Turbolinux FAQ _unix Linux

Installation section

The presence of unrecognized hardware

(1) ISA device--not all ISA devices can be automatically detected, and you can generally set the I/O ports and interrupts by hand.

(2) PCI/AGP devices-If a PCI device cannot be detected, then there is generally no driver for this device.

(3) PCMCIA/PC Equipment--If your PCMCIA device cannot be detected, it is generally because your PCMCIA card is incompatible with Turbolinux cards manager. It is recommended that you use the CardBus PCMCIA controller driver, but it does not work stably.

System hangs when detecting plug and Play devices

This is a more common problem, the solution is to restart the installation, and then skip the detection step.

LILO Installation Failed

If you are attempting to install Lilo on a second hard disk or if you do not have the LBA (Logical block addressing) mode open when you use a large hard drive, go to the CMOS to open this option. For some SCSI hard drives, you need to turn on "use Linear Mode" to install Lilo. If you cannot install LILO, you can use a floppy disk or Loadlin to start the turbolinux.

Startup section

When Lilo starts up or when Lilo starts, li-crashes

Stating that your Lilo is not installed properly, you need to uninstall Lilo, please start with a DOS disk, run FDISK/MBR can remove Lilo, and then start Turbo Linux with a floppy disk or Loadlin.

Kernel panic-unable to Mount Root FS at startup ...

This indicates that your hardware settings have changed, such as if you started with a SCSI hard drive, and this problem occurs after you replace the SCSI card, you need to use the Sysboot floppy disk to start and reconfigure the core module. If still cannot solve, must contact the factory to obtain the technical support.

Configuration section

What if there is a hardware conflict?

Usually the bios of turbolinux and your system can resolve hardware conflicts on their own. One exception, however, is the ISA Plug and Play card. Many Plug and play sound cards are typically automatically initialized to factory defaults, such as setting the I/O address to 0x300. Typically this is not a problem, but the factory defaults for many of the I/O addresses of the ISA network card are also 0x300. Because Plug and Play cards are initialized before the network card when Turbolinux is started, this I/O conflict is usually easy to make your network card unusable. Fortunately, running turbopnpcfg can help you solve this problem. You can configure these cards manually, as long as you select another value other than 0x300 for the I/O address of a card.

My computer has more than 64M of RAM, but it is slow to run any program. When I use parameter mem=64m to tell Linux to use only 64M of memory, it's faster. Why is that? Can i solve the problem?

This is a question about (cache) hit ratio and memory. Some motherboards do not use external caching when using more than 64M of memory, which slows down the system significantly. Unfortunately, there is no way to solve this problem. Other possibilities are that your motherboard has only 256K of cache, but more than 64M of memory. At this point you can add (motherboard) cache to 512K, or even 1MB, perhaps the problem can be solved.

Linux identified my CD-ROM, but I failed when I installed it.

If your system is installed correctly, then simply typing mount/mnt/cdrom should be able to work. If this is not the case, you must edit the/etc/fstab file. This is an example of a/etc/fstab:

/dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom iso9660 Noauto,ro 0 0

CD-ROM device) (directory) (FileSystem type and options)

To find the CD-ROM device, type DMESG | Less, search for information about your CD-ROM.

If you do not want to modify the/etc/fstab and install the CD-ROM:

Mount-t Iso9660/dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom

Linux cannot detect my NE2000 compatible NIC.

Now we have found that some NE2000 network adapters that work in earlier versions of the kernel do not work in the new 2.2.X version of the kernel. You can try to make the NIC work as follows:

Insmod 8390

Insmod NE io=0xxxx irq=y

Replace XXXX and Y with your NIC's IO address and interrupt parameters. Most frequently used IO addresses are 0x300 or 0x310, and the broken value may be any allowable value. Then configure the network card using Netcfg or ifconfig. Sometimes, even if the NIC has been identified, there are reports that the NIC cannot transfer the TCP/IP protocol packet. This needs to be tested. If the NIC starts working, add it to the module file/etc/conf.modules.

Use section

Can't log on as a normal user/forget the password, what should I do?

This problem is usually due to an incorrect password being entered. Log in to your system as Superuser root, enter: passwd username. Replace the username here with a username that forgets the password. Note Even if the root user does not get the current password, you can only change the password to a new password.

The graphical login interface accepts the username and password, but the desktop does not appear

On a normal turbolinux system, this should not happen as long as you add a user account in the usual way. This error is usually due to the lack of some symbolic connections in the user's home directory. Log in as root to check if xsession is a symbolic connection to XINITRC in the user's home directory. If not, enter the command: LN-SF. xinitrc.xsession. Now quit root and log in with this username, and the desktop should start properly.

Why do I sometimes run software that shows English, sometimes Chinese?

This mainly depends on the operating environment, under Turbo Linux, you can set locale to Chinese

Setenv Lc_all ZH_CN. EUC (GBK Locale)

Setenv Lc_all ZH_TW. Big5 (Big5 Locale)

At this time, the software will go to the specified directory to find the appropriate files, some information translated into Chinese. When there is no environment variable Lc_all, the running software display is not translated information.

In the Turbolinux Simplified Chinese version, how do I use input BIG5 encoding?

You can use the Zwinpro control bar Zwincontrol to set the current software running state to BIG5 encoding, and then using Chinput input. The output encoding type of the chinput is automatically converted according to the set environment.