Linux-Setup Digest #422, Volume #19 Fri, 18 Aug 00 05:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Rad Hat X login problem ("Tim.Fagan")
Re: MACH64, VESA, Quake (J Bland)
Re: Gnome screen bigger than my monitor (Don Belmore)
Sound Config? (Don Belmore)
Re: 3c509 module not installing, help! (Donald K Knepshield)
Re: kernel 2.2.16-3 'make bzImage' compile error in (jinp)
installing lilo after setup (Andrew Chapman)
Re: kernel 2.2.16-3 'make bzImage' compile error in (Joe Mazz)
SMBMount ("Micky")
Re: Where should be installed the LILO? (Eric)
Re: Can't get cgi to work? (easy question...) - why do I need "use CGI"? (psantt)
Re: How to add a Windowmanager to KDM?? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Arp)
From a newbie for newbies w/ Modem problems... (psantt)
Re: can't reboot or halt! (Henri Fallon)
Re: RH 6.2 installation hangs (James Richard Tyrer)
RE: Setting the time? ("Borja")
RE: Can't get cgi to work? (easy question...) ("Borja")
Re: cant boot redhat 6.2 with loadlin (M. Buchenrieder)
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From: "Tim.Fagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Rad Hat X login problem
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:34:24 +1000
I experienced this too. What it was for me was I selected another X
resolution in my user session which didn't work with my monitor. Too
solve the problem I rebooted as linux - single and reconfigured X. or
login as another user and reset your X parameters that way
Good luck
Tim
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: MACH64, VESA, Quake
Date: 18 Aug 2000 01:04:00 GMT
>> My X server is running fine, ta. It's SVGAlib and VESA support on Mach64
>> that I'm wondering about.
>
>The start of this thread did not reach my newsserver.
>
>If your Mach64 is recent, it should work with svgalib, with the
>rage driver. The vesa driver of svgalib usually does not work with
>Mach64 cards.
Yes, it does work. Otherwise things like squake and lsdoom etc wouldn't
work. I was simply wondering as to the support of anything more than ModeX 8
(in Quake) with SVGALib. Mach64 appears to be deprecated with SVGALib, which
is a shame as I can't get anything more than VGA in any console application
I've tried.
Frinky
--
John Bland MPhys(Hons) GradInstP Webmaster and Sys Admin.
http://ringtail.cmp.liv.ac.uk/ Condensed Matter Group
Email: j.bland at liv.ac.uk Liverpool University
"And it can suck a monkey through 30ft of garden hose!!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Belmore)
Subject: Re: Gnome screen bigger than my monitor
Date: 18 Aug 2000 04:53:12 GMT
: "Jack Kessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > How can I reduce the Gnome screen so that I can see all of it on my monitor
: > at once? (I have an ancient Sony 13" Trinitron which continues to work so I
: > continue not to replace it.)
: Control-Alt-NumPad +/- will change resolutions. You can setup the
: default in /etc/XF86Config by placing the desired resolution first in
: the Modes line for your Screen section.
If you can grab a copy of "Maximum Linux" Jully 2000 issue, there
is an article called "Hopt Tips" that describes this process very well.
--
Don
The Dragon's Claw - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad095/Claw.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Belmore)
Subject: Sound Config?
Date: 18 Aug 2000 04:58:25 GMT
Well, it seems that I have solved my 'directory problem' already,
now I have to solve the sound problem.
Ok, I run sndconfig and it runs fine, plays the sample.au(but it
does sound quite muffled).
Specs: SB Pro clone card (yes it does work fine with many other
programs, including my DOS CD-player one). RedHat 5.2 (kernel
2.0.36-0.7). I have tried both the SB setting and SB Pro settings and it
sounds the same.
io=0x220
irq=7
dma=1
--
Dragon Don
The Dragon's Claw - http://www.hwcn.org/~ad095/Claw.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald K Knepshield)
Subject: Re: 3c509 module not installing, help!
