Linux-Setup Digest #970, Volume #19 Sat, 4 Nov 00 04:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Changing graphics card (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?=)
Re: X-windows install problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie Graphical Installation Question (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?=)
Re: ttyS's missing from /proc in Redhat 7 (Pete Countryman)
long file names in mandrake 6.1
Re: 3 nic firewall, need help... (Hotel Balderdash)
Re: headless and both serial ports used (James Richard Tyrer)
Kscreensavers as Login backdrop (Tristan Wallis)
***SERIOUS PROBLEM !!!! PLEASE HELP !!!!*** ("Tangent")
Re: ***SERIOUS PROBLEM !!!! PLEASE HELP !!!!*** (Hal Burgiss)
another graphic card installing crash (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?=)
Re: ***SERIOUS PROBLEM !!!! PLEASE HELP !!!!*** ("Jeremy S. Dillon")
Clean install of RH 7....help? ("Jeremy S. Dillon")
Re: Clean install of RH 7....help? ("bluster")
Re: X-windows install problem (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?=)
Mounting HDD's (Nick)
How to install XF86_SVGA? ("gina")
Re: Default MP3 Player? ("N S Srikanth")
Re: Clean install of RH 7....help? ("Jeremy S. Dillon")
Time Prob ("K. Creed")
Re: Mounting HDD's ("frederic bodart")
Re: Mounting HDD's (Nick)
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Changing graphics card
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 05:10:38 +0100
>
> >motherboard, is any card known to work well ?
> >
> >
> >Cheers, J/.
>
> Basically, do not probe a Millenium ... period.
>
> If you are using XFree86 3.3.6, you can use XF86Setup to do the
> configuration, just don't let it probe for clocks.
What are clocks?
>
>
> Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: X-windows install problem
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 04:12:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
> Did you try the generic vga X server? Try that and then run Xconfigurator.
> rich
>
> > I'm installing RH6.1 on an old Intergraph TD-4 workstation.
> > It's a P5-100 with 128MB RAM and 4GB SCSI disk.
> >
> > Everything works _except_ X-windows.
> >
> > Every time I try to either probe or start X, the system locks up solid
> > and needs a cold boot.
> >
>
Rich, no I didn't try manually specifying the generic server. I'll give
it a try and let you know.
Thanks for the idea.
Paul
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Graphical Installation Question
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 05:14:25 +0100
Kevin C Reeves wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion. I tried the Xconfigurator command in
> superuser mode but it was not recognized. How do I install my video card
> manually? I was guessing that when my hard drive was formatted to make
> room for Linux that some driver or other info that Linux needed to work
> with my video card and monitor was deleted also. Does anybody know if
> this is a possible cause of my problem? If so, how do I go about
> installing the driver or files that Linux needs? Once again, any
> suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> E J ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : The problem is with you :)
> : You have to type the following when you log in as root:
> : $ su -
> : passwd: <secret>
> : # Xconfigurator
> : It may probe your video card and install it properly, or you may have to
> : install your video card manually.
>
> : Kevin C Reeves wrote:
>
> : > I recently obtained Red Hat Linux 7.0 and have been semi-successful
> : > in my attempt to install it. The problem is that I am unable to
> : > install in graphical mode. My machine formerly had Windows 95 as its
> : > OS. When I choose to install in graphical mode the installation
> : > program still runs in text mode. I never get any message about Linux
> : > not being able to recognize my video card, nor do I get the option
> : > to choose Gnome or KDE. When the install is complete I am running
> : > the text version of Linux and the startx command is not recognized.
> : > Any ideas on what the problem is?
I get this message when I type Xstart : no screen found or no monitor found it
seems strange to me because I can READ that on one of my two screens ....
funny huh linux doesnt find a screen here!
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From: Pete Countryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ttyS's missing from /proc in Redhat 7
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 20:23:38 -0800
I'm finding the same thing. I've got SuSE 6.2 already running,
and am trying to upgrade to Redhat 7. My modem works nicely under
SuSE. I thought I could use my same /etc/isapnp.conf under Redhat,
but when I run isapnp, it complains and points me to /proc/ioports
(the problematic line being 02f8-02ff : serial (auto)),
but the IRQ's are missing from /proc/interrupts. I don't know how
to drop the ioport (or even if I should), and isapnp is the only
way I know to assign the IRQ.
