Linux-Setup Digest #998, Volume #18 Mon, 26 Jun 00 08:13:10 EDT
Contents:
friendly reply please (i'm new) ("Kraylus")
MP3 player makes a lot of noise (Jan Moons)
Re: How to turn on remote root login? (Kheng-Teong Goh)
Re: Hostname (Patricia)
Netscape font is too small (blinddog)
Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card ("Jeremy Low")
Re: PPP and Winmodem (Julie Brandon)
Re: ok, i'm fucking pissed. dual boot winnt and linux (Eric)
Re: How to turn on remote root login? (J Bland)
Re: friendly reply please (i'm new) (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: Remote X login to linux server ??? (Gandalf)
Re: ok, i'm fucking pissed. dual boot winnt and linux (Gandalf)
Re: Netscape font is too small (Raffael Herzog)
Re: jumping mouse (Kristinn R. Kristinsson)
Re: PPP and Winmodem (Wayne Pascoe)
Re: Lost LILO after installed new window. (Villy Kruse)
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From: "Kraylus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: friendly reply please (i'm new)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 02:24:00 -0700
linux mandrake 7.0 sounds like a fine OS.
before i buy, i gotta few questions.
i run off an internet connection on my wife's computer who is using windows
(she wont part with windows... ever). my own puter has a winmodem, so i
can't sign onto the net with it. my question is, can i still share my
wife's windows internet connection via our network? can we even still share
files across our network if i have linux and she has windows?
lastly, does it come with bootdisks? i really do NOT want to attempt to
make a bootdisk with proper modules and whatnot. i'm still kinda stupid
when it comes to that kinda thing.
please reply via email if possible. i can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks for your time,
ryan
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From: Jan Moons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MP3 player makes a lot of noise
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:28:25 +0200
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Hi,
I have problems playing MP3's.
My soundblaster works fine, at least I can play normal audio CD's.
But when I want to play MP3 files with X11amp of freeamp I get a lot of
noise, my speakers are about to explode !!!! And I can't seem to hear
any music through the noise.
Somebody with a solution ?
Jan
--
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-- Charles Babbage Orwell --
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From: Kheng-Teong Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to turn on remote root login?
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:27:02 +0800
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Kheng-Teong Goh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do I turn on remote root login? And how do I turn it off? Thanks in
> advance.
OK. I found out how to turn on and off remote root login for Slackware.
BUt Red Hat 6.2 seems to be different.. Anybody knows about Red Hat 6.2?
Please let me know. Thanks in advance.
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hostname
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:54:47 +0200
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, David M. Carney wrote:
>Thanks for reading!
>
>I've gotten a bit bored with "localhost.localdomain" the Red Hat 6.1 stuck
>me with, so I tried to change it via the hostname command, ie, I typed
>"hostname RH6.1".
>
>Then I rebooted, but later when the screensaver (under Gnome 2.1) tried to
>run, I got an error about permisisons on screen 0, or something like that.
>
>I tried ignoring it and booting my dialer, but NOTHING would work except
>the logout button. So I hit Alt-CTRL-F2 and logged in as root, and changed
>the hostname back, rebooted, and for now, all seems ok.
>
>What did I do wrong? How can I change the hostname without messing things
>up? Is this really what caused my problem?
>
>David
david
edit /etc/sysconfig/network
change localhost into a name you like (eq mymachine)
edit/etc/hosts
be sure it contains at least
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
127.0.0.1 mymachine.linuxfan mymachine
where linuxfan is a name you choose.
be sure /etc/host.conf contains at least:
order hosts,bind
reboot your machine
--
Good Luck
Patricia
ICQ 69588792
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
http://beginnerslinux.org
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
11:55am up 1 day, 14:03, 1 user, load average: 1.49, 1.64, 1.46
Mon Jun 26 11:55:23 CEST 2000
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From: blinddog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape font is too small
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 19:52:34 +1000
Newbie question! I am running Mandrake 7 with Netscape 4.7 and a lot of the
fonts when browing atre really small (and not just due to screen resolution)
how can I fix this
Thanx
Andrew D
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From: "Jeremy Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,sg.linux
Subject: Problem with LinkSys 10/100 Etherfast Lan Card
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:34:34 +0800
Hie there, got a big problem here....very sad.
