Linux-Setup Digest #635, Volume #20 Thu, 15 Feb 01 01:13:06 EST
Contents:
Sharity on Linux question ("Xiaopong Tran")
SCSI... how? ("Spawn")
Re: Printing in Linux is so far slower than Windows ("Jared R. Jones")
Re: Mandrake 7.2's KUDZU killed my mouse :( (Guy Parry)
Some diolog boxes too big in KDE & Gnome. (PC4) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Using grep properly ("Woon")
Sympatico DSL modem and Best LInux 2000 ("C.Lohnes")
Re: Using grep properly ("Peter T. Breuer")
help with kernel make ... newer documentation ??? ("colossal crab")
Re: RH 7 hangs on boot ("Geoff Prosser")
Re: Lilo problems with Suse 7.0 (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Re: I have a problem in boot (omitted)
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From: "Xiaopong Tran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sharity on Linux question
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:10:47 GMT
Hi,
Anyone has experience with Sharity (www.obdev.at/Products/Sharity.html)?
It allows to mount shared NT directories on a Linux filesystem, and
access them like NFS mount.
It looks really cool, except I can't get it to work completely.
It does mount, except that I can not see files in some directories,
which I should. There's nothing to do with permission at
all, all directories are shared with full permission.
The directories are on NT 4, and I'm using Sharity 2.3 on
Linux RH 7. Anyone would like to share any troubleshooting
hints?
Thanks
Xiaopong
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From: "Spawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI... how?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:55:53 -0500
Thanks to everyone who helped me with the slow boot problems. I got it all
straightened out and that part is fine... now my next headache...
I have two machines at home, both with Zip drives. One runs off the
parallel port and one runs off of a SCSI card. I got the parallel port one
working with no problems, but for the life of me I can't get the one on the
SCSI card to work.
I'm sure part of my problem is that no SCSI devices were detected during
install (even though they were there) and I couldn't seem to get them
manually configured, so I skipped that figuring I could come back to it
later... well now it's later and I can't figure out how to do it. None of
the how-tos seem to cover it and if there's documentation on disk somewhere
I haven't found it.
Any help appreciated.
Chris
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From: "Jared R. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing in Linux is so far slower than Windows
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:32:20 -0500
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Cameron Kerr wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jared R. Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> It could be that you have slow settings for your parallel port. What does
> dmesg say on the topic?
>
> Does it happen with other printers?
> Does it happen with, say, a parallel port zip drive?
>
> -- Cameron Kerr
Attached is my dmesg output. I only have one printer, and I do not have
a parallel ZIP drive to check.
Jared
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name="dmesg.output"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="dmesg.output"
17ffc000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 0000000017fff000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 98300
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 94204 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=811
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 501.146 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 999.42 BogoMIPS
Memory: 383924k/393200k available (1346k kernel code, 8888k reserved, 536k data, 180k
init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0387f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf08c0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
DMI 2.3 present.
45 structures occupying 1328 bytes.
DMI table at 0x000F1F50.
BIOS Vendor: Award Software, Inc.
BIOS Version: ASUS P3B-F ACPI BIOS Revision 1006
BIOS Release: 05/19/2000
System Vendor: System Manufacturer.
Product Name: System Name.
Version System Version.
Serial Number SYS-1234567890.
Board Vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC..
Board Name: <P3B-F>.
Board Version: REV 1.xx.
Asset Tag: Asset-1234567890.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP(,...)]
parport0: irq 7 detected
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
block: queued sectors max/low 254909kB/123837kB, 768 slots per queue
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP
enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
3c59x.c:LK1.1.12 06 Jan 2000 Donald Becker and others.
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html $Revision: 1.102.2.46 $
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xa400, 00:60:97:ab:6e:93, IRQ 10
product code 'HH' rev 00.0 date 03-03-97
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786f.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 321M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe4000000
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xe4000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20000928 on minor 63
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel 440BX @ 0xe4000000 64MB
[drm] Initialized r128 2.1.2 20001215 on minor 62
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0c.0
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/12/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 NO)
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 422 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.1/5.2.0
<Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318416W Rev: 0004
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
(scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34555W Rev: 0930
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6201TA Rev: 1030
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: RICOH Model: MP6200S Rev: 2.40
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 5.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: CONNER Model: CTT8000-S Rev: 1.17
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. buffers 4, s/g segs 16.
