Linux-Setup Digest #434, Volume #21 Wed, 13 Jun 01 19:13:12 EDT
Contents:
printing high res dithering (Marc Ulrich)
address translating?? (kris)
Re: Linux Mandrake 8.0 and Elsa Erazor III ("kyi")
Re: Problems installing matrox card ("kyi")
I can't mount ...? hardware problems (VP)
Re: Linux Mandrake 8.0 and Elsa Erazor III (Olaf Stauffer)
how to kill process when kill -9 is not working ? (Olaf Stauffer)
Re: how to kill process when kill -9 is not working ? (DVHandorf)
Re: problem starting aurora with matrox (pinel philippe)
Re: ipchain settings for "soft" router ("Clayton Gumbrell")
Re: Linux partitions (Gord Torrie)
problem with lo interface ("John W. Price")
Re: use fdformat to format a floppy (Yves Bellefeuille)
NIS problems (Jim Harkins)
install linux on one harddrive and windows on another? ("Erick Woertz Jr.")
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From: Marc Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing high res dithering
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:49:59 -0400
I'm hoping this is the best place to ask. I've asked at
linuxprinting.org without getting an answer. I am using an HP laserjet
1100 and when I print anything grayscale, I get 72dpi dithering, which
doesn't look good. How can I force the printer to use 300dpi dithering
or 600dpi dithering?
I'm using RedHat 7.0
Thanks,
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kris)
Subject: address translating??
Date: 13 Jun 2001 13:19:50 -0700
I want my internet connected to my linux pc, with my win 95 I want to
connect to the internet thrue my linux with address translation.
What did I need to use, is it a firewall and where can I find him.
Or can I do it with some Nat software.
Did anyone know more about this??
thanks in advance!!
Kris
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From: "kyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake 8.0 and Elsa Erazor III
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:39:49 -0700
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Isn't that card a nvidia chipset? If so use their drivers. A good
howto on video hardware is at http://linuxvoodoo.org , no it's not
just a voodoo site.
- -Jayson
http://linux.microbsys.com
PPN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello.
>
> Having used Linux Mandrake 7.2, I decided to upgrade to Linux
> Mandrake 8.0. But to my great dismay, it turned out that it
> wouldn't let me use my video card, which is an Elsa Erazor III (as
> it says under Windows 98 and at PC boot). Has anyone experienced
> such trouble? If so, did he/she overcome it (otherwise than by
> changing the video card, of
> course)? I'd like not to have to recompile XFree or find some
> exotic driver.
>
> Thanks in advance.
Patrick.
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From: "kyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems installing matrox card
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:46:12 -0700
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I too have a g400, 16M though. And the card works out-of-the-box. As
someone else mentioned, what is the version of XFree86 are you
running and what is the distro type?
- -Jayson
http://linux.microbsys.com
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:xEFV6.3902$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Everything seems to work ok up to the point where I install the
> video card. I have a Matrox Millenium G400 32M video card. After
> selecting this I try to test it and the screen goes black. I even
> try different modes and
> resolutions and even video cards to no avail. What am I doing
> wrong?
>
> System makeup.
> 384M sdram
> 20G seagate HD + 4G seagate HD
> Soundblaster pro (ISA)
> Acer 76c Monitor
> Matrox Millenium G400 32M
>
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From: VP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I can't mount ...? hardware problems
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:52:46 GMT
I can't mount my sdb7 reiserfs partition (I have there some importante
files, my sources codes)
When I going to mount the partition the kernel(2.4.5) crash with this
logs
..Jun 12 23:12:32 zendo kernel: ReiserFS version 3.6.25
..ernel: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:17) ...
..kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 1,\
lun 0, CDB: 0x28 00 01 13 54 70 00 00 08 00
.. kernel: Info fld=0x1135470, Current sd08:17: sns = f0 3
.. do kernel: ASC=11 ASCQ= 0
.. kernel: Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00\
0x03 0x01 0x13 0x54 0x70 0x18 0x00 0x00 0x00\
0x00 0x11 0x00 0x00 0x80 0x00 0x35 0x00\
0x00 0x10 0x66 0x00 0x00 0x0c 0x6e 0x02 0x6c 0x00 0x6c 0x00 0x00
.. o kernel: I/O error: dev 08:17, sector 50256
l: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer\
dereference at virtual address 00000034
.. kernel: printing eip:
.. kernel: c019843f
.. kernel: *pde = 00000000
..Jun 12 23:13:51 xxx kernel: Oops: 0000
...Jun 12 23:13:51 xxx kernel: CPU: 0
.. kernel: EIP: 0010:[journal_transaction_is_valid+15/416]
.. kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
.. kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: dcffde40 edx: dcffde40
..kernel: esi: db3f2000 edi: 0000188a ebp: ddd14800 esp: d994de10
..kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
..kernel: Process mount (pid: 589, stackpage=d994d000)
..ernel: Stack: 00000000 db3f2000 0000188a ddd14800\
dcffde8c c0198db2 ddd14800 00000000\
..kernel: d994de74 d994de78 00000817 0000188a\
00001000 ddd14800 00000000 c032f720
...kernel: 00004000 00000001 00000001 db6ad000 00000014\
000016fb 3b26a22c 00: Call Trace: [journal_read+482/1056]\
[journal_init+678/832] [reiserfs_read_super+237/1040]\
[get_empty_super+76/416] [read_super+99/176]\
[get_sb_bdev+347/448] [error_code+52/60]
.. kernel: [do_mount+373/688]..
Is a Hardware problem i try averything with the reiserfs utilities ,
but nothing ..
Any hlep is apreciated
Thanks
V.P.
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From: Olaf Stauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake 8.0 and Elsa Erazor III
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 22:56:59 +0200
Hi,
PPN wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Having used Linux Mandrake 7.2, I decided to upgrade to Linux Mandrake
> 8.0. But to my great dismay, it turned out that it wouldn't let me use
> my video card, which is an Elsa Erazor III (as it says under Windows
> 98 and at PC boot). Has anyone experienced such trouble? If so, did
> he/she overcome it (otherwise than by changing the video card, of
> course)? I'd like not to have to recompile XFree or find some exotic
> driver.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Patrick.
I'm using Mandrake 8.0 with an Elsa Erazor III. Never had any problems.
I even got the 3d acceleration in Quake III running :-))
I'm just using some plain XFree86-4.0.3-7mdk nothing fancy ...
cu
Olaf
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From: Olaf Stauffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to kill process when kill -9 is not working ?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:05:37 +0200
Hi,
I'm having problems with some crashed processes.
These occur while accessing some faulty cdrom ...
Unfortunatelly even kill -9 won't terminate them ?!?
Please, can someone tell me how to terminate them without rebooting.
Thanks
Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DVHandorf)
Date: 13 Jun 2001 21:20:05 GMT
Subject: Re: how to kill process when kill -9 is not working ?
Yes, if likk -9 PID does not work, the only thing left short of rebooting is
changing the runlevel. Just log in as root, type init 1, and when a prompt
shows up(not password) type init (your previous runlevel here).
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From: pinel philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem starting aurora with matrox
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:26:18 -0400
Yes i made it to, it works with vesafb, but the maximum resolution i can
obtain is 800x600, the 1024x768 mode is not detected correctly with lilo.
( vga=792 does not work but vga=789 works)
Kwan Lowe wrote:
> pinel philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>
> I started getting this with kernel 2.4.5. The only workaround I've had was to
> disable the matrox specific stuff and use the generic fb. The performance was
> poor though, so I dropped back to 2.4.4. It seems to be matrox specific because
> it works fine with an ATI Rage 128 All-In-Wonder.
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From: "Clayton Gumbrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: ipchain settings for "soft" router
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:33:51 +1200
You should perhaps reset the whole ipchains setup in your rc.local.
You are currently not setting up the output chains, so who know what is
happening there!
Start with
ipchain -F input
ipchain -F output
ipchain -F forward
to flush all the chains.
The output from ipchains -L would show the whole set up and possibly make
the problem obvious.
