Linux-Setup Digest #601, Volume #19 Mon, 11 Sep 00 14:13:15 EDT
Contents:
SB Live!/emu10k1.o unresolved symbols after kernel rebuild (Jason Herring)
Re: undersize display ("Anita Lewis")
Fd0 OK ("Gilles Lamoureux")
third ( new) Harddisk and fstab (Josef Oswald)
Re: Suse--how to make a boot disk? (Josef Oswald)
Re: Pls Help! Internet Problem on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What is the maximum swap space? Max RAM? (Bob Beaty)
Re: How to force incoming call mgetty/AutoPPP to always use ppp1 interface (Bill
Unruh)
Re: Help, my keyboard is possesed! (James Lothian)
Java ? (Martin Racette)
Re: Kernel question (Juan Pablo Hierro =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvarez?=)
Re: Suse--how to make a boot disk? ("Dave Stanton")
Printer problem......... Helppp!!!! (James Kimble)
Re: RAID problem - md version? ("Christopher A. Stevens")
Linux Mandrake 7.1 Installations problems !!! ("Boomer")
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From: Jason Herring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: SB Live!/emu10k1.o unresolved symbols after kernel rebuild
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 07:50:52 -0700
Hi,
I'm having a problem with the Soundblaster Live! emu10k.o module having
unresolved symbols after a kernel rebuild. With the default RH 6.2 install
the SB Live! (emu10k1) works fine. However, I need to customize my default
kernel to accomodate my IDE CDROM burner (enable SCSI emulation, disable
ATAPI CDROM support...). After a rebuild eveything works *except* for the
SB Live!. I get the following upon trying to insmod emu10k1:
[jas@pangea kernel]# insmod emu10k1
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
remap_page_range
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol kmalloc
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
interruptible_sleep_on
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol __pollwait
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol kfree
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
best_copy_to_user
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
best_copy_from_user
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol mem_map
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol printk
[jas@pangea kernel]#
I've manually loaded soundcore just for kicks to see if it would help, which
it didn't...
[jas@pangea kernel]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
soundcore 3076 0 (unused)
autofs 9388 2 (autoclean)
lockd 31368 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 54340 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
via-rhine 9284 1 (autoclean)
ncr53c8xx 52864 4
I've done a make mrproper, clean, dep, bzImage, modules, modules_install
multiple times and can't get this resolved. I also renamed the kernel
subversion (per RedHat's install guide) so I don't overwrite my default
modules & can boot the stock kernel (if I want sound, apparently! I can't
use the burner then, however).
If I compile the driver from the Creative Labs site and try to load it, it's
worse:
[jas@pangea emu10k1]# insmod emu10k1
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
schedule_timeout_R17d59d01
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
release_region_R43bde9b1
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_mixer_R7afc9d8a
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_midi_R0570088d
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
mem_map_R0ddf3ec1
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
pci_write_config_dword_Rf0fbd200
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
pci_read_config_dword_R2ca7e89f
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
kmalloc_R93d4cfe6
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
pci_read_config_byte_Re5ceea13
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
__wake_up_R2db6fe4d
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
tq_immediate_R2e2d1553
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_mixer_Re75b8c12
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
__generic_copy_to_user_Rd523fdd3
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
__generic_copy_from_user_R116166aa
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
remap_page_range_R69d01e73
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
bh_active_Rfff9d0a3
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_dsp_Rcd083b10
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol tqueue_lock
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
jiffies_R0da02d67
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
__pollwait_Ra7220b66
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
free_irq_Rf20dabd8
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
request_region_R6d32b2d7
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
check_region_R522f4d72
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
interruptible_sleep_on_Rd541aa02
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
pci_set_master_R040f6432
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
pci_devices_R3b428c78
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
kfree_R037a0cba
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
printk_R1b7d4074
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
free_pages_R234535e0
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
register_sound_dsp_R0c830ef5
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
request_irq_R0c60f2e0
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
pci_read_config_word_R8764d15f
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_midi_Rfdab6de3
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0.semu.2/misc/emu10k1.o: unresolved symbol
__get_free_pages_R5b3b8f78
[jas@pangea emu10k1]#
My next thought was to either upgrade glibc, or try a newer kernel version
.... perhaps the original shipped versions on RH6.2 were missing something
(header, lib, ?). What module contains the above symbols that I'm missing?
