Linux-Setup Digest #671, Volume #20 Tue, 20 Feb 01 04:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: pcmcia "Anonymous memory"? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: Help for ATA 100 !! (Nader)
Re: Forgot root Password, HelP (Dean Thompson)
Which distribution? (Dan)
Re: file systems with errors at boot ("Eric")
Re: mounting fat32 partitions in linux? ("Eric")
Re: cd-rom trouble ("Eric")
Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7 ("syco")
Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama (Chris Elvidge)
change the resolution for X windows ("hanyuen")
Re: pb with make (JM)
Re: Sendmail need some help.!!!!!!!!!! (Zen Sorcerer)
Re: How do I get sound to work? (Michael V.Obodnikov)
Re: Mounting Windoze partitions from Linux problem. (Jete Software Inc.)
Re: change the resolution for X windows ("Johnny Luong")
POP3 account ? ("Eric Chow")
Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama (benoit mordelet)
Re: Which distribution? (benoit mordelet)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: pcmcia "Anonymous memory"?
Date: 20 Feb 2001 01:30:08 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Cardmgr thinks of my WaveLAN IEEE/802.11 as "Anonymous memory".
Have you read the PCMCIA HOWTO, especially section 3.5?
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html
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Paul Kimoto
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help for ATA 100 !!
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 22:35:46 -0800
And you can patch the kernel (see the UDMA666 How-To) so that it finds the channels
automatically during boot up. Saves you typing time and manual errors.
Suzanne Dunphy wrote:
> Not true at all. I boot linux of an Ultra66 and Ultra100 card from Promise on
> two different systems. You just half to tell the kernel about the other two ide
> channels by booting like this: linux ide2=a,b ide3=c,d where a,b,c, and d are
> memory addresses you get from looking at the /proc/pci file (or lspci).
>
> Rick Duval wrote:
>
> > I've read in other newsgroups that it doesn't support ATA-100 as boot
> >
> > --
> >
> > Rick Duval
> > canoffroad.net
> >
> > "Mark Phalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:ULSj6.2727$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Are you sure that you have put the hard-drive onto the first IDE channell.
> > > Linux won't be able to detect your hard-drive if it is on the third or
> > > fourth chanells except with a kernel recompile. Also is your board RAID
> > > enabled? If so make sure that you configure the correct harddrive to be
> > your
> > > boot harddrive.
> > >
> > > Ralph H. Stoos Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > All,
> > > >
> > > > I have recently acquired a Athlon 1 Gigahertz with and ASUS A7V
> > > > motherboard and a half Gig of RAM (and other stuff) in the hopes of
> > > > making a killer Linux box which of course will accomplish any task
> > > > instantly. Last night I sat down to install Redhat 7.1beta with 2.4
> > > > kernel..
> > > >
> > > > The motherboard is set up to use primary and secondary ATA 100
> > > > interfaces (of which I have one connected to a 30 gigger) and also
> > > > another set of interfaces for primary and secondary plain old EIDE
> > > > drives. You would think on the surface that you could connect up to 8
> > > > drives all told.
> > > >
> > > > Here is how I am set up. I have the 30 Gig ATA-100 drive set as primary
> > > > master and there is no ATA-100 secondary drives at all. As the EIDE
> > > > Secondary Slave I have a TDK 16X burner.
> > > >
> > > > When the system boots, I get the standard Award BIOS message as it
> > > > discovers EIDE drives. It does detect the CD-ROM. Then, it launches a
> > > > special ATA-100 detector program and sees the 30 gig as the Primary
> > > Master.
> > > >
> > > > It will not boot the CD to install so I made a boot disk and tried
> > > > that. I get the Install screen from floppy but after all is said and
> > > > done, it reports that it finds no drive to install on in the machine.
> > > >
> > > > Please tell me I just need a special ATA-100 driver on the boot disk or
> > > > a version of Linux supports ATA-100.
> > > >
> > > > Please reply to the group but also:
> > > >
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > Ralph
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.dev.net,redhat.config,redhat.general,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Forgot root Password, HelP
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:40:09 +1100
Hi James,
> I just biult my RH6.2 Server a couple of wweks ago, then I went on
> vacation, noe I cannot remember my root password. Is their a way to
> change it short of doing an upgrade install of the same version?
Try booting the server into single user mode and change the root password from
the single user mode.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 02:10:09 -0500
From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which distribution?
Hi All,
I was just wondering which distribution of Linux is the "best" out
there. I know this question is only based on one's opinion, but every
opinion has a reason, and I want to know what your reason is, on which
distribution of Linux is the "best."
-Dan
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: file systems with errors at boot
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:22:58 +0100
> > Don't be too eager to throw that disc out.
> > post the output `fdisk -l /dev/hd[ab]`
> > Windows(or actually a bad partitiontable) can very well be the cause
> > of this.
> >
> /dev/hda
Nothing wrong here
> /dev/hdb
> --------
> Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2490 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 7 14 64260 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdb3 15 1230 9767520 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb4 1025 2488 11759580 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hdb5 1025 2488 11759548+ b Win95 FAT32
>
> While everything seems all right for hda, I've serious doubts about the
> coherency of hdb: How can hdb3 end at cylinder 1230 and hdb4 start at
> 1025 ? There's definitely something weird about that !!! Has anyone
> already heard of such a bug ?
