Linux-Setup Digest #182, Volume #21 Mon, 7 May 01 14:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: vga = ask ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Enlightenment needs fnlib???? ("ne...")
IRQ-blocked-problem ("Nico Decker")
Re: vga = ask ("Eric")
Re: vga = ask ("olgnuby")
Re: Enlightenment needs fnlib???? (Michael Perry)
Re: squid and accepting cookies? and cache? (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: RedHat 7.1 install hangs after selecting installation type ("Charlene Hanselman")
USB I'm missing something. ;-) (olgnuby)
Re: kppp problems... (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Installing windows and linux (Simon Lemieux)
CVS pserver in xinet ? ("Eric Chow")
Wireless LAn (Roger Smith)
ISDN through USB hub!? (Joe Bloggs)
Re: Carolyn Meinel (Joe Bloggs)
Re: Is it possible to dual boot without a bootloader? (Joe Bloggs)
Re: Download Time (Juergen Heinzl)
Re: Stop GNOME!? (Bill Unruh)
Setting up automounts ("Jason Ward")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: vga = ask
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 12:17:09 GMT
I greatly appreciate the resply, but I think I still must be missing
something here. I don't want a framebuffer 16.8M colour graphical
screen, I want a text screen with 30 rows and 100 columns.
"scan" after lilo has been installed returns a line that reads:
9 0122 100x30
If I hit 9 at this point all is hunky-dory - perfect resolution for my
monitor.
However, if I equate vga to 9, 0122, 122, 0x0122 etc etc within
lilo.conf it just doesn't want to know.
What am I doing wrong?
H.
On Mon, 07 May 2001 08:15:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Faux_Pseudo) wrote:
>this is a form letter response i have created because
>of the frequancey that this question comes up.
>
>set vga=xxx in /etc/lilo.conf to one of the following
>
> Colours 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
> --------+---------------------------------------------
> 256 | 769 771 773 775 796
> 32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797
> 65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798
> 16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799
>
>From the Vesafb mini-HOWTO
>
>it is also recomended that in lilo.conf you creat a duplicate
>entry for use with apps that dont handle framebuffers like quake
>and use vga=ask ie
>
>image = /vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hda1
> label = linux
> vga = 788
>image = /vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hda1
> label = quake
> vga=ask
>
>a word on 16M colors
>things like ofbis and as a result things that run under it such as zen will
>not work with the 16M color mode
>kick it down to 65k and they will still work
>
>--(Once apon a time, in comp.os.linux.setup,)--
> --([EMAIL PROTECTED] said it like only they can.)--
>> This works fine when I'm prompted to scan and then pick a number, but
>> I'm damned if I can reinstall lilo with that number in lilo.conf and
>> get the thing to work! All I get is a message saying I used an
>> unrecognised mode, or some such. The mode I'm after has value 0122 and
>> equates to a 100x30 screen. Can anybody advise where I'm going wrong?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> H
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Enlightenment needs fnlib????
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 12:44:07 GMT
On May 7, 2001 at 11:59, Chuck Lalli eloquently wrote:
>I am trying to install enlightenment but it says I need fnlib and
>libFnlib.sh.o (or similar). I have searched for this but can find no
>references to it at all. Can anyone help me ?
http://www.shellhung.org/download/Mirror/enlightenment/fnlib/
for rpms or a tarbol.
http://filewatcher.org/sec/fnlib.html for .debs.
Google turned up serveral hits.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org)
"Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it."
-- Dave Barry
8:42am up 8 days, 14:36, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: "Nico Decker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IRQ-blocked-problem
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:42:34 +0200
Hi to all,
here's my problem: I've got a notebook with a Phoenix-BIOS, where I can't
change any settings concerning the PCI-Slots. So the BIOS distributes the
IRQs to the slots at his own wishes.
Under Win98SE - there are two OS on my hd - all is running fine, but under
Linux (SuSE-Distr. 7.0) the realtek 8139 network card fails to load with the
message:
to many traffic on IRQ. Blocked.
There are a lot of devices, which are using IRQ9 (S3Savage, PCMCIA-Slots,
rtl8139, ...), but I can't change to any other, because of the Phoenix-BIOS.
How can I solve this problem? Why does Linux make trouble, and Win98SE does
not?! (Very strange; normally it's vice versa ;-) )
Any suggestions are welcome ...
