Re: [OT] Drive geometry question
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 06:26:04PM -0400, Bill Davidson wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:36:22 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Bill Davidson wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:37:44 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Bill Davidson wrote: I decided to install FreeBSD and give it a try. My drive geometry is set to 193821 cyls/63 sectors/16 heads. FreeBSD's fdisk says that's Where are you reading that geometry? That's what FreeBSD reports to find. I also get that from linux fdisk. I just don't understand what will happen if I partition the drive using a different geometry, or if it even matters. No, i meant the geometry that you think it should be compared to the gemoetry that FreeBSD thinks it should be. Here are the recommended settings from the western digital website for this drive model: 16383 cyls/63 sectors/16 heads This is the 8GB limit 16383*16*63*512/2^20=8063MB all drives lager 8GB are labled with these values. your disk has a physical capacity of 193821*16*63*512/2^20=95396MB and FreeBSD uses 12161*255*63*512/2^20=95393MB you will see this 3MB marked as unused in the FreeBSD fdisk. (512 = bytes per sector and 2^20(=1MB) makes the result appear in MB) -- Norbert Augenstein 5:00AM up 9:03, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I call them as I see them. If I can't see them, I make them up. -- Biff Barf ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4365.run
Hello list, i just want to mention new NVIDIA driver, it is not on the nvidia web page, but you can find it here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Quadro_Certified/1.0-4365/ ncftp ...dro_Certified/1.0-4365 ls -l 06-02-03 02:09PM 4199946 NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4365.tar.gz 06-02-03 02:09PM 661527 NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4365.tar.gz 06-02-03 02:09PM 1881436 NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4365-unified.tar.gz 06-02-03 02:09PM 6572345 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4365.run Installation has changed, here a short intro ... Have fun!!! __ (sec-01) CHOOSING THE NVIDIA PACKAGES APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR SYSTEM __ NVIDIA has a unified driver architecture model; this means that one driver set can be used with all supported NVIDIA graphics chips. Please see Appendix A for a list of the NVIDIA graphics chips supported by the current drivers. Driver release 1.0-4365 introduces a new packaging and installation mechanism, which greatly simplifies the installation process. There is only a single file to download: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-1.0-4365.run. This contains everything previously contained by the old NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX packages. For the 1.0-4365 release, NVIDIA_kernel and NVIDIA_GLX src.rpms and tarballs are still provided. However, these will not be provided for future releases. __ (sec-02) INSTALLING THE NVIDIA DRIVER __ BEFORE YOU BEGIN DRIVER INSTALLATION Before beginning the driver installation, you should exit the X server. In addition you should set your default run level so you will boot to a vga console and not boot directly into X (please consult the documentation that came with your Linux distribution if you are unsure how to do this; this is normally done by modifying your /etc/inittab file). This will make it easier to recover if there is a problem during the installation. After installing the driver you must edit your XF86Config file before the newly installed driver will be used. See the section below entitled EDITING YOUR XF86CONFIG FILE. INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW NVIDIA DRIVER INSTALLER After you have downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4365.run, begin installation by exiting X, cd'ing into the directory containing the downloaded file, and run: sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4365.run The .run file is a self-extracting archive. When the .run file is executed, it extracts the contents of the archive, and runs the contained `nvidia-installer` utility, which will walk you through installation of the NVIDIA driver. The .run file accepts many commandline options. Here are a few of the more common options: --info Print embedded info about the .run file and exit. --check Check integrity of the archive and exit. --extract-only Extract the contents of ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4365.run, but do not run 'nvidia-installer'. --help Print usage information for the common commandline options and exit. --advanced-options Print usage information for the common commandline options as well as the advanced options, and then exit Installation will also install the utility `nvidia-installer`, which may be later used to uninstall drivers, auto-download updated drivers, etc. [...] -- Norbert Augenstein 10:15PM up 41 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I'd love to go out with you, but I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: /boot won't mount through fstab
