Linux-Setup Digest #154, Volume #20 Sun, 3 Dec 00 13:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: e-mail problem - is it my setup ? ("Barry Samuels")
Re: Crash While Setting Up Red Hat 6.2 on 486 (DualIP)
Re: amd k6 i586-compatible? (want to install Mandrake) - or which Linux is best?
(Oliver D. Bedford)
Mandrake for upgrade of RedHat (Oliver D. Bedford)
Problems with Sis 530 and Xfree 4.0.1 (Wuilbert Jaramillo)
cdrom audio (vaio sr7k) (Bipin Sehgal)
gtk (system)
Re: gtk (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: cdrom audio (vaio sr7k) (Roger Leigh)
Re: LPD daemon problem ("Nerd")
Re: Where's my modem? (Cliff Sarginson)
Problems whit Redhat 6.2 installation ("Luke")
Re: Installing on laptop without cdrom? (DTi4565459)
Re: amd k6 i586-compatible? (want to install Mandrake) - or which Linux is best?
("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RH7 and mysql ?? (Adam Weeks)
Problem rebuilding kernel (Robert Morelli)
Re: Help! I've lost my OS! (jonathan)
Re: amd k6 i586-compatible? (want to install Mandrake) - or which Linux is best?
(Oliver D. Bedford)
Linmodem woes! minicom=ok kppp=crashes. ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
USB Iomega Zip problems - Mandrake 7.1 ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: looking for video capture card for linux (Jay Bratcher)
Re: RH7 and mysql ?? (Bit Twister)
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From: "Barry Samuels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: e-mail problem - is it my setup ?
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 10:05:03 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <90bq5h$5u3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barry Samuels wrote:
>> I've had some e-mails rejected by AOL recently with a message something
>> like 'we are no longer accepting e-mails from dynamic IPs. You should
>> ask your ISP to re-route your mail through their SMTP server'.
>>
>> I always thought that all my e-mails went to my ISP's mail server and
>> was sent on from there. Is my setup wrong or have I missed something?
>
>> Debian 2.2 running Procmail, Exim and Fetchmail.
>
> You configure your MTA (exim) either (1) to deliver mail (more-or-less)
> directly to the recipient's mail system, or (2) to forward mail to a
> "smart host" (e.g., some machine at your ISP), which in turn takes care
> of
> sending the mail on toward the recipient.
>
> It sounds like you have chosen method #1, which some recipients might
> not like because dynamic IPs are a common source of spam. An advantage
> to method #2 is that the smart host is always on the 'Net, trying to
> forward your mail in case of delivery problems.
Well I havn't actually chosen method 1 but I assume it's the default
when Exim is installed.
I would prefer to use method 2 but having looked through all the
documentation, and the configuration file (/etc/exim.conf), it might just
as well be written in Urdu. I understand very little of it and am still
no nearer to solving my problem.
Could anyone please explain, in simpe terms, what I need to change to get
my mail sent to my ISP's mail server for sending onward.
--
Barry Samuels
My real e-mail address is:
bsamuels (AT) datamansys (DOT) co (DOT) uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Subject: Re: Crash While Setting Up Red Hat 6.2 on 486
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 10:13:46 GMT
On Sat, 02 Dec 2000 05:08:33 GMT, "Mark W. Stroberg"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was trying to install Red Hat 6.2 on an old 486 33MHz I got for cheap.
>Unfortunately, after partitioning, selecting packages to install, and
>formatting the partitions, it crashed with the message: "Abnormal
>termination -- signal 11" or something like that. I have no idea what's
>wrong. The computer has 32 MB of RAM, an ancient IDE controller as the
>primary channel and a Promise EIDE Max II UDMA 33 controller as the
>secondary channel controller. hda is 1.2 GB, there is no hdb, hdc is 10
>GB, hdd is 50X CD-ROM drive. Secondary Master (hdc) is partitioned as
>follows: Extended partition spanning entire drive, hdc5, hdc6, and hdc7
>are FAT-16 of maximum size (2GB) as Windows 3.1 is also on this
>computer, hdc8 is 127M swap, hdc9 is 50M (/boot), hdc10 is 3.5G (/). Any
>help would be appreciated.
>
Try using the text mode instead of the graphical setup.
DualIP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver D. Bedford)
Subject: Re: amd k6 i586-compatible? (want to install Mandrake) - or which Linux is
best?
Date: 03 Dec 2000 11:40:40 +0100
"Bjoern Guenzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm just downloading Mandrake Linux, but I have an AMD K6 processor, so I am
> not sure if the i586-version (pentium optimised?) will work with it?
