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Posted: 12 Jun 2004 06:35 AM PDT

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 15:35:57 +0200, François Patte wrote:
 

As root edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add;

# Set and Restore Alsa's sound levels to the default volume levels
/bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1;

Then as root create and save /etc/aumixrc (sample below);

vol:85:85:P
pcm:85:85:P
speaker:85:85:P
line:85:85:P
mic:85:85:R
cd:85:85:P
igain:85:85:P
line1:85:85:P
phin:85:85:P
video:85:85:P

Adjust the default levels (85% up) to suit your needs.


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we would have been dead a long time ago." M$ Senior VP Bob Muglia '96

Grub on MBR. Running Debian. WinXP is installed. Want to dual-boot.

Posted: 11 Jun 2004 03:22 PM PDT

cmad <com> wrote in message news:<cae9o7$3p$otenet.gr>...
 

I tried adding the above three lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst and dual
booting works great! I like Grub's straight-forward syntax :)
Thanks for the help both of you!

//Jonathan

alsa project

Posted: 11 Jun 2004 10:18 AM PDT

François Patte wrote: 

Although I couldn't get it to work earlier,
now it works ok (mozilla 1.7rc3 and IE).
They must have had some technical problems
over the last few days.

Regards,
Larry

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Problem booting from CD after adding Belkin ATA/133 card

Posted: 11 Jun 2004 08:04 AM PDT

Charles Sullivan <rr.com> wrote: 

I sure do. It's almost like the way that Adaptec SCSI cards look when
you boot up...the mainboard sees the 10GB and CDR, and then I get
something like:

Sil 0680 ATA {mumble}
Press F3 for RAID setup
Searching for devices ......x

and then after about 3 seconds it dumps what the Belkin finds in both
its slots, spits out the RAID configuration (in my case nothing,
because I'm using Linux SW RAID), and then finally boots.

When I go to the BIOS configuration page, it sees the Belkin card, and
I can assign IRQs to it. I have it sharing with USB right now because
I'm not using the USB system at all.

That's what's kind of crazy to me about this. The BIOS recognizes the
card in set-up. The BIOS of the card prints out after POST but before
booting. Once booted, linux can see all devices and everything works
fine. Hey! Maybe I should try (just try!!!) booting a Windows
install CD. If it boots and ISOLINUX fails, then wouldn't it be an
ISOLINUX bug?

Also, maybe I should try using a different IRQ? It looks like I'm
going to have to share with something...audio, video, USB...

Thanks again for your comments...

Mike

Running rpm as non-root

Posted: 11 Jun 2004 02:35 AM PDT

Bart wrote:
 

The MySQL installed from Fedora packages _will_ run as the user mysql.
It's specified by the contents of the RPM package, not by the user ID
that's used for the installation.

--
Markku Kolkka
fi

RH9 Poor performance, stability

Posted: 10 Jun 2004 10:16 AM PDT

In article <com> (Sat, 12 Jun 2004 23:46:58
-0600), Zinn wrote:
 

It's impossible: Swampee is a troll. Its only purpose on Usenet is to get
the attention it doesn't get elsewhere.
 

What's the problem? Performance?

The (potential) problem with Fedora, Red Hat, Mandrake, and SuSE is they
tend to load much more software than the average user needs. This may be
a drain on performance. OTOH, those distributions have many satisfied
users.
 

Is it a good operating system? It appears that it is.

I thought about running FreeBSD about 18 months ago but it didn't support
my serial adapter. Now it does. I might try it this summer.
 

So, you're just another troll...
 

....and one of the low-life, Microsoft sock-puppet trolls.
 

It's more than enough, but possibly not enough to run GNOME or KDE.
 

Trollitis?

Adding fonts to RH8/RH9

Posted: 10 Jun 2004 09:04 AM PDT

Ed Skinner wrote:
 

The release notes on the first CD instruct font
installing
Bit fiddly but it works. I wish they hadn't dumped the
"Font Installer"

--
faeychild.

linux newb install question (xp dual boot)

Posted: 10 Jun 2004 02:32 AM PDT

Thanks for the heads-up...I'll see how I get on...

"tim wunder" <net> wrote in message
news:ZQ0yc.17$abs.net... 

