Linux-Setup Digest #343, Volume #20 Thu, 4 Jan 01 14:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Matrox AGP G450 on Redhat 7 - Can't get X to Start (benoit mordelet)
Re: Newbie Request for help on DNS - it's disablement(?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Newbie - cant get eth0 to talk TCP (Victor Antillon)
Re: Newbie - cant get eth0 to talk TCP (Martin Gregorie)
intallation error when loading data into ramdisk ("psaf")
Re: kernel modules headache (Dave Barnett)
Re: problem with partitions (ron)
Re: problem with xcdroast (Mark Bratcher)
rsh without passwort (ThomasWalz)
Kernel panic ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Re: Motherboard Compatibility ????? (Rob Weaver)
Change boot from floppy to HD? ("Lloyd Llewellyn")
Re: General Linux Question(s) (James Richard Tyrer)
how to do : Installing RH6.2 and... ("Greg Collocott")
gdm problem?? (a-rchi)
Re: Change boot from floppy to HD? ("Jayne Heger")
Please Help! X won't start - new KDE kdm causes respawning too fast ("Jason Bond")
Re: mounting floppy (Nyra McGavin)
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From: benoit mordelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Matrox AGP G450 on Redhat 7 - Can't get X to Start
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:55:29 +0100
Tom Voltaggio wrote:
>
> Has anyone gotten Redhat Linux 7 to work with Matrox AGP
> G450?
> Everything installs and it sees my video card and monitor,
> but
> it will not give me more than vertical lines or "out of scan
> range"
> messages on my monitor (a Sony E210). I downloaded the new
> driver
> from Matrox with no luck. Redhat 7 uses Xfree 4.01.1. I
> checked
> the monitor scan rates from the specs and have used every
> permutation
> of scan rates and monitors. No luck.
>
> Is there any way I can get it to start in plain VGA?
a patch against 2.4.0-test13-pre1 kernel has recently been made
available to add support for the G450 in matroxfb. thus it may be
present in the last 2.4.0 prerelease (I hope because I've also got
problems with that card, but I've not yet downloaded a recent kernel).
if this works you will be able to run XFree on top of matroxfb (with the
FBDev X server).
ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Newbie Request for help on DNS - it's disablement(?)
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:01:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Brief History: Having used commercial systems since the early 1970's
> and like most people being sucked into the MS-Windows hype, I thought
> I'd give Linux a try. Bought a cheap package with Linux Mandrake 6.5
> plus some other bits - worked after a fashion. Then bought a book to
> learn about the Mandrake distribution and this had v7.0 - the
> difference was startling! Everything now seems to work - except for
> Internet access (I regret to say that this post is under Win98 but at
> least using an effective mail and news reader in the form of Forte's
> Agent - full version and paid for!- & not MS Outlook.)
>
> I can connect with my ISP and logged on using Kppp. When I fire up
> Netscape it just can't find anything. I think this is because DNS by
> default is running whereas under Win98 all that happens is TCP/IP &
> DHCP run - no mention of DNS, because of course all UK ISP's are
> geared to MS and they don't support connection under DNS just DHCP.
>
> Can anyone point me to an article/manual that a Win98/NT semi techie
> will understand?
>
> Thanks
>
> Harry Broom
> Hampshire,UK
> www.broomhc.freeserve.co.uk
>
DNS shouldn't be the problem, it is probably a DHCP client configuration
problem.
DNS, Domain Name Service, is the means that computers use to make sense
of domain names. People use names, machines use numbers and DNS does the
translation. Most machines don't need to run DNS, it is a centralized
service, ie one machine can do DNS for a horde of other machines. DNS is
an integral part of the Internet, so your machine will need to point to
a DNS server, at least if you ever hope to reach www.yahoo.com rather
then always typing in 111.222.333.444.
DHCP is a means to dynamically assign and manage IP address and other
network connection information. Under DHCP a DNS server should be
assigned as well as an IP address and netmask.
You might want to look at your DHCP client software and make sure it's
configured properly.
If you are running DNS (look to see if named is running, or Bind is
installed) you can turn it off with:
chkconfig --level 12345 named off
This will prevent the service from starting when you boot the system.
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From: Victor Antillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Newbie - cant get eth0 to talk TCP
Date: 4 Jan 2001 17:18:28 GMT
I just installed RedHat 7, and used GNOME to do a 'programs -
system -
network configurator' to set up a new IP address and host name.
But when I 'ping' the address, I get 'network not reachable'.