Recently bought a Linksys network card for my pc. In its retail box, I was
instructed to download the source for the driver from
FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/tulip.c
FTP://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/kern_compat.h
1. I downloaded them and did what was instructed (compile tulip.c with
the required parameters and copied the binary to
/lib/modules/2.0.XX/net/tulip.o where the XX is the version number of the
latest kernel.
2. Update kernel's module dependencies:
/sbin/depmod -a
3. Next I edited /etc/conf.modules and added the following entries
alias eth0 tulip
options tulip options=0 debug=1
4. Restarted the system and then ran ifconfig. Sadly, I was only shown
the loopback devices.
5. I did "cat /proc/pci" and got the particular line which I thinks
refers to my ethernet card
Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].
6. A "dmesg | grep eth0 -" refuse to turn up any eth0 entry
7. I also did "modprobe tulip.o" and I got this lines at the end of my
/var/log/messages file
"Jun 26 17:34:30 localhost kernel: elf_core_dump: file->f_pos (1148458) !=
offset (1146880) " which I have no idea if it has anything to do with my
running of "modprobe...."
Any idea :-( If you have any idea, do tell me, okie :-)
a million thanx there :-)
^jj^ ^jj^ "May Angels watch over you"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,al.os.linux,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: PPP and Winmodem
Date: 26 Jun 2000 08:28:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 26 Jun 2000 05:28:47 GMT, Bill Unruh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>Don't bother. /dev/modem is just a pain and helps nothing.
Umm... that's a very sweeping statement, how about backing it up?
I personally find the use of symlinks to devices very handy indeed; not
least of which because if you find yourself reconfiguring your system a bit
(moving a modem to a different serial port, your CD writer and scanner
change order on the SCSI bus, and so on) the only change you have to make is
redo a symbolic link!
What's wrong with doing that?
Ta-ra,
Julie
--
Disclaimer: this post is just my insignificant mumblings, so don't believe
a word of it -- relax, and take it all with a pinch of salt. Any relevance
to real life is purely co-incidental, and is statistically very unlikely.
Gluten free. Requires 4xAA batteries (not included). May contain peanuts.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ok, i'm fucking pissed. dual boot winnt and linux
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:57:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are probably other solutions, but I'd try to get a boot/root disk
combination from slackware.com and boot a linux from there. Then mount
the partition where fstab is on and change the file. Although I don't
know why the RH rescue disc wont alllow you to mount the partitition rw.
That should work too. Or is that rescue disc juts a boot-disc? Well try
the Slackware solution
that should work. You might need to mount the partition with vi on it
too to be able to use that, just go ahead and try it.
Good luck,
Eric
Michael Jordan wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a 20GB hard drive set up with a 4GB partition booting WindowsNT
> Workstation and then a linux swap, a linux root, and a Windows
> partition of 4 GB and then free space with 8 GB or so free.
> Everything was working fine using the NT bootloader and a bootsect.lnx
> file I copied from /dev/hda7.
> I created a couple of windows partitions in the free space which moved
> my linux root partition from hda7 to hda6.
> It's now been a couple of hours and nothing I do can get me to boot
> into linux. I either get a kernel panic unable to mount root partition
> or I get a failed message with fsck saying bad block on /dev/hda7.
> The fstab still says /dev/hda7 is mounted under / and I can only mount
> it as read-only, so I can't change it.
> I created a rescue disk with my other linux machine from the RH CD but
> I can't even get less let alone vi so I can change the fstab.
> I've tried using linux root=/dev/hda6, I've tried linux single
> root=/dev/hda6, I've tried linux root=/dev/fd0, I've tried every
> combination I can think of.
> I've read the man pages for lilo, lilo.conf, rdev, and the bootprompt
> howto and nothing works.
> I even went back into NT and deleted the partitions I created since
> nothing was stored on them yet and it still didn't work.
> All I want to do is tell Linux to boot from hda6 not hda7 and have
> fsck check /dev/hda6 not /dev/hda7.
> I seem to get as far as setting the hostname which is in rc.sysinit,
> but then it fails checking /dev/hda7 which is now a windows partition
> not a linux partition.
