Linux-Setup Digest #567, Volume #20 Sun, 4 Feb 01 21:13:05 EST
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mandrake x font server. please help! ("dan k")
Re: 2.4 kernel - supported hardware list? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ra=FAl?= (Ridiculum))
Re: kde2 work with multihead configuration?! (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ra=FAl?= (Ridiculum))
Re: LILO problems.. also.. how to change screen resolution ("Steve Williams")
Re: Is there a word for below novice - need help
Same Another Lilo problem (Brian Goodyear)
SuSE 6.3 Sound Mixer ("Vince Cunningham")
Re: Bizarre problem on Samba ("Maarten")
mandrake install hangs on IDE disk detection ("Dudly")
Re: kernel bloody 2.4!! (John Jasen)
Re: sound card (Glitch)
Re: sound card (Glitch)
Re: Huge problem installing RH6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Unable to access or mount hard drive/floppy drive from Rescue mode ("David J.")
Problems trying to upgrade my RPM package from RPM3 to RPM4 ("David J.")
Re: iptables & 2.4.0 (John Jasen)
Re: 2.4.0 & modules "not found" (John Jasen)
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From: "dan k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mandrake x font server. please help!
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:16:45 -0500
i just installed mandrake linux. my x windows system worked fine yesterday
but today it won't start, presumably due to this error:
_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
does anyone know how to resolve this problem? it's driving me insane!
thank you very much,
dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ra=FAl?= (Ridiculum))
Subject: Re: 2.4 kernel - supported hardware list?
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 20:23:05 +0000
El Thu, 01 Feb 2001 17:10:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�:
>Is there a list of hardware that the 2.4 kernel supports?
>Where can I access it?
There is a section called Documentation into the sources. There you can
found that list.
>Specifically, I want to find out if the ATA100 IDE controller which is
>built-into the Asus A7V mobo, and the Linksys LNE100TX NIC.
I think that that IDE controller is a Promise. If this it's true,
there is support.
--
Miembro del grupo LILO: http://lilo.sourceforge.net
Linux User 157744
Red Hat 6.0 (2.2.18)
ridiculum at linuxfan . com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ra=FAl?= (Ridiculum))
Subject: Re: kde2 work with multihead configuration?!
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 20:32:08 +0000
El 2 Feb 2001 21:36:23 GMT, Peter Bismuti escribi�:
>
>Hello, I've just been told that KDE2 works with multihead configurations.
>Can anyone confirm or deny this?
>
>I also got wind that XF86V4.? supports multihead configurations. True?
I think that multihead not deppend of the desktop, only th X server,
and X 4.0 support it, but not for all graphics card.
>Thanks
--
Miembro del grupo LILO: http://lilo.sourceforge.net
Linux User 157744
Red Hat 6.0 (2.2.18)
ridiculum at linuxfan . com
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From: "Steve Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: LILO problems.. also.. how to change screen resolution
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 23:35:31 -0000
I found this. It might help.
>Open up a terminal window as root. enter this:
>chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd
>go to www.kde.org and read their FAQ, they have a
>workaround for the KPPP problem with the redhat
>distro.
>--
>----->Trent
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.earthlink.net/~trentjoy
"majic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Here's my lilo config using linux slackware7.1
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
======
> # LILO configuration file
> # generated by 'liloconfig'
> #
> # Start LILO global section
> boot = /dev/sda
> #compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
> delay = 50
> # VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
> vga = 791
>
> [snip commented out vga]
>
> # ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
> # End LILO global section
> # DOS bootable partition config begins
> other = /dev/sda1
> label = win
> map-drive = 0x80
> to = 0x81
> map-drive = 0x81
> to = 0x80
> table = /dev/sda
> # DOS bootable partition config ends
> # Linux bootable partition config begins
> image = /vmlinuz
> root = /dev/sda2
> label = lin
> read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for
> checking
> # Linux bootable partition config ends
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
>
> I need it to boot to w98 primarily.. when i use the above i get
>
> "non system disk.. replace and strike a key" why is that happenning?
> anything I can change? It boots fine to linux when i press alt within
> 5 sec and type "lin"
>
> what's the "map drive = 0x80 stuff?
