Linux-Setup Digest #148, Volume #20 Sat, 2 Dec 00 11:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: SiS 6326 (fciii)
Re: LI from LILO; I'm one answer away from the Linux promised land ("Eric en
Jolanda")
Re: sendmail (Alex Fitterling)
RoadRunner Cabel working with Redhat 7.0? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text upon a (fciii)
Re: Problem on command 'make' (fciii)
SSH (Alex Fitterling)
poweroff: config. user allowed (Alex Fitterling)
RH.. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] -> poweroff (Alex Fitterling)
Problem with nfsd (Grigory Klyuchnikov)
Re: unpacking files (mr S)
love that boot floppy, want to paste it into the hard drive ("Dan Jacobson")
Re: How to start the Gnome GUI? ("Bruce W.1")
Re: RH.. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] -> poweroff ("Jan Oberl�nder")
RH62 vs RH70 config files diff (Gill)
Re: Telenet would not work from Win98 ---> Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Printer port not found ("Robin Hyman")
Re: How to start the Gnome GUI? ("Vigil")
Re: No sound for users in Gnome, but Root works okay ("Vigil")
monitor downloading (Dean Kwak)
Re: RoadRunner Cabel working with Redhat 7.0? ("Tim Watkins")
ppp script (Daniel Ng)
PIONEER DVD-CDROM help ("Chuck Knight")
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From: fciii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS 6326
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 03:16:50 -0800
In order to take advantage of the sis 6326 chip acceleration, you need to
run XFree86 >=4.0.
Loaded beta 4.0 early this year, diaplay ran fine at 16 bpp depth but
wouldn't support 24 bpp. Now am using stable release of 4.0.1, 24 bpp
works fine.
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, David Punsalan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had BAD experience with with the SiS 6326 card and RH6.1. The only
> X-server that I ever got to work was XF86_SVGA. And even then, I had to
> water it down by turning off options in my XF86Config file. There is a
> server for the 6326 from Suse, but it didn't work for my box.
>
> Basically - at least in my experience - getting the Sis6326 to work for
> linux is a non-trivial task. Numerous posts in newsgroups suggest the
> same.
>
> Having a low budget for computers - I bought a low end ATI card (~$40) and
> it worked beautifully for my needs and installation was effortless.
>
> - DP
>
> On 30 Nov 2000, Steven John Romej wrote:
>
> > Anyone have troubles/successes with SiS 6326 video card and linux (specifically
>RedHat
> > 6.2)? I'm about to install the beast, but would like to avoid the problems I had
>(text
> > spaces blacked out) with Corel awhile back.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > --
> > Steven John Romej
> > Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
>
>
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: LI from LILO; I'm one answer away from the Linux promised land
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:07:03 +0100
It's a bit hard to understand your problem and you have a strange way of
replying, but I'll give it another try.
You get to LI
meaning that the second stage loader failed
This usually means the the kernel is beyond cyl. 1024. But do I assume
correctly that hdb1 is your /boot?
Than it must be the fact that the geometry the BIOS finds and the geometry
that LILO (it got these values from linux) uses are different. (It can boot
from floppy, 'cause you probably copied the kernel to floppy too)
When the kernel runs, the problem is gone because the only LBA addressing is
used
Either you tell the BIOS the values linux is going to use, or tell LILO the
geometry it should use. Perhaps there's an option with LILO to supply fake
values for the geometry, and else boot from the floppy, and tell *that*
kernel hdb=C,H.S
Now you can rerun LILO and try to boot from HDD again.
Eric
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From: Alex Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sendmail
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:27:07 +0100
Hi there..
having the same problem here...
but one more question: how to setup sendmail via m4 macro script ?
..since I changed system from SuSE to RH6.2 I never got sendmail right
to function ( I had it before..) At this point, and regardless your
hint of having a look on www.sendmail.org, I want to ask you guys
whether someone has a "somehow-final-ready-to-install-version" of a m4
script, which gives at least some basic hints on how to construct a
functional sendmail.cf.
I also was looking for a config, to have sendmail run as mailserver,
but allowing the local users instead to send mail locally and via
smtp, while masquerading their domain names, and changing there
mail/username for use for different POP-Server but mine. Accessing a
external POP-Server would also need a seperate database for different
passwords, because they are different from them I did setup
locally. How would the syntax be in such database ?
In SuSE I got this to work by genericstable I think, but I got absolutely
no glue how to setup such feature on my new RH system. Or, guess there
is are similar feature I could use in m4-scripts ? Can at least give
me someone a hint on how to use such tricky undertakings to proceed in
one step furder to have sendmail fully functional ? hmm...
thx. Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RoadRunner Cabel working with Redhat 7.0?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 11:27:21 GMT
RoadRunner Cabel working with Redhat 7.0?
