Linux-Setup Digest #586, Volume #19 Fri, 8 Sep 00 22:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: kernel re-compile problem ! (Colin Watson)
Re: Jittery Display (Mike Frisch)
Re: super mounting not working ("ascii_superstar")
Re: Kernel Compile Going Nowhere (John Thompson)
Re: Scsi Tape Drive on RH 6.2? (John Thompson)
Re: setting X environment variable (Bit Twister)
Help: Mouse problem ("Pierre")
Re: LILO with 2 drives - please help ("Pat Parsons")
X Server trouble (Stephanes St-Pierre)
Re: Newbie questions (Anita Lewis)
What are all these daemons in run level? ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Re: isapnp ("Duane H�bert")
Re: havin trouble with X and eth1 (bullwinkle)
Re: kernel modules...;-) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: kernel re-compile problem !
Date: 8 Sep 2000 22:36:33 GMT
Jimmy Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I install the red-hat 6.2 on a Compaq server ML350. I want to change
>some settings and recompile the kernel. When I use 'make bzImage' to
>generate the boot image, the process is stop and give the following
>error message.
>
>make[2] : *** [ksyms.o] Error 1
>make[2] : Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/kernel'
>make[1] : *** [first_rule] Error 2
>make[1] : Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/kernel'
>make : *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
Could you give us a couple of lines before that, please? You've cut it
off just after the real error that caused the others you've posted. It's
probably just that you haven't installed a C compiler (gcc) or something
like that, though.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"... and by God I *KNOW* what this network is for, and you can't have
it." - Russ Allbery (http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/writing/rant.html)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Jittery Display
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 22:45:46 GMT
On Wed, 06 Sep 2000 07:35:58 GMT, Computer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just installed Mandrake 6.0 on my old NEC machine and the Xdisplay comes up
>but the pictures has quite a bit of horizontally jitteryness that I do not
>get in Windows.
Ensure you're using a non-interlaced video mode (assuming your monitor
supports it). I just noticed today that my new RedHat 6.2 installation
decided to use an interlaced video mode on a brand new Sony GS220 monitor
(???). Simply re-running Xconfigurator cleaned things up.
Hope this helps,
Mike.
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Reply-To: "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "ascii_superstar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: super mounting not working
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 23:57:09 +0100
Ill go to that.
Thankyou kindly....
sergio
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Going Nowhere
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 15:05:11 -0500
Colin Watson wrote:
> The documentation in recent development kernels (since 2.4.0-test5/6 or
> so) has removed this bad advice, and now explicitly tells you that you
> *shouldn't* unpack the tree in /usr/src/linux. In fact, on many
> distributions (Debian is an exception) this can actively cause problems
> due to symlinks from /usr/include/{asm,linux} into
> /usr/src/linux/include.
>
> linux-2.4.0-test6/README says:
>
> # Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually
> # incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header
> # files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by
> # whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be.
I usually unpack the kernel sources into
/usr/src/linux-[whatever], compile, and if it works move the
sym-link /usr/src/linux from /usr/src/linux[old-whetever] to
/usr/src/linux-[whetever]. That way your known, working source
tree never gets overwritten yet changing /usr/src/linux to a new
version is as simple as moving the link.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scsi Tape Drive on RH 6.2?
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 15:11:04 -0500
Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Ok, I've got a working RH 6.2 system, Scsi controller(s). I've got
> a shiny new external VXA tape drive and cable. And I've read every
> How-to I could find on what happens next to make the linux system
> aware of the tape drive, and what device names I should use to access
> it.
>
> Can anyone point me in a direction?
Using SCSI devices in linux is usually just making sure you have
SCSI support available, either in the kernel or as a module.
Hook up the hardware, power up, and the device should be
detected. As far as what device names to use, look in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt:
9 char SCSI tape devices
0 = /dev/st0 First SCSI tape, mode 0
1 = /dev/st1 Second SCSI tape, mode 0
...
32 = /dev/st0l First SCSI tape, mode 1
33 = /dev/st1l Second SCSI tape, mode 1
...
