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How to configure X windows in text mode

Posted: 13 Mar 2007 09:31 PM PDT

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, com wrote:
 
xf86config
 
A standard VGA 640x480 8bpp will work with almost everything. After
setting that up you could use a GUI tool to configure if you really wanted
to.

Try this in your XF86Config file:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Dell"
HorizSync 31.5
VertRefresh 50-70
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Standard VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Driver "vga"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "My Video Card"
Driver "vga"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 8

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x400"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection


That should get your GUI up and running and from their you can config in a
more "user friendly" manner.


--Sir Jackery

Discarding Modules

Posted: 13 Mar 2007 09:06 AM PDT

On 2007-03-13, Don Phillipson <ca> wrote:
 

Yes, reiserfsck is fsck for reiserfs filesystems, which Xandros uses by
default. FWIW, my Xandros system has been much more stable since I
converted (backup/mkfs.ext3/restore) the reiserfs filesystems to ext3.
 

You're referring to software packages, not kernel modules. If you're not
using the package it won't use any resources besides the disk space it
occupies so there's no urgency in removing it. If you use your
distribution's package manager to remove unwanted packages, it keeps
track of dependencies and won't remove pieces that are required by other
packages. For Xandros, "Xandros Networks" is the default package
manager, although other Debian-type package managers also work well
(e.g. dpkg, apt-get, synaptic).

--

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Installing Fedora 6 Core 6 "ZOD" Live Spin x86_64 DVD

Posted: 13 Mar 2007 07:16 AM PDT

John Taylor <com> did eloquently scribble: 
 
 

I'll tell you one thing...
I for one will not kneel before Zod.
:)
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Problems setting up CUPS

Posted: 12 Mar 2007 10:04 PM PDT

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:13:20 +0000, Lenard wrote:
 
 

I see links for managing jobs, printers, and printer classes, but
not servers. Can you describe the required changes to cupsd.conf?

Jack

Encore (Sundance) NIC does not compile.

Posted: 12 Mar 2007 11:34 AM PDT

On Mar 12, 12:53 pm, Dances With Crows
<com> wrote: 

Here is the lspci output
- - -
02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Sundance Technology Inc: Unknown device
0200 (rev 31)
Subsystem: Sundance Technology Inc: Unknown device 0201
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
I/O ports at dc00 [size=128]
Memory at feaffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Expansion ROM at feae0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
- - -

In the kernel tree, you can find the module at drivers/net/sundance.c
but in 2.6.12, this module is older than the one supplied in the NIC
drivers diskette

I have just recompiled kernel 2.6.12 and the module sundance.ko is
present, but when I try to activate eth0, system reports that there is
no netcard present. Also, tI tried to recompile the diskette drivers,
and I get same errors.

You can get the drivers from http://www.encore-usa.com/download/driver/ENL832-TX-ICNT_Drivers.zip

Regards,

Marco


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Ubuntu non-live

Posted: 11 Mar 2007 08:34 PM PDT

On 11 Mar 2007 20:34:02 -0700, com wrote:
 

Once you boot from the 'live' CD the desktop contains two icons. One
is 'Install'. Choose that icon.

Install is pretty straight forward. It asks what language you prefer,
your time zone area, etc. The only part not obvious is the
partitioning routine. If at all possible, replace the existing system
with Ubuntu. This will wipe out your existing OS. You do have the
option of creating a dual boot where Ubuntu determines the size of the
appropriate partitions. Third option is manually determine the
partition size. I don't recommend this for beginners.

All in all, this is a very straight forward and easy install.

colors on terminal

Posted: 10 Mar 2007 02:35 PM PST

On 10 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<googlegroups.com>, com
wrote:
 

At any sunsite or Linux Documentation Project mirror:

../docs/HOWTO/unmaintained:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 12059 Sep 12 1999 Colour-ls

It's an unmaintained mini-howto. Then look at the man pages for

[compton ~]$ whatis ls dircolors
ls (1) - list contents of directories
dircolors (1) - output commands to set the LS_COLOR environment variable
[compton ~]$

Old guy

Problem preparing hard disk for installation of Fedora Core 6

Posted: 09 Mar 2007 09:01 PM PST

Chris wrote:
 

Visit: http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page


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Grub loading troubl on my win2000 machine

Posted: 09 Mar 2007 11:07 AM PST

On Mar 9, 2:58 pm, Lenard <0.0.1> wrote: 

Your "may be" answers your question and thanks for your help in
solving my problem. Keep it up.