Overlapping partitions happen sometimes.
I was never able to make one, but you obviously succeeded :-)
Backup that data and repartition that drive is the only solution I fear.
I suppose you made some partitions with linux fdisk, and others with DOS
fdisk ?
Never do that. Use one partitioning tool per table. It's the best way to
ensure that
the table doesn't get corrupted. I prefer linux' fdisk, but if you use that,
be carefull
that it does make the extended partition the correct type. It defaults to
0x05, which is
incorrect if that extended partition crosses the 1024 cyl. boundary. It must
then be
type 0x0F (Like in your table). It's an other frequently occuring error that
can
corrupt data.
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mounting fat32 partitions in linux?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:32:47 +0100
> i'm fairly new with linux, using 6.1-linux/mandrake 6.5. have a triple
boot with win ME on /dev/hda1,
> win 2K on /dev/hda5, and linux on /dev/hdc5. i can mount the win ME fat32
file system on /dev/hda1,
> but none others. it gives me whats probably a traditional error message:
'and aren't you really trying
> to mount an extended file system?'. tried everything i can think of so
far.....ahhhhhhhhh!!!!
> if anyone has any ideas, i would appreciate them. thanks.
Post in plain text.
you probably have a bad partition table and windows has read this
incorrectly.
post `fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]` if you want to be sure.
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cd-rom trouble
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:34:31 +0100
There's absolutely no info in your post.
So I cannot help you.
post what you tried, and what the error messages are.
Eric
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From: "syco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:52:58 +0100
Michael Heiming a �crit dans le message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>syco wrote:
>
>> I can't see my SCSI discs with SUSE 7.
>>
>> I have a pentium 133 with 3 IDE discs + CDROM, and 2 SCSI discs on
Adaptec
>> AHA1540B card.
>> Impossible to see my discs SCSI under Linux.
>> I would like to try to give the params to the demarrage,
>> because with Loadlin not average to arrive there
>> - I tried " Loadlin root =aha1542=0x230 " (IO of my card): nothing is
seen.
>> There is not even a message, while booting, about loading aha1542.
>>
>> Under linux, no success :
>> - I tried insmod aha1542=0x230 :syntax does not pass, " aha1542=0x230 "
>> unknown
>> - I tried insmodaha1542 iobase=0x230: syntax does not pass, param_iobase
>> unknow
>> - I tried insmod aha1542 io=0x230: syntax does not pass, param_iounknown
>>
>> How I can do that cleanly ? ( I am not an expert! )
>>
>
>Don't use insmod try:
>
>modprobe -v aha1542
>
Yes, it works.
using : modprobe aha1542 aha1542=0x230
( that is the syntax I needed, indeed )
Now, I have to find an automatic way to make it when Linux start :-(
>man modprobe for more info
>
>Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt (comes with every kernel
tarball)
>
>gives some info how loadable modules work/setup.
>
>>
>> Thanks.
>> --
>> SYCO
>> de Sycoweb
>> ( BROCANTES DU NORD-EST http://www.chez.com/sycoweb/puces/index.htm )
>> - Let me Alone but not Forever -
>
>Good luck
>
>Michael Heiming
>
>
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:51:11 +0400
Chris Nelson wrote:
>
> Hello: This weekend I finally got a working config file for using 2
> monitors on a g400 max.
>
> My problem however is that right now my etc/inittab file has me going to
> only run level 3. if I change this value to 5, the systems takes me to a
> graphical logon..but with only one monitor. My guess is that the system
> is still strying to run startx as opposed to startx -- +xinerama. Where
> do I need to make a change so this can be automoated? Any advice is
> appreciated...
>
> P.S. Any idea how I can have the system default to KDE as opposed to
> gnome? Thought I would throw this in as well
>
> Chris
Have you got a file ~/.xinitrc? Try:
/path/to/xinerama &
/path/to/startkde
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From: "hanyuen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: change the resolution for X windows
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:55:22 +0800
Anybody know how to change the resolution on the X windows. Because now in
my xwindows everything looks very big
Thanks
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From: JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pb with make
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:09:35 +0100
> make-3.78.1-4
I installed this one and the make install worked fine, so I don't know
if the next 2 you have are necessary.
I can always install them anyway.
Thanks for your help!
> pmake-2.1.34-3
> automake-1.4-6
>
> So you may be missing an RPM somewhere.
> (I'm not sure what package my gcc is in, but rpm -qa | grep gcc produces nothing).
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From: Zen Sorcerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sendmail need some help.!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 08:30:07 -0000
Check your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts Is your domain name listed? If
not, then add it.
Also try adding DMmydomain.com (right before the line Cwlocalhost) to your
/etc/sendmail.cf
Also you might want to add your domain to /etc/sendmail.cw
Check to see that your DNS settings are correct in /etc/named.conf and that
your zones files are correct in /var/named (Are you running BIND yourself
or is DNS done on some other machine?)
Hope this helps...
