From: Digestifier To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Admin@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sat, 8 Oct 94 21:13:47 EDT Subject: Linux-Admin Digest #165 Linux-Admin Digest #165, Volume #2 Sat, 8 Oct 94 21:13:47 EDT Contents: Re: kernel message in log file - what does it mean (Erlend Midttun) Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Daniel Zappala) PPP faster then 38.4 (Steven Kornreich) Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF (Matti Aarnio) Re: mpeg_play for linux (Bill C. Riemers) Re: [Q] 4M -> 8M RAM worth it? (Dan Pop) Re: what's wrong with my agetty? (Kenneth H. Gantz) Re: ctwm compilation error (Hajime Saitou) Re: Lynx under Linux (Bryan Vold) Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! (Sam Oscar Lantinga) Re: Xfree 3.1 and SPEA MirageP64 (Linux) (Norbert Distler) Re: Not able to record sound! (Mathijs Maassen) fsck during boot: already mounted (Scott L. Crutchfield) Experiences with Archive's Python (Louis LaBash) IDE/EIDE drive >528M?? (Alex Y. Chang) Re: Best SCSI-II and 8mm tape (Patrick J. Volkerding) Re: Mystery Chip...AMD (Jay Ashworth) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: erlendbm@logina.edb.tih.no (Erlend Midttun) Subject: Re: kernel message in log file - what does it mean Date: 08 Oct 1994 18:50:38 GMT In article dtran@emelnitz.ucla.edu (Daniel Tran) writes: HI, Twice this morning, my Linux networking component stopped working. I had named running so when my station didn't communicate to the outside world, I thought named has failed. I killed the named process, restarted but nothing work. I then ping'ed some hosts using the real IP address - nothing work. Had the same messages on my system to. I am not running the named daemon though, and it did not bring my system down. My network manager explained it to be my kernel making a request through the wrong gateway, and thereby getting the rigth way to go back from the router. The fix which worked for me was putting another line in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 (running Slackware 2.0.0) which contained the correct information about the gateway to use. This is the line: /sbin/route add -net 158.38.62.0 gw 158.38.60.250 where of course 158.38.62.0 is the net I am trying to reach using 158.38.60.250 as the gateway. Since you are using the named daemon I don't know if this is the rigth thing for you to do, but I guess it is worth trying. Can someone tell me what the "redirect from 128.97.175.1" means?? This machine has been running solidly for at least 3 months now. To me it came with one of the kernels between 1.1.18 and 1.1.51, but I don't know which, as I upgraded directly. Daniel Tran -dtran@emelnitz.ucla.edu Erlend.. -- Erlend Midttun email: erlendbm@colargol.edb.tih.no Live: Fjordgt. 15 http://colargol.edb.tih.no/~erlendbm/ 7010 Trondheim IRC: Golle A Linux User ------------------------------ From: daniel@isi.edu (Daniel Zappala) Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD Date: 6 Oct 1994 19:52:54 GMT In article <370rc5$o7q@crl.crl.com>, rigor@crl.com (Sam Brown) writes: > picked up a dx-2-80 amd, works great. $210 was my cost $320 w/green vlb > motherboard. extremely stable and fast > I have an AMD 486DX-40. Any news on an add-in from AMD to turn this into a 486DX2-80, or do I need to buy a whole new chip? Daniel ------------------------------ From: steve@eps.com (Steven Kornreich) Subject: PPP faster then 38.4 Date: 8 Oct 1994 17:52:26 GMT Reply-To: steve@eps.com Can you run PPP or slip faster than 38.4? I have a V.34 modem that I use to communicate with my Internet provider that also has a v.34 modem on his side. Thanks -- Steven Kornreich Kornreich Communications steve@eps.com ------------------------------ From: mea@utu.fi (Matti Aarnio) Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 1542 CF Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 17:43:23 GMT leadfoot@leftlane (Mark Curtis) writes: > >I just tried to install linux on my Dell 466/T, but I ran into a >real problem. It looks like the driver for AHA-1542 SCSI controllers >only looks at the default address of 330. Mine controller is at 230 >because my MIDI card is at 330. That is the default address that >all MIDI software will look for the MIDI card at so I don't want to >change it. All my other software works find with the SCSI controller >at 230. > >Is there a way to tell the kernel to look at the alternate address of >230 for the 1542CF? I'm using the CD in the "Internet CD" book. >I beleive that release is the 1.2 Slackware release. I feel the Slackware 1.2 is OLD... Thus the driver source file might have been moved since then.. At the moment there is no way to externally tell the kernel to look at somewhere non-standard -- except at my own machine. (Linux 1.1.52) I have been developing LILO options for AHA1542, which lets users like you to override the default locations (and to set some other more esoteric configuration parameters...) For now your option is: - install the Adaptec on 330, deinstall