I finally took the plunge and installed 7.2. Installation was uneventful
other than the soundcard not being found. that was fixed without hassle.
However..... there are two problems ..
Problem A) Cdrom is inaccessible despite running through the Cdburner
tutorial pages.
Error message as user or root:
[john@john john]$ ls /mnt/cdrom
ls: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error
[john@john john]$
Permissions from /dev
[root@john /dev]# ls -l cdr*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 21 20:19 cdrom ->
/dev/scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 21 15:09 cdrom1 ->
/dev/scd0
[root@john /dev]# ls -l scd*
brw-rw---- 1 john cdrom 11, 0 Sep 27 2000 scd0
brw-rw---- 1 john cdwriter 11, 1 Sep 27 2000 scd1
brw-rw---- 1 john cdwriter 11, 2 Sep 27 2000 scd2
brw-rw---- 1 john cdwriter 11, 3 Sep 27 2000 scd3
brw-rw---- 1 john cdwriter 11, 4 Sep 27 2000 scd4
brw-rw---- 1 john cdwriter 11, 5 Sep 27 2000 scd5
brw-rw---- 1 john cdwriter 11, 6 Sep 27 2000 scd6
brw-rw---- 1 john cdwriter 11, 7 Sep 27 2000 scd7
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I don't understand why user john should own /dev/scd(?), so far I
haven't dared to change the ownership
Fstab as follows:
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/dev/hdc5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda7 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /root/ ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd5 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda10 /usr2 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda11 /usr3 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
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Problem B) X-Server (I think) - I cannot see where the issue is:
My Vidcard is an S3 Virge DX with 4mb Ram, the monitor a CTX 1451,
resolution 16-bit 800x600; these two have been working together without
fault thru LM6.x and until I installed LM7.2, (and obviously with that
other opsys).
I think (grin), that I selected XFree 4, can't be sure as I have both
XF86Config AND XF86Config-4 in /etc/X11.
I cannot start X automatically (init 5) as the monitor (Or vidcard) goes
directly to a ?powersave? mode.
When I login to the CLI (init 3), I can startx and run KDE without
problems, however if/when I exit from KDE I have the same problem as
above and the only way I can regain control is either a
three-finger-salute or hard reset. Ctrl-Alt-Del restarts without causing
me any hassles.
Can someone point me to some help here, I know I've seen it covered
before but haven't been able to find the references.
Cheers
John
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"The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected"
(The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
