Linux-Setup Digest #891, Volume #20 Fri, 23 Mar 01 03:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: rtin question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream> (Bill Unruh)
crash during X test; gnome incomplete (John Hunter)
MPEG player for linux (Paul Folbrecht)
Re: lilo and 1024 cyl. (Glitch)
Re: dhcpd and linux 2.2 (Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma)
Log history.. (Michael B)
configuring GRUB ("Brandon K")
Re: NFS Installation (James Rose)
Re: MPEG player for linux (John Hunter)
Re: MPEG player for linux (Samuel Hocevar)
Re: tar questions (Rob Ristroph)
Redirect boot.msg ("Meg Chan")
identd (Wayne Pollock)
Re: SCSI AHA1505 problem ("BetrOffDed")
Lost Configuration (Ed)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Christopher Booth)
load permanently a module in the kernel ("stefano")
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Christian Garms)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (Christian Garms)
Re: lilo and 1024 cyl. ("Eric")
Re: load permanently a module in the kernel ("Eric")
Re: need inittab (Lew Pitcher)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: rtin question
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:20:42 -0600
Thomas Krull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carlos D. Garza wrote:
>
>> for new newsgroups that may have recently poped up but this half hour wait
>> every time I start tin is getting annoying.
>
> Set up your own, local newsserver on your machine i.e leafnode...
>
> cheers, Thomas
> --
> Thomas Krull [DF1HX] PGP: 0xC9E74329 (2.6.3.i)
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0x01EC2546 (GnuPrivacyGuard)
>
I've done just that and once configured, it works fine. However, I've
noticed a couple of things (that may or may not be avoidable). First,
tin no longer shows the number of unread articles in each newsgroup (in
the newsgroup listing) and it no longer shows which articles are unread
in either the article or thread listing. Apparently, it no longer knows.
Is there a way to fix this? I can point my /etc/nntpserver back to my
ISP's news server and unread stats show up.
???
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-- Len Philpot -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal) <--
----------------> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) <--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Linux <scream>Frustration!</scream>
Date: 23 Mar 2001 03:25:04 GMT
In <M2wu6.7738$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "MechCD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
]> EPOX 7KXA mobo (slot A), Athlon 550, 256 MB PC-133 SDRAM, Jaton GeForce
]> MX AGP vid, WD 15.3 G ATA 66 7200 RPM main drive (WinME), Maxtor 6.3 G
]>
]> I added the second drive specifically for Linux today. I was all
]> excited about a fresh install. Unfortunately, when I installed Mandrake
]> 7.1 today (the same CD that never failed before) I get as far as testing
]> the display setup and I get a garbled image and the whole system locks.
]> I know after a brief interval the display is supposed to flip back if I
]> don't OK the setup I chose. That doesn't happen. It just locks, and I
]> have to restart to escape.
Install it telling it not to search for you r video card and telling it
is just a plain svga card. Use just 640x480 to install. Do not let it
test your video card. (Use expert install if necessary). Then when you
are installed, you can play around. Does XFree actually support your
card (www.xfree.org)? If so get the new drivers.
Unfortunately your video card vendor considers it important to give you
Windows drivers which work, but not Linux drivers. Shout at them.
(Who in the world makes your card? I am afraid that if you get the cards
from minor makers, you will wait longer for drivers. Why should the
people who write the drivers for free spend time doing so for cards
which noone uses. )
]>
]> It's the vid card. It's that simple.
]>
]> Somebody please tell me: now what? I'm not putting back the old Diamond
]> card. I'd rather give up on Linux completely, and I'm not going to do
]> that either, although heaven knows by this time I've been given ample
]> reason. Please don't tell me to RFM. I'm going to shoot the sadist who
]> WFM, OK?
]>
]>
]> Laura Goodwin
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Subject: crash during X test; gnome incomplete
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Mar 2001 21:32:05 -0600
I was doing an install of RHL7 with a Matrox 450 dual head card and
the system froze during the X windows test. I could not bring it back
with Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-<Del> or anyting so I powered down and
rebooted.
I then installed X v4.0.2 and the beta Matrox driver mga.o for the 450
card and got X up and running. But it appears the gnome installation
is incomplete. For example, there was no /etc/X11/gdm dir.