Nico Decker.
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vga = ask
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:53:51 +0200
> "scan" after lilo has been installed returns a line that reads:
>
> 9 0122 100x30
>
>
> If I hit 9 at this point all is hunky-dory - perfect resolution for my
> monitor.
>
> However, if I equate vga to 9, 0122, 122, 0x0122 etc etc within
> lilo.conf it just doesn't want to know.
Took me tree tries:
man lilo (nothing relevant)
man lilo.conf (That's looking more like it)
(See also poited me to rdev)
man rdev (That's the one)
vga=9 should do what you want.
> What am I doing wrong?
You forgot to run /sbin/lilo I suppose.
Eric
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From: "olgnuby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vga = ask
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 07:52:40 -0500
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What am I doing wrong?
>
Hopefully not sounding assumptive on another persons abilities or knowledge
one way or the other, but are you running /sbin/lilo after the changes to
/etc/lilo.conf?
I run various resolutions in the ranges you are speaking of in addition to
things like 305, 316, etc. as long as they are within the range of my
monitor, they seem to work okay.
Charlie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Subject: Re: Enlightenment needs fnlib????
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 12:55:04 -0000
On Mon, 07 May 2001 11:59:04 GMT, Chuck Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to install enlightenment but it says I need fnlib and
> libFnlib.sh.o (or similar). I have searched for this but can find no
> references to it at all. Can anyone help me ?
>
> Chuck
It appears that fnlib is managed by the same folks who do enlightenment. I
found a rpm source for it on the web searching through google. You can also
ftp to ftp.enlightenment.org and navigate to /enlightenment/fnlib to see
these exciting attractions:
ftp> ls
227 Entering Passive Mode (198,186,203,30,12,90).
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1021 1021 42 Dec 15 14:36 fnlib-0.5-1.i386.rpm
-> ../enlightenment/libs/fnlib-0.5-1.i386.rpm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1021 1021 41 Dec 15 14:36 fnlib-0.5-1.src.rpm
-> ../enlightenment/libs/fnlib-0.5-1.src.rpm
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1021 1021 38 Dec 15 14:36 fnlib-0.5.tar.gz ->
../enlightenment/libs/fnlib-0.5.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 1021 1021 48 Dec 15 14:36
fnlib-devel-0.5-1.i386.rpm ->
../enlightenment/libs/fnlib-devel-0.5-1.i386.rpm
226 Transfer complete.
ftp> pwd
257 "/enlightenment/fnlib" is current directory.
HTH
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Michael Perry
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: squid and accepting cookies? and cache?
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:02:27 +0200
On Mon, 7 May 2001, AS wrote:
> > So use what disk space, you have got and all memory, you can free for
> > squid.
>
> So, still let netscape to use memory and disk space? Is that what you
> meant? I alredy let squid to use enough memory and space, but netscape
> doesn't use the squid's cache. So how to set up?
Sorry, I did not read your post carefully enough - I did not see the
netscape thing...
No, Netscape cannot read the squid-cache directly. I guess, you have
configured netscape to use the squid proxy? Then there is no reason to
have netscape use disk cache. Squid caches everything on disk. Making
netscape to fetch things from squid is quite fast, as it is on a local
network. You won't notice the difference between getting them from squid
or cache.
So yes, theres is no reason to make netscape cache anything. I use a
little memory cache anyway. Bu go to
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Proxy and cache
and set disk cache to 0. No reason to cache in two places and waste disk
space.
Rasmus
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From: "Charlene Hanselman" <d>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RedHat 7.1 install hangs after selecting installation type
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 06:41:20 -0700
Tom,
With 512 of main mem you're most likely not having to swap at all.
Steve
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"Tom Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Paul A Sand wrote:
> > RH points out "The 2.4 kernel is more aggressive than the
> > 2.2 kernel in its use of swap space." So it's a conceivable issue.
> >
> > I have 64 Meg RAM, 125 Meg swap, and the upgrade script showered me with
> > dire warnings about not having >= 2x.
>
> Hmmm. I have 512 MBytes SDRAM and 128 MBytes swap. I don't remember any
such
> warnings at all.
>
> RedHat 7.1 upgraded from 7.0 just fine on this machine.
