Linux-Setup Digest #205, Volume #20 Mon, 11 Dec 00 22:13:08 EST
Contents:
what's everyone favorite FONT? (VP)
Re: Kernel (Glitch)
Re: Kernel ("TsTech")
Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ??? Tx (Thomas SMETS)
Recompiling Ghostscript (Carlo Madella)
Re: Modem recommendation wanted (Bob Martin)
Re: Kernel (Steve Martin)
Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ??? (Bob Hauck)
Installation (EEllenoff)
Re: Kernel (Kenny Pearce)
Re: does all laser printer work with linux (Bob Martin)
Re: lilo + MS-Win-ME + 2 drives (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: LILO gets stuck at LI (Gregory Davis)
Re: shutdown -h now (Gregory Davis)
Re: howto make boot floppy after install (E J)
Re: does all laser printer work with linux (Noble Pepper)
Re: Kernel sees only part of memory (E J)
madrake 7.1 uninstall help (ted metz)
Re: VT100 terminal to COM1 (E J)
Re: shutdown -h now ("Steve Bradley")
install adaptec 3200s array ?? (Carmelo 8P)
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:28:51 -0800
From: VP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what's everyone favorite FONT?
What's your favorite fonts and where can I get them? Thanks.
my current one is
-greek-smserif-medium-r-semicondensed--16-10-72-72-m-70-iso8859-7
I'm trying to get a more readable font, for using with emacs mostly.
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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:35:14 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel
i believe we are up to 2.4 now
David wrote:
>
> Glitch wrote:
> >
> > and kernel 2.2.18 is how old now?
> >
> > David wrote:
> > >
> > > For those interested kernel-2.2.18 is available from kernel.org
> > >
>
> Just released today.
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more work units than 98.887% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "TsTech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:01:17 GMT
Just the testing stages of 2.4.0
We're not there yet.
"Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i believe we are up to 2.4 now
>
> David wrote:
> >
> > Glitch wrote:
> > >
> > > and kernel 2.2.18 is how old now?
> > >
> > > David wrote:
> > > >
> > > > For those interested kernel-2.2.18 is available from kernel.org
> > > >
> >
> > Just released today.
> >
> > --
> > Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> > Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> > ID # 123538
> > Completed more work units than 98.887% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Thomas SMETS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ??? Tx
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 00:37:53 GMT
Heu .. sorry for my memory leak.
Yes the card is a PCI.
So they can share IRQ apparently
(Sometimes it gives problems)
Moving the card around may somethimes help.
Luck also help as some drivers are not IRQ -sharing enbled ...
Tx to every one who cared (and sometimes dared ;-)) ) to answer.
Thomas,
===========================
Thomas SMETS wrote:
>
> Well on slack 7.0,
> I got the following problem ...
> I've two 3COM cards modules 3c59x.o (I think)
> First card is fine (ping telnet http) but the second is
> on the same IRQ (9). The two cards put them selves on the IRQ 9 when I
> look in dmesg or in ifconfig -a.
>
> Do i have to turn PnP off ?
>
> If yes, how
>
> Thomas,
>
> p.s. I worote I think 'cause that's @ the office & I'm @ home
>
> --
> Sun Dec 3 20:28:18 CET 2000
>
> Thomas SMETS e-mail :
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Av. de la Braban�onne 133 / 3 Tel. : +32 (0)2 742.
> 05. 94.
> 1030 Bruxelles
> ======= Quote of the Day =========
> Don't be concerned, it will not harm you,
> It's only me pursuing something I'm not sure of,
> Across my dreams, with neptive wonder,
> I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love.
> ========= End of Quote ===========
> --
> Fri Dec 8 20:48:19 CET 2000
>
> Thomas SMETS e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Av. de la Braban�onne 133 / 3 Tel. : +32 (0)2 742. 05. 94.
> 1030 Bruxelles
> ======= Quote of the Day =========
> What is now proved was once only imagin'd.
> -- William Blake
> ========= End of Quote ===========
--
Mon Dec 11 22:42:04 CET 2000
Thomas SMETS e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Av. de la Braban�onne 133 / 3 Tel. : +32 (0)2 742. 05. 94.