It's driving me crazy. I saw the below threads which sound like the same
problem, but I was unclear as to the resolution posted by Mr. Burgess.
Any help would be appreciated! I've wasted my requisite day of screwing
with this before I post for help :)
Thanks,
Jason Herring
"Keith D. Burgess Jr." wrote:
> I found a way out of it...
>
> make oldconfig
> make xconfig (get rid of support for this module, it's in the sound
> section)
> make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install
>
> The key was to get rid of (after renaming of course :-) /lib/modules at
> some point prior to the modules_install step
>
> Still not sure about my other question but I read that it's an
> uncompressed copy of the kernel.. not sure why it's there though.
>
> "Keith D. Burgess Jr." wrote:
>
> > I am having this same issue after a rebuild of either 2.2.14-5 or
> > 2.2.16-3
> > Has anyone corrected this?
> > Kernel sources and associated packages were upgraded using up2date.
> >
> > Also - this could be a total newbie ? if so please endulge me :-)
> > Why in Redhat are there 2 copies of the kernel in /boot
> >
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1683004 Jun 19 18:18 vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 649291 Jun 19 18:18 vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any assistance!
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > -----------------------------
> > Jim Abernathy wrote:
> >
> > > When I boot RH6.2.2.16-3 or 2.2.14-5 no problems. However, when I
> > rebuild
> > > the default kernel I get an unresolved symbols message during Finding
> > > Modules Dependances for the module emu10k1.o. The system still works
> > fine.
> > > When I try to reconfigure setting 'emu10k1' to 'n' instead of 'm', I
> > get a
> > > lot of errors on boot like NFS lockd [fail]. The procedure I use to
> > > rebuild the default kernel is:
> > >
> > > cd /usr/src/linux
> > > make mrproper
> > > make oldconfig
> > > make dep clean
> > > make bzImage
> > >
> > > I've tried a fresh install and the problem still exist.
> > >
> > > Any ideas out there?
> > >
> > > Jim Abernathy
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
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From: "Anita Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: undersize display
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:54:56 -0400
"Jeph Herrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Problem:
> Using XFree86 3.6.1 (with Redhat 6.2) I can persuade X to
> write only to the middle 70% of my screen. That is, I get a full
> desktop image, but it's centered with about 1.5inch black strip
> around the outside. Since I'm using 14" monitor, this is a bit of
> a hit. Since I also can't get anything other than a 1024x780 resolution,
> this is rather hard to look at.
>
> The only glitch I encountered during installation/startup is
> that when X probes the video card and gets the ram (1502kb,
> the correct amount) it bails out with an error "cannot find aperture
> for configured amount of ram". So in XF86config I set the
> VideoRam to 1024. Then X starts, but with the problem mentioned
> above. In addition, I cannot cycle through resolutions with CTL num +/-,
> though I've configured for several.
>
> This is an Alliance Promotion AT24, which is supposed to be supported.
> I used Xconfigurator. One odd thing is that when RedHat installation
> set me up, using "generic card" and "generic monitor", I had a full
display
> (though only 680x400 res, which is why I fired up Xconfigurator).
>
> Any ideas? thanks for any help.
>
> jeph
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RH6.2 has XFree86 version 3.3.6, not that this matters a whole lot. At
first I thought you were saying 3.3.1 and was going to tell you to upgrade,
but on second reading, I see it's just a typo.
I found something for you. It is probably on your system too, but I'm at
work and can't look right now. Maybe something in this doc will give you a
lead. I will assume that you are using the SVGA server, because that is
what Xconfigurator should have set up. That business about the VideoRam
being commented out has happened to me too. Good that you corrected that.