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:25:57PM -0400, Tom Wilson wrote: Hi all, I installed Knoppix to hda things went well. I had the disk previously partitioned and after the install went to set them up how I wanted it. I got /home and /var to work fine w/ fstab. The one giving me headaches is the /boot partition. No matter what I've tried it won't mount at boot. If I mount it from the command line it works fine. The partition layout I set up is /dev/hda1/boot /dev/hda2swap /dev/hda3/ /dev/hda5/home /dev/hda6/var Here is my /etc/fstab file. # /etc/fstab: filesystem table. # # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 1 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults,noauto 1 2 (..) ^^ remove noauto :) -- Norbert Augenstein 10:10PM up 2:18, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 President Thieu says he'll quit if he doesn't get more than 50% of the vote. In a democracy, that's not called quitting. -- The Washington Post ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Grub config witih SCSI
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:14:19AM -0400, Robert E. Raymond wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2003 11:18 pm, Shawn Tayler wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2003 13:15:05 -0400 Robert E. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] professed: The disk mounts ok. Windows also boots when I disconnect /dev/sda. Linux is booting as that's what I'm writing this in 3rd disk will be FreeBSD and it's /dev/hda, and not formatted yet. Here's my menu.lst:\ I believe the issue may be that Windblows doesn't like to boot from anything but the first hard drive Just a guess... stayler I doubt that's it... I've had Windows as /dev/hdb and Linux as /dev/hda with no problems before This might not be happening if I hadn't issued the mkfs.xfs command to the wrong boot partition when I was transferring data to the new disks.. Hi Bob, the grub docs mentions this inability of windoze and has a workaround for it. (mapping technique) map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) probably it is not a bad idea to make sure the active flag is set to the win partition or you can use grubs 'makeactive' command. auge ps: dont you have 'info grub' on your system? than maybe www.gnu.org/software/grub is your friend. -- Norbert Augenstein 3:00PM up 44 mins, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Why doesn't .Xdefaults work
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:21:07PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:13:48 +0100 Norbert Augenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:30:32PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but it's got me buffaloed. I have the following in ~/.Xdefaults, and this used to work: # this is .Xdefaults aterm*background '#e0' ... aterm*savedLines 500 suggest using colons Previous hint (Llama) was check ~/.xsession-errors, but absolutely nothing in that file. What do you mean by use colons? aterm*saveLines: number using : as seperator, otherwise the whole line will be ignored auge -- Norbert Augenstein 4:50AM up 32 mins, 4 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Why doesn't .Xdefaults work
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:30:32PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but it's got me buffaloed. I have the following in ~/.Xdefaults, and this used to work: # this is .Xdefaults aterm*background '#e0' aterm*foreground blue aterm*font vga11x19 aterm*loginShell True aterm*savedLines 500 Now it is ignored for all of my window managers - kde, xfce, xxxbox, wmaker, and all I get an ugly little bright white window that is not even invoked as a login shell. I've also tried this as ~/.Xdefaults-hostname, but no difference. As a temporary workaround, I have atstart, but I shouldn't have to do this: #!/bin/bash aterm -bg '#e0' -fg blue -font vga11x19 -ls Any ideas? suggest using colons auge [EMAIL PROTECTED] auge]$ cat .Xdefaults aterm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 aterm*geometry: 72x26 aterm*background: black aterm*foreground: LimeGreen aterm*scrollBar: False aterm*saveLines: 500 aterm*cursorColor: yellow aterm*pointerColor: magenta aterm*transparent: off [EMAIL PROTECTED] auge]$ -- Norbert Augenstein 3:10AM up 1:25, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 Osborn's Law: Variables won't; constants aren't. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Sylpheed
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:07:00AM -0600, Rick Sivernell wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:59:16 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 01:46:13 -0600 Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List On a newly installed 3.1.1 Server sylpheed returns Bind: permission denied. Nowthe bind should be the binding to a socket I assume. How do I fix this. Sylpheed 0.8.8 bulds and install clean. Any help is appreciated. I know know Lonnie does not use this emailergrin. Is this just when you start sylpheed, or when you are setting up an account? I have seen this and other odd error messages when a service is not listed in /etc/services. Otherwise (and risking flack here) have you rebooted? I have never had a problem with sylpheed. Just an odd wondering if it is sylpheed or Courier IMAPD that wants ALL IMAP4 folders to be in a folder called INBOX. -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 ·Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · ++···+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Well, after some more investagation I find that: 1. in user mutt fails, sylpheed bind permission denied. 2 in root logon mutt works great and so does sylpheed. checked pam mail setting and services, inetd.conf all seem to be the same as my machine that sylpheed works on. since mutt fails in user along with sylpheed, must be a config problem. I just do not know where to go now. what are your permissions of /tmp , should be 1777 -- auge 7:05PM up 3:26, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I call them as I see them. If I can't see them, I make them up. -- Biff Barf ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: XFree 4 has lost resolution
