December 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

kernel 2.2.18
by dvalyou＠yahoo.com 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

Message-ID: <20001229140523.13782.qmail(a)web2302.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 06:05:23 -0800 (PST) From: David <dvalyou(a)yahoo.com> Subject: kernel 2.2.18 After building the new kernel I can't find my zip drive. mount gets me: "mount: /dev/sda4 has wrong major or minor number" What does that mean? How can I find it? the old insmod imm doesn't do anything now, presumably because it's built into the kernel but . . . the drive does activate during the boot process when it is found but the boot.msg doesn't tell me where it is. It mentions an scsi0 and sda. I've tried /dev/sda with no effect. Any suggestions? David __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

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Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit
by sean.akers＠ntlworld.com 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

Message-ID: <200012301246090813.0289F6D1@kang> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 12:46:09 +0000 From: "Sean Akers" <sean.akers(a)ntlworld.com> Subject: Large HD on old P166 with 8.4Gb limit I am running SuSE 6.4 on an old P166 with a BIOS limit of 8.4Gb for HDs. I can't upgrade the BIOS on this machine. I wish to add a new HD to this system and was wondering if Linux can cope with a large drive (I'm thinking 30Gb) ? I am booting off an 8.4 drive at the moment. The new drive will replace a supplementary 2Gb unit so I don't need to be able to boot off the new drive. I can't add a Promise controller due to lack of PCI slots. Speed is not really an issue either, its the space I'm after. Can this be done ? If so, is there any docs on the subject. Cheers, Sean.

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ATI Expert@play 98 problem in Xfree 4.02
by fxf＠skynet.be 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

Message-ID: <3A4F2294.28CF2317(a)skynet.be> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 13:12:04 +0100 From: fx Fraipont <fxf(a)skynet.be> Subject: ATI Expert@play 98 problem in Xfree 4.02 I have recently replaced an Ati Rage pro 8mb with an ATI expert@play 8mb only because the new card has TV out, which I need for my DVD. I think the two cards use the same processor. But when I configured the new card with sax2 (I use SuSE 7), I started having problems with screen redraws: some text becomes illegible when you use sliding bars quickly. I have read all I could find on the SuSe website and in newsgroups, I have downloaded the new 4.02 version, but I still have the same problem. Has anyone experienced the same problem, and can anyone offer a solution? Thanks Fx -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux Kernel 2.2.17 (who Kares?)

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Upgrade Recommendations
by Stephen＠suse.com 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

From: Stephen(a)suse.com, P.Molnar(a)suse.com, Ph.D. <smolnar(a)jadeinc.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 08:46:05 +0000 Message-Id: <00123108460505.23125@AbNormal> Subject: Upgrade Recommendations I am planning on upgrading Igor, my tired Pentium (no number), next week. What I've tentatively decided upon is the following: AMD T-Bird 700 MHz processor DFI AK74-SC Socket A Motherboard Daytona 8MB Video Catrd with SIS 6236 Chip Set Currently I'm running SuSEv4.6 on my two boxes and will must likely upgrade to SuSE v(wwhattever it may get to by then) as soon as they have KDE2 as part of the distribution. I would appreciate comments, pro or con, on the hardware. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Multivariant and stochastic http://web.jadeinc.com/FoundationChem

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FREE ISP'S?
by hoctopus＠netzero.net 01 Jan '01

01 Jan '01

Message-ID: <000601c07089$cd85c3a0$91cdf5d1@barnes> From: "Jeff Barnes" <hoctopus(a)netzero.net> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 22:51:10 -0600 Subject: FREE ISP'S? Are there any free ISP's that support Linux? If so who? thanks <p>Shop Safely Online Without a Credit Card http://www.rocketcash.com

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Using a Maxtor 40 GiG drive with SuSE 6.3
by jel2＠earthlink.net 31 Dec '00

31 Dec '00

From: joe <jel2(a)earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 15:29:37 -0500 Message-Id: <00123115332500.00220@-> Subject: Using a Maxtor 40 GiG drive with SuSE 6.3 I purchased a Maxtor 40 gig Ultra-DMA 66 drive for on my older system. The biso shows it as a 8 gig drive. I have read the newer kernel will read the drive correctly, and I also found a patch. However, I don't know how to patch a kernel or compile and install a new one. Is there a compiled kernel out there I can download to replace the kernel in my SuSE 6.3 system that will allow it to use the entire 40 gig drive? If there is an easier way, please let me know. Thanks in advance, joe

