Linux-Setup Digest #703, Volume #20 Sun, 25 Feb 01 11:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Setting up email accounts (Michael Heiming)
Re: XF86Setup: mouse is not responding (Michael Heiming)
Re: Setting up an ISA PNP modem (Michael Heiming)
KDE or XFree86 config problem (Tom Brown)
Re: KDE or XFree86 config problem (Michael Heiming)
About how to configure an ISA PNP network card ("Juan Riera")
- How do I save screen resolution- (Thomas Johansson)
Re: - How do I save screen resolution- (Michael Heiming)
Re: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: gqview: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: (Michael Heiming)
Re: gligc upgrade on RH 6.2? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card (ias)
Re: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage ("Philip Jones")
How to load root image from Zip drive ("Jeroen van Maanen")
Re: Setting up an ISA PNP modem (Steve Martin)
Re: I want to make a dual boot system, but don't know how to. (Steve Martin)
Re: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card (Steve Martin)
Re: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage ("Chris Lord")
Pls Help a Linux Newbie
Re: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card ("Juan Riera")
Linux SuSE 7.1 Personal Edition-Help! ("BARB Gath")
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 08:59:43 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up email accounts
Barry wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am running Red Hat Linux 6.2 and have a question that I can't find the
> answer to. I hope someone can help.
>
> I need to set up many email accounts on my server but the users do not need
> access to the server so for security reasons I would rather not create user
> accounts for them. Especially since it will be difficult to enforce hard
> passwords on their accounts.
>
> How do I create POP3 email accounts without creating user accounts on my
> server?
Normaly, you have to create UNIX users for POP3, set those users shell to
/sbin/false, they
won't be able to login this way, you can set their home dir to something like
/dev/null, but this is
IMHO not very clever, sendmail (ie.) will shout, as this file is world
writeable and you can't use
something usefull like .procmailrc or .forward.
You can use APOP, this way you can set a different password for POP3 and it
won't be submitted in
clear text over the wire. Qpopper from eudora can do this (among others),
download the sources, read the docs and compile it
with APOP support.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
>
>
> Any and all replies are much appreciated. Please respond by reposting.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Barry
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:16:33 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Setup: mouse is not responding
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am seting up Debian Potato and X11. My mouse is an ALPS GlidePoint connected
> to the PS/2 mouse port. I've tried several of the most popular protocols but
> the mouse pointer will not move. I assume the device is /dev/mouse. It was
> working on a previous installation attempt of X11.
check where /dev/mouse points to:
ls -al /dev/mouse
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 20 23:45 /dev/mouse -> /dev/ttyS0
(on my machine, which uses a serial trackball)
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 10, 1 Mar 11 2000 /dev/psaux
(Should be the PS/2 device)
Check that gpm is not running, as it doesn't work on all machines, if you run gpm
and
mouse support in X at the same time.
Check the mouse section in XF86Config.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:21:47 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up an ISA PNP modem
Ed Collins wrote:
> Hello, there
>
> I'm trying to setup a Cardinal modem on a 486. The modem is a PnP device on
> a ISA bus. I ran
>
> $ /sbin/isapnp > /etc/isapnp.conf
>
> and generated the isapnp.conf file. Below is the .conf file with changes.
>
> # . . .
> # . . .
> # (DEBUG)
> (READPORT 0X020b)
> (ISOLATE PRESERVE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
> (VERBOSITY 2)
> (CONFLICT (IP FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
>
> # . . .
> # . . .
>
> (CONFIGURE CRD0001/9001249 (LD 0
> (INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE + L)))
>
> # . . .
> # . . .
>
> (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x02e8) (CHECK)
>
> # . . .
> # . . .
>
> (NAME "CRD0001/9001249[0]{ Cardinal 288IV }")
> (ACT Y)
> ))
>
> I'm trying to set up the modem on ttSy3. The mouse is already on ttSy0.
Try using /dev/ttyS1, or has your machine 4 serial ports?
check if there are no confilcts with your exsisting hw:
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports
Good luck
Michael Heiming
>
>
> I certainly would appreciate anyone's advice.
