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Xserver won't stop

Posted: 13 Sep 2006 12:22 PM PDT

Michael Heiming <michael+heiming.de> wrote in news:36dmt3-
heiming.de:
 

Bingo, that got me thru the gate. Now i'm muddling thru getting everything
to have the system compile it for me. I hope ;)
Thanks for the tip


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dictaphone Olympus

Posted: 13 Sep 2006 05:53 AM PDT

Bernard wrote: 
 
 

7.2 didn't recognize a lot of things. That didn't matter because things were
not standardized back then and there were only Windows drivers. FC-4 not only
recognized a digital camera but knew what to do with it without any input from me.

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router to internet help required please

Posted: 12 Sep 2006 04:30 PM PDT

Bill Marcum wrote: 
No I cant connect to that site. /etc/resolv.conf has nothing in it , i
just opened it up in etc . Not sure if thats right. in 10.1 .

In suse 10 I plugged the hard-wire cable in and got on line . I then
deleted the eth0 card and the wireless card worked , even after a
reboot .. i 'm not stupid but this is getting very un logical at the
moment .
Paul

Strange X server behaviour after installing new nvidia driver

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 11:00 AM PDT

Norbert Kolvenbach wrote:
 


OK - I now am a step further. As I said, it worked 2 days immediately after
installation. I thought about what might have changed. I guess I know now.
I updated sax2 via YaSt on Sunday. Went off the system and yesterday i
crashed.

I analysed the xorg.conf and found three dangerous lines there.

load "glx" which I need

Option Protocol "Standard" and
Option Protocol "exploreps/2"

Which caused the problem. Now I commented out the Load "glx"
and it worked again!

Then I took the commment out of the load directive, I changed "Standard" to
"standard" and "exploreps/2" to "ExplorePS/2" and guess what? X server
starts but the screen is a complete mess.

I then commented out "Load" directive again and all worked fine.

Soo - without "glx" the "Options" work with either small and/or big letters.
with "glx" only "standard" and "ExplorePS/2" work, but screen is white,
nothing to see, no cursor, some scrambled unstructured black lines.

What else could YaSt and sax2 mess up? - BTW: nvidia 3D cannot be switched
on.

sax2 -m 0:nvidia

will cause sax2 to write a new xorg.conf file and I am back on square one!

That's what I like with Linux, once you sorted out one problem (sound in my
case) you immediately are facing a new challenge! ;-))

NoKo


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Linux Distro for k6-2 500

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 09:29 AM PDT

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 at 03:19 GMT, Rick Moen eloquently wrote: 
And for those who do not know, Fedora Legacy support for RH9,
FC1 & 2 is soon going to end. Please see http://www.fedoralegacy.org/
for the news.

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booting without initrd

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 06:34 AM PDT

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 at 16:49 GMT, ramestica eloquently wrote: 
I would also look at the .config file that is generated
to make sure nothing in there is marked as a module before
rebuilding the kernel.

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C program(& script) for running commands

Posted: 11 Sep 2006 06:11 AM PDT

Sounds like an OS class homework assignment. If so, don't expect
people to just give you a solution.

com wrote: 

routeing Belkin Wireless problem

Posted: 10 Sep 2006 06:57 AM PDT

gort wrote: 
I am using a Belkin ADSL 2 Modem with wireless G Plus MMo router

Router question. Wrong newsgroups. Asking for experience info

Posted: 10 Sep 2006 02:17 AM PDT

Jean-David Beyer wrote: 
 
 

They upgraded so that only the last mile is copper and gave the internet a
share of the increased bandwidth.
 

Thanks. Worst case a new D-Link rather than replace a Linksys.
 

I meant kB/sec.

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Identical servers + kernel configs -> different initrds?

Posted: 09 Sep 2006 09:31 PM PDT

OtisUsenet wrote: 

No.

But if the two servers have different hardware (especially hard drive
controllers) and the drivers to support that hardware are compiled as
modules (not into the kernel), then the contents of the initrds will be
different.

That's what you've got, plus lvm on one and not the other. lvm is a
software thing, but it's still an initrd difference.

FWIW if additional drivers are compiled into the kernel, then the kernel
gets bigger. Either way, additional binary content does compress
(initrd or vmlinuz), but not as much as something with a lot of entropy,
like text, for example.