Do I have to do something to add 'eth0' to the '/dev' directory
or something? How do I tell the system that the card is a 3c509
adapter? I've tried 'ifconfig' but it doesn't like my parm list.
I am completely new to linux setup and networking, I have no idea
where to start, and the manuals I have on hand are not helpful.
Any constructive comments would help.
Many thanks....Vic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Newbie - cant get eth0 to talk TCP
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 17:50:28 GMT
On 4 Jan 2001 17:18:28 GMT, Victor Antillon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do I have to do something to add 'eth0' to the '/dev' directory
>or something?
No. eth0-3 are not normal devices.
> How do I tell the system that the card is a 3c509
>adapter? I've tried 'ifconfig' but it doesn't like my parm list.
>
(1) boot into DOS and run the 3c509 config utility to
- turn off PnP
- set the card's interrupt and address information.
The defaults should be OK
- select the network connection (BNC or RJ45)
(2) do a hard reset of the PC to lock the settyings into the card.
(3) reboot into Linux
(4) use linuxconf to specify host details (including IP address &
subnet) and eth0 settings. The driver is 3c509.o
(5) use vi to edit /etc/conf.modules. Combine the two lines that alias
eth0, removing all text in front of 'options' from the second line. In
other words, you should end up with one line that contains the whole
of the first line and the part of the second line starting with
' option'
(6) reboot Linux.
(7) eth0 should now initialise correctly
(8) set your /etc/hosts file or DNS to identify all computers on your
network, blah, blah...
--
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@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: "psaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: intallation error when loading data into ramdisk
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:15:06 +0100
Hello,
I am trying to get SuSE Linux 7.0 running on my ThinkPad 390E where
previously has been SuSE Linux 6,4 running without any problems.
The installations hangs while "Loading data into ramdisk" which comes
straight after the "Choose the source media", I am installing from CD.
Computer stops responding or doing anything.
The problem is actually described as "to be yet solved" on page 32 of SuSE
handbook that come with the installation.
Quote:
"For reasons which have yet to be clarified, problems can occur when loading
data to the RAM disk, and YaST then cannot be loaded. In such cases the
following remedy usually leads to a positive result:
In the linuxrc main menu select Settings -> Debug ( Expert ), there you
should set 'Force root image' to no. Return to the main menu and start the
installation again."
I have tried that but it didn�t help. Neither I could find any news in the
SuSE support knowledge base.
Any hints?
Thank you very much
Pav
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From: Dave Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel modules headache
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:03:58 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kgcc should be in /usr/bin/kgcc, and should be installed as part of the
RH7.0 installation process.
If not, install package kgcc-1.1.2-40, but it should already be in
place.
HTH.
Cheers,
Dave
--
Dave Barnett System Software Engineer x1434
Women like silent men, they think they're listening.
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From: ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with partitions
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:05:10 -0500
Thanks for the tip I will try it out now.....
Sean
Steve Withers wrote:
> Sean wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am having problems with Redhat 6.1 and setting up
> > some additional partitions using cfdisk. The space is there and
> > the partition can be allocated but I cannot get it to the correct type
> > "ext2"??? I simply get the error unable to set type to extended? Does
> > anyone have an Idea how I can correct this??
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > ron
>
> When you create the partition, you would call it Linux native......whereas
> ext2 is the *format* of the partition internally. Like vfat is the format
> of a Windows partition. or HPFS is the (best) format for an OS/2
> partition.....or NTFS for an NT partition.....and so on.
>
> You would format the partition as ext2 after you had re-booted following
> the creation of the partitions. The install of Linux will usually do this.
> RedHat does.....Slackware, Corel, Caldera, SuSe, .....every version I have
> ever tried.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Steve Withers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Registered LINUX user # 24688
> http://counter.li.org/
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with xcdroast
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:12:05 -0500
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Bernard
PMFJI on this thread, but I was thinking that if you are having a problem with
CD's burned with X-CD-Roast, then the problem is cdrecord, not that program
since it uses cdrecord.
Have you successfully burned CDs (same CD brand/manufacturer and capacity) by
hand with cdrecord?
Mark
Bernard wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> and thanks for your reply.
>
> I am not very keen on further testing xcdroast 0.98, since it is on alpha
> version, and, besides, in the README file, the author warns that no one
> should test it unless he/she is already very familiar with xcdroast. He also
> warns that he has some reports about compiling problems on some configs.
