Linux-Setup Digest #351, Volume #20 Fri, 5 Jan 01 11:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Plea for help with booting. (olgnuby)
winmodem HSP-56 PC-Tel and LINUX?? (Tiefenbacher)
Re: LILO boots only linux (Eric)
Monitor and Network setup (Peter)
winmodem HSP-56 PC-Tel and LINUX?? (Tiefenbacher)
kernel 2.4 : can't login ("Dominique B")
Re: Plea for help with booting. (HP Staber)
Re: LILO boots only linux ("troost")
Re: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4 (Kasper Dupont)
Re: winmodem HSP-56 PC-Tel and LINUX?? (David Punsalan)
Re: LILO boots only linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: info in color? (David)
Re: Monitor and Network setup (David)
Re: Missing mathlib (Jean-Michel Grimaldi)
2.2.12 Kernel upgrade to 2.2.18 ("Baldrick")
Must be root to start gdm ("Andrew Carlisle")
Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules? ("Andrew
Carlisle")
Re: LILO boots only linux (Eric)
Re: Must be root to start gdm (Eric)
Re: Suse 7.0; Yast2, kinternet, rc.dialout und ich komme nicht ins Internet (Helgi
Hrafn Gunnarsson)
Re: can't telnet to linux box (John Matogo)
scsi emulation installation breaks hp scsi scanner (dan)
Re: Netscape won't connect to modem (H.Bruijn)
Re: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules? (H.Bruijn)
Re: Must be root to start gdm (David)
Re: How to make games run faster? (Craig Kelley)
Re: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules? (Craig
Kelley)
Re: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules? (David)
Re: Missing mathlib (Craig Kelley)
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plea for help with booting.
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:11:28 GMT
Just watching the entire thread, under normal circumstances, the booting
from a Win98 boot disk, going to an a:\ prompt and using the command
fdisk /mbr should have restored your master boot record and have allowed
you to reboot to Windows as if you nor Mandrake had never tampered with
the MBR.
I just shit canned thirty five dollars worth of Mandrake 7.2 for what
ever it may be worth, which for me is worthless.
I found it to be about as amenable to allowing a user to take control
and have a say so in the install process as Microsoft Windows. Even in
Text mode, choosing the all install option to supposedly allow you to
control all aspects of the install.
I evaluated it in the beginning from the stand point of a first time
user and found it to be okay, I guess for someone who wants a Linux
installation without any fuss or bother that will come out of the can
and
plop down on the plate but past that point, I began to have problems. PQ
boot magic does not recognize it as a bootable entity for me, Once
booted into mdk, one can change the boot sequence or reset the default
boot and etc. by modifying the /etc/lilo.conf, but I had no luck getting
an older version of LILO, essentially same situation I had with PQ, to
boot the mandrake when I set it from, say for example RH 6.1 or COL 2.3.
If you have the same edition of MDK that I bought, practically
everything on it is pre-release and will need to be upgraded from the
Mandrake site to get the KDE 1.9something pre upgraded to 2.0 in
addition to about four hours of other download on a 56K connection.
I guess the thing that surprised me most is when I decided to install RH
6.1 back over the partitions that mdk had set on the disk, RedHat told
me I had no linux partitions on my machine, and I know damn good and
well I didn't get it installed in Win as UMSDOS.
Best wishes and good luck.
Charles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Recently I installed Mandrake 7.2 on a machine that previously ran
> Win98 (and Slackware Linux 3.(x?),
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From: Tiefenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: winmodem HSP-56 PC-Tel and LINUX??
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:29:29 +0100
Hi folks
Has anybody by accident come across the problem to use an internal HSP
56 PC-Tel Modem (one of these ugly winmodems?!) under LINUX SUSE 7.0??
The "how to" files and the HSP drivers found on www.linmodem.com still
don�t help solving my problems with recognition of the modem by YasT and
configuration of connection by kppp! Error message: modem is occupied.
Anybody �can help??
with regards
stephan
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO boots only linux
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:35:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
troost wrote:
>
> > Okay, just use the lilo.conf file I gave you.
> > It's pretty general.
> > Use it and have fun.
>
> I cnnot because i dont see the effect of changing that because i boot from
> floppy and that indeed isnt changed. Cannot boot from HD!
>
after you changed this you can(Oh and don't forget the LBA32 option, as
I did)
alter /etc/lilo.conf as i mentioned,
run `/sbin/lilo`
this will overwrite the MBR on your HDD.
remove the floppy and reboot
Eric
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From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor and Network setup
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:35:50 GMT
Hi
I have installed Linux RH 6.2 with a wrong monitor configuration, (my
screen is configured to 600X400) i don't know how could i change my
screen setup, without reinstalling the Linux.
