Linux-Setup Digest #690, Volume #19 Sun, 24 Sep 00 22:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: RedHat 7.0? ("karl")
Install error (Anders Mattson)
Re: cgi Q: (Mark)
Kernel too big (Hans Eriksson)
HELP with Linux screen setup on HP Pavilion N3250 Laptop (Brando)
Re: Printing from windows to a Linux printer ("Andrew Kenna")
Re: Kernel too big ("Andrew Kenna")
Re: Kernel too big (Glitch)
Network shares. ("Steve")
Re: RH 5.2 -> 6.2 lost ppa (Glitch)
Re: Setserial/IRQ/Linux/Modem Hell. (John Todd)
Re: SBLive card causes lockup! (Bill Pringlemeir)
Problems with fdisk in linux (with FAT32 drive) (Salim Qadri)
Re: Changing Screen resolutions (Lee)
Re: X will not start ----> Solved!! (jack)
Re: Problems with fdisk in linux (with FAT32 drive) (E J)
Re: Unit of Blocks in fdisk (ljb)
RAID weirdness... ("dirac")
Configuring Reaplayer Plugin ("Les Labbauf")
anyone can provide info on setpci ("yaolong")
2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!! (Igor)
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From: "karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.0?
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 16:42:17 +0100
Read that this is so on one of the Linux sites. I picked up the 6.9 beta a
few weeks ago from a computer fair and it looks ok so far. A couple of nice
surprises..my USB mouse was detected and working straight away and so was my
SCSI scanner. I was quite impressed with the scanner as I'd been struggling
with it before.
The KDE on the 6.9 I have is a bit iffy at the moment but Gnome seems fine.
I haven't really had time to have much of a play around yet.
Karl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anders Mattson)
Subject: Install error
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:33:44 GMT
this is the error message that poped up and a little before that also when I was going
into the install of RH 6.2
(in paraenthesis are what I think or know what it is)
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Partition Check:
hda : hda1 (my msdos FAT 32 drive)
hdb : hdb1 hdb2 <hdb5 hdb6> (hdb1 representing all my warez and mp3's in Fat
32 form, hdb2 which is my second parition which is logical which has my linux swap and
ext2 partition on
RAMDISK: compressed image found on block 0 (?)
crcerror VFS: cannot open root device 08:34 (something about my hard drive)
Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:34 (something about main file system)
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: cgi Q:
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:26:41 GMT
Could be...or the server is not configured to execute server side
includes, or any number of things.
In article <8qlpp4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Emilio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, just htm/html.
> Is it the problem?
> Emilio
>
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From: Hans Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel too big
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:34:51 +0200
Hello!
I've just downloaded and compiled th 2.4.0-test8 kernel. This all works
fine, but when I run "lilo -c" I get the message "Kernel too big". Well
-- LILO thinks the kernel's too big, that�s clear, but I've stripped
down the configuration as much as I possibly can. Almost everything is
modularised and I still get a kernel size of approx. 1.9M. 1.9M:
shouldn't this be small _enough_ for LILO (0.21) anyway???
How can I get around this?
Regards
/Hans E.
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From: Brando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP with Linux screen setup on HP Pavilion N3250 Laptop
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:00:19 GMT
I have an HP Pavilion N3250 Laptop with a 12.1'' screen with ActiveX
and a Trident CyberBlade chipset. I am having problems configuring the
screen. Can some help me with what settings I should use for the
laptop?
TIA
Brandon
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From: "Andrew Kenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing from windows to a Linux printer
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:56:37 +1000
You will need to configure it as a samba printer under an x-windows program
called printtool
You have to make sure samba is working so you can see your linux machine
through the network neighbourhood icon for this to work.
If you have any problems drop me an email
Regards
Andrew
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"Brian McKeen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:cWaz5.15405$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> I just installed a local printer to my Linux server and would like to
use
> it as a remote printer for my windows machines on my network. Anyone know
> how to do that? Any suggestions are appreciated. thanks in advance
>
>
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From: "Andrew Kenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel too big
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:58:39 +1000
1.9mb is bloody massive for a kernel boot image
When you get to the stage of creating the boot image do a make bzImage
instead of make zImage
Regards
Andrew
"Hans Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello!
