Linux-Setup Digest #337, Volume #21 Wed, 30 May 01 23:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Desktop Environments ("kyi")
Re: c++ IDE like Microsoft's Visual C++, is there one (Michel Catudal)
Timezone and Timeserver (Raphael Arlitt)
How to get linux to recognize FAT32 ("Bill Hartwell")
Re: How to get linux to recognize FAT32 (GreySoul)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! ("twamn")
High Disk IO ("Amadou O. Wane")
Re: How to get linux to recognize FAT32 (Raphael Arlitt)
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization (Richard Young)
Re: staroffice install problem (alz)
Re: REQ: help, simply mounting MSDOS floppy! (alz)
has anyone know adaptec ana-62044 driver for linux ("jack")
Re: Yamaha OPL3-SAx probs (Hugh Sparks)
Re: sound card cmi8338 help (alz)
printtool ("Liverpool_fc")
Re: strange problem (alz)
Re: printtool (busware)
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From: "kyi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Desktop Environments
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:56:28 -0700
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Redhat come with this neat little app called "switchdesk' you can
call it from a xterm or from the run command in the main menu. If it
is not there it will be on either the install cd or the powertools,
but I am pretty sure it is installed by default. With switchdesk it
will give you a small list of desktops just select the one you want
click ok then logout and back in again and you will be running
whatever you selected.
- -Jayson Garrell
Tyron Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a couple of questions about desktop environments and stuff
> (I'm using RedHat 7.0):
>
> [1] What is the relationship between GNOME and the desktop
> environments featured on themes.org (afterstep, blackbox,
> enlightenment, fvwm, gtk+, icewm, kde, litestep, sawfish & wm)? Or
> is GNOME just another desktop environment?
>
> [2] What is the difference between all the desktop environments
> described above? Is it simply that they draw and organize window
> and desktop elements differently?
>
> [3] I'm trying to install KDE 2.1.1 and I have downloaded all the
> binary RPMs (33 files in all) needed for install. I have no idea
> where to start for installation (can't find install notes
> anywhere). Is it a good idea to use the command statement, <rpm
> -Uvh --nodeps *.i386.rpm>, to install KDE 2.1.1? If so, is it okay
> to do this for all other programs I need to install with a lot of
> RPMs in the install directory?
>
> [4] I just installed some other desktop environments (afterstep,
> blackbox & icewm). How do I switch to use them? Is it suppose to be
> an option under the "Session" menu at the login screen? If so, I
> don't see them. What did I do wrong? (I installed icewm & blackbox
> with source code (tar.gz) and afterstep with binary RPM (i386.rpm))
>
> Any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: c++ IDE like Microsoft's Visual C++, is there one
Date: 30 May 2001 19:20:03 -0500
Dan Christensen a écrit :
>
> MFC L driver wrote:
>
> > Is there a Visual C++ IDE for Linux Mandrake. If so where can I get it,
> > What is it called?
> > TIA
> >
> > Ian Turnbull
> > 07961 931941
> > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web : www.turnbui.freeserve.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> take a look at ww.kdevelop.org it not Visual C++ but close i think.
Except that the generation of a sample program always fails with a
kdoc: Can't read library
/opt/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs/kdoc-reference/libkmid.kdoc.gz/libkmid.kdoc
message
A directory will give this :
michel@michel:/opt/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs/kdoc-reference > dir
total 184
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1738 avr 27 15:57 dcop.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 608 avr 27 15:58 interfaces.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 371 avr 27 15:58 kab.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2173 avr 27 15:58 kcontrol.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14366 avr 27 15:57 kdecore.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3301 avr 27 15:58 kdedbcore.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179 avr 27 15:58 kdedbui.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1304 avr 27 15:58 kdejava.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23606 avr 27 15:58 kdeui.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6009 avr 27 15:58 kfile.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4019 avr 27 15:58 khtml.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14979 avr 27 15:58 kio.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2562 avr 27 15:58 kjs.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2393 avr 27 15:58 kparts.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1994 avr 27 15:58 kspell.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3139 avr 27 15:58 libkmid.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5713 avr 27 15:58 libkonq.kdoc.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61528 avr 27 15:57 qt.kdoc.gz
michel@michel:/opt/kde2/share/doc/HTML/en/kdelibs/kdoc-reference >
--
Tired of Microsoft's rebootive multitasking?
then it's time to upgrade to Linux.