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Re: sending mail from home
by jimo＠eskimo.com 31 Dec '00

31 Dec '00

From: Jim Osborn <jimo(a)eskimo.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:39:32 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200012312239.OAA01049(a)eskimo.com> Subject: Re: sending mail from home Thanks to all who replied to my query. For those still interested, I thought I'd close the loop and pass on the solution. I had to change one entry in the SuSE config file for sendmail, which is now (in my SuSE 6.3) located in /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail.rc.config. Since /sbin/SuSEconfig builds the /etc/sendmail.cf file from various sources, I thought it'd be nice to see how far I could get without editing /etc/sendmail.cf directly. Anyway, I needed to set: # # From:-Line in email and News postings # (otherwise the FQDN is used) # FROM_HEADER="eskimo.com" and voila' I could send mail via the smarthost at my ISP. (I already had SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST="smtp:mail.eskimo.com") The result of this change in the rc.config source was this entry in sendmail.cf: # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M) DMeskimo.com So, it's the masquerading that does the job. I had been fooled by the comments in rc.config, since I knew that an email's From: line has little to do with its being accepted by MTAs---after all, this header entry is routinely forged for various legitimate or not-so legitimate purposes. Apparently SuSEconfig's script processors use that FROM_HEADER line to control masquerading. For those that asked me to me-too them on documentation I find, I recommend /usr/share/sendmail/README. I'm grinding my way through it now, all 2274 lines of it, with an eye toward better understanding this whole subject. In particular, I'll want to take charge of what's revealed in Received: lines I generate, and make my wife's mail use the appropriate combination of her real name and my email addr, and who knows what else. In any case, the sendmail README, though long, seems clear and probably has enough info to allow intelligent tweaking of /etc/sendmail.cf directly. I suppose once I touch sendmail.cf, I'll hope SuSEconfig will leave it alone. Alternatively, I could paw through /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.sendmail and try to figure out what, if anything, I might change or add to /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail.rc.config to change /etc/sendmail.cf to what I want. Probably not worth it... Another posibility is to choose one of the .mc files in /usr/share/sendmail/cf/ and generate /etc/sendmail.cf from it with m4, as described in the README. Anyone tried that, and if so, which .mc file did you start with? I don't see any .mc file referenced in /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.sendmail. Cheers, Jim

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backspace key does not work in KDE
by furryllama＠home.com 31 Dec '00

31 Dec '00

Message-ID: <3A4FB447.861734EB(a)home.com> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 17:33:43 -0500 From: Michael Spartana <furryllama(a)home.com> Subject: backspace key does not work in KDE Is there something I don't know about KDE..tried 2 different keyboards, then every keyboard listed in sax and sax2...no go... it does work as a 'del' key though...is there a reason why the backspace key is disabled in the kde desktop...or is it with the X server, either way why doesn't the backspace work?? it does work to kill the X screen though with crtl-alt-backspace.. i'm confused..........again mike

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Problem with Suse 7.0 First Install
by tellinim＠libero.it 31 Dec '00

31 Dec '00

From: Matteo Tellini <tellinim(a)libero.it> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 22:09:21 +0100 Message-Id: <00123122123900.01017@linux> Subject: Problem with Suse 7.0 First Install I have a problem with Suse 7.0.. the problem is that Suse fails to recognize my usb stuff.. I have a Logitech Wheel Optical Usb mouse and a Epson 580 usb printer.. i'd like to make at least the mouse work... Do u know how to solve this problem? Do i have to download a different kernel or there is something i can do with this kernel (2.2.16)?

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portable suse? multi hdware configs?
by bwright＠az.com 31 Dec '00

31 Dec '00

Message-ID: <3A4D7E19.39E51C3C(a)az.com> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:18:01 -0800 From: Bill Wright <bwright(a)az.com> Subject: portable suse? multi hdware configs? I have suse70 on a removable ide hard drive in my lab computer at college. I want to use it at home and in two other labs at school. All machines at the college have IDE drives and use dhcp to connect to their server on the LAN. At home, I use dial up to my isp and a static IP address on my LAN, an ide hard drive controller to boot, but, have a scsi cd, scanner and zip drive. Oh, also different monitors on all machines. Can it be done? Has it been done? Kind of like the Windoze hardware config boot menu?

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