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[SuSE Linux] Shared PCI interrupts?
by Anthony.Schlemmer＠gte.net 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

I was exploring all of the interesting information that can can be found out in the /proc directory and when I did a "cat" on /proc/interrupts I noticed that my AHA2940UW controller and my SMC Etherpower II card are sharing the same interrupt: 0: 29249958 timer 1: 12575 keyboard 2: 0 cascade 4: 0 + serial 5: 8196 sound blaster 8: 2 + rtc 10: 122547 aic7xxx, SMC EPIC/100 12: 335041 PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 math error I don't know how long this has been going on and I'm wondering if this is going to cause problems? The system has been running 7x24 since last July and has been very stable. Thanks, Tony -- Anthony.Schlemmer(a)gte.net - 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 archiv 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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[SuSE Linux] Qt
by milan＠elas.sk 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

I am runnnig SuSE 5.3 is there qt 1.42 packages on ftp Milan Hromada <A HREF="mailto:mhromada@elas.sk">mailto:mhromada@elas.sk</A> - 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 archiv 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] [SuSE Linux] SuSE derailed? READ THIS
by martin_moeller＠technologist.com 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

zentara wrote: > > After playing around with Redhat, I see that Yast is > a superior setup tool, and it makes sense that the Suse > people want to keep it proprietary. Still, it could be interesting to see what users might dream up to make managing your system even easier (users=development savvy). SuSE shouldn't *have* to include any sent in patches, but on the other hand might be well advised to vigorously test them?!? Who knows, we might even get a lot of functionality even faster. That is no guarantee, of course ;) It would still be hard for other distro's to grab YaST for their needs without either seriously rewrite their version of it, or seriously alter their own setup. The last thing might be good ;) - SuSE clones?!? ;) Enough rambling. Just thought I'd mention it... Regards, Martin Moeller - 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 archiv 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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[SuSE Linux] Driver options for 3Com 3c905B
by bparker＠dc.net 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

Hi: Are there any options settings necessary for using a 3Com 3c905B Cyclone network adapter with SuSE 5.2 with the original kernel? I have set driver option=0 and the card is recognized, but is this optimum? I have checked the SuSE support database and find no reference to driver options. Regards, Bill Parker, <bparker(a)dc.net> - 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 archiv 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] lock files protocol
by jkirving＠mosquitonet.com 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, I wrote: >I'm trying to get a handle on using the modem via perl, and find that >perl's open() seems to hang or block on accessing the modem. ... In researching this via man pages, serial howtos, dejanews, various texts, etc., the (uucp) cu program seems ideally suited for my needs. It deals with the lock file, modem configuration, system-specific phone numbers and chat scripts, and I'd be nuts to try to reinvent any of that, including the lock file protocol. The SuSE 5.3 manual has good info on UUCP, as does O'Reilly's Network Adminstrator's Guide. -- Ken Irving -- jkirving(a)mosquitonet.com Trident Software -- <A HREF="http://www.mosquitonet.com/~jkirving/trident"><A HREF="http://www.mosquitonet.com/~jkirving/trident</A">http://www.mosquitonet.com/~jkirving/trident</A</A>> - 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 archiv 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] SuSE 6.0 & Kernel 2.2 ?
by grimmer＠suse.de 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

Hi, On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, W.D.McKinney wrote: > My question is the 6.0 version out of the box working with 2.2 ? Yes, it does. We already have several machines running 2.2.1 without trouble. > This is the changes that it needs : <SNIP> > Taking a look at Net-tools as a example, > 2.2 needs 1.49 but SuSE 6.0 has 1.46 ? I've forwarded your message to our developers. All the above mentioned packages have already been updated for 6.0. Net-Tools are in the queue, but it also works with the current version. It also depends heavily on your kernel configuration. Not all packages are necessary for all configurations. > So now my question, is there any rpm's updates coming out to use 2.2 ? > <A HREF="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/SuSE-6.0/n1/"><A HREF="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/SuSE-6.0/n1/</A">ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/SuSE-6.0/n1/</A</A>> doesn't have a update > for Net-tools ? Not yet... We're working on it. > Just thinking about it since I subscribe to SuSE and would like to use > the 2.2 kernels. As mentioned above, 2.2 runs on several 6.0 machines here without problems. Bye, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - 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 archiv 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] Changing a user
by Michael.Salmon＠uab.ericsson.se 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

