Linux-Setup Digest #150, Volume #21 Wed, 2 May 01 12:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question (Bill Oliver)
Re: NFS Mount of a CDROM (Roman Fietze)
Re: Default mail box location (0502) ("J.
Chan")
Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
AIX Green screen font on Linux (Norman Levin)
Re: Modem trouble (Tomaz Cedilnik)
Re: Glibc version? (Paul Kimoto)
Re: lucent modem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: RedHat 7.1 install hangs after selecting installation type (Norman Levin)
Re: problem repartitioning for linux (Norman Levin)
Re: KDM and remote Xwindows connections (Norman Levin)
Re: fyi, Promise FastTrack w/ SMP seems to work (John Jensen)
Re: autoloading modules on boot-up (Weeve)
Re: Redhat7-1 on 2nd physical drive & SystemCommander 2000 (Paul Lew)
Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question (Bill Oliver)
Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question (Bill Oliver)
Re: Dual Booting with Win98Se (Hugo Chesshire)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Oliver)
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question
Date: 2 May 2001 10:12:26 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2 May 2001, Bill Oliver wrote:
>
>> The sound card, however, isn't working.
>
>Have you turned up the volume? This is more often a problem, than one
>would think.
Heh. Yeah, it's one of those "is it plugged in" kind of things that
is so basic that nobody actually checks.
Well, to be honest, I'm not sure. I have the sound on the *speakers*
turned all the way up, and Windoze is loud. I tried setting the
volume high with the XPlayCD and CDPlayer, etc. (which is the
only way I know to set the volume) and it is still silent. There
is *nothing* coming out of sndconfig -- which is rather loud on my other
boxes.
>> I don't know what the "can't locate module sound-service-0-0"
>> error implies -- is this a module I should find somewhere on
>> the distribution diskette? If so, how can I force it to load?
>
>This should be no problem - I get it a lot of times. You could, however,
>try to put 'alias sound-service-0-0 emu10k' in /etc/modules.conf.
I suspected it wasn't a big deal -- that line is an intermittent
one, while the problem is constant.
I looked at the RedHat discussion boards and there was a discussion
of SoundBlaster cards in RH 7.0. One solution suggested was to
turn off automatic PnP probing at the BIOS level. Unfortunately,
that option was not present when I looked at the the Gateway
boot options. Sigh.
billo
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From: Roman Fietze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NFS Mount of a CDROM
Date: 02 May 2001 13:42:44 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have followed the how-to's and have been able to mount various parts
> of a file system on a networked machine, but as soon as I put the cd-rom
> into the /etc/exports file every thing stops dead. If any on can tell me
> what to do from here I would be greatly appreciative.
Could you please spcify the system you use (distribution, kernel,
SCSI, IDE, ...).
Can you mount and view the CD locally?
Roman
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From: "J. Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.comp.linux.isp,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Default mail box location (0502)
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 22:28:35 +0800
By default, all mail to local users will be saved
to the files in the directory /var/spool/mail. But I
want to save to another directory (say user's HOME
directory).
I have tried Procmail to save the incoming mail
to another directory, but the incoming mail will
no longer accessable / readable by the POP3 clients.
Cheers Benjamin in this newsgroup tell me to use
the /etc/aliases files (Thank you very much for the
help of Cheers Benjamin), but the aliases files still
save in the directory /var/spool/mail.
What can I do so that all incoming mail can be
saved to another directory or file, but still accessable
or readable by POP3 clients (such as Outlook Express).
Thank you very much.
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:42:14 +0200
On 2 May 2001, Bill Oliver wrote:
> >> The sound card, however, isn't working.
> >
> >Have you turned up the volume? This is more often a problem, than one
> >would think.
>
> Heh. Yeah, it's one of those "is it plugged in" kind of things that
> is so basic that nobody actually checks.
>
> Well, to be honest, I'm not sure. I have the sound on the *speakers*
> turned all the way up, and Windoze is loud. I tried setting the
> volume high with the XPlayCD and CDPlayer, etc. (which is the
> only way I know to set the volume) and it is still silent. There
> is *nothing* coming out of sndconfig -- which is rather loud on my other
> boxes.
aumix is normally always installed on RedHat systems. Start a console
and run aumix. Here you should be able to set volumes. You have to turn
up 'master' and 'PCM' (for digitized sound like mp3) and
'CD' or 'Line in' for cd. I do not know the mixer in the sbLive in
details, so you'll have to figure out more details yourself.
If aumix starts and show different channels to turn up/down, it is
_probably_ not a driver problem...
> I looked at the RedHat discussion boards and there was a discussion
> of SoundBlaster cards in RH 7.0. One solution suggested was to
> turn off automatic PnP probing at the BIOS level. Unfortunately,
> that option was not present when I looked at the the Gateway
> boot options. Sigh.
The module is installed (your logs said so), so you probably do not need
to fiddle with those things.