On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:02:06 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mine does. Are you sure you're looking at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ? Section Monitor Identifier Generic Monitor VendorName Typical Monitors ModelName 1280x1024, 60Hz DisplaySize 326 260 HorizSync 30-97 VertRefresh 50-180 ModeLine 1280x1024/85Hz 157.5 1280 1352 1512 1728 1024 1025 1028 1072 +HSync +VSync ModeLine 640x480 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 Monitor Generic Monitor DefaultDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 32 Modes 1280x1024/85Hz 640x480 Virtual 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth24 Modes 1280x1024/85Hz 640x480 Virtual 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth8 Modes 1280x1024/85Hz 640x480 Virtual 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth16 Modes 1280x1024/85Hz 640x480 Virtual 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm in the process of upgrading my RedHat 7.1 system to 7.3. This has a new X server major release, I understand. This has not been good news for me. Under 7.1, my monitor ran comfortably at 1280x1024 resolution. Under the new X (4.0 something, I think), it recognized the monitor okay, accepted my inputs about horizontal and vertical speeds, and refuses to go over 1024x768. I want that screen real estate back! I notice that the new XF86Config file does not have those pesky Modeline's in it. I wonder what else could be messed up? ++ kevin Hi, the problen seems to be the ratio of 4 to 3 of a 17 inch monitor. Micheal uses a faked DisplaySize entry as 326x260 mm is definately not the size of his monitor but the ratio of 1280 to 1024. I would suggest you use a resulution with a ratio of 4 to 3 (i.e 1280x960) and generate a ModeLine for yourself. you can find a modeline genarator here: http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines the size of your monitor is normally recognized without an DisplaySize entry, you can look for in /var/log/XFree86.0.log auge [auge@seth auge]$ egrep -i size /var/log/XFree86.0.log (II) NV(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 31 vert.: 23 (II) NV(0): #0: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 85 vid: 22833 (II) NV(0): #1: hsize: 640 vsize 480 refresh: 120 vid: 31793(II) NV(0): #2: hsize: 800 vsize 600 refresh: 85 vid: 22853(II) NV(0): #3: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 85 vid: 22881(II) NV(0): #4: hsize: 1024 vsize 768 refresh: 100 vid: 26721(II) NV(0): #5: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 75 vid: 20337(II) NV(0): #6: hsize: 1152 vsize 864 refresh: 85 vid: 22897(II) NV(0): #7: hsize: 1600 vsize 1200 refresh: 75 vid: 20393(II) NV(0): clock: 157.5 MHz Image Size: 312 x 234 mm(--) NV(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) as you see 312/234 is ratio of 4/3 BTW, what DPI settings do you have? [auge@seth auge]$ egrep DPI /var/log/XFree86.0.log (**) NV(0): DPI set to (83, 83) ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: OpenBSD Questions, Request for pointers, and guidance in self help
Hi Shane,
you will find most of the information to start on the project pages. Additionally
google.com/bsd(/linux) is also a good place. As OpenBSD is an offshot of NetBSD you
can sure look there, but do not blindly copy over. This applies to FreeBSD as well but
its a little bit more different. Sure some tasks are easier on other systems but you
will have finally learned more, assuming willingness for a steep learning curve.
('steep' is especially for windoze users and maybe some YASTx clickers). You will
probably ask yourself why people use OpenBSD or xBSD, maybe you find out. it's
similar to Linux.it's just FUN
auge
BTW let me know how your Toshiba works. I will get my brothers Satelite hopefully this
or next week. (blow away win2002 and do a gentoo/NetBSD checkout-comparison).
I think the [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs a 2nd subscriber ...oops i forgot to mention
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 19:30:35 +1000
Shane A Broomhall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I am having a play with OpenBSD, It is something that the people at work want
for me to be able to use and be comfortable with. I have put it on a Toshiba
3110 CT Portege laptop. Nice little machine.
I have managed to for the first time, with a hint from a freind at work
managed to manually configure my laptop to use X and it runs a very small
window manager, I think it is FWM. I have some instructions to allow for it
to start using KDE so when I go back to work I will try those, and that will
also be a learning experience. I am finding it rewarding to go through and
manually do things, well using the tools provided, instead of using a wizard
or allowing setup to do it for me. In that vein I am asking for some help.
I have been switching from SUSE to Redhat to Windows for about the last 12
months or so, but I have finally got work to allow for me to have my
operating system of choice on my laptop so I am using SUSE and Vmware for any
windows apps I need to use.
I want to be able to have this OpenBSD laptop use
1. A modem, I have an external one. I am hoping that someone can point me
towards a location where I can find some instructions on how to configure a
modem manually, setup a mount point and use the system to dial into an ISP.
