overmars)
Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested (Donn Miller)
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? (Bill Unruh)
Re: Commercially speaking....? ("D. Vrabel")
Q: X-CD-ROAST (milan andric)
Re: Scanner stopped working in Linux. Why? (Michel Catudal)
Re: Only ROOT can login?? (Edmond Cheng)
Re: df prints different things depending on runlevel ("Christopher R. Thompson")
Re: SuSE vs Red Hat? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape Keeps Stalling (Michel Catudal)
Re: XWindows Server (Charles Mulks)
Re: RH6, Gnome & RealPlay (Michel Catudal)
PHT TurboLinux (TurboTex)
Re: XWindows Server ("Jeff Grossman")
Re: postgresql and postmaster ("Christopher R. Thompson")
3c509b problem solved! :-D (root)
Make errors (Jeff Cates)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Damerell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.help,linux.news.groups,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: 30 May 1999 04:19:40 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erik Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.advocacy David Damerell wrote:
>> Erik Olson wrote:
>>>Now this has confused me, making system calls to the Linux kernel by non
>>>open source commercial programs should be illegal, or at least my
>>>interpretation of the GPL makes me think so. But apparently it is not.
>>>I don't understand. Can you explain why?
>> Because Linus says you can. No, really.
>Now Linus is a person I trust, so I don't have problem with that.
>But what scares me is that the GPL says something about not being allowed
>to modify any of its licensing terms.
Strictly speaking, the GPL says you cannot modify the text of the GPL.
However, what Linus has said is that he does not consider that making
system calls violates the GPL.
The FSF cannot possibly pursue someone for violating the license on
something they do not hold the copyright for, which rather destroys your
nightmare scenario.
--
David/Kirsty Damerell. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~damerell/ w.sp.lic.#pi<largestprime>.2106
|___| "Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc." Confessed Mercrediphile. |___|
| | | Or, in Klingon: "nucharghqangbogh chaH DISopchu' 'e' wItIv." | | |
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From: "G. Georgiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Lilo/ kernel 2.2.9 problems. (fwd)
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 22:31:44 -0400
Hi,
Something simple. but I can'f find the solution:
I want to install kernel 2.2.9, but it fails to boot with
'Loading...... wrong loader: giving up.'
No problem, my Lilo is probably old. The problem comes when
lilo-21 does not want to compile:
/home/dev/lilo/device.c:119: undefined reference to `stat'
/home/dev/lilo/device.c:133: undefined reference to `stat'
/home/dev/lilo/device.c:137: undefined reference to `mknod'
/home/dev/lilo/bsect.c:59: undefined reference to `fstat'
and similar.
Those functions as far as I now are not defined in glibc2.x, so I
force it to link against libc5.x, but nothing good happens - it links, but
it dumps core when I try to run it.
So, how to make lilo and boot 2.2.9 ???
Thanks, George.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Does this OS exist?
Date: 30 May 1999 03:29:31 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
]> Didn't know where to post this question...
]> Does there exist an OS with these characteristics?
]> - completely 32-bit
]> - runs in protected mode
]> - single user
]> - singletasking
]> - single processor
]> - command line interface
]> The closest that fits the above are DOS (but not 32-bit/protected mode)
]> and Minix (but not singletasking or single user). Any others I have
]> missed?
How aout Linux? You do not have to run multiple programs. You do not
have to have multiple users. You can throw away X.
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From: Overmars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with TV-out on X-windows
Date: 30 May 1999 03:14:23 GMT
Peter Caffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Overmars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > My X-windows appear nicely on my monitor, but it appears as black &
> > white on the TV when I connect the TV to the TV-out port of the
> > display card. I have tried many Modeline settings, but still can't
> > solve the problem.
> And your card or converter is...?
> What TV encoding system (NTSC? PAL? SECAM??) are you using?
My card is IGST Cyberpro2010
The TV encoding is PAL
> > Does any one know what the problem is?
> Not until you give us some basic information to work with.
I have tried many modeline setting and different resolutino but still
can't solve the problem!
> --: _ _ _ _
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From: Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Performance tuning of FreeBSD and Linux: pointers requested
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 23:24:29 -0400
Chris Hedley wrote:
> This intrigues me. I run both FreeBSD and Linux, and Linux definitely
> gets first prize when it comes to performance. This isn't a "my OS vs
> your OS" post, before any of the "advocates" of either side start to
> cause damage: I like and respect both OS' and use them regularly; what
> I'd like to do is figure out why FreeBSD isn't keeping up, especially
> in light of the number of comments I've seen which state it's faster.
