Linux-Setup Digest #24, Volume #21 Tue, 10 Apr 01 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
See This for setup help (in Danish) ("Black Widow")
Re: Where is Auto Detect Raid option in kernel 2.4? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RH7 and Samba with encrypted passwds (Paul Knopp)
change display card ? ("david")
Re: Where is Auto Detect Raid option in kernel 2.4? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Switching between KDE and GNOME ("Mandy Berry")
Re: RH7 and Samba with encrypted passwds (Craig Kelley)
Re: Create ext2 Partition from Windows (John Sheehan)
Re: RH7 and Samba with encrypted passwds (Paul Knopp)
Re: Why Lilo can not boot? ("William Dandreta")
Re: multi boot with linux/winme/win2k (Stuart)
Re: Can't print (drivers?) ("Taavi Hein")
Re: Switching between KDE and GNOME (Sebastian Palm)
Re: Switching between KDE and GNOME (Chiefy)
Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output (Paul Haley)
Re: "rpm cannot be installed" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: "rpm cannot be installed" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Yamaha PCI (Dell m/b) and 2.4 (bill davidsen)
Re: Switching between KDE and GNOME
Re: Creative CT5880 Sound or PCI128 or what ever.;-( (bill davidsen)
Re: [q]Network Card module probing!!!, Not working. ("Siddharth Vajirkar")
Re: sound on a toshiba tecra (suse 7 or slack 7.1) (bill davidsen)
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From: "Black Widow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: See This for setup help (in Danish)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:05:33 +0200
www.linux-forum.dk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Where is Auto Detect Raid option in kernel 2.4?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:41:48 -0400
my only question is where do i put the "raidstart -a" command? I
know it can't be in the init.d scripts, as these are loaded after the
fs has been mounted.
kevin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Knopp)
Subject: RH7 and Samba with encrypted passwds
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 15:36:04 GMT
I am attempting to use Samba with encrypted passwords so that my NT
4.0 clients can login to the smb shares on my RedHat box.
SMB shares that allow guest access work just fine. However, those
that need a name and password will not accept it.
I have /etc/smbpasswd file and have used /usr/sbin/pwconv to make sure
it is updated with the user / password information in my /etc/passwd
file.
Also, I have modified smb.conf with the following lines
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/shadow
Any additional suggestions for me? Thanks in advance,
Paul
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From: "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: change display card ?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:58:39 +0800
I got Linux 2.2.16 + KDE on my PC. Recently, i was upgraded the display card
from S3Trio64V to Voodoo Banshee.
I have executed xconfigurator to change the display card. However, I stills
fail to startx. any idea ?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Where is Auto Detect Raid option in kernel 2.4?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:05:49 +0200
In comp.os.linux.admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> my only question is where do i put the "raidstart -a" command? I
> know it can't be in the init.d scripts, as these are loaded after the
It is in the init.d scripts, as these are run BEFORE the fs has been
mounted. Look in rcS.d. Read the README.
> fs has been mounted.
Peter
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From: "Mandy Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Switching between KDE and GNOME
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:29:53 -0700
Hello all,
Just a quick question...
What is the best way to switch between
KDE and GNOME ???
I am running RH7.0 and I don't know which
files I need to modify in order to select between
GNOME or KDE. I have installed both and I want
to try both to see which I prefer. However, by
default my system always uses GNOME and I don't
know how to switch to KDE.
Any help?
Cheers,
Mandy.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 and Samba with encrypted passwds
Date: 10 Apr 2001 10:34:34 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Knopp) writes:
> I am attempting to use Samba with encrypted passwords so that my NT
> 4.0 clients can login to the smb shares on my RedHat box.
>
> SMB shares that allow guest access work just fine. However, those
> that need a name and password will not accept it.
>
> I have /etc/smbpasswd file and have used /usr/sbin/pwconv to make sure
> it is updated with the user / password information in my /etc/passwd
> file.
