Linux-Setup Digest #942, Volume #19 Mon, 30 Oct 00 21:13:10 EST
Contents:
RedHat-Need help with CDRW Install... ("H. P. Friedrichs")
Re: linux - file synchronization (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk? (Roger Blake)
what's the lastest version of the kernel?and where can i find it? (Į�꣨derain��)
can you tell me where is the official site of linux? (Į�꣨derain��)
Looking for the *right* distro (Simon Reye)
Re: Can't install Redhat 7.0 ("Jade Falcon")
RX MODE (Oliver Moser)
USR 56K 2976 modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CUPS and its insatiable thirst for online time ("Gene Heskett")
Setting up X for S3 Trio3D (RH6.2) ("Trevor Jenkins")
Re: "Branded" machines and linux (Coredump)
Re: USR 56K 2976 modem (Black Dragon)
How to activate build-in sound chip?? (venusdick)
Re: Looking for the *right* distro (Colin Watson)
Re: konsole cut/paste (Colin Watson)
Re: can you tell me where is the official site of linux? (Colin Watson)
Re: what's the lastest version of the kernel?and where can i find it? (Colin Watson)
Re: CS4231 sound chip (James Ranson)
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From: "H. P. Friedrichs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: RedHat-Need help with CDRW Install...
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:06:17 -0700
Hello:
I've just set up a box with RH Linux 6.2. It's got a Teac CDRW drive
(IDE). I have been unable to get it to work.
I started with the Howto at this URL:
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors/LDP/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html
I created the bash script for "quickstart" (see howto) and it appears to
execute. When I run cdrecord -scanbus, however, it tells me that the
scsi driver cannot be found.
Next, I prepared the "driver test" script and tried to run it. The
script reports that sr_mod cannot be found, and cdrecord -scanbus,
repeats the same fault as before. I think everything else seems to work.
I have been unable to find sr_mod anywhere. What do I need to do to
integrate this into my machine? Anyone care to mentor a newbie on this
subject?
Pete Friedrichs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: linux - file synchronization
Date: 30 Oct 2000 18:17:25 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrey Shipsha wrote:
> I wonder whether anyone could give me any help on how do I synchronize
> files between my desctop and laptop machines? Both are running Linux. Is
> there any good software available to do that?
Are you talking about system files (e.g., owned by root), or user files
(e.g., owned by you)?
One popular program is rsync (http://rsync.samba.org/). Your distribution
probably includes it.
--
Paul Kimoto
This message was originally posted on Usenet in plain text. Any images,
hyperlinks, or the like shown here have been added without my consent,
and may be a violation of international copyright law.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Blake)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 66Mhz 486 with a 240MB disk?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:20:04 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:13:22 GMT, Victor S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is it conceivable that I could get some version of Linux (doing
>something useful) to run on the old machine? If so, what version (and
>what features) would you suggest?
Check out Pygmy Linux:
ftp://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/Pygmy/
--
Roger Blake
(remove second "g" and second "m" from address for email)
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From: Į�꣨derain�� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what's the lastest version of the kernel?and where can i find it?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:42:48 +0800
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From: Į�꣨derain�� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can you tell me where is the official site of linux?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:03:22 +0800
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From: Simon Reye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for the *right* distro
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:10:26 +1100
Although I have dabled with RH5.2 and RH6.2 I would still call myself
very much a newbie. I have found that RH systems have been easy to
initially install but what bugs me (among other things) is that they
don't use the default directory structure for their included software
such as Apache and PostgreSQL. This becomes a pain when I go to read
help files for such software and the likes and all the directory
references are up the creek.
What I would like to know is if there is a well supported/popular distro
out there that at least tries to stick with the default directory
structures. Also I'm looking to muck around with Linux as a server more
than a desktop machine which should be taken into consideration when
suggesting a distro, I guess. And just on that note, has anyone tried or
would recommend/discourage mixing distros on the one network eg.
TurboLinux servers with Mandrake workstations?
TIA
Simon
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From: "Jade Falcon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Can't install Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:23:49 -0500
Is CD in first or second drive? It should be in the first one
to run setup. (assuming you have another along with the
burner).I've done that......
"Michael J. Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8tkjkv$b8n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I've downloaded 7.0-i386-disk1.iso for Redhat 7.0 (From twocows) and
Adaptec
> burned it to a CD correctly it appears. When I put the CD in the machine,
> it boots up to the CD and starts the install. After is askes to use
> English, I get an error saying "I could not find a Redhat CDROM in and of
> the CDROM drives. Please insert the Redhat CD and press OK to try again."
> I throught that I did have the Redhat CD rom. I've burned 3 CD and I get
> the same problem everytime. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> I also went to a mirror and downloaded the whole i386 english version, but
> it's over a gig so I can't put it on a CD. Any help would be great!
>
> Mike Johnston
>
>
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From: Oliver Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RX MODE
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:24:26 GMT
Hello,
I' ve got a question about the messages logfile made made by syslogd.