> To this end, I'd like hints or pointers (I don't expect to be hand-
> held through the entire process) of performance tuning FreeBSD so it
> at least rivals Linux. My main problems are in two areas: first, FBSD's
> disc access is s..l..o..w; it shouldn't be, I have a 7895 controller
> with UW discs connected to both channels, and I suspect that Linux isn't
> even taking advantage of the bandwidth, so I've no idea what FBSD's
> doing to slow things down so much. I've tried things like mounting the
> UFS filesystems in async mode, which has made some improvement, but it's
> still noticably slower than Linux, and I'm sure it's probably just a
> minor configuration issue (I'm not prepared to specify "noatime" to
> speed things up, though, as I don't like sacrificing basically fundamental
> functionality) As an example, I run my own local news server on this
> system, and FreeBSD and Linux have identical (to all intents and purposes)
> spools under their respective preferred FS'; both run the same version of
> INN; both run the same client, Knews; both have knackered overview dbs, so
> that's out of the equation: Linux reads a large group of ~7000 article
> files at slightly over twice the speed of FreeBSD. Why? [For those with
> suggestions, it may be of use to know that I tend to use "bleeding-edge"
> kernels, so this is on Linux 2.3.x and FreeBSD-4.0-CURRENT. The FS' in
> question are EXT2 and UFS respectively. The programs are compiled native
> for their system and don't depend on emulation environments]
A lot of people will claim FreeBSD is faster than Linux.
Personally, at times, I find FreeBSD faster at some tasks, like
running certain X apps. Other apps make me think Linux is
faster. Well, all OSes will excel at one specific thing while
others will be slow or inadequate.
The one are where I think Linux is faster than FreeBSD is the
speed at which I can move the cursor. I used vidcontrol to speed
up the cursor in FreeBSD, and I think the default cursor speed
should be set a little faster on FreeBSD. But when I fire up
that ultra portable windowing system X, the cursor movement is
back to being the default slow again, compared to Linux. I know
xset is used to set this, but have no idea what the units of
acceleration are. Now Netscape 4.6 crashes a lot less on Linux
(glibc2) than on FreeBSD 4.0-current, but they run about the same
speed on both. This, though, is just Netscape being Netscape.
Now for the disk performance issue: do you have SCSI or IDE
disks? If IDE, add flags
0xa0ffa0ff to wd0 and wd1 drive controllers, and mount the
filesystems async, and see if that helps. You can add the flags
to your kernel config file (recommended).
--
Donn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: 30 May 1999 03:26:40 GMT
In <49043.12042$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "AlexAndre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> Hi I tried redhat 5.1- 6.0, caldera 2.2 and SuSE 6.1
>I go for SuSE 6.1 GREAT!!!!!!!!!
>What's wrong with RedHAT 6.1 I bought it from cheapbytes.com for $1.99
>I will never buy redhat products for sure!!!
What were you trying to say here? Are you objecting because you can buy
Redhat for $1.99? Or are you saying SUSE is $1.99 (but then so is RedHat
from the same place.) So why do younot like redhat?
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From: "D. Vrabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,linux.news.groups,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Commercially speaking....?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 04:47:38 +0100
On 30 May 1999, David Damerell wrote:
> Erik Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In comp.os.linux.advocacy David Damerell wrote:
> >> Erik Olson wrote:
> >>>Now this has confused me, making system calls to the Linux kernel by non
> >>>open source commercial programs should be illegal, or at least my
> >>>interpretation of the GPL makes me think so. But apparently it is not.
> >>>I don't understand. Can you explain why?
> >> Because Linus says you can. No, really.
> >Now Linus is a person I trust, so I don't have problem with that.
> >But what scares me is that the GPL says something about not being allowed
> >to modify any of its licensing terms.
>
> Strictly speaking, the GPL says you cannot modify the text of the GPL.
Once the GNU GPL has been applied to a package the terms of the licence
cannot be changed. You (the copyright holder) can use any license you
what including a modified GNU GPL. What you cannot do is modify the
actual text of the licence (as distributed by the FSF).
> However, what Linus has said is that he does not consider that making
> system calls violates the GPL.
>
> The FSF cannot possibly pursue someone for violating the license on
> something they do not hold the copyright for, which rather destroys your
> nightmare scenario.
David Vrabel
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From: milan andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: X-CD-ROAST
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 22:35:13 -0500
i have a an adapatec 2940 (fast and wide) scsi with a
MATSHITA CW-7502..
i think i've xcdroast configured properly, but it keeps giving
me an _Unsupported CD-ROM
[Unsupported device. (Try to force a specific Read-Mode in the
Setup)] error..
