Linux-Setup Digest #982, Volume #20 Wed, 4 Apr 01 07:13:06 EDT
Contents:
wrong major or minor number ("NeMo")
Re: can't boot after updating kernel to 2.4.0 ("Eric")
Re: uninstall x-windows (Ulrich Eckhardt)
Re: XFree86, KDE 2.1.1 and Debian (Ulrich Eckhardt)
Re: removing lilo from /dev/hdc (Ulrich Eckhardt)
Wintv, no sound with S-Video/Line-in ("Juergen Seyffer")
Re: wrong major or minor number ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
upgrading rpm (b)
Re: Ack! Newbie linux sound troubles ("Ed G")
X Servers and Voodoo 3 (Mat Grove)
Re: I would like to register a complaint ... (Nick Condon)
Any help for XFree86-4.0.2? (OrangeDino)
Re: Primary partition... on every HDD? (M. Buchenrieder)
KDE doesn't work after XFree upgrade ("kumara Wickramarachchi")
update to glibc 2.2.2 (chris)
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From: "NeMo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wrong major or minor number
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 08:01:44 GMT
After I compiled the 2.4.2 Kernel,
when I tried to mount floppy , zip , other vfat hard-disk
I optain the message "wrong major or minor number"
What does it means?
NeMo
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't boot after updating kernel to 2.4.0
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:34:08 +0200
> reboot after after updating kernel to 2.4.0 from 2.2.16(redhat7.0)
> , I can't get the redhat 7.0 boot. The error state is as blow while
> I reboot my notebook:
>
> Loading linux.............
> Uncompressing Linux.........OK,boot the kernel.
> (the system just hang on )
>
>
> the below is my procedure to build my kernel:
>
> 1.copy linux2.4.0.gz to /usr/src
> 2.tar zvxf linux2.4.0.gz
> 3.cd /usr/src/linux/ then "make mrproper"
> 4.make oldconfig
check the CPU you chose.
Eric
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From: Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: uninstall x-windows
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:59:37 +0200
Apart from what has already been said, I'd like to add that some people
consider it a PITA calling 'X' 'X windows'. The manpage says something more
to that extent, iirc.
cheers
Uli
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From: Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86, KDE 2.1.1 and Debian
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:27:58 +0200
erpel wrote:
> hello,
> i just changed from a rpm based sytem (suse) to debian. i wanted to
> experiment with something else and especially the packaging system of
> debian.
Wellcome, you will never regret it I daresay !
> Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> # Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
just for comparison (for use with a Highscreen optical wheelmouse)
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Note that I use IMPS/2 instead of ImPS/2, dunno if that's a prob.
[snip]
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen "Default Screen"
> InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
> InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
> InputDevice "Generic Mouse"
> EndSection
Maybe this causes your problems. You should probably remove the 'Generic
Mouse' from this section.
cheers
Ulrich Eckhardt
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From: Ulrich Eckhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removing lilo from /dev/hdc
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:06:26 +0200
Vince Skahan wrote:
> I'm trying to get a flash disk installed and booted
> with ANY boot loader. Works great from boot floppy
> via initrd using GRUB, but I'm unable to get either
> GRUB or Lilo to work.
>
> At this point, the disk has lilo installed, which
> stops at 'LI'...so I'd like to try syslinux, but
> the MBR is lilo'd and I can't get lilo removed.
>
> Any ideas how to get lilo removed from /dev/hdc ?
>
Overwrite it with GRUB, see their docs for how to do that.
Something like this here from within the grub-shell:
install (hd0,3)/path/to/stage1 (hd2) (hd0,3)/path/to/stage2
hth
Uli
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From: "Juergen Seyffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Wintv, no sound with S-Video/Line-in
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:41:01 +0200
Hello everyone
I am currently using Suse 7.1 with Kernel 2.4.0 on some systems. I connect a
Satellite Receiver to a Hauppauge WinTv-Radio and also to a Terratec
TV/Radio+. On both systems comes on the Videosignal without any sound. I
tried either kwintv and xawtv. There is also a terrestric antenna connected
which is working with Video and Sound. Sometimes it happens that when
changing the channel from terrestric program to composite that the sound of
the terrestric channel and the Video of the composite input is mixed
together. Is the TV-Card automatically selecting Line-in of the Tv-card when
I switch to composite1 or 3, or to I have to select any Audio-Input source
in the apps (can't find nothing in xawtv and kwintv's channel setup)? Has
anybody with a recent kernel a working composite video/audio configuration
running ?
At the moment, I use the Mic-In of the Soundcard instead of the line-in of
the TV-card, so its not so urgent. It seems to be a problem of the driver or
of my setup.
For the Hauppauge Card my /etc/modules.conf is having
options bttv pll=1 radio=1 card=10
options tuner type=5
For the Terratec Card
options bttv card=47 pll=2 radio=1
options tuner type=5
options tvaudio tda9873=1
Best regards
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: wrong major or minor number
Date: 4 Apr 2001 08:46:27 GMT
NeMo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> when I tried to mount floppy , zip , other vfat hard-disk
> I optain the message "wrong major or minor number"
> What does it means?
