Linux-Setup Digest #901, Volume #20 Sat, 24 Mar 01 15:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: xvidtune (John Thompson)
Re: cdrecord problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setting System Clock(s)? (Paul Lew)
Re: building kernel; initrd (Tom Fawcett)
Radeon 3D acceleration ? ("anonymous")
dialup box (David Punsalan)
Help with modem/sound/cd on Red Hat 7.0 (Robert)
Re: Burn bootable CD's for Suse 7.1? (Michael Heiming)
shell prompt during installation ("Marc Michiels")
Varying number of cylinders (Query_String)
Where's softare RAID documentation? (Bernie)
Where's software RAID docs? (Bernie)
Are unused blocks BAD blocks? (Query_String)
Can you retrieve headers with fetchmail? (Bernie)
Re: hard-disk partitioning problem (Dave Berntson)
Re: Best E-mail Client? (John Beardmore)
Re: Best E-mail Client? ("mkarl")
Re: Can you retrieve headers with fetchmail? ("mak")
Re: Bash Prompt Configuration?? ("mari-k")
Re: Can you retrieve headers with fetchmail? (Michael Heiming)
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: xvidtune
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 07:13:56 -0600
James Smagala wrote:
> I am running a dual boot machine (Win 98/Debian 2.2) and have configured the
> hard ware to display the screen size and location correctly for windows.
> For linux, I use Afterstep on X. At my initial command line when I first
> boot into linux, the screen size an location are ok, but when I start an X
> session, the screen is seriously off center.
>
> I can fix this manually with xvidtune, but it gets to be a hassel. The
> documentation for this program is -very- unclear about invoking the program
> non-interactively. Any suggestions for scripting this sort of correction?
When you've finished tweaking with xvidtune, click the "show"
button and it will spit out a modeline in the xterm from which
you started xvidtune. Paste this modeline into your XF86Config
file to replace the current modeline. Repeat the process for any
other screen resolutions you may use. When you restart X it will
use the modeline(s) you defined for your system with xvidtune.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecord problem
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:33:55 GMT
Krzysztof Godlewski wrote:
> Ponurego dnia Thu, 22 Mar 2001 00:55:19 GMT William Jerrell spod swych
> paluch�w wypu�ci� te oto s�owa:
> >I down loaded the iso off of thier site.
> >I was able mount the file with the loopback filesystem. (I did this to
> >test the file before I tried to burn it)
> >This was the first file I tried to burn with cdrecord, but I'm getting the
> >same error with all other files as well.
>
> Does /dev/zero exist ? If not, create it:
>
> mknod /dev/zero c 1 5
>
> --
> Krzysztof Godlewski Ale pod RedHatem wszystko robi sie SAMO!!!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pioter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> na p.c.o.l
/dev/zero does exist...
Thanks anyway....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: Setting System Clock(s)?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 16:41:13 GMT
Unfortunately, some the user setting/unsetting the date-time is not the
problem as it is either a problem with the 2.4.x kernel or the program
that uses/extracts/interpretes the time. Have set both the hwclock
and the "date" still shows incorrectly on bootup.
Actually, the most interesting thing is when booting linux, a msg shows
the correct time that the system is booting, then later when the msg
shows that the "/var/log/messages" is starting, the time is 8 hrs off!!!
Of course, the log file msg starting is displayed AFTER the timezone
and clocks were "setup" during the boot and the boot msg with the correct
time is displayed BEFORE the timezone and clock are "setup" by the boot
process......
On 24 Mar 2001 15:23:22 GMT, Edwin Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Since you are on the west coast the files are being set to GMT, more
>correctly called now UTC. I have Slackware and will have to look for it, but
>there is a file, rather a command which sets up the correct file to use,
>which controls the offset to produce this. On my computer I don't have the
>file set for a time zone, so both hardware clock and system time are the
>same. That is probably what you would like to do.
>
>I haven't read it all, but there is a reference in man hwclock to the TZ
>(Time Zone) environmental variable and/or /usr/lib/zoneinfo. A man tzset
>should get you info on it.
