Linux-Setup Digest #131, Volume #21 Sun, 29 Apr 01 16:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: installation problem caldera e-desktop 2.4 (David)
Re: BigSlack - Installed- Now What? Please Help! (webgiant)
Linux, streams and the standard library (John Beardmore)
Re: PCMCIA modem / Lucent / Dynalink / ltmodem568.o ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: PCMCIA modem / Lucent / Dynalink / ltmodem568.o ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RH 6.2 Printers (JefSummers)
Re: Linux, streams and the standard library ("Neil Butterworth")
Re: Is it possible to dual boot without a bootloader? ("Graham Stewart")
Mandrake 8.0 & Duplicate Win HDD's (Justo M. Casablanca)
Re: Mandrake 8.0 & Duplicate Win HDD's (David)
Problems setting up kwintv xawtv bttv, etc ("n")
Mandrake Install Problem ("" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
How to set font colors in GNOME Midnight Commander? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installation problem caldera e-desktop 2.4
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:28:14 GMT
auke wrote:
>
> Mainboard: Asus P2B-S
> CPU: Intel PIII-500
> Mem: 64 Mb.
> HD: Seagate 18 Gb SCSI-UW
>
> Everytime I try to install Caldera 2.4 I get the following message:
>
> "Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:03"
> I cannot find out what the problem is. Is there anyone who can?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will it boot if you enter this at the lilo prompt?
linux root=/dev/hdaX
# where hdaX is the correct root partition.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (webgiant )
Subject: Re: BigSlack - Installed- Now What? Please Help!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:40:00 GMT
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 00:24:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivory
Bones) wrote:
>I downloaded all 27 of the BigSlack files. Took all day. Anyway it's
>running. Now how do I find, install, in what order to get to a GUI desktop!
>
>I'm a Linux newbie so please reply in 'baby' steps.
I'm sorry you've been on hold for so long sir. (yes, I do work in
Customer Support).
I too have installed BigSlack, and BigSlack works the same as any
other Linux distribution, down to getting the GUI (X Windows) running.
Here's the steps you need to take:
[1] Type "startx" without the quotes.
[2] Wait for the GUI to load.
[3] Use the GUI.
I suppose steps [2] and [3] are unnecessary, given that all you have
to do is type "startx" and wait.
If you don't care for Enlightenment: if memory serves, the base
GNOME/Enlightenment setup includes an option on the menu for switching
to another window manager.
I find the Enlightenment menu difficult to add things to. You will
find it much easier to add application launcher icons (in Windows,
this would be "Shortcuts") to the desktop.
Personally, I prefer IceWM since its menu is easily edited (this makes
up for the fact that it has no icons on its destop space) and it uses
much less in resources than Enlightenment while still running all
GNOME and KDE applications.
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Linux, streams and the standard library
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:43:41 +0100
I'm starting a C++ project which has to compile to form both an MSVC 6
command line application and an RH Linux 6.2 command line application.
I was hoping to use C++ with the Standard Library as described in "The
C++ Programming Language" by Bjarne Stroustrup. WiIl this be
possible ?
I ask, because as soon as I stated adding code to the class skeleton I
found I needed to add a reference to the standard library at link time.
Was I being hopelessly naive in expecting it to be linked by default ?
In the end I found it in:
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/libstdc++.a
but it doesn't seem to be in the default library path so I have to
identify the full path in the Makefile. That stuff now compiles, but is
this normal ?
Now I've added stuff that requires the #include <sstream> according to
Stroustrup. I can find sstream.h, but only in:
/usr/include/linuxconf/sstream.h
which doesn't seem to be in the default include path. When I include
this by giving the full path, the compile fails, complaining that
ostringstream is undeclared, and it does indeed seem to be unmentioned
the linuxconf sstream.h file.
So - a couple of questions:
1) is there a way to get ostringstream to work ?
2) is the Standard C++ library ready for prime time under Linux ?
Isn't its
use utterly routine these days ? Or am I trying to be too modern ?
I'm having no problem getting this stuff to compile under MSVC 6. Have
I missed something obvious under Linux ?
If the compiler that ships with RH6.2 won't do what I need, ( I guess
it must be a year old now ! ), is it simple to upgrade it to a later
gcc that
will ?
If gcc won't work with the standard C++ lib, will the Compaq C for Linux
Alpha compiler be any use ? Will that compiler coexist with the Linux
compiler ? I gather I'd still need that for building kernels !
I've just tried to get an 'on line test drive' to see if the Compaq
compiler would compile my code skeleton, but the link from the Compaq
site is broken.
If I can, I'd rather stay with a standard Linux compiler so that we can
port to Intel Linux if needs be later on.
