Linux-Setup Digest #781, Volume #19 Sat, 7 Oct 00 06:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Drakconf in X windows. ("J.Smith")
Re: checksum.S:231: badly punctuated parameter list in #define (Paul Kimoto)
Re: lossing chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd setting after reboot (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Mouse stops clicking in X ("Patrick Mougin")
Re: Troubles with SiS 6326 Video card ("Patrick Mougin")
install XFree86 4.0.1 in RedHat 6.2 ("�|�J")
GNome windows not fitting screen size (rohit)
Re: S3 Virge setup (Uncle Meat)
Kernel Mailing lists at Red Hat? (moscito)
Re: Debian 2.2/Gnome/glibc problem ("Patrick Mougin")
Re: Debian 2.2 apt help ("Patrick Mougin")
Re: Installing drivers for nic under mandrake7.0 ("Bill Shirley")
TELNET (Michel Dubois)
Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux (Colin Watson)
Can Only See 1/4 of the Desktop (John)
Problems with SUSE7.0 & CMIPCI ("Marijan Franovic")
Re: howto keep another partition of disk permanently mounted ("Eric Lo")
Re: Can't get OS/2 + RH Linux 6.2 to install together (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake. (Frode Haugsgjerd)
Re: Can Only See 1/4 of the Desktop ("rude")
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Drakconf in X windows.
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 07:21:05 +0100
Can't delete root ?
Can't delete root ??
What do ya think this is, windows ? Of COURSE you can delete root! Just fire
up your favorite text editor, and open /etc/passwd and remove the bloody
user! And rm -rf /root to get rid if tha home dir.
Jeez....
Of course, you wont be able to log on with an administrative account
anymore, but you didnt ask for that now did you.
:)
> No, you can't delete root.
>
> >
> > Yeah but what about the root account? You can't delete the root
> > account can you?
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: checksum.S:231: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
Date: 7 Oct 2000 01:59:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
C. W. Wright wrote:
> I'm trying to build the 2.2.17 kernel and I get:
> checksum.S:231: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
> checksum.S:237: badly punctuated parameter list in #define
> 227 #define SRC(y...) \
> 228 9999: y; \
> 229 .section __ex_table, "a"; \
> 230 .long 9999b, 6001f ; \
> 231 .previous
> 232
> 233 #define DST(y...) \
> 234 9999: y; \
> 235 .section __ex_table, "a"; \
> 236 .long 9999b, 6002f ; \
> 237 .previous
> I'm running a redhat 6.2 system which I "upgraded" redhat 7.0 with the
> upgrade option on the install CD. The above is some mighty strange
> looking code.
(*.S files are written in assembly language.)
You can't using RH7.0's "gcc" (the never-released gcc-2.96) to build the
Linux kernel. Earlier versions (gcc-2.7.*, egcs*, gcc-2.95.2) will work.
Red Hat packages one (egcs-1.1.2?) under the name "kgcc".
--
Paul Kimoto
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: lossing chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd setting after reboot
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 20:32:00 -0400
"David. E. Goble" wrote:
>
> Hi All;
>
> I set pppd with chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd, as root So my users can dial
> out and it works. Until I reboot the computer. Then the setting is
> lost.
>
> Whats wrong????
Some distributions include a utility that (when invoked at startup)
resets the permissions on certain critical files. That's all the
detail I know (except for one more thing: Slackware doesn't do this),
so you are going to have to tell us which distro you are using, and
we'll have to get the gurus involved.
> Also I have set up inn as a newsreader, with pine. But can not figure
> out how to set it up so I do not have to start innd after very reboot.
I can answer this one: add the command to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local (or
equivalent) startup script.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: "Patrick Mougin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse stops clicking in X
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 06:48:55 GMT
"The infamous "Brian"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:QO0D5.21$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi J:
>
> Have a look to see if you are running "gpm" (general purpose mouse) by
> default (starts during boot). I have had situations where I had to kill
> "gpm" before running X.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Best regards,
>
> The infamous "Brian"
>
Hey,
I'm running Debian 2.2 with a SiS6326 card and PS/2 mouse, and initially the
Xserver would come up and the mouse wouldn't work. I then actually
_uninstalled_ gpm from the setup. What I then did was to run xf86config, and
instead of typing /dev/mouse for my mouse device, I typed in /dev/psaux (as
it is a PS/2 mouse). Now my mouse works like a charm.
