Linux-Setup Digest #642, Volume #19 Mon, 18 Sep 00 03:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux and Microsoft together (Roger Blake)
Re: Linux and Microsoft together (William McBrine)
PAP failure ("moz")
Re: In Sydney AUS, Daylight Saving Time in effect already ... glibc-2.1.3 didn't
notice (William McBrine)
30 GB free space and still "no enought space" (Jussi J��skel�inen)
Re: startx from win98 EXCEED 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and Microsoft together ("Jason Byrne")
Re: Problem:Mounting NTFS(Win2000) partition (Eric)
How do i create extended partition? ("Evert de Jongh")
Re: RH6.2 can't use onboard AC97 audio? ("Jason Byrne")
Re: Sound Installation ("Jason Byrne")
Re: Soundblaster 64V PCI Snd card
Re: No midi with sound blaster ("Jason Byrne")
Re: xfree 4.0.1 (Eric)
Re: mount, samba, and permissions ("Jason Byrne")
Re: Debian 2.2 virtual consoles (Michael Perry)
Re: LILO and Win 2000 ("Jason Byrne")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: Linux and Microsoft together
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 03:58:51 GMT
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:49:22 -0400, Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>program call Win4Lin. It works as advertised. I believe it will run NT
>as well.
Win4Lin works only with Win95 and Win98 (not NT or Win2000). It's
pretty impressive, I've never seen Windoze boot or reboot so quickly!
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Microsoft together
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 04:43:35 GMT
Has anyone compared VMWare and Win4Lin?
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William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "moz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PAP failure
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 05:58:19 +0100
Hi,
Every time I try to connect to my ISP it mentions in my log file that PAP
has failed. I can dial in (using ppp-on, ppp-dialer scripts) for about 30
sec. I am trying to use either a script/s or the Kppp dialer. My modem
works, ISp works, can connect but, as I say - it dies!
The Linux version is Corel Linux 1.0.
does anyone know where I should look and what I should change? I have added
(but maybe wrongly) my user/pass to pap-secrets, ppp-options and
ppp-options.ttyxx. DNS servers to resolve.conf. I have tried different
setting for modem speed and various changes in the ppp-options file but
still no look. The connection did not work either befere, during, or after
any changes - always the same error.
Alternativly - does anyone have a set of working scripts that should work
with most 'normal' dial ups - mine is freeserve.com (UK).
The errors I get are: Kppp - 'pppd deamon unexectedly died'
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From: William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: In Sydney AUS, Daylight Saving Time in effect already ... glibc-2.1.3
didn't notice
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 04:51:10 GMT
Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc> wrote:
> I think that Sydney Australia has entered Daylight Savings Time early
> because of the Olympics.
You've entered summer early, that's for sure. ;-)
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William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jussi J��skel�inen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: 30 GB free space and still "no enought space"
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 05:14:07 GMT
Hi!
I have little - BIG problem...
I have 2 x 45 GB hard disks and I have made them act as RAID-1 (42 GB)
device with Ext-2 file system!
Problem is, that I can copy only about 11 GB data to that /dev/md0
before system says "No free spce left"...
Here what debugfs says:
Filesystem is read-only
Volume name = (none)
Last mounted directory = (none)
Filesystem UUID = 4908f938-8bac-11d4-824b-0000e84e746c
Last mount time = Sat Sep 16 11:49:38 2000
Last write time = Sat Sep 16 13:25:42 2000
Mount counts = 1 (maximal = 20)
Filesystem OS type = Linux
Superblock size = 1024
Block size = 1024, fragment size = 1024
Inode size = 128
11257856 inodes, 11242558 free
45030080 blocks, 29528393 free, 2251504 reserved, first block = 1
8192 blocks per group
8192 fragments per group
2048 inodes per group
5497 groups (172 descriptors blocks)
I seems to me that there is plenty of free space left (and Inodes and
other stuff)
And BTW, I just made test and format one of those disks to ext2.
Copied files to it and ... Same problem.. 12 GB copied and then "no
free space".. Then I just try to copy MORE and result was that whole
ext2 filesystem broke down... (Atleast e2fsck found about million
different errors from it)
Do I have problem OR do I have PROBLEM!!!