Newbie needs help with Linspire/Lindows installation

Posted: 09 Jun 2004 05:02 PM PDT

Thanks for the reply Zugwrack and the suggestions, it appears that the hard
drive is not sufficient for the Linspire operating system. Looks like I need
a bigger capacity one.
Thanks again
Regards
Dave

Newbie messed up, and is clueless to boot.

Posted: 09 Jun 2004 02:46 PM PDT

"Nico Kadel-Garcia" <net> writes:

]Bill Unruh wrote:
]> "Gary Carroll" <net> writes:
]>
]> ]Iâ?Tve just installed Mandrake 10 as my first foray into Linux. I
]> have two ](I think) unrelated Clueless Boot questions.
]>
]> ]1: Since I am dual booting between Linux and Windows I am presented
]> with ]several choices after the BIOS POST:
]> ] Linux-p3-smp-64gb
]> ] Linux
]> ] Linux-nonfb
]> ] Linux-i686-up-4gb
]> ] 263-7
]> ] linux-smp
]> ] failsafe
]> ] windows
]> ]The last choice is clear. The others are a mystery. What are the
]> ]differences? Iâ?Tve been using linux-p3-smp-64gb as it seems the
]> default.

]> 1. p3=Pentium III
]> smp=Symmetric Multiprocessing (Ie more than one CPU in the box)
]> 64gb= Allows total memory up to 64 GB
]> up=UniProccesor (single processor in the box)
]> i686= Pentium 2 or higher.
]> 263-7=Kernel 2.6.4-7mdk
]> failsafe=minimal kernel which should boot even if everyting else
]> breaks.

]Those are labels for different kernels in Linux, allowing you to select
]which one you wish to boot with. You probably want to flush all the kernels
]that are inappropriate for your hardware.

Since I assume he is using a dual processor system (otherwise the installer
probably would not have installed an smp kernel) all are appropriate to his
hardware. However if he finds that he never uses some of them, then remove
them. HOwever, remember that the linux entry is likely a link.
ls -la /boot/vmunix
would show a link to one of the above. If you remove the one linked to ,
then you also remove the linux entry unless you remake the links in /boot.


]> 2. startx
]> or edit /etc/inittab
]> id:3:initdefault:
]> make that
]> id:5:initdefault:

]And don't forget to reboot after doing this to re-run init and start you up
]in the new run level. Also, if you look at the argements of your lilo.conf

Or do
init 5
from the command line.

]or grub.conf, you can add arguments to your boot settings to automatically

Why would you put it into the kernel options rather than inittab?
kernel options are good for recovery (eg your system usually boots into
runlevel 5 but for some reason X has gone crazy on your system-- so you do
linux 3
at the boot prompt and boot into runlevel 3 instead -- or runlevel 1 as a
minimal single user rescue mode.

]start you in a certain runlevel (3 for normal use and no X login manager
]already running, 5 to have that X login screen). This is useful for setting
]things for low power mode on a laptop (no X windows!), or not using NFS or
]network mounting (runlevels 2 and 4).

]> If it already is and startx does not work, then you have an X problem.
]> Maybe gnome does not exists (eg see if /etc/gnome/gnomerc is there
]> and that /etc/gnome has rx permission for everyone.
]>
]> Otherwise look in .xsession-error for clues.

I just had a case where on reinstall, a user had created his own userid on
the system, but when the system was installed the old passwd and shadow
files were replaced. He could not log in in X. It turned out that the
/tmp/gconfd-username had been created during the install phase or during
the bootup phase, and since his user id was now different, this blocked his
ability to use gnome at all. The clue was in .xsession-error.

mail proxing

Posted: 09 Jun 2004 01:53 PM PDT

Well I know all of the MUAs and OExpress just came out of mind :)

Anyway
From what I see, fetchmail is used as an intermediate between a local MTA
and your mail account.

Well it does not do what I need.
On the exchange/IMAP account I have, I have more then 200 subcatalogs.
Fetchmail canot replicate this structure before starting downloading.
This is what I need. An overnight IMAP/Exchange mail account replicator.

Thank you all for your time.
Theophanis


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More on grub on hda5

Posted: 09 Jun 2004 05:23 AM PDT

Andy Fraser wrote: 

Argh! Thanks, that was easy enough, I was sure I had read somewhere that
that I was supposed to not write /boot/.