> How do I tell fsck to check /dev/hda6 not 7 if root=/dev/hda6 doesn't
> work and append="root=/dev/hda6" doesn't work and boot=/dev/hda6,
> doesn't work and the fucking rescue disk doesn't allow me to mount my
> root partition in read-write mode so I can change the fstab, which is
> where I think fsck is lookng for which filesystems to check?
> At this point I'm ready to blow out the linux partitions and just
> install it by itself on a second hard drive and the hell with this
> partition bullshit. But I'd really like to know how to do this.
> thanks
> mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: How to turn on remote root login?
Date: 26 Jun 2000 10:26:43 GMT
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How do I turn on remote root login? And how do I turn it off? Thanks in
>> advance.
>
>OK. I found out how to turn on and off remote root login for Slackware.
>BUt Red Hat 6.2 seems to be different.. Anybody knows about Red Hat 6.2?
>Please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Don't.
Install ssh on both machines, and use ssh -l root host.
This is way more secure.
Frinky
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: friendly reply please (i'm new)
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:51:03 GMT
Kraylus wrote:
Welcome to Linux-land!
> i run off an internet connection on my wife's computer who is using windows
> (she wont part with windows... ever).
Been there, done it. Used WinGate on MS-Glassware box, used iShare on
it, used SyGate, and then installed Masquerading on My Linux box and
since we live happily on internet and when Netscape crashes on any
machine the other continues without noticing.
> my own puter has a winmodem, so i can't sign onto the net with it.
Get normal modem preferably external so it can be exchanged between
boxes in time of crisis (you married, right?)
>
> ryan
--
******* Stanislaw ********
Monolog - one person talking to himself,
dialog - two people talking to themselves.
-Shaike Ofir-
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From: Gandalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Remote X login to linux server ???
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:17:56 +0100
Jeremy Low skrev:
> Anyone has any idea how I may do a remote X login to a linux server from a
> windoz box. I wish to see the same X login display like I am in front of a
> linux terminal presenting to me an X login.
>
> thanx there :-)
xwin32
http://www.starnet.com
/Tobbe
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From: Gandalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ok, i'm fucking pissed. dual boot winnt and linux
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:32:52 +0100
Yes with a Slackware bootdisk, att the liloprompt.
mount root=/dev/hda6
then edit /etc/fstab, etc/lilo.conf
run lilo
mount windows partition mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
make new file dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/mnt/boot.lin bs=512 count=1
/Tobbe
Eric skrev:
> There are probably other solutions, but I'd try to get a boot/root disk
> combination from slackware.com and boot a linux from there. Then mount
> the partition where fstab is on and change the file. Although I don't
> know why the RH rescue disc wont alllow you to mount the partitition rw.
> That should work too. Or is that rescue disc juts a boot-disc? Well try
> the Slackware solution
> that should work. You might need to mount the partition with vi on it
> too to be able to use that, just go ahead and try it.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Eric
>
> Michael Jordan wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have a 20GB hard drive set up with a 4GB partition booting WindowsNT
> > Workstation and then a linux swap, a linux root, and a Windows
> > partition of 4 GB and then free space with 8 GB or so free.
> > Everything was working fine using the NT bootloader and a bootsect.lnx
> > file I copied from /dev/hda7.
> > I created a couple of windows partitions in the free space which moved
> > my linux root partition from hda7 to hda6.
> > It's now been a couple of hours and nothing I do can get me to boot
> > into linux. I either get a kernel panic unable to mount root partition
> > or I get a failed message with fsck saying bad block on /dev/hda7.
> > The fstab still says /dev/hda7 is mounted under / and I can only mount
> > it as read-only, so I can't change it.
> > I created a rescue disk with my other linux machine from the RH CD but
> > I can't even get less let alone vi so I can change the fstab.
> > I've tried using linux root=/dev/hda6, I've tried linux single
> > root=/dev/hda6, I've tried linux root=/dev/fd0, I've tried every
> > combination I can think of.
> > I've read the man pages for lilo, lilo.conf, rdev, and the bootprompt
> > howto and nothing works.
> > I even went back into NT and deleted the partitions I created since
> > nothing was stored on them yet and it still didn't work.
> > All I want to do is tell Linux to boot from hda6 not hda7 and have
> > fsck check /dev/hda6 not /dev/hda7.