2. I am hoping to be able to use the PCMCIA card that is included with the
laptop.
3. I am hoping to be able to setup the laptop with OpenBSD to be able to use
my home, hopefuly in the future network printers at work.
4. I am hoping to be able to understand the different partioning scheme.
I would classify myself as a keen home user, with no high level of
expertise, but I see this as being a good learning curve. I am hoping to use
this project to increase my general Linux/Unix knowledge and skills.
I am also hoping for some hints on which search engines to use, for Linux,
BSD and Unix. How to efficently use them so I dont have to post the same
question to a list as someone else has.
And lastly but not least, without getting into some religious crusade, if I
can find like on the list some information about FreeBSD or NetBSD, will it
in most cases also apply to OpenBSD.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and try to understand me.
Shane Broomhall
Brisbane Australia
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Re: Sick RedHat strategy or really 3 iso bloatware?
Hi, you will find a long list on linux.org including turbolinux, vectorlinux ... auge On Fri, 10 May 2002 15:21:36 -0500 Stuart Biggerstaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel your pain. Just burned those three discs, only to get the boxed set the next morning (before any attempt to install). I know Mandrake's been 2-3 least since the 8.x versions came out, and I think SuSE is even bigger. Any other major RPM-based distributions, since Caldera is ruled out? At 12:08 PM 5/10/02 -0700, Nate Cole wrote: All, I will be installing a new system here at work, and have had good success in the past with RedHat. Plus, it is explicitly supported by most major vendors (ie Oracle). Off I went to download RH 7.3. Wow! Now I need to get 3 isos totaling almost 1.7 gig!! Even high speed will take a few hours. Is this some way to force people to buy CDs or is RH now so bloated it requires a third iso? Both? Can I do just as well building Slack and adding RPM? Are there any other RPM based distros (_not_ Caldera) that are smaller and free to download? I suppose RPM-for-Slackware must work, since it is a(n unsupported) part of the official distribution, but I bet trying to install critical pieces that way would be a mess. TIA, Nate Stuart Biggerstaff Linda Hall Library of Science Engineering Technology 5109 Cherry St. Kansas City, MO 64110 Phone: (816) 926-8748 (800) 662-1545 x748 FAX:(816) 926-8785 URL:www.lindahall.org ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Can't launch XCDRoast
On Fri, 10 May 2002 20:05:12 -0400 Harry G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I am doing it after xhost + and then su'ing the terminal, I try and get this: ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-gid bit on /usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap ** WARNING **: The X-CD-Roast wrapper seems not to have the correct permissions set ** WARNING **: So do as root something like that: (and read the Manual) chown root:cdwrite /usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap; chmod 2755 /usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap *** NOTE ***: --- This permission warning and the following set-uid bit warnings can be safely ignored, if you want to run X-CD-Roast as root only. --- ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/cdrecord ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/mkisofs ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/readcd ** WARNING **: Installation problem? No set-uid bit on /usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/cdda2wav xcdroast: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libimlib-gif.so: undefined symbol: _gdk_malloc_image Then I do the following: linux:/home/harrycg # chown root:cdwrite /usr/X11R6/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap: chown: `root:cdwrite': invalid group do you have a group cdwrite??? if not, create it and try again auge I be confused, and besides, it makes my brain hurt! So what does it tell me, besides the root:cdwrite group is invalid? Do I need to use a different group? (By the way, this is in Suse 7.3) Harry G ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
Re: Where is linux.nf ?
Hi, take a look at: www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dns.html again. there is a warning, the forwarders entry in named.conf 127.0.0.1 will not work. you should change this IP to a name server at your uplink. I have never set up DNS so i cant help you. maybe take a look at www.isc.org or ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] auge On Saturday 23 March 2002 04:16, you wrote: I've forwarded this message from Hafiz as I don't have the time to help him out. Please COPY [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your replies. Thanks! --- begin forwarded msg --- I need your help on DNS. I have a dedicated servers currently hosted at New York. We have around 82 blocks of IP's assign to us and we decide to run a DNS server as well. Our domain is powertrips.org and I have register it at register.com. The problem is I try to setup a DNS server in it (Our server is running on FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE) but is seems it cannot answer any query on www.powertrips.org, admin.powertrips.org and other subdomain I configure. Why ? But for DNS1.powertrips.org it works fine. Can you look into this ? Well I cant deny that Im a newbie in DNS thinggie. Attached here is the file configuration that I think you may need to look at if there is any mistake in it. Please advise. Hope to hear from you soon. Thank You. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
