Linux-Misc Digest #820, Volume #26 Mon, 15 Jan 01 08:13:01 EST
Contents:
Re: can't get hard drive to work ("D. Stimits")
set PS1 under KDE ("Johnny Li(Li Guang-lei 1575623)")
Re: Printer Not Working ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Add a user to a group? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Add a user to a group? (Linux User)
Re: Add a user to a group? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: no sound or network, need higher resolution ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fax-modem how? (Luben Tuikov)
QIC-80 (Marcus Greferath)
installing manpages (Ralf =?iso-8859-1?Q?Oberl=E4nder?=)
Disappearing output act. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Add a user to a group? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Removing Sound support at startup. (Glitch)
Linux on Athlon (Eric Headley)
Click'n'See dictionary (NDQ)
Re: 2.4 and I have no modules? (Pat Heuvel)
Re: kernel 2.2.18: problem connecting to ISP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: destination host unreachable (Pat Heuvel)
Re: Linux on Athlon (Pat Heuvel)
Re: Blackbox (NDQ)
Sysstat package problem ("Buck Turgidson")
Re: Can't get X working properly (Jean-Christian)
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 01:04:16 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can't get hard drive to work
I didn't see any initial ramdisk listed (see mkinitrd). So if the kernel
needs to know how to use the adaptec controller, it would probably have
to be compiled into the kernel, rather than as a module. The old
chicken-and-egg dilemma...if the module is on a scsi drive, and it needs
a module to know how to read the scsi drive...
So does the kernel have sufficient driver setup provided to it in some
way? If not, lilo is telling it to tie a noose around its neck, and jump
off the chair. And it is doing it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just bought a second hard drive (SEAGATE X15, 18GB). I installed it
> into computer, no problem. It is a SCSI drive. The adaptec BIOS sees
> drive during boot up. But, when the linux OS is ready to boot, it just
> stops after the kernel is loaded. It doesn't even start the boot up
> process.
>
> I know that Lilo is working at some level because I can startup windows
> which is stored on a 2nd partition on the bootup hard drive.
> Furthermore because windows can start and read/examine the drive, I
> know that the problem must be on the linux side.
>
> The boot drive is at SCSI 0, and the new 2nd drive is at SCSI 1. there
> are not SCSI ID conflicts. I have checked all that.
>
> Can anyone provide any assistance?
>
> Here is my lilo.conf file:
>
> #
> # /etc/lilo.conf - generated by Lizard
> #
>
> # target
>
> boot = /dev/sda2
> install = /boot/boot.b
>
> # options
>
> prompt
> delay = 50
> timeout = 50
> message = /boot/message
>
> default = linux
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.10-modular
> label = linux
> root = /dev/sda2
> vga = 274
> read-only
> append = "debug=2 noapic nosmp"
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.10.gz
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.10-modular
> label = linux2
> root = /dev/sda2
> vga = 274
> read-only
> append = "hdc=ide-scsi"
> append = "debug=2 noapic nosmp"
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.10.gz
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuzJ
> label = cruft4296
> root = /dev/sda2
> vga = 274
> read-only
> append = "debug=2 noapic nosmp"
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.10.gz
>
> other = /dev/sda1
> label = windowsNT
> table = /dev/sda
>
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From: "Johnny Li(Li Guang-lei 1575623)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: set PS1 under KDE
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:12:31 +0800
I am using Red hat 6.2,and ksh as my default shell. I modify the profile and
add
PS1='${pwd}:> '
export PS1
When I login in command-line mode,I will get what I want:the prompt is set to
the current directory.
When I login in KDE mode and open an terminal in KDE,it seems that PS1 is
empty.but from the screen information during the loginning,I see that
etc/.profile really was executed.
Any suggestion about this.
Thanks in advance for you help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Printer Not Working
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:18:13 GMT
mpierce wrote:
>
> System Mandrake 7.2, kernel 2.4.0, cups1.1.4-7.1
>
> Printer is not printing because the kernel is not ready
>
> [mpierce@localhost mpierce]$ /usr/sbin/lpc status
> lp:
> printer is on device 'parallel' speed -1
> queuing is disabled
> printing is disabled
> no entries
> daemon present
> [mpierce@localhost mpierce]$
>
> Does anyone know how to make the daemon restart?
