Linux-Setup Digest #445, Volume #20 Thu, 18 Jan 01 06:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Term emulator with *real* keypad emulation? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Gnome-PPP & pppd (%20@%20.com)
Re: Kernel Panic: MBR Problem? (Villy Kruse)
Re: XF86Config problems (benoit mordelet)
Re: Gnome-PPP & pppd (David)
Serious problems installing Caldera (Robert Morelli)
Re: Kernel 2.4 Compiling under RH7 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Video Card problems (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: printing to portrate instead of landscape (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: error compiling the kernel (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: DNS won't work correct (Nick Condon)
Recreate kernel .config-file for existing redhat7-kernel (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?=
Simonsen)
Re: PPD for HP DeskJet 890c (atalk) (James Richard Tyrer)
SuSe 7.0 Install Disappointment (Steve Withers)
Re: Serious problems installing Caldera (Steve Withers)
printing and samba
best distro for 486 computer?
Re: RedHat 6.2 Install problem (Steve Withers)
Re: Kernel 2.4 Compiling under RH7 (Steve Withers)
Re: netcsape 6 (Steve Withers)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Term emulator with *real* keypad emulation?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:26:01 GMT
Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Do a web search for a program called Xkeyboard. This is a program that
> > diplays a keyboard in a window that lets you asign keys the way you
> > want.
>
> all of the hits I find are for "xkb", which is not applicable.
> perhaps you meant xkeycaps (which sets up xmodmap -- but that has problems).
>
> --
> Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://dickey.his.com
> ftp://dickey.his.com
Yea, that is what I ment. What type of problems goes it have? I just
installed it on my box and it seems to work fine.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: %20@%20.com
Subject: Gnome-PPP & pppd
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 03:35:39 -0800
I've setup an ISP entry in Gnome-PPP but when I try to connect it says "pppd
daemon quit enexpectedly." I clicked on help in Gnome-PPP but it says the help
documentation could not be found and may not be installed on my system (I don't
know how to install it either). I read the man page for pppd and also the PPP
HOWTO but I still don't know how to determine the cause and solution to this
problem. I don't know if pppd generates an error log somewhere. Do anyone here
know how I can fix it?
Thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: MBR Problem?
Date: 18 Jan 2001 08:44:15 GMT
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 06:15:03 GMT, NavyH3HeloPilot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm setting up my old Dell OptiPlex 590 to dual-boot RH6.2 and Win95. I
>discovered that I only had 2G of my 30G drive set up for Win95 use and
>consequently set about to re-size the RH partitions. Being wholly
>unsuccessful using partition magic (attribute it to being a newbie at
>this I guess), I decided to wipe all the partition tables using dos 6.2
>fdisk and RH fdisk. I now get the following:
>
>isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=03:05, iso_blknum=16, block=32
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05
>
>I'm almost positive that I really fouled up the MBR or something related
>to it during my fdisking, but don't know where to go to sort out what to
>do next to resolve it.
>
Sounds like re-install time. If you wipe out the partition, there won't
be any linux partition that can be mounted at boot time. That linux
can still be loaded is only a coincidense until the sectors that used
to contain the kernel image is overwritten by something else.
Villy
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From: benoit mordelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Config problems
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:45:57 +0100
Aaron wrote:
>
> I have Debian 2.2 installed on a Sun SparcStation10. after doing a clean
> install, I tried to run my Xserver. well, it sorta started it up, but it
> was just a white screen. I check the XF86Config file, and it was blank. I
> tried running the CF86Config app, but it doesn't seem to be installed so I
> tried manually configuring it with the example file that they include. no
> luck. so I'm stuck unless I try to uninstall and manually reinstalling
> without going through apt-get. can anyone give any advice or tell me what
> to do? please respond because I have no computer right now except this one
> (don't ask) and its driving me nuts having to use lynx all the time. cause
> I can't check hotmail with it and I can't log onto ICQ or AIM without
> XWindows. feel free to email me if you want.
>
Hi,
without more details about what goes wrong I doubt that anybody can help
you efficiently. anyway I suggest that you upgrade your XFree86 to a
4.0.x version : there's an option ('XFree86 -configure') that creates a
working config file without asking you anything that you can then
customise. moreover, writing (or customising) the new XF86Config file is
much simpler than in the 3.3.x series (debian 2.2 is provided with
3.3.6).
ben
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome-PPP & pppd
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:54:27 GMT
%20@%20.com wrote:
>
> I've setup an ISP entry in Gnome-PPP but when I try to connect it says "pppd
> daemon quit enexpectedly." I clicked on help in Gnome-PPP but it says the help
> documentation could not be found and may not be installed on my system (I don't
> know how to install it either). I read the man page for pppd and also the PPP
> HOWTO but I still don't know how to determine the cause and solution to this
> problem. I don't know if pppd generates an error log somewhere. Do anyone here
> know how I can fix it?
