On the subject of the ppp problem:
Your Redhat 5.0 should have a book with it that has a section on
"post-installation configuration". In that chapter it will tell you how
to recompile your kernel. Use xconfig-- it's easier.
Just in case you didn't get a book, here's the steps:
1. Go to the kernel source directory. (You did install kernel headers,
didn't you? If not, use glint to install them off of the cdrom.)
cd /usr/src/linux
2. Clean up the source tree.
make mrproper
3. Start the config program of your choice.
make config <command-line, kind of ugly> OR
make menuconfig <much nicer, although not the best> OR
make xconfig <x-based config program- very easy to use>
4. Go through all of the menus and make sure you enable everything you
want to use, then click save and exit.
5. Build all the depends.
make dep ; make clean
6. Compile the kernel. Make sure you have a large, thick, entertaining
book to read while it compiles. This is also a good time to go on
vacation.
make bzImage <make boot, make zImage, and a few others
work here too, but this one works best>
7. Compile your modules, even if you didn't configure any.
make modules
8. Move all the old stuff out of the way.
rm -rf /lib/modules/2.0.33-old
mv /lib/modules/2.0.33 /lib/modules/2.0.33-old
<'course, if you're using a kernel other than 2.0.33,
put that in instead>
9. Install your modules.
make modules_install
10. You probably won't make any scsi drivers modular, so don't worry
about the initrd stuff. Go to the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot
directory and move the new kernel to your /boot directory.
mv ./bzImage /boot
11. Edit /etc/lilo.conf to include another entry identical to what's
already there, only change the label of one of them and point the image
at /boot/bzImage. It should look something like this after you're done:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/bzImage
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.32.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32
label=old
root=/dev/hda2
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.32.img
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=lose95
table=/dev/hda
Make sure to leave your old kernel in just in case something goes wrong.
12. Run Lilo and then reboot your computer.
lilo
shutdown -r now
I probably quoted a lot of howtos and faqs here, but maybe it'll save
someone some time and energy. Hope it helps.
Kevin Miller
Quote:> Hi everybody !
> I experienced a pretty strange bug with XFree86. It might already have
> been reported. If so, please forgive me. BTW, I am a newbie and I am
> posting from work since I have not succeed I connecting my Linux system at
> home to the Internet ("Kernel lack PPP support"... anybody willing to do
> some handholding in compiling a new kernel ? :). I don't have all the
> detail at hand, but if somebody is interested in my experience, contact me
> and ask for the specific detail you need (kernel version, X server version,
> etc.) and I'll get them for you.
> I am using Red Hat 5.0, gotten from the Info-Magic 6 CD set of february 98.
> My video card is a S3 Trio 64V+, so the RedHat install choosed the S3 X
> server. My monitor is Samsung SyncMaster 3Ne, wich I choosed from a list.
> FNWM acted quit strangely. It seem that the display was offset by a 1/4"
> to the left and wrapped around to the right. It's hard to explain, you
> really have to see it to get it. For example, the Start button in the
> lower left corner of the screen was cut in half, the last 3/4 at the right
> place in the lower left corner and the first 1/4 in the lower right corner.
> The mouse was having it right though, so you had to click 1/4" to the
> right of the actual place you wanted to click to compensate for the offset
> (i.e. to click the X button that close the windows in the far right corner,
> you had to click a 1/4" right, actually outside the windows) . The mouse
> cursor also reacted to GUI element (i.e. windows border) a 1/4" to the
> right. I corrected the problem by choosing the "Generic monitor" in X
> setup; it is now working fine.
> I am wondering if this is a software bug or a sync/calibration problem with
> the monitor. What's your opinion ?
> Etienne Goyer
> stalphon at globetrotter dot qc dot ca
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