Linux-Setup Digest #115, Volume #20 Mon, 27 Nov 00 11:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Deeper Secrets Part 2 ("Gary L. Dolan")
synchronise the date ("Xavier Houppertz")
Re: Memory reported wrong by Linux (Mark Worsdall)
SAA7146 onboard a DV500 (LAHAYE Olivier)
Re: parallel port not detected - why?? Pls help. ("Michael J. Barber")
Re: Benefits of GRUB? ("philo")
control ctrl alt del (system)
Re: Deeper Secrets Part 2 ("philo")
Re: control ctrl alt del (Oliver D. Bedford)
Re: Deeper Secrets Part 2 ("philo")
Re: Mounting cdrom after upgrade to 2.4.0-pre11 (Joe MacDonald)
Re: control ctrl alt del (Roger Leigh)
Re: chmod within a skript ("Martin Schmidt")
Re: synchronise the date (Stephane Rouberol)
Re: Help on rescuing my linux os on my PC ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: chmod within a skript (Eric)
Re: Linux and a software modem (Rod Smith)
Re: Problems booting RH7 after install ("Cheryl Freeman")
POP3 authentication problem ("ocheicky")
Re: newbie start ("Jimmy Stokes")
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From: "Gary L. Dolan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deeper Secrets Part 2
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:17:41 +0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> philo wrote:
>>
>> i received an excellent suggestion to try loadlin
>>
>> and it worked beautifully...even for a newcommer like me.
>>
>> but here is the really odd thing:
>>
>> when i boot to linux using loadlin... my ppp dial-up *does not* work...it
>> just hangs
>>
>> but when i go back and boot to linux from the boot disk ...all workes fine.
>> how can this be??? i tried both ways several times... plus i did a uname -r
>> first to make sure i did infact copy the correct image onto my windows
>> partition.
>>
>> plus: i created a linux directory on my windows drive C: to put the image
>> file
> I would *like* to, but I'm not sure if I can. When you use loadlin (glad it
> worked out for you) you were in windows previously. Windows set's up the
> modem for you, using it's settings. Now when you boot linux, these settings
> aren't restored to the default values. Try hard/soft resetting your modem. I
> don't know much about this, I've a winmodem :-( (That means no modem, just
> heavy CPU load)
>
> Eric
I had a similar problem with both my sound card and with my dsl
driver. The soft reboot worked. I have since changed my .bat file
for loadlin, adding something like c:\smartdrv /C (this is recommended
in the loadlin docs), and it works for these problems.
--
Gary Dolan
Debian GNU/Linux, Kernel 2.4.0-test10
FreeBSD 4.0
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From: "Xavier Houppertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: synchronise the date
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:27:36 +0100
hi there,
I run linux on different sites and would like to synchronise the date and
time with the master server automatically once a month (i will put the file
in cron.monthly).
How can i fo that ? By mean of ftp or telnet ???
thanks ,
Xavier
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From: Mark Worsdall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory reported wrong by Linux
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 11:27:53 +0000
In article <hW3+laO$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Beardmore
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>>On Thu, 09 Nov 2000 15:23:41 GMT, "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>They have been catching too much flack lately, lets
>>>give them a break. Your solutions should work. I'm not
>>
>>They are already broken, just like Linux.
>
>It's open source. If you don't like it, why don't you fix it ?
ER, maybe he doesn't do C
By implication of your open source, you want ONLY programmers capable of
fixing bugs to use Linux?
Uhm, are you a Gates undercover man?
My BIOS reports 96Mb and kernel 2.2.12 only see's 64Mb, the append
command in lilo.conf sorted this problem for me aswell.
Though since I haven't done any C since my bust (I mean since the middle
80's) I guess I am not suppose to be using Linux.
M.
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http://www.hinwick.demon.co.uk
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From: LAHAYE Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SAA7146 onboard a DV500
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:50:16 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
The Pinnacle DV500 DV capture board has 3 chipset on it:
- Texas Instruments TSB12LV23 OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394 Controller
- C-Cube Microsystems E4?