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We are the Cybernetic Entomology Experts
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From: Raphael Arlitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Timezone and Timeserver
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:39:06 +0000
Hi,
I use SuSE 7.1 Prof on a laptop and use a timeserver. In /etc/rc.config i
used Europe/Berlin as the timezone but now I am in California. What do I
have to write into that /etc/rc.config file instaed of Europe/Berlin?
I couldn't find a list - beside I think it is really stupid to do it by
name instaed of timezone - like CET.
How do I setup the correct timezone without /etc/rc.config?
Raphael
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From: "Bill Hartwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to get linux to recognize FAT32
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:05:08 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running Linux on hda, and have hdb and hdg as FAT32 drives inherited
from my Win98 installation. When I try to mount them, I get a message
that says bad superblock, not a recognized file system or too many
mounted filesystems.
I thought maybe there was a problem with the damage Windows did to the
hds the last time it crashed, so I copied my vital data from hdb to hdg
and did an fdisk and reformat (had to use FAT32 because it's a 40mb
drive).
I still get the same error. And my fstab clearly says to read hdb as a
VFAT system (given that the manuals say that this is the proper setting
for a FAT32 system).
Any suggestions?
--
Homepage: http://www.macmanusnet.net
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From: GreySoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get linux to recognize FAT32
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:09:09 -0700
On Wed, 30 May 2001 19:05:08 -0600, "Bill Hartwell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running Linux on hda, and have hdb and hdg as FAT32 drives inherited
>from my Win98 installation. When I try to mount them, I get a message
>that says bad superblock, not a recognized file system or too many
>mounted filesystems.
>
>I thought maybe there was a problem with the damage Windows did to the
>hds the last time it crashed, so I copied my vital data from hdb to hdg
>and did an fdisk and reformat (had to use FAT32 because it's a 40mb
>drive).
>
>I still get the same error. And my fstab clearly says to read hdb as a
>VFAT system (given that the manuals say that this is the proper setting
>for a FAT32 system).
>
>Any suggestions?
Try hdb1 instead of just hdb. You have to specify the partition on
the drive.
--
blase blah
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From: "twamn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 20:15:45 -0500
Here is what happened.
I had drive C with win NT 4 and a blank drive D. I went to load Win 2K on
drive D which it did but it placed the boot record on drive C which I can
say was not what I was expecting.
tom
"Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <jKWQ6.4379$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "twamn"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Take it from a person who has been there before.
> >
> > Next time unplug ALL drives except the one you want to install to. I
> > went to upgrade my PC to Win2K and overlaid the boot section to my
> > existing OS (ouch). Now every time I install a new OS I only have one
> > hard drive plus the CDrom drive connected to the mother board.
> >
> > I know this is to late for you but hopefully it will help others avoid
> > wiping out their main OS while doing a 'simple' dual boot upgrade.
> >
>
> i dont see what the trouble is. I've never hosed my other OS when
> installing Linux. I've installed lilo on a partition before instead of
> the MBR but that didnt mess anything up but the boot record of the
> Windows partition and a simple sys c: fixed the problem.
>
> > tom
> >
> > "Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:9f0sna$a37$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> During this Memorial weekend, I installed Redhat 7.1 (Kernel 2.4.2-2)
> >> on my PC at home. Win98 is on IDE drive/A and Rh7.1 completely on IDE
> >> drive/B. I did not realize at the time that part of linux, such as
> >> /boot partition, had to be on drive/A to use LILO.
> >>
>
> driveA in Windows-speak is ur floppy drive
>
> >> During graphic installation,I was prompted where to put LILO i.e. in
> >> MBR or linux drive's boot partition. Unfortunately I decided to avoid
> >> fooling with MBR and opted for the later.
> >>
>
> fooling with it? u tell the installation program u want it there and it
> does it for u...what fooling around did u expect to have to do? edit the
> hex codes yourself? REalizing whether u put it on the MBR for the boot
> record of the linux drive either way it is put in place w/o you having to
> do anything other than make some settings known to LILO so it can boot
> linux and your other OSes, etc.
