Linux-Misc Digest #277, Volume #25 Sun, 30 Jul 00 09:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Kernel Panic Error ("Terry Chilvers(FreeServe)")
Re: Best newsreader? (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Ethernet problem (Robert Schweikert)
Devicebenutzung mitloggen? (Kathrin Geilmann)
at&t lex (ed)
Re: non-English letters in xterm (Robert Hampf)
mcopy hangs linux!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise (David Rysdam)
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux? (Leon Garde)
Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise (Troutman)
Re: mount problems ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Ethernet problem (Robert Schweikert)
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From: "Terry Chilvers(FreeServe)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel Panic Error
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:27:36 +0100
Can anyone help with solving this problem please?
Hardware:
AMD K6/2 500
144MB RAM
Adaptec 2944UW (diff), 4 x HP C2490A hard drives (2GB each)
Adaptec 1542CP SCSI + Seagate 2.7GB drive (Card and drive now removed)
1 x 3Com EtherLink III 3C509 Combo card
1 x TNT2 video card.
IDE 40x CD-ROM
I finally installed Red Hat 6.2 last week after 4 failed attempts, all down
to having 2 SCSI adapters and the device order was being changed between
installation and boot. This meant the the device I thought was to be the
boot device, changed from sda to sde. Fixed that by re-partitioning and
removing the 1542CP card and attached hard drive.
Now after running OK for a few days, I put an extra 128MB memory module in
and it failed to boot, complaining that it could not open the swap
partition.
I've removed the extra module so back to where I was but no joy, but now get
the following at the end of the messages (there are various references to
RAID but I don't remember installing it as an option):
raid 5: measuring checksum speed
raid 5:MMX detected .....
.
.
scsi: 0 hosts
scsi: detected total
md.c:sizeof(mdp_super_t)=4096
Partition Check
RAMDISK:Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID Arrays
autorun...
...autorun DONE
VFS:Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
autodetecting RAID Arrays
autorun...
...autorun DONE
kmod:failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s-k block-major-8,errno=2
VFS:cannot open root device 08:21
Kernel Panic:VFS:unable to mount root fs on 08:21
I found some help suggesting a boot from the emergency floppy using "linux
rescue" but this seemed to boot from the floppy to start with then finished
from hard disk with the same errors.
Is there a way of trying to check out the partitions without going through
the install and removing/re-installing everything?
Thanks in advance.
Terry Chilvers
Cambridgeshire, UK
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Subject: Re: Best newsreader?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Skj�ldebrand)
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:09:05 GMT
==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
Rob> I'm recently over from Windoze land, and I am wondering if
Rob> there is a newsreader that is as good as Microplanet's
Rob> Gravity?
If you like Gravity you might like to look at Xemacs/Gnus.
(Gravity is the Win newsreader with scoring isn't it?) I believe some
of Gravitys features may be modeled on Gnus.
M.
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Martin Skj�ldebrand
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Sys admin, web designer, tech writer
Hungry? Visit http://www.bahnhof.se/~chimbis/tocb
Which Linux distro? Visit http://www.bahnhof.se/~chimbis/ratatosk
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Ethernet problem
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 07:10:08 -0400
I can't ping, I kow why but don't know what to do about it.
My ethernet card is getting picked up OK:
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x320: 00 00 6e 31 7d d3
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x320, using IRQ 10.
But somthing is wrong as I then get the following messages:
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=924.
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=1000.
Obviously something is messed up here, I just don't know what.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Robert
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Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: Kathrin Geilmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Devicebenutzung mitloggen?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 13:24:57 +0200
Hallo,
gibt es eine M=F6glichkeit mitzuloggen welcher Prozess wann auch welches
Device zugegriffen hat. =
Speziell w=FCrd ich gerne wissen, welcher Prozess ab und an anf=E4ngt
irgendwelche T=F6ne von sich zu geben. Ich hab leider =FCberhaupt keine
Ahnung was das sein k=F6nnte.
Kathrin
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From: ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: at&t lex
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:30:03 GMT
Can at&t lex be purchased somewhere and can it be installed on a linux
system?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hampf)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: non-English letters in xterm
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 14:30:02 +0300
sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h�lt �essu fram:
:
: But English is derived from Latin as well...
