Linux-Setup Digest #984, Volume #19 Mon, 6 Nov 00 13:13:13 EST
Contents:
Newbee question on DAT streamer under linux (Bodo Hauk)
Re: Machines do not power off after RH7 upgrade (Rithban)
Re: tulip driver installation ("David ..")
Re: custom compile 2.2.16-3 gives error about errno.h ("David ..")
Re: Sound not working in apps ("David ..")
Re: Faster Linux on 486 (Rithban)
LinuxConf and Suse... ("Nick Zajerko-McKee")
Re: how do you set bind to run www.something.com the same as something.com ("Allan
West")
Re: SB Live is Fuzzy!! (Rithban)
Re: newbie question ("Allan West")
Re: GNOME toolbar missing ("bluster")
Raw device support in Redhat6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Floppy drive: how 2 add B:? (Dog Meat)
Newbie setup probelms ("Paul Hilton")
Kernel compilation problem ("Clifford W. Racz")
XWindows startup (john slimick)
Re: Help ! More than one SCSI controler... (Serguei Patchkovskii)
Re: Kernel compilation problem ("Wayne")
Re: 3-button Microsoft mouse (Claudio Tasso)
Re: Help ! More than one SCSI controler... (Michal Jaegermann)
My RedHat 7.0 is falling asleep ?? ("Ed Bras")
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From: Bodo Hauk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbee question on DAT streamer under linux
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:21:32 GMT
How do I mount my HP Surestore 40 DAT streamer under Linux? I bought it =
brandnew with a TEKRAM DC-390 U2W SCSI controller and I have no idea now=
=20
to mount it.
Regards
Bodo HAuk
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From: Rithban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Machines do not power off after RH7 upgrade
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 08:35:55 -0700
> > Upgraded RH6.2->RH7.0+updates but when you shut down a machine, it does
> > not automatically turn the power off any more.
> man apm
I hate to act like an idiot, but "so"? There's nothing obvious that
indicates how to ensure the machine powers down after doing a shutdown.
I've done "man apmd" too. The machine is not a laptop, but a normal
desktop machine.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: tulip driver installation
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 22:22:30 -0600
Gary Fullenbaum wrote:
>
> I have an ethernet card which is recognized by my Linux isntall. However
> after I installed, the driver is set to unknown in the hwconf file for
> this ethernet card.
>
> How can I associate the tulip driver (or get Linux to recognize) to the
> ethernet card. The ethernet card vendor supports the tulip driver?
Just add a line like this to /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 tulip
Configure the network
Then restart the network
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: custom compile 2.2.16-3 gives error about errno.h
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 22:24:37 -0600
Jeff wrote:
>
> I downloaded all the kernel packages from RH for this kernel
> ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/kernel-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm
>
> What is the deal? When I use the rpm kernel released from RH(RedHat) it
> does not
> compile (a custom kernel) it spits out errors about not finding errno.h but
> yet it is there and in my path? Is the problem in the source itself?
>
> If I download the generic 2.2.16 from kernel.org it compiles a customized
> kernel with no issue.
>
> I have installed and built many RH kernels in the past and am quite
> comfortable with the process.
> I don't think I need a lesson on make mrproper, make config, make dep, make
> clean, make bzImage.
>
> What I do want to find out is where this error message really points...
> since I looked at the scripts and the line numbers stated in the error
> messages, and I can locate what it is complaining about and the permissions
> look right (errno.h) but yet the script can not find errno.h?
>
> line 25 of /usr/include/bits/errno.h calls <linux/errno.h> and
> /usr/src/linux/errno.h exists
> as well as /usr/include/errno.h which is calling /usr/include/bits/errno.h
>
> Should there really be a /usr/include/linux/errno.h ?
> <<<<
>
> # make bzImage
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o
> scripts/split-include scripts/split-include.c
> In file included from /usr/include/errno.h:36
> from scripts/split-include.c:26:
> /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [scripts/split-include] Error 1
>
> >>>>
> I think there is a link or path issue here but I am not sure where the fix
> is?
>
> I know I could use the generic kernel but I want to use the rpms from RH to
> keep
> better revision control as well as maintain the RH enhancements.
> Any commentary/pointers would be appreciated.
