Linux-Setup Digest #403, Volume #21 Sat, 9 Jun 01 07:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Mandrake 8.0 Help!!!! (Johnny Green)
Re: make xconfig problem (Nader)
Temporarily hosting Web work in Linux ("Albretch")
NTFS partitions ("Jonathan Leppert")
Re: monitor resalution (Michael Heiming)
New to Linux ("CCP")
Re: LILO experts, help! Invalid partition table (Robert Nichols)
Re: mknod - misbehaving when creating a null device (Robert Nichols)
RH7.1 PCMCIA. machine hangs during bootup (uzon)
opl3sa2 sound card in laptop (uzon)
Re: Commandline Mail (Michael Heiming)
Red Hat 7.1 VS a nice PS/2 mice ("Giuseppe Ricioppo")
installing linux onto sparc w/o access to floppy,cd,network
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
installing linux onto sparc w/o access to floppy,cd,network
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Commandline Mail ("David Dorward")
installing linux onto sparc w/o access to floppy,cd,network
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
how to remove supermount kernel module (Olaf Stauffer)
vmware installation (Helge Fobbe)
Re: No spool file found.... (Reagan Cardwell)
Re: NO modules will load after kernel recompile! (DanH)
Re: vmware installation (Olaf Stauffer)
Re: AC'97 sound chips on board - no sound in RedHat 7.0 (andrea)
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From: Johnny Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 8.0 Help!!!!
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 05:48:37 GMT
I have currently installed Mandrake 8.0 and am now trying to get
online. I Use road runner via a toshiba pcx1100U cable modem that I
have currently conected to windows via USB.
What do I need to do to configure Mandrake to recognize the USB and
then configuring it to go online?
I am dumb to linux so please give me explicet details.
Thanks for any help that I can get
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: make xconfig problem
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 23:11:16 -0700
When you have missing commands like this, try http://rpmfind.net and search for
the command. You'll typically find that is belongs to a RPM file that you have
not installed. In your case, it's the tk RPM.
John McCrreary wrote:
> Hello, all: Here is the problem -- I have attempted to recompile my kernel
> in LM 8.0 (both the 2.4.3 and a d'lded 2.4.5). When I try to make xconfig,
> the error message set forth below is received (note the error "make: wish:
> Command not found") Aside from being an ironic commentary on life, what
> does this message signify? Is there something else I need to install? All
> help greatly appreciated.
>
> [root@c898903-a linux]# make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/scripts'
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkparse.o
> tkparse.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkcond.o
> tkcond.c
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c -o tkgen.o tkgen.c
> gcc -o tkparse tkparse.o tkcond.o tkgen.o
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk
> cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk
> chmod 755 kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3/scripts'
> wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk
> make: wish: Command not found
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 127
> [root@c898903-a linux]#
>
> --
> John McCreary -- "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing"
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Albretch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Temporarily hosting Web work in Linux
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 06:14:36 GMT
Hi,
I need to temporarily host the Web based Java work I am doing for clients, so they
can see the
progress over the Web and actively/easily participate in the development process. So
that if, for
example, my domain name is:
www.My-Domain.com
They will find ther sites at
TheirProject.My-Domain.com/ ...
Do you know of any kinds of references to this kind of things? Links, books, people
... ?
I am interested, also, in non-technical problems, experiences regarding this.
Thanks
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From: "Jonathan Leppert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NTFS partitions
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 06:33:02 GMT
I posted this in comp.os.linux.questions, but no one seems to help me :(.
Can someone please help me? I want to use Linux but need access to my
Windows files!
Hi,
Just installed SuSe Linux 7.1 from a box install. I'm using BootIt NG as the
Boot Manager for switching between Windows 2000, SuSe, and FreeBSD (all on
same drive). I have a 40 GB NTFS data partition and would like mount it
under Linux. With the live-eval SuSe CD it mounts fine, but when I boot into
SuSe it doesn't even recognize any of the Windows partitions. In fact, it
can only see the one extended partition created by YaST2, with the boot,
root, and swap partitions under it. The partitions start at e.g. hda5, 6,
7... I tried mounting hda1, 2, etc. but it failed, and I tried installing
the NTFS filesystem drivers but I get compile errors from make build.
