Linux-Setup Digest #733, Volume #19 Sun, 1 Oct 00 02:13:05 EDT
Contents:
uninstalling linux (Pat Hart)
Recomended Motherboards for K6-2 and K6-3 (JASON SNYDER)
Re: 3Com USB TA install RH7 (VMaxx)
Re: Redhat 7.0 and Kernel 2.2.17 (Doug Curtis)
/etc/resolv.conf (Wil Adler)
Re: display resolution (Valentin Guillen)
Re: display resolution (mpulliam)
Re: Help w/ RH6.0/SB PCI128 (mpulliam)
DAMNIT!! After install of LM 7.2b3, LINUX WON'T BOOT!!! (Brando)
Re: Setting up a joystick in Suse 7.0 ("D. Stimits")
Installing RedHat 6.2 on an ASUS A7V (P. U. Psilanimous)
Known hardware with solid drivers for Linux? ("cs")
Re: uninstalling linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3Com USB TA install RH7 (VMaxx)
Re: problem with ftp (devren bennett)
Re: uninstalling linux (Pat Hart)
kernel does not boot (Neil Zanella)
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From: Pat Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: uninstalling linux
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 21:50:10 -0400
I recently installed Linux Mandrake on my gateway pc. Most of my
hardware is not supported, and I would like to uninstall linux to free
up space on my disc. However during install the boot sector of my
windows disc was overwritten. Now nothing happens after the bios
finishes all its stuff, unless I have the linux disc connected as
master. I think I need to replace the boot sector, but don't really
know what I am talking about.
I can get into dos if I use a boot floppy, but can't get to windows. any
help would be appreciated as I have only 900 mb free space on my windows
disc.
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From: JASON SNYDER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recomended Motherboards for K6-2 and K6-3
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 03:00:47 GMT
I have had and one of my friends has been running Linux on K6-2 and K6-3
systems and have had way too many bad motherboard experiences. (Skip
the first two paragraphs to get to the meat.)
My friend started off with an Epox board with a K6-2 475MHz. His
troubles began a couple of months down the road when his Epox board
burned up. He decided to go with an MSI board with an ALi chip set, but
that turned out to have tons of problems. For one it would
intermittently detect his CPU as a 500 MHz instead of 475 MHz. Then it
wouldn't do a CD-ROM boot when he had both his DVD and CD burn plugged
in. Sometimes it wouldn't detect all of his RAM (the boot test before
Linux was started). Then when he got through that, the Mandrake 7.1
install would complain about an error detecting memory and do a kernel
panic. I presume that this was do to another error in the board where
it would detect banks 0, 1, 3, 4 instead of 0, 1, 2, 3. Reflashing the
BIOS with the latest revision didn't help much. He eventually broke
down and bought an Athlon system. (He just bought the motherboard and
CPU and kept the rest of his previous system.) His Athlon system
actually works right unlike his K6-2 system.
I first got my hands on a Vigor board that was left over from a low end
Linux based web server that I put together with my brother. (It was a
replacement that came a few weeks after a major short on the video card
took both the motherboard and video card out. This occurred a few hours
before we where going to co-locate the server so we didn't wait for the
replacement board even though it was free. It was probably a good thing
seeing that the Vigor board wasn't all that great and we where able to
get something in that worked right.) When I used the board I ran into a
few problems including a flaky secondary IDE controller that fouled
things up pretty good, even under Linux, and the board would
intermittently go into an infinite boot loop (before it would get down
to IDE detection). My current board is a Tyan Trinity S1598. It works
good, but it has the processor socket on the top front of the board.
Even with the stock heat sink and fan combo for the boxed K6-3 400 MHz,
I recently noticed that two of my three 5 1/4 inch drive bays are
blocked in my cheep $26 case. The case does seem to have standard ATX
dimensions even though it is cheep, so I have a hard time blaming it on
the case. I now have an Athlon system with a Full tower In-Win Q500
case and ASUS K7V motherboard as my primary Linux box, but I still have
my K6-3 system which I use as my windows box / Linux tinker toy.