>
> I've just downloaded and compiled th 2.4.0-test8 kernel. This all works
> fine, but when I run "lilo -c" I get the message "Kernel too big". Well
> -- LILO thinks the kernel's too big, that�s clear, but I've stripped
> down the configuration as much as I possibly can. Almost everything is
> modularised and I still get a kernel size of approx. 1.9M. 1.9M:
> shouldn't this be small _enough_ for LILO (0.21) anyway???
>
> How can I get around this?
>
>
> Regards
>
> /Hans E.
>
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:16:27 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel too big
reading the kernel howto says to use 'make bzImage' instead of 'make
zImage' when one gets a kernel that is too big.
Hans Eriksson wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I've just downloaded and compiled th 2.4.0-test8 kernel. This all works
> fine, but when I run "lilo -c" I get the message "Kernel too big". Well
> -- LILO thinks the kernel's too big, that�s clear, but I've stripped
> down the configuration as much as I possibly can. Almost everything is
> modularised and I still get a kernel size of approx. 1.9M. 1.9M:
> shouldn't this be small _enough_ for LILO (0.21) anyway???
>
> How can I get around this?
>
> Regards
>
> /Hans E.
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From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network shares.
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:13:44 GMT
How do I get redhat 6.2 to recognize my win98 network shares and connect to
them. Aand how do I set up 6.2 to allow access to my win98 machine?
Thanks in advance.
Steve
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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:18:54 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 -> 6.2 lost ppa
put the insmod ppa command in your startup file, on RH i believe its
rc.local but I could be wrong.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, Just upgraded from RedHat 5.2 to 6.2. Seems to be working fine (i.e. as
> before), except that the ppa module (for parallel port ZIP drive) does not
> load automatically anymore.
>
> I added the line "alias scsi_hostadapter ppa" to /etc/conf.modules but that
> didn't help. (conf.modules works fine for "alias eth0 ne")
>
> If I manually type "insmod ppa" at the command line prompt, then the ppa
> module loads and I gain access to my zip drive. But obviously, I want this to
> happen at boot time, automatically.
>
> How do I solve this problem? (I know that RH 6.2 abandoned 'kerneld' in favor
> of 'kmod', but that doesn't explain why module 'ne' is loaded automatically
> and 'ppa' not)
>
> TIA,
> Swengtoo
>
> P.S. I do have the line "alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc" as the first line
> in my conf.modules.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: Setserial/IRQ/Linux/Modem Hell.
Date: 24 Sep 2000 21:37:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000 13:30:04 -0000, Melanie
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>If I boot normally, and try to run setserial to set the modem's IRQ, I'm
>told that the device or resource is busy. If I boot into single-user mode,
>I can use setserial with no problems, and use the modem from there. I can
>also bring up eth0 from here with no difficulties.
>
>I figure it's some kind of conflict with the ethernet card.. but... help?
>
>Cheers. :o)
>
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Please pardon me if I'm starting too far back, but you are clear,
aren't you, that setserial does not SET the modem, but INFORMS Linux of the
setting? Three possible ways to SET a modem:
* hardware jumpers
* DOS utility (!)
* isapnp (man isapnp)
Cheers
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Subject: Re: SBLive card causes lockup!
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:35:10 GMT
I am using an SB Live card with a Mandrake distribution. Very similar
to yours. Things are fine. I suggest that you disable the Plug and
play support in your BIOS. Linux is not currently a plug and play OS.
All of the hardware resources must be assigned at boot time.
Plug and Play allows dynamic allocation of these resources. Your BIOS
should pick sane values. Check out the pnpdump, isapnp and
ipapnp.conf man pages. Also, I have had good luck with the ALSA
drivers for sound. The other drivers (OSS) didn't seem to work too
well for me. (Very subjective comment, I don't intend to deride
anyones work...) Here is a link to get you started,
"http://www.alsa-project.org/~valentyn/"
[can someone tell me how to copy text from one program to another
under GNOME/X-windows? I have the URL in a Netscape location window,
but I have to retype it in my emacs/Gnus window. That really sucks.]
