Linux-Setup Digest #226, Volume #20 Fri, 15 Dec 00 05:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: SiS 6326 (Roger Michael Seip)
Need insights into Slackware setup.... (Bob the old greybeard)
PAM - shadow or no? (Leon Wood)
Re: Install Corel Linux 1.0 (Graham Wilson)
Re: quickcam (jinp)
Re: Logitech wheel mouse 'TrackMan Marble+' in Mandrake 7.2 (=))
Re: Installing StarOffice 5.2 (Newbie) (David)
Re: please help with kernel build!! (Jorgibilis)
Re: quickcam (jinp)
Re: Paging feezes machine ANNOYING (Michael Heiming)
Re: linux Assembler (Lew Pitcher)
Rawrite ("Jason Greenbaum")
Problems during RH7.0 shutdown (Jorge)
Re: PAM - shadow or no? ("Martin Schmidt")
Re: General Kernel Compile Question (Michael Heiming)
Re: xterm default font ("Kousik Nandy")
Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem (Daz)
Re: Installing StarOffice 5.2 (Newbie) (Daz)
Re: Rawrite (Linux User)
Re: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem (Daz)
ADIC FastStor DLT ("Steve Loughran")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roger Michael Seip)
Subject: Re: SiS 6326
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 04:44:52 GMT
On 30 Nov 2000 20:50:46 GMT, Steven John Romej
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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]
I just got my SiS 6326 card working under RH 5.2 + XFree86 3.3.5.
>From my experience I would suggest that options "no_bitblt" is the
biggie -- be sure that is set.
If you'd like any additional info, just email me.
Roger
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From: Bob the old greybeard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need insights into Slackware setup....
Date: 13 Dec 2000 17:01:37 GMT
I am trying to set up a slackware 7.1 box and am missing the boat in
getting LILO set up correctly. I mostly use BSD/AIX/Solaris boxes
and it has been several years since I last installed a Linux box.
On setting up the partitions, I use the entire disk, starting root
at cylinder 0. Everything installs fine, but, when I get to the
point of installing LILO, it errors out with a file system full
error 139 thing, and won't write the boot properly. Reboot dumps
registers all over the screen, indicating that it really did not
write a boot sector. On the install I chose it to write to the mbr,
and was expecting it to write sector 0, properly. I noticed that
there was also an option to write to another location or something
like that rather than the mbr. Which should be used? What I want
is no dualboot loader of any kind, but only boot directly into Linux.
I don't want to have to use a boot floppy to correctly boot it up.
Do I need to set the root partition to one cylinder in from the first
cylinder so that LILO has room to write its boot blocks, or what?
Any insights into the correct incantations are appreciated.
Thanks
Bob
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From: Leon Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PAM - shadow or no?
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:58:17 -0800
I just recently upgraded to Mandrake 6.0 and find that I am now unable
to log in as a user, although logging in as root is still fine.
Furthermore, I cannot seem to set a password for my user account.
Upon some investigating I have found that /etc/pam.d/password and
etc/pam.d/login both have a "shadow" parameter in the first
authorization line. I have not installed the Shadow Suite, and have no
etc/shadow.
I have no real need to install the Shadow Suite so can I simply remove
the "shadow" parameter manually and expect everything to work? Is it
better that I install the Shadow Suite? I'd like to keep things
simple, yet effective.
TIA
Leon Wood
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From: Graham Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install Corel Linux 1.0
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:19:25 -0800
>
> Laurie Murphy wrote:
<chomp>
> > Will it wipe
> > out my data and windows 98? Can I have linux and windows on the same
> > drive?
<chomp>
Jason wrote:
> Yes you can run linux and windows
> when you install it will give you the option of where you want to install
> linux -- pick use free space on disk do not pick take over entire disk as
> this will erase windows
>
Of course, you probably did not partition your drive before you
installed windog, never imagining at the time that, one day, you would
want to add another operating system.
Apparently, it's possible to repartition the drive without losing all
your data, but I wouldn't count on it. Your best bet is to get another
HDD and choose the "take over entire disk" option, finally using a
floppy to boot Linux. I did this, it works great, and I have space to
back everything up by having each os use the other's drive.
If you choose to go with a single drive, see the Dual Boot HOWTO. It's
available at The Linux Documentation Project online, along with a whole
bunch of other information that you'll need before you're done. Good
luck. G.
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From: jinp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: quickcam
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:22:02 -0500
It is usb. Kernel 2.2.18 just out with usb backport, and
http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~acher/quickcam/
has the driver, actually it has an application to use it.
