Re: TheRe: [expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake6.0

[Axalon]

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Bill&Virginia Hodges wrote:

> 
> The 6.0 makefile appears to do  the copying automatically
> when it does installs.  The time stamps appear to confirm this.
> 
> The suggestion to include sockets got me around the previous
> problem
> 
> Now it give s about 8-10 lines more of the boot process and stops on
> "Finding module dependencies"
> 
> Do you have a suggestion of where I should look now?

Sure.. (cd /lib/modules && mv `uname -r` `uname -r`.backup)
move the modules out of there, and rerun make modules_install
as previously(recently) noted (maybe on the other lists) by Bernard you
can hit ctrl-c when it stops there and it will continue to boot so you can
get in there to smack it or what ever needs done, in this case mv'ing and
reinstalling the modules should work.
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 

[expert] re modem lcon

[mike montgomery]

click on the kppp icon, then click on the setup button ,then the ppp tab ,then
just select "dock into panel on connect" under the ppp config panel.

Re: [expert] Modem Icon

[Arandir]

On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Karen R wrote:
> anyone an expert on the kde?
> 
> using LM 5.3
> 
> i was connected to the internet and a friend telnetted into my machine.
> he wanted me to go out of kde to the command, which i did; and when i
> came back into kde, the modem icon in the tray on the panel was gone.
> and since i'm hooked on those red/green blinking lights :-), am
> wondering if there is a way to get it back into the tray and its still
> connected with my isp.

Did you log out of KDE? If so, it shut down all programs started under KDE,
including kppp. If you want the connection to start automatically everytime you
start KDE, just drag a link to kppp into the autostart directory on your
desktop. Under LM5.3, you can find kppp under /opt/kde/bin. Just drag it over
and select "link" when it asks you.

A better way to get to the command line would be 1) start an xterm or konsole;
or 2) type ctrl+alt+F2, then type ctrl+alt+F7 to get back to KDE.

--
Arandir...
___

[expert] What's going on??

[Rusty]

Hi!

I installed Linux-Mandrake and Red Hat , version 6.0 as soon as they were
released.  I partitioned my hard drives with both Disk Druid and Fdisk and
received the same results.  All I got was a small boot partition and
everthing else dumped into over eight (8) GB of an extended partition with
multiple logical drives.  This is not what I ordered.  I wanted to have
three(3) primary partitions and one extended partition, into which I would
create as many logical drives as I saw fit for my installation.

I came to linux over a year ago because I tried to install a sound card in
Windoz 98 at IRQ 5 and DMA 1 and 5, and some son-of-a-bitch in Redmond WA had
decided that I could not use those settings.

In previous versions of Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSe I had no problem
partitioning the HD any way I chose.  What gives??  Do we have a case of
"WE KNOW BETTER" or is there a reasonable explanation?

Is Linux going the way of MickeySoft?  Or is this just Red Hat and Mandrake?

Perhaps someone who makes these decisions can reply?

Rusty

TheRe: [expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake 6.0

[Bill&Virginia Hodges]

The 6.0 makefile appears to do  the copying automatically
when it does installs.  The time stamps appear to confirm this.

The suggestion to include sockets got me around the previous
problem

Now it give s about 8-10 lines more of the boot process and stops on
"Finding module dependencies"

Do you have a suggestion of where I should look now?

Thanks,

Bill

[expert] Modem Icon

[Karen R]

anyone an expert on the kde?

using LM 5.3

i was connected to the internet and a friend telnetted into my machine.
he wanted me to go out of kde to the command, which i did; and when i
came back into kde, the modem icon in the tray on the panel was gone.
and since i'm hooked on those red/green blinking lights :-), am
wondering if there is a way to get it back into the tray and its still
connected with my isp.

any help will be much appreciated

karen

Re: [expert] Talk Problem

[Geoffrey Croxson]

At 07:14  5/07/99 -0700, you wrote:
>hi all,
>
>using lm 5.3:
>a friend telnetted into my machine and we tried to use 'talk'.
>
>kept getting the following messages:
>
>[No connection yet]
>[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
First thing, has it worked previously?

