Linux-Setup Digest #138, Volume #19 Tue, 11 Jul 00 19:13:13 EDT
Contents:
failed to set default font 'fixed' ("Saber Adat")
ALSA CMI8330 won't work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Trident Blade3D AGP and VIA MVP4 Chipset (Denning Langston)
xwindows with EGA (Damir Jurica)
Re: Chrooting Apache ! Please help ! (KingKirill)
Re: CRON / CRONTAB Help. ("David ..")
Re: Small Fonts in netscape ("David ..")
Re: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA (JoeB)
Help Uninstalling Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: problems compiling 2.4.0-test3? (ray)
Re: CRON / CRONTAB Help. (Olav Fossgaard)
Guide to removing unnecessary packages (Ken MacLeod)
Error when trying to configure my SoundCard (AWE 64 Gold) (Computadora)
Config network cards ("Marc Nesheim")
Sybase 11.9.2 on SuSE 6.4 ? (Robert Herzog)
Re: building LINUX only box (newbie) (Rod Smith)
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From: "Saber Adat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.best,at.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.act.admin,linux.act.apps
Subject: failed to set default font 'fixed'
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:41:34 +0100
I am having a problem which could not be solved can you help
failed to set default font 'fixed'
X connection to 0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
shutting down X font FAIL
Please note that i am using mandrake 7.1.
Please reply me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not to newsgroup
with many thanks
saber adat
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ALSA CMI8330 won't work
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 21:41:16 GMT
Well I downloaded the newest ALSA drivers for my CMI8330 ISAPNP sound
card. Compilation and installation went fine. Followed the directions
to the letter:
modprobe snd-card-cmi8330
returns:
isapnp: Card 'CMI8330. Audio Adapter'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
snd: SB [0x220]: DSP chip found, version = 4.13
Beautiful. But aplay returns:
Aplay: version 0.5.8 by Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Using soundcard 'CMI8330/C3D at 0x534, irq 5, dma 0'
Error: audio open error: No such device
What gives? Everything looks perfect (checked my IRQ and DMA settings;
everything looks good). And trying the alsaconf utility just messes
things up. This is frustrating; what am I doing wrong?
Jim
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Before you buy.
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 14:57:18 -0700
From: Denning Langston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Trident Blade3D AGP and VIA MVP4 Chipset
Thank you for your response.
I have gotten it to run tha SVGA driver at 320*300 (Yuk!), but anything higher
locks up the entire system.
Going through the Cards database manually (xf86config coredumps when I try to
let it list the database), Trident Blade3D is:
chipset: Blade3D
Server: SVGA
No Clock Probe
Driver: Trident
I got some good info from http://www.rodsbooks.com/presario/
He has a made his XF86Config downloadable there. And he explains the
gymnastics he went through getting X going.
Steven Ponsford wrote:
> Chem-R-Us wrote:
> >
> > Which XFree86 rpm for Linux-Mandrake supports this video chipset. A trip
> > to VIAs web page netted winders/DOS drivers, but no linux drivers.
> >
> > TIA
>
> lspci -m
> 00:00.0 "Host bridge" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT8501" -r02 "" ""
> 00:01.0 "PCI bridge" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT8501" "" ""
> 00:05.0 "SCSI storage controller" "Adaptec" "AHA-7850" -r03 "Adaptec"
> "AHA-2904/Integrated AIC-7850"
> 00:14.0 "ISA bridge" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82C686 [Apollo Super]"
> -r1b "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82C686/A PCI to ISA Bridge"
> 00:14.1 "IDE interface" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82C586 IDE [Apollo]"
> -r06 -p8a "" ""
> 00:14.2 "USB Controller" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82C586B USB" -r0e
> "1106" "3038"
> 00:14.3 "USB Controller" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82C586B USB" -r0e
> "1106" "3038"
> 00:14.4 "Host bridge" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82C686 [Apollo Super
> ACPI]" -r20 "" ""
> 00:14.5 "Multimedia audio controller" "VIA Technologies, Inc." "VT82C686
> [Apollo Super AC97/Audio]" -r21 "FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc"
> "3058"
> 01:00.0 "VGA compatible controller" "Trident Microsystems"
> "CyberBlade/i7" -r5b "FIRST INTERNATIONAL Computer Inc" "8400"
>
> I also have a PAG2130 and have looked all around on google trying to
> find out more specifics on this chipset. Apparently it uses an
> integrated Trident CyberBlade/i7 (VIA 8400) chip. It works with
> Cyberblade(generic) in XF86_SVGA 3.3.6, but doesn't seem accelerated.
