Linux-Setup Digest #209, Volume #19 Thu, 20 Jul 00 19:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: print problem (oneal nichols)
Re: Dualboot - Windows 2000 and Redhat 6.2 (Yidao Cai)
How to setup other serial ports? (Neal Rhodes)
Dualboot - Windows 2000 and Redhat 6.2 ("Shane R. Ward")
parport0: unable to get hardware to register plip0 (Daniel Hartman)
Freeze while booting w Promise Ultra100 IDE-Controller ("Peter Fleischer")
Re: Linux & c++ ("dale hites")
Re: ftp sees real user as guest (Peter Eddy)
Escape key twice in console (Chaotic Thought)
Re: Defraging against LILO? ("Scott Rose")
Re: No Sounds - SBLive! - Need Forced Settings (Chris Barone)
Custom keyboard commands (hotkeys) (Chaotic Thought)
Re: No Sounds - SBLive! - Need Forced Settings ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Brother M-1509 printer ("Michael Mowbray")
Re: Defraging against LILO? ("Michael Westerman")
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From: oneal nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: print problem
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 20:52:51 GMT
I used printtool, attempted to access a printer close to my own (Xerox
c11) and did a test page which qued but did not print. I tried several
types of printers. Do you know how to load a daemon?
oneal
"David .." wrote:
>
> oneal nichols wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to get Redhat 6.2 to load my printer but I keep getting the
> > message that no daemon is loaded. What do I do ?
> > thanks
> > Oneal
>
> Did you use "printtool" to configure your printer?
>
> --
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dualboot - Windows 2000 and Redhat 6.2
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:08:37 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How about
# dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
and then repeat the rest steps?
cai
> Windows 2000, hda1, NTFS
> Redhat 6.2 ( /root ), sda5
> Redhat 6.2 ( /boot), sda1
>
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:30:12 -0400
From: Neal Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to setup other serial ports?
I've installed an Equinox SST4 port intelligent serial board in a
RH 6.1 system. It is recognised, and I can use the ports and a
modem connected to it with cu to dial out.
However, when I attempt to do anything like configure linux to be
aware of a modem on it, I don't see these ports.
The device names for inbound use are
ttyQ1a1 ttyQ1a2 ttyQ1a3 ttyQ1a4
The names for outbound use are:
cuq1a1 cuq1a2 cuq1a3 cuq1a4
What do I need to change to make stuff like linuxconf aware of
them?
ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Modem Configurator DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD?
3 Select the port to which your modem is connected. 3
3 If you have no modem, select <Unknown> 3
3 3
3 ZDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD? 3
3 3( ) /dev/ttyS0 (COM1 under DOS)3 3
3 3( ) /dev/ttyS1 (COM2 under DOS)3 3
3 3( ) /dev/ttyS2 (COM3 under DOS)3 3
3 3( ) /dev/ttyS3 (COM4 under DOS)3 3
3 3(o) Unknown 3 3
3 @DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY 3
3 ZDDDDDD? ZDDDDDD? 3
3 3Accept3 3Cancel3 3
3 @DDDDDDY @DDDDDDY 3
@DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDY
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972-5430
President Lilburn (atlanta) GA 30247 Fax:
978-4741
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http://www.mnopltd.com/
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From: "Shane R. Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dualboot - Windows 2000 and Redhat 6.2
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:29:33 GMT
So far I have done the following -
Created boot file using (sda5 = /root):
# dd if=/dev/sda5 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
Copied "bootsect.lnx" from Linux partition to boot drive ( C:/ ).
Modified "boot.ini" to include:
c:/bootsect.lnx="Linux"
When I select "Linux" at bootup I get a black screen with a blinking
cursur.
Any ideas??
Thanks,
Shane
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From: Daniel Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: parport0: unable to get hardware to register plip0
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:41:57 -0700
Here is the problem:
From /var/log/messages I see the following:
Jul 20 15:11:19 pn981259 kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7
[SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
Jul 20 15:11:56 pn981259 kernel: parport0: unable to get hardware to
register plip0.