Secondly, talkd running on local machine? ... or check the version, maybe
upgrade needed. We had this problem @ work, but running under SunOS, and
the talk daemon was screwed for some reason even though it worked
previously. Problem was that using the old details/conf stuffed it up, so
maybe check that too,


Regards

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[expert] Talk Problem

[Karen R]

hi all,

using lm 5.3:
a friend telnetted into my machine and we tried to use 'talk'.

kept getting the following messages:

[No connection yet]
[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

and there it would stay and not do another thing.

any help will be much appreciated

karen

Re: [expert] Boot troubles

[Dan C. Stefanescu]

Axalon wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Tom Berger wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:49:32PM +, Dan C. Stefanescu wrote:
> > > I have trouble updating to 6.0. Here are the particulars:
> > >
> > > My computer is a Micron Powerdigm Xsu with dual CPUs(Pentium II 300MHz),
> > >
> > > Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller on which there is a 9G hard disk, an
> > > Iomega Jaz 2G, a Plextor CDROM 32X and aPlexwriter CDR. There is nothing
> > >
> > > on the IDEs. The system is currently running RedHat 5.2. Attempts to
> > > install  RH and/or Mandrake 6.0, either from floppy or from CDROM(which
> > > is bootable),
> > > fail very early, before getting to any dialog screens. Here are the last
> > >
> > > few lines before the installation freezes:
> > >
> > > RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> > > PIIX4:  IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> > > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > > PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device c9, VID=1042,
> > > DID=3020
> > > PCI_IDE: device enabled (Linux)
> > > PCI_IDE: will probe irqs later
> > > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> > > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf
> > >
> > >
> > > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dan Stefanescu
> > >
> >
> > You need the updated lilo.rpm. The old did just that with SMP systems.
> >
> > tom
> >
>
>  Can't be lilo he can't even boot fully to the installer.
> Dan, if you can disable the ide interfaces do so. Does the system really
> contain 4 ide chains,

I believe the machine has two physical  IDE slots and the (Phoenix
1.29)BIOS setup allows you to set/choose 4 devices (hard disks or CDs)
corresponding to the 2 IDEs and the Master/Slave position. I ended up setting
them all to None.  Furthermore, 5.2 boot sequence mentions only ide0 and ide1.

> and is that exactly where it stops?

Yes.

Re: [expert] Problem solved -- sort of (IDE problems?)

[Bug Hunter]

On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Mike Abney wrote:

> To re-cap: Both my external modem and my parallel-port Zip drive were
> working fine in RH 5.2 (and Win '95, but who cares). I tried installing
> both RH6.0 and LM6.0 and neither seemed to be able to find either the
> modem nor the Zip. After that, even RH5.2 would not reinstall and detect
> them.
> 
> I'm not sure *exactly* which setting did it, but I got RH5.2 working
> again by playing with the BIOS. Once that happened, I thought I'd play
> around with trying to upgrade/install the 6.0 products again. *Neither*
> worked. They both fail to detect my Zip drive. *However* I did notice
> this little detail. In RH5.2, during the boot process, the following
> shows up:
> 

  Ok. use dmesg and grep for scsi.  If you don't find "scsi: 0 hosts
found" , then scsi support isn't in the kernel.  At a that point, a
recompile of the kernel is needed.

  If you have a Zip drive made before august of 1998, then you need to run 

modprobe ppa

  to get it recognized.  Do this from a console command line, as the
kernel messages won't show up in an X windows terminal session.

  if it is after 1998, then run 

modprobe imm

  to get it recognize.  then you can run

mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip

 to mount it on the previously created /zip directory (use mkdir).

bug

Re: [expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake 6.0

[Axalon]

Whoops, typeing to fast. lemme try again.

Well the mcdx is built as a module, but unless Bernard has changed the
.config i don't see bsd partitions supported.

net-pf-1 is unix sockets, you either A) did not include it
B) Built it as a module and forgot to "alias net-pf-1 unix" in your
conf.modules
C) Truely didn't want unix sockets, and need to "alias net-pf-1 off"

RE: [expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake 6.0

[Axalon]

from arch/i386/boot/Makefile,
install: $(CONFIGURE) $(BOOTIMAGE)
sh -x ./install.sh $(KERNELRELEASE) $(BOOTIMAGE) $(TOPDIR)/System.map 
"$(INSTALL_PATH)"

He used make install, if the kernel wasn't in place when lilo was ran it
wouldn't have ran, and if by some fluke he did get it booted like that, he
would not be encountering the "can't locate module net-pf-1" cause it's
built into the kernel we shiped.

