Linux-Setup Digest #319, Volume #20 Sun, 31 Dec 00 22:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: SuSE-7.0 No sound with ALSA (Uli)
Re: another question with xcdroast, previous problem solved (Bernard)
Help! Stuck! ("Julio")
Re: Suse 7.0 evaluation ("KK")
Re: Help! Stuck! (Michael Heiming)
Re: Yahoo Messenger for Linux now gives a segmentation fault (Glitch)
Re: Netscape mail/username (P Read)
Re: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4 (Robert Redelmeier)
Dual Boot Linux & W2K (SCI)
Re: Suse 7.0 evaluation (Mark Post)
Re: Help with partitioning ("Nigel Fitchard")
Re: Apache Web Server Help (B. Hearn)
Re: Apache Web Server Help (B. Hearn)
How do you upgrade rpm ("Ed Doyle")
Re: kernel panic (Anita Lewis)
Remote PPP control ("Andrew Hayes")
measuring cache use ("Ed Collins")
Re: How do you upgrade rpm (David)
Re: which LINUX to choose ("Phil Kimble")
Re: Apache Web Server Help (macrospy)
Re: Problem with windows after RH7 install(dual boot) ("Q")
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From: Uli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE-7.0 No sound with ALSA
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 22:28:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo Herbert,
it's the same on my machine. I recognized, that there are wrong values =
for IRQ, DMA and PORT in '/proc/asound/sndstat' after execution of
'rcalsasound start'. This values do not match to the one's of 'isapnp'.
I don't know how to force the ALSA-driver to use IRQ, DMA and PORT
configured with 'isapnp'.
As a workaround I followed the manual of the SuSE Linux 7.0 Distro and
installed the 'opso'-package of the 'pay'-series from CD. After doing
'./ossinstall' und starting the driver with 'soundon' it works.
To use the shell-command 'play' for playing .wav's, there is need to
install the 'sox'-package of the 'snd'-series from the Distro.
I'll try to get it run with ALSA too, but I think it will last some
time.
Bye
J=FCrgen
Herbert Hildebrandt wrote:
> =
> Hallo,
> =
> I have a soundcard CMI8330 on my motherboard. With windows 98 it works =
well.
> But with SuSE-Linux 7.0 and ALSA I have Problems: also isapnp found the=
card
> and IRQ,DMA and PORT are set there only a report over WSS(AD1848) in th=
e
> sound segment and no report over SB(Soundblaster Emulation). Modprobe f=
ound
> no module like sound-card-slot-1 but slot 0 seems to be found. In the w=
hole
> there was no sound.
> Who can help me?
> =
> Thank you for the answer!
> =
> Herbert
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From: Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: another question with xcdroast, previous problem solved
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:32:13 GMT
Bill Unruh wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ]files somewhere, but I haven't discovered them yet.
>
> ]I understand that the reason of such failure may be on the burning speed
> ](X2), but, what I would like to know is how to carry a check on the
> ]simulated burnt image rather than on the burnt cd, when it is too late.
> ]As previously said, the "verify burnt image" on a simulated burnt image
> ]fails and wastes the CD.
>
> You cannot verify a simulated burn. Nothing was burned. Tehre is nothing
> on the CD to verify. It is still a blank pristine CD waiting to have
> something written to it, untouched by a laser.
>
> xcdraost (the latest .98) has a little bar while the burning is going on
> which shows how full your FIFO is. It should sit up there around 90%. If
> it drops repeatedly to less than 50% you should worry.
The 0.96 version does not have that, but it displays a report saying how many times the
buffer was not full. Every time, it said that it was empty 0 times... So it should be
OK... still it isn't...
>
> I burn CDs at 8x ( bigger than 2x) on a P233 machine with no trouble. Not ssure what
> yours is, but 2x should not be the problem unless you are running
> someting in the background.
nothing running in the background. My machine is a Cyrix P200+ (equivalent to a pentium
P166)
>
> This is the ONLY reason for simulation-- to see if the fifo stays
> relatively full during a burn, or whether you are burning faster than
> your system can handle.
> (Note that xcdroast .98test8, the latest, has a bug where when burning
> audio tracks it briefly shows the buffer as empty (0%) between tracks.
> This should not happen, as it is not true. So if it sits at 90-100% and
> just dips to 0% each time the new track is sarted to burn, do not worry
> about that. It is the dips to 30% or whatever during the burning of a
> track that should worry you.
>
> Note, I do not know what you think your CD is wasted. It should simply
> have come back with an error message, since the CD has nothing burned on
> it at all. Ie, you should still be able to use that CD to burn an image
> onto it.
