Linux at Long Last!!!

Okay, now we're getting somewhere. I configured those services off (cupsrenice had to be shut off before cups, but there were no other glitches). My problem with the redirect of dmesg was that I apparently have permission to write to my home directory but not to its parent, the daniel directory. I have the grub bootloader, not lilo, since mine is graphical. I did reboot, because that was easier for me. But after I rebooted I got several errors about icons disappearing from the system tray, and I had to click on Reload for each of them to get them back: the Show Desktop icon, the icons for the 4 desktops, and now I forget which other. I wonder if turning off one of those services did this. I also changed my root password to make it more secure. It's always hard to think up a new secure password that I'll be able to remember. I have a couple of easy ones I use for sites that don't need to be secure (like when you have to register to access a web page but you don't care if someone else logs in as you) but the critical ones get unique passwords, and I wanted this to have a unique one also. Anyway, I finally came up with one.

Here's the dmesg dump:

Linux version 2.6.13-15.10-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Fri May 12 16:27:12 UTC 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000027ef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000027ef0000 - 0000000027eff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000027eff000 - 0000000027f00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000027f00000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
638MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f8130
On node 0 totalpages: 163568
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 159472 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 HP ) @ 0x000f8080
ACPI: RSDT (v001 HP 3097 0x20040206 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x27ef8bc4
ACPI: FADT (v001 HP 3097 0x20040206 PTL 0x0000005f) @ 0x27efee2a
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD POWERNOW 0x20040206 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x27efee9e
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD 3097 0x20040206 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x27efef74
ACPI: MCFG (v001 PTLTD MCFG 0x20040206 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x27efefc4
ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP 3091 0x20040206 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: local apic disabled
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: Product ID: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 15:12 APIC version 16
I/O APIC #1 Version 33 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 1
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 30000000:cec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent showopts
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 1791.169 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 642648k/654272k available (2029k kernel code, 11028k reserved, 695k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3587.56 BogoMIPS (lpj=7175128)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff c3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff c3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 128K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff c3d3fbff 00000000 00000410 00000001 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: AMD Mobile AMD Sempron™ Processor 3000+ stepping 02
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1718k freed
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
not found!
ACPI-0376: *** Warning: Workaround undefined [Z00I] object in dffe6780
ACPI-0376: *** Warning: Workaround undefined [Z00J] object in dffe6780
ACPI-0376: *** Warning: Workaround undefined [Z00F] object in dffe6780
ACPI-0376: *** Warning: Workaround undefined [Z00G] object in dffe6780
ACPI-0376: *** Warning: Workaround undefined [Z00H] object in dffe6780
ACPI-0376: *** Warning: Workaround undefined [Z00N] object in dffe6780
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c38)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd8bc, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI-0251: *** Warning: Handle is NULL and Pathname is relative
ACPI-0251: *** Warning: Handle is NULL and Pathname is relative
ACPI-0251: *** Warning: Handle is NULL and Pathname is relative
ACPI-0251: *** Warning: Handle is NULL and Pathname is relative
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 11) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 11) *3, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 24)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 © Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
TC classifier action (bugs to [email protected] cc [email protected])
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x220-0x22f has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 9000-9fff
MEM window: c0100000-c01fffff
PREFETCH window: c8000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bus 6, cardbus bridge: 0000:05:09.0
IO window: 00002000-00002fff
IO window: 00003000-00003fff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff
MEM window: 32000000-33ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
IO window: a000-afff
MEM window: c0200000-c02fffff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:09.0 to 64
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1147241497.592:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc8000000, mapped to 0xe8880000, using 6144k, total 131072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=84
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:53b7
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 76011 bytes,<6>...found (1024x768, 12703 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 127x44
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6 -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.6 disabled
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 3.38
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
KBC0 MSE0 P2P AUDO
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x8410-0x8417, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x8418-0x841f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST9402113A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: UJDA770 DVD/CDRW, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.10, id: 0x258eb1, caps: 0xa04713/0x0
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (27 C)
Attempting manual resume
swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)
ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Adding 1052216k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: [email protected]
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 © Dave Jones
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 11, io mem 0xc0000000
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 11, io mem 0xc0001000
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 11, io mem 0xc0002000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5 -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe922a000, 00:16:36:29:d6:f5, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:09.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:05:09.0 [103c:3091]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00e8, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xa000 - 0xafff
cs: IO port probe 0xa000-0xafff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xc0200000 - 0xc02fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x31ffffff
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xc00-0xc07 0xc10-0xc17 0xc50-0xc57 0xc68-0xc6f 0xcd0-0xcdf
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: excluding 0x878-0x87f
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c036b920(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: © 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: © 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (5111 buckets, 40888 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <[email protected]>
microcode: CPU0 not a capable Intel processor
microcode: No new microcode data for CPU0
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.50.4)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0xa (1800 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV)
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0xc (1250 mV)
powernow-k8: 2 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x13 (1075 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0xa, vid 0xa
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.102 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=107 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=87
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.102 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=107 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=87
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.1.102 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=107 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=87

 

Questions about memory:

The Compaq came with 256 MB of RAM and I added a 512 MB chip. Is this enough? Or should I throw away the 256 MB chip and replace it with a one-GB chip? And why is it that the memory monitor tells me that my "total physical memory" is 629.67 MB instead of 768? (It also says I have 69 MB of free physical memory as I am typing this, with about 3 windows open. FWIW, it also says I have 53.52 MB of disk buffers and 357.14 MB of disk cache.)

Maggie: Welcome to the thread. I bet you could run SuSE Linux on a Mac. I think there may be a different distribution for the Mac architecture. And, yes, Unix and Linux are similar enough that a Unix class would be useful. You can download a free copy of SuSE Linux from this web site: (Or you can buy the disks and a book.)

http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version

Note that there are different versions for different architectures. A store salesman told me that for the Mac you need a special bootloader, available free from the Apple web site.

I bought the physical disks. I also bought SuSE Linux 10 for Dummies, which includes a free distribution disk. So I have two copies. If you want to send me a PM with your mailing address, I'll gladly mail you the free disk I got with the book, because I really have no need for it. (This is probably a small, simple install, since it's a CD - the full version comes on a DVD or a bunch of CD's.)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(fshagan @ Jul 8 2006, 07:22 PM) [snapback]283176[/snapback]</div>

Used bookstores are great if you're not looking for anything in particular. If you're just browsing you're bound to find something good. But if I'm looking for something in particular I don't have the time to search used bookstores for it. But the remaindered sections of new book stores are just full of the stuff they couldn't sell because nobody wanted it. I've never found anything good in the bargain section of a new book store. And I don't mind paying full price for a good reference book. The advantage of Amazon is the user reviews can usually give you a pretty good idea of the quality of a reference book, and then I can have it the next day if I'm in a hurry.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(maggieddd @ Jul 9 2006, 11:38 AM) [snapback]283416[/snapback]</div>

If I remember rightly, both kubuntu and SuSE offer you the option of wiping out everything on your HD and starting out with a clean install of the new OS alone.

And if SuSU didn't install on your Mac, you might have downloaded the wrong version. It's supposed to work. But it's a different version than the one that works on Windows machines. Actually depends on the machine architecture, not the present OS.