>
> i have
>
> C partition on /dev/sda1
> Linux native on /dev/sda2
> E partition on /dev/sda4
> F partition on /dev/sda5
> G partition on /dev/sda6
>
> D partition on /dev/sdb1
> Linux swap on /dev/sdb2
>
> I used to have the swap partition on /dev/sda3 but I decided that it'd
> be better if i put it on another drive and made teh Linux native just
> a bit larger.
>
> I also tried boot magic or something liek that (that comes with
> partition magic) but it would only recognize FAT32 and not the linux
> filesystem and woudl not boot to linux.
>
> any help would be appreciated..
>
> TIA
>
> majic
>
> Ps. anyone know how to change the screen resolution? (for KDE or
> gnome) I don't care much about the terminals and it is 1024x768
> already.. but a bit flickering.. how can i change the refresh rate?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Is there a word for below novice - need help
Date: 5 Feb 2001 00:01:42 GMT
And Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
>ok - let's start with the facts. I can spell unix. That's it.
>That's all I know. Oh, and I don't mind work, I do know how to read,
>and I don't mind work.
Well, yes there is a word for 'below novice', but my mommy would wash my
mouth out with soap. I guess I'll have to stick with 'moron'.
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From: Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Same Another Lilo problem
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 19:39:03 -0500
To review:
Lilo setup problem
From:
Brian Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
2001-01-28 10:03
Groups:
alt.os.linux.caldera
no references
Hi...Here's the setup
sda- main boot drive (os/2, windows etc)
hda5- Suse Linux
hdc1- Caldera Linux
OS/2' s Bootmanager is installed as primary bootmanager.
Entry 1 iof Bootmanager menu is Suse and 2 is Caldera.
Suse is on hda5 and from Bootmanager it fires up Lilo and it works.
Calder is on hdc1 but from Bootmanager it doesn't work.
Bootmanager is pointing to hdc1.
In desperation, I put Caldera in the Lilo menu on the Suse partition and
copiedt the bootimage to /boot of Suse's partition and this way I can
access Caldera.
Problem is that now I need to set up Win4lin on the Caldera partition but I
believe it will modify the lilo.conf there so it will never come up.
How can I get the Caldera distribution to boot from Bootmanager?
Here is the lilo.conf from Suse (the working one)
boot=/dev/hda5
vga = normal
read-only
prompt
timeout=100
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
disk = /dev/hda
bios = 0x81
disk = /dev/hdb
bios = 0x82
disk = /dev/hdc
bios = 0x83
default=caldera
#Added by TreLOS for Win4Lin kernel
image = /boot/win4lin
label = win4lin
root = /dev/hda5
# Caldera
image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular
label = caldera
root = /dev/hdc1
And here is the one on Calder;s partition which doesn't work (comes up with
the LI and hangs):
boot=/dev/hdc1
timeout=250
default=linux
vga=normal
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
disk = /dev/hda
bios = 0x81
disk = /dev/hdb
bios = 0x82
disk = /dev/hdc
bios = 0x83
image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular
label = linux
root = /dev/hdc1
THere have been some suggestions that this is a bios thingie but I do not
believe so because I can boot from the Rescue disk and boot from the hard
drive that way albeit using Grub. Here's the Grub menu.lst:
timeout = 15
splashscreen = (fd0)/boot/message
default = 0
title = Linux rescue (harddisk)
root = (hd2,0)
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz vga=274 debug=2 root=/dev/hdc1
title = Linux rescue (floppy)
root = (fd0)
kernel = /vmlinuz vga=274 debug=2 root=/dev/hdc1
Can anybody see what the problem is with this or suggest an easier way
(that doesn't involve changing a zillion settings). Maybe I could set up
Caldera to boot from Grub instead of Lilo?
--
Thanks,
Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Vince Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.3 Sound Mixer
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 00:38:32 GMT
I am running SuSE 6.3 linux on a pentimum machine and am having trouble
enabling the KDE sound mixer. I have changed the permissions (as su) for the
oppropiate files but to no avail. I have loaded the OSS sound system which
works but again only thru the commands soundon and soundoff as su. The KDE
cdplayer worksbas do the other kDE multimedia SuSE programs.
Anyone have any suggestions as to the mixer? Any help would be appreciated.
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From: "Maarten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Bizarre problem on Samba
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:50:43 +0100
What if you make a netwerk mapping?