Cheers, J/.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem / Lucent / Dynalink / ltmodem568.o
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:23:52 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc David Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I 'insmod' the module ltmodem568.o, it does not work and write:
> ltmodem568.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including
> invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> What does it mean? What can I do?
It means what it says. The driver doesn't find what it's looking
for where it is looking for it. You can do the obvious things that
derive from that observation ...
> Technical details:
> I have a Dynalink PCMCIA 56K Fax Modem. The command 'cardctl ident'
> returns:
> product info: "V90&K56Flex PCMCIA FAX MODEM", "", "", ""
> Under Windows, the driver file is called LTMODEM.VDX. That is why I
> think I need to use a Lucent driver (I use ltmodem-5.78e.tar.gz).
Yes, but it is hardly a good reason, is it! Go and look up your modem
in linmodems.org. It strikes me that this is possibly not a winmodem,
but the lucent venus chipset, and therefore doesn't need a driver.
Check it out in /proc/pci and via /sbin/lspci.
> According to Windows, it uses ports 2F8-2FF and irq 3. Also my kernel
> version is 2.2.17.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem / Lucent / Dynalink / ltmodem568.o
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:29:45 +0200
In comp.os.linux.misc David Nowak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I 'insmod' the module ltmodem568.o, it does not work and write:
Wait! Your subject says "PCMCIA". Please don't hide such facts away only
in the subject line :)!
You can't use the ltmodem driver, which is for pci (or isa?) devices,
as far as I know. You need to load the pcmcia drivers and set up pcmcia
and select the generic serial driver. If that doesn't work, then you
HAVE a winmodem on a pcmcia card! Amazing.
> Technical details:
> I have a Dynalink PCMCIA 56K Fax Modem. The command 'cardctl ident'
Aha! So you KNOW you have to run pcmcia. You really do believe in
slipping things in sideways ...
> product info: "V90&K56Flex PCMCIA FAX MODEM", "", "", ""
Well, that doesn't tell us much. What does the generic pcmcia modem
driver make of it? You need to add the ident to the pcmcia card
database in /etc/pcmcia/ if it isn't there already, if the serial
driver isn't loaded by default when the cardmgr sees it.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JefSummers)
Date: 29 Apr 2001 17:54:26 GMT
Subject: Re: RH 6.2 Printers
>From another newbie, who just solved this last night. There is a Print Howto
that explains that there are 3 lines that need to be in the configuration file
conf.modules that are "left out of 6.2" They are:
alias /dev/printers lp # only for devfs?
alias /dev/lp* lp # only for devfs?
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc # missing in Red Hat 6.0-6.1
After putting those into the conf.modules file, then rebooting, suddenly the
printtool could find my parallel port, and then it pretty much set itself up.
hth
/js
>I have installed Red Hat 6.2 on my system, but cannot seem to configure a
>printer. Everything works fine except the printer... and i haven't figured
>out how to configure my sound card yet either. I've searched all the menus
>and configurations but cannot find anything to do with a printer. Any
>insight as to how I can fix this?
>
>
>
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From: "Neil Butterworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Linux, streams and the standard library
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:02:42 +0100
"John Beardmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
[snip]
>
> So - a couple of questions:
>
> 1) is there a way to get ostringstream to work ?
Yes - use STLport. You can download it from www.stlport.org.
> 2) is the Standard C++ library ready for prime time under Linux ?
> Isn't its
> use utterly routine these days ? Or am I trying to be too modern ?
No, I've been using it for quite some time with absolutely no problems. Not
under RedHat though - I run SuSE.
[snip]
NeilB
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From: "Graham Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to dual boot without a bootloader?
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:03:48 +0100
Once you've done that you could make the 1.7Gb drive bootable with grub/lilo
and then change your boot order to start with D in your bios.
G
"s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:GIXG6.71$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sure. Boot into linux and make a boot floppy (there are gui frontends in
> the kmenu). and then boot into dos and restore the windows mbr. Now if
> you want to boot into linux, just stick in the floppy.
> A lot better than changing the bios back and forth.
> -s
>
> Cyber-Wizard wrote:
>
> > I have a 12Gb drive running Win2K and decided to learn about Linux to
> > get out from under the M$ thumb. I have installed Mandrake on a 1.7Gb
> > drive in a removable hard drive bay. I need this bay for other
> > purposes and would like to simply select hda3 in the BIOS for booting
> > into Linux when I want it. My problem is this, now that Linux is
> > installed, GRUB is loading at boot no matter which drive I am booting
> > from. If I remove the 1.7Gb Linux drive from the drive bay the PC will
> > not boot at all. Does anyone know how I might go about being able to
> > boot into Linux by manual HDD BIOS selection?
