Linux-Setup Digest #387, Volume #19 Sun, 13 Aug 00 06:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: SB PCI 128 problem (Donald K Knepshield)
Re: The kernel has panicked (Michael Mitchell)
Re: Is it possible that my comp, the perfect candidate for linux..... (Michael
Mitchell)
Re: Newbie--Network setup problem (WebHead)
Re: X on compaq Elite 4/40C laptop? need help (pangaea)
Linux+Win98 Newbie Install ("Brandon Klaus")
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (John Hasler)
Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux (Duane)
Tri Boot win98,w2k,linux using w2k boot manager? (Larry Bauer)
MCI (Nathen)
Re: Coppermine SLOW PERFORMANCE... (John Beardmore)
Re: Troubling problem with GNOME and UID. (John Beardmore)
Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore)
Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore)
Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore)
Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore)
Re: Linux Cluster (John Beardmore)
Re: star office 5.2 on red hat 6.2??? (John Beardmore)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald K Knepshield)
Subject: Re: SB PCI 128 problem
Date: 13 Aug 2000 03:20:10 GMT
Thomas Rasmussen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >>>>> "Donald" == Donald K Knepshield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: Donald: Thanks for all the
: Donald> advice. I can't seem to get the beast to work. I have had
: Donald> problems with a previous soundcard not liking me having 2
: Donald> printer ports because of IRQ problems. I think that I might
: Donald> have to live without sound in linux on this machine. Thanks
: Donald> again.
:
: I also use the sb128 pci on my pc (Debian Woody (and potato)) and I'm
: using the module es1371, and It is working without any problems... But
: you can maybe try one last thing. Check all sound volumes in the
: mixer. Sometimes all volumes are turned all the way down, resulting in
: no sound output.
I will try that. Now my question is, how do I do this. I have never
used this and am not exactly sure what you mean. I have played with aumix
before, but did more harm than good (this was a while back.) Some
more info that might help: I have two lpt ports that don't seem to be using
the IRQ the card "likes" (IRQ 10). I have RedHat 6.2 with 2.2.14 kernel.
When I try to set the card up using setup, it detects it (as Creative/Ensoniq
Audio PCI) and loads the es1371 module. It attempts to play the sound, but
I don't hear anything, so this very well could be a mixer problem like you
described. Also, the only entry I have in my conf.module file is something
similar to alias sound-slot0 es1371. Sorry I couldn't be exact but I am
on a windows box right night. Thanks again for the help and I will try to
work with the mixer (help on this would still be appreicated).
Kevin Knepshield
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: /Thomas
:
: --
: "To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems!"
: -- Homer Simpson
--
Kevin Knepshield
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The kernel has panicked
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 03:33:10 GMT
I would start over, when you installed the Linux OS it installed itself
within the parameters on the system the hard drive was in. Was it a radical
change?
Are the components very different? The bios? modems or ethernet the same?
I'd start over or do a upgrade/ you should be able to salvage the existing HD
and files if you dasiy chain it and don't write over the directories you want
to keep. In other words, re-install the system but don't overwrite the /home
or any files that can't be replaced easy.
Roy Troxel wrote:
> I installed RH 6.1, but the PC went bad (motherboard, I believe), so I
> removed the hard drive and installed it on another PC. Now, the PC never
> finishes booting. The boot process stops with the last three lines in the
> error mesage:
>
> kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-22, errno=2
> VFS: Cannot open root device 16:06
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:06
>
> Any suggestions as to how to repair this, or should I just re-install Red
> Hat?
>
> Thanks, in advance,
>
> Roy
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From: Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it possible that my comp, the perfect candidate for linux.....
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 03:35:25 GMT
The Voodoo card may give you a fit
Ernie Jamison wrote:
> Is it possible that my comp, the perfect candidate for linux, has some
> peice of hardware or software that is going to make it impossible
> for me to get Linux running. First the Mandrake distro off the Max Linux
> mag. That worked but soon went haywire. Then redhat 6.2 deluxe....this
> went on for one week in which time I saw the Gnome desktop once.....