My CD is wasted. Something must be burnt in it. Once it went through such missed
processed, it is no longer reckognised as a valid support for cd writing, even when
using a Windows driver on Windows environment. Once I have called the "verified burnt
image" on a non burnt CD, I can no longer do anything with it.
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From: "Julio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Help! Stuck!
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:50:44 -0500
I got RH 6.0 installed but apparently my XConfig is not right cause the
Gnome virtual desktop comes up huge so I can't get at more than the top of
it. Alt+Ctrl++/- doesn't do anything. I've read up about editing the
XConfig86 file but I can't find it logging in as root. Is there a way to
back out of Gnome to a plain terminal, find that file, and edit it?
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From: "KK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Suse 7.0 evaluation
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:48:18 -0000
Does this mean that SuSE is not GPL?
"Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:92nhtb$1q9g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Full version is 6 Cds (but less in ws edition) in contrary with the 1 cd
of
> the evalutation. On the other hand, you can download (almost) everything,
so
> no big deal. You can also try mirror sites.
> Peter
>
> "It's interesting to note that one of the main reasons for writing the
first
> Unix kernel was to get better interactive performance from the computer to
> play a game called Space Travel."
>
> "malawueng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:92mdl6$lft$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > hi,
> >
> > i was thinking of downloading Suse 7.0 from the net but can only find a
> > evaluation. Does anybody knows the difference betweent this version and
> the
> > full version? Is it fully functional?
> >
> > thanx
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 23:06:49 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Help! Stuck!
Julio wrote:
> I got RH 6.0 installed but apparently my XConfig is not right cause the
> Gnome virtual desktop comes up huge so I can't get at more than the top of
> it. Alt+Ctrl++/- doesn't do anything. I've read up about editing the
> XConfig86 file but I can't find it logging in as root. Is there a way to
> back out of Gnome to a plain terminal, find that file, and edit it?
Hello,
press CTRL-ALT-[F1-F6] and login as root
make a backup of your /etc/XF86Config
vi /etc/XF86Config and make your changes..
Change the runlevel with your initscripts, to bring X down and up again.
Depends a bit on your distro, lookup /etc/inittab to see which one is the
right...
init <runlevel>
or
telinit <runlevel>
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:33:53 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Yahoo Messenger for Linux now gives a segmentation fault
run it in conjunction with ltrace or strace and see if u can track down
why it crashes
i've tried using strace/ltrace though for segfaults and don't get
anywhere, YMMV
man strace/ltrace for more info
u can try emailing them [yahoo] but i doubt they would help
E J wrote:
>
> After months of faithful service, Yahoo Messenger now gives a
> segmentation fault.
> I removed all the yahoo messenger files and downloaded and reinstall
> yahoo messenger.
> When I input my yahoo id and password, Yahoo Messanger would come up
> briefly with my
> buddy list and their status and give a segmentation fault.
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From: P Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape mail/username
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:32:29 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
True my system name is not the same as the ISP username that I use to connect
with. But I've double triple checked all the files/confs and all are using the
ISP username. However reading one of the HOWTO a few minutes ago made me think
that the auth I'm using and the ISP is using are not compatable....I need to
check with them.
David wrote:
> P Read wrote:
> >
> > I don't know. The message simply said username and to use preferences to
> > set it.....could be its lying to me...but i wouldn't think it would
> > matter what the system name was.
>
> True but if you are using your username from your system and trying to
> get mail from your ISP's server then it will probably fail unless you
> are using the same username and password for both systems.
>
> --
> Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
> Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
> ID # 123538
> Completed more W/U's than 98.969% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:12:47 -0600
From: Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4
Kasper Dupont wrote:
> found that the keyboard driver used under
> DOS detects the keyboard being pluged in
> makes a beep and updates the keyboards
> state.
>
> But if this should not be possible why is
> it that DOS supports it?
Just because something isn't recommended doesn't
mean that MS-DOS won't do it :)
Actually, I doubt DOS has anything to do with it,
the beep is more probably in your machine's BIOS.
The kbd controller probably generates some spurious
int 9's when [dis]connected. Your mobo has BIOS code
to detect and reinitialize the kbd. It may even have
"self-healing" fuses. But Linux replaces all
of BIOS and doesn't have this re-init code.
-- Robert
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From: SCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Boot Linux & W2K
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 22:45:30 GMT
if you keep getting blank bootsect.lnx files from the dd operation,
run /sbin/lilo
if you have problems running lilo, try putting lba32 in as an entry in
lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
lba32
default=deb
--
sci
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Suse 7.0 evaluation
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 23:29:01 GMT
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 21:48:18 -0000, "KK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does this mean that SuSE is not GPL?