In Windows the situation is about the same -- can't see any Linux partitions
even in PartitionMagic. I am wondering if BootIt NG somehow hides
partitions. Anyway, should I uninstall BootIt and use LILO? Will LILO still
allow me to switch between different partitions as active for boot? Can
BootIt be configured somehow to allow access to partitions besides the one
being booted from? Or is it another problem? How can I be sure Linux isn't
really seeing the other partitions and I'm just doing something wrong with
mount, etc.?
Thanks,
Johnathan
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Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 08:50:14 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitor resalution
"I.M.Sanders" wrote:
>
> OK, got that fixed. Thanks.
> Now I have another question. When I installed RH the hard drive would
> auto detect from the bios with winme. Now it won't, and I have to use
> the boot disk to start RH. I notice the boot disk loads the hard
> drive. What gives with that?
Hello,
please don't top post.
Sounds as M$ ? just grabbed the MBR, boot from CD and run
'lilo -v', case you are using it to boot...
Michael Heiming
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From: "CCP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New to Linux
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 08:00:22 +0100
I'm new to Linux and have installed Corel's distribution into a Windows
partition and, I think, installed a suitable printer, but nothing happens
when I attempt to print. What could be wrong?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Subject: Re: LILO experts, help! Invalid partition table
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:32:55 GMT
The "Invalid partition table" message indicates that more than one
partition is marked "Active" (bootable). Fix that with FDISK.
--
Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Subject: Re: mknod - misbehaving when creating a null device
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:39:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Grant Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:As root I execute:
:mknod -m 0666 /root/null c 1 3
:this gives me perfectly working null device in my root directory, but=20=
:
:when I execute
:mknod -m 0666 /mnt/lfs/dev/null c 1 3
:and attempt to test it with this command
:echo Hi > /mnt/lfs/dev/null
:I get:
:bash: null: Permission denied
:How is it possible that it works in one directory but not in another?
Perhaps that second directory is on a filesystem mounted with the
"nodev" option. Note that the "user" option in /etc/fstab implies
"nodev,nosuid,noexec".
--
Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uzon)
Subject: RH7.1 PCMCIA. machine hangs during bootup
Date: 9 Jun 2001 00:28:10 -0700
hi,
choosing the laptop installation in RH7.1 causes the machine to hang
during bootup displaying an error for the PCMCIA that I should try
biosirq?
i have a toshiba satellite 320cds but i was looking around bugzilla
and noticed many other laptop brands gave this error as well. i
haven't run into any fix on bugzilla. can anyone help me out,
thanks,
UzOn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uzon)
Subject: opl3sa2 sound card in laptop
Date: 9 Jun 2001 00:37:35 -0700
hi, this sound card used to work in RH6.0
but i tried it in RH7.1 and RH6.2 and got the same errors:
in sndconfig i use the setting i got from the BIOS but i can't hear
the sound sample, only the MIDI sample.
and after trying to play a music file i get this error-
"DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?"
i have yamaha opl3sax/2 sound card on my laptop. it is not isa.
help would be greatly appreciated,
UzOn
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Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 10:24:19 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commandline Mail
Taylor James Zingsheim wrote:
>
> I've attempted to figure out how to get mutt to work so that I can just
> snap off a quick mail--to beep myself in case somebody logs on, for
> example--and while I already know how to trigger the command, the
> command itself is proving to be a bit of a bitch.
>
> I've tried doing xterm -e mutt -s 'subject' -i 'body' 'recipient' and
> that doesn't work out, and from reading the manpage and looking at the
> conf file for mutt, I'm fairly impressed by the non-user-friendlyness of
> the thing... it's a little bit more complex than I would think it would
> be.
>
> Now, I'm not using sendmail to, well, send mail, I'm using a seperate
> mailserver and Nutscrape to read my mail, typically, so I'll mention
> that in case those make the mix a bit different. I don't need it to
> note it in my sent mbox or anything, although that would be neat, I just
> need a one-command (although I suppose multiple ones would work, just so
> long as it doesn't require user input) way to chuck mail in the general
> direction of one address.
>
> Box is RH7.1, i386 architecture, but I sincerely doubt that'll make much
> of a difference, but it's just FYI in case it actually does matter in
> some arcane way.
[SNIP]
Try (bash):
mail -s "your subject" [EMAIL PROTECTED] << EOF
Some text or/and some command like:
`date -I`
EOF
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: "Giuseppe Ricioppo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 7.1 VS a nice PS/2 mice
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 08:42:55 GMT
Good morning everybody!
At the first boot, kudzu tell me that my mice must be eliminate.
