March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Pentium optimized Kernel safe for Athlon?
by mapler＠erinet.com 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

Update: On Bob's advice, I ran bonnie with a file size of 512MB at both 100 and 133 mem bus speed. No problems encountered in either case. Performance was not spectacular, however, so I checked hdparm. Everything is turned off except readahead=8. Could the fact that I don't have IRQ masking enabled be causing a problem for ld? I did some more compiling yesterday, with no problems encountered, but I was being very careful to make sure that all saves were flushed to disk before I ran make. The program I am making is very small, so there was no hard drive activity while ld was running. (I was also running with a 100mhz mem bus, so that could have helped too.) To improve performance, and possibly stability, what should I turn on with hdparm, and where should I do it so that it happens every time I boot up? (read the man page, but it wasn't very helpful, and seemed to be somewhat dated) On a side note, since I turned off sleep mode in the screen saver, I haven't had a single lockup in win98. Thanks again for the help. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: BobF <FBob(a)wt.net> To: Raymond C. Maple <mapler(a)erinet.com> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Pentium optimized Kernel safe for Athlon? > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote: > > Bob, > > > > I really appreciate your help. Right now this machine has no cards in it! > > The motherboard (an epox EP-7KXA) has on-board sound, which I have enabled, > > but I don't have a sound driver installed under linux. The only other > > hardware I have installed is the HD (kind of hard to do without), a cdrom, > > and a cdburner (not using it in Linux since I haven't gone through the SCSI > > emulation fun to get it working) and the agp card. Unfortunately, I don't > > have another graphics card to try out. The USB ports are disabled in the > > bios. > > > > One of the unknown's (in my mind anyway) is the hard drive. It is an IBM > > Deskstar UDMA-66 7200rpm drive. The motherboard supports UDMA66. Before > > installing any software, I ran a utility provided by IBM to disable UDMA66 > > on the drive. It will stay disabled until the kernel supports 66, when I > > will turn it back on. I am not in a position to thy the beta kernel patch - > > I need the machine too much. A lot of my problems (both in linux and win98) > > seem to happen when the hard drive is active. > > > > Another possiblity is the memory bus. I can run it at 133 or 100. Most of > > the time I have run it at 133, including the overnight memory testing. I do > > seem to have fewer problems running it at 100, but it is hard to say, since > > I haven't done a whole lot at that setting. The Crucial memory I bought > > (7ns CAS2 PC133) is known to run stable at 152Mhz in this board. > > > > All Athlon boards are known for having problems with the power supply. Many > > stories are told of people who installed a high-end PS and had all their > > lockups disappear, especially when using Nvidia based video cards. (I have > > a TNT2 based card) I bought a PS that is on the AMD approved list, but I > > haven't heard of anyone with any experience with this brand (Ever Power - > > comes in the Yeong-Yang case.) I can pick up a very good PS locally, and > > will try that next. > > > > I don't think any IRQs are sharing, but I will check to make sure. > > I would unplug the two cdrom drives (less ps load) and try running Bonnie with a > file size bigger than your memory. This will exercise the hd and dma. See if > that causes a problem. > > I assume you are not overclocking (yet). > > The front side bus and the speed of the hd read/ write is related (a ratio of > 3/2 or something). Be sure this is correct in your bios. > > If you can you might also try lowering the bus to 66mhz and see if that makes a > difference. > > Get back to me if you make any headway (or not). > > > Bob F > > EMail FBob(a)wt.net > > A Truly Wise Man Never Plays > Leapfrog With A Unicorn... > > -- 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] Which standard kernel for SuSE6.2 and CD-writing?
by davidlist＠get2net.dk 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

Could someone please tell me which standard kernel I should use for CD-writing with SuSE 6.2 when IŽm using an IDE-burner? I have tried for several days now, getting my HP CD-Writer Plus 8250i (IDE) working as an ATAPI device, but canŽt. I can load sg and ide-scsi, but in the end /dev/scd0 is not recognized as a block device, IŽm told. Is this made any easier with SuSE 6.4? I see a lot about "easier hardware recognition" at SuSEŽs website, when looking for information about the 6.4 version. Thanks in advance. Best regards, David List -- 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] Problems!!! With 6.3 evaluation version
by kar＠webline.dk 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

I gave a (potential) customer the evaluation version of 6.3. Now he returns with a problem. He says that Linux boots, and he gets the first box where he can choose Alt-W (as in German Weiter, why isn't it in English??) When he chooses this option, the system either hangs or loops. Anyway, nothing happens for him. After 15 minutes, he gives up. The computer may be a bit "strange" as there are two SCSI controllers, one of those is a "strange" controller. But how come that the problem arises on that particular point in time? I would have guessed that if there's a driver problem, it will hang on boot. Can I tell YaST2 not to look for this controller? Can I do something else? -- 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] GNU Parted, gettext, SuSE
by clausen＠gnu.org 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

