Linux-Setup Digest #847, Volume #20 Sat, 17 Mar 01 11:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips f�r Anf�nger? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Installing Linux ? (Gary Dale)
anti-alias (khandha5)
Re: 01010101 on bootup (Gary Dale)
Re: 01010101 on bootup ("Eric en Jolanda")
Help Needed setting up sgalaxy sound card (Shankar K E)
Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips f�r Anf�nger? ("Eric en Jolanda")
Re: please help in send mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: floppy basedrouter (Xavier Debacker)
Re: Goin Shoppin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fa311 nic (again) ("Peter T. Breuer")
Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers? ("Ola Theander")
second CPU not recognized ("Andrew L. Cooksy")
Looking for some info (The_saint)
very slow XDM startup (Trevor Wood)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips f�r Anf�nger?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 08:53:10 GMT
Peter Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 20:33:44 +0100, "Eric en Jolanda"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>What is this?
>>Is the german linux site forwarding everything?
>>This is an english NG, post in english if you want respons.
>Nonsense!
>This is an international group, anyone can use the language he wants
[...]
That's not quite correct. The language-of-choice in all Big8 groups is
plain english, though every once in a while someone will mistakenly
post in a different language.
(I
>often see dutch posts as well, by the way), but he must be aware that
>his chances of getting help decrease drastically, that's all.
Very true :-)
Michael
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Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: Gary Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux ?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:09:31 GMT
The .iso file is a CD image file. You should be able to burn a bootable
Cd from it. Your best bet is then to install on an empty hard disk
drive. If that isn't possible, use Partition Magic or other software to
create some free space on your drive and install to it.
Most distributions these days take you directly to X when you start.
Hokus Pokus wrote:
> Yeah I have Mandrake 6.2 but it says nothing about packages.
> I tried installing it before and I could not even get the windows
> like window to open (X Window I think it is called) . Not to sure
> if I even installed it. The book tells you nothing about useability
> for new users. I have never used Linux before but want to learn
> as I am getting VERY tired of Windows crashing.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> --
>
> --
>
> ->->->->->-> Reply in newsgroup only please <-<-<-<-<-<-
>
>
>
> "Michael Heiming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>> Hokus Pokus wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded a version of RedHat Linux and
>>> now need help installing. Is there a web page
>>> somewhere of directions?
>>>
>>> Also what does an ISO file open with?
>>> That is how it came.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any halp
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ->->->->->-> Reply in newsgroup only please <-<-<-<-<-<-
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would suggest to really buy a userfriendly distro, as you get those
>> ISO images perfectly,
>> on bootable CD and a book which explains howto install/setup your
>> distro.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>> Michael Heiming
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From: khandha5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: anti-alias
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:07:16 +0100
hmmm.....i just set up the anti-alias thing like in the linux-planet
tutorial (the one linked at kde.org)
compiled and installed qt 2.3, compiled and installed XFree 4.0.2, set the
variables, BUT - the enable anti-alias box doesn't show up in my kde
control panel.
any suggestions?
btw: do i have to do anything to the old qt-files from my kde2.1mkd-install?
do i have to remove them all (especially the static libs)?
would be thankful for any help.
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From: Gary Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 01010101 on bootup
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:12:01 GMT
Actually, what you are getting is LILO trying to boot. Your kernel is
not currently bootable. You can try again with RH6.1 but given your
history, I'd suggest trying a more recent distribution.
earthlink news wrote:
> Well I finally got Rh 6.1 to install, (after many attempts). After
> configuring my resolution and monitor type and testing out X, I rebooted my
> computer to enjoy the fruits of my labors, and all I get on the screen is a
> seemingly endless supply of 101010101010101010110,.......etc.
> My guess is that this is a common result of doing something wrong. Can
> somene please let me know what I screwed up and how I might be able to fix
> it?
> Loads of thanks in advance
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 01010101 on bootup
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:31:11 +0100
> Well I finally got Rh 6.1 to install, (after many attempts). After
> configuring my resolution and monitor type and testing out X, I rebooted
my
> computer to enjoy the fruits of my labors, and all I get on the screen is
a
> seemingly endless supply of 101010101010101010110,.......etc.
> My guess is that this is a common result of doing something wrong. Can
> somene please let me know what I screwed up and how I might be able to fix
> it?
