Linux-Setup Digest #572, Volume #20 Mon, 5 Feb 01 16:13:11 EST
Contents:
kernel 2.4.1 on Mandrake 7.2 - PCMCIA won't work ? HELP (Serge Eric Thiam Nkuiguieng)
Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big (Marian ION)
Re: gdm murdered? (John Jasen)
Re: kernel 2.4.1 on Mandrake 7.2 - PCMCIA won't work ? HELP (John Jasen)
linux boot problem after running sndconfig ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: better upgrade - TNT2 or GeForce2 MX?? ("Kurt R. Rahlfs")
Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux ("Matthias Kruse")
Re: Installing linux on VERY old computer (James)
Re: What is it with RedHat and S3 video cards? (Carlos Moreno)
Won't Compile (Alastair Foster)
Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux ("Dalon")
Re: Installing linux on VERY old computer (Lew Pitcher)
Star Office net install? (Ian McCall)
Re: Installed RH7, Win98 no longer boots (Brian)
Re: What is this:" DriveReady SeekComplete Error" ? (Ken Moffat)
Help: Linux on Intel 386 problem (Erik Leunissen)
Help: Linux boot hang (Xiaoqin Qiu)
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From: Serge Eric Thiam Nkuiguieng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: kernel 2.4.1 on Mandrake 7.2 - PCMCIA won't work ? HELP
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 19:15:30 +0100
Hello,
I have compiled the kernel 2.4.1 under mandrake 7.2, but I can't get my
pcmcia network card to work. Under kernel 2.2.17, it works fine. Can
someone give me a hint where to start debugging the problem? FYI, I
successfully upgraded all the needed packages describes in the Changes
file in the kernel source tree, and I'm using pcmcia-cs-3.1.24.
Thanks for your help.
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From: Marian ION <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: setup issue: boot partition size too big
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 19:23:15 +0100
Jeremy Paiz wrote:
> i would like to avoid starting from scratch, i.e. re-installing windows,
One solution could be running Linux with loadlin.exe - this could be put
in
config.sys as an option to a menu. So, at that time, you could either
decide
to start Windows or to start Linux. In order to do that, you need a
floppy
to boot Linux from, then copy vmlinuz to the dos partition (beware not
to
be treated as a text file!).
Marian Ion
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jasen)
Subject: Re: gdm murdered?
Date: 5 Feb 2001 13:30:51 -0500
In article <95mn1o$3k9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a Redhat 6.2 system running the 2.2.14 kernel without problem.
> I just installed the 2.4.1 kernel, and now, when I try to start X with
> the gdm, the screen flickers a few times and then says that gdm was
> "mysteriously murdered". Is there any way around this? Everything else
> seems to work w/ the new kernel, just gdm is giving me trouble. When I
> boot the 2.2.14 kernel gdm still works so it's not a crisis, but I'd
> like to get it cleared up as soon as possible.
Are you running devfs?
If so, are you running devfsd?
If so, did you upgrade util-linux?
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-- 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)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.1 on Mandrake 7.2 - PCMCIA won't work ? HELP
Date: 5 Feb 2001 13:32:28 -0500
Serge Eric Thiam Nkuiguieng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have compiled the kernel 2.4.1 under mandrake 7.2, but I can't get my
> pcmcia network card to work. Under kernel 2.2.17, it works fine. Can
> someone give me a hint where to start debugging the problem? FYI, I
> successfully upgraded all the needed packages describes in the Changes
> file in the kernel source tree, and I'm using pcmcia-cs-3.1.24.
Currently, the pcmcia drivers in pcmcia-cs are better than in the kernel.
You may need to recompile the kernel with pcmcia support enabled, but no
modules selected, and then recompile/reinstall pcmcia-cs.
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-- 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]
Subject: linux boot problem after running sndconfig
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 18:41:45 GMT
I just purchased a new Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300
with a 650 mhz Pentium III, 128 MB RAM and 12 GB
HD. I installed Red Hat Linux 7.0, kernel 2.2.16-
22 from the CDs with the book Red Hat Linux 7
Weekend Crash Course. DOS/Win98 is installed on
hda1, Linux native on hda2, and Linux swap on
hda5. I got Linux running, but had no sound.