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, James J. Capone wrote:

> Did you do
> 
> [root@localhost hodges] cp zimage /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x 
> 
> ??
> 
> Just want to make sure you did the cp before you ran the Lilo command.
> 
> James
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Bill&Virginia Hodges [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:35 AM
> To:   Expert Mandrake
> Subject:  [expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake 6.0
> 
> I did:
> 1) make xconfig
> 2) selected my FreeBSD file systems and mcdx cdrom
> 3) make dep
> 4) make clean
> 5) make
> 6) make install
> 7) make modules
> 8) make modules_install
> 9) lilo
> 
> On reboot using lilo on MBR yields:
> "modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-1"
> 
> mount yields:
> --
> 
> [root@localhost hodges]# mount
> /dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda9 on /home type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda8 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda7 on /var type ext2 (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
> --
> 
> lilo.conf contains:
> 
> -
> boot = /dev/hda
> delay = 100
> timeout = 150
> prompt
>   read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
>   label = linux
>   root = /dev/hda5
> 
> 
> I have grepped the all through /usr/src for something like net-pf to no
> avail.
> 
> BTW. when booted from my the floppy the kernel does access my BSD file
> system and the cdrom!!!
> 
> 
> Did I do something incorrect in xconfig?
> or what do i need to do to make a good kernel?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 

Re: [expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake 6.0

[Axalon]

Well the mcdx is built as a module, but unless Bernard has changed the
.config i don't see bsd partitions supported.

net-pf-1 is unix sockets, you either A) did not include it
B) Built it as a module and forgot to "alias net-pf-1" in your
conf.modules
C) Truely didn't want unix sockets, and need to "alias net-pf-1 off"


On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Bill&Virginia Hodges wrote:

> I did:
> 1) make xconfig
> 2) selected my FreeBSD file systems and mcdx cdrom
> 3) make dep
> 4) make clean
> 5) make
> 6) make install
> 7) make modules
> 8) make modules_install
> 9) lilo
> 
> On reboot using lilo on MBR yields:
> "modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-1"
> 
> mount yields:
> --
> 
> [root@localhost hodges]# mount
> /dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda9 on /home type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda8 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda7 on /var type ext2 (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
> --
> 
> lilo.conf contains:
> 
> -
> boot = /dev/hda
> delay = 100
> timeout = 150
> prompt
>   read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
>   label = linux
>   root = /dev/hda5
> 
> 
> I have grepped the all through /usr/src for something like net-pf to no
> avail.
> 
> BTW. when booted from my the floppy the kernel does access my BSD file
> system and the cdrom!!!
> 
> 
> Did I do something incorrect in xconfig?
> or what do i need to do to make a good kernel?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill
> 

Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

[Axalon]

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:

> Axalon wrote:
> > 
> > This board has the VT82C586/B, but the drive will still be a limit.
> > 
> > --
> >   Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
> > ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 65).
> >   Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
> >   Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
> > IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
> >   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable. Latency=64.
> >   I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
> >   Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
> > Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586B Apollo ACPI (rev 16).
> >   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.
> > --


It may not have been an error, just looked at what i posted and noticed i
left the -q's out to make it be quiet. You need to add a -q before each
option. Check with "hdparm /dev/hd?"

--
/dev/hda:
 multcount=  0 (off)
 I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq=  1 (on)
 using_dma=  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 nowerr   =  0 (off)
 readonly =  0 (off)
 readahead=  8 (on)
 geometry = 700/255/63, sectors = 11255328, start = 0
--

 
> I tried Axalons script but it didn't work. I don't know why
> because I saw only a message about something not found passing by
> during bootup. It wasn't written in dmesg though.
> Here's my excerpt from /proc/pci:
> 
> ---
>  Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
> IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
>   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master
> Capable.  Latency=64.
>   I/O at 0xe000.
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
> ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 71).
>   Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
>   Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
> PCI bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 0).
>   Vendor id=1106. Device id=8598.
>   Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=4.
>   Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
> Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C597 Apollo VP3 (rev 4).
>   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master
> Capable.  Latency=16
> --
> 
> /sbin/hdparm is there so I don't know what it was that didn't
> work. I didn't get any severe errors though. Everything worked as
> before.
> 
> wobo
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Well thats just not fair you have a newer "82C586 Apollo ISA" ;)

