Linux-Setup Digest #443, Volume #19 Mon, 21 Aug 00 13:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: MBR [Re: I will unplug windows drive before installing mandrake]
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kernel error when trying to read tape ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SuSE v's RedHat ("TJ O Connor")
installing red hat 6.2..
Re: MBR [Re: I will unplug windows drive before installing mandrake] (Eric)
Re: MBR [Re: I will unplug windows drive before installing mandrake] (Eric)
Toshiba Modem V90 ("gg")
Re: PHP3/4 on Apache (Terence Chan)
Re: SuSE v's RedHat (Scott Mann)
Re: redhat6.0 installation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Taking Image of Linux Setup ? (Rob Booth)
/net directory (Eugene Y Lee)
Wine - howto (michal)
Re: Slow Login? (Craig Kelley)
Re: Kernel error when trying to read tape (Craig Kelley)
Dial Up Configuration in RH 6.2 ("Vikram")
unix man pages on line not found on www.manpages.com, duh... ("Dan Jacobson")
Re: How to run WM on remote display? ("Jon Davis")
Re: Toshiba Modem V90 (Joe Blow)
Install LILO on iWill DMA66 Controller + SuSE 6.2 (Chris Ong)
Re: No sound - kmpg, kmidi | Yes sound - kscd | Why? (Matthias Arndt)
upgrade mandrake 6.1 to 7.1 (Buschman)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MBR [Re: I will unplug windows drive before installing mandrake]
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:09:38 GMT
>Is the MBR a one-per-machine thing, | no, every hard drive has an MBR
> or can /dev/hda have one (and when the BIOS boot sequence is "C, A" >it will go into
>windows as
>usual)... but at the same time /dev/hdb can have a MBR too?, and that's where I can
>put the lilo choice sequence, and then just
>configure the BIOS for boot sequence "D, A" [the A is just from the choices my bios
>gives me, not relevant to the current
>discussion] and then the BIOS will upon power-up then go into the LILO choice list?
>[which I can then simply configure any way I
>want e.g., asking me which OS etc.]? If for some reason I'm not satisfied with
>linux, I can just reconfigure BIOS to "C,A" and
>then go back to the usual windows startup? Is all the above OK? I note that my
>BIOS gives me choices of booting from C, D, E, F
>hard drives... this must mean that it is just using these names as an easier way of
>saying IDE primary master, slave; secondary
>master, slave; and not that it is aware of what windows partitions etc. one has
>currently made, or does it? e.g., my C: and E: are
>on the same physical disk...
Yes you can do that, in fact i have done that with a previous
installation, and since windows sets whatever drive it is contained on
as "C:" it doesnt make a difference to win what controller its on, as
long as it can start up
>In [whatever distribution]'s installation sequence, when it talks about the MBR, will
>it allow me to pick which physical disk
>drive's MBR to alter, or do they just assume IDE primary==hda... [assuming each drive
>can have their own MBR?]?
ok, what youre gonna have to do, is set your linux hard drive on the
primary controller, and your windows drive on the secondary
controller... but JUST FOR INSTALL
after you can boot into linux, change your lilo.conf to point to hdb1
or hdc1 so it can boot up, add hda1 as your windows bootup option and
switch em back to the normal config :)
>Anyways I'm imagining that being all into non-violence, etc., Linux will allow me to
>leave the entire windows physical drive
>unscathed... at the same time according to its freedom-of-choice philosophy, it will
>allow me via lilo on [MBR of?] /dev/hdb do a '5
>seconds and will start linux' query setup, etc.
>
>Sorry to be so longwinded, but you see us fearful new recruits see somewhat
>conflicting advice [you have to admit I spotted one
>(**)], not to criticize your helpfulness, which I'm very thankful for [only 2 news
>and 1 mail response], but stuff which seems so
>natural for those who've already installed, seems so worryful for those of us who are
>just about to. Thanks. Sorry for bad
>formatting... this will improve one I get back to GNUS which I used to use 8 years
>ago.
>
>> See `man lilo' to understand how to setup the bootloader.
>Hmmm... must apparently install my Linux diskette before being able to see this
>manpage for my distibution[?]
>--
lol... dont you love us?
if you need more help, or want me to talk you through it on another
machine (which i highly advise, since you can get a 486 to test linux
on for <100 $$'s) then mail me back and we'll see what we can do :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel error when trying to read tape
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:13:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have RH 6.2 installed on my Micron ZX note book with the most recent
pcmcia RPM and an Adaptec 1460 SlimSCSI card. I ported a small program
that I wrote from SOLARIS to read data from Exabyte tape. The drives
are 8505 and 8500.
