Linux-Setup Digest #280, Volume #20 Sun, 24 Dec 00 08:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Modem detected on ttyS1but how do I connect in Mandrake 7.2? (mpulliam)
Re: odd Linux install problem (mpulliam)
Re: SuSE 6.4 - services not starting at boot (David)
Re: How to set color depth using GNOME starting as GDM? (David)
Re: A couple of Mandrake 7.2 questions... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Wierd display problem with Mandrake 7.2 (Texstar)
Realport2 ISDN Setup ("Nicolas Melchert")
Re: Upgrade to rpm 4.0 has problems ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Stopping Graphical Logons (Paul Colquhoun)
Re: Wierd display problem with Mandrake 7.2 ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: SuSE 6.4 - services not starting at boot (Michael Heiming)
Re: Stopping Graphical Logons (Michael Heiming)
Re: Red Hat 7.0 and Windows 2000 (MWencek)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Modem detected on ttyS1but how do I connect in Mandrake 7.2?
Date: 24 Dec 2000 08:11:33 GMT
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 20:47:39 GMT,
Peter S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> . ...I havei [Mandrake]
>version 7.2 and the modem is detected properly ...
>... When I choose "Configure network
connection" and fill in the ISP
>info I get an offer "Do you wish to
connect the Internet?" I say yes ...
Best thing to do at this point in the MK 7.2
install is to say "no" if you have anything
odd about your modem setup.
I always have to reset the IRQ for my modem
when configuring a new install, and MK
doesn't have any way of knowing this. It
thought it detected my modem properly during
install, but it didn't know about the IRQ
anomaly.
As someone else noted, all you have to do
in this instance is put your setserial line
in the appropriate rc file later and test your
internet connection manually instead of
letting MK do it during the install.
>How is it that the thousands of people
with Mandrake 7.2 do not report this
>problem?
I experienced the same problem but guessed it
ahead of time and made the needed correction
before MK got all confused. This is
just because I have done a whole lot of
installs on my hardware, not because I'm
some guru.
>Is there no means to access the previously
entered modem config in KDE and
>to click on an icon like
(Kppp was in version 7.1) to connect
I can get in to HardDrake after installation
by following the menus Configuration/Hardware/
HardDrake (where you'll find the modem config
panel). Not sure how KDE has this set up
(I'm using ice) but it has to be there someplace.
You can reconfigure the modem in the appropriate
section of HardDrake.
It seems to me KDE had a real
weird icon for the dialer and I didn't recognize
it at first.
MP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: odd Linux install problem
Date: 24 Dec 2000 08:27:37 GMT
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 16:04:40 GMT,
Martigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[snippage] I can get to the i
graphical install but then the
>Keyboard and mouse lock up. I did a
text install and worked until I tried
>to "startx" then Gnome opened and the
Keyboard and mouse locked up again.
I have had the modem lock up the mouse
when they were both trying to get at
the same interrupt. Before trying to
start X, take a look at /proc/interrupts
and see what is where. (cat /proc/interrupts)
Each device has to have its own IRQ number.
Maybe for some reason the mouse and kbd
are both trying to get at, say, IRQ 3.
If you move something to a different
interrupt at that point (you don't
have to make it permanent yet) you
might be able to start X. (read man
setserial to derive the needed command
for changing an IRQ)
If that works, put the setserial
command in rc.local and it'll select
the correct interrupt by itself
in subsequent startups.
If that doesn't work, check your
X configuration file (XF86Config)
for strangenesses, or post the mouse
and keyboard sections here to see if
somebody can catch what's going wrong.
If your problem only happens when you
try to start X, that can be the
file where the trouble is.
Worth a try, anyhow. Maybe someone
else had a better suggestion.
HTH
MP
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.4 - services not starting at boot
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 08:40:27 GMT
Blackberry wrote:
>
> I've got a SuSE 6.4 system.
> It defaults to enter runlevel 3 when booted.
> In /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, as per the SuSE boot philosophy, there are symlinks to
> scripts to start up mysql, named, and smb (S11named, S20mysql, S20smb). The
> system created those.