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Detected scsi removable disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 35885168 512-byte hdwr sectors (18373 MB)
Partition check:
sda: sda1
SCSI device sdb: 8888924 512-byte hdwr sectors (4551 MB)
sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 >
sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
sdc : extended sense code = 2
sdc : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sdc: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
unable to read partition table
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
sr0: scsi-1 drive
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 18:49:57 Feb 2 2001
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:09.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:04.2
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x8023 found, IO at 0xb000-0xb01f, IRQ 15
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:04.2
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:09.0
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xb400, IRQ 15
uhci.c: detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
Adding Swap: 265124k swap-space (priority -1)
eth0: first available media type: MII
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
[drm:r128_do_wait_for_fifo] *ERROR* r128_do_wait_for_fifo failed!
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.2's KUDZU killed my mouse :(
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:43:19 +1100
Well, it didn't. Making symlionks in /dev, such as
mouse -> psaux or mouse -> ttyS0 doesn't do a THING...
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:30:35 +1100, Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Originally, yes, but I'm far more concerned about just getting
>the damn thing back up and running under X.
> My /etc/sysconfig/mouse says:
>
> MOUSETYPE=serial
> XMOUSETYPE=Microsoft
> FULLNAME="none|No mouse"
> XEMU=yes
> WHEEL=no
> device=msmouse
>
> I'll try putting what you have in my /dev/mouse and see if that
>works...
>
>On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:35:02 +0100, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Guy Parry wrote:
>>
>>> I've given up on gpm for the moment. I have an
>>> etc/sysconfig/mouse and a /dev/mouse, but ithas nothing in it and I
>>> definately can't see a symlink to ttyS0 - if I need one. Think I
>>> should just remove kudzu and do a re-install, installing nothing other
>>> than system files - eg, XF86Config and so on?
>>
>>XF86Config is only important for the mouse in X.
>>But you are looking for the console mouse , right?
>>
>>/home/user>ll /dev/mouse
>>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Sep 28 15:56 /dev/mouse -> psaux
>>/home/user>cat /etc/sysconfig/mouse
>>FULLNAME="Microsoft - IntelliMouse (PS/2)"
>>MOUSETYPE="imps2"
>>XEMU3="no"
>>XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2"
>>
>>(If you have a serial mouse settings are somewhat different, but the idea is
>>similar)
>>
>>Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some diolog boxes too big in KDE & Gnome. (PC4)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 03:55:53 GMT
Dear helpers, Thursday 15 Feb 2001.
On my 486 computer with Definite Linux which has both KDE and Gnome,
some bigger diologue boxes are too big. Seeting up K-E-Mail I can not
see the bottom buttons, OK, CANcel and so on so I can't set up some
things. Please help. I think it's got something to do with the
"initc" or whatever.
I have Caldera on another PC which uses KDE and that's OK, the
diologue boxes are smaller. So is everything else.
Please help by E-mail if possibe because I don't use NewsGroups much.
Thanks in advance.
=========
John C.E. D'Alton.
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From: "Woon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using grep properly
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:28:22 +0800
Hi,
I hope someone here can help me with my problems in RH7.0:
1. I've been trying to use grep to search for a word in the files. I want
search for the pattern "path" irrespective of cases and in all the files. I
tried using grep -i path * .. however it keeps stopping with the message
"grep: nsmail: Is a directory".. how do i
specify the command to bypass this? I'm using grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 btw.
2. Apart from the /etc/profile and $HOME/.bash_profile (i'm using bash),
where else is the PATH variable defined?