-this happens though the cd-rom is supported, it recognizes it
and i can even select tracks to read but just can't initiate the read.
i'm using x-roast .96e
the other thing i read in the faq was that my Adaptec 2940-Series is known
to produce a lot of troubles with CD-Writers under Linux. But i think
that problem is related to actual read/write corruptions, not getting it
to do something!
If anyone can help - please do!
thanks!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Scanner stopped working in Linux. Why?
Date: 29 May 1999 22:58:00 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >"James R. Van Zandt" wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >I have not used my scanner under Linux for a while, then today I
> ....<snip>...
> >I installed sane and there is no such beast as find-scanner
> >with it. Where do you get this program?
>
> When I downloaded and untarred sane-1.00 and built it, find-scanner
> was a program in the sane-1.00/tools subdirectory, and it worked. The
> 'install' phase doesn't install it anywhere as near as I can tell though.
> BTW, I tried building this on a slackware 3.5 distribution and
> for some reason that I forget it didn't build. It did build on a Caldera
> distribution and on a slackware 3.6 distribution.
>
I just bought Slackware 4.0 from Cheapbytes so I will try
again then. All I did was install the RPM binaries, I
don't think I have all I need to compile it. Now that
Slackware supports both libc5 and glibc2, it's time to go
back.
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From: Edmond Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Only ROOT can login??
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 03:49:53 GMT
Yes, it works.
Could anyone tell me which program creates the /etc/nologin file and how it
creates!!!
Thanks,
Edmond
brian moore wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 1999 22:55:12 GMT,
> Edmond Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am using Redhat 5.1. I have set up a few accounts but seldom use them. I
> > always sign on as root. But when I try to login with other account, my
> > Linux system always refuses with incorrect login. Even if I change the
> > password or I don't specify password for other accounts
> >
> > Is there any clue??
>
> rm /etc/nologin
>
> --
> Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
> Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
> Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: "Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: df prints different things depending on runlevel
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:00:14 -0700
Paul Kimoto wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Steingold wrote:
> > $ df /
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda2 6373004 5277996 764873 87% /
> > if I do "init 1", I immediately get
> > $ df /
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda2 6373004 4392687 1650182 73% /
>
> > After reboot (runlevel 5, X/Gnome) I get
> > $ df /
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda2 6373004 4395730 1647139 73% /
> > then something happens and "df /" jumps up again to 87%.
>
Try it again but do this instead.
cd /
du
You'll find out which directories the files are going to.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: SuSE vs Red Hat?
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 03:05:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello folks,
> i am currently in the market to buy Linux,
and cannot decide whether
> to get SuSE 6.1 or Red Hat Linux 6? any input on
the matter would be
> most appreciated.
> thanks
>
I'm a total newbie to Linux, although I have
years of experience as a DOS/Windows user/support
person/administrator. I recently bought several
cheap CDs of various Linux distributions (SuSE
6.1, Mandrake 5.3, & RH 6.0, among others) to try
& set up a dual-boot Win95/Linux system on my home
PC (Intel P2 chip, 233 MHz). I used a commercial
utility (Partition Commander) to repartition the
HD, to ensure I wouldn't lose the Win files I
already had.
Last night & this morning, I tried installing
all 3 of the distros listed above. Neither SuSE
nor Mandrake was able to configure XWindows
properly so that I could boot directly into a GUI.
RH 6.0 got it right first time. In addition, I
found the English language documentation supplied
on the CDs for both SuSE & Mandrake very
confusing. It was obviously written by persons
for whom English was a second language. By
contrast, the RH documentation was relatively easy
to follow and conveniently presented in HTML
format.
I'd have to say RH is hands down the best for
newbies to install. Configuration of *any* Linux
distro appears to be quite another story. The
Linux/UNIX environment can be quite intimidating
to someone with little or no experience using it.
I'm still struggling with how to get my floppy &
CD-ROM drives to automount & be user-available,
but I have to admit, I'm getting quite an
education in the process. :-)
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape Keeps Stalling
Date: 29 May 1999 23:02:02 -0500
Ron Gibson wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 May 1999 06:06:01, Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Yep. Netscape IS the problem. Killing it is the way I get rid of the runnig
> > > wild Instance. Somtimes Netscape dosn�t even release all resources when I
> > > normally exit it. Did anybody try 4.6 (yet)?
