Linux-Setup Digest #226, Volume #19 Sun, 23 Jul 00 11:13:07 EDT
Contents:
How to configure the resoluition on linux 6.2? ("News")
4MB laptop install / insmod trouble (newbie) (Thomas Campbell)
UDMA66 / USB (Keith Rhodes)
newbie has rapidly flashing login screen in red-hat 6.2 ("James")
Splitting mail by mailing lists etc. (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
recovering my /usr/src/linux/.config file? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: Installing for all users (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo
=?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=)
Re: Brother M-1509 printer ("Andreas Oppermann")
Sis 6215C driver for Linux (Saurabh)
Re: Splitting mail by mailing lists etc. (Michael Perry)
Re: ftape formatting problem (Marc D. Williams)
PCTel HSP56 Micromodem install (Paul Lawley-Jones)
Re: PCTel HSP56 Micromodem install (Paul Lawley-Jones)
Re: 3D Prophet compatible with RH Linux? Please help! (bunny)
Re: How to configure the resoluition on linux 6.2? (sylvain hutchison)
Re: How to configure the resoluition on linux 6.2? (The Contact)
Re: Looking for driver for 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 (bunny)
Re: Linux+ISDN (The Contact)
Re: Help~ Problem for RedHat Linux 6.2! (The Contact)
Re: USB Mouse ? (The Contact)
Re: hello (The Contact)
Re: intellimouse in XFree86 (The Contact)
Re: [Help:] Shadows on NEC FP950 and S3 Savage4 (The Contact)
How to make a kernel 2.3 boot disk (or CD)? ("TC")
Re: Linux & c++ (Chris Vine)
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From: "News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to configure the resoluition on linux 6.2?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 16:38:07 +0800
Did anybody know how to configure resolution on linux 6.2 on KDE?
Thanks Yooh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Campbell)
Subject: 4MB laptop install / insmod trouble (newbie)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:02:09 GMT
I'm trying to install RedHat 5.1 onto a laptop with 4MB of memory. I
have followed the howto at
http://website.lineone.net/~brichardson/linux/4mb_laptops/.
I used muLinux to partition the hard drive. I mounted initrd.img off
the RedHat 5.1 installation disk as a loop file system and copied the
contents to the hard drive. I booted the installation vmlinuz with
root=/dev/hda2. As expected, the RedHat installer ran. I wanted to
do an NFS install, but the installer won't detect the SMC Ultra
network card in the laptop. It comes up with an error saying 'insmod
failed.'
The laptop / card combo has worked fine under DOS / NetWare for years,
so I'm pretty sure the hardware is OK.
Anyone got any suggestions as to why the card isn't being detected?
Also, section 4.3, part 10 confused me. I presume the soft link
/boot -> /mnt/boot and /cdrom -> /var/log/mount are Slackware
specific? Should I be doing something different for RedHat?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Dan.
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: UDMA66 / USB
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:27:01 +0200
I have a a 10GByte UDMA66 hard drive and I'm thinking about getting a USB
keyboard and mouse.
Has anybody experience of these with the following hardware / software
combination?
Linux kernel 2.2.14-15 (distrib Mandrake 7.0)
Motherboard Abit BP6 (twin celeron).
KR.
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From: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie has rapidly flashing login screen in red-hat 6.2
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:13:43 +0800
i have *just* finished installing redhat 6.2 on a
6x86
42 mg ram
2 gig hdd
after first and second reboots (all i have done so far), the "localhost
login:" screen spent a good 5 minutes flashing at me, before settling down
and accepting typing.
what have i stuffed up?
j
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thaddeus L Olczyk)
Subject: Splitting mail by mailing lists etc.
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:33:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm looking for a "mail reader" ( it might be two things, a splitter
and a reader ). What it should do is connect to a smtp
server. Download all my mail and sort it according to subject and
sender based a configuration file. Each seperate category
being a "mailbox". I then read the mailboxes at my lesiure.
