Linux-Setup Digest #728, Volume #19 Sat, 30 Sep 00 02:13:08 EDT
Contents:
in which script is X started? (Mandrake 7 User)
Having trouble running modem tool on server install (Malik)
Re: help: soundcard setup please (David Efflandt)
Re: NTFS (Markus Kossmann)
Re: in which script is X started? (Vilmos Soti)
NFS Problem (Jeff Grossman)
Re: How to allow user to login from other subnet? (David Efflandt)
some advice needed on formatting (RH 6.2) ("frankie")
MS Netmeeting under Linux? (Mandrake 7 User)
ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3 ("Stephen")
Non Winmodem modem frustrations with Mandrake 7.1 ("Neil Castle")
Re: Best dist for 486/33? ("PJC")
Re: in which script is X started? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this? (Rob Ristroph)
Re: XFree86 4.0.1 (Rob Ristroph)
Re: Installing RedHat Linux 6.2 (Rob Ristroph)
Re: some advice needed on formatting (RH 6.2) ("David ..")
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From: Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: in which script is X started?
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:01:49 GMT
Which is the script that starts the X server? (system boots to kdm;
distro is Mandrake 7 / Redhat 6.) I need to pass options to the X
server but in startx and the like I see no command "X".
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From: Malik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Having trouble running modem tool on server install
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:23:29 -0700
Hello,
I just installed RedHat 6.2 (Zoot) and according to the book I'm
reading, in order to get on the ineternet, I need to run modemtool
from a terminal window under X.
Well, I can't start x, and I'm guessing it's not installed by default
when you choose "server" instead of the default "Gnome Workstation",
and I telnet'd into it and tried to run modem tool, but it won't work.
Is there something extra I need to install?
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: help: soundcard setup please
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:24:59 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Steve Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've held off posting this for a month. I'm stumped!
>
>OPL3SA2 soundcard.
>
>Peanut-Linux:~# modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x220 irq=7 dma=0 mss_io=0x330 dma2=1
>/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/opl3sa2.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/opl3sa2.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/opl3sa2.o failed
>/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/opl3sa2.o: insmod opl3sa2 failed
So, have you read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA2? I think
not since your MSS port is out of range and I don't think you can use SB
emulation and MSS at the same time.
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NTFS
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 06:03:38 +0200
Neil Zanella wrote:
> my fstab man page says nothing about ntfs.
"man mount" contains a section "Mount options for ntfs" , which you can
use for options field in the fstab. The type field has to be set to
ntfs and all other fields have the same meaning as for all other
filesystems.
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Markus Kossmann
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: in which script is X started?
From: Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:30:35 GMT
Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which is the script that starts the X server? (system boots to kdm;
> distro is Mandrake 7 / Redhat 6.) I need to pass options to the X
> server but in startx and the like I see no command "X".
startx -option1 -option2 -- -option3 -option3
Here, option1 and option2 will be used by startx. option3 and option4
will be passed as paramteres to the X server. Anything after the --
is passed to the X server.
BTW startx calls xinit which is the X initializer.
Vilmos
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From: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: NFS Problem
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 21:30:26 -0700
Hello,
I am trying to setup NFS. I am running Redhat 6.2 as the NFS server and
Redhat 7.0 as the NFS client. I think I have everything set up
correctly. I followed the NFS howto. But, when I try and connect, I get
Permission Denied. I even tried to connect to the server from the server
machine and connect to localhost and I get the same error message. Does
anybody have any ideas?
Thanks,
Jeff
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Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: How to allow user to login from other subnet?
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:35:15 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>My remote users are trying to login to our mail server through ISP with
>different IP address. They are unable to login to the server via POP.
>Telnet rejects their access also. Where should I look for to allow
>them to access to the server.
>
>We use Debian 2.1 + sendmail 8.3
>We are on 133.164.150.XXX subnet. Those remote users are assigned
>133.164.14.XXX by ISP. I have not configured ipchain.
>ipchains -L returns
>Chain input (policy ACCEPT):
>Chain forward (policy ACCEPT):
>Chain output (policy ACCEPT):
>No proxy nor firewall we use. (these are up at our ISP site.)