+----- On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:04:06 GMT, Keith White writes: | | If for example,i wanted to change a user xxxx to yyyy | without destroying | (a) the home directory | (b) not invoke copying from /etc/skeleton | (c) not change the UID | (d) recursivly change the ownership of all files | placed across the system by xxxx to yyyy | (e) retain permissions for the new user yyyy to | access db files etc.(this last one maybe not | work). | | How would this be done ??. Edit /etc/passwd so that the line which starts with xxxx is changed to yyyy, do the same with /etc/shadow (I don't recall whether linux has vipw, if it has use that). Everything except (e) is now done but all is far from well. You may also like to change the name of his home directory to /home/yyyy, if you do then you need update /etc/passwd to reflect this. You also need to check /etc/groups and /etc/aliases. It's probably worthwhile trying to find any files or directories with xxxx as a part of their name and last but not least check configuration files for xxxx. That should fix most of the problems but expect other things to go wrong. I worked on a project that changed the names of over 1000 users, I don't know what we would have done without perl to handle the actual data changes, even so it was a lot of work trying to find all the important places to change the id. /Michael - 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 archiv 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] netscape craches
by markgray＠iago.nac.net 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

"B. John Gilger" <bjgilger(a)earthlink.net> writes: > > > zentara wrote: > > |Maybe when SuSe 6 comes out the glibc version > |of Netscape 4.5 will work better. hope so. > > Don't hold your breath. Netscape 4.5 doesn't work on any OS AFAIK. It works great for me as long as I: 1. Empty disk cache often --- when it gets full it hangs (probably some bug trying to decide what to free up 2. Run a caching nameserver --- if dns-helper has trouble talking to your ISP's nameserver netscape will hang 3. Use it only for web-browsing (gnus and emacs are unbeatable for mail and news reading anyway) 4. Do not enable java or javascript --- even with all security holes and bugs fixed (for now?) allowing someone out on the net to run a program on your computer when most idiots cannot even write legal html has always struck me as somewhat adventurous :-) > > The advice to go with Netscape 4.03 is good. 4.5-glibc is really quite nice and stable as long as you can live with the 4 limitations I mention. (I also refuse all cookies, but that is not something I associate with making netscape so stable on my computer, but who knows?) - 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 archiv 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] GNOME
by awol＠STAT.UNIMAAS.NL 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 W.D.McKinney wrote: >> tjhanson(a)ix.netcom.com (Tim Hanson) wrote: >> How is SuSE 6 going to support the latest GNOME, Enlightenment, and all that? >> Does anybody know? >Head to <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Product/lx60/new_in_6.0.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Product/lx60/new_in_6.0.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Product/lx60/new_in_6.0.html</A</A>> and look at the >updated packages. Lots of update Gnome packages. >I will assume there is an updated Enlightenment if it's available. >Dee Well, it might be updated relative to what was there before but it does not reflect the development stage at all, for example: use actuall gtk-1.1.2 gtk-1.1.13 (or later) imlib-1.8.1 imlib-1.9-2 (or later) gnome(libs/apps)-0.30 gnome(libs/apps)-0.99.x (or later) (approaching 1.0 fast) Enlightenment (not available) Enlightenment-0.15.x (or later) Eterm (not available) Eterm-0.8.8 The gnome 0.30 libs/apps do not compare to what is available now in the 0.99.x development series, there is massive improvement in everything. If you want to try it out on suse you will have to compile yourself from the tarballs or available SRPMS (for newbies: do not use the also available RPMS on suse 5.0 (and probably also not on suse 6.0)) Compiling Enlightenment/Eterm and necessary libs for suse 5/6 is less daunting and the recent development stage is very stable. For definite RPMS of gnome I would wait for 1.0 before asking. I do hope SuSE is following the gnome development and makes available the gnome rpms as soon as possible. Then users have two 'modern' wm/desktops available to choose from: kde and gnome. I hope that suse makes available rpms of a recent version of Enlightenment/Eterm and necessary libs sooner for users who want to get away from 'Windows' like appearance/functionality of both kde and gnome. ------------------------------------- Alexander Volovics Dept of Methodology & Statistics Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL ------------------------------------- - 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 archiv 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] Contents of 6.0
by kar＠webline.dk 01 Feb '99

01 Feb '99

> There is one already: > <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/Pakete/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/Pakete/index.html</A">http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/Pakete/index.html</A</A>> Thanks. OR maybe this is better: <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/Pakete/gesamt.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/Pakete/gesamt.html</A">http://www.suse.de/e/lx60/Pakete/gesamt.html</A</A>> One suggestion, though: It would be better to use English names for english Web pages. - 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 archiv 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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