When I run gdm I get a primitive login screen: eg, no background color,
just the gray texture you see when X first starts up.
How do I complete the gnome install?
Thanks,
John Hunter
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From: Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MPEG player for linux
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:51:08 GMT
I'm disappointed to discover that the Gnome file manager in RH 7.0
doesn't know what to do with .mpeg files. (You can't launch a player by
double-clicking; it has no association for that MIME type.)
So: is there a .mpeg player that comes with Linux? If not, I know I can
use convert to convert it to another format- but what should I convert to?
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:58:48 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo and 1024 cyl.
Eric wrote:
>
> > How do I now my BIOS supports booting from over1024?
>
> By trying. (if you have a manual, look for extended interrupt 13)
> If your PC is from the last 5 years, it will support this.
>
> Eric
dont you still need the newer versions of LILO?
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From: Seetamraju Uday Bhaskar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dhcpd and linux 2.2
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:55:33 GMT
Try mine.
localnet is wired ethernet, wirelessnet is ....
I run dhcpd quietly as :-
/usr/sbin/dhcpd -q eth0 eth2
but I still see all the important syslog entries.
=========================
# dhcpd.conf
#
# COPIED from the Sample configuration file for ISC dhcpd in /usr/doc/dhcpd-*
#
# option definitions common to all supported networks...
option domain-name "localnet";
option domain-name-servers 10.0.1.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.0.0;
option routers 10.0.1.1;
default-lease-time 1000000;
max-lease-time 1000000;
subnet 10.0.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.0.1.2 10.0.1.9;
option broadcast-address 10.0.1.255;
}
option domain-name "wirelessnet";
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
default-lease-time 1000000;
max-lease-time 1000000;
subnet 10.0.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 10.0.2.49 10.0.2.99;
option broadcast-address 10.0.2.255;
}
#EOF
latompa wrote:
> I'm trying to make dhcpd work for linux 2.2.12.
>
> I run isc's dhcpd, version 2
> I've read the gotchas on
> http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/mini-HOWTO/DHCP/x369.php3
>
> I've added routes and checked that my kernel is capable for multicast
>
> Still, my linux box doesn't respond to any broadcast packages from dhcp
> clients.
>
> I have a FreeBSD box (which I moving from) with the same dhcpd.conf file,
> and on the same subnet, and it works just perfectly.
>
> What could be wrong?
>
> Regards,
> tompa
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From: Michael B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Log history..
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:57:43 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm running Debian 2.2, and was wondering if log files are archived
anywhere besides /var/log ?
The current logs only go as far back as one month. (i.e .tar.gz)
Regards,
MB
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From: "Brandon K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: configuring GRUB
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 04:25:07 GMT
I'm using LM 7.2
Is it possible to configure GRUB so that it does not display the commands
used to boot win98? Like:
Booting Windows 98
root hde(0,0)
(otherstuff)
chainloader +1
that was just appoix what it shows, I don't want it to show anything when it
boots, just the Windows boot screen can I do this? Also If I wanted to use
LILO instead of GRUB, how do I change this?
thanks,
Brandon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Subject: Re: NFS Installation
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 04:34:57 GMT
> When I try to install Linux on a machine using NFS, the install
>fails because it does not recognize the tree as a Red Hat installation
>tree. The Red Hat CD is in the server's CDROM drive --- What gives?
Make sure you are giving the correct mount point that the install wants to use.
You my need to specify /mnt/cdrom/RedHat or something. I don't specifically
remember off hand, but this could be an issue. (i.e. the install is looking for
a certian tree and you may be specifying a differnt root than it expects)
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Subject: Re: MPEG player for linux
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Mar 2001 22:49:56 -0600
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Folbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> I'm disappointed to discover that the Gnome file manager in
Paul> RH 7.0 doesn't know what to do with .mpeg files. (You can't
Paul> launch a player by double-clicking; it has no association
Paul> for that MIME type.)
Paul> So: is there a .mpeg player that comes with Linux? If not,
Paul> I know I can use convert to convert it to another format-
Paul> but what should I convert to?