If you put the -l option into all of your ipchains you can log the packets
and see where things are being stopped. Check the log in /var/log/messages
Hope that this helps
Clayton
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Clayton Gumbrell
CE Solutions Limited / CamSensor Technologies Limited
NEW ZEALAND
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"Qisheng Pan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:9g3mbc$6dm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> My server/router is running on Redhat linux 7.1 and has Dual NIC (eth0 and
> eth1). eth1 connects to a cable modem that provides Internet service. eth0
> connects to internal subnetwork. It has worked fine on Windows95 with
Sygate
> 3.1. However, it has problem on linux with ipchains.
>
> Following offical ip-chain-howto and ip-masquerade-howto, I set ipchains
as
> follows:
>
> (1) Modify /etc/sysconfig/network and change FORWARD_IPV4=false to
> FORWARD_IPV4=true
>
> (2) At the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local, I add the following code:
>
> /sbin/depmod -a
> /sbin/modprobe ip_masq_ftp
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag
>
> # As dynamic IP users of (DHCP) cable modem, I set:
> echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr
>
> /sbin/ipchains -M -S 7200 10 160
>
> # As dynamic IP users of (DHCP) cable modem, I set:
> /sbin/ipchains -A input -j ACCEPT -i eth1 -s 0/0 67 -d 0/0 68 -p udp
>
> /sbin/ipchains -P forward DENY
> /sbin/ipchains -A forward -i eth1 -s 192.168.10.0/24 -j MASQ
>
> The linux server/router can connect to Internet. PCs on internal subnet
can
> also ping outside IPs, but they can not visit them by HTTP or Telnet. They
> cannot even resolve the name (though I already set DNS in resolv.conf). If
I
> use IP address directly on netscape, the error message is:
>
> "netscape's network connection was refused by the server
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, The server may not be accepting connection
> or may be busy. Try connecting again later".
>
> If anyone know what is the problem? Maybe probem come from firewall. But I
> don't know how to fix it. Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks.
>
>
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:46:35 -0400
From: Gord Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux partitions
patrick wrote:
> I have two questions about partitioning my system:
>
> I have a 40Gb hard drive running Windows ME currently. I
> want to split it into 2x20Gb partitions.
>
> 1: When I get to the partitioning portion of the install (Disk
> Druid), do I need to reflect the Windows partition as the first
> partition (if so, what is the mount point, Device amd type)?
Before you attempt to install Linux you first need to reduce the size of the
partition used by Windows from 40Gb down to 20Gb. I'm assuming, since you
didn't say so, that at present your entire 40Gb disk has been formatted as a
single Windows drive. If this is not the case then the details will be
somewhat different. Assuming your entire disk is one Windows drive, the
first thing you need to do is defragment it using the Windows defragmenting
program. Next, you need to run the DOS-mode program fips or Partition Magic
or some other program that can re-size a partition. I'm not familiar with
Windows ME so I can't tell you more about exactly how to do this.
You need to have a portion of your disk which is not used by, nor seen by
Windows. It is in this portion of your disk that you will install Linux. It
was not clear from your message that you understood this.
I doubt that the second 20Gb of a 40Gb drive will begin below cyclinder
1024. Older versions of LILO (such as I am using) required that all of the
Linux kernel be stored somewhere in the first 1024 cylinders of the disk
drive. I understand that the latest version of LILO does not have this
limitation. Perhaps someone else can confirm this.
> 2: With a 20 Gb linux partition, how should I split up the Linux
> partitions (i.e. how many Mb for /, /usr, /home, etc) and which
> mount points do I need for a home system
> (i.e. /, /boot/, /usr, /home, /var, /opt, /tmp, and /usr/local)?
As David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has already pointed out, the answer
to this question really depends on what you intend to use your system for.
However, I can tell you that you can make the partition sizes too small! It
took me several iterations before I had a large enough partition for the
root directory. :-( Here is what I ended up with:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 58M 33M 22M 60% /
/dev/hda5 8.0M 1.7M 5.9M 23% /tmp
/dev/hda6 968M 299M 619M 33% /usr
/dev/hda7 24M 32k 23M 0% /home
/dev/hda8 1.6G 7.4M 1.5G 0% /var
Now /dev/hda1 is my DOS partition (in your case it will be your Windows ME
partition). Don't do anything to this partition with Disk Druid or with the
Linux fdisk program. Do not format it either!
In addition, /dev/hda3 is my swap partition and its size is 16Mb (I have
only 8Mb of memory on this 80386).
