Re: October GNOME for slink.

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi Folks,

I am trying to install Debian 2.1 in my computer. I have an
Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI Host adapter and Linux is hanging right after
detecting it...

Any help?!

Thanks,

Daniel.

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AHA2940U2W...

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi Folks,

Is it possible for someone to give me a help with this issue? I am
trying to install Debian 2.1 in my machine, but I am getting a hang right
after th CD boots...

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Nick Phillips wrote:

> > I am trying to install Debian 2.1 in my computer. I have an
> > Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI Host adapter and Linux is hanging right after
> > detecting it...
> > 
> > Any help?!
> 
> It's been a while, but so far as I remember, the 2940U2W (AIC7890) is not
> supported by the drivers in slink (slink is about the same age as the
> AIC7890, give or take), and you'll either need to build a kernel either with
> the 7890 drivers patched in, or get one recent enough to support it without
> patching.
> 
> Unfortunately this makes booting from the slink CD rather difficult. When
> I did it, I installed onto an IDE disk, built a kernel to suit the 7890,
> used cpio to copy the system over onto the SCSI drive, set LILO up, and
> finally removed the IDE drive. If you can't manage it any other way, I'm
> sure someone will be able to send you a boot floppy or two...
> 
> If anyone else has any better ideas...
> 

Could somebody help me with the kernel! I don't have any means to
install another HD and I don't have access to any Linux box around here
(I'm pretty isolated... surronded by WinBlows...) 

If someone could send me the boot floppies I'd be happy to send
them back as soon as I finish the installation, otherwise, one can attach
the files that I need to rawrite to the floppies.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers,

Daniel.

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Re: AHA2940U2W... AND MAtrox G400...

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi All!

On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Gregory T. Norris wrote:

> I've got an unofficial installation diskset for slink that's setup
> specifically for the Adaptec SCSI controllers.  You can snarf it from
> .
> 
> Basically you'll need to boot from the diskette, but can then use the
> CD as your installation media...
> 
> 

I got the disks above and I was able to install my Debian (after
a while of strugle with NT... removed it... ;) Anyway, now I am getting a
warning message from LILO saying that my hard drive is not the first
drive!
I have a SCSI Zip Drive as /dev/sda and a SCSI HD as /dev/sdb. I
compiled my kernel twice: once WITH support for generic SCSI and the other
WIHOUT it (only with the aic7xxx support, once my zip is connected to
it...)! None of them worked out... Now it won't boot!  I mean, LILO is
able to run and - apparently - install itself in the MBR of /dev/sdb, but
it gives me this warning message saying that this is not my first drive! I
have no ideas left... Any help???

Besides that, I also hava a Matrox G400 32Mb and I amm not being
able to find the proper X Server for it. Which one should I use?

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,

Daniel.

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CD-RW (scsi emulation) & Autofs

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi All!

I have a weird problem going on: I have two kernels in my box.
Both of them are exactly the same, but one of them has SCSI emulation,
SCSI generic, SCSI CD, etc... compiled in so that my CD-RW (which is
ATAPI) would work (CD-Writing-howto).

In one kernel (no SCSI-bla-bla-bla) I have autofs working great,
however, in the other one, autofs is NOT working at all! But, I could
manage to probe my CD-RW. I also have a CD-ROM, which was probed as well.
Actually, the probing during the bootup seems quite strange (even though
cdrecord -scanbus reports what it should...): it probes 15 devices!!! 7 of
them are my CD-RW and the other 7 are my CDROM!!!

Any ideas?!
 Daniel.

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CD burning & mkisofs segmentation fault.

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi Folks,

I have been having some trouble with the mkisofs of the
Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r0 (potato). When I try to create an image (of, say,
my home directory) after a certain time, mkisofs reports a seg fault. The
interesting thing is that, this "certain time" varies every time I run the
command! Xcdroast does the same: after a while it bummers me with a
message saying that "something went wrong"... Again, the "while" varies
everytime. On top of this, every now and then, my system just freezes!!!

I believe I followed all the steps in the CD-Writing howto and I
have been through the documentation already... Any hints?!

 Daniel.

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Re: CD burning & mkisofs segmentation fault.

[Daniel Ferrante]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Brian McGroarty wrote:
> > I have been having some trouble with the mkisofs of the
> > Debian/GNU Linux 2.2r0 (potato). When I try to create an image (of, say,
> > my home directory) after a certain time, mkisofs reports a seg fault. The
> > interesting thing is that, this "certain time" varies every time I run the
> > command! Xcdroast does the same: after a while it bummers me with a
> > message saying that "something went wrong"... Again, the "while" varies
> > everytime. On top of this, every now and then, my system just freezes!!!
> > I believe I followed all the steps in the CD-Writing howto and I
> > have been through the documentation already... Any hints?!
> > 
> > P.S.: Please, respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED], once I am not
> > presently subscribing to this email list. Thanks again.
> 
> Have you enough free space on your hard drive? mkisofs shouldn't be
> using anything unusual, save a lot of drive space and a large amount
> of disk i/o.
> 
Yeap! I have about 4.0Gb of FREE space!!! That's why it's
intriguing... ;) On top of that, I have about 128Mb of swap and 128Mb of
RAM... My HD's are SCSI and my burner is ATAPI, but, other than that, I
cannot think of anything else that could possibly be affecting...

 Daniel.
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Gnome/KDE + Emacs.

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi Folks,

I have noticed this before but I have never really addressed this
problem. Here it is: When I run either KDE or Gnome, my Emacs (which I
run in ReverseVideo mode ) colors get "messed up". Primarily,
what bothers me is that, my background - which is black - get white
"spots" as soon as I move my cursor around! I.e., the background gets
"painted" in white "cursors". On top of that, my AucTeX colors are not
"top 10" also.

Any hints?!

 Daniel.

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PPP connection.

[Daniel Ferrante]

Hi folks,

I tried to use wvdial to connect via ppp to my ISP. What happens
is that wvdial does the connecting job and gets to the point of starting
the ppp daemon. However, the daemon dies (exit code 8)! I tried everything
listed in the howtos/faqs/manuals and nothing yet.

Any sugestions?

 Daniel.

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Re: PPP connection.

[Daniel Ferrante]

On 4 Dec 2000, John Hasler wrote:

> >From the pppd man page:
> 
>8  The connect script failed (returned a non-zero exit
>   status).
> 
> > Any sugestions?
> 
> Run pppconfig and try connecting with pon.

I did that already... No results... pon starts the connection,
seems to make the "transaction" and dies. After that, poff doesn't even
find any pppd... So, I don't know whats going on.

 Daniel.
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