February 2002 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SCSI-controller
by Thomas Ruschival 08 Feb '02

08 Feb '02

Hi, I can't load any SCSI modules for my SCSI controller. I am running SuSE 7.3 PPC on my PowerMac G3 B&W. My SCSI controller is an Symbios 53c875 alias 'Formac' Card. when I call hwinfo --storage it is Identified correctly on IRQ 23. When I do a insmod -f sym53c8xx (or modprobe) it fails. Using /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o will taint the kernel: forced load/lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters well it is the same Problem even in another slot and with the original kernel. What went wrong, or how do yoiu install SCSI Cards? Bye Thomas

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qt.rpm (kde2.2.2)(suse7.0)not GPG signed
by Emilio Silva 08 Feb '02

08 Feb '02

The file qt.rpm from KDE 2.2.2 (SuSE 7.0) update in SuSE website is not GnuPG signed with SuSE Package Building Key 0x9C800ACA.ItŽs only MD5 signed.Why?KDEBase.rpm ,KDELibs.rpm etc. have both GnuPG signatures. KDESupport which included libjpeg,libgif,libmime etc has disappeared , itŽs included in KDELibs.rpm? Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com

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memory/swap usage with suse7.3
by Jean-Francois Donati 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

Hi everybody, I'm using suselinux7.3 (upgraded to 2.4.16) on a pismo (500 MHz with 512Mb of RAM, 77 Mb of swap space), with KDE2.2.1. I recently upgraded from suselinux7.0 (upgraded to benh kernel 2.4.9-benh0) and KDE1. It looks as if RAM usage is far from optimal in the most recent configuration. For instance, running a single job that requires 112Mb of RAM brings the system in a situation where over 450 Mb of RAM and 64 Mb of swap are actually used (according to top). The situation was much better with the old distribution where top was indicating memory usage of only of order 120 Mb of RAM and 0 Mb of swap in the same situation. With the original 2.4.12 kernel (coming with suse7.3), the situation was better than with 2.4.16 (although not as good as with suse7.0 and 2.4.9), but computing speed was significantly slower (by as much as 20%). Any ideas of where this could come from and how to fix it?? jean-francois Donati -------------------- Jean-Francois Donati Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, 14 avenue Edouard Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France E-mail: jean-francois.donati(a)obs-mip.fr, Tel: (33) 561332917, Fax: (33) 561332840, URL: http://webast.ast.obs-mip.fr/people/donati

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ide-scsi emulation freezes system
by Michael Engel 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

Ide-scsi emulation has worked til kernel-2.4.7-pre3. With any newer kernel (I tried 2.4.10/2.4.12/2.4.16), mounting my ide-cdrom freezes the whole system. This must be ppc specific. My i386 system is working fine with 2.4.16. PPC platform is b&w g3. Has anyone on the list the same problem? Grüßli, Micha

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need help to unsubscribe
by Kai-Gunnar Kersten 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

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Configuring X/SuSE 7.3
by Alain Barthelemy 07 Feb '02

07 Feb '02

Hello, I had many problems configuring X on a Powerbook G3 (don't ask me which one, it is black and noting is written on the box to identify it): impossible to launch X server except once with color depth 8. SAX2 crashed and there is no good old SAX1 to try manual configuration. Thus I finally went to the following url and downloaded all the packages of XFree86 4.2.0 ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse73/4.2.0/ I read the instructions of url: http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/olh_ppc_71_xf420.html What SuSE does not say is in what order to install the rpm packages and I had a lot of "missing dependencies" messages and lost a lot of time trying different sequences. Other loss of time: message like "conflict with XFree86 4.1 lib" or something like that. Thus I deleted all the X packages with Yast Finally I managed to install all the packages and ... miracle ... SAX2 worked without problem and I can now use KDE2 on my laptop at a resolution of 1024x768. My graphic card is a Ati Mach 64. -- Alain Barthélemy

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Serial printer, :-(
by Herouth Maoz 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

I'm close to tears. Almost nothing in 7.3 works. First I had to use an old kernel because 2.2.12 is buggy. Then I had to change the X driver from ATI to fbdev, because mach64 is not recognized. Then AppleTalk crashed, I saw on the list archive where to download a newer version that worked. Now I try to set up my printer (epson stylus color 600). It worked in 7.0, using lprsetup. No such luck in 7.3: 1. In YAST1, I get an error attempting to print. 2. Using lprsetup, the device driver that used to work (stc600pl) is not recognized. Using stcolor, I get an error attempting to print. 3. Yast2 doesn't recognize the serial ports, which is a problem I saw two people mention in the list archive. Olaf said to look at /proc/tty/driver/macserial. I did that, everything seems to be OK. This doesn't surprise me, since I do manage to cat text into /dev/ttyS1 and have it printed. No further instructions were found. :'-( Herouth -- EMAIL: herouth(a)netvision.net.il HOME PAGE: http://www.herouth.f2s.com/

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Where_have_all_my_files_gone?
by Alain Barthelemy 06 Feb '02

06 Feb '02

Hello, Stupid question: how to mount an hfs partition? Because I have a damned Canoscan which works only on MacWin and I would like to transfer the scanned files from the MacOS partitions to Linux partition. The only file I can read is linuxboot Thanks Alain

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SCSI-controller
by Thomas Ruschival 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi, I can't load any SCSI modules for my SCSI controller. I am running SuSE 7.3 PPC on my PowerMac G3 B&W. My SCSI controller is an Symbios 53c875 alias 'Formac' Card. when I call hwinfo --storage it is Identified correctly on IRQ 23. When I do a insmod -f sym53c8xx (or modprobe) it fails. Using /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o will taint the kernel: forced load/lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters well it is the same Problem even in another slot and with the original kernel. What went wrong, or how do yoiu install SCSI Cards? Bye Thomas

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simpress crashes with OpenOffice638
by Alain Barthelemy 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hello, I installed OpenOffice638 delivered with SuSE7.3PPC and simpress crashes, impossible to use. Did anyone use version 641 for linux-ppc? -- Alain Barthélemy

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