Linux-Setup Digest #636, Volume #19 Sun, 17 Sep 00 04:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: LILO question (Scott Nolde)
Re: How to know whether JDK is installed? (Skip)
RH6.2 can't use onboard AC97 audio? ("Jack Su")
Re: GNOME Keeps Locking Up... Help! (Glitch)
Console Display Columns & Rows - Where Are the Docs? (Felix Miata)
Re: Installation Problem (MaryP)
Sound Installation (Leandro Kaegi)
Stylus COLOR 600 Gamma Correction - GhostScript/Uniprint Settings (Kevin Adams)
ethernet gaurenteed to work? (Peter Bismuti)
ethernet gaurenteed to work? (Peter Bismuti)
isapnp error - ID range check failed for 32 bytes of IO at (Peter Bismuti)
isapnp error - ID range check failed for 32 bytes of IO at (Peter Bismuti)
Changing from RedHat to Mandrake. (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?=)
The Truth About the Kursk Disaster ("David ..")
Corel Photo Paint 9 (Batchman)
Re: cannot logon RH 5.1 LINUX (J Sloan)
Re: Compiled Driver, now I'm screwed :) ("Steve Wolfe")
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO question
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 03:11:06 GMT
Disabling the floppy seek on bootup and enabling the BIOS password is a
very good way of limiting boot access to those devices.
However, as a sysadmin, you can organize your users in groups to provide
fine grained access to all devices once the computer boots. Just read
up on chmod, chgroup, usermod, mount, and fstab.
- Scott
Ethan Metsger wrote:
>
> Hey folks. Had a quick question. At least I hope so.
>
> I'm in a college situation where I'd like to be able to deny access to booting
> from a floppy/CD, but I'd prefer to be able to let users have easy access to
> my Linux box. Doing this through LILO seemed like the wisest idea, rather
> than simply removing the devices from my BIOS or using a bootup password.
>
> Unfortunately, efforts to do this have failed rather miserably, and at the
> moment, I'm looking at having to reinstall Red Hat (though not because I've
> been fiddling with LILO, but because I've been fiddling with some primary DOS
> paritions on the other side, and I'm getting a kernel panic at the moment -
> YAY!).
>
> Any assistence you can provide would be most helpful.
>
> Stay well,
>
> Ethan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | "Don't hide your face Queen Esther / My King says
> http://www.ccil.org/~ethanm | He'll meet you anywhere" - Guardian ps7218
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
11:01pm up 2 days, 24 min, 3 users, load average: 1.22, 1.12, 1.03
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From: Skip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to know whether JDK is installed?
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:15:09 -0700
"Dragan Colak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>type "javac" or "java"
>it is installed if you get a help screen
>with the possible options
>if you get something like "command not found"
>then it is not installed
>
>Dragan
>
>
>"Cheng Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I'm using redhat 6.2. How can I get to know whether the JDK is installed
>> in the machine(as a root and as a common user)?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --Cheng
>>
>
java -version will also work
Skip
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From: "Jack Su" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6.2 can't use onboard AC97 audio?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:28:39 +0800
My computer's motherboard is ASUS CUV4x.
There is AC'97 compliant audio on board.
There is no sound after installing RH6.2.
Then I run "sndconfig".
It shows errors when I choose "VIA" chip.
And it shows "Can't find /etc/isapnp.conf" if I choose "SB".
I copy "isapnp.conf" from /usr/doc/isapnp....... to /etc,
and rerun sndconfig. It shows error on running /etc/isapnp.conf.
Help me, please.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 23:43:17 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNOME Keeps Locking Up... Help!
Ed wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Ed wrote:
> >>
> >> I have RH 6.2 with Helix GNOME and Sawfish window manager. I am having
> >> major problems with GNOME locking up. Sometimes I can
> >> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace out of GNOME, but other times I need to turn off the
> >> computer. I run Win98 on the same machine with no problems, and Gnome
> >> crashes in just 2 minutes sometimes and other times in 2 hours, so I
> >> doubt that it's overheating or anything like that.
