Linux-Setup Digest #448, Volume #19 Tue, 22 Aug 00 03:13:11 EDT
Contents:
set up logitech quickcam express (Yung-Hsiang Lu)
Multi Distribution Lilo Question ("Jason Nash")
Re: Playing music CDs, No sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: rpm? Ways around it? (Zebee Johnstone)
Need X11, Xt, Xmu, and Xaw libraries (Jason Valentine)
Installing Mandrake, Stuck on Configure X ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "Free BSD system" root password loss ("MThompson \(the-werd.com\)")
Sony F400 and sound ("Hal")
Simple - PPP on Demand Question. ("Adam H.")
First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive ("Devin Null")
MC Pissed me off! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DHCPCD - invalid parameter parm_irq? ("TongEng Chiah")
SendMail "catch-all" alias? ("djmiller")
Re: Free ISP's servicing Northern California? (David Efflandt)
Error message when installing External Zip Drive (Andy Wong)
How to back up my Linux? ("Yura")
Re: Linux fdisk only reads 1024 cylinders (David Efflandt)
Re: netatalk printing multiple copies (David Martin)
Re: Problems loading Mandrake Linux (David Efflandt)
Open source Driver for Yamaha XG-SD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive (Charlie Bendler)
Re: Sony F400 and sound (David Efflandt)
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From: Yung-Hsiang Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: set up logitech quickcam express
Date: 22 Aug 2000 03:12:48 GMT
Hi,
Does anybody set up Logitech Quickcam Express (USB interface) before?
Can you share your expreience? While configuring the kernel, which
items should I select? The only thing related to camera is "Kodak
DC-2xx camera". This doesn't seem right.
Thanks!
--
Sincerely,
Yung-Hsiang Lu
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jason Nash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multi Distribution Lilo Question
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 03:40:27 GMT
I have a Mandrake install on /dev/hdc1 right now. I'm trying to install
TurboLinux on /dev/sda1. Since the sda drive is on a SCSI controller I
need to load an initrd image for it. How can I tell lilo I need an initrd
for that boot, but not the Mandrake boot? If I put the initrd= option in
under the TurboLinux entry, it looks for it in the current /boot, not in
the /boot of the /dev/sda1 drive.
Thanks...
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Playing music CDs, No sound
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 04:01:35 GMT
In article <8nroqu$rji$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I would check all the necessary links in the chain.
>
> Can you read a data cd?
Yes, I can read a data cd. I'm also able to read the music
cd with cdparanoia, i.e. I can retrieve tracks from the
music CD with cdparanoia and write them to the hard disk
as wav files. I can then play the wav files with XMMS,
but it would be nice to play the music tracks directly
from the CD.
>
> Can your sound card make any noise?
I don't have a separate sound card. I have the Intel i810e
chipset which has integrated sound and video, but the sound
chip does make a noise. I'm able to play e.g. mpeg3
files or wav files on the hard disk.
>
> I believe there are two ways that data can get to the card: from a
> direct wire from CD to sound card, and as data through the
> motherboard. Perhapse Win98 and Linux are using different methods.
>
> In article <8nq934$5g2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not getting any sound when I use XMMS or Gnome's
> > CD player to play a CD in my CDROM drive (ATAPI IDE).
> > I think they are reading the tracks because the timer
> > showing time elapsed is running but there's no sound.
> > There is sound when reading files from the harddisk,
> > e.g. playing mpeg3 files. I've tried using cdparanoia to
> > retrieve tracks from the CD to wav files on the hard disk,
> > and then playing the wav files with XMMS and this works.
> > But how can I play tracks directly from the CD?
> >
> > For info, I'm using the ALSA driver. I've also checked the
> > mixer, and the CD sound is maximum and not muted. I have a dual
> > boot system, and the CD player in WIN98 does work.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > T.
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zebee Johnstone)
Subject: Re: rpm? Ways around it?
Date: 22 Aug 2000 03:43:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.setup on 22 Aug 2000 00:11:36 GMT
Kevin Phung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello
>I'm a newbie and I'm wondering if there's a program or a switch in
>rpm which will allow me to install a program without getting a dependency
>flag and then having to install the dependent program
>first. Redhat6.1.