> just once. Next I ordered Slackware 7.1 and after what seemed a perfect
> installation during which time I almost passed out with ecstacy, saying this
> is the one.....this is the one to no one in particular, it would not boot. I
> have
> learned a lot, but I would have learned more if I could have gotten
> XF86Setup
> to run at least once. It's a P166, 96MB ram, WD 2 GB hd, Maxtor 7 GB hd,
> voodoo 3 2000 pci, ide cd rom, scsi cd burner. From all that I have read it
> should run Linux fine, and it almost has. Is it possible that it never will?
> I have to know so I can do the other activities that I used to do.
>
> Frustrated to Hell and back
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From: WebHead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie--Network setup problem
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 23:47:21 -0400
In article <vwjl5.25558$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sue B.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just downloaded Mandrake 7.1, and I have a problem--I can't find the
> proper drivers for my NIC card--and SMC EZ-10/100 1211-TX. SMC's download
> page has the source code, but because I'm not a programmer and I'm new to
> Linux, I am lost because there's no driver for this NIC card in the initial
> list (during setup).
> Remove KILLSPAM to reply.
The driver for this ethernet card *is* in Mandrake 7.1, the catch is
that the SMC 1211TX card is really a RealTek RTL8129/8139 card.
And here are some other cards that are also really RealTek RTL8129/8139:
ALFA GFC2206
Allied Telesyn AT2550
Genius GF100TXR (RTL8139)
NDC Communications NE100TX-E
Accton MPX5030 series (relabeled RTL8139)
SMC 1211TX (relabeled RTL8139)
The SMC 1211TX will either be recognized as a RealTek card or as the
Accton card.
Hope this helps you out. This is my experience with a current install
of Mandrake 7.1 deluxe boxed set. Also the SMC card that I got came
with all sorts of drivers on CD for both Win9x/NT and Linux as well as
a copy of TurboLinux 4.0 ($12 CompUSA)
--
Enjoy
WebHead
===============================================================================
Brain: Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?
Pinky: Yes, but can the Gummi Bears really get along with the Marshmallow bits?
===============================================================================
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From: pangaea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: X on compaq Elite 4/40C laptop? need help
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:15:19 -0700
check out http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/laptop/welcome.html
this is a mirror of the linux on laptops page it may help you find the
X86Config file you need or something close that can be tweeked.
Don't forget to check the manual for the computer and for the chipset for
the video and other info.
kiran
"Richard J. Freedman" wrote:
> Does anyone know how to setup X on the subject computer? I have no idea
> what video chipset is in the beast.
>
> --
> Dick Freedman
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From: "Brandon Klaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux+Win98 Newbie Install
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 23:06:46 -0700
Anyone know where I could find a walk through for the "Brain Dead" on how to
install Linux and Win98 on a 20gig hard disk. So far everything I've found
deals with much smaller hard disks and thus dont deal with this 1024
cyclinder limit Linux seems to have.
I would like to install Linux to an 8gig segment and Win98 to the other
12gig. I undrestand that I want to install Win98 first to save the MBR but
if I do this Win98 takes up all the space under 1024 on the hard disk, how
do I deal with this?
Any help would be great
--Brandon Klaus
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 02:49:04 GMT
Andrew Halliwell writes:
> Nothing wrong with Commies...
Whether or not one approves of "Commies" is irrelevant to the fact that
neither Gnu nor the GPL have anything to do with them.
> Or are you still one of the brainwashed MacKarthey-ites?
Is that an original misspelling of McCarthy, or did I somehow overlook a
"movement" in the last forty years or so?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.apps.cdwrite,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 20:04:07 -0700
Jimi Aleshin wrote:
>
> Here is my /etc/fstab file:
>
> /dev/hdb4 / ext2 defaults
> 1 1
> /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults
> 1 2
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro
> 0 0
> /dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner
> 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
> 0 0
>
> I'm wondering where my CD-Burner should go or if anything should be
> renamed, and where it should be mounted, etc. I use cdrecord 1.8.1. I
> tried everything what everybody else said in the past 2 messages and
> nothing works at all.
