Linux-Setup Digest #283, Volume #20 Mon, 25 Dec 00 13:13:06 EST
Contents:
Please help. modules & kernel & pcmcia (Eachep)
loading usb printer support module in Suse6.4 (Anna Luigi)
Thanks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A couple of Mandrake 7.2 questions... (mpulliam)
Re: LILO and dual booting??? (David Efflandt)
Re: Upgrade to rpm 4.0 has problems (Bryan Hoyt)
Re: Modem detected on ttyS1but how do I connect in Mandrake 7.2? (Gary Eden)
Suse6.4 and lpd (must invoke) (Anna Luigi)
kde 2.01 (ajtiM)
CPU temperature monitoring tool
Re: Modem problems in Mandrake 7.2 ("Rutger")
Re: A couple of Mandrake 7.2 questions... (Guy Parry)
web-based email-reader (system)
Can't setup X with SiS630 notebook, but DemoLinux run! (Raymond Li)
How to install Linux from Fat32 partition? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CPU temperature monitoring tool (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Domingo_L=F3pez?=)
RH 7.0 - i815 sound plays too fast ("Louis van Dyk")
booting new kernels: lilo/grub problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eachep)
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Please help. modules & kernel & pcmcia
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 02:15:26 GMT
[Sorry if you've already seen this.]
Details below.
I'm running slink (I'll upgrade soon, but it's happy now), and I'm
having a bit of a problem understanding what's going on with my home
built kernel and pcmcia and modules.
Am I supposed to rm pcmcia-cs before installing my custom rebuilt
module package? Is a new pcmcia-cs installed when I install my new
modules .deb?
My concern is that all connectivity disappears when I lose pcmcia
modules, which could make it ugly to recover.
I used make-kpkg to build a kernel-image.deb and modules-image.deb,
and apt-get tells me to use -f on pcmcia-cs, which fails to resolve
the problem.
If pcmcia-cs isn't reinstalled with my modules-image.deb, where do I
find one that will match my custom kernel and modules?
I've also gone into dselect to put the bunch of them on hold, and
dselect just (figuratively speaking) beeps at me.
Thanks for any suggestions you might offer.
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topquark |root| /usr/src_ apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
pcmcia-modules-2.0.36: Depends: pcmcia-cs (= 3.0.5-10) but \
3.0.5-10.slink.1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
topquark |root| /usr/src_ dpkg -i \
pcmcia-modules-2.0.36_3.0.5-10+Custom.6.0_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 20688 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace pcmcia-modules-2.0.36 3.0.5-10+Custom.5.0 \
(using pcmcia-modules-2.0.36_3.0.5-10+Custom.6.0_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pcmcia-modules-2.0.36 ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pcmcia-modules-2.0.36:
pcmcia-modules-2.0.36 depends on pcmcia-cs (= 3.0.5-10); however:
Version of pcmcia-cs on system is 3.0.5-10.slink.1.
dpkg: error processing pcmcia-modules-2.0.36 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
pcmcia-modules-2.0.36
topquark |root| /root_ dpkg -l | egrep pcmcia\|kernel
ii kernel-headers- 2.0.36-3 Header files related to a specific Linux ker
ii kernel-image-2. Custom.7 Linux kernel binary image.
ii kernel-package 6.05 Debian Linux kernel package build scripts.
ii kernel-source-2 2.0.36-3 Linux kernel source.
ii pcmcia-cs 3.0.5-10.slink PCMCIA Card Services for Linux.
ii pcmcia-modules- 3.0.5-10+Custo PCMCIA Modules for Linux (kernel 2.0.36).
ii pcmcia-source 3.0.5-10.slink PCMCIA Card Services source.
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From: Anna Luigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: loading usb printer support module in Suse6.4
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 20:11:29 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've Suse6.4 and a USB printer. The printer
works fine but that is only after I load the
usb printer module via:
'modprobe printer'
Supposedly there's a kernel thread called kmod which
loads modules automatically, but apparently that's
not working correctly. If it did, then lpd or the
usb module already loaded would call for the printer
module, right?
How should the module be loaded otherwise on the Suse
installation? There's a lot of init files I could stick
it in but that wouldn't be so elegant. I'm wondering if
any one has a simpler solution to this problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thanks
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 02:51:19 GMT
Thanks. I will try it.
