Linux-Setup Digest #122, Volume #21 Fri, 27 Apr 01 22:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: DMA (Stuart Williams)
graphical login screen (Ted Shoemaker)
Re: Pinging intranet machines (Barry Margolin)
No sound at startup ("Henrik Farre")
XF86 4.0.2 - unresolved symbols as a result of VertRefresh change? (Peter Schuller)
Re: Pinging intranet machines ("Natman")
Poor screen quality (Peter B. Ensch)
Re: Crontab ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
newbie suse 7.0 internet problems ("stuart pickett")
Re: RedHat 7.1 has problem with Adaptec AIC-7XXX Driver (Chris Ahlstrom)
Re: newbie suse 7.0 internet problems (woolfy)
PPPoE, Roaring Penguin & DSL trouble! (none)
Re: ReiserFS for / ("Gene Heskett")
Re: GPM acting weird (Steve Martin)
Re: Pinging intranet machines ("Joseph Wind")
Re: Pinging intranet machines (David Schwartz)
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From: Stuart Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DMA
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:12:39 -0400
"@imon" wrote:
> Did u add the dma support to your kernel?
>
> Stuart Williams wrote:
>
> > hey i know these is a weird question. I cant set my hard drives to DMA
> >
> > they are DMA drives
> >
> > Maxtor 91024U2 DMA/66
> > Maxtor 88400D8 DMA/33
> >
> > I can setup them to 32 bit I/O but not DMA it fails
> >
> > i am using the command
> > hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hda
> > hdparm -c 1 -d 1 /dev/hdb
> >
> > please help
do you know what it is under?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
From: Ted Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: graphical login screen
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:12:00 GMT
Hello,
Concerning the graphical login screen on SuSE 7.1 ...
I changed the default icon
(the silhouette of a face, about 80 x 80 pixels) to other images,
using the methods available on the root KDesktop.
2 reasons:
1. I wanted to personalize my computer.
2. One of my children doesn't read yet, but she can recognize a
picture of her face -- if it's large enough.
That's right, folks. Linux has graduated to the "GUI for kids" stage.
And all is fine. Except now, the new icons are too small -- about half the size
of the default icons. I have tried using images of a variety of
sizes, even up to 600 x 600 pixels, in this application, but
they all end up about 40 x 40 on the login screen.
How do I make my own icons the same size as the SuSE icons?
Thanks,
Ted Shoemaker
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Barry Margolin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Pinging intranet machines
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:17:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Luis Fernando Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I solved the problem.
> Someone asked me to send the result of ipconfig command. When
>executing it I saw that I also had an ip address, of same range, in my
>Satellite reception card (Satellite Internet). It had the
>192.168.123.11, I changed it to 125.0.0.1 and.... I can ping every
>machine.
> Don't ask me what that had to do with the problem but what I can
>say is that now the problem is solved.
Since you had two NICs with addresses in the same subnet, it had to pick
one to send traffic for 192.168.123.x through. It picked the satellite
card instead of the LAN card.
The reason you could ping from B to A, but not from A to B was because
Windows sends ping replies back out the the NIC that the request arrived
on. So it would send the reply to B out the LAN card. But if you
initiated the ping on A, it always picked the Satellite card.
And the reason why you could send to the Internet is because Windows
configures the default route as a property of the NIC, rather than figuring
out which NIC to use from the address of the default gateway. Since you
presumably only had a default route on the LAN card, that's the one it used
for sending to addresses outside 192.168.123.x.
--
Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Genuity, Burlington, MA
*** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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From: "Henrik Farre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No sound at startup
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:35:58 -0400
Yello
I have to start "Gnome Mixer" in order to get any sound. I can start
playing a CD with "Gnome CD player" or play a Mp3 with XMMS, but there is
no sound until I start the mixer.
I have esd starting up on boot.
I run Gnome 1.4
Any ideas???
--
Mvh. / Kind regards
Henrik Farre ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Webpage: http://Welcome.to/Webbench
-If I where God, I would recompile the penguin with --enable-flying.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Schuller)
Subject: XF86 4.0.2 - unresolved symbols as a result of VertRefresh change?
