Linux-Setup Digest #936, Volume #20 Wed, 28 Mar 01 18:13:11 EST
Contents:
RedHat 6.0.1 / AGP ("john.ridgard")
Re: SCSI controller ("Tim Cuthbertson")
Re: ALSA and Crystal Semiconductor CODECS: CS4237B and Suse 7.0 ("Keith Marjerison")
Re: RedHat 6.0.1 / AGP ("Davide Bianchi")
Re: ping between linux and win98 (andi smart)
Re: ping between linux and win98 ("Davide Bianchi")
/boot on first partition ("Irzadi Siregar")
Re: Please Help! strange problem whit my new ppp connection (Bill Unruh)
Need Help! Serial Local Printer Setup ("jf")
Re: RH7 install on 30GB drive (Dustin)
Re: Configuring Network card on redhat (Craig Kelley)
Re: Kernel too big (Craig Kelley)
Cups Problems ("Nathan")
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From: "john.ridgard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.0.1 / AGP
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:07:19 +0100
I have just installed Linux for the first time and am having problems with
the display, the screen was set to 640 x 480 on install but I have a
narrow/tall screen image and can not see the top or bottom, it has been
suggested this is because my onboard graphics chip is AGP. Is this a known
problem and is there a fix?
Also I have no Gnome icon (footprint) and am unable to access the control
centre
Kernel 2.2.15 (or something like that)
Anyone help?
Thanks
John
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From: "Tim Cuthbertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI controller
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:18:16 -0600
Hear, hear, Achim. I totally agree.
I have been using/setting up/configuring all sorts of personal computers,
minis, mainframes, etc since the mid-1970's. I have intimately worked with
IBM mainframes, old DEC and AT&T UNIX boxes, Commodore 64, Apple Macintosh,
many PC compatibles, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Win3.1, 95, 98, NT 3.51, and 4.0,
and probably several others. I have professionally programmed in COBOL, MVS
assembler, REXX, ISPF, Visual Basic, Smalltalk, C, C++, PL/SQL, and several
others. For the past five years I have been an Oracle database
administrator.
In short, I have proven to myself and my employers over the past 26 years
that I can handle almost anything, successfully and at a high level of
proficiency.
But, recently I installed Suse 7.0. It took about three days of tracking
down various fixes and workarounds, but I finally successfully installed it.
Still, I cannot re-boot it in any normal fashion. I am forced to boot from
the installation CD and pretend like I am going to install it again,
providing all the parameters and settings. After providing all that info, I
can then tell it to "boot an existing installation" instead of doing an
installation. This works just fine, but when I try to get help to boot it
normally, everyone tells me it is because I have hardware problems. If
hardware problems were the problem, why is it able to boot successfully
after going through the rigamarole?
I have tried lilo, boot floppy, and loadlin, but all methods end up the
same - timeouts on the SCSI adapter. Nobody can (or will) tell me how to
enter the parameters that make it work when booting from the CD. lilo works,
but ignores my "append=" parameters.
Anyway, this Linux installation is much more trouble than it is worth. Best
wishes to everyone who wants to keep fighting with it.
Tim
"Achim Nolcken Lohse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:30:20 +0200, Michael Heiming
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Vicky Ng wrote:
> >>
> >> Tks for your advice, Michael. To install any Linux distribution is
never an
> >> easy task for any newbies. We have to keep try and error, try and
error,
> >> read tons of How-to documents on the net..........that's perpahs one of
the
> >> reason why winxx is still dominating the market coz it is really "user
> >> friendly".
> >
> >Nope, it's just because it comes pre-installed on almost every machine
you buy,
> >it's not harder to install a decent Linux distro, then install WIN XX,
it's
> >just much faster, cause you don't have to reboot all time and if it's
done,
> >most sw is installed...:-)
> >
> >But no one actually installs WIN XX from scratch and assumes, that it
would
> >be much easier, but it isn't, try it out, if you don't believe me....