No, it means that SuSE distributes software from other companies that is not
GPL. Therefore, if you don't pay them for the distribution, you don't get
the extra-cost software, the value-added hardcopy documentation, etc.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: "Nigel Fitchard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with partitioning
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 23:56:17 -0000
That worked great - thanks !
Dragan Colak wrote in message <92nt55$1ku0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
Nigel Fitchard wrote:
> OK, I admit it - I fell at the first hurdle.
>
> I wanted to learn Linux, so I went and bought a book which includes a
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 CD. I took my son's Windows 98 PC (he got a
> replacement for Christmas) and fdisked the HDD into oblivion.
>
> Ran fips from the Linux CD and it errored with "No primary partition".
> Oops !
>
> So, would some kind soul please advise how I set up my paritions from
> scratch ? Is there another utility I need to get hold of ?
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> NJF
>
>
AFAIK fips is a tool to change the size of an existing partition without
loosing data (like Partitionmagic). You should use fdisk from the Linux
CD to create new partitions.
Hope this helps
Dragan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Hearn)
Subject: Re: Apache Web Server Help
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:09:57 GMT
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:28:06 +0200, "Peter Tselios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> You area partially right. If you have installed your server in a DNS
>you do not have to add the trailling /. If you do not have a DNS entry, then
>you have to add the /.
Aaah so. That's why then -).
That will also explain other postings I've read
> I insist (hmm, probably a mispelling :( ) that in the apache conf there
>is an example that shows how to do it with read only permitions. If you do
>not have "x" then the dir is not accessible (or am I wrong?)
>
Yeah. Its a bit long though. Easy to miss things. Anyway, This is my
first "in-depth" with it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Hearn)
Subject: Re: Apache Web Server Help
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:17:32 GMT
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:20:45 +0100, Michael Heiming
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>UserDir disabled
>UserDir enabled username1 username2 uesername3
>
>If you don't want to do it with mod_userdir, you can do it with mod_rewrite
>where ever you want:
>
>
>RewriteRule ^/~([^/]+)/?(.*) /usr/htmldocs/$1/$2
>
>inside a Directory directive, that should work too...:-)
>
>
Thanks Michael.
I'll get to play with this (rewrite) when time permits.
I was more concerned with the "philosophical" viewpoint than real
practicalities. It's a pity that there's no Usenet.Apache group.
Leastwise I haven't found one. I've read as much as I can but this
area of "user file disposition" seems to be glossed over - obviously
we all instinctively know it -)
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From: "Ed Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do you upgrade rpm
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:51:43 -0500
Hi,
I have a redhat linux installation and everything is working perfectly, so I
supposed I ought not touch anything, but it seems whenever I find a rpm that
I download and want to use rpm to install or upgrade, I get a message about
can't install if major number is >=3 and nothing happens. I think that
means I need to upgrade my rpm first, but I don't know where to get the
upgrade, or how to do it. Any ideas?
Thanks
Ed Doyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: kernel panic
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 01:43:54 GMT
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:36:51 -0600, Mark wrote:
>Hey,
>
>I am having trouble booting my redhat 6.0 machine successfully. When the
>os loads, it
>recognizes my hardware, but then I get a kernel message. The message
>reads, "
>
>"kernel panic: no init found. Try passing init= option to kernel"
>
>Trouble is, how do I go about passing this init= option to the kernel as
>I have no idea.
>I assume I have to do this from the command prompt, but I cannot even
>get there.
>Nor can I boot the machine from a boot disk. I also wanted to
>reconfigure my
>partitions, but I cannot do that as well. Any ideas on my kernel
>problem?
It looks to me like the kernel got loaded but it can't find init or in other
words the / directory where linux is installed. It is asking you to tell it
where to look. I'm no expert on this, but I can think of a couple
possibilities depending on what you have done so far with the system.
Is this a fresh install? I guess it is using LILO. If it is a fresh
install, and using LILO, the only thing I can figure is that something
happened wrong in the installation (I don't know what) or the partition
table went bad or the root filesystem has something wrong with it or the
hard drive is going bad. When you do a fresh install, the installer writes
the lilo.conf file with the root and the kernel location and writes that to
the mbr. That information also gets put on your boot floppy. So it's hard
to imagine how the information got put there wrong.
If you have recompiled the kernel or done something else that moved
partitions around, then that could explain it.