In X my mice doesn't work. I chose a generic ps/2 with 2 button ( a
Logitech). During X's configuration my mouse was OK! I have the same problem
with Mandrake 8.0. The mouse's section in my XF86conf is...
##########################
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
############################
There is another file called XF86config.old. Its mouse related section is...
############################
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
#.....
#....
Emulate3Buttons
Emulate3Timeout 50
EndSection
##############################
I've already upgraded Xconfigurator and mouseconfig, but my mouse doesn't
work yet.
With MDK 7.0 I didn't had the same problem. Why?
What's happening?
Thank U
Giuseppe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: installing linux onto sparc w/o access to floppy,cd,network
Date: 9 Jun 2001 08:55:07 GMT
Hi guys,
How can you install Linux onto a SunSparc machine without access to floppy
drive, cdrom drive, network etc.?
I did it for NetBSD on SunSparc, just wanna find out did anyone did it
for Linux as well? What should I do after I mounted the local partition?
Format, create fs, unzip packages just like in NetBSD?
ref: http://www.jp.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
Thanks,
Jonathan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: installing linux onto sparc w/o access to floppy,cd,network
Date: 9 Jun 2001 08:56:00 GMT
Hi guys,
How can you install Linux onto a SunSparc machine without access to floppy
drive, cdrom drive, network etc.?
I did it for NetBSD on SunSparc, just wanna find out did anyone do it
for Linux as well? What should I do after I mounted the local partition?
Format, create fs, unzip packages just like in NetBSD?
ref: http://www.jp.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
Thanks,
Jonathan
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From: "David Dorward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Commandline Mail
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 09:50:50 +0100
It seems that on Sat, 09 Jun 2001 04:16:40 +0100, someone claiming to be
"Taylor James Zingsheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed this:
> I've tried doing xterm -e mutt -s 'subject' -i 'body' 'recipient' and
> that doesn't work out, and from reading the manpage and looking at the
> conf file for mutt, I'm fairly impressed by the non-user-friendlyness of
> the thing... it's a little bit more complex than I would think it would
> be.
Try:
echo body | mutt -s 'subject' 'recipient'
--
David Dorward http://david.us-lot.org/
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink
what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. -- Mark Twain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: installing linux onto sparc w/o access to floppy,cd,network
Date: 9 Jun 2001 08:57:57 GMT
Hi guys,
How can you install Linux onto a SunSparc machine without access to floppy
drive, cdrom drive, network etc.?
I did it for NetBSD on SunSparc, just wanna find out did anyone do it
for Linux as well? What should I do after I mount the local partition?
Format, create fs, unzip packages just like in NetBSD?
ref: http://www.jp.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
Thanks,
Jonathan
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From: Olaf Stauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to remove supermount kernel module
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:04:13 +0200
Hi,
I'm using Mandrake 8.0 with supermount for my cdrom.
Recently had the following problem:
1. some application was accessing a damaged cd
2. the application hung
3. I killed the application
4. even after removing the cd the directory /mnt/cdrom still showed the
contents of the damaged cd
5. unmounting /mnt/cdrom worked, but now the directory is empty if I insert
a cd or not
6. mounting some cd manually to some other directory worked, but the
default directory /mnt/cdrom is blocked ...
I presumed supermount crashed somehow. So I tried to remove it.
Unfortunatelly without any luck.
rmmod supermount
resulted in
supermount: Device or resource busy
Well, I tried to find what is still using /mnt/cdrom with lsof and fuser.
But without any luck ...
I presume I can reboot and everything will work again - until I try to
process a damaged cd again ...
But this would be the Microsoft Windows solution, wouldn't it :_))
So, please, can someone tell me how to find out what process is using the
supermount modul. Or how I can avoid rebooting every time this happens.
Thanks
Olaf
P.S. Yes, disabling supermount is an option, but I'm lazy and would like to
keep using it :_))
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From: Helge Fobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vmware installation
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:09:17 +0200
Hello,
trying to install vmware under suse 7.2 and have a problem:
vmare ask for version.h and then it says that the version of it (2.4.3)
doesn't match the version of installed kernel (2.4.4 -4GB).
Who knows?
Helge
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From: Reagan Cardwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No spool file found....
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 05:13:41 -0500
Thanks for the suggestion.
I didn't have the LPRng package installed on my system. Once I downloaded
and installed it, I was able to run checkpc. Man, it spewed error
messages. Seems that printtool sets the wrong owner and permissions
everytime I modify my print settings.
