Linux-Setup Digest #565, Volume #20 Sun, 4 Feb 01 14:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: Help me please.. I have display problems... (Noble Pepper)
Re: What is this:" DriveReady SeekComplete Error" ? (Andreas Tretow)
Display problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server ("Meron
Lavie")
Re: Gnome problems - cannot find library files. (Dave Trahan)
Re: LILO problems.. also.. how to change screen resolution ("Neil Koozer")
Re: What am I doing wrong? ("John Bilbao")
Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
("Meron Lavie")
Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server (Mark
Bratcher)
VCD player for linux? (With GUI please) (rootaccess)
Re: What am I doing wrong? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: LILO fails to boot 2.4.0! ("Frederic Vanneste")
Re: What am I doing wrong? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: How to make Samba start on RH6.2 system start?? (Pentar)
Re: How to make Samba start on RH6.2 system start?? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Installing RedHat 7.0 with Promise ATA/100 controller (Pentar)
install cd writer (Mandrake 7 User)
Linux POP server & WinNT (gvines)
Re: install cd writer (E J)
Re: VCD player for linux? (With GUI please) (E J)
Re: Linux POP server & WinNT (Michael Heiming)
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me please.. I have display problems...
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 08:23:42 -0600
nieuws wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have installed phatlinux 3.2
> When I start X windows my screen is BIG>.. so I have to change my
> resolution.. Can I do that in X ??
> I tried to set my monitor right.. but I don`t know if it`s okay.. in my
> manual (display) it says...
>
> name of my monitor is Target..
> vertical freq. 47Hz to 95HZ Continuous
> Horizontal freq. 30 Khz to 82 Khz continuous..
>
> how can I " tell" x windows that that`s my monitor ??
>
> I hope that you can help me...
> greetings .
> Rene
>
>
>
You can reset resolution in a running X session with <ctrl><alt>+ and
<ctrl><alt>-
There are several setup utilities for the X window system, but I don't know
which phat uses. Try Xconfigurator, XF86Setup, xf86config.
You can also edit XF86Config by hand, find your Screen section and then
eliminate resolutions higher thatn the one you want from the Modes line of
the Display Subsection. There may be several screen sections, one for each
driver on you system, make sure you edit the one that you are using.
Here's the relevant section in my XF86Config:
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "Rage LT"
Monitor "VeiwSonic A90"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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From: Andreas Tretow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What is this:" DriveReady SeekComplete Error" ?
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 14:51:04 +0000
Thank you very much. This did the trick.
Andreas
Cameron Kerr wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andreas Tretow"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Everybody,
>>
>> I recently got this kernel message during boot up:
>>
>> Jan 31 16:42:24 locutus kernel: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
>> SeekComplete Error } Jan 31 16:42:24 locutus kernel: hdc: dma_intr:
>> error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>>
>> Can anyone please tell me what it means and what I can do about it. Is
>> this bad ? Unfortunately I have no clue.
>
>
> You should tru setting the "Use Multimode by Default" option in the
> kernel (I'm running 2.4.1). You'l find it in the Hard drive controller
> section.
>
> Note that this doesn't allways fix this, I've noticed.
>
>
>> Andreas
>
>
> --Cameron Kerr
--
Andreas Tretow
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Display problem
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 15:09:38 GMT
Hi!
I have installed Red Hat 7.0 on an Asus m8000 notebook. Almost
everything works fine. The current problem i'm fighting with is that X
goofs up the display when xscreensaver kicks in. The screen blacks out
and the only way to see anything again is to toggle the LCD/CRT mode
(notebook hardware) back and forth. After toggling this I can see my
desktop in a totally corrupted mode. The only way to get everything back
to normal is to restart X. The graphics adapter is a SMI LynxEM.
What exactly does the screensaver do when it takes control over the
display? And is there some way of getting X to reinitialize the graphics
device without restarting?
All suggestions are welcome.
Regards,
Fredrik
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,cern.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,thenet.support.linux
Subject: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:14:58 +0200
I installed RH7.0 on my PC as a workstation consfiguration (no other OS on
it). I installed directly from the 1st CD (I was never prompted for the
second CD in the installation process).
