March 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SuSE Linux] Improving X Performance
by mjburke＠wmfinc.com 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

My X-windows (running Kde) take a long time to load, on a Pentium II 450 with 128MB memory, is there a solution or something I need to do, to optimize the performance. I have the swap partition at max (128mb) ---------- Marshall Burke -- 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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[SuSE Linux] European software is evil (so they tell me)
by dominic_mcdonald_aveyard＠yahoo.com 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Hello! An amusing story: someone new just started at work, I had recommended SuSE to them. They couldn't get K to work because their swap disk wasn't big enough and their machine had little RAM. So they come in and complain to me about it, and then go on about how they got redhat to work instead and how wonderful it was. I told them they hadn't made their swap disk big enougfh first time and they said: Them: Are you sure SuSE doesn't have a virus? ME: Of course not Them: Well you know that a lot of software, especially software from Europe is very buggy and has viruses... Well, he has a point... that evil French company Microsoft, jeez! ;-) I know that I like many other european computer people still consider floppy disks as the avante garde... *lol* Cheers! Dom === _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</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 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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[SuSE Linux] Real modem on the way
by dominic_mcdonald_aveyard＠yahoo.com 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Hey everyone, Well, I'm really sorry, my modem that came with this machine was a software winymodem after all. I had to finally call the manufacturer and they told me, sorry for wasting your time folks. A new internal USRobotics 56k hardware fax/modem is on its way, however. Should be here soon. Talk soon, And thanks for all your help, Cheers! Dom === _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</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 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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[SuSE Linux] General information about samba and kernel 2.2.x
by jboonen＠Worldonline.nl 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Dear all, The samba mount instruction has been changed for kernel 2.2.x . The mount command does now look like: smbmount \\\\nbsserver\\users -U boonen -c 'mount /nbsserver/users -u jboonen -g users' . You need to recompile samba and you need a high version of samba 1.x but preferred is to use samba 2.x . when you do /configure --help you will see al the options. As far as i know doesn't SUSE have any samba rpm package that works for kernel 2.2.x . It is advisable to install the new samba in /usr/local and to delete the samba rpm package first. You need to put in the /etc/profile file the paths for the binairies and the man pages. Important don't forget to include the smbmnt instruction while running ./configure (see ./configure --help). When someone need specific information you may email me. Please include in that case also the email address for the mailing list as it might be useful information for other people too. Regards, Joop. -- 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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[SuSE Linux] Using an 8 Gig disk
by koen_dejonghe＠yahoo.com 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Hi, SuSE Linux 6.0. Kernel 2.0.36. I have a machine with an 8 Gb drive, Linux only. I have the 3 standard partitions / (/dev/hda3), /boot (/dev/hda1) and /swap (/dev/hda2 128Mb), which were proposed by Yast. When I run fsck on /dev/hda3 it's telling me something about 1027 cylinders and that it should be 1024 or otherwise it will give problems with programs like LILO. I am experiencing strange things such as random crashing, especially after heavy use of SMB. I also have the impression that the machine is booting from /dev/hda3 iso. /dev/hda1. That is if I boot from SuSE CD-ROM 1, and then try to boot from /dev/hda1 it's telling me it can't. Sorry for the confused problem description, but does this make sense to anyone? Is an 8 Gb drive perhaps too big for Linux ? Kind regards, == Koen Dejonghe tel: +32 (0)2 712 3668 _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at <A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com"><A HREF="http://mail.yahoo.com</A">http://mail.yahoo.com</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 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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[SuSE Linux] diald dying every so often?
by tschlemmer＠sequeltech.com 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