After my machine has finished booting linux, a message like the one
below appears in the logfile:
Oct 30 20:31:47 scenic kernel: eth0: Setting Rx mode to 2 addresses
Does someone know what that means?
Thanks in advance.
om
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: USR 56K 2976 modem
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:42:49 -0500
I have the above modem on my slackware 7.1 system.
It works, but it never connects faster than
28.8bps. I've used a different modem with the
same ISP and phone line and gotten 53kpbs.
I've checked the serial port to make sure it's
got all the right settings, I've played with
/etc/ppp/options to make sure those were okay.
Everything looks fine but it still doesn't do right!!
/var/adm/messages says it is only using V34 when
my old modem used V90. I'm using ATZ as my init string.
Does anyone else have this modem?? What am I doing
wrong??
Mike
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Date: 30 Oct 2000 19:19:55 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CUPS and its insatiable thirst for online time
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Gordon.Haverland ;
> My best guess is the /dev/printer is a LINK to something else, as
> documented above. You might try running your print command under
> strace to trace system calls. Or if a daemon is invoked somewhere
> in
> /etc, add the appropriate flag to increase the debugging level and
> then restart things. Once you have figured out what is ahppening,
> drop the debugging flag.
I finally got it straight last night. Stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd, remove
anything named printer from the /dev directory, and re-start lpd. It
will build a new /dev/printer, which doesn't show as a link FWIW. So
then I took that back out and put in LPRng, which then worked like a
champ, even gimp can print now!
But I probably have cups stuff all over the drive yet.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Trevor Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Setting up X for S3 Trio3D (RH6.2)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:10:55 +0000
I can't fathom the settings with Xconfigurator or xf86config for my S3
Trio3D. :-( The best I get is that Xconfigurator complains that the server
failed. The worse I get is that the monitor blanks (goes into power save
mode) and never recovers.
Hardware is an IBM 300GL with S3 Trio3D on the motherboard. Distribution is
RH6.2. The monitor is a generic multisync branded "Sonica" but other no
information---the instruction was less than useless when I used this monitor
on a 486DX2/50 under RH4.2, where it did at least work.
A search at www.deja.com only turned up questions no answers.
www.xfree86.org suggests that the SVGA server will work. Tried to force
Xconfigurator/xf86config to use this as the base for my setup but failed.
Any help will be gratefully received.
Regards, Trevor
British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living
language. So recognise it now.
--
<>< Re: deemed!
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From: Coredump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Branded" machines and linux
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:08:04 -0600
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:34:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Richter) wrote:
>
>Compaq, BTW, scores NO points in my book for "quiet". Their machines, in my
>experience, tend to throw a large amount of noise pollution (the newer, the
>worse. Go figure!)
Makes perfect sense. The newer, faster chips throw a LOT more heat and take
a LOT more air moving to keep cool. More air means more fan. More fan means
more noise. You can only make those fans 'so' quiet :-) and no matter how
quiet, double the fan means double the noise. (That and the fact that Comapq
doesn't have the quietest fans in the industry).
Core
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Black Dragon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: USR 56K 2976 modem
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:08:37 GMT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:42:49 -0500 in comp.os.linux.setup,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' said:
>I have the above modem on my slackware 7.1 system.
>It works, but it never connects faster than
>28.8bps. I've used a different modem with the
>same ISP and phone line and gotten 53kpbs.
>I've checked the serial port to make sure it's
>got all the right settings, I've played with
>/etc/ppp/options to make sure those were okay.
>Everything looks fine but it still doesn't do right!!
>
>/var/adm/messages says it is only using V34 when
>my old modem used V90. I'm using ATZ as my init string.
>
> Does anyone else have this modem?? What am I doing
>wrong??
>
>Mike
Try "setserial /dev/ttyS? spd_vhi" where ? = the com port the modem is on,
before dialing. See also: "man setserial".
--
Black Dragon
The computer made me do it.
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From: venusdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to activate build-in sound chip??
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:12:39 +0000
My PC is a AMD K6-2 using VIA MVP3 chipset with build-in sound function. Is
there anyway to activate the sound in Linux. I even tried diable the
build-in soound in the Bios and put a SB128 sound card, which work perfectly
in another machine without the build-in sound codec, but the Linux still
found the one with the motherboard and simply neglect the add-on card.
So, is there any way that I can use this PC for multimedia with Linux????
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: Looking for the *right* distro
Date: 31 Oct 2000 01:28:36 GMT
Simon Reye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Although I have dabled with RH5.2 and RH6.2 I would still call myself
>very much a newbie. I have found that RH systems have been easy to
>initially install but what bugs me (among other things) is that they
>don't use the default directory structure for their included software
>such as Apache and PostgreSQL. This becomes a pain when I go to read
>help files for such software and the likes and all the directory
>references are up the creek.
>
>What I would like to know is if there is a well supported/popular
>distro out there that at least tries to stick with the default
>directory structures.
