Linux-Setup Digest #86, Volume #21 Sat, 21 Apr 01 23:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: need driver for ADI Microscan 4v monitor (E J)
Sound Blaster 16 problems on SuSe linux 7.1 ("E. Carrillo")
Re: driver disk ("Brian Wildasinn")
Re: Installing X with rpm ("ne...")
Re: RPM 3 to RPM4 ("ne...")
Re: lpr broken, instant error message ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: 486 Install Problems (Nils Holland)
Re: 486 Install Problems (Stanislaw Flatto)
Checking Archives for this newsgroup (George Trapkov)
Re: Installing X with rpm ("djswek")
Re: Installing X with rpm ("djswek")
minimum install help (earl yuzik)
Problem with kppp hanging at connect (Richard Everhart)
understanding Aurora (Tom Adams)
Red Hat upgrade to 2.2.19 kernel -- help! ("B.Y.")
Re: Checking Archives for this newsgroup (Dave Uhring)
What should hostname be for dial-up networking?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How do I access Windows disk with Linux? (Ken Bennett)
Re: lpr broken, instant error message (Mike Knudsen)
What kind of Fontpath is unix/:-1 ? (John Scudder)
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need driver for ADI Microscan 4v monitor
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:11:00 GMT
RTFM (F=fine). Get out your CRT manual, or go to the ADI website and
find the refresh rate.
You can also fiddle with the controls to change your refresh rate of
your monitor after RTFM.
Robert Moses wrote:
> Does any one know where to find a driver for and ADI Microscan 4v?
> or else how to determine the CRTs refresh rate for a custom X setup.
>
> --
> Robert Moses
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From: "E. Carrillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster 16 problems on SuSe linux 7.1
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:22:54 -0700
I have a sound blaster 16 ISA card which works fine under windows, but I
can't make it work properly on linux. The card does work the first time I
boot the system right after the linux installation. But as soon as I restart
the system the sound stops working. During the boot up process I see a line
that says something like "initializing snd-card-sb16" and "Done" on the
right side of the screen with green letters. If I try using the YaSt 2
setup program it recognizes the card, but during the sound test there is no
sound. It supposedly starts ALSA during the boot up process but that doesn't
seem to do any good. I'm a total newbie to this linux world so if you can
help me please be as descriptive as you can. Thank you in advance.
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From: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: driver disk
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:44:34 -0700
Hi,
Rawrite is only used while running DOS, which shouldn't be necessary to
install Linux unless something else is broken on your computer, or you want
Winlinux, or another version of Linux which installs inside a DOS partition.
You will only be able to use a Linux installation CDROM, if your system
recognises your CDROM drive in the computer's BIOS.
Here's a link to help configure your CDROM drive, assuming this is your
problem: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/cd/conf.htm More than likely you have
an ATA/IDE device that needs hardware/BIOS configuring. So check this link
out also: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/conf.htm
Once your system has a usable CDROM drive, then check out the installation
guides, faqs, etc for your distribution. For example here's RedHat Linux's
help docs for version 6.2: http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl62.html
Hope that helps,
Brian Wildasinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ph. 562-961-7308
===== Original Message =====
From: "Ray Tayek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: driver disk
> somebody on a newsgroup said:
>
> ... Actually, the installation expects you to insert a floppy on which
> you've written (with rawrite.exe) e.g. the "drivers.img" floppy image
> from the images directory of the install CD just as you probably did
> with "boot.img". ...
>
> my read hat cd has a directory images/ that looks like:
>
> total 448
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 0 0 65536 Mar 8 2000 eata-dma.img
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 0 0 65536 Mar 8 2000 gdth.img
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 0 0 98304 Mar 8 2000 paride.img
>
> what do you suppose it want's me to put on the floppy with rawrite?
>
> thanks
>
>
> ---
> Ray Tayek, Part-Time Lecturer
> Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science
> College of Engineering, California State University Long Beach
> http://www.cecs.csulb.edu/~tayek/
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup;comp.os.linux.x
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing X with rpm
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:55:08 GMT
On Apr 21, 2001 at 22:33, Rene Madsen eloquently wrote:
>I've just installed RH 7.1 on a fresh HD. As I wanted to install LVM
>(Logical Volume Manager) I wanted the initial installation to be as small
>as possible and passed on stuff like Xwindows etc.