Some rpm-i586-packages I downloaded from the contrib-branch
for RedHat did not work with my K6. Someone else pointed
out this shouldn't be the case; well, I suspect this could
be the difference between theory and practise.
Oliver
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver D. Bedford)
Subject: Mandrake for upgrade of RedHat
Date: 03 Dec 2000 11:46:26 +0100
Hi,
Mandrake is advertised as being 100% compatible with RedHat.
I was quite astonished that the installation of Mandrake 7.1 went
so smooth, in contrast to my latest experience with RedHat.
Now, I am asking myself if it's possible to use Mandrake (7.2 ?)
to upgrade an existing RedHat (6.0).
TIA,
Oliver
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From: Wuilbert Jaramillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Sis 530 and Xfree 4.0.1
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 03:26:26 -0800
Hi guys, I was upgraded the xfree version on my suse system version 7.0 to
Xfree 4.0.1 and kde2. That may sound coool, but I have a problem with my
xserver.
First of all, there is bad artifacts there, there are this
vertical lines (4 to be exact) and I cannot make them disapear. It really
looks crappy because It seems that somebody draw a line with a crayon on
the screen.
I hope you guys can help me because I really don't need those
lines. My display adapter is a SIS 530.
Thank you very much
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From: Bipin Sehgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrom audio (vaio sr7k)
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 06:34:58 -0600
I have installed linux (Mandrake 7.2) on my sony sr7k laptop. I managed
to configure everything including usb and sound but I cannot play audio
CDs through the speakers. If I plug in a headphone into the cdrom
headphone jack, I can hear the music and control it using kscd. Sound
configuration is fine as I am able to play mp3 and wav files.
Any ideas as to why this is happening? Any fixes ?
-Bipin
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gtk
Date: 3 Dec 2000 20:50:11 +0800
Hi ppl out there, where can I get the gtk libraries for my redhat 6.2?
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gtk
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:20:26 +0100
On 3 Dec 2000, system wrote:
> Hi ppl out there, where can I get the gtk libraries for my redhat 6.2?
They are on the CD (gtk+-x.x-x.i386.rpm).
Rasmus B. Hansen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Leigh)
Subject: Re: cdrom audio (vaio sr7k)
Date: 3 Dec 2000 13:41:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 06:34:58 -0600, Bipin Sehgal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have installed linux (Mandrake 7.2) on my sony sr7k laptop. I managed
>to configure everything including usb and sound but I cannot play audio
>CDs through the speakers. If I plug in a headphone into the cdrom
>headphone jack, I can hear the music and control it using kscd. Sound
>configuration is fine as I am able to play mp3 and wav files.
>
>Any ideas as to why this is happening? Any fixes ?
You need to configure sound card support. The way to do this is probably
to recompile your kernel with support for your sound card, but I can't say
much as I don't know what type of card you have.
HTH,
Roger
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From: "Nerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LPD daemon problem
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 14:10:17 -0000
"Wayne Pollock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Somehow lpd is dying or being killed. You need to check your
> log file(s) to see why it died.
>
> -Wayne Pollock
Found it - inetd was using the port that lpd wanted instead, so I took that
out of inetd and now all works fine. Yay!
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Paul Evans
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From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where's my modem?
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 15:18:20 +0100
Tom McCray posited:
> Just installed RedHat 6 on a generic 133 machine. Everything seems to
> have loaded just fine and I'm feeling my way through this new OS.
>
> One of the things I want to get running right away is a connection to the
> Internet. (I'd like to download SunOffice.) However my INTERNAL modem is
> not seen by the OS. (Yes, I know that my book says are problems with
> internal modems.)
>
> I've run the minicom setup but cannot find the modem. Somewhere I read
> that internal modems can come up with their own COM port. Maybe this is a
> clue -- or maybe this is a red herring.
>
> Anyone want to take this on? Thanks.
If it's a PCI modem it may be highly likely it is a winmodem; in which case
you are probably doomed I am afraid to say. Winmodems are hardware devices
that are driven as modems by software, the aforesaid software being
supplied by the manfacturer.
I believe some hardy souls have tried to write drivers for some winmodems,
but I know not where you would find such things. Maybe someone else in the
newsgroup knows.
If you buy a new modem I would recommend an external one if you cannot
be sure that any PCI modem you see is a windows only one. Remember salesmen
in shop will probably give you blank looks if you ask about this !
