Linux-Setup Digest #879, Volume #19 Sun, 22 Oct 00 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Screen Saver Question ("Chorng Shiuan CHEN")
Re: How do I install a new video driver? ("Richard King")
Setting up PLIP connection (January Weiner)
crashed X on moving files ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ALSA Problem (Florian Olbrich)
starting staroffice 5.2 ("James")
Question about soundcards for professional audio ("frankie")
Re: starting staroffice 5.2 (Winfried Rohr)
Setup Storm Linux (Jesper Petersen)
Re: crashed X on moving files ("Noble Pepper")
Re: Setup Storm Linux (Rod Smith)
Re: lilo and minimize linux (John in SD)
Re: Enabling 256Mg of Ram in linux-2.2-12 kernel? (Bob Hauck)
Re: What is SAMBA?
update-menus @ mandrake 7.1 (Helium) ("MT")
Re: Setup Storm Linux (Jesper Petersen)
Software raid at installation time with redhat 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Corel Linux ("Corey Maertz")
install kernel module by normal users (Zhihui Zhang)
[Help]System crash swiching between Console and X ("macefindu")
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From: "Chorng Shiuan CHEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: Screen Saver Question
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 10:26:46 GMT
Hi Lamar,
If you login as root, your screen saver will not work.
"Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:CuvI5.345710$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> How do you get the screen savers to work on RH 6.2 running X? My monitor
> just goes blank after about 5 mins. no matter what screen saver I select!
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards
>
>
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From: "Richard King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: How do I install a new video driver?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:15:54 GMT
The easiest way I can think of is using the command:
rpm -Uvh NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm. <hit enter>
Try that
"Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:QO7I5.342057$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I just downloaded a new Linux video driver for my NVidia TNT2 M64 video
card
> but I don't know how to install it. Can anyone help? I am running RH 6.2
> and the GNome interface. The name of the file that I downloaded is:
> NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-5.rh62.i386.rpm. I am new to Linux and thanks for any
> help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lamar
>
>
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From: January Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up PLIP connection
Date: 22 Oct 2000 11:46:36 GMT
Hello,
I am trying to set up a PLIP connection between my laptop and a PC. Now, at
first, the modprobe plip0 didn't work; it turned out, in the parport
section of /etc/modules.config the proper irq should be set.
Right now, everything works fine until ping, which reports 100% data loss.
The PLIP mini-howto suggest three possible error sources:
1. Some laptops have printer-only parallel ports, which are not able to
receive data. I don't know much about hardware problems, but as much I
understand it, if it were so, my parallel-port ZIP drive wouldn't work
either, and it runs smoothly.
2. The cable problem. Now, the cable runs for windows boxes and is,
besides, quite new.
3. IRQs. Now, I don't know much about computers, as I said. I am just a
biologist. Don't laugh. The howto told me to try out different IRQs. Well,
I have tried out IRQs 5 and 7, putting them always in modules.conf, and
then rmmoding and again modprobe'ing plip, parport_*, parport.
Without success, though.
Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
january
--
----)-\//-///-----------------------------------January-Weiner-3-------
To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I am the Loyal Opposition [Woody Allen]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: crashed X on moving files
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:15:09 GMT
Greetings!
I would really like some help with this, partly to solve the
problem but perhaps even more to understand it.
(I'm not a complete newbie to Linux (off-and-on user (more 'off'
than 'on') for about five yrs) but I'm digging in now more and
want to learn repair and maintenance stuff that's second nature
to me in OS/2 (and Windows).)
So, here's the scoop. I'm using Mandrake 7 and whatever the KDE
version it's got fresh off the cdrom. I've made myself user
<davisf> and find that (almost, not always) whenever I move files
in and out of folders, X crashes.
I get an error message like:
"KiKbd: SelectWindowInput: XGetWindowAttributes: error: Window
ID:2400100"
(a) What's the problem?
(b) Without blowing <davisf> away and reconfiguring, how do I
repair?
Here's a bonus question:
(c) Is there a way to back up the desktop (like in OS/2) and
restore it if it goes flakey?
I'd know exactly what to do in OS/2 and I'd have the tools to do
it. I'd like to increase my speed in Linux.
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: Florian Olbrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALSA Problem
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:14:48 +0200
Hello!