Now, when I want to add a Telnet server via linuxonf (using the linuxconf
pseudo-graphic mode), I get an error mesage saying that:
"We can't installed [sic] the package(s) because they require resources from
un-available packages".
The list includes:
rpmlib(CompressFileNames)
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)
How can I tell which packages are missing? Where can I get them?
TIA,
--
Meron Lavie
www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
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From: Dave Trahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gnome problems - cannot find library files.
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:33:55 -0500
Russell Lankenau wrote:
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> Alright. Here are the error messages.
>
you need to edit /etc/ld.so.conf and add all of the directories which
have shared libraries. Then run /sbin/ldconfig, this should solve the
problem.
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From: "Neil Koozer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: LILO problems.. also.. how to change screen resolution
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 09:48:07 -0800
Delete these lines:
> map-drive = 0x80
> to = 0x81
> map-drive = 0x81
> to = 0x80
Those are for booting dos/windows on the second drive, but I see that your
windows is on the first drive.
If you want it to boot up with normal video instead of the framebuffer,
change the "vga = 791" to "vga = normal". After that you will need to
configure X. Slackware doesn't use Xconfigurator; it uses XF86Setup (which
doesn't exist in Xfree86 version 4.x)
Neil.
ps. I just noticed the cross-posting. Some of those groups don't exist on
my ISP.
I don't have alt.linux but I do have alt.linux.slackware
I don't have comp.os.linux.questions but I do have
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
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From: "John Bilbao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 12:15:19 -0500
It IS below cylinder 1023... but it just happens to be on the primary
channel SLAVE disk. That's where hdb1 is, right? The mentality I have
regarding O/S's is that they should install and work - it doesn't matter if
they are servers or workstations. This LILO cr*p has been going on for too
many years and dumbasses like me are still getting stuck on it.
The more I use Linux the more I appreciate Windows.
"Jeff Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> First off, Linux is mostly for servers, and not very much for
workstations,
> but as for your problem:
>
> The boot sector and the kernel must be below cylinder 1023.
>
> So:
>
> Run fdisk and make your first partition /boot and your second can be
> Win9x/2k, and then on...
> This should solve your Li... problem.
> Read the howto's at:
>
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/
> http://www.linux.org/
> http://www.redhat.com/
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From: "Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,cern.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,thenet.support.linux
Subject: Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 19:24:10 +0200
After further investigation, I see that any attempt to add _any_ package
gives me this error message.
What am I doing wrong?
--
Meron Lavie
www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
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"Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:95eis0$hq3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed RH7.0 on my PC as a workstation consfiguration (no other OS on
> it). I installed directly from the 1st CD (I was never prompted for the
> second CD in the installation process).
>
> Now, when I want to add a Telnet server via linuxonf (using the linuxconf
> pseudo-graphic mode), I get an error mesage saying that:
> "We can't installed [sic] the package(s) because they require resources
from
> un-available packages".
>
> The list includes:
> rpmlib(CompressFileNames)
> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)
>
> How can I tell which packages are missing? Where can I get them?
>
> TIA,
> --
> Meron Lavie
> www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,cern.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,thenet.support.linux
Subject: Re: RH7.0: "Unavailable Package" Message When Trying to Install Telnet Server
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 17:32:34 GMT
In article <95eqds$oij$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Meron Lavie wrote:
>After further investigation, I see that any attempt to add _any_ package
>gives me this error message.
>
>What am I doing wrong?
>
>--
>Meron Lavie
>www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
>
>
>"Meron Lavie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:95eis0$hq3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I installed RH7.0 on my PC as a workstation consfiguration (no other OS on
>> it). I installed directly from the 1st CD (I was never prompted for the
>> second CD in the installation process).
>>
>> Now, when I want to add a Telnet server via linuxonf (using the linuxconf
>> pseudo-graphic mode), I get an error mesage saying that:
>> "We can't installed [sic] the package(s) because they require resources
>from
>> un-available packages".
>>
>> The list includes:
>> rpmlib(CompressFileNames)
>> rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix)
>>
>> How can I tell which packages are missing? Where can I get them?
