Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[stenhoj@xxxxxx (Niels Stenhøj)]

Hi Steven et al!

I gave up. In SuSE 6.3, I had a very hard time time to get my
Woodoo 3000 AGP to work properly. In 7.0 it's even worse. I
can't select 1024x768 despite trying Yast2, sax and sax2. 

I erased all of it and reinstalled 6.4 and now I'm selecting
what I need in small chuncks from the 7.0 DVD-ROM.

The books, however, are nice. Surely, the functionality of 
books is easier to evaluate than proggies. The install
process of 7.0 started as usually with 'Have a lot of fun'.
Perhaps 'fun' should've been replaced by 'experience'.

Cheers,

Niels

"Steven T. Hatton" wrote:
> 
> Every time a new releas of SuSE comes out we enevitably find a few nasty
> "features".  Well I just go my SuSE 7, and I've hit my share of
> interesting "features".  I did a Tabular Rassa (sp) with the reiser fs,
> and an "almost everything."  Considdering I put about 6 Gig on this HD,
> I guess I sould be impressed with the number of things that went right.
> I then applied all the latest patched from the FTP server, to include
> the XF86-4.0.1.
> 
> We as humans tend to focus on the things that go wrong, espescially if
> we don't know how to fix them.  With that said, here goes:
> 
> A) ALSA failed
> B) Netscape crashed every time I put the cursor in the location field
> and hit the any key.
> C) Apache won't serve - many problems
> D) no way - that I found - to set my mouse to Emulate3Buttons in Yast 1
> or 2, or SaX2
> E) jpegs were broken
> 
> Alsa found my soundcard, but screwed up the configuration.
> 1) it said my CD-ROM was disabled - using yast2
> 2) It was able to generate sound when setting up the volume
> 3) when I restarted the system I got these messages:
> 
> "Sep 15 22:45:16 linux kernel: isapnp: Card 'AZT1008 PnP SOUND DEVICE'
> Sep 15 22:45:16 linux kernel: isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
> Sep 15 22:45:16 linux kernel: snd: card-azt2320.c: MPU-401 isapnp
> configure failure
> Sep 15 22:45:17 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1
> Sep 15 22:45:17 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1
> Sep 15 22:45:17 linux modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2"
> 
> 4) I removed everything Alsa related and installed trusty old oss from
> 4front.
> 5) Currently rockin' out to early Jethro Tull :-)
> 
> Netscape crashed when attmpting to enter a URL.
> 1)removed Netscape rpm
> 2) intalled Netscape form home.netscape.com
> 3) I haven't tested it. but I expect none of my plugnins work.
> 4) believe these problems arise from the XF86 upgrad
> 
> No way to Emulate3Buttons except by hand.
> 1) I forgot to back up my old XF86Config.
> 2) ran xf86config and chose the emulate 3 buttons option
> 3) saved to the current directory - answered 'no' to save to /etc/X11
> and 'no' to save to /usr/X11R6/bin, then 'yes' to save in this directory.
> 4) copied the relevant line from the new XF86Config - Option
> "Emulate3Buttons" to
> the /etc/X11/XF86Config
> 5) all is well
> 
> Apache starts but won't serve - telnet localhost 80 ... connection
> refused - ps shows httpd:
> 1) still working on this one
> 2) It seems as if there are multiple problems with this.  Errors in
> /var/log/httpd/error_log
>    )a [Sat Sep 16 08:02:48 2000] [notice] backhand_init(472) spawning
> stats things (PID 505)
>        [Sat Sep 16 08:02:48 2000] [alert] setuid: trying to ste it to 30
>        [Sat Sep 16 08:02:48 2000] [error] (13)Permission denied:
> serv_listen: listen on unix
>   domain socket
> 
>    b) Can't find class org.apache.jserv.JServ
>    c) this is recorded in the /var/log/httpd/mod_jserv.log:
> CLASSPATH=/usr/lib/apache/ApacheJServ.jar:/usr/lib/JSDK2.0/lib/jsdk.jar
>    d) /usr/lib/JSDK2.0 is an empty directory.  I don't believe the jsdk
> is in the SuSE distribution, unless it is part of JDK 1.3.
> 
>    d) [Sat Sep 16 08:02:49 2000] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled
> (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
>        [Sat Sep 16 08:02:49 2000] [notice] child pid 505 exit signal
> Segmentation fault (11)
>        [Sat Sep 16 08:02:49 2000] [crit] Midgard: Can't connect to local
> MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (111)
>    e) I noticed mysql didn't start when yast 1 attempted to start it.  I
> think there's a problem with that as well.
> 
> Jpegs were broken.
> 1) this may have been due to my having installed the KDE2-Beta5 rpms and
> then alowing Yast to put qtaddon back.  I've seen this when I compiled
> the KDE with the wrong libjpeg.*
> 2) reapplied the kde2support rpm.  - I noticed this is newer than the
> other files.  The old support rpm may have had a problem.
> 
> It's all so confusing.  I may have hit more problems, but I don't remember.
> 
> Steve
> 
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