Linux-Setup Digest #150, Volume #19 Thu, 13 Jul 00 15:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need TurboLinux 6 printer help (Ken Knecht)
pop3 server (christian del rosso)
Re: Linux beyond 1024 Cylinder (Vince Skahan)
Help:Sound Blaster Live 2 card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: big ass partitiions (Hal Burgiss)
ISDN Card problems with WINBOND w6692 chip (Hans van Leest)
How Do I Install Star Office ("David Stackis")
can't access any man-pages (Karsten Priegnitz)
Red hat setup (Kwong H Chan)
Re: Graphical to Command Line Login (Karsten Priegnitz)
Re: Determining driver for ethernet card (Paul Kimoto)
Re: x include (Paul Kimoto)
Installing .bin files [StarOffice] ("David Stackis")
Turning off startup services? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help in setting up a simple DNS configuration ("Chuck Swiger")
Re: Graphical to Command Line Login (Ben Popoola)
HP DeskJet 895cse with RedHat? (Joseph Santaniello)
Re: Installing .bin files [StarOffice] (Mike Douglas)
Re: How Do I Install Star Office (Roger Blake)
Re: Installing .bin files [StarOffice] -warning (Mike Douglas)
Troubles abound... ("Chris MacPhee")
Attention: Linux Experts ... ("Terry Mulvany")
modifying font aliases (Vitali A Chipitsyn)
Re: Turning off startup services? (Tobbe)
Re: can't access any man-pages (Paul Kimoto)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: Re: Need TurboLinux 6 printer help
Date: 13 Jul 2000 15:14:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Taylor) wrote
in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>You should use the program `lm1100' to make this printer go
>under Linux. See
>http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=lm1100
>and the author's web page pointed to therein. You will have
>to install this driver, along with Ghostscript, before you
>can attempt to configure a print queue which uses it.
>
Got it now! What I'm going to do now is borrow an old Epson (or
whatever) dot matrix printer and get that printing plain text
from Linux. _Then_ I'll try the 1100 and driver after I'm sure I
can at least print.
>(Actually, the lm1100 is one of the drivers I'm using to beta
>test my new setup system, but you apparently aren't in the
>mood for beta software).
IMHO the world certainly needs some good Linux setup software -
I've tried several distributions and have not found it yet. My
system is simple - no PnP or PCMCIA, standard old VGA card,
external modem, and IDE CD-ROM and HD. Think your beta would
work? My system couldn't get more screwed up. Does it help set
up ppp and Samba too?
>I don't actually know what TurboLinux ships for their printer
>setup. A TL fellow mailed me recently and mentioned that
>their printer setup tools are somewhat broken in the recent
>version for some class or other of printer.
Much worse than SuSE or Red Hat.
>
>Oh, what the heck. Try following the directions at
>http://www.linuxprinting.org/lpd-doc.html and see where you
>end up. Mail me for help if you get stuck.
>
Got it. Thanks very much for your detailed help.
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (christian del rosso)
Subject: pop3 server
Date: 13 Jul 2000 15:12:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I am looking for a pop3 server to use. I've tried qpopper
it works but with it I can't add a user name with
special characters like & and . and with length more than
8 characters.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vince Skahan)
Subject: Re: Linux beyond 1024 Cylinder
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:53:03 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thad Guidry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I can tell you that Red Hat 6.2 does indeed run into the 1024 cylinder
>problem. I should know since I tried to install it and only got "LI" to
>come up, which means there's a geometry mismatch problem. For more
>information on this problem visit the LILO Mini HowTo Documentation
>available at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html
>
If you do a RH install of type 'custom', you'll see that they
create a /boot partition first on the disk. That keeps the
kernel in the first 1024 cylinders.
A /boot of 32MB is plenty big enough. Stick the '/' partition
pretty much anywhere you want.