Date: 27 Apr 2001 22:35:30 GMT
Hello, I just upgraded to XF86 4.0.2 and Kernel 2.4.3. I'm having a very
weird problem with the nvidia driver.
The "nv" driver works fine; as does the nvidia driver as long as I limit
VertRefresh to 50-80. I have it set to run desktops as 640x480, 800x600 an
1024x768. With VertRefresh set to 5-84 or below, it works fine except I
can't get to 1024x768. If I go to 50-85 or above, the X server dies upon
start up complainging about unresolved symbols. And yes, the *ONLY* thing
I'm changing is the VertRefresh parameter.
The unresolved symbols are XAA* from nvidia_drv, and a __glActivateScreens
from libdri.
Why on earth would this be happending because I increase the vertical
refresh rate?
Everything else does work, including hardware accelerated OpenGL, but I'd
rather not be stuck at 800x600.
Thanks!
--
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From: "Natman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Pinging intranet machines
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:42:01 GMT
Have you tried running a packet sniffer to see what's going on? With your
redhat box, you can use a program called "tcpdump". Run it, then do the
pings and see what's different. The only suggestions that I can give is
that WinME has a mixed up routing table (run "route print" on it to see the
table), ARP isn't working right (the changing of IPs to Ethernet addresses),
or your ethernet card isn't working right in WinME. Replace the ethernet
card and try again. If you still don't get it, post the results of a packet
sniff while doing the pings, then we can really see what's going on. I'm
sure there's probably some really dumb explanation for this.
One last thing, is your router one that has a SWITCH built in? Or is it a
HUB? If it's a switch, I would try to find a hub to attach between the
comps A,B,C and the router. If this fixes the problem, then you know the
built-in switch isn't working properly.
Natman
"Luis Fernando Martins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yesterday I posted a message asking for help on a "ping" problem
> with my intranet machines. I now post again but with the information
> more understandable.
> What I have is:
>
> Computer A - Windows ME - 192.168.123.1
> Computer B - Windows 98 - 192.168.123.3
> Computer C - Red Hat Linux 6.2 - 192.168.123.12
> Router/Hub - SMC Barricade - 192.168.123.254
> Modem ADSL - Alcatel SpeedTouch Home - 192.168.123.253
>
> Netmask in all - 255.255.255.0
> Gateway - 192.168.123.254
>
> Pinging every machine I get the following results:
>
> A -> A = Yes
> A -> B = No
> A -> C = No
> A -> Router = No
> A -> Internet = Yes
>
> B -> A = Yes
> B -> B = Yes
> B -> C = Yes
> B -> Router = yes
> B -> Internet = Yes
>
> C -> A = No
> C -> B = Yes
> C -> C = Yes
> C -> Router = Yes
> C -> Internet = Yes
>
> Every computer is connected to the router that is connected to
> the modem.
> What might be the problem? The results from computer A are the
> most strange as I can ping any machine in Internet but can't ping my
> Intranet.
> Shutting down the machines and router doesn't solve problem.
> I don't know what else to do.
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
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From: Peter B. Ensch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Poor screen quality
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x
,comp.windows.x.kde
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:07:21 GMT
This is really bugging me and I don't know what to do...
I'm running Suse7.1/KDE2 on a Pentium III w/ 256MB RAM and an ATI Rage card
with 32MB VRAM and XFree4.x My monitor is a Iiyama Vision Master 450 (19").
My image quality is crappy - window borders often are real wiggly or
crooked. They change depending on where on the screen I place them - so if
I move a window to a certain place it looks fine. If I move it somewhere
else it's left or right border goes all crooked or wavy again. The 'good'
places are not the same all the time.
I had the problem before I upgraded to Suse7.1 but the move to XFree 4
seems to have made it worse.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Crontab
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 20:57:42 +0100
Mikael Chambon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Each time my cron daemon executes an entry, it send a mail to the root
> account,
If a command is executed and outputs to stdout or stderr then the output
is mailed to the user who started the command.
