Linux-Setup Digest #913, Volume #19 Fri, 27 Oct 00 02:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: sound blaster on SuSE 7.0 (mpulliam)
Re: wiping win98 ("Jason")
SoundBlaster 16 PCI, which drivers/modules ("Brian Davis")
Re: startx (Scott Nolde)
Re: Samba -- conneciting problem? ("Thomas Liaw")
Re: Restricted root access for installation (Scott Nolde)
Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux Redhat 6.1 (Andrea Marouk)
RH 6.1 misses 25MB of my HD (Andrea Marouk)
TFTP won't work with Linux RH 6.1 (Andrea Marouk)
Re: USB mouse & linux (LinuxBoy)
DDO & Linux ("ADF")
Re: RH7 and Crystal CS4237B (LinuxBoy)
how to set time in linux (Travis Hein)
Re: RH 6.2 and eMachines ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Using a tape drive (James Moe)
Multiple ip addresses (victor)
Need help configuring modem using SuSE (Collene Pearce)
Re: X display slightly larger than screen ("Michael Westerman")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: sound blaster on SuSE 7.0
Date: 27 Oct 2000 02:51:18 GMT
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 22:45:05 -0400,
steveFarris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to configure a SB16 on a
suse 7.0 system. I get the message
>"kernel module snd-card-ens1371 for
sound support could not be loaded." How
>do i make the kernel load this module.
thanks -dib
>
>
There is a HOWTO on my Red Hat CDROM at
/mnt/cdrom/doc/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO
You will have to change that for SuSE,
but I'm sure they put the Sound document
someplace in the six (?) CDROMs they
provide.
Also, you can get the same document by
ftp here:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/
(browse that directory for the Sound-HOWTO
and other useful information)
I have the same sound card so I am pretty
sure you can get yours working. SB16 is
specifically listed in the document,
which tells you how to load the modules.
Mary P.
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From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: wiping win98
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:00:17 GMT
You may want to format c: also or whatever the drive letter may be.. Fdisk
won't wipe anything, it will repair the master boor record nicely though.
Jason
"Paul Valley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| hiya:
|
| I want to take a p-133 with windoze98 and wipe it out should i
| use fdisk?
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From: "Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 PCI, which drivers/modules
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:11:04 GMT
Hi,
I have a SoundBlaster 16 PCI soundcard that I'm trying to use with Linux.
What module(s) should I be loading to use it? I've tried the es1371 module,
but that doesn't seem to have microphone support.
Thanks,
Brian
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: startx
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:02:20 GMT
Mick wrote:
>
> I installed staroffice 5.2 and somehow my startx does not run automatically
> anymore. I have to type in startx after login then only it will start. How
> can I fix this. I am using RH6.2 and prefer the standard default where RH
> will automatically start the graphical login screen.
The change will be made to /etc/inittab
look for the line:
id:3:initdefault:
Change the 3 to a 5. When you reboot, you'll get the GUI.
This changes the default runlevel from 3 (multiuser) to 5 (multiuser w/
GUI). Of course, this all depends on how your /etc/rc.d/rc[3|5] are
configured.
- Scott
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
10:55pm up 3:19, 5 users, load average: 1.18, 1.09, 1.01
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From: "Thomas Liaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba -- conneciting problem?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:15:47 +0800
You probably have to wait for a while for your PC to collect information
on the network.
Thomas Liaw
"wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8t81is$can$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all,
>
> I am using samba 2.0.7 and rh6.2.
>
> When I use the win9x to connect the samba server. The first time
connection
> is always failed. But when i go to my computer then, double clicks the
> connections. It is okey.
>
> How to solve the first time connection failure problem?
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> Wallace
>
>
>
>
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From: Scott Nolde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Restricted root access for installation
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:05:21 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am wondering if it is possible to allow certain
> users
> to install only rpm packages, without giving them
> a general root access.
>
> If not, are there other solutions to mimic this ?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
bad idea. if they can install, they can uninstall.