>
> Use Ctrl-Alt-(keypad +) to toggle through available resolutions in
order to
> make it workable.
>
> Then edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and if it is there
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
> Near the end of these files will be sections marked "Screen". Swap
the
> numbers around so your prefered resolutions are ahead of the less
prefered
> ones.
>
> Skip S.
> --
> If we are what we eat, I'm fast, cheap and easy, with cheese.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
Subject: Re: A couple of Mandrake 7.2 questions...
Date: 25 Dec 2000 03:44:31 GMT
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 11:07:37 +1100,
Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With KDE and Gnome being included
with Mdk 7.2 how does one get
>BOTH operating?
This may or may not help. I am also running
Mandrake 7.2 but I am using icewm instead of
either KDE or Gnome. In icewm, you click the
Linux button at the bottom left of the screen
and it pops up a menu that includes "session."
Select that and it gives a sub menu that
includes "windowmanagers." The sub menu under
THAT gives all your possible window managers
which in my case are ice, sawfish, and twm
since I did not install Gnome and KDE due
to space considerations.
So where in KDE or Gnome are the corresponding
menus? Or, as a workaround, what if you default
to ice when you start up (it loads very very
fast) and then pick whichever wm suits you
that day from the menu I just described?
Window managers can be switched in fvwm, so
it's an old feature -- seems to me Gnome has
it somewhere hidden, but I'm not sure KDE does.
You might also want to try "switchdesk" from
a command prompt, it does the same thing IIRC.
Though I didn't put it on my custom
7.2 install (I just checked) it might be
provided in the collection of stuff on their
disks; take a look.
Not much help, but maybe a bit.
MP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: LILO and dual booting???
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 03:52:19 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, Bit Twister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Try changing
> boot = /dev/hda1
>to
> boot = /dev/hda
>then
> lilo
Unfortunately that one little character may have wiped out your ability to
boot into Windows. If so, you might try 'sys c:' from a Windows rescue
floppy. You should only put LILO in the MBR, a Linux primary partition or
and extended partition. You should not put it on a Windows partition or
logical partition.
>On Sun, 24 Dec 2000 16:21:33 -0600, Ken Schutte
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>Hi, I recently installed Mandrake 7.1 and want to dual boot w/ win98. I
>>had them both working, but I couldn't choose my OS at startup, the only
>>way I could run linux is with the boot disk. So I tried to use LILO to
>>give me the option on startup, but I guess I didn't know what I was doing
>>because with my new settings I can only boot into linux and when I do,
>>linux doesn't recognize my win partition! (ie /mnt/windows/ is empty)
>>Also, we I try to run windows w/ its boot disk I get some kind of VFAT
>>fatal error
>>
>>On booting is says:
>>Dec 24 13:21:45 localhost mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad
>>superblock on /dev/hda1,
>>
>>When I made changes, I manually changed lilo.conf & used linuxconf,
>>however, I restored my original lilo.conf and I get the same problems. (i
>>also tried to remove it w/ lilo -U)
>>
>>Does anyone know how to get the LILO working properly?
>>Thanks, Ken
>>
>>
>>
>>(FYI: this is my current lilo.conf)
>>boot = /dev/hda1
>>timeout = 50
>>prompt
>> message = /boot/message
>> default = linux
>> vga = normal
>> read-only
>>map=/boot/map
>>install=/boot/boot.b
>>keytable=/boot/us.klt
>>lba32
>>image = /boot/vmlinuz
>> label = linux
>> append = " hdd=ide-scsi"
>> root = /dev/hda3
>>image = /boot/vmlinuz
>> label = failsafe
>> append = " hdd=ide-scsi failsafe"
>> root = /dev/hda3
>>other = /dev/hda1
>> label = windows
>> table=/dev/hda
>>other = /dev/hda1
>> label = floppy
>> unsafe
>>
>
>
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>If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
>Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
>Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Hoyt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Upgrade to rpm 4.0 has problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 04:31:28 GMT
Who ever said Chet Vora couldn't write what follows?:
>Also, the reason I was trying the upgrade was that gnorpm was giving me "only
>packages with major nos <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM" when trying
This is the catch 22 of catch 22's. I have NOT been able to find an
rpm of rpm 4.0, that was packaged with rpm <= rpm 3. I cannot compile the
source for lack of hard drive space.