Zen
Louis Hajjar wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jesse ,
>
> Thanks for replying.
> well when I give the command nslookup I get the first DNS server but not
my
> IP address.
> and on /etc/mail/sendmail.c
> I dont have this lines at all.!!!!
>
> but when I traceroute www.mydomain.com
> it show my ip address. ( I think it show that the problem is still in my
> settings)
>
>
> LH
>
> "Louis Hajjar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:96igi0$69p$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hei,
> >
> > I install redhat 7.0.
> > I want to use the mail server that come with it(sendmail)
> > I want to use my domain to recive and send mail.
> > I was able to send mail but not to recive mail.
> > when I send mail I check from wich address is coming I see
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > so I cant reply to that address.
> > Have you any idea from where I can change the local host to my own
domain?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > LH
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Michael V.Obodnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I get sound to work?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:25:27 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm a bit new to this so here it is. I've made several attempts
> trying different things I've read in here. B4 I started, Linux knew
> nothing of the snd card. Now during the boot to a prompt I get a red
> flagged line "device or resource busy" - FAILED. And the speakers
> give a thunk and that's all.
> I have RedHat 6.1. I run Gnome. The snd card according to Windows is
> a Yamaha opl3-sax PCI pnp. I ran sndconfig and the chipset is there
> so I tried several i/o settings. I found one that if I turn the vol
> up near max I can hear the snd sample ok. Yet the cd player is quiet
> and so are desktop themes. If I run sndconfig now I can't get to the
> setup screen (just a blue screen) A ctrl+c will get me back to #. I
> suspect I'm almost there. Any help is appreciated. Thanx.
Hi
I had the same problem with ad1816a chipset
Try to use ALSA drivers (it should be in RH distribution pack)
How-TOs you can find on http://www.alsa-project.org
just follow instructions and - I hope - it start work
Regards
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jete Software Inc.)
Subject: Re: Mounting Windoze partitions from Linux problem.
Date: 18 Feb 2001 22:01:58 -0500
In article <CFai6.1282$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rich Somerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The listing is the same as yours. with the first value being 3 and the
>second relating to the value of the device (hence /dev/hda7 -> 7).
>
>I tried mounting as msdos type (no longfilenames I know!), but it said that
>was not supported by my kernel, could this be the problem?
>
>I also did a fdisk /dev/hda1 and printed out the the partitions, (sorry not
>got the output available yet), it said that the partitions didnt lie on
>boundaries, is this a problem?
>
>I will try and provide the extra info soon.
>
>RS.
Yeah, I have this same problem trying to mount Win95 partitions when I upgraded
from RH6.2 to RH7.0. Also I have some removable disk drives which were
formatted (ext2) under RH6.2 and now RH7.0 refuses to mount these file
systems, responding with the same "wrong major or minor number" error message.
Norman
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From: "Johnny Luong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: change the resolution for X windows
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 00:43:51 -0800
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
In article <96t7tf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "hanyuen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anybody know how to change the resolution on the X windows. Because now
> in my xwindows everything looks very big
>
> Thanks
>
>
Hit "Ctrl - Alt - +" or "Ctrl - Alt - -" This will change the resolution
to whatever modes you have listed in /etc/X11/XF86Config. If you want it
to start in a certain resolution you may need to edit those modes.
(man XF86Config)
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From: "Eric Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: POP3 account ?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:17:13 +0800
Hello,
Would you please to teach me how to create a POP3 account that only can
receive mail but not allow telnet, rlogin, rsh, FTP, and any others ?
Anyway this account only can use to receive email or use a mail client to
get smail.
Is there any shell script to do this in one step ?
Best regards,
Eric
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From: benoit mordelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:53:39 +0100
Chris Elvidge wrote:
>
> Chris Nelson wrote:
> >
> > Hello: This weekend I finally got a working config file for using 2
> > monitors on a g400 max.
> >
> > My problem however is that right now my etc/inittab file has me going to
> > only run level 3. if I change this value to 5, the systems takes me to a
> > graphical logon..but with only one monitor. My guess is that the system
> > is still strying to run startx as opposed to startx -- +xinerama. Where
when running in runlevel 5 (on a RH), it is not startx that is run but
[xgk]dm
> > do I need to make a change so this can be automoated? Any advice is
> > appreciated...
> >
> > P.S. Any idea how I can have the system default to KDE as opposed to
> > gnome? Thought I would throw this in as well
> >
> > Chris
>
> Have you got a file ~/.xinitrc? Try:
>
> /path/to/xinerama &
> /path/to/startkde
xinerama isn't a separate application that you can run like this, it is
an option of the X server. I don't know how to tell xdm to use this
option automatically, but adding the following line in your
$HOME/.bashrc file should start X correctly when using startx :
alias startx startx -- +xinerama
ben
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From: benoit mordelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which distribution?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:57:34 +0100
Dan wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I was just wondering which distribution of Linux is the "best" out
beep beep ... warning ... troll.
> there. I know this question is only based on one's opinion, but every
hey ! that's great : you found the answer by yourself !
> opinion has a reason, and I want to know what your reason is, on which
> distribution of Linux is the "best."
>
> -Dan
ben
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