Thanks
jinp
Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> jinp wrote:
>
>> I have quickcam driver set up, can any one tell me what application I
>> can use to test if it is working?
>
>
>
> How did you make it work?
>
> Is a USB or parport version?
>
>> Thanks
>> jinp
>
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
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From: =) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech wheel mouse 'TrackMan Marble+' in Mandrake 7.2
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x,comp.emacs
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 06:11:42 GMT
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Hi, it's me, the jackoff who for the last three weeks told everybody to
> 'choose intellimouse' in the Mandrake 7.2 installation, because that's
> what worked on the 'test your mouse' part, instead of the distracting
> 'Logitech' choices given.
> Well of course it doesn't actually work once one gets into daily use. So,
> what does an 'Logitech TrackMan Marble+' user actually do to get the
> scroll wheel
> actually working? Say even for netscape & emacs & emacs -nw...? Sure,
> you're gonna mention the usual links, but let's not be like me and not
> actually have day to day proof of a working solution before posting...
> --
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> Tel:+886-4-5854780; starting in year 2001: +886-4-25854780
>
>
thanks for the help. but sending the bug report to mandrake does not fix my
problem I am having now. What should I do to resove this problem???
What is caml anyway?
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing StarOffice 5.2 (Newbie)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 06:13:23 GMT
J�r�me UZEL wrote:
>
> David a �crit :
> > You can install it as root by using the "/net" switch
> > "staroffice.file.bin/net". Then all users on the system will have access
> > to staroffice if they want it. Just make a symlink from the "soffice"
> > file to "/usr/bin/soffice" so that users can run it.
>
> I have not been abble to use the /net option with the release 6 (aka
> openOffice)
>
> Any idea ?
I haven't tried openoffice yet.
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From: Jorgibilis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: please help with kernel build!!
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 06:16:12 GMT
I think you forgot to copy the new map file over to the boot directory...
Jorge.
Adam Weeks wrote:
> "Michael V. Ferranti" wrote:
> Won't boot, please help!
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From: jinp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: quickcam
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:44:33 -0500
hm, the application quickcam cannot find /dev/quick. Any help?
Thanks
jinp
jinp wrote:
> It is usb. Kernel 2.2.18 just out with usb backport, and
>
> http://wwwbode.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~acher/quickcam/
> has the driver, actually it has an application to use it.
>
> Thanks
> jinp
>
> Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
>
>> jinp wrote:
>>
>>> I have quickcam driver set up, can any one tell me what application I
>>> can use to test if it is working?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> How did you make it work?
>>
>> Is a USB or parport version?
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> jinp
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Salut,
>> Sinner
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:38:44 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Paging feezes machine ANNOYING
Hello,
your swap partition should be the first device on your HD or better on a separate HD
to speed it up, you didn't mention what you're doing with your box, for home use 320
MB
is normaly enough. As server it depends on what you're doing.
Linux should never ever swap, easy solution would be to just plug in more RAM.
Lookup with ps -aux which processes are using up your RAM and be sure to understand
the difference between RSS and VSZ...
It's normal that IDE drives are slower, not only the disks, but a SCSI controller
has much computing
power build in that IDE hasn't and it has to eat up more CPU cycles....:-(
Good luck
Michael Heiming
James Knowles wrote:
> I have RedHat 7 with updates installed on an Athlon (ASUS K7V mobo) with an
> annoying behaviour.
>
> Everytime the machine pages it freezes until paging is done. This is *highly*
> annoying and don't remember this happening on any of my other machines. This
> machine has an IDE drive with DMA enabled. The other machines are SCSI and don't
> seem to have this problem. Is it an IDE thing?
>
> Paging doens't happen a lot as I have 320MB RAM in the machine, but it still
> happens when I'm pushing it hard.
>
> --
> A leader...is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He
> maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to
> a mob.
> - Stilgar ("Dune")
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux Assembler
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 21:31:01 -0500
Roger wrote:
>
> (i did post the following on alt.lang.asm -- but i think either everyone's
> out to lunch or they're all deceased from that era!)
>
> simple question...about linux
>
> what's the assebler in linux called?
Generally, the assembler is called 'as' (for 'as'sembler)
However, there are variations ('as86', etc.)
Also, recognize that Linux has been ported to many different
architectures, each with it's own assembler. The assembler for the S390
architecture won't look like the assembler for the ARM or i386
architectures, and may not even be named the same name.
> (optional, dissasembler?)
>
> as i said, quite simple! lol
>
> --
> Created with Linux Mandrake 7.2!
> www.linux-mandrake.com
> (remove 'nospamfilter-' in email to reply!)