>
man rpm
Do that, read it, and you will see there is such a thing.
Zebee
--
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To advance the profession of System Administration by raising
awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating
System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues.
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From: Jason Valentine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need X11, Xt, Xmu, and Xaw libraries
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:30:59 -0400
I'm trying to install an application that requires the libraries X11,
Xt, Xmu, and Xaw. The configure script complains that I don't have
them, so can anyone point me to an RPM that would contain any or all of
these?
TIA,
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installing Mandrake, Stuck on Configure X
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 04:28:47 GMT
First post here, so forgive any missteps please.
I'm trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0 for the first time, using the
graphical install interface, and I'm having trouble at the "Configure
X" step. I think I am having a problem with either the monitor (I have
several, none of which are on the list of monitors to choose from) or
the video card (again, not on the list). It is a Jaton, but which one
I am not sure, and none of those listed on the choice list seem to
work. I try to run the test, and it just says "an error occurred, try
changing some parameters".
I'm at wit's end with this, I'd REALLY like to get this going, having
already failed many attempted installs of FreeBSD (I guess I'm just
too ill-informed to do that one, I don't know). I'd heard Mandrake was
a very easy Unix derivative to install, and it has been, up until this
point.
Any pointers, tips, questions to help pinpoint the problem are
welcome.
Thank you.
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From: "MThompson \(the-werd.com\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: "Free BSD system" root password loss
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 04:43:02 GMT
Try at lilo boot, init=/bin/bash to load a shell. ;)
--
Message:set:end
mail from:!;Mathew Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Patrick Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.3.95L.1000816224750.25311D-100000@uststu2...
> Free BSD Root password Loss
>
> Dear ALL,
> we have lost the root password for the Free BSD system .
> Did anyone known how to solving this problem ?
> (e.g reset or restore the old one ) rather than reinstall the whole system
> again ?
> Now we can use original user to login the system
> but i think we don't have users that have the same level with root
> so we can't do any admin work .?
> what can i do ??
>
> worry
> patrick .
>
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From: "Hal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony F400 and sound
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:44:00 +0200
Hi from Cologne,
I�m running Suse 2.4 on a Sony F400 with the Yamaha SX Sound Card.
Who can tell me how to install sound without cracking and other disturbing
noises - hardware i ok :-)????
Thanks a lot, Hal
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From: "Adam H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Simple - PPP on Demand Question.
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:39:50 +1000
Hi,
I've set up a RH6.2 server on a LAN where it is used as a Internet Router.
It
dials on demand fine. If the modem is turned off, and RH attempts to dial,
it
doesn't (obviously), however, if I turn the modem on, i have to wait a
certain
time before I can re-attempt another dial.
ie:
Start RH, modem turned off.
>PING xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (an outside address)
nothing happens. (obviously)
Turn modem on
>PING xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (nothing happens).
Wait - say 10 minutes
>PING xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (modem dials and connects).
I assume it's a timeout variable somewhere. Can anyone please let me know
where I should be looking to make this timeout shorter. (Say 45 seconds).
Thanks & Regards
Adam
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From: "Devin Null" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:59:36 -0700
I'm trying to install RH 6.2 on a mixed SCSI/IDE system. The motherboard is
an Asus P2B-S with the built-in Adaptec SCSI controller (78xx). My boot
drive is a 4.5GB Seagate Cheetah on the Adaptec and it is backed by two UDMA
IDE drives, one on each IDE channel. The system also has two CD-ROM's and a
tape drive on the narrow channel of the onboard SCSI.
On installing lilo during setup there is a warning that "sd2a is not the
first drive" even though it is indeed SCSI ID 0 and I boot from it fine
under MS-Windows. When I reboot after install I just get the old "LI..." and
it hangs. Redhat seems to be having a hard time with this configuration. If
I make a boot disk and use that everything works properly but I don't want
to have to use a boot floppy to run Linux if I can avoid it.