Cliff
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From: "Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems whit Redhat 6.2 installation
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 14:52:36 GMT
I have a PC whit ASUS P3BF motherboard and a UltraDMA66 hard-disk connected
to the board whit a UltraDMA PCI card. I'm not able to install Linux
(Redhat 6.2): when I have to decide what kind of installation I want (GNOME,
KDE, server or custom) I get a message that says: "An error has occurred. No
valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check
your hardware for the cause of this problem". None of the above installation
will do the job. Could it be a problem that Linux can't recognize my
UltraDMA card? Or maybe a mistake whit my previous cration of a Linux
partition whit Partition Magic?
Thanks in advance.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DTi4565459)
Date: 03 Dec 2000 14:55:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Installing on laptop without cdrom?
And, to make it even harder, no OS or modem??
I have succeeded with a minimal install by downloading Debian images from their
website and rawriting them to floppies. Then after floppy install (it takes
some patience and about 15 blank disks to get started), I am up to the point of
trying to connect modem under Linux and finish the install. It is not easy for
newbies, but it *can* be done. This newsgroup has been the one that has been
most helpful to me.
Good luck
dave
http://www.columbia.edu/~mdt1/
(1 = one, not little L; and don't forget the trailing / )
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: amd k6 i586-compatible? (want to install Mandrake) - or which Linux is
best?
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 15:52:53 +0100
Oliver D. Bedford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Bjoern Guenzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm just downloading Mandrake Linux, but I have an AMD K6 processor, so I am
>> not sure if the i586-version (pentium optimised?) will work with it?
> Some rpm-i586-packages I downloaded from the contrib-branch
> for RedHat did not work with my K6. Someone else pointed
> out this shouldn't be the case; well, I suspect this could
> be the difference between theory and practise.
No, it's impossible. The K6 supports all P5 instructions. Ascribe your
failures to other causes.
Peter
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From: Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 and mysql ??
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 16:07:59 GMT
Patrick Baer wrote:
> Adam Weeks schrieb:
> >
> > Anyone know anything wrong with using Adabas (staroffice) instead? (in
> > meantime)??
> >
> > ./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> > error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql
> > .sock' (111)'
> > Check that mysqld is running and that the socket:
> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' ex
> > ists!
> >
>
> Well does this socket exist?
>
> --
> Patrick Baer
> http://www.computer-forums.com
Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that there was the remote
possibility that it didn't exist, then what, and how to create it??
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From: Robert Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem rebuilding kernel
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 09:20:36 -0700
After rebuilding the kernel (version 2.2.14-5.0 for Red Hat 6.2) and recofiguring lilo,
I got an unbootable system, which hangs with a kernel panic that the root fs can't
be mounted. The system is SCSI based, with an Adaptec 2940W controller and a
Quantum Fireball 4.3 MB hard drive. In xconfig, I set everything pertaining to
SCSI to 'm', except the following parameters
SCSI support: y
SCSI disk support: y
Enable vendor-spcific extensions (for SCSI CDROM): n
Verbose SCSI error reporting: y
SCSI logging facility: y
Enable tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) by default: n
Maximum number of TCQ commands per device: 8
Collect statistics to reprot in /proc: n
Delay in seconds after SCSI bus reset: 5
IBM ServeRAID support: n
AdvanSys SCSI support: n
Omit FlashPoint support: n
enable tagged command queuing: n
enable elevator sorting: n
maximum number of queued commands: 16
EATA-DMA [Obsolete] (DTP, ...) support: n
EATA-PIO (old DPT PM21001, PM2012A) support: n
Future Domain 16xx SCSI/AHA-2920A support: n
Enable NCR53c400 extensions: n
ppa/imm option - Use slow (but safe) EPP-16: n
ppa/imm option - Assume slow parport control register: n
symbios 53c416 SCSI support: n
Simple 53c710 SCSI support (Compq, NCR machines): n
always negotiate synchronous transfers: n
allow FAST-SCSI [10MHZ]: n
allow DISCONNECT: n
defaulte tagged command queue depth: 8
maximum number of queued commands: 32
synchronous transfers fequency in MHZ: 20
enable profiling: n
use normal IO: n
include support for the NCR PQS/PDS SCSI card: n
assume boards are SYMBIOS compatible: n
Qlogic FAS SCSI support: n
Qlogic ISP SCSI support: n
Qlogic ISP FC SCSI support: n
Seagate ST-02 and Future Domain TMC-Bxx SCSI support: n
Tekram DC390(T) and Am53/79C974 SCSI support: n
Trantor T128/T128F/T228 SCSI support: n
enable elevator sorting: n
maximum number of queued commands: 8
I performed the following steps:
1. I built the kernel with make bzImage
2. I copied the file /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinux
3. I ran /usr/sbin/rdev on /boot/vmlinux, which output
Root device /dev/sda8
4. I edited /etc/lilo.conf to the following:
boot=/dev/sda8
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/sda8
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0.old
label=linuxold
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda8
5. I ran /sbin/lilo, which output the following
Added linux *
Added linuxold
6. I rebooted. The boot failed with a kernel panic where the kernel couldn't find
the root fs
The last few lines of output were:
scsi: 0 hosts
scsi: 0 detected total.
