Linux-Setup Digest #404, Volume #21 Sat, 9 Jun 01 12:13:10 EDT
Contents:
RH 7.1 kernel? ("Barend Aersmade")
Re: vmware installation (Helge Fobbe)
X unstable (jacques)
Re: X unstable (jacques)
Re: vmware installation
Re: Red Hat 7.1 VS a nice PS/2 mice (faeychyld)
Re: NO modules will load after kernel recompile! ("Kevin")
vmware freezes after power on (Helge Fobbe)
Re: NTFS partitions ("Maximus Idius2")
Yamaha DS-XG Sound with RH6.2??? ("Tommy")
Re: No spool file found.... (Dave Uhring)
Re: LinkSYS LNE100 TX (V4) (Charles Rennolet)
Re: Kernel panic problem (Frank Hahn)
Re: NO modules will load after kernel recompile! (Carsten Menke)
Compiling fontutils (Keith Rhodes)
Re: Resize a extended partition (John Thompson)
Re: Set the X color depth ("Duane Healing")
Re: Compiling fontutils ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: "Barend Aersmade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7.1 kernel?
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:12:32 +0200
This Linux newbie wanted to activate his Orinoco wireless Lan pcmcia card. I
downloaded the latest driver. Its readme told me that I should download and
run the latest PCMCIA package. from http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net.
(pcmcia-cs-3.1.9.26.tar.gz) and unpack the wavelan.tar.gz on top of it. So
far so good.
When I do: # make config
I am asked to give an FTP site for the kernel. I know I run 2.4 . I'd rather
not change it. How do I solve this? I could not find on the RH CD -roms
either.
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From: Helge Fobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vmware installation
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:35:22 +0200
I've tried to compile modules, but then there was an error that he can't
find modversions.h
Is there anything that i can do to get the correct headerfiles. Everytime i
compile the kernel with yast from suse it lacks
version.h
autoconf.h and
modversions.h
Helge
Olaf Stauffer wrote:
> 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: jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X unstable
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 00:23:03 +1200
hi all, i'm having some problems with X. advice appreciated.
i'm running a mandrake 8 system, athlon CPU with a geforce 2 GTS
graphics card. i've got XFree 4.0.3 and the nVidia drivers.
things work ok for the most part, my framerate is up where it should be
=)
whats getting on my nerves is having X crash anywhere between 1 and 10
times a day. i can still move the mouse cursor, but no other input
registers (keyboard, button clicks, what-have-you). the whole machine
locks up and i have to reboot. what may be either a symptom or just my
own dumb mistake is that non of the openGL games that came with mandrake
(tuxracer, GLtron, etc) work. they give a black screen with a white
mouse cursor (at around 640x480) and crash out after a few seconds.
any idea where there are good troubleshooting guides, or even what the
problem may be?
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From: jacques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X unstable
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:09:43 +1200
fixed!
check the "strange nvidia driver behavior" thread in comp.os.linux.x for
details, but i basically set my desktop manager to gnome and changed the
group ownership of /dev/nv* to xgrp.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: vmware installation
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:41:02 GMT
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:09:17 +0200, Helge Fobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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).
>
Get a copy of the latest'n'greatest version of vmware. Only the latest version
will work w/ 2.4.4.
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Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 23:45:54 +1000
From: faeychyld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.1 VS a nice PS/2 mice
Giuseppe Ricioppo wrote:
>
> 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.
I don't think you need Z axis mapping
with a 2 button mouse.
Comment it out, see what happens?
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Regards F
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From: "Kevin" <[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, 9 Jun 2001 10:01:25 -0400
I recompiled my Mandrake 8 (2.4.3-20mdk kernel) and followed the steps from
http://www.zoftware.org/adsl-pppoe
they have a link to red-hat 7.1 kernel building from a nedw system, which is
what I have.
I did not get any errors on the compile, also updated to kernel 2.4.5
when I went to install, i dleted the wrong folder (NEWBIE ERROR), so today I
start all over again :)
I have over 100 pages of linux kernel steps and help files printed and never
had an error.