I have also installed a net-card with dynamic IP, but i am not connected
to any network at the moment. Now i have the problem when i am starting
my PC, it stops / waits very long time on (Bringing up the eth0
interfaces).
are there any way to avoid controlling the network interface at the
boot time.
Any help and suggestion will be appreciated.
Thanks allot Peter
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From: Tiefenbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: winmodem HSP-56 PC-Tel and LINUX??
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:42:07 +0100
Hi folks
Has anybody by accident come across the problem to use an internal HSP
56 PC-Tel Modem (one of these ugly winmodems?!) under LINUX SUSE 7.0??
The "how to" files and the HSP drivers found on www.linmodem.com still
don�t help solving my problems with recognition of the modem by YasT and
configuration of connection by kppp! Error message: modem is busy.
Anybody �can help??
with regards
stephan
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From: "Dominique B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kernel 2.4 : can't login
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:01:25 +0100
I compiled kernel 2.4.0-test12 with reiserfs 3.6.23 patch on my mdk7.2 box
(2.2.17 and 2.2.18 kernels are working perfectely)
After booting under 2.4.0, everything loads ok and fast until it loads ie
eth0, then it stops a while , then continues, stops again randomly, ie while
loading postresql, then continues , etc ... (random number of stops and
restarts).
When finally I get the log prompt, I can enter my login name, but after
entering the password, stops and looks dead.
I know it's a test release, but if I can't even test it !....
Dom
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From: HP Staber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plea for help with booting.
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:03:22 +0100
Eric wrote:
> > > How about booting from a windows floppy then when you get to the A:
> > prompt
> > > type fdisk /MBR. You can then boot windows automatically and use a
> > linux
> > > boot floppy if you want to boot linux.
>
> It's not the MBR you hosed, but the bootsector of hda1
How to recover hda1. It seems it happened to me as well with my MDK 7.2
installation.
Although I thoroughly partitioned my HD before and left an empty 6GigB =
below
the 8Gig limit for Linux to use during the install : Linux copied
itself over everything on the 30Gig HD and created a 500MB Linux ext2f
and a 29.5Gig Linux extended.
An fdisk /mbr from the Win RescueDisk recovers nothing.
HP Staber/Salzburg
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From: "troost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO boots only linux
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:14:01 GMT
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> troost wrote:
> >
> > > Okay, just use the lilo.conf file I gave you.
> > > It's pretty general.
> > > Use it and have fun.
> >
> > I cnnot because i dont see the effect of changing that because i boot
from
> > floppy and that indeed isnt changed. Cannot boot from HD!
> >
>
> after you changed this you can(Oh and don't forget the LBA32 option, as
> I did)
>
> alter /etc/lilo.conf as i mentioned,
> run `/sbin/lilo`
> this will overwrite the MBR on your HDD.
> remove the floppy and reboot
>
> Eric
Doh, it works!!
apparently i forgot to change
boot=/dev/hda5 (it was like that when i found it)
into
boot=/dev/hda
Now everything works fine, so for helping me :
:-o
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
you make the lilo when he wont boot
you never know dear how much i boot now
oh please dont take your help away"
:-|)
:-|)
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From: Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: removing mouse causes Linux to crash/hang. kernel 2.4
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:15:38 +0000
Robert Redelmeier wrote:
>
> 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
I have just verified, the beep and the reinitializing
of the keryboard is done by DOS not by the BIOS. Int
9 is also completely replaced by the DOS keyboard
driver.
The DOS keyboard driver is optional the BIOS keyboard
driver can be used as well, but the DOS driver has
some additional features.
This particular feature could also be implemented in
Linux, which I think would be a good idea.
--
Kasper Dupont
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: winmodem HSP-56 PC-Tel and LINUX??
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:17:18 -0600
Tiefenbacher,
I have had problems trying to use the modules for the HSP PCTel modem
under Mandrake 6.5 (kernel 2.2.13-7mdk) I tried the other pre-compiled
modules as well (pctel_hsp and pctel_pci.o) and I was never able to
successfully insmod the module. I eventually switched my distribution to
RH 6.1 and it worked fine. For my purposes - I don't necessarily need
the most recent kernel/distro on my system so I don't mind "downgrading" -
as long as I can connect to the net w/o having to buy a new modem.
It sounds like you have gotten further along the process than I did since
I never got the irq to be recognized. But for the record - I have had
problems with the module and I never was able to get help from anyone with
it.
