October 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] [OT] PPC recomendation
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 06 Nov '99

06 Nov '99

Hi all, I know this is off-topic, but does anyone know of a good distro that runs well on a Power Mac 7500? What about G3 chip upgrades? I'd like to find one that is laid out similiar to SuSE if possible. I understand LinuxPPC is closer to RH. Anyone? TIA Tim P.S. Lenz, Thorsten, how about SuSE for PPC? 8-O (Not asking much, how hard can it be to keep distribution versions syncronized across three or more completely different architechures? I'm thinking megahurts raised to the megabites power ;-) I hope I didn't just open something I shouldn't have. -- 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] 6.1 install process corrupting disk..?
by edwardb＠AirLink.com 04 Nov '99

04 Nov '99

Using the 6.1 Boot disk off the 6.1 CD Disc 1 since the boot disk that I got was hanging all the time. Went to configure my hard drive (/dev/hdb since /dev/hda is an LS-120 drive) and it reported that /dev/hdb was 2193 cylinders which was the same amount as my /dev/hdc drive (18gig drive). Instead I had already filled up the drive with a FAT32 parition that said it went to 524 cylinders (which now that I think about it, is probably wrong since it's a 4gig drive). It would let me say /dev/hdb could go to 2193 cylinders, but then it would report it being 18+gigs, like my other drive. (4gig is a Seagate slave on IDE0, and 18gig IBM is a Master on IDE1). Anyway, I made two primary paritions along with a swap and there's a 500meg DOS partition that already exists on that drive for booting. Made a /boot at 20megs, swap 120megs, and the rest to cylinder 524 (3+gigs) being another primary partition. Formatted and installed fine but when I went to boot the parition fsck came up and said the disk was corrupt and it was finding stuff endlessly, rebooted and would halt on booting, ran setup again and now /dev/hdb does NOT show up as device. Ran repair, and tried to mount /dev/hdb and it said no such device! wtf!?!?! Is there a bug in reporting cylinders in the 6.1 boot disk? Should I grab something else? I didn't spend the time last night, but I'm considering doing the partitions with Partition Magic and going from there to see if it's any smoother. -------------------------- Edward Baichtal edwardb(a)AirLink.com http://www.airlink.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 terminal on Windows?
by LennartB＠cinnober.com 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

Från: Lennart Börjeson Skickat: den 28 oktober 1999 09:53 Till: 'Patrick Moorman' Ämne: SV: [SLE] X terminal on Windows? There are several commericial products available, which implement an X-server on Windows. I've tried PC-NCD, eXceed and Excursion. eXceed( http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html <http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html> ) is the favourite of many, personally I like Excursion best. However, Excursion is only available bundled together with other "mainframe connectivity" products in the Pathworks32 suite from Compaq ( http://www.openvms.digital.com/pathworks/index.html <http://www.openvms.digital.com/pathworks/index.html> ). NB! "Pathworks32" is the Windows product, "Pathworks" is a large (and expensive) file/resource server package for VMS and Tru64 Unix. -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Patrick Moorman [mailto:khadji@pld.com] Skickat: den 28 oktober 1999 05:56 Till: SuSE Linux Mailing List Ämne: [SLE] X terminal on Windows? I have, unfortunatly, been appointed "Linux Expert" where I work (beacuse I have used it instead of just read about it). One of the questions somebody asked me was if there was a way to use an XFree GUI from the Linux box. Or to be clearer, something like a dumb terminal running a GUI off the server but only for Windows (it will still be running on a dumb terminal :) ) I am not sure why anyone would do this but I tought I would ask anyway. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.3800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Från:</B> Lennart Börjeson <B>Skickat:</B> den 28 oktober 1999 09:53<B>Till:</B> 'Patrick Moorman'<BR><B>Ämne:</B> SV: [SLE] X terminal on Windows?<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=267422907-28101999>There are several commericial products available, which implement an X-server on Windows. I've tried PC-NCD, eXceed and </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=267422907-28101999>Excursion. eXceed(<A href="http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html">http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html</A>) is the favourite of many, personally I like Excursion best. However, Excursion is only available bundled together with other "mainframe connectivity" products in the Pathworks32 suite from Compaq (<A href="http://www.openvms.digital.com/pathworks/index.html">http://www.openvms.digital.com/pathworks/index.html</A>). NB! "Pathworks32" is the Windows product, "Pathworks" is a large (and expensive) file/resource server package for VMS and Tru64 Unix.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=267422907-28101999></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Ursprungligt meddelande-----<B>Från:</B> Patrick Moorman [mailto:khadji@pld.com]<B>Skickat:</B> den 28 oktober 1999 05:56<B>Till:</B> SuSE Linux Mailing List<BR><B>Ämne:</B> [SLE] X terminal on Windows?<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have, unfortunatly, been appointed "Linux Expert" where I work (beacuse I have used it instead of just read about it). One of the questions somebody asked me was if there was a way to use an XFree GUI from the Linux box. Or to be clearer, something like a dumb terminal running a GUI off the server but only for Windows (it will still be running on a dumb terminal :) ) I am not sure why anyone would do this but I tought I would ask anyway.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY>

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[SLE] Yamaha PCI 128 XG
by chris.reeves＠iname.com 03 Nov '99

