Linux-Setup Digest #594, Volume #19 Sun, 10 Sep 00 15:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Can't seem to install into an empty partition on 40MB drive (Chris F Clark)
fvwm does not startup (John D Prokopek)
Re: Ownership of cd-rom & floppy drives at login ("Max")
Re: MS IntelliMouse support in RH 6.2 (Guy Griffin)
Newie questions on laptop install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie -> HELP- how to set up ISP etc :) ("dale hites")
Re: Kernel options (Rob Ristroph)
Re: Help Needed Configuring Remote Printer on SUSE 6.4 (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: HELP!!! Backspace driving me crazy in bash (bdespres)
Re: Unresolved symbol(s)!?! ("Brad Hein")
Re: Slow Modem after 2.0.35 -> 2.2.16 Upgrade ("Christopher A. Stevens")
Re: Serial port problems on 486 ("Christopher A. Stevens")
Re: ipchains setup ("Tom Jalbert")
ACCESS TO THE INTERNET THROUGH WINDOWS 98 (Sany Sam)
Re: fvwm does not startup (Chiefy)
nvidia riva tnt, viper 550, xfree 4.0.1, K7, Asus K7V (gomez)
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From: Chris F Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't seem to install into an empty partition on 40MB drive
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:11:28 GMT
I bought a 2nd pc (an HP 9680C from ubid) that came with Win98 2nd ed
installed. It works fine (and I have this nice kvm so I can swap
between that and my linux box (from ASL labs) on one monitor, kbd, and
mouse). However, I would like to make the HP a dual boot machine,
just like the Linux box it is supplementing is. (Win98 is fine for
some things, but there are times I want Linux running on both boxes at
the same time.)
So, I repartitioned the HP (with its 40 MB ATA drive) to match the
partitions on the Linux box (with its 9MB SCSI drive), leaving all the
spare space in the extended partition at the end. I figured that
should be safe enough to keep the ext2 partition that I made for Linux
below the 1024 limit.
Then, I took my trusty RH6.1 CD and went to do the installation. It
booted fine (didn't even need the boot floppy). However, when I got
to the step where it looks for partitions on the HD (/hda), it could
not find any (empty?) parititions. (Forgive my lack of memory on this
detail, as I haven't attempted this in about a week.) It had problems
whether I used disk druid or fdisk.
Any suggestions including a FAQ or HOWTO I should read would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Chris
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From: John D Prokopek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fvwm does not startup
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:27:34 -0400
I had changed my window management setup to use gnome and now when the
system starts up fvwm does not automatically start.
There are other initialization problems as well, such as the stty
settings for xterm and rxvt is not properly initialized.
can someone tell me where to locate the startup commands for these fvwm
and xterm.
I am running rh6.2
much thanks
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John D. Prokopek
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thats when it all began ...."
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From: "Max" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ownership of cd-rom & floppy drives at login
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:45:04 +0100
Thanks for the advice!
I'll get deeper into the PAM-stuff, but now at least I have a start to
have full access to my CD Writer as a non-root user.
Max
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:14:18 +0100
From: Guy Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS IntelliMouse support in RH 6.2
Harry Lewis wrote:
>
> I've got a PS/2 IntelliMouse with wheel; under Red Hat 6.0 this
> (sometimes) used the wheel to scroll windows, though in RH 6.2 the wheel
> seems to have no effect (though the wheel button works). Does anyone
> know how to configure this device?
Try this fella's page on scroll mice:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
usually you just add "ZAxisMapping 4 5" to the pointer section in your
"/etc/XF86Config" to give the wheel up/down (mouse buttons 4/5) some
meaning :-) Read the message board there too, it helps a lot!
Guy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newie questions on laptop install
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:00:43 GMT
I've been wanting to try Linux for a long time and recently picked up an
old 486 50 Mhz laptop (300 meg HD/12 meg RAM/floppy drive/no CD-Rom). I
was hoping to use it as a Linux machine, especially because of its
reputation with older PC's. I have a CD from Linux Mall of Mandrake 6.0,
which I believe should work with non-Pentiums.
For the record, I'm a longtime PC user, well versed in DOS commands, and
relatively knowledgable when it comes to hardware.
Firstly, any suggestions on how I load the system onto the HD without a
CD drive (I have Laplink)? Would Mandrake be a good distribution for
this type of system or would you recommend another?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks...John
PS - I've posted this message to a couple of groups so forgive the
duplication if you run across it again.
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Reply-To: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "dale hites" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie -> HELP- how to set up ISP etc :)
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:07:39 -0500
Don't know what you mean by internet services. Anyway, consider upgrading to
the most recent RH release and get the book 'Red Hat Linux Bible', 'cause
you're going to have lots of questions this will guide you through.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Ristroph)
Subject: Re: Kernel options
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:18:16 GMT
If you have the kernel source, and your kernel was built from that
source, then you can re-run the kernel configuration utility and just
use it to inspect the parameters. This isn't the same as inspecting
the actual binary kernel that you running through some method. For
that I usually use the /proc filesystem as Colin suggests, but keep in
mind that some stuff doesn't appear in there until the kernel actually
has to use it; /proc is more of a window into the runnign kernel,
rather than something to examine the binary file you built.