The program works until it actually tries to read a 32 KB logical block
of data. The error that I get is: "input/output error". The kernel
writes an error message to /var/log/messages: "incorrect block size".
I tried using 1 KB blocks, too. As root I tried to set the block size
using mt. Nothing works.
It is interesting that tar works but dd gives the same error. I
downloaded gnu tar and find that they use the same function call as I
do: the C read(desc, buffer, size).
In order to use the tape device, /dev/st0, I had to chmod it to allow
access.
I suspect that this is an installation problem but I have to fix it by
Tuesday as I leave for Brazil on Wednesday where I have to use the
program.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Bob
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Before you buy.
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From: "TJ O Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: SuSE v's RedHat
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:22:54 +0100
Hi all,
What would be the equivalent in SuSE 6.3 for each of the following:
# Source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
#Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/netwotk
These are RedHat 6.0 versions
cheers
TJ
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Sys Admin. Kinsale Rd., Cork, Ireland.
Comnitel Technologies Ph: +353 21 7305620
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +353 21 7305624
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing red hat 6.2..
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:29:28 GMT
Hi..(newbie here). When attempting install from RH Linux 6.2CD, I
receive a signal 9 error message and then my installation is killed. Two
questions:
1) What is this error message??
2) How do I fix this problem??
Thanks in advance..Tom
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MBR [Re: I will unplug windows drive before installing mandrake]
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:39:31 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Is the MBR a one-per-machine thing, | no, every hard drive has an MBR
> > or can /dev/hda have one (and when the BIOS boot sequence is "C, A" >it will go
>into windows as
> >usual)... but at the same time /dev/hdb can have a MBR too?, and that's where I can
>put the lilo choice sequence, and then just
> >configure the BIOS for boot sequence "D, A" [the A is just from the choices my
>bios gives me, not relevant to the current
> >discussion] and then the BIOS will upon power-up then go into the LILO choice list?
>[which I can then simply configure any way I
> >want e.g., asking me which OS etc.]? If for some reason I'm not satisfied with
>linux, I can just reconfigure BIOS to "C,A" and
> >then go back to the usual windows startup? Is all the above OK? I note that my
>BIOS gives me choices of booting from C, D, E, F
> >hard drives... this must mean that it is just using these names as an easier way of
>saying IDE primary master, slave; secondary
> >master, slave; and not that it is aware of what windows partitions etc. one has
>currently made, or does it? e.g., my C: and E: are
> >on the same physical disk...
> Yes you can do that, in fact i have done that with a previous
> installation, and since windows sets whatever drive it is contained on
> as "C:" it doesnt make a difference to win what controller its on, as
> long as it can start up
This is not true. If you have a windows (95/98) installed on /dev/hda,
it will no longer be bootable if it is plugged as the secondary drive.
Windows will only boot if it is addressed by the bios as 0x80 (or
wherever it was during install). If you swap it to another location,
you'll need something like lilo to get it functioning again, by the
map-drive XXX to XXX option lilo offers.
Plugging the windows drive to another location doesn't bring you much,
leave it where it is, install lilo in the root on the second HDD and
boot from there, using lilo to boot both linux and windows from there.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: MBR [Re: I will unplug windows drive before installing mandrake]
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:47:23 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oops , I think I didn't read your mail carefull enough before
responding.
You didn't claim windows being capable of what I told it wasn't.
BTW, there's no need to swap the drives, nor removing one from the PC.
Lilo can be installed in any partition, and the installer will ask you
where to install. So leave the system intact, it'll require the least
tweaking afterwards. As long as you don't tell the installer to touch
/dev/hda during the install, it will not be touched.
Eric
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From: "gg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Toshiba Modem V90
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:34:49 +0200
I have installed SuSE 6.4 on my laptop which has an internal modem Toshba V
90. I have tried to setup the modem so that I can use the internet but get
an error either "cannot recognize modem" or "Modem busy". I have tried to
use Wvdial. When it does its checks it is not successful. I have seen on the
support web site that Linux doesn't accept a WinModem. I don't know if a
Toshiba V90 is a WinModen and Toshiba itselfs is not clear on their answer.
Can anyone help with a solution perhaps. Or a new driver for the modem?
Thanks
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From: Terence Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PHP3/4 on Apache
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:07:43 +0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi,
> try to download the latest 'tar' package from www.php.net
>
> do the following
>
> 1. gunzip php*.gz
> 2. tar -xvf php*.tar
> 3. cd php* (change the directory to php* created in your current
> directory)
> 3.5 install the source code for apache server also.then only
> the 'apxs' script will work.