> Those software packages are installed and work fine.
>
> When I boot, they are not started.
> When I run them manually, they start up and run fine.
>
> There are no messages in /var/log/messages about any service except named, and
> it does not generate any messages at all at boot time (not even errors). It
> generates log messages normally when I start it manually.
>
> How do I get these services to start automatically at startup? I tried creating
> my own scripts (which don't do any checking, they just issue the start commands)
> and linking them into rc3.d also, but they don't run either.
I don't use Suse am am not familiar with what Suse uses.
man setup
man tksysv
man ntsysv
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to set color depth using GNOME starting as GDM?
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 08:43:10 GMT
"pete@x" wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> I just installed GNOME. When I try to start it as
>
> $startx -- -bpp 24
>
> where my .xinitrc is like this:
>
> ------------
> #!/bin/bash
> panel &
> exec gnome-wm
> ------------
>
> It comes up, but it sort of not working right. But When I start
> it by typing 'gdm' and then select 'gnome' as the session to use,
> then it works better (I can now see all the icons up, does not
> crash as much, etc..., I suspect when I use my .xinitrc I have a
> wrong path somethere, and it is picking an old gnome on my disk?
> not sure, but when I start it as gdm, I am using root account, and
> that does not have the problem)
>
> Any way, this is not the problem, I can just type 'gdm' and startup GNOME,
> my question is that it seems to default to 8 bits per pixel in this case,
> and I want to run it at depth 24 instead. not sure how to do that.
>
> I looked at /etc/opt/gnome/gdm/gdm.conf for a place to set this,
> but can;t seem to see it.
>
> any idea?
>
> thanks!
> pete
Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config down past the modelines.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A couple of Mandrake 7.2 questions...
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 10:05:35 +0100
Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> option to start *either* - I assume by typing startx and startkde, or
> something like that - but I don't know how to get KDE running in Mdk
> 7.2. Believe it or not, typing 'startx' started it ok the first time
> I installed it a while ago, but the second time it starts Gnome
> instead. What gives? The LINUX POCKETBOOK says, very unhelpfully,
Presumably the entry in your .xinitrc or .xsession (or .xclients or
whatever your system uses) has changed from startkde to startgnome ;-).
> "If you're currently in Gnome, log off and login again after selecting
> KDE as your desktop environment."
What's unhelpful about that? They mean you to select on the menu at the
login screen that lets you choose which window manager you plan to use
for the coming session.
> Secondly, I'd like to have the startup screen NOT clear before
> presenting the login prompt. The LPB says to add the '- noclear'
It'll be "-noclear", surely! But it's not in my getty manpage.
> switch to my inittab file, but all I get is the 'I'm gonna hang for 5
> minutes before trying again' jive which means there's a typo in that
> file. What's the correct syntax? I've tried about half a dozen
> variations.
Like? What does the manpage say?
Peter
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From: Texstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wierd display problem with Mandrake 7.2
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 10:00:54 GMT
You can manually edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 File or you can try using
xvidtune to adjust you monitor. There is a little tutoral at:
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/Xvidtune/xvidtune.html
Cheers!
Dawnmist wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd originally tried Linux with Red Hat 6.0, and had some problems with
> the X config trying to swap the horizontal and vertical sync rates for my
> monitor, resulting in a display that only took up about 3/4 of the width
> of the screen and was slightly larger than the height of my screen. In
> setting those sync rates myself, the problem went away.
>
> I've recently replaced the old Linux with Mandrake 7.2, and am having the
> same problems with the display. However, I cannot get into the section
> where I had previously set the rates myself in Red Hat. I'm currently
> using an LG Studioworks 55V monitor and a 3D Blaster Savage4 Video Card
> with 4Mb memory. In speaking with LG, I've added the following line to the
> MonitorDB config file for the monitor:
> LG StudioWorks 55V; 65; 30.0-54.0; 50.0-120.0
> and using Xconfigurator set this as my monitor, but I still have the
> strange shaped display. I'm in 800x600 mode (although it appears to be
> actually displaying 600x800 as a size), and the screen is capable of sizes
> up to 1024x768.