>
> Also, I have modified smb.conf with the following lines
>
> encrypt passwords = yes
> smb passwd file = /etc/shadow
>
> Any additional suggestions for me? Thanks in advance,
You have to manually add users to smbpasswd by using this:
smbpasswd -a username
smbpasswd username
[change password]
--
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
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From: John Sheehan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Create ext2 Partition from Windows
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:41:44 GMT
That is a great idea. Thanks. Do you know what the best way is to
create an imagefile? Thanks again.
In article <9au6ti$76b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> > I am getting ready to run Linux on my handheld, but I have one issue. I
> > need to create an ext2 partition on a CF card. I do not have a CF card
> > reader for any of my Linux machines. I can read them from my laptop
> > through the PCMCIA slot. However, I run Linux on my laptop through
> > VMware (it is my work's laptop, they run Win2K), which does not support
> > direct access to PCMCIA. So, here is my problem:
> >
> > How do I create an ext2 partition from Windows 2000? I have found
> > projects that allow me to read and write ext2 partitions (ext2fsnt, for
> > example), but none that allow me to create partitions.
> >
>
> I can think of one way:
> create an imagefile in linux, and use rawrite.exe to write it to the CF
> card.
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Knopp)
Subject: Re: RH7 and Samba with encrypted passwds
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:50:37 GMT
Thanks! Worked like a charm!
On 10 Apr 2001 10:34:34 -0600, Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Knopp) writes:
>
>> I am attempting to use Samba with encrypted passwords so that my NT
>> 4.0 clients can login to the smb shares on my RedHat box.
>>
>> SMB shares that allow guest access work just fine. However, those
>> that need a name and password will not accept it.
>>
>> I have /etc/smbpasswd file and have used /usr/sbin/pwconv to make sure
>> it is updated with the user / password information in my /etc/passwd
>> file.
>>
>> Also, I have modified smb.conf with the following lines
>>
>> encrypt passwords = yes
>> smb passwd file = /etc/shadow
>>
>> Any additional suggestions for me? Thanks in advance,
>
>You have to manually add users to smbpasswd by using this:
>
>smbpasswd -a username
>smbpasswd username
> [change password]
>
>--
>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
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From: "William Dandreta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why Lilo can not boot?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:55:34 GMT
Hi Ega,
Those numbers are diagnostic codes for lilo. If you read the lilo manual it
will expalin what the codes mean. All the problems I have had with lilo seem
to be related to the Hard disk. The /boot directory needs to be located
within the 1st 1024 cylinders for lilo to access it. The easiest way to
accomplish this is have a /boot partition at the start of the disk.
Bill
ega wrote in message ...
>I installed the REDHAT 6, but boot the lilo, it only print a lot of 01 01
01...., on
>and on and on.
>I'd tried a lot of other distributions, but all the same.
>My computer:
> Via 686B
> Duron 700
> Seagate 20g
> 128M
>Thanks
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From: Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multi boot with linux/winme/win2k
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:01:38 -0400
try this setup up two partitons for windows ME and 2k leave room
for linux
install WINME
install WIN2k on FAT32
WIN2k has a dual boot program for WIN9x and WIN2k
then install linux with lilo
you should get this
lilo: <tab linux dos>
pick linux for linux dos for winme or win2k
dos:
you will get a screen saying
Windows 2000 Pro
Windows ME
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From: "Taavi Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Can't print (drivers?)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 16:11:28 +0300
: Absolutely none. You don't "get drivers" like you do with M$ Windows.
: Tell PrintTool that it is an HP DeskJet 550.
: You could have found this information at:
: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
Are you telling me, Linux doesn't use drivers (or anything of a similar
concept)? You make me wonder, if there's a reason for not keeping up with
the hardware progress... Of course there are drivers for Linux (for some
hardware).
Well, I don't really care, if PrintTool uses 'drivers' or 'filters' or
whatever. It doesn't make any difference to me as an end user (what does
HPDJ550 use? -- drivers?), I could call them 'XkpJ4V' for all I care, except
that no-one could understand, what it means, so I used the word 'drivers'.
By 'appropriate drivers' I meant 'drivers that allow me to print with my
printer' not 'Xerox DP6 drivers'. If I can use something that's allready in
the PrintTool -- all the better. As you could see from the other issue,
there's just a little problem with surfin' the net for answers ;)
: Best advice, buy a hardware modem.
