Linux-Misc Digest #204, Volume #25 Sat, 22 Jul 00 12:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Re: vi wouldn't work after rootdisk boot (Dances With Crows)
lockdsvc: Invalid argument (David Greeson)
Re: USB Support - Does Linux provide it yet (Dances With Crows)
Re: ICQ-Text-Client ? (Edwin Johnson)
Re: Ensoniq Sound Problem (Dances With Crows)
Re: StarOffice =?iso-8859-1?Q?doesn=B4t?= show vfat partition (Dances With Crows)
Re: Need help with setting up NFS for a networked PC. (Madhusudan Singh)
Re: ICQ-Text-Client ? ("Jan Schaumann")
Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries?
(QuoteMstr)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Christian Hennecke)
guest ftp user can't see files? ("Devon Harding")
Help! DNS-Problem! (Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil)
Gateway solo & Linux? (Craig Ewert)
Re: Operating systems for personal-computers? (Brian Smith-White)
Re: ICQ-Text-Client ? (D'Arque Bishop)
Re: netscape windows (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: new to linux (Andrew Purugganan)
Re: X question (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
kernel problem ("Joris Maes")
Re: Installation nightmare (Madrake & Red Hat) ("Jeff Susanj")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: vi wouldn't work after rootdisk boot
Date: 22 Jul 2000 14:16:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 13:46:55 GMT, Gary Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I made a mistake editing rc.inet2, and the system wouldn't boot. I used the
>bootdisk / rootdisk combination to access the system, but found that I
>couldn't use either vi or ed on the hard disk to edit the file. For vi,
>there was a message saying, "can't find libtermcap.so.2". So I gave up
>trying to edit the file, and finally succeeded in running ed after booting
>from the installation cd-rom. Vi still wouldn't work after booting from the
>cd.
>
>Why couldn't I use vi (and many other commands), even after I mounted the
>hard disk after booting from both the ramdisk and the cd-rom?
When you boot from an install disk or rescue floppy, the root filesystem
is mounted from the medium you booted from. Typically, the root
filesystems of install and rescue media don't contain every shared
library you'd need for running every program you'd want, because of
space constraints. Sure, you can mount your normal / under /mnt, but
the dynamic linker will not be able to find all the shared libraries
since they're all under /mnt/lib instead of /lib.
There's a fix, though.
mount /dev/hdXY /mnt && chroot /mnt
will start an interactive shell running with the "real" root filesystem
as its /. Then you should be able to use vi without problems. Do not
try this if your real root filesystem has been damaged in some way and
requires fscking!
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin/ That which does not kill us
http://www.brainbench.com / makes us stranger.
============================/ ==Trevor Goodchild
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From: David Greeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lockdsvc: Invalid argument
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:20:06 -0400
Hi All,
I installed linux-2.4.0-test4 and compiled the kernel. Things work
fine except for nfslock. I get the error message, lockdsvc: Invalid
argument. I'm running RH-6.2. I've looked through the Documentation
files for the new kernel, but found no help. What else needs upgrading?
TIA,
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: USB Support - Does Linux provide it yet
Date: 22 Jul 2000 14:22:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:37:59 GMT, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does Linux support USB yet or is that still coming in Linux 2.4?
http://linux-usb.org/
USB support for a lot of devices has been integrated into the
development kernel (2.4.0-test4 as of a few days ago.) The above URL
has information on backports for the stable kernel series. Also,
Mandrake's latest distro shipped with a patched 2.2 kernel that could
handle at least USB keyboards and mice.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin/ That which does not kill us
http://www.brainbench.com / makes us stranger.
============================/ ==Trevor Goodchild
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edwin Johnson)
Subject: Re: ICQ-Text-Client ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 22 Jul 2000 14:24:33 GMT
gtkicq
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:29:47 +0200, Alex Fitterling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alex Fitterling
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Ensoniq Sound Problem
Date: 22 Jul 2000 14:31:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 22 Jul 2000 00:57:59 -0500, Serial # 19781010
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have and ensoniq Audio PCI.
