Linux-Setup Digest #143, Volume #21 Tue, 1 May 01 14:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH newbie ("Weite")
Re: Newbie Video Help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RedHat 7.1 has problem with Adaptec AIC-7XXX Driver (J Hayward)
Re: running as someone else. (Michael Heiming)
KDM and remote Xwindows connections ("--==[bMan]==--")
Red Hat 7.1 and "Tripple" Boot ("Webmonkey<-->>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Re: HELP: ISDN not working ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH newbie (John)
Re: What Linux installation actually works? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PPP, modems, incoming calls and IP addresses... ("Michael Pye")
Re: PPP, modems, incoming calls and IP addresses... ("Michael Pye")
Re: Apache Problem, probably a stupid question. (Chronos Tachyon)
sound, root login and 2.4.4 kernel (Dave Waller)
Re: problem repartitioning for linux (Dave Berntson)
DHCLIENT: device eth not reachable (SuSe7.1) (adrian iliescu)
usb and 2.4.4 kernel (Dave Waller)
Re: RedHat 7.1 install hangs after selecting installation type (Eamon Skelton)
Re: linux gpm -mouse (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: red hat 7.1 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
autoloading modules on boot-up ("J.Smith")
Re: DHCLIENT: device eth not reachable (SuSe7.1)
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
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From: "Weite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH newbie
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:32:19 +0800
I'm using the one that comes with GNOME, once I pop in an audio cd, it
automatically launches and it seems to be playing. But there's no sound. I
have used the same computer for WIN98 (another harddisk) and it is playing
fine. I have thought that it might be due to file permissions so I logged in
as root, but it still didnt work. Is there any way to check if my sound card
drivers are properly installed?
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > "/ has reached maximal mount count, check forced". What does it mean
> > actually?
>
> It's not an error message. Every 50 or so re-boots the filesystem is
> checked automatically.
>
> > I can't listen to audio cds.
>
> What software are you using to play them?
>
> John.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie Video Help
Date: 1 May 2001 14:16:17 GMT
JLucien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there any way I can bypass the desktop and get directly into the
> command line?
Simply kill the X server (ctrl-alt-backspace), or use
Ctrl-alt-f2 to hop into a console.
Davide
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From: J Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 has problem with Adaptec AIC-7XXX Driver
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux.redhat
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:44:46 -0700
Hello,
This is a known problem with 7.1. You can read about it here:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29555
Regards,
Jim H
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
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:52:24 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: running as someone else.
Darren wrote:
>
> Hi all. I have a binary executable that performs a volume mount. sadly it
> needs to be logged in as root and as I want it accessible by anyone then
> this single process must run as root only I did see a command for this once,
> but I'm buggered if I can find it again.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> thanks
>
> Darren
Hello,
if you really trust the binary, you could set the SUID bit,
asuming the file is owned by root, "chmod 4755 filename", should work.
"man 2 chmod" for more info.
Michael Heiming
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From: "--==[bMan]==--" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: KDM and remote Xwindows connections
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 14:59:28 GMT
Hi gang,
Right off the bat, I want to tell you that gdm works for me like a charm
(yeah, it's too bad that by default xdmcp section is disabled in
gdm.conf file). However, I have a problem enabling kdm to work
properly. It works O.K when I'm at the system (let's call it console)
but cannot connect to it remotely using e.g. ReflectionsX if kdm is
running (not gdm). Again, there is no problem using xterm but a fully
blown X Windows session. How the heck do I enable it?
Thanks.
--
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From: "<<-->Webmonkey<-->>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 7.1 and "Tripple" Boot
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 17:11:37 +0200
I am looking forward to try installing Linux for the first time.
my current config has Windows ME and Windows 2000 in a Dual boot mode
The Questions is: - is it possible to make a "tripple" boot that will
also include Red Hat Linux in the startup menu?
If so, how is it done??
Sincerely
Webmonkey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP: ISDN not working
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 15:06:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[list of newsgroups trimmed to cols - crossposting to 6 groups is *not* nice]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Maarten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi,
>Since I wasn't able to fix my Redhat 7.1 installation problems I decided to
>switch to Mandrake 8.0 (which is quite similar to RedHat). I have problems
>setting up my ISDN card: Eicon Diva 2.01 ISA pnp and was hoping you can help
>me out. I included the log files. Linux seems to try to make the connection
>with my ISP : 0738800924.
RedHat is "famous" for it's bad ISDN support, which is why they will never
get a big market share in Europe, IMHO.