>>
>> TIA,
>> --
>> Meron Lavie
>> www.redmatch.com - World's Largest Hi-Tech Salary Site
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> NOTE: THERE ARE NO NUMBERS IN MY REAL EMAIL ADDRESS HOST NAME: ANTI-SPAM!
>>
>>
>>
Sounds like perhaps rpm did not install proplery (?)
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From: rootaccess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VCD player for linux? (With GUI please)
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 01:47:49 +0800
Hi. anybody can recommend me some software that plays vcd with *.dat
file? =) Thank you.
Best Regards,
Kheng Teong
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:00:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Moore wrote:
>First off, Linux is mostly for servers, and not very much for workstations,
>but as for your problem:
And all this time I've been mistakenly using Linux as the best workstation
experience I've ever had? Hmm.
:-) :-)
>The boot sector and the kernel must be below cylinder 1023.
Only if you have an older lilo. If you get the latest one, this limitation no
longer exists.
Mark
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From: "Frederic Vanneste" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO fails to boot 2.4.0!
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:06:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "S. Umar"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You need to make an initrd image using mkinitrd and install in /boot
> e.g. mkinitrd initrd-2.4.0-1.img 2.4.0-1 where 2.4.0-1 is your modules
> directory under /lib/modules. You then put a line in /etc/lilo.conf (in
> linux24 section) initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.0-1.img and run "lilo -v".
> Apparently the reason is that IDE is modular under
> 2.4!
>
Hmm...
Then why is the default:
CONFIG_IDE=y
???
I really don't think that's the problem.
On the other hand, then what is the problem?
I also have one box ( a dell latitude cpi PII 233) that doesn't load
the 2.4.0 or 2.4.1 kernel. The other boxes do it just fine...
Does anybody have a clue what could be wrong???
Thanks,
Frederic
--
"The Future ain't What it used to be..."
'James D. Morrison'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:05:25 GMT
In article <95k2m1$hdd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Bilbao wrote:
>It IS below cylinder 1023... but it just happens to be on the primary
>channel SLAVE disk. That's where hdb1 is, right? The mentality I have
>regarding O/S's is that they should install and work - it doesn't matter if
>they are servers or workstations. This LILO cr*p has been going on for too
>many years and dumbasses like me are still getting stuck on it.
>
>The more I use Linux the more I appreciate Windows.
>
Hi John,
Although I don't have a fast answer to why you're having the problems,
I will say that LILO is no different than, say, the boot manager in Windows NT.
So, LILO is not what is making your Linux loading experience worse than Windows.
That being said, if you obtain the latest version of LILO, the 1023 cylinder
limit disappears, so you would be able to eliminate that issue (if it is an
issue in your case).
I've loaded Linux on several PCs and always found it to really be smoother
than Windows. I've even seen Linux recognize hardware that Windows has had
trouble recognizing (really exotic stuff, like COM2 and LPT2). :-)
I hope you'll stick with it a little longer. I think you'll find in hindsight
it was probably something simple being overlooked.
--
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Subject: Re: How to make Samba start on RH6.2 system start??
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pentar)
Date: 04 Feb 2001 18:14:26 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>OK, I give up!
>I have searched the etc directory for some clue to this but I can't
>find it. Please tell me the obvious!
>
>I have samba set up just fine on my RH6.2 system except it won't start
>on system startup. I always have to log in as root and issue
>'/etc/rc.d/init.d smb start' to get it up. Where should I add this
>command so it is executed when the system comes up?
>Is there a file that controls all of these service starts that I see
>flash by when the system comes up? Of course there is, only I don't
>know where to look....
>
>Please tell me!
>
>Bo Berglund
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bo,
In your /etc/rc.local file, enter something like this at the end of the
file:
/usr/sbin/smbd -D && echo "Starting SAMBA in daemon mode"
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D && echo "Starting SAMBA Network Neigborhood"
Of course, point to your location of SMBD and nmbd.
jb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: How to make Samba start on RH6.2 system start??
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:13:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bo Berglund wrote:
>So you don't really know which file is in control here?