I've had the most luck with mtv
http://www.mpegtv.com/wince/pockettv/#download
It plays slower (drops more frames) than, say windows media player,
but it plays.
There is also a linux video project with fairly active mailing lists:
http://www.linuxvideo.org/
JDH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Samuel Hocevar)
Subject: Re: MPEG player for linux
Date: 23 Mar 2001 05:21:48 GMT
On 22 Mar 2001 22:49:56 -0600,
John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://www.mpegtv.com/wince/pockettv/#download
>
> http://www.linuxvideo.org/
You may want to try http://www.videolan.org/ as well, it plays well
and has fairly good audio/video sync.
Sam.
--
Samuel Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://sam.zoy.org/>
for DVDs in Linux screw the MPAA and ; do dig $DVDs.z.zoy.org ; done | \
perl -ne 's/\.//g; print pack("H224",$1) if(/^x([^z]*)/)' | gunzip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Ristroph)
Subject: Re: tar questions
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 05:11:25 GMT
Ok there are two ways you can use tar to put things on that floppy.
If you put stuff on there "raw", with no filesytem, then all you need
to do to put stuff on is:
tar cvf /dev/floppy <files and directories>
to take stuff off do:
cd <where you want to appear>
tar xvf /dev/floppy
Add a 'z' into those options to use compression and squeeze a little
more on.
Now, if you go through formatting the floppy and making a filesystem
on it, then don't tar directly to the /dev/floppy, because doing that
will overwrite all the filesystem information you just wrote.
Instead, mount the disk first
mount /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy
and then write to a file in /mnt/floppy, not /dev/floppy, just as if
you were creating a tar file in any other directory:
tar cvf /mnt/floppy/file.tar <files and directories>
tar xvf /mnt/floppy/file.tar
--Rob
>>>>> "Gregg" == Gregg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gregg>
Gregg> Right now I'm experimenting with tar within my mandrake 7.2.
Gregg> These are the steps I've used to try and successfully tar onto
Gregg> my floppy. I'm reading off of O'Reilly's Running Linux book.
Gregg> I've fdformat'ed the floppy I have, used mkfs -t ext2 on it,
Gregg> then mounted it (not sure if this is neccessary before using
Gregg> tar), and then tar cvf my /home onto it. I just used that
Gregg> directory to make sure it wasn't bigger than the floppy.
Gregg> Anyhow, it seems to go alright, but why is it that I can't ls
Gregg> the /mnt/floppy directory? It gives me a can't find ext2
Gregg> filesystem error when trying to remount the floppy that was
Gregg> written on by tar. I'm a newbie, so I would appreciate some
Gregg> pointers here. Thanks!
Gregg>
Gregg>
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From: "Meg Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redirect boot.msg
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 07:01:07 +0100
How can i redirect the output on system startup (which is saved to boot.msg)
from tty0 to ttyS0? I'm using a serial terminal and want to see all the boot
messages on it. Adding the "console" parameter to lilo only causes to print
"Loading linux........" on ttyS0. But i want to get the rest there too.
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From: Wayne Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: identd
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:30:40 -0500
What is the point of identd? It doesn't seem reasonable
to me that a server would be able to rely on information returned from
a remote host's identd, which could be configured to return anything,
right?
-Wayne Pollock (Just ignorant and curious)
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From: "BetrOffDed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI AHA1505 problem
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 06:45:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Leo McManus, Root DSP
Consultant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Have a new scanner ,Agfa 1236, and it comes with an ISA AHA1505 SCSI
> Controller. Have ran the DOS program and set it's IRQ to 10 DMA to 7 and
> Jumpered for address 0x340.
> Doing a cat on my /procs interrupts 'directory' I see that there are 2
> interrupts on 10, my sound and my ethernet card. If I do the pnpdump I
> find my SCSI controller, but if I do an insmod aha152x
> aha152x=0x340,10,7,0 then it reports that it cannot install/find the
> module and this may be due to incorrect options. Does this card require
> I move the interrupt to another which is not shared or is there somethng
> else I have overlooked.? Leo
>
I certainly souldn't share an irq with the soundcard. Don't know for sure
if its even possible.