I've got a problem setting up the ALSA-Drivers
for my ESS1868:
When I'm trying to play a wave file or Mpeg3,
the speakers are crackling shortly, then
I get the error "sox: Error writing data to file"
("play"-command) or "write error" ("aplay").
/proc/asound/sndstat says
=================================
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
ESS AudioDrive ES1868 at 0x220, irq 9, dma1 1, dma2 3
Audio devices:
0: ESS AudioDrive ES1868 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: ESS AudioDrive ES1868
============================
I'm not sure if the Synth-Devices are necessary to play
sound? I found no way to activate them, either.
(modconf, alsaconf, ...)
I also tried to compile alsa with debug=detect, but got
no messages to syslog.
Another strange thing is that sndstat says dma1=1, dma2=3
cause the isapnp setting is dma1=1,dma2=0
(and this is set in /etc/isapnp.conf, /etc/soundcfg,
/etc/modules.conf and /etc/modutils/alsa and worked well
with the oss/free-driver I used before)
When I'm loading the snd-module I get the error "Midi isn't
working!".
The only working point is playing an audio-cd, and the mixer
works, too.
I'm using Debian 2.2 with a custom kernel and compiled
ALSA as shown in alsadriver/debian/README with
make-kpkg, then installed the *.deb-files and I tried
make;make install, too (same thing).
Does anybody know a solution?
Many thanks
Flo
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From: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: starting staroffice 5.2
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:53:17 +0200
Hi!
I just downloaded and installed staroffice 5.2, but now I can't figure out
how to start the applications. The installation didn't add any icons to
gnome and I have no idea which command I should use at the shell prompt.
Help appreciated!
James
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From: "frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Question about soundcards for professional audio
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 08:53:25 -0400
I was wondering if there is a good resource to poll users out there who are
using soundcards with digital I/O (as well as analog and MIDI)
I have an HP Kayak XU PII-400 with embedded AD1816 sound card,
which I cannot make work with sound for the hell of me....
(well, it beeps, if that's a consolation)
The RedHat site says that they have a driver for it on 7.0, but with
the stories I am hearing about (some) funky installs under 7.0,
I am staying with 6.2 for now.
I am aware of the Sound For Linux page at http://sound.condorow.net/,
but could not find useful links to any forums or stats on what audio
fanatics/ music production buffs love to use.
and also tried the driver for AD1816 supplied on
http://www.student.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~tek/projects/linux.html
..Problem is I can't get isapnptools to recognize that a soundcard exists
on my machine. Being that I have spent many hours trying to make this
work, I would just prefer buying a new card, which I hope could work
with more features under Linux.
Does anyone know if a Digidesign AudioMedia III work under Linux?
(I have one on my Mac)
Any info appreciated.
Frankie
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From: Winfried Rohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: starting staroffice 5.2
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:56:40 +0200
Am Sun, 22 Oct 2000 hat James geschrieben:
Installation has to be completed by a user. Try soffice on a commandline :-)
>
>James
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From: Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setup Storm Linux
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:12:48 GMT
I tried to setup Storm Linux 2000 on my computer for the first time (even the firste
time I try
Linux).
After finishing the setup I rebooted my system and I expected a graphical interface to
appear, but
instead only text appeared on my screen and it said
storm login:jesper
password:
jesper(at)storm:~$
>From there I don't know what to do, does anybody have an idea what the problem can be?
During the install I didn't find my monitor on the list, and none of the generic
monitors made the
test come out well, I decided to proceed anyway and thought it might be possible to
start Storm
Linux anyway - could that be the problem, and if so what schould I do to solve it?
Thanks
Jesper
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From: "Noble Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: crashed X on moving files
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 09:23:18 +0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I would really like some help with this, partly to solve the problem but
> perhaps even more to understand it.
>
> (I'm not a complete newbie to Linux (off-and-on user (more 'off'
> than 'on') for about five yrs) but I'm digging in now more and want to
> learn repair and maintenance stuff that's second nature to me in OS/2
> (and Windows).)
>
> So, here's the scoop. I'm using Mandrake 7 and whatever the KDE version
> it's got fresh off the cdrom. I've made myself user
> <davisf> and find that (almost, not always) whenever I move files
> in and out of folders, X crashes.
>
> I get an error message like:
> "KiKbd: SelectWindowInput: XGetWindowAttributes: error: Window
> ID:2400100"
>
> (a) What's the problem?