Hi Susers, please cc me (I'm off the list) I don't have SuSE - only going by user feed back (from 6.2 and 6.3 users). Feel free to donate me a copy ;-) Anyway, for some reason, AM_GNU_GETTEXT (i.e. part of the autoconf system - see /usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4) doesn't detect gettext support on SuSE systems. Usually, gettext() is in glibc. Does SuSE do things differently? Can someone give me the output of: $ nm /lib/libc.so.6 | grep gettext Thanks! Andrew Clausen -- 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] --can not access host--
by sle＠mmts.nsys.by 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

Hello there! Our router connects to another one and finally routes the packages to Internet. But it can`t access a machine from a particular network, while NT did that. When I check my IP from outside, it shows AAA.BBB.4.116. The host I need to access to is AAA.BBB.4.115 Ping AAA.BBB.4.115 goes well, although I can`t access any of that machine services (port## 25,110,80,etc.). When I set up my Netscape to use proxy from outside, it goes well to AAA.BBB.4.115, but not directly. I guess, AAA.BBB.4.115 is located somewhere in the area of parent router. (Parent router`s IP is internal - 172.16.0.1) All other hosts are accessed well. Thanks, George. -- 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] HP Omnibook 4150B
by saschag＠vzinet.com 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

Sorry if this arrives as HTML on the list :-( I'm @ school right now :-( man lilo and man lilo.conf should be sufficient for most of the problems. I found the manual to be helpful too. I've only seen the Geman version of it and therefore cannot check for differences in the English one 8) hth - sasa >After I set that up the Mach 64 server fired right up. > >On a side note, would you know where are all of these obscure lilo settings >documented? > >Thank you, >John -- 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] remote command
by rost0005＠stud.uni-sb.de 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

hello, why does this not work, please: bash-2.03# echo -e "ls\r" >/dev/pts/4 it writes ls on the other pts but does not execute it, which i want... thx, Alex -- 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 questions
by dr1moe＠yahoo.com 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

Greetings to all, I am new to this maillist and I have a question. What version of suse is the most stable? Where can I download an "iso image" of suse? My uses for suse will be for webhosting many domains and a mail server, DNS. E-commerce will be added in future. Also on the same note, after the install is suse secure meaning that I dont have to go and secure many functions/programs/ports? thanks in advance, Moe __________________________________________________ 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] mem vomit
by keith＠HaggleWare.com 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

This is not SuSE-specific, although one affected machine is (now) running SuSE 6.2. The other two machines are running Debian. We have 3 Dell computers -- each with a Celeron 433 proc and 128MB of RAM -- that are supposed to be used as development boxes. The two Debian boxes are running kernel 2.2.13 and the SuSE box runs 2.2.14. Being they each have 128MB of RAM there is an "append" line in lilo.conf: append="mem=128M" Each of the three machines choke when booted and the kernel panics. It looks almost like a GPF, with stack and register crap spewed all over the screen. Oddly enough, if the append line is changed to, say, append="mem=126M" all three machines boot fine. The Dells are the same model, purchased at the same time from the same place (from Dell directly). It is possible, although I feel very unlikely, that the machines are victims of a bad batch of RAM. Any ideas what could be causing the machines to choke, other than the possibility of bad RAM? Regards, kw /* ** Keith Warno ** Developer & Sys Admin ** http://www.HaggleWare.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] A question about Kmail...
by JerryKreps＠alltel.net 27 Mar '00

27 Mar '00

Folks, Twice in the last two weeks Netscape 4.72 has locked up my keyboard and mouse (running KDE) requiring a power cycle. For the same reason I quit WinXX I have decided to abandon Netscape rather than put up with this nonsense. I have been playing with Kmail. I can connect to more than one email account, but I have no way of refering to more than one return address. (I plan on both my wife and I using it out of my account). I had been using StarOffice5.1a, which allows multiple accounts AND reply addresses. But, I am running a P166 + 64MB RAM and SO is just to slow loading and unloading. It also has some email peculiarities that I don't like. And, I have ordered Corel Office 2000 Delux and will use it in place of SO, which I am going to remove from my system. My question: (You thought I'd never ask... ;-) Is there a way to supply TWO reply addresses in Kmail. The Kmail docs don't make reference to any way. I thought about making two copies of kmail, with slight name changes, but they still refere to the same configuration files. JLK -- 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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