Linux-Setup Digest #93, Volume #20 Thu, 23 Nov 00 04:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: help! Mandrake 7.2 setup hang (Hershal)
Re: Using ps and grep (was Re: setting up a task using crontab) ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: 2.4.0 modem help? (Hershal)
Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token" ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Creating PDF (acrobat) files ? (Eugene Grob)
Re: bootdisk / lilo with lba32 (Eric)
Re: RH7.0+Win2K:Linux boot floppy doesn't (Eric)
Re: ALSA problem with Delta 44 soundcard (Vic Mulyk)
Re: alsa problem - no sound (Vic Mulyk)
Re: Soniq soundcard does not work (taktaktak)
Re: Soniq soundcard does not work (Yeah)
Re: Soniq soundcard does not work (Yeah)
Re: Soniq soundcard does not work (taktaktak)
Install Linux without erasing NT4 boot ("cib")
Re: mtv no (Santosh Kumar Pasi)
Linuxrouter and user-compiled kernel (Maciej Kozinski)
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From: Hershal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help! Mandrake 7.2 setup hang
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:14:49 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hmmm, assuming that you have checked the md5sums of yr installation CDs
> and that they are ok, then it seems that there may be an interrupt
> issue.
>
> If you have 2 CD-ROMs then try putting them on the same cable (e.g.
> ide0), and the hardisks on a second cable (e.g. ide1). Leave the CDROMs
> on IRQ15, and try using (or setting them in the BIOS config if u have
> to) IRQ11 for the harddisk(s).
>
>I had the same problem with md7.2 it would stop halfwat through the first ram disk
>install, I had purchased these disk from chepbyes, after I notified them I was sent
>another set that installed beautifully.
mj
>
> In article <8uj6o4$19u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Jeepster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > HELP: Mandrake 7.2 install hang on install after
> >
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on IRQ 14
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on IRQ 15
> >
> > on the first set up screen after boot up.it simply stops the install.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > 7.1 installed ok before....
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Jeepster
> >
> >
>
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> Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using ps and grep (was Re: setting up a task using crontab)
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 06:23:22 GMT
Richard Allan Holcombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I simply can't get cron to do anything. I have tried installing
: and uninstalling my crontab, I have stopped and restarted crond, I have
Any error message when you do so??? A common mistake is to use an editor
that doesn't terminate the file with a newline. What is your editor?
: The reason that I am trying to use cron is that my computer for some
: reason, will set the clock to be about
: three hours behind the actual time. It does this approximately once an
: hour, but it will do it even when I have stopped the cron daemon, and
: no cron jobs were ever supposed to run at the time that it happens.
: (I am in the Eastern time zone)
: It has done this since my initial install (format hd. install red hat 6.2)
: So my attempted hack to fix this is to use cron.
Sounds like you're running ntpd or something.
Peter
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From: Hershal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0 modem help?
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 00:27:08 -0600
none wrote:
>
> I keep trying to figure out what it wants to no avail would someone
> simplify for me? I have tried using my old script but it says it cannot
> get input/output info?
>
> I am using mandrake 7.2, btw anyone know what happened to my button 1
> menu in E? I guess mandrake ate it. Oddities like that are ruining an
> otherwise good first impression.
try setserial /dev/modem port 0x03e8 irq 5 or look in dmesg and seey
where ttyS* is or cat /proc/ioports or cat /proc/interrupts these
area should help get your modem back online.....................hm
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Date: 22 Nov 2000 15:34:56 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Warning: Pasting would not give a valid pre-processing token"
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Rand Simberg;
RS> On 22 Nov 2000 8:55:52 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Gene
RS> Heskett"
RS> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
RS> such a way as to indicate that:
>> RS> OK, I'm out to sea now. I only know to follow the instructions
>> RS> for building a new kernel by downloading from kernel.org. If I
>> RS> had the RH headers, what would I do with them?
>>
>>I believe, but please do check with a higher power than me, that
>>these should probably over-write the older versions now in
>>/usr/include. If you unpack them, and a tree on the unpack looks
>>virtually identical to a tree on /usr/include, then I'd say thats
>>where they go.
