Linux-Setup Digest #868, Volume #19 Fri, 20 Oct 00 12:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: show load of two processors (als)
Re: Netscape issue (als)
Logitech Wheel (Pontus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ankarb=E5ge?=)
Re: Logitech Wheel ("ne...")
Re: redhat 6.2 or 7.0? ("ne...")
wrong major or minor number (Bill Delphenich)
MS Exchange and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Newbie to linux; I screwed up my X, now what? (rich)
Re: bad fonts Netscape (Hal Burgiss)
Re: help RH 7.0 and rsh (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Linux install on a X386? (Kevin Croxen)
Problem with cdr ("news.csonline.net")
Netscape - RH6.2 ("Mick")
Netscape fdopen() error ("Mick")
Install Redhat 7 on existing install with large HDD, please help ("Preston Crawford")
Re: modem trouble ("Greg Parker")
Re: Tulip driver/Compile Network Everywhere NIC NC100 (Paul Meyer~)
Re: Which IP is real IP? (mst)
99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
X on framebuffer with 2.4? (bill davidsen)
Re: compile a kernel by a normal user (Colin Watson)
Re: Can't telnet to my RH 7 box (Alex Deucher)
Re: Helix/Gnome GDM - Dual Monitor Support (Alex Deucher)
Re: X on framebuffer with 2.4? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Install Redhat 7 on existing install with large HDD, please help (Rootman)
Re: HELP: Old binary not executable on Linux (Paul Kimoto)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (als)
Subject: Re: show load of two processors
Date: 20 Oct 2000 10:56:01 GMT
In article <$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hal Burgiss
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>>On 6 Oct 2000 20:15:56 GMT, Miguel Rodriguez Penabad
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>Is there any program (maybe similar to top) that shows the load of two
>>>processors separately? I just installed linux in a dual pentium and
>>>I'd like to know how the load is distributed.
>>
>>There is a patch for top that shows both. URL is in the SMP FAQ IIRC.
>>Don't know it offhand.
>
>Where do you get this FAQ ?
>
>
>Cheers, J/.
>--
>John Beardmore
If you are running KDE, simply start the KDE Task Manager, and select
the second tab. automagic.
<als>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (als)
Subject: Re: Netscape issue
Date: 20 Oct 2000 11:13:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Travis Hein wrote:
>
<snip>
>> I have noticed that When I launch Netscape (recently upgraded to 4.75)
>> without being connected to the internet, It seems to hang, and consume
>> 95% of the cpu time, and becomes impossible to terminate, even as root,
>> and from closing down x windows, it is still there. The only way I know
>> to make it go away is to reboot.
>>
<snip>
Make sure that you have the start page pointed to somewhere local
(or set to 'blank' -- 's what I do).
It IS annoying, isn't it :)
<als>
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From: Pontus =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ankarb=E5ge?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Logitech Wheel
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:40:54 +0200
I have surf to Logitechs homepage and looked for drivers or something to
get the wheel works in Linux RedHat 7.0 (gnome ed.) but I have found
nothing, anyone know how to do?
// Pontus
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech Wheel
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:30:37 GMT
On Oct 20, 2000 at 13:40, Pontus Ankarb�ge eloquently wrote:
>I have surf to Logitechs homepage and looked for drivers or something to
>get the wheel works in Linux RedHat 7.0 (gnome ed.) but I have found
>nothing, anyone know how to do?
Go to deja and do a search on c.o.l.[setup|x]. This should
reveal a whole lot. Follow those steps and it should work
even tho the data you find will be for RH6.2. Note that
RH adviced against installing imwheel due to security
concerns, so take with a teaspoon of salt.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Shit Happens.
8:27am up 3 days, 13:14, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.2 or 7.0?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:39:14 GMT
On Oct 20, 2000 at 12:26, MT eloquently wrote:
>
> You!
Me! What did I do?? It wasn't me, I didn't do it.