This solved the grub problem but instead I got another problem that I
guess I will have to post about soon :(


Thanks

Tim

LINUX & WINDOWS XP CAN COEXIST?

Posted: 08 Jun 2004 09:39 AM PDT

fernando Sanchez wrote: 

It's possible.

Study http://www.futuredesktop.org/how2burn.html
Browse down...

Mandrake 10 is great!

// moma
http://www.futuredesktop.org

Fedora Core 2 Problems

Posted: 08 Jun 2004 08:14 AM PDT

tim wunder wrote: 

To get the new 2.6 kernel, xorg instead of XFree86, and other tool updates.
There's already something like 400 software updates for Fedora Core 1.

Suse 8.0: How do I get a pure text tty1?

Posted: 08 Jun 2004 03:17 AM PDT

Andreas Janssen <com> wrote on Fri, 11 Jun 2004
19:25:15 +0200: 
 
 
 
 

Ah, maybe that was it. ;-)

Thanks!
 

--
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Email: dee; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter
(like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a").

RedHat replacement

Posted: 07 Jun 2004 06:23 PM PDT

Chiefy wrote: 

RedHat is still free: it's just now called Fedora, and is even more properly
open source, with the semi-commercial or weirdly licensed packages in their
"RedHat Server" and other releases.

Fedora is where RedHat will do all the bleeding edge work that will get
beta-tested there for future release in their more stable, commercial
packages. This is a reasonable deal, and I'm reasonably impressed with the 2
Fedora releases so far.

old system, cant boot from cd

Posted: 07 Jun 2004 05:31 PM PDT

FBR050 wrote in news:supernews.com:
 

Will the box POST? If it will, you ought to be able to check the BIOS
settings for the boot sequence.
 

I'd suggest looking into installing either Puppy Linux or
DamnSmallLinux. You can copy the contents of a mini-distro CD to the
hdd (C:/Knoppix,as an example) of the old box by slaving it in another
box. Then use a floppy to boot. Use rawrite to make your boot floppy.
When the box boots from the floppy, the floppy should find/recognise
and initailize on the Hdd. If you have minimal RAM, DSL will work
albeit slowly with as little as 16mb. Forget distros that use KDE or
Gnome as the windows manager/desktop, they need more RAM.

--
Cheers,
Kurt

Boot prompt

Posted: 07 Jun 2004 03:11 PM PDT

"jess" <pipex.net> writes:
 

Yes, you need to run lilo for the modifications to take effect. That's one
of the reasons why, as mentioned in the manual [1], "GRUB is better".
 

How could you get a boot prompt if you remove LILO ?

Cheers, Thibaut.

[1] GRUB's, of course ;-)

Linux 9 Bug/Black Screen?

Posted: 07 Jun 2004 10:10 AM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup, co.uk
<co.uk>
wrote
on Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:59:57 +0100
<co.uk>: 

I suspect one would have to edit the command line. I don't know
the details but know it's not 'init=' (that's reserved for the
path of init, usually /sbin/init). It's possible a bare '3'
might work. If the GRUB menu screen allows for selection
of a kernel, press 'e'.

Another method I can think of would be to use a Knoppix
boot disk (Debian and RedHat should also be able to do
this, if one uses ALT-F2 to go to the alternate console),
mount the system disk, and edit /etc/inittab directly,
unmount, then reboot. The relevant line should look like

id:5:initdefault:

Change the 5 to a 3, and save.

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#191, net
It's still legal to go .sigless.

Adding eth1 causes nameserver problems

Posted: 07 Jun 2004 04:41 AM PDT

com (David Efflandt) writes:

]On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 08:34:18 -0400, Ed Stankevich <umich.edu> wrote:
]> co.uk wrote:
]>> Ed Stankevich <umich.edu> wrote:
]>>
]>>>When I configure eth1 [ ip and mask are correct and work on other
]>>>machines] we are no longer able to do nameserver functions. I see this
]>>>in iptables -L output [no longer resolves ip to name] and when using the
]>>>route command to add a gateway says 'host unknown'.
]>>> resolv.conf has the nameserver's in it and has not been changed
]>>>host.conf has 'order hosts,bind' and 'multi on' in it.
]>>
]>>
]>>> If I remove eth1 things go back to normal on eth0, correct default
]>>>gateway and iptables -L output once again resolves ip to name.
]>>
]>>
]>>> Any sugestions?
]>>
]>>
]>> What IP are you setting eth1 TO for a start?
]>> If your setting it up on the same subnet, then it would cause problems.
]>> eth1 and eth0 should not be both on, for example, 192.168.0.x
]>>
]>> Try setting eth1 on 192.168.1.x instead
]> eth0 is 141.214.xxx.xxx the1 is 172.20.xxx.xxx