- Philips Semiconductors SAA7146
The ieee1394 works well, but I can't use the SAA7146 device.
It is recognized by the
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/drivers/media/video/stradis.o, but all
capture progs like kwintv ou xawtv ou broadcast2000a needs a channel wihich
doesn't exist.
What is its exact fuction? It seems to output MPEG2. Right?
Is there a usable program to test it?
--
Olivier LAHAYE
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From: "Michael J. Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parallel port not detected - why?? Pls help.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 07:03:47 -0500
You may want to check with the RedHat site, but I think that 6.1 had
problems with the parallel port.
I had the same problems but have not had any problems under 6.2 or 7.0.....
yet!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8vbj18$gsr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brendan Farthing) wrote:
> > Thanks, but I tried every Parallel port setting in the BIOS and it
> > made no difference.
> >
> > My motherboard is an ASUS P2B (very common board). I have checked
> > 'support' at ASUS to check if there are compatibility problems with
> > Linux or Red Hat but couldn't find anything.
> >
> > I couldn't find anything at Red Hat or Linx.org either.
> >
> > It looks like I may have to go without a printer which is extremely
> > annoying.
> >
> > On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 02:39:29 GMT, Ray Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >Had the same problem. My fix was to change the BIOS parallel port
> > >setting
> > >from "auto" to "enabled". auto worked for win98 but not redhat 7.
> > >
> > >Brendan Farthing wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I have just installed Red Hat 6.1 and am trying to get my HP
> > >> Laserjet-4MP printer to work.
> > >>
> > >> I use the 'control panel' to configure the printer but when it tries
> > >> to autodetect it finds nothing at /dev/lp0, lp1 or lp2.
> > >>
> > >> I have tried everything including playing with the parallel port
> > >> settings in the BIOS to using 'filters' in the print setup.
> > >>
> > >> My PC is dual boot and the printer works fine in Windows 98.
> > >>
> > >> Is there something really stupid that I should have done when setting
> > >> up Red Hat (I don't think I missed anything).
> > >>
> > >> Has anyone else experienced this problem? How can I go about
> > >> diagnosing exactly what is wrong? It is obviously not a hardware
> > >> problem because the printer works fine in Windows 98, just not in
> > >> Linux.
> > >>
> > >> Please also send replies vai email.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
> > >> Brendan...
> >
> >
>
> Here is how I managed. I went under windows and copied the IRQ and the
> I/O range that the BIOS has setup for my port. Then I went into Linux,
> opened /etc/modules.conf and added a line ther that looks like that:
>
> options parport_pc io=0x378,irq=5,auto
>
> where io was the setting that windows gave me, and it's probably the
> same for you, and irq is again what Windows told me. Then I rebooted and
> the printer was detected properly with Printtool. However, for reasons
> that I can't figure out yet, my printer still won't print. I hope this
> helps you.
>
> P.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Benefits of GRUB?
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 06:10:42 -0600
originally... lilo was not able to boot to a partition beyond the 1024th
cyl. grub was developed to solve that problem plus give you a graphical
display...which lilo doesn't have.
there is now a version of lilo which does not have the 1024 cyl
limit.
my advice is : if it works...leave it...
--
Philo
website : www.plazaearth.com/philo
dos win lin os/2 cp/m nde beos
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: control ctrl alt del
Date: 27 Nov 2000 20:10:57 +0800
How do I control such that when I press ctrl alt del, such that nothing happend.
--
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Paul Wong Peng Kai
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From: "philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deeper Secrets Part 2
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 06:19:21 -0600
thanks for the reply Eric...
when i used loadlin, the machine shut down and restarted in dos...
then linux loaded, so i'm sure no windows setting could have been
retained...
plus i checked the configuration (in linux) and nothing looked different.
however...i decided to just forget it for now and i've now dual booting
os/2 and mandrake7 on a 2 gig drive...lilo has no problems there.
oh...btw:
before i removed linux from my 15 gig drive...
my file manager started working again...but it took 3 reboots!
it was a great day for learning though...
and that is my main reason for using linux anyway.
heck if i just wanted to go on the "net"
a 486 with a 200 meg drive running win3x would do the job just fine!