--
----------- Vince Skahan -------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------
The DoJ has determined that Linux has established and exploited a monopoly
in the nonproprietary UNIX market by means of predatory zero pricing and
blatantly superior implementation -- Stan Kelly-Bootle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help:Sound Blaster Live 2 card
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:27:00 GMT
I hava installed Mandrake 7.1. I've a Sound Blaster Live 2 card
installed in my machine. The System seems recongize the card but it
shows the following message when I issue the command "insmod emu10k1":
Using /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/emu10k1.o
/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
Any Idea?
Thanks in advance. :)
Eric Wong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: big ass partitiions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:56:38 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:11:25 +1000, Steven Farlie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There is no 1 Gig limit. Are you talking about the 1024 cylinder
>> BIOS/Lilo limit? The FS limit is much larger -- over a Terabyte IIRC.
>
>Thanks for that. No, I'm not talking about the Lilo limit, it is just
>that from my experience I can never get Red Hat's installation
>partition gui to accept over 1 gig.
>So you can understand that I would rather find out if this 1 gig limit
>actually applied when creating the partition myself (I have nothing to
>test on here), then buying a 20 gig drive thinking I may need 20 or so
>partitions to put my data in.
The RH installer does not like /boot being over 1024 cylinders, and is
prone to giving misleading error messages. This may be the snag. Try
creating a smallish /boot partition (20M) first, then as big as you want
for the rest. I have several partitions over 1G on RH6.2. I have never
had a problem, but always had a separate boot partition too.
--
Hal B
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From: Hans van Leest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ISDN Card problems with WINBOND w6692 chip
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:01:06 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I've got RH 6.2 with GNOME running on an INTEL 166Mhz, which runs just
fine.
Next I want to install an ISDN card and I've got problems.
The ISDN card is a Accex passive PCI card with a WINBOND w6692 chip.
isdn4k-utils and insdn-conf can work with these cards according the
manual, this with the HiSax.o driver.
After installation 'kudzu won't recognice the card. It looks like the
system can't work with it.
The function 'lspci -v' recogize the card afterall with the following
output:
-Class: 0080
-IRQ 9
-Memory at f5eef000
-I/O ports at d000
-Flags: fast devsel
-Unkown device 5478 --this can be true, because it's not listed in
'/usr/share/pci.ids'.
The file '/proc/pci' recognizes the card also, only with more output
'Bus 0, device 10, function 0', and 'Unkown Class'.
This looks strange because "lspci -v' gives Class: 0080 .
'lsdev' does not list the card, there is no IRQ 9 in the output.
This is also in the output of 'procinfo'.
How do I solve this, can I force an IRQ setting with 'setpci' or is this
end of story.
Could somebody give me an example of the 'setpci' instruction.
Thanks,
Hans van Leest
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How Do I Install Star Office
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:09:16 -0700
I recently downloaded StarOffice, and burned it to a CD. The file has a .bin
extension. Being a newbie to Linux I am not quite sure on how to proceed in
installing this application.
I am use to installing .rpm files, but have not installed a file w/a .bin
extension. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
TIA!
David Stackis
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From: Karsten Priegnitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't access any man-pages
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:14:34 +0200
Hi *,
my problem: everytime I try to access a man-page I get a message like
this
# man ls
no entry for: ls
When I do the same as root there is no problem and I get the man-page
displayed...
any idea?
Karsten
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:26:11 -0400
From: Kwong H Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red hat setup
Hello to all!
I just installed redhat 6.0 in the intel PC and I'm really having a hard
time in installation. First of all, I cannot get the LILO
installed. This is why I have to put the bootup disk every time I wanna
load Linux. I read some book which talked about the 10 bit
addressing. So is it necessary to get a smaller partition just for the
boot loader? I was thinking of swap. Anyway it didn't work the way I
want and I go ahead with the rest of installation. Finally I decided to
format and try again. But I cannot use the fdisk to delete the linux
partition either. According to the SAMS book, they advise me to use Disk
druid to do the partition during the installation of redhat. But I just
can't delete the partition done by disk druid with fdisk. Any clue???
Please help.
Kwong H Chan
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From: Karsten Priegnitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphical to Command Line Login
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:38:31 +0200
Ben, Popoola wrote:
> HI,
> How can I change from a graphical login to a command line login?
