Linux-Setup Digest #405, Volume #21 Sat, 9 Jun 01 17:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Unified packages project? (Travis Hein)
Re: Yamaha DS-XG Sound with RH6.2??? (Robert_L)
problem starting aurora with matrox (pinel philippe)
Re: imap vs imaps? (ivo welch)
Need help with pinicle pctv studio card (mike)
Re: imap vs imaps? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Enable root FTP access? (Marco Radzinschi)
Re: print odd/even (r)
Re: Enable root FTP access? (Stu)
test news ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Could symlinks prevent /mnt/cdrom access ("sleepy")
power off after shutdown command ("Frankie")
Re: LILO stops at LI with IDE & SCSI setup (Ardith Hoyt)
Re: Enable root FTP access? (Dave Uhring)
Re: toshiba satellite pro 4600 install from cd ("Guido Ostkamp")
Re: Could symlinks prevent /mnt/cdrom access ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: power off after shutdown command ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: new install mandrake 8 problems ("Dave Uhring")
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From: Travis Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unified packages project?
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 11:22:38 +0000
I am using a Linux system that I built from discrete packages (about 125)
from GNU, and other free source projects.
I am quite concerned about the variety of methods used to configure and
install packages.
Most use the GNU Autoconf facility, but a lot have hackable Makefile's
Without simply using one of the Distribution vendors (RedHat, Suse,
Mandrake, etc)
Is there any action or project currently under way to unify the discrete
(non distribution modified) tar.gz packages?
If there is no such project, does anyone want to start one ?
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From: Robert_L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha DS-XG Sound with RH6.2???
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 12:23:57 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tommy wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
Hi,
I use the same card in Mandrake with the 2.4 kernel-- seems to use oss driver.
Also worked with 2.2.17 kernel though it might have used alsa then, not sure.
Perhaps someone who uses RH 6.2 will know the procedure for making sure the
modules are installed (or downloaded and installed) and enabled.
In MK 7.2 sndconfig did not work though the card did. In MK8.0 (kernel 2.4)
sndconfig id's the card and plays Linus pronouncing his name.
If I do cat /etc/modules.conf I get
....
....
alias sound-slot-0 ymfpci
post-install snd-card-ymfpci modprobe snd-pcm-oss
cat /proc.pci produces
...
...
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio
Controller] (rev 3).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=25.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe1000000 [0xe1007fff].
I realize this I haven't been a great deal of help other than to tell you that
there IS a way to get the card working.
HTH
Robert_L
--
Registered Linux user #214645
remove spamfree when replying directly
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From: pinel philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem starting aurora with matrox
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 19:05:46 -0400
hi
i'm trying to start aurora graphic boot console but i get
the following error message :
enable to map framebuffer device to memory : invalid argument
my graphic card is a matrox g400 with mandrake 8.0.
I've compiled kernel with fbcon and vgacon and matroxfb (but not vesafb).
my lilo command line parameter is as follow :
video=matrox:vesa:0x117
I see the graphic logo, but aurora don't start.
Any ideas ?
thanks
Philippe Pinel : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ivo welch)
Subject: Re: imap vs imaps?
Date: 9 Jun 2001 10:14:50 -0700
> ?? imaps is usually implemented by running imap under the sslwrap
> container. If you get sslwrap from somewhere it will tell you how. The
> certs need to be visible to sslwrap, which implies they need to be
> where sslwrap looks for them, which you will find out by reading the
> sslwrap docs or running sslwrap under strace!
Hi peter: thanks for the email. I think that the imap-2000 that
ships with mandrake/redhat already has the ssl interface wrap
built-in. Of course, I am not 100%, if only because it lacks
documentation...
again, how sad that the choice is [a] high complexity with fancy
features; [b] password transmission in the clear. One would think
that there could have been something in between. :-(.
/iaw
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike)
Subject: Need help with pinicle pctv studio card
Date: 9 Jun 2001 10:21:46 -0700
I have red hat 6.2 with I think kernel 2.2.15-5.0 Is there any way
I can setup this card without doing a kernel up date to 2.4.0
How hard is it to set up the bttv .7x and the i2c patch to make it work I need
Step by step instructions. Please help
thanks mike..
