On 15-Dec-98, Peter \(Troff\) Petroff took time to write :
> kernel 2.0.34 on hdb1, typically out of a boot floppy, no LILO.
^^^^^^^^
too bad ! with LILO you could have all your ram (128Mo) seen in 2.0.34 !
>
> The problems are:
>
> * Crucial: Disappearing kernel devices:
> Under 2.0.34, I have full NE2000 and PPP. But:
> - only 64MB RAM instead of 128
> (I know about the >64MB support in 2.0.36)
that can be fixing with lilo if you put it its configuration file
append="mem=128Mo"
by the way you can install lilo on a diskette and boot with it.
> - no sound support
> (the EAPCI emulates SB, MPU401, AdLib, Ensoniq SoundScape.)
> (I know about Thomas Sailer's "Linux Driver for the Ensoniq
> AudioPCI soundcard page, but a: the drivers aren't there
> and b: I'm still too mortal to work out how to include it).
>
> Under 2.0.36, I have the full 128MB RAM. But:
> - I lose the NE2000 I had before.
why ?
i don't see why !
NE2000 cards are generally bad because some "compatible" definitively aren't.
but if it works with one kernel it has no reason not to work with the other.
More details (error messages and such...) could have helped people help you.
> - And I lose PPP too!!
what do you mean by that ?
> - Still no sound support.
> - 'dmesg' gives me "Sound initialisation started Sound
> initialisation complete" messages. It doesn't give anything
> more than that with respect to sound.
for sound, i don't know anything, so i can't help you.
> * Much less critically: I must just be extremely obtuse; is there a
>plainer
> introduction to setting up a Canon BJC-4200 than the Printing Howto and the
> printcap man?
IMHO, magicfilter is the way to go
install it, and with a set of questions everything should be ok.
> ns-install script). So I did a complete reformat and install (the paranoid
> approach to stability issues), then got the deb. Installed Netscape, Apache
> stayed up. Worked great for a couple of days. Yesterday morning I boot and
> "Apache... failed" again. No repeat NO significant changes in configuration
^^^^^^^^^^^
does that mean no modifications at all or modifications you think are not
signigicant? Because that makes a lot of differences !
Apache can be picky : if you make an error in the configuration file (syntax,
etc...) it won't load anymore.
See the file error.log in the apache log directory /var/log/apache
and/or see what apache -S says
(you should see an output of all of your definitions, check they are ok)
I hope that helped.
Patrick
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