Linux-Setup Digest #288, Volume #19 Mon, 31 Jul 00 18:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problem compiling gnome ("Mats Andersson")
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (James Knowles)
Re: PCMCIA NIC and 2.4 Kernel (David Hinds)
Re: Bad bridge mapping (David Hinds)
Slackware 7.1??!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
using autofs with /net (William Wu)
Re: Automounter (sylvain hutchison)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (James Knowles)
Re: pppd-problem (Bill Unruh)
Re: pppd-problem (Clifford Kite)
Manually setting IRQ's ("David Stackis")
Re: Slackware 7.1??!! ("mang")
control panel (sylvain hutchison)
Re: Installing software in Linux. (Michael Kelly)
installing with two hard drives (Greg)
fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released (blowfish)
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From: "Mats Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem compiling gnome
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:01:17 +0100
In article <8m21ss$oum$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mats Andersson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi I'm updating my gnome installation to the latest stable from
> OctoberGnome, but I'm having problems with readXpm.c which includes
> X11/xpm.h which doesn't exist. Does anybody know what package provides
> this file?
>
> Mats
>
>
I got it to work. I had to install libxpm-devel. I did that and it worked.
Later though, I ran into problems with control-center. It turned out
that the problem already was noted in the gnome bug list so I found
the answer there ( to put in $(XPM_LIBS) in the makefile ).
I also had to do this change in a few other makefiles. Anyone knows
why I get this problem and other people don't get it?
Mats
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:13:33 -0600
> Uh.... Mebbe I'm smokin crack again, but I don't think it'd be really fair
> to compare a dual-proceesing P-II-400 to a single Athlon.... First off, the
> dual processors are going to push all IO faster. That will affect memory
> access, hard drive access, etc.
I'm not too sure about that. I've had long experience with SMP, longer
with parallelism in general. In truth an SMP machine is going to have a
slightly decreased memory access per processor due to bus contention.
I/O is similarly affected. I/O that can be parallelised will see a
benefit, but serialised I/O will see no benefit. I've seen a 5-10% drop
in performance per CPU under Linux. Typically this is about 15-20% under
WinNT from my experience.
In this specific case disk access is faster due the to fact that I'm
running RAID on SCSI and not IDE. This is a SCSI/IDE issue, not SMP.
> Second, unless you've got both motherboards BIOS' set up identical (or as
> close as possible) you're going to see performance differences anyway.
I'd be curious to know specifics. I might believe a small difference
could be achieved. What BIOS setting would cause a machine to run at 1/2
or 1/3 of the speed that it aught?
--
Those who want by the yard and work by the inch aught to be kicked by
the foot.
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From: David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: PCMCIA NIC and 2.4 Kernel
Date: 31 Jul 2000 20:11:19 GMT
In comp.os.linux.portable Thomas Garsiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Ok : it seems to be a bug in 2.4.0 test 5 Kernel.
: (see message "pcmcia cross dependency bug" by Erik Mouw in fa.linux.kernel)
No, that isn't your problem: if it was, you never would have been able
to load xirc2ps_cs. You asked to have the base PCMCIA stuff linked
into your kernel, not as modules.
As a guess, maybe you tried to load xirc2ps_cs.o by hand but cardmgr
is not running. You'd need to look at your system log to see what is
wrong.
-- Dave
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From: David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Bad bridge mapping
Date: 31 Jul 2000 20:16:05 GMT
In comp.os.linux.portable bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I recently got a Toshiba Tecra 700CT. I installed Slackware 7.0 and
: the PCMCIA found the network card and the modem. Good stuff. Then I
: noticed that the modem was not seeing interrupts. I tried ignoring a
: few, but that didn't seem to be the problem.
Set PCIC_OPTS="do_pci_probe=0" in /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia. I don't think
there is a fix for 2.4 kernels.
-- Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Slackware 7.1??!!
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:08:27 GMT
Hi, there:
I really want to try Slackware 7.1. From its web site, I find there
three ISO image files. What do these files mean?
If I want to download, which files should I download? All the ISO image
files?
Thanks a lot!!!
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From: William Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: using autofs with /net
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 13:20:21 -0700
Hi,
I'm unable to configure my RH6.2 using autofs with /net.
Has any done this already.
I have tried adding "/net -host" in my auto.master file.
My NIS server is on Solaris 7 and all my hosts are trusted.
Please help.
thanks
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Automounter
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:37:00 -0700
> Hello
> Which automounter do you use ?
> I use autofs.
Yes, that's the one I use too!!!
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:34:06 -0600
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> > I'm a little frustrated with performance. Memory access is roughly half
> > the speed of another machine (dual P-II/400 on ASUS P2B-DS 256MB).