Re: [expert] Boot troubles

[Axalon]

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Tom Berger wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:49:32PM +, Dan C. Stefanescu wrote:
> > I have trouble updating to 6.0. Here are the particulars:
> > 
> > My computer is a Micron Powerdigm Xsu with dual CPUs(Pentium II 300MHz),
> > 
> > Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller on which there is a 9G hard disk, an
> > Iomega Jaz 2G, a Plextor CDROM 32X and aPlexwriter CDR. There is nothing
> > 
> > on the IDEs. The system is currently running RedHat 5.2. Attempts to
> > install  RH and/or Mandrake 6.0, either from floppy or from CDROM(which
> > is bootable),
> > fail very early, before getting to any dialog screens. Here are the last
> > 
> > few lines before the installation freezes:
> > 
> > RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> > PIIX4:  IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device c9, VID=1042,
> > DID=3020
> > PCI_IDE: device enabled (Linux)
> > PCI_IDE: will probe irqs later
> > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf
> > 
> > 
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > 
> > Dan Stefanescu
> > 
> 
> You need the updated lilo.rpm. The old did just that with SMP systems.
> 
> tom
> 

 Can't be lilo he can't even boot fully to the installer.
Dan, if you can disable the ide interfaces do so. Does the system really
contain 4 ide chains, and is that exactly where it stops?

RE: [expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake 6.0

[James J. Capone]

Did you do

[root@localhost hodges] cp zimage /boot/vmlinuz-x.x.x 

??

Just want to make sure you did the cp before you ran the Lilo command.

James

-Original Message-
From:   Bill&Virginia Hodges [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Monday, July 05, 1999 11:35 AM
To: Expert Mandrake
Subject:[expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake 6.0

I did:
1) make xconfig
2) selected my FreeBSD file systems and mcdx cdrom
3) make dep
4) make clean
5) make
6) make install
7) make modules
8) make modules_install
9) lilo

On reboot using lilo on MBR yields:
"modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-1"

mount yields:
--

[root@localhost hodges]# mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda8 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /var type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
--

lilo.conf contains:

-
boot = /dev/hda
delay = 100
timeout = 150
prompt
  read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
  label = linux
  root = /dev/hda5


I have grepped the all through /usr/src for something like net-pf to no
avail.

BTW. when booted from my the floppy the kernel does access my BSD file
system and the cdrom!!!


Did I do something incorrect in xconfig?
or what do i need to do to make a good kernel?

Thanks,

Bill

[expert] Building first kernel after installing Mandrake 6.0

[Bill&Virginia Hodges]

I did:
1) make xconfig
2) selected my FreeBSD file systems and mcdx cdrom
3) make dep
4) make clean
5) make
6) make install
7) make modules
8) make modules_install
9) lilo

On reboot using lilo on MBR yields:
"modprobe: can't locate module net-pf-1"

mount yields:
--

[root@localhost hodges]# mount
/dev/hda5 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda8 on /usr/local type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /var type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622)
--

lilo.conf contains:

-
boot = /dev/hda
delay = 100
timeout = 150
prompt
  read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk
  label = linux
  root = /dev/hda5


I have grepped the all through /usr/src for something like net-pf to no
avail.

BTW. when booted from my the floppy the kernel does access my BSD file
system and the cdrom!!!


Did I do something incorrect in xconfig?
or what do i need to do to make a good kernel?

Thanks,

Bill

Re: [expert] Time jump / Anacrontab

[Tom Berger]

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 04:49:27PM +0200, Eric Simoëns wrote:
> Le "lun, 05 jui 1999", John Aldrich a écrit : / On lun, 05 jui 1999, John Aldrich 
>wrote:
> ]On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> ]> So it seems there is a process that runs periodically to changes the hardware 
>clock...
> ]> But what could it be ?
> ]>
> ]Hmm...are you running "timed"??? That could explain it, especially if you run it 
>with the "-F
> ]" extension as I do from time to time.
> ...
> 
> No, my Linux box is on its own for the time. That's what is surprising me and makes 
>me
> suspect some internal process... 
> 
> Thanks
> Eric