Downloading packages for Linux on Windows

Posted: 09 Mar 2007 06:28 AM PST

There is a wget version available for Windows. I'll try it out.

Thank you very much.

crazy web connection woes

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 06:16 PM PST

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<esuuhh$er2$xnet.com>, Will Renkel wrote:

[on Friday, you had posted:
:when you find out please post the solution
:I have similar problem with wwww.chicagotribune.com
]

Please learn to quote some context so people have some idea what you are
talking about.
 

[compton ~]$ ping -c 1 www.chicagotribune.com
PING chicagotribune.com (63.241.84.11): 56 data bytes

--- chicagotribune.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
[compton ~]$ lynx http://www.chicagotribune.com

Chicago Tribune news : Local news, weather, traffic, shopping and class
(p1 of 8)

[clear.gif]
[clear.gif]
Home [clear.gif] News [clear.gif] Business [clear.gif] Sports [clear.gif]
Travel [clear.gif] Entertainment [clear.gif] Homes [clear.gif] Jobs
[clear.gif] Cars [clear.gif] Shopping [clear.gif] Place ads [clear.gif]
Newspaper services [clear.gif]

[clear.gif] [clear.gif] chicagotribune.com [clear.gif]
[mostlycloudy.gif]
54<B0> F
Latest forecast [clear.gif] [clear.gif] [clear.gif]

Ping doesn't work (big surprise), but there's no trouble connecting. The
page uses frames, but lynx is obviously bringing it up. Actually, with
all of those .gifs, one wonders if there is eighty tons of crap being
downloaded from some content provider like akamai or similar.

What exactly happens when you try? Does the computer catch on fire?
Does your browser show pictures of dancing pigs? Explain what happens
and MAYBE someone will tell you what you are doing wrong.

Old guy

Installing Linux Enterprise 4 WS on HPWX9400 ....

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 10:33 AM PST

On 7 Mar, 18:33, rr.com wrote: 

Not this *particular* platform. But do you have RHEL 4.1, or 4.4, or
what? The minor release number makes a huge difference for the latest
hardware, since it takes time to add drivers for such new devices.

Frankly, I find CentOS easier to install to start out with, and only
use RHEL for commercial-grade installations after debugging with
CentOS. The breakup of RHEL into Workstation, Enterprised Server,
Advanced Server, and various subdivisions with "Basic Edition" just
drives me nuts.

Xend occupies ttyS0 and can not use modem in FC6

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 06:41 AM PST

In article <googlegroups.com>,
Masroor wrote... 
Try installing a non xen kernel and using that instead. If this works,
you can remove the xen kernel safely.

ne...
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ISA card detection routines in Redhat Linux

Posted: 07 Mar 2007 12:20 AM PST

On 7 Mar 2007 00:20:56 -0800, mahi
<co.in> wrote: 
Look for "isapnp". For non-PNP cards you need different functions to
detect specific types of card, e.g. network, sound, IDE or SCSI controller,
serial or parallel ports, etc. Some cards may need boot command line
arguments to specify port address and IRQ.
By the way, Red Hat 9 is as obsolete as ISA. A newer distro should work
better, if you choose one that is suitable for your hardware (unless, of
course, you have proprietary software that requires RH9.)