Not the best (from my point of view), but the easyest one ;) If I had the
money, I'd already have a real modem, instead of searching for help.
--
Taavi Hein - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #209546
Registered Linux machine #97395
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From: Sebastian Palm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Switching between KDE and GNOME
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:26:26 +0200
Mandy Berry wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Just a quick question...
> What is the best way to switch between
> KDE and GNOME ???
>
> I am running RH7.0 and I don't know which
> files I need to modify in order to select between
> GNOME or KDE. I have installed both and I want
> to try both to see which I prefer. However, by
> default my system always uses GNOME and I don't
> know how to switch to KDE.
>
> Any help?
Easy way: log in as root at boot time and type
kdm
at the prompt. This starts the KDE login manager, which
allows you to choose user and session type, i.e. which
desktop environment you're interrested in. Some versions
of kdm won't allow you to exit X, but the newer ones will
give an option of Console session.
Almost as easy: in the /etc/X11/xinit directory, there should
be a set of files with names like xinitrc.kde and xinitrc.gnome.
Copy the xinitrc file to a backup location, and then copy the
xinitrc.$WINDOWMANAGER to xinitrc
HTH!
Sebastian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: Switching between KDE and GNOME
Date: 10 Apr 2001 17:36:07 GMT
11 Apr 2001 00:29 UTC, Mandy Berry did say to the dudes:
> I am running RH7.0 and I don't know which
> files I need to modify in order to select between
> GNOME or KDE. I have installed both and I want
> to try both to see which I prefer. However, by
> default my system always uses GNOME and I don't
> know how to switch to KDE.
On this box (Debian 2.2), the list of available wm's is placed in
/etc/X11/window-managers.
The default wm is the first in the list.
This may not apply to RH.
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Scientists say 1 out of every 4 people is crazy, check 3 friends,
if they are ok, you're it.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Suppressing Redhat bootup output
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Haley)
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:00:05 GMT
Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>--------------55870E7A2CA7274571662124
>Paul Haley wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm running Redhat 6.2 and would like to suppress the output on
>> bootup, such as "Loading cron..... [OK]", etc. All I want is to have
>> lilo say "loading linux" and then give me a login prompt, though of
>> course I still want all the programs/processes to run, I just don't
>> want them to output to the screen. I checked out the init scripts and
>> nothing jumped out at me.
>>
>> Can somebody help?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Paul
>
I don't want the output because the boss says so :). It's for a unit we are
coming out with and apparently the customers don't want to see the output.
Thanks to everybody who replied!
Paul
>Why don't you want the output?
>
>With output to the screen you can see how
>far the startup has come, and in case
>something goes wrong you will have a chance
>to find the problem.
>
>If you really want to do this change the
>console to null in the file /etc/lilo.conf
>and run /sbin/lilo. Next time you boot you
>will get no output.
>
>See my previous posting for details.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "rpm cannot be installed"
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:29:27 GMT
In <9ausvd$6q6rk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/10/01
at 12:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Spent about two hours' worth of heavy German mark downloading webbuilder
>> for linux only to have the uninformative error message, "cannot be
>> installed", when I try to unpack the rpm.
>Check the dependencies of the RPM, maybe you're missing something that is
>necessary.
>Davide
No. I ran 'rpm -i --test' and it said something about a corrupt header.
IBM told me to contact their German wing; the German wing gave me the same
URL I've spent about one hour's worth of time, all told, trying to get an
intact copy.
There're some stores here apparently where one can purchase a cd or
something. I'll look into that.
Would be nice to crack the rpm though.
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
===========================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "rpm cannot be installed"
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:30:34 GMT
In <9av2ig$tv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/10/01
at 08:43 AM, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>That usually means that the rpm file in question has been corrupted
>somehow. You'll most likely need to download it again.
>-- Rex
Ai-eee! No way! No! Nein!
I may be able to get it via IBM Germany on a cd.
F.
