Linux-Setup Digest #809, Volume #19 Wed, 11 Oct 00 16:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00 (Mark)
alsa SBLive drivers on RH7 ("Michael Matthews")
Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GUI won't come up | solved ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems (Hal Burgiss)
Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A new directory hierarchy standard - need opinions (David Wragg)
Re: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7 (Bill Pringlemeir)
Re: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7 (Bill Pringlemeir)
try to install a new kernel ("Bart")
Re: try to install a new kernel (Jan Johansson)
No driver for isdn card known ("Bart")
RedHat can not see hde disk (Rafael - LumesITSupport)
port not open for incoming mail. (Buschman)
Re: RedHat can not see hde disk (Bill Pringlemeir)
disable ypserv ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mounting 2 floppy drives (Philippe Rousselot)
Newbie installation problem on Red Hat 6.2 with Geforce 256 (JIE YUAN)
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:59:13 GMT
The next question then becomes, which GUI are you using. Gnome or KDE?
If you follow the links, beginning in /etc/inittab , the last line
probably is something like..
x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
So, follow /etc/X11/prefdm and see where the link goes. Mine goes
to /usr/bin/kdm to start KDE.
Mark
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tried something else - brought the system up in console, command line,
> by entering linux 3 at the LILO prompt. OK - logged in as a particular
> user, and then tried bringing up the Gnome desktop with startx.
>
> Lo and behold, worked fine. So, the problem seems to be when it tries
> to bring up the graphical login screen - it absolutely refuses to.
>
> I'm wondering if there is a switch somewhere to turn this screen off
> (security?) which I'd very much like to turn back on!
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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From: "Michael Matthews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:08:48 -0400
Install instructions not much help. Drivers compiled and installed
apparently with no problem. People have stated that they have gotten this
working. HELP!
How did you get it to load? Do you have to setup the card IRQ somewhare? Is
The snd_index the PCI slot number? Tried 0, that didn't work either.
alsa-driver-0.5.9c
Linux 2.2.16-22
modules.conf:
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=4 snd_id="SBLive" \
snd_dac_frame_size=128 snd_adc_frame_size=128
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
when loading (/sbin/modprobe) get errors:
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys kernel: snd: EMU10K1 soundcard #1 not found or device
busy
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: init_module: Device or
resource busy
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys nsmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
M Matthews
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:22:10 GMT
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:59:13 GMT, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The next question then becomes, which GUI are you using. Gnome or KDE?
>
>If you follow the links, beginning in /etc/inittab , the last line
>probably is something like..
>
>x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
Yup - thats excatly what I have in the iniitab file
>
>So, follow /etc/X11/prefdm and see where the link goes. Mine goes
>to /usr/bin/kdm to start KDE.
>
Mine was the standard RH default to Gnome (gdm). For grins (and to see
if it is simply a matter of the gm file being wonky, I reset it to
kdm.
i.e., set the symbolic link for prefdm to /usr/bin/kdm insted of
/usr/bin/gdm
We shall see.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GUI won't come up | solved
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:24:39 GMT
>>So, follow /etc/X11/prefdm and see where the link goes. Mine goes
>>to /usr/bin/kdm to start KDE.
>>
>
>Mine was the standard RH default to Gnome (gdm). For grins (and to see
>if it is simply a matter of the gm file being wonky, I reset it to
>kdm.
>
>i.e., set the symbolic link for prefdm to /usr/bin/kdm insted of
>/usr/bin/gdm
>
>We shall see.
>
Well, I tried point prefdm to kdm rather than gdm and it worked
perfectly.
Hmm...guess gdm has up and died on my (not sure how/why, but probably
somehow related to RPM upgrades).
No matter...at least I can run linuxconf now.
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.0 upgrade problems
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:32:16 GMT
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:00:01 -0400, Michael Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> 3: Swat problems. Swat doesn't work anymore, while the files
>> /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf contain the required lines. ONLY
>> the files inetd.conf has been renamed to inetd.conf.rpmsave!! In the
>> log file messages appears: "Swat disabled, removing" Then I like to
>> know where it is disabled ??? someone has an idea ??
>
>To my surprise I found RN7 uses xinetd instead of inetd by default. A
>completely different animal. You have to configure the xinetd.conf
>file. But I did a new install not an upgrade. See if xinetd is running
>instead of inetd.
RH does the individual configuration in xinetd.d/*. Each service has
it's own file. When upgrading the previous inetd.conf is converted to
this new format. Each service can be enabled/disabled with this line:
disable = no
(set to yes to disable)
man xinetd. Really seems quite flexible from what I see so far.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GUI won't come up | RH 6.00
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:33:18 GMT
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:22:10 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:59:13 GMT, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>The next question then becomes, which GUI are you using. Gnome or KDE?
>>
>>If you follow the links, beginning in /etc/inittab , the last line
>>probably is something like..
>>
>>x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
>
>Yup - thats excatly what I have in the iniitab file
>
>>
>>So, follow /etc/X11/prefdm and see where the link goes. Mine goes
>>to /usr/bin/kdm to start KDE.