> I am currently using TurboLinux 4.0 and gnome is my default window manager.
>
> Thanks
>
> ==================================
> Posted via http://nodevice.com
> Linux Programmer's Site
On every Linux I used you can change from Graphical login to command-line login
by using Alt-Ctrl-F1 to F6. Or do you mean that you want to have the
command-line login
after every boot-up?
karsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Determining driver for ethernet card
Date: 13 Jul 2000 12:38:30 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8k4sbh$pbq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Heafey wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could tell me
> how to obtain the name of the driver for the ethernet card on a running
> system ?
If the card is working, you can see in the system logs which driver(s) are
available: shortly after booting you can run "dmesg | less", or you can
look at a logfile named something like "/var/log/kern.log".
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: x include
Date: 13 Jul 2000 12:39:26 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <Quv95.10145$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rick Kalifa wrote:
> I'm having a problem compiling programs. Whenever I run configure, I get an
> error message that says can't find x include...
The "X include files" are in the X development package. (Which
distribution are you using?)
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Installing .bin files [StarOffice]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:50:25 -0700
I recently downloaded StarOffice, and burned it to a CD. The file has a .bin
extension. Being a newbie to Linux I am not quite sure on how to proceed in
installing this application.
I am use to installing .rpm files, but have not installed a file w/a .bin
extension. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
TIA!
David Stackis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Turning off startup services?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 16:53:06 GMT
Hi-
I have an old P133 running Mandrake 7.1. Currently when it boots, I
can see it starting all kinds of crap (you know, with the
green "[PASSED]" or red "[FAILED]" markers), which I'd rather it not.
For example, it tries to detect USP stuff (my computer dosn't have
USB!) and it does some raid stuff, starts httpd, starts sendmail etc.
I'd like some information on how to turn this stuff on and off. I'm
not interested in fancy gui tools either, I'm trying to learn the
basics so no X here (it runs like a dog anyways!).
Also, does anyone know of a good site I could go to and learn about all
this stuff? Thanks.
-capt_troy
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From: "Chuck Swiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help in setting up a simple DNS configuration
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:29:48 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is the simplest way to set up this ?
The only option is to set up your DNS server with appropriate records
for your domain.
> Currently, DNS is running locally, but not really used. Is there any
> easy way to set up the configuration so that I don't have to set up the
> DNS rules, but use only /etc/hosts to resolve ?
There was a Perl script in the "DNS and BIND" O'Reilly book which
would convert an /etc/hosts file into a DNS zone file.
> If I have to set up DNS, can you give a little detailed example ?
No. Read the previously mentioned book, or the online documentation
(called the BOG) which comes with BIND.
-Chuck
Chuck 'Sisyphus' Swiger | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Bad cop! No Donut.
------------------------+-------------------+--------------------
I know that you are an optimist if you think I am a pessimist....
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From: Ben Popoola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphical to Command Line Login
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:38:50 +0100
Yes I mean after every boot up
Karsten Priegnitz wrote:
> Ben, Popoola wrote:
>
> > HI,
> > How can I change from a graphical login to a command line login?
> > I am currently using TurboLinux 4.0 and gnome is my default window manager.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > ==================================
> > Posted via http://nodevice.com
> > Linux Programmer's Site
>
> On every Linux I used you can change from Graphical login to command-line login
>
> by using Alt-Ctrl-F1 to F6. Or do you mean that you want to have the
> command-line login
> after every boot-up?
>
> karsten
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From: Joseph Santaniello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP DeskJet 895cse with RedHat?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:47:45 +0200
Hi,
I'm having trouble getting my HP 895cse to print out in color. If I use
the generic DeskJet filter from printtool printing works nicely but only
B/W. If I use the DeskJet 850/855/870/1100 filter ascii mode works but not
the postscript mode. Has anyone gotten color printing to work?
Any tips greatly appreciated.
Joe
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From: Mike Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Installing .bin files [StarOffice]
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 10:50:24 -0700
Just run ./filename.bin.