>
> thank you
> jeff
This step is to setup links to files which are needed to compile
programs and the kernel.
cd /usr/include
rm -rf asm linux scsi
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386 asm
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux linux
ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/scsi scsi
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound not working in apps
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 07:09:06 -0600
Martin wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I finally got sound working. When I do cat file.au > /dev/audio I hear
> the file play. But no apps in x can use the soundcard. For example when I
> try to play an mp3 from xmms, I get the message;
>
====== snip ========
>
> Can anyone help me?
If you are using Gnome then you have to turn it on in the
gnome-configutation-tool after configuring sound for the system.
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From: Rithban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Faster Linux on 486
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 08:53:31 -0700
> Actually, (anecdote warning!), I seem to recall - from the depths of my
> deepest memory, that the turbo switch is there on the older systems so
> that they could run legacy code that did stuff like perform timings and
> would die if it calculated a silly speed.
Remember the XT? The AT? Computers that had two floppies (an no hard
drive) were way cool because you didn't have to switch 300k 5.25"
floppies? (And the advent of the Amiga 1000 and the jaw-dropping "boing"
demo?) Yeah... those were the days. <g>
Actually, it was for games that ran too fast on an AT (12MHz IIRC). I
remember the first machines that had it. It was a necessary thing else
your games ran too fast to play. I believe that there were some TSRs
that relied on the old XT clock speed (4.7MHz? 8?).
I think the turbo switch was finally removed universally in Pentium
computers. On 486s it was a legacy "warm & fuzzy" feature that added an
extra light to your computer.
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From: "Nick Zajerko-McKee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinuxConf and Suse...
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:54:20 GMT
Hi,
Has anyone used Suse 6.2 and the latest linuxconf? I tried to use it and it
seems to have caused my init scripts to not load correctly anymore. What
seems to happen it goes from run level S to 2 and misses to initialize
things like networks... The linuxconf is based on the RH version (as
suggested by the main web site). Any suggestions on how to fix this would
be appreciated.
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From: "Allan West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how do you set bind to run www.something.com the same as something.com
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:51:23 -0000
Diesel wrote in message <1JrN5.6666$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>it works as www.something.com, but I want
>something.com to work the same
>
>Diesel
>
>
What do you mean exactly?? What are you trying to 'run'?
Er I'm no expert on this as I do my DNS off site as my IP is DHCP assigned
but.....
DNS wise you should have some entries that look like this
something.com IN A 12.34.56.78
www CNAME something.com
ftp CNAME something.com
I guess you might be wanting to do virtual hosting or for web sites? Lots
of examples for the apache httpd.conf file. Basically setup your server to
catch defaults on something.com and set up virtualhosts for everything else.
HTH,
Al
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From: Rithban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live is Fuzzy!!
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 09:00:27 -0700
> I am running RH 7.0 and when I run sndconfig it detects my card as a
> live with EMU10000. However, whenever it plays the sound sample the
> sound is distroted and funny? Any ideas as to what I can do?
I had the same thing happen when I upgraded to RH7.
Did you try running sndconfig again? It may not help, but it might.
/etc/modules.conf should have alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1 in it. You may
have to rmmod emu10k1 and soundcore if you alter /etc/modules.conf and
try playing sounds again.
It's worked flawlessly for me since.
My /etc/modules.conf:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
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From: "Allan West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie question
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:05:28 -0000
nslookup <hostname>
nslookup --help
man nslookup
Martin Schmidt wrote in message <8ttuhb$9el$02$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Hi,
>
>I ve to get the ip-address out of a 'normal' address
>like www.yahoo.com . Is there a tool or a command
>available which does it ?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Martin
>
>
>
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNOME toolbar missing
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:03:39 -0500
Andrey Shipsha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bluster wrote:
> > The toolbar may be set to "hide" off the screen, does it pop up
> > when you bump the mouse pointer into the bottom edge of the screen?
>
>
> No, it doesn't. Apparently it is just missing... And that flickering at
> the bottom is an indication that something is wrong I think. I can't
> find what's wrong though.
On my system the panel settings are kept in the file
/home/<user>/.gnome/panel.d/default/panel .
