Linux-Setup Digest #544, Volume #19 Sun, 3 Sep 00 19:13:11 EDT
Contents:
r.h. 6.2 annoyances (Caldera Systems OpenLinux User)
Please help me with these network settings. I use @home services. (Klord)
Re: Trying to install Suse 6.4.. (mpulliam)
Re: Trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0, where in heck is KDE? (Elliott)
Re: ppp failure (Peter Riggs)
Re: ppp failure (Peter Riggs)
DSL "Network down" (M Metaferia)
Strange output in Gnome. ("Yura")
Re: help: connecting to ISP, can someone help (Mostyn BRAMLEY-MOORE)
Re: KDE panel & icons ("Yura")
Re: Grip..... (Tim Riehle)
/dev/dsp detect ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Re: Promise ATA100 and Linux ("Christian Lagerberg")
Re: Newbie memory question (Scott B)
Re: Installing Mandrake on top of Caldera ? (Lyndon)
Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux (Lyndon)
Re: Saved Lines Gnome-Terminal (Steve Bellenot)
Re: XFree86 4.0.0 and SiS 6326 ("D. D. Brierton")
Re: XFree86 4.0.0 and SiS 6326 (Thorsten Holtkaemper)
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From: Caldera Systems OpenLinux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: r.h. 6.2 annoyances
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 08:17:31 -0600
I'm having a couple problems setting things up like how I have them in
caldera and solaris.
Firstly, how to I get telnetd and ftpd up? There is no intetd process
up, and no inetd.conf file. I understand the security implications of
inetd, but for the moment I need convienient remote administration.
Secondly, how can I get X to run without being root?
Lastly, could someone explain to me why putting set -o vi or EDITOR=vi
in .bashrc or .bash_profile does not work?
Thanks,
iksrazal
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From: Klord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help me with these network settings. I use @home services.
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 14:09:00 -0700
I am trying to setup my cable modem that I have with AT&T @Home
services. Everything works GREAT in MS Windows. Here are my network
settings in MS-Windows 98SE.
=============================================================================
IP: 24.16.11.19
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 24.16.11.1
Host: C687689-A
Domain: fallon1.nv.home.com
DNS Server Search Order:
24.16.11.15
24.16.11.17
Domain Suffix Search Order: fallon1.nv.home.com
Computer Name: C687689-A
Workgroup: @home
=============================================================================
The setting that has me really confused is "Domain Suffix Search
Order" . Where dose this go in the Network Configurator??? I have run
netcfg and linuxconf. Hmmm?
I have migrated from a DSL modem and I thought this would be simple to
setup. All I have to do is change settings on eth0. It appears to be
more of a challenge.
Could someone out there PLEASE help me interpret all the above
settings in Linux-Mandrake 7.1? Where do I plug all this information
in? Obviously I am doing something wrong. Details please.
Klord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: Trying to install Suse 6.4..
Date: 3 Sep 2000 21:17:18 GMT
>[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.
>> At present I can't boot from CDROM, neither
>> is loadlin able to mount the CDROM.
>
If what you are trying to do is boot from
the CDROM (and you can't), the problem is
not with SuSE 6.4, which hasn't even started
up yet (it's on the CDROM, right? and you can't
view anything on the CDROM yet.)
On most computers you have to change this by
going in to the BIOS. Reboot your computer and
pay attention to all the messages that scroll
by. Somewhere near the beginning it will pause
and tell you if you want to access the BIOS
(sometime it says the "setup") to press a certain
key or key combination (on mine it's delete).
Do that, and you will see the screens that
belong to the BIOS. Somewhere in there is an
option where you can change the order of things
the computer looks at when booting. Probably now
it has the floppy drive first, the hard drive
second. Change it so the CDROM is first, the
floppy probably second, the hd third. Save and
exit. (do not mess around with anything else
in there :-)
If the BIOS does not have such an option you
probably will not be able to boot and install
from the CDROM.
MP
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From: Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trying to install Linux Mandrake 7.0, where in heck is KDE?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:20:45 GMT
just to check and see... type locate kde and see if anything pops up.
I installed the server editin of RedHat on my first install, and I was
really confused when it booted up with a command line. I had never used
linux before, and the whole thing was rather disapointing. If you have
netscape installed, you might want to look into the Afterstep window
manager. It will progably work with the basic X server that you have. It
with Another Level, which is pretty darn basic. Good luck with that.
Bit Twister wrote:
> Sounds like you did a Server install instead of Workstation.
>
> I use Custom/Expert so I get what I want.
>
> On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 00:17:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I ran through the GUI installation process, and everything seemed to
> >go well. It installed X Windows, I could reboot and login with the
> >root user....
> >
> >But no KDE. This became apparent from previous posts here when people
> >said if I typed "startkde" in the xterm and nothing happened, then KDE
> >was not installed.
> >
> >Well I went into the xterm and typed "startkde" and it said the
> >command was not found....