How?
rh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mcopy hangs linux!!
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 11:44:25 GMT
Hi all,
Something very unexpected has been happening to me lately: whenever
I try to copy files from floppies using the mcopy command, the
kernel just freezes and stops responding to any input. It
responds only to the "big red switch"! What's the problem? Note
that there are nothing wrong with the floppies. I know, because
I can copy the files using Win98. The files were copied onto the
floppies using mcopy on a different machine.
Cheers
Zoram
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
- Henny Youngman
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: David Rysdam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise
Date: 30 Jul 2000 07:34:07 -0400
"chief" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> have some requirements for a project which i am considering doing in linux,
> if possible. are the following features supported in most distributions?
>
> must be text based...
>
> ftp client
ncftp is good
> dial-up client (to ISP and direct comm with the server)
yes, my distro (RedHat 5.x and 6.x) came with ppp-on and ppp-off scripts.
> dial-up server
very definitely
> scheduling command that will launch programs at specified time/date
"at" for single-shot commands, "cron" for ongoing
> download manager like GetRight
I have something called GetRight that works the same...don't know if
it's affiliated with the "official" one
> encrypting/decrypting program
gpg is pgp compat
> mp3 player with playlists, random, no repeat
many many many
> a built-in scripting ability like DOS
Once you do some Unix/Linux shell-scripting, you'll realize that DOS
DOESN'T have scripting ability.
> if available, can you recommend the best distribution to run on, and best
> app?
Best Distro (for a newbie): RedHat
"Best App": For what? The above list? You'll find most of it on any
Linux CD. The only thing you might be missing is gpg (because of
export restrictions). You can find it at www.gpg.org
> if i have to program some stuff myself, what is the easiest language to
> use?
Depends on what you are doing. Probably C.
> can you also recommend the best modem and sound card for that distrib? also,
> is anyone aware of linux support for small LCD screens?
Any non-Winmodem and Soundblaster-compatible. dunno about lcd
--
My public encryption key is available from www.keyserver.net
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Jul 2000 22:26:59 EST
In comp.os.linux.hardware Brian Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone found a Video Capture Card (e.g. Intel Smart Video Recorder III)
> that has Linux drivers?
the smart video recorder III is supported.
this is no longer produced by intel; if you can buy it then get it now.
if you want that particular one.
the zoltrix tuner/video catpure card is supported...
thats the one I've got.
there are 20 others that are supported.
Generally any video capture card using the conexant/phillis
Bt 848 or bt 878 chip will work ; at least for base band video (AV) input.
The tuner on my zoltrix works fine;
I use the application xawtv for watching and bttv driver for the card.
leon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Troutman)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Windows geek has some linux questions, please advise
Date: 30 Jul 2000 08:31:08 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Rysdam) graced us with the following:
>> also, is anyone aware of linux support for small LCD screens?
>
>Any non-Winmodem and Soundblaster-compatible. dunno about lcd
Well, since 'they' got it working on a palm pilot, I'd say thats a pretty
small LCD screen ;-)
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______________________________
Mike Troutman
http://www.troutman.org/
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount problems
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 08:45:27 -0400
> try to mount a win98 partitioned logical drive (not fat32, though). mount
> errors back with something like 'vfat not supported by the kernel.' do i
> have to recompile the kernel, is there a command to load vfat fs support
> module?
Try 'insmod vfat'. If that doesn't work, you'll have to rebuild your
kernel with vfat support.
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Ethernet problem
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 08:58:24 -0400
How nice it is when every now and then I can answer my own questions:
The problem here was the bios set up. Although Plug and Pray is turned
off the BIOS was set to use IRQ10 for PCI slot, as my ethernet card is
sitting on the ISA bus IRQ10 was robbed later after the ethernet card
was initialized. Setting the bios to use IRQ10 for the ISA slot fixed
the problem.
Happy Hacking,
Robert
Robert Schweikert wrote:
> I can't ping, I kow why but don't know what to do about it.
>
> My ethernet card is getting picked up OK:
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x320: 00 00 6e 31 7d d3
> eth0: NE2000 found at 0x320, using IRQ 10.
>
> But somthing is wrong as I then get the following messages:
> eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=924.
> eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=1000.
>
> Obviously something is messed up here, I just don't know what.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> --
> Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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