Once I manually change them to agree with checkpc, everything works - with
one exception: checkpc wants the filter file to have a permission of 0600,
but if set as such, I receive error messages when trying to print the two
test files from printtool, and re-running checkpc tells me that the filter
needs to be executable. Changing the permission of the filter to 0700
causes checkpc to issue the first error message about permissions, but
printing works without a hitch. Did that make sense? It was a bit
convoluted.
Anyway, thanks again. I could have spent a year trying to figure it out
without that little program.
-Reagan
Robert Parnes wrote:
>
> Reagan Cardwell wrote:
>
> > After several days of pouring through information, and visiting web sites,
> > and trying various noted methods, I've finally have printing enabled -
> > sort of.
> >
> > I can now send text straight to the port, and it works. But if I try to
> > print anything else - the ASCII test page or the Postscript test page from
> > printtool, or a page of text from AbiWord, etc. - the printer spits out a
> > page that says, at the top, "No spool file found".
> >
> > I have to admit, I'm stumped now. Not only can I not figure out why a
> > spool file is not being created, I can't find any information that would
> > lead me in the direction of an answer.
> >
> > Can someone give me a clue?
> >
> > Thanks-
> > -Reagan
>
> I don't know much more than you do, but try the following:
>
> 1. run checkpc. It checks the /etc/printcap file and sets up spool
> directories if necessary.
>
> 2. stop and start the lpd daemon.
>
> --
> Bob Parnes
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,linux
Subject: Re: NO modules will load after kernel recompile!
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 06:13:53 -0400
John Bailey wrote:
>
> Well,
>
> I'm trying to get the Alcatel Speedtouch 'slug' working in Mandrake 8, but
> forget about that. I'm having problems rebuilding the kernel. Everytime I
> recompile, I get lots of errors on bootup, and I've figured out what's
> happening. I've now noticed what's happening. First, here are the steps I
> use to rebuild:
>
> make dep
> make clean
> make bzImage
> make modules
> make install
> make modules_install
Try this:
look in /usr/src/linux/Makefile and uncomment the line:
#export INSTALL_PATH=/boot
Then
make dep
make clean
make modules
mv /lib/modules/<kernelversion/ /lib/modules/<kernelversion>.back
make modules_install
make bzlilo
Make sure /etc/lilo.conf has your new kernel in it and try a reboot.
I've gotten some strange errors if I recompile my kernel and do not move
the old modules out of the way.
Are you moving from a 2.2 to a 2.4 kernel? The modules have a different
loading mechanism there.
DanH
--
Air Cav Reference Board
http://www.cavalrypilot.com
UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
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From: Olaf Stauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vmware installation
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:32:12 +0200
Hi,
> Hello,
>
> trying to install vmware under suse 7.2 and have a problem:
>
> vmare ask for version.h and then it says that the version of it (2.4.3)
> doesn't match the version of installed kernel (2.4.4 -4GB).
>
> Who knows?
>
The vmware modules have to match exactly the kernel version you are using.
If it doesn't just compile them yourself. I had problems with the
configuration script though. But after manually compiling and some tweaking
I got them to work
You find the sources usually in /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source after you
installed VMware.
cu
Olaf
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From: andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,tw.bbs.comp.linux,hk.comp.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: AC'97 sound chips on board - no sound in RedHat 7.0
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:04:12 +0200
Giles Morant wrote:
> Wilson Ng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Hi,
>
> : My on-board sound chip VIA AC97 audio controller (WDM) works fine with
> : WinME. I tried to run sndconfig to enable the sound in my Linux
> : installation in RedHat 7.0. The program detected that the sound device is
> : VIA82cxxx. After I confirm the autoprobe was done and my system hangs. I
> : rebooted Linux and the startup freeze when starting the sound module.
>
> : Any body can help?
>
> : Thanks, Wilson.
>
> This is a FAQ. Look back through dejanews or google groups. Basically,
> all you need to do in install the ALSA sound drivers from
> http://www.alsa-project.org IIRC. Quite straightforward and my machine
> works perfectly for playing mp3s &c. -- I don't do MIDI or anything
> complicated with it.
>
> Giles Morant
>
> --
> Giles RC Morant
> http://www.morants.demon.co.uk/giles
I've the opposite problem.
My Asus CUV4X has not the AC97 on board (it's optional in my model)
but i see the system trying to hang this module!
What can i do?
(in BIOS i've disabled the audio system already).
Thanks!
Andrea
mail to:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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