Now the reason for having more than two partitions (one for root and one for
swap) is to prevent the following problems:
a) Suppose you receive a newsfeed but have set the expiry time too far in
the future. The disk becomes full, or more accurately, the partition becomes
full. Linux will have difficulty writing to its log files when this happens
and might crash. There will be no space to store incoming mail or news.
Users will complain about numerous, mysterious (to them) instances of their
programs crashing because the program can't write to a temporary file.
b) Suppose one of your users starts storing all his gif, jpeg and mp3 files
in his home directory. He has a lot of them. The disk becomes full.
c) Suppose one of your users starts using a mailserver to get all those
jpeg, mp3 and program binary files that he can't get with FTP because you
denied him FTP access after he filled the disk storing them in his home
directory.
The disk becomes full.
d) You might run some application that creates a large number of temporary
files or simply one large temporary file every time it runs and it doesn't
delete them afterwards. The disk might become full.
This is why you might want to have /home, /tmp, /var/log, /var/spool/mail
and /var/spool/news each on a separate partition. If one of the partitions
becomes full it won't affect any program that stores files on the other
partitions. It is also easier to figure out what the problem is if, for
example, users complain that they can't store files in their home directory
but they can still receive mail, read up-to-date news articles, run programs
and Linux is still writing to its log files.
If you don't intend to have multiple users or don't take a newsfeed then
some of these problems won't occur. But this is why the answer to your
second question depends on what you intend to use the system for.
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From: "John W. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with lo interface
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:51:47 -0700
Hi all:
When I boot my system (laptop running RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.17-14), it
doesn't create the lo interface. This seems (I'm no expert) to prevent
me from sending mail directly from my box; I have to go through a mailer
on another box. If I create the interface, with the command
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
everything works fine. It would be nice, however, if this happened
automatically when I boot. According to the boot messages, however,
this is happening. If I look at the output of dmesg, I get:
Jun 10 13:26:34 bmkn3 network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
However, when I run ifconfig after booting, it's not there. Ideas?
Thanks in advance,
John
--
John Price *** ** ** *** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where there is no solution, there is no problem.
-- John G. Price (my father), ca. 1975.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yves Bellefeuille)
Subject: Re: use fdformat to format a floppy
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:00:13 -0400
Reply-To: Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 13 Jun 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter) wrote:
> I used fdformat to format a floppy and it produced the error message
> "Device not configured" ..
Did you use mkfs after fdformat?
--
Yves Bellefeuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ottawa, Canada
Francais / English / Esperanto
Esperanto FAQ: http://www.esperanto.net/veb/faq.html
Rec.travel.europe FAQ: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/travel/europe/faq
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Harkins)
Subject: NIS problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 23:05:29 GMT
I'm running Redhat 7.1, and am having trouble getting NIS to run on 1
machine (out of 6). Everything looks ok, but it don't work.
My NIS domain is beavis, my server is also beavis (ya, I know the
security ding here), my local box is fred, and I'm trying to ping
butthead.
% domainname
beavis
%rpcinfo -p localhost
(lists 2 portmapper processes and 4 ypbinds)
%rpcinfo -u localhost ypbind
(version 1 and 2 ready and running)
%ypmatch butthead hosts
30.40.50.60 butthead.foo.com butthead
%getent hosts butthead
30.40.50.60 butthead.foo.com butthead
%ping butthead
ping: no such host butthead
%ping 30.40.50.60
(works fine)
%ypcat hosts
(everything shows up)
If I put butthead into the hosts file I can ping butthead. DNS is not
running.
So, ahhh, what could be the problem here? I have a network of 6
machines, and only 1 isn't working. I've spent a day on it now and am
getting ready to see if it flies.
yppasswd don't work either, somehow I'm not surprised. An earlier
thread indicated firewalls can cause the problem, tomorrow at work
I'll ensure ipchains isn't running. Too bad I can only access news
from home :(
jim
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From: "Erick Woertz Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: install linux on one harddrive and windows on another?
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:06:52 -0400
I've got ME on one harddrive right now, and I just came across a free
harddrive at work, and want to put linux on that one, keep windows on the
one in my computer now, and set up a dual boot that way. is it possible at
all? can anyone help?
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