Linux-Setup Digest #876, Volume #20 Tue, 20 Mar 01 21:13:12 EST
Contents:
USB Mouse w/ Linux Mandrake 7.0
Toshiba 220 CDS Sound ("Manfred Jung")
Re: compile error with 2.4.2 ("C. L. Lewis")
/dev/null is read-only ? ("Christopher H")
Re: Monitor Resolution & other Windows Equivilent Q's (Nick Rout)
Re: Why people are doing that? (Tom Canich)
Re: /dev/null is read-only ? (Dean Thompson)
Re: Why people are doing that? (Roger Atkinson)
Re: Is lo an actual device? NICs not recognized ("Eric Finlayson")
Re: /dev/null is read-only ? ("Christopher H")
Re: /dev/null is read-only ? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: /dev/null is read-only ? (Dean Thompson)
Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux in NT/2000 domain ("Allex Juang")
Get paid to be online... no surfing! (R. Somebody)
Re: Why people are doing that? (H.Bruijn)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Mouse w/ Linux Mandrake 7.0
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 23:30:05 -0000
Does anyone have any information regarding USB compatibility with Linux
Mandrake version 7.0? I'm using an HP keyboard/mouse combination where
the mouse plugs into the keyboard, and they collectively share the USB
connection to the system.
After installing the OS, the mouse was able to move around and function,
although it was jerky and the mouse clicks didn't always work. So, I
tried to adjust the settings in order to improve performance. Now, it's
as though nothing works. Regardless of what setting I try, the mouse does
not respond to stimulus.
I'd like to avoid a kernel update; does anyone know if there is a way to
set this up properly? Should I just do a reinstall? Thanks for your help!
-sb
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From: "Manfred Jung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Toshiba 220 CDS Sound
Date: 21 Mar 2001 00:10:58 +0200
Hi
I'm a newbe
Installed Linux Mandrake 7.2
Don't get the sournd to work on my Toshiba.
Can't find a sound config tool
sndconfig does not seem to be installed.
Help.
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From: "C. L. Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compile error with 2.4.2
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:57:43 -0600
Dave Thompson wrote:
>
> I'm getting a compile error with 2.4.2 that looks like the following,
> compiling i387.o if I understand it correctly:
>
> error: no such 386 instruction: 'ldmxcsr'
> make[1]: *** [i387.o] Error 1
> make[1]: etc etc.
>
> any ideas ??
>
> Dave
On my Pentium 233 MMX, attempting to compile under Caldera 2.3 even with
all the upgrades recommended for the 2.4.2 Kernel, when I try to compile
for that particular processor. I get the same error. If I remember, I
tried compiling for a lesser or lower processor and dead ended at the
same point. The 2.4.0 kernel compiled and ran fine on it. I tried the
same thing on this machine, with COL, which is an AMD K6-2/550 3D and
came up with the same problem trying to compile for that particular
processor. I decided it was something with the compiler on the COL 2.3
since that is the only thing I could figure out that might be affecting
it which I hadn't changed. Modutils, sysutils, binutils etc. had all
been upgraded in accordance with the documentation with the 2.4.2
kernel. I didn't take it any farther on either machine, but 2.4.2 builds
and works fine on either with my RH 6.1 system.
Other than that I haven't a clue. I don't have a COL system up at
present to check the compiler versions and it didn't make all that much
difference to me at the time.
I'd venture egcs and gcc versions would be the place to start looking.
Charlie
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From: "Christopher H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: /dev/null is read-only ?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:12:35 GMT
Hi everyone,
My RedHat's 7.0 /dev/null is having some problems I think ;P
When I rebooted my computer RedHat wouldn't boot any further because it was
complaining (sp ?) that /dev/null was a read-only filesystem. It would then
prompt me for root's password for repairing.
I did a ls -l /dev/null and I got:
-rw-------
I tried chmod'ing but it wouldn't work saying that it was read-only. I tried
making a copy from my other linux machine to a floppy and overwriting it,
wouldn't work either. I did a fsck /dev/hda1 but it didn't work. It
complained that /dev/null was read-only then would continue it's work.
Is there anything I can do besides formatting ?
Thanks
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From: Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Monitor Resolution & other Windows Equivilent Q's
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:18:16 +1200
In article <gDOt6.42043$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I am running Red Hat 7.0 on an AMD 6/300 box with an old-ish monitor
>
> When I go to work with Control Panel or LinuxConfig the screen stretches
> beyond my monitor's ability to access it! (this prevents me from clicking
> things like "ok" at the bottom of the screens, etc.)
>
> I have plugged in a second monitor and find the same thing.