Partition check:
request_module[block-main-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:08
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:08
Any help appreciated
Robert Morelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! I've lost my OS!
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,corelsupport.linux.corellinux,corelsupport.linux.install,corelsupport.linux.set_up_config,corelsupport.paradox-dos,dc.org.linux-users,ed.linux,linux.dev.newbie
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:35:42 +0100
If the tips of Frodo don't help you, you can try the following:
run fdisk, then set the active partition or boot-partition to your
linux-partition (it's named non-dos or something like that) This should
start Linux again. If you're in, you just have to run lilo to get your
bootscreen back when you boot.
Jonathan Brugge
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver D. Bedford)
Subject: Re: amd k6 i586-compatible? (want to install Mandrake) - or which Linux is
best?
Date: 03 Dec 2000 18:00:01 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oliver D. Bedford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Some rpm-i586-packages I downloaded from the contrib-branch
> > for RedHat did not work with my K6. Someone else pointed
> > out this shouldn't be the case; well, I suspect this could
> > be the difference between theory and practise.
>
> No, it's impossible. The K6 supports all P5 instructions. Ascribe your
> failures to other causes.
This was my point of view, until I tried to run i586-programs
(the i386-versions always worked).
From contrib/libc6 (ftp.uni-bayreuth mirror of ftp.redhat.com):
dr-xrwxr-x 2 0 8192 Sep 19 20:01 i586
dr-xrwxr-x 2 0 16384 Oct 11 20:01 i686
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 4 Jul 12 13:02 k6 -> i686
Oliver
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linmodem woes! minicom=ok kppp=crashes.
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:35:31 GMT
I'm running Mandrake 7.1 on a Compaq Presario 3060 with a winmodem.
I downloaded linmodem568 from Lucent and loaded it. It works fine with
Minicom but when I set up kppp with AT&T Worldnet, following the
instructions I got from WURD I get the message that the kppp daemon
failed unexpectedly.
Does anyone have any experience fixing this type of thing?
Thanks,
Mike
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: USB Iomega Zip problems - Mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 17:41:50 GMT
My USB interface is detected at boot time according to dmesg. The drive
lights up and buzzes. But when I attempt to cd to the zip drive I get:
bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error
My fstab entry looks like this:
/mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
When I type mount I get this line regarding the zip drive:
/mnt/zip on /mnt/zip type supermount (rw,fs=vfat,dev:/dev/zip)
Any idea why this is happening?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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From: Jay Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: looking for video capture card for linux
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 18:29:37 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
>
> i'm looking for a good video card with an onboard tv tuner and that can
> do decent video capture. (video capture must be preferably done at
> 352x288 or higher resolution captured at at least 24fps). A big plus
> would be if the card could do real time mpeg compression (i dont even
> know if there are cards that can do this).
>
> i currently have an ATI card, but there's almost no support for the tv
> tuner in linux.
>
> any recommendations would be appreciated. please feel free to specify as
> much detail about the card as u'd like or just leave a URL i can visit
> to get more info :)
>
> thanks
> ali
>
Have a look at these pages for more info...
http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html - video editing software (seems
to be a good package, but requires some kernel patches, and needs LOTS of
CPU).
http://linuxmedialabs.com - look at the lml33 card, which does realtime
mpeg compression. I haven't used this, but it looks promising.
Jay
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: RH7 and mysql ??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 18:06:42 GMT
That 111 socket number looks kinda funny.
You might check the socket/name file. From my Mandrake distro:
grep 111 /etc/services
sunrpc 111/tcp portmapper # RPC 4.0 portmapper TCP
sunrpc 111/udp portmapper # RPC 4.0 portmapper UDP
grep sql /etc/services
mysql 3306/tcp # MySQL
mysql 3306/udp # MySQL
>> Adam Weeks schrieb:
>> > ./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
>> > error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
>> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql
>> > .sock' (111)'
>> > Check that mysqld is running and that the socket:
>> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' ex
>> > ists!
>> >
>
>Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that there was the remote
>possibility that it didn't exist, then what, and how to create it??
>
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