Now the question is what would you recommended as a good motherboard for
a Super7 processor (such as K6-2 or K6-3) that doesn't or block drive
bays on a mid tower ATX or foul up with Linux or just foul up in
operation in general?
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:07:13 -0500
From: VMaxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3Com USB TA install RH7
I figured it out.. apparently it was working my ppp wasn't..
minicom showed that its running just fine.. so it wasn't a usb problem
at all.
Sooo.... nevermind this.
VMaxx wrote:
>
> I've got what I think should be loaded. The ACM module loads
> I made the /dev/usb/ttyACM0 - 4 but I can't seem to get past this.
> Anyone give me a hint what I should do next?
> Everything else works just fine.
> --
> VMaxx
> ------
> 2b||!2b
> http://members.xoom.com/vmaxx
> http://vmaxx.n3.net
--
VMaxx
======
2b||!2b
http://members.xoom.com/vmaxx
http://vmaxx.n3.net
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From: Doug Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 and Kernel 2.2.17
Date: 30 Sep 2000 22:04:17 -0500
I am getting the same message and I tried the CC=kgcc.
Doug
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 22:18:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm having trouble compiling a new kernel. After
>my complete clean, new installation of Redhat 7.0
>(standard options workstations, no upgrade) I
>can't compile a 2.2.17 kernel anymore.
>
>I do:
>(untarring of course to /usr/src.. etc)
>make mrproper
>make xconfig
>make dep
>make clean
>
>and then:
>make bzImage
>
>But while compiling, many parts give errors like:
>"pasting would not get a valid preprocessing
>token"
>
>I used to have Redhat 6.2. I compiled new kernels
>back then without problems (also 2.2.17)
>
>Anyone can give my a hint?
>
>Matthijs in 't Anker
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: Wil Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /etc/resolv.conf
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:07:28 -0400
Hello,
I have just installed SuSi Linux 6.4 with some error messages. I can not
find the /etc/resolv.conf file. I found the information on my machine
and nameservers in /etc/rc.config. Do I need this file, and if I do,
will I have to re-install Linux?
Thanks,
Wil
--
MZ�
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: display resolution
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 03:10:54 GMT
Bert,
Locate and save/remove/rename you current XF86Config file. Rerun your
video configuration utility again, usually it's a program like XF86Setup
or similar, and this time tell it you have a generic SVGA monitor, and
if it allows you to specify, indicate that the monitor is capable of
doing 800x res. Finish the configuration, and it will gererate you a
new XF86Config file. Now, this new file whill have several entries for
each resolution you requested to be able to use. Say you requested 640x
and 800x resolutions. There will be in the XF86Config file several
"modeline" entries for each resoltion. Only one should be "enabled" and
the remainder of them should be "commented out" so as to be
ineffective. The ONE which you select to be the enabled one can be
selected by you because it has the vertical refresh rate which you
prefer to use, i.e. a higher, less flickery rate.
So then, after you've run that vid config utility, you can either use
the file as is, without any further editing, and just use whatever
vertical refresh rate resulted as the first entry, or you can manually
edit the file to comment out all but the one you desire. While in X,
you can toggle through all of the correctly configured resolutions with
the Ctrl-Alt-NumKeypd + or - and you can always kill any X session with
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
Hope it helps you out,
Valentin
Friesen wrote:
>
> I would like to change my screen resolution from 640 X480 pixels to 800 X
> 600. I am running Red Hat 6.2 and have a TTX 14 inch monitor. How do I do
> it? My monitor was not listed in the initial installation setup.
>
> Bert Friesen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: display resolution
Date: 1 Oct 2000 03:12:52 GMT
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:45:44 -0500,
Bert Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to change my screen
resolution from 640 X480 pixels to 800 X
>600. I am running Red Hat 6.2 and
have a TTX 14 inch monitor. How do I do
>it? My monitor was not listed in
the initial installation setup.