Jul 20 15:11:56 pn981259 kernel: plip: no devices registered
Here is what I did:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd stop
# /sbin/insmod parport
# /sbin/insmod parport_pc
# /sbin/insmod plip
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/plip.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
#
Here is some more info:
Red Hat 6.1 Linux 2.2.12-20
# cat /proc/parport/0/hardware
base: 0x378
irq: 7
dma: none
modes: SPP,ECP,ECPPS2
#
# cat /proc/devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
7 vcs
10 misc
14 sound
29 fb
36 netlink
128 ptm
136 pts
162 raw
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
8 sd
9 md
22 ide1
#
Any idea what's wrong?
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From: "Peter Fleischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Freeze while booting w Promise Ultra100 IDE-Controller
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:51:05 +0200
Hello,
I'm trying to install Linux on my computer. I tried different cd-roms out of
PC magazines and downloaded different images for boot disks. But so far I
had no luck. System freezes while identifying my hardware. Last lines
displayed are:
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
After displaying these lines the system freezes.
Here's a list of my computers hardware:
Biostar M6TBA (Intel 82440BX-chipset) w 256MB RAM
Creative GraphicsBlaster TNT
Creative Soundblaster Live
AVM Fritz!Card PCI (ISDN adapter)
Promise Ultra100 IDE controller
LiteOn CD-ROM LT382 on primary on-board IDE-controller as master
Mitsumi CD-R/CD-RW CR4802TE on secondary on-board IDE-controller as master
IBM DTLA 307015 on primary Ultra100 IDE-controller as master
IBM DTTA 351010 on secondary Ultra100 IDE-controller as master
As far as I was able to find out, the Promise card is the cause of my
problems. I checked the system without the card and Linux setup screens
appeared as expected.
What can I do? (Other than just kick the card out ;-) Has anybody managed to
install Linux on a system with a Promise Ultra100 card?
Peter
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Reply-To: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux & c++
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:45:07 -0500
Peter,
That's it. I fell into the trap of thinking that gcc, since c plus another
c, was c++.
Thanks
Dale
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From: Peter Eddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: ftp sees real user as guest
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:58:18 -0400
use "ftp -n <host>" or better yet, "ncftp -u <username> <host>"
P&C wrote:
>
> I need to log into my ftp server and upload files to my html directory
> but when I log-in I am logged in as a guest. As such I can not create
> or write/update any files.
>
> Please help
> p c a t n t a d m i n d o t c o m
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From: Chaotic Thought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Escape key twice in console
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:58:07 GMT
I believe this to be a general Linux question, but I'm using Slackware 7 on
an i586 cpu 64mb ram.
In console mode, my escape key acts as a sticky modifier -- pressing it once
waits for additional keystroke(s), sending a different command to the console
when pressed. As a result, if I want to send an ESCAPE to the program, I have
to press escape key twice.
I want to redefine this escape modifier to an "unsticky" key like Left Alt or
the "Menu" key thats next to the Ctrl key on Win95 keyboards, so I can hold
it down to send the modifier, instead of pressing escape. After that I want
a single escape key hit to send ESCAPE to the console.
Can anyone tell me how to make this change?
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Before you buy.
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From: "Scott Rose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Defraging against LILO?
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 17:12:40 -0500
I have the same problem. I'm running a dual Win98/Redhat 6.2 system. When
I run Defrag under Windows, it seems to corrupt the Linux partitions. My
Linux boot disk did not help, as the ext2 file sytsem was corrupted and fsck
could not fix it. I had to reinstall Linux, and not use defrag.
Unai Garro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if someone might know what the solution for my problem could
> be. I know some other people that had the same problem, but no one knew
> how to solve it.