>The problem I get is that is a error saying that my sound card is out
>of range 0-0.
Cards branded "Ensoniq AudioPCI" usually have the ES1371 or ES1370
chipset. What does "cat /proc/pci" tell you about this card? I get the
following output for mine:
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 6).
Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64.[...]
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
A simple "modprobe es1371" gets sound working for me. If that doesn't
work for you, try "modprobe es1370", and if that doesn't work, post the
*exact* text of whatever error messages you've received and we'll go
from there.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin/ That which does not kill us
http://www.brainbench.com / makes us stranger.
============================/ ==Trevor Goodchild
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: StarOffice =?iso-8859-1?Q?doesn=B4t?= show vfat partition
Date: 22 Jul 2000 14:42:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:54:52 +0200, Karel Jansens
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Like it says basically: StarOffice 5.1 doesn't recognize my vfat
>partition.
>The /etc/fstab line says: /dev/hda2 /mnt/DOS_hda2 vfat
>user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
Take out the conv= part, or change it to conv=binary.
>StarOffice is the only program that has problems with this.
>I run Mandrake 7 with GNOME.
It's strange that StarOffice has problems like this. Which version of
StarOffice is this? 5.1a with SuSE 6.4 doesn't seem to have any trouble
reading/writing to a FAT32 partition--just tested it out a minute ago.
>Someone in this group suggested I should mount with
>mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/DOS_hda2 -o umask=002,uid=0,gid=users
Try umask=000 and leave out the uid= and gid= ? (Grasping at straws
here.) Also, I've heard that Mandrake uses something called
"supermount" instead of the normal mount process, and that could be
ignoring or screwing up what you wrote in /etc/fstab. When you mount
the partition using the command above, doing "ls -l" on /mnt/DOS_hda2
should give you something like this:
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root users 1300 Feb 21 1999 help.exe
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root users 13219 Feb 23 1999 install.exe
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root users 7044 Jul 15 1996 license.txt
drwxrwxr-x 3 root users 65536 Jun 9 13:30 mslanman.dos
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin/ That which does not kill us
http://www.brainbench.com / makes us stranger.
============================/ ==Trevor Goodchild
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From: Madhusudan Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need help with setting up NFS for a networked PC.
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 14:47:29 +0000
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:27:31 +0000, Madhusudan Singh
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I recently installed RH Linux 6.2 on my office PC. The PC is
> >networked through LAN. I tried to create an NFS link to one of the
> >servers using linuxconf. The settings are :
> >1. Server cello.eecs.umich.edu.
> >2. Volume /z (all accounts on cello.eecs.umich.edu are of the type
> >/z/userxxx).
> >3. Mount point /nfs/cello.
> >4. Read only, user mountable and mountable by device owner. NFS options
> >- background mount. Misc options - none.
> >
> >When I cd to /nfs/cello and do a listing, all the user names on
> >cello.eecs.umich.edu appear (meaning that the mount is at least
> >partially succesful).
> >
> >However, what I want is that a particular user on my system (same user
> >id on cello.eecs.umich.edu too) should be able to access his files
> >through a simple cd or cp (as against an ftp or telnet). Security would
> >demand that he not be able to snoop into other user directories on
> >cello.eecs.umich.edu.
> >
> >Right now, there is nothing in the setup (or so I imagine) that can do
> >this. In any case, when I cd to /nfs/cello/userxxx and do an ls, I get a
> >(partially expected) null listing.
>
> What's /etc/exports on cello look like? Linuxconf may have done all
> sorts of weird things to it; having the raw data could be helpful. I'd
> think you'd want to have the file look like so:
>
There seems to have been some confusion. cello.eecs.umich.edu is not my system
- it is the system whose files I want to access on my system.
/etc/exports on cello looks like :
=============================================================
# /etc/exports: the access control list for filesystems which may be exported
# to NFS clients. See exports(5).
# the /null line is for cfs
/null localhost
/x *.eecs.umich.edu(rw) *.engin.umich.edu(rw) *.ummu.umich.edu(rw)
/y *.eecs.umich.edu(rw) *.engin.umich.edu(rw) *.ummu.umich.edu(rw)
/z *.eecs.umich.edu(rw) *.engin.umich.edu(rw) *.ummu.umich.edu(rw)
==============================================================
This has no map_daemon reference. But this is something I cannot (presumably)
not change.