Hope this helps in some way,
Patrick
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From: "Patrick Mougin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Troubles with SiS 6326 Video card
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 06:56:24 GMT
"zentara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 18:49:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Frieborg)
> wrote:
>
> The sis6326 needs 2 options set
> sw_cursor
> no_bitblt
>
> If you want to see a working XF86config email me
> for it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I also have found a way to get the full 8 megs of video ram
> by using an older svga server. I use the svga server that came with
> suse 6.0, it gives me 8 megs, and runs under later suse versions.
>
Hey Dirk,
I haven't found the need to enable those options on my setup (I'm running
Debian 2.2, also with a SiS6326 AGP). What you should do is to use the SVGA
X Server, then go into the XF86Config. Go down to the Device section and
move down to the SiS6326 section. Disable "no_accel", and enable "fast_vram"
and "VideoRAM 8192". I didn't find the need to set "sw_cursor"; it works
just fine with "hw_cursor", although I might try it out later on and see
what happens.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
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From: "�|�J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install XFree86 4.0.1 in RedHat 6.2
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 14:54:35 +0800
Hi all,
I installed Redhat 6.2, which use XFree86 3.3.6. In order to gain
more 3D power, I downloaded all files from the ftp.xfree86.org and
run the Xinstall.sh script as told from the install documen. I ran
XFree86 -configure afterward. However, I couldn't make start my
X windiows by startx, I even start my X Font server during startup.
Can anyone help? Thanks
Douglas
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From: rohit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GNome windows not fitting screen size
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 00:05:59 -0400
I just set up Redhat 6.2 on my machine - however ,the window size is
larger than the computer screen size
Is there a way to adjust the window default size
Thanks
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From: Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Virge setup
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 17:42:11 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, zentara
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to setup an s3 Virge pci card with suse 6.4
> The card starts up right with vga console mode, and startx
> runs OK with the S3V server. However, when I return to console
> mode from an X session, the vga screen is garbled. The proper
> vga settings can only be restored with a reboot.
First, try setting it up with the SVGA driver. That's what I
have to use with an S# Virge and nary a problem.
If this doesn't work, you can usually get the garble gone by
typing
reset
That will need to be done blindly, I know. But it beats going
through the fscking boot process repeatedly.
Assuming you can't get SVGA to work, make ~/.xinitrc if you
don't have one already. If none exists, just place a call to your
favorite wm (i.e. 'kde' [no quotes]) and right after that place
'reset (still no quotes) and see if that helps.
S3 cards can be real buggers, I know.
I don't read newsgroups regularly. If you need more help,
write directly and I'll see what I can do.
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From: moscito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Kernel Mailing lists at Red Hat?
Date: 7 Oct 2000 07:57:48 GMT
Hello, I would like to re-subscribe to the kernel mailing list and
some other lists; I understand that they are now being hosted at Red
Hat. Can someone inform me where linux-kernel and linux-smp went?
PS, can someone tell me where the redhat linux list themselves are ...?
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From: "Patrick Mougin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian 2.2/Gnome/glibc problem
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 08:04:47 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> While not new to Linux, I have switched distributions from RedHat to a
> clean install of Debian 2.2 (potato). I'm having trouble getting any of
> the gnome packages that I've installed using dselect to work. For
> example, I'd like to run gnome-apt, but I get the error,
>
> gnome-apt: error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0:
> symbol getpwuid_r, version GLIBC_2.1.2 not defined in file libc.so.6
> with link time reference
>
> This is the same error for all the gnome programs, whether I obtain them
> from a Debian mirror or from Helix. So, I'm a bit confused. I have (what
> seem to be) the correct packages installed:
>
> libc 2.1.3-10
> libglib 1.2.7-2
> gnome-apt 0.3.9
> other gnome support packages...
>
> The kernel is 2.2.17, the default installed by the Debian installer. I
> doubt that the packages were built incorrectly with a different version
> of libc, so I'm assuming I'm missing something or doing something wrong.
> It appears it can find the libc6 library, so it's not that my ld.so.conf
> file is incorrect.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Marty
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Marty,
have you tried running apt-get? If you haven't, then I'd recommend you do
so. I believe that there is a new version of libc out. You can only get it
through apt-get upgrade (I think, although I couldn't be too sure). First of
all, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list. Read the top of that file, as it has
some useful info on it. Then run "apt-get update", "apt-get install", and
then "apt-get upgrade" (I think this is how it goes; if not, them someone
please correct me).
Hope this helps,
Patrick
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From: "Patrick Mougin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Debian 2.2 apt help
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 08:11:42 GMT
"Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> When I installed Debian 2.2, I ran into a problem telling it where to find
> the packages. What do I put in the apt file to tell it to read off the
> hard drive <which is where I installed the package from, the files were
> copied to sda1 by mount sda1 /tmp/>.
