openSUSE PPC December 2005

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30 discussions

by Damir Buskulic

Hi, I got some problems (disk access denied, bus errors,...) that led me to go into single user mode and fsck my partitions. I noticed then that there were some directories created in the tmp directory, called "dev" and "etc", and one file in the / directory called "success" with 0 length. At reboot, these files disapeared. Does anybody know if this could be a sign of a hacked computer ? I mean could someone have installed a rootkit or some such ? I'm not paranoid but this indeed seems strange. Cheers Damir -- ===================================================================== | Damir Buskulic | Universite de Savoie/LAPP | | | Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110 | | Tel : +33 (0)450091600 | F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex | | e-mail: buskulic(a)lapp.in2p3.fr | FRANCE | ===================================================================== mailto:buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr

13 years, 8 months

xorg.conf

by George Georgiou

Hi there, I'm sorry for sending you this query maybe you can help since I cant find any info elsewhere, Ive installed suse 10.0 on a b50 all is well there. The problem I have is that I've set up another b50 With fedora 5 but I have a garbled screen problem. I was wondering if I can copy xorg.conf from suse and apply it to fedora. Once again sorry ..

15 years, 8 months

Some stuff

by larrystotler＠netscape.net

Here are a few things I have noticed. Remember, I am using Old World macs.... I added the MacOS patition, /dev/hda6, under YaST. However, when I checked the directory, which I labeled /macos, I found the text file about "Where did all the files go?". So, I looked at /etc/fstab, and the filesystem type was "hfs". I changed it to "hfs+", and was given an error when I tried to remount it. I changed the filesystem type to "hfsplus" and when I remounted it this time it worked fine. I went back into YaST's partitioner and checked to see if there was an option for the Apple HFS+ filesystem, and it only listed 1 Apple filesystem type. Do I need to use the ramdisk image to boot the system with an updated kernel? When I uncheck the ramdisk option, and input sda3 as my root device, I get a kernel panic because it can't find the root device. I am assuming that it is not loading the Adaptec SCSI module for some reason. Checking the "Force SCSI" option does not work as well. I have found that since I used YOU to update the kernel that the installation system no longer comes up when I boot using the newer ramdisk, so I don't know if it is a big deal about using the ramsdisk or not. I have 384MB, and I have a good deal of free RAM available. One thing I have noticed is that the USB drivers seem to be loaded before the SCSI drivers using the installation system. It seems that the USB drive gets labeled /dev/sda and the SCSI drive gets bumped to /dev/sdb. After updating my kernel with YOU, It properly loads the adaptec driver and sees /dev/sda3 properly. Perhaps a warning should be given during installation when USB and SCSI drives are detected. I realize that the majority of systems out there use IDE, but there are still many of us that prefer the dependability and speed of SCSI. I realize that a lot of devices are made to look like SCSI in Linux as well as WinDoZe, but it seems there would be a more intelligent way to set this up.... Also, I think I had brought this up once before. Why is it that when I am running under KDE, I have to use "control open-apple Fx" to get to a text terminal, but when I am on a text terminal, I use the standard "control alt Fx" key combination. I know that KDE has an option to edit the key combos, but can this one be modified? It would be nice to have the regular combo all the time. Thanx ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

16 years, 4 months

RZ1000 question

by larrystotler＠netscape.net

I have a DTC PCI card with the RZ1000 module. This card shows up in the lspci list, but I can't figure out how to enable it. I tried modeprobe rz1000, but was told module not found. The card is assigned IRQ 25. Am I using the correct module name? Do I need to complie the module(and if so, how?)? I'm looking to use it for IDE CD drives only, and have read that there are some known bugs with this chipset, but it appears that there is a stable driver for it. Thanx ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

16 years, 4 months

RZ1000 support

by larrystotler＠netscape.net

16 years, 4 months

how to unsubscribe?

by Shawn Gordon

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16 years, 4 months

gxt3000P graphics card

by Imre Polik

Hi, I've succesfully installed SuSE 10 on an IBM RS6000 44P 270 machine. It works fine except for one thing: I can't get the video card work. It is an IBM GXT-3000P. Problems started during the setup: I get two small screen with some garbled text, I had to use a console to complete the installation. Is there a way to use this card with SuSE? Or I had better replace it? (That is not very easy, either.) Did anyone have the same problem? Any workarounds? I think this is a standard video card in this line of rs6k-s, so a lot of potential users might be experiencing the same. Any idea? Thanks, Imre Polik -- McMaster University Advanced Optimization Lab