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: imap vs imaps?
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 19:50:51 +0200
ivo welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> ?? imaps is usually implemented by running imap under the sslwrap
>> container. If you get sslwrap from somewhere it will tell you how. The
>> certs need to be visible to sslwrap, which implies they need to be
>> where sslwrap looks for them, which you will find out by reading the
>> sslwrap docs or running sslwrap under strace!
> Hi peter: thanks for the email. I think that the imap-2000 that
> ships with mandrake/redhat already has the ssl interface wrap
Either figure out where it wants the certs, or use something else -
something where you can figure out where it wants the certs.
BTW, strace shoudl help you in either case.
> built-in. Of course, I am not 100%, if only because it lacks
> documentation...
So use something else, or get the docs for it off the author! Write.
> again, how sad that the choice is [a] high complexity with fancy
> features; [b] password transmission in the clear. One would think
No .. the choice is yours. Either do as I suggest and follow the
standard path (sslwrapped imap), or complain to RH about missing docs
for their alternative offering - that's a grade 1 bug, or figure it out
yourself, or ask the author.
> that there could have been something in between. :-(.
There is.
Peter
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
From: Marco Radzinschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Enable root FTP access?
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 18:29:37 GMT
Hello:
I need to know how to enable root ftp access under Red Hat 7.1 and
the wu-ftp daemon. This will not be a security threat in this particular
situation, as the firewall does not allow ftp access from outside the LAN.
Thank you,
Marco Radzinschi
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AOL IM: CrackedBoy
"Then, in the dark hour before dawn, sirens blasted. They were announcing
departures for a world that now and forever meant nothing to me. . . . And
I felt ready to live it all again too. As if that blind rage had washed me
clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs
and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
Finding it so much like myself--so like a brother, really--I felt that I
had been happy and that I was happy again." --Meursault of The Stranger
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From: r <@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: print odd/even
Reply-To: @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 20:32:07 +0200
Dave Uhring wrote:
> r wrote:
>
> > How to print just odd/even pages with lpr and (if there are) with
> > x-applications?
> >
> >
>
> If your file is ASCII text, convert it to postscript using enscript.
> Invoke gv with the name of the file and use gv to print odd pages, resort
> them and then print the even pages.
>
> Or convert the postscript file to PDF and use acroread to print even more
> selectively.
>
Ok
--
@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Enable root FTP access?
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 19:05:59 GMT
Marco Radzinschi wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I need to know how to enable root ftp access under Red Hat 7.1 and
> the wu-ftp daemon. This will not be a security threat in this particular
> situation, as the firewall does not allow ftp access from outside the LAN.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Marco Radzinschi
>
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> AOL IM: CrackedBoy
>
> "Then, in the dark hour before dawn, sirens blasted. They were announcing
> departures for a world that now and forever meant nothing to me. . . . And
> I felt ready to live it all again too. As if that blind rage had washed me
> clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs
> and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
> Finding it so much like myself--so like a brother, really--I felt that I
> had been happy and that I was happy again." --Meursault of The Stranger
Remove root from /etc/ftpusers
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: test news
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 18:02:18 +0000 (UTC)
test news
--
Gloria
http://www.orravan.com
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From: "sleepy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Could symlinks prevent /mnt/cdrom access
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 19:05:12 GMT
I understand your confusion. The new Mandrake 8.0 fstab looks weird
compared to others. It's default entries for the cdrom look like this:
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660, dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
I agree that most other distributions have a dev link and a mount link, but
nonetheless I have tried to follow the format of the default existing fstab
and that is probably the most confusing part. I think that there are
symlinks or shortcuts that I don't know about. It is possible to use the cd
writer as a cd reader normally, isn't it?
thanks
sleepy
"David Efflandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:55:46 GMT, sleepy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > I did a chmod 777 on the /mnt/kenwood directory and now it works 4.0,
but I
> > still cannot use the plextor cdrw to read cd's. It works in xcdroast
(well
> > kinda) but I cannot view it's contents in any other place. Yes, I did
try
> > to chmod it, but no dice. I'm almost positive it has to do with scsi
> > emulation. Should I create two separate fstab entries for the same
device.
