Linux-Setup Digest #589, Volume #20 Thu, 8 Feb 01 11:13:08 EST
Contents:
mtrr's or lack of them ??? (os.linux) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kbd configuration (Johnny Choque)
Re: X Window to WinNT (Eric)
Re: Linux newbie: I need help in installing ResHat 7 on a machine with Win 98
already present... (Eric)
Re: mtrr's or lack of them ??? (os.linux) (Eric)
Re: Pine (receving email) from Earthlink ("michael.fengler")
raid1 recovery (Dominik Horinek)
Re: X Window to WinNT (brien)
Re: X Window to WinNT (Eric)
Re: mtrr's or lack of them ??? (os.linux) (Steve Trow)
Re: Linux newbie: I need help in installing ResHat 7 on a machine with Win 98
already present... ("Bjarke Thor Iversen")
X install mess ("Julio")
printer HP 930c USB on RH7 (devnix)
Re: Problem compiling SANE : EINVAL Undeclared... (Mark Bratcher)
Balsa: Inbox (read only) ("Jeff Borders")
Re: What does Lilo write to boot= ? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: mandrake 7.2 and usb zip (aflinsch)
What's the trick to make windows right itself? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: What's the trick to make windows right itself? (subuno)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mtrr's or lack of them ??? (os.linux)
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 12:24:40 GMT
I posted this to fa.linux.kernel as well, but that seems to be the
wrong place..................................
I'm running SuSE Linux (7.0) Kernel:2.2.16 on an IBM Thinkpad 770
(chip:Pentium II 233mhz , memory:64mb , video:Trident Cyber 9397 2mb,
PCMCIA:TI PCI 1140 etc.) the info that I've managed to obtain seems to
state that PII's should have mtrr's, but I can't seem to get them
allocated, of course I may be wrong - Mobile PII's may not - but I
don't think so.
I'm using XFree86 4.0, have got the thing to do 1024x768:65536:16 bit
mode after mucho buggering about, and KDE2 works o.k. as well.
I entered video=vesa:ypan,mtrr at the lilo boot prompt to see whether
this did any good, and of course it didn't, I got ypan, but no mtrr,
but I do at least know that vesafb works now.
I've configured CONFIG_MTRR=y, compiled cleanly and installed, but to
no avail. /proc/cpuinfo entry always looks like this:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : Mobile Pentium MMX
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 233.867
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips : 466.94
/proc/ksyms has these two entries :
c0106b3c mtrr_add_R51679c5f
c0106e80 mtrr_del_R272d394e
I've even thought of messing (strictly as a testing exercise - total
blue sky idea) with Richard Gooch's code, to try and force allocation,
but shied away from that.
I've probably got one of those chips wot don't have mtrr's or
something.....I dunno.....If anyone out there can shed some light, your
help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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From: Johnny Choque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kbd configuration
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:34:29 +0100
Hi all!
I have problems with keyboard configuration in Xwindows. I need to use
spanish keyboard but although I modify the file
/etc/X11/XF86Config to configure it in that way when I use xterm inside
the xwindows the configuration of the keyboard
continues being US. I used kbdconfig but alone it configures the
keyboard outside of the xwindows.
Somebody has some idea to solve this problem.
I'm using Redhat 6.1 with kernel upgrade to 2.2.14 and xfree86-3.3.5
Thanks in advance.
Johnny
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Window to WinNT
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:41:38 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm searching for a tool, which enables me to get access to a NT box
> (for example running MS Office) from all my Linux and Unix (DEC) machines.
> I heard something about "vmware" but I think this is more a tool which
> enables me to have two operating systems on one machine (?), I want to
> have only one NT box in my network and I want to be able to access it,
> specially the MS office, under LINUX and UNIX (DEC).
>
You can probably use samba to share stuff (or NFS?). I'm not sure about
this,
I never use it, but if you think about running NT apps remotely and
display
their output on your linux box then you can forget about it.
Windows doesn't use an X server/client combination that can be on
different
machines(AFAIK). You can do it the other way around, by running an
Xserver
on your NT box and use *NIX apps on your NT box though.
If you want MS-Office on linux, you should turn to "clones", like
StarOffice.
(or VMware/win4lin/wine etc.)
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie: I need help in installing ResHat 7 on a machine with Win 98
already present...
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:44:41 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bjarke Thor Iversen wrote:
>
> Hi, I need some help in Insltalling linux onto my machine...
> I have two Hard drives, and I intend to install RedHat 7 on One(6 GB)
> and keep my prev. os, win 98, on the other(3 GB), Is that not the smartest
> way?