>
> I turned on all scsi support, emulation, etc. I run RH Linux 6.1 kernel
> 2.2.12-20, and I just rejumpered my cdrom to slave and cd-writer to
> master. And right now, my cdrom doesn't work in linux and my cd-burner
> now works, but not detected to BURN cd's. Like I try "cdrecord -scanbus"
> and it says, can't detect scsi driver. And plus I read the HOW-TO doc
> too. I have no idea what to do?
>
> Any other ideas??
>
> Jimi Aleshin
Are you saying you recompiled the kernel? Are you mounting data CDs as
/dev/scd0 or /dev/hdc? If you have not changed either /dev/cdrom or
/etc/fstab, then you are likely using /dev/hdc. If that is so, then the
fact that it still "works", which I assume means you can mount disks,
means that you did not recompile the kernel correctly.
With a standard RH 6.1 installation, there is no need to recompile the
kernel. If you still have the original kernel, you can go back to it and
do this:
In your /etc/lilo.conf, in the section where you are booting the
original kernel, put the lines:
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
This tells the kernel to use IDE SCSI for both CD drives (I am assuming
they are hdc and hdd). Sometimes there are problems if you try to run
one drive with ide-cd and one with ide-scsi.
After making those changes, execute:
# /sbin/lilo
That tells lilo to use the new settings.
Now go to /etc/conf.modules and add the line:
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
That tells the module autoloading deamon to use the ide-scsi module. Now
reboot, and try rerunning:
# cdrecord -scanbus
It should now work. If not, post the contents of /var/log/dmesg, or at
least the lines that look like they have something to do with IDE and
SCSI. Note that using this technique, the CDROM automounting will no
longer work. You will have to manually mount data CDs (of course, you
never mount audio or blank CDs).
The only advantage of recompiling the kernel is that it allows you to
use the automounter, but I personally think the automounter is evil (at
least the version in RH 6.1) and should be avoided.
If you really want to use a recompiled kernel, then make sure you have
compiled these:
In Block Devices
Select N for include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support.
Select Y for SCSI emulation support.
In SCSI support
Select Y for SCSI support
Select Y for SCSI CD-ROM support
Select M for SCSI generic support
Select N for Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device.
With this method, absolutely no extra entries are needed in either
/etc/lilo.conf or /etc/conf.modules. If you have put some there, they
probably won't hurt anything, but they really should be removed.
If you have done this already, and it still doesn't work, again, post
the contents of /var/log/dmesg. And as much detail as you can of what
you have done. Your messages have been very vague so far.
With either method, CDs are now mounted using /dev/scd0 for the primary
drive and /dev/scd1 for the secondary drive. You probably want to make
/dev/cdrom a symbolic link to /dev/scd0. For recording CDs, cdrecord
uses the devices /dev/sga and /dev/sgb (or /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1, which
are the same thing) but that is transparent to you - just use the device
nomenclature given by cdrecord -scanbus.
By the way, please reconsider whether cross posting to six news groups
is really necessary.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Bauer)
Crossposted-To: microsoft.public.win2000.setup
Subject: Tri Boot win98,w2k,linux using w2k boot manager?
Date: 13 Aug 2000 07:45:04 GMT
Hi- I have system with win98 (first partition on HD, FAT32) and w2k (second
partition on HD, FAT32) on it that I am going to add linux to. The system is
currently using w2k's boot manager to dual boot the system. My plan is to use
partition magic to make a third partition for RH linux 6.2, put lilo on that
partition to load RH, and manually modify the w2k boot manager file (boot.ini)
to tri-boot the system (win98, w2k, RH linux) at startup. Does any one know
the text to add to boot.ini that would allow this to be done? Thanks in
advance, Larry
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From: Nathen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MCI
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 02:04:43 -0700
Hello,
I am programming a microphone recording and playing sound in linux.
Q: Is there any classes or library I can use?
Nathen.
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Coppermine SLOW PERFORMANCE...
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 22:58:57 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>while cpu speeds have been growing by leaps and bounds, the rest of
>the system hasn't been growing nearly as fast.
I was thinking about that, but my first system was a 286/8 with a 30 and
70 meg disks.
My latest is a PIII/550 with 17 and 75 gig disks so I guess that's about
1000 times more storage. Transfer rates gone from about 180 k/sec to 18
meg / sec, only about 100 times better.