> 4. if you need mysql support
> ./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs
> 5. make install
> 6. make
> 7. libphp4.so will be created in the libs directory
> 8. check whether libphp4.so is copied to /etc/httpd/modules directory
> 9. if not do it manually.
> 10. edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
> 11. add the line addmodules libphp4.so and the rest.
> 12. restart apache server by running /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
> 13. go to the /etc/httpd/html
> 14 test this script
> <?php
> phpinfo();
> ?>
> save it.
> 15. in your browser type http://localhost/test.php
>
> It will work..
> best of luck
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Source for MySQL is required too. Install other development source for
options you required too.
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From: Scott Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: SuSE v's RedHat
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:23:00 -0700
TJ O Connor wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> What would be the equivalent in SuSE 6.3 for each of the following:
>
> # Source function library
> . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
>
> #Source networking configuration.
> . /etc/sysconfig/netwotk
>
> These are RedHat 6.0 versions
There are no direct equivalents. SuSE does network configuration
in a "master" file that includes other config options. It is
/etc/rc.config. Also, it sets up initial routing table entries,
including a default router, in /etc/route.conf. The start-up
script is /etc/rc.d/network.
Regards,
Scott
>
> cheers
> TJ
> --
>
> TJ O'Connor 2200 Cork Airport Business Park,
> Sys Admin. Kinsale Rd., Cork, Ireland.
> Comnitel Technologies Ph: +353 21 7305620
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +353 21 7305624
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: redhat6.0 installation
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:24:02 GMT
In article <8nr1kf$vuv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Shicheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello there,
> Recently, I have installed Linux Redhat6.0 onto my PC, but I messed up
> with the settings, so I decided to install it again. My PC has
Pentium
> 100Mhz, 64Mb of RAM and 1G hard disk. OS/2 on it. I partitioned the
> hard disk again using 'fdisk' .
> The new partitions before re-installation of Redhat6.0 is as follows:
>
> Partition Size System Type
>
> /dev/hda1 706Mb OS/2
> /dev/hda2 250Mb Linux Native
> /dev/hda5 253Mb Linux Swap
>
> Then, I installed Redhat6.0 from CD-ROM. Then I choosed to 'install'
> rather than 'upgrade'.Then
> the Installation Programme asked me if my PC has a SCSI adapter. I was
> not sure, so I choosed 'no'.
>
> So,can you tell me how I can find out whether my PC has a SCSI
> adapter?
>
> After a few procedures, I came to a point where I had to set the mount
> points, so I did it like the following:
>
> For OS/2 mount point=/mnt/hda1
> For Linux Native mount point=/
> For Linux Swap mount point=automatically specified by the
Installation
> Programme
>
> The installation process continued - I formatted /dev/hda2 ,choosed
the
> application packages to be installed e.g. X Windows etc. Then, an
error
> message poped up on the screen says
> " Mount failed: Device or resource busy "
>
> So, I went back to the point where I set the mount points and only
> changed mount point of OS/2
> to '/dosc'. Then I did the same settings as before for the rest
> Installation procedures, untill the same error message(" Mount failed:
> Device or resource busy " ) poped up again.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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> Before you buy.
>
You would have had to buy some relatively more expensive hardware to
have SCSI, so you can be confident you don't have this. What you have
is called IDE the devices will be the hda1, hda2 and so forth.
Did you ever actually complete an X Window installation on 250 Meg??
You may have to fit OS/2 on 250 to give the RH workstation 700 or so.
Swap could be much smaller than you are thinking.
As it is, the attempt to mount OS/2 during the installation is not
right. You will have an ability to mount "foreign" file systems after
the Linux installation is successful.
It is best to start "fresh" if you can. Backup what you have to from
OS/2 and wipe it out (remove all partitions). Do the Linux
installation, only. Do your partitioning within the installation
procedure, not ahead of time.
You may want to do the Linux installation a few times. Play with
settings, make mistakes, start over, etc. Eventually, you will get a
dual boot system together. My guess would be that you find a most
appropriate split between the system sizes. Complete the RH install
saving the space for OS/2, then installing OS/2 afterwards. You will
then find commands along the lines of "mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /os2" so
that you can read OS/2. (I don't know anything about OS/2, the vfat is
usefull for MicroSoft partitions.)
With a 1 Gig drive you may not be concerned with more than 1024
cylinders, but keep that concern in mind.
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Before you buy.
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From: Rob Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Taking Image of Linux Setup ?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:43:37 +0100
I'd be grateful if anyone can help me with this problem.