Yes, the BIOS knows I don't have a PnP OS.
This is driving me dippy. Anyone have a clue or workaround?
-Pete
Mikkel Heisterberg wrote:
>
> After a Redhat 7 installation I noticed that the IRQ's for the serial
> ports are missing from /proc/interrupts and other related /proc files.
> The ttyS*'s are however shown in the kernel output at boot time.
>
> Why - does anyone know ??
>
> lekkim
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: long file names in mandrake 6.1
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 22:46:29 -0600
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
for the life of me i used to be able to access my win98 partition and see
the long file names. but since i had to re-install mandrake i can't remember
how to set it up and can't find the info in my books. can someone please
help? i'm sure it is probably something in my fstab file but i just can't
find out what goes in there. thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hotel Balderdash)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: 3 nic firewall, need help...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 04:49:26 GMT
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:24:51 +0800, "Simon Hung"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dear All,
>
> My box have 3 nic installed , I would like to use this box as my firewall
>with DMZ,
>Those card was loaded up successfully during LILO. And I have assigned the
>following IP for each interface as follow :
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> eth1 : 168.168.1.254 ----- For our Private LAN (Intel EtherExpress Pro100)
> netmask: 255.255.0.0
> network: 168.168.0.0
> broadcast: 168.168.255.255
>
> eth2 : 168.168.2.254 ----- For our DMZ (Intel EtherExpress Pro100)
> netmask: 255.255.0.0
> network: 168.168.0.0
> broadcast: 168.168.255.255
both these interfaces are on the same network(168.168.0.0/16). You
should use the defined private addresses like so:
eth1: 192.168.1.254
Netmask 255.255.255.0
network: 192.168.1.0
broadcast: 192.168.1.255
eth2: 192.168.2.254
Netmask 255.255.255.0
network: 192.168.2.0
broadcast: 192.168.2.255
You want you two seperate networks on seperate networks, right?
Notice where you list your information the network is the same for
both interfaces. This can get your machine confused because it has
multiple routes to the same place (168.168.0.0). Set up your
addressing like I've shown above and I guarantee you'll be happier.
HB
> eth2 : x.x.x.x --------------- Which is our public IP (3c905B-TPO)
>
> Also, I have set up 2 PC for test using crossover Cat5.
>
> PC1 (simulate as Private LAN client)
> - connect to the "eth1"
> - and the IP is 168.168.1.10
> netmask: 255.255.0.0
> network: 168.168.0.0
> broadcast: 168.168.255.255
> gateway : 168.168.1.254
>
> PC2 (simulate as DMZ's server)
> - connect to the "eth2"
> - and the IP is 168.168.1.10
> netmask: 255.255.0.0
> network: 168.168.0.0
> broadcast: 168.168.255.255
> gateway : 168.168.2.254
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> After those setup, I started try to ping those test PC at the Firewall
>box.
>but just the PC2 have response.. The interrupts of those eth0 and eth1 are
>keep
>increasing.... so, will this is the routing problem or what other else ??
>
> Does anyone experienced this wired things b4 ??
>
>Thank
>Simon.H
>
>
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: headless and both serial ports used
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 05:12:13 GMT
Jay Rogers wrote:
> I'm setting-up an embedded processor that has modems on both
> serial ports. When the system boots, console messages are sent
> out ttyS0 causing the modem to become unresponsive.
>
> How do I direct console message somewhere that won't affect the
> serial ports? I tried adding "console=tty9,9600" as an append to
> lilo.conf. The kernel still uses ttyS0. Perhaps it needs a real
> serial device but both are being used.
>
> --
> Jay Rogers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I really don't know much about this. But, some simple questions: are
you using DOS COM1 and COM2 addresses and interrupts for the modems? Do
they have jumper select so you could change the one on COM1 to COM3
(ttyS2)? Or, are they some other type of modem like PCI internal that
you can assign any ttyS? to because they don't have a standard DOS COM
address?