the MIDI/Sound for a moment - generate new kernel AFTER you have edited the /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c to look for the new controller location(s). Edit the file, and start by looking for '0x330' in it. Preceeding comment explains what to do with it. - install that new kernel, change your Adaptec, install the MIDI/Sound-card.. >I've built the two floppies (Boot, Root) and they work except the >kernel probes never find my SCSI controller or it's devices. > >Any ideas? This SHOULD be FAQ, I guess -- I hope my LILO-things are ready before the release of Linux 1.2, and thus will make the trouble obsolete.. >Thanks, > >Mark /Matti Aarnio ------------------------------ From: bcr@k9.via.term.none (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Re: mpeg_play for linux Date: 08 Oct 1994 15:47:29 GMT Reply-To: bcr@physics.purdue.edu >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Vaughan writes: Tom> klevemmc@miner.usbm.gov (Klevemann) writes: >> Anyone know where I can get an mpeg_play for linux ? Tom> grep INDEX.whole from sunsite.unc.edu Tom> Thomas The "Motif" version is better. Check-out: http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/mpeg_play/mpeg_play.html Although, all the mpeg_play programs seem unstable. i.e. If the mpeg file is even slightly corrupted they tend to core dump or at the very least abort the rest of the file. Bill --
Bill C. Riemers, bcr@physics.purdue.edu
Department of Physics, Purdue University ------------------------------ From: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: [Q] 4M -> 8M RAM worth it? Date: Thu, 6 Oct 1994 23:32:10 GMT In rcas1@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Robert Casiano) writes: >I`ve just installed linux at home. My pc is 486DX33 with 4M of RAM. >It looks good but x runs very very slow. Thus, it swaps a lot to >hard disk, and I fear that its life span is being shortened >considerably. So I might buy more memory. With my tight budget, I >could only afford another 4M. Question is, is it worth it to buy the >4M now, or just wait for probably another year and get 16M?n If I >buy the 4M now, wuold it improve things a lot, or not much >improvement? Upgrade now. You'll see a quantum leap in X performance. The difference between 4M and 8M is far more significant than the one between 8M and 16M, IMHO. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@cernapo.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland ------------------------------ From: kgantz@iglou.iglou.com (Kenneth H. Gantz) Subject: Re: what's wrong with my agetty? Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 07:04:16 GMT kgantz@iglou.iglou.com (Kenneth H. Gantz) writes: >Hello, >I'm trying to add a dumb terminal to my linux machine. >Here's what I've done so far. I've connected an ADDS terminal >to my comm 3 port via a null modem cable. I placed the following >entry in my /etc/inittab file s3:45:respawn:/sbin/agetty 19200 ttyS2. >I do get a login prompt but when I try to enter anything it takes about >15 seconds for anything to echo back to the dumb terminal. This makes >it take an extremely long time to enter a user name and since passwords >don't echo I can't tell when it's time to enter the next character. If I >ignore the characters not echoing and type in a complete user name, most >of the characters get dropped. I've tried baud rates of 19200, 9600 and 4800 >all with identical results. Any suggestions? I appreciate any help I >can get. Since I first posted this I've noticed that if I run a telecomm program everything works fine. The modem doesn't have to be off hook, I just have to have either minicom, seyon or term running. I don't understand why these things are connected. The modem is on comm 1 and the dumb (really dumb) terminal is on comm 3. Since the modem doesn't have to be off hook it apparently needs to be initialized for my dumb terminal to work. Can someone please explain? j j j j j j j j someone l -- Ken Gantz kgantz@iglou.com Work - 502.329.3724 IT IS NOT A PROBLEM OF WHETHER MACHINES THINK, FAX - 502.329.6199 BUT WHETHER MEN DO. - B.F. Skinner ------------------------------ From: hajime@jsk.t.u-tokyo.AC.JP (Hajime Saitou) Subject: Re: ctwm compilation error Date: 8 Oct 1994 16:04:44 GMT In article <3742pc$j3t@aixrs0.hrz.uni-essen.de> hank@Blimp.automat.uni-essen.de (Hendrik G. Seliger) writes: |Henry Gabryjelski (henryg@bigwpi.WPI.EDU) wrote: |: When compiling ctwm-3.2p1, I get the following error during compilation: | |: /usr/lib/libXpm.sa(__T00028.o): Undefined symbol |: "__NEEDS_SHRLIB_libX11_3" referenced |: make: *** [ctwm] Error 1 | | |You will need to recompile libXpm and make new shared libs. Get the |libXpm sources, change the NEEDS_SHRLIB_libX11_3 to an I saw the same sort of post about fvwm. I wonder if it's because "make install" with libXpm-3.4c doesn't install the shared library as well. Hajime Saito hajime@jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp ------------------------------ From: btv@ldl.HealthPartners.COM (Bryan