>
>...Edwin
>
>On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:58:32 -0800, Graeme Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Edwin Johnson at
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 3/23/01 6:02 AM:
>>
>>> I presume you _are_ setting the hardware clock first, and then setting the
>>> system clock. Do a man hwclock.
>>>
>>> hwclock --set --date=newdate (sets hardware clock, hence on computer board)
>>> hwclock --hctosys (sets system to the hardware)
>>>
>>> ...Edwin
>>>
>>
>>Same results:
>>
>>[root@hal timetest]# /sbin/hwclock --set --date=08:54:00
>>[root@hal timetest]# /sbin/hwclock --hctosys
>>[root@hal timetest]# date
>>Fri Mar 23 08:54:14 PST 2001
>>[root@hal timetest]# touch test2
>>[root@hal timetest]# ls -l
>>total 0
>>-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 23 16:54 test2
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:16:25 -0800, Graeme Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Problem - however I set the system clock, the date command returns the
>>>>>> correct time, but creating files etc have the wrong time stamp.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a look at
>>>>>
>>>>> http://home.world-online.no/~ackleppe/newton/redhat6/node59.html
>>>>>
>>>>> You can substitute the time server time.nist.gov for time.timehost.com.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Still doesn�t work :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [root@hal timetest]# /usr/sbin/timeconfig --utc America/Los_Angeles
>>>> [root@hal timetest]# date
>>>> Thu Mar 22 15:56:00 PST 2001
>>>> [root@hal timetest]# date -s 15:56:00
>>>> Thu Mar 22 15:56:00 PST 2001
>>>> [root@hal timetest]# /sbin/hwclock --utc --systohc
>>>> [root@hal timetest]# date
>>>> Thu Mar 22 15:56:19 PST 2001
>>>> [root@hal timetest]# ls
>>>> [root@hal timetest]# touch what_time_is_it
>>>> [root@hal timetest]# ls -l
>>>> total 0
>>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 22 23:56 what_time_is_it
>>>> [root@hal timetest]#
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is driving me insane :-) !!!! the clock returns the correct time, but
>>>> any files created are on GMT
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (I used the menu interface for timeconfig too - GMT(X) /America/Los_Angeles
>>>> - same result)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>--
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>~ Edwin Johnson ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~
>~ http://www.shreve.net/~elj ~
>~ ~
>~ "Once you have flown, you will walk the ~
>~ earth with your eyes turned skyward, ~
>~ for there you have been, there you long ~
>~ to return." -- da Vinci ~
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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From: Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: building kernel; initrd
Date: 24 Mar 2001 09:26:21 -0800
John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My default /etc/lilo.conf has entries like
>
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
>
> for loading a RAM disk. When I upgrade and build a new kernel (make
> bzImage), I do not get a new initrd file in the /usr/src/linux-2.4.2
> build dir ('find . -name "initrd*"' doesn't turn up any appropriate
> file). I usually just point the new kernel at the old initrd, but I
> don't know if this is the right thing to do.
>
> How do I get a new initrd when building a new kernel? BTW: I prefer
> to configure the kernel with 'make xconfig'.
You're probably using Red Hat or Mandrake. These initrd.img files are created
by mkinitrd, not the kernel building process. The mkinitrd man page should
explain everything.
-Tom
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From: "anonymous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Radeon 3D acceleration ?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:22:07 -0700
I'm trying to find information on enabling and optimizing 3D acceleration on
Radeon 64-DDR.
I found Non-Free 3D solution at www.xig.com but I am trying to do this oon
XFree86 4.0.2
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From: David Punsalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dialup box
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:40:09 -0600
On my RH6.1 dialup box,
I always get some error about "cannot resolve: localhost" when I startx
so... I put in the line "127.0.0.1 localhost" in my /etc/hosts file (as I
read somewhere is the right thing to do)
But that didn't help. Now sendmail always prolongs my boot time and also
fails (not that I use it).
