Linux-Setup Digest #859, Volume #20 Mon, 19 Mar 01 06:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips f�r Anf�nger? ("Eric")
Re: red hat + win98 ("Eric")
Re: CD-ROM and harddisk fighting over DMA ("Eric")
Re: Mounting a VFAT logical partition ("Eric")
Re: Setting the time zone (Villy Kruse)
Good Website ("Aaron Oberholzer")
Re: X Startup Problem (bert)
USB Printer not working! Help! ("Stealth Dave")
Problem on internal modem installation?!! ("firetuna")
Printer still not working ("Greg Gailer")
Problems using DUMP (Joerg Ettrich)
Re: Exceed and xdmcp ("Eric")
Re: Problem on internal modem installation?!! ("Eric")
Scrolling with Microsoft IntelliEye Mouse ("Jim")
Re: Problem on internal modem installation?!! ("firetuna")
Samba/ Squid disk access question. ("John Smith")
Sound help please! ("CD & WL")
Re: Sound help please ! ("CD & WL")
Re: Good Website ("Eric")
Re: Samba/ Squid disk access question. (Michael Heiming)
X on Toshiba Portege 7140CT ("Chris")
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux upgraden ... Tips f�r Anf�nger?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:25:31 +0100
>
> It was the tone of your original article that I found provocative
> (between the lines).
>
I cannot help that.
I wasn't even talking to you: why would you be provoced?
> >
> >> > I know. Postings in international groups should better
> >> > be in english though.
> >>
> >> Well either ignore the international languages, or stick to US/UK only
> >> groups!
> >
> >I will do neither of these options.
> >I will try to read those, try to help, and tell them that they
> >should post in english, if they like to get some help.
>
> Of course, as I already mentioned, posting in German reduces your
> potentially helping audience, but this doesn't mean that it should be
> frowned upon, if someone does (I am German, but I don't post in German
> here for a good reason).
I think it should be frowned upon.
I suspect that a lot of non-english post are posted here by people unaware
of the fact that it will reduce their chances on help.
> I don't agree at all with the idea of flaming people who use a national
> language.
I just answered another german post, and then ran into this one.
I got slightly agitated. People come her for help, but lots of them
don't even try to solve their problems on their own first. If you do
a search on the web with the questions you have, no doubt the
german NG's would have popped up.
Then the OP could have posted there, in german
I just checked: "de.comp.os.unix.linux.*" groups exist.
They are a far better place to post in german if you'd prefer.
> Moreover, German is a big language in the sense of having
> about 100 millions of native speakers in Europe (not to mention all the
> many who understand it more or less, like many Dutch people for
> instance). So while this is not as many people as English speakers, it
> is still one of the bigger languages in the world, and you can be sure
> that many, many German speaking people follow this group (this has
> nothing to do with german arrogance, after all, and I don't like the
> all-English arrogance either).
I'm not just pointing these things out to german posters.
Whenever I run into french posts, I try to help, and point out to
post in english. On other non-english posts (which I cannot read),
I'll respond in dutch.
> But anyway, even if someone posted in Icelandic, I wouldn't mind!
Ik ook niet
Waarom zou ik ook?
> I have no problem with seeing headers in languages I don't understand
> (or not well), I just don't see a need to feel offended by that.
I think it's either arrogance, but more frequently ignorance to not post in
english.
In both situations, the posters can be made aware that posting in english
is preffered. If you want help, you can at least try to be understood.
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: red hat + win98
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:32:35 +0100
> > This an english newsgroup, so don't post in german please.
> >
> > <translation>
> > > Is there a guide for installing RH linux and windows simultaneously?
> > > I have already tried many times, and always get the same error.
> > <end translation>
> >
> > > gibt es einen guide mit dem man red hat und win 98 gleichzeitig
> > installieren
> > > kann?
> >
> > Gleichzeitig installieren?
> > Nein installiere zuerst windows, danach linux ;-)
> >
> > > ich habe es schon mehrmals versucht und jedesmal kommt die gleiche
> > > fehlermeldung.
> >
> > Welche fehler?
> >
> linux wrote that i have to install a network, but i havn't one
It does no such thing.
You should partition your HardDiskDrive in two parts.
On the first partition you install windows.
The second partition you leave untouched.
