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[SuSE Linux] Linux and dual processor setup
by paulken＠metaphor.no 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

How can I find out if the Linux kernel (2.0.36) knows about my two processors? How do I enable support if not setup? -- Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen Sales Support and System Development Metaphor Systems as - 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] Soundblaster Live! and SuSE 6.0 (2.0.36 kernel)
by paulken＠metaphor.no 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Hi, I'm completly new to Linux, though I've been working with Irix and HP-UX for some years. I've run into a problem with regards to getting the Soundblaster Live! to work (both under Linux and Windows98; I can't get Windows NT to install;). I've followed the instructions in the SuSE manual, ie. running pnpdetect (or somesuch, I'm at work, don't have the manual). Anyways the utility which the manual says I should run doesn't detect my soundcard or anything. It complains about some PCI module not found/installed so that it can't check for PCI conflicts. The SB Live! is a PCI card so I thought the problem lies therein. The SuSE manual doesn't say anything, and I don't find any good info about what I should have installed. My networkcard, also PCI, was detected by YaST, so I find it strange that the SB Live! card can't be found. Should I just go into windows, take a note of everything I can about it's setup and use that in some conf file (isapnp.conf or something, again I don't recal the exact name)? -- Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen Sales Support and System Development Metaphor Systems as - 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] Source code locations
by abrahams＠valinet.com 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Lenz Grimmer wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: > > > > YaST's capability of unpacking .tgz-Archives is a leftover from ancient > > > times, when Software Packages where gzipped tar Archives (like Slackware > > > has). These Packages contained the whole directory structure and binaries > > > as well as pre- and postinstall scripts. It was never intended to be used > > > for _source_-Packages. This would be a hard job, since every source > > > package requires different rules on how to make a binary of it and has > > > a different directory structure... > > > > I agree with everything you say. But I still can see how Yast could do the > > job, in a different way than happens with the current .tgz unpacking > > facility: > > > > 1. It could keep an inventory of .tgz files and unpack them to a standard > > location (*not* the root directory :=)), > > Well, but that would require, that YaST can determine between a binary and > a source .tgz. How should it do so? Actually, it doesn't matter! Maybe an inventory of .tgz files isn't even needed, since they are only used as the data source for the unpacking process. Once they've been unpacked, the only reason to keep them at all is for archiving purpose. But they still ought to be in a standard location. > > > > 2. It could note the state of the system (as instmon does), then provide the > > user with a subshell to compile and install the package according to the > > package's own procedures, then determine the state of the system (again, as > > instmon does) and record it for purposes of uninstallation. > > > > I see this as truly in the spirit of the function that Yast is intended to > > perform: providing centralized control and inventory of the facilities > > available in one's system. > > This sounds really neat, indeed. But if it would be so easy, we would not > need so many people for packaging software for our distribution... I just ran across a situation where I *almost* needed just this facility. I tried to run the xcdroast program, but it wouldn't run because it needed an updated tcl/tk and tix library. Fortunately you had those on the web site. But what if you didn't? The suggestion in the xcdroast package is to uninstall the existing tcl/tk and replace them with new ones obtained in .tgz form from an ftp site they specify. But simply uninstalling them without telling Yast that new versions are there would probably mess up all kinds of dependencies that Yast tracks. > > > I've forwarded your request to feedback(a)suse.de anyway. > > Best wishes, > > LenZ - 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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Re: [SuSE Linux] VIRUS WARNING
by A.Crowe＠OPENMAIL1.TSEA-E.sukepabe.simis.com 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Folks, Check out McAfee's Virus Library at <A HREF="http://vil.mcafee.com/villib/hoax.asp"><A HREF="http://vil.mcafee.com/villib/hoax.asp</A">http://vil.mcafee.com/villib/hoax.asp</A</A>> The fact that the author is keen to have this note sent to everyone you know would indicate that maybe someone is just trying to propagate this message to as many people as they possibly can, and panic the hell out of all of them. Feel free to delete the note with extreme prejudice. Alan. - 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] SiS 6326 AGP
by imm＠KidsCare.Net 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Many of us have wrestled with the SiS 6326 AGP to get it to work with linux. Will the driver for this card be upgraded? If so when can expect one? I know this card is capable of much more than it is doing now. Any Info Helpful Thank you, Ian - 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] A couple questions about kppp, Netscape sound and dial-up
by alex＠daniloff.com 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Hello SuSE folks ! I got a strange behavior of kppp. When my SuSE 6.0 box just booted up and shows kdm graphical login, kppp starts dial up Internet connection even before I got into KDE or Windowmaker. What should I change in the setting to avoid this unwanted kppp behavior? I really want to start dial up connectin when I invoke Netscape. For now I invoke kppp, start dial up connection and only after pops up Netscape. How I can do it in reverse order ? Does somebody know how to enable sound in Netscape 4.5? Could somebody poin me on a good e-mail server program which allows to create a couple e-mail accounts, has a graphical interface and featured with remotely e-mail boxes monitoring option over Internet? For example kind of program similar to Mail Gear 1.0 (URL-Labs Inc.)that I'm using for Winbloze NT server. Thank you in advance Alex - 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] 2.2 upgrade
by anthony_Melia＠Dell.com 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