RS> Well, I finally got it to work by hacking the Makefiles (changing
RS> "gcc" to "kgcc"). Thanks for the help anyway.
yes, I've got that doofy gcc too, so I do:
export CC=kgcc
in the same shell I'm gonna run my makeit script in.
Fixes it right up.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:49:10 +0100
From: Eugene Grob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Creating PDF (acrobat) files ?
1. In Staroffice print your document to a file xxx.ps
2 run the utility ps2pdf xxx.ps xxx.pdf
3 ...should be ok ... it worked for me with very huge documents, which
were readible in pdf without any problems reported on windoze, Mac !
Joe MacDonald wrote:
>
> Marc Frei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > Does anyone has a trick to create PDF file with using Tex or the
> > PostScript format ? From a .doc (staroffice) would be really cool !
>
> > I have to create many PDF files... I need to reboot under windoze...
> > bouhouhou....
>
> Slackware has come with ps2pdf for quite a while now. Yeah, it's an
> intermediate step, but one of my co-workers used it for his masters thesis and
> it looked fine.
>
> --
> Thanks.
>
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Joe MacDonald (x35193) |
> | ATM Software Designer - MED Passport ATM Core |
> | 9Q13 |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
> | Nortel Networks |
> +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bootdisk / lilo with lba32
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:01:32 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Olaf Seegers wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm running suse7.0 on an 30GB Disk together with WinMe. My Linux partitions
> are beyond the 1024 cylinder.
> I downloaded and installed the latest lilo 21.6 with lba32. I'd like to boot
> into linux with a boot disk, so I tried to
> create one with yast1 but it won't work. I allways get the error that linux
> starts beyond the 1024 cylinder. That's
> right, but what exactly do I have to do to install lilo on a boot disk to
> boot my configuration?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Olaf
Ehh???
You either boot from a bootdisc (you mean a flopppy I assume) OR you get
the last version of lilo and boot from the MBR (or a partition below
cyl. 1024) If you boot from a floppy, there's no 1024 cyl. problem
(unless you have a *very big* floppy :-) )
I don't know SuSE, so I cannot be more specific on what you should do
(In RH you'd just run `mkbootdisk <kernelversion>`)
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.0+Win2K:Linux boot floppy doesn't
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:07:06 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>
> PROBLEM: The Linux boot floppy created during installation of RH 7.0
> onto a Windows 2000 NTFS system will not boot into Linux.
????? linux is to be installed on a ext2 FS (OK: reading further, I see
what you did)
> DETAILS: I just installed RedHat's 7.0 from their distribution CD-ROM
> onto a
> system already having Windows 2000 on an NTFS partition. Using
> Partition Magic, I appropriately partitioned the (IDE) hard drive,
> keeping the Win2K system partition sufficiently small that I could
> set up a Linux /boot partition still within the 1024 cylinder limit
> (and set up Linux swap and root partitions). I used a graphical mode
> installation with Custom setup -- NOT Workstation -- and when
> prompted did create the Linux boot floppy. The entire RH
> installation went without incident. In short, so far as I am aware,
> I did everything right.
>
> Yes, I did reset the BIOS to boot first again from floppy. During
> startup, the PC does check the floppy, but it apparently ignores it
> and just goes ahead and boots Windows 2000 anyway.
Check your BIOS settings. Is the bootchain correct: floppy->cdrom->HDD
Else try booting from the CD. Enter linux root=/dev/hdaXXX at the lilo
prompt.
Now you're in linux and you can proceed with whatever you want.
> So of course I cannot complete the procedure described in the
> "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" of peeling the
> bootsector from the Linux boot partition (and then putting it onto the
> C:\ Windows 2K partition along with the usual editing of
> c:/boot.ini.
>
> Your help will be much appreciated. Please do NOT, however, describe
> alternative approaches of putting Lilo onto the MBR or of inserting a
I have annoyed you enough with that for now :-)
Eric
(A promotor of LILO as the main bootloader)
> small FAT partition at the start of the hard drive with some 3rd party
> loader, etc. I want to keep NT loader on the MBR, keep just the NTFS
> Win2K partition for that OS, and in general take the approach as
> documented in the above-mentioned mini-HOWTO.