>
> >> The lilo installation ended up with failure. Everything else went
> fine
>
> did u know it failed before u rebooted? if so, how? what errors did u
> receive?
>
> >> I created boot diskette. I then realized I was no longer able to boot
> >> Win98. Everybody in my household jumped on me!! My wife wanted to
> >> search webs about her stock investment, my kid wanted to play starcraft
> >> with his folks, ....
> >>
> >> I hoped to restore MBR by executing 'fdisk /MBR' under MSDOS but I was
> >> surprised to learn that all my Windows rescue and MSDOS diskettes
> >> failed to even boot. PC tried to boot from the floppies but hang after
> >> reading/ loading a few blocks.
> >>
> >> When I mounted on to /dev/hda1, I could see that all Win98 directories
>
> how did u do this if your PC cant boot floppies? Saying its b/c you
> booted Linux instead doesn't fly since the OS has nothing to do with
> reading the floppy at boot time.
>
> >> and files were still intact. I just do not know why drive/A broke when
>
> driveA is the floppy
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From: "Amadou O. Wane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: High Disk IO
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:49:28 -0400
Greetings,
I have a system with a very high disk i/o but low cpu
utilization; we have not make any changes to the system
(adding users, software...). What could be the cause?
Because of the low cpu utilization, I eliminated the possibility
of application issues.
Any help will be appreciated.
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From: Raphael Arlitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get linux to recognize FAT32
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 18:39:12 +0000
Yep you should mount hdbX where X stands for the number of the partition.
Anyway - you need VFAT File System support included in your kernel. That is
standard in most distributions but you should check that - see kernel
compile :-)
Raphael
Bill Hartwell wrote:
> I'm running Linux on hda, and have hdb and hdg as FAT32 drives inherited
> from my Win98 installation. When I try to mount them, I get a message
> that says bad superblock, not a recognized file system or too many
> mounted filesystems.
>
> I thought maybe there was a problem with the damage Windows did to the
> hds the last time it crashed, so I copied my vital data from hdb to hdg
> and did an fdisk and reformat (had to use FAT32 because it's a 40mb
> drive).
>
> I still get the same error. And my fstab clearly says to read hdb as a
> VFAT system (given that the manuals say that this is the proper setting
> for a FAT32 system).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
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From: Richard Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:30:55 -0400
I have the same problem with RedHat 7.0. I have discovered that if I run
"insmod 3c509" after boot then startx and activate the module in netcfg then my
network works ok. My /etc/modules.conf looks like it has the correct enteries. But
it won't load the module at boot. Anybody have any ideas....Thanks....Rich
"H.Bruijn" wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2001 09:38:05 -0700, Paul G. Sabol allegedly wrote:
> > First and most important, I'm a newbie.
> >
> > Now, the problem. I tried to install RedHat 7.1 and I couldn't get into X.
> > So, I installed 6.2, everything OK, LAN and video. I then upgraded to 7.1.
> > Now, video is OK, but I get Delaying Eth0 Initialization failed. I've spent
> > a full day on the web trying things to get it working, but no luck.
> >
> > In laymens terms, what exactly is happening to cause this? Are there good
> > links for the laymen to learn how to recompile kernels, the functioning of
> > modules, etc.
>
> Some common causes for the "Delaying Eth0 Initialisation" error message:
> * The wrong module is loaded. Check the file /etc/modules.conf, it
> should contain a line like fi
> alias eth0 ne2k-pci
> if you have a NE200 compatible PCI network adapter. Replace the
> ne2k-pci with the module required by your card.
> * Some modules need special options to be passed to the module for it to
> function, most notoriously IRQ and io addresses. This is done with the
> file /etc/modules.conf as well.
> alias eth0 3c509
> options 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10
> If that's what your module requires, that information can quite often
> be obtained from the files /proc/pci /proc/interrupts /proc/ioports.
>
> --
> If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Herman Bruijn website: http://hermanbruijn.com
> The Netherlands
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From: alz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: staroffice install problem
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:41:21 -0400
enness wrote:
> I am trying to inatall staroffice 5.2 om LM 7.2 for the first time.