--
Philo
website : www.plazaearth.com/philo
dos win lin os/2 cp/m nde beos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver D. Bedford)
Subject: Re: control ctrl alt del
Date: 27 Nov 2000 13:44:11 +0100
system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I control such that when I press ctrl alt del, such that nothing happend.
>
You might want to have a look at /etc/inittab
Oliver
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From: "philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deeper Secrets Part 2
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 06:44:30 -0600
thnaks Gary...
i'll have to get back to my experiment soon...
i guess the /c switch would clear the buffer...
which would explain the funny behavior
--
Philo
website : www.plazaearth.com/philo
dos win lin os/2 cp/m nde beos
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From: Joe MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting cdrom after upgrade to 2.4.0-pre11
Date: 27 Nov 2000 12:53:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey all, I hope someone can help me.
> I had a relatively fresh Slackware 7.1 install (kernel 2.2.16) and everything
> was/is fine with it but to play with the new DRI XFree86 stuff I decided to
<deletia> . . .
So I thought I should post a follow-up on this. I took my .config file from my
2.4.0-pre11 source tree and used it in a freshly downloaded 2.4.0-pre10 tree
and voila! My cdrom not only mounts but I can see all the files in the
filesystem.
Any of the kernel-devel team reading this? I'll be happy to provide more
details if anyone is interested.
-Joe.
--
Thanks.
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Joe MacDonald (x35193) |
| ATM Software Designer - MED Passport ATM Core |
| 9Q13 |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Nortel Networks |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Leigh)
Subject: Re: control ctrl alt del
Date: 27 Nov 2000 13:08:17 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 27 Nov 2000 20:10:57 +0800, system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I control such that when I press ctrl alt del, such that nothing happend.
Have a look in /etc/inittab.
There should be a line with ctrl-alt-del in it, or something similar. Just
comment this out, or change it to something else.
HTH,
Roger
--
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From: "Martin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chmod within a skript
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:10:45 +0100
>
> I beleive the preferred way to run shell scripts as super user is to
> run it through sudo.
>
> Villy
Sudo will ask the user for his password then , right ?
That will be a drawback in my case .
Martin
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From: Stephane Rouberol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: synchronise the date
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:01:07 +0100
Xavier Houppertz wrote:
>
> hi there,
>
> I run linux on different sites and would like to synchronise the date and
> time with the master server automatically once a month (i will put the file
> in cron.monthly).
>
> How can i fo that ? By mean of ftp or telnet ???
>
> thanks ,
>
> Xavier
have a look to ntp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help on rescuing my linux os on my PC
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:28:21 +0000
Jianxin Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> Hi , I have Linux mandrak 7.0 installed on my PC. Yestoday, I
> accidentally changed the configuration file (XF86Setup), and afterward,
> I can not start the X server. The os constantly tries to start the
> server, and left the screen blank most of the time. Is there any fix for
> it?
Yes. You can force linux to boot to a specific run time at boot up so that
it skips the X startup altogether.
Type 'linux 2' at the LILO prompt.
I guess that I may have to use the flopy boot disk to start the os
> or reinstall the os, but something suprizing happened after I tried to
> put the flopy into the drive: lilo ignores the flopy disk and still
> tries to start the os from the hard drive(I am sure the flopy drive is
> woring properly) !
Is the BIOS set up to boot from floppy?
It doesn't matter anyway, as you don't need to go to any drastic measures
such as reinstalling for something as simple as that.
I guess that I may need to change the CMOS settings,
> so I rebooted the machine and hitted the DEL key to invoke the CMOS
> setup, I got another surprise: I can not access the CMOS setup screen!
> the computer askes me to "Please enter current password:"!
You can return the BIOS to factory settings in most machines by turning off,
removing the battery for a few seconds and turning back on...