The thing is right now I am using NT to connect to the net,
but in the future I will be using linux, so I would want the reader
to have versions on both platforms.
TIA
PS If you know of one that will let me convert from Forte Agent
( which is what I am using now ) ket me know. But this is only a plus.
I am willing to let go of much of my present mail if need be.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: recovering my /usr/src/linux/.config file?
Date: 23 Jul 2000 09:00:46 GMT
I accidentally deleted my old /usr/src/linux directory (didn't notice
the softlink), is there any way I can recover the .config file? Perhaps
there is a command that will generate it given a kernel?
I'm having trouble building a new kernel that works and I'd like to
try 'make oldconfig' instead.
Thanks
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=
Subject: Re: Installing for all users
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:14:54 GMT
Hi Rob Blomquist:
>
> Is there a simplified way to install all applications to all users?
>
> I am thinking about stuff like StarOffice, where it seems to want to live in
> one's home directory. I would like to be able to install it as root, then let
> it be shared by both my wife and I with it being able to be aware of saving to
> each home directory as necessary.
>
> I have grown tired of MS products, and started using RH 6.2 this year. But I
> would love to get the better aspects of both going. On Linux's favor that's
> having a real login and real permissions, on MS's side that's being able to
> have seperate users sharing the same program.
>
> Rob
At least for StarOffice there is a simple way to give all users it's own
"copy" of the program. You must install StarOffice with the command-line
option /net (type ./install /net) to get a StarOffice installation. Upon
completion of this install, any user can go to the directory where
StarOffice was installed and select a workstation install when prompted. I
speak from memory, but I suppose you get the idea :-)
Jose Luis Domingo
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From: "Andreas Oppermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Brother M-1509 printer
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:21:05 +0200
Michael,
the Brother 1509 is a dot matrix printer.
Try to switch the printer type in the BIOS from ECP or anything else
to SPP / Normal.
Andreas.
"Michael Mowbray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:8l80h9$b0c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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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>
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From: Saurabh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sis 6215C driver for Linux
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:30:04 GMT
I need Video driver for Sis 6215C for Red hat linux.
Please mail me driver for if you have it at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please explain How to install it while installing Linux
Thank you
Saurabh.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Splitting mail by mailing lists etc.
Date: 23 Jul 2000 12:37:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 09:33:40 GMT, Thaddeus L Olczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for a "mail reader" ( it might be two things, a splitter
>and a reader ). What it should do is connect to a smtp
>server. Download all my mail and sort it according to subject and
>sender based a configuration file. Each seperate category
>being a "mailbox". I then read the mailboxes at my lesiure.
>
>The thing is right now I am using NT to connect to the net,
>but in the future I will be using linux, so I would want the reader
>to have versions on both platforms.
>TIA
>PS If you know of one that will let me convert from Forte Agent
>( which is what I am using now ) ket me know. But this is only a plus.
>I am willing to let go of much of my present mail if need be.
>
There are readers out there in linuxland which will do this. I played a bit
with spruce and mahogany (seach on freshmeat for them). The solution I keep
coming back to is having procmail do the sorting and then I read the mail
that procmail populates and sorts into folders. Procmail does a lot more
but it definitely does mail sorting and processing. I then use mutt to read
the mail. Mutt is a console-based reader which a lot of folks have taken a
liking to. I can use mutt on my box, on my ISPs bsd box, etc.
My approach is to use fetchmail to grab my mail from pop3 mailservers,
procmail to sort it, mutt to read, and exim to send stuff back out again.
Works for me with a dsl line, linux NAT/firewall box, etc.
BTW, Mahogany appears to support both win32 and Linux. It is at the .50
release now I believe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: ftape formatting problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:43:40 GMT
>On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 01:10:24 GMT, mike said:
>
>Using the newest ftape and ftape-tools (although I've had this error
>before this newest rev), any time I try to format a QIC-80 tape in a
>Colorado Jumbo 250 I get right to the very end of formatting (when it's
>verifying) and it craps out with:
>
>ftape-io.c (ftape_seek_head_to_track) - track out of bounds.