I ran /usr/sbin/sndconfig to find the driver for
my sound card. It detected a Yamaha sound card
(YMF744, I believe). (According to Windows
Device Manager, I have a Yamaha DS-XG Legacy
Sound System and a Yamaha DS-XG PCI Audio CODEC.
By the way, my sound card works fine under
Windows 98.) But when sndconfig tried to test
it, I got the following error msg, and the
computer froze:
Sound Configuration Utility 0.57
modprobe error
The following error occurred running the modprobe
program:
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/ymfsb.o init_module:
Device or resource busy
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/ymfsb.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/ymfsb.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/ymfsb.o: insmod
sound-slot-0 failed
At some point, I got the following error, and I
can't remember when:
Saving mixer settings modprobe: modprobe: Can't
locate module sound-slot-0
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-
service-0-0
[FAILED]
aumix: error opening mixer
The only thing I could do was power off the
computer, b/c CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't work. When I
reboot, I get the following:
Loading sound module (ymfsb): [OK]
Checking filesystems [OK]
Mounting local filesystems:
Then the computer freezes (the hard drive light
stays on, but nothing happens and the the
keyboard is unresponsive). I boot exclusively
from a floppy--otherwise I don't get a boot
prompt (I must not have LILO set up correctly).
Since the thing freezes during the boot process,
I can't reconfigure it. I type "I" during the
boot to try to get into Interactive startup, as
it prompts for, but it just ignores me and loads
all the drivers.
There must be some way to get Linux to step
through the boot process and prompt me as to
whether I want to load these things--just like
you can do with MS-DOS. I tried boot level 1 as
well, but that didn't make a difference. I also
tried "linux root=/dev/hda2 init=/bin/sh" at
the "boot:" prompt. Then I was able to
view /etc/modules.conf which had a line "alias
sound-slot-0 ymfsb". I couldn't edit it, because
I was in a readonly mode.
Any suggestions for me being able to boot? Feel
free to e-mail me directly. Thanks in advance.
-Tim Jacobson
tjacobson @ lacrosselaw.com
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From: "Kurt R. Rahlfs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: better upgrade - TNT2 or GeForce2 MX??
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:51:55 -0600
Dan Stephenson wrote:
> My system is like your expect with a 400Mhz processor and 100Mhz bus speed.
> I just got a Hercules Prophet II MX and love it. A little tricky in Linux
> though, you need to have XFree86 4.0.1 or later to access the 'nv' driver.
> Before you make the card switch, go into VGA16 mode, with the files at
> www.xfree86.org (they're up to 4.0.2) already downloaded (to avoid what I
> did: downloading in VGA16 - ugh!). Run their scripts to install it. My
> SuSE Linux has a tool called sax2 to specify 'nv', maybe your distro has
> something similar.
>
> NVidia's site has some rpms to overlay the xfree86, but I haven't gotten
> around to resolve their conflict yet. But the base nv give me
> 1280x1024x24bitx100Hz. Yay.
>
> And my goodness, it is a windows games speed demon!
>
> --
> Dan Stephenson
One caution on the above suggestion. The driver name is nvidia for the new
driver (unless they changed it back in XF86 4.0.2.
In my installation for the GeForce2 on my SuSE 6.3 system I used XF86 4.0.1
and downloaded the drivers from nVidia site. These worked fine when I was
using kernel 2.2.16.
However, these didn't work when I updated my kernel to 2.4.x. Then on Jan 18
nVidia updated their driver (version 0.9-6) to work with the 2.4 kernels.
(This driver works for many (all?) of their cards.
There are RPMs there but sice I wasn't sure they would work with the new
kernels I got the tar.gz files and did the compiles. They worked immediately.
To find the RPMs and source go to www.nvidia.com click on the following (at
the top of the pages) "support" / "drivers" / "linux".
Note: when using sax2. It some times will hang the system at the very end.
The two times it hung mine it had already saved the XF86Config file so my work
wasn't lost.