I am not exporting any filesystems. So my /etc/exports is blank.
>
> #/etc/exports on cello
> /z *.eecs.umich.edu(ro,map_daemon)
> # other lines...
>
> Change ro to rw if you want to allow write access too, but you might
> want to leave map_daemon in there just in case the UIDs get out of sync
> between/among your machines. Also, when/if a remote root user tries to
> access files on /z , his UID will be mapped to "nobody", which will give
> him pretty much zero privileges and might lead to the symptoms you
> describe above if you tested this out as root. You can change this
> behavior by adding no_root_squash to the ()ed line above, but you really
> shouldn't do that.
>
> If your UID on the remote host is, say, "bob", you should be able to
> mount /nfs/cello, cd /nfs/cello/bob, and do an ls to see every file in
> the directory.
>
This is not happening. Two problems that I see.
1. During the bootup, the NFS daemon fails to connect to cello.eecs.umich.edu
(Permission denied). I have to login as root to manually mount it (the option
-Not mount at boot time is unchecked - so it is something different.). After
I mount it this way, I get the following effects :
2. a) If as root I do a cd /nfs/cello and then an ls, I get a listing of all
the user directories on cello. If I cd to bob, and ls, the listing is empty.
b) If as bob, I do the same, almost the same thing happens, except that the
last ls (in bob) yields a Permission denied.
What is going on ?
Thanks in advance,
Madhusudan Singh.
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin/ That which does not kill us
> http://www.brainbench.com / makes us stranger.
> ----------------------------/ --Trevor Goodchild
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From: "Jan Schaumann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ICQ-Text-Client ?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:54:19 -0500
On Saturday, July 22, 2000 5:29 AM, Alex Fitterling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
micq
-Jan
--
Jan Schaumann <http://www.netmeister.org>
Microsoft broke Volkswagen's world record: Volkswagen only made 22
million bugs!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (QuoteMstr)
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs.xemacs
Subject: Re: Can someone recomend a good Linux (not Agent) newsreader for binaries?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 15:01:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Steuber wrote:
>What I would like to do is monitor binary groups served up by my ISP
>(Bell Atlantic) with a different news reader so that I don't go
>sucking down all the messages in groups I look at. Leafnode doese not
>have enough disk space available to it for all the spool files! ;-)
>
Both Pan (Gnome,X) And Slrn are good for binary downloads, alhough the
former has automatic downloading of multipart articles. With slrn, you
must tag each one individually.
--
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know
that World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Einstein
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Hennecke)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.lang.oberon,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: 22 Jul 2000 15:07:41 GMT
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:36:57, Kelly and Sandy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Linux isn't for everyone it certainly isn't for the average user
> >for a desktop PC - although it will gladly fill that role if
> >desired. It requires the user to relearn a lot of the ingrained
> >ideas that MS has foisted off on us over the years and forces the
> >user to actually understand what he is doing.
Well, let me put it this way: The normal end-user needs an OS that
provides an intuitive to use base for his/her applications. They'd
rather spend their time on learning how to do things with the
applications than the OS. Right now I wouldn't consider GNU/Linux
ready for computer newbies who need to start working immediately. The
learning curve is too steep.
> I'd like to ask any people who happen to be browsing this newsletter
> what viable personal computer operating systems are available today,
> besides your Microsoft.
>
>
> There's the Macintosh (MacOS) Next computer I get will be a Mac.
The Mac isn't cheap, but with the upcoming MacOS X it is going to be a
nice platform. Right now Mac OS lacks some things.
> There's Linux Hmm, we all know and love this one.
Hm, love? I wouldn't go that far.
> There's BeOS Thin, very thin, last I looked.
A very slick OS with some very nice features (like being able to
change settings and restart a service without booting). If you want to
share a computer with another person you will miss the multiuser
ability.