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From: "Jason Greenbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rawrite
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 02:47:21 -0500
For some reason, I can't get rawrite to run properly on my computer. I
create a boot disk and execute rawrite, but then the computer just hangs. I
have tried to use it on several other systems and have run into similar
problems. Is there any other program that I can use to write image files to
a floppy?
-J
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From: Jorge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems during RH7.0 shutdown
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:04:24 GMT
Hello,
I was previously using RH 6.0 (hedgewig) with its standard kernel and
I whenever I issued the command: "shutdown -h 0", the operating system
would go through its shutdown procedures, and eventually print to the
screen: "System is halted." Short after that (1 sec or 2), the computer
would be shutdown automatically.
However, when I try this same thing in RH 7.0 (original kernel), it goes through
the shutdown procedure and prints "System is halted." but it DOES NOT
shutdown the computer. How can I get the RH6.0 shutdown behaviour out of RH 7.0???
Thanks.
Jorge.
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From: "Martin Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PAM - shadow or no?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:15:59 +0100
Leon Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I just recently upgraded to Mandrake 6.0 and find that I am now unable
> to log in as a user, although logging in as root is still fine.
> Furthermore, I cannot seem to set a password for my user account.
>
> Upon some investigating I have found that /etc/pam.d/password and
> etc/pam.d/login both have a "shadow" parameter in the first
> authorization line. I have not installed the Shadow Suite, and have no
> etc/shadow.
>
> I have no real need to install the Shadow Suite so can I simply remove
> the "shadow" parameter manually and expect everything to work? Is it
> better that I install the Shadow Suite? I'd like to keep things
> simple, yet effective.
>
> TIA
>
> Leon Wood
Are you aware that not using shadow passwords is a
security hole ?
If connected to the Internet i wouldnt do that .
Martin
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From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: General Kernel Compile Question
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:38:36 +0100
Hello,
do a depmod -a 2.2.18 after compile/install if you get "unresolved
...blah..blah" reboot
and try it again, there should be no errors then, if you've done everything
right....:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Sysadmin
".Adam." wrote:
> Just a question that has been circling my brain....
>
> Hypothetically, a machine has Linux v2.2.14 with a whole bunch of modules
> compiled and present in the /lib/modules/2.2.14 directory.
>
> If kernel 2.2.18 get configured, compiled (make dep;make;make modules;make
> modules_install), the modules get installed in /lib/modules/2.2.18.
>
> Now, how do modules present in the /etc/conf.modules file get loaded from
> the /lib/modules/2.2.18 directory... I'm assuming that v2.2.14 modules will
> not work with 2.2.18...
>
> I guessing there must be a symbolic link somewhere, but I can't find it on
> my RH6.2 or 7.0 install..
>
> Thanks in advance..
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From: "Kousik Nandy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xterm default font
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:23:52 +0530
Edit the file (create if one doesn't exists) .Xdefaults in your
home dir:
$ vim ~/.Xdefaults
Then add the following line (a single line, no break) /* change the
font name to your choice */:
xterm*font:
-b&h-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
If you want you can add these lines /* all are your choices */ :-
xterm*background: Black
xterm*foreground: White`
Etc. RTFM of xterm (the RESOURCES section) to find out what else
you can customize.
Kousik.
"Graham Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The initial font on my xterm windows is too small. I've looked
> everywhere I can think of, ...
> I just know there must be a way to configure xterm so it opens
> with a
> larger font as its default, but the man pages and the wmaker docs
> don't seem to have the answer.
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2 Dual Boot
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:41:00 +0100
Could you please post the result of `fdisk -l /dev/hda`
hda should be the device you are installing on, if mandrake claims it to be
hde, that's odd. Are you installing on a disc on a PCI ide controller card?
Or do you use the onboard IDE controller?
Eric
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From: Daz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:27:58 +0000
Check the permissions for files below and including /usr/local/office52.
Make sure your user has read and execute access to all files, etc.
Another option would be to create a unique software group, chgrp the all
the files under /usr/local/office52 (including the directory) to be this
new group. Then add your user to this group in /etc/groups.
Daz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was trying to run the setup program as the user... The docs seemed to
> reccomend that the following be done:
> 1) soffice_binary.bin /net
> 2) /usr/local/office52/setup <-- as user to copy the needed 1-2 megs
> over
> 3) ~username/office52/soffice <-- to start star office after step 2
>
> This works properly if all 3 are done for root. As soon as #2 and #3
> are done as a user, all I can get in the case of #3 is the same setup
> program as #2 yeilds.... (ie, it wants to copy the files to my user
> directory again).