> > 1) hdparm -T /dev/hda
> > P-II: ~108MB/s Athon: ~48MB/s
> to 1.) i don't think it's an Athlon-related prob. i have an Athlon 700
> sitting in an Asus K7M with 128mb.
> a "hdparm -T /dev/hda" returns 129.29 MB/sec.
Thanks for replying. It's good to hear from somebody with a similar
machine. Your number is more along the lines that I'd expect. I'm
starting to wonder if the motherboard or RAM is defective.
> did you try a "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda", or adding some fancy options to
> increase performance??
I've tuned the two hard drives. Not surprisingly it boosted HD
performance, but did not affect memory access performance.
# /sbin/hdparm -m16 -c3 -u1 -d1 /dev/hda
# /sbin/hdparm -m16 -c3 -u1 /dev/hdb
# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hdb
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.83 seconds = 45.23 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.14 seconds = 10.42 MB/sec
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.71 seconds = 47.23 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 12.90 seconds = 4.96 MB/sec
#
(As a side note, -d1 on hdb resets the bus so I have to leave it off.
Bugger!)
> > 3) I wrote a program that allocates a huge chunk of memory (16/64/96
> > MB), and fills it with zeroes sixteen times. This program is always
> > twice as fast on the P-II than the Athlon according to the 'time'
> > command.
> to 3.) send me your self-written app + instructions on deadling with
> it and I'll give you my results.
I appreciate it. This is just a stupid C program compiled with gcc -Wall
-O2. You have to run it a couple of times to flush out stuff to swap
space before you get accurate numbers. I run it with 'time a.out' and
compared user time.
Because the program is so simple, I'm attaching it. Only hard-nosed
"never attach anything" bozos should object.
> with the Asus K7M i have to
> add "mem=xxxM" too, but my previous machine recognized all RAM instantly.
Reading kernel notes, this is an issue with the memory controller IC.
Aparently a very common one which does not always tell the truth.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: pppd-problem
Date: 31 Jul 2000 20:34:12 GMT
The two sides are not talking to each other. They are shouting past each
other with no responses fro either side.
a) Put
asyncmap a0000
into /etc/ppp/options.
b) Put noccp into /etc/ppp/options ( the chances of you sharing a
compression algorithm with the other side is very small.
c) Check your modem to make sure that it is set up properly ( hardware
flow control, Full 9 wire serial line, ...)
You did not include the output of your chat connection, but I suspect
that you have irq problems on your modem-- ie the irq the modem uses is
not the same as that that your linux system thinks it uses.
setserial /dev/ttyS0
will tell you what linux thinks the irq is.
Note also make sure that the uart is the what is actually on the chip.
It it says 16550 this is almost certainly wrong-- it should be 16550a
Do not use wvdial. Just write your own scripts (for help see
axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html)
d) I am not sure that you cannot use demand with wvdial. Just put
demand
into /etc/ppp/options.
The first time pppd will connect directly with the far end. On timeout
it should then wait for the next demand to come through.
In <Ntt#4by#$GA.554@btbntsys4> "BD-WZZ Roeselare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]I'm working with Suse 6.4 as newbie.
]I've set up a network with 1 linux-server and 6 W/98-clients.
]I want the possibility to dial in to the internet for each of the clients.
]When I work with wvdial, everything is working fine, exept the demand
]option, so I have to start up the connection manually before the client can
]access the Internet. I've read the documentation, and it's not possible to
]dial-on-demand with wvdial.
]So, i started writing scripts for chat and pppd, but i've problems. This is
]the output of the log-files. I don't understand anything about it,
]can anyone help me?
]Jul 31 17:14:15 server pppd[3231]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
]Jul 31 17:14:15 server pppd[3231]: Perms of /dev/ttyS0 are ok, no 'mesg n'
]neccesary.
]Jul 31 17:14:15 server pppd[3231]: Using interface ppp0
]Jul 31 17:14:15 server pppd[3231]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
]Jul 31 17:14:15 server pppd[3231]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
]<magic 0x1a2ac282> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jul 31 17:14:15 server pppd[3231]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
]<magic 0x1a2ac282> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jul 31 17:14:18 server pppd[3231]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x4 <mru 1500>
]<asyncmap 0xa0000> <magic 0x319c1f98> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jul 31 17:14:18 server pppd[3231]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x4 <mru 1500>
]<asyncmap 0xa0000> <magic 0x319c1f98> <pcomp> <accomp>]
]Jul 31 17:14:18 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:18 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:21 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:21 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:24 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:24 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:27 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:27 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:28 server pppd[3231]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x1
]<b1cb49e648424820d671e48560979530>, name = "bru01v028"]
]Jul 31 17:14:30 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:30 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:33 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:33 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:36 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:36 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:39 server pppd[3231]: rcvd [CHAP Challenge id=0x2
]<ddae3f83bf5af85ad671e485fbea532f>, name = "bru01v028"]
]Jul 31 17:14:39 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:39 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:42 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:42 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:45 server pppd[3231]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0>
]<compress VJ 0f 01>]
]Jul 31 17:14:45 server pppd[3231]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <deflate 15>
]<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
]Jul 31 17:14:48 server pppd[3231]: IPCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
]Jul 31 17:14:48 server pppd[3231]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "No network
]protocols running"]
]Jul 31 17:14:48 server pppd[3231]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2]
]Jul 31 17:14:48 server pppd[3231]: Connection terminated.
