Re: New to Linux, not to *nix, having problems xdm, ups, ntp

From: Leslie A Rhorer (lrhorer_at_satx.rr.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:43:22 GMT

"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
news:36oq10F53h8aqU1@individual.net...
> Leslie A Rhorer wrote:
>
>> 1. I can't get xdm or gdm to run on the local console, and consequently
>> I can't get XDMCP to work, which is my ultimate goal. I've tried
>> everything of which I can think, but I still get the "No screens found"
>> error from xdm and Xfree86. I've tried enabling and disabling VESA
>> support in the Kernel with no change. I have an Nvidia TNT2 video card,
>> and I've downloaded the drivers for it
>> (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run), but the installation fails.
>
> First of all, have you managed to get the XF86 to work with the nv driver
> (the one that comes with xf86)?

    I suppose not. I didn't load xf86 myself. It's loaded by the distro.
How can I check if the nv driver is loaded?

> One thing that can cause problems is the frambebuffer driver, don't
> kompile in the riva framebuffer and I would avoid the /dev/agpgart too,
> for me there been

    I didn't compile in the agp drive and I've tried it with and without
frame buffer support.

> a lot more speed and stability using the nVidias own agp support (part of
> the propertarian driver).

>> First it can't find the nvidia.ko file it was just supposed to have
>> compiled, and then it complains about the QM_Modules function not being
>> implemented. When compiling the Kernel, "make modules_install" causes
>> the same error, and "apt-get module-init-tools" returns a "Couldn't find
>> package..." error.
>
> Seems your debian ain't fit for Kernel 2.6.x.

    That's not very helpful.

>> 2. I also can't get the APC UPS utilities to run. I've tried the
>> apcupsd and apcd utilities available on Debian.org, but these both seem
>> to be aimed at a serial port implementation. I have a BackUPS 1000 with
>> a USB port. I've tried loading the two packages from APC, but no luck.
>> The binary chokes complaining about no Java support (apparently it can't
>> open the embedded JAR files), and when I try the rpm package, rpm
>> complains with the following errors:
>> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory
>> (2)
>> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
>>
>> Indeed, /usr/lib/rpm does not exist.
>
> Get rpm2targz script, it would make the RPM to a tarball.

    I'll try it. I looked at the contents of the RPM, and there are lots of
files, but I'm guessing none of them actually install the package. Given
this isn't a .deb package, how do I install under Debian?

> Maybe a easier to use linux which is a bit more up to date had been a lot
> better for you... RedHat offers Fedora Core 3 at the moment.

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