>
According to the ftape BUGS file:
* formatting with Colorado Jumbo 350
This doesn't seem to work. I don't think that the kernel driver
needs to be changed; it should be possible to fix this in user
space, modifying ftformat.
I figure the 250 is similar enough that it's suffering from the same
problem maybe?
There's a July 21 snapshot of ftape-tools that may or may not
have fixed things (also one for ftape 4.03).
Marc
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:29:44 +0100
From: Paul Lawley-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCTel HSP56 Micromodem install
Hi all
I've downloaded the files from Linmodems.com for my PCTel HSP56
Micromodem. What I want to know is, how do I go about installing them?
I've got several filesin \lib, namely:
control.a
dsp.a
hal.a
ptserial.a
pctel.o
and 2 files in \src\module, namely:
makefile
ptmodule.c
Do I need to re-compile the kernel with these bits added or someting a
lot simpler. I'm a relative newbie to Linux but learning fast. Any
help would be greatly appreciated.
Paul
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:31:00 +0100
From: Paul Lawley-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCTel HSP56 Micromodem install
Forgot to mention that my distro is Mandrake 7.
Paul
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Thomas Carlyle
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From: bunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3D Prophet compatible with RH Linux? Please help!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:15:02 +0100
Guillemot 3D Prohpet uses the NVidia Geforce DDR chips which is supported.
Driver information is available from the driver section at www.nvidia.com. The
Guillemot 3D Prophet II (Geforce 2 GTS) is also supported (mine is working at
last) but the OSS nvidia driver which comes with XFree86 4.0 does not support
it however the one from the nvidia website does! If you are still having
problems you might also goto channel #nvidia on irc.openprojects.net where you
may be able to get further help in getting things working.
Meldrum wrote:
> Has anyone tried to install the Guillemot 3D Prophet video card on Red Hat
> Linux 6.0 (Hedwig)? I can't seem to get it working. Linux boots up just
> fine until I enter the startx command, then the screen just displays weird
> colors. There were no Linux drivers on Guillemots web site. I am new to
> Linux (this is my first installation) so any and all help is appreciated.
>
> Jeremy
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to configure the resoluition on linux 6.2?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:15:47 -0700
Go to:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config and go to section "screen", and delete all
the resolution that are too small.
Sly.
News wrote:
> Did anybody know how to configure resolution on linux 6.2 on KDE?
>
> Thanks Yooh
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to configure the resoluition on linux 6.2?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:14:30 GMT
News wrote:
> Did anybody know how to configure resolution on linux 6.2 on KDE?
(as root, identical capitals!): 'Xconfigurator' or, if that doesn't work
out that well 'xf86config'.
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From: bunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for driver for 3D Blaster Annihilator 2
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:20:38 +0100
Sabri Dilmi wrote:
> Does anyone know if there exists support or drivers for 3D blaster
> Annihilator 2 (GeForce 2 GTS).
help from other nvidia linux users can be sought at #nvidia on
irc.openprojects.net
The precompiled XFree86 4.0.x drivers from nvidia (from linux drivers section
at www.nvidia.com) should support Geforce2 GTS. The OSS nvidia drivers with
XFree86 4.0.x do not seem to support geforce2. After much mucking around my gf2
gts is working. For some reason nvidias ftp site ones wouldnt do it for me but
the ones via dcc on #nvidia are fine. :-)
>
>
> If not, how can i configure my X windows to use high resolution displays. I
> tried SVGA and it doesn't seem to work.
>
> SD.
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux+ISDN
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:22:52 GMT
"G�nter Warnung" wrote:
>
> I am using Win2k and Linux 6.2 on one machine.
> My Problem is as follow:
> Under Linux I am not able to install and configure the FRITZ CARD PCI.
> I can not go online with Linux.
> Please help me!