03 Nov '99

Hi all, I have a Yamaha PCI 128 XG. It sounds wonderful. When it's working. I tried using the demo OSS on the 6.1 CDs, and it set itself up with absolutely no trouble at all. No hand editing, nothing. I made a stupid mistake, though - I installed it on 25/09/99, and so I could only play with it for 6 days before the trial ran out at the end of the month. I had 6 days of sheer bliss. I now have 2 options: use OSS/Free, use ALSA, or buy something. I have had a look at www.linux.org.uk/OSS/ which is, as far as I know, the authoritative site on OSS/Free. It says that Yamaha PCI sound cards are unsupported because the specs haven't been released. I presume this means that I'm out of luck on the OSS/Free front, unless anyone knows a more up to date site. I had a look at the ALSA project, and found that they don't support the card either. That leaves me with the commercial OSS that works and sounds wonderful, but costs. After all that preamble, here's the question. I know that SuSE 6.x comes with a license for standard OSS, but standard OSS doesn't cover the PCI XG, it is supported in a seperate addon module. Which costs more. Does the SuSE 6.2 boxed set contain a licensed copy of OSS *INCLUDING* the separate add-on modules? If not, will 6.3 have OSS with modules? Or am I doomed to paying 4Front directly? Well, I certainly took a long time to ask a simple question! Sorry about that ;-) Thanks in advance Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- 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] qt header files + licq
by rost0005＠stud.uni-sb.de 02 Nov '99

02 Nov '99

hi ! On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Andreas Gerstlauer wrote: > Hi! > > In list.suse.linux-e, you wrote: > > > >checking for strerror... yes > >checking for QT libraries... /usr/lib/qt/lib > >checking for QT includes... no > >configure: error: > >I can't find the QT header files. > >Install the QT development package, or if you have them installed, > >override > >this check with the --with-qt-includes argument, and I'll take your word > >for it. > > > > Which licq version are you trying to compile? I have 0.61 running > here fine (if you want I can make an rpm and give it to you). > However, AFAIK, the new 0.7 version of licq needs the (still beta > I think) QT libraries in version 2.0 so you'll have to install > the qtlib2 and qtdevel2 packages for that. I tried that but never > got it to work so I went back to licq 0.61 .... > Another thing: you might want to try reinstalling the qtdevel > package. I had the same problem above at some point and that > helped (it remembers somewhere the path to the includes and if > that is screwed up...) > > Andreas i followed the same chain of thoughts and installed all the qt2.0 stuff, since i am trying to install ver.070. . ./configure went fine and now it's doodling since an hour on "make". but it looks promising, and i would not be suprised if it worked now... Thanks for all the creative imput i got from all you guys Alex > > -- > Andreas Gerstlauer andreas(a)gerstlauer.de > http://gerstlauer.de/~andreas > -- 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] SuSE 6.3
by jljr＠globalfrontiers.com 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

Now that Cjumbo is taking pre-orders for SuSE 6.3, can anyone give me information on what will be different in 6.3 vs 6.2? thanks in advance, joe -- 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] Slot A / Slot 1
by super-suser＠excite.com 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

On Mon, 18 Oct 1999 21:56:59 -0700 (PDT), S.Toms wrote: > What exactly are the characteristic differences between these two boards? Anyone know, The Slot A is for the new AMD Athlon chips and we all know what the Slot 1 is for. But can a Slot A chip (Athlon) plug into a Slot 1 board? It looks like it could and I havn't come across anything that explicitly says, "No stupid, you can't." :) No, stupid, you can't :). They are similar in design, yes. As a matter of fact, you can (from what I've read, mostly crack-head authors, though) place an Athlon in a Slot 1 board. Architecturally (pin-out wise) they are totally different. Slot A is actually a 200mhz FSB design, slowed down to 100 and 133mhz, and Slot 1 is a 66mhz design that's been sped up to 100 and 133 mhz. Slot 1 is an Intel design, Slot A is an Alpha design. -- -=|JP|=- (Resident GNUbie) Jon Pennington | SuSE Linux 6.2 -o) super-suser(a)excite.com | Kernel 2.2.10 /\\ Kansas City, Missouri | AMD K6-III 450 _\_V ________________________________________________________________ Get FREE voicemail, fax and email at http://voicemail.excite.com Talk online at http://voicechat.excite.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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[SLE] cat'ing a tty to a text file?
by zentara＠gnat.net 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

Hi, What is the best way to capture all the characters on a tty console to a file, and have it running in the background? cat tty1 > tty1.txt & ???????????? -- 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] 640x480 with no wirtual desktop
by frenche＠telalink.net 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

The box owner cannot see regular sized type for resolutions of 800x600 and up. So, I did a configuration with 640x480, which the owner can see just fine. But, the app windows are larger than the destop and I am unable to access the buttons that matter like accept, OK, and close. How do I fix this and still retain the large fonts of 640x480?? -- Jeff French, frenche(a)telalink.net This is a link to Eric S. Raymond's http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Reading-List-HOWTO.html -- 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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[SuSE Linux] ADSL
by kar＠webline.dk 01 Nov '99

01 Nov '99

Did anyone already try ADSL with SuSE Linux? Or know what is required? According to what I've heard, the Danish telecom will install an ADSL box that talks ATM, so there has to be an ATM card in the Linux box. But why can't the ADSL box talk Ethernet? -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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