Linux-Setup Digest #518, Volume #19 Wed, 30 Aug 00 10:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Playing music CDs, No sound (Chris Rankin)
Re: still can't make win98 the default os on LiLo (The Contact)
Re: Problems with starting KDE in Linux Mandrake 7.0 (The Contact)
How to boot Linux after installation of Win2k ("Qian Haishan")
Re: How to switch to other Window managers e.g. fvwm2 ("J.T. Wenting")
Linux/unix programs 6162 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Calling Linux Gurus familiar with Partition Magic (PlzBeMine)
Re: Cannot boot from SCSI drive (Black Dragon)
Re: sendmail is acting like a snail ("ne...")
Re: ping to ISP gets no answer (Black Dragon)
Re: named,httpd,sshd Aren't Started During Boot ("ne...")
Re: "weird" partitioning - how to make Suse 6.3 bootable? GeForce?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RPM Installations (Black Dragon)
Re: virtual hosts ("Ozetechnology")
BroadBand Problem (Michael Yau)
Multiple Swap Partitions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM 300PL hanging regularly (Jim Diamond)
How to make a script ? (Thomas)
Re: Internal Modem setup (Jeff Peterson)
Re: still can't make win98 the default os on LiLo (Eric)
nis + so52 net (Nicolas Hernandez)
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Playing music CDs, No sound
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:15:50 +1100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 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.
Your problem sounded so similar to mine that it was almost creepy. I too
have a dual-boot motherboard with an i810 audio chipset. My underlying
chip is the CS4299D and I could play WAV files using the ALSA drivers
but couldn't get any CD music through my speakers. My solution was to
use alsactl to turn on as many options as I could while still keeping
the ability to play WAV files. Imagine my joy to finally hear my CD!
The magic configuration is .... (spoilers follow ;-))
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.
.
.
.
The Video Switch! It sounds crazy, but on my system I need to turn the
Video support on and adjust the music output via the Video volume. The
CD switch and volume do not affect it. The disk I originally tried this
on had two video tracks and so I swapped in an older disc just to be
sure. The result was the same. Maybe the ALSA mixer has the channel
names swapped?
Chris
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: still can't make win98 the default os on LiLo
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:27:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> Thanks for the advice "add default=dos to lilo.conf".
> But it did not work.
>
> I added "default=win98" (my windows partition has label win98)to the
> last line of lilo.conf. I then typed lilo at xterm. It said some error
> at the last line where "default=win98" is.
> I then tried to add this line to somewhere else in lilo.conf, but still
> it reported an error.
>
> So where shall I add this line to?
>
> Thanks again
Maybe you can post it in this ng. But maybe this'll help (my lilo.conf):
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16
label=linux
read-only
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=modlinux
read-only
root=/dev/hda5
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0
label=experimental
read-only
root=/dev/hda5
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
--
The Contact
"Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
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From: The Contact <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with starting KDE in Linux Mandrake 7.0
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:31:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have just finished installing Linux Mandrake 7.0 successfully (thank
> god, needed help with that even) on my machine as the only OS on it
> (no partitions, no swappable drives, etc).
>
> It is set to boot to X-Windows/KDE on boot, which it more or less
> seems to. I get the prompt to enter a username and password in a
> GUI-looking environment, and I am logging into my root with the proper
> password.
>
> But after it validates that, it moves me to a screen which LOOKS like
> a GUI, but all it has in it is two text windows and some sort of log
> screen.
>
> I don't see the menu bar that KDE is described as having in the
> manual, I cannot right-click anywhere to pull-up a menu...
>
> In short, I can't do ANYTHING except type in the various text windows.
>
> If I try to startx from one of them, it gives me the error that X is
> already running. If I quit/exit from one of the text windows, the
> system reverts back to the GUI-ish login prompt.
>
> Anyone have any ideas? Help would be appreciated.