===========================================================
Felmon John Davis
Union College / Schenectady, NY
os/2 - ma kauft koi katz em sack
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,comp.os.linux.development.sys
Subject: Yamaha PCI (Dell m/b) and 2.4
Date: 10 Apr 2001 18:30:36 GMT
NOTE: While this may be a 2.4 issue, followups have been redirected to
the sound and setup groups only.
I am trying to use the Yamaha YMF-724 sound system on a Dell Dimension
V400 motherboard, with a 2.4.3 kernel. I compiled the ymfpci as a
module so I could try it and other drivers, and when I insert, I get in
the log:
Apr 10 13:37:44 pipedream kernel: ymfpci: YMF724 at 0xf4000000 IRQ 9
Apr 10 13:37:44 pipedream kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id:0x4144:0x5303
(Analog Devices AD1819)
which looks to me as if it worked. And I see the modules loaded. The
problem is that the /dev/sndstat device says that sound is not
configured. It is, and I tried building in sound and OSS support to
avoid any loading order issues.
That's the whole question, is there something unobvious I have to do to
get this to respond? I originally had all the sound stuff as modules,
that worked no better (or worse).
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Switching between KDE and GNOME
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:32:09 GMT
FYI
I'm not in front of my machine (RH 7.0). However......
As root...
cd /etc/sysconfig
look for a file called "Desktop"
Place "KDE" or "GNOME" in this file depending on
what you want to run. This obviously assumes you have
both packages installed. Don't think quotes are
necessary
When running startx, it should run the correct
desktop manager.
Tom Romeo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 4/10/01, 8:29:53 PM, "Mandy Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]=
>=20
wrote regarding Switching between KDE and GNOME:
> Hello all,
> Just a quick question...
> What is the best way to switch between
> KDE and GNOME ???
> I am running RH7.0 and I don't know which
> files I need to modify in order to select between
> GNOME or KDE. I have installed both and I want
> to try both to see which I prefer. However, by
> default my system always uses GNOME and I don't
> know how to switch to KDE.
> Any help?
> Cheers,
> Mandy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Subject: Re: Creative CT5880 Sound or PCI128 or what ever.;-(
Date: 10 Apr 2001 19:05:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hate to say this, but the god damned sound works fine under windoze with
| everything, so I'm not needing some one to tell me to hook a cable from
| one of my cdroms to someplace. I know it's all taken care of. ;-(
Um, on some systems there are analog output vs. digital output issues.
Don't know a thing about yours, but just because it works under Win
doesn't mean it's cabled right for Linux in all cases.
No, I'm not an expert who can tell you more on this.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
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From: "Siddharth Vajirkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [q]Network Card module probing!!!, Not working.
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:06:29 -0700
I had a similar problem and the solution was that my BIOS has a setting
called Plug'n'Play OS. It was set to TRUE when the machine came with the
standard Win ME software. I set it to FALSE and then my card was detected
and all that good stuff came together.
- Sid
"Ferdinand Rey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ae1d2$eov$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> what linux are you using?
>
> "À̹ü¼®" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9adupd$qjo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > hello, i'm a beginner in linux
> >
> > My Network Card is "SMC1211TX", but it's not working...
> > I recompiled the rtl8139.o code, but it's not working....
> >
> > The bellow is the situation
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > # ifconfig eth0 up
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS : Resource temporarily unavaiable
> >
> > # modprobe rtl8139
> > # lsmod
> > Modules Size Used by
> > rtl8139 11196 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> >
> > # dmesg | more
> > ..........
> > ....
> > ..
> >
> > eth0 : SMC1211TX EzCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0x2000, IRQ 0,
> > .......
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > what should i do.... please give me advice!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: sound on a toshiba tecra (suse 7 or slack 7.1)
Date: 10 Apr 2001 19:08:14 GMT
In article <l.986493324.1472686767@[192.189.124.43]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| with slackware i assume this will involve recompiling the
| kernel which i prefer to avoid (and if i do i might as well get
| the 2.4.x etc etc etc) so that kinda leaves me with suse.
Slackware whould have all the sound drivers in the modules directory, so
it should be a matter of a modprobe to get it going. Sorry, I have a
diferent Tecra, but mine worked that way.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
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