Linux-Setup Digest #298, Volume #20 Thu, 28 Dec 00 14:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Which OS to install first for multiple-boot? (Rod Smith)
Re: How to make linux "sleep"? ("dont work")
Re: How to switch to GNOME from KDE ("dont work")
please help with serial port mouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
KDEAdmin 2.0.1 compile problem (Eric Ho)
Upgrading php from 4.0.3pl1 to 4.0.4 ("M�rio Gamito")
Philips 15C monitor (CM0200 ?) (marius)
Re: A Practical Guide to Linux - Mark Sobell ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
installing RH7 in win98/win2000 dual boot box ("Eriz Mendz")
Re: installing RH7 in win98/win2000 dual boot box (Rod Smith)
Softmodem/pppd problem (Imran)
Re: Wierd display problem with Mandrake 7.2 (larry)
gdm and screensavers (Victor S. Miller)
trying installing from Backpack CDROM and this error (Jeff Taylor)
Re: SCSI Zip drive in RH 6.2 $@#!? (Michael Perry)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Which OS to install first for multiple-boot?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:16:54 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <92dqbn$1c3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> hi everyone,
>
> I would like to install a quad-boot WIN98, WIN2000pro, WINNT4, Linux.
> I intend to use BootMagic from PartitionMagic 6.0.
This is do-able, but if each OS is on its own partition, you'll have
used up all your primary partitions. (Separate partitions is the safest
way to handle this.)
> 1) In what order should I install the OS, does it matter? I eventually
> plan to merge the WIN98 and WIN2000 partitions.
I'd do either Win98 or WinNT first, followed by the other, followed by
Win2K, followed by Linux. I'd set up all the partitions first, though,
probably using PartitionMagic. The really critical item here is NTFS.
Win2K makes changes to NTFS that WinNT 4.0 can't handle without an
update (FixPack 4 from Microsoft). Therefore, be sure to install that
update BEFORE you install Win2K.
> 2) I'm a Linux newbie. Is there a file system that Linux supports that
> both WIN98 and WIN2000pro support? I would like to have a partition
> that allows me to share files (not applications) with all three OS.
Yes: FAT (any variety). For NT 4.0 support, it'll have to be FAT-16 (or
FAT-12, but FAT-12 partitions are tiny).
FWIW, you might be interested in my book, _The Multi-Boot Configuration
Handbook_, which covers this and a lot more. Check
http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/ for more details.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "dont work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to make linux "sleep"?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:16:20 -0000
who is the manufacturer of the keyboard?
maybe their website will have some hints for you..
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:92fg47$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On newer keyboard, there are two buttons called "Sleep" and
> "Wake up" each. In M$Win environment, when I push "Sleep",
> the OS enters the "sleep" mode. (I don't know what the mode
> is, it turns off monitor, hd, all of the fans includes power
> supply.) It comes back immediately as soon as I push "Wake up".
>
> Are there any daemons or programs which could handle this task?
>
> --
>
>
> Jang-Ying Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
>
> Taiwan, a sovereign independent country,
> is NOT part of mainland China.
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From: "dont work" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to switch to GNOME from KDE
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:17:57 -0000
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which version of redhat did you install?
i have installed 6.1 and .2 and also 7 and all give me the option to =
install both, but i only used the custom install.
havent tried using any others.
"SivaramaKrishnan Nageswaran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message =
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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Look for a file .xinitrc in the home directory. If it is not there =
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#exec startkde=20
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exec startkde=20
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Regards=20
Siva=20
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:=20
I boot up my RedHat using text mode and use "startx &" to go to KDE. =
I only have choice of either KDE or Gnome during RedHat =
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be I=20
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> > How can I switch back to Gnome? I searched from the KDE desktop =
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> > Thanks for your help.=20
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> I assume you use kdm to do your login? (the graphical login =
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Lucent Technologies
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<BR>Look for a file .xinitrc in the home directory. If it is not there =
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: please help with serial port mouse
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 16:16:03 GMT
Hello:
I read Serial-HOWTO and Serial-Programming-HOWTO and wanted to test out
why my serial mouse didn't work. I used the third example (in 3.3
Asynchronous Input of Serial-Programming-HOWTO) to open /dev/ttyS0.
But I never got any SIGIO, nor could I read any thing out of the device
(a serial mouse connected to COM1). I've tried on two very different
machines with two different mice. Does anybody know what was wrong?