>
>After having recompiled the kernel and installed LVM I've installed the
>rest of the server things (such as SMB, NFS, httpd, squid, qmail, mysql
>etc etc...) with no problem.
>
>Xwindows not. XFree-86 Depends on Mesa-something which in turns depends
>right back on XFree-86. Besides there are a ton of libs and tools that
>needs to be installed individually.
>
>I'm a server-kinda-guy, I don't have time or interest in fiddling with
>this stuff. I just want Xwindows with all the stuff to be there,
>installed. But how?
>
>I am not really concerned about KDE or Gnome, I can install both if
>necessary. Nor am I very concerned if I have the latest hi-chrome driver
>for my graphics card. I've installed RH 7.1 on other systems and had no
>trouble -- when the X-stuff is installed during the boot/install.
>
>Redhat/base/comps on the CD/1 seems to be a list of things required for
>an Xwindows installation -- but it doesn't list the RPM packages
>necessary. What I look for is a list of which packages to install and
>in which order. Flags such as --nodeps where necessary to tweak it to
>install.
>
>It must be possible to make a no-nonsense installation of X without
>having to be a rocket scientist.
Copy the XFree and Mesa rpm to a directory on the drive and
do a rpm -Uvh *.rpm in that directory. If it fails due to
dependencies, copy the dependency rpms to the same directory
and repeat.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
7:53pm up 19:13, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RPM 3 to RPM4
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 23:57:50 GMT
On Apr 21, 2001 at 16:50, George Trapkov eloquently wrote:
>I am using Mandrake and trying to upgrade from RPM3 to RPM4 and I do not
>know how I can do it. Mandrake has rpm4 but is rpm4 version and the
>older version can not open it. Any suggestions.
>George
Surely if you had checked the archives for this group
you would seen the answer to this question. Get rpm
3.0.5. This understands both v3 and v4 rpms.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
She's learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time putting
into words.
7:56pm up 19:16, 7 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lpr broken, instant error message
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:49:42 +0200
Mike Knudsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter T. Breuer"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> OK, and see if telnet even exists on my system. ifconfig and route do not.
>>You need to install them.
> Yes, but good luck on this old Slackware CD set. No packages, no binaries,
> just source.tgz. I can compile anything, though.
I run slackware 3.0. If you don't have it I can give it to you.
>>Char is the driver group. Major-10 is the major number of the
>>device involved. 135 is the device minor.
>>It appears to be the realtime clock.
> OK. My RTC seems to work OK -- time of day, sleep() call work great in my
> programs. So it isn't really needed.
(I don't think that's the rtc, just the system clock you're looking at.
The rtc should have millisecond precision at least, whereas the system
clock is limited by the scheduler resolution)
>> cr--r--r-- 1 root root 10, 135 May 30 1996 /dev/rtc
> Did you get this line from "ls -l /dev", or something more subtle? Maybe cat
> /procs?
Nothing subtle. ls -l /dev | grep 135. I should have looked it up in
devices.txt in the kernel source Documentation/ directory.
> TCP/IP stuff working for lpr, but I'll try the steps you've outlined. Will
> have to compile some modules -- or maybe just reinstall the whole system with
> the right options?
You should just have to go into the slackware cd and installpkg some
stuff from the n series. Don't go overboard. You essentially only want
three things - ifconfig and route, plus telnetd.
I don't really see how you managed to install lpd, since that should
have been in the tcp.tgz package, no?
Peter
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 Install Problems
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:42:08 +0200
Rand Simberg wrote:
> Any clues as to what's going on? I'm guessing that it's choking on a
> PCI probe, or it's freaked out by the Promise card. If either is the
> case, is there anything I can do, or should I just give up and use a
> newer machine?