Do you know what partition / is in? If so you can use the floppy and when
it says boot, type 'init=/dev/hdxy' where x is the drive letter and y is the
partition number and without the quotes. It may have to be
'linux init=hdxy' I'm not sure on that. You should be able to pass it with
LILO doing the same thing, only there I'm sure you need the linux.
If that doesn't work, or you don't know, then you can try 'init=/bin/bash'
I'm not sure what runlevel you get with that. It might be single user. Do
'df' to see what is mounted. If / is mounted, you can look at
/etc/lilo.conf to make sure it has the correct root in the stanza for linux
and you can go look for init.
Another way to see what is happening is to use the cdrom and at the boot:
prompt type 'rescue' (It might be 'linux rescue', but I think it tells you
on the splash screen) That will put linux into RAM and no filesystems will
be mounted. You can then do 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' to see the partition table
and verify which one you chose for /. You can attempt to mount that
partition by first making a mount point (mkdir /mnt/redhat) and then mount
with 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hdxy /mnt/redhat' If the mount fails, it will
probably ask you to run e2fsck on the partition. You can safely run it,
because you are not mounted on the filesystem. (e2fsck /dev/hdxy)
Let us know if any of this resolves it.
Anita
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From: "Andrew Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Remote PPP control
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:51:17 +1100
I have a home network, using a Redhat62 server with 3 Windoze machines
connecting. Samba file sharing, printing, ip masq and firewall, all set up
and working. To activate the modem ( on linux box) I telnet from any other
machine, login as a user, change to su and run /sbin/ifup ppp0 - this is a
bit annoying going thru this process each time I want to get out.
Is it possible to set up the server / ms machines to control the modem, so
that I can turn it on/off as required from an icon on the windoze machines
without having to be root or login to the server?
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From: "Ed Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: measuring cache use
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 01:40:16 GMT
Hello, there
Does anyone know of sourcecode/software that can measure cache usage?
I would certainly appreciate anyone's reply.
ed.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do you upgrade rpm
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 02:12:31 GMT
Ed Doyle wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have a redhat linux installation and everything is working perfectly, so I
> supposed I ought not touch anything, but it seems whenever I find a rpm that
> I download and want to use rpm to install or upgrade, I get a message about
> can't install if major number is >=3 and nothing happens. I think that
> means I need to upgrade my rpm first, but I don't know where to get the
> upgrade, or how to do it. Any ideas?
> Thanks
> Ed Doyle
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you get the upgrade for your redhat version from their ftp in the
updates directory?
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 98.969% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "Phil Kimble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,at.linux,ger.pc.linux,linux.debian.qa,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: which LINUX to choose
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 02:50:06 GMT
I want to setup a LINUX and a DOS/WinDoze partition. The availlable
Linux versions to me are
DEBIAN GNU/Linux 2.0
Good, but nopt the best!
SuSE 6.4 Evaluationsversion
Key word "Evaluationversion"
PC Magazin Linux 6.0 Easy Install Edition
Strictly BS! Designed for brainless penis'!
I do not want to create a "religious war" about Linux distributions but
would appreciate any input about recommendations on which of the above
mentioned versions I should pick.
Find one and start wrestling. If you dont like it after the third install,
go to something "you" are comfortable with!! MAndrake is an esay install as
well as RH. Suse is good but stay away from the 7.0 Professional version.
Dracula's nightmare! Take a close look into your hardware, including your
monitor specs. Go to linuxdoc.org and print out the preinstall checklist,
fill it out completely, and keep it close!!
Phil
TIA
HP Staber/Salzburg
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From: macrospy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache Web Server Help
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 10:58:50 +0800
O.k. to save all the trouble, appreciate anyone has something similar to
send me their copy of httpd.conf file. Thank you.
Regards,
Norbert.
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From: "Q" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Problem with windows after RH7 install(dual boot)
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 02:43:32 GMT
You may want to check your HD controller drivers in Win98. I did this a
while ago with my triple boot system and for some stupid reason one day 98
just decided not to use the drivers that I was using for a while (2940u2w
adaptec). I loaded the same drivers I did before and when I rebooted it was
fine...
Windows=BAD
"Jim Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Help!!! I installed linux so that it would boot using lilo fom the hard
disk after several days of fooling around with it by booting up with a
floppy. Now when I boot to Win 98 it is horribly slow accessing the hard
drive. I can't figure out what has changed. I ran fdisk /mbr to restore
the mbr but this didn't help. Everything seems normal until I access the
hard disk and then the machine bogs right down. Any ideas????
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