Linux-Setup Digest #460, Volume #19 Wed, 23 Aug 00 16:13:12 EDT
Contents:
setup ftp server ("Adrian Chan")
Can you play any great games on the N3390 and can you upgrade the video memory? from
4 to 8? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Monitor GNOME resolution (Andrew)
Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive (Paul Lew)
How to Include tools.jar ?? ("Daniel Pfuhl")
Re: Nis client (Andrei Ivanov)
disk druid and red hat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Monitor GNOME resolution (Eugene Y Lee)
Modem speed ("Dux")
Re: apm problems after 2.2.16 upgrade ("/hda: lost interrupt") (Alexander Clouter)
Re: disk druid and red hat 6.2 (Chiefy)
Re: apm problems after 2.2.16 upgrade ("/hda: lost interrupt") (Andrew Jaffe)
Re: ATI RAGE FURY PRO HELP!!! ("jade")
Kernel modules dissaster! ("Yura")
Re: Kernel panic message on install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH6.2 Install problem w/ AMD 1Gz thunderbird system (Thad Beier)
Re: Firewall for Linux (Chris J/#6)
Re: proftp problems with logins (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: help on uid/gid of /dev/dsp (Marc Andre Selig)
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From: "Adrian Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setup ftp server
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:21:07 +0800
I want to setup a ftp server on suse linux, anyone can tell me where I
should begin with? I have read some information on ftp server and tried to
set it up. When I connect to it, it just says that 421: the service is not
available and the connection is closed. Is that I must configure ftpaccess
in order to start the service? How can I do this? Thanks for helping me.
Adrian Chan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can you play any great games on the N3390 and can you upgrade the video
memory? from 4 to 8?
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:55:46 GMT
i was wondering if you can play some great games on this laptop? and
can you upgrade the video memory from 4 to 8?
Tim
In article <8lr1pf$oa1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Clearly I should read the documentation better. The newer versions of
> XFree86 (3.3.6 and beyond) contain support for this chipset, and thus
> should solve my problems in a jiffy.
>
> In article <8lr10n$nrh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm attempting to get my X to use the full
> > capabilities of my laptop. The video adapter is
> > capable of displaying 1024x768 at 85Hz. I don't
> > have dotclock or sync frequencies, and the
> > utilities that come with XFree86 are of no help
> > whatsoever, despite what limited knowledge I
> > have. The details are below:
> >
> > System:
> > HP Pavilion N3390
> >
> > Notebook display:
> > HP Pavilion 14.1" diagonal 1024 x 768 XVGA TFT
> >
> > Adapter:
> > Silicon Motion 3DM4 128-bit AGP2X graphics with
> > 3D hardware acceleration
> > 4MB dedicated video memory
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > 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: Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor GNOME resolution
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 13:30:05 -0700
I just installed linux on my Compaq Presario system, and the resolution
in the GNOME window envirnonmnet is wrong - so everything appears about
three times as big as it should be.
My question is: how do I change this setting to get a more reasonable
window size.
(running red hat 6.0)
* * *
Also, I wrote a small C program, compiled it, and when I tried to run it
at the command prompt, I got a 'command not found' error from the bash
prompt. What could be causeing that (a.out* was made after I
compiled).
Thanks a million
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: First drive SCSI - not seen as first drive
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:37:30 GMT
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, James Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Paul Lew wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:23:08 GMT, M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew) writes:
>> >
>> >[...]
>> >
>> >>Don't need to. I have linux on the 2nd ide drive with nt4 on the 1st ide
>> >>drive; I got the nearly the same msg "hdb5 is not on the 1st drive".
>> >>Lilo still works as the "warning" is an annoyance.
>> >
>> >Yup, but if that happens on a mixed IDE/SCSI system, LILO may not
>> >be installed properly after that. Disconnecting the IDE drives would
>> >be one way to do it; adding the
>> >
>> >"disk=/dev/sda
>> > bios=0x80
>> > disk=/dev/hda
>> > bios=0x81"
>> >
>>
>> Wrong, my installation had /dev/hda as nt4 and a scsi, /dev/sda, as my
>> linux; recently, I got a new drive, ide, where I moved the linux to and
>> kept the scsi as use for the IBM DB2 only. So, it is 2 ide drives and
>> 1 scsi with 2 scsi cdroms (internal) and a cdwriter, tape, and scanner
>> external and all working together without problems. Wellll, not the
>> scanner really as haven't gotten around to set it up and use it in linux.
>
>But note that if you've got a mixed scsi/ide system, and you're trying
>to install
>the bootstrap onto a scsi disk rather than an ide one, you *will* need
>to either disconnect the ide drive when running lilo, or (preferably)
>use the
>lilo.conf file to tell lilo that the machine boots from the scsi disk.