[del]
>When I use isapnp I can make the card work by using non-standard IRQ (11)
>and IO (0x200) for my ISDN card. See the log below:
>[root@localhost maarten]# isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
>Board 1 has Identity f4 00 00 e8 ac a1 00 89 1c: GDI00a1 Serial No 59564
>[checksum f4]
>GDI00a1/59564[0]{EICON DIVA 2.01 S/T ISA}: Port 0x200; IRQ11 --- Enabled OK
>After this I address the setting to the card using modprobe. Again see the
>log below:
>ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.114.6.8/1.94.6.1/1.140.6.3/1.85.6.2/1.21/1.5.6.3
>loaded
>HiSax: Linux Driver for passive ISDN cards
>HiSax: Version 3.5 (module)
>HiSax: Layer1 Revision 2.41.6.2
>HiSax: Layer2 Revision 2.25.6.1
>HiSax: TeiMgr Revision 2.17.6.1
>HiSax: Layer3 Revision 2.17.6.2
>HiSax: LinkLayer Revision 2.51.6.2
>HiSax: Approval certification failed because of
>HiSax: unauthorized source code changes
>HiSax: Total 1 card defined
>HiSax: Card 1 Protocol EDSS1 Id=line0 (0)
>HiSax: Eicon.Diehl Diva driver Rev. 1.25.6.4
>Diva: IPAC version 1
>Diva: IPAC ISA card configured at 0x200 IRQ 11
>Diva: IPAC version 1
>Eicon.Diehl Diva: IRQ 11 count 0
>Eicon.Diehl Diva: IRQ 11 count 4
>HiSax: DSS1 Rev. 2.30.6.1
>HiSax: 2 channels added
>HiSax: MAX_WAITING_CALLS added
Looks good. You should add your isapnp call to your local boot-up
scripts.
>Now I am trying to make a Internet connection using the dialup programm of
>Xwindows (mandrake). The following information appears in my log files:
>dmesg:
>ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: 0000
>ippp_ccp: allocated reset data structure c8b38000
>ippp0: dialing 1 0738800924...
>isdn_net: ippp0 connected
>isdn_net: local hangup ippp0
>ippp0: Chargesum is 0
>ippp_ccp: freeing reset data structure c8b38000
>ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: 0000
>ippp_ccp: allocated reset data structure c756b000
That means that the card dials, gets a connect, but can't establish
a TCP/IP connection and hangs up.
>[root@localhost maarten]# tail /var/log/messages
>Apr 30 13:40:18 localhost kernel: isdn_net: ippp0 connected
>Apr 30 13:40:48 localhost ipppd[1919]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Ah. It doesn't get an answer to the LCP-requests. Are you sure
that the number is correct and you have set the right ippp options?
I don't know where Mandrake wants to have these settings, but you
have to tweak them anyway (disable compression, remove server
authentication, etc.).
HTH,
Uli
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Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:40:18 +0100
From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH newbie
Plug some headphones in to the socket on the front of the CD-ROM drive.
Is the audio being played?
Weite wrote:
>
> I'm using the one that comes with GNOME, once I pop in an audio cd, it
> automatically launches and it seems to be playing. But there's no sound. I
> have used the same computer for WIN98 (another harddisk) and it is playing
> fine. I have thought that it might be due to file permissions so I logged in
> as root, but it still didnt work. Is there any way to check if my sound card
> drivers are properly installed?
>
> John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > "/ has reached maximal mount count, check forced". What does it mean
> > > actually?
> >
> > It's not an error message. Every 50 or so re-boots the filesystem is
> > checked automatically.
> >
> > > I can't listen to audio cds.
> >
> > What software are you using to play them?
> >
> > John.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What Linux installation actually works?
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:54:10 -0500
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, judojim wrote:
> First-timer, fustrated with several types of Linux installations is
> re-posting an earlier question here.
>
> I have a P133 with 32 MB RAM, 2 GB HD.
> I've tried Red Hat 7.0, RedHat 6.2, Red Hat 5.1, Slackware 3.4, and finally,
> I've got Turbocluster Server pre-release 1.1.2 to install. Sorry guys,
> TurboCluster sux. I don't want to use it.
> I would really like to install RedHat since there seems to be more
> documentation for it. I've followed the advise of several books on RedHat
> Linux, but NONE of it works.