Perhaps you can fix your panel by editing or replacing this
file, *mine* is working (RH6.2) and it looks like this:
HTH
Bluster
<snip start of file ~/.gnome/panel.d/default/panel>
[Config]
applet_count=8
panel_count=1
auto_hide_step_size=10
explicit_hide_step_size=80
drawer_step_size=80
minimized_size=1
minimize_delay=300
movement_type=0
tooltips_enabled=true
show_small_icons=true
show_dot_buttons=false
hungry_menus=true
off_panel_popups=true
disable_animations=false
applet_padding=3
autoraise=true
keep_bottom=false
drawer_auto_close=false
simple_movement=false
tiles_enabled_0=true
tile_up_0=/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-up.png
tile_down_0=/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-down.png
tile_border_0=2
tile_depth_0=2
tiles_enabled_1=true
tile_up_1=/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-up.png
tile_down_1=/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-down.png
tile_border_1=2
tile_depth_1=2
tiles_enabled_2=true
tile_up_2=/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-up.png
tile_down_2=/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-down.png
tile_border_2=2
tile_depth_2=2
tiles_enabled_3=true
tile_up_3=/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-up.png
tile_down_3=/usr/share/pixmaps/tiles/tile-normal-down.png
tile_border_3=2
tile_depth_3=2
[Panel_1]
type=0
hidebuttons_enabled=true
hidebutton_pixmaps_enabled=true
pos=2
mode=1
state=2
fit_pixmap_bg=true
backpixmap=
backcolor=#000000
back_type=0
<snip end of file ~/.gnome/panel.d/default/panel>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Raw device support in Redhat6.1
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:10:34 GMT
Hi Gurus
I'm new to linux i've installed Redhat 6.1.My aim is to configure a
sybase 11.3.3.6 database server.For this i need to place the database
in a raw slice in the HDD i made a partition with file system ID 60 to
denote the raw partition after that i'm unable to mount this area how
do i go about it please give any guide line on creating a raw device in
linux.
is redhat kernal 2.2.12-20 (cartman) supports raw slice
please help me out.Thanks in Advance.
-Govind
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Before you buy.
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From: Dog Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy drive: how 2 add B:?
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:16:35 GMT
>>On Nov 3, 2000 at 13:01, Dog Meat eloquently wrote:
>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:58:36 GMT, Dog Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> instead of requiring root to use
>>>> mount -t msdos /dev/fd1 /mount/floppy2
>>>
>>>I did try this one, as root, using "mount -t msdos /dev/fd1
>>>/mnt/floppy2", since the directory I created for it was /mnt/floppy2.
>>>When I did so, I got an error ".../dev/fd1...not a valid (block?)
>>>file..."
>
>That indicates a file system error, such as trying to mount a bad or
>unformated floppy. You can't mount an unformated floppy; you have to
>use fdformat first.
Will that message show up if I don't actually have a floppy disk in the
drive? That seems to be what is happening - since I got it to work. I
also got a desktop icon up for it, but it isn't the "floppy disk"
icon. I did get it working, thanks a lot.
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Before you buy.
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From: "Paul Hilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie setup probelms
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 16:37:55 GMT
I've decided to try to learn about Linux, because it has a reputation for
being reliable, and is truly multitasking.
I am having what must be usual Newbie type problems, and not understanding
some things, I'm here looking for help.
I'm using Red Hat Linux 6.0
A few of my more intractable problems:
1) When I call linuxconf from Gnome it gives me the character type interface
in the terminal, if I try "linuxconf &" it starts a new process with the
character type interface, not attached to anything (Can I attach a terminal
to an existing process?) so I have to kill it. I found a reference to the
DISPLAY environment variable, which is set to ":0", I can't find what sets
it, startx seems to set display to :0 (lower case) but display isn't set to
anything.
2) I have installed roaringpenguin PPPoE for my Verizon DSL connection, and
got it working to the extent that it logs in using adsl-start, and verifies
with adsl-status, it even logs in during boot, however Netscape (in Gnome)
will not find any connection to the internet, and often hangs. I can't find
any options to tell it what interface to use to access the internet. The DNS
references are the same as when I'm in Windoze. (I'm having to use Windoze
to write this message).
3)Sound. It correctly identifies the sound system as a Yamaha OPL3-SAx (It's
on the motherboard of my DELL Dimension XPS), however it doesn't probe
right, and sometimes when it try's to play the sample sound the whole system
hangs. In Windoze it says the sound system uses 220-22F 530-537 388-38B
330-331(mpu-401) 370-371 IRQ5 and DMAs 0 and 1. The options I get to try to
set it to manually don't include all this lot, and it tries to allocate too
much at 370.
4)General lack of understanding. What scripts are run:
a) when the system boots
b) when a user logs in (I think /etc/inittab, but I don't know what else)
c) when X Window is started (startx, is this all?)
I would appreciate any comments or (civil) suggestions.
Paul Hilton
p.s. I love the Gnames that all these Linux things have.