> Indeed, I was unable to compile 0.98 on my system. Then instead of focusing
> on such problematic install, I said to myself that v. 0.96e had been working
> with a number of people for about 2 years, therefore there was no reason why
> it should not work on mine. 0.96e has been tested a lot more than 0.98...
> Besides, I have an old system (processor Cyrix P200+, which is equivalent to
> Pentium 166, Linux 2.2.5-15 (RedHat 6.0). I don't use KDE or GNOME, but only
> fvwm2, which satisfies me plenty.. Please, see below my replies to your
> questions :
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Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 19:09:21 +0000
From: ThomasWalz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rsh without passwort
Hello,
i have got problems to execute r-commands (rcp, rsh )
without entering a password.
I want to access from host perseus ( SuSE Linux 6.4, Kernel
2.2.14 ) to host atlas ( also SuSE Linux 6.4, Kernel 2.2.14 )
EXAMPLE:
========
backup@perseus:~ > rsh atlas ls -l
Permission denied.
According entrys in /var/log/messages on atlas :
IP-address from perseus:
192.168.2.15
===============================================================================================
Jan 3 20:00:30 atlas in.rshd[993]: connect from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(192.168.2.15)
Jan 3 20:00:30 atlas pam_rhosts_auth[993]: denied to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as backup: access not allowed
Jan 3 20:00:30 atlas in.rshd[993]: rsh denied to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as backup: Permission denied.
Jan 3 20:00:30 atlas in.rshd[993]: rsh command was 'ls'
===============================================================================================
File /etc/pam.d/rsh on atlas
===============================================================================================
#%PAM-1.0
### auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so
auth required /lib/security/pam_rhosts_auth.so
auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so
account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so
password required /lib/security/pam_unix.so
session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so none # debug or
trace
===============================================================================================
.rhosts from user backup on atlas
===============================================================================================
+
===============================================================================================
only backup has rw access to this file.
Please send your response also to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance and kind regards,
Thomas
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Kernel panic
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 19:22:06 +0100
Hi,
I have a strange problem: when I boot the system (Pentium 200 MHz, 64 MB
RAM, 9 GB Harddisk, RH 6.2, XFree 3.3.6) from floppy (I always do it
like this) it hangs after 'Entering run lever 5', then it says 'Kernel
panic'. When I warm boot the system using the reset button, 'kernel
panic' happens much sooner than that. When I use the reset-button again,
it checks the disks (they were uncleanly unmounted) and all goed fine.
The last time it happened, just 2 days ago, I had to run 'fsck
/dev/sda1' in single user mode. After reboot all was fine again. And now
this. Can somebody please tell what's happening and why?
Thanks.
Huub
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From: Rob Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Motherboard Compatibility ?????
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 13:27:49 -0500
JK - I am a total newbie myself, so take what I say with a grain of salt;
don't expect the modem to work, Linux is extremely poorly supported on
winmodems - which is what you have.
As to whether or not the video and audio will work, I have hopes myself
because I just got one of the PC Chips boards for Xmas. I expect it will -
at least with Caldera eDesktop 2.4 (which I also got), since the Sis 530
chipset is specifically listed on a screenshot in the install chapter.
Look around for an external modem; and if you go that route, you'll have to
get another serial port if yo uuse the PC Chips mobo, becaues it only has
one, and you have to plug your mouse in somewhere.
And if you disable the on-board sound to use your own soundcard, you also
disable the modem, whether you want to or not. - I can't speak for what
happens if you try to use another video card - I'm not there yet.
Best of luck,
Rob
Jawahir Koul wrote:
> I am planning to buy one of those MB which have sound and video and modem
> on board like PC Chips 598LMR AT/ATX board or Amptron PM599. Are they
> compatible
> with Linux Red Hat 6 or linux Red Hat 7. Where can I find the list of MBs
> which are compatible?
> I would appreciate help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> JK
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From: "Lloyd Llewellyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Change boot from floppy to HD?
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:29:47 GMT
I have Win2K installed on a system, but another drive is dedicated to Linux. I
currently boot into Linux from a floppy. Is there a way to get it to boot from
the Linux hard drive instead (or as an option)?
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: General Linux Question(s)
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:30:49 GMT
AlphaK7 wrote:
> OK, obviously, I'm very new to Linux and the answer I recieve will effect
> how I go about installing Linux-
>
> Can I install Linux on a 4gb hdd in a 533 Celeron PC and then simply move
> the hdd to a different PC (different mobo, cpu, chipset, sound card, video
> card, etc... possibly even monitor) when I feel like it?
The sound card and video card will require changes to configuration files.
