December 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] DVD recommendations sought
by kkellum＠pacbell.net 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

I have an old computer my children use for games. The CD-rom on it dying and needs to be replaced. I'm considering getting a DVD drive for my machine putting my CD-rom drive in theirs. Interesting: I just visited the SuSE web site and see no mention of 6.3 shipping in DVD format. Still, I'd appreciate hearing of any experiences with DVDs with Linux. -- Kenneth R. Kellum Powered by SuSE Linux -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] first time posting, having problems with sax... please read
by ronm＠cyrix.com 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

this is my first time posting to this group, I have had suse for about 1 week now and am excited about getting it up and running on my home pc. I have had a few problems along the way. I do use unix at work but have never been any where near the administrator and know nothing about that job. So really I know very little about how to install/maintain linux but Im learning:) which brings me to this question. my system k62-450 196 meg of ram linuxdrive= 3.4 gb udma creative 32x cdrom soundblaster live voodoo3 via mpv3 chipset tatung monitor I have read the help page on installing the xsvga package to configure x using sax. I did that with no problems and then made a symbolic link; ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFR_SVGA /usr/X11R6/bin/XFCom_Banshee, this was no problem. the problem is when I go through sax it seems as though everything is going ok all the way through till it try's to boot x for the first time. my system goes off to never land and I get this message at the text prompt. ax: searching card....done sax scanning failed switching to VGA16 for configuration sax: using XF86_VGA16 for configration sax: start new XF86_VGA16 server I thought sax would boot me right into x kde? this is not happening. all I get is the text prompt. I went to check and see if VGA16 was installed and it was and I tried alot of different resolutions thought i suspect that has nothing to do with the problem. I hope you have a easy answer for me;) thanks for you time Ron Morgan -- Ron Morgan jr. Cyrix Dallas Texas //If you remain calm, You dont know all the facts! // ronm(a)cyrix.com gojoe(a)home.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] X host ?
by kick＠c2i.net 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

John Grant wrote: > > A couple possible clues are in the xinit man page: > > xinit -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xqdss :1 > This is how one could start a specific type of > server on an alternate display. > > and > > xinit /usr/ucb/rsh fasthost cpupig -display ws:1 -- :1 -a > 2 -t 5 > This will start a server named X on display 1 with > the arguments -a 2 -t 5. It will then start a > remote shell on the machine fasthost in which it > will run the command cpupig, telling it to display > back on the local workstation. played with these. The remote X server starts (if at all) on the remote box. > If the box you want to put the display on is "local_box" and the other > one is "remote_box", maybe you could log in to remote_box and do > something like: > > startx -- local_box:1 nope. the remote X still starts on the remote box. > If that doesn't work then the other way to do what you're trying to do > is to do a "xinit -- :1" on local_box then kill the windowmanager. > That should leave you with a blank display on local_box. Then log in to > remote_box, set your DISPLAY to point to local_box:1, and start your > favorite windowmanager there. That should be functionally the same. er... well, when i kill the windowmanager on the local box, the X-server dies too and i am back to the console :-/ > Let me know if it works.. it doesnt but i still think it should. somehow. maybe i need to play with ssh and the way it deals with its pseudo X magic. Im way out of my depth already though ;-) -- http://www.nitjueni.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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RE: [SLE] Network Card Installation
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Hi, From: Phil Shrimpton [SMTP:philshrimpton@prometrics.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 9:32 PM >> Did you tried the autodetect fonction in the Install Procedure >> (just boot CD >> n°1): >> Supplementary Hardware detect. >> It should work fine. >Yes, and it did not detect it, but I think I have it working by trying every >module there is, and guess what it was the last on (wd Western Digital). >Now, if I 'ifconfig eth0' it looks like it is installed properly, is there >a better way to test it. I don't what to start trying to set it up as a >server until I know the card is working and set up properly. So far so good, go ahead and give its IP a ping. If that works from another machine, then try to telnet to it. After that works it's nothing but net. Tim -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Getting rid of Lilo
by icimjs＠loop.com 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Hi guys. I installed SuSE on a number of machines. Now one of thse machines is supposed to be used for Win98. Ran Fdisk and removed Linux partitions, created DOS partitions instead. Win98 setup formatted harddrive for FAT32 and loaded MS Win. When I reboot I get a the characters LI displayed on the screen and the machine goes to sleep. How do I remove Lilo completed so that Win98 can be booted? TIA, Elan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] kernmods - what is it?
by stuarthall＠mailandnews.com 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