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From: "Matthias Kruse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:55:31 +0100
There are new distributions of Linux available with the 2.4 kernel, maybe
they work, at least they support the hpt370...
"Didier CLERC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:95mkp2$cqb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Jason Kircher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:Xzqf6.20150$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > The short is, can I use my existing RAID-0 setup that was configured
> by the
> > HPT370 BIOS under Linux? I've been doing some reading here and there,
> and I
> > read about Software RAID under Linux, but I don't know if this will
> work
> > since it's already been setup and works fine under Win98. (I've
> played with
> > Linux before, and I like Slackware. Don't ask why, but it works fine
> for
> > me, and I've been using Slack for some time, and I'm comfortable with
> it.
> > Those who go to war over different distributions should consider the
> final
> > point there...)
>
> I have never try, but perhaps the "Abit Gentus" Linux distribution
> supports the RAID functions of the motherboard.
>
> With my best greetings
> Didier CLERC
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isuisse.com/didier-clerc
>
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing linux on VERY old computer
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 19:30:16 -0000
Hi,
Whats an example of a single floppy linux?
And how can I make one or get one?
Thanks.
JL
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From: Carlos Moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is it with RedHat and S3 video cards?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 14:34:00 -0500
David Efflandt wrote:
>
> I guess it depends upon which S3 model you are talking about. I have
> NEVER had any trouble using any Linux or RH specific version (5.0, 5.2 or
> 6.1) in the console or S3 Xserver with my ancient slow S3 Trio64.
Is it possible that by pure coincidence what I've always seen/attempted
is with the same S3 card model? I say that because the installation
procedure for RedHat 6 and newer is so straightforward -- the card is
recognized, or it is not; there's not much choice left to the user
when you install with the standard procedure choosing Custom install...
Anyway, I'll wait to see if there are other people with different
experiences.
Thanks for your message!
Carlos
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From: Alastair Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Won't Compile
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 19:25:26 GMT
I have compiled the libusb tarball on a number of occasions on this
computer with no problems. However, now when I try to do it, I get the
following:
In file included from usbi.h:4,
from usb.c:13:
usb.h:171: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared here (not in a function)
usb.h:171: size of array 'filename' has non-integer type
usb.h:182: 'PATH_MAX' undeclared here (not in a function)
usb.h:182: size of array 'dirname' has non-integer type
And it stops there. In the source code, the 'filename' and 'dirname'
variables have their sizes set as 'PATH_MAX + 1' and it obviously spits
the dummy because of the fact that PATH_MAX is an unknown function.
You'd think that it was an error in the source code, but the bizarre
thing about it is that I have compiled the exact same code before with
no problems. This error has just started appearing for no apparent
reason.
Any ideas?
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From: "Dalon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 19:56:55 GMT
linux does not support the hpt370 raid feature at this time.
http://www.icrontic.com/faqs/kt7faq/kt7faq.htm
Jason Kircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Xzqf6.20150$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The short is, can I use my existing RAID-0 setup that was configured by
the
> HPT370 BIOS under Linux? I've been doing some reading here and there, and
I
> read about Software RAID under Linux, but I don't know if this will work
> since it's already been setup and works fine under Win98. (I've played
with
> Linux before, and I like Slackware. Don't ask why, but it works fine for
> me, and I've been using Slack for some time, and I'm comfortable with it.
> Those who go to war over different distributions should consider the final
> point there...)
>
> Here's the internal setup: (All have 1 partition at this time)
>
> IDE1: WD75 7.5G HD (Master) hda C: WIN98C
> NECR 7500 CDRW (Slave) hdb F: CD-ROM (Historical reasons)
> IDE2: Empty
>
> IDE3: WD26400 6.4G HD (Master) hde RAID-0 D: RAID D
> WD36400 6.4G HD (Slave) hdf RAID-0 D:
> IDE4: Empty
>
> (I know, I know, I should put the drives in the RAID on their own IDE
> channel, but what's done is done, I may change it to get a speed boost.
> It's still logically a 12G drive!)