> >
> Not true. I've installed Windows many times from scratch, and many
> more times over top of a damaged installation. I've never yet been
> unable to install Windows on a functional PC, and always without
> having to go online, post messages for help, consult reams of
> documentation, etc.
>
> With Linux, OTOH, even after spending months making sure that all my
> hardware complies to Linux requirements, studying several fat manuals,
> reading scores of linux newsgroups messages, and posting detailed
> pleas for help and advice, there are a couple of Linux distos I
> couldn't install at all, and the ones that did install are so awkward
> to use, it's not worth the trouble.
>
> I would guess that I've spent more time in the last two years reading
> books,newsgroups, and manuals about Linux, than I've spent reading
> about all other operating systems (including various Tandy OSs, DOS,
> Win, OS2) combined in the past 15 years. Yet all this reading
> translates into the ability to do just about NOTHING reliably, whereas
> I've been doing usefull things with my other OSs with far less
> preparation or learning for years.
>
> A lot of people like to brag about how reliable and stable Linux is,
> and even how easy it is to set up. But when you confront them with an
> unusual setup problem, it quickly becomes obvious that their
> "experience" is based on dumb luck, and they don't understand diddly
> about how the OS really works. Then they blame your "crummy hardware",
> inability to follow instructions, etc., etc..
>
> Most of the Linux documentation I've seen stinks. It's way worse than
> that for Windows, and that's saying something. Not only is it often
> full of errors, but the most essential stuff is just omitted. I've
> spent hours at a time going through a stack of Linux "reference" books
> just looking for simple information such as how to mount a removeable
> drive or a scanner, or how to just copy a file!
>
> Achim
>
>
>
>
>
> axethetax
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: "Keith Marjerison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Keith Marjerison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ALSA and Crystal Semiconductor CODECS: CS4237B and Suse 7.0
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:26:02 GMT
On 28 Mar 2001 03:00:35 GMT, Dances With Crows wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 01:44:48 -0000, Christopher W. Aiken staggered into
>the Black Sun and said:
>>On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:48:27 GMT, Keith Marjerison
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>1st, I'm a Linux newbe, so go eazy. How do I go about getting Suse to
>>>recognize my TidalWave128 ISA sound card. It is PnP and the 'isadump'
>>>utility :)sees the card but when I try and use 'YaST2' to install
>>>'Generic' support for :)the 'CS42*' and the program stops saying the
>>>'kernel' does not support it. :)What am I doing wrong? What is a good
>>>reference for Linux ? i.e. Linux :)Unleashed? Thanks for any help in
>>>advance.
>>
>>I got my CS4232 up and running by adding the following lines
>>to my /etc/rc.d/boot.local file. The run the boot.local file
>>or reboot.
>>
>>echo "Setup CS4232 Sound"
>>modprobe soundcore
>>modprobe sound
>>modprobe ad1848
>>modprobe uart401
>>modprobe cs4232 io=0x530 irq=7 dma=1 dma2=3 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
>SuSE 7.x uses ALSA, not the kernel OSS drivers, by default. Chris gave
>the OSS solution, which should work provided you can find the right
>values for all the parameters. Every cs42xx I've seen has used IRQ 5,
>for instance, and "0" for dma2, but try various things... the worst you
>can do is lock up the system. Keith, have you tried "alsaconf"?
>
>As for a good Linux book, _Running Linux_ by Matt Walsh (published by
>O'Reilly and Associates) is a pretty good low-to-mid-level book. If you
>got the "Professional" SuSE distro, you should have a pretty
>comprehensive set of manuals sitting around. (The manuals are much less
>comprehensive in the "Personal" distro. Sigh.) The following sites can
>be very useful for Linux users:
>
>http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/
>http://linuxnewbies.org/
>file:/usr/share/doc/packages/
>
>--
>Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
>Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
>http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
>-----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
I tried both of the above methods without any positive results. When
I modify the 'Boot.local' file there is an error message when booting. What
is even stranger is that with out any changes to the 'boot.local' file, when
my machine boots and I watch as the different devices are initialized, I can
see my Crystalizer TidalWave 128 card in the list and all of the 'Ports' and
'IRQs' and 'DMAs' are listed and initialized correctly, but I am still unable
to get sound support. I have also tried the 'alsaconf' utility with an error
that no supported sound card was found. I have no idea what is wrong. The
YaST2 program tells me to try installing with the 'OSS/Free' package, what
and where is this package?