16 years, 4 months

SUSE 10 display problem on iMac

by Ed Pflager

I have Suse 10.0 running on an old Blueberry iMAC with one small annoyance. The display is off center, and the left inch or so is cut off. I have not found any solutions searching the web. Anyone here have any suggestions or solutions? Thanks! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

16 years, 4 months

using external videoport on iBook, second attempt

by Frank Stolpe

Hi Magnus, hi there everybody, your description was quite helpfull, but doesn't work with OpenSuSE as it should. Your solution showed me the necessary option to set to activate/clone the VGA-Port. SAX2 offers some the driver options but not those needed. So I looked arround which files might be the right ones. Some files are "resistant" against changes (checksums ?) some seem not to be functional. Does anybody know in which file(s) I have to add the necessary options to acces them with SAX. The docs I read didn't give me the informations I needed. Thanks for your help. Frank Stolpe ______________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193

16 years, 4 months

Problems with OpenSUSE 10 on iBook - WiFi, sound, suspend and Flash

by John Pettigrew

Having just got a cheap iBook from my work (500MHz G3), I decided to install OpenSUSE on it, and it went fine. Boots, runs KDE, no worry. Score one for the community version of OpenSUSE-PPC! I've used SuSE for years (since 7.3) on x86 but this is my first venture into the Linux-on-PPC world. There are, however, a few outstanding problems with this setup that I was hoping someone could help with. First, my wireless network. I have just bought a wireless 802.11g router and dongle (matched pair from Buffalo) to allow the new laptop to connect to the wide world. The hardware basically works fine (at least, in unencrypted mode, a WinXP laptop can connect and browse; encryption is a whole other story). However, in SUSE, there are problems. The dongle is labelled on the box as a Buffalo USB AirStation G54 (WLI-U2-KG54). YaST recognised the dongle during installation and set it up as a MELCO WLI-U2-KG54 (Buffalo's website seems to call this device a WLI-U2-KG54-AI). The settings are: Device Name: wlan-bus-usb-2-1:1.0 IP address assigned using DHCP [the DHCP server of the router is enabled] Started automatically at boot However, if I use any of the tools that seem to be available to find a WiFi network (e.g. KWiFiManager), they say that there is no wireless interface, and hence cannot find the router. Any ideas on how to make this work? I'm fine with wired LANs (at home network level, anyway) but have never delved into wireless before. Second, the iBook won't make any sound in KDE. The hardware is fine - I get the Apple chord when the machine first boots, but nothing thereafter. Again, YaST says that the sound card is recognised and supported, listing card number 0 as Integrated Sound (awacs), with the driver snd-powermac. But sounds don't make any noise. Volume is set to 80%, and none of the settings in the mixer are at zero. At least, none that I can change. AlsaMixerGUI shows several settings that won't produce a bar when I drag in them, including PC Speaker, which is worrying. Once more - any ideas about this one? Third, the iBook won't suspend. If I select "Suspend to disk" from the KPowersave icon in the system tray, I get an error message: The kernel version "vmlinuz" in /boot does not match the running kernel version "2.6.13-15-default". Resuming with this kernel will not work. If you know what you are doing, you can override this in /etc/sysconfig/powersave/sleep with the variable SUSPEND2DISK_IGNORE_KERNEL_MISMATCH=yes What's the best way to fix this and allow the machine to enter suspend mode (I do, BTW, have the resume option in lilo set to my swap partition, following the advice in the PPC pages on the website). Finally, I understand that there is no official Macromedia Flash player for PPC linux. However, I've heard of a few open-source ones. Can anyone make a recommendation? Basically, I want my son to be able to use the Flash games on the BBC website, so sound and interactivity are a must if he's to be able to use the iBook. Thanks in advance for any help! John -- John Pettigrew http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/ http://john.pettigrew.org.uk/blog/

16 years, 4 months

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