When you have the logon-screen, can you choose which
windows-manager/desktop-environment you can choose? Maybe this is set to
'failsafe' at your pc. Just klik and select KDE. If you can't select
anything (but a login/password), press [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[F2], there you have
a console-login. Login with your username/password, and type 'startx --
:1'
If you get the same, then kill the X-server ([Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Backspace]),
then type (at console) 'xinit -- :1', and then (in the xterm)
'startkde'. If this doesn't work, KDE is probably not installed.
--
The Contact
"Ones and zeros represent more than just the binary count.
They represent the mass knowledge we know as Internet."
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Qian Haishan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to boot Linux after installation of Win2k
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:35:13 +0800
Hi,
I have one hard disk, orignally it is installed with RedHat Linux 6.2, while
today after I installed MS Windows 2000, I found that LILO was lost, so I
can not start Linux any more. Who can help me except reinstall Linux?
Thanks,
Qian Haishan
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From: "J.T. Wenting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to switch to other Window managers e.g. fvwm2
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:40:47 +0200
gnomeConfig allows setting windowmanager, and usually there is some menu
also to select one.
Don't know if fvwm2 supports Gnome, though...
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8oimg9$rtl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I am tring to switch to the fvwm2 window manager from Gnome.
> But how to d it?
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
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Subject: Linux/unix programs 6162
Date: 30 Aug 2000 11:45:45 GMT
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From: PlzBeMine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Calling Linux Gurus familiar with Partition Magic
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:12:25 GMT
> hihi.. if you want to ask something, you'd better read the docs first,
> then ask a newsgroup. But maybe if you have a very little beginners
> question and you can't find the answer in the docs, or are just too
> lazy to read them you are allowed to write me an e-mail..
actually I have successfully installed Linux in my previous terminal so
I am familiar with the installation process already. The difference
is : On my previous installation, everything was partitioned perfectly
before Win98 OS was loaded, now... everything is loaded and I have to
use this partition magic in order not to destroy current setup.
duh, hope this makes sense...
email me not =)
PlzBeMine
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: Cannot boot from SCSI drive
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:26:17 GMT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 18:39:14 +0800 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Andrew Wai' said:
>Hi,
>
>I just upgraded a PC with an IDE drive to another PC
>which has a Adaptec 2940U2W and a Seagte 9.1 scsi drive.
>I followed the mini hard disk upgrade howto, copying all
>the contents of the IDE drive to the SCSI drive.
>
>Now when I reboot it cannot find the hard disk to
>boot the kernel.
>
>I was running RH6.1 and even tried upgrading to RH6.2
>by booting the CDROM but after the upgrade it still
>cannot boot from the hard disk.
>
>I don't get the lilo prompt after the reboot. How do I
>set up the system to see the drive?
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew
Check your system BIOS/CMOS configuration. You may be able to set the boot
sequence in there. You would need to set it to boot SCSI,C:,A:, A:,SCSI,C:,
etc. You need to get SCSI in front of the IDE disk(s).
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail is acting like a snail
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:39:36 GMT
On Aug 30, 2000 at 10:56, Rune Elvemo eloquently wrote:
[...]
>OK.. then I guess I know what is causing this.... when I installed
>Debian 2.2, the installer suggested "naming" my computer Debian, so
>my etc/hosts file looks like this:
>127.0.0.1 debian localhost
>So what I should do is change this line into this? :
>127.0.0.1 hybel121.grm.hia.no localhost
127.0.0.1 should be
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
If your isp gives you a name and ipaddress then you add that
to the file. If you have a local lan, these can also be added.
My /etc/hosts is below:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
192.168.25.5 mach1.org mach1
192.168.25.6 mach2.org mach2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: ping to ISP gets no answer
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:38:55 GMT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:44:38 +0200 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Peter Schmelz' said:
>Hallo,
>I need some help.
>
>I've installed Suse 6.4 with i4l. When I dial to the ISP, I get a
>connection and a dynamic IP. The device ippp0 is then installed with the
>new IP. An ifconfig also shows the new IP. But when I ping to the ISP, I
>don't recive any packages.
>I don' t know, where the mistake is.
>Thanks for a hint!!