>Man init doesn't really help, it refers on to man inittab and so on
>but I have looked in various of these files in order to see any of the
>services that flash on startup being mentioned but they are not...
>
>Examples:
>sendmail gets started
>httpd (apache) gets started
>....
>but samba does not get started, so I want to add smb to the scrip that
>is run at boot-up. Problem is which script or configuration file is
>used?
>
>There must be a simple answer to this.
>
If you are running RedHat:
Look in /etc/rc.d/init.d for a file called 'smb'. If it's not there, you
need to install samba.
Then look in /etc/rc.d/rcX.d where X is 3 and 5. You should see files
called LXXsmb where 'L' is either K or S, and XX is a number. If you see
the files with 'K', then rename them to be S instead of K.
If you don't see the files there at all, then create them by symbolically
linking /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb to the SXXsmb name in rcX.d directories.
HTH
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Subject: Re: Installing RedHat 7.0 with Promise ATA/100 controller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pentar)
Date: 04 Feb 2001 18:17:42 GMT
[posted and mailed]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <94qi9a$i2b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I am looking for a way to install Red Hat 7.0 using
>a hard drive connected to a Promise ATA/100 controller.
>This is a PCI connected card.
>
>If anyone could point me in the direction as to where
>I could find this driver or other information that would
>help, I would greatly appreciate. If there is another
>compatible driver or some sort of workaround, that would
>also help.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Steve
>
>* Please reply CC: e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Steve,
Since I am no Linux veteran, I took the easy way out. I moved the ribbon
cable to the ATA66 port on the motherboard and had no problems. I will wait
for the next release of Redhat to fix this problem. Good luck.
jb
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From: Mandrake 7 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install cd writer
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:20:55 GMT
I have a HP SureStore 4020i CD-R and wonder how to install it under
Linux. I have an Adaptec SCSI card that came with it. I can't find any
specifics in the HOWTO. All I know is that I can type "insmod advansys"
and that causes the writer to make some noises, so it works. However,
all software (xcdroast, lothar) claims that there is no cd-writer and no
scsi card. How do I get this going?
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From: gvines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux POP server & WinNT
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:32:17 GMT
I have RHL 7.0 set up with fetchmail to get our mail from an ISP, then I
set up a pop server in /etc/xinet.d. This works great with other linux
boxes. But on NT, I get an error that the connection failed.
There are two pop servers in xinet.d: ipop3 and pop3s. Which should I
use?
What else must I do to get this working with NT machines? THanks for
any help
- greg
gvines at lilapple dot com
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: install cd writer
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:35:55 GMT
Try to get cdrecord working first. If you have the SCSI card work, you
should get the following message.
# cdrecord -scanbus # this is an example
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 2.1.38
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
Mandrake 7 User wrote:
> I have a HP SureStore 4020i CD-R and wonder how to install it under
> Linux. I have an Adaptec SCSI card that came with it. I can't find any
> specifics in the HOWTO. All I know is that I can type "insmod advansys"
> and that causes the writer to make some noises, so it works. However,
> all software (xcdroast, lothar) claims that there is no cd-writer and no
> scsi card. How do I get this going?
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VCD player for linux? (With GUI please)
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 18:36:54 GMT
xine
rootaccess wrote:
> Hi. anybody can recommend me some software that plays vcd with *.dat
> file? =) Thank you.
> Best Regards,
> Kheng Teong
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 19:42:14 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux POP server & WinNT
gvines wrote:
> I have RHL 7.0 set up with fetchmail to get our mail from an ISP, then I
> set up a pop server in /etc/xinet.d. This works great with other linux
> boxes. But on NT, I get an error that the connection failed.
>
> There are two pop servers in xinet.d: ipop3 and pop3s. Which should I
> use?
>
> What else must I do to get this working with NT machines? THanks for
> any help
> - greg
>
> gvines at lilapple dot com
Hello,
I don't know about other POP3 sever, but qpopper from eudora.com
works with all kind of M$ clients with no problem. Get the free source
version.
Read the docs compile/install it and change your (x)inetd.conf and restart
inetd,...done..:-)
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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