>
> I've concidered ordering the Redhat Linux 7.0 cd, but
>i heard, that Redhat 6.2 is better then 7.0... (?) 7.0 soposed
>to have bugs in the X environment and all... and they say,
>that i cant install 6.2 and then select some packages from
>the 7.0 cd... what should i do? I'm working on a i686 work-
>station...
3 Hail Marys should help. The so called bugginess of
RH7 is _greatly_ exaggerated. If you are new to Linux
use RH6.2. If you are an olde head use RH7. I use it
and I'm not complaining.
>
> tammx
>
>PS! sorry about the mistakes i probably made, my English is'nt
>too good... ;~)
No need to apologize. It's better than mine.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
It's OBVIOUS ... The FURS never reached ISTANBUL ... You were an EXTRA
in the REMAKE of "TOPKAPI" ... Go home to your WIFE ... She's making
FRENCH TOAST!
8:33am up 3 days, 13:20, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: Bill Delphenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wrong major or minor number
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 08:45:27 -0400
I am running RedHat v7 dual booting with Windows 2000. After recompiling
the kernel, I get "wrong major or minor number" when I try to mount the
Windows 2000 FAT32 partition. It worked before I recompiled. I think I
know how to "fix" this, but will it hose my FAT32 partition if I do?
What happened?
Thanks for any assistance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MS Exchange and Linux
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 12:58:04 GMT
Hi there,
Is there any way setting linux box to access the MS Exchange server.
cheers
qlos
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rich)
Subject: Newbie to linux; I screwed up my X, now what?
Date: 20 Oct 2000 13:12:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm such a moron.
I discovered that in /usr/X11R6/bin that my X entry was linked to the
Mach64 X binary, and the chip detection was reporting (and I verified
visually) that the chip was an S3 chip. This is after I have had a
myriad of problems related to X that were completely mystifying me. I'm
not sure how it thought I had a Mach 64 chip, but that's water under the
bridge.
So I said to myself, "Self," I said, "All I have to do is link the S3
binary to the directory entry 'X' and Bob's yer uncle." Well, I did the
link the wrong way and now I don't have any X server whatever.
Whenever I run startx it dies with an error message "expecting server"
or something like that. In retrospect, that wouldn't have worked
anyway because I didn't install the S3 binary before I did it, but if I
had done it, it would've clobbered the binary.
Well, it's obvious *now* what happened.
What is not obvious is how I fix it.
This is a Red Hat 6.0 system (I know, I know it's old and I've heard
it's buggy -- 7.0 is on order from Cheapbytes.) I try and uninstall
the RPM for the Mach64 X server and it reports that it's not there. Do
I need to do this before I install the S3 binary?
I think -- absent just finding my DOS disk, booting this sucker up in
DOS and starting the setup again, that I need to get a better clue on
setting up Red Hat, and RPMs in particular.
And not to segue to far afield, but will I need to do this booting-to-DOS
thing to upgrade my system to Red Hat 7.0? Or can I just mount the CD
and type /mnt/cdrom/install?
And is there an RPM-howto somewhere?
--
Catch the cluetrain. http://www.cluetrain.com
ALL programs are poems, it's just that not all programmers are poets.
-- Jonathan Guthrie in the scary.devil.monastery
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: bad fonts Netscape
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:27:06 GMT
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:39:25 +0200, Pontus Ankarb�ge
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have problem with the fonts in netscape they look like pixeldrawn lots
>of edges and stuff.
>I use RedHat 7.0 Gnome Netscape 4.57.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html (Font De-uglification)
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: help RH 7.0 and rsh
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:28:14 GMT
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:57:29 +0200, Eros Albertazzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to use rsh to run a command on a remote machine, from a new
>RH7 installed.
>Nothing particulary new, however, while I can from several old RH 6
>boxes, I get a "permission denied" now.. My .rhosts on the remote
>machine is as usual.
>
>On the RH7 box the rsh server is working fine and also the rlogin is
>OK....
>Any hints on what I might have changed??
Maybe PAM. Look at /etc/pam.d/rsh. IIRC, I had to modify this. If this
is the case, the logs will show PAM doing the refusing.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Linux install on a X386?