>
> Marvin
In lpc type restart lp.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Add a user to a group?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 02:36:46 -0600
Is there a shell utility to add a user to a group? I know usmod -G
almost does the job, but instead of adding the user to a group, it
modifies the user's group settings.
Thanks in advance!
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add a user to a group?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:48:26 -0800
Hello,
In Redhat the command is: useradd -G group
Where 'group' is the group you wish to add the user too. You may also add
the user to multiple groups by separating the groups with a comma.
Cheers,
Jim H
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a shell utility to add a user to a group? I know usmod -G
> almost does the job, but instead of adding the user to a group, it
> modifies the user's group settings.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Add a user to a group?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 03:02:57 -0600
Thanks Jim. Yeah it works if you add a new user to the group. What about
adding an existing user to the group?
BTW, it should be "usermod -G" in my previous post. Damn typo. :)
Linux User wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Redhat the command is: useradd -G group
>
> Where 'group' is the group you wish to add the user too. You may also add
> the user to multiple groups by separating the groups with a comma.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim H
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Is there a shell utility to add a user to a group? I know usmod -G
> > almost does the job, but instead of adding the user to a group, it
> > modifies the user's group settings.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: no sound or network, need higher resolution
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 08:57:05 GMT
Fu,
I recently fixed a problem I was having with both the sound card and
network card on my new linux box and you may be having the same
trouble. It could be a problem with IRQs not being assigned properly.
Take a peek at the file /proc/pci This tells you the IRQs and I/Os etc
of your pci devices. If this is the case, you are in good shape,
because you can tell whether there is an IRQ conflict or if one is being
assigned at all. If there is not one listed, it is probably not being
assigned. If this is the case, wander into the bios and look for a
setting for PnP OS support. If you have (had) Windows, this is probably
set to Yes, set it to No. Don't worry, if this is a dual boot, it won't
screw up Windows, it should work just fine, and if not, you can always
change it back. Hope this helps. If it is an IRQ conflict, here is the
page that helped me figure out the problem and fix it:
http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.com
Jason
In article <93touj$m53$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Fu Muma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> running linux 2.2.15, redhat 6.2
>
> i'm new on the linux scene.
>
> i have a sb16 pci sound card, and a edimax ( read generic ) nic. i
can't get
> them to work.
> my monitor which can display up to1024x768 in win2k, can only display
> 640x480 in linux. i'm using a nvidia tnt2 m64 display adapter with a
komodo
> plug n play monitor.
>
> i am open to any and all suggestions. make assumptions that i did not
try
> your idea ( because i probably don't know how to : ).
>
> thanks for you help in advance.
> --
> know Jesus, know peace... no Jesus, no peace.
>
> fu
>
>
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From: Luben Tuikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: fax-modem how?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:37:53 GMT
Hello, (RH7, 2.2.18)
I have a pci fax-modem (3Com model 5690) and would like to set it up as
a fax.
It is recognized on the pci bus (/proc/pci).
What do I do?
TIA.
--
Luben
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From: Marcus Greferath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: QIC-80
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:39:47 +0100
anyone aware of where to get these old QIC-80 tapes, used or new?
i found a streamer in my collection of old stuff and would like
to play with it.
thanks in advance. marcus.
--
Marcus Greferath
Dept. of Mathematics
University of Duisburg Phone: ++49-203-379-2674
47048 Duisburg, Germany Fax: ++49-203-379-3139
cellular: ++49-179-285-3993
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From: Ralf =?iso-8859-1?Q?Oberl=E4nder?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing manpages
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:05:28 +0100
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Hi Guru's,
does anybody know, how can I to create manpages from *.info or *.texi
Files.
(I've installed wget but there are no manpages)
Thanks in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Disappearing output act.
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:47:38 GMT
I am using a perl script to read the output of ps using:
open(PS, "$ps_cmd|") || die "can't run $ps_cmd: $!";
Now this works when I run the script from the prompt and I can use the
output. But when I run it from a script or from the cron ps doesn't
return anything. This is also true with top but I get the error:
top: tcgetattr() failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Can anyone offer any advice.