> >
> > Kevin Davison
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
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From: Justo M. Casablanca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 8.0 & Duplicate Win HDD's
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:30:09 -0000
Hi all,
I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and noticed that when I dual-boot
to my Win98 partition, windows explorer shows a duplicate
hard drive. In other words, my D: drive appears as D: and E:,
so that my CD-ROM is bumped to F: from E:. Both D: and E:
show the same contents, disk properties, etc within windows.
This is a mess because many of my applications "remember" the
CD-ROM drive letter they were installed from, and use that
knowledge when the CD is required. And as usual with windows,
these settings are not always easily found within *.ini files
or even the registry. So, I need to get this fixed. Any ideas ?
BTW, my Mandrake installation resides in the remaining partitions
of my C: drive(i.e. windows is on 1st partition, linux native +
swap on remaining partitions). D: is completely FAT32, and E:
was my CD-ROM drive before this happened.
Thx in advance !!!!
Justo M. Casablanca
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 & Duplicate Win HDD's
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:35:47 GMT
"Justo M. Casablanca" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed Mandrake 8.0 and noticed that when I dual-boot
> to my Win98 partition, windows explorer shows a duplicate
> hard drive. In other words, my D: drive appears as D: and E:,
> so that my CD-ROM is bumped to F: from E:. Both D: and E:
> show the same contents, disk properties, etc within windows.
>
> This is a mess because many of my applications "remember" the
> CD-ROM drive letter they were installed from, and use that
> knowledge when the CD is required. And as usual with windows,
> these settings are not always easily found within *.ini files
> or even the registry. So, I need to get this fixed. Any ideas ?
>
> BTW, my Mandrake installation resides in the remaining partitions
> of my C: drive(i.e. windows is on 1st partition, linux native +
> swap on remaining partitions). D: is completely FAT32, and E:
> was my CD-ROM drive before this happened.
Boot into linux and take a look in /etc/fstab if you have it setup so
that you can mount the windoz partition from linux. In the line for the
windoz partition it should have "0 0" at the end of the line without
the quotes.
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From: "n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems setting up kwintv xawtv bttv, etc
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:11:20 GMT
I am trying to get a TV viewing card working on my PC. I have visted
http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~wenk/kwintv/how.html
http://www.strusel007.de/linux/xawtv
and I have followed their instructions. I am using Red Hat Linux 7.1
(upgraded from 7.0). I am trying to compile various files. When I try to
compile kwintv, I get the error that it is having trouble with calling exit
in line 130 of parsecl.cpp. My guess is that exit is some library function.
I haven't been able to figure out why it is having trouble. I followed the
steps for either the rpm or the step-by-step, including the ./configure
command.
[root@goldie kwintv-0.8.5]# make
make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5'
Making all in kwintv
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
Making all in doc
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc'
Making all in de
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc/de'
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc/de'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc/de'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc/de'
Making all in en
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc/en'
make[5]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc/en'
make[5]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc/en'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc/en'
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/doc'
Making all in icons
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/icons'
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/icons'
make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/icons'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv/icons'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/kde -I/usr/lib/qt-2.3.0/incl
ude -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -c parsecl.cpp
parsecl.cpp: In method `bool parsecl::parse ()':
parsecl.cpp:130: `exit' undeclared (first use this function)
parsecl.cpp:130: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once for
each function it appears in.)
make[3]: *** [parsecl.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rrooks/kwintv-0.8.5'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
In general, I have trouble compiling other things, such as the bttv drivers
and with running xawtv. When I try running that, I get the error:
[root@goldie kwintv-0.8.5]# xawtv
This is xawtv-3.43, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.2-2)
Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display "mickey:0.0".
The app-defaults file is not correctly installed.
It should be either in /etc/X11/app-defaults or in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults, depending on how
your XFree86 installation is configured.
Your fault (core dumped)
Now, there is no XVideo in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/appdefaults/. I did put in
(to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) the command Load "v41" under Section "Module".
(which is supposed to add in Video4Linux, from what I understand.
I cannot even seem to run the command (which was recommended from the kwintv
documention) the command make modules, from /usr/src/linux-2.4.2.
Can someone help me? As you can see, I am quite a newbie. Included several
examples of my problems in hope that it would help someone interpret the
problem.
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From: "<Debian User>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake Install Problem
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 15:27:04 -0400
After Mandrake 8.0 (Stable) is installed and when I try to boot it, I get
this error:
VS: Cannot open root device
"2103" or 21:03
Please append a correct
"root:" boot option
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root
fs on 21:03
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to set font colors in GNOME Midnight Commander?
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 20:07:53 GMT
I am using a black background in my theme. Somehow, the font color in
GNOME Midnight color is black as well. How can I change the color so I
can see the filenames? I look forward to receiving replies soon. Thanks.
:)
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