Need Help - Reconfigure LILO from rescue CD

Posted: 09 Sep 2006 04:13 PM PDT

On 2006-09-09, Mike Poe <com> wrote:
 

Can't you pass a root=/dev/sda1 option to the kernel at the lilo:
prompt? Once you've booted, use the "rdev" command to change the
hard-coded reference to the root device in the kernel. See "man rdev"
for details. Don't forget to edit /etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo
again.


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Serial Port Problem with Fedora

Posted: 09 Sep 2006 11:46 AM PDT

In article <5_%Mg.74$news.prodigy.com>, sl.home
says... 
I 
to 
lines: 
$Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled 
0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 
0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A 


Thanks, switching from /dev/modev to //dev/stty0 worked

FC5 - Installing X on a system without X

Posted: 09 Sep 2006 11:12 AM PDT

Perfect -- just what I needed. THANKS!

Michael Heiming wrote: 

How do I mount a partition at a fixed position using hal?

Posted: 08 Sep 2006 02:36 PM PDT

I wrote:
.... 
^^^^^^
I meant added the partitions to the /etc/fstab.

Fedora 5 and Wireshark

Posted: 07 Sep 2006 02:21 PM PDT

com wrote:
 

The Fedora package manager is called Yum:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/en/

Install Wireshark the with the command:
yum install wireshark wireshark-gnome

More information for the beginning Fedora user:
http://www.fedorafaq.org/

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dmesg and syslogd

Posted: 07 Sep 2006 11:21 AM PDT

NewFKbie <co.uk> wrote:
 

Two things come to mind: your syslogd may be borked or your kernel is
missing some options when it was built. You can select what protocols
and such go in.

 


Hmm. Reminds me of the /sys directory structure on 2.6 kernels...

Normally one fixes problems like this by making sure they have the
latest and greatest from their distro installed. Making source changes
to a distro system can get one into trouble. However, you asked where
to get them so:

dmesg is part of util-linux, the source being kept here:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/. I forget the exact directory path, but it's
called "util-linux" as well. Becareful about installing things from
it- some of those utilities conflict with what you're likely to have
installed already (for example, the login stuff vs. shadow suite).

syslogd can come from two places I've seen, and someone also pointed
out there is a syslogd-ng. I know GNU makes one, I think it was in the
inetutils source tarball, ftp://ftp.gnu.org. I didn't really like this
one, it was less configurable and dumped alot of the kernel messages
to the screen by default. It's OK, I guess, but I prefer the sysklogd
one.

The one I'm using now I like is actually sysklogd (comes in two
pieces, syslogd and klogd). Getting this to build on a modern system
is alot of work, and you'll need a patch.

http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/download/ last version was
1.4.1, and this is what the patch applies against. The patch looks
like it jumps it to 1.4.2.


syslog.conf example (actually what one of my machines is using now.)

I don't use the popular "messages" logfile. I see no reason for it.


## Syslog System Logging FacIlity
## /etc/syslog.conf
##
## This file dictates how the syslog logging application
## will behave; eg, which logs are written where.
##
## [Valid Levels]: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning, notice and debug
## [Valid Facilities]: auth, authpriv, cron, daemon, kern,
## lpr, mail, mark, news, syslog, user, uucp and local0 through local7
##
## Logged as "Facilities.Level". A "-" in front omits file syncing
## Note not to log authentication messages and thus record passwords.
##

# Firewall (really log lev7), of the kernel (only)
kern.=debug -/var/log/firewall

# Send any system emergency messeages to the root user as these
# tend to be notices where some immediate action is needed. On a
# multi-user system, we can't have messages going to Joe Average User
# as nornal users will most likely be confused by such messages, and
# won't have the needed privileges to do anything about the situation
# anyway.
*.emerg root

# The above messages should also have a hard copy reference made for
# future use; copy to syslog. Sync those messages as a system crash
# may have been the cause of the emergency
*.emerg;authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog

# Alert and higher go to the console
*.alert;authpriv.none /dev/console

# Authentication and sensitive information
authpriv.*;auth.* -/var/log/secure

# Cron related items, cron daemon.
cron.* -/var/log/cron

# Mail logs, SMTP-MTA, Sendmail.
mail.* -/var/log/maillog

# Catch-all for UUCP, News, and other media-related items similar
# to mail, but not actually email itself
lpr,news,uucp.* -/var/log/spooler

# Catch the rest in syslog. Start at "info" so the debugs won't show.
# Those are dealt with above.
mark,syslog,user,kern,\
daemon.info;authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog

# Unused local slots. Point these to syslog to be sure.
local0,local1,local2,local3,\
local4,local5,local6,\
local7.*;authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog

## EOF syslog.conf



The patch (because my stupid ISP won't take uuencode files) rot13'ed
to avoid the 'bots:

uggcf://nge2.ngu.pk/~wnlwjn/flfxybtq-1.4.1-svkrf.cngpu.tm

How to mount a NFS From Linux on Windows

Posted: 06 Sep 2006 01:41 PM PDT

If you want to mount an nfs share on windows, you need software like
"pcnfs". It mounts nfs shares on windows. Sun used to sell this
program and it was also available from other vendors like Chameleon.
Some of the programs are just nfs clients (i.e. you can mount nfs
drives on windows). Others acted as nfs servers too, you could
"export" (share) your windows drive and read it under Linux (or SunOS
or any other version of Unix). However, I haven't used any of those
programs since around windows 3.x time frame (maybe win2k). It is
quite possible that none of them have been ported to run in xp, or
that the vendors no longer market them. NFS is a good protocol, in
that it is peer-to-peer, but it is relatively insecure. I got my only
computer virus by having NFS on one of my linux machines when it
wasn't behind a firewall that prevented outside access to the nfs
port.

Instead, the common mechanism these days is to set up a samba server
on linux. Samba runs the same protocol that windows servers uses to
share drives.

Linux RAID 5 'rm' performance

Posted: 05 Sep 2006 06:00 PM PDT

Thanks for the responses so far, however rm is the ONLY operation which
seems to suffer. Reading and writing , in my understanding would be far
more likely to saturate the controllers but only rm performance seems
to suffer.

As far as how I've partitioned the disks, I did it for a reason (see
slashdot discussion on the topic,
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/22/1624246.

I am using IDE but I am also using SW raid, not a HW controller in the
motherboard (the motherboard doesn't have one). The processor is a 1GHZ
Duron and seems up to the task of reading/writing. I am using separate
controllers for the disks, all on the same motherboard but different
controllers for each as there are four on the board (Promise
Ultra-ATA). The problem seems unique to rm.

dual boot hell

Posted: 04 Sep 2006 09:56 PM PDT

Chris F Clark wrote: 

Matt Giver repsonded to me with: 

I was not trying to move the linux onto windows (fat|ntfs) partitions,
but simply to copy ext2 (linux) partitions from one machine to another
and then boot them. The machine I was moving from also was a dual
boot machine and had (I thought) the same geometry and partition
structure, and also the same devices (e.g. same video card and
screen, same ethernet and wireless). It should have been a no-brainer.

It's all mostly a moot point, because I've already decided to bite the
bullet and install a new copy of CentOS.

[OT] s. keeling (was: procmail recipe)

Posted: 04 Sep 2006 12:27 AM PDT

Usenet Beavis writes:
 

Results 1 - 10 of 23,700 for usenet beavis (0.28 seconds)

You win, Beavis.
 

Smacking your bitch up isn't that complicated, Beavis. Anyone can do it.
 

And see above, left, and right.
 

But he's not a Beavis, so he can figure it out fairly quickly.
 

Spam isn't anywhere the problem you think it is, Beavis.
 

Double-duh.
 

And you're doing a good job of it.
 

Don't strain your brain too much, Beavis. Or it'll deflate.
 

Perhaps, Beavis, you should give it a try after you finally finish off "The
Little Engine That Could"?
 

Beavis knows something about DNS. He's so smart.
 

Looks like Beavis earned himself a complaint to net, for
port scanning.
 

Yup. And getting your account pulled on account of portscanning would be a
cherry on top.
 

Thank you for your kookfart, Beavis.
 



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Online or PDF Books on Linux Installation

Posted: 03 Sep 2006 12:20 PM PDT


co.uk wrote: 


try this one also. [www.linuxhomenetworking.com]

Change server locale

Posted: 03 Sep 2006 12:05 PM PDT

In comp.os.linux.setup co.uk: 
 
[..]
 
 
 

 

Iirc the redhat documentation provides an overview about
/etc/sysconfig/ files which should mention a few settings. For UK
settings, check what is available to you through 'locale -a'
('man locale').

Good luck

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[Commercial] Content Filtering Internet Proxy

Posted: 03 Sep 2006 06:39 AM PDT

On 2006-09-03, Sachin <com> wrote: 

You want constructive comments? Don't spam usenet if you want people
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