Please, HELP!!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: startx from win98 EXCEED 6.2
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 05:40:51 GMT
In article <D%Tw5.13253$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Duane Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When i run xterm -display ipaddress:0.0& from my win98 to the linux
host it
> works fine but when i try to do startx -display ipaddress:0.0& it
displays
> on the hosts system.Is there an authorization required to override its
> default display?I've tried it using telnet but the same thing
happens!!
> thanx for your time.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
what youre looking for might be xdm
(thats the service that usually exports a windows manager like kde)
check that(if) xdm is started on your linux machine,
and its not (for security reasons) disallowed to promote its client.
then you should be able to find your linuxmachine in the exceed chooser
(exceed-xdmcp)
after that, check the xdm configuration files in
/usr/i-think-its-X11/sth-here-i-cant-remember/xdm
they configure which wm is exported ( might be twm as default,
set that to the one you want).
one word of advice, though,
i found in most cases you do *not* really need the full monty exported
like the full kde surface,
as it really takes time even in a 10mb network with few machines.
most of the times the work can be done with just some xterms
( and start your apps from there).
--
'...' said the joker to the thief
'there's too much confusion, i cant get no relief...
so let us not talk falsely now, the hour's getting late'
(robert zimmermann)
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Microsoft together
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:19:11 -0700
> Has anyone compared VMWare and Win4Lin?
I haven't used Win4Lin... but with VMWare you can also choose to 'suspend'
your guest operating system... and then 'power-on' again - much faster than
a full boot from scratch.
>
> --
> William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem:Mounting NTFS(Win2000) partition
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:26:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
vlad b wrote:
>
> Red Hat 6.2 can't mount my hda1 with win 2000(NTFS).
> Any one have any information how to solve the problem?
Yes, there's no full ntfs support in linux yet,
but you can mount and read the data on it. For that
you'll need to insert the ntfs.o module.
Eric
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From: "Evert de Jongh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do i create extended partition?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:28:39 +0200
Hi
I have 3 harddrives in my machine. No 1 is my Windows 98 boot partition (4
gig). No2 is 1 gig. No3 is 20 gig. This one i partitioned with 5 gig for
Linux. I want to install Linux on this partition. When i ran DiskDruid i can
create a Linux Swap partition(128meg). Then when i want to create the Linux
native partition (rest of drive) it tell me not enough disk space. I know
this has something to do with Linux only being able to handle more than 4
primary partitions. Must i now create an extended partition? If so, how? Or
what must i do?
And how do i now set up my comp to reboot from the different partitions?
As you can see, i am a very very newbie to this but would love to start
playing with Linux.
Thanx
Evert
ps. if it's to simple a question, reply directly to my email address.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.2 can't use onboard AC97 audio?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:24:27 -0700
> 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.
Alsa and OSS are both very nice ways to get your sound working.
You might want to check out
www.alsa-project.org
www.opensound.com
Alsa is a bit more complicated (and has more features?) - make sure you read
all the notes thoroughly - took me 10-15 minutes to get everything
working... but it's worth the trouble... and has OSS emulation add-ons... so
you get the best of both worlds.
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Installation
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:25:31 -0700
I assume you're reading other posts... but just in case - check out
www.alsa-project.org
www.opensound.com
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster 64V PCI Snd card
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 06:30:02 -0000
I have the same card. I'm using slackware 7.1 and the module is there
use: modprobe es1371
kurtis wrote:
>
>
> I bought a new Dell Dimension 4100. It shipped with a Soundblaster
> PCIcard. Listed as "64V PCI". I do not believe this card to be a
> PnPcard. lspci lists it as an Ensoniq 1371 chipset. I have compiled
> support for this card into the kernel, but when I do a
>
> "cat /dev/sndstat"
>
> I still get "sndstat: No such device." This tells me that kernel
> support is NOT enabled. If I try to cat a file to /dev/dsp, or
> reference /dev/dsp in any way, I get "dsp: File not found." Anyone know
> what I am doing wrong? Please help, need my mp3s!