Date: 20 Oct 2000 13:03:48 GMT
Even some mainstream distros still come optimized for 386's --Slackware
being one. All the many precompiled kernels that are included on the Slack
CD are 386 bootable; the assumption is if you're installing on zippier
hardware than a 386, you can compile your own optimized kernel later.
--Kevin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, me wrote:
>Thanks... it hadn't even crossed my mind to look for a tailor-made distro... I
>guess that's what happens when you spend most of your day living in
>Windoze-one-size-fits-all land...
>
>-Raj
>
>Philo wrote:
>
>> although it may be difficult to get more than a minimal install on your
>> machine...
>> you must be sure to get an i386 distribution...
>> are you using a distro designed for use on a pentium or 486 machine???
>>
>> you might also try such small er distros such as peanut linux or pygmy linux
>>
>> --
>>
>> Philo
>>
>> website: www.plazaearth.com/philo
>
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From: "news.csonline.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with cdr
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:41:22 GMT
I have a cdr (hp 7200) that writes cd's, but sometimes they are unreadable.
I have to cut the cd and send it to a friend for anaylsis of the data on it.
A number have not been readable by my friend. I was stupid enough for not
looking at the data after writing. It he is sending some of the discs back.
My questions.
1. have the hp cdrs had a problem writing discs or is more likely the other
cdrom (don't know the make yet) is having a problem reading it.
2. Is there anyplace on the web that I can find out more information on
this???
thanks
Jim Bisnett
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape - RH6.2
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:03:04 -0700
I seem to be unable to set scalable fonts using "prefererence" tab. I set it
to the default indicated fonts to "scalable" and when I view some html pages
which had extremely tiny text, I tried to increase the text size, but the
menu for text size is greyed out. How do I make Netscape able to
increase/decrease font sizes while viewing htmls?
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From: "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape fdopen() error
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 22:04:49 -0700
When I double click on an html file, Netscape starts up and then display
error "could not fdopen() the new stderr: invalid argument". After clicking
on the OK, the html is displayed ok. This happens every time. How do I fix
this?
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From: "Preston Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Install Redhat 7 on existing install with large HDD, please help
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:47:01 GMT
I'm sort of a newbie. I've used Linux off and on for about 6 years, but
never for any period of time. I bought Partition Magic, because now I have a
large hard drive and want to work with it again. My drive breakdown is as
follows.
C: | Boot/Dos | Fat | 500mb
D: | Win98 | Fat32 | 1500mb
E: | Win2k | NTFS5 | 7.33 GB
F: | Storage Area, MP3s, etc. | Fat32 | 16.1 GB
So what I'd like to know is what would be the best way to keep this install
and drop Redhat into the middle of that. I don't mind booting of a floppy or
anything like that. Just so I can install and run Linux without disturbing
my current setup.
My first thought is that I could just yank 3 GB out of that last partition
and I would be set. However, I seem to remember there being a problem with
installing Linux past a certain sector on the hard drive. Anyway, if anyone
has any tips on how to do this I would really appreciate it, even links to a
good how-to on installing a triple boot in general.
Preston
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From: "Greg Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: Re: modem trouble
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:48:56 -0400
thanks for your everyone's response. i didnt do anything but the next day i
just booted up and had no problem logging in on linux.
i didnt try windows. for some strange reason, i try to avoid it as much as
possible. ; )
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<8snk4j$icd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Greg Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> setup redhat 6.0 (,using disk from The Complete Reference by Richard
>> Petersen if that helps any)first time using linux ever. everything was
>> working ok i was online downloading browsing etc. however unlike
>win95 where
>> you click on the systray and click disconnect i have to go to network
>> configurator window(open a terminal enter netconf) and click
>disconnect
>> which is buried behind other windows. i forgot once to click
>disconnect and
>> i just closed xwindows gnome and shut down normally. and now when i
>booted
>> back up in gnome desktop and i cant get modem to respond. i do not
>know if
>> thats what caused it but thats what i remember doing. i also noticed
>when i
>> boot back up into win95 i also cant access my modem and i got one
>blue crash
>> screen.