The setserial command shows:
/dev/ttyS0, UART 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
/proc/ioports contains:
03f8-03ff : serial (auto)
If I open /dev/psaux for a PS mouse, the example works fine.
Thanks in advance,
Jianyu ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDEAdmin 2.0.1 compile problem
Date: 28 Dec 2000 16:38:42 GMT
Hi,
I managed to compile all the modules for KDE 2.0.1, but I am having
problems with KDEAdmin. The following are the errors I got :
/usr/lib/librpm.a(query.o)(.data+0x25c): multiple definition of `specedit'
rpmMessages.o(.data+0x4): first defined here
/usr/lib/librpm.a(url.o): In function `ufdClose':
url.o(.text+0xa38): multiple definition of `ufdClose'
rpmMessages.o(.text+0x120): first defined here
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `ufdClose' changed fro
m 13 to 64 in url.o
/usr/lib/librpm.a(url.o): In function `ufdOpen':
url.o(.text+0xa78): multiple definition of `ufdOpen'
rpmMessages.o(.text+0x130): first defined here
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `ufdOpen' changed from
59 to 294 in url.o
/usr/i386-slackware-linux/bin/ld: warning: libjpeg.so.62, needed by /usr/local/q
t/lib/libqt.so, may conflict with libjpeg.so.6
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [kpackage] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde-2.0.1/kdeadmin-2.0.1/kpackage'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde-2.0.1/kdeadmin-2.0.1/kpackage'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kde-2.0.1/kdeadmin-2.0.1'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
Could someone help me ?
I am running Slackware 7.0, 2.4.0test12 kernel, K6-2 450 on an ASUS
T2P4 motherboard with 128Meg RAM. My display card is a Mystique with
4Meg RAM.
Thanks a lot.
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
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From: "M�rio Gamito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.lang.php
Subject: Upgrading php from 4.0.3pl1 to 4.0.4
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:22:24 -0000
Hi!
I wonder if you can help me out with this one.
I've done my "home work" before coming here, but found nothing valuable.
i have compiled/installed apache 1.3.14 with php 4.0.3pl1 as a module.
Now i want to upgrade to 4.0.4, since it has several bug fixes and addons in
respect to MySQL, something that is very important to me.
The question is, which is the best way to *cleanly* uninstall 4.0.3pl1?
Shall i erase all 4.0.3pl1 related files and directories, erase all
/usr/local/httpd/(...) and start all over again compiling apache with 4.0.4?
i'd appreciate any help you can give me.
Thanks in advance.
M�rio Gamito
pt is for Portugal
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From: marius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Philips 15C monitor (CM0200 ?)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:07:28 GMT
My PC have an old Philips 15C monitor, I think the model is CM0200.
Installing RedHat 6.2 my monitor is not recognized nor configured, so
the maximum size I can get is 640*480.
As the monitor allows higher resolution, how can I configure it to have
an higher resolution? May I configure it as a newer (compatible) model?
Where can I look for a compatible configuration file?
Thanks
Marius
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: A Practical Guide to Linux - Mark Sobell
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:26:08 GMT
> Hello everyone. I am a newbie and I have picked up a book on linux
> A Practical Guide to Linux - Mark Sobell
>
> I am wondering if anyone has read this book, and if they know where I
> can find the answers to the Review Questions? (If so, is it available
> on-line?) Thanks!!!
Start with
http://www.sobell.com/LINUX/linux.html
-Phil C.
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From: "Eriz Mendz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing RH7 in win98/win2000 dual boot box
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:44:36 +0300
Hi there gurus and all.
I have RedHat Linux 7 installation CD. I love to try this on my Windows box
dual booting Win98/Win2000. Win 98 is in my c drive while Win2000 is in the
f drive. What's my best shot to install RH7 w/o messing-up the Windows OS
selector? I have more than 1 gig extra each on drives d,e,f. My system is a
P2 x 400 mhz 64 meg RAM.
TIA
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: installing RH7 in win98/win2000 dual boot box
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 18:19:15 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Eriz Mendz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi there gurus and all.
>
> I have RedHat Linux 7 installation CD. I love to try this on my Windows box
> dual booting Win98/Win2000. Win 98 is in my c drive while Win2000 is in the
> f drive. What's my best shot to install RH7 w/o messing-up the Windows OS
> selector? I have more than 1 gig extra each on drives d,e,f. My system is a
> P2 x 400 mhz 64 meg RAM.