> I have made several atempts, but they all fail at the same point: When all
> is installed, and I boot up the computer(wich is then carrying Win98 and
> RedHat Linux 7), the LILO starts up, which it should, but never gets past
> the "LI"(it just writes "LI" on the screen and then freezez up!!!!!).
Not a very unusual error.
> Should I maby install Linux and then Win 98 to let the win loader override
> the LILO(as a os selector) or do I need to fiff something?
win98 bootloader as OS selector? How would you want to do that?
It's not capable of this.
Try to use the bootfloppy (you made during install!) to boot linux.
Does that work?
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mtrr's or lack of them ??? (os.linux)
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:49:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'm running SuSE Linux (7.0) Kernel:2.2.16 on an IBM Thinkpad 770
> (chip:Pentium II 233mhz , memory:64mb , video:Trident Cyber 9397 2mb,
> PCMCIA:TI PCI 1140 etc.) the info that I've managed to obtain seems to
> state that PII's should have mtrr's, but I can't seem to get them
> allocated, of course I may be wrong - Mobile PII's may not - but I
> don't think so.
>
> I'm using XFree86 4.0, have got the thing to do 1024x768:65536:16 bit
> mode after mucho buggering about, and KDE2 works o.k. as well.
>
> I entered video=vesa:ypan,mtrr at the lilo boot prompt to see whether
> this did any good, and of course it didn't, I got ypan, but no mtrr,
> but I do at least know that vesafb works now.
>
> I've configured CONFIG_MTRR=y, compiled cleanly and installed, but to
> no avail. /proc/cpuinfo entry always looks like this:
>
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 5
> model : 8
> model name : Mobile Pentium MMX
> stepping : 1
> cpu MHz : 233.867
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : yes
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 1
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
> bogomips : 466.94
>
> /proc/ksyms has these two entries :
>
> c0106b3c mtrr_add_R51679c5f
> c0106e80 mtrr_del_R272d394e
>
does /proc/mtrr exist?
What does it contain?
How do you know the mtrr isn't used?
Eric
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From: "michael.fengler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pine (receving email) from Earthlink
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:47 +0100
Reply-To: Michael Fengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am running redhat 7.0, and I want to run pine as my default mail
>,this is my first time seting up, I can send emails via my earthlink
>account, but I cannot receive them. What do I need to add in order to
>receive email?
AFAIK pine is not very good at pop3 - accounts... (I love it dearly
otherwise :) I'd suggest installing fetchmail (http://freshmeat.net)
- mike
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From: Dominik Horinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: raid1 recovery
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 13:58:09 +0100
Hi,
I am running Raid1 devices on two scsi discs connected to an AXP machine
with Suse 6.3. I'm using mdutils-0.41-101. After one disc crashed, I
changed the the former /dev/mdx to /dev/sdcx. Now I have the new drive
and want to launch Raid again.
What's the correct way to do so? Mkraid will remove all data. Is there a
way to avoid this?
Thanks for any help,
Dominik
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From: brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Window to WinNT
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 07:24:38 -0600
VNC [Virtual Network Computing] will let you do it. just go to
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ and read/download. it works very
well and also runs on just about ANY os.
-brien.
Joerg Ettrich wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm searching for a tool, which enables me to get access to a NT box
> (for example running MS Office) from all my Linux and Unix (DEC) machines.
> I heard something about "vmware" but I think this is more a tool which
> enables me to have two operating systems on one machine (?), I want to
> have only one NT box in my network and I want to be able to access it,
> specially the MS office, under LINUX and UNIX (DEC).
>
> Can anyone help me ....????
>
> thanks in advance,
> kind regards,
>
> Joerg
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- eschew obfuscation -
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X Window to WinNT
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:49:54 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
brien wrote:
>
> VNC [Virtual Network Computing] will let you do it. just go to
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ and read/download. it works very
> well and also runs on just about ANY os.
>
Nice :-)
I stand corrected, appearantly it is possible.
Eric
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From: Steve Trow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mtrr's or lack of them ??? (os.linux)
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:03:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I'm running SuSE Linux (7.0) Kernel:2.2.16 on an IBM Thinkpad 770
> > (chip:Pentium II 233mhz , memory:64mb , video:Trident Cyber 9397
2mb,
> > PCMCIA:TI PCI 1140 etc.) the info that I've managed to obtain seems
to
> > state that PII's should have mtrr's, but I can't seem to get them
> > allocated, of course I may be wrong - Mobile PII's may not - but I
> > don't think so.
> >
> > I'm using XFree86 4.0, have got the thing to do 1024x768:65536:16
bit
> > mode after mucho buggering about, and KDE2 works o.k. as well.