When you're done installing windows, put the RH CD in your
CDROM player, and reboot. Now you can delete the second partition
and install linux there.
I really don't know when it would force you to install a network.
If you get an error, write the exact error message down, and post that here.
(And a few of the previous messages too)
(PS. if you'd prefer german, post in de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc)
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM and harddisk fighting over DMA
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:43:36 +0100
Search the NG's old posts at deja.com.
IIRC, there is an option in the kernel config you should set to no.
I can't remember which one exactly, so may the google be with you :-)
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting a VFAT logical partition
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:51:22 +0100
You already got the answer, but I just *have* to reply to this post
> #mount -t vfat /dev/had3 /mnt/music
>
> and this is the message I get back:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option , bad superblock on /dev/hda3, or to
> many mounted file systems
> (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some
> logical partition inside?)
> #
>
> The answer to that question is NO.
The answer to that question is YES!
You get such an accurate message, and it still wasn't enough.
I can hardly believe this. Please read some manpages before you destroy
anything
You may *wanted* to mount the logical inside, but you were definately not
doing that.
> Any info on mounting d:music to /mnt/music would be great. I have also
> tried to mount hda2 and hda4 with the same effect. Thank you for your
A now I get it.
hda2 is the extended partition
hda3 and hda4 don't exist.
hda5 is the logical partition you want to mount.
`/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]`
would have showed you why it failed.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Setting the time zone
Date: 19 Mar 2001 09:05:29 GMT
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:44:32 -0000, Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:13:55 +0000, Alec Harkness
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Easy one:
>>
>>How do I set the time zone for the system clock from EST to (for
>>example) GMT? I could just change the time by 4 or 5 hours, but that's
>>cheating.
>>
>>The man file is no help.
>
>What distribution?
>
>There are usually tools to do this. How is the hardware clock set? Does
>this system share booting with win9x? Take a gander at man hwclock also.
>
You can always add a TZ variable in your shell. If you add that to your
.bash_profile you can get your own private timezone independent of all
other users on the system.
$ date
Mon Mar 19 10:04:04 CET 2001
$ export TZ=Etc/GMT
$ date
Mon Mar 19 09:04:04 GMT 2001
Villy
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From: "Aaron Oberholzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Good Website
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:19:43 +0800
Hi, Does anyone know a good website to learn how to use linux?
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From: bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: X Startup Problem
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:22:15 +0100
Just update Mandrake, but don't install anything.
Mandrake will prompt you to configure X again, this will fix the problem.
Bert
Kyle Christopher Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run Mandrake 7.2 and I am having problems with the X server. The
> system starts up fine, but I don't get the graphical login screen and I
> cannot seem to start X from the console. I've tried typing startx, but
> i get the following message: "Fatal server error: Could not open
> default font 'fixed'".
>
> Anyone have any ideas as to how I can get the system up and running?
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
>
> Kyle Smith
>
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From: "Stealth Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Printer not working! Help!
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:29:09 -0800
I can't get my new Epson 875DCS USB printer to work. I'm using Progeny
Linux (Debian based) with a 2.4.2 kernel. The kernel *is* compiled with
proper USB support. Using usbview, the printer is showing up as an
available device. Following the instructions at linuxnewbie.org, I
created a node in the /dev/usb folder for the printer (lp0). I was able
to set up the printer in printtool, but I can't get anything to print.
I've tried sending data directly to the device using 'cat file.txt >
/dev/usb/lp0' with no affect. When trying to add a printer using kups,
it tells me that it can't find any devices. I've searched through all
the documentation that I can find online and nothing seems to help. If I
had to guess, I'd say that the node I created isn't pointing to the
printer, but I can't find any documentation on the /dev folder (which
seems to me to be a serious omission in Linux documentation, but maybe
I'm just not looking in the right place). I even tried making a node at
/dev/usblp0 (i.e., not in the /dev/usb folder), but again, nothing. The
printer works fine in Windows ME, so I know it's not defective. Any help
with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
- Stealth Dave
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From: "firetuna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.applixware,linux.redhat.install,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Problem on internal modem installation?!!
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:48:28 +1100
I'm new to Linux system, I know there has alot of people asked this question
before! but would you pls kindly answer me again! Thx!