> > One to do scsi emulation for writing and one just to read or do you
think it
> > would freak out. Thanks. Sleepy
>
> You don't mount a cdrom for writing, you write through the SCSI generic
> device (probably /dev/sg0 or 0,0,0). I am a bit confused that you are
> trying to mount directories on directories. If you are using SCSI
> emulation for the plextor only, the fstab entry should be something like:
>
> /mnt/cdrom /dev/plexcdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>
> and /dev/plexcdrom should likely be a symlink to /dev/scd0 or whichever
> scd it is (it is not an hd if using scsi emulation).
>
> > "Craig Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> sleepy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>
> >> > Running Mandrake 8.0 and I've already run the fstab and permissions
> > route
> >> > on this problem. I am confident I have ownership as root of the
> > /mnt/cdrom
> >> > and /mnt/cdrom2 directory. Nevertheless I am locked out of the
folders
> > and
> >> > the terminal I get an i/o error. Gui filebrowser gives me "you do
not
> > have
> >> > permission to access these files" when I try to access the /mnt/cdrom
> >> > directories. I'm only left with the fact that I did something trying
to
> >> > add cdwriter support via the scsi module hdc=ide-scsi emulation
thing.
> > My
> >> > fstab is exactly the same as it was before I tried any of this. The
> > only
> >> > thing you'll notice odd in my fstab is that I'm using /mnt/plexcdrom
and
> >> > /mnt/kenwood as the mount folders. I only did that to see if I would
> > still
> >> > get locks on those new folders and yes I did. Otherwise the fstab is
> >> > factory correct. Can anyone tell me of some possible embedded
symlinks
> >> > that might be doing this? Here's my fstab FYI
> >> >
> >> > /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> >> > > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> >> > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/plexcdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> >> > > /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/kenwood supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
> >> > > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> >> > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat
> >> > > user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
> >> > > /dev/hdb6 /mnt/extra ext2 defaults 1 2
> >> > > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >> > > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >>
> >> 2 items you may wish to consider:
> >>
> >> 1) Adding the 'user' flag to the device options allows the user
> >> that opens the device to have full access to it.
> >>
> >> 2) You do have good permissions on /, /mnt and /mnt/cdrom,
> >> right?
> >>
> >> --
> >> It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX
videoboard
> >> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: "Frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: power off after shutdown command
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 21:55:22 +0200
I installed RH7.1 on my system. When i give the command shutdown -h now the
computer closes and turns te power off (ATX).
Now i compiled my kernel and now the computer doesn't turn of the power
anymore, it stops with the message power down, but the power stays on. When
i boot with the original kernel it works ok, but is i boot with my compiled
kernel it doesn't work. Also another kernel version doesn't help.
I have the same problem with another computer running RH6.2
I tried to compile the kernel with APM on, off and other option regarding
APM, with no luck.
Does anybody have an idea ?
Frank.
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From: Ardith Hoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO stops at LI with IDE & SCSI setup
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 14:43:50 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ardith Hoyt wrote:
> I've been trying to get Software RAID set up on our server, and have run
> into a problem with the bootup.
<snip>
> Thanks for your help,
Nobody has any ideas, huh?
Ardith
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Enable root FTP access?
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:14:47 -0500
Stu wrote:
> Marco Radzinschi wrote:
>
>> Hello:
>>
>> I need to know how to enable root ftp access under Red Hat 7.1
>> and
>> the wu-ftp daemon. This will not be a security threat in this particular
>> situation, as the firewall does not allow ftp access from outside the
>> LAN.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Marco Radzinschi
>>
>> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> AOL IM: CrackedBoy
>>
>> "Then, in the dark hour before dawn, sirens blasted. They were announcing
>> departures for a world that now and forever meant nothing to me. . . .