>
> Thank you.
Which distribution are you using?
If your running redhat then you need to check to see if these are
installed.
wvdial
ppp
rp3
rpm -q wvdial
# will tell if wvdial is installed and version
--
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 99.004% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Robert Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Serious problems installing Caldera
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 00:01:27 -0600
As I explained in a recent post in this group, I've had serious
reliability
problems with Red Hat and Mandrake and considered whether Caldera
might be less unreliable. Encouraged by some of the responses I got,
I went ahead with an attempt to set my systems up with Caldera.
Unfortunately, I'm having serious problems with Caldera too.
Perhaps some of those people who encouraged me can help bail me
out now!
1. The first problem I encountered was that the Caldera installer
reformatted
and installed /usr on the wrong partition, destroying some important
data
(which fortunately is backed up, though in an invonvenient way). The
setup
was as follows:
I have the following SCSI and IDE devices in the system:
primary IDE: 15 Gig ATA66 drive
secondary IDE: master CDROM, slave CD-RW
SCSI sda: 1.4 Gig drive
sdb: Jaz
The partitions on the drives were
hda:
/dev/hda1 1 1826 14667313+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda6 2 384 3076416 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 385 767 3076416 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 3 gig unformatted (I deleted this one since the
installation)
(I can't explain the weird numbering. This is how Linux's fdisk
reports the partitions.)
sda:
/dev/sda1 8 170 1309297+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda2 1 6 48163+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda3 * 7 7 8032+ a OS/2 Boot Manager
/dev/sda5 * 8 49 337333+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 * 50 81 257008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 * 82 162 650601 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 * 163 170 64228+ 82 Linux swap
I instructed the installer to put /usr on hda8. Instead, it put it on
hda7,
overwriting the data that had been there. After the installation, I
tried
formatting hda8 as ext2, but mkfs reported that hda8 was not a block
device. I then deleted the partition and tried to recreate it.
However,
fdisk would not comply, stating non-specifically that something was
wrong.
On a second installation attempt, the Caldera installer would
not create a partition where hda8 was that extended beyond cylinder
1027, reporting only that this operation would be invalid. It would
create a small enough partition to fit there, but I opted not to create
such a small partition. Since the data on hda7 had already been
destroyed, I mounted /usr on hda7 this time. However, something
even weirder happened. I can access /usr and the system seems
to be functioning okay (about as okay, that is, as Linux ever
functions),
but mount is reporting that /usr is on hda6, which is my hpfs
partition.
(In a panic, I switched back to OS/2, to find that that partition is
intact.) I think hda6 would make sense in terms of the usual way of
numbering partitions -- perhaps something weird with paritioning
of the drive.
OS/2 has no problem with this drive or creating partitions past
cylinder 1027. Since I created all the original partitions on hda
under OS/2,. it's possible that the problems stem from an
incompatibility
between OS/2's fdisk and Linux's. Does anyone know of such?
Assuming there's something wrong with, say, the MBR of hda,
does anyone know a way to correct it without destroying all the
data on the drive?
2. The second problem I'm having is that Linux is not booting after
installation. Since I have OS/2 boot manager, I did not let Caldera
overwrite the MBR, but just the root partition. When control passes
to the Linux partition, the GRUB command line appears. (It's not
supposed to appear. GRUB is supposed to automatically boot
Linux at this point without intervention.) The problem seems to be
that GRUB can't see the sda drive during boot. The GRUB drive
map in /boot/grub is correct. GRUB seems to still be in early
develpment. Does anyone know if it is capable yet of handling
systems with two hard drives (where one may be IDE and the
other SCSI)?
3. There were other problems, but I'm getting tired and you probably
are too ...