>
> I had installed both Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the Win98 on the same hard
> disk, when I decided to defragment the disk under Windoze. I thought
> that this should not be a problem, because Windows was not able to 'see'
> the Linux partitions. It has however destroyed the LILO, so it is not
> possible to boot up neither Linux nor Windoze.
>
> Someone told me that it might be possible to recover the system by
> reinstalling the linux as an upgrade, and that it would recover the
> LILO, but it was not possible to reinstall it, because it seems that it
> has also destroyed the partition system of Linux.
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to recover the system after this
> problem, or any idea how to defrag the hard disk without destroying the
> Linux?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Unai
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From: Chris Barone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No Sounds - SBLive! - Need Forced Settings
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:30:07 GMT
No errors, at boot, or when trying to use the mixer, cdplayer, or system
sounds. When I try to play the sample, a seven second pause, but no sound. The
cat /proc- had no conflicts or errors. My /etc/lilo.conf has no reference to
pci. The system thinks it's working just fine. The only error I ever see, is
when I shutdown X- there is a 'kaudioserver fatal error' on the terminal
screen, I think from trying to play system sounds. As for the 'tar -gunzip' it
says there is no such file. I can gunzip it first, and then untar it. After
that - I can't 'make install' - thanks for your time - Chris
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In linux.redhat.install Chris Barone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>: use. The very first step they want, will not execute. 'tar -xvfz' Since I am new
>: to Linux, this is a slow battle. Thanks for your time - Chris
>
>the "tar xvzf emu101k-20000720.tar.gz"
>
>has nothing to do with plug and play, sound, or anything like that. It is
>simply an unzip/unpack command. If it is failing you have something else
>going on. Most likely the download failed somehow (Netscape tried to
>silently gunzip, short file, ASCII download instead of BINARY).
>
>What error are you getting from tar?
>
>I went back to your original post and have some other comments/questions:
>
>-Linux is totally happy with PCI. You can read about lots of historical
>problems developers had with various motherboards, but that is past.
>
>-Silly question (like "is it plugged in?")
>
> What does the following do (assumes RedHat system)?:
>
> modprobe emu10k1
> play /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au
>
> Your speakers are on, right? Also run aumix to check the mixer levels.
>
>-What makes you think there is a conflict? Are you getting any error
> messages during boot, or when you type the above commands? What do the
> following give:
>
> cat /proc/interrupts
> cat /proc/ioports
> cat /proc/dma
>
>-Do you have the pci=reverse option in /etc/lilo.conf? The Creative SBLive
> on linux FAQ says this will screw the card up, and the error message looks
> like a conflict problem.
>
>-You might try ALSA instead of the Creative drivers. Even if it doesn't work,
>it may generate different errors messages to help put you back on track.
>
>hope this helps,
>Chris
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From: Chaotic Thought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Custom keyboard commands (hotkeys)
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 22:24:17 GMT
I'm new to Linux and I'd like to be able to perform the following functions
with hotkeys (in console mode) If you know how to set one or all of these up
or have an idea, please reply.
1) I want the Pause key to freeze/unfreeze the execution of the current VT,
or whatever is running in the current VT.
2) I want the CTRL+Uparrow (or another key) to spawn a new VT with a login
prompt. I've seen a Linux system configured to do this, but I don't know how
to do it on mine.
3) I want the CTRL + ALT + end (or another key) to destroy a VT. In other
words, I want it to kill whatever is running in the VT, then I want it to do
the opposite of #2 above.. I'm not sure exactly how to do this even without
hotkeys .. probably involves killing all processes running in the VT, then
calling the command that deletes VT's (I forgot what this command is called).
#1 and #3 are similar to commands accepted by the old DOS multitasker
DESQview, which is why I want my Linux system to perform them.