The biggest problem I see is the relatively small number of available
standard applications. It's smaller than those for OS/2.
> There's OS2 Not sure. Is this still ongoing?
IBM will put out something called convenience pak in November. That
includes Warp 4 plus all fixes and based on the Warp Server for
e-business code. Also included are features like the latest TCP/IP
that are only available via a subscription service called Software
Choice. The drawback is that you have to own a valid for Warp 4 and
have to subscribe to Software Choice to get it. Software Choice is
US$220 for two years. But then Warp 4 is available for free with an
Australian magazine.
Apart from IBM something else is going to happen soon. A small company
called Serenity Systems (http://www.serenity-systems.com) just OEMed
the above mentioned Convenience Pak and uses tihs as a base for a new
product called eComStation (http://www.ecomstation.com) that is able
to do some severe wizardry. Their target is the "Mobile Managed
Client", but there will be some goodies for endusers, too. E.g. you
can also purchase a version with SMP support.
> By "viable", I refer to the intuited meaning: that my grandmother
> could start use it and begin to think of the computer as her "personal
> computer".
Well, it all depends on what your Grandma has to do herself. If she
doesn't have to do the installation then there are the Mac, and BeOS,
OS/2 and Windows for the PC. Skip Windows if she needs to install a
lot of software as this tends to make Windows unstable (because many
programs overwrite system components other programs also need without
asking). If you'd do all the configuring, installing etc. GNU/Linux
with a GNOME or KDE desktop isn't out of reach either.
> In all seriousness, is there anything else I should consider?
Instead of GNU/Linux you can also use e.g. FreeBSD. From what I've
been told Solaris for the PC is by far not as stable as on Sun's
hardware. But buying an UltraSparc station would be overkill. :-)
--
Christian Hennecke
The OS/2 Files - Die OS/2 Akten
http://www.os2world.com/os2files
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From: "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: guest ftp user can't see files?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 11:18:51 -0400
I created a guest ftp user, but upon login, no files or dirs are shown. I
created the bin,etc,lib dir with associated files in the /home/guest dir.
When I use a normal user, I can see all files. Here are my passwd, group
and ftpaccess files:
ftpaccess:
class all real,guest,anonymous *
class local guest *
limit local 5 Any
guestgroup guest
email root@localhost
loginfails 5
readme README* login
readme README* cwd=*
message /welcome.msg login
message .message cwd=*
compress yes all
tar yes all
chmod no guest,anonymous
delete no guest,anonymous
overwrite no guest,anonymous
rename no guest,anonymous
delete yes John
log transfers anonymous,real inbound,outbound
shutdown /etc/shutmsg
passwd-check rfc822 warn
passwd:
guest:x:503:503:Guest User:/home/guest/./:/bin/ftponly
group:
guest::503:
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From: Steffen 'Mugge' Chmil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Help! DNS-Problem!
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 17:18:25 +0200
Hi there,
The Problem:
- [my computer] - resolves the ip's from [ns1]; name->ip is bad
- [ns1] - forwarding questions to [ns2]; I have root account
- [ns2] - forwarding questions to [ns3]; I have no account
...
- [nsx] - (forwarding questions to [nsx+1]/root-ns-requests); (!) hosts
(unauthorized) bad dns-records (zone-files) from my domain
...
- [root-ns]; name->ip is o.k.
The Question:
I want to get name->ip - pairs from [ns1], [ns2], ... [nsx]
(,...[root-ns])
to see, which server is [nsx] (and hosts the bad records) to contact
his adminstrator to solve this problem. Ist this possible/is there
another way to fix this problem?
The Story:
My original name-server was mirrored from an earlier
admin (with all my DNS-records(!) on it) and is now somewhere into
this ns-chain [nsx] to serve DNS-records for other domains.
The old (my old) records seems to be always on this server and gives
back old (bad) ip's in this chain.
The admin was undiscoverable gone, I don't know the location of this
Server
and/or admins, but I must take care of this problem...
regards Steffen
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From: Craig Ewert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Gateway solo & Linux?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:36:26 -0500
Group -
I have just obtained a Gateway Solo laptop with a Pentium II processor.