As far as I know this Crystalizer TidalWave 128 card uses the same
drivers for the 'Newcomm 3D' sound card in both Windoze and OS/2.
I must say I am completely baffled.
Thanks again for any help.
/>Keith Marjerison
/>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.0.1 / AGP
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:26:32 -0800
"john.ridgard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Uwrw6.1365$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have just installed Linux for the first time and am having problems with
<ZAP>
I suppose the problem is the standard configuration of your X system.
See the XFree86-HOWTO on www.linuxdoc.org and tinker with
your XF86Config file. Do not forget to save the original one...
Davide
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (andi smart)
Subject: Re: ping between linux and win98
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 21:26:49 GMT
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:08:20 -0800, "Davide Bianchi"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Are you doing a ping 192.168.1.2 and what's the
>response ?
destination host unreachable
>Is the network card up&running? If you type
>/sbin/ifconfig and /sbin/route -n what's the response?
/sbin/ifconfig shows both eth0 and lo - anything in particular I
should be looking for in the entry for eth0?
/sbin/route -n shows a routing table for
192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 eth 0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.2 0.0.0.0 eth 0
i would have thought that no address needed a gateway as they are all
on the same subnet?
>
>Davide
>
>
>
"A single open mind, can open any door" Sonia Rutstein
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From: "Davide Bianchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ping between linux and win98
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:29:45 -0800
"andi smart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> destination host unreachable
Try to add a default route to the eth1
route add default eth1
Davide
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From: "Irzadi Siregar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /boot on first partition
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:36:16 +0700
I'm a newbie using RH 6.2 with 20 GB HD. The windows partition took up 16
gig so the linux partition's go well over the 1024 limit and I can't boot
from LILO.
If I want to set /boot on the first cylinder then I'll have to backup all my
win partition and restore it. Is there another way to do it make /boot the
first partition without destroying the partition ?
I have Partition Magic 5.0 but I hestitate to use it (I don't know how good
it support ext2).
Thank you in advance
Irzadi Siregar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Please Help! strange problem whit my new ppp connection
Date: 28 Mar 2001 21:55:55 GMT
In <99s2ks$1ut$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Fabio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
]In my pppd options file I've inserted a line like this:
]192.168.1.102: 151.X.X.X
]Where the first number is the ip of my internal eth0 adapter and the second
]one is the remote static internet ip the provider assigned me.
This is wrong. This item means
local:remote
local= The IP address which this machine is to have on this particular
ppp link (151.X.X.X above)
remote=The address which the remote machine is to have on this link. You
probabaly do not know what that is. So you could do
151.x.x.x:0.0.0.0
to get the remote side to give you its address, then also put in
ipcp_accept_remote
as well
man pppd would help you.
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From: "jf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Help! Serial Local Printer Setup
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:24:42 -0600
Hello All,
I have been getting beaten up while trying to set up my Linux box (RH 6.2EE)
to run a serial printer. I've tried online resources (www.linuxprinting.org,
www.linuxdoc.org ), using 'printool', Webmin, and even a third-party
application: LPPlus. I can use all of these resources successfully for
setting up remote printing w/IP addresses (even ones using HP JetDirect
boxes), and local parallel printing as well. However, I just cannot get a
local serial printer to function correctly!
1)The printer has both serial and parallel connectivity (I've tested the
parallel locally...it functions fine), but I'm unable to get the serial
local config to work.
2)The local printer I'm working with needs to be able to be used as a serial
local printer because it serves as a test device for an upcoming migration
project (during which a larger serial line printer will be connected locally
to the linux box)...so, even though I can get it to work via parallel, that
does me no good for the future.