Just cd to /usr/src/linux (at least this is where it is put under
redhat) and do "make xconfig". (There is also make menuconfig which
doesn't use X, I think.) I think in the default redhat setup you have
to be root. Set all the parameters you want, then exit. To install
the new kernel you do "make install". Be warned that as far as I
remember this automatically runs lilo and everything, so if you are
doing some experimental stuff then you might want to copy the current
kernel aside and make a lilo tag such as "linux-orig" so you can get
back into it if the new kernel doesn't work.
Then if you forget what parameters you used, go back and run make
xconfig again and inspect them.
--Rob
>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Colin>
Colin> Ronnie Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How can I tell what has been compiled into my kernel? I know that I can
>> modules.conf to see what modules are loaded, but I would like to know if
>> things like SCSI emulation, support for Athlon processor extentions etc. are
>> in the kernel.
Colin>
Colin> I answered your previous one, but to answer this more specifically ...
Colin> :)
Colin>
Colin> Although there isn't quite a general way at the moment, a lot of kernel
Colin> options cause entries to be created in the virtual /proc filesystem. If
Colin> you have SCSI emulation, you will have /proc/scsi/ide-scsi (I think -
Colin> I'm working this out from the kernel source, so I might be wrong).
Colin>
Colin> I can't see an easy way to find out about what processor type your
Colin> kernel's compiled for, though.
Colin>
Colin> --
Colin> Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Colin> "When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step."
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help Needed Configuring Remote Printer on SUSE 6.4
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 20:24:54 +0200
Tom Millington wrote:
> I am a newbie trying to put Linux on another server, namely an old
> P133 (Altos) that has 3 x 4.5Gb SCSI hard drives and a SCSI CDROM.
> I have tried to use the Linux boot floppy but neither the hard drives
> nor the CD are seen - in other words it says I have no hard drives or
> CD player.
You will have to use a boot floppy which supports your scsi card. Which
distribution are you trying to install? Slackware has different floppies
for different SCSI controllers.
regards Henrik
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From: bdespres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!!! Backspace driving me crazy in bash
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:15:22 GMT
Maybe there's a better way, but I just tried
xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = 0x0008"
and it worked.
Brad
> Hello;
>
> I am running RedHat 6.2 headless. I am accessing it via the Exceed X
> emulator for WinNT. Mostly, I am using linux as a firewall.
>
> When I bring up an Xterm, and I use the backspace key at the command
> line, it DOES NOT delete the character to the left of the cursor. In
> fact, it just beeps. If I press Ctrl-H, I get the desired behavior.
>
> I have tried to edit /etc/inputrc as recommended by several sources.
> No luck.
>
> Note that the BS key works as desired in most all other apps, >
including nedit, telnet, and netscape.
>
> Can anyone help me understand what I need to do to "fix" the >
backspace key in xterm?.
>
> Please CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your reply.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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From: "Brad Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unresolved symbol(s)!?!
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:44:10 -0400
unresolved symbols are caused by not loading a depended on module before the
one you are having trouble with. for instance, if you tried to run
serial-line-ip before adding the serial modules, then slip would give you an
unresolved symbol error.
try and determine what module needs to be loaded before the one you're
having trouble with. it could be more than one even.
> I've just recompiled my kernel and when i do a depmod -a i get a
> bunch of unresolved symbols, and truly i cannot wonder why, because
> when i look /proc/ksyms i can see that those symbols don't even exist!
> There are some symbols which match allmost but not quite...
>
> This is what part of my ksyms looks like:
>
> c01f4e70 best_memcpy_R__ver_best_memcpy
>
> And here's a sample of what depmod -a -e says:
>
> Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/fs/lockd.o
> Sep 10 14:43:18 localhost depmod: depmod: ^Ibest_memcpy
>
> ...So could somebody please help me?
> Thank you in advance!
>
> -rvc
>
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From: "Christopher A. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slow Modem after 2.0.35 -> 2.2.16 Upgrade
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 14:00:49 -0400
The Why: I have read in various places that without compression you only
need a serial speed as fast as the modem speed. But with modem compression
thrown in the mix, the date rate between the modem and the computer is
faster than the modem speed. The HOWTO's seem to imply that you can get a
"few percent" faster throughput with a better serial port connection. This
is why I wanted to upgrade to get support for the better serial UART.
Didn't try setting the UART manually to 16550A, but I did play around with
the spd_*** settings and the pppd settings. I put "spd_warp" for setserial.
Using 38400 in /etc/ppp/options* gives me a slow connection, using 57600
and 115200 gives me a fast connection, but putting 230400 or 460800 gives me
a slow connection. So I can "fix" the problem by using 115200, but I would
still like to understand what is going on.
Using "spd_warp" is supposed to use 460.8 kbps (supported by UART 16650)
when the application asks for 38.4. But this did not appear to happen. I
have no idea what using "spd_warp" with 115 kbps is giving me. Does maybe
pppd set the serial port settings itself so that there is no relation to
what is set with setserial? If this is true, then maybe pppd is broken with
the 460800 setting??