> if you are ram bound
>and have pc100 sdram everywhere, you won't see any increase.
Ram seems to be the worst of all. OK, it's gone from 3 meg to 512, but
ignoring the fact that the bus got wider, I doubt the speed has improved
by more than a factor of 10 from the original 150 ns DRAM.
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Troubling problem with GNOME and UID.
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 10:46:19 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Madhusudan Singh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I am attaching the core file (gzipped). I would appreciate it if someone
>could take a look at it and tell me what is going on.
I am paying dial up charges to pick up your core file. Where should I
send the invoice ??
J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:33:10 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>> 6.4GB Hd...
>> /usr = 5GB
>> /root = 500MB
>> /home = 500MB
>> /swap = 127MB
Apart from weight of tradition, why do usr, root and home have to be
different partitions ?
( I assume is used raw without a file system so can't share space with
other partitions ? )
If they can share a partition on a single drive, usr, root and home will
be able to share space and there should be less chance of any one of
those partitions running out of space.
I assume this sort of configuration would be illegal though ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:37:24 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Van Lemmens
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>seems ok, although depends on how you are using your system. i would
>suggest to increase the /home partition or create another one. this is
>how it works for me:
>
>- relative small /root (max 300mb)
>- /swap = 128mb
>- /usr = �3gb
>- /home = 1.5gb
>- rest is /incoming
What is the history behind the /home and for that matter the /var
partitions ?
Early UNIX boxes didn't have them and we didn't miss them. I stumble
across them on newer systems and don't know with to do with them !
What's wrong with having /var and /home in your file system but not
having them as separate partitions ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:42:16 +0100
In article <8m6v3h$k1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Geoff Short
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>You CANNOT have too much /usr ... you can have too little of something
>else though :-) Unless there's a definite reason I always try and stick
>to one big partition, then you don't get worried about which partition
>your free space is on.
Staring to make sense !!
> (This is assuming it's a personal machine
>rather than a server)
So what's different about servers ? Why do they need to be partitioned
so inflexibly ?
I have an Alpha 2100 box and was thinking of trying to do a custom RH
6.2 install with a small raid array as /usr and one partition on another
drove for /root and the rest. Would that be legal ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:48:11 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>i like
>
>/boot 10-20MB *at front of disk*
>/home 1-2GB or more as you've got space to spare
>/ 4-5GB *including* /usr
><swap> 128MB
What's the rationale for sizing swap partitions ?
In Win32, the rule of thumb seems to be to have an initial swap file
size that is say 1.5 time the size of physical ram, and perhaps to let
it grow bigger if needs be.
How sensible would it be on say a 512 meg ram Linux box to have a mere
64 or 128 meg swap partition ? Can a Linux box be configured without a
swap partition at all ? My gut feeling is that it would be a bit of a
waste of space ! By the time you needed it at all, you'd be more or
less totally out of space !
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Cluster
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:28:33 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roger Seiler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Hello everyone.
>
>I' d like to install SUSE 6.4 with NFS on 20 486 machines with 16 MB RAM.
Is this really a cluster or just a bunch of machines on a network ?
> This
>doesn't work because I'm not able to load the root image to the Ramdisk.
What error messages do you get ? This sounds like a more generic instal
problem rather than a clustering issue ?
I can't help with that, but somebody might if you give us more detail.
But what is the point of clustering in general ?
Am I right in assuming that it's just a way of making one logical
machine out of a bunch of physical machines and sharing jobs, processes
or possibly even threads between them ?
Will Linux RH 6.2 support clustering out of the box ? If so, what
hardware is required to link the machines ?
For example, I have two Alpha 2100 sever boxes, one single CPU, one twin
CPU. Could I link them into a two machine cluster with ATM fibre optic
cards ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: star office 5.2 on red hat 6.2???
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 13:34:29 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cokey de Percin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>I haven't seen the problem and I just installed SO 5.2 on RH 6.2 with
>no problems. My system is strictly vanilla. I can't imagine what
>the problem is
Does SO ship as part of the standard RH distribution ? If not, where do
you get it ? Can it be downloaded or is it too big ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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