Linux-Setup Digest #540, Volume #19 Sun, 3 Sep 00 08:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Help on "Linux Solution" ("Gordon")
Re: Annoying X problem - PLEASE HHHHEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!! ("ivar_K")
Re: Ethernet card (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: a newbie question about md5sum (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Trying to install Suse 6.4.. (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Can't make initrd-2.2.16.img (Marc Andre Selig)
Network problem after upgrade ("Joey Yum")
Re: LILO (or just LI ) ("Tony Neville")
Re: X Windows Not Display? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Wiped Linux but LILO still there
Re: X Windows Not Display? (Anita Lewis)
Re: ppp failure (Dan Glover)
lilo destroy (system)
Re: Playing music CDs, No sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Playing music CDs, No sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux partition in Win2000 ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: lilo destroy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on "Linux Solution"
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 16:42:53 +0800
Dear all,
Since my office are using many microsoft products at the backend server,
so I face many problems when choosing Linux as workstation, my main
difficulties fall in:
1. Any email solution in Linux that can connect to MS Exchange server?
2. How can I share the dir in Linux to other MS clients, as well as mounting
their dirs also?
Thx.
Bgds,
Gordon
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From: "ivar_K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Annoying X problem - PLEASE HHHHEEEELLLLLPPPPP!!!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 08:53:48 GMT
I had some frustrating problems that seemed to be fixed by switching off
P&P of the Monitor
Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I can't help with your problem but I would like to know how you got it
> installed. I have a similar system to yours, only diff is the speed of
the
> cpu, mine is 750. I can't get X to configure....I get an error saying
that it
> can't find the file for the server SVGA.......any help?
>
>
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Subject: Re: Ethernet card
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Sep 2000 10:53:30 +0200
"Javi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, my problem is that I can't use my Xircom ethernet card under linux
> 6.1 although the machine detected my ethernet card. Every time I try to
> open netscape for example, it tell me "unknown host" .. please e mail me if
> you can help. Thanx
Please post more specific information, such as:
- How did you configure the card?
- What is the output from "/sbin/ifconfig"?
- What is the output from "/sbin/route"?
- What is the content of "/etc/resolv.conf"?
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Subject: Re: a newbie question about md5sum
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Sep 2000 10:49:16 +0200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi. I just downloaded the ISO image of Mandrake Linux, and in the
> README.txt it say you can use the md5sum to check the integrity of the ISO
> file. Iam currently running win98. Could any tell me how to run the md5sum
> command ? or is there any other method to do the integrity check of the
> ISO file?
Just get the md5sum command from somewhere and run it. If you've got
a straight port from unix, you would probably have to start a command
line window, change to the directory where your ISO image resides, and
say "md5sum *.iso". It will print a long hexadecimal code, which you
then compare to the code published on the mandrake site.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Trying to install Suse 6.4..
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Sep 2000 10:46:29 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi - Suse 6.4 is having a problem recognizing my CDROM: it's a Pioneer
> DR766 SCSI, the SCSI adapter is SIIG SC2459 BIOS version 1.0. The
> manuals aren't very straightforward. They discuss differnt kernel
> parameters and so forth but I couldn't find anything for my particular
> hardware configuration. At present I can't boot from CDROM, neither
> is loadlin able to mount the CDROM. Any help appreciated.
Where exactly do you have problems? As I read this, you do not even
have SuSE installed, but are still trying to get into the setup. Is
that correct?
If so: Whether or not you can boot from the installation CD depends
mostly on your bios. If your bios cannot do that, just run setup.exe
to get started.
Loadlin should not "mount" the CD at all. It is a DOS program, so
your DOS (well, probably Windows) should already have taken care of
"mounting" the CD.
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Subject: Re: Can't make initrd-2.2.16.img
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Sep 2000 10:39:03 +0200
Mark Cannata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/loop0 as a block device
> (maybe'insmod driver'?)
> Can't get a loopback device.
>
> What does this mean? How can I fix it?
This means that your current kernel (the kernel that is active while
you are building the new one) does not support a loopback device. The
loopback device is a special device that can hold a file system inside
a regular file. It is used while building the initrd image.
You might try something like "modprobe loop" before running mkinitrd.
> I tried booting into the 2.2.16 kernel without the img file, but got a
> kernel panic message saying "can't find the root filesystem". Is not
> having the img file the problem or have I got other issues, besides not
> having a clue?
