Linux-Setup Digest #756, Volume #19 Tue, 3 Oct 00 18:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: dual boot with Win2K (not 98 or NT) ?? (Phil Edwards)
RedHat 7.0 install woes (Pippin Barr)
Re: kmod and RH 6.2 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
New HD/Reinstall ("Mufasa")
Re: display resolution (Bill Pringlemeir)
ppp setup in SuSE 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RedHat 7.0 Installation woes (Pippin Barr)
Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??! (Patrick F Harris)
Network setup on Debian (andi smart)
Re: PCMCIA Driver Loading (Dances With Crows)
Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc (Mike Oliver)
Re: NUMLOCK #$%@#$@%! (Stratos Laspas)
Help! ISA Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem with Printing setup (Marco Kaiser)
NIC recommendation ("wm")
Re: slow? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Crackling/Static caused by Ensoniq + Esd? (Stanislav Kogan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Edwards)
Subject: Re: dual boot with Win2K (not 98 or NT) ??
Date: 3 Oct 2000 16:06:50 -0400
Rod Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
+
+ Actually, Win2K is just Windows NT 5.0 with another name, and it's
+ virtually identical to Windows NT 4.0 in terms of dual-booting with
+ Linux.
/That's/ what I needed to know.
I have all kinds of article and HOWTOs on dual-booting with NT, but not W2K
(by that name).
And I don't read these newsgroups, so I wouldn't be seeing the "all the
posts" from the previous weeks. (And Deja is offline. Again.)
Thanks, all! This should give me enough information to make a couple
honest attempts at dual-booting, fail, and then throw out Win2K in disgust.
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From: Pippin Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 7.0 install woes
Date: 3 Oct 2000 20:36:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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All the world is waiting for you,
And the power you possess.
In your satin tights, fighting for your rights
And the old Red, White and Blue.
- Wonder Woman
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Dr. Dr. Pippin Barr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kmod and RH 6.2
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 22:36:48 +0200
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Kmod does not exist on the disk as a standalone program. It is
> included in
> > the kernel itselfand is not a separate process.
> >
> > So if your kernel has kmod support (and it does in redhat 6.2), it
> will
> > start automagically...
>
> Thanks. This explains why I can't find it as a file.
> I guess I'll have to debug the /etc/conf.modules file in order to find
> the reason for the problem...
Also looking in /var/log/messages i a good thing. Here you could get
messages like:
Oct 3 21:23:22 grignard modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-174
As kmod uses modprobe to load
modules. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt describes all
major/minor device numbers.
Rasmus B�g Hansen
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Reply-To: "Mufasa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Mufasa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New HD/Reinstall
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 20:32:50 GMT
I just got a new HD for my Linux server; yippee. I figure I'll just
reinstalled the latest Mandrake distro on the new HD. However, I want to be
able to access my old hard drives to copy over files and stuff. What's the
best way?
The option I was considering was to temporarily disable the old HDs and
install the new HD as primary master (ATA66) and put a full new install of
Mandrake. Then, edit the fstab to mount the old HDs at different
mountpoints. For example, /old/ and /old/home, etc. Then, reboot, re-enable
old HDs, and go. This can be done right?
If so, if I have HD partitions like hda1, hdc5, etc, how do I determine what
they'll be at next boot? Will the new HD but everything up by a letter if I
move them all logically down one since the new one will not be primary
master? (Primary master becomes p. slave - becomes s.master, etc.)
Thanks,
Mufasa
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Subject: Re: display resolution
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 20:44:21 GMT
Study these HOWTOs (try a seach engine like www.google.com),
XFree86-HOWTO, XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO, XWindow-User-HOWTO
If your monitor is plug and play, this program will tell you
some info on what is acceptable,
"http://altern.org/vii/programs/linux/read-edid/"
If your monitor is `Vesa', then you can probably select a monitor
that can do 1280x1024 at 60Hz, etc.
Other sources of info are <kernel source>/Documentation/fb/framebuffer.txt
The kernel sources are usually in /usr/src/linux/.
You can also run the Xconfigurator, xf86config, or the XF86Setup
program if your installation has that. Type info XF86Config for details
on the file that stores this information for X11.