I think it would be helpful if you could tell us the particular problems
you've had trying to install the distributions you mention. I've no
experience with Redhat, but I think Slackware 3.4 (is that the 2.0.30
kernel?) is the one I installed several years ago on an old 386. It was
about as straightforward as you can get.
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From: "Michael Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PPP, modems, incoming calls and IP addresses...
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 16:33:23 +0100
"Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3aee7b79$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You can also start pppd with the persist option so that when you get
> disconnected it dials up
> again
I thought about that, but I don't want it dialling in for 7 hours
straight...
MP
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From: "Michael Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: PPP, modems, incoming calls and IP addresses...
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 16:33:42 +0100
Sounds like the tool for the job. Thanks!
MP
"Bill Unruh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9cknb6$anu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In <Y9gH6.9017$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Michael Pye"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >OK, here's one to really puzzle over.
>
> >I want to set up my system so that when it detects an incoming call on
the
> >modem line, as soon as the caller hangs up it starts a ppp connection to
my
> >dial up ISP and sends a mail to me informing me of the IP address it has
> >been allocated.
>
> mgetty will run any program you wish on answering a call.
> Look in the /etc/mgetty*/login.config
> file for the programs which are run in various situations.
>
>
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From: Chronos Tachyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Apache Problem, probably a stupid question.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 15:42:12 GMT
[Note: Your crossposting is a bit excessive.]
On Tue 01 May 2001 01:17, Mark Healey wrote:
[Snip]
> <Directory /home/*/public_html>
> AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
> Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExed
> <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
> Order allow, deny
> Allow from all
> </Limit PUT DELETE PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK>
> Order deny, allow
> Deny from all
> <Limit>
> </Directory>
>
Is this what it actually says? If so, I'm surprised that Apache even
starts with such a badly malformed config file. The correct version of
that config file segment should be:
<Directory /home/*/public_html>
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order allow, deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<LimitExcept GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order deny, allow
Deny from all
</LimitExcept>
</Directory>
> Whenever I try to access the user page I get a forbidden error.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Mark Healey
> marknews(the 'at' thing)healeyonline.com
>
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From: Dave Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound, root login and 2.4.4 kernel
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 11:06:58 -0500
I have switched to the 2.4.4 kernel and I am trying to get my machine to
reboot correctly and I have some problems that I can fix at the command
line but not at boot time.
First I can not login as root at a vc. I can su though so I am not
completely hosed. (I can login as root in 2.4.0)
Sound is completely not up until I run modprobe sb 3 times
(/etc/modules.conf confused)
esd hates /dev/sound/dsp and I have devfsd.conf wrong so that the
symlink is not getting created.
I believe that I have modules.conf and devfsd.conf wrong and would be
hap-hap-happy with any input.
Dave Waller
[/etc/modules.conf]
alias eth0 eepro100
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias sound sb
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1
pre-install uart401 insmod uart401
pre-install sb_lib insmod sb_lib
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
keep
[/etc/devfsd.conf]
# Sample /etc/devfsd.conf configuration file.
# Richard Gooch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3-JUL-2000
#
# Enable full compatibility mode for old device names. You may comment these
# out if you don't use the old device names. Make sure you know what you're
# doing!
REGISTER .* MKOLDCOMPAT
UNREGISTER .* RMOLDCOMPAT
# You may comment out the above and uncomment the following if you've
# configured your system to use the original "new" devfs names or the really
# new names
#REGISTER vc/.* MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER vc/.* RMOLDCOMPAT
#REGISTER pty/.* MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER pty/.* RMOLDCOMPAT
#REGISTER misc MKOLDCOMPAT
#UNREGISTER misc RMOLDCOMPAT
# You may comment these out if you don't use the original "new" names
REGISTER .* MKNEWCOMPAT
UNREGISTER .* RMNEWCOMPAT
# Enable module autoloading. You may comment this out if you don't use
# autoloading
LOOKUP .* MODLOAD
#
# Uncomment this if you want permissions to be saved and restored
#REGISTER .* COPY /dev-state/$devname $devpath
#CHANGE .* COPY $devpath /dev-state/$devname
#CREATE .* COPY $devpath /dev-state/$devname
LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD
LOOKUP sound MODLOAD
REGISTER sound/.* MKOLDCOMPAT
UNREGISTER sound/.* RMOLDCOMPAT
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From: Dave Berntson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem repartitioning for linux
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 10:29:25 -0500
On Tue, 01 May 2001 03:58:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a dual win 2000/win 98. Dos Fdisk says the 98 partition is a
>PRI DOS and the 2000 an extended (without any logical partitions
>oddly). trying to format the PRI DOS partition several times I got:
>
>not ready
>format terminated
>
>This would be after the format got to about 30% usually.