Date: 18 Aug 2000 05:41:39 GMT
mst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: >
: > Here's an interesting situation:
: >
: > I install Redhat 6.2 via FTP and choose the 3c509 driver for the
: > install. The install goes smoothly. The system reboots. Upon reboot
: > the device eth0 won't install. I found the 3c509 config and diagnostic
: > utilities by Donald. I used them and they worked correctly verifying
: > that my card was at I/O address 0x300 and interrupt 10, and using
: > 10baseT. So, I specified in conf.modules:
: >
: > alias eth0 3c509
: > options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10
: >
: > and then rebooted...upon reboot I got:
: >
: > /lib/modules....../3c509.o insmod eth0 failed. Delaying eth0...
: >
: > Do I need to compile support for this into the kernel? It seems as if
: > modules have been working for everyone else, can anyone help me out?
: >
:
: Check if any other device uses the i/o or irq of your NIC.
I don't think you need the options line either.
I have a 3c509 card installed on two separate machines and in both cases
all I had to do was set the setting in dos (irq, io, Non plug'n'pray, and
half-duplex) and the cards worked fine. I had conflicts for both cards and
had to change the IRQ (sound card, and another NIC). Sometimes a
cat /proc/interrupt might show if something is on the IRQ (if the other
device is in use).
--
Kevin Knepshield
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jinp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.16-3 'make bzImage' compile error in
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:08:39 -0400
Go to linux directory instead of linux-2.2.16 may help. and start from
begining!
Joe Mazz wrote:
> I am running Redhat 6.2 linux (kernel 2.2.14) and encountered a problem
> while trying to patch it to 2.2.16-3,
> following instructions at
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-037-05.html and
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/.
>
> First I updated RPM itself as instructed on the Redhat site via:
> rpm -Fvh rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm
> Then I downloaded the RPMs and unpacked them:
> rpm -Uvh kernel-headers-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> kernel-source-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> Man page conflicts with the previous kernel-pcmcia package required:
> rpm -ivh --force kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
> Then after 'cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.16' I find:
> #make xconfig -- OK
> #make dep -- OK
> #make clean -- OK
> #make bzImage -- *** PROBLEM!!! ***:
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
> scripts/split-include
> scripts/split-include.c
> In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36,
> from scripts/split-include.c:26:
> /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1
>
> Therefore I seem to have the same error reported by H.T. Leung on
> linux.sources.kernel.
> A solution offered by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "By simply making the symlink from /usr/src/linux-2.2.16 to
> /usr/src/linux, you will resolve this."
> does not work for me. The RPM source code installation had already
> moved the softlink
> to point to the new source directory tree, as you can see here:
> #ls -l /usr/src
> total 12
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Aug 13 21:25 linux ->
> linux-2.2.16
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Aug 13 21:26 linux-2.2.14
>
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Aug 13 22:15 linux-2.2.16
>
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jul 22 05:04 redhat
> but I still get this errno.h compile error.
>
> I suspect that another critical softlink is missing that got zapped
> during the process.
> Surely other folks have encountered this same problem...
> Would someone please kindly post a complete solution for this
> compilation error? Thanks.
>
> -Joe
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From: Andrew Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing lilo after setup
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:05:10 +1000
Hi there,
I installed Mandrake recently, and skipped the lilo installation during
setup (I've been using a boot floppy).
Now, I'd like to get linux happening from the NT boot loader, so I need
LILO installed on the linux partition (not MBR!), but I'm not sure how
to do this after the main installation.
One of those dead simple things you just can't find docs for...
Thanks.
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From: Joe Mazz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.16-3 'make bzImage' compile error in
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:17:36 GMT
Thanks to Rick and others who replied by email to my post.
Here is a brief follow-up in case anyone else stumbles on this or a related
problem.
After encountering similar problems during the 'make' portion of other
package builds using RPM,
I found that simply repeating the initial installations by adding "--force"
to the rpm command did the trick.
I don't understand why the dependency environment was not correct for
'make bzImage' without this,
but that was definitely the my situation, anyway. So here is what worked
for me:
rpm -Uvh --force kernel-headers-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
kernel-source-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
kernel-ibcs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig -- made my choices and saved
make dep
make clean
make bzImage -- IT WORKED! No need for manually hacked in softlinks, etc.
Cheers,
Joe
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From: "Micky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMBMount
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:24:25 +0200
I mount a NT share on Linux (RedHat) with a command SMBMOUNT, everything is
working.
But if I go to see the directory the day after I cannot reach any
information and I must remount again the unit.
Someone know why?