> >
> >So where is KDE, and how do I get it on my machine? I'm installing
> >from the Mandrake 7.0 set you buy retail in stores, and I really would
> >like to get a UNIX system going (already failed miserably in my
> >attempts to install FreeBSD), but I'm completely lost now...
> >
> >Any assistance would be appreciated
> >
> >---Losing hope in NY
>
> --
> The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
> If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
> Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
> Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ppp failure
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:29:48 GMT
Dan Glover wrote:
> -- snip --
>
> 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.
>
> --snip --
>
> 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])
I had an email which pointed this out to me. Yes, the upgrade ignored my
rc.serial script so that the setserial command for my modem was not setting the
interrupt as previously. All sorted now so I'm back on line.
Win98 is on another machine using a winmodem, so its settings are a complete
mystery (to Win98 at times ;-)
Thanks for the help.
Peter.
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From: Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ppp failure
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:36:35 GMT
Nick Kew wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Yes, is there a problem?
>
> Fair enough. It just doesn't look much like a UK phone number (maybe I'm
> being naive), and given the full minute delay after your dialling it,
> I surmised that perhaps you hadn't connected to anything.
>
> --
> Nick Kew
>
> Site Valet - the essential service for anyone with a Website.
> Now available at <URL:http://valet.webthing.com/>
It's a local Telewest (Cable Internet) access number so I don't use the STD
prefix.
Cheers,
Peter.
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From: M Metaferia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.ps.linux.help,comp.ps.linux.hardware
Subject: DSL "Network down"
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 14:46:52 -0700
I have on-demand DSL from Pacific Bell which I am trying to configure
for use with Redhat Linux on an HP Pavilion PC with an HP EN1207D
ethernet card.
I have installed the rp-pppoe client and am using a fairly new version
of pppd.
However, pppoe complains "Network down" on eth0 whenever it's started.
eth0 is visible to the OS and I have configured it not to be activated
at boot time. After pppoe fails, ifconfig shows eth0 and ppp0 with no
address assigned to either interface. It appears that ppppe cannot talk
to the [Westell] DSL modem properly.
The Windows pppoe client works with no problems.
Has anyone encountered this problem and managed to work around it?
Please reply by email.
-matt
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Strange output in Gnome.
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:44:26 GMT
Hi people. Every time I start any "G" program
(Gnome compatible or just GTK written) I get this
kind of output:
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet
creation
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
But is I start "G" soft as root or any other user,
I don't have this output. I mean, even with this
output, program starts fine, I jsut want to get rid
of it.
I hope anyone has an idea. I suppose somethign is
messed up in my personal Gnome's configuration.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mostyn BRAMLEY-MOORE)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: help: connecting to ISP, can someone help
Date: 3 Sep 2000 21:40:53 GMT
>Would changing localhost to a different name make any difference to
>its operation?
>
>ie instead of;
>
>127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
>have 127.0.0.1 gtech gtech.localdomain
you can add other names, but localhost needs to point at 127.0.0.1
ie
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.domain gtech
would be fine.
m.
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From: "Yura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE panel & icons
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 21:49:31 GMT
Try this.
log on as root and go to your user's folder.
I suppose that KDE configuration is in .kde or .kde2
so just type:
chown -R yourUserName .kde
This should fix the permissions.
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 17:09:52 -0500
From: Tim Riehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Grip.....
Can you rip without encoding? Are you sure that you have execute
priveliges for your encoder? On my machine ( I prefer bladeenc)
% ls -l `which grip` `which cdparanoia` `which bladeenc`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 30448 Mar 28 03:12 /usr/bin/cdparanoia
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 340870 Jul 3 13:56 /usr/bin/grip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 172292 Aug 4 1999 /usr/local/bin/bladeenc
How about your cdrom device driver?
% ls -l /dev/hdc
brw------- 2 riehle disk 22, 0 May 5 1998 /dev/hdc
T
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, ascii_superstar wrote:
> I have mandrake 7.1 with the latest Grip.
> I am using the NotLame encoder based on the latest LAME.
> I can use the program fine whilst logged in as root.
> But if I am using my normal account I get a segmentation fault.
> Just what could be causing this.
> I cant think of any files that need to have there permissions modeified...
>
>
> thanks
>
> sergio
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/dsp detect
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 22:10:00 GMT
Is there an easy way in a bash shell script, for instance, to determine
whether /dev/dsp is busy? For instance, I have a shell script which
performs some tasks and then plays a sound file and then some other
tasks. If /dev/dsp (or any other sound device really) is busy (playing
an MP3 or whatever), the script waits until /dev/dsp is free. Rather,
I'd like to have the script check to see if /dev/dsp is free...if so
play sound file, if not skip the sound file and continue. Any
suggestion?
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From: "Christian Lagerberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Promise ATA100 and Linux
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 22:10:47 GMT
"Allen Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ou8n5$oev$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In alt.os.linux.slackware Christian Lagerberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Anyone have a disk image with a working ATA100 driver that i can use to boot
> > and install Slackware on this box ? The promise controller is named PDC20265
> > on the Asus A7V mainboard.