fwiw,
Bill
>>>>> "mblythe" == mblythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mblythe> Hi, I've been having terrible trouble getting RedHat 6.2 to
mblythe> boot, and finally got frustrated enough to yank out my PCI
mblythe> cards. When I yanked out my SBLive card it booted up just
mblythe> fine. Here is the behavior I get when the card is in a
mblythe> slot:
mblythe> 1) I select 'linux' at the LILO prompt 2) Next line shows
mblythe> "Loading Linux........" 3) Goes to next line and freezes
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From: Salim Qadri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with fdisk in linux (with FAT32 drive)
Date: 24 Sep 2000 18:28:01 -0400
Hi,
I am having a problem trying to fdisk this drive which is attached as
/dev/hdb on IDE0 as a slave. Whenever i use fdisk to delete all the
partitions on the drive, it seems to work. As soon as I create an
extended or primary partion (ext2), and reboot after mounting the
drives, fsck complains that I have bad superblocks and i should use
$>e2fsck -b 8193
This of course doesnt work. The drive used to have FAT32 partitions on
it, but I am trying to fdisk it with ext2. Is there something I dont
know?
System Specs:
Turbolinux 6 (2.2.13 based)
Celeron 450, Abit BH-6 board, 128M
2x 20 GB drives (IDE)
Thanks in advance,
salim
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From: Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing Screen resolutions
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:37:48 -0700
E J wrote:
>
> Geez Winblows ME....Sounds like 1 step ahead (protecting important dll
> files),
> 2 steps backward (no DOS)
> Is DOS really gone in Winblows ME? Does that mean I have to migrate
> all old
> DOS programs to linux
> using DOSEMU (Dos emulator)?
>
Nah, I say a patch to the ME command com advertized in another
n/g. It restores DOS command-line availability. Do a search
on your favorite search engine (or read lotsa n/g's)
Lee
bullwinkle-at-zebra.net
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From: jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X will not start ----> Solved!!
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 23:18:35 GMT
Problem solved..... Something did crash my Xserver, my suspicion is the
XscreensaverGL stuff. Thats been unistalled.
As far as X refusing to start. That turned out to be some extra security I had
set up. Basically PortSentry was bound to port 6000 which X needs to work. Once
I toned down securty a bit X came right up. I was being anal by having
PortSentry block alot of ports in addition to IPChains but hey I'm paranoid.
Anyway watch out for things like this I almost blew away my whole system.
Above all do not give up if you run into problems believe me I was really close
to a complete reinstall. Usually the problem is staring you in the face. In my
case it was, X couldn't open a connection because the port it needed was
blocked. These kinds of things that we all solve will only make you a better
Linux admin. Hang in there!!!
Thanks for all the replys
Jack
jack wrote:
> "ne..." wrote:
>
> > On Sep 24, 2000 at 01:19, Glitch eloquently wrote:
> > >
> > >jack wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Last night I installed the GL addons for Xscreensaver 3.23. They seemed
> > >> to work fine. This morning my system is totally locked up. Only way
> > >> out was to reset. After the reset everything comes up fine including
> > >> ipchains and masqurading but X will not start. Here is the error.
> > >>
> > >> [root@ubr-165 /root]# startx
> > >>
> > >> _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> > >> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running
> > >>
> > >> Fatal server error:
> > >> Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't
> > >> already running
> > >>
> > >> 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".
> > >>
> > >> giving up.
> > >> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
> > >> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
> > >> [root@ubr-165 /root]# mc
> > >>
> > >> This is after a clean reboot logged in as root. The log says the same
> > >> thing. I do not use any graphical logins. I boot straigt to runlevel3
> > >> and then startx from there. There are no X processes running as far as
> > >> I can tell. This one has me stumped pretty good. I'm using Mandrake
> > >> 7.1 with X 4.0.1 on a straight GeForce256. Its been running fine for
> > >> months. Is there some sort of lockfile that needs to go?
> > >>
> > >
> > >I do believe you are right in thinking there is a lockfile somewhere so
> > >that in my opinion is the problem. However I can't recall where it is
> > >located. It might be .Xlock but I doubt it. I'm pretty sure X does make
> > >some sort of lock file though. Someone on here should be able to
> > >provide you with much more information in order to help you but this is
> > >at least a start.
