January 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] ftp update problems
by monte.milanuk＠alltel.net 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Hi, all. I have been trying to update my SuSE 6.3 system using various methods of ftp... gftp, ncftp, ftp, etc. The problem is that at any of the sites that carry version 6.3, or the updates, I cannot 'ls', 'dir', or 'get'. I can 'cd' if I already know the path, but that's it. Anything else gets me a warning 'Illegal Port Command'. I have emailed the ftpadmin at the sites, but have received no response. I am wondering, is anyone else haveing these problems, or is it just me? Thanks for your time, Monte -- 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] Philips Brilliance 1410
by hatridge＠straubing.baynet.de 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Hi All! Does anyone have a 14" Philips Brilliance 1410 monitor? I need the specifications for it. I've looked on the 'net and can find only the 15" and 17" specs. I don't think that I should use that. Also a general question... I was given this monitor. The guy who had it dropped it and cracked the case. On the front upper right corner is a 2mm by 10mm crack. The monitor itself works fine, but should I worry about radiation? If so, what can I do? Thanks! Jim Hatridge hatridge(a)straubing.baynet.de Proud Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jim's Beowulf Project Looking for giveaway computers and parts I need it all! Email Jim for details on how you can help build a poor man's super computer. -- 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] vendor support for Linux?
by hattons＠CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Has anybody been keeping up with the status of hardware vendor's support of Linux? This is a subject that I was interested in when I first started working with SuSE 5.0. If I buy hardware and attempt to run it on NT, Microsoft expects me to get the driver from the hardware manufacturer. If I try to run the same hardware in Linux, the hardware vendor expects me to get the driver from the Linux community. With the recent growth of Linux it seems reasonable to expect hardware vendors to be stepping up the the plate to support Linux. Any thoughts on this? Steve -- 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] xawtv etc
by superseagulls＠netscapeonline.co.uk 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

I have a tv card which uses a BT878 chip... I know that it is possible to get this to work but I seem to be going round in circles.. I have tried xtvscreen, xawtv and kwintv and the best I have managed so far is a wonderful picture but the same picture on every channel- none of which had any sound. I have decided to start afresh, uninstalled all of the above and start again, before I do so, has anybody really managed to get this to work well ? its the only reason now for booting windows up and I would love to get rid of it totally. being in the UK, I assume that I should be using PAL-europe, also in the driver/Makefile for bttv it asks for the tuner type, how do I determine that ? many thanks Pete -- 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] SuSEFax buttons missing
by genz1968＠mtu-net.ru 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Hello, I have SuSEFax installed. I use SuSE 6.2 The buttons in the Phone Book window "Serial Fax" and "Send Fax" are missing. I was already having problems with these two buttons being so scrunched up that it was difficult to click on them. Now they are just gone. I can tell that something is not sizing correctly in that area, because the button "Sort" is a bit fuzzy on the bottom. What the heck happened to them? I have installed Russian fonts, so I thought maybe it was a font problem. Grabbed my original XF86Config which has my original font path settings. Still gone. Reinstalled SuSEFax. Still gone. Any ideas or clues would be appreciated. Thanks George Zeigler -- My personal website http://www.firstnethou.com/gz/welcome.htm -- 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] Thanks to many persons
by billmadsen＠aya.yale.edu 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Heartfelt thanks to S. J. Black, John Gilger, kepe, Ole Hansen, and George Toft for invaluable information about mounting a zip drive and to Jon Pennington and Tim Duggan for invaluable information on loading the agpgart module. This is a great community (the SuSE community, that is). Bill Madsen in St. Louis -- 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] Thanks again! A bit OT
by hattons＠CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