Vold) Crossposted-To: comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.infosystems.www.providers,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Lynx under Linux Date: 5 Oct 1994 12:37:09 -0500 In article <36mu3p$fda@Tut.MsState.Edu>, Mubashir Cheema wrote: > >I have noticed that when I run Lynx under Linux all available >options get highlighted instead of the ones I move my >cursor to. Download the sources for the newest version (lynx2-3-1). It has the linux-ncurses entry that I submitted. They sort of screwed up the entry though. Edit the Makefile and find the entry for linux-ncurses. You need to add -DFANCY_CURSES to the defines, this is the option which allows the nice looking (highlighted, not reversed) links. I have also changed my setup to use optimization (makes a large difference in the speed! ;-) ). Then compile with: make linux-ncurses >The guest account automatically recognizes the terminal type of >user logging in. If for some reason it can't, it prompts the user >for that information. I do not suspect that the guest account is >not detecting the terminal type correctly, since I see the same >behaviour when I run lynx on my machine under xterm, vt100 etc. on >this machine. Don't know about this one. -Bryan -- btv@ldl.healthpartners.com "The relentless pursuit of perfection" Linux -- The Choice of a GNU Generation "Make it so, Number One." ------------------------------ From: slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga) Subject: Re: XFree86-3.1 - Whoopee! Date: 5 Oct 1994 17:16:01 GMT Patrick J. Volkerding (gonzo@magnet.mednet.net) wrote: : libXpm-3.4c _seemed_ to compile fine under XFree86 3.1, but any apps : linked with the resulting shared library seg fault when executed. The : static version of libXpm works, though. (Mitch - are you planning to : look at this?) I'm running libXpm-3.4c recompiled (shared, using tools-1.5) under X11R6, along with fvwm recompiled with R6 libs and the recompiled libXpm. Everything is dynamically linked, and works great! I converted over to X11R6 yesterday, and it only took me until about midnight to get everything tweaked just right. Xlock was actually the hardest, because I run non-standard shadowed passwords. BTW, is there any way to get the built-in 300x200 mode without running a separate server with "generic" chipset set in the configuration file? I've tried specifying mode "300x200", but X complains that there is no mode line for mode "300x200". What am I doing wrong? Note that the -config option for X is obsolete, and it has been replaced with the "-xf86config" option which is ONLY availiable when run by the real root user. On the note of 16 bit color, I have a VLB Cirrus Logic 5426 with 1 Meg RAM, and I haven't been able to get it working. If I use the linear option, and set MemBase to 0x00e00000 or 0x04e00000 my system will hard-reboot, like it says in the FAQ. I have 16M memory. Do I have to get a better card? Or is there a setting I am missing? Good luck! -Sam Lantinga (slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu) P.S. Most of the tsx XFree86-3.1 is available via anonymous ftp at dewdrop.water.ca.gov in /pub/Linux/XFree86-3.1 ------------------------------ From: ndistler@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Norbert Distler) Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.development Subject: Re: Xfree 3.1 and SPEA MirageP64 (Linux) Date: 7 Oct 1994 00:00:25 GMT martin@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Christoph Martin) writes: >README.S3 (in XF86-3.1-doc.tar.gz) says: >>1 - Supported hardware >>---------------------- >> >> ... >> >>S3 864, 20C498 RAMDAC, ICS2595 Clockchip >> SPEA MirageP64 2MB DRAM >> >> 8 and 15/16 bpp >> >> ClockChip "ICS2595" >I tried this in my XF86Config file. Die card ist probed correctly as >S3 864 with 20C486 RAMDAC. But the server can't set the clockchip. >What is the problem? Is it the right ClockChip statement? Has anyone >this card running with XFree 3.1? README.S3 also says: Clockchip support is only preliminary and on some machines problems with the first mode after startup of XF86_S3 or after switching back from VT have been seen; switching to next mode with CTRL+ALT+'+' and back seems to solve this problem Did you already try this? If it still doesn't work, could you please email me the output of your startup sequence, your configuration and your XF86Config? Norbert -- ================================================================================ Norbert Distler - ndistler@physik.tu-muenchen.de - norbert@errol.greenie.muc.de ------------------------------ From: tyz@bogus.xs4all.nl (Mathijs Maassen) Subject: Re: Not able to record sound! Date: Sat, 8 Oct 1994 20:09:44 GMT Reply-To: tyz@xs4all.nl Lam Hong (cs_roger@ug.cs.ust.hk) wrote: > I have just set up my linux system but I could not record sound with the > sound blaster 16 ASP card. It's strange that playing sound files is > perfectly good! > could anyone figure out the problem(s). Try "mixer +rec line". That does it for my PAS16 soundcard. The