Nothing serious.
Use the bootdisk you made during the installation, and boot from that.
Then inspect lilo.conf, to see why this occurs
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shankar K E)
Subject: Help Needed setting up sgalaxy sound card
Date: 17 Mar 2001 12:34:58 GMT
Hi,
I am using a HP Kayak workstation and installed redhat linux 6.2 on the machine.
I am unable to play sound on the machine, The kernel version is 2.2.14-12.
I have module support enabled in the kernel.
The error which I get is
/lib/modules/misc/sound/sgalaxy.o:Device or resource busy.
Please help me in setting up the sound card.
FYI : The sound card is AZTEC SOUND GALAXY and PnP Bios is disabled in Bios
setup.
I tried to download alsa and installed it, but same problem
Please help.
--
--
Shankar
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips f�r Anf�nger?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:45:12 +0100
> >What is this?
> >Is the german linux site forwarding everything?
> >This is an english NG, post in english if you want respons.
>
> Nonsense!
Not. most posts are in english. therefor making this effectively
an english NG. (Not solely intended for people from england though ;-))
I meant the language, not the geographical region called england
I doubt that more than 10 percent here can read german.
> This is an international group, anyone can use the language he wants (I
I know. Postings in international groups should better
be in english though.
> often see dutch posts as well, by the way),
In this NG?
I hardly ever see them (a lot more on the nl.col. groups though :-))
> but he must be aware that
> his chances of getting help decrease drastically, that's all.
Whatever,
I put it in different words, but meant the same.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux,esp.comp.so.linux,fj.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: please help in send mail
Date: 17 Mar 2001 12:50:04 GMT
In comp.os.linux.admin Findo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have set the DNS server and I don't know what I have done wrong in
> RedHat7. My DNS is ok but I can't send mail to the server but can send it
> our. Please help.
> The file of the DNS
> @ IN SOA linux.abc.com. root.abc.com. (
> 20000082101;
> 199609206;
> 28800;
> 7200;
> 604800;
> )
> IN NS linux.abc.com.
> ABC IN A 213.185.160.218
> linux IN A 213.185.160.221
> IN MX 10 linux.abc.com.
> shop IN A 213.185.160.221
It shure would help if you have not munged the information. Now we cannot actually
ask the server and examinate it.
The closing ')' however should be on the same line as the '604800;' in your SOA record.
You are also lacking MX record for 'munged.comain'.
> My server host name is linux and I can use shop.abc.com to go to my web
> server. But I can't send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why?
> The /etc/mail/local-host-names file
> # local-host-names - include all aliases for your machine here.
> abc.com
> Can anyone tell me what can I do ?
> After a few hours I recieve the return mail :
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 8:26 PM
> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: abc.com: no data
> known)
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Peter H�kanson
IPSec Sverige (At the Riverside of Gothenburg, home of Volvo)
Sorry about my e-mail address, but i'm trying to keep spam out.
Remove "icke-reklam"and "invalid" and it works.
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From: Xavier Debacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: floppy basedrouter
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 13:43:49 GMT
Thomas Sandl a =E9crit :
> hi i want
> to setup a router on my old 486 ( without harddrive)
> can you tell my what routers on disk are available ?
>
> thanks
To build a floppy firewall:
http://www.samag.com/linux/articles/v10/i01/a10.htm
Hope this helps.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Goin Shoppin
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 08:36:44 EST
A few good sites for you to check out:
www.anandtech.com
www.tomshardware.com
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, olliecat
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>I'm going to finally break down and build a new box. I've never done this
>before but I think it will be a good learning experience. What I'm not so sure
>of is what components will be best suited to run Linux so I wanted to open it
> up
>to the Linux community for recommendations. I'm thinking this might be a
> common
>question so pointers to descriptive docs would be much appreciated as well as
>your own personal advice.
>
>I would like to get a motherboard/processor that will allow me some growing
>room. I don't want something that will become technically obsolete in two
>years. I heard that AMD might be a good choice here, processor wise anyway.
>Not so sure about the motherboard. I have IDE drives now and haven't had a
>problem but have been informed that for drives and other peripherals SCSI is
> the
>way to go, which seems reasonable.
>
>I want a nice video card (that plays nice with XFree86) and a nice sound card.
