Linux-Setup Digest #705, Volume #19 Tue, 26 Sep 00 19:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: How do I get X going as well as xvidtune (Rob Ristroph)
Re: framebuffer problems ("Andrew Kenna")
Re: RH 7.0 upgrade trouble (Carlos Moreno)
Re: looking for howto or any help docs on Automount (Carlos Moreno)
Physical vs logical partitions - inherent superiority? ("Ergophobe")
Re: Linux 6.2 ("Screwface")
Re: Linux 6.2 (Colin Watson)
Re: FE575C-3COM Card ("William B. Cattell")
Re: honeypot + syslogd ("The Zedi Warrior")
Re: Install of SoundBlaster 64 AWE ("William B. Cattell")
Re: RH 7.0 upgrade trouble (shady gawad)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Ristroph)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: How do I get X going as well as xvidtune
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:30:34 GMT
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Iwaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael>
Michael> I want to adjust my kde display; it's off center. Someone
Michael> suggested using xvidtune and they say that it runs under x.
Michael> So that I have to run X to get xvidtune to run. I tried
Michael> running X by typing X and hitting enter from the shell prompt
Michael> (and also root prompt) and from the directory where X
Michael> resides. When I try running X that way, I get a gray-white
Michael> display with an 'X' in the center and it stays that way...
Michael> there is no keyboard interaction but the mouse moves the 'x'.
Michael> The only way to get out of this is by hitting
Michael> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This can't be all there is to X. How do
Michael> I run X so I can run xvidtune and adjust my display?
If you are running kde, then you are already running X. When you run
the command "X", you are starting X but not the other things that you
normally see, the menubar and xterm or whatever. Basically what
happens when you run startx to go into GUI mode, is that it runs
xinit, which runs X and then every command in ~/.xinitrc, or more
likely, a system-wide default xinitrc file. You can learn more by
looking at the man pages for startx, xinit, those files themselves
(they are scripts so you can view them), and other documentation. If
you are used to using kde, then try cutting the example xinitrc file
from the startx or xinit man page into ~/.xinitrc, starting X, and
then try fiddling with that file a bit, change the window manager on
last line to something else, etc.
But here is how to fix your display problem: start up kde like you
always do, don't start X by a different method. Get a prompt, and
type "xvidtune". This will pop up a simple black and white gui
thing. You can adjust the screen left/right, up/down, wider/taller,
etc. You have to click "apply" to get the changes to take affect.
The monitor may not support everything so it can get wierd on you,
sometimes so bad you have to exit X and start over. But when you have
it perfect, click "show". This will dump out some numbers to the
terminal from which you started xvidtune.
Now become root, and bring up the file /etc/X11/XF86Config in emacs or
the editor you like. Cut and paste that line that xvidtune printed
out, and paste it into the XF86Config file, putting it at the end of
the long section of similar lines. Note that you have to add the word
"Modeline" to the beginning -- make it look like all the others.
Then restart X.
--Rob
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From: "Andrew Kenna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: framebuffer problems
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:51:46 +1000
installed the xfree86 fbdev drivers available from www.xfree86.org and then
edit your /etc/XF86Config to change the default video mode to run from fbdev
instead of vga
Regards
Andrew
"Brando" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:36:43 GMT, "Todd Goyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Running slackware 7.1
> >and x 4.0.1
> >when i startx it dumps out that it can't open /dev/fb0
> >the framebuffer device
> >have the same problem with x3.3.6 and fbtv (console prog for tv card)
> >any ideas?
> >thanks
> >Todd Goyen
>
>
> I get the same error. It says it can't open /dev/fb0 (no such device)
>
> I need a solution to this too!
>
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From: Carlos Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 upgrade trouble
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:07:20 -0400
"Kirk R. Wythers" wrote:
>
> Nisi wrote:
>
> > Do you have mutliple IDE CDRoms....???? I knwo that seems like a stupid
> > question, but if you downloaded the iso and burnt it to CD, then you most
> > likely have a CDROM and a CD-Writer. If they are both internal, then try
> > switching the CD to the other drive.......