>
>Greetings, Peter
Did you enter the ip addresses of your isp's primary and secondary domain
name servers in /etc/resolv.conf?
nameserver "primary.dns.ip.address"
nameserver "secondary.dns.ip.address"
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: named,httpd,sshd Aren't Started During Boot
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:44:09 GMT
On Aug 29, 2000 at 19:36, Scott B. Drummonds eloquently wrote:
>Greetings, all,
>
>I'm trying to figure out why named, httpd, and sshd daemons aren't starting
>automatically when I boot my (Linux) system. My impression, from
>convention, was that I need to create a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d and
>create a S[0-9][0-9] symbolic link to it in /etc/rc.d/rc.[0-6]. I have done
>exactly this for rc3.d/S72sshd, rc3.d/S85httpd, and rc3.d/S43named but none
>of these services seem to be started when I cycle the power. Am I missing
>something?
Yes. Look at /etc/inittab and find out what boot level
is the default. The line will look something like:
id:3:initdefault:
Then make sure that you have the symlinks set up in that
directory.
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ISO applications:
A solution in search of a problem!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "weird" partitioning - how to make Suse 6.3 bootable? GeForce?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:48:14 GMT
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:59:38 +0200, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>THIS IS NOT A LILO PROBLEM!
Good to know!
>People keep assuming that booting from beyond cyl. 1024 is a problem
>related to lilo, but in fact this is a problem of the BIOS (newer
>bios'es don't have this problem, nor do the newer lilo-versions).
Meep. Wrong. If it was BIOS-related only, why can W2K (AFAIK) be
installed anywhere on my larger drive, while NT4 cannot?
>Try putting Windows in a partition entirely above cyl. 1024 and see how
>well it boots. a) you probably cannot even install it there!
> b) if you could it would not be bootable!
True for 9x, but those are not really OS's. Ture for NT4, which dates
back to '96. Not true for 2000, IIRC.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Subject: Re: RPM Installations
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:49:18 GMT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:17:50 +0200 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `Johannes Reese' said:
>So there are two types of rpm-packages? I have run two packages
>yesterday (rpm -i NAME.rpm) and all they did was copying a tar.gz-file
>to /usr/src/packages. I understood from the documentations that rpm
>could install packages in a ready-to-run-form. (After trying ./configure
>afterwards, I was told that "X includes" lacked, so I didn't succeed at
>all)
You obviously installed a source code package. You need to get rpms
with pre-compiled binaries (if available) for the applications you are
trying to install.
--
Black Dragon
"Resist militant `normality' -- A mind is a terrible thing to erase."
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From: "Ozetechnology" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: virtual hosts
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 22:56:32 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jenny Zepf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> can anyone tell me how i can set up virtual hosts in suse linux 6.4 i
> know what to do in the apache httpd.conf, but what else do i have to
> do??
>
> jenny
>
>
Assuming you are using named virtual hosts.
I normally add line for each of these virtual servers in the /etc/hosts
file. Needed when you are developing on the same physical machine.
What errors if any are you getting when you try and start apache?
David
Site: www.ozetechnology.com
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From: Michael Yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BroadBand Problem
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 21:02:18 +0800
I am a new linux user. I don't know how to config the linux in order to
make it can use i-cable broadband. Please tell me how to do so!
Thank you for your kind attention!
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Multiple Swap Partitions
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:01:45 GMT
I just built a server for use as an SAP application server at my
company. It's Red Hat 6.2 on a quad Xeon HP with 2 GB RAM and 9GB hard
drive mirrored.
