Linux-Setup Digest #142, Volume #20 Fri, 1 Dec 00 13:13:06 EST
Contents:
compile a kernel? ("Michael J. M. Maranda")
Re: set-up DSL? (Rod Smith)
Re: can't login after setup (Darwin Mecham)
Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine. (Rod Smith)
Email help requested (DJ)
PLIP and route (Huw Lynes)
Re: Problem rebuilding kernel ("Tim Watkins")
Re: How to start the Gnome GUI? ("Tim Watkins")
resources and improving performance ("David O. Miller")
Re: Mandrake 7.2 problem with auto-login (C. L. Lewis)
Re: why /dev/hdc ?? (Peter Kadau)
Logitech Itouch Keyboard (David)
Re: Benefits of GRUB? (Peter Kadau)
Re: hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text upon a black background
(Colin Watson)
Re: netscape 4.xx ("Kevin White")
QT 1.4 (headers and libraries) not found? ("Robert van de Ridder")
No sound for users in Gnome, but Root works okay
Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: compile a kernel? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mandrake 7.2 problem with auto-login (Bill Unruh)
Re: resources and improving performance ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Michael J. M. Maranda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compile a kernel?
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 15:20:55 GMT
Due to the specific problem I have with my scsi hd or controller, I was
advised to compile my own kernel....
But, how can I do this without there eing any OS on the PC I am talking
about, or rather, can I do so?
Would I have to try something like arranging the compile on another PC and
burning it onto a CD-RW?
thanks in advance!
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: set-up DSL?
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 15:46:39 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dean Kwak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hello,
>
> i'm trying to set up my earthlink DSL to my linux box. is it even
> possible to use DSL with my RED hat 6.2 linux box? i heard that it is
> possible with @home cable but not sure if it'd be working with DSL. I'd
> be appreciated if you could help me how to set-up if it's possible...
There are two issues you must concern yourself with when setting up DSL
or cable modem access in Linux:
1) The modem type -- internal, external Ethernet, and external USB are
the three major types. Of these, external Ethernet is the only one
that's guaranteed to work. I know of one internal DSL modem with
Linux drivers, and I've heard of work underway or beta drivers for
other internal and USB modems, but mostly these are worthless.
Fortunately, you can usually trade in or otherwise replace such a
modem, if you're willing to pay the price (perhaps $100 or so on
eBay -- but you may be able to turn around and sell what you've got
for close to that).
2) The IP address assignment method -- static IP addresses and DHCP pose
no problems and should be handled fine. (There are occasional
glitches with some DHCP clients, though.) PPPoE is the latest craze
in DSL, and is trickier, but still do-able. Check
http://www.rodsbooks.com/network/network-dsl.html for a list of
several Linux PPPoE implementations. There's also PPPoA, which is
rarer but seems to be growing in popularity. I don't know what's
required to get that working.
Once you've figured out what your ISP needs for these things, you can
grab any necessary hardware or software and go at it. If you still have
problems, post with more details.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Darwin Mecham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't login after setup
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 08:45:36 -0700
The monitor can be the problem if all you see is blackness...
The same thing happens with Mandrake 7.1 and a Sony
Multiscan 220GS. The frequency rates don't match.
I changed to another monitor without changing my install
an all was well in whoville...
TTFN
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine.
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 15:50:53 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <90712i$6m0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi,
> I have redhat 6.2 running on my Inspiron Laptop.
>
> Due to the requirements of my current project(a driver
> is available only on Win 95/98), I have to install Windows 98
> on this machine.
>
> I don't want to lose my linux partition. Is there any *SAFE* method
> to add windows 95/98 to a linux machine? I know partition magic. But, I
> am not sure whether it is a safe option though.
"Safe" is a relative term in this context. PM *USUALLY* works without
damaging drives. A backup/repartition/restore operation *USUALLY* loses
no data, if done properly. Neither is 100% safe. Heck, leaving your
computer alone isn't 100% safe -- the hard drive could fail, the system
could be fried by a lightning strike, the whole thing could be hit by a
meteor, etc.