-Mike
David Stackis wrote:
> I recently downloaded StarOffice, and burned it to a CD. The file has a .bin
> extension. Being a newbie to Linux I am not quite sure on how to proceed in
> installing this application.
>
> I am use to installing .rpm files, but have not installed a file w/a .bin
> extension. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA!
> David Stackis
> http://www.stackis.com
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: How Do I Install Star Office
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 17:51:31 GMT
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 09:09:16 -0700, David Stackis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am use to installing .rpm files, but have not installed a file w/a .bin
>extension. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
According to the instructions on Sun's download site, the .bin file
is an executable, you just run it to install Star Office.
--
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From: Mike Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Installing .bin files [StarOffice] -warning
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 11:06:51 -0700
By the way, I want to warn you that you should be careful when you install
StarOffice if you use KDE. The install wipes out all of your KDE settings and
tells you that a new version of KDE has been installed. This wasn't a huge
problem for me until I went to my KDE address book and found all of the entries
wiped out. I was not pleased. Just a heads up.
David Stackis wrote:
> I recently downloaded StarOffice, and burned it to a CD. The file has a .bin
> extension. Being a newbie to Linux I am not quite sure on how to proceed in
> installing this application.
>
> I am use to installing .rpm files, but have not installed a file w/a .bin
> extension. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA!
> David Stackis
> http://www.stackis.com
>
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From: "Chris MacPhee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Troubles abound...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:09:08 -0300
Hello,
My RH6.2 box is having trouble receiving mail from outside the box. It is
able to receive internal email (within Linux itself) but if an external
email attempts to enter the system, it is not received. Mail was working
before (as I had received emails not too long ago).
Right now, the box can:
- Send / Receive mail to and from itself
- Send mail outside of itself
But it can't receive mail from other boxes.
I know it isn't a whole lot to go on, but I'm fairly clueless at the
moment. Any ideas?
Thanks
- Chris
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From: "Terry Mulvany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Attention: Linux Experts ...
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:18:12 GMT
Linux experts ...
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From: Vitali A Chipitsyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modifying font aliases
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 18:10:39 GMT
Hello,
I am not sure if "font aliases" is the right term. However, what I need to
do is: Change the font to which font names like "Courier", "Helvetica" are
aliased. I need to be able to substitute different fonts (for a different
encoding) in place of the default fonts, because some applications do not
allow to specify fonts by their standard pattern *-*-*-...-*.
Could someone help me with an advice, please?
I looked at font.alias files in font/* directories, and they don't seem to
describe aliasing for the default font names.
--vc
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From: Tobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turning off startup services?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:42:05 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:
> Hi-
>
> I have an old P133 running Mandrake 7.1. Currently when it boots, I
> can see it starting all kinds of crap (you know, with the
> green "[PASSED]" or red "[FAILED]" markers), which I'd rather it not.
> For example, it tries to detect USP stuff (my computer dosn't have
> USB!) and it does some raid stuff, starts httpd, starts sendmail etc.
> I'd like some information on how to turn this stuff on and off. I'm
> not interested in fancy gui tools either, I'm trying to learn the
> basics so no X here (it runs like a dog anyways!).
>
> Also, does anyone know of a good site I could go to and learn about all
> this stuff? Thanks.
>
> -capt_troy
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Slackware is much cleaner and faster.
/Tobbe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: can't access any man-pages
Date: 13 Jul 2000 14:39:13 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karsten Priegnitz wrote:
> my problem: everytime I try to access a man-page I get a message like
> this
>
> # man ls
> no entry for: ls
>
> When I do the same as root there is no problem and I get the man-page
> displayed...
Which distribution (i.e., which man version) do you use?
Do you or root have the MANPATH environment variable set?
Is the directory containing the man-page source (ls.1 or ls.1.gz) readable
by you? (Try /usr/man/man1, /usr/share/man/man1, and anything else that
looks promising.) Is the man-page source readable by you?
--
Paul Kimoto
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