> >>
> >> Any ideas? Are there logs that I could look at that might help me
> >> figure this out... I've been using Linux for ~2 weeks, so I'm a bit
> >> clueless...
> >
> >
> > yes, try /var/log/messages thats the main system log where most things
> > get dumped to any info on what is happening during hte crash would be
> > helpful too if u want help from someone on here
>
> Thanks Glitch! Well, the only suspicious log entry is the following:
>
> gnome-name-server[4303]: input condition is:0x10, exiting
>
> Any ideas what this means?
only thing i can think of is that gnome is running a dns server
(strictly going by what the error message says) even though i didnt know
it had its own. I'd find out what gnome-name-server is and go from
there. If its an actual daemon running (which u could tell this much by
issuing 'ps aux' at a prompt and see if anything by that name is listed)
u can kill it as well as tell RH not to start the daemon at boot time.
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From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Console Display Columns & Rows - Where Are the Docs?
Reply-To: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 23:57:24 -0400
Corel documents that there is a bug for Tseng ET6x00 cards that
duplicates the second column character in the first column in console
mode, saying that there is no fix. I can't understand why that should
be, as the display works fine through a large portion of the boot. Only
after boot is well along does the problem become evident.
I've always hated the monochrome 80 X 25 default PC screen, so I've been
looking for a way out. In DOS, various apps are capable of using the
SVGA text modes. Tseng provided a utility to change the mode for the
screen prompt as well.
After finding nothing on the subject on the Corel web site, I spent
several hours looking through the howto's that come on the CLOS CD, and
also in a 928 page book "Mastering Linux", copyright 1999 by Sybex,
which focuses on Redhat 5.1. Other than minor mention of termcap and
terminfo, neither of which seem to exist on my CLOS 1.1 system, the book
mentions nothing about setting console column & rows to something other
than the default. The index omits such subjects as console, display,
video, columns, rows, & graphics adapter.
The Keyboard-and-Console HOWTO mentions in part 16 SVGATextMode and
resizecons. "Command not found" results from attempting to use
SVGATextMode. Resizecons results in "cannot find videomode file
[132x28]", or whatever is chosen as an alternative to 80x25.
The howto does mention that lilo.conf can be changed from vga=normal to
vga=ask to be prompted to select an alternate video mode, but it doesn't
give any guidance on how to make the preference the default behavior. If
I substitute the mode listed in the bootup options menu in lilo.conf, I
get an error message and the menu for modes comes up just as if the
setting in lilo.conf remained vga=ask. As long as vga=ask is set, every
console boot requires an active selection to use anything other than the
unwanted default.
Not only must I select on each boot with vga=ask, the selection behaves
much like the standard boot. Upon selection of the mode I want, the
chosen mode works fine through a large part of the boot, after which it
switches to the defective 80x25 mode with the second column duplicated
in the first column.
Can someone tell me where the docs I need are hiding, or better yet,
exactly how to do what I want (make 132 x 28 rows the default console
boot setting)?
--
A man of knowledge uses words with restraint . . . .
Proverbs 17:27 NKJV
Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (MaryP)
Subject: Re: Installation Problem
Date: 17 Sep 2000 04:01:50 GMT
> "Teck Meng, Liaw" wrote:
> > ... I have a Red Hat 6.2, A Pentium III 733 PC, 128M RAM,
> > 20G HDD, 48x CD ROM, S3 Trio 3D/2X graphic card, no network card (will
> > install later). I have no problem to start the installation and I have
> > select the standard installation configuration (just to learn to install),
> > everything is fine until Linux try to formats my hard disk, 2 minutes or so
> > later, the whole thing hanged.
I just reinstalled tonight on a 1-gig HD and the format process took a LOT
longer than two minutes. Surprised me too, I'd forgotten about that part.
It doesn't make any hd-noises while it's formatting, so I thought
something was wrong at first too, and I restarted.
The next time through, I left it alone. While it was formatting, I went
outside and put my laundry on the line to dry. Came back a while later and
it had finished and gone on to the next stage of the install.
Leave it for like 15 minutes or more before you decide it's hanging. I bet
it's OK.