>
> ed collins
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 09:34:53 +0100
From: Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE or XFree86 config problem
I've installed Slackware 7.1 and have KDE running. Everything works but
the KDE virtual window area is about three times the size of my
monitor's viewing area so I am constantly losing things as they scroll
out of the viewing area. How does one set the KDE window area to be the
same size as the screen so there is no up/down and left/right scrolling
necessary?? This may well be an XFree86 (I've got 4.0.2) config
problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 10:11:46 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE or XFree86 config problem
Tom Brown wrote:
> I've installed Slackware 7.1 and have KDE running. Everything works but
> the KDE virtual window area is about three times the size of my
> monitor's viewing area so I am constantly losing things as they scroll
> out of the viewing area. How does one set the KDE window area to be the
> same size as the screen so there is no up/down and left/right scrolling
> necessary?? This may well be an XFree86 (I've got 4.0.2) config
> problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Tom
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
from XF86Config (4.0.2)
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "SonyFlat"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x480"
Virtual 1024 768
ViewPort 1024 480
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x480"
Virtual 1024 768
ViewPort 1024 480
EndSubsection
EndSection
Change Virtual to the same as Modes in your XF86Config and restart X,
done...:-)
Michael Heiming
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From: "Juan Riera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 11:19:52 +0100
Hello,
I have an old 486DX 66 running W98 on a small home network, and I have
installed RedHat 5.2 on it. My network does work well on W98, and my network
card (ARK) is configured by W98 as NE2000 compatible. However, I am not able
to get it configured in Linux. I do a pnpdump to /etc/isapnp.conf and
afterwards a isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf, but I can not get my card working.
I am sure everything is allright because I did reinstall W98 just to see if
my hardware was OK, and yes, it is. The network was on again.
So I guess I need some more info about how to configure an ISA PNP card on
Linux, apart the how-to.
Any link or advice?
BTW, I have another Linux server on a Pentium running from two years ago, no
problem. So I have a small experience with linux configuration.
I don't want to install a graphics interface on Linux, only text.
Thanks in advance,
Juan
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From: Thomas Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: - How do I save screen resolution-
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:55:59 +0200
Hello
Can anyone tell me how to set the default resolution.
I always press alt+ctrl+- to set 1280+1024, but how do
i save settings for next session ?
\TJ
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:29:26 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: - How do I save screen resolution-
Thomas Johansson wrote:
> Hello
>
> Can anyone tell me how to set the default resolution.
> I always press alt+ctrl+- to set 1280+1024, but how do
> i save settings for next session ?
>
> \TJ
this is set in your XF86Config.
man 5 XF86Config
has more info
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 22:49:15 +1100
Juan Riera wrote:
> So I guess I need some more info about how to configure an ISA PNP card on
> Linux, apart the how-to.
> Any link or advice?
Hi Juan.
Been in the same situation.
After much swearing and rebooting and reading, went to Windows and looked at
what the card uses regarding io and irq.
I am using Slackware so I edited /etc/rc.d/rc.modules adding a line which
pointed to using the ne.o with those parameters.
No more problems.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Juan
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 12:34:02 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gqview: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have Debian Potato installed and I get this error message when I try to run
> gqview. I try to run it from bash. Does it require X11?
IMHO, yes.
> How do I determine why
> it cannot open the display and how to fix it?
startx
Michael Heiming
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Date: 25 Feb 2001 6:36:55 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gligc upgrade on RH 6.2?
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Steve Martin;
SM> Michal Fikejs wrote:
>> PS: I think I read something about how you tried to upgrade gligc.
>> That's why I asked before I did it.
SM> Good thing... I tried upgrading a RH62 setup to glibc 2.2, and
SM> hosed it thoroughly.
SM> Good luck with RH7.0, too; I just removed it after my third
SM> attempt to get it to work. Most things I got to work after
SM> a fashion after much time, trouble, and dinking, but I finally
SM> decided that it wasn't worth all the hassle just to be on
SM> the bleeding edge.
OTOH, I've upgraded my RH7.0 to the 2.2.x versions twice now, without
incident. I guess I hold my mouth right or something.
Cheers, Gene
--
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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From: ias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 18:53:23 +0700
ne2000 compat use module ne or ne2k-pci
i bet you only have to toy around with the irq/io setting
it should be working fine then
Juan Riera wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an old 486DX 66 running W98 on a small home network, and I have
> installed RedHat 5.2 on it. My network does work well on W98, and my network
> card (ARK) is configured by W98 as NE2000 compatible. However, I am not able
> to get it configured in Linux. I do a pnpdump to /etc/isapnp.conf and
> afterwards a isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf, but I can not get my card working.
> I am sure everything is allright because I did reinstall W98 just to see if
> my hardware was OK, and yes, it is. The network was on again.
>
> So I guess I need some more info about how to configure an ISA PNP card on
> Linux, apart the how-to.
> Any link or advice?
>
> BTW, I have another Linux server on a Pentium running from two years ago, no
> problem. So I have a small experience with linux configuration.
> I don't want to install a graphics interface on Linux, only text.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Juan
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From: "Philip Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:14:48 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Samuel A. Rogers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am running a K6 450 processor on RH 7.0 in which I have tried 2.4.0,
> 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 kernels and all of them hang when it gets to the
> uncompressing stage of booting. I have to press the hard reset button to
> get it to reboot as the ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work. I am currently
> running 2.2.16-22
>
> I build the kernel with:
>
> make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install make install
>
> I can seem to build 2.2.x kernels with the above methoed, but not 2.4.x.