>If you
>don't do this, then lilo will complain that the disk you're trying to
>install
>the bootstrap on isn't the first disk, and it won't boot. I've been
>there and
>done this, and it took me a long time to figure out what was going on,
>because
>at that time this stuff wasn't in the lilo man page. Thankfully, it is
>now.
>
>James
I think the confusion arises in "where lilo is installed" on a mixed system;
my lilo was installed in the root/boot partition of the drive lilo is on.
The computer bootup process uses the nt4 loader to present a selection of
the os configuration to bootup; I had used bootpart to add linux to the
selection. Also, I used the nt4 system selection to make linux my default
os to bootup.
So, if you had placed lilo on the mbr record, then you could be correct
(I tried it long ago but nt still came up first); but if one put lilo
on the lilo root/boot partition and use another process to boot linux, then
all is well. Would be nicer if one can get something else instead of nt4
to load linux tho. If using win9x instead of nt4/nt2k, then something
like "system commander" could do the loading of linux and with less "hazzle"
than disconnecting drive(s).
Had seen another program to load different os but they all seem to want to
reside on a fat partition; the exception was the os/2 boot loader that did
a good job but nt4 does its thing and screws everything up as typical of m$.
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From: "Daniel Pfuhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to Include tools.jar ??
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:40:32 +0200
Hi
Can somebody tell me how to add /tools.jar to my classpath ?
I�m using SuSE 6.3.
thanx daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Ivanov)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Nis client
Date: 23 Aug 2000 17:46:40 GMT
In comp.unix.solaris TJ O Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a solaris machine as a nis server and i have three other
> solaris machines as nis clients. However i have another machine which is a
> linux box and i want it to act as nis client from the solaris
> machine.
Right what you're asking for:
http://www.geocities.com/ivanov_andrei/nis/
--
andrei
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: disk druid and red hat 6.2
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:50:25 GMT
i know this group is more 4 those choosing a
platform but i am taking a chance someone may
beable to give me the help i so desprately need
or can direct me to where i can find the info i
need.
I have downloaded and began installation of red
hat 6.2 - i used fdisk format a pc HD (19 gig)
once you partition the drive into linux native
parts (root, swap, var, ect.) red hat install
drops you into druid to finish up formating the
partitions - the problem arises here i have no OK
button. Only buttons i have are: add, edit,
delete, reset, and a back button on the lower
right of screen. i have specified mount points
and everything but i can not get to the next
step. Am i missing something, is there a way to
format and mount partitions through linux
fdisk?? any help would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
Damon
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From: Eugene Y Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor GNOME resolution
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 14:18:24 -0400
> I just installed linux on my Compaq Presario system, and the resolution
> in the GNOME window envirnonmnet is wrong - so everything appears about
> three times as big as it should be
Does your window scroll as you move the mouse to the sides? This may be
because your virtual desktop setting is differnt then your actual
resolution. Go into /etc/X11/XF86Config, and change the virutal setting
or remove the higher resolutions above the one you want under subsection
display, mode.
You can also can adjust size using ctrl- minus or plus
> Also, I wrote a small C program, compiled it, and when I tried to run it
> at the command prompt, I got a 'command not found' error from the bash
> prompt. What could be causeing that (a.out* was made after I
> compiled).
This is probably because your local directory is not in your path. try
./a.out
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From: "Dux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem speed
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:09:31 +0100
I have just purchased an external modem. When I select its speed it will not
run at 460000 (approx, I can't remember the exact speed displayed in the
dropdown menu, 'cause I have to use windows to get any newsgroups).
It will only run at 230000(approx), from the drop down menu.
I wondered how I could improve performance as in windows the same modem is
really fast. It is so slow in Linux I can't even download pages properly.
Please help!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:10:39 +0100
From: Alexander Clouter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apm problems after 2.2.16 upgrade ("/hda: lost interrupt")
On 21 Aug 2000, Andrew Jaffe wrote:
>
> However, sometimes when I wake up after going to sleep, I find that my
> hard disk is completely inaccessible. X works until you try anything
> that accesses the disk, at which point it stops. On a console screen, I
> get a message that is something like
> "hda: lost interrupt"
> if I try to login. Again, this implies disk problems.
>
After the first 'hda: lost interrupt' message my kernel then decides to
issue the harddisk to wake up. From here the problem disappears.
I don't know much about what could be causing the actual problem but a
first guess would be that your machine is not turning on the interupts
properly after BIOS calls.