The SAP folks at work wanted as much swap as I could give them, and
after setting up the application partitions, etc., I had 5 1/2 GB to
play with. Because of the two GB limitation on the i386 architecture,
I made 3 partitions: 2x 2GB, and 1x 1.5GB. Here is the problem:
If all three are setup in fstab, only ~1.5GB is shown when checking it
with the free command. If I swapoff -a, comment out the 1.5 GB
partition in fstab, then swapon -a,then free shows 4GB of swap space
available. I've tried resizing all the partitions so they are equal,
but still free will show only ~1.5GB (at this point the partitions were
all about 1.8GB)According to the mkswap man page, I should be able to
have 8 swap areas! Anybody seen this before? Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: IBM 300PL hanging regularly
From: Jim Diamond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:17:27 GMT
Hi,
I have an IBM PC (don't ask!), a 300PL 6565-86U. This machine has
218Mb of memory and an SR9 Xtreme 16 Mb video card. I recently
installed Slackware 7.1 and I am using the SVGA driver (XF86_SVGA) at
24 bpp, 1024x768. Slackware 7.1 uses XFree86 3.3.6.
The problem is that the machine regularly hangs when letting
xscreensaver run. Sometimes the machine will run for 12 hours or so,
other times it has hung within a minute or two. When it hangs, it
doesn't respond to pings or any keyboard or mouse activity, so I have
to power-cycle it to reboot.
This problem has occurred both with the generic kernel that comes with
Slackware 7.1 as well as one which I compiled for the specific
hardware and options that I wanted (both 2.2.16 kernels).
I'm a bit stumped at to what direction to turn at this point. If
2.2.16 was this flaky, there would be lots of people complaining
bitterly. Similarly, if XF86_SVGA was this flaky, I'd also assume
there would be lots of complaints (unless I'm the only person using it
with this video card, which also seems unlikely).
The only clue I have is that both the "strange" screensaver and the
"ifs" screensaver have been running a number of times when the machine
hung (I modified my .xscreensaver file so that the "start new
screensaver" events are logged). I could just remove these from the
lists of screensavers which run, but if they are only helping to
reveal a hardware problem with the PC (for instance), maybe all I'll
be doing is fooling myself into thinking that it's safe to do critical
work on this machine.
Anyone out there have any experince with this machine? Any
suggestions for ways of giving the hardware (the video card and main
memory come to mind) good tests?
Thanks.
Jim Diamond
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From: Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make a script ?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:07:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I am really new at Linux and I have to create a WebServer. I already
have all the configuration made by Hand but now I need a script that
will do the following steps for me:
- add User to /etc/passwd
- add User to /etc/group in the group FTP-User
- create a random Password for this User
- create directory /home/webpages/username
- set the rights on the new directory on 755
Does anybody know how I could create a script like that or how I can
find one ?
Thanks
Thomas
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From: Jeff Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal Modem setup
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:24:09 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I believe your modem is a winmodem which isn't really a hardware modem.
The 3Com U.S. Robotics 3CP5610A internal 56K modem works with Linux.
I have one and it was very easy to set up. 3Com even states that this
modem is compatible with Linux. It is only about $72. If interested,
I purchased it from Page computers from their web site. It is cheaper
if you go through their site than by phone ($10 service charge by
phone).
Jeff
Jack Warren wrote:
> I have an IBM Aptiva with a Conexant HCF v90 56 data fax PCI modem.
> Linux finds it but can't dial out using this modem.
> Can anyone offer any ideas??
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: still can't make win98 the default os on LiLo
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:50:43 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> Thanks for the advice "add default=dos to lilo.conf".
> But it did not work.
>
> I added "default=win98" (my windows partition has label win98)to the
> last line of lilo.conf. I then typed lilo at xterm. It said some error
> at the last line where "default=win98" is.
> I then tried to add this line to somewhere else in lilo.conf, but still
> it reported an error.
>
> So where shall I add this line to?
>
> Thanks again
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
this is what your lilo.conf should look like:
(except ofcourse for the partitions)
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=win98
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda3
other=/dev/hda1
label=win98
Eric
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From: Nicolas Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nis + so52 net
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:51:21 GMT
Hello,
I got a SlackWare 7 server on which i have installed so52 with the -net
option.
When i dont use the nis on my client i can install soffice, when i got
nis client on my Mandrake 7.1 Client, the installation crash, just when
i click on the ok button about Java (i don't have Java on my clients).
Please help me i am stuck with it !
Thanxs
Nicolas
http://www.next-concept.com
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