It's understandable for a distribution like RedHat to have it's rpm
4.0 rpm packaged with rpm 4.0, since that distribution (7.0) is based on rpm
4.0, AFAIK. But even on rpm.org, the upgrade was packaged with itself
seemingly. Any light?
On a similar subject, and a slightly more understandable catch 22, I
have not been able to find a version of dpkg packed with anything other than
dpkg. Except source. (See above for why I don't want source.) Does anyone
know of a tar.gz binary of dpkg? Or an rpm binary?
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From: Gary Eden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Modem detected on ttyS1but how do I connect in Mandrake 7.2?
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 00:23:49 -0500
If you haven't already ...right click anywhere on the desktop .."create
new " application
under general tab type "Internet.kdelnk" you can change the icon to
whatever you want
under permissions select "Read ..user,group,and others,...also select
user "Write"
under execute tab ,Program name window , type /user/bin/kppp
under application tab ,Name window, type "Internet" then in File types
window add
application/x-rpm from the right window...click OK at the bottom and you
will have
the desktop link to kppp...its all downhill from there...
this all assumes I understand your problem..if not ..well..Nevermind...
:-/
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From: Anna Luigi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suse6.4 and lpd (must invoke)
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2000 22:29:54 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two printers connected to two
networked linux boxes. On one of them
I notice with disturbing regularity that
after evoking lpr ... to print to one or
the other (local or remote) I'm told that
the daemon can't be started. So then I
type 'lpd', and voila the printing starts
a little later. This is a headache. I
run Yast (Suse6.4) to configure the printer
and it sets up the directory and all, but
somehow the printer daemon is never there
when you need it. I'm sure there must be
a problem with the configuration but I'm
not sure where.
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From: ajtiM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kde 2.01
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 08:35:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed KDE 2.01 (all files for 2.01 from SuSE ftp site). I have both
KDE's. Please help me how can i change background as root. I changed it but
when restarting KDE 2.01 changes dissappear. As user working without
problem.
Mitja
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: CPU temperature monitoring tool
Date: 25 Dec 2000 08:04:45 GMT
I am running TurboLinux 6.1 Workstation on an Abit BP6
motherboard loaded with two Celeron 300 CPUs which are
overclocked to 428MHz.
Is there any CPU temperature monitoring tool for BP6 under
Linux?
Thanks for any info.
Chester Lin
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From: "Rutger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Modem problems in Mandrake 7.2
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 12:15:40 +0100
It is an PCI internal....
"John McCubbin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:53v16.7192$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Michelle,
>
> Is this an ISA modem internal? Did you leave it plug and play or did you
> disable this and manually configure jumpers on the modem. If you can tell
> me this I may be able to help. Modems seem to be the first "real" problem
> most installs encouter. At least it was for me. Now that I've solved the
> problem about 10 times, it's gotten a little easier ;-)
>
> John McCubbin
> CCD/Astrophotograpny Website
> http://www.usit.com/mccubbin/astronomy.html
>
>
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A couple of Mandrake 7.2 questions...
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 23:40:28 +1100
On 25 Dec 2000 03:44:31 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mpulliam)
wrote:
>You might also want to try "switchdesk" from
>a command prompt, it does the same thing IIRC.
>Though I didn't put it on my custom
>7.2 install (I just checked) it might be
>provided in the collection of stuff on their
>disks; take a look.
Yep, switchdesk works fine from the prompt. I didn't know
anything about it; thought it was graphical only!
However, after trying to start KDE I discovered to my suprpise
that I didn't have it installed - despite DEFINATELY having it
selected during installation! No problem, I thought. I'll just fire
up my CD and install the package.
Now I get an unresolved dependency message that I'm missing
'libXm.so.1'. What package is that from?
tia...
>
>Not much help, but maybe a bit.
>MP
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From: system <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: web-based email-reader
Date: 25 Dec 2000 23:06:37 +0800
Any good email-client that can read and post html email.
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From: Raymond Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't setup X with SiS630 notebook, but DemoLinux run!
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 23:14:00 +0800
Hello,
I have bought a Stamp 205 notebook. It got a SiS630 all-in-one chip
(Display+Modem+Network+Sound), with 13.3 TFT 1024x768 resolution
display. I tried to install X and failed. The Xfree says it support
SiS630 but I tried with no success.
