Linux-Setup Digest #144, Volume #19 Wed, 12 Jul 00 16:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: failed to set default font 'fixed' ("Benjamin C. Flynn")
Re: RH6.2 and wierd BackSpace behavior ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cannon MultiPass C5000 CBJ/Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax
Setup Linux with lilo/grub (SY)
ipchains ("Jeff D. Hamann")
Re: ALSA CMI8330 won't work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ALSA CMI8330 won't work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: password validation server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need TurboLinux 6 printer help (Ken Knecht)
SANE ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
printing from netscape ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Linux on Dell PowerEdge 2400 (Bob Jones)
Re: how to install rpm packages under kde (chabelo)
Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha... (Alex Collins)
Linux crashing on boot (Dimitris Terzis)
Sound card problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Weird Squid Problem (or IE5..?) ("Juergen Pabel")
Re: DVD software (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=)
eth1 fails on boot!! ("Devon Harding")
Re: Weird Squid Problem (or IE5..?) ("Juergen Pabel")
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From: "Benjamin C. Flynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: failed to set default font 'fixed'
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:26:11 -0400
I just replied to someone with the same problem- XF 4.0, right? Just
comment out the font line in your XF86Config file. You won't loose
anything- all my fonts still show up okay. I thought it is a conflict
between the Mandrake font server and XF86's font server, but I'm just
guessing.
Later,
Ben
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, DanH wrote:
> In article <GwMa5.2161$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Saber Adat"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am having a problem which could not be solved can you help
> >
> > failed to set default font 'fixed'
> >
> > X connection to 0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
> >
> > shutting down X font FAIL
> >
> > Please note that i am using mandrake 7.1.
>
> Check to see if xfs is running. If it is not, start it. /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start
>
> >
> > Please reply me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] not to newsgroup
>
> That is not the way usenet works.
>
> DanH
> --
> UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
> Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RH6.2 and wierd BackSpace behavior
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:16:55 GMT
In article <8khomh$im8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > So I've got RedHat 6.2 loaded onto one of my servers. When I
connect to
> > it from a WinDoze machine running eXceed, using an REXEC of xterm,
> > backspace doesn't work.
>
> > Both it and the delete key issue <esc>[3~.
> one or more of:
> + xmodmap settings equating Backspace and Delete
>
> + X resource settings (VT100*translations) which equate the two
> keys.
>
> out-of-the-box, xterm (you didn't mention which version, but I'm
assuming
> a recent one), will transmit 8 or 127 from the Backspace key (see the
> manpage)
The problem was in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm.
There was a line saying that Delete would return <esc>[3~. When I
removed that, backspace worked correctly, although <del> still returns
the <esc>[3~.
Weird thing is that xterms launched from the consol work correctly.
I don't get it, but at least it works.
Thanks!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cannon MultiPass C5000 CBJ/Printer/Scanner/Copier/Fax
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:30:08 GMT
Mrsfun44 wrote:
>
> While trying to install the above on my computer, it won't let me. It
> says something to the effect that it doesn't recognize that a printer is
> trying to be added. I notice on the discs that came with the Cannon
> product say for Windows 95. Does this mean I can't use it on my Windows
> 98 computer? Or is the problem something else - like a bad cable or a
bad
> port. (I am a novice, but someone who is on an intermediate level was
> the one trying to install it.)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SY)
Subject: Setup Linux with lilo/grub
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 17:48:13 GMT
Hi,
I was wondering, is there a way of setting up Linux on a machine which
already has win98 without installing lilo / grub etc (i.e. the only
way to boot into linux would be via a bootdisk?
Which distributions allow this (I know that Mandrake 7.0 does not give
you the option).
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ipchains
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:57:32 -0700
I would like to set up a firewall on my linux box and I'm a little confused
regarding the use of ipchains, is there a better explaination of firewalls
and using ipchains somewhere?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ALSA CMI8330 won't work
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:07:46 GMT
Yep I ran the snddevices script which created all the necessary entries
in the /dev directory...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ALSA CMI8330 won't work
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:09:32 GMT
Well I checked all my symbolic links in the /usr/lib directory and
everything checks out. No broken links; libasound.so.1.0.1 is aliased
as libasound.so.1 and libasound.so, so that's not it. :-(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: password validation server
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:13:35 GMT
I looked into NIS; it looks easy enough to setup since it's built into
almost every Linux distro out-of-the-box, but I'm not sure it can do
what I need. NIS looks like it's great for sharing files, resources
etc. but can it provide a password validation server for a group of
client computers? And if so, how? I read a bunch of documents but they
were all about basically just setting up NIS but not how to use it to do
useful stuff like providing a password validation service...