>
> I'm getting *really* frustrated with the screen being "squished" - can
> anyone point me in a direction to try to fix the display so that it uses
> the screen properly?
>
> Thankyou!
> Dawnmist
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From: "Nicolas Melchert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Realport2 ISDN Setup
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:18:21 +0100
Hi,
anybody experienced any Problems installing a Xircom Realport2 ISDN Card in
Linux ?
Mine wont work and I dont know why. At bootup it is recognized from the
cardmanager but
I dont know how to use it.
Althoug the integrated "Lucent Winmodem" in this Notebook (please no
comments about a winmodem ...
I'm not the manufacturer of this notebook...) doesnt work within linux. It
is configured on ttys2 but
wvdial cannot find it. If found some Newsarticles about this Modem and that
it should work but i cant find
any drivers on the lucentsite.
Any helpful comment ? Thanx in advance and a merry x-mas
Nico
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Date: 22 Dec 2000 6:19:36 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrade to rpm 4.0 has problems
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Chet Vora;
CV> Hi all,
CV> I upgraded my rpm3.03 of RH6.2 to Rpm4.0 using gnorpm. When doing
CV> the upgrade, it didn't complain. Now when I run gnorpm, it says -
CV> "error in loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpm.so.0:
CV> undefined symbol: ufdio"
CV> Any pointers on what I can do. I saw people mention on here that
CV> upgrade to
CV> 3.0.5-9.6 works better - is that true ?
Now that gnorpm is out of business, you'll have to run rpm from the
command line, and the reverse 'upgrade' to 3.0.5-9.6 will need a --force
option but should otherwise work. The last ditch option if that fails
is to add --nodeps to the command line.
After you do that, the next operation should be to run the universal
version you just installed with 'rpm --rebuilddb' in order to try and
fix what 4.0 did to it.
Then gnorpm, if its the latest one, should run again.
CV> Also, the reason I was trying the upgrade was that gnorpm was
CV> giving me "only packages with major nos <= 3 are supported by
CV> this version of RPM" when trying to install ddd3.2.1.rpm.
CV> Anyone's been able to install that successfully ?
No idea, whats ddd-3.2.1?
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Colquhoun)
Subject: Re: Stopping Graphical Logons
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:22:13 GMT
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 05:54:36 GMT, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|David Spigelman wrote:
|>
|> Alright, so I made a mistake. During RedHat 7's installation procedure,
|> I set it up for graphical logon. Now I don't want it anymore, but I
|> don't want to reconfigure the whole X configuration either. I figure
|> there's some line in some config file somewhere that does it. But I
|> don't know which one, or what line. I looked through the XF86Config
|> file, but didn't find it.
|>
|> Any help would be appreciated.
|>
|
|
|In RH 6.x it was in /etc/inittab with the line:
This is the correct place in any system that uses SysV-style run levels.
(i.e. any version of RedHat I have ever seen, most any other Linux distribution
except Slackware, Sun's Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Major non-SysV systems are
any of the *BSD unix versions.)
|id:5:initdefault: # boots to X
|
|Change the 5 to the run level you want to boot.
You will want to change it to a 3 as that is the other major run
level in use.
Never use either 6 or 0 - bad things happen.
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Wierd display problem with Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:18:08 +0100
> Hi,
> I'd originally tried Linux with Red Hat 6.0, and had some problems with
the
> X config trying to swap the horizontal and vertical sync rates for my
> monitor, resulting in a display that only took up about 3/4 of the width
of
> the screen and was slightly larger than the height of my screen. In
setting
> those sync rates myself, the problem went away.