RedHat 6.1 does not install - cannot find drivers for the display.
Winlinux 2000 also will not run because of the display.
Does anyone know of a distribution that will work on this system? If
so, please respond to my e-mail address. If you know of a better group
to post this question to, that will also be appreciated.
thanks.
Craig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Smith-White)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.lang.oberon,comp.os.lynx,comp.os.mach,comp.os.misc,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.psion.misc
Subject: Re: Operating systems for personal-computers?
Date: 22 Jul 2000 15:29:12 GMT
In article <MztuwCAZ6Ne5Ew$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
[snippero]
>
> By "viable", I refer to the intuited meaning: that my
grandmother
>could start use it and begin to think of the computer as her
"personal
>computer".
>
All computers are technical devices requiring some technical effort to
utilize them. If you wish for a computer as easy to use as walking, I
suggest that you watch a child learn to walk - or for that matter any
one who has suffered the misfortune of having "unlearned" walking. If
you wish for a machine that will correctly respond to the thought "I
want to do such and such" - wait for the nanotechnology fad to create
an after-birth serial connector and purchase one. Otherwise, decide
what level of robustness and what tasks you wish to perform. Then step
up and wrap your mind around the OS of choice. As I tell my sons, just
because you have a handheld calculator does not mean that "1+1 = some
integer" when performed with paper and pencil (or dirt and a twig).
Brian Smith-White
>
> In all seriousness, is there anything else I should consider?
>
>
>With kind regards,
>
>
>Sandy
>
>/* C A U T I O N E X P L O S I V E B O L T S
>-- REMOVE BEFORE ENGAGING REPLY
The latest in antivirus technology no doubt.
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From: D'Arque Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ICQ-Text-Client ?
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 15:31:22 GMT
LICQ comes with a console plugin that allows you to use it via a text
console. It's not quite complete, though... as of LICQ 0.81, it lacked
file-transfer capabilities, and you couldn't add users. However, I find
it quite useful when used in conjunction with the Qt GUI; I use the Qt
GUI when at home, and the console interface when accessing my machine
remotely.
Hope this helps...
--
==============================================================================
"Do you see the smile in my words, sad and evil? Sad because
I am utterly alone. Evil because I am dead and yet I live.
Can you hear me? Listen. A dead man visits you."
--James O'Barr, The Crow
D'Arque Bishop -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.ravenloft.net/~drkbish
"For a dark man shall come unto the House of God, and the
darkness shall be upon him, yea, even within him."
-- from Noctropolis: Night Vision
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: netscape windows
Date: 22 Jul 2000 15:18:09 GMT
Ron Nicholls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[ "Andrew N. McGuire" wrote:
[ >
[ > On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Ron Nicholls quoth:
[ >
[ > [] Why is it possible to resize Messager and Composer
[ > [] windows with the corner drag, but not Navigator
[ >
[ > I have no problem resizing navigator with the a
[ > 'corner drag', if I understand what you mean.
[ I am using enlightenment and gnome and the navigator window
[ is fixed in size.
Maybe they start Navigator 'borderless' so you don't get a resize bar.
Check .Xresources, maybe you can force -geometry width_x_height
if there are entries for Navigator there
Also see if it's autostarted
on linux.com search for Navigator Tips n Tricks, it's lumped together
with hints so that you can even SKIN your Navigatah with different
colors, maybe you can even find your solution there!
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Purugganan)
Subject: Re: new to linux
Date: 22 Jul 2000 15:23:18 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ i'm very new to linux-mandrake and so far i liked it a lot but i'm facing
[ a problem... i installed it and played with it, but my problem was when i
[ had to restart my computer. when the computer restarted i did not have the
[ graphical user interphase anymore, but the console. Can somebody tell me
[ how to switch to GUI since i'm very new to Linux-Mandrake.