1030 Bruxelles
======= Quote of the Day =========
If I had a Q-TIP, I could prevent th' collapse of NEGOTIATIONS!!
========= End of Quote ===========
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From: Carlo Madella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recompiling Ghostscript
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 00 02:20:00 CET
Hi,
In order to be able to use my Epson Stylus Color 480 under Linux,
I'm trying to recompile Ghostscript (6.01) to insert in it the plugin
"stp" (print-4.0b2).
Some strange things happen:
1) One of the files (gdevstp-escp2.c) from the print-4.0b2 pachet
gives an error in compilation: it lacks a declaration ("off_t"
symbol) i found in another file (gdevsnfb.c). I tried to copy that
declaration from a file to the other and it seems to work, but I
think there was some mistake in my configuration options.
2) When I activate X and then gv or xdvi, by which my newly recompiled
Ghostscript is called, I get a strange error message like the following:
> XIO: Fatal IO error 0 (Success) on X server ":0.0"^M
> gs: after 6894 requests (23 known processed) with 0 events remaining^M
> xdvik gs_io: Broken pipe
> ghostscript died unexpectedly.
and then, often but not always, my image appears correctly.
3) "stp" works a little with my above mentioned printer, but with
color prints goes wrong: black and red components seem ok while
yellow is shifted vertically (lowered) 3.5 mm or so, cyan is raised
by the same amount.
I hope someone will tell me what to do... thanks in advance.
Good bye
Carlo
P.S. Sorry, my English is very poor :-).
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem recommendation wanted
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:35:08 -0600
Jimbob wrote:
> I have a 3Com USRobotics 56K voice/fax modem and it works without fault under >both
>OS. Under linux it uses the generic modem driver so perhaps if a specific >driver
>could be obtained it might perform better.
>
> Jimbob
If it is a real modem no driver is required. What is a
"generic modem driver" under linux ?
--
Bob Martin
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:41:47 GMT
Glitch wrote:
> i believe we are up to 2.4 now
Not officially. According to www.kernel.org, the
latest is 2.4.0-test-11, which is a beta.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Two cards on IRQ 9 ???
Reply-To: bobh{at}haucks{dot}org
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 01:43:41 GMT
On 11 Dec 2000 12:40:30 -0600, Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> Sharing IRQ's is not a good idea under Linux, not good at all.
>>> These is a grossly misleading statement. IRQ sharing works - if
>>> the drivers and the hardware both support it.
>
>How?
By itself:
[snip]
Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7871 (rev 3).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12.
[snip]
Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium II (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12.
[snip]
>I could never make two different PCI cards share a IRQ, they simply
>pick one and end-up blocking IRQ's that I would like my ISA sound card to
>use...
Ah, you can't share between PCI and ISA. And you can't make a PCI card
use a particular IRQ, at least I don't know of a way to make it always
work on all motherboards (some MB's assign by slot, but this isn't
guaranteed by the PCI spec).
>I haven't seen in the BIOS any setting allowing me to force a PCI
>card to take a particular IRQ. Could anyonew explain how to do it?
You need to turn the problem around. Most PCI BIOS have a setting to
reserve IRQ's for "Legacy/ISA" or similar. This allows you to keep your
ISA cards out of the way of your PCI cards by reserving all of the IRQ's
you need for ISA and leaving the rest for PCI. After that, things
should work.
There are a few PCI cards that don't get along together, but most will.
--
-| Bob Hauck
-| To Whom You Are Speaking
-| http://www.haucks.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EEllenoff)
Date: 12 Dec 2000 01:46:58 GMT
Subject: Installation
Help me, I am trying to free myself of windows but cannot install Linux. My CD
drive is non-bootable and i cannot find any way to get into my bios and change
that. The CD drive will not work in DOS and when I use the boot disk it does
not find the CD drive, what should i do?
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From: Kenny Pearce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Kernel
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 17:52:48 -0800
David wrote:
> Glitch wrote:
> >
> > and kernel 2.2.18 is how old now?