The image file created by mkinitrd holds essential modules. The
kernel needs these before it can mount your root file system. An
example might be the driver for a SCSI host adapter if your root file
system resides on a SCSI drive and the kernel was compiled without
support for SCSI.
If you cannot manage to get the loop device working, try building a
kernel with all necessary drivers (including those for SCSI) built in.
Answer "y" to the configuration questions, instead of "m" for module.
Include the loopback device as well. Boot into that system, then
re-build the kernel the way you want it. Since loopback is now
available, you should be able to run mkinitrd without any problems.
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From: "Joey Yum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network problem after upgrade
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 17:10:36 +0800
I am a fresh hand user of RH. I was using RH 6.0 before and everything works
fine.
Problems appears after I had upgrade to RH 6.1 a few days ago. My lan card
(3Com 3C509-TPO) was not detected by the Kernel anymore. I had check all the
network configuration and I can sure the IRQ and I/O addr is OK as I was
using this for RH 6.0 before.
Would anyone give me solution for how to solve it ? OR would RH 6.2 will
solve this problem ?
Joey.
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From: "Tony Neville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO (or just LI )
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:42:41 +1200
"The Black Unicorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to get lilo installed properly for two days now,
> without any luck. I'm using an Abit A7V/Duron600 system running
> Slackware 7.1
> No matter where I try to install the lilo loader, it always stops at LI.
> I have the same problem with another pc (on which lilo has worked
> perfectly with Suse and RedHat)
>
> I don't see where there could be disk geometry errors (as suggested by
> the manuals), and the linear option's no good either. any ideas ?
I can only offer you the contents of my /etc/lilo.conf as a guide for
your own setup.
I have one drive which has three partitions. The first is a Linux Native,
the second a Linux Swap, and the third is a VFAT.
The LILO bootmanager is installed on the MBR.
====================
boot=/dev/hda I suppose this would read boot=/dev/hda1
were the bootmanager installed on the first
sector of the Linux partition rather than the
first sector of the drive (the MBR).
map=/boot/map Make *very* sure the "map" variable is correctly
set to point to the map file. Having it point
elsewhere would cause that 'LI' problem you're
having.
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=100
linear
default=dos
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-12
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
other=/dev/hda3
label=dos
=========================
If you've changed lilo.conf in any way, be sure to run the
command "lilo" from the shell prompt to implement the
changes, and then reboot.
Cheers,
Tony.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X Windows Not Display?
Date: 3 Sep 2000 09:59:19 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc T.F.Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi, I'm installed RedHat 6.2 on the following hardware :
: AMD K6-400, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio3D Graphics Card, Sony CPD-15SF II.
: But the X Windows seem to detect the graphics card but when I type startx at
: the command prompt. The monitor doesn't display and the button become
: orange.
Show us the output from "X -probeonly". And from "SuperProbe" if you have
time.
: Can anyone give me some tips or hints?
Need data. Saying "it doesn't work" isn't useful. The datapoint you
_have_ provided is the card. Thanks! Now we need to see your belief
confirmed with hard output from a program that probes the chipset.
TTThe card is supported, as far as I remember, so either you are using
the wrong driver, or you have configured the right driver wrongly.
The output from X -probeonly will tell us most of that. You might
also consider "X -showconfig" to let us see more driver-oriented info.
Check out such Xblah-HOWTOs as you can find. But this is a trivial
problem ... you can always use the VGA16 driver just to confirm taht
it's X and not your system that has the problem.
Peter
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wiped Linux but LILO still there
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 10:29:02 GMT
Thankyou, fdisk /mbr worked fine. I can't re-install Linux until I get
myself another drive so I will have to endure Windoze for now ;-D
Just one more thing, how big a partition should I give to Linux?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> You evidently installed LILO to the mbr. Since you intend to continue
> using Linux, but on another disk drive, there are two things you can do:
>
> 1) Remove LILO entirely for the time being, until you get around to
> installing a fresh copy of Linux in its new home. Use a DOS/Win boot
> floppy. At the a:> prompt issue command: fdisk /mbr Clears LILO out
> of the mbr.
>
> 2) Install Linux now. As part of the installation, install LILO into the
> mbr pointing to the new Linux partition, but indicating the windows '98
> partition as the boot default. After your installation routing gathers
the
> information needed to correctly edit the /etc/lilo.conf it will run the
> lilo to properly set the newly configured LILO un the mbr As a little
> homework reading pursuant to this whole process, check out one or more of
> the linux+win95 multiboot how-to's or mini how-to's which can be found in
> the documents hierarchy at www.linux.org, so that if at some future time
> you need to make further changes to your booting configuration you can do
> them by simply editing the /etc/lilo.conf file and running the lilo
> command.