>So I decided maybe the 2000 extended partition is the problem, so I
>decided to delete it and just have the whole HD for linux. So I used
>dos fdisk to try to delete the 2000 extended partition, but it would
>give me the error message "cannot delete extended partition with
>logical drives present". But there are no logical drives present in
>that extended partition, I know because I've tried to delete them. So
>I'm stuck. So my questions:
>
>Would the fdisk that comes with linux succeed where dos fdisk fails?
>Has anyone had a similar problem when trying to forma a partition of a
>hard drive? Thanks for any help in advance.
I used fips on two installs. Worked quite well for me.
Dave
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From: adrian iliescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCLIENT: device eth not reachable (SuSe7.1)
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 18:33:59 +0200
Hi !
Could anybody explain what can i do in order to get Suse 7.1 recognize
the eth ? When booting (kernel 2.2.18 or 2.4), i keep receiveing
following messages
DHCLIENT: device eth is not available at the moment
DHCLIENT: Please check if the driver is setup correctly
Modules.conf has been changed to "alias eth0 rtl8139", after trying with
"8139too" - unfortunately with same results.
command "lspci" lists the Ethernet Controller Realtek 8139.
command "ifconfig" lists only lo (no eth0)!
command "ping 192.168.0.1" (router) delivers "network is unreachable"
The ethernet card works fine when booting w2k on same engine.
Thanks in advance
adrian
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From: Dave Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: usb and 2.4.4 kernel
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 11:41:41 -0500
Another problem that I am having is that now the 2.4.4 kernel likes the
uhci drivers for usb instead of ohci.
I have a Compaq Deskpro with a PIII 600. Under 2.4.0 the ohci drivers
loaded.
Dave Waller
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From: Eamon Skelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 install hangs after selecting installation type
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:45:06 +0000
Tom Roberts wrote:
> Hmmm. I have 512 MBytes SDRAM and 128 MBytes swap. I don't remember any
> such warnings at all.
>
The more RAM you have, the less swap you are likely to need. I
use RH7.1 with 96MB RAM and 128MB swap. I don't recall a
time when I ever used more than half of it.
E.S.
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux gpm -mouse
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 17:28:12 +0200
On Tue, 1 May 2001, alik blochin wrote:
> hi,
> recently i installed the latest linux mandrake 8.0
> and had encountered some problems:
>
> 1) i can't use the mouse wheel (i have MS Intelli mouse)
> although linux has identified my mouse as standard
> PS2 mouse
> i know there is some package gpm ,
> but the package has been installed properly
> i am not shure it has something to do with the problem
>
> so how do i remedy this ?
Choose a MS Intellimouse PS/2 in 'mouseconfig' instead of standard PS/2.
Rasmus
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: red hat 7.1
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 17:28:43 +0200
On Tue, 1 May 2001, alik blochin wrote:
> by the way has somebody tried Red hat 7.1 ?
Yep.
> is it in some ways preferreble over mandrake 8.0 ?
Don't know - haven't tried Mandrake 8...
Rasmus
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From: "J.Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: autoloading modules on boot-up
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 19:30:49 +0200
Hi all.
I recenty have installed Mandrake 8.0, and I must say I am quite happy
with it. There is however a small problem with my modules and X. I am
using an matrox g400 video card, and am running xfree86 in DRI mode.
However, the required modules agpgart and mga are not loaded
automatically. If I do 'insmod agpgart;insmod mga' prior to starting X,
everything works fine, so the only problem is that these modules are not
loaded automagically. I was wondering if it is possible to force the
loading of these modules on bootup of my system or on startup of X by
tweaking some module configuration file or X configuration file? As a
temporarily workaround I have added 'insmod agpgart;insmod mga' at the end
of my rc.sysinit, but surely there has got to be a more elegant way of
dealing with this issue?
Thanks for any and all feedback.
Sincerely,
J.Smith
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCLIENT: device eth not reachable (SuSe7.1)
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 18:09:00 +0200
On Tue, 1 May 2001, adrian iliescu wrote:
> DHCLIENT: device eth is not available at the moment
^^^
> DHCLIENT: Please check if the driver is setup correctly
Seems like you set up dhclient to configure eth instead of eth0.
Rasmus
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