In practice, it's probably best to back up to tape (you *DO* have that
capability, right?) and then use PM or one of the open source ext2fs
resizers. Alternatively, you could back up to tape TWICE, re-partition,
and restore. I have no hard statistics on the matter, but based on my
own experiences with the reliability of PM and tape backups, I'd say
these two options are similar in terms of safety.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: DJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Email help requested
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 10:30:33 -0600
I have just installed RH 6.2, and am having difficulties with email. I
have tried using pigmy (gnome) and kmail (kde) but cannot get
attachments to save properly. In fact when multiple attachments are sent
in an email, saving the file saves all the attachments in one file. Any
help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
DJ
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From: Huw Lynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PLIP and route
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 15:45:04 GMT
I'm in the process of setting up a plip link between my desktop and
laptop. Have got to the point where I can load the plip modules and ppp
modules on both machines. However the PLIP-HOWTO says that you need to
run the following command before setting up the link.
route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0
or
route add -net 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev plip0
both of which give me the "network is down" error and the route is not
added.
doing ifconfig plip0 Laptop pointopoint Desktop up
and vice-versa on the other machine seems to bring up the link but the
netmask is 255.255.255.255 and I cannot ping either machine.
Any ideas?
Huw Lynes
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Tim Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem rebuilding kernel
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:04:22 -0500
snip
>
> Thanks. I combed through the options again and cut out a lot more stuff
> and that worked.
>
> Unfortunately, the new driver that I compiled in, a read/write hpfs
> file system, is still working only as read only.
Make sure you haven't accidently mounted it as read only....
Tim
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From: "Tim Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to start the Gnome GUI?
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 11:05:59 -0500
"Bruce W.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3a27bc32$0$54345$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Just loaded Redhat Linux 7.0. I installed both the Gnome and KDE
> GUI's. Now when the system start, after logging-in, I just get a system
> prompt. How do you start one of the GUI's?
>
> Thanks
startx
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From: "David O. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: resources and improving performance
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 11:21:14 -0500
First off, I'm a moderate newbie. I'm copying data from CD's to my new
hard drive. Both the CDROM (40X) and HD are IDE.
The copying process is taking up
a lot of resources because my mouse keeps 'sticking'.
Any ideas on improving the efficiency of the copy process?
This also has me thinking of ways of tweaking the system to improve
performance in general. Any 'standard' tricks for improving system
operation? Should I add another swap file on the new drive?
TIA,
Dave
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From: C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 problem with auto-login
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 16:28:42 GMT
Haven't tried to get into it from Enlightenment yet, but if you switch
to KDE, go to Start Menu, Configuration, Other, DrakeConf, UserDrake,
User Configuration Manager, Actions, and then UserAutoLogin, you should
be able to get it changed back.
Charles
In article <DFLV5.3502$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Stricker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> machine always starts up in Enlightment. How do I get KDE back as the
> default?
--
Laughter is the best laxative there is for a constipated mind. Humor is
an ideal spoon to dose it.
--Chronocidal Charlie, 1995-2000, RIP--
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kadau)
Subject: Re: why /dev/hdc ??
Date: 1 Dec 2000 16:36:07 GMT
: >>You're kidding, right? All you'd have to do is change all references
: >>to /dev/hdc* in /etc/fstab to /dev/hda*, and vice versa.
: >
: > Don't forget the settings in lilo.conf.
and those symlinks like /dev/cdrom
peter
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Logitech Itouch Keyboard
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:02:06 +0100
Does anyone know how could I use the extra keys of this keyboard with Linux or
at least with X multimedia System?
Thanks a lot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Kadau)
Subject: Re: Benefits of GRUB?
Date: 1 Dec 2000 16:51:36 GMT
: You're missing the other benefits of grub. Lilo will only boot images
: ...
