Linux-Setup Digest #629, Volume #20 Wed, 14 Feb 01 03:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Multiboot Win2k and linux ("Brian Schwarz")
nvidia help ("E")
Re: Is there TrueType fonts or "vector fonts" for linux? ("me")
Printing in Linux is so far slower than Windows ("Jared R. Jones")
CDR setup (Christian)
Re: removed /etc/rc.d (David)
Re: DIALD timeout setting? (Jerry McBride)
Re: DIALD timeout setting? (Jerry McBride)
Re: Mandrake&rpm&trouble (Matt Haley)
Re: RH 7 hangs on boot ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: enhancing linux useably ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: Linux installation to floppyless machines ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: Multiboot Win2k and linux (Richard Gibert)
DSL modem and linux? ("Michael Johnston")
KDE2.0 Theme Manager? (Bill Brown)
Re: No sound in RedHat 7.1 (Lee Laniear)
auto-start in Suse 7.0 ("Benno B�eler")
Re: moving partitions (again!) ("Eric")
Re: RH 7 hangs on boot ("Eric")
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From: "Brian Schwarz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Multiboot Win2k and linux
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 20:42:40 -0800
"Rod Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:bm1i6.345932$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <969tuk$gc9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Costas Gavardinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > which lies beyond the 1024 cylinder. When I ask YaST to configure LiLo
to
> > run from the root partition I get an error.
> > Is there a way to overcome this problem and to enable Linux booting from
the
> > NT Loader?
>
> Upgrade LILO. I don't recall the exact version numbers offhand, but
> recent versions of LILO support booting from beyond the 1024th cylinder,
> *IF* your BIOS includes the appropriate extended INT13 calls.
You could also configure the NT boot loader to boot to DOS, and then use
loadlin to boot into Linux. (of course, to do this you'll need at least one
FAT or FAT32 partition)
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From: "E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nvidia help
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:30:04 -0800
I have, I think, an NVidia Vanta card, and cannot get it configured properly
for RedHat. Since I don't see the card listed by name, I have made several
mostly randome choices when choosing a card. The closest match is "STB
nvidia ...". This did not work. Does anyone know what I should choose.
My monitor is not listed either. I have a Pixie with horizontal sync is TTL
Positive/Negative and Vert. Snyc is the same. My bandwidth is 85 Mhz (-3dB)
if that helps.
I cannot get my monitor/card configured. Originally, I could see nothing by
text that is white--all other colors were rendered black. Now my text seems
to have colors, but the font is literally at about 72 font in X. The
command line seems to be OK.
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From: "me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there TrueType fonts or "vector fonts" for linux?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:37:03 GMT
In article <wgoi6.173$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"count_zero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> I am running RH 7.0, XFree86 4.0.1-1, and the bitmapped fonts suck. I
> have done as Steve Martin suggested, editing both the XF86Config-4 and
> XF86Config files. However I see no change in the bitmapped fonts used
> in--for example--KMail or others (I did reboot).
>
> What else do I need to do?
>
> "Steve Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Ian wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, I have read about that linux use bitmap fonts. thats why when i
>> > enlarge them they look SO UGLY ! iam using Linux mandrake 7.2 with
>> > KDE 2.0 Is there a way to install truetype fonts or similar "vector
>> > fonts"
>>
>> Linux comes with two such font sets, "Type 1" (aka Adobe) and "Speedo".
>> These font sets should be in the directories
>> "Type1" and "Speedo" under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.
>>
>> To use them, you need to do two things:
>>
>> (1) Make sure the directories to these fonts are listed
>> in the "Files" section of your XF86Config file. They're shown
>> with the keyword "FontPath" beside each; pay attention that you
>> don't put a trailing slash after the path for each. Put entries
>> for these two directories at or near the top of the "FontPath"
>> section.
>>
>> (2) The X server needs to know how to handle the fonts in
>> these directories. To accomplish this, you must tell the server
>> to load the proper modules (*X Server* modules, not to be
>> confused with *kernel* modules) to be able to read these fonts.