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Where should be installed the LILO?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:24:40 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
albert wrote:
>
> Question:
>
> I have win98/ Red Hat 6.2 on one 8.4 Gb disk (splitted in several logical).
> I've configured LILO to reside in the MBR. I've tryed using Bootmagic, but i
> could'n make it work. now I'm reading that it is not advisable to leave it
> there? Why? If anything goes wrong is it not possible to recover ?
> I need some enlightnement over this issue, any comments are appreciated.
Leave LILO where it is (in the MBR). It's fine there.
All you need to do is make a boot floppy (and check regularly if it's
still functional) With this boot floppy you'll always be able to boot
linux and restore LILO if anything goes wrong.
And PLEASE set follow-ups if you crosspost!
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From: psantt
Subject: Re: Can't get cgi to work? (easy question...) - why do I need "use CGI"?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:30:02 GMT
Major points goes to Greg! It works!
Anyway, why am I required to use CGI?
My scripting before (since I wouldn't have to learn the perl CGI
structure) was to print "Content-type: html" (the standard html
header...) and then to print the rest using print commands in a loop.
Why on Linux, with Apache 1.3 (I think...) doesn't it work with the
normal print commands?
I am using Apache BSD as well and don't have this issue.... It could
be my LoadModules I'm using???
Just a follow up question if anybody has the time.
I'm actually going to contribute some simple information on what I
have learned about modem installation for some of us who have gotten
too comfortable with Windows PNP.
Thanks again....
On 17 Aug 2000 16:29:11 -0600, Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Greg Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>> print header;
>> print start_html;
>> print "Hello, world!";
>> print end_html;
>>
>> That should work in your web browser if the file containing the above
>> lines is chmod 755 <filename>
>
>You forgot to import CGI and it's symbols:
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>
>use strict;
>use CGI;
>
>my $cgi = new CGI;
>
>print $cgi->header;
>print $cgi->start_html(-title => "Test Page");
>print "Hello, world!";
>print $cgi->end_html;
>
>exit (0);
>
>--
>The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
>Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?R=FCdiger?= Arp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to add a Windowmanager to KDM??
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:38:53 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Am 18.08.00, 04:53:33, schrieb "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum The=
ma=20
How to add a Windowmanager to KDM??:
> Hi,
> Can someone give me a pointer on how to add the blackbox window manage=
r
> to my drop-down selection in kdm? Blackbox is installed, and works fi=
ne
> when booting from a command prompt. I added it to
> /usr/share/config/kdmrc, and it shows up in the drop-down menu in kdm
> until I completely reboot the system, then it won't show up anymore, a=
nd
> it is automagically erased from/usr/share/config/kdmrc! I'm running
> Mandrake6.0, and kdm works fine for the default window managers listed=
> in the drop-down.
> Here's the short excerpt from /usr/share/config/kdmrc, and below that =
is
> the excerpt from the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession addition I made.
> #/usr/share/config/kdmrc
>=20
SessionTypes=3Dkde;gnome;blackbox;WindowMaker;AfterStep;Icewm;default;fa=
ilsa
fe;
> #/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
> ;;
> AfterStep)
> exec /usr/X11R6/bin/afterstep
> ;;
> Blackbox)
> exec /usr/local/bin/blackbox
> ;;
I didn't do it in the config files as I couldn't figure that one out=20
myself. In the kcontrol's Login manager is an option to add=20
windowmanagers to the kdm drop-down menu.=20
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From: psantt
Subject: From a newbie for newbies w/ Modem problems...
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:40:26 GMT
I am assuming that this applies to MOST modems, but I am talking about
my USB 5687 in partictular....
For those of you who have bought modems that still have the jumper
settings, remember that "out of the box" modems like that are
structured to let Windows decide the com port, etc. I'm assuming that
most other modems (I haven't had to screw with jumper settings since
good ol Win 3.1...) have the same issue.
I was at a loss until I read the documentation on installing on NT,
where it stated that you should set your own com port settings (doc
says com port/IRQ set up as "default" whatever that means)
After changing the jumpers (I specified com port 2), getting rid of
one conflict (via my BIOS), I was actually up and running quickly.
I know there isn't a lot of documentation on some of these modems, but
just remember that 99% of them are used in Windows with PNP, and using
jumpers that may be the root of the problem.