3)I have 2 identical local printers that I've made sure function correctly,
so I'm pretty sure the parallel/serial cards in each work okay (I'm favoring
the odds in this assumption that at least one of the two serial cards are
functioning as advertised.).
4)I checked the BIOS and it shows the COM1/COM2 serial ports enabled.
5)I did 'setserial -g /dev/ttyS0' to confirm that my COM1 was alive.
6)With printool I've tried just about everything: anyone have a sample
printool edit entry for a serial printer handy?
7)I've even tried 'cat /whatever_file > /dev/ttyS0' and nothing happens.
This is really frustrating! Can anyone help a brother out?
Thanks,
-jf-
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From: Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 install on 30GB drive
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:23:32 -0600
Thank you for responding.
Partition table as follows:
Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 58168 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 21 10552+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 22 58168 29306088 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 22 6263 3145936+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 6264 6771 256000+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 6772 23416 8389048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 23417 58168 17514976+ 83 Linux
hda1=/boot, hda5=/, hda7=/usr, hda8=/home
I have data on hda8 that I need to keep. I could probably find a
way to get it onto another drive if I need to. I was hoping to
reformat hda5 and hda7 so that I would be starting clean. I will
try a text install, but I think that failed as well. I will let
you know what happens.
Dustin
Eric wrote:
>
> > Need some help here. I added a 30GB drive to an old P166. The
> > bios does not properly detect the drive and shows it as being
> > 8.4GB. I installed Mandrake 7.0 without any problems. I used
> > fdisk to partition the drive.
> >
> > No, I want to install RH7 on this same drive, replacing
> > Mandrake. I can boot from the CD fine, start the install
> > process, and get thru the first few steps. When Disk Druid tries
> > to read the drive it says that the partition table is corrupt and
> > skips the drive. When I go back and use fdisk instead, fdisk
> > shows the drive with all the partitions as previously
> > configured. fdisk gives a warning about the drive having more
> > than 1023 cyl. indicating that some versions of LILO have a
> > problem w/ this. I am assuming that I will not have this problem
> > because Mandrake booted fine and the boot part. is within the
> > 1024 limit.
> >
> > When I continue, after using fdisk, the install returns me to the
> > Disk Druid program which, once again, says that the drive has a
> > corrupt part. table. How do I force Disk Druid to use this
> > drive, bypass the use of Disk Druid, or apply some workaround? I
>
> Damn diskdruid, perhaps you could try a text install?
>
> > sent an email to RH support and have not received any response.
> >
>
> Show the partitiontable please.
>
> Eric
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuring Network card on redhat
Date: 28 Mar 2001 15:34:05 -0700
A.Selle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know how to configure the network attachment to force th
> e speed to 100 mbps / full duplex.
> Is it possible using ifconfig or configuration files ?
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.2
Run netconf or netconfig as the root user.
Netconf is better, but requires X11.
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Kernel too big
Date: 28 Mar 2001 15:34:46 -0700
Alberto Arribas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello.
>
> Apologies if this is a really basic question. I have compiled a new
> kernel in order to include the drivers of my new CD writer.
> Unfortunately, when I run lilo to build up the system I get the message
> "kernel too big". It occurs when I use zImage to compile the kernel and
> also when I use bzImage. Could you help me to solve this problem?
You need to move most things out into modules.
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cups Problems
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:59:26 GMT
Hey,
I am running Cups print server version 1.1.6 on my linux 2.4 box. Right
now I am having problems printing from Netscape and StarOffice. If I try
to print from either they just freeze. But if I kill the lp process they
created Netscape or Staroffice will continue working. I don't have a
clue what is wrong. To make things more complicated if I use lp on the
command line to print a postscript or text file they will print fine.
Printing directly to the lp0 port works fine too. Can anyone tell me
whats wrong. Printing did work fine at one time. I am not sure what
happened to cause this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Nathan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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