I don't know anything about your card except what I found on
www.xfree86.org; so here it is:
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/apm.html
I think the directory for these docs is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 There may be
something there like README.apm. That will be this doc.
If that doesn't take care of it, you might have some success with xvidtune
which will adjust modelines to move the display around or fill out the
screen better. It works within limits; so try stuff in this doc first.
Anita
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From: "Gilles Lamoureux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: netscape.public.iws.linux
Subject: Fd0 OK
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:22:57 -0500
Got it. The problem has corrected itself without going into MAKEDEV.
thanks alot.
gilles56
"Barry OGrady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:44:48 -0500, "Gilles Lamoureux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> >My /dev/fd0 is gone. I copied a replacement from my RH 6.0 cd. But the
> >system is now
> >asking me to configure it. Does this mean I need to load a new driver?
O
> >something else. I am attempting to do so now.
> >
> >gilles56
>
> man MAKEDEV
>
>
> Barry
> ========
> Voicemail/fax number: (02) 85698004
> Web page: http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~barryog
> Atheist, scanner, LIPD information, horse pictures
> Updated 27/07/00
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: third ( new) Harddisk and fstab
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:28:58 GMT
HI:-)
Hopefully somebody can give me a hint on how to do this....
I got a third HDD and I would like to include it in my existing Linux
First HDD is 20 Gig big using it now as Master and Win98 on it
Second HDD: 4 Gig HDD as Slave, (Windows and about 126 MB Swap for Linux
SuSE 6.2)
Third HDD as Secondary Master with a CD-ROM as slave and I would like
to add this into my existing Dual-Boot box.
On the 20 Gigabyte HDD several extended partition were created and I
would like to use two of them for Linux leaving the Swap on the second
(4 Gig) HDD.
Since I changed the setup of those Disc's Linux does not find the Swap
partition, is it just a simple matter of changing the entries in the
fstab?
What I have in Mind is this:
Leave the System files on the third HDD
Use the swap partition on the second HDD ( since it is already there)
move /home/user and other stuff to the _first_ HDD.
Now I read ( some time ago) the multidisc-HOW-TO but if I remember
correctly this only deals with clean HDD's, I don't necessarily want to
install Linux again to get this setup.....
Can someone point me in the right direction? :-)
Thanks :-)
Josef Oswald
- on the missing sig-line one can recognize Windows it deserves none :-)
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From: Josef Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse--how to make a boot disk?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:34:32 GMT
Hi :-)
Which version do you use ( I have on my dual-boot SuSE 6.2)
Actually this is rather simple :-)
as root ( or as superuser) you fire up yast and as a sub menu ( I think
its in administration of System) you find creating a boot floppy ( sorry
you need to search in yeast but that should not be that difficult)
hth :-)
Josef Oswald
Dom Franco schrieb:
>
> Is there an easy way to create a boot disk for Suse Linux? I
> installed Suse on my hard drive but didn't create a boot disk when I
> installed it. I have been booting from the CD-ROM.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Pls Help! Internet Problem on Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:32:39 GMT
Check the boot logs, as to why the ethernet configuration failed.
look in /var/log/messages
I doubt the relevant module was loaded for that card.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed my Lan card (rtl8139) in Linux tried to use broadband in
> my linux. But it doesn't work.
> I use ifconfig eth0 to check it whether my config works or not. Linus
> doesn't show me the inet addr, Bcast, Mask and the interrupt for lan
> card.
> In netconf, I enter eth0 in device and rtl8139 as module, leaving irq
> and i/o blank. Also, dhcp is chosen.
>
> In win 98, my card configuration is
> Irq is 11, i/o is 1400. How can I config it in Linux? irq=11,
i/o=1400?
>
> Pls help me and give me some suggestion to overcome this problem.
>
> Michael
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Beaty)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What is the maximum swap space? Max RAM?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:35:55 GMT
"Arctic Storm" wrote:
> What is the maximum swap space? Max RAM?
If you're running the default kernel with RedHat 6.2 then the answers are
'up to the limit of your harddrive space', and 'up to the limits of the
hardware'.