Any ideas besides disabling booting from my snazzy Cheetah drive?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: MC Pissed me off!
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 05:09:08 GMT
Hello!
Is it a known bug or I'm doing something wrong but during all that time
I was using linux, Midnight C could never remmeber "Don't show hidden
files"
I mean, I check this option, I do Save Config and it saves ot
.mc/mc.ini but then next time I start or one after next I get old dot
files back!
I think that wherether it's a bug or some other soft influence on it.
Maybe when I run MC by root with show hidden files causes to revert my
settings?
Thanks!
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:07:52 +0800
From: "TongEng Chiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCPCD - invalid parameter parm_irq?
i am also running on RH6.2 and had problem getting dhcpcd to work correctly
too.
why dun u try using dhclient from www.isc.org
works for me.
after installing, just type dhclient eth0
David Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am running RH6.2, I have installed the dhcpd & dhcpcd RPMs from the CD.
I
> started dhcpd from the command line & verified that it is running. I ran
> dhcpcd -d and the messages log gave me the following error:
>
> insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.o/net/tulip.o: invalid parameter parm_irq
>
> I have a NetworkEverywhere 100 (NE100 v2) nic. I setup the adapter using
the
> linuxConf tool. The only parameters I entered where the adapter - eth0,
> irq - 10 & driver - tulip. The documentation that came with my nic said
the
> tulilp driver was the one to use. The error above made me think that I had
> chosen the wrong irq ... so I tried them all with no luck. The linuxConf
> tool claimed that the irq was optional, but everytime I deleted the value
> and activated the changes, the previous irq would appear in the dialog.
Any
> suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> Dave
>
>
>
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From: "djmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SendMail "catch-all" alias?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 05:24:08 GMT
Is there any way to set up the aliases so that all mail goes to one mailbox,
no matter who it's for? Or rather, some "default" alias so that when
someone sends e-mail to an undefined user name or alias, it goes to a
mailbox instead of getting bounced?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Free ISP's servicing Northern California?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 05:37:58 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 23:06:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Any free ISP's servicing Northern California?
>
>I read the list at:
>http://www.freedomlist.com/global/USA.php3
>but did not find one in Northern Calif.
>
>freewwweb.com was the old one, but it is gone now.
>Any suggestions?
www.1nol.com (near bottom of freedomlist), is a widespread, but no frills
bannerless free ISP. Haven't tried their news. Windows setup is
effortless using their software, but the secret to Linux ppp login is
'username@1nol' and 'xms' suffix on password (using pap-secrets).
Webmail and pop3 use normal username and password. I haven't figured out
how to send mail though their smtp server (except via webmail).
>If no free ones, how about a suggestion for
>a low cost one that supports linux?
I signed up with core.com before I found 1nol. $10/mo or $99.10/yr for
unlimited access (max 24 hr at a time). Their news was a bit sluggish
when I tried it (temporary problem?). No included web space or anything,
but it has the connections I need on the road and seemed the most
reasonable for unlimited access.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: Andy Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Error message when installing External Zip Drive
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:59:44 -0600
I have Caldera 2.4 and External 100 Zip Drive. I tried to installed it
by following the FAQ. I know I have to install ppa module but I got the
following error when loading ppa module.
bash# modprobe ppa
/lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/ppa.o: invalid parameter ppa_speed_high
scsi_mod: Device or resource busy
I'm new to Linux. Could anyone please help me with the above error?
Thanks,
Andy
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to back up my Linux?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:04:59 GMT
Hi!
I just installed everything, all nice and cute.
I want to somehow back it up.
Will basic copying of all / on another Disk and then zipping it be a good idea?
Ot maybe there is something more advanced and not difficuilt to learn?
Will be glad to hear soem reponces.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Linux fdisk only reads 1024 cylinders
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:20:26 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I got a new 30GB HD a couple of weeks ago.
>I installed Win98 on that drive, but I still had
>the old one (5.2GB) so I set it as a slave drive
>and installed Red Hat 6.2 on it.
>
>It installed ok, but the problem is that linux
>does not see 5.2GB but 2.7GB or something like
>that
>or 1024 cylinders.