I'm using a PCI Rockwell Chipset (HCF 56K) Internal modem!
The computer could not recognize it on neither ttyS0, S1, S2 or S3, but I
could see it on the "cat /proc/pci" with it's irq and address values!!
Would anyone can tell me the solution pls??
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From: "Greg Gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer still not working
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:43:43 +1100
Hello All
I have been trying to get my printer to work for quite some time now. I
am using Mandrake 7.2. CUPS would not work at all so I am trying to get
LPD to work.I have set it all up according to the Printing HOWTO,
but I can only print as the 'root' user not as a normal user. I have
tried changing all sorts of permissions, but nothing seems to work.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can anyone out there help me.
Greg Gailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joerg Ettrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems using DUMP
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:43:33 +0100
Dear All,
I'm running SUSE 6.3 as Server, with a 50GB software raid drive
as samba file server. I would like to use dump to create some
generic level 0 backups, but as I perform a simple command like
dump -0u /dev/tape /raid/DIRECTORY
the system gets very heavy loaded, i.e. I get no more response
in the shell, even "ls" or "ps" isn't working, and a few seconds
later I hear the disk drive working (very busy!!!) and I can't do
anything. In the shell, were I've started the dump, I've typed
CTRL+C, and I got back to command line atfer about 10 min !!!
I can't believe that dump is using the system that heavy. I've used
dump (better vdump) on a DEC workstation often before, and I never
run in such problems.
Does anyone have an idea ?
Thanx, Joerg
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Exceed and xdmcp
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:56:17 +0100
> I have redhad 7.0 and exceed running on a win98 machine.
> Exceed works fine. I can run all the apps I want with
> no problems.
>
> However what I wanted to do was set it up so that the Win98
> machine could see a login screen as if sitting at the Linux
> machine itself.
>
> I understand that in order to do this I need to use xdmcp.
> I have read the man page and searched the howtos and read
> the help under Exceed but I *cannot* get this to work!!
>
> At one point I even had my Linux machine showing up under
> exceed as one of the hosts I could choose from however in
> *all* cases no matter what I do whenever I fire off exceed
> it will come up with the Xserver and just a blank screen.
> No apps. No login screen. No nothing. Like I said I can
> still start apps on the exceed server but I *cannot* get
> xdmcp to work correctly.
>
> In exceed I set the communication type to xdmcp-request
> and got nothing. I also tried xdmcp-broadcast (this
> is the point where once I was able to get my Linux
> machine in the list but when I selected it... nothing
> same as before!...) None of these work.
>
> Could someone please give me a clue as to what I am doing
> wrong!
>
> Step by step what to do on Linux (though I have a pretty good
> idea of this from reading the doc I still might be doing
> something wrong)
>
> Step by step what to do on the Exceed side (I suspect this is
> where I am going awry)
>
I use gdm, so things may be different for your case:
make sure [xg]dm is running on the linux machine
in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm/conf, go to the xdmcp section
and set enable to 1
[xdmcp]
Enable=1
That's all I had to do.
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.applixware,linux.redhat.install,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Problem on internal modem installation?!!
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:01:36 +0100
> I'm new to Linux system, I know there has alot of people asked this
question
> before! but would you pls kindly answer me again! Thx!
>
> I'm using a PCI Rockwell Chipset (HCF 56K) Internal modem!
> The computer could not recognize it on neither ttyS0, S1, S2 or S3, but I
> could see it on the "cat /proc/pci" with it's irq and address values!!
>
> Would anyone can tell me the solution pls??
>
This is a winmodem IIRC
go to www.linmodem.org and see if it is supported
Eric
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From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scrolling with Microsoft IntelliEye Mouse
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 10:00:20 +0000
Does anyone have experience of the above mouse which is a light emitting
device but works via the PS2 input.
It works ok in Windoze of course, but I cannot get it to scroll in Linux
I am using Mandrake 7.2 and have tried the "imwheel" program.
I have changed the XF86Config file as per the instructions for imwheel
for a PS2 mouse.
The instructions are to comment out # Emulate 3 buttons
# Emulate3Timeout 50
and to add the line ZAxisMapping 4 5
Is this correct for this mouse? Any suggestions as to what I could try?