> when I run with "rpm -ivh staroffice-en-5.2-5mdk.i586.rpm" , after a while
> I get the error "unpacking of archive failed on file
> /opt/office52_en/program/libstu569li.so: cpio:copy". I am not sure what it
> all means and what to do.
>
> Any help is appreciated
> Thanks, Sri
>
>
Hi, I would make sure to install as root...
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From: alz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: REQ: help, simply mounting MSDOS floppy!
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:48:29 -0400
michael.fengler wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Innov@tion wrote:
>
> >REQ: help, simply mounting MSDOS floppy!
> >
> >Okie doke. I guess this will take a while, before I can learn what
> >you guys do instinctively. But, I'm just trying to mount the silly
> >floppy, darn it! Probably a 10-year-old could advise me on this one,
> >huh?
> >
> >So, in RedHat v 7.1, using Gnome, I go into the console. If what I
> >think I see makes sense, I need to CD down to the root before the
> >mount location is read by the system (I am not yet up on relative path
> >here...). In any case, when I do "fdisk -l", it doesn't show the
> >floppy. So I do this:
> > mount -t msdos fd0 /dev/floppy
>
> <snip>
>
> Try "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt". The floppy has to be inserted
> before yiu issue this command.
>
> - Mike
>
Hi, I would prefer Mandrake, as this seems to be a chronic RedHat pain...
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From: "jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: has anyone know adaptec ana-62044 driver for linux
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 02:55:38 GMT
i've tried to install this adaptec ANA-62044 quatret 64 in linux 6.2. is
there any where that i can find a driver for this adapter. adaptec itself
doesn't have any driver for this adapter.
if anyone has done so pls. do share for me.
i really appreciate ur help.
thanks in advance.
jack
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From: Hugh Sparks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha OPL3-SAx probs
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 21:56:59 -0500
Jones E. Versichoran wrote:
> I have a Toshiba Satellite with a Yamaha OPL3-SAx chip. I used to run
> RedHat 7.0 and sound worked just fine... I upgraded to RedHat 7.1
The opl3sa2 driver is hosed up in Redhat 7.1.
You need the source from a newer kernel. I'm not sure when it got
fixed, but the last changelog entry in the one that works for me says:
* Scott Murray Some small cleanups to the init code output.
* (Jan 7, 2001)
If you like, I will mail the updated opl3sa2.c to you.
-Hugh Sparks, hugh at csparks dot com
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From: alz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card cmi8338 help
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:03:16 -0400
Norbert wrote:
> i need advice on getting the sound card to work on RH7.1. i'm running
> on a integrated sound card m/board and comes with c-media cmi8338 chip.
> linux managed to detect the card but no sound output during test.
>
> any idea what's wrong or it just a compatibility problem. anyone has
> this experiece before....i am using the pcchip motherboard.
>
> - i don't think a hardware problem as it works on my windows
> .
> thank you
>
> bert.
>
>
>
Hi, I would try sndconfig from the command line...
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From: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: printtool
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:01:12 -0400
Reply-To: "Liverpool_fc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hello,
if we change settings in printtool (gui) for printers in rh6.2, they change
back to the original settings.
any suggestions.
thank you.
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From: alz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: strange problem
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:06:39 -0400
omry wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have w2k and win98 installed. After installing red-hat 7.1, I found
> out that I could only boot linux with a boot floppy. I have installed
> linux MBC to the linux main partition and again into the MBR but
> nothing seems to change, I always get the NTLDR and can boot Linux
> only with floppy disk.
> I have copied the linux boot record to a floppy from the right hda
> num. which is 11. I have checked the num with the lilo.conf.
> I have done it with dd if=/dev/hda11 of=/tmp/liloboot.bin bs=512
> count=1.
> After copying it to my c:\ directory (w2k root), and updating the
> boot.ini with the link, when ever I chose linux from my NTLOADER the
> screen hangs all dark with flikerring currsor at the top left corner
> of the PC.
>
> What should I do ?
> thx
Hi, I would let everything like that and keep booting with the floppy : it
doesn't really matter...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (busware)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: printtool
Date: 30 May 2001 20:07:25 -0700
thank you. we have rh6.2. we are using the the control panel.
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