>I like to play games. I really like the space savings of the newer flat screen
>monitors but understand they might not have as good resolution as the standard
>CRT. I want a nice cd burner, external would be preferable, an internal DVD/CD
>player, as well as a floppy drive. Oodles of (cheap but good) memory is
>important, and nice fast hard drive(s) with as much room as possible. I would
>also like an external tape drive to perform backups on. I want to try and do
>all of this for under $2000. The machine, when complete, will be used as a
>developer workstation.
>
>Thanks for any advice.
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><tt>I'm going to finally break down and build a new box. I've never
>done this before but I think it will be a good learning experience.
>What I'm not so sure of is what components will be best suited to run Linux
>so I wanted to open it up to the Linux community for recommendations.
>I'm thinking this might be a common question so pointers to descriptive
>docs would be much appreciated as well as your own personal
> advice.</tt><tt></tt>
><p><tt>I would like to get a motherboard/processor that will allow me some
>growing room. I don't want something that will become technically
>obsolete in two years. I heard that AMD might be a good choice here,
>processor wise anyway. Not so sure about the motherboard. I
>have IDE drives now and haven't had a problem but have been informed that
>for drives and other peripherals SCSI is the way to go, which seems
> reasonable.</tt><tt></tt>
><p><tt>I want a nice video card (that plays nice with XFree86) and a nice
>sound card. I like to play games. I really like the space savings
>of the newer flat screen monitors but understand they might not have as
>good resolution as the standard CRT. I want a nice cd burner, external
>would be preferable, an internal DVD/CD player, as well as a floppy
> drive.
>Oodles of (cheap but good) memory is important, and nice fast hard drive(s)
>with as much room as possible. I would also like an external tape
>drive to perform backups on. I want to try and do all of this for
>under $2000. The machine, when complete, will be used as a developer
>workstation.</tt><tt></tt>
><p><tt>Thanks for any advice.</tt></html>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fa311 nic (again)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:48:26 +0100
andi smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O -m486 -c
> -I/usr/src/linux/include fa311.c "
> I then copied the fa311.c file into the /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/net
> directory
Is that a mistprint for fa311.o?
^
> When I used insmod fa311 I got the following error message
> ....... was compiled for kernel version 2.2.14-5smp while this version
> is version 2.2.14-15mdk
Yeah.
> OK so I know this is telling me that I'm on the wrong kernel version
No .. you compiled the code against the "wrong" kernel sources. Or at
least not the sources of the kernel you plan to run it against.
> for this file. Can somebody enlighten me as to a) what distro has the
> 2.2.14-5smp kernel or b) can I compile it for the mandrake kernel I'm
Eh? There aren't no such thing. It's just a version label. The "smp" is
the problem .. you can't use an smp module in a non-smp kernel. (I
think the other way might work, but would be rampantly unsafe). Go back
and use the includes from the "right" kernel source. I.e. replace your
-I/usr/src/linux/include with wherever you put the includes for your
running kernel.
Anyway, with luck you may get away with twiddling the -5smp in
whichever file it's in. version.h? Go look. I don't know how your disk
is laid out so I can't tell you!
Peter
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From: "Ola Theander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 16:12:31 +0100
Reply-To: "Ola Theander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear subscribers.
My company has a Dell PowerEdge 1550 equipped with a RAID disk set. I would
like to have SuSE installed on this server, but the problem is that the SuSE
setup program doesn't find the harddisk, i.e. doesn't recognize the RAID
controller.
I would like to know if it's possible to install SuSE 7.1 on this server. I
have SuSE 7.0 too, if that would help.
Dell currently supports RedHat on their servers, but I reckon that it means
that it should be possible to use SuSE too.
Kind regards, Ola Theander
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From: "Andrew L. Cooksy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: second CPU not recognized
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:26:48 -0800
I'm loading Debian 2.2.18pre21 on two dual 800MHz PIII systems
with ASUS CUR-DLS motherboards. Everything goes smoothly, but
in the end only one CPU is recognized. At first I thought that
the default kernel doesn't support SMP (there isn't an entry for
SMP in /boot/config-2.2.18pre21), but evidently it does (I've just
done exactly the same Debian installation on a dual 667MHz PIIIEB
system with a SuperMicro PIIIDME 840 motherboard, and both CPU's
are recognized -- also if I run "make xconfig" and load the
original config file, SMP shows up as being enabled in the menu).