>
> I've tried /net and -net.... I'm choosing the default install and
> sticking it in /usr/local/office52. The user specific files do get
> copied into user (or root) directories, but only root can actually start
> star office.
>
> Hope that clarifies..... Symlinking /usr/local/bin/soffice -->
> /usr/local/soffice/program/soffice doesn't really help.
>
> Thanks for the help...... I swear I'd gotten this to work in whatever
> the latest release was before Sun took over, but it's been awhile....
>
>
> > If you install it as root using the /net switch and then try to run it
> > as a user it still has to install the user files it doesn't do a
> > complete install again.
> >
> > Once installed as root just make a symlink from
> > "/usr/local/office52/soffice" to "/usr/bin/soffice" then as a user
> just
> > enter "soffice" at the command line.
> >
> > --
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From: Daz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing StarOffice 5.2 (Newbie)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:32:21 +0000
There is no point in running the /net option if you are going to do this.
The network option is done to ensure common files are stored where everyone
can get at them (to reduce space if more than one user needs to use
staroffice).
You are supposed to run the setup program which will copy user specific
files to your home directory (work area, settings, document locations, etc).
Daz
David wrote:
> Paul Beattie wrote:
> >
> > I have been trying to run it as root.
> >
> > I will try to reinstall it as a non-root user, but this will have to
> > wait until tonight.
> >
> > Thanks for you help, I'll let you know what happens.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers
> > Paul
>
>
> You can install it as root by using the "/net" switch
> "staroffice.file.bin/net". Then all users on the system will have access
> to staroffice if they want it. Just make a symlink from the "soffice"
> file to "/usr/bin/soffice" so that users can run it.
>
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From: Linux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rawrite
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:37:43 -0800
Hello,
You don't say at what point rawrite hangs, but it sounds like the copy of
rawrite or the boot image you are trying to create a disk from is corrupt.
This is more then likely the problem since you tried it on several
different systems with the same problem. I would try downloading new
copies.
Also instead of using the dos program rawrite you can use the "dd" command
to create a boot disk from an image on a linux system with this command:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
Regards,
Jim H
Jason Greenbaum wrote:
> For some reason, I can't get rawrite to run properly on my computer. I
> create a boot disk and execute rawrite, but then the computer just hangs.
> I have tried to use it on several other systems and have run into similar
> problems. Is there any other program that I can use to write image files
> to a floppy?
>
> -J
>
>
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From: Daz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: staroffice 5.2 /net setup problem
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:39:28 +0000
You are supposed to run the setup program after a network install for each
user wanting to use staroffice. This will copy user specific files to your
home directory (work area, settings, document locations, etc).
This is in the pdf manual under network install (page 39 and 40).
I have never tried just calling soffice, so if it does do as you say and
copies the files then I will have to believe you, but it isn't documented.
Daz
David wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I was trying to run the setup program as the user... The docs seemed to
> > reccomend that the following be done:
> > 1) soffice_binary.bin /net
> > 2) /usr/local/office52/setup <-- as user to copy the needed 1-2 megs
> > over
> > 3) ~username/office52/soffice <-- to start star office after step 2
> >
> > This works properly if all 3 are done for root. As soon as #2 and #3
> > are done as a user, all I can get in the case of #3 is the same setup
> > program as #2 yeilds.... (ie, it wants to copy the files to my user
> > directory again).
> >
> > I've tried /net and -net.... I'm choosing the default install and
> > sticking it in /usr/local/office52. The user specific files do get
> > copied into user (or root) directories, but only root can actually start
> > star office.
> >
> > Hope that clarifies..... Symlinking /usr/local/bin/soffice -->
> > /usr/local/soffice/program/soffice doesn't really help.
> >
> > Thanks for the help...... I swear I'd gotten this to work in whatever
> > the latest release was before Sun took over, but it's been awhile....
>
>
> Once you have it installed,
> (If you (root) installed it into /usr/local/office52)
> all you should need to do is to make a symlink
>
> ln -s /usr/local/office52/soffice /usr/bin/soffice
>
> Then login as a user and at a command line enter "soffice" this will
> start the installation of the user files. For every user that wants to
> run the program he/she will need to run "soffice" which if it is the
> first time the user has run it, it will install the user files for that
> user.
>
> I don't know where you came up with #2 about copying files over to the
> user. The files have to be installed by the program.
>
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From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ADIC FastStor DLT
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:57:27 -0000
Hi all
Anyone using an ADIC FastStor DLT unit on their Linux box? More importantly,
anyone got mtx (or any other tape changing software) working with it?
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