Thanks,
Remy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Add a user to a group?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 04:22:43 -0600
ok, after a little playing around, I found the following solution which
I think is simple enough:
usermod -G `id -Gn user | tr ' ' ,`,group user
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a shell utility to add a user to a group? I know usmod -G
> almost does the job, but instead of adding the user to a group, it
> modifies the user's group settings.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 06:33:51 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Removing Sound support at startup.
Anastasia wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> Sound is enabled in my starting script. Any way to remove it?
yeah, delete the line
> Anything
> else (modules, etc.) to remove for a clean slate?
>
you can remove any relevant module info from /etc/modules.conf and if
you really need to for some reason u can remove the actual modules in
/lib/modules/<kernel version>/misc
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From: Eric Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Athlon
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:30:18 GMT
I am thinking of buying a new machine with an Athlon chip instead of a
Pentium 4. Are there any problems with running Linux on Athlon ?
Eric Headley
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Click'n'See dictionary
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:47:32 +0100
Hi,
There is an true "Click'n'See dictionay' for Linux, named "FlashDict" !
You can see some screenshots here :
http://leto.ltas.ulg.ac.be/pub/tmp/fd1.png
http://leto.ltas.ulg.ac.be/pub/tmp/fd2.png
http://leto.ltas.ulg.ac.be/pub/tmp/fd3.png
Homepage : www.visc-network.com
Lisence : GPL
Library : QT-2.2.x
Support: Vietnamese-English and Vietnamese-French for this moment ;-)
--
NGUYEN-DAI Quy
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:54:01 +1100
From: Pat Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4 and I have no modules?
Gday there,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a RH6.2 that I upgraded to 2.4 everything looks like it compiles
> but I have no modules? I do an lsmod and nothing is there. I told it
> to load modules and have re xconfig'd several times. I've also make
> modules and modules_install with no luck. It seems to boot fine
> otherwise?
>
> Please help
>
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Have you run depmod? This will create the modules dependency file in the
appropriate place (unless your 2.4.0 modules are somewhere else).
man depmod
HTH
Regards,
Pat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.18: problem connecting to ISP
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:50:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Michael, According to the Documents/Changes my installation meets all
> > criteria. And, the changes are given for all 2.2 kernels, including the
> > 2.2.14 kernel which works with this respect. The reason why I upgraded was
> > that the Suse 7.0 distribution contains the 2.2.17pre kernel. I assumed that
> > the reason of my problem was a bug in the 'pre' release. It seems that
> > upgrading other packages does not solve the problem. FOr additional info, I
> > add the .config file of my kernel. Hope this gives more clues. Thanks
> >
> > Mike
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > When I try to connect to my ISP I get the following errors:
> > > >
> > > > ---------------------- Jan 13 13:38:01 truus pppd[607]: LCP:
> >
> > -- CUT ----
> >
> > > >
> > > > When I use my previous kernel (2.2.14) the connection is built up without any
> > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > I have Suse 7.0 distribution
> > > > Kernel 2.2.18 and 2.2.14
> > > > ppp version 2.3.11
> > > >
> > > > Please help me??
> > > >
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > did you read Documentation/Changes (2.2.18) and does your system meet all the
> > > requierd parts?
> > >
> > > Good luck
> > >
> > > Michael Heiming
> >
> > -------------------------
> > .config file of the 2.2.18 kernel:
> >
> > #
>
> Hello,
>
> kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000
>
> I have only seen this kernel messages on a machine, I'm currently typing this
> message on..:-(
>
> But this machine has something (Mobo) broken...
>
> But your problem sounds strange if you don't get these messages with 2.2.14, have
> you tried the same .config?
>
> Use diff to find differences.
>
> Without knowing the exact hardware combo you use, the posting of you .config doesn't
> help much.
>
> I would suggest trying to compile, sure you have to update/compile a few things, the
> 2.4.0 version.
>
> I have it running on a Sony Picturebook (the one with this Transmeta CPU), starting
> from SuSE 7.0 and
> it was not "rocket sience" getting it running.
>
> Kudos to Linus and all others by this way...
>
> It really flys, and has many new options...:-)
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Michael Heiming
>
Michael, I copied the .config file and configured with make oldconfig. The
hardware is a Thinkpad 1400i with a lucent winmodem.