>
> in dselect, when I tell it to read from /tmp (which is where I have
mounted
> the files in a file called disk1) the dialogue goes like this:
>
> <prompt> <I type>
> give URL: file:/tmp/disk1/debian
> distribution: stable
> components to get main
>
> When I try to update, it tells me files were not found and that there is
an
> error exit status 1.
>
> Hmmm....any ideas here?
>
> TIA,
> Cooper
Cooper,
I don't think you've actually copied the files over....what you've done is
to just mount sda1 over to /tmp. If you want to use dselect to install
stuff, you have to mount sda1 to /tmp beforehand, otherwise nothing will be
there. An alternative is that once you've mounted sda1, make a new directory
somewhere where you can put your packages, and then copy over from the
mounted /tmp to this directory. Then edit your sources.list to point to this
new directory.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
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From: "Bill Shirley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing drivers for nic under mandrake7.0
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 00:36:39 -0400
Most likely you want to run dhclient to get an IP address, gateway, etc.
from your ISP.
HTH,
Bill
"Southboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Just got a message back from Roaring Penguin that rppppoe is not
> seeing my nic. It's a Dlink pci 10/100. Anyway, I never installed the
> drivers for it, I just selected the chipset for it under netconfig.
> Apparently that didn't do it. So, I figured out how to get the
> included Makefile to work, but the included instructions say:
>
> step 4: bind your card to an IP address
>
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> netmask ${NETMASK}
> (run 'netstat -i' to see if there is a interface 'eth0')
>
> First, this is the only puter I have, I'm trying to connect through
> dsl, I don't have a static IP. Do I use a phony IP address, if so,
> what? Also, what about the "{BROADCAST}" & "{NETMASK}", what do I put
> in there? What's the proper syntax? Do I include the "{}" brackets or
> not?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated from a Linux newbie!
>
> Jeremy
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From: Michel Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TELNET
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 10:34:53 +0200
Hy,
I installed a RedHat 6.2, like a workstation.
But I can't connect with it, trought TELNET. So, I installed several RPM, but
it's may be that I missed one. Note that the FTP is working good.
And more I don't know where I could find the RPM of FTPserver.
Someone hass help.
Thanks Michel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: comp.emacs,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Xemacs on Corel (Debian) Linux
Date: 7 Oct 2000 08:37:57 GMT
Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Colin Walters wrote:
>> Chetan Vora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > I'm sorry if this has been answered before but my search provided no
>> > such query before. Basically, I installed XEmacs21.1 binaries for
>> > Linux (RPMs which I converted to .deb and then used Corel Update to
>> > install them).
I agree with other posters that this is a Really Bad Idea unless you
know what you're doing. 'alien' shouldn't be used indiscriminately, and
software like xemacs (and definitely libc6!) is too close to the
infrastructure for alien to be safe.
aliening glibc/libc6 will break your system.
The libdb.so.3 library the aliened xemacs is looking for comes from new
versions of libdb2, which as yet are only in the unstable release of
Debian (I assume they're in Red Hat 7.0 or something). However, if you
get hold of a package compiled against an older version of libdb it will
run fine.
>> Why do that? I don't know how different "Corel Linux" is from Debian,
>> but on Debian, you should be able to type:
>>
>> apt-get install xemacs21
>
>Thanks all, for the quick replies. If I want to install a basic "Editor"
>version of Xemacs21, which packages will I need from the Debian site? I'm
>guessing this is the minimum:-
>xemacs21-nomule_21.1.10-4.deb
>xemacs21-support_21.1.10-4.deb
>libc6_2.0.7.19981211-6.3_i386.deb
The above command ('apt-get install xemacs21) is all you need on a
modern Debian system with apt set up properly. Don't try to hunt down
individual .debs yourself, as apt will pull in all the dependencies for
you.
libc6-2.0.7 suggests you're looking at slink; if you can use potato
instead (the current stable release), do.
The line that should go in your /etc/apt/sources.list for Debian 2.1
(slink) is:
deb ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive slink main contrib non-free
... and for Debian 2.2 (potato):
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato non-US/main non-US/contrib
non-US/non-free
>I'm just starting out with Debian Linux so thanks for bearing with my
>newbie questions patiently.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is a mailing list for Debian users that you
might find useful: see http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe for
how to subscribe.
(Follow-ups set to the Linux groups - I guess this has stopped being an
emacs issue.)