> >
> > I entered video=vesa:ypan,mtrr at the lilo boot prompt to see
whether
> > this did any good, and of course it didn't, I got ypan, but no mtrr,
> > but I do at least know that vesafb works now.
> >
> > I've configured CONFIG_MTRR=y, compiled cleanly and installed, but
to
> > no avail. /proc/cpuinfo entry always looks like this:
> >
> > processor : 0
> > vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family : 5
> > model : 8
> > model name : Mobile Pentium MMX
> > stepping : 1
> > cpu MHz : 233.867
> > fdiv_bug : no
> > hlt_bug : no
> > sep_bug : no
> > f00f_bug : yes
> > coma_bug : no
> > fpu : yes
> > fpu_exception : yes
> > cpuid level : 1
> > wp : yes
> > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
> > bogomips : 466.94
> >
> > /proc/ksyms has these two entries :
> >
> > c0106b3c mtrr_add_R51679c5f
> > c0106e80 mtrr_del_R272d394e
> >
>
> does /proc/mtrr exist?
> What does it contain?
No /proc/mtrr doesn't and never has existed - also the mtrr allocation
msg in the bootup messages never appears - strange huh ?
> How do you know the mtrr isn't used?
If it is being used then it must be hiding 'cos the flags in
the /proc/cpuinfo listing above don't list it, and I can't see it
anywhere else.
Steve
> Eric
>
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From: "Bjarke Thor Iversen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux newbie: I need help in installing ResHat 7 on a machine with Win 98
already present...
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:53:19 -0000
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Bjarke Thor Iversen wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I need some help in Insltalling linux onto my machine...
> > I have two Hard drives, and I intend to install RedHat 7 on One(6
GB)
> > and keep my prev. os, win 98, on the other(3 GB), Is that not the
smartest
> > way?
> > I have made several atempts, but they all fail at the same point: When
all
> > is installed, and I boot up the computer(wich is then carrying Win98 and
> > RedHat Linux 7), the LILO starts up, which it should, but never gets
past
> > the "LI"(it just writes "LI" on the screen and then freezez up!!!!!).
>
> Not a very unusual error.
Not A verry unsual error you say? Know of a good solution?
>
> > Should I maby install Linux and then Win 98 to let the win loader
override
> > the LILO(as a os selector) or do I need to fiff something?
>
> win98 bootloader as OS selector? How would you want to do that?
> It's not capable of this.
>
Ah, my ignorence regardin os�s has been reveald....
> Try to use the bootfloppy (you made during install!) to boot linux.
> Does that work?
Yes, that works like it should, and from then on everything is good, but i
dont intend to boot up my computer using floppy�s, depending on wich system
I want to run; so i need a solution to the problem or i regretfully have to
stick to win 98( I have a few programs for win 98 I just can not live
without....)
any ideas?
p.s.
thanx for replying Eric
>
> Eric
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From: "Julio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X install mess
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:12:09 -0500
Linux newbie.
2.2.16
SuSe 7.0 distrib
Good machine
Rather than take all that baloney I didn't need
from the distrib, I installed a minimum config. I
wanted a very basic window setup, mostly for
programming so I then downloaded XFree 4.0.2,
installed it, then finally IceWM. When I startx,
no graphics come up, just empty boxes. I then
C-M-Fwhatever to the tty I startx'ed from, go back
to tty7 and everything looks fine until I bring up
any real window based app. I.e., emacs, lynx, etc.
look fine but IcePref, Navigator the text is all
messed up looking no matter what font i use.
The notable messages in the XFree log are:
(EE): Video password not initialized
.
.
Bad option: MultiByte
Any Xperts know what's going on. I can't figure it
out.
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From: devnix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer HP 930c USB on RH7
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:13:47 GMT
Hello,
I am trying to set up an USB HP 930c printer on Red Hat 7.0
Following modules are loaded:
- parport_probe
- parport_pc
- lp
- parport
- printer
- usb-uhci
- usbcore
Printool detect something on /dev/lp0 (?) so I modified it to point /dev/usb/lp0
I've selected "HP series" filter (there is no 930 filter),
but when I run a print test (ASCII/Postscript) the printer prints this:
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice
Operand stack:
--nostringval--
(f
And that's all.
Does someone see the problem?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Problem compiling SANE : EINVAL Undeclared...
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:14:42 GMT
In article <95s5td$1njq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cedric Chausson wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I have a problem while compiling sane-backends 1.0.4.
>
>The ./configure goes all right. Then I do make. It starts compiling some
>but it ends with an error message :
>
>sanei_net.c: In function `w_option_value':
>sanei_net.c:122: `EINVAL' undeclared (first use in this function)
>sanei_net.c:122: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>sanei_net.c:122: for each function it appears in.)
