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Problem with Video Card SiS. 6326
by carcoco＠bbvnet.com 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

From: "Carlos " <carcoco(a)bbvnet.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:43:03 +0100 Message-ID: <3A140E97.23261.270466@localhost> Subject: Problem with Video Card SiS. 6326 I have a video card SiS. 6326, that I'm trying to do work with SuSE 6.4. In /etc/XF86Config I put this : (like I see in SuSE Linux Support- SDB) Option "no_accel" Option "no_linear" Option "sw_cursor" But now its works with only 256 colors. Anybody has this SiS. 6326, with more colors. ???? Thanks for your help. Carlos Cortes.

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Re: [SLE] SuSE+Thunderbird 1000
by Chris.Smith＠raytheon.co.uk 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

From: Chris.Smith(a)raytheon.co.uk Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:02:04 +0000 Message-Id: <OFB8B6F898.8EBA0F6C-ON80256999.0057D391(a)raytheon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE+Thunderbird 1000 Hi, This sounds like crap hardware to me :( How about some panic messages to see what it blows on??? This can help to determine if it's a compatibility or reliability problem. - Chris.

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RE: [SLE] SuSE 6.2 suddenly starts eating memory
by Heupink＠INTECH.UNU.EDU 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

Message-ID: <1100D69203AAD2118E3C00508B8B9E8A17095E(a)mailhost.intech.unu.edu> From: "Heupink, Mourik Jan C." <Heupink(a)INTECH.UNU.EDU> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 16:11:03 +0100 Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 6.2 suddenly starts eating memory <p>> I don't know how much help I can be. But if no one else has offered > yet... Thank you ;-) > What exactly does 'top' show is running? And what were the exact path > names on the ftp server of the upgraded packages? for example: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/a1/aaa_base.rpm I assume that's the right stuff. > The 'top' screenshot may show the rogue program. First thing I'd check > for is a rogue 'cron' job, especially one named 'manpath'. > SuSE 6.4 had some trouble with that. These latest 6.2 packages may have the same > problem. So I found out, yes. I corrected the cron things. For now, it seems to be running fine. Swap: 120480K available, 744K used. It's not doing anything special, why should it want to use swap memory? Anyway: processes that are running include: smbd [samba], httpd [apache], hpwebjetd [with rather a lot of 'threads'], dhcpd, a perl thing, that's about it. Just a question. Is it normal to have only 3884K available on a machine that is not really doing a lot? 128MB installed, 124MB used, 4MK available. When I started up the box, it was using 54MB. This number increased a lot, but now it seems to be stabilized. Is that normal? Why does it use more and more memory upon normal circumstances?

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inetd.conf
by eollaroy＠yahoo.com 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

Message-ID: <20001116143244.23542.qmail(a)web6204.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 06:32:44 -0800 (PST) From: Roy Flora <eollaroy(a)yahoo.com> Subject: inetd.conf hi well io want to enable telnet and ftp but i cant seem to find the etc/inetd.conf my question is how can i get it back. thanks Roy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/

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HylaFax and fuser command... Helpless :((
by sysgod＠ixir.com 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

From: "T. Koray Peksayar" <sysgod(a)ixir.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:34:10 +0200 Message-ID: <LJEPJKKLGMLAKPDFNABLEEJMCCAA.sysgod(a)ixir.com> Subject: HylaFax and fuser command... Helpless :(( Hi, Here comes a good question :) I've been using HylaFax for quite a long time. I've even installed it on a P100 with 1 GB's of HDD and 8 MB's of RAM using SuSE 6.4. Now I've a spare PII 350 to use, which has already got SuSE 6.4 installed, with 64 Megs of RAM. So I took out the modem from the P100 box and put it right to the PII 350 one. The modem is a BOCA 56K ISA International (I'm in Turkey) and can be used flawlessly on my PPP connection using wvdial (we connect and stay online for days). Then took the regular steps for configuration. I have a print out of SuSE How-to from www.hylafax.org which is the correct one. (Btw. to remind SuSE, although I'm a distributor I haven't ordered 7.0 yet so I don't know if it has been corrected but there seems to be problems on the HylaFax section of the manual since 6.1 to 6.4) The configuration script keeps telling me that the fuser command colud not be found ! But it is in place and working quite well ! When I connect to my ISP and issue a fuser /dev/ttyS1 command it tells me that the ttyS1 is used by wvdial correctly. I missed this warning and got on configuration. It dilas out and sends faxes smoothly (excpet for some minor problems regarding buggy fax machines) but when it comes to receiving them the modem just stays online after receiving. I also tried an external-TI chipset-USR clone-V.34+ (33.600) modem which has been used correctly by my co-workers on a Windoze box with Symantec TalkWorks. It also screws up ! I don't want to go back to Symantec because it's too buggy and weak for broadcasting and mass-faxing. Has anybody cam-up with the same problem ? Koray