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert)
Subject: Help with modem/sound/cd on Red Hat 7.0
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 17:50:18 GMT
I just installed Red Hat 7.0 on a dell inspiron 3800 dual booting with
Win 98. Linux has a 2gb partition and the install seemed to go fine,
but it doesn't seem to recognize any devices except the mouse and
video. I've checked the linux-laptop website and couldn't find
anything that would instruct me on how to configure Linux to recognize
the following:
Modem = Actiontec 56K
Sound = ESS Maestro 3i
Network Adapter = Xircom Cardbus Ethernet II 10/100
CD drive = Toshiba CD Rom XM-1902B
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Robert
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:04:48 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burn bootable CD's for Suse 7.1?
guowei dai wrote:
>
> Hi, anyone has some ideas on how to burn
> bootable CD's for Suse 7.1? Seemed like Suse
> makes the process hard by not making their
> distribution's iso file available on their
> ftp server, and only put up unsupported
> evaluation versions there.
Why should they?
At least the have to make some money from the distro,
they, among other distros, pay some developers,
this way they can work more or less full-time on Linux projects.
I think this something we should encourage, by actualy buying the distro.
Got SuSE 7.1 today, (update) for 79,- DM (package/shipping included), that's ~40$!
I don't think this is to much money, 7 x CD, 1 x DVD, 2 x floppy disk (boot &
modules),
a book and some support (don't know exactly, never needed it) is included.
Michael Heiming
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From: "Marc Michiels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shell prompt during installation
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:05:24 GMT
During installation of redhat 7,0 i like do get into the shell prompt.
Earlier versions this worked with ctrl-alt-F2 , now i get into the other
virtual consoles , but i don't seem to get into the shell prompt .
Using alt-F2 from the other consules doesn't work also .
I need to see my /proc/pci because my
the hard disk on my pc is connected trough ata-100 .
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From: Query_String <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Varying number of cylinders
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:07:49 GMT
Greets,
I have a 30gb Maxtor 53073U6 (7200rpm-eide) which, when I first
installed it using os2 fdisk, was reporting 1027 cylinders under
fdisk with BIOS set to Auto/LBA on an Asus-Tx97 (award).
Following a reformat (I forget with what), the number cylinders
output by fdisk went to 3736 and remained at that level no matter
what I did. My assumption was that this would make much less of
the disk bios-bootable. This doesn't really matter in this particular
case but I wonder exactly how much of this disk would be bios
bootable under the two scenarios?
Following a data loss/recovery event I cleaned the disk up with
the Maxtor utility including a final low level reformat and did
the partitioning with cfdisk.
After this the fdisk-reported cylinders went up to around 60,000
and no matter how many times I told fdisk to write c=3736, h=255
and s=63, the number of cylinders reported by fdisk would not
come down.
I then released all of the disk to freespace with os2 fdisk (just
trying anything) and repartitioned with cfdisk again. Now fdisk
reports 3736, fine.
But the bootup message shows
hdd: [PTBL] 1027/255/63
which I had never noticed before but which I have never been able
to get fdisk to output.
Has anyone run into this and could maybe shed some light
on the topic?
The disk seems to be operating ok, it's just that I'd like
to account for the peculiarities.
Thanks
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From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where's softare RAID documentation?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:11:00 GMT
I haven't looked for a HOWTO yet, but can someone briefly
explain to me how to mirror 2 IDE hard drives using RH 7?
All I could find at redhat.com were docs for 6.2.
Also, any links to RAID documentation for RH 7 would be appreciated.
-Thanks
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From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where's software RAID docs?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:12:15 GMT
I haven't looked for a HOWTO yet, but can someone briefly
explain to me how to mirror 2 IDE hard drives using RH 7?
the raidtools certainly don't come with much in the way of
documentation. All I could find at redhat.com were docs for 6.2.
Also, any links to RAID documentation for RH 7 would be appreciated.
-Thanks
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From: Query_String <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Are unused blocks BAD blocks?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:12:21 GMT
[vaguely related to "Varying number of cylinders"]
fdisk (read output):
Disk /dev/hdd: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 3736 30009388+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdd5 * 1 61 489919+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd6 62 361 2409718+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd7 * 362 1001 5140768+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd8 1002 1071 562243+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdd9 1072 3736 21406581 83 Linux
This drive was partitioned with cfdisk. The hpfs logicals were
formatted only under os2 and only cfdisk has ever written to the
disk tables. hdd9 was created using *all* remaining space above
hdd8 i.e. no freespace was left.