>
> > I gave up on it. It goes into a black hole when hitting
> > certain java sites. I was using the libc5 versions of
> > 4.51 and 4.6 with the same results. Going back to the
> > 4.5 version solved the problems. My 4.5 version is glibc2
> > but I'm not sure that the lib version is the cause because
> > I've run Real Audio 5.0 libc version without any problem
> > as well as a few other libc5 programs.
>
> > These are US Netscape versions of course and there are
> > no glibc2 versions of 4.51 or 4.6 available yet.
>
> I've been saying that I don't have any problems and now I'm wondering if
> it is because I haven't upgraded to glibc2. I've been away for a while
> from Linux NG's because we lost FIDO locally and I don't usually don't do
> Linux USENET.
>
> Any comments on glibc2?
>
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The version that works is the glibc2 version. I have problems
with the libc5 version under X which I have to patch to
get my French Canadian keyboard to work. The old libc5 X
library isn't worth shit in that regard. The bug was fixed
with the glibc2 version.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Mulks)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,msn.computingcentral.os.linux
Subject: Re: XWindows Server
Date: 30 May 1999 04:07:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Hello,
>
>I want to run Xwindows from a telnet session under Windows98. What is a
>good Xwindows Server? And how do I make it work? I am running Redhat 6.0.
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff
>
>--
>Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
>
>
take a look at http://www.msu.edu/~mulksc/LinuxHints
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6, Gnome & RealPlay
Date: 29 May 1999 23:17:03 -0500
Tim Ryan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Gnome uses esd for all sound. This is the Enlightenment Sound Daemon
> and it does take over /dev/dsp completely. To use a program that
> uses /dev/dsp use the esddsp wrapper. This redirects /dev/dsp through
> esd. The only time I have trouble with this is when the libc versions
> don't match.
>
Could it explain the deadly crashes of Netscape getting
on a java site that also uses midi if Netscape is libc5?
I use gnome and wanted to use Netscape 4.6 which is only
available in libc5 version (US version that is) and
I had to go back to 4.5 glibc2 to get a workable system.
--
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history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: TurboTex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PHT TurboLinux
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 23:54:05 -0500
Has anybody gotten ahold of this DISTRO????????????????????
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From: "Jeff Grossman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XWindows Server
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 19:08:42 -0700
Thanks for the help.
--
Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
D. Vrabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Jeff Grossman wrote:
>
> > I want to run Xwindows from a telnet session under Windows98. What is a
> > good Xwindows Server? And how do I make it work? I am running Redhat
6.0.
> As far as I know there are no free X servers for Microsoft Windows. I
> use Hummingbird's Exceed here at univeristy.
>
> Once you've set up the server point it at your linux box. Telnet in the
> the linux box. Set the DISPLAY environment variable to the Windows
> machine (eg DISPLAY="fred.bloggs.org:0"). Start you clients.
>
> You'll probably has to mess with security permissions. There are too
> methods MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE and xhost. I'm not to sure abut how they work
> but here it goes...
>
> xhost - a list of trusted machines that the server will only
> client connections from. This is only suitable for closed networks.
>
> MIT-[etc] - Negotiation between server and client generates a magic key.
> Only clients holding this magic key can connect. I don't know exactly how
> the client machine does this. (The university machines here use xdm to
> generate the key). This is the recommened method.
>
> David Vrabel
>
>
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From: "Christopher R. Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: postgresql and postmaster
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:24:17 -0700
Fezzzza wrote:
>
> Please help
>
> I am running postgresql and i am trying to connect thme via a linked
> table in access through obdc I have installed the drivers on the
> windows machine and filled out the info.
>
> I have edited the pg_hba.conf file to accept a tcp/ip host and am
> still getting a socket #101 error
>
> I have run the psql -h hostname -u and the message returns is the
> postmaster running with the -i switch set.
>
> I am running red hat 5.1 (manhattan)
>
> and the only drirectory I can find with any postgresql files is
> /var/lib/pgsql
>
> I am quite new to linux and cant find the data directory where my
> databases live enven though I can maintain them from the above
> directory ok.
>
Mine are in /var/lib/postgresql/...
try man -k db
if that doesn't work
do
/usr/sbin/makewhatis
first.
else
http://www.Linux-Pro.com/LDP/HOWTO/PostgreSQL-HOWTO.html
> and what file and path controls the postmaster startup so I can put
> the -i switch in.
>
> Fezzzza
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 3c509b problem solved! :-D
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 00:32:47 -0400
Cameron wrote:
>
> Turns out while Microsoft Windows 95 Hardware Wizard was fooling with
> the IPX stuff, it also changed the interrupt setting on his 3C509B.