I have suse 5.3, I want to upgrade the kernal to 2.2. I have the latest Pc Plus magazine CD which comes with the 2.2 kernal and a min_requirememnts directory with everything listed in the changes docuemnt that needs to be upgraded (Brilliant CD!). Question is...what order should I upgrade the componants? i.e if everything is compiled with GGCC should I upgrade that first?? or odes it matter? - 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] HELP MAN PAGES BROKEN
by gh＠simteam.com 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

regards to all, Sorry to yell in the subject line, but panic fills me :( Yesterday night I try to install the version 1.0.0 of GNOME from their site to do this I builff glib and gtk version 1.2.0 from gz archives not RPMs Then I download and installed all the rpms from their site as I had an annoying warning coming from ldconfig, so I remove the line /usr/i486-linux-libc6/lib/ from /etc/ld.so.conf !! Now when I type man csh for example I got a segmentation fault message, what did I broke ?? How ?? and how can it be fixed. I have to say that it seems that xman is working properly. Any help/clue/tip will be greatly appreciated because I read the man a lot and cannot use xman ( not convenient at all ) regards to all, GH Portefait -- "Computers are like air conditioners - they stop working properly when you open Windows" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS/CC d-@ s+:- C++(++++)UL++>++++ P++>++++ L++>+++ E-W+(++) N++ !o K- 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>> - 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] Other SuSE 6.0 problems
by adcarlso＠visinet.ca 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

So what were the solutions to some of the problems in SuSE 6.0: Such as No KDE sounds (other sound apps work though). Other problems I would like to resolve: 1. Xkb under X creates an error. Seems it didn't compile properly. I disabled it to bypass the error (going back to the 'older' method as it is described). 2. Conflict on lines 10 and 14 of the Xresources file...I would like to find out why. Error shows up when starting X. I don't know if anyone else has seen these latter problems. ---------------------------------- Arlen Carlson adcarlso(a)visinet.ca Broad-mindedness, n.: The result of flattening high-mindedness out. This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming... ---------------------------------- - 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] xanim
by adcarlso＠visinet.ca 04 Mar '99

04 Mar '99

Just curious as to whether anyone has tried to do the final_linkage recompile of xanim under SuSE 6.0. I did...the mpgs I want to see with the three extra codecs don't work anymore. All I know is that it worked under 5.3 Anyone have any suggestions. BTW, I also tried specifing gcc 2.7.2 in the final_linkage script...Same problem results (perhaps a egcs/gcc problem is what I had though, but I guess not). ---------------------------------- Arlen Carlson adcarlso(a)visinet.ca "The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain." -- G. Fitch This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming... ---------------------------------- - 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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