Predictable response from me, I suppose, but Debian has a consistently
applied policy (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/) for all its
packages, which among other things lays down a number of
rules/guidelines on the directory structure. Bugs tend to get
religiously filed against packages violating these and other rules (in
fact, they often won't get into the distribution). Various helper
packages are available to help people build packages in standard ways,
and there's even an automated policy checking tool called lintian
(http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/lintian.html) which Debian
developers can use to ensure, as far as possible, that their packages
comply with the standards.
Third-party Debian packages aren't necessarily quite so stringently
checked, of course, but because the package building and validation
tools that Debian itself uses are freely available even third-party
packages are quite often of a pretty high standard. And, of course, the
main distribution has nearly 4000 packages in it to start with, not
counting non-US/*, contrib, and non-free.
This party political broadcast ends here. :)
This policy, of course, may not be exactly what's recommended by
upstream authors, because if you tried to follow that generally you'd
end up with a complete shambles. In particular, when programs advise you
to install into /usr/local, that advice is only for the system
administrator doing a manual local installation. Software that comes
packaged with a distribution should never be installed into /usr/local,
because that's reserved for private changes by individual admins. If you
want the real standard directory structure, look in the Filesystem
Hierarchy Standard (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/). Ideally, the
documentation that comes with packaged software might be patched to take
account of wherever it's really installed.
>And just on that note, has anyone tried or would recommend/discourage
>mixing distros on the one network eg. TurboLinux servers with Mandrake
>workstations?
I wouldn't see any problem with it, although if you want to do NIS or
NFS you'll probably want to check that the clients and servers are happy
talking to each other. If our network at work is largely happy with a
mixture of most non-extinct Unix variants you might care to name, I'd
say that you're unlikely to have significant problems with different
Linux distributions.
Be sure, of course, that you have enough experience with each of the
distributions in question, and that you know how to do large numbers of
installations of distributions to be used in workstations in a
reasonable time. (Historically, Debian has had a few interactive bits in
package installation that can make this inconvenient, but the situation
there is improving.)
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"It stands for 'Sales and Marketing', you depraved monkeys."
"A rose by any other name, Stef." - http://www.userfriendly.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: konsole cut/paste
Date: 31 Oct 2000 01:32:55 GMT
Jack Timmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm used to running Solaris on a Sun box and keyboard, when I start a
>terminal session (xterm) I can cut and paste using the appropriate
>dedicated keys or keyboard shortcuts.
>
>I have just started using linux (7.0) and when I start a session from
>KDE (konsole) I can't seem to cut/paste in the term window.
Are you still trying to use "dedicated keys or keyboard shortcuts"? If
so, you may be barking up the wrong tree. Normally, you copy by
left-clicking and dragging the mouse, and paste by middle-clicking (or
right-clicking, if you're at the text-mode console as opposed to X).
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"And finally, the most important part of any GUI, the command-line
interface." - Branden Robinson, Debian XFree86 maintainer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: can you tell me where is the official site of linux?
Date: 31 Oct 2000 01:44:25 GMT
Į�꣨derain�� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: Re: can you tell me where is the official site of linux?
In general, there's no such thing. The official kernel website is at
<http://www.kernel.org/>, as I said in my other reply to you, but I
don't know if this is what you meant. Both <http://www.linux.org/> and
<http://www.linux.com/> exist, run by different organizations. Much of
the software on your system comes from GNU, <http://www.gnu.org/>. Each
Linux distribution tends to have its own website, such as
<http://www.debian.org/> and <http://www.redhat.com/>. There are
organizations devoted to porting Linux to all sorts of systems. And the
list goes on.
With free software, you often have to get used to the fact that there
may not *be* an official site.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code."
- Dave Clark, IETF, 1992
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Subject: Re: what's the lastest version of the kernel?and where can i find it?
Date: 31 Oct 2000 01:36:33 GMT
Į�꣨derain�� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
Normally it's less confusing to see questions that aren't entirely in
the subject line ...
Anyway, all the information you want is at <URL:http://www.kernel.org/>.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"How can you tell an extroverted software engineer?"
"He looks at *your* shoes when he talks to you."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Ranson)
Subject: Re: CS4231 sound chip
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 01:52:47 GMT
That didn't work for me; I even tried 90000000. Thanks for the suggestion
anyway.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Berno Strik wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had the same problem. It seems the CS4231 is not that responsive.
>Look in the source-code of the AD1848 driver and look for the string Interrupt
>Test Failed.
>Just before it you see a loop with a loop count of 100000 where it tries to see
>if the chip generates an interrupt.
>If you increase the loop count to 900000 the problem seems to go away.
>Just do a make modules and a make modules_install after you change the source.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>James Ranson schreef:
>
>> I have an IBM PC750 with an onboard sound chip. The chip is labelled CS4231,
>> so I tried using the CS4232 sound driver. When I loaded the driver, the
>> speakers clicked and I got the following message:
>> ad1848: Interrupt Test Failed (IRQ9)
>>
>> Nothing would play, even though the driver seems to have loaded. Can anyone
>> help me out? Am I using the wrong driver?
>>
--
James Ranson
Homepage: http://uregina.ca/~ranson1j/
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