]Jul 31 17:14:49 server pppd[3231]: Exit.
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From: Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Re: pppd-problem
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 15:27:19 -0500
BD-WZZ Roeselare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working with Suse 6.4 as newbie.
> I've set up a network with 1 linux-server and 6 W/98-clients. I want
> the possibility to dial in to the internet for each of the clients.
> When I work with wvdial, everything is working fine, exept the
> demand option, so I have to start up the connection manually before
> the client can
> access the Internet. I've read the documentation, and it's not
> possible to dial-on-demand with wvdial.
> So, i started writing scripts for chat and pppd, but i've problems.
> This is the output of the log-files. I don't understand anything
> about it, can anyone help me?
> Jul 31 17:14:15 server pppd[3231]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
> Jul 31 17:14:15 server pppd[3231]: Perms of /dev/ttyS0 are ok, no 'mesg n'
> neccesary.
The message above is *not* from a standard track pppd. I've come
to associate it with wvdial. If you have removed any reference to
wvdial in your scripts then you have a non-standard pppd and there
is no way for me and most others here to know what might happen in
such a case.
Get a standard pppd via ftp from linuxcare.com.au in /pub/ppp.
The log is peculiar. The ISP peer doesn't send any request for an
authentication protocol in the LCP negotiations, and yet it starts
sending CHAP challenges after a time during which it shows no sign
of receiving any of pppd's IPCP requests.
The lack of response to the pppd IPCP requests could be caused by the
ISP being broken with respect to asyncmap negotiation, and in that
case adding the pppd option "asyncmap a0000" might get things working.
But you really need to make a fresh start with a pristine pppd from the
site mentioned above.
--
Clifford Kite <kite@inet%port.com> Not a guru. (tm)
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to chance. */
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Manually setting IRQ's
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 13:47:35 -0700
Does anyone know how to manually set an IRQ for a modem?
My modem does not have any jumpers, and I checked procs/interrupts, but the
file is empty....
My isa modem is on dev/ttyS0
Thanks!
David
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From: "mang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware 7.1??!!
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:51:50 -0400
: I really want to try Slackware 7.1. From its web site, I find there
: three ISO image files. What do these files mean?
If you have a cd burner then download the ISO.
For a description of what an ISO is go here
http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq02.html#[2-28]
: If I want to download, which files should I download? All the ISO image
: files?
You really only need the install-ISO, but you might want the source-ISO
also.
If you don't have a burner then it is worth finding someone who does.
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From: sylvain hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: control panel
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:09:59 -0700
I've installed Red Hat 6.1 on my Pc, when I click on control Panel it
gives me the following error:
"The config file has no "Type=..." line. Anyone knows what that means,
and where is this config file.
However if I type control panel in one of my shells, it opens up and I
get thoses 5 icons (printer, network...).
Thanks.
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing software in Linux.
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:25:02 -0400
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:03:22 +1000, "Rob Sturgess"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Should I learn to do my installs manally instead ???
Hi Rob. What you might try is stealing some space
from the Windows partition and making it an ext2.
Then in your /etc/fstab you can add it to your Linux
file system. Linux likes to put things in certain directories
but one way to avoid running out of space is to move
stuff, such as /usr to annother partition and if need
be, putting a symbolic link to it with the ln command.
man ln
for details how to create links.
I'd suggest reading a bit about making a file system from multiple
devices(it's not the best idea to leave it a Fat32 since file
permissions won't work as expected. Use ext2.)
A good resource is:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/
Good luck. :)
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From: Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing with two hard drives
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:30:05 GMT
ok...im a newbie...help me? please?
want to install linux on a second hard drive and keep windows 95 on the
other.
can i get it so when i turn on the computer i get a choice prompt?
how do i do this...
help?
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: fwd: SuSE Linux 7.0 released
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:40:14 -0700
===================SuSE Linux 7.0 released============================
"...The optimised support for fully automated installation and SuSE's
new ALICE tool
(Automatic Linux Installation and Configuration Environment), allow
efficient configuration management for computer networks..."
http://linuxpr.com/releases/2272.html
=======================================================
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