>
> --Kevin
>
>
> On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 20:29:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I used to share my 10gb drive between Linux Mandrake 7.0 and Windows
98SE.
> >However I wiped the Linux partition using Partition Magic 5.0 Pro as I
> >want to use 2 seperate drives for 2 seperate OS's. The problem is that
> >LILO still wants to boot into Linux(which isn't there) as a default.
This
> >means that I can no longer turn on my PC and leave it to come on, as it
> >tries to boot Linux, with obvious results. Can I either remove LILO
> >altogether or at least make Windows the Default OS? I know very little
> >about Linux, so please be gentle!
> >Thanks in advance!
> >Alan.
> >
> >--
> >Posted via CNET Help.com
> >http://www.help.com/
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X Windows Not Display?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 10:32:19 GMT
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 12:55:09 +0800, T.F.Lai wrote:
>Hi, I'm installed RedHat 6.2 on the following hardware :
> AMD K6-400, 32MB RAM, S3 Trio3D Graphics Card, Sony CPD-15SF II.
>
>But the X Windows seem to detect the graphics card but when I type startx at
>the command prompt. The monitor doesn't display and the button become
>orange.
>
>Can anyone give me some tips or hints?
>
>I'll appreciate for your kindly help.
>
>Thanks.
Run either xf86config, XF86Setup, or Xconfigurator and put in the proper
monitor Horiz and Vert Range.
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From: Dan Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ppp failure
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 10:34:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Riggs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dan Glover wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Riggs
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually I spotted something else on re-reading your log. Look at the
time taken here between CARRIER and "Welcome..."
>> >Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: send (ATDT856666^M)
>> >Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: expect (CONNECT)
>> >Sep 1 21:08:34 linux chat[17146]: ^M
>> >Sep 1 21:09:04 linux chat[17146]:
>> >Sep 1 21:09:14 linux chat[17146]: CARRIER 52000^M^M
>> >Sep 1 21:09:34 linux chat[17146]: Welcome to 3Com Total Control HiPer
>> >ARC (TM)^M
>> For whatever reason the modem isn't returning CONNECT. Does the same
Looking at your other log I slightly suspect that it *is* generating the
message, but it's getting "lost".
>Thanks for the comments. I have also been having problems in getting a
>terminal emulator to work (I prefer Seyon) but I shall persist. All the
>connection scripts have been in use and working for a long time (perhaps over
>a year now). The connection log I included was with an extended timeout,
>using the normal timeout caused the script to fail before CARRIER was
>reported.
That ties in with my current theory...
>Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: send (ATZ^M)
>Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: expect (OK)
>Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: ^M
>Aug 27 09:33:17 linux chat[21736]: OK
Note that this is "instant". Re-reading the log included with your
original posting I see that the equivalent step took 19 seconds. IRQ
problem, almost certainly.
>Aug 27 09:33:18 linux chat[21736]: expect (CONNECT)
>Aug 27 09:33:18 linux chat[21736]: ^M
>Aug 27 09:33:37 linux chat[21736]: ^M
>Aug 27 09:33:37 linux chat[21736]: CARRIER 52000^M
>Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: ^M
>Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: PROTOCOL: LAP-M^M
>Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: ^M
>Aug 27 09:33:38 linux chat[21736]: CONNECT
20 seconds to CONNECT isn't a problem, remembering that there's all the
negotiation once the remote end answers. In the recent log - see above
- it takes 40 sec from "expect CONNECT" to "CARRIER". This wouldn't
necessarily be a problem in isolation. However...
>Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: Welcome to 3Com Total Control HiPer ARC
>(TM)^M
>Aug 27 09:33:39 linux chat[21736]: Networks That Go The Distance (TM)^M
These two lines follow almost immediately, but in the recent log there's
20 sec delay between "CARRIER" and "Welcome". Going back to your
original posting I see there's a *further* delay of 30 sec before
"Networks..." which is definitely a problem. Sorry for not spotting the
signs first time round.
>All of which makes me think I broke something. The problem is that I still
>have not worked out what.
Did you previously have to use `setserial` to fix the irq for the modem?
If so it's likely that your upgrade trampled on whatever (boot script?)
was setting this.
>Using Win98 for Internet is not too much of a pain but setiathome on my Linux
>box is waiting to exchange work units and ranking will be slipping (I was in
>the top 6%) ;-)
If you can confirm which irq is being used in Win98 this may help.