> (He had NOT changed any hardware settings or configuration,
> nor added nor removed anything, nor changed Linux.)
Thanks for your help people, but it turns out it may have been a red
herring. Or maybe not... I finally got the 3509b configuration program
working, (My Win 95 partition seems to want to hang every time I put it in
dedicated DOS mode) and found that PNP was turned off, but the I/O address
had been moved to 0x200, and on bootup, Linux was looking for it at 0x300.
so, one line added to /etc/conf.modules:
options 3c509 io=0x200 irq=10
solved the problem. I don't whether the card mysteriously moved addresses,
(with or without the help of a windows "Wizard") or Linux changed its mind
about the default I/O address where it was looking for it. But at least the
software and hardware are happy. Thanks one and all very much for the
suggestions. Hopefully my trials will help some other Linux newbie. This
takes me down to a half dozen issues I am struggling with, if anybody in a
particularly bored or helpful mood this weekend :-)
1) I can't get my HP laserjet 6L working - it is connected to the parallel
port. It never worked under SuSE 6.0, but strangely enough, it worked fine
instantly my previous Redhat 5.2 installation. SuSE does not have support
for it listed in YaST - I can only assume it is not a popular printer in
Europe. Some possible clues in the boot log:
<6>parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
<4>parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven
operation.
<6>parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 6L
<6>lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Do I need to enable interrupts on this port? I don't think i have a
program called procfs.
When I try to print from the bash shell, I get:
bash-2.02# lpr minicom.log
May 30 00:12:38 sheridan lpr lp: cannot open any printcap files!
I have tried various YaST configurations, but the best I can do it to get
it spewing pages and pages of blank paper. This is the biggest barrier to a
workable system, and hence the next item on my list to tackle, if I find
time this weekend.
2) diald produces the following syslog message:
May 29 23:31:29 sheridan diald[391]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command
'/sbin/route add 127.0.0.2 metric 1 dev sl0'
May 29 23:31:29 sheridan diald[391]: Nonzero exit status (7) on command
'/sbin/route add default metric 1 dev sl0'
The following message also sometimes appears:
tcp_v4_rebuild_header(): not valid sock addrs: saddr=00000000
rcv_saddr=00000000
The errors appear to be because sl0 has already been started at this
address, but diald seems to insist on restarting it. I have read the man
pages to death, but I can't seem to find how or where to control this
behavior. Sometimes diald hangs after a long period of disuse, (dnothing
else unusual in the messages log) and must be manually stopped and
restarted.
3) Network connections appear two or three times when I do a route -n. is
this normal? For example:
bash-2.02# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
137.186.0.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
137.186.0.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
127.0.0.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 sl0
127.0.0.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 sl0
192.203.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.203.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 1 0 0 sl0
You will note the newly working eth0 connection. <Yeah!> I wonder if this
is somehow related to my previous problem with sl0.
4) SB 128 PCI card works under Gnome, but not KDE. Can't get a peep out of
it with the KDE 1.1 control panel, and when I click on cat *.wav > /dev/dsp
does work, but the .wav file is usually pitch shifted. Under
Gnome-Enlightenment, I hear beautiful music on startup, and nice clicks when
I move windows around. If I look under the KDE control panel, and click
under the information tab for sound, it reports that there is no information
available, or the system is unsupported. When I tried to access the sound
information I found some new syslog messages:
May 30 00:05:53 sheridan modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0
May 30 00:05:53 sheridan modprobe: can't locate module sound-service-0-6
I don't know what these modules are. They certainly are not part of the
kernel.
5) KDE Starts up with a warning that it cannot find x-bzip in
/opt/kde/share/applink/system/kpackviewer.kdelink
I can only assume that this is part of some library kde is looking for, but
I have installed all of the most recent .rpm files from the SuSE FTP site.
My apologies for the length and diversity of this posting - admittedly some
of the questions are a bit off topic, but I felt I may as well dump all of
the remaining problems in one place. If you like, you can follow up the non
networking discussions to comp.os.linux.misc I will check both NG for any
responses. Thanks in advance!!!
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From: Jeff Cates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Make errors
Date: 30 May 1999 04:31:13 GMT
Hi,
When I run make, I get the following output:
pci.c:9 pcmcia/config.h: No such file or directory
pci.c:10 pcmcia/k_compat.h: No such file or directory
etc
etc
This "No such file or directory" error output syntax occurs every time I
attempt to compile any program.
I'm fairly new to Linux and would appreciate any help. Please reply via
e-mail in addition to this newsgroup.
Thanks,
Jeff Cates
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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