The config file indicates MTRR and RTC enabled and APM disabled,
as recommended in the SMP HowTo.
At boot-up, the ASUS BIOS reports the presence of both CPU's
(but the second one appears with a star next to it -- I've no
idea what that means). I've appended the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo"
and an abbreviated "dmesg" below. I do not get the raft of
IO APIC messages at boot time for the 800MHz machines that I see
for the working 667MHz machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Andy
========= cat /proc/cpuinfo ============
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 6
cpu MHz : 800.070
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips : 1595.80
========= dmesg ============
Linux version 2.2.18pre21 (herbert@arnor) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat
Nov 18 18
:47:15 EST 2000
Detected 800070 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1595.80 BogoMIPS
Memory: 516416k/524224k available (1728k kernel code, 412k reserved,
5520k data,
148k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 65536 (order 7, 512k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k)
Page cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
256K L2 cache (8 way)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
megaraid: v1.11 (Aug 23, 2000)
aec671x_detect:
3w-xxxx: tw_findcards(): No cards found.
scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.1-20000726
scsi1 : sym53c8xx-1.7.1-20000726
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318404LW Rev: 0006
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sym53c896-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 4
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-M1401 Rev: 1007
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
sym53c896-1-<2,*>: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 16)
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.13)
apm: disabled on user request.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
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From: The_saint <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for some info
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 23:43:32 +0800
Hi NG,
I'm planning to get some strange setup but I'm a beginner so let me ask
you something:
1) How do I set my PCMCIA modem to get connected to internet?
Quietly seems that the modem has been found on tty3, but I've no idea
how I'll configure the connection. I was expecting to find Kppp, but it
isn't there with the MDK 7.0. I don't understand how to make it works with
linuxconfig.
2) I'd like to boot linux by MSdos autoexec on my c: , but I don't know
exactly if WinME allow is. Futhermore how do I copy the kernel image on
the c: drive?
3) I'd like to put the linux partition on a portable HD that's hooked on
my laptop via PCcard, but the PCMCIA deamon is loaded after vmlinuz, then
it wouldn't find where to continue.
In this way I may share the same HD on my laptop as much as I can plug it
also on my desktop. So I won't waste disk space and I will have my thing
running only in one hard disk. This option could avoid to work for the
above point 2 and I'll set only 2 floppies. One for each PC, to make them
run with their own kernel.
4) probably I should compile all module into the kernel so the PCMCIA
deamon will find the portable HD and go on to boot.
That's all. Any comment will be very much apreciated.
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From: Trevor Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: very slow XDM startup
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 11:06:34 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I'm running Linux 2.2.17 (Debian testing distribution) and am finding
that xdm takes a long time to start up (over 60 seconds). If I skip xdm
and start the Xserver manually, then it starts up almost instantaneously.
Does anyone know where the bottleneck is? I've included some of the
config scripts below.
Thanks in advance,
Trevor
=====================
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
=====================
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
#
# This script is run # This script is run whenever xdm is asked to
manage a display other than :0
# XBanner - begin
/usr/X11R6/bin/freetemp
/usr/X11R6/bin/xbanner -file /etc/X11/XBanner.ad
# XBanner - end
exit 0
=====================
/etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup
=====================
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/X11/xdm/Xstartup
#
# This script is run as root after the user logs in.
# If this script exits with a return code other than 0, the user's
# session will not be started.
PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/X11
if grep -qs ^ignore-nologin /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options; then
if [ -f /etc/nologin ]; then
xmessage -file /etc/nologin -geometry 640x480
fi
elif [ -f /etc/nologin ]; then
# root can log in anyway
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
xmessage -file /etc/nologin -geometry 640x480
exit 1
fi
fi
# insert a utmp entry for the session
if grep -qs ^use-sessreg /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options && command -v sessreg >
/dev/n
ull 2>&1; then
exec sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY -u /var/run/utmp -x /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
$USER
# NOTREACHED
fi
exit 0
========================
/etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options
========================
# /etc/X11/xdm.options
#
# configuration options for xdm
# See xdm.options(5) for an explanation of the available options.
no-ignore-nologin
no-restart-on-upgrade
use-sessreg
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