"grooveman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
>
> I am running a RedHat 6.2 server, with samba 2.0.7. I have the NT 4.0
> server doing the authentication. It seemed like it
> was working really great -- until I ran into this strange problem.
>
>
> I wanted to make a shared directory for one of our departments, that is
> not browseable to others. I have a non-browseable share of the /home
> directory. I made them a directory underneath this: /home/group1. I
> planned to give them a shortcut on their desktop, to take them straight
> to the shared directory (/home/group1) on the server.
>
>
> Here is the problem -- whenever certain Windows NT users try to click on
>
> the icon of the folder, or a short-cut to the folder, it says that the
> directory was not found! -- BUT -- if I put in the UNC in the address
> bar (i.e. //server/home/group1) it is accessable! It seems that it
> only has problems if people CLICK to the directory.
>
>
> (Beleive me on this -- our users need to click! They would be way to
> confused if you actually tried to teach them to type in addresses.)
>
>
> However, the same user logged into a Win2k machine does NOT have the
> same problems! Only in NT! All NT boxes are on Service Pack 5.
>
>
> Can someone please tell me how to fix this?
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Here is the snippet of code in smb.conf:
>
>
> [home]
> path=/home
> browseable =no
> admin users = person1, person2
> valid users = person1, person2,+homeshare
> write list = person1,person2,+homeshare
> read list = person1,person2,+homeshare
>
>
> (I know that some of this may be redundant, but I have been trying
> everything!)
>
>
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From: "Dudly" <rakem31*spam*@excite.com>
Subject: mandrake install hangs on IDE disk detection
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 19:18:33 -0600
System:
200 MHz Pentium
Primary IDE Drive: 6GB Win98 on Drive C: with a logical partition for Drive
D:
Slave IDE Drive: 2 GB formatted for linuxext2 using Partition Magic prior
to Mandrake install
Also present in the system is an internal ZIP drive and an IDE CD-ROM
48 MB of RAM
Boot from CD for the Mandrake install and get hung at the IDE disk detection
(3rd step of the install).
Anyone had this problem or can someone throw me a bone where to go from
here? I'm kind of stumped....
-Dudly
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jasen)
Subject: Re: kernel bloody 2.4!!
Date: 4 Feb 2001 20:45:02 -0500
Adam Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have posted this to other newsgroups to no effect. I've been told I need
> the kgcc package, which I downloaded last night. That didn't work. The
> kernel compiled fine but wouldn't boot. I've also been told I need glibc2.2
> which has proven impossible to compile (at least for me), although I have
> found a solution to this I hope. I've also been told I need the latest
> kernel utils, thats all very well too, but I've no idea when I'm supposed to
> install them. Can someone help a bewildered person like me upgrade his
> system? I've been running linux for about 4 years now and this is the
> nastiest upgrade I've ever come across.
Are you using kgcc or gcc to try and compile glibc 2.2?
Use kgcc. gcc-2.96 is _evil_.
You need a new modutils to probably get through a successful boot; and
util-linux to be able to login.
go to freshmeat.net and look for modutils and util-linux.
Compile 2.4.0 and install it.
Compile/install devfsd (if you're using devfs).
Compile/install modutils.
Compile/install util-linux.
Add vc/1-vc/8 entries to /etc/securetty.
--
-- John E. Jasen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
-- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.
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From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 01:47:10 GMT
the various versions of alsa work with different kernels. Find out what version
of of the kernel your version of alsa needs and upgrade the kernel accordingly
Stef Club internet wrote:
> Hello i'm beginner under linux.
> My system is pentium III 550 mhz 128 mo Ram.
> I'm trying to install alsa-driver (all versions) for my fortemedia 801 under
> redhat 7.0.
> But i get compilation error about kernel version ???
> Please help me.
> best regards
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From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 01:48:39 GMT
the various versions of alsa work with different kernels. Find out what version
of of the kernel your version of alsa needs and upgrade the kernel accordingly
Stef Club internet wrote:
> Hello i'm beginner under linux.
> My system is pentium III 550 mhz 128 mo Ram.
> I'm trying to install alsa-driver (all versions) for my fortemedia 801 under
> redhat 7.0.
> But i get compilation error about kernel version ???
> Please help me.