I say this because for different hardware configurations the physical RAM
limits are different. Right now I have a Compaq ProLiant 5500 with 45GB
of hardware RAID 5 and a 2 GB swap file. I also have 2.25GB of physical
RAM - with a maximum of 4.25 GB on this box.
> There are many web sites, including RedHat, that seems to imply that
the
> maximum swap space is 128 MB.
Old information.
> I have 194 MB RAM, and I'm under the impression that larger the swap
space,
> the better, so I chose 384 MB of swap space (2x RAM).
It depends on what you're doing with your machine. If you *need* to have
578MB of RAM but clearly dont' have it in physical RAM - then keep the
settings. There's always some overhead in having more swap space than
needed, but since you can't change it on the fly, you need to plan ahead
and try to predict what you'll be needing in the future.
As for me, I knew that there would be times I needed more than 3GB of
memory, so I went with 2.25 physical and 2 swap. But that's because I
knew what I'd be doing and could predict what I needed.
Thanks,
Bob ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
The Man from S.P.U.D.
We will write no code before it's designed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: How to force incoming call mgetty/AutoPPP to always use ppp1 interface
Date: 11 Sep 2000 16:22:46 GMT
In <8pical$qo0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Christian DELAIR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>My question is:
>How to force the incoming call to always use pppd with ppp1 interface
>How to force the ISDN call to my ISP to always use pppd with ppp0 interface
As far as I know, you cannot do this. Why do you want to? Nothing you do
should depend on the interface name.
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From: James Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help, my keyboard is possesed!
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:16:01 +0100
My machine (based on a supermicro P6DBS) has been doing this for the
past
couple of years, with every Linux distro I've tried, both in X
(v3.something)
and at the console. If you come up with a solution, I'd love to hear
about it.
James
Skip wrote:
>
> I installed XFree86 4.0 this weekend, and now my keyboard types a
> single ` (the un-shifted tilde key) character about every minute into
> whatever application I am running. It only happens in x, no matter
> what window manager I am using, and it seemes to happen in every
> application, text editor, console, whatever. I didn't see anything
> strange in XF86Config, but I tried making some changes to the keyboard
> pertinent things in there, but nothing changed. I have a Dell
> Keyboard (Model SK-6000 E) that is split down the middle, but for the
> most part, it is a standard keyboard. I did not have this problem
> before installing the new XFree86. Someone please help!
>
> Skip
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From: Martin Racette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Java ?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:30:50 GMT
Hi guys,
I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1, and now I need to enable a JAVA JRE=
,=20
but I can't make them work or recognize. My last attempt was ot install =
IBM's JRE 1.1.3, but no luck until now
So how to I do it ?
Thank you in advance
Merci a l'avance
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juan Pablo Hierro =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvarez?=)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Kernel question
Date: 11 Sep 2000 17:43:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:40:12 +1000, Greg Goossens wrote:
>I have a question regarding a problem I have that I need to find a
>simple solution for I am hoping that someone has a neat workaround for
>this.
>
>I need to setup an IBM Netfinity 6000 with Redhat 6.2 but the kernel in
>the ISO image I have is a 2.2.14 kernel and the only kernel that
>supports the RAID adapter is a 2.2.16-3 kernel. I can install redhat
>using the device driver provided from IBM but when I reboot after the
>initial install the system hangs. As I have said IBM say I need the
>2.2.16-3 kernel.
>
>Is the solution as simple as getting another release of redhat that has
>the correct kernel in the original install (if possible ) or do I have
>to build a redhat install on another disk upgrade that kernel and
>somehow move the entire load to another disk using dd of a similar util.
>
>
May you boot from a floppy?
If so, put 2.2.16-3 in one (/usr/doc/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO) and instruct it
to load the root filesystem from the hard disk (man rdev) in read only
way.
The system will boot (there is a script which will turn the system into
r/w after checking it) and you will be able to copy the kernel from the
floppy into /boot, edit lilo.conf, run lilo and so on.