>> And I felt ready to live it all again too. As if that blind rage had
>> washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive
>> with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the
>> world. Finding it so much like myself--so like a brother, really--I felt
>> that I had been happy and that I was happy again." --Meursault of The
>> Stranger
>
> Remove root from /etc/ftpusers
>
> Stu
>
>
If you don't even know enough to enable root ftp access, then how do you
expect to have configured your firewall to keep skiddiez out?
There is _no_ need whatever for root ftp access in any network.
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From: "Guido Ostkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: toshiba satellite pro 4600 install from cd
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 22:29:42 +0200
Dan Kimberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] But this is going to come up again, so it would
> be good to know if there's a fix, or if others have had the same
> problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
> dan
Hi Dan,
I have a Toshiba Satellite 2650 XDVD and experienced the same
problem with my distribution (SuSE 7.2).
SuSE explains in their manual, that they are using 2.88 MB
boot images on 2 of 3 bootable CDROM/DVD and that some
BIOSes won't support images of that size, so that those
CDROM/DVDs are not detected as bootable.
This is indeed the case for my Toshiba, because the one of the
7 CDROM/DVD with a classic 1.44 MB boot image on it boots fine.
I have no idea whether there is a BIOS fix from Toshiba that
might fix this problem.
Regards,
Guido
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Could symlinks prevent /mnt/cdrom access
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 20:49:47 GMT
sleepy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I understand your confusion. The new Mandrake 8.0 fstab looks weird
> compared to others. It's default entries for the cdrom look like this:
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660, dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
There's noting weird about it (except the supermount fstype, and its
strange option)....
Personally I'd remove any reference to supermount here, and remove
supermount from the system!
I prefer to use autofs if anything, because you can write a script
that does "anything" when you try and look at /mnt/cdrom, including
mounting the cdrom, or blowing a raspberry at you!
> I agree that most other distributions have a dev link and a mount link, but
Eh?
>> You don't mount a cdrom for writing, you write through the SCSI generic
>> device (probably /dev/sg0 or 0,0,0). I am a bit confused that you are
Yes.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: power off after shutdown command
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 22:50:52 +0200
Frankie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed RH7.1 on my system. When i give the command shutdown -h now the
> computer closes and turns te power off (ATX).
Did you want that? That sounds highly strange to me! If I wanted to
turn off the thing at the mains, I would.
> Now i compiled my kernel and now the computer doesn't turn of the power
> anymore, it stops with the message power down, but the power stays on. When
That's what's "supposed" to happen. You need an ATX powersupply if you
want to do any more, and you want to talk to it.
> I tried to compile the kernel with APM on, off and other option regarding
> APM, with no luck.
You don't need luck. Those are all the possibilities for compilation,
and they're unneccessary as compilation options since apm is a module!
Now what module params did you try? Did you make sure to disable apci?
(something that wasn't possible until recently, if you compiled it in).
> Does anybody have an idea ?
* 1.1: support user-space standby and suspend, power off after system
* halted, Linux 1.3.98
MODULE_PARM(debug, "i");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(debug, "Enable debug mode");
MODULE_PARM(power_off, "i");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(power_off, "Enable power off");
and prove that apm is running.
Peter
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From: "Dave Uhring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new install mandrake 8 problems
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 16:05:33 -0500
In article <3b21aeb2$0$62144$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "tlc"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i just installed mandrake 8 standerd ed. when i boot it takes a very
> long time at the finding dependance screen. more than 10 minutes. then
> when i type startx my screen goes black and has no signal?
>
>
>
>
> athlon 700
> 256MB RAM
> MSI Mobo
> soundblaster live
> hp cdr
> dvd rom drive
> d-link nic
>
>
You tell us everything about your system except the item which troubles
you, the video display! What kind of an adapter is it and are you using
XFree86-4 or XFree86-3? The Mandrake installer probably gave you the
choice of which to use and the option to test the configuration. Didn't
you do that test?
Did you even get to the point in the install where the video display gets
configured?
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