Recompile your kernel and in the APM support section you will see a option
that has the word interupt in it (I can't remember what it actually
says). Turn this on (or off if it is all ready on) and see what happens.
good luck
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: disk druid and red hat 6.2
Date: 23 Aug 2000 19:14:26 GMT
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:50:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did say to the dudes:
[snip]
>step. Am i missing something, is there a way to
>format and mount partitions through linux
>fdisk?? any help would be greatly appreciated.
No need for fdisk.
You can do it all with DiskDruid.
--
LGB.
"Christ's sakes, LGB. If we shot the loons, you'd be dead right now."
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From: Andrew Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: apm problems after 2.2.16 upgrade ("/hda: lost interrupt")
Date: 23 Aug 2000 12:15:14 -0700
Solved my own problem!
After being admonished to look at the various apm-related files
scattered throughout /etc/*, I found
/etc/sysconfig/apmd
It contains many possible switches to affect the behavior of apmd.
One of the lines documented in the file refers to exactly this problem,
and uncommenting the "HDPARM" lines seems to do the trick!
It would be nice if this was actually in the documentation, rather than
just the files, of course!
Andrew
Andrew Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi All-
>
> I recently upgraded the kernel on my RH6.1 system (on a Gateway 5150) to
> 2.2.16. Things went relatively smoothly.
>
> However, I've had many problems with apm. I upgraded to the latest apmd
> RPMs (3.0final), and this helped a bit.
>
> However, sometimes when I wake up after going to sleep, I find that my
> hard disk is completely inaccessible. X works until you try anything
> that accesses the disk, at which point it stops. On a console screen, I
> get a message that is something like
> "hda: lost interrupt"
> if I try to login. Again, this implies disk problems.
>
> This didn't happen before, ever! Any ideas?
>
> Andrew
> --
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> Center for Particle Astrophysics [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> University of California, 301 LeConte Hall (510) 642-7570
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From: "jade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: ATI RAGE FURY PRO HELP!!!
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:17:10 GMT
No need for the help. I went to www.xig.xom (Xi Graphics) and got their 3D
Demo driver and it works, but it disabled my mouse. Now the fun can begin.
brad
<moonie>; ")" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 06:04:23 GMT, "jade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>I have tried using XF86 4.0 and 4.0.1 and they all recognize the card as
> >>being there but am never able to get it configure correctly. Is their
any
> >>certain distro of linux besides redhat that readily supports this card?
> >>
> >>brad
> >I've had mine working great under SuSE 6.4 and RH 5.2, both with XF4
>
> Its not the distro its XFree86, you just need some pointers to get it
working.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you could give "jade" some pointers, or your
> XF86Config file that works with it.
> --
> moonie ;)
>
> Registered Linux User #175104
> http://counter.li.org
>
> KDE2
> Kernel 2.4.0-test5
> XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
> RAID 0 Striped
> Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
>
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel modules dissaster!
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:37:56 GMT
Hello.
Here is my problem. I'm trying to compile kernel on RedHat
6.2 Compilation goes fine and I can boot new kernel. Weired
problem comes up when it's time to laod modules. Here is the
error message: modprobe: Can't open dependencies files
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep
Weired thing is that this error message floods the screen
and doesn't let the boot proces to continue, just a hell
load of message like this. Oh yeah, that file does not
exist. I don't know if it';s supose to
but obviosly make modules_install doesn't write it there.
I tried to compile kernek without modules, everything in.
Same problem!
modules.dep does present in my original
/lib/modules/blah-blah so I suppose it comes with the
distribution. But !!! even if I rename my original modules
folder and reboot the system with original kernel. I get
only one complain about modules.dep not found and system
continues to boot and gives me the login. No flooding of
same error message from depmod.
Anybody has an idea?
I do install new System.map. I searched through Deja.com and
someone posted that saying no to CONFIG_MODVERSION should
help - no it didn't.
Please help!
I do this basically because I need support for NTFS and
writing support to.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel panic message on install
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:31:12 GMT
I had the exact same problem. I've got a Asus A7V with 800mhz
thunderbird. Two IBM Deskstar(30gb), sblive, Viper770 ultra, 128 pc133
ram. It is a problem with the RH6.2 install. It thinks your cpu is a
PIII. Only way I fixed this problem is by taking the hard drive out,
connecting it to another computer, and recompiling the kernel to use
K6-2 instead of PIII. After that it worked fine. Since then, I've
updated to the 2.4.0test-6 kernel and I'm running linux off the ATA100
controller(not sure if it runs at true speed) and with kernel set to
athlon cpu.
drew
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jason Souder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am new to Linux installs and have been trying for 2 days to install
> RedHat 6.2 on my PC. I first tried a Win2k/Linux dual boot but the
> system would hang on a Linux boot. I then tried a Linux only install,
> but the same error message appears. I have tried various hard drive
> partioning with Linux only and Win2k/Linux installs, but keep getting
> the same results.