>>
>
>I guess you are not using a win modem, and that it is a Hayes
>compatible one.
>
>I am a bit puzzled why it does not work under windows. This would point
>towards a modem problem.
>
>Have you tried minicom under linux or hyper terminal under windows by
>issuing an AT command? e.g. ATD0345484950 should get you to railway
>enquiries.
>
>If that's working then leastways you know that your modem and serial
>port is ok, and one can take it from there.
>
>--
> --- Till Ruessmann ---
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Meyer~)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Tulip driver/Compile Network Everywhere NIC NC100
Date: 20 Oct 2000 14:51:42 GMT
Sorry for the confusion. When I first tried to compile the scyld
network drivers, I had many error messages. Don't remember them
exactly.
I then installed the full kernal-source by:
[warning, I'm new to this, but it worked for me]
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/
rpm -ivh kernel-source-2.2.16-22.i386.rpm
cd (wherever the scyld package was saved)
rpm -i [scyldpackage].rpm
ifdown eth1
ifup eth1
and I was set. Good luck,
Paul Meyer
-- I speak for myself, not for Intel --
In article <8snlpb$dio$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Larry Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>are you saying you use the source from the CD to install support for that
>specific driver? after that was installed it would recognize it, and then
>use the source for the scyld one? I am a little confused with the way you
>wrote the reply thanks, larry
>Paul Meyer~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8snjhv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Just been through this, clean RH7.0 install, linksys etherfast 10/100
>> 4.1 card, won't work with shipped tulip driver.
>>
>> Downloaded the full www.scyld.com network driver rpm and installed it,
>> but it barfed on compiling pci_skeleton. It turned out that the
>> kernel source was not installed by default, and source files from
>> there were needed by the network driver package compile. I used rpm
>> to install the kernal source code off the cd, then used rpm to install
>> the network driver package from scyld, and everything worked. My
>> linksys tulip card is up and running.
>>
>> If you need more details on what I did, send me mail.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Paul Meyer
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> I speak for myself, not for Intel.
>>
>>
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which IP is real IP?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:02:59 -0400
"Adam H." wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I dial up to my ISP via PPP (56k modem),
> I can check my /var/log/messages file and I see 2 lines:
>
> Local IP address changed to 203.x.x.x
> Remote IP address changes to 203.x.x.x
>
> Which IP address is the IP address that my ISP assigned me?
>
> (Ie, which IP address does someone have to type in to try and
> access my computer)
>
The local one. Duh! Or, use ifconfig and look at the ppp0 entry.
MST
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:01:08 GMT
99% Done, Please help me out with the 1% left
I started out 3 months ago but removing windows from all the computers
in my home and not 3 months later I can do 99% of my work on Redhat
7.0. The following is a list of issues(things) that I am still trying
to find out how to do on Redhat. If you can help me please let me know
I would like to close the book on this!!
1) I use to use QuickBooks Pro on windows for running my bus, Does
anyone use someone good??
2) I am a DJ and I burn alot of music cd. I use to make a master cd
and then burn copies on windows. Now that I am using Redhat.
How do I copy music cd's (no gaps on the track changes)??
One more thing I only have one cd-rom so I have to make a image
and then burn the copies.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.sys
Subject: X on framebuffer with 2.4?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:14:39 +0000 (UTC)
After about two hours of looking through the (non-)documentation, I have
to think that either frame buffer doesn't work with 2.4, or that no one
has documented it. If someone has a pointer to a doc I'd really like to
see it.
I have the frame buffer devince in place, and can boot fb modes at
startup, but the X server want something in XF86Config which doesn't
seem to be documented. It isn't particularly documented for 2.2 kernels,
either, anywhere I've found, and there's a lot of source code to blindly
search for all possible values of all possible fields.