I want to take a moment to thank the SuSE folks. This New Years Day was very special to me. I watched the celebrations in Germany, France, England, The Czech Republic, and etc. When I was in Germany twenty years ago, as a young American soldier, I lived in a country that was cut down the middle. A black cloud of recent history hung over this once magnificent nations like smoke from a forest fire. Just last month I was shown a graveyard in Northern Kentucky where my ancestors were buried. All the grave stones are inscribed with German words. Kenneweg was my grandmother's maiden name. Both my great grand father and great uncle died as prisoners of the Japanese in WW II. Grandma taught me to be proud to be (part) German. She also taught me that all people are basically good. It was not until I after I had done my tour in Germany that she told me that she did not like Oriental people. She let me grow up without out the taint of historical hatreds. I can trace many of my American roots back to Germany. Many came before the American Revolution. Something inside of me has made me very passionate about my German ancestry. I have studied German history from Tacitus' _The Germania_ to Willie Brandt's _People and Politics_. One of my great childhood heroes was Albert Einstein, a German born Jew who worshiped and contributed to the divine spirit of German intellectual cultural traditions. When I look to Germany I see the land of Kant, Leibnitz, Riemann, Beethoven, Bach, Friedrich The Great, Heissenberg, Goethe, and etc. I see that one dark decade, which so many dwell upon as the whole of German identity, as an unfortunate yet brief period of national madness born of the horrors of war and economic upheaval. It was a period where the darker passions of Man overwhelmed the Light of Truth and Reason. SuSE Linux is a wonderful expression of the good things that I worship about my German heritage. When I slept in a potato field in Southern Bavaria with only an M-16 to hold in the bitter German winter, I was making a stand for the freedom that allows things like Linux to flourish. I am happy and proud to be associated with SuSE Linux because it represents what is good about Germans, and about humanity as a whole. Thanks again, Steve -- 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] Kernel 2.2.13
by sipper＠africaonline.co.zw 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Hello all and happy New Year. I downloaded 2.2.13 and did the following:- Coppied the file into /tmp and ran gzip -cd linux-2.2.13.tar.gz | tar xfv - This created a linux folder in /etc. I then renamed /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux.old, and copied the /etc/linux folder to /usr/src. Then I ran make dep, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install and make bzlilo. This all seemed to go okay, there was some different stuff in the kernel so I assumed it was the new kernel I was compiling. Now when I boot the pc istill get kernel 2.2.10 at the login prompt, as well as some stuff saying I'm running a 386 machine. I complied K6 support into the kernel. Is this normal, if so how do I know I have correctly compiled 2.2.13 ? Thanks for any help. Regards Mark -- M.R. Annandale sipper(a)africaonline.co.zw Harare, Zimbabwe SuSE Linux 6,2 Registered Linux User # 154098 Sent by Kmail -------------------------------------------------------------------- No Micro$oft products were used in the compilation of this document. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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] Loading the agpgart module
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

Hi, Check /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt. I came across it recently and it may explain some things. It also has info on where the latest version can be found. Hope this helps Tim > -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Pennington [SMTP:jpennington@atipa.com] > Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 12:50 PM > > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote: > > Thank you for posting this message. It answers a question I had > been trying > > to find the answer to by reading the SuSE manual. Since I found no > help > > there, I am curious to know where I should have looked to find the > answer. > > I had examined modules.conf, but I had no idea what agpgart would be > an > > alias for. Where would I learn that the formula is alias > char-major-10-175 > > and not (say) alias block-major-10-260? > > I'm referring this back to the list, because the answer to that is > somewhat > complicated. I'll *try* to explain it as best I can (keep in mind > that I'm not > a kernel hacker :) : > > b l o c k - m a j o r - 1 0 - 2 6 0 > | | | | > dev type sub type major minor > > Most devices are of two basic device types; char (keyboard, serial > port, sound > card), and block (disk, ram). char devices are for I/O, block devices > are > mostly storage devices. The SCSI card is a char, the SCSI disk is > block...right? K. There are major devices and minor devices, > /dev/hda is a > major, /dev/hda1 is a minor (IIRC). As far as the numbers (-10-260, > in our > example), I haven't the foggiest idea. These are all deeply imbeded > in kernel > documentation. > > PLEASE correct me, since I'm mostly talking out of my ass right now. > :] > -- 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] Ok, I know this sounds stupid
by ronm＠cyrix.com 03 Jan '00