I've got Redhat 6.2 setup on one machine and need to take an exact copy of
this machine's configuration across to another 9 identical machines.
I've looked at using GHOST, but this tool wants to image the freespace on
the drive ~ total of 10GB.
Taking the image would take about 10hours ~ writing it back taking the same
on each machine - I don't have space to store the 10gb image (only 300mb is
used) , even after compression, and I don't have 100 hours to accomplish
this setup.
Does anyone know of any other tools which I could use, one which will allow
me to image the drive, ignoring the unused space ?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Rob.
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From: Eugene Y Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /net directory
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:45:59 -0400
When doing a fresh install of rh 6.2 I noticed that there is not a /net
directory. When doing an upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2 there is one. Does
anyone know what this does and why was it droped from 6.1 to 6.2?
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From: michal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wine - howto
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:50:30 GMT
Hello everyone
I can't instal Wine rpm. There is dependency problem, wine needs
libncurses.so.5.
Could anyone konw what to do?
Tkanx
Michael
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Subject: Re: Slow Login?
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 Aug 2000 10:12:38 -0600
Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andrew Overholt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [slow xdm login problem snipped]
>
> > 2. I changed my /etc/hosts file so that my computers on my network have
> > names
>
> X11 tries to lookup the localhost, and if you took that out of your
> hosts file (or messed up the entry), it would explain the delay you're
> seeing.
I also thought of another reason that might be causing you pain: You
mentioned that you mucked up the CDROM. Both KDE and GNOME attempt to
read the devices when the file managers start up, and if that's
holding them up it could be the source of your problem as well.
--
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Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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Subject: Re: Kernel error when trying to read tape
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 Aug 2000 10:14:46 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have RH 6.2 installed on my Micron ZX note book with the most recent
> pcmcia RPM and an Adaptec 1460 SlimSCSI card. I ported a small program
> that I wrote from SOLARIS to read data from Exabyte tape. The drives
> are 8505 and 8500.
>
> The program works until it actually tries to read a 32 KB logical block
> of data. The error that I get is: "input/output error". The kernel
> writes an error message to /var/log/messages: "incorrect block size".
> I tried using 1 KB blocks, too. As root I tried to set the block size
> using mt. Nothing works.
>
> It is interesting that tar works but dd gives the same error. I
> downloaded gnu tar and find that they use the same function call as I
> do: the C read(desc, buffer, size).
>
> In order to use the tape device, /dev/st0, I had to chmod it to allow
> access.
>
> I suspect that this is an installation problem but I have to fix it by
> Tuesday as I leave for Brazil on Wednesday where I have to use the
> program.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
Tar uses 10240 or 1024 as it's blocksize (it's been a while since I
mucked with this); so this should work:
mt setblk 10240
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From: "Vikram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dial Up Configuration in RH 6.2
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:59:49 +0530
Hi,
I am trying to configure for a dial up account
on RH 6.2 and it is not working.
I have set up the acc and I am using wvdial...
The modem dials and then there is a sound of
handskaking but I never get connected ??
How do I troubleshoot this problem ?
Thanks,
Vikram
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.misc,rec.humor,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: unix man pages on line not found on www.manpages.com, duh...
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:11:59 +0800
> > See `man lilo' to understand how to setup the bootloader.
> Hmmm... must apparently install my Linux diskette before being able to see this
>manpage for my distibution[?]
To look for manual pages on-line, I guessed and typed in www.manpages.com but got more
than I bargained for. :-)
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From: "Jon Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: How to run WM on remote display?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:38:14 GMT
I tried just executing the command:
exec gnome-session
.. which worked, but veeerry slooooowwly .... I think that running the WM
in Hummingbird might not be such a good idea after all... :(
Jon
"Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8nqkgt$quq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jon Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [Deleted comp.os.linux.help, as it doesn't exist except on some
> misconfigured news servers, and rearranged the quoting below.]
>
> >> In article <hf%n5.121356$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jon
> >> Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > I've exported the DISPLAY property to the IP of my Windows 2000
> >> > computer but when I run "startx" even from a telnet session it
> >> > loads up the WM on the Linux computer's display.
>
> [...]
>
> >I'm assuming that's off-topic; the point is when I start Gnome remotely
> >using "gmc" it fails to work within Exceed (console error message is
> >"** WARNING **: Root window clicks will not work as no GNOME-compliant
> >window manager could be found!") although something does show up in
> >Exceed with a few icons and a file manager window but no desktop or
> >anything I get in "startx", and if I start it remotely with "startx" it
> >boots fine but it uses the local display instead of the remote display.