>> Once again in your XF86Config file, in the "Modules" section, you
>> need to include entries that say (note capitalization):
>>
>> Load "speedo"
>>
>> and
>>
>> Load "type1"
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
What is the point of creating different newsgroups if punks are going to
flood them with cross-posts?
Anywho.. do you know 'search engines'? I tried google: 'truetype fonts
linux' ... one of the results was 'xfstt' .. installed it .. and it does
wonders..
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From: "Jared R. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing in Linux is so far slower than Windows
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:30:15 -0500
Hello,
I am running RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.4.1, X v4.0.2, and I did not
upgrade my KDE or Gnome versions. When I try to print anything on my
HP DeskJet 870Cxi, it takes forever, much slower than Windows takes.
As root, I used RedHat's Control Panel to set up my printer, and it
prints good quality, it is just really slow. Does anyone know a fix for
this? Thanks!
Jared
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From: Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDR setup
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:44:08 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have RH 2.2.12-20 with new patches for kernel through 2.2.18. I ran
cdrecord -scanbus and it said no SCSI device found. Thus I imagine I
would have to reconfigure the kernel to use ide-scsi for the Sony CRX140
burner I recently bought.
My questions are should I use a particular patch level for the kernel?
Secondly, can I enable both EIDE and SCSI support during the kernel
configuration? Anything else I should know.
TIA,
Chris
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removed /etc/rc.d
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 05:44:19 GMT
Andrew Cox wrote:
>
> I was careless using an experimental NT driver to access a Linux filesystem,
> and it removed all the files from /etc/rc.d (on turbolinux)
>
> I've since found a driver that seems to work better so I can write files,
> and I'm pretty experienced with linux, so I know what goes there (scripts to
> get the system booted into each runlevel.) My question is should I make an
> attempt to rebuild the /etc/rc.d, or would I be wasting my time? I could
> reinstall, but I would like to preserve things if possible.
>
> Could I possibly find these files in a package somewhere? What are some
> opinions on this?
Name : initscripts
Summary : The inittab file and the /etc/rc.d scripts.
Description :
The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot
your Red Hat system, change run levels, and shut the system down
cleanly. Initscripts also contains the scripts that activate and
deactivate most network interfaces.
--
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 99.052% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Subject: Re: DIALD timeout setting?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:01:57 GMT
In article <96bq5g$j0u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Grzanich) wrote:
>You might look at /etc/diald.conf for the line "accept tcp 600 any". Change
>the 600 to however many seconds you wish.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
OH GOD... can it be THAT simple???? Thanks a ton and I'll try it in a couple of
minutes.
Damn...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry McBride)
Subject: Re: DIALD timeout setting?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:01:58 GMT
>>Jerry
>
>You might look at /etc/diald.conf for the line "accept tcp 600 any". Change
>the 600 to however many seconds you wish.
>
Bill! I owe you a pat on the back. That was the magic! Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Haley)
Subject: Re: Mandrake&rpm&trouble
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:04:36 -0000
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:15:33 +0100,
lefu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When I install rpm I got a mesaage then I don't have this modules (Mandrake
>7.2) what I must install?
>
>libjscript.so.2
>libkdecore.so.2
>libkdeui.so.2
>libkfile.so.2
>libkfm.so.2
>libkhtmlw.so.2
>libkimgio.so.2
kde1-compat-1.1.2-7mdk.i586.rpm
--
Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mandrake 7.2 / RedHat 6.1 / Windows 98 SE / FreeBSD 4.2 / Windows NT 4
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7 hangs on boot
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:09:47 +1300
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Geoff Prosser"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all
>
> i've just installed RH 7.0 without any probs during the install, then it
> says "install complete" and i click the button and my comp reboots the
> GUI LILO pops up and i choose linux then Loading
> Linux.......................................<carriage return>
>
> comes up on the screen and then it HANGS!!!!!! i have tried installing
> it lots of times changing a few things but nothing has worked here is my
> partition layout on my 12.9GB HD
> | 5.8 GB win C drive | 2GB linux native | 128MB linux swap | 4.4GB win D
> drive |
>
> I've checked that the partition is completely below cylinder 1023 in
> linux fdisk (is this still a problem anyway??)