>
> Na... I burned the two cds (disk 1 sio and disk 2 iso) on another machine.
> I just have a cdrom on the machine I'm trying to install onto. .. I'm
> booting from the cd and get a fair way into the install (pick english, us
> key board etc..) but when it's time to get the image off the cd, the
> installer replies, "can't find rehat cd"
Maybe something went wrong while downloading or burning the CD?? (it's
the only thing that comes to mind...)
Carlos
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From: Carlos Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: looking for howto or any help docs on Automount
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:05:10 -0400
Jason Hong wrote:
>
> I am looking for any documentation or howtos describing automount on Linux.
>
> Is there any howto for Linux automounting?
I don't know, but you might find the answer you're looking for in
linuxconf. Run that utility (being user root), and go in File Systems,
access local drive. There, you can specify what things you want mounted
automatically; finally, linuxconf will modify your file /etc/fstab,
adding the entries that you requested.
Hope this helps,
Carlos
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From: "Ergophobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Physical vs logical partitions - inherent superiority?
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 15:18:08 -0700
I guess the subject says it. Using FDISK for DOS to get going, I ended up
with one active regular partition, which gets my boot loader and whatever.
Then my extended partition has logical partitions that hold COL 2.4, Win2K
and a FAT-32 partition for data sharing between Win and Lin. The question
is, would it be inherently superior to have these four partitions set as
physical partitions rather than three logicals? So much superior that I
might want to re-install (I'd rather do it now while I still ahve almost no
customization then after I get everything set up.
All opinions... er make that all informed opinions are welcome!
Tom
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From: "Screwface" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux 6.2
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:33:18 -0400
k i have a gui but i really dont know how to use it all i want a learners
guide can some on point me in the right direction..
i want to set it up on a network and get out to the net with it set up email
and web server help
"Screwface" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ok i installed and logged in now what what are the command somebody help
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Linux 6.2
Date: 26 Sep 2000 22:22:49 GMT
Screwface <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok i installed and logged in now what what are the command somebody help
If you're coming from a DOS/Windows background, then have a look at
<URL:http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html>.
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Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"... a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be
spent in finding errors in my own programs." - Maurice Wilkes
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FE575C-3COM Card
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:48:40 GMT
Using the same card in a Dell Inspiron, Mandrake 7.1 I told Mandrake
that it had a 3C509/595??. It saw it and worked fine. FWIW.
Bill
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vinayak S Prabhu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have laptop with a 3com card ref. : FE575C (10/100 Lan Card Bus
> Fast Ethernet) ; the card is not in the list of defined cards in the
> Mandrake 7.1 distribution. Does anybody know how to make it work?
>
> Thanks
>
> Vinayak
>
>
>
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From: "The Zedi Warrior" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.computer.security,alt.linux,alt.os.security,comp.os.linux.x,comp.security.firewalls,comp.security.misc,comp.security.unix,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: honeypot + syslogd
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:50:35 +0100
All fine and dandy until you reboot...
I don't know about you, but I try not to make the behaviour of a system
after a reboot any different than the behaviour before the reboot. Fine and
dandy if you say "well, my systems are stable, and I've not rebooted my
boxes in the past 409 days," -- fine until the day you reboot.
Unless, of course, you plan on leaving your job soon, and really *want* to
shaft the next guy.
-Zedi
"Damian Menscher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:J44A5.2740$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.security.misc David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Rasputin wrote:
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <Damian Menscher> wrote:
> >> >In comp.security.misc jhuman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >> I was reading the article by lance spitzner on builing a honeypot
and he
> >> >> mentioned something about "recompiling syslogd" to read from a
different
> >> >> configuration file other than syslog.conf like /var/tmp/conf. I was
> >> >> wondering how that is done? Any help would be great.