Rasmus
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 07:41:03 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIX Green screen font on Linux
Anybody know what directory and what file, AIX uses to load the 'green
screen font'. It is nice and clear and I want to see if I can move it to
my linux system.
--
Norman Levin
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From: Tomaz Cedilnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 16:46:58 +0200
Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
>
> James Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Sm9uYWRhYiB0aGUgVW5zaWdodGx5IE9uZSB3cm90ZToNCg0KPiAiUm95IEJhbWZvcmQiIDxi
> > YW1mb3JkckBiYW1mb3Jkci5ub3NwYW0uZnJlZS1vbmxpbmUuY28udWs+IHdyb3RlOg0KPg0K
> [snip]
>
> Now, there's some good old-fashioned modem trouble!
No, that's his name. ;-)
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Kimoto)
Subject: Re: Glibc version?
Date: 2 May 2001 10:57:51 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <9conb3$983$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Berdzi wrote:
> How to check what version of Glibc (and generally other libraries) I have?
For glibc only, you can execute the library (/lib/libc.so.6) directly.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lucent modem
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:41:02 +0200
Declan McMullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it's a lucent alright,i got a driver for it off one of the webpages but for
> some reason it said it wouldnt work
> with the lucent in the thinkpad something about it
> reporting itself as an intel or something
> al very strange
.. or something. Or something like that.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 16:42:43 +0200
Bill Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On 2 May 2001, Bill Oliver wrote:
>>> The sound card, however, isn't working.
>>Have you turned up the volume? This is more often a problem, than one
>>would think.
> Well, to be honest, I'm not sure. I have the sound on the *speakers*
> turned all the way up, and Windoze is loud. I tried setting the
> volume high with the XPlayCD and CDPlayer, etc. (which is the
> only way I know to set the volume) and it is still silent. There
And what about the mixer? ([xgk]*mix[er], amixer, alsamixer, ...)
Peter
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 08:41:11 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 install hangs after selecting installation type
Are you on a network with DHCP. I had anaconda crap out on me until I
disconnected the ethernet cable.
chanman wrote:
>
> I have tried two versions, and both fails,
> one is ver 6.2 (bought) another is ver 7.0 (downloaded from internet), but both
> error occur during installations.
>
> I am not sure hardware mismatch / error or anything wrong, however, the computer
> system had a win98 OS before and works fine.
>
> lyset wrote:
>
> > "Peter Forsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying to install 7.1 (final, not beta) by booting from CD1.
> > > Everything moves along just fine until after I have selected
> > > installation type (Custom) and pressed Next. At this point the CD light
> > > goes on and everything else seems to hang, the machine freezes. Even
> > > the mouse pointer does not move.
> > >
> > I thought that the same had happend to me to. It just seemed dead. I waited
> > for 30-60min or something and suddenly it went alive again. I think it was
> > going through my hard drive checking, formatting and setting up the linux
> > filesystem and that took a fairly long time. This disk I used are only 8GB
> > so I guess if it has to do the same on a larger one it will take a really
> > long time. When I reinstalled everything ( forgot my passw) it was really
> > quick through that step because that time the formatting was in place and it
> > only had to erase linux and start to install packeges again.
> >
> > lyset
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Norman Levin
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 08:51:30 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: problem repartitioning for linux
There is a 'parted' that is actively supported - but I have not used it.
Maybe invest a nickel and get partition magic?
Dave Berntson wrote:
>
> 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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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:11:59 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: KDM and remote Xwindows connections
"--==[bMan]==--" wrote:
>
> Hi gang,
>
> Right off the bat, I want to tell you that gdm works for me like a charm
** are we talking about Red Hat 7.0?? I can get KDM and XDM working but
GDM half works. That is, I can get the login screen BUT I can not get the
chooser screen.
> (yeah, it's too bad that by default xdmcp section is disabled in
> gdm.conf file).
** Here is what I do for GDM:
Edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
[xdmcp]
Enable=1
Indirect=1
Restart gdm
In this case, X -query ipaddress-gdm-machine
gives me a login screen. BUT, X -indirect gives me the same!! I should
get the chooser!
>However, I have a probX-Mozilla-Status: 0009rk
> properly.
** Here is what I do for KDM and XDM
Edit /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess:
* # Any host can get a login window
Edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config
! DisplayManager.RequestPort 0
Restart xdm, kdm
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.
>
> --
> Bolek,
>
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> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fyi, Promise FastTrack w/ SMP seems to work
Date: 2 May 2001 15:32:07 GMT
Andrew Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: But don't try and use any other kernel than 2.2.16smp, and do not put one
: drive on each controller, the promise driver locks the machine up hard on my
: box.
Hmmmm. I am on 2.2.16-22smp (the one in RH7.0). I hope Promise keeps up
with kernel revisions :-) or I get $129 dollars of use out of the
controller before I go to something else :-(.