Hum. Any suspicous looking processes in 'top'? What are you running besides the
usual stuff?

tom

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Re: [expert] Boot troubles

[Tom Berger]

On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:49:32PM +, Dan C. Stefanescu wrote:
> I have trouble updating to 6.0. Here are the particulars:
> 
> My computer is a Micron Powerdigm Xsu with dual CPUs(Pentium II 300MHz),
> 
> Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller on which there is a 9G hard disk, an
> Iomega Jaz 2G, a Plextor CDROM 32X and aPlexwriter CDR. There is nothing
> 
> on the IDEs. The system is currently running RedHat 5.2. Attempts to
> install  RH and/or Mandrake 6.0, either from floppy or from CDROM(which
> is bootable),
> fail very early, before getting to any dialog screens. Here are the last
> 
> few lines before the installation freezes:
> 
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> PIIX4:  IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device c9, VID=1042,
> DID=3020
> PCI_IDE: device enabled (Linux)
> PCI_IDE: will probe irqs later
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf
> 
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Dan Stefanescu
> 

You need the updated lilo.rpm. The old did just that with SMP systems.

tom

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Re: [expert] Laptop locks on installation

[Tom Berger]

On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 05:40:39PM -0400, Darryl White wrote:
> Please forgive me if this question has been covered.  I joined this list
> 
> about 5 mins ago.
> Comment/Question
> I have attempted to install Mandrake 6.0 on a Chembook Laptop.  The
> installation goes well until the installation probes the psaux for the
> mouse.  At that point the machine locks up tight.  I've tried the new
> .img files and the expert mode.  The install still tries to probe the
> port.  What is interesting about this situation is that it worked with
> 5.2 and 5.3.   Any help would be greatly appreciated
> See Ya
> 
> Darryl

Hi Darryl!

I might be wrong but I think this has been covered here some while ago. If you
don't mind I would suggest you search the mailing list archive of this archive
at linux-mandrake.com. If that doesn't help you might want to give deja.com a
try (e.g. search for: 'notebook & Linux & mouse & probe').

HTH

tom

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Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

[Wolfgang Bornath]

Axalon wrote:
> 
> This board has the VT82C586/B, but the drive will still be a limit.
> 
> --
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
> ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 65).
>   Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
> IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
>   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable. Latency=64.
>   I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
> Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586B Apollo ACPI (rev 16).
>   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.
> --

I tried Axalons script but it didn't work. I don't know why
because I saw only a message about something not found passing by
during bootup. It wasn't written in dmesg though.
Here's my excerpt from /proc/pci:

---
 Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master
Capable.  Latency=64.
  I/O at 0xe000.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 71).
  Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
PCI bridge: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 0).
  Vendor id=1106. Device id=8598.
  Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=4.
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C597 Apollo VP3 (rev 4).
  Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master
Capable.  Latency=16
--

/sbin/hdparm is there so I don't know what it was that didn't
work. I didn't get any severe errors though. Everything worked as
before.

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Re: [expert] Realaudio

[Magnus Stenemo]

Jean-Michel Dault wrote:
> 
> The G2 version works perfectly.
> 
> Go to www.freshmeat.net and do a search for "G2".
> 
> Jean-Michel
> 

Thank you very much!!


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[expert] Boot troubles

[Dan C. Stefanescu]

I have trouble updating to 6.0. Here are the particulars:

My computer is a Micron Powerdigm Xsu with dual CPUs(Pentium II 300MHz),

Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller on which there is a 9G hard disk, an
Iomega Jaz 2G, a Plextor CDROM 32X and aPlexwriter CDR. There is nothing

on the IDEs. The system is currently running RedHat 5.2. Attempts to
install  RH and/or Mandrake 6.0, either from floppy or from CDROM(which
is bootable),
fail very early, before getting to any dialog screens. Here are the last

few lines before the installation freezes:

RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX4:  IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device c9, VID=1042,
DID=3020
PCI_IDE: device enabled (Linux)
PCI_IDE: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfcc0-0xfcc7, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfcc8-0xfccf


Any help will be greatly appreciated.