> My plan is to resize hda1 and make some Linux partitions in the resulting
> space. My question is, is it possible for me to access the RAID already
> present in Linux? Do I need any special drivers for it, or would the
> Software RAID in Linux do the job? I'm just a touch leery about playing
> around w/o knowing the facts.
>
> Any/all information/advice would be appreciated.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Installing linux on VERY old computer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:03:54 GMT
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 19:30:16 -0000, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
> Whats an example of a single floppy linux?
I'll give you three:
Tomsrtbt ("Tom's Root/Boot"),
LOAF ("Linux On A Floppy"), and
LRP ("Linux Router Project")
> And how can I make one or get one?
Download it from one of a number of sites.
For instance, take a look at the Tucows Linux 'mini-distributions'
page (ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/mini/) and pick
one.
> Thanks.
> JL
>
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Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Ian McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Star Office net install?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:03:05 GMT
Hello.
How do I perform a network install of Star Office 5.2, using just the
file downloaded from Sun?
They have a README, which is only visible -after- the install, which
says to start setup with a /net parameter whilst running as root. I've
tried this, but all I get are the options to de-install, modify or
repair. I can't run with a /net before the install as the /bin file
automatically launches setup.
Has anyone managed to get a multi-user install of Star Office going
using just the download? I'm running Mandrake 7.2 if that's any help
(doubt it).
Cheers,
Ian
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installed RH7, Win98 no longer boots
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:30:07 -0000
I've thought about this issue a little more and here is what I think has
happened:
When i installed RH7 it prompted me to install LILO either in the MBR or
another partition (the /boot i think, or was it /root?). Anyhow, perhaps
previously LILO was installed in the linux /boot partition, which was from
cylinder 1021-1022 on the HD. This still put LILO early enough to wrest
control from Windows, but didn't overwrite the MBR which then could still
boot Win98 properly. Does this theory make sense? This also explains a
funny feeling that I have that LILO is actually running TWICE (once from
MBR, once from /boot)- it's too time-consuming to explain why I think this
is happening, but is it possible?
Nevertheless, I still have yet to think of a good way to get back into
Windows to restore the MBR without completely wiping out the partition. Of
course, I haven't ruled that out.
brian
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From: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: What is this:" DriveReady SeekComplete Error" ?
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 12:46:19 -0800
Any clue how to set this on Caldera OpenLinux 2.4?
Andreas Tretow wrote:
>
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Erik Leunissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,alt.os.linux
Subject: Help: Linux on Intel 386 problem
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 21:48:03 +0100
L.S.
When booting my old intel 386 machine from a Linux boot diskette, it
locks up at a certain stage in linuxrc. The stage where the system locks
up is after the selection of the keybord settings, and the main linuxrc
menu never appears. A manual reset is needed to unlock the machine
(<Ctrl> <Alt> <Del> does not work anymore).
I believe that the very stage at which this happens, could be a clue to
the nature of the problem (that is to more experienced Linux users than
me).
Below, I've described the hardware (in case that this information is
relevant to the problem), which runs under exactly the same
circumstances under an old MSDOS 6.2 without problems (the same hardware
has also run under Win95 previously). The Linux distribution I've been
using is SuSE 6.4.
Can the nature of the problem (more or less) be deduced from this
information ?
I'd appreciate very much some advice on how to proceed,
Thank in advance,
Erik Leunissen
==== Hardware (very old stuff) =========
Intel 386 DX 40 Mhz
8 MB RAM
1 IDE hard disk 1,2 MB
1 IDE/ATAPI CDROM (cannot boot from here, alas!)
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From: Xiaoqin Qiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Help: Linux boot hang
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 13:07:48 -0800
Hi,
We have a HP Vectra XU 6/200 PC with a SCSI hard disk and a IDE CDROM
which connected to IDE1 controller. After a successful installation of
RedHat 6.1 with 2.2.12-20smp kernel, the boot of Linux hang after the
following messge showed on screen:
CMD646: IDE Controller on PCI bus 00 dev 08
CMD646: not 100% native mode, will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hdc: HITACHI CDR-8130, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
Is there anyone having similar problem or having idea about the reason?
Could you please help me on this?
Thank you very much!
Xiaoqin
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