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From: Vic Mulyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ALSA problem with Delta 44 soundcard
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:13:29 GMT
Choose a different IRQ in /etc/isapnp.conf .
If you have 'doze, check what it uses for the
card and use that.
Holger Jenczewski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Midiman Delta 44 soundcard, where a main issue for buying this
> one was the availability of a Linux driver (alsa 0.5.3, module
> snd-card-ice1712). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get it to work, up to
> now.
>
> - No problems with compiling/installing: alsa-drivers, alsa-libs, alsa-utils.
> - modules.conf edited acc. to INSTALL file; everything seemed to work, all
> modules loaded on startup by alsasound script (including snd-[mixer|pcm]-oss
> for OSS/Free emulation).
> - Card is recognized, 'cat /proc/asound/sndstat' shows one audio device
> (duplex) and a multitrack mixer.
> - Channels are unmuted (all on 100%), alsa utils (amixer/alsamixer) seem to
> work.
>
> But all attempts to play sound fail - neither OSS-compatible progs (kmpg,
> mpg123, wavplay, cat SOMETHING.au > /dev/audio) nor alsa-devices (aplay, cat
> SOMETHING.au > /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p) work. All I get are error messages, most of
> them telling me "Invalid argument" when trying to access an audio device
> (which had been configured by the snddevices script, of course).
> KDE mixer kmix tells me "Your mixer does not control any devices" and
> disappears - so much for OSS/Free emulation/compatibility.
>
> Studying the alsa docs didn't help, either, so please help and tell me what's
> going wrong here. I'd be grateful for the smallest hint.
>
> TIA, Holger
-Vic
Linus for President
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From: Vic Mulyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: alsa problem - no sound
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:15:52 GMT
Try different IRQ's in isapnp.conf. 5 or 7 seem to work ok
as long as they're not taken up by something else. Better yet,
check what 'doze uses if you have a dual boot system.
Andreas Hiltenkamp wrote:
> Hi !
> I've got a problem getting sound using a via sound chip
> The alsa driver can be sucessfully loaded but I can't hear any sound.
>
> Looking into /proc/asound/sndstat gives the following result
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.9b emulation code)
> Kernel: Linux ibh03 2.2.14 #4 Sun Oct 22 08:59:05 CEST 2000 i686
> Config options: 0
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 10: ALSA emulation
>
> Card config:
> VIA 82C686A at 0xb800, irq 15
>
> Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> Midi devices:
> 0: MPU-401 (UART)
>
> Timers:
> 7: system timer
> What's wrong ? Why does sndstat tell me that here is no audio device,
> synth device, system timer, mixer
> How to enable them. I don't find anything about that in the alsa docu
>
> lsmod looks as follows
> Module Size Used by
> snd-card-via686a 7180 0
> snd-pcm 28760 0 [snd-card-via686a]
> snd-timer 8032 0 [snd-pcm]
> snd-ac97-codec 23904 0 [snd-card-via686a]
> snd-mixer 22608 0 [snd-ac97-codec]
> snd-mpu401-uart 2312 0 [snd-card-via686a]
> snd-rawmidi 9112 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
> snd-seq-device 3392 0 [snd-rawmidi]
> snd 34816 1 [snd-card-via686a snd-pcm snd-timer
> snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
>
> Any suggestions whats wrong ?
>
> andi
--
-Vic
Linus for President
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From: taktaktak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Soniq soundcard does not work
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:42:02 +0800
,,..,.,.
Kingmonkey wrote:
> "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:Z9wS5.9532$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Usually, the only hinderance to this card not functioning, is that PNP
> > support in the BIOS is turned on. Turn it off and tell your CMOS to reset
> > itself on next boot. It will reassign stuff. Sometimes moving the card to
> > another slot also helps. Those cards and they're predecessors never had
> > problems as did the SB-16's either.
> >
> >
> Wouldn't that be if the card was ISA? The ensoniq is a PCI card. Simply
> load the needed modules and turn the mixer up and they should be fine.
>
> Bart:
> Read the sound howto
> Don't crosspost so this much.
>
> -m
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From: Yeah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Soniq soundcard does not work
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:20:34 +0800
I Sculli YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah wrote:
> ng tak
>
> taktaktak wrote:
>
> > ,,..,.,.