Help much appreciated.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 Compiling under RH7
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:00:52 GMT
"Fulton B. Gonzalez" wrote:
> I'm having a whale of a time trying to compile kernel
> 2.4 properly on a Red Hat 7 system. I've installed the latest
> version of modutils (2.4.1). Everything proceeds well
> until I do a make modules_install, upon which I get the error
> message below:
>
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
> make -C arch/i386/math-emu modules_install
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/math-emu'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/math-emu'
> cd /lib/modules/2.4.0; \
> mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
> if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.0; fi
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/smctr.o
> depmod: __bad_udelay
>
> I've compiled kernels before according to the standard recipes,
> so this leaves me scratching my head. Am I missing something
> obvious? What do I need to do in order to be able to compile
> this kernel properly?
>
You need to edit the "... /linux/Makefile" file.
Replace the two instances of "gcc" with "kgcc".
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Card problems
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:13:08 GMT
Chris wrote:
> Hi, I have a 3DLabs 32MB Oxygen VX1 video card
> the problem is I can not get the window system to come
> up at all. This is strange because durring the installation
> the resolution and picture quality of the monitor was perfect.
> Tell me if I'm wrong, but if the picture is that good on installation
> does'nt that mean that the video card was using a suitable Driver.
>
> How come I recieved no warnings or errors at all and when I reboot
> there is no way I can get into KDE or any other windows.
You can always use the generic SVGA driver, which is what the install
program probably did.
http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.2/Status3.html#3
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing to portrate instead of landscape
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:14:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a network printer LJ 4+. Currently my print jobs come out
> as landscape, but how do I print as portrait. Apart from changing the
> orientation on the printer control.
>
> RedHAt 6.1
>
That should be controlled by the application that you are printing from.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: error compiling the kernel
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 09:22:16 GMT
Markus Kossmann wrote:
>
> Did you read
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.0/gotchas-7-6.html#ss6.1
Note: there are two instances of "gcc" in the Makefile.
They both need to be changed to "kgcc"
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Condon)
Subject: Re: DNS won't work correct
Date: 18 Jan 2001 09:30:53 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thorsten Schmidt) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hi!
>My Problem is the following:
>while my M$ box is able to connect to any host i want, my linux-box seems
>not to be able to connect to "alias" hosts, although they use the same
>dns-server.
>Iuse Suse 6.2.
>(example: www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (real name prinz.cs.uni-magdeburg.de))
>connection / ping with windows no problem, but linux can't resolve name :(
>www.uni-magdeburg.de : no problem with both OS.
>
>Thanks for your help
>
>Toddy
>
>
>
On Linux run 'nslookup www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de'
What does it say?
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:35:21 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recreate kernel .config-file for existing redhat7-kernel
Hello all,
I have no .config-file for my actual redhat7-kernel.
Is it possible to recreate the config-file for my
kernel?
Thanks for help
J�rgen
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PPD for HP DeskJet 890c (atalk)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:03:07 GMT
Donald Brady wrote:
> Right, that's correct. But in the control panel notice you can send a
> Postscript test page to your printer. This works on the printer because the
> os is doing something behind the scenes.
>
> Basically my setup is this... I am running atalk (appletalk) and sharing the
> printer to my G4 cube. When I print I get a postscript error. I did not get
> this before I switched to RH7. In my atalk papd.conf file I was using this:
>
> deskjet:\
> :pr=lp:op=root:pd=/usr/local/ppd/HPLJ5P_1.PPD:
>
> Notice the PPD file which somebody gave me. This allows the printer to
> function as PS printer. Notice that it's for a HP LJ5 though. I am assuming
> since I am getting a PS error that I should try and get a PPD file for the
> 890c to eliminate that in my trouble shooting.
>
> Thanks for any info or corrections from anybody.
No, I do not know how to set this up.
You aren't going to be able to get a PPD file for you printer because it
isn't a
PostScript printer.
And, technically, it isn't the printer as far as your Mac is concerned.
To print
PostScript on you printer you will need to run the PostScript file
through
GhostScript which is actually your "printer" as far as the Mac is
concerned.
I don't know if there is a generic PostScript file available for
GhostScript or
not.
There is a possibility that "libaps" includes one.
I checked and it does:
genericna.ppd
{there is also an international version}
This is for 300 dpi, but you can just edit it to change this to match
your
printers resolution.
Now if I only knew where I got this package from. It isn't on
RPMFind.net.
Apparently I got it from Corel:
ftp://ftp.corel.com/pub/linux/Graphics9/updates/rpm/libaps-1.0-1568.0.i386.rpm
JRT
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSe 7.0 Install Disappointment
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:31:59 +1300
I bought the SuSE 7.0 "Personal" edition today for NZ$145 (US$60-ish).
