March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] (OT) AMD processors and Linux
by josephhy＠wsu.edu 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

Seems that AMD processors, specifically the K6/2 series, seem to be very popular amongst the Linux community in general and the SuSE community in particular. Anybody know why this is? Not a complaint, only a question. Speaking of AMD,anyone tried the Athlon with Linux? My M$-using friends tell me they scream under WinDoze, even NT. If they can run Mr. Gates's bloated monstrosity of an OS satisfactorily, their performance under Linux would have to be eye-watering. :) -- ____________________ Joseph A. Hylkema josephhy(a)wsu.edu Check out (and laugh at) my first crack at a website at http://seattle.resnet.wsu.edu "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of Tyrants, it is the creed of Slaves." --William Pitt, 1783 Support a Husky-Free Northwest GO COUGARS!!! PGP key upon request -- 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] Newbie question: how do you change the group of a DOS partition.
by eilert＠informatik.uni-bremen.de 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

Calyth <calyth(a)home.com> wrote: > I ran to a problem because I don't want my friends to see most (but not > all) of my mounted DOS partition. Does anyone have any idea how to > change the group of files mounted as a DOS partition? You can change permissions, group and ownership only for the whole VFAT partition whith the mount options umask, gid and uid (described in `man mount' in the section "Mount options for fat"). But it is not possible [1] to set permissions for single files/directories on a VFAT partition. Eilert [1] There is the umsdos filesystem, which uses special files to store unix like permissions on a FAT filesystem. Maybe this is a solution in your case, but I've never tried it and don't know what are possible problems with it. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eilert Brinkmann -- Universitaet Bremen -- FB 3, Informatik eilert(a)informatik.uni-bremen.de - eilert(a)tzi.org - eilert(a)linuxfreak.com http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~eilert/ -- 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] the old dma transfer question... again
by rthatcher＠makoglobal.com 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

Hi, I recall seeing a thread previoulsy but do not have an archive .. I wan to know how to check if my hard drive is using DMA mode transfers or PIO ones, disk access majorly interrupt any process. any simple answeres to this one other that getting a scsi setup / faster everything. The machine is a P133 with 196 Mb Ram, 2Gb IDE drive.... TIA Robert Thatcher rthatcher(a)makoglobal.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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Re: [SLE] Annoying font
by yatsen.ng＠brunel.nl 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

> You have to edit /etc/XF86Config. (Back it up first!!) > In the section "Files" you will see various FontPaths. > Change them so the 100dpi fonts occur BEFORE the 75dpi fonts. (Just > swap the lines) I did this. However, those annoyingly small fonts still dominate. I even tried comenting out the 75dpi fonts but that didn't do the trick either. -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng(a)brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- 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] SUSE 6.3 kernel build, plus pcmcia (ATA/IDE), plus usb(ZIP)
by eagergraph＠clara.net 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

I have a Pico Direct Consul laptop, and wish to run the Zip drive from the USB port. 1) Building the kernels 2.3.31(from SUSE discs) or 2.3.48 (latest download), I seem to lose an essential component of PCMCIA - ide_cs. Can anyone advise me on this: I cannot find the source (ide_cs.c ???) or any name convesrion from something else. Nor can I use the 2.2.13 ide_cs.o, for the kernel notices it is the wrong build. Should later pcmcia systems use this, or something else? 2) When I try to insmod usb-ohci, I get the message "Device or resource busy". I also tried the other usb-uhci, with the same result, and cannot build ohci-hcd mentioned in the linux-usb/HOWTO. This happens with a Zip drive connected and with nothing connected to the usb port. Can anyone advise me on this. 3) I can provide more specific detail if it will help the good works, and if advised what to seek out. Regards - Roger C Haslock - <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a Pico Direct Consul laptop, and wish to run the Zip drive from the USB port.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1) Building the kernels 2.3.31(from SUSE discs) or 2.3.48 (latest download), I seem to lose an essential component of PCMCIA - ide_cs. Can anyone advise me on this: I cannot find the source (ide_cs.c ???) or any name convesrion from something else. Nor can I use the 2.2.13 ide_cs.o, for the kernel notices it is the wrong build. Should later pcmcia systems use this, or something else?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2) When I try to insmod usb-ohci, I get the message "Device or resource busy". I also tried the other usb-uhci, with the same result, and cannot build ohci-hcd mentioned in the linux-usb/HOWTO. This happens with a Zip drive connected and with nothing connected to the usb port. Can anyone advise me on this.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3) I can provide more specific detail if it will help the good works, and if advised what to seek out.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Roger C Haslock -</FONT></DIV></BODY>