>>
>
>Mine was the standard RH default to Gnome (gdm). For grins (and to see
>if it is simply a matter of the gm file being wonky, I reset it to
>kdm.
>
>i.e., set the symbolic link for prefdm to /usr/bin/kdm insted of
>/usr/bin/gdm
>
>We shall see.
>
Well, I tried point prefdm to kdm rather than gdm and it worked
perfectly.
Hmm...guess gdm has up and died on my (not sure how/why, but probably
somehow related to RPM upgrades).
No matter...at least I can run linuxconf now.
Thanks!
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From: David Wragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: A new directory hierarchy standard - need opinions
Date: 10 Oct 2000 14:18:00 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine) writes:
> 2. NFS is easily sniffable, as it does not have cryptographic capability
> as far as I know. This may be addressed sometime in the future,
> and there may be good replacements for NFS that do have crypto.
> I certainly hope so, but I haven't looked.
It was addressed sometime in the past. RFC2203, which specifies the
RPCSEC_GSS security flavour for ONC RPC (which NFS sits on top of), is
dated September 1997. RFC2623 goes into more detail about applying
RPCSEC_GSS to NFS.
Solaris has implemented this since 2.6 I think, with Diffie Hellman
public key encryption as the security mechanism. 2.8 (maybe 2.7 too?)
can also use Kerberos v5 as the security mechanism.
The group (at the University of Michigan?) doing the Sun-sponsored
NFSv4 implementation for Linux were implementing RPCSEC_GSS as a part
of that.
David Wragg
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Subject: Re: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:47:16 GMT
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> Install instructions not much help. Drivers compiled and
Michael> installed apparently with no problem. People have stated
Michael> that they have gotten this working. HELP! How did you get
Michael> it to load? Do you have to setup the card IRQ somewhare? Is
Michael> The snd_index the PCI slot number? Tried 0, that didn't work
Michael> either.
[snip]
Michael> Any help would be appreciated. thanks
Does your kernel have sound support? Try `modprobe -la |more' and
look for xxx/misc/sound.o. If it exists, make sure to do a `modprobe
sound'. You can also run linuxconf. If you have installed the alsa
and sound system, you can turn these services on when booting.
Look in the /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ for files that say Kxxalsasound and Kxxsound.
These are bad. You need Sxxalsasound and Sxxsound. This means that the
services are started at runlevel 3. There is and rc5.d directory too,
this is used if you boot with an `X' login screen. If you have no sound
support in the kernel or modules, you may have to recompile.
[start]
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
[end]
I have kernel 2.2.17 and the same alsa modules. Make sure you create
the devices with ./snddevices script in the alsa-driverxxx/dev
directory. I found no need to run the plug and play stuff.
hth,
Bill
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Subject: Re: alsa SBLive drivers on RH7
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:52:20 GMT
when loading (/sbin/modprobe) get errors:
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys kernel: snd: EMU10K1 soundcard #1 not found or device
busy
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys insmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: init_module: Device or
resource busy
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by
incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
Oct 12 00:19:30 mjmsys nsmod:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed
Also verify that you have installed the modules to the kernel with
`modprobe -la -t misc'. You should have a snd-card-emu10k1.o listed. This
file will exist in the /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc directory.
hth,
Bill
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From: "Bart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,worldonline.linux
Subject: try to install a new kernel
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:54:06 +0200
Hi,
I'm now trying to install an new Kernel (2.4.0 test9).
Everythinks goes fine but when I try to make a link. Linux gives an Error.
I gave the command: ln -s linux linux-2.4.0 linux
Can anyone tell my what I've done wrong?
Thanks, Bart
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From: Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,worldonline.linux
Subject: Re: try to install a new kernel
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:59:59 GMT
>I gave the command: ln -s linux linux-2.4.0 linux
>
>Can anyone tell my what I've done wrong?
rtfm, the syntax is ln -s source linkname
ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.0 /usr/src/linux
(modify paths as needed)
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From: "Bart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.list,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,worldonline.linux
Subject: No driver for isdn card known
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:10:39 +0200
Hi,
I've found the driver for my ISDN card (HFC PCI 2BDS0) , but I get the al
the time an HiSax Error????
And the same error I get by al the other ISDN-cards when I select them. Do
you now I can get of this problem?
Do I have to install thinks like ppp or something? Or have I forgot
something else?
Already thanks, Bart
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From: Rafael - LumesITSupport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat can not see hde disk
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:22:54 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can not install RedHat on my hde disk, it can not see it. What to do.
But Windows install without problem and Gentus Linux too. How to force
RedHat to see hde not only hda, hdb, hdc and hdd but also disk from
third and 4 controler.
Please help me
Rafael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buschman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: port not open for incoming mail.
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:31:43 GMT
I have been installing mandrake 7.1 over and over again. I'm not sure
what I have changed in the way i do it, but it seems every time I
install it now my e-mail can be sent but not received. Most of my
other ports are closed. I can't ftp, pop, telnet, ssh into my
machine. I'm guessing that snmp is closed also and that's why I can
send mail but not receive it. How do I open and close ports? Is it
IPChains? Is the firewall running and keeping all the ports closed?