Well, its uncompressed the kernel, since the carriage return is there, we
know that's completed, but has failed to boot it.
This is probably because your kernel (which lives in /boot (Currently in
your "2GB linux native" partition, which is certainly NOT withing the
1024 cylinders (this equates to the first 540MB)
You need to rethink your partition strategy.
Try perhaps
hda1 5MB linux native (mount at /boot)
hda2 5.8 GB win C drive
hda3 extended partition
hda5 2GB linux native (mount as /)
hda6 128MB swap
hda7 4.4GB win D drive (this must in extended partition anyway)
HIH -- Cameron Kerr
PS. If you can, give Linux its own physical drive, MUCH easier.
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: enhancing linux useably
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:14:48 +1300
[big snip]
WTF has this got to do with COLS? This would be better in
comp.os.linux.advocacy
PS. As nice as a generic GUI API would be, its just a sad fact that
duplication is a cost we pay for freedom.
-- Cameron Kerr
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From: "Cameron Kerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux installation to floppyless machines
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:28:06 +1300
In article <96c3gf$inr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rex Dieter"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had some trouble installing RedHat linux (version 6.2) on machines
> without conventional floppy drives (ones with LS-120 or zip's for
> example).
>
> The problem is that on installation, the boot process hangs apparently
> trying to load the floppy driver. On a few machines, I was able to
> correct the problem by disabling the floppy interface altogether in the
> machines' bios. On one machine, however, this "fix" did not help.
>
> My question then, is it possible (via kernel/lilo parameter or whatever)
> to disable or prevent the attempted startup of the conventional floppy
> driver
> (short of building a custom kernel)?
>
> --
> Rex Dieter Computer System Administrator Mathematics and Statistics
> University of Nebraska Lincoln
Here's a couple of ideas
1) Try booting with floppy=off
2) See if the vendor supplies a bootdisk for this scenario
If you have not luck, have a look the bootparam man page for the floppy options and
see if
any of those work.
HIH -- Cameron Kerr
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From: Richard Gibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Multiboot Win2k and linux
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 06:58:35 GMT
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:02:26 +0200, "Costas Gavardinas"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have Linux installed in the secondary partition of my first hard disk. I
>also have installed Windows 2000 pro and win98. I am using the Win2k boot
>selector for windows and I boot linux from a boot disk. Is there perhaps a
>way to integrate a "Linux" option to the win2k boot menu, so that I don't
>have to use a boot disk. Thank you for your help!
>
Give the following URL a read:
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp
It worked perfectly for me when I wanted to dual boot Win2k and
Slackware before I moved to a pure Slackware system.
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From: "Michael Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DSL modem and linux?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:08:51 GMT
Can someone give me some advice on what kind of DSL modem to buy? What is a
good modem to use with Linux? Does using an external modem limit the speed
of the network coming in to the speed of the serial port it is plugged into?
Thanks!
Mike Johnston
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Brown)
Subject: KDE2.0 Theme Manager?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:33:24 -0000
Hi...
Rather new to this, so please bear with me.
I have played with Redhat 6.x, and it's KDE 1.1.x theme manager, pretty
straight-forward
Installed Mandrake on my machine at work...it's got KDE 2.0, and the theme
manger as I remember it doesn't exist anymore...
silly question...
how do I add a theme that I've downloaded from themes.org, to the KDE 2.0?
thanks!
Bill
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From: Lee Laniear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound in RedHat 7.1
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 07:39:40 GMT
Omar,
Thanks for the info on switching modes. Unfortunately, running
sndconfig in text mode made no difference. So... I'm still looking for
a driver (HP doesn't have one, of course) for the sound card.