The major and minor number are pointer to the related
driver in the kernel-space. If you have recompiled the
kernel check if you have added the vfat support, if it's
a module use modprobe to load the module before trying to
mount the device.
Davide
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From: b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: upgrading rpm
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 16:46:30 +0800
how does one upgrade from an older verserion of rpm to a newer one.
rpm -Uvh rpm* doesnt work
likewise trying to upgrade netscape has the same effect you cannot
upgrade with out backing up, remove old package and install new version
recover backup.
as netscape is looking at different packages and a rpm -Uvh --force
doesn't work
barry
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From: "Ed G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ack! Newbie linux sound troubles
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 08:53:15 GMT
Hi, I had similar problems. As far as I could figure the soundcard was
not being loaded with quite the right settings.
Have a look in /etc/modules.conf. You should find something along the
lines of "alias sound-slot-0 sb".
Now try running "modprobe -r sb" and "modprobe -r sound" I forget the
order. This should remove your sound driver from the kernel.
now try running harddrake and setting up your sound card.
If this works and you now have sound (until you reboot) and can set it up
consistently with harddrake (just by using the defaults) then you can try
what I tried. That is to go into your sysvinit (I used ksysv) and remove
the sound loader.
Now you have it set so that harddrake will configure the sound card for
you and it won't be reconfigured by the sound configuration that is doing
it now.
Works perfectly for me.
Hope this helps
Cheers
ERik
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Alex Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Sorry about the last posting, now I REALLY feel like an idiot (just
> kidding of course). Anyway, this is the message I tried sending to
> everybody regarding some mandrake linux installation woes:
>
> Thanks for being patient.
>
> I tried lurking and finding a solution to my problem this way, but that
> didn't seem to do the trick. So, here I am, with a newbie question
> regarding the installation of my sound card in mandrake linux.
>
> What basically happens is as follows:
>
> In KDE, after I first installed linux on my machine, I used DrakConf to
> set up my Vibra Soundblaster 16. I used the same irq and dma values that
> I have in windows and it worked just fine. However, upon rebooting the
> computer, the sound no longer worked. W hen I tried using DrakConf to
> install the card again in KDE I got the following error:
>
> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
>
> Finally, even stranger, I do not get this error when I attempt to
> install the sound card in gnome, windowmaker, or any of the other
> environments. However, even if I use these other environments to
> configure the sound card, the sound never continues workin g after I
> reboot the machine.
>
> So far I've attempted the following to solve my problem (based mainly on
> reading this newsgroup and others):
>
> 1. Run sndconfig as root and in console mode. While the installation,
> once
> again, went without problems, this did not solve my problem.
>
> 2. I also followed the how-to guide and ran pdpdump which I later
> configured. Once again, this didn't solve the problem.
>
> 3. Finally, I tried to change the permissions of /dev/dsp in case the
> problem had to do with how they were set. Once again, this didn't help,
> but it did lead me to another problem which I think may be related to
> why I cannot get sound.
>
> It seems that after I shutdown or close from the windows, the file
> permissions I set did not stay set in their new configuration. Hence, I
> set the permission to 660 (read and write for user and group) and the
> next thing I knew, it was back to only read a nd write for user.
>
> I used dmesg to see whether there were any warnings and found that there
> was something wrong with my partition table (I am appending the output
> of dmesg to the end of this message).
>
> I suspect that the problem is that the things I've been saving with
> respect to the soundcard are either saved and overwritten or not saved
> at all. This is just a guess mind you, I would appreciate any help in
> fixing this problem since it is distressing.
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2 (2.2.17-21) on the following machine: A
> Pentium
> 166 with 64 megs of RAM @ BIOS 13.5 gig harddrive in which windows 95 is
> running on the first partition (around 8 gigs worth) and linux is riding
> on the remainder 5-6 gigs. A matrox mystique graphics card. The
> computer is acting as a personal workstation (I'll probably have
> questions for you folks later when I try to get this thing connected to
> the school's slirp!).
>
> The soundcard is a Vibra SB16 set for IRQ 5, DMAS 0 and 1, and an I/O
> range of 220,330, and 338. The install programs tell me that there are
> no conflicts with these addresses.
>
> Anyway, as promised, here is the output of dmesg.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alex
>
> Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000 Detected
> 166586 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay
> loop... 332.60 BogoMIPS Memory: 62788k/65536k available (1136k kernel
> code, 412k reserved, 1072k data, 128k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table
> entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536
> (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) VFS:
> Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200
> stepping 0c Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16
> error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Intel Pentium with F0
> 0F bug - workaround enabled. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI:
> PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb490, last bus=0 PCI: Using
> configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux
> 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix
> domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash
> 65536 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS
> MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13) Real Time Clock
> Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 33MHz
> system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE
> controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09 SIS5513: chipset revision 192 SIS5513:
> not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1:
> BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: ST313640A, ATA DISK drive hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:272, ATAPI CDROM
> drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on
> irq 15 hda: ST313640A, 12969MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=26351/16/63 hdc: ATAPI
> 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Floppy
> drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0
> MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> 8regs : 162.687 MB/sec
> 32regs : 125.730 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (162.687 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi :
> detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
> autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel
> memory: 128k freed Adding Swap: 255488k swap-space (priority -1)
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP] parport_probe: failed
> parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux
> 2.2.x) ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit ppa:
> Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit scsi0 : Iomega VPI0
> (ppa) interface scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: L.01 Type:
> Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 sda :
> READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver =
> 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512
> bytes, disk size 1GB.
> sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition
> table
> PnP: Calling quirk for 02:00 isapnp: Card 'Rockwell V.34 Plug & Play
> Modem' isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16C PnP' isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards
> detected total isapnp: card 'CTL0070' order 1 not found Soundblaster
> audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.13
> detected OK (220) CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University
> of California PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline
> registered. lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
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From: Mat Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X Servers and Voodoo 3
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 01:12:00 +0100
Howdy,
I am running xfree86 4.0.2 on a RedHat 7.0 installation. I have recently
started using this with kde2 as my day to day OS instead of windows 2000. I
am very happy with it but have some questions about the speed of the x
server.
I have a voodoo 3 AGP graphics card on a barnd new motherboard with a
1.2ghz athelon and 256 mb of RAM.
If I drag a winodw around quickly it doesn't redraw straight away - it kind
of hops around following the cursor, and if the screen gets very busy this
gets worse.
Is there a better driver for my video card? Or is this what seems like lag
to me between kde and the x server due to the nature of the setup - x runs
as a sepearte program with the window manager just talking to it.
Can I stop this jerkyness or this something that can't be avoided?
Cheers for your help,
Mat Grove
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Condon)
Subject: Re: I would like to register a complaint ...
Date: 4 Apr 2001 09:52:35 GMT
Craig Kelley wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Condon) writes:
>
>> KCmaniac wrote:
>>
>> >There is a very fundemental concept in the DOS/Windows world of being
>> >able to format a partition, after which you can begin again compiling
>> >data into that empty but very much functional partition. WHY DOESN'T
>> >LINUX HAVE AN EQUIVALENT COMMAND/FUNCTION???
>> >
>> >Sorry for the big letters but I am now extremely frustrated over
>> >Linux's
>> >
>> >apparent inability to clear a partition of all its data and to be
>> >able to just simply begin again. Instead, it appears that you have
>> >to jump through a bunch of hoops and all of which I have not yet
>> >found.
>>
>> Why on earth would want to format a filesystem just to clear it out?
>> cd into your partition and type: rm -rf *
>
>It's faster to just make a new filesystem.
While that's true of Windows, it obviously isn't true of Linux, or you
wouldn't be here.
Linux isn't Windows (thank God) and sometimes you have to do things
differently. Sometimes you can do it the Windows way, by why create the
grief for yourself?
Just use rm.
--
Nick
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From: OrangeDino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any help for XFree86-4.0.2?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 17:45:51 +0800
I have upgraded my XFree86-3.3.6 to 4.0.2 with rpms for Redhat Linux.
But it does not contain any driver for my display card (SiS 6326) and it
can only use the SVGA X-server of 3.3.6 to drive my card. Is it the
XFree86-4.0.x rpms for Redhat does not contain any display driver and
you should use the 3.3.6 X-server as driver?
Anyway if I startx, only gnome can be startup while kde2.1 cannot. Even
in gnome I cannot run any kde application.
When I exit X-window, it cannot startx again before I reboot.
It said that there is error with the font path "unix:\7100".
I use the XFree86-4.0.2 rpms for Redhat 6.x.
Can anyone give some ideas what wrong with me.
Thanks for your kindly concern!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Primary partition... on every HDD?
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 06:33:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt) writes:
[...]
>With Linux you are limited to 4 primary or extended partitions with any
>number of logical partitions in an extended partition.
[...]
Sorry, but that's not a Linux limitation at all. It's a result of
the fact that the partition table itself can't hold more than 4
entries - up to 4 primary partitions, where 1 of these may be an extended
one.
That's a limitation that all operating systems have to abide, otherwise
the resulting PT would become incompatible with any other OS.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "kumara Wickramarachchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE doesn't work after XFree upgrade
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:55:06 +0400
Hi,
I had my Linux box working well with XFree4.0.2. Then I upgraded it to
XFree4.0.3 and now KDE which was working doesn't start at all.
But X server starts when I do ./startx and then white background and couple
of console windows opened appears but no KDE.
Please help me to configure my KDE
Kum
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris)
Subject: update to glibc 2.2.2
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:07:47 GMT
Hello all -
I have attempted to update glibc to v.2.2.2 with rpms from the
updates.redhat.com site. When I try i get errors (dependencies) [rpm
-Uvh] and I don't want to screw up the system by doing a --nodeps.
Any ideas.
TIA,
chris
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