[98517] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat bugs???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo)
Mon Nov 9 16:29:36 1998
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 19:47:53 +0100
From: Leo <leonardo@dinamicmultimedia.es>
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Dorian wrote:
> Actually RedHat installation gives you a chance to diable all the services. When you ask get to the part of the installation that asks you what services to start a boot uncheck inet . Inet is the service responsible for watching the ports and starting the appropriate program when a connection request is recieved.
> To disable it now just reun setup from a shell and choose the system services menu
>
> On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:56:41 John D. Hardin wrote:
> >
> > This sounds like a plea for an inetd.conf module for dotfile...
> >
> > Does the current incarnation of Linuxconf allow you to control the
> > availability of services?
> >
> > --
> > John Hardin KA7OHZ jhardin@wolfenet.com
I just installed RedHat on a PII, including Networking packages right from the start, and it did ask me which services I'd like to enable. But, if you don't install networking from the beggining and later on install the networking packages, does it ask you?
Actually, what I did with my old computer is: install RedHat 4, and then update to 5. I'd swear it didn't ask me anytime. Anyway, if it did, back then I didn't even know what the services nor the daemons were.
My new system is an Iwill motherboard with Dual PII, Award BIOS, 128 RAM, IDE disk, and I've run into LOTS of problems I didn't have with my old 486. If anyone can help me out with them, here they go:
- free shows 16 MB of RAM (actually, 14 or so), instead of the 128 MB. This is with the default kernel that comes with the package.
- I compiled a kernel, setting to 'no' the option "Use only lower 16 MB" (or so) as well as setting SMP=1 in the resulting Makefile, but neither the 128 MB appear anywhere nor does the SMP work correctly (crashes very much). Sometimes it just blocks and other times it says: "Detected CPU 0 lock by IRQ" (or something
like that). Sometimes it hangs by simply doing a cat and switching to another virtual console, or by just copying a file.
What's the most stable and secure kernel version for SMP and for networking?
- cat /proc/cpuinfo shows 340 (or so) BogoMips for CPU0 and 2 (or so) for CPU1. Is this correct? Also, does 'stepping' of the CPU mean?
- setserial /dev/cua2 (where my modem is), reads 'UART: unknown', and the same IRQ as /dev/cua0 (mouse). My internal modem doesn't work at all (also, I think it has cua2 (COM3) built-in). pppd says tcgetattr() failed, for /dev/modem after running modemtool on /dev/cua2.
- XFree doesn't recognize my video card (a Matrox G100 AGP with 8MB). I guess this could be due to the 16MB memory problem? (says "chipset mga<whatever> not found") (I've tried with SVGA server version 3.3.2 --think it's the latest).
All this works Ok on NT 4. :(
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Leo Zayas
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