Does that last statement mean that your ISP is firewalling your
connection? Do /etc/host.allow or hosts.deny contain anything? Do the
remote IPs resolve to hostnames?
Do /var/log/messages or /var/log/secure show any sign of the attempted
connections?
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From: "frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: some advice needed on formatting (RH 6.2)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:41:44 -0400
I have tried many times unsuccessfully to have my dual-9-gig SCSI drives PC
work with
RH 6.2 booting from the hard drive. NO LUCK. No matter how many times I try
to
reinstall, it seem that RH has a built-in script that forces the LILO files
to go into /,
and not into a small /boot partition (way before the 1024-sector limit) as
I'm asking it to.
This is using fdisk as my partition tool. Works perfect booting from a
floppy.
So I figured, what the hell, let's put a small DOS partition at the top of
one of the drives,
install system commander and make it work that way.
The problem is that DOS doesn't seem to recognize that there any drives
present
on my system. Nothing formattable. No "fdisk /MBR" command works under
DOS....nothing.
I tried reformatting one of the disks with the built-in BIOS SCSI tools
provided.
(Adaptec AIC-7880) Spent yet more time doing it.
What gives? How do I resurrect my disks to even be recognized by a non-Linux
OS?
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From: Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: MS Netmeeting under Linux?
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:31:48 GMT
Is there any net conferencing program for linux that is compatible with
MS Netmeeting?
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From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:34:13 -0400
I am trying to install, with great difficulty, the above distro. Although
indicated on and in the box, my video card is not supported (They "forgot"
to include it ). It would seem all I need is the Xrage.rpm. But the damn
thing can't be found ! I've looked high and low for it! Can someone either
drop me a word or two , or even send me as an attachment? Of course, if
you have any suggestions or think I am totally of track regarding installing
support for the ATI Rage Fury 128, drop me a line at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards,
Stephen
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From: "Neil Castle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Non Winmodem modem frustrations with Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:42:00 -0400
Hi all
I recently loaded Mandrake 7.1 linux distribution onto my Dell 866MHz PIII
as a dual OS with Win98. The installation seemed to go OK except I have yet
been unable to establish communication to my modem. I am aware of the issues
relating to Win modems. My internal modem is a 3COM Model 0727, V.90 56K
Internal Voice Faxmodem PCI Model 3CP2976-OEM-50 [OEM "Hawk"]
4X2USA-32034-M5-E. This model is listed as Linux friendly on the
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Web site. In Win98 system
information says that my modem is communicating through COM5 IRQ3 I/O dfe0.
I have been told in previous posts that COM5 is an alias for COM3. However,
when I use the setserial command for COM3 (i.e. setserial /dev/ttys2 IRQ3
PORT 0xdfe0 ^fourport ^auto_irq skip_test autoconfig spd_vhi) all I get is
an "input/output error" message returned in Konsole. I get the same response
using ttys0, 1 and 3. I have used the "lspci" to confirm that the IRQ and
Port settings are correct. I am at a loss of what to do next. I am still a
newbie at Linux and would appreciate any step-by-step guide to
troubleshooting and resolving my modem problems. I like the linux OS a lot
but unless I can get my modem working I will be forced to return to using
Win98 which would be a shame.
Thanks in advance for help
Neil Castle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "PJC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best dist for 486/33?
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:48:56 -0400
1 - use redhat 6.0 not 6.1 or 6.2 though those will work also.
2 - you will want to do an ftp install if the machines have nics
if they don't I am not sure what you would use the machines for?
3 - they CAN run a gui but with 240MBs, that is cutting it real close. You
have to decide what you want to do on the machines. Any decent web server
and ftp server need a good 500MBs for storing. You could always run a proxy
server and firewall.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8r30j5$i1g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just inherited a couple 486/33 Compaq Prolineas. Someone want to
> recommend a distribution that'll run on this that's easy to install, it
> doesn't have a CD-ROM, but I guess I have to put one in unless I can
> fit Linux onto a bunch of floppies. It'll be my first Linux install.