If you wish to have larger graphic modes in the console windows, then
you need a kernel with frame buffer support. That is the framebuffer.txt
document.
hth,
Bill
>>>>> "Bert" == Bert Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bert> I would like to change my screen resolution from 640 X480
Bert> pixels to 800 X 600. I am running Red Hat 6.2 and have a TTX
Bert> 14 inch monitor. How do I do it? My monitor was not listed in
Bert> the initial installation setup.
Bert> Bert Friesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Yow! I like my new DENTIST...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ppp setup in SuSE 6.2
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 20:38:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I configured my modem and dialling options (number to
dial, userid, password etc.) under ppp. The modem
was auto detected with no problems. When I try
ro run WvDial as suggested in the wvdial configuration
section of the manual, it tries to start the ppp daemon
process which dies with an error code of 10 .
Any idea what could be wrong with the configuration? Any
help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
RM
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Pippin Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 7.0 Installation woes
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 07:54:13 +1300
First of all, apologies for the empty message I sent before.
So I'm attempting install (any) linux on a new PC. I currently run RH6 on
my old computer, and have bought a brand new (PIII-866, 256MB etc) PC...
But I cannot get a linux to go on, and the latest failure is RedHat 7.
I've also tried Mandrake 7.1.
Both times, installation proceeds more or less normally until at some
(pretty much random) point, the whole thing falls over. Mandrake tends to
segfault, while RH sometimes has anaconda script errors, sometimes more
serious errors... sometimes RH will give a normal error message (with
option to save), sometimes it's a more serious failure that messes up the
screen with primitive error text.
The only notable thing about the RH install is that I'm using a special
boot image to make it recognize my ATA66 HDD (why doesn't the CD do this
anyway I ask?!)... apart from that all is normal.
I'd feel much better if it would crash in the same place, but that was not
to be.
It feels like a hardware conflict I suppose, but I'm not really sure what
to do. Anyone had a similar experience or have some idea of what would
call these failures...
Thanks for any help you can offer,
PJ
Dr. Dr. Pippin Barr
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Patrick F Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: WTF is up with LinuxConf under RH7?!!??!
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 15:44:54 -0500
I used the text based version and added the modules to config. - Actual I have
never been that fond of linuxconf.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andi smart)
Subject: Network setup on Debian
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:09:22 GMT
I just installed the new release of Debian. However I missed my change
to enter the network settings so it can communicate with the outside
world via our LAN
Can anybody point me in the direction of a good HOWTO or documentation
source which will talk me through this operation. I've looked at the
Debian site docs but don't find they make it clear enough for me
andi smart
"A single open mind, can open any door"
Sonia Rutstein
"never give up"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Driver Loading
Date: 3 Oct 2000 21:12:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:46:33 +0200, McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant wrote:
>I have a PCMCIA ethernet card with an NE2000 compatable module for it,
>(using strings on the .o file I have been supplied with). My card
>manager is running, but when I put in the PCMCIA card I get a low then
>high beep.
>
>What I do not understand is where do I specify that I want my LNA100.o
>module to be loaded as the driver for the PCMCIA card? I am using SuSE
>6.3 and in the list of devices I can only pick PCMCIA, which starts up
>the card manager, but there is nothing which loads the PCMCIA module. I
>have been looking at the PCMCIA HowTo and it comments on my problem with
>SCIOxxxx errors, but I get no errors when I look at the dmesg output, as
>, I guess, it is not loading a driver for the PCMCIA device so has no
>problem?
When you insert a PCMCIA card, the module should be loaded
automagically, so long as you have the i82365 and pcmcia_core modules
loaded, and the "cardmgr" program is running. There should be a script
in /sbin/init.d/ (/etc/rc.d/init.d for RedHat users) called "pcmcia"
that loads those modules and starts cardmgr.
If the card is being detected wrongly, there's a file in /etc/pcmcia
called "config" that you should have a look at. Plus, are you sure that
LNA100 is the right module? NE2000 PCMCIA cards are supposed to be
supported with the pcnet_cs and 8390 modules.
If all else fails, there's a support forum linked from
http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/ that helped me out a few months back with
a balky Netgear 410TX card, so try there if you're still stuck. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange RPM error when upgrading gcc
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 14:18:14 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:53:53 -0700, Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Rasmus B�g Hansen wrote:
> >
> >> I just checked it out. You will have to upgrade to rpm 3.0.5. It is
> >> available from redhat's webpage.