"Bill Unruh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8pedbn$kb4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In <8pe8qn$n8f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Christopher A. Stevens"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]I was running IP Masquerade on a 486 machine with Slackware 3.6 (2.0.35
> ]kernel), with an external ZOOM Modem. I put in a SIIG Trio 2P1S Plus ISA
> ]Card for the modem. It is 16650 UART chip. Under Slackware 3.6,
setserial
> ]identified it as a 16550A. This setup has been working well for about a
> ]year.
>
> ]But I wanted to upgrade to get the full 16650 support, so I recently
>
> Why? The serial port is NOT the bottleneck in modem communications.
>
>
> ]installed Slackware 7.1 (2.2.16 kernel). Setserial idenitifed it as a
> ]16650V2 UART. But I was getting extremely low data transfer rates <
1k/s.
>
> What happened when you told 7.1 to make it a 16550A?
> setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart 16550A
> Did it work properly again?
>
> What is your serial port speed? Is it being set properly by pppd?
>
>
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From: "Christopher A. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial port problems on 486
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 14:08:05 -0400
Also check if plug n play. I had a modem that would work fine after doing a
soft boot from "windoze", but would not work doing a hard boot directly to
linux. Had to boot dos first, set up modem using pnpsetup utility, then use
loadlin to boot linux. Did this automatically with autoexec.bat.
"mail.dlcwest.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I did a minimal installation of redhat 6.2 on a 486. There is nothing
> special about this installation or box. However, the modem/serial port
> works erraticly. On some bootups it works, others it doesn't. Of course
in
> dos it works all the time. I have tried a variety of base/irq
combinations
> as well as tried different modems. (both modems work fine in another box)
I
> have just recently upgraded the kernel to 2.2.16-3 to no avail.
>
> The box is as follows:
> 486dx66
> 16mb ram
> 540m hd
> 3com etherlink III
> USR 56k but have tried USR Sportster 14.4
>
> Am I just crazy or am I missing something obviouse? Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> /colin
>
>
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From: "Tom Jalbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ipchains setup
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:15:56 -0800
In article <8pfdas$qcg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brad Hein"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What is the ipchains command to forward incoming connections on port 80
> to a different computer on my lan? yes, i have searched faqs and
> websites, but they are all too hazy when it comes to this issue.
Port forwarding (redirection) is not handled by ipchains it is handled by
a third-party app called ipmasqadm. First, you'll need to have 'ipportfw
masq' support compiled into your kernel (experimental feature). Then, add
the following lines to your firewall script ... ipmasqadm portfw -f
ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80 -R yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy 80
The first line flushes any rules in the port forwarding chain and the
second forwards all requestes to port 80 to an internal machine, where
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of your external interface on the
firewall machine and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy is the internal IP address of tyour
web server.
>
> Also, What could be causing my internet connection speeds to drop
> dramatically when routed through my linux server? Could it be that its a
> 60mhz computer? or is it a different problem?
Got to be a different problem. I've masqueraded through slower machines
with no loss of speed.
>
> thank you
>
>
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From: Sany Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ACCESS TO THE INTERNET THROUGH WINDOWS 98
Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:50:03 -0400
Hi,
I had 2 computers. One of them has windows 98 installed and has access
to the internet through modem-cable. Another one has redhat linux 6.1
installed and want to connect to windows 98 and want to have access to
the internet through windows 98. I tried to make it work for the last 3
days. Any help or hint for this problem will be very appreciated.
Thanks.
Sany
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: fvwm does not startup
Date: 10 Sep 2000 18:58:17 GMT
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:27:34 -0400, John D Prokopek did say to the dudes:
>I had changed my window management setup to use gnome and now when the
>system starts up fvwm does not automatically start.
>There are other initialization problems as well, such as the stty
>settings for xterm and rxvt is not properly initialized.
We use Debian here, so this may not apply to RH but, in file
/etc/X11/window-managers there's a list of available wm's.
The default wm, is placed at the top of the list.
If you want X to start at boot, in file /etc/inittab set;
id:5:initdefault:
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From: gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nvidia riva tnt, viper 550, xfree 4.0.1, K7, Asus K7V
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 18:58:28 GMT
Hi all,
I have follow computer configuration, with running 2.2.16 kernel patched=
=20
for agp, usb, ide:
AGP : "Via Apollo Pro chipset"
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 16M @ 0xe7000000
CPU : "AMD AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02"
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
CPU: AMD AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.=
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Motherboard : Asus K7V
Video : nVidia Riva TNT (viper 550) 16MB
so, I have compiled kernel 2.2.16 with mtrr and agp support static...
and then I load NVdriver module, and all ok...
I configure XFree86 with "glx" in module section and "nvidia" instead=20
"nv" in Device section,
so startx and the screen is blank, with some incomplete drawed backgroun=
d=20
and window and text
in xterminal windows....
what I missed?
Anyone have successful with the same hardware configuration?
thanks,
Lorentz
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