Regards,
David
> Has anybody by accident come across the problem to use an
internal HSP
> 56 PC-Tel Modem (one of these ugly winmodems?!) under LINUX SUSE 7.0??
> The "how to" files and the HSP drivers found on www.linmodem.com still
> don=B4t help solving my problems with recognition of the modem by YasT an=
d
>=20
> configuration of connection by kppp! Error message: modem is busy.
> Anybody =B4can help??
> with regards
>=20
> stephan
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO boots only linux
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:22:38 +0100
troost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> troost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you want to boot from above the 1024 cyl mark, read the lilo docs
>> and see what you have to do.
> I did several times and tryd to understand ...
Then try harder. I'm not responsible for your brain.
The HOWTO is comprehensible to me, and that's the only stick I have.
OTOH I doubt if many people have read the lilo docs themselves - too
long and too much information: useful reference material, but not
stuff to read.
>>You will have to remove the linear option
>> (probably) and add lba32 to your lilo.conf
> As stated in previous postings i have done that
Then the conclusion is that your bios doesn't play. So forget it.
Do something else.
>>. Then you'll have to hope
>> that your bios supports that call.
> bios is award 4.51pg (1998). i checked for upgrades and they only have a
> windows program for the 4.50
So?
>> But the real answer is: Don't Do That. Make a SMALL boot partition. Put
>> it somewhere universally accessible.
> How do i make it that small? If it always could be that small then this
What do you mean? You make it that small. That's all. About 8MB should
be fine. Or just put the kernel image and boot sector
on a partition that IS already below the 1o24 cyl mark. Then you
don't need to make a special partition just for it. Or boot using
laodlin instead.
> problem, which is referred by in every doc would not exists. The problem, i
There's no problem making it that size. Getting people
to make it that size is another matter.
> restate, how do u make lilo do the mbr or a disk?
Eh? Please use comprehensible syntax. You can't "do mbr". I suspect
you mean "put the boot sector on the mbr" I don't know what you mean by
"do .. a disk". Perhaps this is a two-point error? "disk" for
"partition" as well?
Why do you care? Lilo always puts the boot sector either in the mbr or
in a partition, according to whatever you tell it to do in the
lilo.conf file. Look at it, and alter to taste. Use the man page to
help you. Hmm .. I suppose one can name any writable device there,
even a file (i.e. not a device)?
Peter
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: info in color?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:45:27 GMT
Manni Heumann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am quite new to Linux, but I've been using info's dos-port for
> a couple of years now.
> In Dos you can set the environment variable INFO_COLORS, and
> info will use the values you set and come up in your own, eye
> pleasing colors. This seems to have no effect in the text
> console (no xterm, just text) on my Linux box. I couldn't find
> anything in info's documentation, either.
> Does anyone know of a way to set info's colors?
>
> TIA,
>
> Manni
If you are talking about the colors of directories when using the ls
command for example I think you want to take a look at the
/etc/DIR_COLORS file. At least on a RH system.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor and Network setup
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 14:54:21 GMT
Peter wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have installed Linux RH 6.2 with a wrong monitor configuration, (my
> screen is configured to 600X400) i don't know how could i change my
> screen setup, without reinstalling the Linux.
Try using the command: Xconfigurator
> I have also installed a net-card with dynamic IP, but i am not connected
> to any network at the moment. Now i have the problem when i am starting
> my PC, it stops / waits very long time on (Bringing up the eth0
> interfaces).
> are there any way to avoid controlling the network interface at the
> boot time.
Yes, boot into "linux 1" and
ls /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/
"mv /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/SXXnetwork /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/KXXnetwork"
Without the quotes where the XX is the number shown with the "ls"
command.
Then if you need to start the network you can run:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
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From: Jean-Michel Grimaldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Missing mathlib
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:54:49 +0100
Charles Packer wrote:
>
> I've been using Red Hat 5.1 all these years and finally got
> around to doing some serious C development and...there's no
> mathlib.*!
Maybe you are looking for math.h.
If so, don't forget the -lm option when you call gcc.
--
JM
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From: "Baldrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.2.12 Kernel upgrade to 2.2.18
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:59:50 -0000
Hi folks,
I want to upgrade my Redhat 6.1 installation to the latest kernel (2.2.18 I
think).
I have downloaded the full RH7.0 Distro from their website and the latest
kernel from kernel.org.
I would normally just reinstall from scratch as this is usually much easier
(for me at least) but I don't want to go through the network, dns and other
configurations all over again.
Can anyone please provide a summary of how I would go about doing this or
point me in the right direction. I've had a look at the kernel HOWTO but am
a bit concerned about the dependencies, lib upgrades etc etc.
