[SLE] New machine set-up
I treated myself last week with a brand new machine (Pentiem III/500, 192MB of RAM ..). As I did not have my suse CD handy, I first installed Rh 6.0 and updated it to 6.1 everything worked nicely. I wiped out RH this morning, wanting to install Suse 6.3 and came across the following problems 1. This machine does not have a on/off button but doing a shutdown -h under redhat would switch the machine off with RH 6 & 6.1 while suse 6.3 does not. How can I have the same behaviour (auto switch off after a shutdown -h) with SuSe ? 2. This machine has gotr both a DVD and a CD-ROM writer. RH recognized both while Suse only saw the DVD. How can I force Suse to recognize it. 3. Neither RH nor Suse seems to be willing to admit that I have got more than 64MB of RAM. How can I have them finding the extra 128Mb of RAM ? Any help will be appreciated. TIA Didier -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any views or opinions are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Visual Communications Group or its principal operating divisions (FPG, Telegraph Colour Library, Planet Earth Pictures, Colorific!, Pix, Giraudon, Bavaria Bildagentur, Definitive Stock, Space Frontiers). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this communication; and please notify the sender immediately. It should be noted that any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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From: "Didier Gasser-Morlay"
I treated myself last week with a brand new machine (Pentiem III/500, 192MB of RAM ..). As I did not have my suse CD handy, I first installed Rh 6.0 and updated it to 6.1 everything worked nicely.
I wiped out RH this morning, wanting to install Suse 6.3 and came across the following problems
1. This machine does not have a on/off button but doing a shutdown -h under redhat would switch the machine off with RH 6 & 6.1 while suse 6.3 does not. How can I have the same behaviour (auto switch off after a shutdown -h) with SuSe ?
This has to do with the linux 'kernel'. The redhat kernel must contain power managaement support (APM), whereas the SuSE kernel does not. If you compile your own kernel and want this feature then you know what to do.
2. This machine has gotr both a DVD and a CD-ROM writer. RH recognized both while Suse only saw the DVD. How can I force Suse to recognize it.
Yes SuSE does not automatically detect CDR's (I'm guessing yours isnt scsii). This isnt a problem as you may set it up yourself. Theres the CD-WRITING howto, or if you look at this mailing list archive just a week back, you'll see a lot of people decsribing how they set theirs up. One chap in particular gave a step by step description.
3. Neither RH nor Suse seems to be willing to admit that I have got more than 64MB of RAM. How can I have them finding the extra 128Mb of RAM ?
RH and SuSE are just distrubitions. They just package the linux kernel with software (largely GNU). (Well (SuSE anyway) they of course configure things very nicely for you, provide supprot and documentation, provide nice configuration tools and mechanisms to spice things up but this is beside the point). Point is that it is not SuSE's or RH's fault. A work around is to pass mem=192M to the kernel as a parameter. This is easy if you use lilo, just put append="mem=192M" in lilo.conf (May have to put 191M) While we are at it, my linux detects all my 128MB. I wonder why..
Any help will be appreciated. TIA Didier -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Hi, On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote:
1. This machine does not have a on/off button but doing a shutdown -h under redhat would switch the machine off with RH 6 & 6.1 while suse 6.3 does not. How can I have the same behaviour (auto switch off after a shutdown -h) with SuSe ?
Yes, you need a kernel with SMP support for that. You can install this kernel image ("laptop") using YaST.
2. This machine has gotr both a DVD and a CD-ROM writer. RH recognized both while Suse only saw the DVD. How can I force Suse to recognize it.
Are they both connected to the same controller? Are they IDE? We need more info here...
3. Neither RH nor Suse seems to be willing to admit that I have got more than 64MB of RAM. How can I have them finding the extra 128Mb of RAM ?
Maybe you have activated the "memory hole" option in your BIOS? Usually the SuSE kernel should detect your amount of memory fine. Alternatively you can pass this to the kernel as an additional boot parameter (mem=192M, IIRC). Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:46:02 +0100 (MET), you wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote:
1. This machine does not have a on/off button but doing a shutdown -h under redhat would switch the machine off with RH 6 & 6.1 while suse 6.3 does not. How can I have the same behaviour (auto switch off after a shutdown -h) with SuSe ?
Yes, you need a kernel with SMP support for that. You can install this kernel image ("laptop") using YaST.
Sorry Lenz, but don't you mean APM? ;-) -- Stuart Hall Cheshire, Connecticut, USA Linux User# 141732 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Stuart Hall wrote:
Yes, you need a kernel with SMP support for that. You can install this kernel image ("laptop") using YaST.
Sorry Lenz, but don't you mean APM? ;-)
Argh, of course. Sorry for the confusion :) Thanks for pointing this out! Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Everything is now working like a charm. Thanks to all of you Didier Lenz Grimmer wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote:
1. This machine does not have a on/off button but doing a shutdown -h under redhat would switch the machine off with RH 6 & 6.1 while suse 6.3 does not. How can I have the same behaviour (auto switch off after a shutdown -h) with SuSe ?
Yes, you need a kernel with SMP support for that. You can install this kernel image ("laptop") using YaST.
2. This machine has gotr both a DVD and a CD-ROM writer. RH recognized both while Suse only saw the DVD. How can I force Suse to recognize it.
Are they both connected to the same controller? Are they IDE? We need more info here...
3. Neither RH nor Suse seems to be willing to admit that I have got more than 64MB of RAM. How can I have them finding the extra 128Mb of RAM ?
Maybe you have activated the "memory hole" option in your BIOS? Usually the SuSE kernel should detect your amount of memory fine. Alternatively you can pass this to the kernel as an additional boot parameter (mem=192M, IIRC).
Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany
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Thanks every one for your help. I'll dive into that tonight. Didier Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote:
I treated myself last week with a brand new machine (Pentiem III/500, 192MB of RAM ..). As I did not have my suse CD handy, I first installed Rh 6.0 and updated it to 6.1 everything worked nicely.
I wiped out RH this morning, wanting to install Suse 6.3 and came across the following problems
1. This machine does not have a on/off button but doing a shutdown -h under redhat would switch the machine off with RH 6 & 6.1 while suse 6.3 does not. How can I have the same behaviour (auto switch off after a shutdown -h) with SuSe ?
2. This machine has gotr both a DVD and a CD-ROM writer. RH recognized both while Suse only saw the DVD. How can I force Suse to recognize it.
3. Neither RH nor Suse seems to be willing to admit that I have got more than 64MB of RAM. How can I have them finding the extra 128Mb of RAM ?
Any help will be appreciated. TIA Didier -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any views or opinions are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Visual Communications Group or its principal operating divisions (FPG, Telegraph Colour Library, Planet Earth Pictures, Colorific!, Pix, Giraudon, Bavaria Bildagentur, Definitive Stock, Space Frontiers). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please do not read, copy, use or disclose this communication; and please notify the sender immediately. It should be noted that any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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* Didier Gasser-Morlay (didierg@visualgroup.com) [20000221 15:32]:
2. This machine has gotr both a DVD and a CD-ROM writer. RH recognized both while Suse only saw the DVD. How can I force Suse to recognize it.
If it's an ATAPI CD writer, have a look at
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/adrian_ide_brenner.html
and see if that helps.
Philipp
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