I realize that there are probably only a few people on the planet who
even understand the question, I wouldn't use it if I could get X to run
on this system, or could rip out the video.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Make the rules? I don't make the rules. I don't even FOLLOW the rules!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: compile a kernel by a normal user
Date: 20 Oct 2000 15:25:58 GMT
Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am using Redhat 6.2. Is there a way for normal user to compile a kernel?
You don't need to be, and shouldn't be, root when compiling a kernel. So
yes.
>Can normal user use the same source tree under /usr/src/linux. This setup
>will be used for a class. Please give some suggestions. Thanks.
If several users need to use it, either put them in the appropriate
group and make the tree group-writeable or else put the source tree in
each user's home directory. The latter is probably much easier if you
have the disk space, since obviously only one user at a time can be
compiling a kernel in /usr/src/linux.
By the way, kernel builds shouldn't be done in /usr/src/linux anyway on
most distributions, because, in their wisdom, the C library maintainers
decided that it was a good idea to make symlinks from
/usr/include/{linux,asm} to /usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm}. This
causes problems when you replace the kernel headers that came with your
distribution. (Debian doesn't make these symlinks, and distributions
derived from it are probably similar.)
See http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/kt20000814_80.epl#4 for more
discussion on this. From Linus Torvalds:
# I would suggest that people who compile new kernels should:
#
# * NOT do so in /usr/src. Leave whatever kernel (probably only the
# header files) that the distribution came with there, but don't
# touch it.
#
# * compile the kernel in their own home directory, as their very own
# selves. No need to be root to compile the kernel. You need to be
# root to _install_ the kernel, but that's different.
#
# * not have a single symbolic link in sight (except the one that the
# kernel build itself sets up, namely the "linux/include/asm"
# symlink that is only used for the internal kernel compile itself)
#
# And yes, this is what I do. My /usr/src/linux still has the old 2.2.13
# header files, even though I haven't run a 2.2.13 kernel in a _loong_
# time. But those headers were what glibc was compiled against, so those
# headers are what matches the library object files.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Logic is about flogging a dead horse." - Computer Science lecturer
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:30:16 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't telnet to my RH 7 box
Make sure you are not trying to telnet in as root.
Alex
Rob Ristroph wrote:
>
> You need to give more information -- what error message are you
> getting ?
>
> It is likely that your solution involves editing these files:
>
> /etc/xinetd.conf
> /etc/hosts.allow
> /etc/hosts.deny
>
> I think that man pages exist for each of these files -- for example,
> type "man hosts.allow." Basically hosts.allow has to allow the
> connection from the appropriate machine, and /etc/xinetd.conf (or
> /etc/inetd.conf on older redhats) has to have the line for in.telnetd
> uncommented.
>
> Others have posted with similar problems, maybe you can look over the
> various answers they got.
>
> Also, consider whether you want to use ssh instead of telnet. It is
> easy to install sshd, and you can enable it by adding the line
>
> sshd: ALL
>
> to /etc/hosts.allow
>
> --Rob
>
> >>>>> "defung" == defung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> defung>
> defung> Hi all,
> defung> I need your help! I can't telnet to my Red Hat 7 box. I didn't have
> defung> this problem with version 6.2. Did I forget something or there is a
> defung> special firewall feature in version 7??
> defung>
> defung> Thanks a lot in advance!
> defung> Dennis
> defung>
> defung> ps. email to me if you can.
> defung>
> defung>
> defung> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> defung> Before you buy.
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 11:35:33 -0400
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Helix/Gnome GDM - Dual Monitor Support
Add "option xinerama" to the ServerLayout section of of your XF86Config
file (usually in /etc/X11) this may fix gdm as well. I don't know
though, I don't run gdm.
Alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> I have already tried this to no avail.
>
> I have de-activated gdm by allowing the boot process to proceed to
> run-level 3 only. I login and utilize startx and still get two window
> managers.
>
> Thanks again, I will keep trying.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Not sure if my last reply got posted.
> >
> > It sound like you were running XF86R4 with xinerama enabled.
> >
> > Add "+xinerama" to the server lines at the end of the file
> > /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf.