> I would like to use the 2.4.x kernel but can seem to get it to boot?
Have you read linux/Documentation/Changes.
Phil Jones
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From: "Jeroen van Maanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to load root image from Zip drive
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:29:56 +0100
I use the Slackware boot disk "iomega.s" and a matching root disk
"color.gz".
I booted using floppies and was able to mount the disk in the Zip drive from
/dev/sda4. I unmounted the Zip disk again and copied the root image to the
Zip disk with
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/sda4
Then I tried to reboot with the following command at the boot prompt:
ramdisk root=/dev/sda4
but then the kernel tries to mount the Zip disk directly instead of loading
it into a RAM disk first. I tried some other boot commands and I tried it
with a tar file of the root disk on a DOS formatted Zip disk, but none would
work.
I have seen a lot of information about how to install Linux on a mounted Zip
drive, but I would like it better if there are no filesystems mounted after
booting (it is a router that I'm trying to set up).
Jeroen
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up an ISA PNP modem
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:16:53 GMT
Ed Collins wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a Cardinal modem on a 486. The modem is a PnP device on
> a ISA bus. I ran
Assuming that isapnp worked and properly configured the modem,
you'll probably want to create a symbolic link from /dev/modem
to /dev/ttyS3 so that other elements of the software can
find it.
BTW, why do you want to put it on ttyS3? What other serial
ports do you have? If you have two existing ports in the
machine, you might do better to put it on ttyS2 (COM3: in
the DOS world).
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I want to make a dual boot system, but don't know how to.
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:22:33 GMT
"Bill B." wrote:
>
> this to see what Linux is all about. But I want to keep my Win98 for
> computing, and am installing Linux to see it. So I need info on making a
> dual boot system.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Linux+Windows-HOWTO/index.html
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:24:27 GMT
Juan Riera wrote:
> to get it configured in Linux. I do a pnpdump to /etc/isapnp.conf and
> afterwards a isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf, but I can not get my card working.
Stupid question: you *did* edit isapnp.conf to enable the parts
that you wanted working, right? By default, everything that
pnpdump puts in that file is commented out.
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From: "Chris Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.0-2 kernel hanging at: uncompressing kernel stage
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:00:29 GMT
"Matt Haley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:15:07 -0800,
> Samuel A. Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I am running a K6 450 processor on RH 7.0 in which I have tried 2.4.0,
> >2.4.1 and 2.4.2 kernels and all of them hang when it gets to the
> >uncompressing stage of booting. I have to press the hard reset button to
> >get it to reboot as the ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work. I am currently
> >running 2.2.16-22
>
> It seems a lot of people are not configuring properly for their processor.
> Run through the config again and choose the right one (k6).
>
>
>
> --
> Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mandrake 7.2 / RedHat 6.1 / Windows 98 SE / FreeBSD 4.2 / Windows NT 4
yes i did the same compiling a kernel for a pentium 3 for running on a K6..
hanged as soon as it started un-compressing. Sill y mistake but easily
overlooked...
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pls Help a Linux Newbie
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:30:04 -0000
Hi, I'm new to Linux and I'm already having problems. I cant get my X
Windows system to work. I'm using a GeForce 2 (3D Phropthet 2) and it
won't work. I was looking around and I found I should update my XFREE86 to
4.0.2. There's just one problem. I don't exactly know how... If anyone
could just give me a simple anwser on how to install XFree86 or how to fix
my problem I would be forever greatful.
Thanks
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "Juan Riera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: About how to configure an ISA PNP network card
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:51:11 +0100
stupid answer... NO, i didn't
but I don't know what should be in - I don't know the isapnp.conf
workings...
maybe you can tell me how to do it
"Steve Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Juan Riera wrote:
>
> > to get it configured in Linux. I do a pnpdump to /etc/isapnp.conf and
> > afterwards a isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf, but I can not get my card working.
>
> Stupid question: you *did* edit isapnp.conf to enable the parts
> that you wanted working, right? By default, everything that
> pnpdump puts in that file is commented out.
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From: "BARB Gath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux SuSE 7.1 Personal Edition-Help!
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:57:42 GMT
I cannot get this installed. I had Win 95 on a Pentium 233, 4g hard drive,
48 m ram. I tried to install over that--using the boot floppy and also the
CD. After it checks all the hardware, etc, it says " hdc lost interrupt"
I formatted the hard drive, then tried the same process again--same thing
happened. I haven't a clue as to what to do next. Have never installed an
operating system b4, maybe I took on too much? Please help or advise,
thanks
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