>
>
> Tom Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB I'm missing something. ;-)
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 08:39:33 -0500
Running a 2.4.3 kernel with basically everything for USB enabled as
modules to include the storage stuff like unusual_devices usb_storage
etc. and all, or everything I use, or have tried to use seems to work
okay, but I haven't been able to find the information I'm looking for
regarding flash memory chips like my memory cards for my camera and
using them with a JumpShot USB card reader. I recall at some point
running across something similar on one of the Linux USB boards or some
place and info on how to configure and mount the device with my
/etc/fastab.
Under windows, it loads or mounts up as a removable drive when I insert
a card and shows a regular, I reckon, vfat file structure and just
regular .jpg files for all the photos that I have on them after a
shooting session, and I simply transfer them to the hard drive.
Has anyone used, or, are using, or have info or links to information on
how to configure the, and which, devices and possibly mount them up
under Linux.
I'm sure it can be done and I'm sure someone, someplace is doing it, and
I think I can also, but I'm missing the necessary key to the knowledge
to get started.
My appreciation in advance, and thanks for your time and patience.
Charlie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: kppp problems...
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:54:23 GMT
"Karim R. Sobhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apr 24 21:52:38 Edgar pppd[927]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> Apr 24 21:52:46 Edgar pppd[927]: Peer is not authorized to use remote
> address 217.52.7.110
That line right there is the important one.
Unfortunately, I'm not certain whether "peer" in this case is
you or your ISP. Is your connection governed by DHCP? Are
you trying to use 217.52.7.110 as your IP address? Or is your
ISP using that address maybe and your system isn't accepting
that for some reason? One of those two things is probably
your problem.
- jonadab
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing windows and linux
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 14:41:18 GMT
> That I cannot control.
> Depends on the partitiontable of that disk.
> (And you haven't showed it)
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 58168 29316640+ 83 Linux
Hmmm.. Have no idea why it's bootable, there is nothing to boot on it...
> What FS do you want to use.
> win98 will use FAT32 as FS, NT by default doesn't understand FAT32
> and would use FAT16 (or NTFS ofcourse)
I'll probably be using Windows98, unless a friend of mine has Windows2000, but
then I'll ask what kind of partition I should set...
> > I'm just looking to know if this will work for the installation? I'm
> planning
> > on reseting the partition map,
>
> delete the whole table you mean?
No, sorry, I meant to delete and to make a new one... To set it again, to
re-set it...
> > reboot, install windows, reboot, install Redhat
>
> Ah, that's why. Windows may indeed ignore the partitiontable anyway.
Yes, it seems that sometimes it just ignores it and use the whole disk... But
there were always a partition!
> > 7.1 and then settle down for awhile... What do you think of this? Will
> windows
> > delete my partition table (as it often did when I tried before...)?
>
> probably it will do so again.
> It appears that OEM windows-CD's (often/always?) ignore existing
> partitiontables.
> If it ignored it before, it's not going to respect it this time.
Well, I've been able to install, once.... And the installation worked
perfectly, so I hope it was just because of details that I could not the other
times... details such as putting windows' partition other than hda1, etc...
Thanks,
Simon
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From: "Eric Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CVS pserver in xinet ?
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 23:28:31 +0800
Hello,
How to setup CVS pserver in xinet ?
Best regards,
Eric
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From: Roger Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wireless LAn
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:38:10 GMT
Hi,
I have a IBM ThinkPad Running RH7.1 . I am having trouble installing a
wireless Lucent LanCard. I am new to Laptop configs and I would
appreciate any help one would provide. I have a 3Com LanCard installed
using DHCP
and it is working fine. My Wireless does not. How do I configure The
Lucent Wireless?
Thanks in advance!!
Roger
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From: Joe Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN through USB hub!?
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:00:36 +0100
Hello,
Just trying to set up SuSE7.1 - wonderful! Except that it can not
see my ISDN through USB... This is a Teledat150 a/b - in case anybody
recognises it... When I filter through my boot logs I see usbmgr firing
up with lots of bulk message errors firstly... lots of stuff about no
device bound to it, was configured then wasn't configured etc etc
etc.... Does anyone know of any generic method I can get this working?
It seems I can interrogate the USB and once it even came back and told
me there was a Teledat connected - but only once, and it could have been
me by accident...