"David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:_YfU6.3231$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I haven't gone as far as you have, but run into a similar problem. Take
> anything away from the kernel and recompile and works fine until the 'make
> modules' part. Then I get errors. Trying to make a smaller kernel so can
> make a bootable floppy, but not having any luck. If I figure it out I will
> post it.
> Didn't have this problem with Mandrake 7.2
>
>
>
>
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From: Helge Fobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vmware freezes after power on
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 16:11:46 +0200
Hello,
after i've made a succesfull installation of vmware (thank you all), i'll
try to start a virtual machine. But before i will be able to install a
guest os, vmware and also linux freeze after vmware "power on" an i have to
restart the pc.
Any Ideas?
Helge
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From: "Maximus Idius2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NTFS partitions
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 23:29:03 +0900
i use redhat 7.1, and can recompile kernel to access ntfs partition.
yet sometimes i did have errors in recompiling kernel -- I tried to
reinstall and recompile kernel in many ways to learn the process.
Now i use one partition is FAT, which can be read by linux and NT,
and win98, win ME too. Certainly having NTFS is fine, but if the
aim is swapping files only, that is the simplest way.
max idisu
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"Jonathan Leppert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:yqjU6.47856$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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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From: "Tommy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yamaha DS-XG Sound with RH6.2???
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:43:56 -0500
Has anyone got the sound on a Dell motherboard to work with RedHat 6.2? It
has the Yamaha DS-XG sound chip and the sound is built into the mb.
sndconfig says it is not supported. Any ideas on where to start to get it to
work?
I wonder if RH 7.1 has support for this sound device?
Thanks in advance...
Tommy
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No spool file found....
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 09:50:03 -0500
Reagan Cardwell wrote:
> 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]
>
Use checkpc -f and the utility will fix things itself.
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From: Charles Rennolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LinkSYS LNE100 TX (V4)
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 09:10:33 -0500
You wrote:
>
> When I do 'modprobe tulip' I get
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/tulip.o :init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters....
>
If you didn't fix this yet, you will be able to if you use the drivers
provided on the diskette you got with the card. Look for linux on the
diskette, follow the directions. The tulip driver in 2.2.16 is broken.
Charles.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Kernel panic problem
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 15:10:04 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001 00:13:13 -0400, David Ehringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a duel booting system running Windows 98 and Red Hat 7 with two hard
> disks, one solely for Windows (hda) and the other (hdc) has Linux and a
> small Windows partition. Recently I have not been able to boot Linux
> because of a kernel panic:
>
> hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
> hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:06 (hdc), sector 64
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:06, iso_blknum+16, block=32
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 16:06
>
You might want to search some of the past Usenet postings but
typically the "Unable to mount root fs..." error means either that the
root file system is not where the kernel thinks it is or if you have
recompiled a kernel, the driver for the root filesystem has been compiled
as a module or left out.
You will probably need a rescue disk, etc to be able to boot and mount
your system.
--
Frank Hahn
Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.
-- Malcolm Smith
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From: Carsten Menke <[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, 9 Jun 2001 17:03:19 GMT
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
> actually loads...something insignificant. what the hell is happening
> to my
> modules?
>
> John
>
Do you have made the crux in xconfig to make the kernel keep also older
Modules? If not there will only run the modules which were compiled by
your kernel, all other modules like the nvidia driver module have to be
recompiled when using the new kernel.
Also you could try, to save the config file in /usr/src/linux/ and then
do make mrproper, this will delete also the config file so you have to
place it again in /usr/src/linux/ to have you old configuration.
Good luck
Carsten
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.fonts,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Compiling fontutils
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 17:17:38 +0200
I am STILL trying to compile fontutils-0.6 on Linux Mandrake 8.0...
I got an surpsrisingly underwhelming response to my last post to comp.fonts and
comp.os.linux.setup... but I'll try
again, anyway ;-)
Compiling fontutils-0.6-linux (downloaded from
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/ today, 9 June 2001)
under Mandrake 8.0.