All the users will need write access to pretty much all directories. If
you *really* want to give them some access, you can give them access to
the wheel group. Make sure you configure PAM accordingly.
- Scott
--
Never do Windows again with | Scott M. Nolde
Linux! No streaks, haze or | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
glaze! |
11:01pm up 3:25, 6 users, load average: 1.06, 1.09, 1.02
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From: Andrea Marouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.security.firewalls,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Linux Redhat 6.1
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:45:17 -0700
Has anyone out there ever installed Checkpoint Firewall-1 on Redhat 6.1? I
would greatly appreciate any advice you might have. I am putting it on a
486DX. Please reply to all if possible. Thank you.
Luke
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From: Andrea Marouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.1 misses 25MB of my HD
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:52:10 -0700
Anyone please help a devoted newbie.
I am attempting to install Redhat 6.1 onto a 486 with a small 540MB HD. All
I'm going to use it for is as a Checkpoint firewall, so I don't need to
install much, but the HD space is precious as there is not much to go
around.
When I run the install program [gui for druid?] the program says my HD is
515MB. There is no DOS partition at all. I deleted it, intending to use the
whole HD for Linux.
Please tell me, what stupid mistake am I making??
PS: if anyone has ever run Checkpoint on Redhat, can I get away with not
installing Xwindows? Is it a pain without it?
Please reply to all.
Luke
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From: Andrea Marouk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.sys.cisco,linux.redhat
Subject: TFTP won't work with Linux RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:18:07 -0700
Has anyone ever had trouble getting Linux Redhat 6.1 to accept TFTP
connections from a Cisco router? What am I doing wrong? I am not such a pro
at configuring Linux but I have gone in and taken out the # next to TFTP in
the etc/rc.d/rc.local file which [I am pretty sure] is the last rc file that
gets run in the system configuration scripts. But it doesn't seem to open
the TFTP port. I have even done port scans to verify this. Port 21 [FTP] is
open [among others] but port 69 [TFTP] is not listed as open. Any ideas what
I am doing wrong?
Please reply to all if possible. Thank you.
Luke
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:33:00 -0600
From: LinuxBoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USB mouse & linux
Paragus,
Support for USB in kernel 2.4 is even better yet. All kinds of
hardware is supported. If anyone would like to know how to get you USB
mouse to work under the 2.4 kernel, let me know. I can't waite until RH
uses the 2.4 kernel. This will really be a killer distro! Happy Hackin
everyone.
CSLinuxBoy
"A. S. Paragus" wrote:
> I have just installed RH 7 and find that USB is supported very well in
> kernel 2.2.16.
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From: "ADF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DDO & Linux
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:22:24 +0400
Hello All
I use onTrack disc manager, since BIOS does not support HDD > 8.4Gb.
I have created partitions for Linux with Partition Magic.
I want to install Linux correctly to exclude problems with DDO (Dynamic
Drive Overlay). DDO is loaded before any OS.
Besides was installed Windows earlier.
Thanks for any help.
Aigul
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:40:15 -0600
From: LinuxBoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: RH7 and Crystal CS4237B
Charlie,
I feel your pain. I have the same problem and I think it is a
combination of the sound drivers with Real Audios shity ported linux
version. I also get the same error sometimes with XMMS (MP3) player.
The reason it says this error is because the other apps that use the
sound sometimes hold onto the soundcard devices for too long. If you
have sound events (i.e. bells etc.) enabled in you window inferfaces
(i.e. GNOME, KDE) turn them off. Then load RealAudio player and waite a
couple of seconds, then click play. This seemed to work for me. I hope
they have better sound drivers/core sound in the future. Good luck.
CSLinuxBoy
Charlie Zender wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get RealPlayer audio/video streaming on my
> RedHat Linux 7.0 intel system, a dual processor Dell PIII
> Precision 610 with an integrated Crystal CS4237B soundchip
> (soundblaster compatible).