> (b) Without blowing <davisf> away and reconfiguring, how do I
> repair?
>
> Here's a bonus question:
> (c) Is there a way to back up the desktop (like in OS/2) and
> restore it if it goes flakey?
>
> I'd know exactly what to do in OS/2 and I'd have the tools to do it. I'd
> like to increase my speed in Linux.
>
> F.
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Felmon John Davis Union College / Schenectady, NY os/2 - ma kauft
> koi katz em sack
> -----------------------------------------------------------
This sounds like a problem with KDE you may want to check
comp.windows.x.kde for help.
The desktop in KDE is in ~/Desktop, cp it to another name and it should
restore the desktop if you cp it back.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Setup Storm Linux
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:25:40 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I tried to setup Storm Linux 2000 on my computer for the first time (even the firste
>time I try
> Linux).
>
> After finishing the setup I rebooted my system and I expected a graphical interface
>to appear, but
> instead only text appeared on my screen and it said
>
> storm login:jesper
> password:
> jesper(at)storm:~$
>
> From there I don't know what to do, does anybody have an idea what the problem can
>be?
>
> During the install I didn't find my monitor on the list, and none of the generic
>monitors made the
> test come out well, I decided to proceed anyway and thought it might be possible to
>start Storm
> Linux anyway - could that be the problem, and if so what schould I do to solve it?
First, in the future could you please restrict line lengths on your
posts to something less than 80 columns? That will make it easier to
read and/or reply to your posts using many programs/hardware. Thanks.
As to your problem, it sounds like you need to configure XFree86.
Without knowing what your hardware is, I can't offer any specific
advice. (Even if I knew what your hardware was, chances are I wouldn't
have used it, so I couldn't give you specific settings.) Your best bet
is to use an X configuration utility, like xf86config or Xconfigurator.
You'll need to know some of your monitor's and video card's
specifications -- particularly the maximum horizontal and vertical
refresh rates your monitor can handle. This is still one of the uglier
aspects of Linux configuration, but matters are improving, mostly
because of install-time configuration tools -- but you apparently
bypassed that, or Storm comes with a poorer tool than some (it's been a
while since I tried Storm, and I don't recall what it uses at install
time). For more information, check the XFree86 Configuration HOWTO
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/index.html, among other
places, possibly including your own hard disk).
Once X is configured, you can start it by typing "startx" at a command
prompt. Once you're sure it's working correctly, reboot. It's possible
that the system will come up in GUI mode. If not, you can tell it to do
so be editing /etc/inittab. There will probably be a line that
resembles:
id:3:initdefault:
Change the 3 to a 5. The next time you reboot, the system will start X
automatically. (Some versions of Linux don't use 3 and 5. SuSE uses 2
and 3. Debian, upon which Storm is based, uses 3 and 5, so I assume
Storm does, too. Don't mess with this if you're in doubt about what
it'll do.)
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: lilo and minimize linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:31:09 GMT
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:35:54 GMT, "Hung P. Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to fit linux onto a 60 MB harddrive. Obviously, the
>drive is too small for a standard linux installation.
>
>My first question is how to install lilo on the drive and make it
>boot linux. I tried to partition the drive using: fdisk /dev/hdc (the
>drive is connected as secondary IDE master). I just assign
>a single partition #1 (hdc1). Then I make the file system using mkfs, and
>then mount the harddrive as /mnt/d. Then I copy a few file from
>my original RedHat 6.1 over. Here is an output from "ls -l /mnt/d"
>
>total 927
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 17 14:33 boot.b
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285018 Oct 17 16:19 initrd.img
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 250 Oct 17 17:17 lilo.conf
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Oct 17 14:30 lost+found
>-rw------- 1 root root 13312 Oct 17 16:21 map
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 622784 Oct 17 16:18 vmlinuz
>
>The new modified lilo.config is as followed:
>
>boot=/dev/hdc
>map=/mnt/d/map
>install=/mnt/d/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>default=linux
>
>image=/mnt/d/vmlinuz
> label=linux
> initrd=/mnt/d/initrd.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdc1
>
>I then run: /sbin/lilo -C /mnt/d/lilo.conf
>
>I then reboot the system and configure the BIOS to boot from the
>secondary master IDE (it can boot up fine from a secondary master IDE
>with DOS). However, I only get a bunch of 01 01 01 ... on the screen.