Mary P.
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From: Leandro Kaegi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Installation
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 22:12:09 -0500
Hi ,
I recently bought a HP Pavilion pc which has the sound card incorporated to the
mother board, and it uses a crystal audio chipset. When I inicially installed
Linux on my new machine it did the original sound configuration but I dont get
any sound out of the speakers. I used the cd player in gnome and it works fine
but like I said before no sound is coming out of my speakers. I tried sndconfig
but it doesnt find my sound card automatically, also tried some of the other
sound card congigurations but it says the device is busy or something similiar.
If someone has succesfully installed sound on an HP 6638 Pavilion PC please
help.
Thank you for yuor time,
Leandro Kaegi
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From: Kevin Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Stylus COLOR 600 Gamma Correction - GhostScript/Uniprint Settings
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:01:13 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I've checked local and online documentation (FAQs, HOWTOs, READMEs, etc.) for
both GhostScript and APSFilter, but I still haven't found the information I
need...
I have an Epson Stylus COLOR 600 on LPT1 (/dev/lp0).
My system is running the following:
SuSE Linux 6.4
GhostScript 5.50
(looks like a fairly standard implementation)
APSFilter 4.9
(as near as I can tell; the APSFilter implementation
that comes with SuSE 6.4 has been somewhat modified
as far as installation scripts go)
I am using the Uniprint driver for this printer:
Printer = Stylus COLOR 600
Resolution = 360x360
Paper Size = Letter
Paper Type = Plain Paper
The printer works great; output is properly scaled, formatted, etc... EXCEPT
that I don't get enough "red" in my printouts. For example, on my system, if
you use Netscape Communicator under Xfree86/KDE at 65536 colors, go to
http://www.sun.com/ (as of 09/17/2000 1:00am Eastern)
and print out their home page with
lpr -Plp
(my print queue for the Stylus COLOR 600), the big red "iPlanet" circle at the
top of the page comes out orange. Orange comes out as a mid-grade yellow, and
purple/violet comes out as a blue or blue-gray.
Same effects from StarOffice for Linux: great formatting/scaling, with a need
for more "red."
The printer works fine under Windows - reds are red, oranges are orange,
etc... I have fresh cartridges (black and color) installed, and all print head
nozzles are working well (no gaps).
Are there any options to adjust color saturation using these tools/utilities?
Any help much appreciated...
Thank You and Best Regards,
Kevin Adams
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Date: 17 Sep 2000 05:45:57 GMT
Hi, are there any reccomendations for a moderately priced ethernet
card that is gauranteed to be detected by RH6.? and not require any
configuration, loading of kernel modules, etc. etc?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Date: 17 Sep 2000 05:48:50 GMT
Hi, are there any reccomendations for a moderately priced ethernet
card that is gauranteed to be detected by RH6.? and not require any
configuration, loading of kernel modules, etc. etc?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: isapnp error - ID range check failed for 32 bytes of IO at
Date: 17 Sep 2000 07:08:44 GMT
I ran pnpdump and then edited the file giving my network card BASE of
280 based on what I found in my old lil.conf file:
append= "ether=0,0x280,eth0"
I ran isapnp and got the following error message:
etc/isopnp.conf:396: Fatal - IO range check railed for 32 bytes of IO at 280
etc/isopnp.conf:396: Fatal - Error occurred executing request '<IORESCHECK>'
-- further action aborted:
If I got to 396 there is a keyword (CHECK), if I remove it then no errors
are thrown and the output is:
......Port 0x280; IRQ10 --- Enabled OK.
Can anyone explain what is going on here?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: isapnp error - ID range check failed for 32 bytes of IO at
Date: 17 Sep 2000 07:09:52 GMT
I ran pnpdump and then edited the file giving my network card BASE of
280 based on what I found in my old lil.conf file:
append= "ether=0,0x280,eth0"
I ran isapnp and got the following error message:
etc/isopnp.conf:396: Fatal - IO range check railed for 32 bytes of IO at 280
etc/isopnp.conf:396: Fatal - Error occurred executing request '<IORESCHECK>'
-- further action aborted:
If I got to 396 there is a keyword (CHECK), if I remove it then no errors
are thrown and the output is:
......Port 0x280; IRQ10 --- Enabled OK.