>
> The error message from the Real Audio 7.01 Unix player is:
>
> "Cannot open audio device, another application may be using it"
>
> How can I determine what other application, if any, is indeed using
> the audio device? Is there a test program which will tell me
> whether the problem is a hardware or software problem?
> I have RealPlayer working fine on RedHat 7 on my laptop, so I know
> this is possible as long as the hardware is supported.
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
> --
> Charlie Zender [EMAIL PROTECTED] (949) 824-2987/FAX-3256, Department of
> Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3100
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From: Travis Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to set time in linux
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:15:04 +0500
How do you set the system date/time in linux.
(Red Hat 6.2, KDE)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 and eMachines
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:58:49 GMT
In article
<vTgH5.152840$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tony Steidler-Dennison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I recently tried to install RH 6.2 on a friend's
eMachine. We did a custom
> setup with KDE, WWW/Mail/News, Games, Network
Machine, Multimedia, Graphics,
> Emacs, Development, Kernel Development, and
Utilities. The machine was
> partitioned similar to the following (I don't
remember precisely):
>
> hda1: 2 GB, Primary, Active, Win98
> hda3: 3 gig, Primary, Linux Native
> hda4: 500 MB, Primary, Linux swap
> hda5: 5 GB, DOS Extended
> 3 GB, Fat32 Logical
> 2 GB, Fat32 Logical
>
> We partitioned using PartitionMagic and
formatted hda3 using RH FDisk. All
> went well right to the point that all RPMs were
installed and the install
> window was reading O% remaining. A small popup
opened showing the
> post-installation procedures dialog, but the
install never got beyond this
> point. We waited it out for more than 25
minutes, to no avail.
>
> Is there some known hardware problem with
eMachines? (I believe it uses an
> AMD processor.) If not, has anyone butted up
against this problem and found
> a solution?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Tony,
I have only been using linux since the beginning
of the year and for the last 6 months I have been
trying to get RH 6.2 to work on my eMachines
500id. I finally did it by going into the BIOS
and changing the OS to "other/UNIX", and Plug &
Play to "off." Prior to going into the BIOS, I
would get an error message saying all system
resources are busy. I couldn't use any
expansion/COM ports.
I ended up deleting Windoze just because things
got difficult with the partitioning. I never ran
into your problem though. Here is what my
partition looks like:
[mike@pimpdaddy mike]$ df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on
/dev/hda6 3099228 55316
2886480 2% /
/dev/hda1 23302 2442
19657 11% /boot
/dev/hda8 1296568 58312
1172392 5% /home
/dev/hda10 396623 30993
345149 8% /opt
/dev/hda12 62193 156
58826 0% /tmp
/dev/hda9 1296568 951404
279300 77% /usr
/dev/hda7 3099260 356396
2585432 12% /usr/local
/dev/hda11 256667 27012
216403 11% /var
[mike@pimpdaddy mike]$ free
total used free
shared buffers cached
Mem: 126768 122492 4276
65484 8660 24696
-/+ buffers/cache: 89136 37632
Swap: 265032 1792 263240
[mike@pimpdaddy mike]$
Also, if you get it up, go to the ALSA Project
site and download their sound drivers. They are
the ones that work with the cs461x chip set found
on my eMachines (assuming yours too, however, run
sndconfig to make sure). Also, my cpu is a
Celeron 500 and I would recommend using a 3Com NIC
and a 3DFX 3000 video card because both of them
will be plug and play in PCI slots.
Good luck with RH on eMachines, I am very
satisfied w/ my 6 months of sweat and I am never
going back to Windoze.
Mike
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: James Moe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using a tape drive
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:18:58 GMT
ljb wrote:
>
> If you have the right modules loaded or compiled in (the scsi core, your
> SCSI host adapter, and the SCSI tape module st) it should have worked.
> Check your system log file and/or console, where you should see any
> low-level device error messages. Also, did you watch the tape drive when
> you issued the command, and see if any lights changed? Is your cabling
> and SCSI termination OK? Does each device have a unique SCSI ID?
> How about "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" - does it also get an error?