In article <3964e0e6$0$8310$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (C.J.) wrote:
> Look into NIS
>
> In article <8k2m6q$hgg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >How can I setup a server and client computers so
> >that when they log in to Linux, their username and
> >password is validated against a central server's
> >passwd, shadow, and group files? I thought of
> >sharing those files over the network but that's
> >just sloppy and insecure. All the workstations
> >are diskless, but they have good processors and
> >hard drives, and so I really don't want to do a
> >whole network boot thing. I want clients to run
> >binaries off their own computers, but I also want
> >them to be able to move around to whatever
> >computer and have the same experience, i.e. their
> >home directories should be mounted off the central
> >server. There has to be an easier way to do this,
> >right?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jim
> >
> >
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: Need TurboLinux 6 printer help
Date: 12 Jul 2000 18:35:39 GMT
I can't get my printer to work. It's a Lexmark 1100. The doc
says use an HP 500C driver for printing under DOS.
The printer setup in TurboLinux 6.0 has no way to select the
printer model - just port, etc. <sigh> Other distributions,
except the old Slackware I have, included this in their printer
setup when installing.
Printcap says:
lp
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp
:mx#0
:sh
:lp=/dev/lp0
:if=/usr/lib/filters/ifhp
Shouldn't the printer type - hp500c or whatever - be there
somewhere too?
if I use
lp printcap
I get
Get_local_host: hostname 'localhost' bad
I don't understand this at all.
I don't have a network (LAN) running either, or dialup. Maybe
that's what that 'localhost' is all about?
I suspect the filters (last) line is wrong too but I don't know
what to change it to. From what I gather from reading this is a
laserjet filter.
Why is it always the big Linux turnoff for me when I install a
Linux and can never get the printer, ppp, or a LAN working and
finally give up for another year in hopes of a future good Linux
book for Windows users and a Linux distribution with a good
install?<sigh> This stuff was a breeze to set up in Win. Why
does it still have to be so difficult after all these years in
Linux? I'm really trying but this Linux stuff is very difficult
with no local help.
Ken
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: SANE
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:36:17 +0200
Hi,
can anyone tell me how to intall and use SANE? I have a Mustek
ScanExpress 12000SP connected to the SCSI-card supplied by Mustek
Thanks,
Huub
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: printing from netscape
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:39:06 +0200
Hi,
I've been trying to print from Netscape 4.73 but it doesn't work. No
matter if I want to use an HP LaserJet 1100 or a Star LC-20 (NX-1001),
it doesn't work. What should I do?
Huub
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From: Bob Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Dell PowerEdge 2400
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:43:31 -0500
Hello there. My company recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2400 with a
PERC2/DC RAID controller with the American Megatrends chipset. At first
we installed Solaris 8 x86 on it and that presented some problems, so
now
that we're switching to Linux I thought I would ask my question before
installation.
Anyway, has anyone out here installed RedHat 6.2 on a similarly
configured
2400? If so, did you run into any problems and how did you fix them?
I appreciate any and all help,
Bob Jones
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Subject: Re: how to install rpm packages under kde
From: chabelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: jaring.os.linux
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:51:48 -0700
Also, look for kpackage. This is a kde frontend for rpm. Needs
to be run as root.
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From: Alex Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha...
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 20:06:18 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Beardmore
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>It turns out that the boxes we have been given are 2100 servers, type
>A500MP. I don't know anything about them yet. Can I assume 500 MHz
>twin CPU ?
>
Not knowing much about larger Alpha machines - i have no idea. there is
however a wealth of info available from Digital ( Compaq ) on their web
sites.
Other useful links:
http://www.digital.com ( and FTP )
Alphalinux.org has a fair bit of info available.
Also try alpha 2100 in a yahoo search - that came up with Lodsa stuff.
>
>>>I want to put Linux on it to perform the following tasks:
>>>
>>> IP ISDN gateway to ISP, maybe firewall, maybe proxy server, maybe IP
>>> router,
>>>
>>> Fax system, maybe offering network fax facilities to 95, 98, NT and
>>> Win2k machines using either a modem or smart ISDN card.
>>
>
>Need more. Do you have a URL for efax ?
>
Efax come on the RedHat Linux Distro. AFAIK
>Thanks !
>
>
>Cheers, J/.
No Probs.
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Alex Collins Electrical Services
www.par64.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dimitris Terzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux crashing on boot
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:09:03 GMT
Hi guys...
I am facing an annoying problem with one of my Linux boxes, which is
based on an AMD K6 CPU. I run RedHat 6.1 which is fine, but I need a
newer kernel, so I downloaded 2.3.99-pre9 and installed it using the
same procedure I have followed succesfully for several other similar
occasions (including 2.3.99-pre9 installations in other machines).
After installing the new kernel, I am rebooting the system and it stalls
exactly after the "Ok, uncompressing the kernel" message - the system
just freezes there. I tried 2.4.0-test3 and got the same result.