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Kurtis
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No midi with sound blaster
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:31:01 -0700
This might actually turn into more of a *timidity* issue - since I believe
kmidi is using timidity indirectly (or expected patches)
The following sites will probably be helpful:
http://pubweb.bnl.gov/people/hoff
http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/html/gus_patches.htm
> Cheng Huang wrote:
>
> > Hi, guys,
> >
> > I have a machine with redhat 6.2 and sound blaster live 1024 installed.
> > The sound card is fine when playing CD and mp3. But I can't play midi
> > files with the kmidi. When I try to cat XXX.mid > /dev/audio, only noise
> > is heard.
>
> That is because you're sending raw, uninterpreted data to an audio
> output device. It's like trying to view an MPEG movie with a text
> editor. :-)
>
> The reason that you're not hearing anything with kmidi is because there
> are no instrument samples loaded. You need to download and install a
> set of midi instrument patches.
>
> Open the kmidi 'preferences' dialog and select 'help'
>
> I downloaded a 10 Meg set called "goemon" from
> http://www.anime.net/~goemon/timidity/ yesterday, and
> installed it in /usr/share/apps/kmidi/config/. I then edited
> 'goemon.cfg' so kmidi can locate the "goemon" directory
> containing the instrument patches.
>
> kmidi has to be given the location of the .cfg file. I entered the
> command "kmidi -c /usr/share/apps/kmidi/config/goemon.cfg"
> That worked. There is a file called kmidirc which contains setup
> information for kmidi, but I found NO documentation for it. Typical...
>
> Tony.
>
>
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: xfree 4.0.1
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:45:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Norman Zhang wrote:
>
> After I installed the XFree4.0.1 for Linux using xfree.org's binary
> distribution I get the following error message. Does anybody know what
> gives? Your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> XFree86 Version 4.0.1 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400)
> Release Date: 1 July 2000
> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer
> than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
> problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ)
> Operating System: Linux 2.2.15-urw1 i686 [ELF]
> Module Loader present
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Sep 16 09:44:51 2000
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
> Parse warning on line 78 of section Keyboard in file /etc/X11/XF86Config
> Ignoring obsolete keyword "LeftAlt".
> Parse error on line 78 of section Keyboard in file /etc/X11/XF86Config
> "Meta" is not a valid keyword in this section.
> (EE) Problem parsing the config file
> (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile()
This log tells you exactly what is wrong, your XF86Config file isn't
correct.
Run eg. xf86config to correct the errors.
Eric
>
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount, samba, and permissions
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:42:02 -0700
There are a couple of issues (at least) here...
Win98/NT/2000 want encrypted passwords... so you'll want to enable encrypted
passwords in your smb.conf
If you want to map the Windows users to users on your Linux machine...
you'll probably want to make a proper *smbpasswd* file from your
/etc/passwd.
cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > smbpasswd
if you installed samba from an rpm... you might want to grab the source code
if you're in doubt where useful scripts might be on your system.
You probably want to use the smbpasswd *command* if you want update the
actual passwords in the samba-encrypted password file.
more help -
man smb.conf
man samba
check out www.samba.org
"> I want users to be able to mount a smbfs share, but I can't seem to
> get it to work.
>
> Here's some stuff that illustrates my problems:
>
> [skip@Linux skip]$ ls /mnt/terminator -l
> total 16
> drwsrwsrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 15:23 c/
> drwsrwsrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 08:26 d/
> drwsrwsrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 08:26 dvd/
> drwsrwsrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 08:26 zip/
>
> [skip@Linux skip]$ which mount
> /bin/mount
>
> [skip@Linux skip]$ ls /bin/mount -l
> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 53620 Sep 13 1999 /bin/mount*
>
> [skip@Linux skip]$ cat /etc/fstab
> //terminator/c /mnt/terminator/c smbfs user,intr,noauto
> //terminator/d /mnt/terminator/d smbfs user,intr,noauto
> //terminator/zip /mnt/terminator/zip smbfs user,intr,noauto
> //terminator/dvd /mnt/terminator/dvd smbfs user,intr,noauto
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto,owner 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>
> [skip@Linux skip]$ mount //terminator/c
> [skip@Linux skip]$ Password:
> session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
> SMB connection failed
>
> (these next three lines are all typed as one command - word wrapping
> makes it look funny)
> [skip@Linux skip]$ mount -t smbfs -o
> username=Administrator,password=#####
> /terminator/c /mnt/terminator/c
> mount: only root can do that
>
> [skip@Linux skip]$ mount //terminator/c ###### <- password here
> mount: only root can do that
>
> (### masks real password)
> terminator is a win2000 machine. I have share permissions set to full
> read/write access for everyone (bad idea, i know, but I just want to
> get it going). root has no problems. What can I do to fix this?