>
> The install process goes well, but when I reach the end of the Linux
> install and make the boot disk, Linux bombs on the restart. The
message
> looks like this:
>
> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle process!
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> My PC configuration:
> ASUS A7V motherboard
> AMD 800Mhz Thunderbird
> 128MB SDRAM PC133
> IBM 75GXP 30GB ATA/100
> Matrox G400 32MB
> Plextor 8x4x32x
> Netgear network card
> SB Live!
>
> I currently have both the hard drive and CDRW hooked up to the primary
> and secondary IDE interfaces on the motherboard. I am not trying to
use
> the ATA100 connections -- Win2k did not recognize the connections
until
> after it was installed and the ATA100 driver was installed.
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Jason
>
>
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From: Thad Beier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH6.2 Install problem w/ AMD 1Gz thunderbird system
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 12:53:48 -0700
"William E. Sadler" wrote:
>
> Greetings!
>
> I am having a problem after installation with a ASUS A7V motherboard that
> has a 1GZ AMD Thunderbird processor in it. System has 512MB PC133 memory,
> Adaptec 29160 U2 SCSI, w/ Segate 9.1GB Cheetah drive. Matrox G400 32MB
> single head.
>
> The problem comes after the installation runs. Everything looks like it
> completes ok, after the system boots from lilo it always halts at the point
> where Linux is attempting to turn off the CPU serial number.
>
> I thought this was just an intel thing - is this a problem w/ Intel specific
> kernel on an AMD chip?
>
> Help will be appreciated! either e-mail or newsgroup, thanks!
> -WES
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
William,
The problem is that the RedHat 6.2 installation loads a kernel that
attempts to turn off the Intel CPUID 'feature', this causes the computer
to crash almost immediately on bootup.
It is frustrating, mostly because the installation appears to go so well.
Clearly, there is a kernel running the boot process that does work on
your computer.
What I did on this computer (a 1 GHz Athlon) is create a kernel on another
machine that didn't try to disable the CPUID, put it on a floppy, and
install it in the /boot directory by running the install CDROM in
rescue mode. This worked perfectly; although it's a bit of a pain.
Apparently it is possible to get the 386 version of the kernel off the
install CD in rescue mode, install that in the boot directory, and boot
to that; other people have reported success in that.
If you want more detailed instructions, send me mail, or check deja
news.
thad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris J/#6)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Firewall for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 23 Aug 2000 20:49:18 +0100
Jason Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to install a firewall on my Linux box. Does anyone have any
>suggestions?
>I am a newbie for this and I want to know which one is good...
>
>Regards,
>Jason
>
I wrote a script to set up the firewall from a config firewall on my SuSE
box ... should only need minor changes for other dists (and I'm talking
really minor)...
http://www.nccnet.co.uk/~sixie/linux/
is where you can grab the stuff from if you're interested. It uses linux 2.2's
ipchains stuff, but you shouldn't need to know its syntax (unless you run
into problems with the script or want to do more fancy stuff). The config
file takes care of it all.
Chris...
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Subject: Re: proftp problems with logins
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Aug 2000 21:48:36 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi, I set up proftpd v1.2.0rc2, and I'm running
> Red Hat Linux 6.0. I can login as 'anonymous' with
> an e-mail address as the password, but I cannot
> login as 'ftp' or any of my other users. I'm not
> sure what is causing this problem.
I had the same problem with the same version of ProFTPD, but on
Solaris 2.7. Logins as an authenticated user would fail with signal
11 (check your syslog!), while anonymous logins would work flawlessly.
I reported the bug, which was promptly resolved even before rc2 was
released, but apparently MacGyver forgot to put the fix in the release
rc2. For me, an upgrade to the latest cvs version helped, and ProFTPD
is running smoothly now.
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Subject: Re: help on uid/gid of /dev/dsp
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Aug 2000 21:37:57 +0200
Arul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know how to setup permissions on sound devices like
> /dev/dsp /dev/audio /dev/sequencer
On most recent Linux distributions, the permission bits for these
files are controlled by PAM. To stop this, edit the file
/etc/security/console.perms. Specifically, remove a line saying
something like this:
<console> 0600 <sound> 0640 root.sys
(The line with <sound> in the third column.)
After that, just set the permissions with chmod, as you would set them
for any other file.
> I would like it to be rw for all users so anyone can
> use the sound devices... like below
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 1 Apr 30 1999 sequencer
Note that this is probably a bad idea, but I do not know what exactly
you intend to do.
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