Linux-Setup Digest #853, Volume #19 Wed, 18 Oct 00 10:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Problem with mouse in SuSE 6.3 ("IByte")
Re: fax and efax (Michael George)
Re: using su from the terminal...PROBLEM (Colin Watson)
Re: Gnome (Helix) and themes ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mounting to windows2000 drive?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
rh 7.0 iso files (Carsten Huettl)
Some help plz ("A.Bev")
Re: How to access linux from NT? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
really frustrated newbie! (Jamie)
RH 6.2 and eMachines ("Tony Steidler-Dennison")
Re: mounting to windows2000 drive?? (Eric)
Re: Help: Can't Recreate the deleted PPP connection (Eddy S)
Re: soundcard drivers for biostar? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
jpilot install user - please help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
1 terabyte kernel disk limit? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: xcdroast and DOS file permissions ("Shan J. Gill")
DHCP, DDNS & Netbios NameServer ("Paul")
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From: "IByte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with mouse in SuSE 6.3
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:16:12 +0200
I have the same problem... (SuSE 6.3 Eval). It often works correctly if I
unplug my mouse (MS Intellimouse PS/2), boot, and plug it back in (and then
restart X), but if I boot with the mouse plugged in, keyboard and mouse are
stuck as soon as I get to the graphical login. If I do the plugging trick,
even the mouse wheel works (thanks to imwheel), but without it, nothing
works. Who can help me fix this?
Regards,
IByte
Robert Coridan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8sgo0i$oa2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am having trouble with my SuSE 6.3 recognizing my Microsoft Intellimouse
> Explorer. It makes the instalation and the environment a pain and
sometimes
> it even gets stuck to where the keyboard can't navigate the desktop and I
> have to manually reset the computer...any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rob
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael George)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: fax and efax
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:20:29 GMT
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Peter&Hanne Utting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have efax working quite nicely with the fax script and the kde
>interfaces kfax and ksendfax, for sending and viewing faxes.
>But for receiving faxes, I can only do 'fax receive' from a terminal,
>which seems only to do an immediate manual receive. The problem with
>this is, if the fax comes a minute or so later, the receive facility has
>timed out.
>Documentation seems pretty thin for efax, only the man page and one
>howto.
>Does anyone know wether there is a 'wait' option?
With the efax package, when I do a "man fax" I see that there are two other
commands that might to what you want:
"fax answer"
"fax wait"
If you don't have the man page, I can mail it to you...
-Michael
--
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--
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all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the
best.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: using su from the terminal...PROBLEM
Date: 18 Oct 2000 11:32:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Okay, this was working before, then I reinstalled Linux free and now I
>cannot run programs if I su to another user in the terminal. Alot of
>times we like to su the terminal to root to run something really quick
>without having to log back out and in again. This is what I get on
>the following example
>
>[bigredlinux@mojavelinux bigredlinux]$ su
>Password:
>[root@mojavelinux bigredlinux]# kpackage
>Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
>kpackage: cannot connect to X server :0
[bigredlinux@mojavelinux bigredlinux]$ su - # note the -, login shell
Password:
[root@mojavelinux /root]# ln -sf ~bigredlinux/.Xauthority
(And do the $DISPLAY thing as well.)
This works on my box; it lets root use bigredlinux's X authority file,
and therefore use bigredlinux's X session.
>My username is bigredlinux and I am a regular user as well as a root
>user.
I'd get really fed up with typing that username, I must admit. :)
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling,
From glen to glen, and down the mountainside ..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Gnome (Helix) and themes
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:40:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I didnt install the theme packages from the begining with the
> > Helix-Code installer. But now I do want to be able to switch
> > themes, but Im not able too.
>
> Use the helix-gnome update tool and choose what you want to update.
THe problem is that nothing shows up in the update tool, ie I got
the latest sutff of everything.
//Erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mounting to windows2000 drive??
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:48:13 GMT
mounting to windows2000 drive??
Does anyone know how to mount to a windows2000 drive??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carsten Huettl)
Subject: rh 7.0 iso files
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:57:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I am going to download the rh 7.0 iso files for cd image.
But I found there are
7.0-i386-disc1.iso
in the current dir
and
7.0-i386-respin-disc1.iso
in the rh70 dir
What are the right image files the discs?
What is the right filesize (kb)?
TIA
C.
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From: "A.Bev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Some help plz
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:07:44 +0100
I have 2 questions, if anyone can help me
1) About bttv and related modules.
I compiled my kernel with video4linux enabled, i got videodev.o bttv.o
i2c.o tuner.o msp3400.o (all fine).
I added in my modules.conf the apropriet lines as the bttv-miniHOWTO
explains, then run depmod -a
I also created the mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
and linked to /dev/video
BUT when i run kwintv, it says it can't locate the device.