It looks like someone might have been messing with your machine, or it was
set up like that when you got it and you've never looked at the BIOS
before...
> I have never setup any password using the option of the setup superuser
> password in the CMOS, I had no trouble before in accessing the CMOS
> setup. What had happed here? What should I do to enable the CMOS access
> and rescue my linux os? Please help!
See above.
:)
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chmod within a skript
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:03:49 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Martin Schmidt wrote:
>
> >
> > I beleive the preferred way to run shell scripts as super user is to
> > run it through sudo.
> >
> > Villy
>
> Sudo will ask the user for his password then , right ?
> That will be a drawback in my case .
>
> Martin
Not if you set it up right,
check the NOPASSWD option of sudo.
It's (as usually) in the manpages
Eric
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux and a software modem
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:46:26 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do I install a software modem under Linux. It concerns the Legato
> SoftK56, Data, Fax, Speakerphone PCI Modem.
Check http://www.linmodems.org. Your particular model might or might not
even be supported, but if there's anything at all, that's the site
that's most likely to have information about it. You'll probably need to
know what chipset the thing uses, not just the brand and model number.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Cheryl Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problems booting RH7 after install
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:44:30 -0500
Thanks Eric, I was finally able to get the system booted and after checking
/etc/lilo.conf, /sbin/lilo did the trick.
More on the boot problem...
Every time I tried to boot from the boot floppy the
system would hang during the SCSI initialization. I
tried running loadlin from DOS and had the same
problem. I even tried booting from a Debian 2.1 boot
disk. Same problem.
Finally I did one last installation of RH7 using the
text mode install. I rebooted and left to do some
things around the house. Came back about an hour later
and lo and behold there was the RH login screen!!
It now appears that the initial SCSI reset takes a
VERY long time (either that or I'm VERY impatient). Subsequent reboots don't
take nearly as long. Don't know why, but it worked.
Eric wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Cheryl Freeman wrote:
>>
>> I just upgraded to RH7 from RH6.0. The install went clean but the system
>> will not boot from floppy or disk.
>>
>
>I've seen more messages like this, appearantly the LILO suplied with
>RH7.0 is broken
>(Yes it works on some systems, I know, but it may be a specific setup or
>something)
>
>Try using a bootfloppy from RH6.x, update LILO and rerun `/sbin/lilo`
>
>Eric
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From: "ocheicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: POP3 authentication problem
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:23:57 GMT
Hi I've got a serious problem setting up an intranet mail service using
Mandrake 7.1
I'm using Sendmail 8.9.3 for smtp and GNU-POP3d 0.9.8 as pop server.
All clients are not able to retrieve their mails. If I trie to connect to my
mdk box trough win98/telnet, I always get the message ERR BAD LOGIN, which
means my password is not recognized by the pop server authentication module.
Could someone give me any hints about setting up such a mail system.
Should I use another pop server or an IMAP server (I learned it was a bit
reliable, and useful). I really need your posts and replies.
Cheick
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From: "Jimmy Stokes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie start
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 10:56:08 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dimitris Tsakoniatis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to start with Linux and I dont know how. I start with
> Dos on PCs and then Windows, and I want to start Linux from there too. I
> download some small Linux versions but I cant find the way to make them
> boot from my hard disk. I want to learn the basics like formating,
> partitioning, booting from the command promt. Also can I download what I
> need in pieces or I have to get one package from a distributor. I hope I
> get understood. Thank you for your time.
I recommend getting a distribution such as Mandrake and installing that.
I've heard that lots of newbies like Mandrake. You can either buy the
whole set or buy a cheapo CD (which doesn't come with the manual,
support, and extra programs) from cheapbytes (www.cheapbytes.com). That
website will sell you a CD for about 3 USD.
Linux installation has become a lot more simple as Linux distributions
have matured. The hardest thing you may run into is the partitioning.
Feel free to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have
questions. And remove the "snoo" from my email address if you really
want to email me.
Regards,
Jimmy
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