> best regards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Huge problem installing RH6.2
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 01:35:10 GMT
In article <95b4hk$169$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Wade Lindsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I can't for the life of me to get RedHat 6.2 to install on my system. I
> have two HDs (8GB and 12GB) both with ample free space running Windows
> Millenium on Intel machines. When I go to install Linux, DiskDruid
reports
> that both of my HDs are at 100% full (which they most certainly are not).
Split the disk into multiple partitions using fips utility. It is in the
docutils directory of Lunix CD. Read the document therein. It has all
steps, precuations etc.
--
Have fun
Mohan
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: "David J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Unable to access or mount hard drive/floppy drive from Rescue mode
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 02:01:00 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to boot my Red Hat 6.2 system (PIII 450 Mhz, linux kernel
version 2.2.16) into Rescue mode by booting from the floppy drive, without
accessing the hard drive. (This is because when I boot into Rescue mode for
real, I will have just formatted the linux filesystems on the hard drive,
and the root partition will not contain a /etc/fstab file. Hence
all the filesystems, including the root filesystem, will not be able to be
mounted.) FYI, I'm using LILO to dual boot the machine between Win 98 and
Linux; hda1 is FAT32, while hda2 is linux swap and hda3 is linux native
(type 83),
With the Red Hat 6.2 Install CD in the local CD drive and the Red Hat
Install floppy in the floppy drive, I am able to boot into Rescue mode (by
entering "linux rescue" at the "boot:" prompt from the floppy). (Due to
lack of BIOS support, the system cannot be booted directly from the CD.)
My problem is that after I get the bash shell prompt, I am unable to
mount or otherwise access any of the filesystems on my hard drive
(/dev/hda1, /dev/hda3) or the floppy drive (/dev/fd0). In fact, in the
/dev
directory, the /dev/hda1, /dev/hda3 and /dev/fd0 devices don't even exist.
Does anybody know how I can boot into Rescue mode subject to the following
constraints:
- Booting cleanly from the floppy,
- Without accessing the hard drive during the boot process,
- But being able to manually access/mount the hard drive filesystems and the
floppy drive after booting.
Thanks,
Dave J.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. I also tried using the mkbootdisk command to create a boot floppy.
Booting from this floppy failed (kernel panic error message) when the root
filesystem could not be mounted.
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From: "David J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Problems trying to upgrade my RPM package from RPM3 to RPM4
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 02:01:02 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to upgrade my RPM RPM package to 4.0-4 from 3.0.4-0.48 (the
version of Red RPM included with Red Hat 6.2). I am running Kernel 2.2.16
and Red Hat 6.2 on a 450 Mhz PIII.
What I'm doing is booting into single-user mode (runlevel 3), and executing
the following command:
rpm -U -h -vv rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm
I get the following error message when I do this:
"Only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM
error: package cannot be installed"
Can anybody help?
There must be some way to upgrade this package.
Thanks,
Dave J.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jasen)
Subject: Re: iptables & 2.4.0
Date: 4 Feb 2001 21:07:47 -0500
Christopher C. Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One interesting thing to note is that when I run the 'lsmod' command, I
> see no modules loaded that seem to relate to packet filtering. Are
> there modules that I need to manually install in order to get iptables
> to work? If so, what are they? The error message seems to indicate that
> some modules need to be loaded, but I thought the modules made for the
> kernel were "loaded on demand" and that I didn't need to do anything.
My firewall script loads the ip_tables, the ip_nat_ftp and the
ip_conntrack_ftp modules. My spelling is probably off, because I'm not at
work now.
Then I load the rulesets.
--
-- John E. Jasen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
-- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jasen)
Subject: Re: 2.4.0 & modules "not found"
Date: 4 Feb 2001 21:09:43 -0500
Paul Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was able to compile and get 2.4.0 "running" BUT it is unable to find
> and load the modules like the tulip, vfat, fat, msdos and some other
> modules. Now, I did notice that when I did "make modules", I did notice
> some "nothing to do for modules" and the "make modules_install" did not
> return errors.
>
> Looking at the /lib/modules/ I only see the pcima and I think the usb
> directories and a "build" directory as a link to the /usr/src/linux-2.4.0.
> Something went wrong somewhere....
>
> Any hints on how to get the modules made and installed? The kernel is
> working but no etho, no network and no "dos, vfat filesystems"..no
> nothing...
Install a newer version of modutils, as the /lib/modules/2.4.x directory
structure has changed a lot from the 2.2.x.
--
-- John E. Jasen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
-- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't.
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