>
> Where can I go to adjust the monitor resolution!!!! (both monitors are SVGA
> capable)
>
>
> Also - I can't seem to find any FAQ or HOW-TOs on "Windows Equivilent
> commnads"
>
> things like:
>
> "winipcfg" for windows 9X or ipconfig for NT/2K
ifconfig gives an output like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:DF:43:36:88
inet addr:192.168.1.20 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6439999 errors:0 dropped:9072 overruns:0 frame:6953
TX packets:1608452 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:8210 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:12842 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12842 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> disk space usage in Linux?
>
df (stands for DiskFree i believe)
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 333934 242843 73850 77% /
/dev/hdb1 523705 248078 249018 50% /var
/dev/sda1 991995 820280 120465 88% /usr
/dev/loop0 96796 96796 0 100% /mnt/tmp
/dev/loop1 96104 96104 0 100% /mnt/tmp2
df -h (human readable) reports MB
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 326M 238M 72M 77% /
/dev/hdb1 511M 243M 243M 50% /var
/dev/sda1 969M 802M 117M 88% /usr
/dev/loop0 94M 95M 0 100% /mnt/tmp
/dev/loop1 94M 94M 0 100% /mnt/tmp2
du (disk usage) measures all directories below your present level and
reports usage in each directory. it also has a -h option.
from /
du -h --max-depth=1 on my system gives:
12k ./lost+found
802M ./usr
0 ./proc
148M ./var
31k ./tmp
253k ./dev
8.2M ./etc
5.0M ./bin
3.0M ./boot
49M ./home
25M ./lib
190M ./mnt
1.0k ./opt
141M ./root
5.6M ./sbin
6.0k ./.mc
6.0k ./.cedit
1.4G .
>
>
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From: Tom Canich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why people are doing that?
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:06:00 -0500
Hi allen,
First and foremost let me make the point that Linux is and always will be
a hobbyist's OS. Why does anybody spend hours in their basement
perfecting their model train table? Why does anybody spend thousands of
dollars on equipment so they can spend multiple nights in the outdoors and
be prepared for anything? They enjoy their hobby. There is a certain
rush involved in conquering the unconquerable. Spending 10 hours (or a
week or longer in some cases) studying a problem, attempting various
solutions, and finally succeeding is extremely gratifying.
Why reinvent the wheel? If the inventor's of the wheel produced something
with four sides that didn't roll very well, then i would definately spend
some time rethinking their mistakes and come up with a better design.
One last thing that i have been thinking about lately. Linux is a massive
experiment in group behavior. It has no real leader (by leader i mean
somebody who sets out tasks, delegates responsibility, and holds some
degree of power over the actions of others). It develops in opposite
directions at the same time, then combines these opposites into progress
in some other random direction. And amidst all this chaos comes a very
useable, modern operating system. Even if you hate linux, it must be
appreciated for what was created from chaos. It truly is quite amazing.
I hope that answered your question allen.
tom
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Allen wrote:
> I can't really understand why people want to
> spend 5 or 10 hours trying to get a device
> working on linux since there is no help whatsoever
> for it, while it only takes half an hour to get it
> working on Windows? Isn't that a great waste of
> personal life as well as social resources? Does it
> really make sense for computer industry to go back
> to squre one and try to recreate a wheel which we
> already have now? Do people really believe that
> an OS which requires all of its users to know how
> to use makefile can go that far? After all, even
> primitive DOS 1.0 doesn't require me to graduate
> with a CS degree first before I start using it?
> If a resource requires so much background knowledge
> before anyone can really use it, then what's the
> difference does it make compares to not having the
> resource at all?
>
> Can someone give some reasonable and inspirational
> answers for the above questions?
>
>
>
>
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /dev/null is read-only ?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:25:28 +1100
Hi Chris,
> My RedHat's 7.0 /dev/null is having some problems I think ;P
>
> When I rebooted my computer RedHat wouldn't boot any further because it was
> complaining (sp ?) that /dev/null was a read-only filesystem. It would then
> prompt me for root's password for repairing.
>
> I did a ls -l /dev/null and I got: -rw------- /dev/null
That is certainly a strange error situation to get yourself into. Once you
have managed to get your system booting back into multi-user mode after
entering in the root password (and doing a file system check with repairs) you
might like to log in as root and issue the command: /dev/MAKEDEV std.
This should make all of the standard devices again (including /dev/null) and
assign the appropriate owner and permissions to the device.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:37:04 -0800
From: Roger Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why people are doing that?
Well here is my $.02US on the subject. I have a dual boot machine that
recently upgraded too Win98SE. After the upgrade, I can not use my Umax
SCSI Scanner at all. I mean the devices are there it finds the machine
but no amount of coaxing or driver reloading will make it talk to the
scanner. It was working fine under Win95, i just got tired of what Win95
was doing to me.