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[SLE] mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-M14-talkback.tar.gz - bummer
by deem＠wdm.com 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

Bummer..... h run-mozilla.sh MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/home/deem/mozilla LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/deem/mozilla SHLIB_PATH=/home/deem/mozilla LIBPATH=/home/deem/mozilla MOZ_PROGRAM=mozilla-bin MOZ_TOOLKIT= moz_debug=0 moz_debugger= RegSelf Unicode to Big5 converter complete RegSelf Unicode to x-x-big5 converter complete RegSelf Big5 to Unicode converter complete ************************************************** nsNativeComponentLoader: SelfRegisterDll(/home/deem/mozilla/components/libnsjpg.so) Load FAILED with error: libjpeg.so.62: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ************************************************** *** QfaServices is being registered nNCL: registering deferred (0) Profile Manager : Profile Wizard and Manager activites : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : Begin Profile Manager : Command Line Options : End WEBSHELL+ = 1 run-mozilla.sh: line 29: 14671 Segmentation fault $prog ${1+"$@"} deem@wdm:~/mozilla > W.D.McKinney (Dee) deem(a)wdm.com "The trouble with doing nothing is it's hard to tell if you are finished." -- 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] No Device Found (IOMEGA DITTO 800MB)
by jterbio＠yahoo.com 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

hi, I'm trying to test if iomega ditto 800 is supported by suse 6.2. Where i df /dev/ftape or df /dev/rft0 it gives me "no device found" Pls. help me how to go over it . . . Thanks . . . jon ===== Jonathan J. Terbio MMG - KSA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.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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[SLE] xfsft symlink -> S29xfs???
by genz1968＠mtu-net.ru 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

Hello, I'm following directions in someone's HOW-TO for installing xfsft. The final stages of getting this thing working is creating the file /sbin/init.d/xfsft and put a script inside it. Then symlink /sbin/init.d/xfsft to the files /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/S29xfs /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/K10xfs /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S29xfs /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/K10xfs Apparantly this sets up xfsft to kick in upon startup in either init 2 or init 3 with the S29xfs files and the K10xfs provide for the shutdown. But I don't have these files??? Here are the contents of my /sbin/init.d/rc3.d directory: K10xdm K35boot.setup S02serial S17autofs K19cron K35routed S03i4l_hardware S17nfsserver K19nscd K35syslog S03pcmcia S17pcnfsd K20apache K36nfs S04dummy S19svgatext K20at K37rpc S05dhclient S20apache K20inetd K38route S05i4l S20at K20lpd K40dhclient S05network S20inetd K20rwhod K40hylafax S07route S20kbd K20sendmail K40i4l S08rpc S20lpd K20squid K40network S09nfs S20rwhod K23nfsserver K42pcmcia S09syslog S20sendmail K23pcnfsd K44i4l_hardware S10boot.setup S20squid K24autofs K45dummy S10routed S21cron K27quotad K50serial S11named S21nscd K30random K81svgatext S12quota S30xdm K31quota K99kerneld S13quotad S40hylafax K34named S01kerneld S13random Any ideas? Thanks George -- 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] What does /var/lib/apsfilter/rewindstdin do?
by abrahams＠valinet.com 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

The apsfilter program (the printer filter) contains an implicit call on the program /var/lib/apsfilter/rewindstdin This program, alas, is in binary format. Can anyone tell me precisely what it does? Paul Abrahams -- 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] FW: [SLE] Plain text vs HTML text....
by DHS＠interexinc.com 02 Mar '00

02 Mar '00

I have found that when posting to a Linux user's group, listserver, etc. that it is best to avoid HTML. Some lists that I have been on will eventually flame you if you persist. The reason is that some users prefer console-based email clients that are plain-text only. A message in HTML comes across as just plain ugly. You never know, one of those 1950's guys may have the answer that you need to that difficult problem that has stumped you but they deleted your message as soon as they saw the first HTML tag. Remember the primary rule of communicating, write for your audience. just my two cents... Regards, David Spurlock Technical Support Manager Interex/XLR8 Tech Support -----Original Message----- From: Bobby Geortgilakis [mailto:bobbyg@ihug.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 3:25 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] Plain text vs HTML text.... Hi all, I've had some feedback, that "many" (two actually so far....), on the list are HTML challenged & would like to check this out on the list proper. So, is HTML a hassle to enalbe/read or are the plain text guys still stuck in the 1950's, not that is is the year 2000 or anything like that? ;-) -- 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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