FWIW, I set mine to irq 11 and then also had to reserve that irq for
"legacy" device in the system's BIOS before I got it to work properly
(was an adaptec boxed card, not with a scanner, so I don't know if the
scanner card is modified in any way or not).
HTH...
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From: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lost Configuration
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 06:47:28 GMT
Having tried to edit my XF86Config file to include some entries that were
supposed to enable my wheel mouse in Netscape and X I lost my configuration
and was not able to use my mouse in X. I ran xf86config and did get back
my mouse for my X-session but my video mode is screwed up and I cannot
reconfigure it from KDE in COAS. My distro. is Caldera's eDesktop2.4. Is
there a way to run Lizard to set up my system without having to reformat
and do a reinstall. When accessing Lizard from KDE for video mode nothing
is available to select. I hope I am not being to obtuse but I am a
relatively newcomer to Linux.
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From: Christopher Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:30:15 +1100
Check out tradeclient
It looks very good and professional, the client is free
IMAP, POP, SMTP etc...
Chris
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From: "stefano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "stefano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: load permanently a module in the kernel
Date: 23 Mar 2001 08:56:08 +0100
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hi! I just configure my winmodem rockwell 56k hsf , by a script called "ins_all" .This
script allow to insert my modem module in the kernel by many command "insmode" and i
can use this modem on my madrake 7.2!!!
fact : after reboot this module vanish and i must reload it.
Question: how can i permanently load this module in the kernel?
can i change the script to do it?
thanks by stefano
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From: Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: 23 Mar 2001 08:13:40 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos D. Garza) writes:
> I don't care much for Java either but how is it a security risk?
> You probably correct and I'm not argueing. How is Java a
> security risk?
In theory there should be none. But both 'bigger' browsers (Netscape,
Internet Explorer) have crappy implementations, so the secure sand box is
weakened against perfomance and functionallity. But Java is safer then
JavaScript.
--
regards,
Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: 23 Mar 2001 08:18:40 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H.Bruijn) writes:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:32:04 +0000, John Beardmore allegedly wrote:
> >
> >Yes, it's very cute, but I don't know if I'd like to do the bulk of my
> >authoring in tex, though I did contemplate it a few years ago.
>
> For me the main advantadge is that tex files themselves are in plain
> text, which anyone can read. That also makes them very compact.
> Second using latex and other macro's forces you to structurise your texts,
> which you can also do in in Word, except that hardly anyone does, most
> people end up using a larger bold font size to designate chapters and
> number them manually.
Hehe, but M$-Word is ok, I've written my whole PhD-Thesis in Word. No
offense to you, but Word is not that bad. Especially if you have EndNote,
so the endnotes for references really work nifty.
> There is though a much steeper learning curve to be able to create
> documents in latex, the results is generally much better as well. The
> moment that one wants to do things outside of the supplied macro's, is
> generally more difficult.
If you use LyX (graphical WYSIWIG frontend for LaTeX), the learning
curve isn't that steep. My recommendation: Try LyX, and then switch to
LaTex (if you want).
--
regards,
Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo and 1024 cyl.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:42:17 +0100
> > > How do I now my BIOS supports booting from over1024?
> >
> > By trying. (if you have a manual, look for extended interrupt 13)
> > If your PC is from the last 5 years, it will support this.
> >
> > Eric
>
> dont you still need the newer versions of LILO?
Not for the BIOS to support the ext int13 calls.
To use them, sure :-)
(Newer versions mean 21.4.3 and up IIRC)
Eric
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: load permanently a module in the kernel
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:55:52 +0100
> hi! I just configure my winmodem rockwell 56k hsf , by a script called
"ins_all" .This script allow to insert my modem module in the kernel by many
command "insmode" and i can use this modem on my madrake 7.2!!!
> fact : after reboot this module vanish and i must reload it.
> Question: how can i permanently load this module in the kernel?
> can i change the script to do it?
>
Put in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (That would be RedHat, I don't know Mandrake)
Eric
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need inittab
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:23:11 -0500
mari-k wrote:
>
> In article <99b93b$mka$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tai-Lin Chin"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Could anyone send your /etc/inittab to me by email? I just need the
> > most basic one to boot up my computer. Thanks!
id:s:initdefault:
c:s:respawn:/sbin/sulogin /dev/console
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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