Thanks,
W
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From: "C.Lohnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sympatico DSL modem and Best LInux 2000
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:05:20 GMT
I am trying to get my sympatico dsl to work with my linux(Best Linux 2000)
can ne1 help me out please, feel free to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using grep properly
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:16:14 GMT
Woon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tried using grep -i path * .. however it keeps stopping with the message
> "grep: nsmail: Is a directory".. how do i
a) it doesn't stop (you are lying! - humans often do this accidentally)
> specify the command to bypass this? I'm using grep (GNU grep) 2.4.2 btw.
b) only grep in files. Something like
find ./ -type f | xargs grep -i path
use the appropriate maxdepth arg to find if you only want to search in
the current dir, not subdirs.
> 2. Apart from the /etc/profile and $HOME/.bash_profile (i'm using bash),
> where else is the PATH variable defined?
Depends on what /etc/profile and the other files in your login
sequence say. They should draw from whole directories of other files,
if you are talking about RH and its derivatives.
Peter
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From: "colossal crab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with kernel make ... newer documentation ???
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 05:40:19 GMT
Hello,
I have compiled a new kernel on redhat 7 and received the same results I
have in the past ... a kernel that wont boot.
I compiled the 2.4.0 kernel source procured from kernel.org on a BP6 mobo
(dual processor) 96 megs ram.
I read and followed the steps in the README file. I did this:
1. make mrproper / make menuconfig / make dep / make bzImage / make modules
/ make modules_install
2. copied the image from ../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to
/boot/erns-bzImage
3. edited /etc/lilo.conf ... yanked 4 lines and modified them ... ran lilo
... it added the image w/ no complaints ...
4. rebooted and selected that image ... It uncompresses the kernel image
then ............... just hangs.
Would someone be so kind as to point out mistakes or point me in the
direction of some good documentation?
Thanks in advance,
Ernest
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Geoff Prosser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: RH 7 hangs on boot
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 16:56:23 +1100
thanks for your help guys!!
i tried with the boot floppy and this is what i got
boot: linux
Loading linux....................
Uncompressing Linux...
crc error
--System halted
so i tried typing linux root=/dev/hda3 at the regular LILO prompt not from
the boot floppy
and i got this:
Loading linux....................
No Setup signature found...
i tried this a couple more times and i got different error messages:
Loading linux.....................
Uncompressing Linux...
invalid compressed format (err=2) //the other time i tried i got (err=1)
--system halted
here is some more hard disk info:
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 |
this is what is reported by linux fdisk
device boot start end id system
/tmp/hda1 * 1 739 b win95 fat32
/tmp/hda2 1011 1575 c win95 fat32 (LBA)
/tmp/hda3 740 994 83 linux
/tmp/hda4 995 1010 82 linux swap
i really want to get linux going so any help will be greatly appreciated!!
chris
cpro9078~SPAM~(at)~SUX~mail(dot)usyd(dot)edu(dot)au
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo problems with Suse 7.0
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:06:16 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vasilis Serghi wrote:
> I bought a magazine which had SuSE 7.0 on the front cover, I installed
> Ok, runs really well and decided to keep this version rather than go
> back to Mandrake 7.1.
>
> However when I restarted my PC, where I expected to be given the choice
> of Windoze or SuSE, the LILO prompt just showed " LIL' ". LILO was
> installed on the MBR of the first hard drive which is my Windoze drive.
> Mandrake worked fine with this setup. When I re-installed SuSE again, I
> went into Yast and created a boot disk. I tried to use it after boot
> up,and got no prompt or anything, it just sits there.
>
> I looked at the lilo.conf file, it it says that LILO looks at hda first.
>
> What is going wrong.
>
Don't know the size of your harddisk. SuSE is not able to boot from beyond
the 1024th cylinder. Instaling a newer lilo helps. Have a look at this
page: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo/
Cheers
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Using S.u.S.E. 5.3 and SuSE 7.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (omitted)
Crossposted-To:
3dfx.glide.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.dev.x11
Subject: Re: I have a problem in boot
Date: 15 Feb 2001 06:06:28 GMT
>I have installed Linux and I want to suppress it from my hard disk, but
>the bios boot in Linux even if I have installes winnt in the hard disk.
>
>if anyone know how to do for access at bios?
do you just want to boot windows by default? or do you want to get rid
of linux completely?
m.
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