03 Jan '00

yeah I can do that but I dont think there is even 10 lines in the script.. and this is the same script that all the sound blaster live owners use so I dont think its a problem with the script ... But I will write it down and get back to you if no one else has any ideas.. thanks Ron Ryan The Great wrote: > when you get back to your machine, write down about 10 lines b4 and 10 lines > after the if statement. that will most likely tell me where the coding > problem is located. since you don't remember exactly what it was i > personally can't tell you. > > ryan > > -~->-----Original Message----- > -~->From: ronm(a)cyrix.com [mailto:ronm@cyrix.com] > -~->Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:51 AM > -~->To: SUSE Discussions (E-mail) > -~->Subject: Re: [SLE] Ok, I know this sounds stupid > -~-> > -~-> > -~-> > -~-> > -~->I dont remember offhand as Im at work.. it is something like > -~-> > -~->if [ la la la ] > -~-> > -~->it had a problem with the brackets which is something if should > -~->have no problem with.. so I am missing something and I dont > -~->know what it is.. i did remove the brackets then it had a problem > -~->with what was inside the brackets.. I got the feeling that it would > -~->have had a problem with every character in the script. > -~-> > -~->something else that is wired that may be related is, I cant bring > -~->up ahh shoot I cant remember I knew I should have written this > -~->down.. with the standard install when you go to open i think it under > -~->programs ,, the xterms ... the one that starts with a k, I cant > -~->open that > -~->one.. the window pops up and then dies rite away.. > -~-> > -~->so I know I must be missing something, I just dont know enough to > -~->know what Im missing. > -~-> > -~->Ron > -~-> > -~-> > -~->Ryan The Great wrote: > -~-> > -~->> what do the line of codes say.... > -~->> > -~->> -~->-----Original Message----- > -~->> -~->From: ronm(a)cyrix.com [mailto:ronm@cyrix.com] > -~->> -~->Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 10:33 AM > -~->> -~->To: SUSE Discussions (E-mail) > -~->> -~->Subject: [SLE] Ok, I know this sounds stupid > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~->ok, I still new to linux so I dont know what is wrong with > -~->> -~->this or how to fix it. > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~->I have a sound blaster live and I am trying to set it up.. well > -~->> -~->I loaded the > -~->> -~->right package em10k.. something or other.. and then I went to > -~->> -~->/usr/lib/ em10k, > -~->> -~->you know where the script is and ran the install script.. I am > -~->> -~->work now and > -~->> -~->cant remember every thing exactly but I know I did this > -~->part right.. > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~->now here is where we get to the wired part. when I run the > -~->> -~->script i get an error > -~->> -~->message and I have no idea what is wrong. I am guessing that I > -~->> -~->am missing > -~->> -~->some lib of some sort but Im not sure. > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~->the error is with line for which is a "if "statement and it > -~->> -~->says something like > -~->> -~->unrecognized operator or character (not sure which now) "[" so > -~->> -~->I vi the file and > -~->> -~->take out the [ from line four.. I grasping at straws if > -~->you cant tell. > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~->that did not work, so I put the file back and thought I would > -~->> -~->write you fine folks > -~->> -~->on monday morning if the world didnt end ;-) > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~->laters > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~->Ron > -~->> -~-> > -~->> -~->-- > -~->> -~->Ron Morgan jr. Cyrix Dallas Texas > -~->> -~->//If you remain calm, You dont know all the facts! // > -~->> -~->ronm(a)cyrix.com > -~->> -~->gojoe(a)home.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/ > -~->> -~-> > -~-> > -~-> > -~-> > -~->-- > -~->Ron Morgan jr. Cyrix Dallas Texas > -~->//If you remain calm, You dont know all the facts! // > -~->ronm(a)cyrix.com > -~->gojoe(a)home.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/ > -~-> -- Ron Morgan jr. Cyrix Dallas Texas //If you remain calm, You dont know all the facts! // ronm(a)cyrix.com gojoe(a)home.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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