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Upgrading elfutils (FC6)

Posted: 06 Mar 2007 07:09 AM PST

On 8 Mar, 11:19, Matthew Harrison <com> wrote: 

He was polite. You are not being polite about this, sir: you may get
even more useful help in the future if you top-post and don't worry
too much about someone, politely, pointing out that you're violating a
very old and common standard.

minicom

Posted: 05 Mar 2007 06:23 PM PST

Hallo,

Op dinsdag 06 maart 2007 schreef Lew Pitcher aan All:
 
LP> First, find out which group owns /dev/ttyS0.
LP> Next, add the user to that group,

Also have a look at /etc/minicom.users

Groeten,

Hans.

jdh punt beekhuizen bij duinheks punt xs4all punt nl

Where can I download RHEL 4.?

Posted: 04 Mar 2007 05:14 AM PST

Rob wrote: 

Check out http://www.linux.org/dist

iptables (netfilter) and kernel 2.6.20

Posted: 03 Mar 2007 03:52 PM PST

Dear Newsgroup:

Thanks to all who replied. I now have a working configuration for kernel
2.6.20, and no, I wasn't able to determine why my original configuration
(based on the default 2.6.20 configuration) failed, nor was I able to
establish why the new one works. And not from lack of trying.

But as it turns out, there are 90 settable options in just the (new and old
methods) netfilter section of the current configuration, and most of them
are three-state: off, module, or built-in. That means this single section
of the configuration is a state machine with (3^90 = 8.72 followed by 42
zeroes) possible states.

Up to now I had been trying various things, and after each change, I had to
recompile the kernel and reboot to see if iptables came up successfully. I
use distcc to speed up compilations (very highly recommended BTW) and I
have a roomful of computers to help distcc along, so I was able to get the
experiment cycle time down to five minutes per test.

Nevertheless, at this rate, I would have required some astronomical amount
of time, vastly greater than the age of the universe, to reach the 50%
probability point of success.

So, realizing this, I posted my situation yesterday, and today I downloaded
the netfilter section posted by "Grant" (thank you), which worked
immediately, and even better, it uses the new, so-called "layer 3
independent connection tracking" approach.

The downside is that I now must paste a magic sequence of options into my
existing configurations, and I cannot even sort out how to select the same
options using the GUI configuration interface (because the names listed in
the GUI, and the names in the configuration file, have little or nothing in
common).

I have this advice to others trying to lick this problem:

1. Selecting all the options guarantees failure.

2. Selecting none of the options guarantees failure.

3. Selecting reasonable, obvious options guarantees failure.

4. Trying to select particular options in the GUI configuration program,
relying on a print-out of a working configuration file, guarantees failure
because of the poor correlation between the names.

To summarize, any rational approach to solving this problem will surely
fail.

Here are the instructions for anyone else similarly stumped:

1. Take the default 2.6.20 configuration and delete the "Core Netfilter
Configuration" and "IP: Netfilter Configuration" sections. Replace those
section with this (commented-out options deleted for brevity):

#
# Core Netfilter Configuration
#
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_ENABLED=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_FTP=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_HELPER=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_LIMIT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_MULTIPORT=y
CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_MATCH_STATE=y

#
# IP: Netfilter Configuration
#
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4=y
CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_IPRANGE=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_RECENT=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_LOG=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT=y
CONFIG_NF_NAT_NEEDED=y
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE=m
CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_NETMAP=m
CONFIG_NF_NAT_FTP=y

2. Save the edited configuration and, using normal procedures and programs,
set any other options you need.

3. Compile.

The bottom line is that no one with an Internet connection wants to do
without packet filtering, and AFAICS no one can use the existing default
2.6.20 configuration file to produce a successful configuration (it seems
all the successes have been based on a working 2.6.19 configuration, which
I didn't have).

I wonder if it would be too much to ask the kernel maintainers to create a
default configuration file that has the obvious options already set, or a
configuration algorithm that prevents the setting of options that will
create a fatal conflict (which I suspect was my earlier problem)?

--
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extreme (but cheapass) storage solutions

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 07:25 PM PST

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 03:25:25 +0000, AZ Nomad wrote:
 

I have a client with up to 9-10TB of video and film files that need to be
backed up.