>
> ====================================================
>
> Once I get that going, I have one more related problem. I want
> certain users to have read/write accesss to the NT share, but for some
> reason, only root seems to have that capability as well. Right now
> users can browse the NT share, but not write to it.
>
> [skip@Linux c]$ pwd
> /mnt/terminator/c
>
> [skip@Linux c]$ touch test.txt
> touch: test.txt: Permission denied
>
> [skip@Linux c]$ su
> Password:
>
> [root@Linux c]# touch test.txt
> [skip@Linux c]$ ls test.txt -l
> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 0 Sep 13 1999 test.txt*
>
> How do I fix it so that skip can write to the drive?
>
> Skip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Debian 2.2 virtual consoles
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:59:33 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:54:01 -0400, Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>How do u switch between virtual consoles with Debian 2.2. I only have a
>text based set up. Sometimes the networking command freeze up the system
>and the only way to get out is <aagh> reboot! I'd like to switch to another
>console and kill the old process.
>
>TIA,
>Cooper
>
>
Try using the ALT-Fn combination. Assume you are at the first virtual
console and want to switch to a second. STrike ALT-F2 on the keyboard.
That should get you there. If by chance you get to using X, simply do a
CTRL-ALT-Fn keyboard combination. Most X consoles run on the 7th console so
choose one between 2 and 6 or something. If you chose the first, you will
see your login there :)
Take care.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO and Win 2000
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:56:09 -0700
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed Win 2000 and Redhat 6.2 on a new
> > machine and have read a lot of different opinions about
> > what to do with LILO. During the installation I chose not to
> > install LILO and am booting Linux from a floppy but I don't
> > want to always have to do that. On my previous machine, which
> > had NT 4 and an earlier version of Redhat, I put LILO onto
> > the MBR on a wing and a prayer and it worked. Should I use
> > the same conf file on 2000. Any suggestions / example
> > lilo.conf files?
one alternative would be to install LILO on the Linux /boot partition
instead of the MBR... and write the relevant boot sector to a file that
Win2k's OS loader can use to boot LILO.
something like
/bin/dd if=/dev/hda2 bs=512 count=1 of=/win2k/bootsect.lnx
(assuming /win2k is your mounted windows partition where you want to put the
output)
In other words...
run 'dd', input is 1 512 byte sector at the beginning of /dev/hda2, output
written to /win2k/bootsect.lnx
The relevant part is installing LILO to the partition Linux is booting
from... and then grabbing the 512 byte sector for Windows 2000 to boot. You
can send the 'output file' to a floppy disk if you'd like to later copy to
your C: drive under Windows.
Then.. in boot.ini - you'd add something like:
c:\bootsect.lnx="RedmondHat 6.2"
selecting this choice will start LILO... at which point you can type in
'linux'... or whatever you labeled it in LILO.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > -Gary
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> Gary,
>
> I have 3 operating systems running on my machine: Win98, Win2K Server,
> and RedHat 6.0. LILO is in the MBR, so when the machine starts, I get
> the LILO prompt. If I boot to DOS, I then get the NT loader screen which
> allows me to select either Win98 or Win2K. I've been told that RedHat
> specifically advises AGAINST doing this, but I don't know why. The
> biggest downside to this is the fact that if you reinstall any Micro$oft
> products AFTER installing RedHat's LILO, you will wipe LILO out of the
> boot sector. I did this once, and to reinstall LILO, I re-ran RedHat
> Linux setup and told it to upgrade. It re-wrote LILO to the MBR. I'm
> sure there's an easier way to do this with the emergency boot floppy
> (you DID make the floppy, right??? :-) )
>
> Andy
>
>
>
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