TIA,
Jules
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From: "Andrew Carlisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Must be root to start gdm
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:00:19 -0500
When I did my RedHat installation I chose "install everything". When the
system boots up, it is in simply command line mode. This is a pain because
I must logon as root to start gdm. Is there a way around this? I would
like the system to boot and start gdm automatically!
Andy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Andrew Carlisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules?
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:53:35 -0500
When RedHat installs itself, does it recompile the kernel based on what it
detects for hardware in your system? Or, does it simply have a prebuild
kernel and just add the modules appropriate for your system? Does it leave
a log as to what it detected and such?
Andy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO boots only linux
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:23:31 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Doh, it works!!
>
> apparently i forgot to change
> boot=/dev/hda5 (it was like that when i found it)
> into
> boot=/dev/hda
And it was very important as you noticed :-)
> Now everything works fine, so for helping me :
>
> :-o
> "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
> you make the lilo when he wont boot
> you never know dear how much i boot now
> oh please dont take your help away"
> :-|)
> :-|)
Glad I could help you out.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Must be root to start gdm
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 16:24:53 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrew Carlisle wrote:
>
> When I did my RedHat installation I chose "install everything". When the
> system boots up, it is in simply command line mode. This is a pain because
> I must logon as root to start gdm. Is there a way around this? I would
> like the system to boot and start gdm automatically!
>
don't start gdm manually.
start in runlevel 5
change /etc/inittab to alter the default behaviour
Eric
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From: Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse 7.0; Yast2, kinternet, rc.dialout und ich komme nicht ins Internet
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux.suse,cityweb.computer.linux,comp.windows.x.kde,de.comp.os.unix.apps.kde,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 15:24:50 +0000
Ah, that's perfectly allright, you see, because... everyone in here speaks
German.
Of course! Everyone knows that German is the most spoken language in the
world, right?
Idiot.
Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson
Ralf Breuker wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> folgendes Problem: Die Verbindung ins Internet am Prompt klappt perfekt.
> Zumindest kann ich andere Rechner anpingen ...
> Wenn ich aber mit YaST2 den Internetzugang f�r's KDE konfigurieren will,
> schmiert YaST2 bei der Modemerkennung ab - obwohl das wie gesagt,
> konfiguriert ist und l�uft. Folglich schreibt YaST2 auch keine
> Konfigurationsdateien - welche fehlen, wei� ich also nicht. Unter anderem
> (?) fehlt die /etc/rc.dialout, die kinternet gerne h�tte um den
> Internetzugang zu konfigurieren.
> Leider finde ich keinerlei Dokumentation, was sich kinternet da so
> vorstellt. Wenn mir jemand einen hinweis auf eine Doku, oder auch nur
> einfach eine funktionierende und vielleicht etwas dokumentierte rc.dialout
> schicken k�nnte, w�re ich sehr dankbar.
>
> Danke
> Ralf
>
>
> Entschuldigung f�r das Crossposting, aber ich habe die Frage schon einmal
> vor einigen Tagen gestellt und keine Antwort bekommen :-(
>
>
>
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From: John Matogo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't telnet to linux box
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:30:04 -0000
Greetings Wong,
to be able to telnet to the linux box you need to modify the hosts.allow
file in /etc directory to give access to the win 98 machine. check the how
tos on how to write the script for this.I did it sometime back you can
email me later for me to send it to you. i think it went something like
this
ALL:ALL
if you did not want to restrict access to a few ip addresses.
I cant remember to well. email me to remind me. all the best.
john
wong wrote:
>
>
> i have win98 box and redhat 6.0 box. i can ping to redhat 6.0 from win98
> box, but can't telnet to redhat 6.0 box. why ?
>
> ken
>
>
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From: dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi emulation installation breaks hp scsi scanner
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 09:38:23 -0600
i have an ide cdwriter (hp9300) which requires scsi emulation
when i install the module (ide-scsi) with either modprobe or insmod,
my scanner quits working (hp 6200 series)
if i remove the ide-scsi module, the scanner works fine
also, exactly what do i put into /etc/conf.modules to install the
ide-scsi module
i have read the man page several times and can't figure out what to add
to
the conf.modules file to get the ide-scsi module laoded when the system
comes up
thanks for any help,
dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Netscape won't connect to modem
Date: 5 Jan 2001 15:46:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:00:58 +1030, Peter Lawrance allegedly wrote:
>But... can't connect to the Internet through Netscape. All my Dialup
>settings have been checked and rechecked. Clicking the Debug button in the
>PPP Properties connects to my ISP OK, identifies the logon prompt and sends
>my user name and password. However, lauching Netscape Communicator and
>attempting to connect to the same ISP by clicking the HOME button or GOing
>HOME results in two messages:
>
>NETSCAPE ERROR:
>Warning: the following hosts are unknown:
> home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net
>This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable.