Hi Bert,
First try Shift-Alt-Plus.on.the.keypad
and Shift-Alt-Minus.on.the.keypad. These
may toggle your resolution between several
choices if you set up those choices in the
original install process.
You can also run Xconfigurator in Red Hat.
That gives you a place to change the screen
settings. Just type Xconfigurator at a
command prompt. Do this as root.
You can also run xf86config, which gives
instructions to follow. Or you can edit
the relevant files by hand which is
confusing for beginners.
MP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: Help w/ RH6.0/SB PCI128
Date: 1 Oct 2000 03:27:08 GMT
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 20:43:15 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having some difficulties with
getting sound from my SB PCI128 under
>RH6.0. According to various documents,
there isn't much to configure
>other than in the /etc/conf.modules,
"alias sound es1370" is added.
>/proc/interrupts & lspci both see it --
what else can I do? Thanks in
>advance
This might seem silly, but in addition
to tweaking the settings as advised,
be sure the speakers are plugged in
the right place. On my SB it is the
black socket not the red, blue or green
one :-)
I did this wrong the first time through.
In addition check to see that the volume
is turned up on the various sound panels
-- xplaycd and xmixer both have volume
sliders and you may need to adjust in
both places if you are using those apps,
which I think were default on RH 6.0
MP
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From: Brando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: DAMNIT!! After install of LM 7.2b3, LINUX WON'T BOOT!!!
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 03:46:05 GMT
I am installing Linux Mandrake 7.2 beta 3 using lnx4win. The install went wonderfully.
Very nice. There were only a few packages that caused an error during the install, but
I
continued to finish the install. Now, after everything was done, it came time to
reboot.
The GRUB loader comes up with
linux
failsafe
windows
floppy
I choose linux and I get this error and the laptop freezes:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c4000000
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
#pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01f5acd>]
EFLAGS: 00010213
eax: 00000000 ebx: c3f7de36 ecx: fff7de35 edx: ffffffff
esi: 00000015 edi: c4000000 ebp: 00000001 esp: c3673dec
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=c3673000)
Stack: c02b7ce0 00000001 c37ef200 00000008 00000655 00000086 00000655 000003f6
c3f7de00 c01a65ea c3f7de36 c020ffe0 c3f7de00 c01a65dc c3f7de14 00000014
00000001 00000246 000000ec c02b7d40 c02b7ce0 c02b7ca0 0000005a 00000246
Call Trace: [<c02a65ea>] ... (19 more similar to this one)
Code: f2 ae f7 d1 49 89 cd 39 f5 7c 35 4d 89 74 24 1c b0 00 89 da
What the hell happened??? I'm so frustated right now. I went and tried the failsafe and
even tried to boot to linux from within Windows, but its the same result.
PLEASE, I BEG OF Y'ALL. Can anyone help me get this thing booted??
Brandon
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 21:52:09 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Setting up a joystick in Suse 7.0
Ruediger Arp wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> THANKS!!!
>
> > However, try this in order shown, as root:
> > insmod emu10k1-joy io=0x200
> > insmod joystick
> > insmod joy-logitech
>
> jstest /dev/js0 now returns
>
> ....Joystick (WingMan Extreme Digital 3D) has 6 axes and 7 buttons.
> Driver version is 1.2.15.....
>
> Terminus & Flightgear are now waiting for me.
If you mean xsw.terminator.net, say hi to Old Soldier :)
>
> Cheers,
> rude
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Urspr�ngliche Nachricht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Am 30.09.00, 08:23:32, schrieb "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> zum Thema
> Re: Setting up a joystick in Suse 7.0:
>
> > The sblive is not actually activated by the normal register at 0x201;
> > this is actually a mirror for compatibility. I think that in all of the
> > models that are even remotely new, it was enabled by default, but the
> > early revisions didn't do so. Some of the earlier emu10k1 modules didn't
> > try to enable the joystick, thinking it was already enabled (various
> > revisions fixed this). So if you have the wrong version of emu10k1,
> > combined with an older revision sblive (I think rev 5 or earlier), it
> > might still fail to be enabled. In which case try the latest cvs
> > snapshot from the http://opensource.create.com page. There is also a
> > developer section you could post info to.