What I really need to know is how to open and close ports. Any
information or advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
One other little snag. Recently when I install 7.1 I get this wierd
thing going on in my machine. When I install, I format the drives
each time so i doubt I made a mistake once and the machine is
"remembering" the settings. But when I install my 3com 3c905b-tx card
everything takes. But when I shutdown and startup I always get this
error reffering to ippp0. In linuxconf there is a second adaptor
there with info in it. Granted it is not enabled and only has a net
device and IP, but when linux tries to load and unload I always get
errors. The IP address is always 192.168.100.1 and that is no where
near the IP I'm using for this machine.
Is this machine somehow remembering a mistake I made earlier, even
though I format each install? What is ippp0? I know ppp is point to
point protocal, but what does that have to do with my connection? I
do have a second linksys NIC card installed on this machine although i
have not installed drivers or anything for it. there is no reference
to it in linux, but it is sitting in a PCI slot. Would that
contribute to my problem? I started noticing that ippp0 error about
the same time that my installs stopped going so smoothly( ports being
closed upon first boot up). But I can't swear that they showed up at
the same time. Are they related?
Any and all advise is welcome and appreciated.
Thanks for your help,
Buschman
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Subject: Re: RedHat can not see hde disk
From: Bill Pringlemeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:36:52 GMT
>>>>> "Rafael" == Rafael <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> writes:
Rafael> I can not install RedHat on my hde disk, it can not see
Rafael> it. What to do. But Windows install without problem and
Rafael> Gentus Linux too. How to force RedHat to see hde not only
Rafael> hda, hdb, hdc and hdd but also disk from third and 4
Rafael> controler.
Windows installs on hde and doesn't touch another drive? I doubt it.
I think that Linux should be able to use a second controller. You
can use the drive, but you probably have to put a partition on the hda
or hdb drive if you with to use LILO to boot. You could use a floppy
to boot linux if you don't like this.
It is a limitation of the BIOS that LILO use to load the kernel. You
must have a linux partition in the first 1024 cylinders of hda or hdb.
With newer BIOSes, you might be able to use hdc and hdd. If you have
installed Linux on hda,hdb,hdc,hdd and can not read an hde that is
different.
Also you give no details of exactly what software you are using. Is this
Redhat X.xx etc. Do you know the kernel version?
fwiw,
Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: disable ypserv
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:27:55 GMT
I'm trying to disable the ypserv, what exactly do I need to comment
out? I've got the /etc/init.d/ypserv file open and I see all of the
code, but what do I comment out so that it won't start up when I boot?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6 Oct 2000 01:49:41 GMT, Bill Unruh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ole Morten Fureli
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >]Can anyone please tell me how to disable telnet, rlogin, ... on a RH
> >]7.0-box?
> >
> >]The file /ect/inetd.conf did this on 6.2, but I'm not able to find
this
> >]file on my new install.
> >
> >Actually it was /etc/inetd.conf, and it is still there on 6.2
> >(for etcetera )
>
> But 7.0 wipes this file, and switches to xinetd. Config is now in
> /etc/xinetd.d/*.
>
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From: Philippe Rousselot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting 2 floppy drives
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:47:19 -0700
Thanks to you and Vilmos for the help
Unfortunately my computer is down. I have to change the tray of my
removable HD. I will not be able to try before this weekend.
Philippe
bluster wrote:
> Philippe Rousselot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > Hi Vilmos,
> >
> > No, it does not work.
> >
> > Here is what I do
> >
> > being in root,
> > first I create a folder
> > mkdir /mnt/floppy2
>
> this looks ok
>
> > second I mount the drive
> > mount -t auto/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2
> ----------------------^
> you need a space between "auto" and "/dev/fd1"
>
> [root@zephyr]# mount -t auto /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2
>
> also if fstype is auto you can leave it out e.g.
>
> [root@zephyr]# mount /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2
>
> you only need fstype if that fails e.g.
>
> [root@zephyr]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip
>
> use "df" (Disk Free) command to see if mount worked:
>
> [root@zephyr]# df
> /dev/hda2 3619352 1278928 2156568 37% /
> /dev/hda1 19487 2482 15999 13% /boot
> /dev/fd0 1423 781 642 55% /mnt/floppy
> [root@zephyr]#
>
> Good luck!
> Bluster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JIE YUAN)
Subject: Newbie installation problem on Red Hat 6.2 with Geforce 256
Date: 11 Oct 2000 20:00:25 GMT
i tried to install red hat 6.2. my computer is
piii 700e
motherboard intel cc820
vedio adapter: geforce 256 (64M)
monitor: sony cpd-100e
after installation, everything works well except xwindow and xterm. When I
tried to run either of them. my monitor stated "signal out of range". Is
that to say my geforce is not compatible with rh6.2?
suggestion to this problem is welcome.
george
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