I hadn't played with SuSE since 6.1 and at the time it was as good as
any distro...though the main menu of the text-mode YAST1 was a bit
bewildering......and I ended up choosing from myriand thousands of
packages for ages. No wonder they let you save your choices to floppy
disk!
I digress.........
My system:
ASUS P3V4X mobo
PIII-600EB CPU
384MB of 133Mhz SDRAM
2 x IDE HDs on IDE0
CD-R and CD on IDE1
Promise Ultra 100 IDE Controller
1 x HD on IDE2
2 x USB ports (connected to 7-port USB Hub)
10/100MB "Planet" ethernet NIC with the 21143 "tulip" compatible chip
Cardex GeForce 2 MX 32MB video card
SB Live! Value sound card
Pinnacle Video-capture PCI card (DC30-plus)
Microsoft Intellimouse Optical "Explorer" on USB port.
The install:
First time though, I used the graphical YaST2. It went fine up the end
of the first CD. From the point it prompted for the 2nd CD, it no longer
recognised my mouse. Then....when I got the part where it wanted to set
up my printer, I chose an SMB/Windows network printer. It then tried to
PING the print server....but my NIC hadn't been set up yet.
OK....so then I went to the next button and tried to configure my sound
card. It correctly ID'd my SB Live!...but reported an error and the
system hung hard. I had to power off and start over.
Second time through, it did all the same things. I avoided the sound
config. I tried to set up my NIC. YaST2 incorrectly ID'd my NIC as an
ACCTON Cheetah and would NOT let me change it....so the network was
never gonna work.
For both installs I had to go for 16-colour VGA (as epxected) because
the GeForce 2 MX isn't supported. This is better support than any other
version of Linux, so I considered this to be a plus. At least was gonna
get a GUI if the system would ever boot.
When I attempted to re-boot after completing the install, it got to the
point where it saw two USB ports....and hung hard.
I finished the instaled by clicking the "I;ve had enough of this crap"
button (also known as "Finish Installation").
When I re-booted, after unplugging my USB hub, thinkking maybe having 8
USB ports was more than SuSE Linux could handle. It appears to be the
case as SuSE 7.0 came up to the 16 colour VGA login this time with no
problems. It still thinks I have an ACCTON Cheetah NIC, though, so I
have no network.
But it can't see my USB mouse. It saw the mouse fine during the first
half of the install....so what's the problem?
This is a disappointment. I have successfully installed Caldera 2.4 and
RH 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0 on this system with no problems other than the video
and the Promise IDE controller not being visible until AFTER the
install.
SuSE 7.0 got some things right. The Reiser jounaling file system is
supported out of the box. It saw my Promise controller right form the
start. It at least gave me a usable GUI....well....if I had a
functioning mouse, it would be usable. I can get around that but putting
the PS/2 adaptor on the USB connector......but that's not the point.
This has not been a hapy evening. I started with high expectations. The
install looked great initially....but it al fell apart after the first
CD.
I also tried YaST1 - text-based - install.....but I screwed that up
because I thought it was finished......but it was only halfway through.
It confused me by asking for CD 1 again.....and I thought I had looped
the install somehow. But no....it was about to install the kernel and I
canned the install. let's say there was some ambiguity there about just
exactly where I was in the install process....like "I had no idea" would
be a good way of putting it. It could have been clearer....
That's enough for now. There were some good points and the POTENTIAL to
be very good indeed was there. But it didn't come off. Not for me,
anyway.
I'll give it another go without the USB hub plugged in....and I'll use
the text-based install because you have more control. I can't trust
YaST2....it isn't clever enough to do a proper job on my system.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Serious problems installing Caldera
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:53:43 +1300
Robert Morelli wrote:
>
> As I explained in a recent post in this group, I've had serious
> reliability
> problems with Red Hat and Mandrake and considered whether Caldera
> might be less unreliable. Encouraged by some of the responses I got,
> I went ahead with an attempt to set my systems up with Caldera.
> Unfortunately, I'm having serious problems with Caldera too.
> Perhaps some of those people who encouraged me can help bail me
> out now!
I have some observations....as a former OS/2 user of long standing.
I have none of reliability issues you are seeing with Linux and disks.
BUT! I don't have an environment where I have a SCSI drive as primary
boot device combined with a single IDE drive that doesn't have a primary
partition on it.....only an extended partition. Disk precedence could be
murky. Combined with large disk size, your config could cause any but an
iron-clad BIOS to make a mistake somewhere.