If there is anybody w/ more experience in explaining (or debunking)
what I've said, feel free....
On my USB 5687 (got it at best buy....), it works fine with the com2
setting.
Best of luck....
psantt....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henri Fallon)
Subject: Re: can't reboot or halt!
Date: 18 Aug 2000 07:10:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After upgrading some packages -- including pam -- to a Red Hat 6.2 Gnome
>workstation installation, as an ordinary user I cannot execute "shutdown
>-r" or "shutdown -h" from a console command line. And if I select "Log
>out" from the Gnome taskbar, the log out dialog no longer presents the
>choices of rebooting or shutting down.
Is it really a bad thing that no normal user can shutdown the workstation ?
Otherwise, check the user gmc runs as, and maybe put a suid on shutdwon for
that group.
--
henri
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 installation hangs
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:35:45 GMT
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Wayne Pilgrim wrote:
> I had the same problem on a different machine and solved it by passing
> PCI=BIOS at the linux prompt during bootup. From what I read this is the
> default but it doesn't work on my machine.
>
There are three choices for "PCI access mode"
BIOS
Direct
Any
I believe that "Any" is the default.
JRT
>
> Gey-Hong Gweon wrote:
>
> > Hi, I have a brand-new Gateway E-5400 system and my first try to install
> > the RedHat 6.2 failed because the installation program hangs after the
> > message:
> >
> > PCI: PCI BIOS Revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91
> > PCI: Using configuration type 1
> > PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> >
> > I wonder if anybody can shed some light on this problem. System
> > configuration is roughly:
> > Ultra 100 Bios Version 2.00
> > Dual Intel 800MHz Pentium III
> > 128 Mb PC600 ECC RDRAM
> > Win2000 Promise Ultra 100 IDE Controller
> > Two 20Gb 7200 RPM Quantrum ATA66 Hard drives
> > etc ...
> >
> > Gey-Hong.
>
> --
> ----------------------
> Wayne Pilgrim
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Borja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Setting the time?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:31:37 +0200
try with $ linuxconf
Frank Haverkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how to set the time properly on my Linux Box.
> I tried date --set "08/14/2000 15:00" and for the time
> running everything was fine. After rebooting the setting
> was lost and I had 1994. Then I tried
> hwclock --set --date="08/14/2000 15:00"
> and it worked nice to until reboot. I tried to set the
> CMOS clock to 08/14/2000 15:00, but as soon as I rebooted
> the setting was lost and some strange values like 2094 appeared
> in the hardwareclocksetting with hwclock --show.
> After rebooting my system believes that we have 1994 and not
> 2000. Can anybody give me a foolproof advice how to set
> the time?
>
> I hope that my motherboard has no y2k problem
> or that my system time is broken, but the board remembers
> hdd settings and all that stuff so that I think that from
> that point of view everything is fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frank
>
> --
> Frank Haverkamp Domologic Homeautomation
> mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rebenring 33
> WWW: http://www.colibree.de 38106 Braunschweig
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From: "Borja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Can't get cgi to work? (easy question...)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:38:34 +0200
Call better "http://domain/cgi-bin/printenv.cgi" with apache
<psantt> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hey all,
>
> I'm getting around to doing my first intranet setup with a Linux
> server, and this is a real easy question / problem that I can't
> solve...
>
> "(2)no such file or directory: exec of
> /home/httpd/cgi-bin/printenv.cgi failed"
>
> I can't get even the easiest cgi program to execute (using Apache)
>
> I've checked the apache directives, they point to my script alias
> directory fine.... I've checked (and 777)ed the cgi-bin directory and
> the cgi files as root to make sure that isn't an issue.
>
> The script only contains two lines; the first line is pointing to
> usr/bin/perl (and it's there...) and the other is a print command.
> (with HTML / body headers and footers...)
>
> The program runs fine in text mode, but not with the web server.
>
> I know it's something easy (it has to be), but I've tried everything
> that I can think of.
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks...
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: cant boot redhat 6.2 with loadlin
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 06:28:50 GMT
Ed Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>request_module [block-major-8]:Root fs not mounted
>VFS:Cannot open root device 08:01
>Kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
[...]
So is your root partition on /dev/sda1 ?
Michael
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