>
> > However, try this in order shown, as root:
> > insmod emu10k1-joy io=0x200
> > insmod joystick
> > insmod joy-logitech
>
> > If that fails, get the latest cvs; if it still fails, monitor
> > /var/log/messages while you try to load things (such as with tail -f -n
> > 30 /var/log/messages) and send the results to the emu10k1 devel list
> > (check out opensource.creative.com for the list).
>
> > Ruediger Arp wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Big problem:
> > > I can't figure out how to set up my joystick with Suse 7.0.
> > >
> > > I am using the following components:
> > > -Suse7
> > > -SBLive 1024 (emu10k1)
> > > -Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D
> > >
> > > Insmodding the joystick driver results in this message:
> > > modprobe joy-logitech
> > > /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/joy-logitech.o: init_module: Das Ger�t oder die
> > > Ressource ist belegt
> > > Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> > > invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> > > /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/joy-logitech.o: insmod
> > > /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/joy-logitech.o failed
> > > /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/joy-logitech.o: insmod joy-logitech failed
> > >
> > > Yes, I read the Readme which says:
> > > Q: The driver doesn't find any joysticks connected to my soundcard with
> > > the message "joy-something: no joysticks found" and "joy-something.o:
> > > init_module: Device or resource busy." or "Initialization of
> > > joy-something failed" What could be the cause?
> > > A: The most common cause is that the joystick port on your soundcard is
> > > not enabled...
> > >
> > > My question now is:
> > > How would I enable the joystick port on my soundcard???
> > >
> > > It must be some option in /etc/modules.conf, but which one?
> > >
> > > I appreciate any help,
> > > rude
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From: P. U. Psilanimous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RedHat 6.2 on an ASUS A7V
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 04:49:47 GMT
I have the following system setup:
ASUS A7V motherboard with Athlon 950 (Thunderbird)
30GB ATA-100 HDD on Promise IDE controller (Windoze boot drive)
8.4GB ATA-33 HDD on primary IDE controller
256MB RAM, Voodoo video, Realtek ethernet, CD-ROM, CD-RW, etc.
When I tried to install RedHat 6.2 on the 8.4GB disk, I discovered
that Linux could not "see" the ATA-100 drive. I went ahead with the
installation and found that the option of installing LILO was not
presented (I assume because Linux thought it was the only OS).
Anyway, I continued, assuming I would resort to a floppy boot until I
could solve this problem. Of course, the system locked up while
detecting hardware upon first boot (it is RedHat, after all).
I have since decided to use the 8.4GB HDD as a backup drive and am
planning to buy another ATA-100 drive for Linux.
My problem is:
Since the ASUS considers the Promise IDE controller as a secondary
device, how do I get Linux to recognize that these disks are present?
I have already disabled the 8.4GB disk in the BIOS boot section so
that the boot sequence is:
Floppy --> CD-ROM --> It then goes to the Promise controller and
boots from this drive.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Darrell
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From: "cs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Known hardware with solid drivers for Linux?
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:52:45 -0500
Is there a list of video cards and monitors that are supported
by Linux? or does each distribution do their own?
Anyone like to recommend a 21" monitor and a video card
that would go good with Linux?
thanks,
charles......
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: uninstalling linux
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 04:54:34 GMT
use your win98 bootup disk to boot the box, then at command line,
type "fdisk /mbr", hopefully it will re-initialize MBR.
if fdisk.exe from boot disk doesn't work, get gdisk.exe (part of Norton
Ghost), you can download trial version of Ghost from cnet.com
Dorren
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pat Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently installed Linux Mandrake on my gateway pc. Most of my
> hardware is not supported, and I would like to uninstall linux to free
> up space on my disc. However during install the boot sector of my
> windows disc was overwritten. Now nothing happens after the bios
> finishes all its stuff, unless I have the linux disc connected as
> master. I think I need to replace the boot sector, but don't really
> know what I am talking about.