Dan Stefanescu

Re: [expert] Realaudio

[J Mann]

On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> The G2 version works perfectly.
> 
> Go to www.freshmeat.net and do a search for "G2".
> 
> Jean-Michel

Thanks for the tip. Downloaded the RH5.2/6.0 RPM and believe it or not it
actually works!
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Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit

[Jean-Michel Dault]

I almost lost one of my biggest corporate customers because of the hdparm
settings. They are a computer reseller, and wish to ship all their
computers dual-boot.

I can't remember the exact type of boards, but installation failed on 10
computers. Major fsck up.

I made a new initscripts RPM that has the hdparm section commented out.
Now it's working perfectly.

Everyone agrees that I upload it? I didn't have the time to figure out pgp
yet. Do I upload it in distrib/updates-60?

Jean-Michel Dault
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Axalon wrote:

> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 01:24:49 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Axalon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Bad hdparm settings in rc.sysinit
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
> 
> > Axalon wrote:
> > > Try this on that MVP3 board you should see vast improvements
> > > 
> > > --
> > > # Optimisation of Hard drive.
> > > if [ -x /sbin/hdparm ];then
> > > LIST_HD=$(grep '^hd.*' /var/log/dmesg|\
> > > grep -ivE '(CD.*ROM|FLOPPY|TAPE|STATUS|DVD)'|cut -d: -f1|sort|uniq)
> > > for i in $LIST_HD;do
> > > action "Starting Hard Drive optimisations for $i" \
> > > hdparm -d1 -u1 -X66 /dev/$i
> > > #^ I get another 5mb vs. useing 33
> > > done
> > > fi
> > > --
> > > 
> > > No resets no coruption
> > > Model=Maxtor 90576D4, FwRev=WAS8283C, on an atrend ATC-5220
> > 
> > I'll give it a try, but I don't think the X66 will work: it is intended
> > for ATA/66, right ? Well the MVP3 (VT82C586B southbridge) only supports
> > UDMA/33, for ATA/66 I would need MVP4 (VT82C686 southbridge). At least
> > this is what the VIA docs say.
> > Besides, I'm pretty sure that the disk doesn't support it as well ...
> > 
> > Thanks anyway.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 74 Annemasse  France
> > old Linux fan
> 
> Right thats why i mentioned the 33 vs. 66, you mentioned the drive only
> supported the 33. 
> 
> This board has the VT82C586/B, but the drive will still be a limit.
> 
> --
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
> ISA bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo ISA (rev 65).
>   Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  1:
> IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
>   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable. Latency=64.
>   I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
>   Bus  0, device   7, function  3:
> Host bridge: VIA Technologies VT 82C586B Apollo ACPI (rev 16).
>   Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.
> --
> 

Re: [expert] Time jump / Anacrontab

[Eric Simoëns]

Le "lun, 05 jui 1999", John Aldrich a écrit : / On lun, 05 jui 1999, John Aldrich 
wrote:
]On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote:
]> So it seems there is a process that runs periodically to changes the hardware 
]clock...
]> But what could it be ?
]>
]Hmm...are you running "timed"??? That could explain it, especially if you run it with 
]the "-F
]" extension as I do from time to time.
...

No, my Linux box is on its own for the time. That's what is surprising me and makes me
suspect some internal process... 

Thanks
Eric

Re: [expert] Time jump / Anacrontab

[John Aldrich]

On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> So it seems there is a process that runs periodically to changes the hardware 
>clock...
> But what could it be ?
>
Hmm...are you running "timed"??? That could explain it, especially if you run it with 
the "-F
" extension as I do from time to time.

 --
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Re: [expert] new kernel zip problem

[Tom Berger]

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 09:32:31AM -0400, Sheldon Lee Wen wrote:
> Rich Bendorf wrote:
> > 
> > I just upgraded to the kernel 2.2.9-27mdk from kernel 2.2.9-19mdk and now
> > have a non-functioning zip drive.  The system boots up to the new kernel
> > with no problems and everything else works except my scsi support.  I have
> > checked the lilo.conf and it seems ok , but cfdisk will not bring up any
> > scsi devices including the scsi zip drive.  I get a modules dependency error
> > something to do with "insmod driver".  Any suggestions?
> 
> To get scsi support working with a new kernel (this includes zip drives)
> you have to have an initrd image. Use the utility mkinitrd.
> 
> Sheldon.