> Its got about 240 megs of HD space and I can fill up the memory slots
> to 128 if I have to. Will this old machine be able to run a GUI?
>
> Roper
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: in which script is X started?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 05:19:03 GMT
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:30:35 GMT, Vilmos Soti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Which is the script that starts the X server? (system boots to kdm;
>> distro is Mandrake 7 / Redhat 6.) I need to pass options to the X
>> server but in startx and the like I see no command "X".
>
>startx -option1 -option2 -- -option3 -option3
>
>Here, option1 and option2 will be used by startx. option3 and option4
>will be passed as paramteres to the X server. Anything after the --
>is passed to the X server.
>
>BTW startx calls xinit which is the X initializer.
But he is using kdm. Just guessing this is based on xdm, so should have
a config file like /etc/X11/kdm/Xservers. This is where you pass options
to the X server. I've added the 'dpi 100' line below.
:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100
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Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Ristroph)
Subject: Re: Does Anyone know How to DO this?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 05:16:03 GMT
>>>>> "Jack" == Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jack>
Jack> I had 2 6GB HD with NT and other stuff on the first HD.
Jack> The second HD had 3GB (FAT) first partition for my data
Jack> The rest of the 2nd HD partition were used for linux. With
Jack> the boot partition on /dev/hdb5
Jack>
Jack> Now I have replaced the 2 6GB HD with a single 13GB HD
Jack> I have done an image copy (using Power Quest's Drive Image)
Jack> of my NT and linux partions from the old 2 6GB HD onto the
Jack> new single 13 GB HD successfully. NT boots OK. The boot
Jack> partition for Linux has now changed to say /dev/hda5
Jack>
Jack> Problem:
Jack> Obviously my original bootable floppy and etc/fstab on the
Jack> current HD still points to hdb5. I have edited /etc/lilo.conf on
Jack> the floppy to point to /dev/hda5 and when I boot from the floppy
Jack> reports a "panic" (i think kernel panic) error. I have tried
Jack> re-booting using the Redhat 6.2 CD in rescue mode and using:
Jack> mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /
I don't think this will work, because something should already be
mounted as /. Before you do the mount command above, can't you see
files and directories with ls / ?
Jack> to mount the root directory. I think it mounts the dir because
Jack> the listing shows some of my files. However when I when I do a
Jack> listing in the /etc directory I only see files that were already
Jack> there by the virtue of the bootable CD. Hence /etc/mtab is there
Jack> but /etc/fstab is NOT there.
Jack> Que
Jack> How can I restore the system from here. What files do I need to
Jack> modify. Any link? how to? Any help greatly appreciated.
You are on the right path. Here is what you need to do:
1) Create a place to mount the /dev/hda5 to:
cd /
mkdir mountpoint
(you can use "mountpoint" if you want, or call it harddisk5, or
something)
2) Mount the partion to the mountpoint
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda5 /mountpoint
At this point you should see your old files in /mountpoint, and /
should have the files from the rescue floppy. So the file you want to
edit is /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf, not /etc/lilo.conf.
3) Edit /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf
Emacs won't be on the rescue disk of course, so you may have to vi or
pico or whatever they put on there.
4) run lilo
I think you may have been missing this step. You can edit the
lilo.conf files all you want, but you have to actually run lilo for it
to take effect. Lilo looks at /etc/lilo.conf by default, and you want
it to look at the one you modified, /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf; also
lilo is now in /mountpoint/sbin/lilo instead of /sbin/lilo. Try this
command:
/mountpoint/sbin/lilo -C /mountpoint/etc/lilo.conf
Notice how I specify the full path to everything, because at this
stage stuff is mounted to weird places. Hopefully that will work; if
lilo is dynamically linked and needs to find something in /lib or
/usr/lib it might not. If it works, great, otherwise try running this
command and then try it again:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mountpoint/lib:/mountpoint/usr/lib:/mountpoint/usr/local/lib
So hopefully at this point you can reboot and have your system back.
If you use something other than mountpoint, replace mountpoint
throughout all these instructions.
If it doesn't work, post again here.
--Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Ristroph)
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 05:31:33 GMT
>>>>> "Rasmus" == g Hansen <Rasmus> writes:
Rasmus>
Rasmus> Hi
Rasmus> I just installed XFree86 4.0.1 on a mixed RedHat 6.2/7.0
Rasmus> system (I'm doing an upgrade by hand).
Rasmus>
Rasmus> I notice, that XFree86 3.3.6 used about 10Mb of memory. Now I
Rasmus> see, that 4.0.1 uses 27Mb!!!
Rasmus>
Rasmus> They are running with the same config (as far as possible),
Rasmus> and no modules except extmod are loaded in 4.0.1. Why this
Rasmus> apparently excessive memory use? have I done something wrong
Rasmus> in the setup?
Rasmus>
Rasmus> Or does 4.0.1 just consume such a huge amount of memory?
I don't know the answer to your question, but I just want to point out
that the size of the running X is sometimes not related to the amount
of system RAM it is taking up, because it can apparently reflect the
videocard RAM as well. Now, if you didn't change hardware, it still
leaves the question of why there is such a big increase.
--Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Ristroph)
Subject: Re: Installing RedHat Linux 6.2
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 05:48:41 GMT
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin>
Martin> Hi.
Martin> I'm having a problem installing Linux RedHat 6.2.
Martin>
Martin> In short, all the installation seems to go fine, but
Martin> afterwards, when the system is rebooting, it hangs and says:
Martin> In swapper mode.
Martin> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill idle task.
I got an error similar to this when attempting to install RedHat on an
athlon. The problem was resolved by typing the following at the LILO:
prompt
linux x86_serial_nr=1
and then rebuilding the kernel. Apparently the kernel was trying to
disable Intel's cpuid when the cpu was actually an athlon. If you
give more of the boot messages, we could tell more; their was a
reference to cpuid a few lines above it, I believe.
I tried mandrake 7.1, and everything worked fine, the correct cpu was
detected.
Martin> I have tried doing everything again. I've written over LILO by
Martin> reinstalling windows (are there any other way to do this?),
Yes. One way is to boot from a dos diskette and do fdisk /mbr; I
think you might have to change to C: or something, haven't been forced
to resort to my old drdos floppies in a while. From linux, the
command lilo -U /dev/hda will copy the previous boot sector back, but
it sounds like you don't have access to linux.
Martin> and reinstalled RedHat. I've tried to make patitions with
Martin> Partition Magic first, then install Linux again, and I've
Martin> tried to let the installation program take care of all the
Martin> partitions. I've even tried to install the partitionless
Martin> installation, when you put the linux files onto a FAT32
Martin> disk. Every time the same thing happens. It comes exactly to
Martin> the same place every time.
Martin>
Martin> Is it possible that there are a hardware conflikt somewhere?
Martin>
Martin> It seems to me that there is something left over from the
Martin> first installation that isn't removed by reinstall... Can this
Martin> be possible?
Martin>
Martin> I've tried to boot from the boot disk, but the exactly same
Martin> thing happens.
This was also a symptom of the athlon problem.
Martin> Can anyone help med with this?
Martin>
Martin>
Martin> --
Martin> Balrog
--Rob
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: some advice needed on formatting (RH 6.2)
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 00:56:32 -0500
frankie wrote:
>
>
> What gives? How do I resurrect my disks to even be recognized by a non-Linux
> OS?
You need to delete the linux partitions before dos can see the drives.
Then be sure to tell linux during the installation where you want lilo.
Uninstall from linux
To uninstall from a running linux system do the following.
boot into linux.
login as root
/sbin/lilo -u
fdisk /dev/hda # or sda depending on your hard drive.
delete all linux partitions
quit and save changes
reboot with a DOS/windoz boot disk.
enter: fdisk /MBR
You will need to format the partition or drive back to a DOS/windows
format
===========================
OR:
Using the installation boot disk
Use the installation boot disk to boot the system and follow through
the install up to the
partitioning section. Delete all linux partitions and then choose the
"Back" button and save the
changes when asked. Then reboot the system with a windows boot disk and
do a:
fdisk /MBR
You will have to format the disk backto the DOS format.
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