Are there any other programs which would enable scrolling
Many thanks
Jim
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From: "firetuna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.applixware,linux.redhat.install,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Problem on internal modem installation?!!
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:33:39 +1100
Thx for ur reply!!
but the web site should be www.linmodems.org, ur miss the s !!
i found it, thx anyway!!
but what about AMR modem??
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:994le0$c63$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I'm new to Linux system, I know there has alot of people asked this
> question
> > before! but would you pls kindly answer me again! Thx!
> >
> > I'm using a PCI Rockwell Chipset (HCF 56K) Internal modem!
> > The computer could not recognize it on neither ttyS0, S1, S2 or S3, but
I
> > could see it on the "cat /proc/pci" with it's irq and address values!!
> >
> > Would anyone can tell me the solution pls??
> >
>
> This is a winmodem IIRC
> go to www.linmodem.org and see if it is supported
>
> Eric
>
>
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samba/ Squid disk access question.
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:25:19 +0100
Hi!
I am using Linux @ home for my internet connection. This machine is always
on. To reduce the noise (esp. at night) I tuned back the Pentium 166 to 90
mhz, enabled bios power saving (turn off harddisk after 5 min.) and
disconnected all fans. Oh man, this sounds good....
However, when I start Samba, the harddisk spins up every now and then, even
when no machines are connected to my Linux box. I suppose SMB reads its
configuration file every now and then. This is the same for Squid which
keeps my harddisk spinning forever (but I suppose this is more complex...).
Does anybody how to prevent or reduce the spontaneous disk access for these
applications??? I am running on SuSE 7.0.
Thanks,
Marc
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From: "CD & WL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound help please!
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 04:36:55 -0600
Hello.I am running Mandrake 8.0 beta 2 and have been struggling with sound
card setup .On boot, shows module loaded for ES1371 chipset(SB 16pci).CD
player works fine but cannot play any wav.files. I ran dmesg and it saw the
1371 chipset but I have nothing at all in my /dev files relating to sound .
I read the Linux sound how-to and it stated under "creating device files"
that they must be created (no kidding) and that they are normally created
during installation- it did not explain what I need to do if the files were
not created during installation.I tried to access (per how-to)cat
/dev/sndstat and guess what-it doesn't exist. Can somebody please make a
suggestion where I might find a little more helpful how-to that can tell me
how the device files are created and installed. I have also printed out the
user and reference manuals-all 550 pages- and did not see anything directly
related to this issue. If it is in the reference or user manuals, could you
please tell me what section and manual it is in? Or any helpful online
documentation would be good also.
Thanks. CD
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From: "CD & WL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound help please !
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 04:51:13 -0600
I also meant to mention that I checked configuration in Hardrake and was
able to hear the test file.The plug n' play was/is also disabled in bios.
CD
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good Website
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:00:06 +0100
> Hi, Does anyone know a good website to learn how to use linux?
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/
Eric
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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:00:35 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba/ Squid disk access question.
John Smith wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am using Linux @ home for my internet connection. This machine is always
> on. To reduce the noise (esp. at night) I tuned back the Pentium 166 to 90
> mhz, enabled bios power saving (turn off harddisk after 5 min.) and
> disconnected all fans.
I wouldn't disconnect the fans...
> Oh man, this sounds good....
>
> However, when I start Samba, the harddisk spins up every now and then, even
> when no machines are connected to my Linux box. I suppose SMB reads its
> configuration file every now and then. This is the same for Squid which
> keeps my harddisk spinning forever (but I suppose this is more complex...).
>
> Does anybody how to prevent or reduce the spontaneous disk access for these
> applications???
I wouldn't assume squid ot samba be responsible for this "spontaneous" disk
access,
may be these are just some things like updatedb running from cron, check your
/etc/crontab.
But you can always shutdown those services SuSE has scripts:
rcsmb
rcsquid
to simplify this task.
You could power down your machine, if it makes too much noise.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,redhat.config
Subject: X on Toshiba Portege 7140CT
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:09:08 -0000
Hi All,
Installed RH7 on my portege 7140, but cant get it to see the Trident
Cyberblade 9540 display card, and cant get it to run X.
when it starts, it gets stuck, I get "noise" - the sort of thing you get on
your TV when you dont tune in a channel !!
anyone cracked this... please let me know !!
thanks
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