[SLUG] Linux Installation Problems - Please Help
Hello Everybody, I resend this email in text mode since somebody complaint about the first HTML version, which apparently could only be read in text mode incl. all formatting characters etc., additionally apparently loading your server unnecessarily due to HTML mode. I am new to Linux (RH C4) and after some weeks of stuffing around to get even the basics working, I am asking for help. My setup: MoboD945GTP (onboard Sigmatel audio, onboard video) Processor Intel P640 RAM 1GB, 2GB L2 Cache HDD 2 off SATAII, WD 160GB in raid 0, incl. prim. Active C:/ partition with XP Pro SP1 HDD 1 off SATAII, SG 160GB NTFS, 1 swap partition 2GB, 1 Linux root partition 15GB) Monitor Hitachi CML171SXW Modem External Siemens SpeedStream 4200 (as supplied by Telstra Bigpond), presently used via USB connection, Ethernet connected to 2nd PC for 2nd Internet connection. I bought the ‘RH Fedora 4 Unleashed’ book incl. DVD, kernel 2.6.11. The installation as 2nd OS went OK, partitioning and formatting 2 GB swap and 15GB root partition (both primary) with Disk Druid and using Linux front end for selecting either OS (Windows XP Pro SP1 or Linux RH Core 4). I got the following ‘issues’: Problem 1 Can’t establish a working ADSL Internet connection Problem 2 Video only works in 1280x1024 resolution, for me too small to be comfortable with Problem 3 Can’t get audio working Problem 1 – ADSL Connection The installation program does not ask me to setup my network connection, which I tried under ‘Setup Internet Connection’ as well as ‘Network’. My modem is not listed and that’s were the trouble starts. Somebody advised that I should setup the connection using DHCP instead of PPPoA (listed when I access the modem thru Windows). Even with the 1200 odd pages book I got, the instructions are to me at least very confusing. The same applies to Stanton Finleys installation notes. It appears that I have to download and install some program. With the Internet not working under Linux this is not possible. Problem 2 – Monitor Resolution The monitor’s HorizSync frequency range is picked up by the installation program incorrectly. As soon as I change this to the correct info as per manual, I get an ‘Out of Range’ signal after reboot. The vertical refresh rate is correct and I have not changed this one. The monitor’s support pixel resolution I had to change to cover all resolutions available in acc. with the manual. I tried and re-installed Linux at least 15 times with various configurations of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, both altering horizontal frequency as well as pixel modes. The only resolution that works is the monitor’s native one, i.e. 1280x1024. Problem 3 – Audio During the installation I am ask to test sound, which does not work. I get the message ‘Audio will not be available on your system’. No further info, that’s it. I have installed as part of the mobo drivers Sigmatel as the audio driver, in acc. with the mobo installation instructions. On the Intel website, for my motherboard, there is a network, video and audio driver for Red Hat Linux available, (…._1.3_RHEL4_U1.TAR.GZ). Should I download and install the individual drivers in Windows? Will my Windows OS still work? What chance is there that the Linux RH problems I have will be fixed? I have to say that at this stage I cannot afford to loose Windows since this is the only thing I have that works. To make matters even worse, two days ago I was changing from Linux (with the above hiccups) to Windows using Acronis OS Selector when suddenly nothing worked. After re-booting I got a black screen with a blinking underscore cursor on the top left, nothing else. The only way to get into the system was by using an Acronis Disk Director Boot Disk which got me going again, that is Windows only. When I select Linux as the OS, I’ll get a black screen with ‘Grub_’ on the top left, nothing else. If I deactivate Acronis OS Selector, I get a black screen with ‘Grub_”. Going in circles, must have to do something with the MBR, don’t know how to wipe it. Well this is my present situation, a pretty mess; not to mention the hours spent during the last six weeks. Somehow I am a bit weary, Stanton Finleys installation notes in the beginning point out that the installation of Linux is easy and can be done by everyone; however there are apparently 45 pages of installation notes needed to get the job done! Sorry, I am to say the least a bit frustrated and would appreciate some help. Wilfried -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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I used to use T'bird, till it became overwhelmed in spam. It's training couldn't keep up with the different varieties of spam, so I changed over to sylpheed-claws as it had a plugin for SpamaAssassin. Well, this I couldn't not get SA plugin working well, so I went back to first principles and used fetchmail, procmail and pointed Sylpheed to the Mail folder. And it works really well too! Its caught spam sent to lists, inc slug, and last night it even filtered out a Amazon phish!. Outstanding! I doubt very much T'bird could catch as the phish SA found was a ISP address reported to be send spam. The take home message, is it just works. I wrote myself a howto, and its here: http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits/linux/linux.html HTH - Russell On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 16:44:39 +1100 john gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Via email, Matthew. Just got another half dozen. Sometimes exactly the > same advt repeated 3 or 4 times. > > John. > > Matthew Hannigan wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:05:02AM +1100, john gibbons wrote: > > > > > >>Some swine marketing viagra and associated products sends me several > >>advts each day.It is the only advertiser to get to me via Firefox being > >>run in Fedora 4. His advts vary at times and claim to come from > >>different sources and are programmed to vary some content via random > >>ommissions of letters in words, different home addresses, etc. However, > >>the similarities are strong enough to suggest a single source. > >> > >>Firefox recognises most of them as junk but misses on others. I identify > >>all of them as junk and immediately delete them. Is there some way I can > >>block them from even arriving in the first place? > >> > >> > > > >I'm confused; is this in email or from websites or out of nowhere? (!) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux Installation Problems - Please Help
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:20, Bolero wrote: > Hello Everybody, > > I resend this email in text mode since somebody complaint about the > first HTML version, which apparently could only be read in text mode > incl. all formatting characters etc., additionally apparently loading > your server unnecessarily due to HTML mode. > > I am new to Linux (RH C4) and after some weeks of stuffing around to get > even the basics working, I am asking for help. My advice is to ditch Red Hat. When it works, it works like anything that works. When it doesn't, it is too arcane to figure out and fix what isn't working. Red Hat, for example, doesn't follow the common Linux approach of accepting kernel updates as a way to fix bugs, which is half of why kernels get updated. Instead Red Hat back patches the kernel they shipped, so their software is only compatible with itself. Other aspects of their setup are specific only to Red Hat. This make it a pain to work through problems, as many of the details are known only to Red Hat experts. I know everyone using Red Hat will scream, but I've gone from SuSE, through two versions of Red Hat, to Debian, and now Gentoo (I hack to fix things the way I want, so I choose a distro that's designed for hacking - Gentoo might not be best for beginners.) Try Ubuntu or Kubuntu. They are specifically aimed at newcomers, and work very well out of the box. You could get the livecd via your Windows connection, and try it on your hardware to see how well it does. As well, Knoppix also will let you try your hardware out before installing. I set up the Red Hat Enterprise Servers at work, and built our software installation package for them (not properly - management wasn't interested in spending the time unfortunately). One thing I found was that if I didn't install mySQL at first, it couldn't be added later. Only after several years during which the term "rpm hell" was coined did Red Hat get around to coming up with a different package management tool -"yum" to make up for failures in their initial approach. If the rpm system worked, there would have been no reason to create yum. > Problem 1 – ADSL Connection > > The installation program does not ask me to setup my network connection, > which I tried under ‘Setup Internet Connection’ as well as ‘Network’. > My modem is not listed and that’s were the trouble starts. > > Somebody advised that I should setup the connection using DHCP instead > of PPPoA DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It is a message passing standard so that two network devices can talk to each other - one requesting and the other granting a network IP address. DHCP will do nothing to negotiate the ADSL connection to your provider. If you have a combination DSL modem AND DHCP server, then your computer would connect to that and use DHCP to negotiate it's connection TO THE MODEM/DHCP SERVER - but the computer in that case has no knowledge of or involvement in the DSL connection. The connection to your ISP is DSL. You write that the modem has both USB & ethernet connections - does the modem documentation say it can provide a DHCP server? If it only has the one ethernet connector, then it can only provide that service for one computer anyway (without you doing some fairly arcane work setting up bridging, etc., which is definitely not newbie territory). To share a single Internet connection among several computers, you have to have a router somewhere in the chain to aggregate the connections and translate the addresses. If the device you have has only one ethernet connection, it's very unlikely it's a router. My router itself can use my modem (two distinct devices here) to set up a DSL connection. However, if I connect the modem directly to my computer, either by USB or ethernet, my computer must use PPPoE (or variant) to drive the connection. So, does your device have more than one ethernet connector? Forget the USB stuff - that's a single dedicated connection - only if it has more than one ethernet connector might it be a router, in which case the DHCP stuff, etc. might come into play. > Problem 2 – Monitor Resolution > The only resolution that works is the monitor’s native one, i.e. 1280x1024. How important is it to you to switch resolutions? You don't get text the way you like it by switching resolutions - you set up the DisplaySize variable and then pick your fonts the way you like them. You might have other reasons to switch resolutions, but I'll suggest that's the wrong approach to take to fix fonts you don't like. Higher resolution means the fonts can be rendered with more pixels, making them smoother. Getting the right size is best approached differently. So, do you know that you have some other reason to switch resolutions, or do you simply want to make your fonts the way you want? We must give different advice for the different cases. > Problem 3 – Audio Get a live CD for Ubuntu or K