Right now, they're using GRAID 500GB Firewire drives attached to each
production box - usually one or two GRAIDs per box, sometimes 3.

What we're going to do based on my recommendations is ensure that each box
has enough internal HD capacity to handle production work, and use the
GRAIDs strictly for backup during production work. We'll use the Vembu
Storegrid product (the client is totally on Windows) to do the backups
from the internal hard drives to the GRAIDs.

(Storegrid, BTW, is an interesting product, as it appears to be a complete
redevelopment of rdiff-backup on Windows! It backs up only the incremental
deltas of file changes after first doing a full backup, and allows
restoring backups from any backup point in time, just like rdiff-backup.
They've even modified the rsync algorithm to choose efficient block sizes
depending on the size of the files being backed up.)

For archival storage, right now we're using a Maxtor Tera II 1TB external
storage device, plus two Western Digital 1TB MyBooks, for 3TB of storage.

For additional terabytes, I have recommended to the client to buy a
separate low-end box, with two four-port (or one eight-port) eSATA
controllers. Attached to those would be one eight-bay or one twelve-bay
eSata storage enclosure which four-port fan-in, allowing three of the
ports on each of the controller cards to control up to 12 drives in the
enclosure for a total storage of 6TB. This takes advantage of the 3Gb/s
speed of SATA II as well, which outmatches Firewire when you're dealing
with multiple drives over a single channel.

Then just fill the bays as necessary with 500GB SATA drives, which are
going for around $135-165 these days mailorder from places like Newegg.
750GB drives are overpriced per GB at the moment, but they should be coming
down by end of the year as full terabyte drives hit the market. With 500GB
drives, you get 6 TB out of one 12-bay enclosure. With 750GB drives, you
get 9TB, and by end of the year you could get 12TB using 1TB drives. And
you still have one controller card free that you can attach another
enclosure to if you need another 6-12 TB.

The cost will be around $300 for the box. Any box will do, it isn't doing
anything except hosting the drives and running the network card to receive
the files - it isn't even serving them, since it's an archive box - if you
need file serving, adjust CPU and bus speed accordingly. The eSATA
controllers are expensive at $50-100 or more - but you only need one or
two. The enclosures run $400-800 or more if you need eight or twelve
bays - four-bays and two-bays are more common and cheaper, just depends on
how you want the space allocated. Total cost shouldn't be more than a
grand for the infrastructure and then however many drives you need - and
you can start out with just the drives you need and add on later.

I'd say this is the cheapest and most efficient way to handle large
amounts of video.

nVidia driver for Intel 64-bit processor?

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 04:07 PM PST

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:19:45 -0600, Alan Moorman <com> wrote:

 
 
 
 

but don't quote me. do your own research.

I'm pretty sure about amd64->intel emt but you never know.
this at about the time that microsoft is finally using the
features of the 80386 to protect the OS from its users.

vsftpd per-user configuration issue.

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 02:24 PM PST

On Mar 1, 11:38 pm, Grant <com.au> wrote: 

Is there no configuration based solution?

My Linux Page

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 12:48 PM PST

I multi plonked it.



John Thompson wrote:
 

How to avoid login....

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 10:50 AM PST

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:58:48 -0600, Chris Cox
<net> wrote:
 

Thanks! I figured out that I'm using Gnome. . .

Alan Moorman

Daylight Savings Time Changes

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 10:42 AM PST

John Hasler wrote: 

I probably designed my /etc/crontab file before Vixie cron had these
properties and then never changed it. I know I used to have a slow tape
drive and did full backups on Sundays just after 1AM. They took over an
hour. At that time (early 2000, I think), when the time shifted, it started
another backup (which failed, since the tape drive was busy) in the fall. In
the spring, I think it worked OK.

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Installing FC6 & WinXP on 2 Disks

Posted: 01 Mar 2007 10:07 AM PST

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:14:10 GMT, Stefan Patric wrote:
 

During installation only while partitioning hardisks the installer see
/dev/sda but after partitioning if it is asking for placing GRUB MBR it
sees only /dev/hdd

Gregory