>
It actually almost worked today. After days of steadfastly emitting
"I/O error" it gave some useful info from the mt command. I tried to tar
a small directory, which worked. I then tried to backup the whole
system. It got part way through and emitted, you guessed it, "I/O
error". It would not do anything else until I removed and re-inserted
the tape. I suppose it could be a bad tape....
It is not the tape drive or the SCSI setup. I have used that drive
with the other OS on the computer (os/2) for saving (and occasionally
restoring) gigabytes of data, all with the same hardware.
--
sma at sohnen-moe dot com
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From: victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple ip addresses
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 05:33:53 GMT
Hello,
I currently use cable (@home) to connect to the internet and I use a
linux box as a
firewall and router to do ip-maskerading on the rest of my computers
(Mac and
Windows).
For a certain software (special kind of VPN ...) it is necessary for my
windows
machine to have an public ip address, which is why I want to get a
second one from
@home.
Problem: I don't want to connect that windows box directly to the modem
(via hub),
but I would like it to be behind my linux firewall.
Now my question:
How do I have to set up my linux box to route this second ip address
through to my
windows machine? I guess what the question comes down to is, how do I
set up my
linux machine to recognize both ip addresses - it's own and the one of
the windows
machine - and then route the traffic for the windows machine through to
it.
Victor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Collene Pearce)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.dev.laptops,comp.os.linux.portables
Subject: Need help configuring modem using SuSE
Date: 27 Oct 2000 05:52:27 GMT
I have a Compaq Presario 1200XL-119. I have a new
install of Suse 6.4 on it. Naturally, it did not recognize
my modem or sound board. They both appear to be PCI devices.
Output from an lspci command shows a Lucent 56k WinModem (rev01)
at IRQ 9, Memory at f4000000, I/O Ports at 1838 and at 1400.
(what kind of a port addr is 1838, anyway)
I've downloaded the lucent driver and tried to install it. However,
when I try to install it with 'ltinst", it fails on the
"/sbin/insmod -v -f ltmodem" command, with the error message:
"insmod: ltmodem: no module by that name found"
However, the /dev/ttyS14 device node is there and the ltmodem.o
gets delivered to the correct directory.
The Lucent driver readme says to configure "minicom" after running
the driver install. However, there is NO "minicom" on the machine.
So, I tried to use the gui modem setup. It checks for the presence of
a modem, etc and gives the following error message:
"neither modem or ISDN device found".
So, now, where do I go from here? I'm certain the device
node is there and ok. However, the driver module, the logical
device, is unknown to the OS.
Any suggestions about how I can get this modem configured.
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From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X display slightly larger than screen
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:02:36 +1000
try to find a setting in x or xconf so x centers new windows in your screen
/ display area.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8t9l6h$maf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 14:05:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > >However, when I use something like xv that opens windows on the
> screen,
> > >the title bar of the windows is often above the top of the display
> area
> > >and off the screen. So I can't simply grab the title bar to move the
> > >window around (I need to press the ALT key while grabbing the window
> to
> > >move it). On my other machine with the 1280x1024 display, xv always
> > >put the windows so the title bar is right at the top of the display,
> or
> > >somewhere lower on the screen, but never off the screen.
> >
> > I think you have to adjust your monitor hardware settings for that
> > resolution. There should be some controls at the monitor to adjust
> screen
> > size, position and more.
>
> Thanks for the answer, but that's not the problem. I must not have
> explained it clearly, because there are two replies, but neither
> addresses the problem. As far as adjusting the display size with the
> monitor hardware settings, the display doesn't extend beyond the limits
> of the monitor screen. There is black around the display on all
> sides. I made the display even a bit smaller just to make sure, but
> that's not the problem.
>
> The problem is that some windows are displaying out of the desktop
> area. I have to grab them with the cursor by holding the ALT key,
> because the title bar of window is off the screen. So how do you make
> the desktop smaller? Is it a virtual desktop I'm talking about? I
> don't even know...
>
>
> --
> <remove 7of9 for e-mail replies>
>
> Bill Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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