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: No Sounds - SBLive! - Need Forced Settings
Date: 20 Jul 2000 22:52:50 GMT
In linux.redhat.install Chris Barone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: No errors, at boot, or when trying to use the mixer, cdplayer, or system
: sounds. When I try to play the sample, a seven second pause, but no sound. The
: cat /proc- had no conflicts or errors. My /etc/lilo.conf has no reference to
: pci. The system thinks it's working just fine. The only error I ever see, is
: when I shutdown X- there is a 'kaudioserver fatal error' on the terminal
: screen, I think from trying to play system sounds. As for the 'tar -gunzip' it
: says there is no such file. I can gunzip it first, and then untar it. After
: that - I can't 'make install' - thanks for your time - Chris
What about "aumix". It really seems like things are sort of working (except
for the obvious bit about not actually hearing any sound) *Maybe* raising the
output of one of the lines in aumix or some other mixer program will fix the
problem.
Also try playing a CD with something like cdplay.
Avoid using kde programs to test sound at this point, since they will need
kaudioserver running, (and from what you say it looks like it is dying).
If you can see that there is no conflict in any of the /proc/ stuff, AND
there are resources allocated for the sblive too, I don't think it is a
system conflict. Here's my /proc/interrupts by the way:
CPU0
0: 169985 XT-PIC timer
1: 8270 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 142224 XT-PIC serial
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 0 XT-PIC emu10k1
10: 11 XT-PIC eth0
12: 27333 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 7229 XT-PIC ide0
15: 2 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
Well, I'm running out of ideas...
Good luck though,
Chris
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From: "Michael Mowbray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Brother M-1509 printer
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:04:36 +1000
I have an old (ancient) Brother M-1509 printer that (I thought) I'd like to
use with Linux for drudge work like program listings, config file dumps,
etc. It works fine for text under MS-DOS but Windoze doesn't want to know
about it.
Linux (Red Hat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14.something I think) will print to it but
the command
# echo 012456789 >/dev/lp0
resulted in every second character being lost. I set up a printer (rather
than dump to the raw device) and replaced the default input filter script
(which resulted in no output) with a simple c program that duplicates each
letter input to it. For the trivial 'echo' example
# echo 0123456789 | lpr
this produced perfect output with no missing characters. Larger output,
however, e.g. ls -l | lpr, still results in (seemingly) random dropping of
characters, around 25-30% loss I'm guessing. The actual characters lost are
*not* consistent between subsequent runs of identical listings.
Thinking it was a timing issue, I rewrote the input filter program to *not*
duplicate letters but instead to introduce a delay between letters. This is
still resulting in missing characters around the same %age but definitely
*not* every second one. It also resulted in a damn slow printout.
Any advice appreciated (and yes, the Epsom Stylus order is to be placed this
weekend so this is largely an academic exercise).
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Defraging against LILO?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:06:58 +1000
What defrag tool are you using.
i use nortan speed disk (from nortan utils 3) and haven't had this problem.
though i don't defrag much and i don't know if i used the windows defrag
tool with linux installed....
Scott Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8l7tk7$gt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have the same problem. I'm running a dual Win98/Redhat 6.2 system.
When
> I run Defrag under Windows, it seems to corrupt the Linux partitions. My
> Linux boot disk did not help, as the ext2 file sytsem was corrupted and
fsck
> could not fix it. I had to reinstall Linux, and not use defrag.
>
>
>
>
>
> Unai Garro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wonder if someone might know what the solution for my problem could
> > be. I know some other people that had the same problem, but no one knew
> > how to solve it.
> >
> > I had installed both Linux Mandrake 7.0 and the Win98 on the same hard
> > disk, when I decided to defragment the disk under Windoze. I thought
> > that this should not be a problem, because Windows was not able to 'see'
> > the Linux partitions. It has however destroyed the LILO, so it is not
> > possible to boot up neither Linux nor Windoze.
> >
> > Someone told me that it might be possible to recover the system by
> > reinstalling the linux as an upgrade, and that it would recover the
> > LILO, but it was not possible to reinstall it, because it seems that it
> > has also destroyed the partition system of Linux.
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to recover the system after this
> > problem, or any idea how to defrag the hard disk without destroying the
> > Linux?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Unai
>
>
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