Try to boot in single mode the first time because you will not have
probably the modules for 2.2.16-3 (/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/*) and you
will have lo load them now. I imagine the raid support will be in the
kernel, not as a module (recompile it?).
By the way, have you tried the official IBM or RedHat support? Maybe,
they could provide you with a customized copy of the install CDROM.
- --
Juan Hierro
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse--how to make a boot disk?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:42:48 +0100
"Dom Franco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there an easy way to create a boot disk for Suse Linux? I
> installed Suse on my hard drive but didn't create a boot disk when I
> installed it. I have been booting from the CD-ROM.
You will find that option in Yast.
Dave
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:57:40 -0400
From: James Kimble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer problem......... Helppp!!!!
I've never had to do anything to get a printer to work with Linux
(besides initial setup) before but I'm really stuck now. I've got a
HP LJIII hooked up to my machine running RH 6.0. I ran the
normal printer setup stuff from root. This is a dual boot box and
I can print from windows without any problem so there's no
hardware problem involved here. I get no error message and I
can see the print job gets spooled but the printer is always
shown to be not ready. I don't get it. Any suggestions... anyone,
please........
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Christopher A. Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID problem - md version?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:59:18 -0400
Daniel Foster wrote:
>
>
> /proc/mdstat is size 0, so no clues there, and nothing's changed since
> bootup in /var/log/messages.
Just because /proc/mdstat is size zero doesn't mean that it is empty.
Mine is size zero but contains
Personalities : [1 linear] [2 raid0]
read_ahead 128 sectors
md0 : active linear sda4 sdb4 13293784 blocks 4k rounding
md1 : inactive
md2 : inactive
md3 : inactive
/proc is a "virtual filesystem". It is just a link to the kernel space
and does not actually exist on your harddrive. So the file attributes
aren't exactly true. Do a # cat /proc/mdstat and see if there are any
error messages. Also do # cat /var/log/messages for any clues.
>Since the bootup message mentioned
> something about being nonpersistent I changed the
> persistent-superblock value in my /etc/raidtab from 1 to 0, but all
> that does is stop the 'disk n: ...' lines from appearing when mkraid
> is run.
>
I believe you want persistent-superblock (=1) so that the kernel will
autodetect RAID arrays. My array is a carryover from the old style
mdtab/mdtools days, so I don't have that. In order to have my array
detected by the kernel I have to supply this line in lilo.conf
append="md=0,-1,32,0,/dev/sda4,/dev/sdb4" (I don't, right off, remember
what all the fields are)
> I also changed the type of the three partitions to 0xfd from 0x83 to
> see if that helped, but still no change. Here once again is
> /etc/raidtab:
You definitely want 0xfd for the partition type.
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level linear
> nr-raid-disks 3
> persistent-superblock 1
>
> device /dev/hda3
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/hdb1
> raid-disk 1
> device /dev/hdc1
> raid-disk 2
Not sure what the problem is, but in the "Software-RAID-HOWTO" they have
an extra line
in their example,
...
nr-raid-disks 2
chunk-size 32
persistent-superblock 1
....
It then says
" You're probably wondering why we specify a chunk-size here when linear
mode just appends the disks into one large array with no parallelism.
Well, you're completely right, it's odd. Just put in some chunk size
and don't worry about this any more."
So try that.
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From: "Boomer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Mandrake 7.1 Installations problems !!!
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:47:06 -0700
I would like to install Linux Mandrake 7.1
in a new FAT-32 partition.
My system is a standard Windows 98 system
with 450MHz Pentium III, 64MB ram,
20GB and 8GB harddrives(IDE).
I setup a 4GB partition using Partition Magic 4.0
(From PowerQuest)
What size Partitions are required for a
full Linux Mandrake 7.1 installations?
After I setup the partitions,
how do I install the full Linux Mandrake 7.1 software from the Linux
Mandrake 7.1 CD ?
I donot want to use "DrakX' because it may have compatibily problems with
Windows 98 software.
Need Help !!!
Thank You
Bob Whitman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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