> Go to http://zuul.slackware.com and download the ata66 boot disk (it also
> supports ata100). HTH
>
> Allen
> --
> Linux: If you're not careful, you might actually learn something.
> 12:00pm up 3 days, 12:38, 5 users, load average: 2.00, 2.01, 2.00
Aha. many thanks but i tried the ata66.i from slack 7.1 current cdrom, didnt work for
me. Failed to detect my IBM 75GXP ata100 disk.
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From: Scott B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie memory question
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 18:18:24 -0400
Worked like a charm, thanks a million!
"Gero H. Marten" wrote:
> > Scott B wrote:
> >
> > I just downloaded the new mandrake ISO's for my first try at linux, but
> > I can't get it to use more than 16MB of RAM! It is hurting so bad that
> > moving the mouse causes paging.
> >
> > My system is a:
> > K6-2 300
> > Tyan S1590
> > Viper V770
> > 256 MB
> > USR Courier v90
> > Adaptec 2940U2W - 4 drives (Win98, Data drive, Linux OS , Linux swap )
> >
> > Any help would be GREATLY apreciated
> > TIA
>
> Disable the "memory hole" settings in the BIOS.
>
> --
> Gero H. Marten
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From: Lyndon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Installing Mandrake on top of Caldera ?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 15:18:38 -0700
You can do this if you have an empty (unused, extra) partition in your
HD. Just install Caldera into that empty partition. Otherwise, I havn't
experienced installing two Linux flavors one on top of another. All I've
done is install one version beside another (physically side by side
occupying different partitions on the HD).
Hope this helps.
Have a nice day.
Martin Racette wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to install Mandrake 7.1 without
> erasing Caldera, I mean replacing the OS but not losing all the
> information was already written to disk
>
> I don't have any possiblity to move my /home directory to any other
> part of the disk(s)
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Merci a l'avance
>
> Martin
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From: Lyndon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 15:21:38 -0700
Don't give up dude. It took me 3 months to get my Mandrake 7.0 running
like my other computer with the leading brand OS. It was worth it I
believe, now I have a computer that can do tricks :)
Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> Often I see postings like
>
> > > Well I am exhausted. I am forced to accept the reality, Mandrake 7.1
> is
> > > beyond my abilities. To those who have installed Mandrake 7.1 you have
> > > my complete admiration. With more than 25 years of computer
> experience,
> > > much of it in Unix, I am totally defeated.
>
> > What errors do you get? Signal 11 or 7 can mean you have a bad memory
> chip
> > in RAM or cache. Refusal of X to test/start can be an unfriendly video
> > card. Do you get disk geometry errors? Are you using anything SCSI? Have
> > you tried an install with the system stripped to the bare essentials?
>
> True, good possibilities, but I still see a lot of postings where lots of
> bad hardware is suddenly discovered upon Linux installations... One would
> wonder why didn't these problems didn't appear before they changed from
> other leading brand OS...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Bellenot)
Subject: Re: Saved Lines Gnome-Terminal
Date: 3 Sep 2000 22:21:31 GMT
In article <8oucoj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin Vandersloot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <8oub6t$4k6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Bellenot) wrote:
>> What resource/magic does one need to set to get
>> gnome-terminal to save more lines? For xterms
>> I've used XTerm*SaveLines: 4096
>> XTerm*saveLines: 4096 But this doesn't work
>> for gnome-terminal.
>>
>
>it's simple. Choose the settings menu in
>gnome-terminal and go to
>'Scrolling/Scrollback lines' and adjust according
>to your desires.
>
This is not the same. Adjusting the scrolling/scrollback lines
works only on the one gnome-terminal one makes the change, and it
doesn't become the default. (At least when you have several running.)
Apparently one needs to edit .gnome/Terminal
Now all my terminal windows have lost their starting locations. They
all start on top of one another instead of the careful tiled locations
they had before something which use to work.
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From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.0 and SiS 6326
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 23:34:41 +0100
Thorsten Holtkaemper wrote:
>
> "D. D. Brierton" wrote:
> > I can't seem to get XFree86 4.0.0 to work with my onboard SiS 6326.
> > [...]
> > Symbol XAAInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is
> > unresolved!
> > [...]
>
> What tells ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is?
[darren@excession darren]$ ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
not a dynamic executable
I'm afraid to say that I have no idea what that means. Does this clarify
anything?
Best,
Darren
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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From: Thorsten Holtkaemper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.0 and SiS 6326
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 00:54:17 +0200
"D. D. Brierton" wrote:
>
> Thorsten Holtkaemper wrote:
> >
> > What tells ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is?
>
> [darren@excession darren]$ ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
> not a dynamic executable
>
> I'm afraid to say that I have no idea what that means. Does this clarify
> anything?
That means, that it doesn't help anything. I wanted to check if there is
a wrong linking to another shared object. But the driver isn't linked to
anything.
Wrong guess ... :-(
Regards,
Thorsten.
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