I did these steps:
unpack the source to /usr/src
./configure
make these modifications to the GNUmakefile.in
texmf_prefix = /usr/share/texmf
default_tfm_path = $(texmf_prefix)/fonts//:.
make
I got loads of complaints about stddef.h being missing, and a couple about
stdarg.h being missing. Here are two examples:
In file included from ../include/c-std.h:26,
from ../include/config.h:31,
from bzr_input.c:19:
/usr/include/stdio.h:33:21: stddef.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:64,
from ../include/c-std.h:26,
from ../include/config.h:31,
from Bitmap.c:20:
/usr/include/libio.h:51:21: stdarg.h: No such file or directory
Starting from /usr/include, I can find one file named stddef.h, but it looks
like the make doesn't see it...
cd /usr/include
find . -name "std*\.h"
./linux/stddef.h
./bits/stdio-lock.h
./bits/stdio.h
./bits/stdio_lim.h
./stdint.h
./stdio.h
./stdlib.h
./stdio_ext.h
./g++-3/std/std_valarray.h
./g++-3/stdiostream.h
./g++-2/stdiostream.h
./arts/stdsynthmodule.h
And if I look from one step higher in the directory structure, I can find four
files named stddef.h
find .. -name "stddef.h"
../include/linux/stddef.h
../lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.3/include/stddef.h
../lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/egcs-2.91.66/include/stddef.h
../src/linux-2.4.3/include/linux/stddef.h
Has ANYBODY managed to compile fontutils for Mandrake?
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
KR.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Resize a extended partition
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 10:07:38 -0500
Hannes Schmiderer wrote:
> my brother has the following partition table
> hda1 3000MB Win98 (Fat32)
> hda2 3000MB empty (Fat32)
> hda4 Extended
> hda5 10GB Win98 Data (Fat32)
> hda6 13GB Win98 Data (Fat32)
>
> Is it possible (and useful, apart from the small space ;-)) to install
> Linux using the following Layout:
> hda1 3000MB Win98
> hda2 2850MB Linux
> hda3 150MB Linux Swap
> ....?
> I don't know if this works with two primary partitions (Linux and
> Linux Swap)? Maybe I haven't enough faith in Linux. :)
That shouldn't be a problem for linux. I seem to recall that
Windows doesn't like finding "unknown" partition types (ie, ext2)
between FAT partitions, so you may need to rearrange things if
Windows gripes about.
> If not, is it possible to delete hda2 and resize the extended
> partition that it includes the space of hda2 without data loss on hda5
> and hda6? Can this be done with fdisk with the extended commands
> safely?
Not with fdisk. You'd have have to back up, delete the existing
partitions and restore. GNU-parted should be up to resizing the
extended partition if you want to delete hda2 and use that space
for the extended partition. Otherwise, Partition Magic v6 has
some nifty tricks like converting primary partitions to logical
and vice-versa and scripting the process so you don't have to
baby-sit it through the details.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Duane Healing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Set the X color depth
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 15:36:57 GMT
It should have a line that reads:
DefaultColorDepth XX
(where XX is your chosed depth) in the "Screen" section somewhere before
the "Display" subsection.
--
-Duane
-DNAware SoftLabs
In a feverish moment of semi-lucidity, "* Tong *"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flailed at the keyboard thusly:
> Hi,
>
> where do I specify the default color depth for X?
>
> I changed my /etc/X11/XF86Config, and now my X is 8b depth by
> default.... Here is the "Screen" part:
>
> Section "Screen"
> Driver "accel"
> Device "My Video Card"
> Monitor "My Monitor"
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling fontutils
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:36:12 +0200
In alt.os.linux.mandrake Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got loads of complaints about stddef.h being missing, and a couple about
If you don't have stddef.h and stdargs.h, then you don't have the C
headers installed. Full stop.
> stdarg.h being missing. Here are two examples:
> In file included from ../include/c-std.h:26,
> from ../include/config.h:31,
> from bzr_input.c:19:
> /usr/include/stdio.h:33:21: stddef.h: No such file or directory
Clear enough .. your install is broken as hell. Repair your C compiler
installatuon.
> What am I doing wrong?
Working with a broken compiler install.
Peter
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