>
> I've recently replaced the old Linux with Mandrake 7.2, and am having the
> same problems with the display. However, I cannot get into the section
> where I had previously set the rates myself in Red Hat. I'm currently
using
> an LG Studioworks 55V monitor and a 3D Blaster Savage4 Video Card with 4Mb
> memory. In speaking with LG, I've added the following line to the
MonitorDB
> config file for the monitor:
> LG StudioWorks 55V; 65; 30.0-54.0; 50.0-120.0
> and using Xconfigurator set this as my monitor, but I still have the
> strange shaped display. I'm in 800x600 mode (although it appears to be
> actually displaying 600x800 as a size), and the screen is capable of sizes
> up to 1024x768.
>
> I'm getting *really* frustrated with the screen being "squished" - can
> anyone point me in a direction to try to fix the display so that it uses
> the screen properly?
>
Any problems with X can easily be solved by manuall adjusting XF86Config.
This file is usually found in /etc/X11. If you don't like to do this
manually, run xf86config from a console
Eric
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:20:34 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.4 - services not starting at boot
Hello,
> cat /etc/rc.d.README
Hi,
some people do expect here the scripts for booting up the machine.
We skipped this structure. You can find the equivalent files under
/sbin/init.d ('binary' scripts) and /etc/rc.config (configuration).
For detailed information please look into the manual for SuSE Linux.
If you don't have a printed manual, you can find it machine readable
under /docu on the first CD or in the package books.
Read /sbin/init.d/README for more information also.
Have a lot of fun
Your SuSE Team
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Blackberry wrote:
> I've got a SuSE 6.4 system.
> It defaults to enter runlevel 3 when booted.
> In /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, as per the SuSE boot philosophy, there are symlinks to
> scripts to start up mysql, named, and smb (S11named, S20mysql, S20smb). The
> system created those.
> Those software packages are installed and work fine.
>
> When I boot, they are not started.
> When I run them manually, they start up and run fine.
>
> There are no messages in /var/log/messages about any service except named, and
> it does not generate any messages at all at boot time (not even errors). It
> generates log messages normally when I start it manually.
>
> How do I get these services to start automatically at startup? I tried creating
> my own scripts (which don't do any checking, they just issue the start commands)
> and linking them into rc3.d also, but they don't run either.
>
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> -- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
> Brian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- remove "NOSPAM"
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 12:29:08 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stopping Graphical Logons
Hello,
it's all in /etc/inittab
# default runlevel
id:2:initdefault:
Meaning of the numbers:
0 --> system halt
S --> singel user, root only
1 --> multi user, no network
2 --> multiuser, network (standard for servers)
3 --> multiuser, network, Graphical login X running
4 --> reserved for further purpose (AFAIK)
5 --> reserved for further purpose (AFAIK)
6 --> reboot
man inittab and man init will give you further advice...:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
David Spigelman wrote:
> Alright, so I made a mistake. During RedHat 7's installation procedure,
> I set it up for graphical logon. Now I don't want it anymore, but I
> don't want to reconfigure the whole X configuration either. I figure
> there's some line in some config file somewhere that does it. But I
> don't know which one, or what line. I looked through the XF86Config
> file, but didn't find it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
>
> -- DS
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: MWencek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 and Windows 2000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 13:02:00 GMT
In article <j3O_5.27851$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sat, 16
Dec 2000 17:58:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am wanting to boot between windows 2000 and Red Hat 7.0. There are three
> partitions one for each OS (other is Win 2000 Server) when I install Red Hat
> it goes ok but when I reboot I do not get a linux option it just goes right
> into the windows boot up options. Can anybody advise.
> Regards
>
>
>
Check the contents of BOOT.INI and I think you'll find that Win2000
likes to place /fastdetect on the end of the line which describes
your single Win2000 installation.
Remove the /fastdetect, make sure you have a 'timeout=' value,
and add a line for Linux:
[boot loader]
timeout=20
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional"
C:\BOOTSECT.LNX "Redhat Linux v7.0"
Note: this is particular to my host so the hard-drives and partition
numbers are too...
The file 'BOOTSECT.LNX' comes from running LILO after you have your
Linux installation working with the option that will output this type
of file...
See: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/bootlinux.htm and
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/dualboot.html
for more details...
MarkW
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