Hum, are you sure about that? I don't have one and my scsi devices work
anyway... I thought this initrd stuff is only for devices that must be
available during during boot.

tom


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Re: [expert] more on zip drives...

[Tom Berger]

On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 05:54:12PM -0500, Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
> When I try to activate the zip drive after a reboot or after a normal
> power up, it seems like M6 "forgot" all previous configurations.
> 
> If I click on the icon to open it I got, Could not mount, error log
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
> (maybe 'insmod driver?')
> 
> obviously I tried "insmod ppa", but then I get this...
> 
> /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_release_Rcdfb4d19/lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved
> symbol parport_unregister_device_R528dbb47
> /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_register_device_R2c1b9116
> /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_claim_R4664b1b5
> /lib/modules/2.2.9-27mdk/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> parport_enumerate_R52981eea
> 
> It may look funny but if I just do a "modprobe ppa"
> after that everything works!


insmod is deprecated for loading modules since 2.2.x. modprobe is the right way
to do it. So I don't see the problem. Add modprobe ppa to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
and everything should work out fine.


tom

 
> 
> May I need to add something else inconf.modules... 
> or in fstab?
> 
> Obviously I am missing something m
> any help appreciated.
> 
> It works... but I dont want to open a term and do a "modprobe ppa"
> everytime I do a reboot or start linux to have the zip drive working.
> 
> Sergio Korlowsky

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Re: [expert] Time jump / Anacrontab

[Eric Simoëns]

Le "sam, 03 jui 1999", Axalon a écrit : / On sam, 03 jui 1999, Axalon wrote:
]On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
]> -On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Eric Simoëns wrote:
]> 
]> -> Hello !
]> -> Time has a strange behaviour on my Linux Box since I installed Mandrake 6.0.  
]> -> I'am in GMT+2, so I told this during the install.
]> -> Date says :
]> ->   [root@mambo /opt]# date ; date -u
]> ->   ven jui  2 08:04:57 CEST 1999
]> ->   ven jui  2 06:04:57 UTC 1999
]> -> It's Ok !
]> -> But a few hours later, the time jumps two hours ahead, both UTC and CEST. 
]> -> (i.e. my kde clock shows "17:09", and one minute later "19:10". Time to go home 
]! ;) 
]> -> So I have to set the date back. Tryed to do so using date -s ; date -u -s ; 
]linuxconf  
]> -> with various GMT+2 settings (Europe/Paris, Posix/Europe/Paris, etc.), but still 
]a  
]> ->couple of ours later, time jumps two hours ahead. 
]> -> 
]> -> Never met this problem on previous installs. (Including Mandrake 5.3.) 
]> -> Anyone ever heard about this time travel implemention ?
]> -> 
]> -> Thanks in advance,
]> -> Eric
...

Thank you for your answers.

As a matter of fact, my computer clock *has* to be in local time because Linux has to 
share it from time to time with an other OS wich can't deal with UTC clocks.
I checked that my conf is correct regarding this setting, and everything is ok :
- "[ ] Hardware clock set to GMT" is unchecked in timeconfig
-  /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris

So it seems there is a process that runs periodically to changes the hardware clock...
But what could it be ?

I haven't found anything like that in crontab. (It's empty.)
Anacron is installed but doesn't seem to be launched during boot process.
[BTW, It seems to be something wrong in /etc/anacrontab ?
  ...
  7   10  cron.weekly run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
  7   10  cron.weekly run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
  ...
]

Still a mystery !
:(
Does someone know of what could cause that time-jump ?
Thanks,
Eric

Re: [expert] Realaudio

[Jeanette Russo]

What I have found is if you install both versions they will work.
Somehow they seem to fix each other.  I have done this on two different
computers. One with 2.0.36 and one 2.2.5 Kernal
Jeanette




-Michel Dault wrote:

> The G2 version works perfectly.
>
> Go to www.freshmeat.net and do a search for "G2".
>
> Jean-Michel
>
> On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Magnus Stenemo wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 20:55:36 +0200
> > From: Magnus Stenemo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] Realaudio
> >
> > Is there a working RPM for rvplayer5.0??
> >
> > The one I downloaded from realaudio does not work :((
> >
> > The ELF version is not working either :((
> >
> > //Magnus
> >
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