> >
> >It is? All I can find there are current versions (i.e. rpm-4.0.4).
>
> It is definitely in the errata for 6.2. That is where I got it.
OK, I got rpm upgraded to 3.0.5, and I started trying to upgrade
c++ (which was the point from the beginning). I had to remove
the old egcs stuff to get past the dependencies, and I found
a couple that it didn't tell me about earlier (don't, or shouldn't,
rpms know the whole tree of dependencies, as opposed to just the
next level?).
So then I got to the point where I had to upgrade libstdc++ and
libstdc++-devel. Well, those had a whole *raft* of dependencies.
I would think that for the standard c++ library they'd work pretty
hard to keep binary compatibility, am I right? If I just force
the upgrade with --nodeps, is a lot of stuff likely to break, or
just a little? I can afford to experiment a little; I've got
my order in for RH7.0 disks.
(Speaking of that, how does an upgrade install work? Is it
just a bunch of rpm -U commands? In that case how do they
deal with temporarily breaking dependencies to packages that
will themselves be updraded?)
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From: Stratos Laspas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: NUMLOCK #$%@#$@%!
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 00:29:01 +0300
Felix Miata wrote:
>
> Whatever the rationale is that *any* PC OS thinks it knows better and
> proceeds to turn NUMLOCK OFF, regardless that in the BIOS it has been
> set by the user to ON, totally escapes me.
>
> I bought a 900+ page book "Mastering Linux", copyright 1999, that
> included a RedHat 5.1 CD. Between the book, the CD, and various help
> files on the net, I haven't found an explanation on how to keep NUMLOCK
> ON in RedHat 5.1, 6.1, or 6.2, Corel 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2, or Mandrake 7.1.
>
Elementary, dear Felix!
In the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, make sure you read:
Section "InputDevice"
blah, blah
blah, blah
Option "ServerNumLock"
blah, blah
If you use version 3.3.6, then you just need to add ServerNumLock in
that section.
Hope this helps. I found that out by doing a "man XF86Config".
Stratos
> Mandrake installation was friendly enough to ask me if I wanted it on,
> so when I boot Mandrake, part of the initialization messages that flash
> on the screen too fast to digest include "Starting NUMLOCK [OK]".
> However, even that isn't fully effective: console logins set NUM ON, and
> initialized KDE sessions have it ON, but to start KDM from a console
> login, NUM is inexplicably turned OFF until after successful login, so
> the keypad is unavailable to type in a numeric password without first
> hitting the NUM key!
>
> Various docs provide variations on the following subscript:
>
> for t in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> do
> setleds +num < /dev/tty$t > /dev/null
> done
>
> to install in various initialization files, such as /etc/rc.local or
> /etc/rc.d/rc among others.
>
> I tried adding the script to /etc/rc.d/rc in RH 6.2. This works, but
> only for console sessions, and only *after* a successful login, so, like
> in Mandrake, the keypad is unavailable to type in a numeric password
> without first hitting the NUM key.
>
> The various window managers all seem to have a setup options menu for
> handling things like mice & keyboards, but I can't find in any of them
> under "keyboard" a tab or other setting to address NUMLOCK.
>
> Surely *somewhere* must be a useful explanation to help me and others
> like me who *hate* having NUMLOCK turned off to instruct Linux to keep
> NUM ON ALWAYS! Someone *please* help!
> --
> A man of knowledge uses words with restraint . . . . Proverbs 17:27
> NKJV
>
> Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.members.atlantic.net
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Stratos Laspas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! ISA Modem
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:18:15 GMT
I have an ISA USRobotics Sportster internal 56k
i assume its not winmodem b/c it has jumpers and its ISA, plus its way
bigger than my other winmodem.
However, i dont know that.
How can i tell?
and if its hardware only, whats the next step in configuring it?
I have RedHat 6.2 and it doesnt see it at boot.
Do i have to do something first? such as setserial?
Or might i have to compile a driver.
I have done neither of these but would like to know how.
thnx
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Marco Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with Printing setup
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 23:42:02 +0200
Hi,
I have a problem with printing to a parallel printer connected to my
linux box. If I print docs from Linux, everything is fine, but printing
from Windows-boxes gives me an empty page following every print job. I
use samba to print, and it happens with old lpr and also with new LPRng.