Re-configuring the BIOS is the fatal step. It changes the BIOS device code of
your hard drive (if it was 0x81, it is now 0x80).
Get around this by telling lilo to use device code 0x80 in booting: add at
the top of lilo.conf:
drive=/dev/hdc
bios=0x80
>
>What did I do wrong ? What am I missing ?
--John
LILO version 21.6 (04-Oct-2000) source at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Enabling 256Mg of Ram in linux-2.2-12 kernel?
Reply-To: bobh{at}haucks{dot}org
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:43:44 GMT
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:34:25 +0100, Daniel Cave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>mem=256m/256 in /etc/lilo.conf, but no avail..
A quick search of Deja would have turned up: append="mem=256M"
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm,redhat.security.general
Subject: Re: What is SAMBA?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 14:53:08 GMT
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 16:19:39 GMT, Lamar Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is it free, and where do I get it?
It must suck being such a retard that you can't type "samba" into a web
search engine.
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From: "MT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: update-menus @ mandrake 7.1 (Helium)
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 16:54:43 +0300
I installed Mandrake Linux 7.1 but the kde menus are nearly empty!
I've heard, that i should run a shellscript named 'update-menus' or
'menu_update' or something...
i remember, that once i allready ran that script (on an other computer,
liong time ago...), then a core was dumped, and the kde menus were still
empty...
tammx
da infinitive Linux
dummy... ;~)
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From: Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup Storm Linux
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:26:04 GMT
>First, in the future could you please restrict line lengths on your
>posts to something less than 80 columns? That will make it easier to
>read and/or reply to your posts using many programs/hardware. Thanks.
Consider it done :)
[Cut]
> Your best bet
>is to use an X configuration utility, like xf86config or Xconfigurator.
It's the first time ever i try Linux, so I'm not quite sure how to do these
things. Should I run an X configuration utility from Linux, or is it possible
to do from Windows? Because I don't know how to do anything in Linux without
the graphical interface :(
[Cut]
Jesper
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Software raid at installation time with redhat 6.2
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:16:42 GMT
Hi,
I�m a new linux user and I�m having problems installing redhat 6.2.
My question: I want to install Linux in an old computer (P-133 S,
mother triton VX, 16 Mb of Ram and two IDE disk 270Mb each, 32x cd-
rom), build a small server an do probes. I like to make a raid device
with those two HD's at installation time, but I had some problems...
> First, I read that in the GUI mode, it can be done, but the
installation program start always in text mode whatever I typed at the
BOOT prompt. After that, I tryed to do a Kickstart installation (it
has commands to do raid devices at installation time). I finished the
installation and after reboot, Linux did not start properly.
I did 2 swap partitions of 20 Mb, one in each disk. 16Mb raid level 1
for /BOOT and the rest (raid level 0) for /. This is what I read in the
manuals and I was allowed to do.
When the system boots, it says that can not mount root fs but I think
that the /BOOT partition is working fine becouse it seems to boot up
properly so far mounting root fs.
Now I do not Know what can I do...
>
> I will appreciatte any advice from you.Thanks,
Andr�s
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Corey Maertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Linux
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 15:37:21 GMT
HELP.. WHEN I INstalled Corel Linux, it installed fine but when it rebooted.
it said that none fo the directorieys are there. iut makes everything that
it needs, so i have no clue
Thanks corey
. This is my 5 Linux Install
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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 11:40:48 -0400
From: Zhihui Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install kernel module by normal users
I am using Redhat 6.2. Is it possible to allow normal users to
install/uninstall kernel modules (insmod, etc)? Anything special has to be
done for this?
Thanks.
-Zhihui
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From: "macefindu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Help]System crash swiching between Console and X
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 12:54:08 +0300
Hi
My rh6.1 has been suffering this problem since installation. It
happens from time to time: sometimes didnt happen in two weeks but
sometimes it just crashed two time in a single day...
Some nice guy tried to assist me telling me to enable "SysRq" in kernel, but how
can i do "Alt-SysRq-[key]" with a dead keyboard?
My pc:
Celeron 300A(no o/c)
CreativeLabs Banshee 16mb pci
m$ Intellimouse
I have framebuffer enable because scrolling-issue in Console, but i dont
have XF_fb_dev installed, just use xf86 3.3.5, should i change to
fb_xserver?
ps: I always disable gpm before startx.
Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!
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