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firewall problem
by tomas＠primenet.com 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:55:07 -0800 (PST) From: "S.Toms" <tomas(a)primenet.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011142046260.30017-100000(a)scarydream.smotrs.org> Subject: firewall problem Just recently, yesterday, verizon went off line for a while. Anyway, when they came back online I couldn't get the dhclient to grab an address, both cards could talk to the internal if I switched around the config settings to swap the cards but no matter what, I couldn't get an address through dhclient. After disabling the firewall, which has worked fine since versions 6.3, I was able to grab an address without any problems, re-enabling the firewall and restarting again would again nolonger grab an address with dhclient. The only work around I can come up with is to disable the firewall, restart the computer (which then grabs an address) then re-enable the firewall and manually start it. Does anyone have any similar problems, any ideas what could be causing a perfectly working firewall/router to all of a sudden cease working properly on boot up? -- S.Toms - tomas(a)primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.17 "But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast to the nearest gas station."

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What is tar.bz2
by bryantyson＠earthlink.net 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

From: "Bryan S. Tyson" <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 07:37:14 -0500 Message-Id: <00111607393905.00750@desk> Subject: What is tar.bz2 On the quanta download page most of the files are in tar.bz2 format. What is that, and how do you extract this kind of file? Thanks. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional KMail 1.0.29.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Network problems
by lists＠mostrom.pp.se 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:58:35 +0100 From: Jan Erik Moström <lists(a)mostrom.pp.se> Message-ID: <20001116115839-r01010600-69255544(a)195.100.75.184> Subject: Network problems Since my question about the turn-around time for SuSE support I've got several suggestion that I should send my questions to the list also, since you might be able to help me. I've also got some help from a person at SuSE and I'm currently trying out the suggestions he made ... but perhaps someone else have a few suggestions so I can solve my problem (yes, I want to get my network up and running as soon as possible ... this machine is supposed to be the center of it until a can get another Linux machine to take it's role 8-) Anyway, here is the facts: + The problem: I can't get the OS to recognize my network card. + I'm a newbie to Linux, I've used Unix on-and-off for the last 15-18 years but I've never done any installation of a complete system only single programs (but before the arrival of packages ... only tar archives). So I'm trying to get up to speed on Linux while installing it. + I got a computer as "package deal" which means that I have no idea about the exact hardware. It's a Fujitsu Scaleo and if I look at the vendors site I can find my computer (or at least something that is close to it) but there is no information about a network card there (they seem to be delivered without a network card). + I have previously tried to install Debian (but have erased the disk several times since then) and then the network card worked but we had other problems instead so I abandoned Debian. + When running the SuSE installation everything seems fine except that it doesn't seem to recognize my network card or modem (but I haven't tried figuring that out yet). + I tried playing around but since I don't know what I doing I didn't succeed 8-) + I tried commands like lspci and hwinfo, etc and the card seems to identify itself as 22: PCI 0a.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.63] Vendor: 1106 "VIA Technologies, Inc." Model: 3065 "?" SubVendor: 1186 "D-Link System Inc" SubDevice: 1401 "?" Revision: 0x42 I/O Ports: 0xcc00-??? (rw) Memory Range: 0xdfffff00-??? (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xdffe0000-??? (ro,disabled) IRQ: 10 (10159 events) <p>+ I sent a question earlier and got some help (but perhaps I didn't understand all of it 8-) so I think I will manage to complete everything when I find what module I should use (Thank you zentara) ... but as I said earlier I'm a newbie 8-) + The person at SuSE (thanks) who has helped suggested that I should use modprobe and try the different modules that are available ... (I tried the Via-Rhine module but it doesn't recognize the card) And this is the where I stand now. If anyone can help me with some more info etc I would be very grateful. <p> jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:jem@mostrom.pp.se Free Elektron http://www.mostrom.pp.se/folk/jem/

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Odd network problem.
by sprouts＠xpress.se 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

Message-ID: <001f01c04f4d$054a37c0$c807a8c0@localhost> From: "Mikke Mattsson" <sprouts(a)xpress.se> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:42:57 +0100 Subject: Odd network problem. I have a SuSE 7.0 box setup as a firewall between my LAN and the ADSL-line. I got hold of a 3c905b(combo) card, and installed it for use on the LAN. But now something strange has happened. When downloading files from the linuxbox to my winbox I get lots of transmission errors, but when downloading from the internet to the winbox everything looks allright. I can also upload files to the linuxbox from the winbox in normal speed. I've never seen this kind of behaviour before, anyone got a clue what could be wrong?

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Linux games/software for young children
by Navpreet_Sangha＠amat.com 16 Nov '00

16 Nov '00

From: Navpreet_Sangha(a)amat.com Message-ID: <88256999.002E3CE5.00(a)GWSMTPSCLA05.mis.amat.com> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:21:17 +0000 Subject: Linux games/software for young children Hi, I'm Linux dabbler (no expert) and was wondering if people could please point me to any resources for linux software for children. Thanks Preet Sangha Sorry if this mail is to the wrong mailing list, if this is the case I'd appreciate pointers as to best places ask.

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