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tristan Wallis)
Subject: Kscreensavers as Login backdrop
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 04:17:36 GMT
Howdy all
I'm running Mandrake 7.1, and occasionally for a change of
scenery run one of the kscreensavers as the backdrop to my
desktop. Looks good, uses little cpu.
eg kbouboule.kss -inroot
I'd really like to have this situation in the backdrop of the kdm
login screen, but can't work out how to do it. The trouble is that if
I try to put the command in eg rc.local then it complains that
kbouboule.kss cannot connect to an x server.
Surely one of you linux rocket scientists has a solution.
Any replies appreciated (except for pointless flaming!)
---
Tristan Wallis
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From: "Tangent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ***SERIOUS PROBLEM !!!! PLEASE HELP !!!!***
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 06:10:03 GMT
Overlapped Partitions....i attempted a redhat install on a 10 GB harddrive
p2. After partitioning drive, in Disk Druid, the screen goes black,
outputs several error msgs, and reboots.
On running FIPS, I am given the msg :"Overlapped Partitions...this is a
serious problem and must be fixed" ...
Upon re-installation of Windows 98, I have only 1.7 GB left to work with (on
a 10 GB drive)....BIOS reports the usual 10 GB of drive space, yet Windows
reports 1.7 GB.
FDisk won't delete the partitions necessary to perform a clean full
partition....it restricts access to extended and logical partition deletion,
although logical partitions are also shown as non-existant.....hmmmm :(
if you have the solution to my problem, please email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*HELP*
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: ***SERIOUS PROBLEM !!!! PLEASE HELP !!!!***
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 06:14:43 GMT
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 06:10:03 GMT, Tangent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Overlapped Partitions....i attempted a redhat install on a 10 GB
>harddrive p2. After partitioning drive, in Disk Druid, the screen goes
>black, outputs several error msgs, and reboots. On running FIPS, I am
>given the msg :"Overlapped Partitions...this is a serious problem and
>must be fixed" ... Upon re-installation of Windows 98, I have only 1.7
>GB left to work with (on a 10 GB drive)....BIOS reports the usual 10 GB
>of drive space, yet Windows reports 1.7 GB. FDisk won't delete the
>partitions necessary to perform a clean full partition....it restricts
>access to extended and logical partition deletion, although logical
>partitions are also shown as non-existant.....hmmmm :(
>
>if you have the solution to my problem, please email me at
Do you know your way around Linux? http://www.toms.net/rb/. This is a
bootable Linux system on a floppy. Very bare bones shell. But does have disk
tools on it. Should be able to run Linux fdisk from that, and delete
partitions as needed. Windows fdisk is brain dead.
--
Hal B
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: another graphic card installing crash
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 07:17:57 +0100
Xconfigurator finds my ATI rage... but when I want to continue the
process of configuration this message comes up :
"Server doesn't exist (I have no internet ambitions with linux for now)
can't continue"
and it says also :
"tried to use ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64"
Any Idea about what has not been properly installed and how to fix this?
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From: "Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ***SERIOUS PROBLEM !!!! PLEASE HELP !!!!***
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 06:31:56 GMT
http://www.linuxos.org/Lhelp.html
Came across this link @ Techtv.com/superguides/linux
Lots of help there and many, many links to much more info.
Hope it helps.
PHAT
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From: "Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Clean install of RH 7....help?
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 06:36:12 GMT
I have RH 7 completely installed on my computer and it runs in console
great......just can't seem to get KDE or GNOME to run (any other GUI for
that matter).
Can login under user and root.
Some suggestions?
PHAT
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clean install of RH 7....help?
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 01:53:40 -0500
Jeremy S. Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have RH 7 completely installed on my computer and it runs in console
> great......just can't seem to get KDE or GNOME to run (any other GUI for
> that matter).
>
> Can login under user and root.
>
> Some suggestions?
What happens when you run the "startx" command?
Bluster
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E8re=5FOrph=E9e?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: X-windows install problem
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 08:20:11 +0100
another graphic card installing crash :
Xconfigurator finds my ATI rage... but when I want to continue the
process of configuration this message comes up :
"Server doesn't exist (I have no internet ambitions with linux for now)
can't continue"
and it says also :
"tried to use ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_Mach64"
Any Idea about what has not been properly installed and how to fix this?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm installing RH6.1 on an old Intergraph TD-4 workstation.
> It's a P5-100 with 128MB RAM and 4GB SCSI disk.
>
> Everything works _except_ X-windows.