Re: [SLUG] Linux Installation Problems - Please Help
>Ditch Red Hat. Too many things about the distro are specialised to be Red Hat >only - the knowledge doesn't transfer. Back patching kernels is especially a >lock-in to Red Hat. When you are more of a Linux mechanic, you can try again >if you like. But you won't get there without a working Linux install. > >And if it worked for you, it would be great. But it doesn't. Try Knoppix or >Ubuntu (I use and recommend Kubuntu - which is Ubuntu with a default KDE >desktop). > >Regards, >Bret > > After trying RH 7 and FC2,3,4 I finally gave up on redhat/Fedora. Yum seemed to solve some problems but in the end the whole thing sucked. I now use Ubuntu and have not looked back. My only outstanding problem is to get 5.1 surround sound working properly on my cmi8738( no subwoofer channel for some reason). So Ubuntu or Kubuntu it is and I recommend Automatix for newbies to get them moving with a whole raft of applications. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux Installation Problems - Please Help
On Saturday 18 March 2006 07:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I resend this email in text mode since somebody complaint about the > first HTML version, which apparently could only be read in text mode > incl. all formatting characters etc., additionally apparently loading > your server unnecessarily due to HTML mode. > > I am new to Linux (RH C4) and after some weeks of stuffing around to get > even the basics working, I am asking for help. > > My setup: > > Mobo D945GTP (onboard Sigmatel audio, onboard video) > > Processor Intel P640 > > RAM 1GB, 2GB L2 Cache > > HDD 2 off SATAII, WD 160GB in raid 0, > incl. prim. Active C:/ partition with XP Pro SP1 > > HDD 1 off SATAII, SG 160GB NTFS, 1 swap partition 2GB, > 1 Linux root partition 15GB) > > Monitor Hitachi CML171SXW > > Modem External Siemens SpeedStream 4200 (as supplied by > Telstra Bigpond), presently used via USB connection, > Ethernet connected to 2nd PC for 2nd Internet > connection. [snip] Some quick advice, I have just setup a box in the UK for my father-in-law by phone (pain & suffering) but it's working: Someone reccomends ubuntu, maybe I don't remember the sys-admin, I strongly reccomend SuSE, get 9.3 not 10. Try to resolve your raid as painlessly as you can. Motherboards don't do real raid. Google for fake-raid. Avoid raid here (there ARE good arguments for, just a noobie, motherboard raid uuurgh, tooo hard) Avoid the USB modem. Again real-linux-users can probably make it work, but ordinary mortals will suffer. I bought him a Speedtouch 516 router for UK$ 30. Get an ethernet router! Once you have setup the router (under windoes perchange) then you can start to play James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: [SCLUG] Re: Interesting view
On Thursday 16 March 2006 18:47, "Bohdan S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I dont like how all these Linux users bag Windows S much. If it
> wasent for windows how many of us would own a computer right now?
You are making the assumption that Microsoft was the only group capable of
making an affordable, usable OS. If Microsoft weren't around, we'd have
something else, like OS/2, Amiga or BeOS. In some ways, these are _still_
better than Windows.
Without Microsoft, we would probably have had a much more dynamic and
competitive industry, as we had in the 1980s. A good way to see what MS has
done to the industry is to read the U.S. v. Microsoft Findings of Fact
document:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
If you want a summary, skip to the last section (titled "THE EFFECT ON
CONSUMERS OF MICROSOFT'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT THE APPLICATIONS BARRIER TO
ENTRY").
P.S. You only need one full stop to signify the end of a sentence.
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assigning young soldiers ... to fight in what would be an un-winnable urban
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Re: [SLUG] Linux Installation Problems - Please Help
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Someone reccomends ubuntu, maybe I don't remember the sys-admin, I strongly > reccomend SuSE, get 9.3 not 10. Recommending a previous version of a distribution over its current version is a pretty poor recommendation. That means the distribution is going backwards. I have set my mother-in-law and my father up on Debian machines. If I was to do it again I would probably choose ubuntu. I have run two versions of ubuntu and AFAIAC the latter one was an improvement over the earlier one. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ "Perl as a language has less a design than a thousand special features flying in close formation." -- From the c2 wiki -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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