<snip>
and GRUB may boot The Hurd, NetBSD and whatever comes to your mind.
peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text upon a black
background
Date: 1 Dec 2000 17:05:49 GMT
Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I adjust the hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted"
>text upon a black background? You often mention 'dircolors' but the
>documentation mentions it only affects ls, and I see the man command,
>well, less, is affected too.
>I would like to brighten this individual color all across the board, I
>mean in all text highlighting situations. [Seen at least in xterm in
>icewm on mandrake 7.2.]
Use X resources; 'man xterm', 'man X', and 'man xrdb' will probably be
helpful here. Edit your ~/.Xresources (or possibly ~/.Xdefaults) file,
and add a line like 'XTerm*color4: steel blue', then 'xrdb -merge
~/.Xresources' or whatever. color4 corresponds to non-bold blue; color12
is bold blue. You can find a list of colour names in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt, or try the 'xcolorsel' tool.
>By the way there's no icewm man page on mandrake 7.2.
The man page in Debian was written for Debian, apparently. Perhaps
Mandrake should import it. Either way, file a bug with Mandrake.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"DRIVE LETTERS SUCK ROTTING WALRUSES THROUGH A LEAKY OIL PIPELINE!"
- Peter da Silva, scary.devil.monastery
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From: "Kevin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netscape 4.xx
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 11:24:08 +0600
Get netscape six, it uses the mozilla engine and seems to be more stable
than M18. Atleast for me... Only problems I had was installing, took
about 15 tries, but finally got it. Mainly stalling on download and
segfaults during install... I recommend, if you try, deleting the
netscape folder it installs in everytime it crashes, to insure no other
corruption...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Toby Haynes"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I have the folowing problem. Netscape 4.61 (libc5) used to work pretty
>> well on my system (Redhat 6.2) but for some reasons that I don't realy
>> know, my system started to crash regularly when I tried to access
>> certain URLs. I then decided to install Netscape 4.62 But this new
>> version couldn't even start and just crashed with the error message
>> "bus error" I then tried to install Nestscape 4.76. I was able to start
>> it. But now I have the problem that when composing a mail message, the
>> address completion does not work, and when I try to get the address
>> from the address book, Netscape will crash. Is there a way to solve
>> this problem? Thanks
>
> Upgrade - to a Mozilla Nightly build. The mail client in Mozilla M18 is
> unstable (on Linux) but I have had no such problems with the latest
> Mozilla builds. www.mozilla.org has all the info you need.
>
> If you have a slow system (i.e. 200MHz or less) you should investigate
> galeon.sourceforge.net for a version of Mozilla without the XUL layer -
> this is a bit zippier as it uses the native GTK toolkit but still uses
> the Gecko rendering engine. Whether the mail client has been added to
> this project yet I don't know.
>
> Cheers, Toby Haynes
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From: "Robert van de Ridder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: QT 1.4 (headers and libraries) not found?
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:29:25 +0100
Hi there,
I am new to the community so I hope you are able to help me solve some
problems.I have standard installed the "Download Edition" of Corel Linux 2.0
and my first problem was Linux couldn't handle my soundcard (SB Live!) on
PCI on a BP6.
In Control Center it displayed a SB 128 but gave an error when running an
MP3-player and when I run 'sndconfig' It cannot find any soundcard. So I
went to 'opensource.soundblaster.com' and learned about the ALSA project and
downloaded the drivers.
In the meanwhile I had to recompile the kernel because of SMP-support and
had read about running the drivers as a module so I configured the system to
be able to load modules and the soundsystem as modular without any choice of
soundcard (only OSS Y).
In order to decompress the driver I had to run a bzip2 decompressor so I
downloaded 'KARCHIVEUR-0.87'. When I ran ./configure it produces an error
which indicates it cannot find the QT 1.4 (headers and libraries). This I
thought strange because it was still the original setup (non-SMP). In
SMP-mode it was the same.The QT 1.4 headers and libraries seem to be placed
into /usr/lib/qt14 allright.