It is usual to direct any output from a command to a log file e.g.:
0,15,30,45 * * * * fetchmail -mymail >>~/log/email 2>&1
This means no mail to you, and any output is appended to the file
~/log/email
--
Bill
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From: "stuart pickett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie suse 7.0 internet problems
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:37:43 +0100
Hello,
Well I have tried and tried I can get connected to the internet
of my Linux machine. it recognises my modem.But it dies when logging on to
the network. any ideas thanks in advance. I still think that Linux is the
best thing since sliced bread.
Stuart Pickett
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From: Chris Ahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 has problem with Adaptec AIC-7XXX Driver
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:52:26 GMT
Kevin Nguyen wrote:
>
> I am trying to install RedHat 7.1 on the Intel Server and it hang during
> installation
>
> Adaptec AIC-7XXX device.
>
> I have RedHat 7.0 and it works OK.
>
> Thanks
>
> kevinn
Did you download an ISO file and burn it?
If so, also download the MD5SUM file.
Do "md5sum seawolf-i386-disc1.iso" (it will
take awhile). Then do "cat MD5SUM".
Check the sum. Do the same for disc2.
If either sum from the MD5SUM file doesn't
match the respective sum for the ISO file,
then your download is corrupt. I had that
happen to me twice when downloading from
archive.progeny.com, so I stopped trying to
download from that site.
Chris
--
"None but a blockhead ever wrote code,
except for money."
Bill Gates
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From: woolfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie suse 7.0 internet problems
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:14:22 GMT
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:37:43 +0100, "stuart pickett"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well I have tried and tried I can get connected to the internet
>of my Linux machine. it recognises my modem.But it dies when logging on to
>the network. any ideas thanks in advance. I still think that Linux is the
>best thing since sliced bread.
Is your password and user id of your ISP account correct?
I assume you use wvdial. The config file is /etc/wvdial.conf.
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From: none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PPPoE, Roaring Penguin & DSL trouble!
Date: 27 Apr 2001 20:22:17 -0400
I'm having trouble getting my debian potato to connect to my DSL
provider. I'm trying to connect over PPPoE, using roaring penguin(RP). I
have a dynamic IP. RP connects (logs in) just fine, but then I cannot
'go' anywhere. lynx times out, and so do all pings. The RP docs said to
setup my /etc/resolv.conf, and i put the 2 addresses in, provided by my
IP, and still no luck. ifconfig eth0 works, and RP says its connecting
fine. (and i assume it is, because my dsl modem lights are even lighting
up, and i dont get a user/pw error :) Is this a problem w/dchp? Where do
i start? Any suggestions would be great! Thanks!-nick
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Date: 27 Apr 2001 19:55:57 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ReiserFS for /
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to A.C. 'Static';
AS> mlutz3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
AS> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hi Val,
>> I made my 1st trial with reiserfs 2 weeks before.
>> I would propose to setup a /mnt/xxx partition with reiserfs to
>> check it out for some days/weeks. There are some strange things
>> which may be caused by the implementation
>> (I'm currently using a Mandrake 8.0beta3 version)
>> or some real bugs in this journaling system - e.g. file names with
>> blanks in the name seem to cause blocking the reiserfs partition
>> when you try to access it when having booted again. A complete
>> download session which I've stored on a reiserfs partion vanished
>> after a reboot.
>>
>> There are often bugfixes available - so you need support from
>> a reiserfs usergroup.
>>
>> I decided to try it out by my own for 2 of 5 partitions:
>> My "/var" and "/usr", because there no downloads and Win9x files
>> are stored.
>>
>> Join user Mail list via "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>> Homepage "www.reiserfs.org".
>> ;-))
>> Martin Lutz, Cologne, Germany, Ford Motor Company
>>
>> Blue System wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm planning to install Linux and have all partitions as type
>> > Reiser. However, I'm not sure if making / as ReiserFS is good
>> > decision. Any input will be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Val
AS> Val, mlutz3: I decided to try reiser/fs as my /usr partition on
AS> one machine. Considering that's where the majority of the load is
AS> on that computer, I figured it would either make it or break it.