John
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From: Weeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 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: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:27:34 GMT
Please don't spam non Mandrake newsgroups about Mandrake.
Thanks,
Weeve
J.Smith wrote:
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: Redhat7-1 on 2nd physical drive & SystemCommander 2000
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:44:29 GMT
On Wed, 2 May 2001 11:37:46 +1000, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Foremost,
> thank you Anna and Paul Lew for your previous feedback.
>
> After consulting the various help /doc files within SC2000, and all other
> relevant docs, none seem to relate to my unique set up. Most documents
> give me instruction on loading linux as a second OS on the first PHYSICAL
> Hard disk drive.
> I need to hear back from someone who has been using system commander with
> linux on a primary second physical HDD.
Do you need linux as the "Primary" driver on the *secondary* ide controller?
My setup has linux on the 2nd physical drive as the *slave* on the ide
controller; dos & win98se is on the 1st physical drive and lilo is *not*
in the mbr.
>
> My setup is as follow : (SC2000 detects the new linux partition on startup,
> but will not boot to linux ?)
>
> first IDE channel (45GB HDD): hda0 (NTFS:W2K:primary) ; hda1 (FAT32:
> WinME:primary)
> second IDE channel (6GB HDD): Primary Linux = hda0(/boot) ; hda1(/SWAP) ;
> hda2(/) ; hda5(FAT32:extended logical)
>
> The combined two primary partitions : W2K and Fat32 is working perfectly
> with system commander 2000. So I wish not to change or add any partitions to
> the first physical drive if possible.
> My research have shown that LILO must be installed in order to boot from the
> hard drive (as far as RH7-1 is concerned).
> So, bearing that in mind the install process reported an error that /boot is
> not residing on the first 1024 "section" of the 1st physical drive. What
> this means is that I now have to resize the W2K to accommodate a small
> "/boot" partition for linux to startup.
The "later" lilo (2.6+) is supposed to handle the gt 1024 cyl problem if
the bios is capable of lba (or auto, sometimes).
>
> It appears that it is "impossible" to boot up an OS from a second physical
> drive not containing the MBR ????
I didn't change the mbr of my slave 2nd physical drive.
> Is this a bios limitation ? Does anyone have a work around, such that I do
> not have to put the "/boot" on the 1st hard drive?
The only time I had to place a "boot" on the 1st hardrive was when using
solaris 7 as solaris would not configure its boot/root stuff on the 2nd
drive.
> I'm now entertaining the idea of making the linux partitons, logical instead
> of primary ... will this lead to my desired boot-up from SC2000 (can I make
> a logical partition on the second physical drive? ) ??
>
> I'd like to hear back from someone who has taken this path before. i.e.
> installing RH7 on a primary partition located on the second IDE channel, so
> that I can plan my next action plan.
> Thanks all.
>
As a guest, your problem may be due to using the 2nd drive on the
2nd ide channel....
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Oliver)
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question
Date: 2 May 2001 11:55:46 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 2 May 2001, Bill Oliver wrote:
>
>
>If aumix starts and show different channels to turn up/down, it is
>_probably_ not a driver problem...
Well, it starts and I can move all the "O"s back and forth, but
there's still no sound -- either from an audio CD *or* from the
.wav files in the sound part of the Gnome Control Center.
This is kind of amusing, actually. I have Linux on a desktop
and my laptop. RH 7.1 installs beautifully on my laptop (an
HP Pavilion N5190), with full support of the network, video,
CD/DVD, and sound. It's my new *desktop* that I'm having problems
with. This is the opposite of the situation I have traditionally
had -- laptop support was always the hassle.
billo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Oliver)
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 "Can't locate module"/soundcard question
Date: 2 May 2001 11:56:41 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>And what about the mixer? ([xgk]*mix[er], amixer, alsamixer, ...)
>
>Peter
No joy there, either. Please see my reply to Rasmus.
billo
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From: Hugo Chesshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Booting with Win98Se
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:59:24 GMT
Nev & Donna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to linux, and have decided to dual boot my pc to run both
> Linux and Win98 so I can get the hang of Linux for a while before
> running it by itself.
>
> I can't seem to get the install right? The LILO doesn't write to the
> MBR?
>
> I have a 20Gb Disk drive set up as follows:
>
> 15GB - Win98SE Partition
> 32MB - Linux Boot Partition
> 128MB - Swap Partition
> 4.8GB - Linux Root Partition
You've made your /boot partition above the 1024th cylinder and that
might well be the problem. To be within the first 1023 cylinders,
basically, your /boot has to occur within the first 8Gb of the drive.
So, make it look like:
7.5 Gb - Win98SE
32Mb - /boot
7.5Gb - Win98 apps & store
128Mb - /swp
4.8Gb - /
Or something similar. That might sort it out for you.
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