> >> >
> >> >First off, you _could_ just run it as syslogd -f /var/tmp/conf. If
> >> >you want to be a bit more sneaky, you could leave it running as usual,
> >> >but have /etc/syslog.conf point to a different file when it is
> >> >starting than what it is during normal operation.
> >>
> >> Do you mean a symlink? How is that secure?
>
> > I suspect he means that your syslog startup script points
/etc/syslog.conf at
> > the real configuration file, then starts the syslog daemon, then points
> > /etc/syslog.conf at a fake file all using links. That way the process
table
> > does not show any giveaway arguments and a vi of syslog.conf shows fake
info.
> > Mind you, if I saw that the /etc/syslog.conf file was a link I would
probably
> > suspect something was awry anyway...
>
> Um, no, I never said anything about a symlink. Your startup could
> do something like:
>
> mv /etc/.backup/syslog.real /etc/syslog.conf
> syslogd
> mv /etc/.backup/syslog.fake /etc/syslog.conf
>
> Quite safe and secure, especially if you do it by hand instead of
> automating it in a script. And no links to give it away.
>
> HTH,
>
> Damian Menscher
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install of SoundBlaster 64 AWE
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:57:46 GMT
Go to a console prompt and type 'sndconfig'. It's Red Hat's sound
config program that will get you set up.
Bill
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean=2DSt=E9phane?= Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since the last week, i try to install all my hardware under Linux
> (Mandrake 7.0 Kernel 2.2.14).
> I can't achieve to install my sound blaster. I read the following text :
> - The Linux sound HOWTO,
> - The SB64 Linux HOWTO,
> - /usr/src/linux/Documentation/AWE32
> - The Linux kernel HOWTO,
> - several kind answers from newsgroups which permit me to compil my
> kernel.
>
> To install the SoundBlaster 64 AWE, i do :
> 1. pnpdump > isapnp.conf and i correct it : this file is at the end of
> this message. When i launch : isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf the result is :
> Board 1 has Identity 16 00 01 41 2e 9d 00 8c 0e: CTL009d Serial No
> 82222 [checksum 16]
> CTL009d/82222[0]{Audio }: Ports 0x220 0x330 0x388; IRQ5
> DMA1 DMA5 --- Enabled OK CTL009d/82222[1]{Game }: Port
> 0x200; --- Enabled OK CTL009d/82222[2]{WaveTable }: Ports
> 0x620 0xA20 0xE20; --- Enabled OK
>
> 2. cd /usr/src/linux
> 3. make mrproper
> 4. make menuconfig : for the sound card specifications, i respect the
> usr/src/linux/Documentation/AWE32 : But i don't find "General OPL2/OPL3
> synthethiser" entry.
> 5. make dep
> 6. make clean
> 7. make bzImage
> 8. make bzdisk
> 9. make modules
> 10. make modules_install
> 11. make install
> 12. make /sbin/lilo -v -l
> 13. reboot
>
> The result : when kde start : no sound (kdeaudio failed to connect to
> server) I launch isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf, the result is the same than
> before in this message. I launch modprobe -a sound, Linux writes
> nothing.
>
> When i launch : cat /proc/devices I see
> ...
> 14 sound
> ...
> When i launch : cat /dev/sndstat there's no sound card installed
>
> I don't know what i can do. If someone can help me, thanks.
>
> Best regards.
>
> Jean-St�phane Lebrun
>
> /*
> * le fichier /etc/isapnp.conf
> */
> # $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.20 1999/12/02 22:39:24 fox Exp $
> # Release isapnptools-1.20
> # This is free software, see the sources for details.
> # This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK
> #
> # For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5)
> #
> # For latest information and FAQ on isapnp and pnpdump see:
> # http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
> #
> # Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER -DABORT_ONRESERR
> #
> # Trying port address 0273
> # Board 1 has serial identifier 16 00 01 41 2e 9d 00 8c 0e
>
> # (DEBUG)
> (READPORT 0x0273)
> (ISOLATE PRESERVE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
> (VERBOSITY 2)
> (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
>
> # Card 1: (serial identifier 16 00 01 41 2e 9d 00 8c 0e)
> # Vendor Id CTL009d, Serial Number 82222, checksum 0x16.