Current distributions are normally Pentium-optimized and may have problems
with 486-machines. I have successfully installed the latest version of SuSE
Linux on a 486-machine, but I have heard at least one incident of
486-trouble with the latest version of Red Hat.
So what can you do? I think you can somehow start the installation with a
486-optimized kernel and it should work. If you have the time to look
through last month's archived articles of this newsgroup, you should be
able to find answers to exacntly your problem. If not, I'm sure you'll
shortly receive an answer from someone who can tell you what to do. I can't
do that, because I'm neither using one of the distributions you mentioned,
nor did I ever have any problems with my distribution on 486-class machines.
Greetings,
Nils
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 Install Problems
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 10:18:15 +1000
Rand Simberg wrote:
> I'm trying to bring up my old 486 as a firewall. It has no PCI bus,
> and it has 8 MB of RAM. It has dual EIDE, but it isn't native to the
> board--I'm using a Promise ISA card.
>
> I tried installing Slackware from floppies but it kept dying in the
> process of loading the "A" series--it wouldn't even take the first one
> (diska1), and said that the file system was wrong type or that too
> many filesystems were mounted. So I gave up and tried installing RH
> 6.2 from CD-ROM, after booting with a Win98 rescue disk.
Start Slackware setup from boot and root diskettes. Either it will detect
the CDROM or you can instruct it before starting setup. Read carefully
opening screens.
Note: in Windows go to MS-DOS prompt and format two diskettes noting that
there are NO bad segments on them. Then rawrite bare.i and color.gz from
Slackware CD and off you go.
Been there, done it!
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
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From: George Trapkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Checking Archives for this newsgroup
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:04:14 -0400
Where can I check the archives for this newsgroup?
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From: "djswek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing X with rpm
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:17:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rene Madsen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
there is no such thing as Xwindows.
Do:
man X
at a terminal. And that is CAPITAL X!
to install from rpm do:
[root@your_pea_brain]$ rpm -i X_peanut_brain.i086.rpm
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From: "djswek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing X with rpm
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:17:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rene Madsen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
there is no such thing as Xwindows.
Do:
man X
at a terminal. And that is CAPITAL X!
to install from rpm do:
[root@your_pea_brain]$ rpm -i X_peanut_brain.i086.rpm
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From: earl yuzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: minimum install help
Date: 22 Apr 2001 00:15:33 GMT
I have redhat 7 on my machine now. I want to have a minimum installation
for what I need which would be a basic kde package, without the toys games
and gimmicks. I have heard it is possible to install linux with x in as
little as 80 megs. Is this true. How would I go about getting a basic
install that I could build into the system with the packages that I want.
any help would be welcome
early
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From: Richard Everhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with kppp hanging at connect
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:35:14 GMT
I just got a modem that works with linux. It's a U.S. Robotics PCI
modem, model 3CP5610A. I used setserial allow the OS (SuSE 6.4 2.2.14)
to recognize my modem and kppp seems to recognize it. I know this
because I can hear the number being dialed, but after that kppp just
seems to hang and it's user interface doesn't get repainted. Know what
could be the problem?
Rich
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From: Tom Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: understanding Aurora
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:51:25 GMT
I thought I would look at the script that
Aurora uses at boot time. I have MDK-7.2
and Aurora seem to do a lot of the startup
tasks: providing services, starting daemons,
and lots of other stuff. If you want to
tinker with the startup, I would think you
have to tinker with Aurora.
If you start tracing from inittab you can
see how scripts call Aurora (actually
repeatedly try to start Aurora). When I
go into /etc/aurora I see a configuration
file, rc, and a script file, functions;
but these don't seem to be handling all
the work that Aurora does at startup.
Can someone tell me if there are richer
scripts or configuration files that affect
how Aurora works?
Tom Adams
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From: "B.Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat upgrade to 2.2.19 kernel -- help!
Date: 22 Apr 2001 02:07:25 GMT
Using rpm 4.0.2-6x, having upgraded mount and nfs-utils
[root@precision /root]# rpm -ivh arc/notyet/kernel-smp-2.2.19-6.2.1.i386.rpm
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The install works fine with rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
What went wrong??