Because it doens't even start the booting process, /var/log/messages is
not written, so I don't have a clue as to what the cause of the problem
might be.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Dimitris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound card problem
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:19:25 GMT
I'm having a problem getting my sound card (Creative Labs Sound Blaster
16C PnP) to work on my system (Debian Linux. Kernel 2.2.14. Dell
Dimension XPS T550). this machine is a dual boot NT/Linux. Sound works
perfectly in NT. The soundcard properties that the Audio device in NT
was set up with indicate that the following ports should be OK for use
with soundcard: IO=0x330, 0x388; DMA=anything but 03; IRQ=anything but
10. Using this information i have been trying to get sound up in Linux.
After doing a pnpdump into /etc/isapnp.conf, I uncommented what seemed
to be the appropriate lines for this sound card.
My /etc/isapnp.conf basically now reads:
################################
# (DEBUG)
(READPORT 0x0273)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
# Card 1: (serial identifier e5 ff ff ff ff 70 00 8c 0e)
# Vendor Id CTL0070, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0xE5.
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0
# ANSI string -->Creative ViBRA16C PnP<--
(CONFIGURE CTL0070/-1 (LD 0
# Start dependent functions: priority preferred
# IRQ 5.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
# First DMA channel 1.
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
# Next DMA channel 5.
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
(IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
# End dependent functions
(NAME "CTL0070/-1[0]{Audio }")
(ACT Y)
))
################################
I issue 'isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf' and I get the following out:
Board 1 has Identity e5 ff ff ff ff 70 00 8c 0e: CTL0070 Serial No -1
[checksum e5]
CTL0070/-1[0]{Audio }: Port 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5
---Enabled OK
No errors, this is good. But then I issue 'modprobe sb io=0x0388 irq=5
dma=1 dma16=5' (sb being the driver that I think is most appropriate for
my card) and I get:
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o
failed
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o: insmod sb failed
I've tried many many different values for IRQ and DMA following the
"Hint" advice - but i still get the same damn error mesgs! When I do an
lsmod I get:
Module Size Used by
soundcore 2372 0 (autoclean)
lockd 30632 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 51588 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
ntfs 33640 0 (unused)
msdos 5276 0 (unused)
fat 28800 0 [msdos]
3c59x 18336 1
No other sound drivers are running as far as i can tell (soundcore
should not cause a conflict, right?)
What could be the problem?! Any ideas?!?!
Going Insane,
GG
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From: "Juergen Pabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Weird Squid Problem (or IE5..?)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:42:28 +0200
Hi everyone,
I have the following setup:
A private network with a squid proxy server connected to another (dial-up)
linux box. When a machine
on the internal network (as compared to the "network" directly to the
dial-up box) uses Internet Explorer
5 (Win2K) and visits www.msn.com then the squid proxy requests some more
pages from msn.com
(like arc5.msn.com and others) in 2 minute intervals. They are connections
to the http port on that machine
and are GETs. I monitored the network and found that the Windows box doesn't
(!) make that request...
Rather the squid proxy initiates the request....our dial up disconnects with
a 90 sec timeout and this request
causes another dial up....what can I say...telephone and internet are
expensive here in germany...
I was wondering if I overlooked some kind of option in the squid setup or
what is going on...
Maybe because the squid proxy box doesn't know that it's (real) internet
connection is a dialup
rather than the network connection it sees to it's gateway...?
Any ideas...?
Thanks for the help
jp
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=
Subject: Re: DVD software
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:31:13 GMT
Hi H.A.J. van Niekerk:
>
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know a program to play DVD in RedHat 6.1 (region 2)?
>
> Huub
There is a DVD-Playing-HOWTO floating around. Read it and you will know
everything needed to make your DVD work with Linux. This document can be
located in the Linux Documentation Project website
(http://linux.hjc.edu.sg/).
Jose Luis Domingo
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From: "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: eth1 fails on boot!!
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:05:46 -0400
insmod seems to fail on boot-up.
When I try it manually insmod 3c509 after boot, it fails the first time
with:
'resource busy'
then when I retry again, it says:
eth1: 3c509 at 0x320 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 a0 24 78 8a ab, IRQ 5.
3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then when I do 'ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.1', it says:
eth1: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
Here's a few lines from my /var/log/messages:
Jul 9 13:36:10 mars network: Setting network parameters succeeded
Jul 9 13:36:11 mars ifup: eth0: Host name lookup failure
Jul 9 13:36:12 mars network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
Jul 9 13:36:13 mars ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
Jul 9 13:36:13 mars pumpd[283]: starting at (uptime 0 days, 0:00:42) Sun Jul
9 13:36:13 2000
Jul 9 13:36:21 mars syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Jul 9 13:36:13 mars pumpd[283]: configured interface eth0
Jul 9 13:36:13 mars ifup: done.
Jul 9 13:36:14 mars network: Bringing up interface eth0 succeeded
Jul 9 13:36:14 mars insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/3c509.o: invalid
parameter parm_io
Jul 9 13:36:14 mars ifup: Delaying eth1 initialization.
Jul 9 13:36:14 mars network: Bringing up interface eth1 failed
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From: "Juergen Pabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Weird Squid Problem (or IE5..?)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 22:00:23 +0200
If this is not a known feature/trick (by M$)/bug/... then I can post all
kinds of
log stuff if neccessary...
thanks again
jp
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