]You did not by any chance configure a default gateway for eth1 did you?
]The only default gateway should usually only lead towards the internet
](remote IP on eth0). You usually should not have a gateway on a LAN
]unless it is the only default to elsewhere on LAN with internet route, or
]a gateway for a specific local subnet (not default) that goes through a
]router.

As he implies, please post your routing tables on the machine with and
without the eth1

route -n

Look for the default route (0.0.0.0 in the first place).
Look for the route to the nameserver (Ie prtend to be your machine and send
a packet to the nameserver. The routing tables are used by looking for the
most specific entry in the routing table for that address.
Here is an example

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
147.103.234.13 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
153.20.64.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.192.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 153.20.64.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

Let us say the address I want is 137.82.1.1
Then the first entry matches ONLY the address 147.103.234.13 so that does
not work. The second entry matches only addresses which start with
192.168.0 so that does not work. The third entry matches only addresses
which start with 153.20.64 (with the last 6 bits of the third byte and the
whole of the last byte arbitrary) so that does not work. Finally the last
entry 0.0.0.0 with a genmast (netmask) of all 0 matches anything. (Only the
bits in the netmask which are 1 need to match the address).

It is always the most specific route ( the one with the most bits 1 in the
netmask) which is used if more than one entry matches. )

The second entry Gateway, tells the machine where to forward the packet to
to handle it. 0.0.0.0 gateway means that the address is directly on the lan link at
the end of the line, and go onto that line, ask for an arp discovery (ask
if some machine on that link owns the address and deliver directly to the
reported MAC ethernet address, not IP address, if something answers).

Burning over network

Posted: 06 Jun 2004 05:53 PM PDT

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 03:53:16 +0300, Alexandr Zayats
<ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> wrote:
 

Hi,

It might be possible to use Nero or some other CD writing package on
the WIndows machine to write an ISO image on a samba share on the
linux machine. You then have some task that checks this directory, and
whenever it finds a completed iso image file, it fires up cdrecord to
burn the image to the CD. When succesfully completed, the iso image is
deleted.

Regards
Anton Erasmus

Ndiswrapper and Mandrake 10: make install error - Need help.

Posted: 06 Jun 2004 03:44 PM PDT

["Followup-To:" header set to alt.os.linux.]
On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 22:44:52 GMT, The Etobian
<com> wrote: 

You need to install the kernel source code. The build directory should
be a symbolic link to the location of the source code.


--
Simulations are like miniskirts, they show a lot and hide the essentials.
-- Hubert Kirrman

external USB drive with i686 linux and Mac OS X.

Posted: 06 Jun 2004 11:39 AM PDT

On 2004-06-07, Paul <eas.harvard.edu> wrote:
 
 

Would this help? http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus/

--

-John (dhs.org)

Take 2: Advanced routing: multiple FIREWALLED IPs

Posted: 06 Jun 2004 11:20 AM PDT


DUH ... the problem is with the 64.x.x.x rule in table tnn ... for some
reason I don not entirely understand that rule seems to imply to the
kernel that the 64.x.x.x network should be a LOCAL network directly
connected to the interface. Removing that entry leads to all non-local
traffic going to the default gateway for that interface as intended.

Sorry for the static

Rudolf

--
The 3 'R's of Microsoft - Retry, Reboot, Reinstall...

Fedora sound only partially working

Posted: 06 Jun 2004 09:22 AM PDT

Mark <com> wrote in message news:<40c34bd7$0$2931$rcn.com>... 

I originally was running RedHat 7 when I first bought the system and
then I upgraded to RedHat 9 after that. I'm confused about what you
said above because I never had any problem playing MP3's on either
operating system. Did RedHat change the policy of providing MP3
support between versions of those operating systems?