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"I still remember the way that you laughed / When you pushed me down
that elevator shaft" - "You Don't Love Me Anymore", Weird Al Yankovic
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can Only See 1/4 of the Desktop
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 04:56:17 -0400
I can only see 1/4 of the desktop at a time.
If I move the mouse around, I can move the screen around the desktop, but I
can still only see 25% of it at one time.
It has been suggested that I have the wrong resolution set, and that there
is a problem with my "virtual" setttings in my configuration, but I can
find them.
All suggestions welcome.
TIA
-john
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From: "Marijan Franovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with SUSE7.0 & CMIPCI
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 11:17:23 +0200
Hi!
I installed SUSWE7.0 night before and it recognized all of my hardware
correctly (even my CMI 8738 PCI sound card). When I had to test it sounded
OK. Now I started X and XMMS or system sounds and all sounds are distorted,
with noises and clicks and it is completly unusable. Can someone help me
with this, please?
Thanks!
Marijan Franovic
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From: "Eric Lo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: howto keep another partition of disk permanently mounted
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 17:58:36 +0800
put your mount command in /etc/fstab
"huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:JFdD5.1470$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a dual OS PC (windows + linux)
> every time I boot linux, I need to mount the dos partition (/hda1) - is
> there a way to make linux permanently remember this
> Thanks
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.setup.misc
Subject: Re: Can't get OS/2 + RH Linux 6.2 to install together
Date: 7 Oct 2000 10:01:08 GMT
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000 04:54:00, Timur Tabi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a single 36GB SCSI hard drive in my system (Pentium Pro 233,
> Matrox Millenium II PCI, 128MB RAM). I can install OS/2 on this
> machine very easily. I can install Linux on this machine very easily.
> But if I try to install one OS on half the hard drive, trying to
> install the other OS just trashes the partition table.
>
> Could someone who is running RH Linux 6.2 and OS/2 Warp 4 on his
> system please help me? Should I use Boot Manager or Lilo? Should I
> install OS/2 first or Linux first? I know I'll need two partitions
> for OS/2 (C: and D:), and that C: should be in the first 1024
> cylinders, just like Linux's /boot does.
You have to use both BM and LILO. The easiest way to do it is to
install boot manager and add the root partition of your Linux
installation to its menu. LILO is then installed in the boot sector of
the root partition not in the MBR. Now you get a BM menu when you boot
and selecting Linux from that gets you LILO.
Partition table? Under no circumstances let Redhat's Disk Druid
anywhere near your hard disk. Use FDISK instead - it works.
I'd install OS/2 first and then Linux, having made all the partitions
with OS/2's fdisk. Now when the Linux install is running and you get
into Linux's fdisk, just use that to "tag" the partitions you want to
use as the right id (0x82+83). If you want to mix and match partitions
(so you have C: then the Linux root then D: then /usr etc) then you'll
probably need to create the partitions with OS/2's fdisk, boot from
Linux boot diskettes (or the rescue CD) and use Linux's FDISK to tag
the partitions before you install OS/2. Once tagged they are invisible
to OS/2 and don't get drive letters - if not tagged and you install
OS/2 then it'll need to cope with the drive letters changing from E:
to D: etc. and may not be happy.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Frode Haugsgjerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing from RedHat to Mandrake.
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.os.linux,linux.help
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 12:01:02 +0200
Find out what partition is mounted at /home its listed in /etc/mtab and
/etc/fstab, when you install mandrake you will be promted for witch partitions
to format
-scoopy-
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, �L�W�p�l wrote:
>How to aviod these partition to be formatted?
>
>=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Xos=E9?= Calvo �g�D�G
>
>> > Is there any method to change from RedHat to Mandrake without losing any
>> > data in the hard drive?
>>
>> By data I assume you mean files you created with wordprocessors,
>> spreadsheets and such. If you have them all under /home, just avoid
>> formatting that partition during install of a new system. Everything,
>> including your GNOME/KDE/whatever desktop preferences will be kept.
>>
>> Xos�.
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From: "rude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Only See 1/4 of the Desktop
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 12:02:23 +0100
you are having the low resolution setup as default resolution. Whatever flavour of
linux you are using, open the corresponding config tool (Xconfigurator, sax) and
change its default to the desired resolution.
For a quick test type "crtl alt +" to change between the possible resolutions.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> John
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can only see 1/4 of the desktop at a time. If I move the mouse around,
> I can move the screen around the desktop, but I can still only see 25% of
> it at one time.
>
> It has been suggested that I have the wrong resolution set, and that
> there is a problem with my "virtual" setttings in my configuration, but I
> can find them.
>
> All suggestions welcome.
>
> TIA
>
> -john
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