What does fdisk display for heads and cylinders, it sounds like you are
guessing. Any drive less than about 8.4GB should be able to be translated
to less than 1024 cyl. One of my drives (5? GB) is listed as 667 cyl and
240 heads (even though it physically has 16 heads and many more cyls.).
If your drive was not translated at all, it would only be around 504-528
MB depending how a MB is counted.
>I know you can only boot from the first 1024
>cylinders of any disk but fdisk should at least be
>able to see it.
What do CMOS setup or kernel boot messages show? For example:
hda: WDC WD273BA, 26105MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=3328/255/63, (U)DMA
hdb: WDC AC35100L, 4924MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=667/240/63, (U)DMA
hdc: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC22100H
hdc: DMA disabled
hdc: WDC AC22100H, 2014MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=4092/16/63
hdd: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
I manually translated my hdc to 64 heads and 1023 cyl with fdisk expert
(x) mode.
>Actually, I remember installing Red Hat before on
>the 5.2GB drive when it was set as a master and it
>read fine.
>
>I've been trying since then and I can't find much
>or maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
>
>I'm relatively new to non-DOS based Systems so I
>would appreciate all or any of the help you could
>give.
Sort of difficult to say without some actual figures from CMOS, kernel
boot messages or fdisk.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: Re: netatalk printing multiple copies
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:20:50 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Sheldon D. Stokes" wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I hope all of this helps illuminate at least the first part of your
> > problem.
>
> Yes it did. First off let me say thank you very much for the insightful
> post about this problem. You have a much greater knowledge of the
> problem than I had. Half the fun of linux for me is learning about the
> OS and trying to share what little knowledge I have.
>
> I suspect that there will be a lot of frustrated people out there with
> this same problem in the future. SO I'll describe my fix in detail:
>
> It looks like I solved my problem and here's how I did it:
>
> Rather than download the newest lpr suite of source code and try to fix
> it, I was lazy and tried the older lpr first. I had gotten netatalk to
> work with redhat 6.0 but it had a lot of bugs in various packages as
> well as the kernel (zip drive corruption comes to mind), so I went back
> to the last stable version which I had good luck with. This was redhat
> 5.2.
>
> I went to ftp.freesoftware.com and downloaded the SRPM for the
> redhat-5.2 lpr daemon, which is: lpr-0.33-1.src.rpm. I installed that
> (rpm -hvi lpr-0.33-1.src.rpm). I cd'ed to /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES
> (/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES in a redhat installation). I then untared the
> source (tar xfz lpr-0.33.gz). I then cd'ed into the lpr-0.33 directory
> and typed make. A few seconds later I had some fresh old daemons.
> Rather than install all the older daemons (lpd, lpr, lpq, lprm), I just
> installed the lpd daemon. The lpd daemon usually sits in the /usr/sbin
> directory (you can find it by typing "which lpd"). Rather than delete
> it, I moved it, and copied the new lpd into the same directory.
>
> You'll either have to reboot or kill the lpd daemon (it's the newer
> broken one). After I killed the lpd daemon and ran the older one
> manually, I printed sucessfully and only one copy. I rebooted and tried
> again. It works well.
>
> The 0.33 lpr daemon works for me on a 600 MHz P3 running mandrake linux
> 7.1, and printing via 10 mbit ethernet to an apple laserwriter 4/600
> which has a localtalk to ethernet bridge from asante. I'm using
> netatalk 1.4.2 as well.
>
> I suspect the redhat 6.0 lpr package may work for you as well, but I
> haven't tried it.
>
> Hope that helps others with the same problem.
>
> Sheldon
I am glad that your were able to resolve your problem. As I said in my
post, I figured that back-porting the Redhat 5.x lpd package would fix the
problem, but I just had not gotten around to trying it. The reason why I
wound up patching netatalk psf was that I had started out investigating the
problem on the assumption that it was psf that was broken, after all lpd is
as old as the hills and is a pretty innocuous piece of code. Having spent
a while working through the psf code to find where things were going wrong
it was just as simple to fix it there as to try anything else - we use
ethertalk as the de-facto printer standard and I needed a fix and I needed
it fast. With your permission I will post your experiences onto the
netatalk lists I read and will update the Redhat bugzilla report for this
to include the fact that lpr-0.33 is OK.