So, I rebooted to RH7.0 with the full desktop. Opened up the Gui for
Xsane, it asked me if I wanted to use Either my Video Capture card or my
Scanner and away I went. I scanned in my son's new picture just fine. I
then opened it up in GIMP ( it's like Photo Shop only you don't have to
pay $600 for it), cropped the image and touched it up a bit to make a
little brighter, saved the new file, attached it to an email to my
parents, and then went on about me business surfing the net with no
problems hassles or issues.
I can do things with Linux that you can only dream about, unless you
want to spend thousands of dollars. Oh and BTW, if you do, you will be
spending hours upon hours wondering why, "When I install this something
else breaks, and my machine doesn't work right anymore" where as under
Linux, sure you can get into the same predicament, but I've always been
able to remove the offending product and get back too normalcy. You see
there is no concept of "DLL HELL" under Linux.
So you see, it's not why would any one *want* to take the time. It's a
matter of if you value your time on your computer, it's your best
choice.
Oh and BTW, I do more on my P166 and keep it updated for free, with
Linux, than I ever could, using Windows. I wouldn't even think of
putting Win2K on this machine -shudder- but it works quite well using
Linux. I do use Windows, and in fact I am a trained Domain Admin and I
am writing this from my Dual PII/400 Xeon running NT which I use to
remote Admin my NT servers and UNIX / Linux Servers. But, when I don't
need to work NT issues, I reboot again and spend my day being more
productive using better software with Linux.
Cheers, Gotta reboot know !
Allen wrote:
======snip======
>
> Can someone give some reasonable and inspirational
> answers for the above questions?
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From: "Eric Finlayson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Is lo an actual device? NICs not recognized
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:46:20 GMT
Yes, loopback is an internal process; a lot of other boot-time processes
(xinetd, sendmail, etc.) need some sort of place they can call home, and
loopback is that home-of-last-resort.
"Allan Jones, ComUnity Systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:GhOt6.42038$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am just setting up a firewall, which has the requirement for an
>
> "internal interface"
> "LAN interface"
> "loopback interface."
>
> I have two NIC's installed
>
> Is the Loopback taken care of by an internal process? Is is it a physical
> NIC? I am asking because I THINK it is, but after pulling out one, then
both
> my NIC cards "lo" still boots. Is my system malunctioning?
>
> Also, in my experiments, I have put in THREE network cards, and my Red Hat
> 7.0 still won't acknowledge anything more than "lo" and "eth0."
>
> When I go to LinuxConfig my setting won't hold. (reboot and they are not
> there)
>
>
>
>
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From: "Christopher H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /dev/null is read-only ?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:53:36 GMT
Hi,
After reading the man page for MAKEDEV I saw that it requires null to be
able to work with minimal functionnality. But I tried it anyways with
/dev/MAKEDEV std
I get the following error:
MAKEDEV: urandom is a read-only filesystem
and MAKEDEV would quit with /dev/null still being broken.
ls -l /dev/urandom shows:
crw-r--r--
Thanks
"Dean Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> > My RedHat's 7.0 /dev/null is having some problems I think ;P
> >
> > When I rebooted my computer RedHat wouldn't boot any further because it
was
> > complaining (sp ?) that /dev/null was a read-only filesystem. It would
then
> > prompt me for root's password for repairing.
> >
> > I did a ls -l /dev/null and I got: -rw------- /dev/null
>
> That is certainly a strange error situation to get yourself into. Once
you
> have managed to get your system booting back into multi-user mode after
> entering in the root password (and doing a file system check with repairs)
you
> might like to log in as root and issue the command: /dev/MAKEDEV std.
>
> This should make all of the standard devices again (including /dev/null)
and
> assign the appropriate owner and permissions to the device.
>
> See ya
>
> Dean Thompson
>
> --
>
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> | Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
> | Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180
|
> | PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus>
|
> | School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office)
|
> | MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077
|
> | Melbourne, Australia |
|
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /dev/null is read-only ?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 20 Mar 2001 20:03:00 -0500
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:53:36 GMT, Christopher H
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>After reading the man page for MAKEDEV I saw that it requires null to
>be able to work with minimal functionnality. But I tried it anyways
>with
>
>/dev/MAKEDEV std
>
>I get the following error:
>MAKEDEV: urandom is a read-only filesystem
>and MAKEDEV would quit with /dev/null still being broken.
>
>ls -l /dev/urandom shows:
>crw-r--r--
Try re-installing the device package:
[hal@feenix hal]$ rpm -qf /dev/null
dev-3.0.6-5
You will have to force it: rpm -Uvv --force dev*rpm.
Also, and FWIW, I think there may be a rootkit floating around that
tinkers with this stuff. IOW, make sure you are not cracked. Of course,
if this is the result of something you've done, then 'never mind'.