>
> I can get into dos if I use a boot floppy, but can't get to windows.
any
> help would be appreciated as I have only 900 mb free space on my
windows
> disc.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 00:30:16 -0500
From: VMaxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3Com USB TA install RH7
Just in case anybody else runs into this problem down the line..
my /dev/usb/ttyACM0 was working just fine you could minicom into it.
All of the ppp dialers that I found though wanted to only stay 1 level
into /dev so when I put int /dev/usb/ttyACM0 it converted it to
/dev/ttyACM0 (which is wrong obviously) so to get around it I used
ln -n /dev/usb/ttyACM0 /dev/modem and pointed Redhats config to
/dev/modem and it seems to work fine now.
I also had to modify the wvdial.conf so that the initialization string
was right. I set it to ATZ V1 *VO=5 which is to reset, turn on prompts
and use dynamic bandwidth allocation.
VMaxx
VMaxx wrote:
>
> I figured it out.. apparently it was working my ppp wasn't..
> minicom showed that its running just fine.. so it wasn't a usb problem
> at all.
>
> Sooo.... nevermind this.
>
> VMaxx wrote:
> >
> > I've got what I think should be loaded. The ACM module loads
> > I made the /dev/usb/ttyACM0 - 4 but I can't seem to get past this.
> > Anyone give me a hint what I should do next?
> > Everything else works just fine.
> > --
> > VMaxx
> > ------
> > 2b||!2b
> > http://members.xoom.com/vmaxx
> > http://vmaxx.n3.net
>
> --
> VMaxx
> ------
> 2b||!2b
> http://members.xoom.com/vmaxx
> http://vmaxx.n3.net
--
VMaxx
======
2b||!2b
http://members.xoom.com/vmaxx
http://vmaxx.n3.net
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From: devren bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: problem with ftp
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 09:34:21 -0800
depending on the install. make sure you have ftp. by default(most of the
time) ftp isnt started by automaticaly.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stefaan A Eeckels) wrote:
> > In article <8r0jft$8g1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "jhuman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I get this error when trying to ftp to one of my linux boxes on private
> > > lan....
> > >
> > > 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
> > >
> > > What does this mean and how do I fix it....
> >
> > Usually, it's because of badly configured tcpwrappers.
> >
>
> I don't think so. I have the same problem with a RH6.2 and there are *not*
> tcpwrappers around in the LAN...
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Martin
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Pat Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstalling linux
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:24:19 -0400
sorry, I looked through the newsgroup only AFTER I posted, and found the
answer. and I don't know how (if i can) to delete the post.
Pat Hart wrote:
>
> I recently installed Linux Mandrake on my gateway pc. Most of my
> hardware is not supported, and I would like to uninstall linux to free
> up space on my disc. However during install the boot sector of my
> windows disc was overwritten. Now nothing happens after the bios
> finishes all its stuff, unless I have the linux disc connected as
> master. I think I need to replace the boot sector, but don't really
> know what I am talking about.
>
> I can get into dos if I use a boot floppy, but can't get to windows. any
> help would be appreciated as I have only 900 mb free space on my windows
> disc.
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel does not boot
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 03:22:42 -0230
Hello,
I just recompiled and installed kernel 2.2.13 with only two changes
to my previous configuration: addition of NTFS readonly and NFS client,
NFS server, and NFS Sun server support. I have a P166 with 48MB ram.
Other kernels still boot fine. The error message I get with this newly
compiled kernel is the following:
LILO boot:
Loading Linux..........
Uncompressing Linux.........
Out of memory
-- System halted
I have never seen this before. Can someone please suggest what may be
going on here and how to fix it?
Thanks!
Neil
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