64 = /dev/st0m First SCSI tape, mode 2
65 = /dev/st1m Second SCSI tape, mode 2
...
96 = /dev/st0a First SCSI tape, mode 3
97 = /dev/st1a Second SCSI tape, mode 3
...
128 = /dev/nst0 First SCSI tape, mode 0,
no rewind
129 = /dev/nst1 Second SCSI tape, mode 0,
no rewind
...
160 = /dev/nst0l First SCSI tape, mode 1,
no rewind
161 = /dev/nst1l Second SCSI tape, mode 1,
no rewind
...
192 = /dev/nst0m First SCSI tape, mode 2,
no rewind
193 = /dev/nst1m Second SCSI tape, mode 2,
no rewind
...
224 = /dev/nst0a First SCSI tape, mode 3,
no rewind
225 = /dev/nst1a Second SCSI tape, mode 3,
no rewind
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: setting X environment variable
Reply-To: This_news_group.invalid
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 23:41:23 GMT
It depends on what Shell (bash, ksh, sh, csh, tcsh,...).
echo $SHELL and post here, then we can help.
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 22:00:58 -0400, johnny B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi
>
>i want to X windows to use certain shell variables and aliases eg. $PS1
>etc. Where do i set these variables for X11? when i log in to a console
>(ie. not in X) everything's ok, but as soon as i start X all my
>variables get set to new values.
>
>I tried exporting variables in ~/.xinitrc but that doesnt work. is there
>some other X configuration file i should be looking for?
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From: "Pierre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Mouse problem
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:24:08 -0700
Hi, everyone,
I cannot get my mouse work under RH6 on UNISYS laptop.
I've tested the mouse and found that it's not a SYN PS2 mouse.
Anybody has any idea to help me out ?
Thanks a lot ! Thanks a million !
Any suggestion is really appreciated !
Pierre
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From: "Pat Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO with 2 drives - please help
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 19:36:27 -0700
No, I have not had this problem (many other ones but not this one). I am
very interested though since one day I may want to do something similar.
Have you changed the LILO conf file and then done an .sbin/lilo to run LILO
and set it? Maybe you could use Loadlin & a batch file.
"GF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> OK, here's my setup:
>
> I have a 20Gig hard-drive connected to an "Promise UltraATA 100"
> controller card. I purchased this card so that I could get ATA 100
> speeds in Win98. I have a 2 year old motherboard which didn't even
> support ATA66. By win98 disk speed is very fast now.
>
> This left just my DVD and CD-RW on the secondary IDE controller. The
> primary IDE controller was now free.
>
> So I put in an old 6GIG hard drive as a master on the primary IDE
> controller. No prob.
>
> I want Linux mandrake 7.1 on the 6gig. I have win98 on the 20gig. I
> want dual boot. I have BootMagic, so I want to use this to dual-boot.
>
> By the way I have to install it on the 6 gig ... Mandrake installer
> cannot see the 20gig hard drive ... I guess because it's not a
> _normal_ IDE drive ... it's plugged in through this Promise card.
> Mandrake gives the error "No Windows Partition found" during install
> when I try to install to the 20gig hard drive.
>
> When I install linux on the 6 gig drive (no problem since it's an IDE
> drive on the primary IDE which is considered /dev/hda in the
> installation program), I cannot figure out how to configure LILO to
> boot linux off the 6gig drive.
>
> My system BIOS is configured to boot from the 20gig drive. I have
> bootmagic installed on the boot-loader there. I can boot into win98
> just fine. Having configured bootmagic to see the linux 6gig drive
> after the linux install, I get just "LI" when I select "Linux" from
> LILO.
>
> It's not the 1024 cylinder limit .. I checked that. I know this
> because I switched my system bios to boot the 6gig drive first (the
> system goes right into "LILO:". This worked. My LILO config has
> /dev/hda5 as the place to boot linux.
>
> However, when I switch the system BIOS back to boot from the 20gig
> drive, BootMagic comes up. When I select "Linux" I would expect it to
> go try and boot from the 6gig drive, which is setup as /dev/hda5. But
> again, I get just "LI".