>
> Every time I try to either probe or start X, the system locks up solid
> and needs a cold boot.
>
> I've tried 5 different graphics cards using chipsets from Matrox, Orchi=
d,
> Tseng, and S3 with the same results every time. Using a different PCI
> slot doesn't eliminate the lockups either.
>
> I now believe it must be a setting in CMOS that is causing the lockup,
> but I have no idea what to look for or to change. I don't like making
> random changes, or trial-and-error troubleshooting.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> (Win95 and NT4 install and run fine so I KNOW the hardware is okay.)
>
> Paul
--
Lex legis
Organisation pour un monde plus optionnel
En ce moment
Orph=E9e - Johanne
http://www.491.org/projets/mmm/rphee-jo
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From: Nick <nickb21@*nospam*excite.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Mounting HDD's
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 02:21:58 -0500
Is it possible to mount multiple hard drives to one mount point. I would
guess this would involve some sort of RAID configuration. I am running
Rhat 6.2. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot.
--Nick
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From: "gina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: How to install XF86_SVGA?
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 02:43:52 +0800
Hi,
I was trying to install OpenLinux via LISA. After setting up, during
XF86Setup of the hardware components, I was prompted that my display server
should be SVGA for my graphics card, and prompted me to change. How do I do
that?
Tks
Gina
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From: "N S Srikanth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Default MP3 Player?
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 20:46:01 +0530
Did you simply right click? Then you may get an option" play using XMMS".
Try it
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi!
>
> I've recently instaled RedHat 7 onto my PC. I've been successful in
> getting my MX300 to work, but have a small problem.
>
> When I double-click an MP3 file in Gnome, it starts the default player
> "mpg123". I'd prefer if it would start "xmms". I've tried to edit the
> actions for the mime type "audio/x-mp3" by making "xmms %f" the OPEN
> action and "mpg123 %f" the VIEW option. Now double clicking does
> nothing. Right click and VIEW starts mpg123 just as a double click used
> to do. I have tried specifying the whole path to xmms (/usr/bin/xmms
> "%f") with no luck.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> SS
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From: "Jeremy S. Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Clean install of RH 7....help?
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 08:10:36 GMT
Well, I got x to run and now the display is screwy, choppy. Like in the
setup display where it wasn't quite right....you know.
"Jeremy S. Dillon" <> wrote in message ...
> I have RH 7 completely installed on my computer and it runs in console
> great......just can't seem to get KDE or GNOME to run (any other GUI for
> that matter).
>
> Can login under user and root.
>
> Some suggestions?
>
> PHAT
>
>
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From: "K. Creed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Time Prob
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 08:35:03 GMT
When I first boot up Linux and launch X the time is displayed correctly,
but after awhile it resets to a time six hours prior. I've used the
date command which works temporarily but the time still resets
incorrectly after awhile.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Kris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "frederic bodart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting HDD's
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 09:36:15 +0100
You can use LVM for stripping multiple hard disks (and /or partitions) into
one
file system. Stripping is RAID 0, so without data protection (ie Raid1 or
Raid5).
Try this link
http://linux.msede.com/lvm/
Regards
"Nick" <nickb21@*nospam*excite.com> a �crit dans le message news:
zOOM5.69$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Is it possible to mount multiple hard drives to one mount point. I would
> guess this would involve some sort of RAID configuration. I am running
> Rhat 6.2. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot.
>
> --Nick
>
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From: Nick <nickb21@*nospam*excite.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting HDD's
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 03:45:29 -0500
Thanks for the help. I read up on software RAID as well. Just to do something
simple I think maybe a Linear mode RAID would work as well, have to try it out
and see what happens. Thanks again.
frederic bodart wrote:
> You can use LVM for stripping multiple hard disks (and /or partitions) into
> one
> file system. Stripping is RAID 0, so without data protection (ie Raid1 or
> Raid5).
> Try this link
> http://linux.msede.com/lvm/
>
> Regards
> "Nick" <nickb21@*nospam*excite.com> a �crit dans le message news:
> zOOM5.69$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Is it possible to mount multiple hard drives to one mount point. I would
> > guess this would involve some sort of RAID configuration. I am running
> > Rhat 6.2. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot.
> >
> > --Nick
> >
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