I noticed that 6.3 will have the kernmods package for SMP kernels. I tried searching the web for some description of exactly what this is, but no luck. Can anyone shed any light? Thx, Stuart -- Stuart Hall Cheshire, Connecticut, USA Linux User# 141732 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Japanese Language Support ????
by billf＠inxpress.net 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

I have a friend [newbie] who would like to install Suse 6.3 on his system, but needs Japanese Language support. [his command of English is not yet adequate] Is Japanese Language support available for Suse 6.3? [or Suse 6.2] If so, how and where could I get the necessary Japanese Language packages? Thanks in advance for you assistance. Bill -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Re: XEmacs man pages are in German!
by ke＠suse.de 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

Derek Fountain <fountai(a)hursley.ibm.com> writes: | I guessed. I don't have it installed. I'm not sure where those German | man pages have come from. All(?) german manpages are coming with "lpdmande": rpm -qf /usr/man/de ldpmande-0.2-11 | Does anyone else with an English installation have the directory | /usr/man/de? At least on SuSE Linux 6.3 this directory belongs to the package ldpmande (s. above). I'm not sure what will happen with the cached preformatted manpages in /var/cache/man/de -- please, check whether there are some pages lying around (but that's a wild guess by me). -- work : ke(a)suse.de Karl Eichwalder personal: ke(a)gnu.franken.de -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] shell script question.
by markgray＠iago.nac.net 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

"S.Toms" <tomas(a)primenet.com> writes: > On 1 Dec 1999, Mark Gray wrote: > [snip] > mg> (Leaving out the export is probably what was causing you problems, but > mg> cutting 3 processes down to 1 is always a big savings. > mg> > > The only real purpose of export is to make it available to the rest of > the system, in the case of initializing a firewall, or making the ip > available for a script that is run from within the same file as the ipaddr > query, an export isn't really necessary. Whether making that a global > variable will interfere somehow down the road I don't know, but if it > doesn't have to be global, why take the chance? > Does that make sense? Without the export (or using set -a to automatically export all variables) the new variable is not visible in child processes. ~ $ cat script.sh #!/bin/sh a="hello world" script2.sh ~ $ cat script2.sh #!/bin/sh echo $a ~ $ script.sh ~ $ See man bash: [snip] The environment inherited by any executed command consists of the shell's initial environment, whose values may be modified in the shell, less any pairs removed by the unset command, plus any additions via the export and declare -x commands. [snip] set [--abefhkmnptuvxBCHP] [-o option] [arg ...] -a Automatically mark variables which are modified or created for export to the environment of subsequent commands. [snip] set -o allexport does the same thing. (I do not recommend using either myself -- there are times you do not want to export variables to subshells.) Hope this helps. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] DVD recommendations sought
by markgray＠iago.nac.net 02 Dec '99

02 Dec '99

"Mr. M" <mistrM(a)socal.rr.com> writes: > > Still, I'd appreciate hearing of any experiences with DVDs with Linux. > > > > -- > > There is no support for DVD with Linux. Linus was asked about this at the > LinuxWorld Expo in August. The reason he gave is that DVD contains "trade > secret" technology that vendors have not yet been willing to share with the > community. > > However, a few weeks ago DVD encryption was broken by Linux programmers. > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,32265,00.html The encryption is for movies only and the movie industry is strongly threatening legal action so it is unlikely to appear in Linux (see the latest comp.risks digest posting) -- digital data DVD is probably OK. (The corruptability and greed of US (and UK) politicians shafts linux again.) > Also check out: > > www.linuxdvd.org -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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