>
> OK, this makes sense from what you say above. Firstly, they're called
> environment variables, not properties :) Secondly, startx expects to be
> the program that sets $DISPLAY, rather than reading from it, as this
> makes sense for most cases (it means you can run startx within one X
> session and have it start another, for instance). If you want to tell
> startx to use a different display, say the first display on IP address
> 192.168.1.1, you should use:
>
> startx -- 192.168.1.1:0
>
> See 'man startx' and 'man xinit' for more information.
>
> Note, though, that 'startx' normally starts up an X server itself, and
> may get somewhat confused if it can't. You may find it more convenient
> to set the $DISPLAY variable as before and then run ~/.xinitrc (or
> ~/.xsession, which is the equivalent used by display managers like xdm,
> gdm, and wdm). If whichever file you run ends with something like:
>
> window-manager &
> exec gnome-session
>
> (where window-manager is something like sawfish, fvwm, or
> enlightenment), then a fairly GNOMEish environment should appear on your
> eXceed display, assuming there's no window manager running there
> already.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> --
> Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> "Everyone, please welcome our new friend Stef. He's here with us
> because he thinks he's a penguin." - http://www.userfriendly.org/
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From: Joe Blow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Toshiba Modem V90
Reply-To: Me
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:41:52 GMT
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:34:49 +0200, "gg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have installed SuSE 6.4 on my laptop which has an internal modem Toshba V
>90. I have tried to setup the modem so that I can use the internet but get
>an error either "cannot recognize modem" or "Modem busy". I have tried to
>use Wvdial. When it does its checks it is not successful. I have seen on the
>support web site that Linux doesn't accept a WinModem. I don't know if a
>Toshiba V90 is a WinModen and Toshiba itselfs is not clear on their answer.
>
>Can anyone help with a solution perhaps. Or a new driver for the modem?
>
I have the same problem...apparently the easiest way to deal with it
is get an external modem....there are supposedly ways to configure for
internal modems, but they often have software compression drivers
native to windows which make it a hassle....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Ong)
Subject: Install LILO on iWill DMA66 Controller + SuSE 6.2
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 16:55:15 GMT
Hi,
I have a iWill HPT366 DMA/66 controller card. After the file
installation of SuSE complete. During the LILO setup session, i caught
with an error message that it says /dev/hdc is not first boot device.
Heres my system Config
Celeron 400 o.c. 450
128MB RAM
Gigabyte Intel BX Chipset (6BXC)
SB AWE64 SoundCard
iWill HPT366 DMA/66 controller card.
Savage4 AGP
setup kernel parameter
linux ide1=0xd400,0xd600 ide2=0xe000,0xe200
IDE Devices
hda1=cdrom
hdc=Quantum Fireball CX6.4GB
hdd=Quantum Fireball lct 5.1GB
hde=Seagate ST32122A 2.1 GB
Can anybody provide some suggestion ?
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From: Matthias Arndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: No sound - kmpg, kmidi | Yes sound - kscd | Why?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:30:06 +0200
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dpace wrote:
> Ron Gaw wrote:
>
> > Can someone help me out? kscd plays my cd's just fine. However, when I
> > try to play anything using kmpg, kmidi, kmedia or x11amp, I get NO
> > SOUND. I've checked to see if the kernel modules are loaded, and they
> > are. The settings for the sb.0 module match what is suggested and what
> > has worked for me before.
> >
> > What else is there to configure?
> >
> > Frustrated,
> > Ron
>
> Maybe the /dev/ devices for midi, et cetera, are missing.
> Look for a script which creates these devices.
>
I would say you are lacking the required permissions to access the linux
sound devices.
Try adding you the group audio.
And if you re lacking the devices, do you use a kernel with sound support
enabled?
Note: CD sound is independent from other sound because the CD Audio goes
directly to the soundcard mixer. It does not use any sound driver.
You can even hear a CD playing in your CDROM under plain DOS without any
drivers - it is hardwired to the output jacks.
(At least, on all sound cards I've seen sofar.)
Matthias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: upgrade mandrake 6.1 to 7.1
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:05:58 GMT
Hey guys I currently have a working mandrake 6.1 linux box. I got in
Mandrake 7.1 but don't know how to upgrade without whipping out all
the info already on this machine. The only irreplacable info on this
machine is telnet and some web files. Should I save them to another
machine or is the upgrade process safe? I would not be devistated if
I lost the info on this machine, but it certainly would suck!
Any help on the Mandrake Upgrade would be much appreciated.
Buschman
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