Does anyone have road runner cabel working with redhat 7.0??
please email me [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
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From: fciii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: hard to read situation of deep blue "highlighted" text upon a
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 03:46:49 -0800
goto /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icewin/* and adjust values as desired. The config
file in icewm which addresses xterm is toolbar. If this doesn't give you
enough options try find xtermrc or xterm* to find the actual xterm config
file
On 1 Dec 2000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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: fciii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem on command 'make'
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 03:51:14 -0800
yes
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Simpson wrote:
> I had just installed TurboLinux 6.0 and I tried to check the system
> configuration with 'make config' in the text window and
> 'make xconfig' in the X window under root account in the /usr/src/linux
> directory, but following message displayed:
> bash: make: command not found
>
> Did I miss something to install ?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Alex Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SSH
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:38:17 +0100
Hello.
I have a question according to a ssh-connect.
What means following error-msg. (It appears right after login attempt
with ssh 'name'@'host')
warning: Need basic cursor movement capablity, using vt100
warning: Authentication failed.
Disconnected; MAC error (Message authentication check fails.).
Do I use a different ssh-version then then that one installed on this
host ? Or what exactly is MAC ?
appreciate your hints
Alex
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From: Alex Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: poweroff: config. user allowed
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:39:34 +0100
Where to setup the security option , for having desired users allowed
to poweroff or halt system.
Alex
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From: Alex Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH.. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] -> poweroff
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 12:42:04 +0100
..and where to setup the behavior of the upper (in the subject)
described keybinding.. so that I might poweroff after pressing it,
instead of having the system restarted ?
Thx,Alex
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Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:48:58 +0300
From: Grigory Klyuchnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Problem with nfsd
Hello,
I has a problem with NFS server on SUSE Linux 7.0.
$ uname -a
Linux server 2.2.16-SMP #1 SMP Wed Aug 2 20:01:21 GMT 2000 i686 unknown
I have md device that mount on /RAID
$ df -k
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 248847 49020 186977 21% /
/dev/sda5 1015680 378600 584472 39% /opt
/dev/sda6 1015680 59488 903584 6% /var
/dev/sda3 5078400 1040144 3775996 22% /usr
/dev/md0 57890528 43782188 13520204 76% /RAID
and I export /RAID:
$ more /etc/exports
/RAID 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw)
In random time my NFS-client cannot access to mount point
for /RAID and this mount point disappear on client machines.
On the server's /var/log/messages file appear kernel messages
such as:
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address b041000c
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: *pde = 00000000
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: Oops: 0000
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: CPU: 0
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: EIP: 0010:[try_to_read_ahead+135/300]
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: eax: dfe80000 ebx: 0003fff8 ecx:
dfeb6f38 edx: b0410000
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: esi: d2934e04 edi: d1f37000 ebp:
0002282b esp: c9b83d3c
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: Process nfsd (pid: 282, process nr: 21,
stackpage=c9b83000)
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: Stack: 00000000 c05b8a38 00000003 00000010
e9b88f38 c0121fba c9b83e70 0002282b
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: 00000000 e09e14ca d2934e04 c9a80064
c9b83e84 00000000 c9acc980 c01b0108
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: d2934e14 22763000 00000000 c9b82000
00000000 e09e15c9 00081000 00000000
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: Call Trace: [do_generic_file_read+1358/2424]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_S.text_L31355+9334/31692] [udp_getfrag+0/2
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel:
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_S.text_L31355+3391/31692]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_S.data_L1220+288/1408] [nfsd:__ins
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel:
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_S.data_L1220+12/1408]
[nfsd:__insmod_nfsd_S.text_L31355+683/31692] [nfsd:__insmo
Nov 29 07:59:45 bog kernel: Code: 39 72 0c 75 f4 39 6a 08 75 ef f0 ff 42
14 b8 02 00 00 00 f0
After reboot of the NFS server all work fine again.
I don't understand error messages. If anyone can point me where can I
find
information about this trouble, it will be fine.
Thanks.
Grigory.
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From: mr S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: unpacking files
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:44:04 +0000
Darren and Marla Welson wrote:
> I am used to installing RPMs for RH Linux, but not sure where to put the
> newly created files/directories when unpacking tarballs. Is there an
> appropriate place to put all of the files? I am used to locating these in a
> /data directory, each with its own directory. I would like to place them in
> the proper place as if I installed from RPM.
>
> Darren
/usr/local/
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: love that boot floppy, want to paste it into the hard drive
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:34:43 +0800
> Small note: I got to that "Go to DrakConf" step above by booting with the
> boot floppy I had made during install. If you let it bypass that step and
> didn't make one, I guess you'd be in serious trouble.
Question: I really love my boot floppy. It is the only way I can boot into
linux.
Why can't I just use
# dd if=/dev/fd0 of= [please tell me]
to plaster it onto somewhere just right in the hard drive?
Then I could remove the boot floppy and boot from hard drive, eh?