> Windows movements are kind of slow at 16 bpp.
>
> I've tried the XFree 4.0 server and have had some success with the
> "noaccel" option inserted within the driver section. With XF86 4.x
> it will start then the screen will become massively corrupted with
> big blocky patches and segments of the screen overlapped on one
> another. It sort of works for around 5 minutes then locks up my
> machine totally, not even an Alt-SysRq anything will interrupt it.
>
> Has anybody else been successful in getting this combination
> (linux2.4test2/XF86 4.0 and CyberBlade/i7 (VIA 8400)) working stable
> yet. I know the i-opener boxes use a similar chipset (4 MB) whereas
> PAG2130 has 8 MB AGP (UMA?).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damir Jurica)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: xwindows with EGA
Date: 11 Jul 2000 22:05:03 GMT
anyone knows any way to install xwin on ega?
tnx
Damir
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From: KingKirill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Chrooting Apache ! Please help !
Date: 11 Jul 2000 14:27:11 -0700
>I'm the culprit who wrote those pages... does your chroot-ed system work
>if you do this (ie. testing that your nsswitch.conf file works):
>
> # chroot /chroot/apache sh
> Do you get the shell? Then (with 'ls' still installed in the chrooted tree),
> what do you see if you list some files owned by your user 'www'; eg:
> # ls -la /www/htdocs/
> You should see the listing as owned by 'www' and NOT as '888'
Okay, ... I see just 888's :((
Something is mighty wrong here.
[See the files print at the end of the message]
>
>You might also try changing your httpd.conf file and set the user to:
> User #888
>
>(just to see if you can start apache...)
>
Yep, it starts then, but then crashes with following in error_log:
[Tue Jul 11 23:15:45 2000] [alert] (2)No such file or directory: getpwuid:
couldn't determine user name from uid 888, you probably need to modify the User
directive
[Tue Jul 11 23:15:46 2000] [alert] Child 11391 returned a Fatal error...
Apache is exiting!
>--
>denice.deatrich @ epfl.ch, ADM/SIC, E.P.F.L. PH: +41 (21) 693 22 53
><*> This moment's fortune cookie:
>As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
>
Regards
Kirill
P.s here are some of the files and ls -la's
root@cuba:/chroot/apache > ls -l
total 32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www www 7 Jul 11 00:48 bin -> usr/bin
drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 4096 Jul 11 00:49 dev
drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 4096 Jul 11 23:05 etc
drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 4096 Jul 11 14:38 lib
drwxrwxrwx 3 www www 4096 Jul 11 01:14 opt
drwxrwxrwx 2 www www 4096 Jul 11 01:22 tmp
drwxrwxrwx 6 www www 4096 Jul 11 01:13 usr
drwxr-xr-x 3 www www 4096 Jul 11 13:47 webusers
drwxrwxrwx 14 www www 4096 Jul 11 01:09 www
root@cuba:/chroot/apache > cd etc
root@cuba:/chroot/apache/etc > ls -la
total 24
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 11 Jul 11 14:43 group
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 799 Jul 7 19:41 hosts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 www www 25 Jul 11 00:50 localtime ->
../usr/share/zoneinfo/MET
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 58 Jul 11 23:05 nsswitch.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 50 Jul 11 14:43 passwd
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 258 Jul 5 22:46 resolv.conf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 www www 20 Jul 11 15:11 shadow
root@cuba:/chroot/apache/etc > cat passwd group shadow nsswitch.conf resolv.conf
www:x:888:888:Web Account:/webhome:/usr/bin/False
www:x:888:
www:*:10882:-1:99999:-1:-1:-1:134537804
passwd: files
shadow: files
group: files
hosts: files dns
#
# /etc/resolv.conf
#
# Automatically generated by SuSEconfig on Wed Jul 5 22:46:34 CEST 2000.
#
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#
# Change variables (NAMESERVER + SEARCHLIST) in /etc/rc.config instead.
#
#
nameserver 193.246.40.1
nameserver 193.246.40.32
root@cuba:/chroot/apache/etc > chroot /chroot/apache /bin/sh
I have no name!@cuba:/ > ls -l
total 32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 888 888 7 Jul 11 00:48 bin -> usr/bin
drwxrwxrwx 2 888 888 4096 Jul 11 00:49 dev
drwxrwxrwx 3 888 888 4096 Jul 11 23:05 etc
drwxrwxrwx 2 888 888 4096 Jul 11 14:38 lib
drwxrwxrwx 3 888 888 4096 Jul 11 01:14 opt
drwxrwxrwx 2 888 888 4096 Jul 11 01:22 tmp
drwxrwxrwx 6 888 888 4096 Jul 11 01:13 usr
drwxr-xr-x 3 888 888 4096 Jul 11 13:47 webusers
drwxrwxrwx 14 888 888 4096 Jul 11 01:09 www
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CRON / CRONTAB Help.
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:05:41 -0500
"Adam H." wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a little trouble trying to understand this CRON business.
> Can someone help me please.
>
> All I want the server to do, is execute 'samba restart' at 4:30am every
> day. (The linux box will be sitting at a login prompt).
>
> Can someone please tell me how to do this...
First open the root crontab with: crontab -e
and palce a line something like this in it.
30 4 * * * /etc/rc.d/init.d/samba restart
Also this link might help you to understand cron better.
http://linux.com.sg/resource/crond/
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small Fonts in netscape
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:12:19 -0500
tvn wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is there a fix for this problem ?
Edit your "/home/user/.Xdefaults" and add this line to the end of the
file.
Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 5
Then in the Netscape menu choose:
"edit/preferences/appearance/fonts" and set the browser to:
Use my default fonts, overriding document-specified fonts
Be sure to choose the font you wish to use before saving changes.
After making the changes shown above, close and restart Netscape.
You DO NOT need to reboot your system. This is linux.
--
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: JoeB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: No Carrier - 3Com ISDN TA
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:29:01 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Still no joy. Can anyone help?
JoeB wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am using 3COM ISDN Terminal Adaptor (TA), with RH 6.2. I can
> communicate with the TA but for some reason I am unable to dial out. I
> get an error in /var/log/messages saying "No Carrier". What could
> possible be wrong? I can receive calls on the TA and in Windoze I can
> make calls. Am I missing something? Any help or pointers will be
> appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks.
>
> Joe B.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help Uninstalling Linux
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:23:55 GMT
I just recently installed Linux-Mandrake 7.1 onto my Hard Drive, Using
the Windows partition. I have tried many a time to get into Linux, but
it just doens't seem to work. I am in dire need of help to uninstall
Linux-Mandrake 7.1 from my Windows Partition. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems compiling 2.4.0-test3?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:37:53 GMT
Tyler Durden wrote:
> Is anyone else having problems trying to compile the 2.4.0-test3 (not 2)
> kernel? It's failing on make bzImage when trying to compile timer.c
> with the following error messages:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test3/kernel'
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test3/include [...] -c -o
> timer.o timer.c
> timer.c: In function `update_process_times':
> timer.c:580: structure has no member named `priority'
> timer.c:580: `DEF_PRIORITY' undeclared (first use in this function)
> [...]
> make[2]: *** [timer.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test3/kernel'
> make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test3/kernel'
> make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
>
> I initially patched the 2.4.0-test2 source tree, so I also tried
> downloading the entire source, but I get the same error message either
> way. I don't speak C, so I can't go in and try to fix whatever it is
> that's fucking up.
>
> Anyone got any bright ideas?
>
> --Tyler
Yup, exact same error here. I tried a number of configurations, to no
avail.
Ahh, in next message we have some help on it. Thank you, sir.
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP://gordo.penguinpowered.com
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From: Olav Fossgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CRON / CRONTAB Help.
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:25:17 +0200
"Adam H." wrote:
> All I want the server to do, is execute 'samba restart' at 4:30am every
> day. (The linux box will be sitting at a login prompt).
As root add this line to /etc/crontab (without the quotes):
30 4 * * * "Command to restart samba"
See also "man 5 crontab"
Olav
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Subject: Guide to removing unnecessary packages
From: Ken MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:53:24 GMT
I'm looking for a guide or a howto for removing unnecessary packages
and services, mostly from the perspective of "I've installed a minimal
RedHat/Debian/SuSE system and now I want to go even further and remove
anything that won't be used by my production server, web server, or
firewall." Including lists of common packages and files and their
prerequisites to remove or are necessary to keep for various common
server packages.
