[2833] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Newbie Questions, BEWARE! :-)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Tue Nov 5 16:34:02 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Nov 1996 18:02:57 EST."
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Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 16:28:53 -0500
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"John C. Norcross" writes:
>To begin with, REDHAT 4.0 didn't see my SCSI CD-ROM :(
>It took a visit to the errata file at www.redhat.com
>to find out that a newer boot image is needed to get
>LINUX to work with my Adaptec 2940UW...
Oh, you've got a 2940. You have my sympathy...
>1) During the kernal load, the Adaptec 2940 driver says
>something like: "Reseting SCSI Bus:" and then pauses
>for a good 30 seconds before displaying a list of
>all the attached SCSI devices. During this pause, none
>of my SCSI devices act as if they are being probed...
>(Why the long delay?)
This could be not-quite-perfect termination, or it could be
a problem with the driver. You could try the kernel off the
alternate aic7xxx boot disk available from the same place you
got your updated disk. If that helps, you need to inform the
aic7xxx driver authors about your problem and let them know
that the version of the aic7xxx driver in 2.0.12 works, but
the newer one doesn't.
>2) Shortly after this, Sendmail is started up and then
>a *really* long pause occurs - about 1-2 minutes in which
>their is no hard disk activity. My machine is not
>LAN connected (I told the REDHAT install this) and the
>only thing I can think of is that perhaps I need to config
>Sendmail to not look for whatever it's looking for! This
>delay is unbearably long! (I've got a PPro 200Mhz with
>128 megs of EDO ram)
Sendmail is trying to figure out your domain name service.
Make sure that you have a line like
127.0.0.1 localhost
in /etc/hosts, and that /etc/host.conf has the line
order hosts,bind
in it.
>Another thing that seems very odd is that during the install
>of MetroX, it doesn't let me config my color depth for my 4meg
>Matrox Millenium to 16mill @ 1280x1024. Why not?
>I thought 4megs was enough to support this res/color depth!
It also needs to know that your monitor will support it.
>Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read my ramblings. If you
>do respond with any tips/pointer/help, I would be most appreciative!
The things I didn't respond to were because you didn't include
enough information. When you get an error message, post it
verbatim (unless, of course, it's several screenfuls or more...)
michaelkjohnson
"Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy theories?"
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