I assume you have SCSI as the primary boot device in your BIOS.
I have a feeling that if you re-partitioned that IDE drive so that the
first partition was primary, your whole config might function more
predictably.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: printing and samba
Date: 18 Jan 2001 10:35:55 GMT
I'm sharing a HP 1100 printer using SAMBA. Printing from windoze
clients work but then when I try printing large files (>4 pages),
the printer gets stuck or some parts don't print. How can I
allow for large file printing?
Thanks for the help.
jojo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: best distro for 486 computer?
Date: 18 Jan 2001 10:40:16 GMT
Hi
I have an old 486 which I want to install Linux in.
What's a good distribution to support it?
hardware: 486DX, 16 MB RAM, 500 MB HD, SVGA card.
Can I run Xwindows?
Thanks.
Jojo
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.certification.redhat,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.supermicro,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 Install problem
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:58:02 +1300
Wang Yong Peel wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I have tried RedHat 6.2 installation on the P5MMA motherboard.
> But I could not install RedHat 6.2 on this.
> Because I have error message as keybord controller jammed 0xff.
> Can everyone help me? How can I fix this problem?
>
> Thank you very much
You could try a different keyboard type.....like USB instead of PS/2,
for example. I assume your system supports both.
You may want to check your system BIOS, too. there are settings in there
related to keyboards that may be affecting the behaviour here.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 Compiling under RH7
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:59:58 +1300
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> "Fulton B. Gonzalez" wrote:
>
> > I'm having a whale of a time trying to compile kernel
> > 2.4 properly on a Red Hat 7 system. I've installed the latest
> > version of modutils (2.4.1). Everything proceeds well
> > until I do a make modules_install, upon which I get the error
> > message below:
> >
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/lib'
> > make -C arch/i386/math-emu modules_install
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/math-emu'
> > make[1]: Nothing to be done for `modules_install'.
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.0/arch/i386/math-emu'
> > cd /lib/modules/2.4.0; \
> > mkdir -p pcmcia; \
> > find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia
> > if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.0; fi
> > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
> > /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/smctr.o
> > depmod: __bad_udelay
> >
> > I've compiled kernels before according to the standard recipes,
> > so this leaves me scratching my head. Am I missing something
> > obvious? What do I need to do in order to be able to compile
> > this kernel properly?
> >
>
> You need to edit the "... /linux/Makefile" file.
>
> Replace the two instances of "gcc" with "kgcc".
>
> JRT
I was under the impression it was only the "gcc" on the "CC"
(cross-compiler) line......at least that is what the alert on the RH web
site seemed to be saying.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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From: Steve Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: netcsape 6
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:04:22 +1300
Steve wrote:
>
> Hello!
> does anybody know why netscape 6 is unable to run on my system which is a
> PIII box with kernel 2.4.0 Xwindow 4.0.2 glic 2.1.2 (everything compiled
> from source with gcc 2.95.2 wich was also recompiled)?
> This is the error I get:
>
> /opt/netscape6/run-mozilla.sh /opt/netscape6/mozilla-bin
> MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/opt/netscape6
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/netscape6/Cool:/opt/netscape6:/root/.kde/lib:/opt/kde/lib
> LIBPATH=/opt/netscape6:/opt/netscape6/Cool
> SHLIB_PATH=/opt/netscape6:/opt/netscape6/Cool
> XPCS_HOME=/opt/netscape6/Cool
> MOZ_PROGRAM=/opt/netscape6/mozilla-bin
> MOZ_TOOLKIT=
> moz_debug=0
> moz_debugger=
> **************************************************
> nsNativeComponentLoader:
> SelfRegisterDll(/opt/netscape6/components/libhtmlpars.so) Load FAILED with
> error: /opt/netscape6/components/libhtmlpars.so: undefined symbol:
> seekpos__9streambufxi
> **************************************************
> we don't handle eBorderStyle_close yet... please fix mew (repeated 1
> billion times)
>
> and finally the program segfaults
>
> Uh?
Are you using the e-border style in the sawfish themes? It appears to
not like it.
I have come to the slow, sorry conclusion that Netscape 6 completely
sucks and have gone back to 4.75.
NS 6.0 runs like a dog on my PIII-750 with 256M of RAM. Plus is can't
show you unreaded, threaded mail in the news reader....(try it...see for
yourselves)....which is the only setting any inteligent person ever
uses!
A big disappointment.
--
Regards,
Steve Withers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #24688
http://counter.li.org
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