> # Version 1.0, Vendor version 2.0
> # ANSI string -->Creative SB AWE64 PnP<--
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL009d/82222 (LD 0
> # ANSI string -->Audio<--
>
> (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
> (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
> (IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
> (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330))
> (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
>
> (NAME "CTL009d/82222[0]{Audio }")
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL009d/82222 (LD 1
> # Compatible device id PNPb02f
> # ANSI string -->Game<--
>
> (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0200))
>
> (NAME "CTL009d/82222[1]{Game }")
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL009d/82222 (LD 2
> # ANSI string -->WaveTable<--
>
> (IO 0 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0620))
> (IO 1 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0A20))
> (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0E20))
>
> (NAME "CTL009d/82222[2]{WaveTable }")
> (ACT Y)
> ))
> #
> # Logical device id CTL2011
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3b
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3d
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3f
> #
> # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
> # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be
> changed if required
> # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL009d/82222 (LD 3
> # Compatible device id PNP0600
> # ANSI string -->IDE<--
>
> # Multiple choice time, choose one only !
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority preferred
> # IRQ 10.
> # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> # (INT 0 (IRQ 10 (MODE +E)))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0168
> # Maximum IO base address 0x0168
> # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> # (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0168))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x036e
> # Maximum IO base address 0x036e
> # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 2
> # (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x036e))
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
> # IRQ 11.
> # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> # (INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x01e8
> # Maximum IO base address 0x01e8
> # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> # (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x01e8))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x03ee
> # Maximum IO base address 0x03ee
> # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 2
> # (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x03ee))
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
> # IRQ 10, 11, 12 or 15.
> # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> # (INT 0 (IRQ 10 (MODE +E)))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0180
> # Maximum IO base address 0x01b8
> # IO base alignment 8 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> # (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0180))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0306
> # Maximum IO base address 0x033e
> # IO base alignment 8 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 2
> # (IO 1 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0306))
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority functional
> # IRQ 15.
> # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> # (INT 0 (IRQ 15 (MODE +E)))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0170
> # Maximum IO base address 0x0170
> # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> # (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0170))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x0376
> # Maximum IO base address 0x0376
> # IO base alignment 1 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 1
> # (IO 1 (SIZE 1) (BASE 0x0376))
>
> # End dependent functions
> (NAME "CTL009d/82222[3]{IDE }")
> # (ACT Y)
> ))
> # End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
>
> # Returns all cards to the "Wait for Key" state
> (WAITFORKEY)
>
>
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From: shady gawad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 upgrade trouble
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:58:19 +0200
Got something like that actually I have an adaptec scsi controller with 2 SCSI CD
devices. Actually the SCSI controller just gives the letter A: to the bootdisk on
the
CDROM. and says my normal floppy is on B:
It booted alright until it told me about the Cdrom or HD install I had to put the
cd
in the other SCSI CD drive to get it to work. Pretty strange but it worked.
Carlos Moreno wrote:
> "Kirk R. Wythers" wrote:
> >
> > Nisi wrote:
> >
> > > Do you have mutliple IDE CDRoms....???? I knwo that seems like a stupid
> > > question, but if you downloaded the iso and burnt it to CD, then you most
> > > likely have a CDROM and a CD-Writer. If they are both internal, then try
> > > switching the CD to the other drive.......
> >
> > Na... I burned the two cds (disk 1 sio and disk 2 iso) on another machine.
> > I just have a cdrom on the machine I'm trying to install onto. .. I'm
> > booting from the cd and get a fair way into the install (pick english, us
> > key board etc..) but when it's time to get the image off the cd, the
> > installer replies, "can't find rehat cd"
>
> Maybe something went wrong while downloading or burning the CD?? (it's
> the only thing that comes to mind...)
>
> Carlos
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