> >
> > Kingmonkey wrote:
> >
> > > "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:Z9wS5.9532$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > Usually, the only hinderance to this card not functioning, is that PNP
> > > > support in the BIOS is turned on. Turn it off and tell your CMOS to reset
> > > > itself on next boot. It will reassign stuff. Sometimes moving the card to
> > > > another slot also helps. Those cards and they're predecessors never had
> > > > problems as did the SB-16's either.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Wouldn't that be if the card was ISA? The ensoniq is a PCI card. Simply
> > > load the needed modules and turn the mixer up and they should be fine.
> > >
> > > Bart:
> > > Read the sound howto
> > > Don't crosspost so this much.
> > >
> > > -m
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From: Yeah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Soniq soundcard does not work
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:18:54 +0800
ng tak
taktaktak wrote:
> ,,..,.,.
>
> Kingmonkey wrote:
>
> > "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:Z9wS5.9532$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Usually, the only hinderance to this card not functioning, is that PNP
> > > support in the BIOS is turned on. Turn it off and tell your CMOS to reset
> > > itself on next boot. It will reassign stuff. Sometimes moving the card to
> > > another slot also helps. Those cards and they're predecessors never had
> > > problems as did the SB-16's either.
> > >
> > >
> > Wouldn't that be if the card was ISA? The ensoniq is a PCI card. Simply
> > load the needed modules and turn the mixer up and they should be fine.
> >
> > Bart:
> > Read the sound howto
> > Don't crosspost so this much.
> >
> > -m
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From: taktaktak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Soniq soundcard does not work
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:46:25 +0800
taktaktak
Yeah wrote:
> ng tak
>
> taktaktak wrote:
>
> > ,,..,.,.
> >
> > Kingmonkey wrote:
> >
> > > "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:Z9wS5.9532$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > Usually, the only hinderance to this card not functioning, is that PNP
> > > > support in the BIOS is turned on. Turn it off and tell your CMOS to reset
> > > > itself on next boot. It will reassign stuff. Sometimes moving the card to
> > > > another slot also helps. Those cards and they're predecessors never had
> > > > problems as did the SB-16's either.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Wouldn't that be if the card was ISA? The ensoniq is a PCI card. Simply
> > > load the needed modules and turn the mixer up and they should be fine.
> > >
> > > Bart:
> > > Read the sound howto
> > > Don't crosspost so this much.
> > >
> > > -m
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From: "cib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install Linux without erasing NT4 boot
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:11:55 +0100
Each time i install a partition of Linux, i get the message 'unable to find
NTDLR, make sure it is installed' when i go back to windows NT.
Can someone tell me how to save this boot of NT, instead of re-installing
again the Whole NT.
Thanks
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From: Santosh Kumar Pasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mtv no
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:30:03 -0000
Better try ZZplayer vcd player. Its freeware, and has feature like mtv.
It can even full screen feature.
You can find this at :
http://www.chez.com/tsc/zzplayer/zzplayer.html
you need to download and install following file
1. ZZplayer-0.8-1.i386
2. smpeg-0.4.0-1.i386
3. SDL-1.1.4-1.i386
Regards,
Santosh Kumar Pasi
wkeungy wrote:
>
>
> Hi guys ! anyone have mtv registered no ?? thanks !!
>
>
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From: Maciej Kozinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linuxrouter and user-compiled kernel
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:42:16 +0100
Hi,
i got following problem with linuxrouter (http://www.linuxrouter.org/).
I want to put customized kernel onto the "idiot image" floppy. I compile
it and copy it to the floppy, it boots, but it cannot mount the root
filesystem from the ramdisk. The kernel copied from "good", working LR
diskette works fine, which indicates this is the problem of the kernel,
not the bootloader (syslinux). The kernel compiled from configuration
taken from the distribution of kernel/packages copied to the diskette
cannot mount the root filesystem too.
I got two question: what is the minimum set of drivers to run the
linuxrouter from the floppy (ramdisk, filesystems, devices) and what did
I miss to do to get my own linuxrouter working?
Regards,
Maciej
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