I ran badblocks against hdd9 (with -w to get a full wipe while I
was at it) using
badblocks -b 1024 -o /badblox.out -svw /dev/hdd9 21406581
The output badblox file was empty so I assume no bad blocks were found.
Next I created the fs with
mke2fs -v -b 1024 -i 1024 /dev/hdd9
And this reported
Script started on Sat Mar 24 06:31:24 2001
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
warning: 884 blocks unused.
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
21405696 inodes, 21405697 blocks
1070329 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
2613 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409, 663553,
1024001, 1990657, 2809857, 5120001, 5971969, 17915905, 19668993
Writing inode tables: 0/2613
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
What are the "884 blocks unused" ? This is the difference between
21,405,697 and 21,406,581 but that's as far as I get |8-)
I'm not familiar with badblock handling i.e. does badblocks report
all bad blocks or only new ones not stored in whatever hidden file
that may exists for this?
Thanks.
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From: Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can you retrieve headers with fetchmail?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:46:35 GMT
Is it possible to retrieve the headers from a POP3 server
using fetchmail? Using the following command, I can retrieve
the number of messages from the server:
/usr/bin/fetchmail -c -pPOP3 -ubernie popmail.xyz.com
-Thanks!
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From: Dave Berntson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard-disk partitioning problem
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 12:16:19 -0600
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:37:50 +0800, "Vicky Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have partitioned my hard-disk for dual o/s. Info as follows:
>
>Volume/Type/Size/Used/free/Status/Pri
>C/Fat32/6016.5/5806/209.9/active/pri
>Linux/Lin Ex2/7044.1/246.9/6797.2/none/pri
>
>C drive is the original hard-drive for Win9x and Linux is a newly created
>partition. When I inserted the installation disk in CD drive and error msg
>shown: unable to find hard drive. I tried two different linux versions
>(RedHat and Xteam) which showed the same error.
>
>Kindly advise if I made any mistake.
>
>Vicky
>
Hello Vicky,
I just went through this. I had to boot-up with the win98 boot disk, BEFORE
putting the linux cd in the tray. After that, I lost the option to use the
graphical interface to install, so I had to use the "text mode". I thought
the instructions were very confusing, because I had to use Disk Druid to
DELETE the hda2 partition (created by FIPS), before I started adding the
/boot, swap, and root partitions. I was also surprised at the new names
they gave to the added partitions (hda5?). Navigation in the text mode
install is clumsy. And I never did figure out if it made any difference
which partition I added first (the order of adding). The whole procedure
was very confusing, but it works (except that I can only boot to linux with
that boot disk created after the installation was completed).
Dave
PS. I used Red Hat 7 and a Dummies book (included 3 cd's of RH Linux).
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:40:03 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dowe Keller
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:20:17 GMT, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In a world with LaTeX, SGML and Texinfo, why do some people still
>insist on doing things the *HARD WAY*?
The LaTeX world sounds like rather hard work compared to WISIWIG.
What's the SGML scene like ? What's the over all aim and to what extent
is it achieved ?
Does SGML offer a tidy way to author for the web and paper from the same
'source code' ? If so, where do you start ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: "mkarl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best E-mail Client?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:44:51 GMT
netscape-mail
p.s. what is with the crossposting bitch?
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From: "mak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can you retrieve headers with fetchmail?
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:47:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to retrieve the headers from a POP3 server using
> fetchmail?
yes, it is.
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From: "mari-k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bash Prompt Configuration??
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:49:18 GMT
two words: bash-prompt howto.
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 21:09:26 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can you retrieve headers with fetchmail?
Bernie wrote:
>
> Is it possible to retrieve the headers from a POP3 server
> using fetchmail? Using the following command, I can retrieve
> the number of messages from the server:
>
Hello,
there is a small perl script which can do this and more,
search freshmeat.net.
Michael Heiming
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