I run Mandrake myself. Log on as root, enter linuxconf at the command line
Select Miscellaneous, enter, Initial system services, enter, and on the
next screen select runlevel 5, enter. You will wind up on the preceding menu
It will prompt you to 'Activate the changes' which is like SAVE the
changes, so you pick that and enter and quit. Try the bootup next
--
jazz
Registered linux user no. 164098 +--+--+--+ Litestep user no. 386
Doesn't it bother you, that we have to search for intelligent life
--- OUT THERE??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: X question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 10:44:48 -0500
I tried to get my ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 working with 3.3.6 and it was no go,
the SVGA support was not robust enough. But I found that 4.0.1 worked fine.
It can be found at:
ftp.rge.com/pub/X/XFree86/4.0.1/source/X401src-1.tgz
X401src-2.tgz
X400src-3.tgz
It is troublesome to configure correctly for compiling, but it works really
well. The XPERT 99 and XPERT 2000 are based on the same chipset, so it
should work for you.
Save your 3.3.6 XF86Config, usually in /etc/X11 as Xconfigurator will not
work with 4.0.x. The driver name is "R128". Don't be fooled, as I was,
because there are no longer individual servers for SVGA, Mach64, etc. that
are symlinked to 'X'. Just one server to handle all card types.
On 21 Jul 2000 17:41:49 GMT,
Walter Brishen Viaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi. I'm new to Linux and trying to get RH to work on my system. Things
>seem to be working fine, except for getting X up and running. It doesn't
>seem to like my graphics card which is: ATI Rage 128 XPERT 99
>The version of XFree86 is 3.3.5 and looking at some stuff on the web it
>seems that I probably need 3.3.6 for my card to work.
>So I have downloaded the patch using my windoze system and have tried to
>get at it in linux through my windows98 mounted partition. But when I try
>to gunzip it I get told that: "The file unexpectedly ended".
>
>Can anyone suggest something? Am I going about this the right way or are
>they any other suggestions? Thanks.
>
>--
>
> "You're a big fat liar honey"
> - Homer Simpson
>
>Brishen Viaud
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Joris Maes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel problem
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 17:50:44 +0200
Hi,
I got the latest kernel version of kernel.org (2.2.16), unpacked it, I
ran 'make xconfig', but then I encounterd my problem.
I have a network card with realtek 8139 chip, but I can't choose the
rtl8139.o module when I run 'make xconfig', it appears in grey. I found out
that in the modules directory of 2.2.16 there isn't am module rtl8139.o
present like there is for 2.2.12-20(which came with my RedHat 6.1
Distribution). I tried 'make modules' and 'make modules_install' but that
still didn't fix the problem. Any help is appreaciated
I also read in a newsgroup somewhere that I could compile my kernel for
my athlon 500, but the athlon doesn't seem to be specified between the 386's
and 486's, also here any help is apprecaiated.
Joris
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.madrake,ahn.tech.linux
From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation nightmare (Madrake & Red Hat)
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 15:41:55 GMT
nicodemus caine wrote in message <8lc1f8$cte$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted thusly...
>
>[i'm being crossposted again...i found it in
>alt.os.linux.mandrake]
>
>> Most likely, though, the fault lies with the X Font
>Server.
>> Change to directory /etc/rc.d/init.d and run:
>oddly...no, it's not.
>that was my reasoning at first as well, but i turned on the
>font server and it *still* crashed and then i turned it off
>and it continued to do so - technically, the font server is
>only used if you want any other machine to access x from
>your machine itself...
>
>what it looks like to me [and don't quote me on this,
>because i'm not sure] is that the automated programs for
>building x configurations [XConfigurator, setup, linuxconf,
>etc...] are meant to build the 'unix:-\' metacharacter as a
>way of pointing to the fonts in the directory that houses
>them [i forget where...] and all of the automated services
>*don't* which is why you get the font crash...i don't know
>if this is a peculiarity of mandrake 7.02 and it's
>configuration tools or not...
>
>either way, it's simple enough to just yank the lines from
>the standard XF86Config file and dump them into your custom
>set-up...*shrug*
>
The 'unix/:-1' is telling X to use the X Font Server (xfs) which may not be
running.
Jeff S.
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