Others mentioned success story by using FrameBuffer. I tried to
re-compile the kernel (2.2.18 under Red Hat 6.2) with Framebuffer
support. But it would only give me 80x25 .. 80x50. I can't get 128x48 or
so. Therefore, I couldn't activate the 1024x768 display at LILO time.
I tried re-installing Xfree 3.3.6, 4.0.2 and re-compiled the Kernel.
But still fail to set up the X.
As I bought many Linux magazine, I got many complement disks, which
are mostly unoffical Linux distributions including SuSe7, Mandrake 7.2
and others. I tried with them and see if they detect my graphic card.
Although some of them detect and run in Graphic mode during setup, all
of them fail to configure the X utimately. At last, one of them get my
Notebook display 1024x768 with X Windows running properly! It's
DemoLinux 1.0
DemoLinux ask me to choose display resolution at the boot time. Then
I was fascinated when I see it switched the display to 1024x768. And
then the X window run with Framebuffer.
The X in DemoLinux is perfect. How could they do that, while I fail?
I have read the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt and
framebuffer.txt. And I have read www.linux-fb.org. I followed them. But
still can't make the framebuffer work on my notebook.
But DemoLinux show that my notebook can really run 1024x768 X
Windows. Too bad that I can't configure it myself. And too bad DemoLinux
only run in CD.
Do you have any advise? I have posted the question in comp.windows.x,
but got no answer. I think framebuffer may be more suitably asked in
this newsgroup.
Yours,
Raymond
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to install Linux from Fat32 partition?
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 16:36:33 GMT
Dear Sir,
I got turbolinux workstation 6.0 CD from an exhibition few months
ago. I was trying to install it on my recent bought laptop that doesn't
has a cdrom drive.
I've dump all the cd contents into my win98 partition. When I was
trying to into from msdos prompt by typing autoboot from dosutils
directory, I got an error message: 'Device hda2 does not appear to
contain a turbolinux installation tree'. How do I resolve this problem?
Thanks in advance for your kind support.
Best regards,
Yew Tiong TER
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Domingo_L=F3pez?=)
Subject: Re: CPU temperature monitoring tool
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 18:18:48 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
El d�a 25 Dec 2000 08:04:45 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> Is there any CPU temperature monitoring tool for BP6 under
> Linux?
>
Check lm_sensors in freshmeat.net
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From: "Louis van Dyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.dev.sound,linux.i18n,linux.redhat.install
Subject: RH 7.0 - i815 sound plays too fast
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 19:15:58 +0200
Hi
I've seen many messages along the same theme being posted but no answers.
If anyone has a working solution it would be HIGHLY appreciated.
I have an Intel 815 integrated sound chipset on my PC (Compaq Deskpro,
PIII-733, 256 MB RAM) at work. RH "detected" the card when I ran sndconfig
but I heard nothing when it played the "test". In XMMS I could only hear
sound if I turned the volume up full.
I downloaded all of Redhat's patches and applied them, but it didn't help.
I've downloaded and installed the very latest ALSA drivers (0.5.10, if I
recall). The system is behaving perfectly BUT I still have a problem that
occurred with the original drivers:
** Any sound that I play is played too fast. **
For example: if I play an MP3 in XMMS for 60 seconds, XMMS has counted off
71 seconds. The same happens with other players (like mpg123). Even the
system sounds are faster than they were when I ran RH 6.1 (on a different
PC).
Any ideas??
Thanks
Louis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: booting new kernels: lilo/grub problem
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 17:42:48 GMT
I'm running mandrake and a fairly recent version of lilo/grub.
The problem is any new test kernel (eg 2.4.0test......) does not seem
to boot at all, either using grub or lilo. 2.4.0test5 certainly works
ok. Someone told me to upgrade to the latest version of lilo, not
really sure if this would work as grub can't boot it either. Compiling
lilo doesn't seem to work anyway :)
By "doesn't boot" i mean it gets to "Uncompressing Linux.. OK" and
then just stops there. No more kernel booting after that. I must be
doing something really stupid.. i am a newbie.
The subject line says "lilo/grub prob.." but probably isn't a lilo or
grub problem :)
Could anyone help? Thanks a lot in advance!
Duncan
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