OK I will go for the 2.4.0 kernel and see what happens.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Mike
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:03:19 +1100
From: Pat Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: destination host unreachable
Gday Steve,
Steve Connet wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have my linux machine with 2 NICs in it. One NIC goes to the cable
> modem. Works great.
>
...
> Seems to work well. But when I leave my computers overnight and check
> them in the morning, my linux box can no longer ping my w2k machine
> and my w2k machine can no longer ping my linux box.
>
<...>
>
> THis is all fixed by REBOOTING my linux box.
> Any ideas?
>
If you have power management enabled, try disabling that...
(alternatively, try wake-on-lan).
> --
> Steve Connet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hope this helps...
Regards,
Pat
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+---------------------------------------------------------+
+ "Logic clearly dictates, that the strokes of the many +
+ outweigh the strokes of the two..." +
+ (Apologies to Mr Spock) +
+---------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:12:19 +1100
From: Pat Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon
Gday Eric,
Eric Headley wrote:
>
> I am thinking of buying a new machine with an Athlon chip instead of a
> Pentium 4. Are there any problems with running Linux on Athlon ?
>
Absolutely - you'll never want to log off - your SO will crack the sads
and you'll be in deep doo-doo. The mongrel thing screams.
8)
Have fun!
> Eric Headley
>
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Regards,
Pat
750MHz Athlon/128Meg RAM/22-odd Gig UW SCSI
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+---------------------------------------------------------+
+ "Logic clearly dictates, that the strokes of the many +
+ outweigh the strokes of the two..." +
+ (Apologies to Mr Spock) +
+---------------------------------------------------------+
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From: NDQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blackbox
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:16:05 +0100
Jeff Lacy wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I downloaded and installed blackbox recently, and I was wondering how do I
> make it start up whenever I am in runlevel 5. Currently, gnome starts and
> is way, way, way to slow. Did I mention it was slow? I am running rh7.
> Thanks in advance, everyone :-)
1) Change your boot level to 3
2) Modify your .xinitrc, .xsession or .Xclients and put some things like
:
rxvt &
exec blackbox
3) Now try "startx"
It works well for me ! I like BB very much !
HTH,
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From: "Buck Turgidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sysstat package problem
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:20:59 GMT
I downloaded a package called sysstat and installed the rpm on RH 6.1 It seemed to
install it correctly, but where did it put it,
and how do I execute it?
I checked all the usual suspects like /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /sbin, etc. etc.
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From: Jean-Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get X working properly
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:29:00 GMT
> Just guess them. 50-80 and 30-55 should be fine.
Ok, I'll try those and see what happens.
> > monitor supports the following:
>
> How would it know?
My Matrox vid card comes with an application that lets you change
resolution and scan rates. So I picked all the available reslutions and
checked what scans rates it can use.
> > 1024x768 @ 85Hz
>
> You can't back calculate from that (except to deduce that it's an
> improbable rate for a used monitor!)
It's a good quality monitor. Might be improbable but it's true :)
> Either your monitor is 30" across or you are using a
> microscope to view it.
It's a 21" and I only really use the 1600x1200 mode, the others are too
small.
> > How can I use this info tp set up xf86config?
>
> ?? Just generate a file and comment out all the modelines except the
> ones you want.
My problem is that the mode lines that I *DO* want cause my monitor to
shut down.
> > It froze because even ctrl-alr-del didn't make it reboot.
>
> It wouldn't .. that doesn't make it reboot when in X!
I know. I should have said that ctrl-alt-F1-F6 don't give me back a
console and that ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't kill the X server.
> > Tried it and nothing happens.
>
> I bet you didn't. Where do you think the "backspace" key is? And
> how bout ctrl-alt-F1? or ctrl-alt-prtscrn-b ? (don't try this at home
> ...)
The backspace key is the one with the back-arrow. ctrl-alt-F1 didn't
give me console either.
> What's "Xconfigurator"? Never heard of it. Where did you get it from?
> Is it something that comes with XFree or something from the
> distribution you are using?
In my RH6.2 distribution I just type Xconfigurator and it launches a
text based GUI for configurating you video card and X server. Sort of an
xconfig86 but much simpler to use.
Jc
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