> >
> > David wrote:
> > >
> > > For those interested kernel-2.2.18 is available from kernel.org
> > >
>
> Just released today.
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more work units than 98.887% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
no... 2.4.x is available dude...
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: does all laser printer work with linux
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:53:40 -0600
Dan wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I plan to buy a laser printer for my box, running RedHat7.0. My
> question is, will all laser printers from all makes work with RH7,
> dispite the fact that there are no "drivers" for it. In particular will
> the Brother HL-1240 and the Panasonic KX-P6500 work with my box.
>
> Thanks in advance for all help,
> Dan
If it does postscript it should be no problem. Check the
database at www.linuxprinting.org
--
Bob Martin
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo + MS-Win-ME + 2 drives
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:07:41 +1100
Try this:
#Win MEEEE booting begins.Why????
......
........
map-drive= 0x82
to= 0x80
map-drive=0x80
to=0x82
table /dev/hdc
#Win MEEEE ends. Thank God.
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Slak user from Ulladulla.
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> I would be glad if someone could give me a hint on the
> following lilo problem.
>
> The configuration
>
> lilo-21.5.1
> 2 disks (40 Gb each) attached as Master on
> IDE controller 0 and 1
> Linux is sitting von the first disk,
> Windows-Me on the second.
> This disk appears as /dev/hdc1 under Linux.
> Lilo boots any Linux-kernel (from the first
> disk) just fine but it hangs when it should
> boot Windows-Me of the 2nd disk.
> (The Windows-Me partition is since I
> can boot it when I set by BIOS to boot from
> the second disk)
>
> I have tried several options for lilo like
> LINEAR or LBA32
> table
> map_drive = 0x81
> to = 0x80
>
> but I still have no luck.
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
>
> Helmut Jarausch
> Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen
> D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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From: Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO gets stuck at LI
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:02:24 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Am a newbie that just installed Redhat 6.2. When I tried to install
> LILO the computer booted and the LI part of LILO came up and then got
> seriously stuck. I ultimately had to fdisk /MBR to be able to access
> Windows 2000 again.
>
> I have an 9GB SCSI hard drive that has Windows 2000 on it and I just
> installed a 36GB EIDE drive which has LINUX on it. I want to be able
> to dual boot to these two systems.
>
> BTW, when I go through Disk Druid, it let me partition the new drive
> just fine and the SCSI drive also showed up. A couple of screens later
> when the LILO configuration screen came up, there is no sign of the
> SCSI drive at all. A friend walked me through trying to add LILO
> manually and that is when we got stuck.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I remember this from a while ago. I think the problem is that the
partition that LILO is in crosses the 1024 cylinder bounds of the
hardrive.The good practice to get in is to partition a small /boot
partition and boot off of that.
Greg
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From: Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown -h now
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 21:06:28 -0500
korner wrote:
> I just installed Redhat 7. My question is, how can I turn off the computer?
> When I type "shutdown -h now", it shuts down, but the computer power is
> still on. I have to manually turn off the power. Thanks.
I have the same problem. APM has to be configured in the kernel, because my
comp goes into standby after inactivity. This is SuSE 7 by the way. What
happens is everything gets killed, and the OS goes down into runlevel 0 then
it sits and waits. The comp is still running and you have no command line.
At that point one must manually shut off the computer.
Greg
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: howto make boot floppy after install
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:18:24 GMT
Blank your floppies. Get your RH7.0 CD in your computer and boot.
Do an upgrade (do not do an install).
Just do an upgrade of a small program (such as a game).
It will perform a lilo creation include creating a RH7.0 boot floppy.
Anthony Ewell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Red Hat 7.0. When it came time
> to make the special boot floppy, I only had
> "unformatted" floppies and had to bypass the
> event.
>
> Is there a way to make this floppy up without
> having to go through the install process again?
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> p. s. my ISP is going through some NNTP growing
> pains and is not saving more than two days of postings.
> If replying, would you please respond to both my eMail
> address and the newsgroup.