--
David C Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Materials Engineering Laboratory,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
University of Oulu
PO Box 4200
Oulun Yliopisto 90014 FINLAND
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"Sheldon D. Stokes" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<br>wrote:
<p>> I hope all of this helps illuminate at least the first part of your
<br>> problem.
<p>Yes it did. First off let me say thank you very much for the insightful
<br>post about this problem. You have a much greater knowledge of
the
<br>problem than I had. Half the fun of linux for me is learning
about the
<br>OS and trying to share what little knowledge I have.
<p>I suspect that there will be a lot of frustrated people out there with
<br>this same problem in the future. SO I'll describe my fix in detail:
<p>It looks like I solved my problem and here's how I did it:
<p>Rather than download the newest lpr suite of source code and try to
fix
<br>it, I was lazy and tried the older lpr first. I had gotten netatalk
to
<br>work with redhat 6.0 but it had a lot of bugs in various packages as
<br>well as the kernel (zip drive corruption comes to mind), so I went
back
<br>to the last stable version which I had good luck with. This was
redhat
<br>5.2.
<p>I went to ftp.freesoftware.com and downloaded the SRPM for the
<br>redhat-5.2 lpr daemon, which is: lpr-0.33-1.src.rpm. I installed
that
<br>(rpm -hvi lpr-0.33-1.src.rpm). I cd'ed to /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES
<br>(/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES in a redhat installation). I then untared
the
<br>source (tar xfz lpr-0.33.gz). I then cd'ed into the lpr-0.33
directory
<br>and typed make. A few seconds later I had some fresh old daemons.
<br>Rather than install all the older daemons (lpd, lpr, lpq, lprm), I
just
<br>installed the lpd daemon. The lpd daemon usually sits in the
/usr/sbin
<br>directory (you can find it by typing "which lpd"). Rather than
delete
<br>it, I moved it, and copied the new lpd into the same directory.
<p>You'll either have to reboot or kill the lpd daemon (it's the newer
<br>broken one). After I killed the lpd daemon and ran the older
one
<br>manually, I printed sucessfully and only one copy. I rebooted
and tried
<br>again. It works well.
<p>The 0.33 lpr daemon works for me on a 600 MHz P3 running mandrake linux
<br>7.1, and printing via 10 mbit ethernet to an apple laserwriter 4/600
<br>which has a localtalk to ethernet bridge from asante. I'm using
<br>netatalk 1.4.2 as well.
<p>I suspect the redhat 6.0 lpr package may work for you as well, but I
<br>haven't tried it.
<p>Hope that helps others with the same problem.
<p>Sheldon</blockquote>
I am glad that your were able to resolve your problem. As I said
in my post, I figured that back-porting the Redhat 5.x lpd package would
fix the problem, but I just had not gotten around to trying it. The
reason why I wound up patching netatalk psf was that I had started out
investigating the problem on the assumption that it was psf that was broken,
after all lpd is as old as the hills and is a pretty innocuous piece of
code. Having spent a while working through the psf code to find where
things were going wrong it was just as simple to fix it there as to try
anything else - we use ethertalk as the <i>de-facto </i>printer standard
and I needed a fix and I needed it fast. With your permission I will
post your experiences onto the netatalk lists I read and will update the
Redhat bugzilla report for this to include the fact that lpr-0.33 is OK.
<pre>--
David C Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Materials Engineering Laboratory,
Mechanical Engineering Department,
University of Oulu
PO Box 4200
Oulun Yliopisto 90014 FINLAND</pre>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Problems loading Mandrake Linux
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:46:01 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Stephen Banner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok, I had removed the primary hard drive and then tried to install the Linuk
>Mandrake 7.0 onto the secondary slave disc drive.
>Once the installation was completed and re-booted the screen filled up with
>loads of characters endlessly.