> >
> > e.g.
> > [servers]
> > 0=/usr/bin/X11/X +xinerama
> >
> > rbraud wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I just installed Helix/Gnome and it looks great. I have two monitors
> > > hooked up. Prior to installing Gnome the two monitors worked as one
> > > desktop. After instlling Helix/Gnome I now have two separate
> desktops
> > > one on each monitor.
> > >
> > > How do I get gdm to fire off one desktop spread across both
> monitors.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > > Before you buy.
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X on framebuffer with 2.4?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.development.sys
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:35:49 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After about two hours of looking through the (non-)documentation, I have
> to think that either frame buffer doesn't work with 2.4, or that no one
> has documented it. If someone has a pointer to a doc I'd really like to
> see it.
> I have the frame buffer devince in place, and can boot fb modes at
> startup, but the X server want something in XF86Config which doesn't
> seem to be documented. It isn't particularly documented for 2.2 kernels,
> either, anywhere I've found, and there's a lot of source code to blindly
> search for all possible values of all possible fields.
> I realize that there are probably only a few people on the planet who
> even understand the question, I wouldn't use it if I could get X to run
> on this system, or could rip out the video.
> --
> bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
> Make the rules? I don't make the rules. I don't even FOLLOW the rules!
I don't know if you've seen this, or if this will help at all, but
check out:
http://linux.com/howto/Framebuffer-HOWTO-16.html
I got X using the framebuffer device once about a year ago, and this
is what helped.
Adam
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From: Rootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Install Redhat 7 on existing install with large HDD, please help
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:34:53 GMT
I would advise just doint what you mentioned "yank 3 GB out of that last
partition" and install Linux on it. Put LILO on THAT partition, NOT the
MBR.
To solve the boot problem I would install XOSL on the first fat drive.
It can handle booting dang near anything.
http://www.xosl.org/
It works very well and is quite attractive.
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"Preston Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I'm sort of a newbie. I've used Linux off and on for about 6 years,
but
> never for any period of time. I bought Partition Magic, because now I
have a
> large hard drive and want to work with it again. My drive breakdown is
as
> follows.
>
> C: | Boot/Dos | Fat | 500mb
> D: | Win98 | Fat32 | 1500mb
> E: | Win2k | NTFS5 | 7.33 GB
> F: | Storage Area, MP3s, etc. | Fat32 | 16.1 GB
>
> So what I'd like to know is what would be the best way to keep this
install
> and drop Redhat into the middle of that. I don't mind booting of a
floppy or
> anything like that. Just so I can install and run Linux without
disturbing
> my current setup.
>
> My first thought is that I could just yank 3 GB out of that last
partition
> and I would be set. However, I seem to remember there being a problem
with
> installing Linux past a certain sector on the hard drive. Anyway, if
anyone
> has any tips on how to do this I would really appreciate it, even
links to a
> good how-to on installing a triple boot in general.
>
> Preston
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: Old binary not executable on Linux
Date: 20 Oct 2000 11:43:06 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[comp.lang.c snipped]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sharon Wang wrote:
> 1. First of all, not sure if the question is well posed.
> I have a binary that works fine on an old Slackware
> Linux box (2.0.1? and older), but can not be executed
> on another box running RedHat 6.1 (kernel 2.0.2?)
> What could possibly be the problems and how to
> solve them?
Probably your binary needs libc4 (a.out) and associated dynamic libraries,
or libc5 and associated dynamic libraries, and the other box does not have
them. If it's a.out, the kernel may not include a.out support, which is
optional these days.
> 2. I have a software that requires the user application
> be compiled and linked agaist old a.out libc libraries.
> Can some one point to me references on the a.out libc
> installation HOWTO?
I don't think there is such a thing. As far as I know, no major Linux
distributor includes libc4 these days. You may have to find an old
(4 years?) distribution and pull the files out. Perhaps Debian has an
old enough one (http://archive.debian.org/dists/). David Parsons maintains
an a.out system at http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Mastodon/index.html.
--
Paul Kimoto
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