AS> So far, its made it. Now, am I willing to jump off the deepend
AS> and convert all my machines to reiser/fs? The simple answer is
AS> "no". While I haven't had anything major go wrong yet, I also
AS> haven't really stress tested it yet... I've from people who have,
AS> who now swear by it, but their root partitions are still e2/fs.
AS> Besides, until I can prove to myself that it will solve more
AS> headaches then it will solve, I'm not going to try it on a
AS> production machine.
AS> St.
And to both of you, reiserfs has a problem that hasn't been fixed until
the full 2.4.3 kernel was released. So please do yourselves a favor
and update your kernel to 2.4.3, and resierfsutils to at least the -f
version. I use it here on my /usr partition, and had been doing so
since 2.4.1, but I've been told I was lucky more than once.
Other than a short occasional stutter as it 'clears the pipes' when a
large bunch of large files are being written in, its great. I haven't
lost a byte I didn't delete myself.
Cheers, Gene
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: GPM acting weird
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 15:44:11 -0500
Richard Everhart wrote:
>
> I tried running gpm but whenever I do it makes my mouse unusable. After
> starting gpm, the pointer moves to the upper right hand corner of the
> screen and I'm unable to move it from there.
>
> Here's some system info:
> gpm 1.18.1
> XFree86 11.0
> kde 2.1
> Kernel 2.2.14
> Microsoft PS/2 Port mouse
>
> Here's the command I use to run gpm:
> gpm -t imps2 -m /dev/mouse
Two questions: (1) What does /dev/mouse actually point to? For
your mouse, it should point to /dev/psaux; (2) Do you have
support for the PS/2 mouse in your kernel? If not, then nothing
will talk to it.
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From: "Joseph Wind" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Pinging intranet machines
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:34:08 -0700
I've played around with ME enough not to like it a whole lot. It's buggy as
hell. One solution is to put the ME's IP address in the first part of the
Gateway address then the router. This will cause it to ARP and see all the
other IPs. Typically xxx.xxx.xxx.1 is reserved for gateways, but in your
case it will work. Disabling the DNS will also cause it to ARP. Last
resort, is to put all the static IPs and hostnames in a HOSTS file on all
the Computers.
BTW, next time don't cross post to too many NGs.
"Luis Fernando Martins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Yesterday I posted a message asking for help on a "ping" problem
> with my intranet machines. I now post again but with the information
> more understandable.
> What I have is:
>
> Computer A - Windows ME - 192.168.123.1
> Computer B - Windows 98 - 192.168.123.3
> Computer C - Red Hat Linux 6.2 - 192.168.123.12
> Router/Hub - SMC Barricade - 192.168.123.254
> Modem ADSL - Alcatel SpeedTouch Home - 192.168.123.253
>
> Netmask in all - 255.255.255.0
> Gateway - 192.168.123.254
>
> Pinging every machine I get the following results:
>
> A -> A = Yes
> A -> B = No
> A -> C = No
> A -> Router = No
> A -> Internet = Yes
>
> B -> A = Yes
> B -> B = Yes
> B -> C = Yes
> B -> Router = yes
> B -> Internet = Yes
>
> C -> A = No
> C -> B = Yes
> C -> C = Yes
> C -> Router = Yes
> C -> Internet = Yes
>
> Every computer is connected to the router that is connected to
> the modem.
> What might be the problem? The results from computer A are the
> most strange as I can ping any machine in Internet but can't ping my
> Intranet.
> Shutting down the machines and router doesn't solve problem.
> I don't know what else to do.
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
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From: David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.xdsl,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Pinging intranet machines
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:39:51 -0700
Luis Fernando Martins wrote:
> A -> A = Yes
> A -> B = No
> A -> C = No
> A -> Router = No
> A -> Internet = Yes
>
> B -> A = Yes
> B -> B = Yes
> B -> C = Yes
> B -> Router = yes
> B -> Internet = Yes
>
> C -> A = No
> C -> B = Yes
> C -> C = Yes
> C -> Router = Yes
> C -> Internet = Yes
Are you pinging by IP?
DS
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