>
> The only way for me to boot linux is from a floppy. argh.
>
> So my thoughts were that at system boot time with the 20gig drive
> booting, that the 6gig drive MAY not be considered '/dev/hda5' anymore
> since the system booted from the 20gig drive through the Promise
> controller card. Maybe the system is confused.
>
> And I can't use the 6gig drive as the system's first boot device. Why?
> Well, it's because I don't know how to configure LILO to tell it where
> the 20gig drive is. It's not mountable that I can see ... it's this
> weird drive going through the Promise controller card.
>
> I also tried putting these lines in my lilo.conf with no luck:
>
> disk=/dev/hde
> bios=0x80
> disk=/dev/hda
> bios=0x81
>
> Anyone else had a similar problem? Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> greg
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From: Stephanes St-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X Server trouble
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 21:01:05 -0400
Hi ! guys a just installed linuxPPC 1999. It's a reinstall on a brand
new quantum fireball 15gig ls.
So I did a full install. Everythings went alright but a can't get
Xwindow to serve me.
As I login as root, didn't try any other user login'in - anyway - I got
this message :
execue failed for /etc/X11/X (errno 2)
X11TransSocketUNIXConnect:
can't connect : errno=111
giving up
xinit : Connection refused (errno 111)
unable to connect to X Server
xinit : No such process (errno3):
Server error
end of messages.
Have any clue?
I haven't changed anything so far execpt :
last line of inittab :
"x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon"
config the PREF in Xclients :
I wrote for GNOME "gnome-session"
changed the mod for 755
X starts at runlevel 5
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 01:15:17 GMT
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 22:56:30 +0100, Tony Wainwright wrote:
>2) When re-installing Windows the LILO seems to have been overwritten and I
>have to boot from a floppy. Can I 're-activate' LILO?
boot with the floppy and login as root. run 'lilo' you should see the
labels being made (linux, dos)
>3) When installing Linux I activated the Gnome Display Manager (graphical
>login). Can I deactivate it and boot straight to the command line?
again as root. You will need to edit /etc/inittab (try pico if you are
using console, it's an easy newbie editor) Make only one change in that
file. Change the 5 in the line below to a 3. It will then boot into
runlevel 3 which is console.
id:5:initdefault:
>4) Probably not be able to help...but my monitor display bows out in Linux
>but is rectangluar in Windows and can only get 800x600 resolution in Linux.
>I have a Goldstar LG Studioworks 520Si monitor and an SiS 6326 display
>adapter
I think RH6.0 has XFree v 3.3.5. Mine has 3.3.6; so there may be
differences. I looked in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.SiS and there are
some recommend modelines to be use with that card. Was your monitor in the
monitor list, or did you enter your Horiz and Vert sync ranges? Try running
startx -verbose &> startxlog and see what is happening to the modelines if
800x600 is as high as you get. I'm assuming you did Ctrl Alt + to try to
toggle. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/VideoModes.doc might explain that bowing,
although it is a tough read. I don't know the answer on it, but that
document might address the problem. You might get some help from running
xvidtune. Also, do a search at www.deja.com on your card with '*linux* or
*redhat*' in the Newsgroup (do advanced search) No doubt someone has had
this problem before.
Anita
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What are all these daemons in run level?
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 01:21:37 GMT
Forgive this extremely nebulous question....but....
I recently upgraded to Red Hat 6.2 (from 6.1) on my ADM K6-2/500 (128
Megs of RAM) and noticed that the bootup sequence shows quite a number
of daemons starting up. Being a Linux Novice I just stare at it with
the same level of understanding as a cat has when the owner is screaming
at it to stop scratching the furniture.
I examined the scripts in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/ directory and read the
some of the corresponding man's and although some of the processes seem
necessary, I can't figure out why I need others. If someone could list
all of the possible services that can be brought up at boot up, along
with why you'd need them....just kidding. However, if there is a really
good website geared for Newbies describing what things you need at
bootup, etc., I'd appreciate the location.