BUT if i load the modules manually with modprobe and then run kwintv, it
all goes smooth. It apearts like there is no one to autoload the
modules. I have compiled of course the appopriete things in the kernel.
I have the same problem when trying to burn a CD. it only works if i
manually load the modules.
So my question is : Why aren't the modules loaded automaticly ??
2)
I have a problem with Mandrake's SuperMount. It worked fine until the
day i decided to compile a new kernel. From that day on, supermount
doesn't work anymore. If i insert a CD i have to manually mount it. Can
any-one tell me were the config files are, how to make the command work
? I tried "supermount enable" like the man page said, but it didn't
change. Any ideas ?
Config : Mandrake 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15mdk (mandrake kernel) or 2.2.17
(home made compilation) on a PII 350 with 128 Mb ram.
Thanks and sorry for the long post (i hope you appreciate that it is
detailled)
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to access linux from NT?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:04:23 +0200
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I can't access the samba server from my workstn. I'm using redhat
> 6.2, NT workstatn 4, and i've add the PlainTextPassword to the registry
What is the error? What do the samba log say? What are your settings in
samba?
And wouldn't it be better, if you enabled encryption in samba instead of
disabling it in NT?
---
If you only have a hammer
everything looks like a nail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamie)
Subject: really frustrated newbie!
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:41:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hope someone out there can give me some advice...I have successfully
installed Red Hat Linux 6.1 (GNOME workstation) on an x486 machine
that I have resurrected...I have several dillemas I hope somone can
help me with...I can't use my CDRom (cdu_31a-actually a cdu_33a) my
modem or floppy (could use the floppy when I first installed-can't
now)...
I installed Red Hat 6.1 off of the CD after booting from the
floppy...I had to first initialize the CD during the installation by
manually putting in the parameters for the CD (I/0 0x230 port 0)
because Linux could not automatically find the CD upon first trying to
install...Well, after the install I found my cdrom under mnt (cd won't
mount when booting up like the floppy does) and could not access it
because it wasn't listed in the fstab (have tried modifying this
file-still does not work) or I would get an error saying it wasn't a
valid block...I get this block error also now when I try to access
files on my floppy...
On the modem side of things, I can show the modem and PPP dial up
properties and click debug and the modem will dial out but error out
with the ISP upon confirming my user and pass giving me some kind of
pppd error...OK at least I know the modem is working under
Linux...When I try to normally dial up using my account with the PPP
dialer the modem never initializes...The box that says waiting stays
up until I kill the window...
Any advice would save my sanity....
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From: "Tony Steidler-Dennison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: RH 6.2 and eMachines
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:40:59 GMT
I recently tried to install RH 6.2 on a friend's eMachine. We did a custom
setup with KDE, WWW/Mail/News, Games, Network Machine, Multimedia, Graphics,
Emacs, Development, Kernel Development, and Utilities. The machine was
partitioned similar to the following (I don't remember precisely):
hda1: 2 GB, Primary, Active, Win98
hda3: 3 gig, Primary, Linux Native
hda4: 500 MB, Primary, Linux swap
hda5: 5 GB, DOS Extended
3 GB, Fat32 Logical
2 GB, Fat32 Logical
We partitioned using PartitionMagic and formatted hda3 using RH FDisk. All
went well right to the point that all RPMs were installed and the install
window was reading O% remaining. A small popup opened showing the
post-installation procedures dialog, but the install never got beyond this
point. We waited it out for more than 25 minutes, to no avail.
Is there some known hardware problem with eMachines? (I believe it uses an
AMD processor.) If not, has anyone butted up against this problem and found
a solution?
Thanks.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting to windows2000 drive??
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:55:28 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> mounting to windows2000 drive??
>
> Does anyone know how to mount to a windows2000 drive??
>
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> Before you buy.
I suppose you want to mount a win2000 drive that's NTFS formatted?
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXXXX /mnt/win2000
But ofcourse you will need the ntfs.o module for this.
And since write support for ntfs is experimental, I'd suggest you use it
read-only. If you want to share files between two OS's (mp3, jpg etc.) I
suggest you create a FAT partition, since you can access that from both
OS's equally well.
Eric
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From: Eddy S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help: Can't Recreate the deleted PPP connection
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 21:15:24 +0800
Yes, it works! Great. Thanks a lot. I'm using Red Hat 6.1, just in case
anyone was wondering.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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David Efflandt wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 23:25:57 +0800, Eddy S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I had a PPP account, which I configured using the "Dialup Configuration
> >Tool", the account name was "StarISP". But then I deleted this account.
> >
> >Now, I'm trying to recreate the account. But the Dialup Configuration
> >Tool keeps on telling that I already have an account with the name
> >"StarISP" and asked me to enter a different name for the connection. But
> >I've deleted this account earlier.