Have you built in the ISDN-support into the kernel? What about loading
the modules? What errors do you receive?
And, what distribution are you using? SuSE 6.2? RedHat 6.2 (probably)?
Mandrake 6.2? ...
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help~ Problem for RedHat Linux 6.2!
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:24:49 GMT
TC wrote:
>
> When I boot from 6.2 CD, there is an error message after I chose Graphic
> mode.
> "387 failed : trying to reset"
> This message keeps repeating and I can't even reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del.
> Please help me!
What graphic adapter do you use? Maybe that it isn't supported...
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Mouse ?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:30:55 GMT
Benny Nissen wrote:
> How do I get my MS Explorer USB mouse to work with SuSE Linux 6.4.
> During Installation it worked OK but after reboot it does not work any more.
> I do not see any items in YAST 1 or 2 to select a USB mouse. I will
> properbly have to do it manually - but how?
The next is not a final solution, but it is a solution.
Most USB-mouses have a USB2PS/2-convertor. Use it. I'm working with a
IntelliMouse Explorer (also USB but with convertor) and it works out
great.
The real solution would probably be (but this is just me typing aloud :)
loading USB-support-modules or recompiling the kernel with USB-support -
although I think this wouldn't be sufficient. Any help?
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hello
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:33:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This is just a test message. I want to check out this service
Test failed. It should've landed in alt.test !
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: intellimouse in XFree86
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:38:02 GMT
Ricardo Diz wrote:
>
> I have an Microsoft Intellimouse working on my Debian/GNU and I found out
> a problem using imwheel. After de first time I use X after reboot (even if
> I do not run the imwheel command), I get my mouse point freaking out in my
> console from there on, even if I kill X.
>
> Can anyone know why that happens?
1/ Have you reconfigured everything to adapt to your new mouse
(xf86config)?
2/ Do you use the Intellimouse on the USB? If so, would it be possible
for you to hang it on the PS/2-port (with the USB2PS2-convertor) and
retry (and, if necessary reconfigure)?
Just to eliminate the possibilities,
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: [Help:] Shadows on NEC FP950 and S3 Savage4
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:44:19 GMT
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've just got a NEC MultiSync FP950 and an S3 Savage4 Graphics Card
> with 16MB of memory. It was straightforward to find an stable working
> mode with Xconfigurator, which correctly recognized the graphics card
> chip and had the monitor in its database. I'm using it at 1280x1024
> 32bpp color depth. The problem (a persistent one) is that everything is
> displayed with shadows. For instance, windows frames appear with several
> low intensity subframes, like a kind of "visual" echo or wavy effect.
> I've tried all of the Xconfigurator-generated Video Mode lines for this
> resolution without any success. The problem persists with other
> resolutions (e.g. 1024x768, 800x600, etc.). I've also tried to make
> adjustments with xvidtune and Moire canceller control of the monitor,
> but no luck in getting rid of these upsetting waves.
> Do you know how can I get a clean image?
Try setting X up with a standard monitor (not with the NEC MultiSync
FP950-selection). If the problem persists, then it is probably a bad
written S3 Savage4 driver.
Look for a more recent driver, and if it isn't available, write to the
author and explain the problem (but first keep this ng posted, maybe
others will have a solution).
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"Knowing everything is impossible. Trying to is not."
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From: "TC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make a kernel 2.3 boot disk (or CD)?
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 14:52:07 GMT
I have problem in bootup from 2.2 even during installation...
however, even I can boot up from 2.3 and install 2.2... I can't boot up...
any solutions?
Thanks!
TC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Vine)
Subject: Re: Linux & c++
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 15:10:01 GMT
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:17:57 -0500, "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Does anyone know of a good news group for c++ on Linux questions? Or, is
>this the appropriate forum.
>
>Thanks
There is a Linux C++ mailing list on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To
subscribe I think you send an empty message with subscribe in the
subject heading (or perhaps it's with subscribe in the body of the
message - if the first doesn't work try the second).
Chris.
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