I use SuSE 7.0, and yes, I (or even yast) added "sf" to the printcap
entry. Besides the empty pages, printing works fine from windows. The
printer is a Brother HL-1040 laser-printer.
I used the exactly same printcap on my old system (SuSE6.1), and there
it worked fine. Nothing changed on Windows box since then.
Can anyone give me a hint what to do?
Thanks,
Marco
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From: "wm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: NIC recommendation
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:41:37 GMT
Hi all,
I recently purchased a NetGear NIC model FX-310 that I discovering is NOT
the best choice for my Cyrix P150 Linux (RH 5.2) box. Could anyone make a
recommendation for a more appropriate card??
Thanks,
Walt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: slow?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:48:46 GMT
On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:22:20 +0200, Jeph Herrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>i'm a new linux/old unix user who has just installed redhat 6.2 on a
>cyrix 686/166Hz machine with 64MB ram. it's not top dollar hardware,
>but I'm still a bit discouraged by how slow linux runs. using the
>Gnome/Enlightenment combination, it takes palpable seconds to get shell
>window open, on the order of a minute for graphical apps. is this
>normal?
Hmmm...I have RH6.2 + Gnome on P166 with 64M, and 128 swap, and it seems
pretty peppy to me.
>the system monitor shows all the ram, with most of it (~55mb) in use
>with no apps running. i don't seem to have any hoggy processes running
>in the back, and i've got a 250MB swap file (which, however, sometimes
>is flagged as FAILED for shut down while halting the machine). the
Something wrong here. Use 'free' to make sure swap is being used. If
not, things can really drag. You might try recreating the swap partition
too. See 'mkswap' man page.
>video card has 1MB, not a lot, but it shouldn't make the machine crawl
>(should it?).
Not if the card has good support from Xfree86 and is configured right.
Go to their website and check your card/chipset. Sometimes there are
surprising comments, and tricks to get better performance.
Gnome + E is a memory hog combo. You might try a lighter weight window
manager. Also, if you have NS always open, this is a severe memory hog.
If running some fancy theme or background, you might try toning that
down too.
>my last unix box was an old sparc with 32mb of ram and solaris 5, it
>flew in comparison to this. is there something i should look for?
>should i bag the hardware, the os, or both?
>
>addendum: i installed with 32mb of ram, but doubled this shortly
>thereafter; do i need to tell the kernel something about this? i
>figured since the system monitor tool picked it up, i was set.
No, it should be recognized.
--
Hal B
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From: Stanislav Kogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Crackling/Static caused by Ensoniq + Esd?
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 17:30:55 -0400
Mike Moran wrote:
>
> Hi. I've just recompiled my 2.2.17 kernel with support for my Creative
> Ensoniq (ES1371, I think) sound card. When I use freeamp or mpg123 to
> play the sounds via the esd sound daemon I get background crackling and
> static, not too dissimilar in sound to radio interference. It still
> occurs when the monitor is off so I doubt it is that. Everything seems
> fine when I log out back to gdm and then run mpg123 from the console.
I had a similair problem with my SB PCI128 (es1370) The static
corresponded to Vdeo card activity. You could hear it in text mode too,
but it was very rare. In X, however, it was unbearable. When I upgraded
to Xfree 4.0.1, the static reduced dramatically. (just a few clicks now
and then). And when I switched to Aureal Vortex2 SuperQuad (God bless)
the problem disappeared alltogether.
This seems to be a Creative problem. I've heard other reports of thir
card interfering with video cards. Try moving the card to another PCI
slot, or switch to a non-creative card. (you can get an Aureal card very
cheap, now that they went out of business).
If your mobo is based on VIA, and you're using an nVidia card, then you
you shouldn't go the Aureal way. You'll have enormous problems to make
it work.
Try installing the new X. This should help at least alittle.
> A quick look at deja seems to indicate people may have had problems with
> buffers and Ensoniq before ie they need to be enlarged to fix some
> problems. However, I couldn't find any articles discussing interference.
In my case buffers didn't have anything to do with it. As did ESD.
--
Stanislav Kogan
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