Can anyone explain what is going on here?
Thanks!
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B5L=A6W=A4p=A4l?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help
Subject: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake.
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:06:01 +0800
Is there any method to change from RedHat to Mandrake without losing any
data in the hard drive?
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,redhat.general,alt.linux
Subject: The Truth About the Kursk Disaster
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 02:19:09 -0500
Some new information has come to light over the Kursk disaster. For
those with short attention spans, the Kursk was the submarine that blew
up and sank in the Artic Ocean killing all 118 on board. The Russians
tried to blame the incident on a collision with an unidentified object.
However, sonar tapes which recorded the blasts (a small one at first,
then a much larger one two minutes later) cast doubt on these claims. A
whistle blower within the Russian military has leaked that the crew of
the Kursk was testing a new type of torpedo when the accident occured.
It seemed very likely that the test didn't go quite as planned.
While rescue efforts to save the survivors of the Kursk failed, salvage
crews were able to recover a 'Black Box' from the submarine which
contained detailed accounts of the events leading up to the explosion.
As luck would have it, we got a copy of those tapes.
It turns out that the submarine crew was trying to load Microsoft
Windows on their fire control computer. Their intent was to replace the
aging CP/M operating system with the flashier Windows OS. Apparently,
the Russians didn't know about the legendary stability problems
exhibited by Windows. The log tapes make this painfully obvious:
Captain: Is the new fire control Windows OS installed yet Comrade?
Seaman: Almost Sir. We just need to finish filling out the registration
card.
Captain: Excellent. Soon we will be able to point and click our enemies
into oblivian.
[evil laughter in background]
Seaman: Comrade Captain! It is booting! Look, it says "Preparing to run
Windows for the first time".
[long pause]
Seaman: Arrgh! Sir, it wants me to reboot again. That makes the 27th
time.
Captain: Hmmm. This is not encouraging. Go ahead and reboot again.
Seaman: Aye Sir.
[another long pause]
Seaman: Captain, it is up again. It says it found new hardware ... A
CD-ROM drive and that it needs drivers.
Captain: Where are the drivers?
Seaman: On the CD-ROM.
Captain: You are joking, right?
Seaman: No Sir.
Captain: Reboot the damn thing again. I am starting not to like this
Windows.
[another long pause]
Seaman: Sir! It is back! It says it found the Gorby2000 Torpedo and is
looking for the device drivers. Do we have a driver disk?
Captain: I do not think so.
Seaman: I will tell it to use the default drivers.
[another long pause]
Seaman: Crap. It wants to reboot again.
Captain: How many times are we going to reboot today? This is taking
forever. Our hull is going to rust out before this works.
[another long pause]
Seaman: Sir! It is up and this time it is not asking for anything!
Captain: Really? No device drivers? No registration cards? No user
profiles?
Seaman: No Sir. I think it is ready.
Captain: Good work comrade. Now click on the fire control icon and let
us see how this works.
Seaman: Clicking now, Sir.
[another long pause]
Captain: Why does the fire control screen have a dancing paper clip on
it?
Seaman: I have no idea Sir.
Captain: Hmmm, well try clicking on the menu.
Seaman: Aye Sir. Let us see; Open E-mail, Spam a friend, Mail a Virus,
Fire a Torpedo.
Captain: We will spam a friend later. Let us fire a torpedo.
Seaman: Aye Sir.
[another long pause]
Seaman: It is asking us to load the torpedo and to click when ready.
Captain: Torpedo room, load a torpedo in tube number 1!
[intercom:] This is the Torpedo room. The torpedo is loaded Sir.
Captain: Click on the continue button.
Seaman: Aye Sir.
[another long pause]
Seaman: It is asking for a target Sir.
Captain: Hmmm, target the Rainbow Warrior.
Seaman: Aye Sir. Damn! It says the torpedo is low on ink.