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From: "Duane H�bert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: isapnp
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 21:25:37 -0700
"Kai Uwe Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8pb31m$n4j$18$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> When using SuSE Linux (perhaps also on RH 6.0) you could try the
following:
> isapnpdump -c > /etc/isapnp.conf
> This will create a configuration file that doesn�t has to be edited. On
next
> bootup your cable modem COULD work, but also not.
Well almost. With RH the command is pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf. This gave
me a dump that detected my card. I tried it but it didn't work. The
address listed was incorrect but the IRQ was right. I let it set the IRQ
then ran linuxconf. Here I put in the IRQ listed and the address that the
card was using in Windows. This worked. Then netcfg let me setup
everything, including the DHCP.
Thanks for the pointer though...
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From: bullwinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: havin trouble with X and eth1
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 01:29:10 GMT
Scott Morgan wrote:
>
>
> i have an SiS 6326 AGP card that doesnt seem to like redhat 6.1
> when i start it up, it just gives me a black background ... it can
> show the redhat logo if i start with XDM, but i only get text fields
> if the cursor is active in them, and i only get buttons if i click on
> it... AGP2x is disabled, everything else works fine, but i cant for
> the life of me, get X to work :'(
>
> i also have an RTL 8029(as) as well as an ne2k(?) isa card (basically
> two ne2k clones, but one is isa and one is PCI) can i just make a
> copy of the module?
> i need someone to walk me through this... ICQ 18470844, or jakque51 on
> AIM...
>
> anyone?
> please?
>
> i will post my cfg's when i reboot to linux... thanks in advance!
I have rh6.1 running on a system with a Diamond Speedstar A50. This
video card uses the SiS 6326 chipset. I had trouble with text in the
X-terminals. When I added options "no-accel", "no_imageblt"' and
"no_bitblt", the x-terminal trouble was gone. However, after stopping and
starting X again, I had trouble similar to what you are describing.
I commented out option "no_bitblt", and then X worked fine. Different
video cards with the SiS 6326 may need different options. See
http://www.xfree.org/3.3.6.SiS1.html#1 for other options. Following is my
/etc/X11/XF86Config file, Section "Device"
Identifier "Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 86C326"
Vendor name "Unknown"
Boardname "Unknown"
Video Ram 8192
Option "no_accel" #use this if acceleration is causing problems
#Option "fifo_moderate"
#Option "fifo_conserv"
#Option "fifo_aggresive"
#Option "fast_vram"
#Option "pci_burst_on"
#Option "xxa_benchmark #DON'T use with "ext_eng_queue"!!!
#Option "ext_eng_queue" #Turbo-queue. This can cause drawing errors
#Option "sw_cursor"
Option "no_imageblt"
#Option "no_bitblt"
#Insert clock lines here if appropriate
EndSection
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernel modules...;-)
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 01:53:16 GMT
In article <8pbkq6$66s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lorenzo wrote:
>
> When I type make modules and make modules_install ( and depmod -a for the
> dependecies ) I know I will have a new directory: /lib/modules/2.2.17 . But my
> question is: now that I boot my new kernel the modules you find in the file
> /etc/conf.modules refer to the new modules? The names of the modules are the
> same? And the modules don't change from kernel to another? When I will boot my
> fresh compiled kernel do I have to configure again the sound card and my
> printer? Thanks! Lorenzo
>
There is no way to accurately and completely answer this question without
knowing all of the modules you use, and which kernel you are upgrading from.
But...
As a general rule, the module names and options will remain the same;
/etc/conf.modules usually doesn't need to be changed; and It is highly unlikely
that you would have to reconfigure your sound card or printer.
Most likely, the only time you will need to make changes is if you are making a
big jump in kernel versions or upgrading (or patching) to a kernel where new
options are available. A good example of this would be the somewhat recent
change to the joystick drivers in the 2.4.0-test kernels.
Of course, if you make certain changes in your kernel configuration, such as
using a new feature that you haven't used before, you may have to do a little
extra configuration.
For what its worth, I'd be willing to bet that you won't need to make any
changes.
HTH...
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