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Checking Archives for this newsgroup
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:16:14 -0500
George Trapkov wrote:
> Where can I check the archives for this newsgroup?
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&group=comp.os.linux.setup
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.ppp,alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.windows.x.kde,linux.redhat.ppp,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: What should hostname be for dial-up networking??
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 02:25:35 GMT
Hello,
I using kppp with KDE on Redhat 6.1 on Intel. I can surf using
Netscape and have been for about a year, but I periodically get
browser lockups that result in a Netscape error window complaining
about my host (charlie) being unknown. The message gives a suggestion
about the NS_SOCKS environment variable. My questions are:
1. What should the hostname be for dial-up networking? Should it
contain your ISP's domain?
2. Is there a HOWTO explaining all the files that need to be modified
for dial-up networking?
3. Should I use the kppp feature that generates a hostname from the
connection info provided by the ISP?
4. Since I get a different IP/hostname every time, how can I know
what to put in /etc/hosts?
I'd like to get Kmail to work using sendmail again, and I'd appreciate
advice on that.
Thanks a lot,
Joel
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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:22:12 -0500
From: Ken Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I access Windows disk with Linux?
Hi, I'm new to Linux so I don't know how to get it to recognize a
fat file system on a floppy or how to read the other hard drive that I
have installed that has Win98 on it. Could someone inform a new comer?
Like I said I set up my system to dual boot two hard drives, one with
Win98 and the other with Redhat 6.1.
Thanks in advance.
Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Knudsen)
Date: 22 Apr 2001 02:58:12 GMT
Subject: Re: lpr broken, instant error message
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I run slackware 3.0. If you don't have it I can give it to you.
Thanks Peter, but I don't think that will be necessary (and would be a huge
attachment). Supposedly in a month I'll be getting a newer machine with RH
7.0, installed and configured by "expert" friends. I do want to understand
this stuff better for when it breaks, though, especially since my "friends" are
going to stick me with Samba and CUPS.
>(I don't think that's the rtc, just the system clock you're looking at.
>The rtc should have millisecond precision at least, whereas the system
>clock is limited by the scheduler resolution)
Hmmm. I've been wondering what the resolution available is with the msleep()
call, which takes microsecond arguments. I'm porting my music composer program
from a true real-time OS that supported 5 ms resolution. Obviously well over
Linux's head, or is it?
>Nothing subtle. ls -l /dev | grep 135. I should have looked it up in
>devices.txt in the kernel source Documentation/ directory.
OK, the major and minor numbers are what substitute for owner and group in the
ls -l /dev.
>You should just have to go into the slackware cd and installpkg some
>stuff from the n series. Don't go overboard. You essentially only want
>three things - ifconfig and route, plus telnetd.
ISTR there is installpkg, an earlier RPM sort of thing. I also seem to recall
it was on my list of things to do, but as I learned more I found reasons not to
try, like it might damage existing system or data. Well, I back up my work, so
...
>I don't really see how you managed to install lpd, since that should
>have been in the tcp.tgz package, no?
Or in a printer tarball? No idea where it came from on the 4-CDROM set, but I
do have lpd. I can start it but it exits quietly within a second -- probably
senses no TCP/IP.
I do know that everything came from the first disk.
BTW, some bootup messages imply I do have Sockets. Maybe just PPP ones? You
can tell that during 24 years at Bell Labs, I left networking to the experts!
I think I understand now how lpr and lpd eveolved. Someone already had a
network of workstations, and wanted to share a printer, so lpr began in a
network environment. For us home users, the printer comes first, so we get
upset over lpr needing TCP/IP. Has someone written a non-networked print
server?
Thanks for all your help. If I can just installpkg the missing components, and
they will dynamically load as needed, then it's "just" a matter of setting up
/etc/hosts and friends. --Mike K.
Life is a game. Play to enjoy!
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From: John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What kind of Fontpath is unix/:-1 ?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 22:58:58 -0400
What is the Fontpath "unix/:-1" all about in the Linux Mandrake file
"/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" ? The file "/etc/X11/fs/config" lists the
actual Fontpaths apparently.
John
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