> > >
> > Look in /tmp for .X0-lock.
> >
>
> Thanks for the advise. There is a file that exits like this on my working
> laptop. However on the system with the problem the /tmp directory is
> completely empty. Permissions for /tmp are world read write execute. I
> think there may have been some corruption that took place when the system went
> down. I've reinstalled X 4.0.1 from the binaries again but nothing has
> changed.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with fdisk in linux (with FAT32 drive)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 16:55:12 -0700
Did you format after creating the partition and before mounting the
partition?
# mkfs /dev/hdb1
# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/harddisk
Salim Qadri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem trying to fdisk this drive which is attached as
> /dev/hdb on IDE0 as a slave. Whenever i use fdisk to delete all the
> partitions on the drive, it seems to work. As soon as I create an
> extended or primary partion (ext2), and reboot after mounting the
> drives, fsck complains that I have bad superblocks and i should use
>
> $>e2fsck -b 8193
>
> This of course doesnt work. The drive used to have FAT32 partitions on
> it, but I am trying to fdisk it with ext2. Is there something I dont
> know?
>
> System Specs:
> Turbolinux 6 (2.2.13 based)
> Celeron 450, Abit BH-6 board, 128M
> 2x 20 GB drives (IDE)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> salim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ljb)
Subject: Re: Unit of Blocks in fdisk
Date: 25 Sep 2000 00:47:56 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>#fdisk /dev/hda
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1559 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 390 2948368+ b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda2 391 936 4127760 5 Extended
>/dev/hda3 937 1352 3144960 a5 BSD/386
>/dev/hda4 1353 1559 1564920 83 Linux
>/dev/hda5 391 718 2479648+ b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda6 719 720 15088+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hda7 721 755 264568+ 82 Linux swap
>/dev/hda8 756 936 1368328+ 83 Linux
>
>Can anyone tell me the unit of the Blocks column? It seems to me it is
>half a sector instead of a sector (512 bytes). Thanks.
They are the same 'blocks' reported by df, du, and ls -s: 1024 bytes,
which is 2 sectors on the disk.
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From: "dirac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAID weirdness...
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:06:12 -0400
Hello, and thank you for your time in advance. I am experiencing
difficulties installing Debian GNU/Linux on my system, which has a 3ware
IDE RAID controller. The specific drive setup is two 15 gig drives in
RAID-0 striping formation. I have managed to get Debian to recognize the
disk at startup by swapping out the rescue disk kernel with a kernel I
compiled with support for the 3ware controller. However, when I got to the
install program in Debian, the installer saw 2 disks of 30 gigs in size! I
honestly don't know what to think... should I continue with the install,
with the assumption that fdisking one disk would be writing to both, or
should I try something else? I have a partition that has some data on it
which I would rather not have to replace (though it is backed up). Anyway,
if anyone has any advice, I'd really appreciate it.
Dirac
"Now me, I'm a straightforward kinda guy, y'know? I mean, SOME of us
aren't afraid to call a spade a goddamn shovel..."
-- Merv, the Pumpkin-headed painter of dreams
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From: "Les Labbauf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuring Reaplayer Plugin
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 01:17:21 GMT
I downloaded and sucessfully installed the Realplayer plugin, I still can't get the
player to work when I click on an Real Audio link. What else do I need to configure to
get this to work?
Les
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From: "yaolong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: anyone can provide info on setpci
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 18:38:07 -0700
I installed a linksys ethernet card in my machine
Linux recognized it - but did not explicitly ask me for a driver
anyway, after some more poking around - I found that the card does not have
correct IRQ or memory address set
Then I used setpci utility to set the IRQ - it seems to be set correctly now
(setpci shows that at least)
but the card still does not seem to work
can anyone provide more info / help
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Igor)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: 2.4.0 kernel DOES NOT BOOT!!!
Date: 25 Sep 2000 02:00:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi... I am trying to get a 2.4.0 test5 version of the kernel to run.
I have compiled it etc. When I get to the lilo prompt and try to
select linux-240, it says something like "starting kernel" and then
hangs. I have verified that the kernel is where the lilo.conf
says it is. Any ideas?
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