[CLUE-Tech] troubles with red hat install

[Charles Oriez]

I installed Red Hat 8.0 on an old Toshiba 480CDT laptop, and experienced a 
couple of problems.  They are probably simply fixed, but I'm blanking at 
the moment.  First one is critical.  Others can keep until the installfest.

1) KPPP issues

Whenever I start KPPP under the user login, it asks for the root 
password.  I want to be able to connect from the user account without root 
access.

When I dial into my ISP, the connection handshake happens fine.  I'm given 
a dynamic IPA assignment by my ISP.  When I start gftp, I can communicate 
with remote servers by IPA, but both gftp and mozilla won't find sites by 
domain name.  It would appear my dns server connection isn't working.  I 
have KPPP configured for dynamic IP, default gateway and assigned default 
route.  DNS is set to auto configuration with domain name blank.  I've 
tried enabling and disabling dns servers during connection (default is 
enable).

2) Display problem

Hardware specs from the Toshiba linux support site:

http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/product/pdf_files/detailed_specs/satellite_pro_480cdt.pdf

Red Hat doesn't recognize the Toshiba monitor, and assigns me a generic 
monitor at 1024x768, but seems to display at 800x600.  When I go into 
system settings, none of the Toshiba monitor options given on Red Hat seem 
to match the monitor specs at the Toshiba site.  Reducing to 256 colors has 
no effect. Default selected is thousands of colors (16 bit).

3) At boot, can't locate module sound-service-0-0.  whereis confirms that 
it isn't there.



Charles Oriez, coriez at oriez.org
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