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: does all laser printer work with linux
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:28:34 -0600
Dan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I plan to buy a laser printer for my box, running RedHat7.0. My
> question is, will all laser printers from all makes work with RH7,
> dispite the fact that there are no "drivers" for it. In particular will
> the Brother HL-1240 and the Panasonic KX-P6500 work with my box.
>
> Thanks in advance for all help,
> Dan
>
>
I don't know about the Panasonic but my HL-1240 works great, there is a
string to send before the job to put it in 600x600, that can be setup to
happen automagically.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Kernel sees only part of memory
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:38:38 GMT
Exchange your memory and get linux compatible memory. Just kidding :)
put append="mem=256M" in your /etc/lilo.conf and execute lilo.
$ su -
password: <secret>
# cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bak # just in case you screw up.
# vi /etc/lilo.conf # use your editor to modify lilo.conf
# this is an example of lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda3
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=dos
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
label=linux
read-only
# here is the append line to add
append="mem=256M"
root=/dev/hda4
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
# /sbin/lilo
# reboot # cross your fingers and 256M will be used.
Peter Linde wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am running RH Linux 7.0 on an HP Kayak, which has
> 2x733 Mhz processors and 256 Mb of memory. I also run Windows 2000
> from a separate disk. While booting Linux, the kernel reports and uses
> only 64 Mb of
> memory. Under Windows the entire memory is seen and used.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Peter Linde
> Lund Observatory
> Sweden
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ted metz)
Subject: madrake 7.1 uninstall help
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:40:26 GMT
Ok what i want to do is uninstall mandrake 7.1 then reinstall with
text as apposed to the graphical install because of a ram issue.
Aparantly i do not have enough ram 48mb for the graphical install i
have installed using the graphical but ran into some problems. Should
i unstall both linux and GRUB if so what is the best way to do this.
Also what about the boot sector,the graphical has installed GRUB and i
am not sure how to get around that. Does the text install methode
install GRUB or LILO i am wondering about the conflict in this area. .
Thanks in advance for your help.
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VT100 terminal to COM1
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:42:26 GMT
Use minicom it comes with Mandrake.
$ man minicom
MINICOM(1) MINICOM(1)
NAME
minicom - friendly serial communication program
SYNOPSIS
minicom [-somlz8] [-c on|off] [-S script] [-d entry]
[-a on|off] [-t term] [-p pty] [-C capturefile]
[configuration]
DESCRIPTION
minicom is a communication program which somewhat resembles the
shareware
program TELIX but is free with source code and runs under most
unices. Fea�
tures include dialing directory with auto-redial, support for
UUCP-style
lock files on serial devices, a seperate script language
interpreter, cap�
ture to file, multiple users with individual configurations, and
more.
Scott Ashley wrote:
> I need to be able to set up a VT100 terminal to COM 1, so I can access
> some telemetry devices. I've looked at term getty, etc..., but I've not
> been able to get any ideas on how to do this.
>
> Running Mandrake 7.0 on a Compaq Armada 1760, winmodem (blechhh), 800 X
> 600 video (sigh).
>
> If I can get this going, I won't have to go into Windows more than once
> a week or so...
>
> Thanks, Scott
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> " I'll leave now, Captain. It looks like you're about to go where
> everyone has
> gone before."
> Cmdr Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5
> (Convictions)
> -----------------------------------------------------------
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From: "Steve Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown -h now
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:58:48 GMT
In article <_TqY5.4239$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "korner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed Redhat 7. My question is, how can I turn off the computer?
> When I type "shutdown -h now", it shuts down, but the computer power is
> still on. I have to manually turn off the power. Thanks.
>
>
You need to have APM or ACPI enabled in your kernel and in your BIOS for your
machine to shut down automatically. If it's enabled in the BIOS, you
probably need to enable in the kernel and recompile.
--
Steve Bradley
Registered Linux User#187404
(register at www.linuxcounter.org)
ICQ#19864616
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carmelo 8P)
Date: 12 Dec 2000 03:03:58 GMT
Subject: install adaptec 3200s array ??
How do i add the module so i can install the array ??
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