I noticed very recently that diald was dying for no apparent reason on my server. I found it strange since I've been using diald since I first started using SuSE Linux 5.2. My server system that diald runs on is up for months at a time and only goes down for a kernel patch or SuSE upgrade. Less than two weeks ago I upgraded my server to SuSE 6.0 and about a week after the upgrade I noticed that diald was dying every day. I'm not sure what was going as there were no error messages in the syslog file and I couldn't find a core file anywhere on my system. The only thing I could come up with is that perhaps the SLIP module was being unloaded from the system. I know that diald needs SLIP and so the only thing I could think of as a possible solution was to build SLIP directly into the kernel rather than making it a module. So far diald has been running for more than 24 hours. That is encouraging since before I reconfigured and recompiled my server's kernel, diald didn't seem to be able to run more than 12 hours before dying. I would have to restart it in the morning for my daily email check as it seemed to die sometime in the middle of the night. Can anyone else shed some light on this problem? Tony -- Tony Schlemmer <A HREF="mailto:tschlemmer@sequeltech.com">mailto:tschlemmer@sequeltech.com</A> <A HREF="http://www.sequeltech.com"><A HREF="http://www.sequeltech.com</A">http://www.sequeltech.com</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 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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R: [SuSE Linux] Re: R: 3D cards
by g.rizzo＠usa.net 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Hi, just another word >However, when the time comes when you can buy any 3D card (3dfx, nVidia, >ATI, Matrox, etc.) and be sure that it'll be fully OpenGL accelerated in >Linux (or in XFree86 itself), things may begin to change. Totally right! I still don't think that Lin will become a nice and fast gaming platform, anyway. They're just two different things... I use a bicicle when I want to go to the supermarket, and a plane when I plan (uououo, what a pun! ;) to go to San Francisco... guess who is the cycle and who the plane between Lin and win... ;) I am hoping for an accelerated version of 'serious' programs like POVRay... Blender... BTW, anyone knows if there is a landscape modelling packet for linux? Something like Vista pro or Bryce... I trade the info for the location of QuakeII and Quake and Doom, if you want... Just go to www.download.com , launch a search with the term 'Linux' and there will be showed three pages full of links to Star Office, Wordperfect and to the ID games... >There should be an OS for gaming/multimedia and an OS for 'other'. Rather than >trying to run one OS under another Yeah, that's how I'm doing! Linux for all, and Win for games, even if I guess that this isn't the way Billy The Kid Gates would approve... ;) >The emulator [of N64], as far as I remember, is minute (couple of megs maybe?). >The game is 25MB (compressed, I assume). The performance? Damn good. Damn good and totally out of legality, of course. It's outlaw even making a image of an owned cartridge for personal use, don't speak about spreading on Internet... Nintendo haven't the concept of Free Software, it seems... Greetings, Mano :) ---------------------------------- Germano Rizzo - g.rizzo(a)usa.net <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/germano"><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/germano</A">http://members.xoom.com/germano</A</A>> webmaster of <A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/ACSpinea"><A HREF="http://members.xoom.com/ACSpinea</A">http://members.xoom.com/ACSpinea</A</A>> Linux Registered User N° 114445 Official Linux KDE Doc. Translator PLUTO member - www.pluto.linux.it ---------------------------------- -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GE d-(--) s:- a-->? C++++>$ UL>+++$ P L+++>++++ E++ W+++ N+(++) ?o w---(+) !O M- ?V PS+ PE-- ?Y> PGP+ t-(--) ?5 X+ R tv- b+++ DI++ D+++ G++ e h! r@ y?* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ <A HREF="http://www.geekcode.com"><A HREF="http://www.geekcode.com</A">http://www.geekcode.com</A</A>> -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Pedro Timoteo <deh(a)ip.pt> A: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Data: giovedì 25 marzo 1999 13.31 Oggetto: [SuSE Linux] Re: R: 3D cards > >Germano Rizzo wrote: >> >> >Both nVidia and 3dfx have promised "full" 3D for Linux / XFree86 in the >> >future, but until then, I have to use Windoze for games. >> >-- >> Are u sure that, even after this, you will change platform for games? A >> 3D support doesn't mean that games will be ported to Linux, considered that >> it's still not spread enough between home users, and that the 900f games >> are built over Direct3D... I don't think that M$oft will port DirectX to Lin >> (I doubt it would be possible, either), nor that Electronic Arts etc. will >> translate the code for UNIX with the perspective of selling not more than >> 50'000 copies of a game for this platform... If you successfully use win to >> play, what could make them suppose you want to change this situation? > >You're right. There'll (almost surely) never be a D3D for Linux, and it >probably will never replace Win9x as a gaming platform. >However, when the time comes when you can buy any 3D card (3dfx, nVidia, >ATI, Matrox, etc.) and be sure that it'll be fully OpenGL accelerated in >Linux (or in XFree86 itself), things may begin to change. >-- >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>> -- 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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[SuSE Linux] enlightenment
by Leigh.Richardson＠seaforth-maritime.co.uk 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Cioa peeps I'm having difficulties getting enlightenment to work. I can get the windowmanager to work but I can't get any programs or menu's etc to work. Any one use this wm? Can you help? Leigh Richardson MCP Seaforth Support SNMP: leigh.richardson(a)seaforth-maritime.co.uk Tel. 01224-884564 -- 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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[SuSE Linux] For your information, interresting links
by jboonen＠Worldonline.nl 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Dear all, This article is quite interesting. <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/24/mslinux.html/"><A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/24/mslinux.html/</A">http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/24/mslinux.html/</A</A>> Other interesting Linux links are: <A HREF="http://www.linuxhq.com/"><A HREF="http://www.linuxhq.com/</A">http://www.linuxhq.com/</A</A>> <A HREF="http://www.linux.org/"><A HREF="http://www.linux.org/</A">http://www.linux.org/</A</A>> <A HREF="http://freshmear.net/"><A HREF="http://freshmear.net/</A">http://freshmear.net/</A</A>> <A HREF="http://www.slashdot.org/"><A HREF="http://www.slashdot.org/</A">http://www.slashdot.org/</A</A>> Regards, Joop Boonen. -- 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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[SuSE Linux] samba in 6.0 more slowly than in 5.3 ?
by brawnius＠satlink.com 25 Mar '99

25 Mar '99

Is it possible that samba in suse 6 may be more slowly than 5.3 ? I needed to return to the samba version included in 5.3 because my clipper aplication run very slowly in new version of samba. Have Anybody experience the same ? -- Bruno Luciani Brawnius Tecnologia y Servicios Buenos Aires Argentina ***************************** * POWERED BY SUSE LINUX 6.0 * ***************************** -- 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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