mixer program is part of the snd-util-2.5 package. (You can find it on sunsite in /pub/Linux/kernel/sound/) Mathijs ------------------------------ From: slc@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Scott L. Crutchfield) Subject: fsck during boot: already mounted Date: 8 Oct 1994 16:57:18 GMT I am running Yggdrasil P&P (summer 1994). It used to check the filesystems every once in a while when during startup, even if they were clean ("maximal mount-count reached"). Now it always complains that the partitions are already mounted and it's aborting the checks. I always shut down with "halt". I don't think I did anything to /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local, but it's been a while so I can't be sure. I've included relevant portions of the boot.log, fstab and rc files below. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong! What you don't see in the excerpt from boot.log below is that fsck says something like "/dev/hda7 already mounted, check aborted" during boot. from /etc/boot.log: <6>Kernel arguments: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=307 ramdisk=0 ... <6>Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. <6>Linux version 1.1.0 (root@echota) #84 Fri Sep 9 13:50:02 CDT 1994 <6>Partition check: <6> hda: QUANTUM LPS540A (516MB IDE w/96KB Cache, MaxMult=8) <6> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > hda4 <6>EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended <6>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). <6>Max size:290506 Log zone size:2048 <6>First datazone:264 Root inode number 270336 <6>ISO9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A <6>Adding Swap: 20628k swap-space from /etc/fstab: # device directory type options freq pass /dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults /proc /proc proc defaults /dev/hda8 /home ext2 defaults /dev/hda6 none swap sw /dev/matsushita_cd /system_cd iso9660 defaults from /etc/rc: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin; export PATH fsck -A -a # Remount root writable mount -n -o rw,remount / # update syncs the filesystems every 30 seconds update & # remove /etc/mtab* so mount creates the /etc/mtab file rm -f /etc/mtab* /etc/nologin # mount all partitions specified in /etc/fstab mount -av # mount swap partition specified in /etc/fstab swapon -a from /etc/rc.local: mount /dev/hda1 /home/dos ------------------------------ From: labashl@daisy.ac.siue.edu (Louis LaBash) Subject: Experiences with Archive's Python Date: 8 Oct 1994 16:40:06 -0500 Hi, I'm soliciting experiences with Archive's "Python" tape drives, either 430NT, or 4520 models. Thanks. Louis-ljl-{labashl@daisy.ac.siue.edu} ------------------------------ From: ytchang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Alex Y. Chang) Subject: IDE/EIDE drive >528M?? Date: Mon, 3 Oct 1994 22:23:08 UNDEFINED Dear Linuxers, I am planning upgrading my system with WD 2700 IDE drive. I was told by the vendor that I need to install a special driver to access the disk space >528M. This concerns me becasue I wonders if linux can access this DOS partition or not. I have checked the howto-hardware. I didn't find anything. Your comments will be much appreciated. Thanks. Alex ------------------------------ From: gonzo@magnet.mednet.net (Patrick J. Volkerding) Subject: Re: Best SCSI-II and 8mm tape Date: 7 Oct 1994 06:24:19 GMT In article <372b36$glk@newsbf01.news.aol.com>, TlingitMan wrote: >My Exabyte 8505 has been measured to sustain 400MB/sec in 8k or greater >blocks on my 486DX33EISA*8MBRAM*ADAPTEC1742, even with a few retries. > >Beat that! As well, it is a good 10% faster than the dozen or so 8500s I >have and twice as fast as the 8200s. No doubt! That _is_ fast! I better get one so I can back up my 1 gig SCSI drive in just 2.5 seconds. ;^) Pat ------------------------------ From: jra@zeus.IntNet.net (Jay Ashworth) Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Mystery Chip...AMD Date: 8 Oct 1994 13:19:10 -0400 garcia@ece.cmu.edu (Brad Matthew Garcia) writes: >I heard that AMD's version is more reliable than Intel's, and that many >people have overclocked it to 80 MHz with no problems. There was even >a rumor going around that AMD would start to sell them as 486DX2-80's. >If you see an AMD 486DX2-80 system for sale, I guess the rumor is true. In the current Computer Shopper. From at least 5 different vendors. Guess it's true... Or, maybe it _is_ a new chip. Either way... I guess it's fast enough for me... Cheers, -- jr 'Vrrrrrrrroooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm' a -- Jay R. Ashworth High Technology Systems Consulting Ashworth Designer Linux: The Choice of a GNU Generation & Associates ka1fjx/4 +1 813 790 7592 jra@baylink.com "Hey! Do any of you guys know how to Madison?" NIC: jra3 ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Admin-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.admin) via: Internet: Linux-Admin@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Admin Digest ******************************