Unless Red Hat's changed things with version 7, it requires its own
dedicated partition. Given your rather odd arrangement, your best bet is
to shrink D: and/or E: to make room for new Linux partitions.
Alternatively (and better in some ways), you could shrink partitions and
move F: down, leaving room at the end of the drive. (This is assuming
you're talking about partitions and not physical drives -- but in the
latter case, you need to be more precise about how each drive is
partitioned.)
The trick with this is that Windows NT is very fussy about having its
partitions changed. I don't know offhand if the same is true of Windows
2000, but I'd advise caution -- back everything up first and be prepared
to re-install the OS from scratch, if it comes to it.
In any case, you'll need some sort of partition resizer. If D: and E:
are FAT, you may be able to make do with freeware utilities. I believe
the Linux Mandrake installer would do it, but the freeware FIPS will
only handle primary partitions. If D: and E: are NTFS, or if you just
want to avoid getting Mandrake just for its installation partition
resizer, the commercial PartitionMagic will do the trick.
Another option would be to use another distribution. This is probably
better if you just want to play with Linux a bit, because it requires a
less radical change to your existing system. I believe there's a version
of Mandrake that'll install in a FAT partition alongside Windows. IIRC,
it's called "Linux for Windows."
FWIW, my book, _The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook_
(http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/) goes into this in more detail,
although it's a bit sparse on Win2K specifics. (Win2K was in beta when I
wrote the book, so I was working from my limited experiences with that
and unsure of what would change with the release version.)
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Imran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Softmodem/pppd problem
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 18:48:44 +0000
(using Mandrake 7.0)
Using a soft modem I'm able to dial out using the Olitec driver, but
I can't get it to connect to my ISP.
I don't know if this is because of a problem with the driver or with
pppd. It dials my ISP's number, the ISP appears to accept to call and
then nothing happens, after a short while I get "NO CARRIER" error, I
think this is because my ISP has disconnected me.
Anyone know how I can find what's responsible (Driver or pppd
problem) ?
Imran
--
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From: larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Wierd display problem with Mandrake 7.2
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:58:42 -1000
Don Hinds wrote:
> There is a new released Linux kernel this month with a lot of fixes, I saw
> quite a few graphics ones in the list.
>
> Don
>
>
> >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
> >--
> >remove nospam. to reply
>
Did you try xvidtune from the console? I am running 7.2 and can set it all
with that prog.
Try it!
larry
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Subject: gdm and screensavers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 18:54:10 GMT
I have my Linux box (RH 7.0) configured to use gdm. Usually I'll just
lock in, and then click on lock when I'm not around which causes the
screensaver to immediately start (it also starts if I'm idle for a
certain period as it should). However, once in a while we have power
failures in the house, and so when the power comes back on, there is
the gdm screen. My question is: is it possible to configure gdm (or
something else), so that when there hasn't been any activity for a
while, a screensaver will start? If so, how.
--
Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
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From: Jeff Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: trying installing from Backpack CDROM and this error
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 19:04:54 GMT
I created a boot image from this site
(http://sole.infis.univ.trieste.it/~drzeus/rh_pcd.html) as well as
paride.img from RedHat's CD as a device driver for the MicroSolutions
BackPack Bantam parallel port CDROM drive and get this error during
the Linux 6.2 install
/tmp/pcd.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Have you seen this? Any ideas why the drive isn't initializing?
thank you...
Jeff Taylor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: SCSI Zip drive in RH 6.2 $@#!?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 08:29:39 -0800
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 20:26:54 -0600, John Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I had my scsi Zip working fine in RH 5.4, but it doesn't work in RH
>6.2. "locate" finds the aha152x modules, but modprobe produces an error
>message: "device or resource busy...".
>
>cat /proc/ioports and cat /proc/interrupts shows the appropriate ports
>and interrupt are not used by anything.
>
>I have a Suse distribution on another machine and it uses an rc.config
>file with INITRD lines for the aha152x driver. Apparently Red Hat does
>it another way.
>
>Any ideas or where to look next will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Linux reminds me of what von Clauswitz said of war: "Everything is
>simple, but the simplest things are difficult."
>
>John Thomas
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Give us a print out of what modules you already have loaded. Try doing as
the root user "lsmod" and capture them to a folloup post. There are a few
modules which redhat should include and load upon demand. The interesting
one to see are whether st, sg, and a module for your adaptec card is already
loaded by redhat. RedHat by default includes almost the kitchen sink as
modules available for use.
--
Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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