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From: "Clifford W. Racz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Kernel compilation problem
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 11:41:36 -0500
I have performed a fresh install of Linux Mandrake 7.2 and it has worked
well. I am experimenting since Linux is new to me. My system is a
P2-350MHz, 128MB PC100, Soundblaster Live! card.
I have been trying to compile the 2.2.17 kernel so that I can get sound in
the Kernel (it works with the "O-negative" kernel like the kernel How-to
calls it) but it doesn't always work.
Anyway, I downloaded the kernel tar.gz source from kernel.org and followed
the directions as in the Kernel-How-To, my RedHat book (Osbourne complete
RedHat reference), the Mandrake manual, the README that comes with the
kernel source and checked out some newsgroup archives. I have tried the
compilation 6 times and I always get an "Error 2" after a long time of
compiling.
I have made sure the binutils-2.10.0.24-4mdk.i586.rpm was installed (as one
of the posts said in a newsgroup archive) and I still got the error.
Can anyone figure out a solution?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (john slimick)
Subject: XWindows startup
Date: 6 Nov 2000 16:51:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good morning.
A villain penetrated one of our
Linux machines over the weekend,
and I have most of it working again.
The immediate problem is getting ordinary
users to bring up XWindows. Root
can do a "startx" but ordinary users
get the following message:
Authentication failed: cannot start x server
Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect error=111
Xinit: connect refused(errno 111)
unable to connect to x server
xinit: No such process (errno 3) server error
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
john slimick
university of pittsburgh at bradford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Serguei Patchkovskii)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Help ! More than one SCSI controler...
Date: 6 Nov 2000 16:45:31 GMT
John Beardmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I tried
: boot dkb0 -flags "root=/dev/sdi1"
: and it fell over later in the boot process trying to uncompress the
: kernel.
: The error message claimed it was in a format that wouldn't decompress,
: but my guess is that it just didn't find it.
: I'll see if I can specify the location of the kernel too.
that should be "bootfile=whatever" :-)
/Serge.P
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From: "Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Kernel compilation problem
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 17:26:42 -0000
Isn't 2.2.17 an "insecure" version of the kernel? Maybe that's it, try going
for the stable 2.2.16 instead.
"Clifford W. Racz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8u6n92$dvm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have performed a fresh install of Linux Mandrake 7.2 and it has worked
> well. I am experimenting since Linux is new to me. My system is a
> P2-350MHz, 128MB PC100, Soundblaster Live! card.
>
> I have been trying to compile the 2.2.17 kernel so that I can get sound in
> the Kernel (it works with the "O-negative" kernel like the kernel How-to
> calls it) but it doesn't always work.
>
> Anyway, I downloaded the kernel tar.gz source from kernel.org and followed
> the directions as in the Kernel-How-To, my RedHat book (Osbourne complete
> RedHat reference), the Mandrake manual, the README that comes with the
> kernel source and checked out some newsgroup archives. I have tried the
> compilation 6 times and I always get an "Error 2" after a long time of
> compiling.
>
> I have made sure the binutils-2.10.0.24-4mdk.i586.rpm was installed (as
one
> of the posts said in a newsgroup archive) and I still got the error.
>
> Can anyone figure out a solution?
>
>
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From: Claudio Tasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 3-button Microsoft mouse
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 18:30:50 +0100
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> Is this a PS/2 Mouse?
>
No,it's a serial mouse.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Jaegermann)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Help ! More than one SCSI controler...
Date: 6 Nov 2000 17:46:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Beardmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: OK. Does fstab do what mntab does in other unixes ?
No. 'fstab' does what 'fstab' does in other unixes. Type 'man fstab' for
more information and also 'man 8 mount'. '/etc/mtab', which you
probably had in mind, records the current state of mounted filesystems
and is used, for example, when you just type 'mount'. This works only
so-so because, for example, /etc may be mounted from a read-only
file system but this is ok; 'mtab' is for informational purposes only.
'cat /proc/mounts' may be better if you have /proc mounted ("normal"
on desktop systems) but it is not exactly equivalent.
Michal
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My RedHat 7.0 is falling asleep ??
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:07:42 +0100
Can someone tell me why RedHat 7.0 falls asleep ? That is it, that it takes
time to wake it up when nothing happens for a while.
A had the same problem with RedHat 6.5, and can't find anything in the BIOS
about it .
Someone any idea where to look ?
Regards,
Ed
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