When trying to install QT 2.2 from a CD-rom I bought which also contains
KDE2 it said "unknown compat mode menu-2 (only know of menu-1.........) and
aborted.
- Should I install KDE2 first?
- Should I alter anything in my BIOS to get the SB Live to work?
- How do I get the system to recognize the QT 1.4? or
- How can I install QT 2.2?
As you may notice from this message I am trying very hard to get Linux to
work. I hope you can help me with this effort because I am sick of the
'speed' of W2K.
Robert van de Ridder
The Netherlands
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No sound for users in Gnome, but Root works okay
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 17:30:06 -0000
Hi,
I am running Red Hat version 6 with Gnome and Enlightenment, and I am
using an ensoniq 1371 chipset soundcard. With sound enabled in Gnome and
Enlightenment, the sound works fine for the Root user. However, when
logging in with any user accounts, I get an Esound error message when I
try to enable sounds in Enlightenment. I figure this is probably a
problem with permissions (that's why I didn't post this in hardware), but
I don't know what to check. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine.
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 17:31:18 GMT
Hi,
I know this won't help a lot, but I did exactly what you are about to do
( or might already have done by the time I'm writing) a few months ago,
and the "beloved" winbug crached my machine entirely , that is the whole
HD was erased, nothing left. I did the same w/ W2k, hoping it would
perform better, but NO. Just about the same result.
so advice : BACK UP, on a cd burner or anything alike (1.44Mb diskettes
is still better than nothing...)
Good luck (and thank M$)
L@urent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit :
>
> Hi,
> I have redhat 6.2 running on my Inspiron Laptop.
>
> Due to the requirements of my current project(a driver
> is available only on Win 95/98), I have to install Windows 98
> on this machine.
>
> I don't want to lose my linux partition. Is there any *SAFE* method
> to add windows 95/98 to a linux machine? I know partition magic. But, I
> am not sure whether it is a safe option though.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> deva
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: compile a kernel?
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:01:41 GMT
Hello,
you mean the concerned PC is unable to boot ? If there is no OS at all,
just install any distro, usually most standard hardware is basically
supported, so it should at least boot, then you can think of recompiling
the kernel to fit your needs. But I think that copying a kernel on an
OS-less machine may be a bit tricky...
"Michael J. M. Maranda" a �crit :
>
> Due to the specific problem I have with my scsi hd or controller, I was
> advised to compile my own kernel....
>
> But, how can I do this without there eing any OS on the PC I am talking
> about, or rather, can I do so?
>
> Would I have to try something like arranging the compile on another PC and
> burning it onto a CD-RW?
>
> thanks in advance!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 problem with auto-login
Date: 1 Dec 2000 18:05:13 GMT
In <908jjh$d6n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C. L. Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> machine always starts up in Enlightment. How do I get KDE back as the
>> default?
If this is true for all users
/etc/sysconfig/desktop
replace the
Enlightenment
with
KDE
If it is just for you, look for a config file in your own home directory
called .xsession or .Xclient
On the other hand, if you are refering to its action from the xdm or kdm
or gdm logon, I am not sure how that is handled.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: resources and improving performance
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:06:21 GMT
My idea about that is : have you checked the small (but very efficient)
utility called 'hdparm'. It makes it possible to use DMA, and some other
improvements for your HD and CD and should solve your problem. check
'man hdparm' for further help on it, and once you have good params, put
them in your startup scripts.
Be careful with hdparm which can cause a lot of harm if used
incorrectly.
HTH
L@urent
"David O. Miller" a �crit :
>
> First off, I'm a moderate newbie. I'm copying data from CD's to my new
> hard drive. Both the CDROM (40X) and HD are IDE.
> The copying process is taking up
> a lot of resources because my mouse keeps 'sticking'.
>
> Any ideas on improving the efficiency of the copy process?
>
> This also has me thinking of ways of tweaking the system to improve
> performance in general. Any 'standard' tricks for improving system
> operation? Should I add another swap file on the new drive?
>
> TIA,
> Dave
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