Captain: Click ignore. We will get some ink when we return to base.
Seaman: Aye Sir. We are ready to fire.
Captain: Very good. You may fire when ready comrade.
Seaman: Firing torpedo Sir.
[another really long pause]
Captain: Well?
Seaman: I am trying Sir. Nothing is happening. Wait a minute....
[a loud explosion is heard in the background followed by screaming on
intercom]
Captain: WTF was that?!?!?
Seaman: Captain! A new screen has appeared!
Outlook Express Fire Control has performed an illegal operation and
will be shut down.
Click 'OK' to continue.
Seaman: Oh my God! The paper clip has died! What should I do?
Captain: Shut it down! Shut it down!
Seaman: It is not responding Sir!
Captain: Try 'CTRL-ALT-DELETE'!
Seaman: Aye Sir. We are in luck! The task manager is still operating. I
am instructing the task manager to shut down Outlook Fire Control.
[another long pause]
Seaman: The task manager says that Outlook Fire Control is not
responding.
Captain: Well no shit. Tell it to 'end task'.
Seaman: Nothing is happening Sir.
Captain: Try 'CTRL-ALT-DELETE' again.
Seaman: Aye Sir.
[sounds of frantic pecking on keyboard.]
Seaman: Oooh! What a pretty blue screen!
Captain: Holy Shit! Not the blue screen of dea....
[ KABLAM! A really big explosion. More screaming and the sound of
rushing water.]
========================================================
The tape ends at this point.
During the week long rescue effort, divers reported hearing tapping in
the form of morse code coming from survivors inside the damaged sub. The
rescuers couldn't understand why a group of men would spend the last of
their strength tapping out "windows sucks" in morse code. The tapes of
the last moments of the Kursk may offer some insight into this.
--
Where do you want to go today?
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From: Batchman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Photo Paint 9
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 02:40:06 -0500
Friend downloaded the PhotoPaint9 and Word Perfect
files. Seems they're not wanting to completely
install. The PhotoPaint9 .tar file shows as
a directory, as does the Word Perfect. Did
something go wrong during the download / burning
of the CD-R? He's running (just installed)
Corel Linux 2.0.
We double-click the .tar file to get the Archive
Administrator to come up, but never are sure what
to do after that. Selected all, then did Extract.
Is there any specific place to which to extract
those files? Once extracted, double-clicked
the Install file and got the thing installing,
but when I tried to run it (from root or
another username), it would start to install
Wine, and then stop at 0% and close the window.
Any clues? Anybody else messed around with that
and gotten similar results? ...or does anyone
recommend a brain-dead easy (Windoze equivalent
for him!) distribution that outdoes Corel?
Greg
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From: J Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: cannot logon RH 5.1 LINUX
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 07:34:38 GMT
Duane Fernandes wrote:
> I JUST INSTALLED 5.1 AND USED THE COMMAND ADDUSER name -p password, it
> created the user but when i logoff and go to login it says LOGIN
> INCORRECT.can someone help me before i kick the shi? out of it!!
Try the password command -
5.1 is pretty ancient so I don't remember back that far,
but "adduser -p" may actually be asking for the encrypted
password, which is probably a very different thing from what
you were giving it.
jjs
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Compiled Driver, now I'm screwed :)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 01:48:25 -0600
> Okay, I jsut compiled a new device driver for my Intel Pro Ethernet Card
> (PCI).
>
> I followed all the driections at scyld.com where I got the driver.
> I compiled using:
> gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -o6 -c eepro100.c
> then:
> gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -o6 -c pci-scan.c
>
> I then installed with:
> install -m 644 pci-scan.o eepro100.o /lib/modules/`uname-r`/net/
>
> When I either do a "modprobe eepro100" or "insmod eepro100", I get the
> following errors:
> unresolved symbol acpi_set_pwr_state
> unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister
> unresolved symbol pci_drv_register
>
> Anyone have any ideas what to do? i'm complete lost and a complete newbie.
Unless there's something I'm missing (newer, faster driver, etc.), why not
just compile your kernel with the driver supplied in the kernel tree?
steve
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