> >
> >It seems to me that the configuration tools some how remember the
> >account created in the pass. Is there anyway to make it "forget"? I've
> >checked the manuals, reference and HOWTOs, but none mentioned about this
> >behaviour, which I suspect maybe a bug.
>
> Yes, it does seem to be broken when you delete a connection.� See if
> deleting that entry from /etc/wvdial.conf helps.
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.multimedia
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: soundcard drivers for biostar?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:14:31 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/17/00
at 01:09 PM, Filip Westers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I have an AOpen AK72 mobo (KX133 chipset) it has a AD1881 CODEC
>chip. Got sound by enabling the legacy audio (SBPro compatible)
>in the bios, no MIDI though.
Yep, I've got the same 'legacy audio' settings. I'm only getting
cdrom and nothing else except that loud quick burst of noise.
Downloading some other drivers though, as we 'speak'. Fingers
crossed or 'pressing my thumb', as they say here.
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: jpilot install user - please help
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:10:44 GMT
I am trying to run jpilot under linux to synchronize my palm pilot. I
was able to use my knowledge of linux and online support information to
get jpilot to see my palm pilot, however I am unable to synchronize due
to the following error:
Sync Problem - This palm has a NULL user id. It may have been hard
reset. J-Pilot will not restore a palm yet. Use pilot-xfer to restore
the palm and install-user to add a username and user ID to the palm.
Read the user manual if you are uncertain.
I have checked the palm user manual to see if I could do this on the
palm itself, but could not find the information. I also checked jpilot's
website, and was unable to find any info. I scanned the newsgroups and
have looked for howtos. Still nothing.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: 1 terabyte kernel disk limit?
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:15:19 GMT
Hi,
We're planning on deploying an image storage system in the near future
which will require around 1.2 terabytes of disk storage (initially). It
would make sense to drive the storage system from a set of Unix machines
of some type rather than NT to give greater flexibility, reliability and
performance.
Linux was a possible choice, however I was just looking at some of the
Linux LVM information (purely from curiousity) though and there was a
reference there saying that "current linux kernels are limited to 1TB".
What is this limit regarding? Is it even true with the latest kernels?
Is that a limit for total capacity on all directly-connected disks, a
limit for a single e2fs filesystem, does it only apply to certain types
of hardware, or what?
I think ultimately we'd want to present a single partition of 1.2TB to
the system(s) driving the storage array, so it sounds like there might
be a bit of a problem there... (is this 1TB limit true of any Unix
system? That might cause a few headaches!)
thanks for any help.
Jules
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From: "Shan J. Gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xcdroast and DOS file permissions
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:47:44 -0700
Thanks for the replies. Let me check out the suggestions and see what is
what.
My knowledge of the way permissions are passed on was sketchy.
Thanks for the tips.
sjg
Shan J. Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:p_%G5.19008$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can't seem to find an answer to what must be a very simple problem.
> I found one message that dealt with burning a Slackware CD from Windows
that
> contained a hint to the answer I need.
>
> The message read, in part:
> "Why don't you just use xcdroast off the Slackware 4.0 /contrib directory?
> It preserves everything, with the correct permissions."
>
> This is the problem I am having: burning some Windows .txt files onto a
CD
> from my Linux (RedHat 6.1 w/2.2.16 kernel) box.
>
> I can't seem to keep xcdroast from changing the permissions to "READ ONLY"
> for those few files. I tried setting the permissions by hand to root
> owner/group and all read/write. Anyway, I am not a *NIX expert - but I
have
> been using Linux as my LAN backbone for about a year now and am
comfortable
> with Linux.
>
> Joliet extensions; RockRidge extensions; ??? no combination seems to keep
> the permissions as r/w for all such that Windows still sees them as
> read/write.
>
> I put the files to be burned into an ext2 directory on my Linux box, then
> set permissions to r/w for all, and leave owner/group as root.
>
> What is the magic combination? I have burned about half a dozen CDs and
> can't afford any more of this kind of ad hoc stuff.
>
> Thanks,
> Shan
> shangill@polson_dot_net {remove _dot_ }
>
>
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From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP, DDNS & Netbios NameServer
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:57:08 +0100
Hi
I am the Unix administrator for a Council that uses Windows NT4 servers for
File and Print services to around 5000 PCs across a WAN.
We are looking to setup a number of DHCP servers (which all talk to each
other and share reservations and also lease details), we would like to have
these DHCP servers talking to a Dynamic DNS (Bind 8). A friend of mine
suggested using Linux to do this, however I need someone to let me know what
products would do this for me.
NT4 servers commonly find each other by means of a WINS server which is just
a NetBios nameserver that Microsoft have corrupted. Is it possible to find
a Linux product that does this?? I think Samba may offer this but I would
like that confirmed.
I am currently using RedHat Linux mainly becuase I had a copy of the
distribution, is this the best Linux to use??
Thanks, Paul.
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