Somebody help me! This is a German device and all support I have seems
to be in German which I am not what you might call fluent in!
Vielen dank!
Bob
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From: Joe Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Carolyn Meinel
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:02:58 +0100
Yeah, I read her stuff on the GTMHH.... most of it somewhat dated now I
think... anyone have more current interesting stuff?
the-weirs wrote:
> Yo L*nux D()()DZ!
> I mentioned her in my first post to this NG but those who replied didnt
> notice that, though still the replies were, as always, much appreciated. I
> just wanted to know if any of you Linux fans out there knew who she actually
> is. If none of you do then I can forward a new post containing some of her
> works (it will come in an attachment) and a short lecture on who she is and
> her importance to many nerdy and not-so-nerdy teenagers like me. RSPV soon
> (remember how appreciative I am) and maybe one day I'll RSVP you, eh?
> C Ya L*nux D()()DZ |:-)|=(=|<=<[-]
> MONOPOLY >
> OVER AND OUT!
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From: Joe Bloggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to dual boot without a bootloader?
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:06:44 +0100
Alternatively... get XIOS from xios.org - it's small, effective, pretty and
most important of all... Free!!
Bob
"David W. Studeman" wrote:
> The best way with NT4 or Win2K, is to install lilo to the root partition
> and create a 512 byte block file that points to it so the NT bootloader can
> launch lilo. The first time after installation, boot into linux from a
> floppy. I set lilo for text mode and only one entry with 0 second delay so
> the NT bootloader can launch it quickly and you won't have to sit through
> yet another graphical menu. I use a small fat partition as the "C:" drive
> that contains all the boot stuff. I size it at 40MB. I have NT4 on drive
> "D:" and Win2K on drive "F:" Doing this also allows room to install dos in
> this small partition. My "C:" drive is mounted as /dosc under linux and my
> root partition is /dev/hdb6 so the creation of this file is made here as #
> dd if=/dev/hdb6 of=/dosc/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 you should see a
> bootsect.lnx file in "C:" so you now edit the boot.ini file to have an entry
> C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux Mandrake 8.0" note that whatever shows in quotes, is
> visible in the boot menu. This way, Windows can be reinstalled with no
> effect on Linux. Basically, lilo and grub only work well with Win9X because
> it has no bootloader. All NT based os's do have one and it can be very
> versatile. The same teqniques work on other flavors of Unix as well.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: Download Time
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:14:22 GMT
In article <xDvJ6.8083$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the-weirs wrote:
>Why Oh Why (not Delilah) does it take soo incredibly long to download some
>of these flaves of L*nux ...
[-]
Might be because you're not the only one on the line ?
[-]
>... and How Oh How can I prevent my ISP (NTL (Its
>completely free)) from disconnecting me which it does if I'm on for 2 hours
>even when not at all idle. Remember I am still not on L*nux (Still on
>Microcrap Wind()ze Me). Help is much appreciated.
[-]
Guess since it's "free" you've to live with some restrictions. Get
yourself a CD from the nearest bookstore, ought to spare you lots of
trouble.
Ta',
Juergen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Subject: Re: Stop GNOME!?
Date: 7 May 2001 17:30:50 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "professor bikey bike"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I just installed RHL 7.1, and when I run Xwindows, it automatically sends me
>to the GNOME login screen. I have managed to get it so that instead running
>GNOME, once I log in, I go to Enlightenment, but just as a matter of
>principle, I would rather have my login screen not display the GNOME login
>screen graphics...I have searched wide and far for the file that is doing
>this, but I can't find it. Any help?
>Thanks in advance
You are running gdm as your xdm manager. You can also choose xdm or kdm
if you want. (See /etc/X11/prefdm -- I think that is used in Redhat, but
it may just be Mandrake-- check the x line in /etc/inittab)
On the other hand, why bother. As you say you can choose
any display manager you want for your own sessions, or you can change
the default as well (/etc/sysconfig/desktop)
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From: "Jason Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting up automounts
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:57:10 -0700
I just need some direction on how to start the automount of the CD's when
the users log into the account. We are logging in via telnet and then
starting a VNC sever from there. How do I set permission for each user to be
able to mount the CDRoms themselves?
What I want is everyone who is logged in to have full control over a CD
tower. Can this be done in the fstab?
If I need to explain a bit more let me know
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