>...bla bla bla... name server...
>...bla bla bla... non-root server...
>...bla bla bla... $SOCKS_NS environment variable...
>Consult your system administrator.
It would appear that you don't have the name-servers of your ISP
installed correctly.
Open a console or xterm and edit the file:
pico /etc/resolv.conf
add the lines
nameserver IP-NUMBER-OF-1st-DNS
nameserver IP-NUMBER-OF-2nd-DNS
save and close the file and try again. Now if for some reason the
dialing in processs changes these setting or removes them completely,
you can make the file immutable :
chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
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========================================================================
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The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules?
Date: 5 Jan 2001 15:54:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:53:35 -0500, Andrew Carlisle allegedly wrote:
>When RedHat installs itself, does it recompile the kernel based on what it
>detects for hardware in your system? Or, does it simply have a prebuild
>kernel and just add the modules appropriate for your system? Does it leave
>a log as to what it detected and such?
No RedHat makes a choice between two prebuild kernels one for
uni-processor machines and one for multi-processor ones.
Build in is nearly everything that can't be compiled as a module, as to
allow the standard kernel to function on as many systems as possible.
Modules that are loaded during the boot process are listed in
/etc/conf.modules IIRC Other modules may be autoloaded by the kernel
when you actually need them, and are removed after they have been
inactive for 5 minutes. You can find the mosules currently loaded with
the /sbin/lsmod command.
--
If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
========================================================================
Herman Bruijn mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Netherlands website: http://hermanbruijn.com
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Must be root to start gdm
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:54:48 GMT
Andrew Carlisle wrote:
>
> When I did my RedHat installation I chose "install everything". When the
> system boots up, it is in simply command line mode. This is a pain because
> I must logon as root to start gdm. Is there a way around this? I would
> like the system to boot and start gdm automatically!
>
> Andy
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If X is configured properly so that you can use "startx" without any
problems then just edit /etc/inittab and change the 3 to a 5 in the line
below.
id:3:initdefaults:
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to make games run faster?
Date: 05 Jan 2001 08:56:03 -0700
John-Paul Stanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there anything that can be done to my linux system to make it faster
> when playing games. At the moment Unreal Tornement is jerky. It will
> pause every now and a gain, It's not for long but seems to be while
> there is a lot of action on the screen.
>
> My system is running Xfree 4.0.2. I have a 3dfx 3000 with the DRI
> drives. I've also enabled he dma for my CD-ROM and Hard drives. Are
> there any other optimzaions that can be done?
I've found that doing this helps on systems with lower RAM:
Start in runlevel 3 (console, no X11/gdm/xdm/kdm login screen). Copy
your ~/.xinitrc to some file like ~/.xinitrc_backup and then create a
new .xinitrc file with the only command being your game:
$ cat > .xinitrc
/usr/local/games/UnrealTournament/System/ut
[control-D]
Then run startx and your game will run without the overhead of a
window manager/GNOME/KDE/etc. After you're done, you can copy your
backup .xinitrc file over to restore the old settings.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules?
Date: 05 Jan 2001 09:00:24 -0700
"Andrew Carlisle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> When RedHat installs itself, does it recompile the kernel based on what it
> detects for hardware in your system? Or, does it simply have a prebuild
> kernel and just add the modules appropriate for your system? Does it leave
> a log as to what it detected and such?
It uses a pre-built kernel.
Most linux distributions support the 'dmesg' command, which will give
the kernel's bootup log.
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does RedHat Use a prebuilt kernel and just add appropriate modules?
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:57:22 GMT
Andrew Carlisle wrote:
>
> When RedHat installs itself, does it recompile the kernel based on what it
> detects for hardware in your system? Or, does it simply have a prebuild
> kernel and just add the modules appropriate for your system? Does it leave
> a log as to what it detected and such?
>
> Andy
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you tried using "dmesg | less"
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Missing mathlib
Date: 05 Jan 2001 08:57:19 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Packer) writes:
> I've been using Red Hat 5.1 all these years and finally got
> around to doing some serious C development and...there's no
> mathlib.*! So I poked around the Linux website for information
> and determined that in more recent releases it's _apparently_ in
> package glibc. Could somebody confirm this? If it's there, does
> that mean it's probably in glibc in release 5.1 and maybe I
> should reinstall that package?
It's in glibc; you can link it in with:
gcc -o blah blah.c -lm
^^^
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