>make[1]: *** [sanei_net.o] Error 1
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Cedric/Installation/sane-backends-1.0.4/sanei'
>make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
>Anyone have an idea ?
>
>I'm running RH 6.2 with Gnome 1.2.
>
>Thanks in advance.
I don't have a direct answer to your problem, but if you check
the Sane web site, they will show you a mailing list you can
subscribe to for your scanner. I found them to be very responsive
to these sorts of problems.
--
Mark Bratcher
Director of Software and Electrical Engineering
Torrey Pines Research
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Jeff Borders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Balsa: Inbox (read only)
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 10:16:08 -0500
I installed the latest Balsa email client and it will only let me open
the inbox as read-only. I have 660 access to /var/spool/mail/jeff and
700 access to ~/mail. Pine works perfectly.
Any ideas?
-Jeff Borders
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: What does Lilo write to boot= ?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:21:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian Goodyear wrote:
>Does it always write the same thing to the boot partition or whereever is
>indicated with the boot= parameter?
>
>I'm wondering cause I'm still having this LI thingie from my second Linux
>installation on drive 3 but I 'm wondering if I told it to boot from hda5
>for example if after that it would pick up the image from hdc1.
>
>--
>Thanks,
>
>Brian ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
If you look at /usr/doc/lilo... you'll find a PS file that is
a technical guide to Lilo. It's short: about 8 pages. It tells you
all you want to know and more. :-)
--
Mark Bratcher
Director of Software and Electrical Engineering
Torrey Pines Research
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mandrake 7.2 and usb zip
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 10:24:22 -0600
neuromante wrote:
>
> hi, i'm new in this newsgroup....
> i need some help, if someone could help me.....
> i've installed mandrake 7.2 and now it doesn't see my zip usb...but the old
> 7.1 saw it
> what can i do???
Add these 3 lines to /etc/modules
usbcore
usb-uhci
usb-storage
next make sure that /dev/zip points to the correct place (create
symlink if needed)
[alex@homer alex]$ ls -la
/dev/zip
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 30 08:43 /dev/zip ->
/dev/sda4
then as root "mkdir /mnt/zip" if you don't already have it
finally add this line to /etc/fstab (assuming that you are not using
supermount, if you are using supermount, ask someone else for the
correct format)
/dev/zip /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0
After doing all of that, everything SHOULD work. You might also want
to create desktop icons for mounting.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: What's the trick to make windows right itself?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:44:24 GMT
I installed redhat 6.2 on a friends machine last night and ran into the
1024 cylinder limit. It boots to linux from the floppy which is fine
for now. We've also mounted his win98 partition so we can see
everything when it's in linux. Lilo hangs with the LI... problem. The
problem now is that we can't get back into windows. I made a boot
floppy and did the fdisk /mbr to remove lilo. Now I get missing
operating system when I boot to windows. C shows up in the dos fdisk as
non-dos which may be because it's fat32. I tried to do an sys c: again,
but c: doesn't exist when I boot to dos. Also, I set the correct
partition as the active parition. So at this point, I'm kind of hosed.
I would try to use bootmagic, but I can't get to windows to run it. I
could also use partition magic to move the fat32 partition out of the
way to make lilo boot, but again, I can't run it without booting first.
I havn't tried chaning lilo.conf yet. I'll try the lba32 entry, but I
doubt that will fix it. Any ideas?
brian
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From: subuno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's the trick to make windows right itself?
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:00:10 GMT
When you did fdisk /MBR did you first so SYS C: to copy the files the
machine needed to boot back over. Might give that a try. I did that
first and then fdisk /MBR. Hope it helps.
subuno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I installed redhat 6.2 on a friends machine last night and ran into the
> 1024 cylinder limit. It boots to linux from the floppy which is fine
> for now. We've also mounted his win98 partition so we can see
> everything when it's in linux. Lilo hangs with the LI... problem. The
> problem now is that we can't get back into windows. I made a boot
> floppy and did the fdisk /mbr to remove lilo. Now I get missing
> operating system when I boot to windows. C shows up in the dos fdisk as
> non-dos which may be because it's fat32. I tried to do an sys c: again,
> but c: doesn't exist when I boot to dos. Also, I set the correct
> partition as the active parition. So at this point, I'm kind of hosed.
> I would try to use bootmagic, but I can't get to windows to run it. I
> could also use partition magic to move the fat32 partition out of the
> way to make lilo boot, but again, I can't run it without booting first.
> I havn't tried chaning lilo.conf yet. I'll try the lba32 entry, but I
> doubt that will fix it. Any ideas?
>
> brian
>
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