Dan
--
Dan Glover ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo destroy
Date: 3 Sep 2000 18:41:56 +0800
Hi ppl out there,
me accidentally execute the "fdisk /mbr", hence my lilo booting is
gone.
Is there anyway i could just install my lilo, I remember my linux is at partition hda5.
Help help
Thanks
--
Paul Wong Peng Kai
System Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Playing music CDs, No sound
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 11:19:59 GMT
Thanks for the asound.conf. I've tried replacing my asound.conf
with your asound.conf (except that I have "Analog Devices AD1881"
instead of "Cirrus Logic CS4299 rev D"). It still does not work.
Anyway, thanks for the help.
T.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > There's still no sound from the CD.
> >
> Well, here's my asound.conf file. Maybe there's something here that
can
> help you:
>
> # ALSA driver configuration
> # This configuration is generated with the alsactl program.
>
> soundcard("card1") {
> mixer("Cirrus Logic CS4299 rev D") {
> ; The type is 'bool'.
> switch("AC97 Mono Output Select", false)
> ; The type is 'bool'.
> switch("AC97 Second MIC", false)
> ; The type is 'bool'.
> switch("ADC/DAC Loopback", false)
> element("Input Gain Switch",0,101,Switch2(off))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 15
> ; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 15
> element("Input Gain Volume",0,200,Volume1(10,10))
> element("Master Mono Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("Master Mono Volume",0,200,Volume1(24))
> element("Headphone Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> ; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("Headphone Volume",0,200,Volume1(22,22))
> element("Master Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 63
> ; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 63
> element("Master Volume",0,200,Volume1(48,48))
> ; The 3D effect has an on/off switch.
> ; Center : Min 0 Max 15
> ; Depth : Min 0 Max 15
> element("Effect",0,600,_3D_Effect1(sw=on,center=0,depth=10))
> element("Aux Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> ; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("Aux Volume",0,200,Volume1(24,24))
> element("Video Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> ; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("Video Volume",0,200,Volume1(24,24))
> element("CD Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> ; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("CD Volume",0,200,Volume1(24,24))
> element("Line Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> ; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("Line Volume",0,200,Volume1(24,24))
> element("MIC Switch",0,101,Switch2(off))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("MIC Volume",0,200,Volume1(0))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 1
> element("MIC Boost",0,200,Volume1(0))
> element("Phone Switch",0,101,Switch2(off))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("Phone Volume",0,200,Volume1(24))
> element("PC Speaker Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 15
> element("PC Speaker Volume",0,200,Volume1(12))
> element("PCM Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
> ; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
> ; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
> element("PCM Volume",0,200,Volume1(29,29))
> element("Mono Output MUX",0,401,Mux2(element("Mono-Out
> Accumulator",0,301)))
> element("Input
MUX",0,400,Mux1(element("CD",0,0),element("CD",0,0)))
> }
> }
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Playing music CDs, No sound
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 11:26:48 GMT
I'm able to play music CDs under Win98 (my system is dual boot)
so I don't think it's a hardware problem.
T.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Make sure your CD sound cable is plugged into your sound card.
>
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Before you buy.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux partition in Win2000
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 07:44:46 -0400
> How do I hide a linux partition in Win2k? I have a Linux partition that is
> part of an extended partition. Windows 2000 sees the drive and posts in
> explorer. I want to hide it because Windows wants to format it when someone
> clicks on it and I don't want to erase my linux partition. Are there any
> other ways around this?
Incredible that the latest and greatest Windows is still so stupid. I
don't know about Windows 2000, but in 98 this problem arises if you have
more than one primary and one extended partition per drive. The solution
is to repartition.
I have also been told that this can happen if there are Linux partitions
between Windows partitions. Again the solution is to repartition, moving
all the Windows partitions to the start and all other partitions after.
I guess the folks at Microsoft still can't believe that anyone would ever
use any other OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: lilo destroy
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 13:08:18 +0100
system wrote:
>
> Hi ppl out there,
> me accidentally execute the "fdisk /mbr", hence my lilo booting is
>gone.
> Is there anyway i could just install my lilo, I remember my linux is at partition
>hda5.
> Help help
Maybe you could boot up with your rescue disk and mount hda5 and execute
/sbin/lilo presuming of course that your lilo.conf was ok in the first
place.
If that fails then maybe you should contact a "system engineer" <LOL>
roy
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Paul Wong Peng Kai
> System Engineer
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