> > I seem to get as far as setting the hostname which is in rc.sysinit,
> > but then it fails checking /dev/hda7 which is now a windows partition
> > not a linux partition.
> > How do I tell fsck to check /dev/hda6 not 7 if root=/dev/hda6 doesn't
> > work and append="root=/dev/hda6" doesn't work and boot=/dev/hda6,
> > doesn't work and the fucking rescue disk doesn't allow me to mount my
> > root partition in read-write mode so I can change the fstab, which is
> > where I think fsck is lookng for which filesystems to check?
> > At this point I'm ready to blow out the linux partitions and just
> > install it by itself on a second hard drive and the hell with this
> > partition bullshit. But I'd really like to know how to do this.
> > thanks
> > mike
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From: Raffael Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape font is too small
Date: 26 Jun 2000 13:37:23 +0200
blinddog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Newbie question! I am running Mandrake 7 with Netscape 4.7 and a lot of the
> fonts when browing atre really small (and not just due to screen resolution)
> how can I fix this
>
> Thanx
> Andrew D
Edit-Preferences-Appearance-Fonts
If you still got problems, select "Use my default Fonts, override
document specified fonts".
--
Raffael Herzog
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kristinn R. Kristinsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: jumping mouse
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:27:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ruth Vance) wrote:
> I have recently installed RedHat 6.0 on an old 486-66 box I made out
of
> spare parts. I got it loaded Ok but the mouse (and 2 others I tried
too)
> will not behave. I have tried configuring with XF86conf and
mouseconfig
> etc. What happens is that the mouse jumps around the screen. You will
be
> moving it in one direction and it will jump to another location. Also
you
> can click on something and it will jump and click sometimes several
times
> on something else. It does this outside xwindows as well as in
xwindows. I
> have also tryed plying with gpm which didn't help either. The only
thing I
> can come up with is that during boot the os says PS2 port detected.
> Needless to say I don't have one. This IS a serial mouse on ttyS0. I
hope
> someone out there has a good idea I'm at a loss.
>
This sounds like a classic case of the Battle of the Buttons (tada!)
On a more serious note, this sounds to me like you have a three button
mouse with a sliding switch somewhere on the bottom of the mouse that
lets you choose between using 2 or 3 buttons. Either you have your mouse
set to use 2 buttons and GPM and X to use 3 buttons, or vice versa.
just my 0.0214 euros...
--
"We want to take over the world but we don't have
to do it by tomorrow - its OK to do it by next week, or
even next month - Linus Torvalds "
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Before you buy.
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From: Wayne Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,al.os.linux,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: PPP and Winmodem
Date: 26 Jun 2000 12:34:48 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon) writes:
> Umm... that's a very sweeping statement, how about backing it up?
Disclaimer: I didn't make the original statement, but I do agree with
it !:-)
I have found massive problems using /dev/modem when I am using the
modem for more than one application. I have ended up just sticking to
/dev/ttyS? and that sorted out problems like locking and fax queues
going mental when the modem is being used to connect to the net.
> I personally find the use of symlinks to devices very handy indeed;
> not least of which because if you find yourself reconfiguring your
> system a bit (moving a modem to a different serial port, your CD
> writer and scanner change order on the SCSI bus, and so on) the only
> change you have to make is redo a symbolic link!
I fully support the use of symlinks for things like scanners and
cdroms because they make life easier. Nice, consistent interface to
devices. But for modems, I stick to their /dev/ttyS port :-)
--
/* Wayne Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"I think that if people knew when they were going to die,
they would never live at all." - Reaper Man */
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Lost LILO after installed new window.
Date: 26 Jun 2000 12:09:34 GMT
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:39:51 GMT, Kevin Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lost LILO after installed new window.
>I am recently installed new window.
>I originally have been installed win 98 and Linux RH.
>but I recently installed winNT.
>the problem is:
>after I installed window, I afraid I will lost LILO.
>Because I encounter this problem before.
>So is there a way that I can call the LILO back?
>or boot into Linux Redhat?
>Thank You Very Much.
>
>P.S.: How do I make linux boot disk in linux?
>I am using RH 6.0.
>Thank You.
Install lilo on the first lilo partition. Then it is a simple matter
to make this linux partition active using DOS fdisk to get lilo back.
Villy
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