>Tried loading from floppy but this only returned the kernel panic error. It
>must now only be my system set up that is causing the conflict, where do I
>start to look, or is it best to clean the hard drive of its contents then
>re-install??
If you tried to install Linux on your secondary slave with your primary
hard drive removed, where did you put LILO? LILO has to go somewhere on
the first drive unless you are using some other multiple boot loader.
I would put all hard drives before any removable drives, especially if
BIOS does not see your cd drives. Try making this drive a slave of your
primary drive, and put your cd's on the secondary ide channel.
>Stephen Banner
>"Stephen Banner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:1WVn5.4373$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hello
>>
>> I wonder if anyone can help.
>>
>> I am getting frustrated and sure someone can help me overcome this
>> situation.
>>
>> I have the following set-up:
>> CPU - Pentium III 500
>> hard drive Windows 98se
>> hard drive 2 - here Mandrake 7.0 was installed
>> cd rom drive
>> cd re-write drive
>>
>> During installation the following was shown
>> /boot (hdd1)
>> /(hdd5)
>> /linux swap hdd6
>> /home hdd7
>>
>> After the making the boot disk and lilo install to rebooting the system
>the
>> screen showed loads of l1 0101010....endlessly
>> and so on .
>>
>> From ms-dos I did fdisk/mbr
>>
>> I cannot use the floppy to boot into my secondary drive where Linux is
>> installed as the error:-
>> "VFS cannot open root device 16:41
>> kernel panic VFS unable to mount rot fs on 16:41"
>>
>> I have tried loadlin by taking a copy of the vmlinuz-2.2....etc and
>renaming
>> it to bzimage and then running:-
>> c:\linux\loadlin bzimage root=/dev/hdd5
>> This also gives me an error same as above for kernel panic.
>> I am very new to the Linux environment but very satisfactory with ms-dos
>and
>> windows. Is there any way to change the settings of the floppy/drive to
>> correctly boot into the Linux environment?
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>> Stephen Banner
>>
>>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Open source Driver for Yamaha XG-SD
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:41:56 GMT
hi,
i'm searching for a driver for my yamaha XG-SD sound card. i know
there is a sharware driver available, but is there any open source
driver available for this sound card? no matter even if it's a beta.
thank you.
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From: Charlie Bendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:29:36 -0500
Are you sure you have the ASUS BIOS set to boot SCSI before IDE?
Devin Null wrote:
> I'm trying to install RH 6.2 on a mixed SCSI/IDE system. The motherboard is
> an Asus P2B-S with the built-in Adaptec SCSI controller (78xx). My boot
> drive is a 4.5GB Seagate Cheetah on the Adaptec and it is backed by two UDMA
> IDE drives, one on each IDE channel. The system also has two CD-ROM's and a
> tape drive on the narrow channel of the onboard SCSI.
>
> On installing lilo during setup there is a warning that "sd2a is not the
> first drive" even though it is indeed SCSI ID 0 and I boot from it fine
> under MS-Windows. When I reboot after install I just get the old "LI..." and
> it hangs. Redhat seems to be having a hard time with this configuration. If
> I make a boot disk and use that everything works properly but I don't want
> to have to use a boot floppy to run Linux if I can avoid it.
>
> Any ideas besides disabling booting from my snazzy Cheetah drive?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Sony F400 and sound
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:57:20 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:44:00 +0200, Hal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi from Cologne,
>I�m running Suse 2.4 on a Sony F400 with the Yamaha SX Sound Card.
>Who can tell me how to install sound without cracking and other disturbing
>noises - hardware i ok :-)????
>
>Thanks a lot, Hal
Why do you mention cracking and other disturbing noises, did you almost
get it working? I am using the pay www.opensound.com drivers on my F450,
but Alsa has free drivers for it now. For either, you have to disable PnP
in CMOS setup if you don't want .wav files to crash or repeat themselves.
For more see http://www.de-srv.com/linux/sonyF450.html
PS: Turn down your microphone volume with a mixer if you get feedback or
other sounds from the mike.
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