Lee
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001 21:50:49 GMT, Omar wrote:
>Lee Laniear wrote:
>
>> Kevine,
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion. I tried sndconfig, it first suggested that I
>> "NOT" run it in a window (but I did anyway <G>). The sndconfig
>> recognized the sound cardm as a Rockwell card and then said that it is
>> not supported. I'm wondering whether the fact that I was running
>> sndconfig through a window may have had anything to do with it. Here's
>> a slightly related question. How can I startup Linux in text mode
>> (ocassionally)? I tried switchdesk but it only gave me other graphical
>> options.
>
>alt-ctrl-F2 should give you a text mode login.
>
>alt-ctrl-F7 switches back to the gui.
>
>
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From: "Benno B�eler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: auto-start in Suse 7.0
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:58:22 +0100
Reply-To: "Benno B�eler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello
I would like to make an our Lotus Domino server automatically start each
time the system boots. I have read in the manpages about runlevels and I
looked at the skeleton scripts - but this seems to be very complex and as a
novice and I am afraid messing up things.
I would be very happy if there is a simple way like an entry in a file (a la
autoexec.bat in DOS).
And in case you know Domino: what could be the cause that we can send emails
outside, but no incoming mail arrives? (In both cases we use SMTP.)
Thank you very much
Benno
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: moving partitions (again!)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:59:26 +0100
> >If you think of putting eg /usr and /home on one partition,
> >you're going to have
> >to fiddle with symlinks.As you cannot mount a part of a
> >partition to mountpoint A
> >and another part of it to B. It would be a weird way of
> >partitioning though.
> >But it's not impossible.
>
> Thanks for the reply -- I had missed it.
>
> I don't quite understand your statement. I've been reflecting on
> two strategies:
>
> (A) Move say '/usr/' from partition X to partition Y; make a
> directory on X called '/usr' and link it to Y.
>
> (B) Move say '/usr/ from partition X to partition Y; mount Y as
> '/usr'.
>
> I've ended up doing (B). When I did (A) I got troubles that
> seemed to result from faulty sym link references, e.g., I
> couldn't start X because it couldn't find essential (symlinked)
> files.
>
> Right now I'm content with strategy (A) but I'm puzzling what I
> did wrong in pursuing strategy (B). I'm just using '/usr' and
> '/etc' as examples.
>
> The advantage of strategy (B) would be I could put several base
> directories on Y; I could put '/etc/' and '/usr' there, for
> instance.
>
> I hope my idea at least is clear.
so fdisk would give:
hda1 <----root FS
hda2 <----/usr and /etc eg.
no you can mount hda2 to /mnt/hda2 eg.
and make `ln -s /mnt/hda2/usr /usr`
`ln -s /mnt/hda2/etc /etc`
(This is your option A)
But you *cannot* mount /dev/hda2/usr to /usr and /dev/hda2/etc to /etc
(This is your option B I think)
But then again I don't see why you would want this (Neither of the two)
Just make one big / partition and don't bother further, or make separate
partitions for each mountpoint you like to be on a different FS.
Why you had bad symlinks I can't tell.
You made a mistake I suppose.
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: RH 7 hangs on boot
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:07:54 +0100
> > I've checked that the partition is completely below cylinder 1023 in
> > linux fdisk (is this still a problem anyway??)
>
> Well, its uncompressed the kernel, since the carriage return is there, we
> know that's completed, but has failed to boot it.
>
> This is probably because your kernel (which lives in /boot (Currently in
> your "2GB linux native" partition, which is certainly NOT withing the
> 1024 cylinders (this equates to the first 540MB)
No it does not.
It equates to (1024*Heads*Sectors/track*512)/(1024^3) GB
The heads and sectors/track can be different on each system as these
are BIOS settings
>
> You need to rethink your partition strategy.
There's no need for this.
RH7.0 comes with a LILO that no longer has this problem.
To the OP:
check if /etc/lilo.conf is correct.
If so, rerun /sbin/lilo -v
boot with use of the bootfloppy, or the installation CD
If you use the CD, at the liloprompt enter "linux root=/dev/hda2"
(hda2 may be hda5, I can't tell from the info you supplied)
Eric
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