--
Hal B
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: /dev/null is read-only ?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:13:25 +1100
Hi Christopher,
> After reading the man page for MAKEDEV I saw that it requires null to be
> able to work with minimal functionnality. But I tried it anyways with
This is very wierd that the file system would remain in read-only mode after
you have done all of your maintainence tasks. I presume that when you do a
fsck on the file system that it doesn't return any errors ?
If this still causes problems, you may have to enter into single user mode and
see whether or not the MAKEDEV command will work, or as mentioned before, try
a force re-load of the dev package.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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| Dean Thompson | E-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Bach. Computing (Hons) | ICQ - 45191180 |
| PhD Student | Office - <Off-Campus> |
| School Comp.Sci & Soft.Eng | Phone - +61 3 9903 2787 (Gen. Office) |
| MONASH (Caulfield Campus) | Fax - +61 3 9903 1077 |
| Melbourne, Australia | |
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: RAID under kernel 2.2.18: mkraid aborted
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 01:55:14 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you elaborate on the solutions to problem #2?
Can you please quote whatever it is you are talking about? Relevant
portions only, please.
> What is devfs-isation?
If you don't know, then that may well be your problem. Go find out.
Look in the kernel sources Configure.help.
[reformatting the next to 72chars per line!]
> My raidtab is good, and I am using raidtools 0.9; isnt' that the
That's what you say. But if you were able to recognize your problem,
you'd have done so, no? So I suggest you back up your assertion with
some proof.
> most current version? My kernel (d/l 2.2.18 from kernel.org)
> already has raid support in it).
Ditto. Prove it.
Peter
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From: "Allex Juang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux in NT/2000 domain
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:50:00 +0800
Reply-To: "Allex Juang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Normal nameserver is fine.
My linux is also Redhat, pump works fine.
While connecting to internet, no problem found.
But it just cannot get intranet hosts by name (should be NetBios name)
except by IP.
So, is there any way to solve it??
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ���g��l��
news:99799d$ijo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In my company, most computers in our domain are NT/2000 hosts.
> > And Primary/Backup domain controller are 2000 server.
> > All hosts' IP/DNS settings are from DHCP service.
> > Now I set up a Linux host in same domain.
> > It looks fine while connecting to Internet.
> > But it cannot access other machines in local domain except by using
> > explicit IP address.
>
> appears that the nameservers are not used.
>
> > Is there any way to solve this problem?
> >
>
> Use them :-)
> Are the nameservers not on a static IP address?
> (that would be easy, put them in your /etc/resolv.conf)
>
> What dhcp client do you use
> I use RedHat, which comes with pump, others may use dhcpcd
> I never got dhcpcd working (on an NT domain too), pump works
> without problems though.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
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From: R. Somebody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Get paid to be online... no surfing!
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 01:48:52 GMT
Get paid to be online... no surfing!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn)
Subject: Re: Why people are doing that?
Date: 21 Mar 2001 01:55:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:06:00 -0500, Tom Canich allegedly wrote:
>First and foremost let me make the point that Linux is and always will be
>a hobbyist's OS. Why does anybody spend hours in their basement
>perfecting their model train table? Why does anybody spend thousands of
>dollars on equipment so they can spend multiple nights in the outdoors and
>be prepared for anything? They enjoy their hobby. There is a certain
>rush involved in conquering the unconquerable. Spending 10 hours (or a
>week or longer in some cases) studying a problem, attempting various
>solutions, and finally succeeding is extremely gratifying.
That toy OS is quite often used to create "beowulf clusters" which are
among the most powerfull number crunching machines found in government
and private research facilities in the world. http://clusters.top500.org
has a list of clusters and their linux technology. http://www.top500.org
has a performance chart of the 500 most powerfull computers that exist
in the world, and among them linux clusters which compete head on with
SGI, cray, IBM and hitachi supercomputers, at a fraction of their price.
http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO35573,00.html :
lINUX GUSHES SAVINGS FOR OIL GIANT
Switch from IBM saves Hess nearly $2M
...
The $130,000 Beowulf system performs the task in about the same time,
two weeks, as the 32-node IBM SP2 system running AIX that the company
paid $2 million to lease for three years, said Vic Forsyth, Amerada
Hess' Houston-based manager of geophysical systems.
...
>
>Why reinvent the wheel? If the inventor's of the wheel produced something
>with four sides that didn't roll very well, then i would definately spend
>some time rethinking their mistakes and come up with a better design.
UNIX is of course the original, anything else you find now is much more
recent, though not necessarily better. LINUX is a UNIX-like operating
system for personal computers.
For some history read http://www.hermanbruijn.com/Docs/ADMIN/ch01.htm
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