I've tried for months to configure Mandrake 7.2 grub/lilo already.
--
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Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 08:05:49 -0500
From: "Bruce W.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to start the Gnome GUI?
Thank you. It worked. How do you start the KDE GUI?
=========================================
Tim Watkins wrote:
>
> "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: "Jan Oberl�nder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH.. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] -> poweroff
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 14:22:42 +0100
> ..and where to setup the behavior of the upper (in the subject)
> described keybinding.. so that I might poweroff after pressing it,
> instead of having the system restarted ?
In your /etc/inittab is a line like this:
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
replace the -r by a -h, and it'll do what you want.
Greetings
Jan
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From: Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH62 vs RH70 config files diff
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:39:56 +0200
Hi,
Im moving from a dying (3 month old) HD (Seagate ata II 20.4G, mind you)
to a new (non Seagate) one.
Im taking the opportunity to upgrade from RH6.2 to RH7.0.
Can I simply take from my dying disk the tuned configuration files for my
hardware (which hasnt changed)?
for the video card / screen?
the modem?
the printer?
sound card?
more?
If so I'd appreciate if you could tell me which files to take
(unless i can do some recursive diff between the tow HDs)
If this is stated all too clearly in any RH publication - just point me there.
Thanks!
-Gill
PS I've had a friend tune the RH62...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Telenet would not work from Win98 ---> Linux
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 13:36:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ming Fai LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've also tried the PuTTY, it can telnet the linux box without problem
> but the configuration only mention the functions for F1 to F5
Yes, I hadn't noticed that, I just updated to PuTTY v0.50
and it has new options for the F key mode:
ESC[~n_, linux, Xterm R6, VT100.
(ESC[~n_ makes F10 work for me in mc, etc.)
Also ver 0.50 no longer specifies that the settings only apply
to the F1-F5 keys (as in ver0.48) so it may include all F-keys.
Perhaps the newer version will work better for you.
> I still have problem with F10 during the installation.
Hmmm, all the F-keys just work for me, though I don't use the Suse
installer so I can't check if it works for that.
> On the other hand how can you know you are using the SSH protocols and
> not normal telnet sessions if you happen to forget to click the right
> option?
You could check the connection logs in /var/log/messages.
HTH
Bluster
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From: "Robin Hyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer port not found
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:03:48 -0000
Many Thanks, thats me sorted.
Rob
Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3a284852$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robin
> Hyman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Help, I'm a newbie who's just installed RH 6.1 onto my PC and can't get
> > linux to see my parallel printer (an Epson Stylus Colour 440). I've
> > tried turning off PnP in my BIOS, but this doesn't change anything. Can
> > anyone help? Tks
>
> its a known prob w/ rh6.1. here's the fix:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html#ss6.19
>
>
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From: "Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to start the Gnome GUI?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 14:52:02 +0000
Look in ~/.xinitrc and replace gnome with kde.
"Bruce W.1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
> Thank you. It worked. How do you start the KDE GUI?
--
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From: "Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound for users in Gnome, but Root works okay
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 14:52:55 +0000
Look at /dev/audio and /dev/dsp...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] had the audacity to claim:
> 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.
--
.
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From: Dean Kwak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: monitor downloading
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 07:14:33 -0800
i want to monitor if a downloading job is finished or not. i have a
network monitor opened but not sure if the software i'm trying to download
is done or not. Is there any gui tool or command line to monitor a
specific downloading job?
thanks for your time
please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tim Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RoadRunner Cabel working with Redhat 7.0?
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:35:48 GMT
I've got cable working just fine on my RH7 box.
Tim
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:90amap$vk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> RoadRunner Cabel working with Redhat 7.0?
>
> Does anyone have road runner cabel working with redhat 7.0??
> please email me [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Daniel Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ppp script
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 10:56:12 -0500
Hello,
I have a ppp script which has been working for me in RedHat 6.1.
Recently, I have upgraded
to RedHat 6.2, it does not work no more. When the connection is made,
it is then terminated right after.
Any suggestions?
here is my scripts.
#!/bin/bash
# pppMyISP
/usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS3 -detach connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f
/etc/ppp/myisp" &
and my myisp file is
TIMEOUT 60
ABORT ERROR
ABORT BUSY
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
"" "AT&FH0"
OK "atdt1234567"
TIMEOUT 75
CONNECT
my pap-secrets
# client server secret IP addresses
myname ppp0 mypasswd
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From: "Chuck Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PIONEER DVD-CDROM help
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 10:03:07 -0600
I have a micron millimium with a pioneer DVD CD-ROM (number 103?) that I am
trying to install a Slackware 7.1 build on. The problem is that the setup
program can't auto-detect the CD-ROM and I have not been able to determine
which boot disk to use. I have tried bare.i and iomega.s (I have a zip
drive as well).
Does anyone have some pointers to the necessary info to get the job done?
Thanks in advance
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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