I'm NOT looking for "minimal/small/micro" distributions (I want to
start with a common distribution and prune it).
I'm NOT looking to open a discussion of how or what to remove (I'm
hoping for links to already written guide(s) -- I already understand
the concepts, I'm looking for a precompiled list of the basics).
I've checked the config, security, and firewall HOWTOs (which all just
say "remove unnecessary packages" without any suggestions) and
searched Deja for "unnecessary packages" and "minimal systems".
If you've seen such a guide or howto somewhere, please post or email
the link.
Thanks,
-- Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Computadora)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Error when trying to configure my SoundCard (AWE 64 Gold)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:00:21 GMT
I have a Creative Labs AWE 64 Gold sound card, which appears to be
supported by the Red Hat 6.2 Linux distribution that I recently
purchased. I'm dual-booting my machine Win98/Linux. Under Win98, I
checked the hardware stats on the sound card and this is what it says:
Interrupt Request: 05
Direct Memory Access: 01
Direct Memory Access: 05
Input/Output Range: 0220-022F
Input/Output Range: 0330-0331
Input/Output Range: 0388-038B
When I run sndconfig in Linux it goes through the process and seems to
detect the soundcard ok, but then at the very end when it tells me
that 'A sound sample will now be played to determine if your soundcard
has been correctly configured' it gives me the following error
message:
The following error occured running the isapnp program:
/etc/isapnp.conf:76 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating 8
bytes of IO at 300 (see /proc/ioports)
/etc/isapnp.conf:76 -- Fatal - Error occcured executing
request '<IORESCHECK>' --- further action aborted
Can anyone help me fix this problem? I'm very much a newbie at linux,
for which I apologize in advance. Any help will be very much
appreciated.
Thanks!
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From: "Marc Nesheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Config network cards
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 18:02:43 -0500
I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. I would like to get two intel
etherexpress cards (isa) working in there. No matter how I have the two
cards arranged in the system only eth0 will come up. When I type in: ifup
eth1 the following error message is generated:
SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available
SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
SIOCADDRT: No such device
Then I do an ifconfig and that out pu looks like:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:55:36:C0
inet addr:172.16.0.2 Bcast:172.16.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x310
eth1 Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM HWaddr
UP RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
My /etc/conf.modules looks like:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eexpress
alias eth1 eexpress
options eexpress io=0X310,0X300 irq=3,5
Does anyone know how to fix this problem? If so please contact me.
Thanks,
Marc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sybase 11.9.2 on SuSE 6.4 ?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:06:31 GMT
Hi,
Can somebody tell me why Sybase Adaptive Entrprise server does not
install on SuSE 6.4 while claiming it lacks glibc2 (an da couple of
other libs), which I am pretty sure is on the SuSE distribution sinc
several months?
Robert
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: building LINUX only box (newbie)
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:07:04 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <ggFa5.26127$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kathy Archacki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm interested in building machine that uses LINUX only. I want to setup the
> machine as a firewall for my ASDSL conection via TELOCITY (leases Bell
> Atlantic lines). I'm looking for any help start to finish, as I am a newbie
> and am trying to migrate away from MS. I have a 133 Pentium motherboard
> with 80M of Ram, three hard drives; 2-1.2G, 1-1.6G and a 8X cdROM anything
> else needed is open to suggestion. The workstation to be connected,
> currently uses: (duel boot) W98, W2000 Proffesional. At some time it the
> not so distant future I will be setting up a home LAN.
> Please include an explaination with your suggestions. Because, I
> desire a understanding of the OS and not just a Cook Book approach.
You should check the Linux Hardware HOWTO document
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html) if you want a basic
grounding in what's good and what's not. It's not been updated since
9/99, though, so it doesn't include information on the "latest &
greatest" stuff. For more detail, you might want to look into my _Linux
Hardware Handbook_, which is due out in a couple of weeks. (Check
http://www.rodsbooks.com/hardware/ for more information.)
The easiest way to ensure you get a working system is to buy from a
company that'll put Linux on the computer from the start, and preferably
from a company that specializes in Linux. Of course, if you want to
learn about Linux hardware, this won't force you to do so.
http://www.linux.org has a subsection about Linux hardware, including
links to a bunch of Linux computer makers.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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