You will (probably) also run into problems with newer IDE controllers at some
point.
> I have a feeling the answer to that is 'no' due to the kernel being
> optimized for the pc linus was installed on.
Unless you built your own Kernel, there is no optimization done by
installation.
> My second question is- What steps would someone have to go through to switch
> the hdd to another pc? Would I have to recompile the kernel, rerun setup
> and have it redetect everything?
You would need to boot to the console and run one of the setup utilities to
change the X configuration.
Then when you wanted your sound card to work you would need to reconfigure it
with what ever method you used before.
More detailed answers depend on which distro you are using.
JRT
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From: "Greg Collocott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to do : Installing RH6.2 and...
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 18:43:10 -0000
using more than 1 floppy disk to install device drivers at boot time ???????
how do you do this from expert mode. currently I can only use one floppy
disk and would like to specify other device drivers from another.
please help anyone.....
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From: a-rchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gdm problem??
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 18:31:32 GMT
hello,
Choosing KDE or GNOME in the dropdown menu of the GDM grapical login
screen always ends up logging into TWM only! there, i have to type kde
in the xterm window, for instance. should i not be able to choose in
which environment i can work? what can i do about this?
Btw: i recently installed Xfree4.0.2 (without backing up the original
files. maybe that could be the cause?
Any help is appreciated.
grtz - @rchi.
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From: "Jayne Heger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Change boot from floppy to HD?
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 19:10:19 -0000
Yes, there is!
I did it with Windows NT4 and I assume its the same for Windows 2000.
Basically the NTLDR or 2000LDR will and can boot Linux
Anyway, first of all
1) Boot into Linux, Go to Yast and configure Lilo to boot from Root, select
OK and a script should run, wait til it has stopped.
2) Now look in your Linux Root directory for a file called 'linboot.img' or
something like that (Lilo image file).
assuming your Linux distro can read your windows partition, copy that file
over to your Windows partition, anywhere will do for now.
3)Shutdown Linux and Boot into Windows 2000. Insert the Lilo image file into
the WINNT directory, whatever it is in Windows 2000.
4) Next open up the Boot.ini file found in WINNT folder. (you will have to
change its attributes to enable you to save to it. In MSDOS type attrib
C:\boot.ini -s -r, or just right click on the icon and make sure read only
isn't selected.
5) Once you are in Boot.ini you will see a list of all the operating systems
that are installed.
Enter this information on the top line. Note that below is an example of my
Linux distro, you can change the label to your own liking.
C:\Linboot.img="SuSE Linux 6.4 / SuSE 7.0????"
6) Save Boot.ini.
7) If you want you can set Linux as the default OS to start, by going to
'Control Panel', 'System, 'Startup/Shutdown'.
As I said I have done this with Windows NT and Windows 2000 should be the
same principle.
I hope it helps
Jayne Heger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Lloyd Llewellyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:vi356.6298$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have Win2K installed on a system, but another drive is dedicated to
Linux. I
> currently boot into Linux from a floppy. Is there a way to get it to boot
from
> the Linux hard drive instead (or as an option)?
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From: "Jason Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please Help! X won't start - new KDE kdm causes respawning too fast
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:51:11 -0800
Hello. I've just upgraded to KDE 2 and realized that it doesn't install
itself by default to /top/kde so that I've had to change the /etc/inittab
file to load kdm from elsewhere.
In /etc/inittab/ I believe the line is:
id:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
or something close to that...by this I mean the path to kdm (it does find it
correctly)...that I changed. When the screen pops up saying:
Red Hat Linux 5.2
localhost running on 2.2 kernel...
login:
it then pauses for a second and then says:
INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes
Why is this happening and is there an easy fix? Thanks much in advance,
Jason
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From: Nyra McGavin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: mounting floppy
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 08:10:14 +1300
Hi Hung,
/etc/fstab entry for /dev/fd0 usually has the filesystem option
set to ext2.
Change the option to auto which will cause the mount command
to work with both ext2 and msdos or create another /dev/fd0
entry with the filesystem option msdos.
See man fstab for details.
Cheers,
Keith
"Hung P. Tran" wrote:
>
> I have a standard installation (using typical installation)
> of Redhat Linux 6.1. I am having problem mounting floppy
> drive. I tried:
>
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy <RETURN>
>
> and get the error: the kernel does NOT recognize /dev/fd0 as
> a block device (may be 'insmod driver' ?)
>
> Any idea ? It seems like the regular Redhat installation does
> NOT include the floppy driver.
>
> Please advice.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> hung
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