May 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Loading the sound modules
by jpennington＠atipa.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

"Paul W. Abrahams" <abrahams(a)valinet.com> said: > Any idea why not? That certainly contradicts the Sound Howto, which seems to be > saying that `cat /dev/sndstat' is the critical test. But if that isn't the > critical test, what is the test that the sound modules are installed correctly? I don't know, but it's mentioned in the module documentation in the kernel tree. The critical test is `lsmod' ;) > I'm reluctant to do that if there's any alternative. The problem is that I'm > running SuSE 6.2. I'm concerned about trying to use a much later SuSE kernel > with it. (Plus the pain of the long download and reimporting all my other > config options.) Since SuSE 6.1 (the first release with a 2.2 kernel), the stock kernels have had all of the necessary sound modules included in the kernmod.rpm package. I'm not sure what you mean by `long download', since everything you need is on the CDs. If you must recompile your own kernel, make sure that Sound is a module and that es1370 support is a module. You don't need anything else because the es137x doesn't even have a MIDI sequencer... > I had the impression that /sbin/init.d/boot was supposed to do the load. Was I > wrong? According to SuSE's documentation, boot.local is the preferred file for editing *local* configuration changes. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions jpennington(a)atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 -- 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] gdm
by kevin.jackson＠jhallpr.demon.co.uk 30 May '00

30 May '00

Boot SuSE in run level 2 (NOT runlevel 3) Log in as root and run gdm from the command line. Does this fix the problem? Thought so!! Not ideal, but its the way I have to get it working on my machine!! Kev > -----Original Message----- > From: Henri [mailto:illusion@4u.net] > Sent: 30 May 2000 10:43 > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] gdm > > > Hi > > I try to use gdm instead of kdm. > But whenever I got the login screen from gdm, it seems dat my > keyboard got > lock up. > > Any idea how to fix this or how to use gdm properly? > > Thanks > > -- > 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/ > -- 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] Mounting a Zip Drive
by steveaux＠my-Deja.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

Mike, The short answer to your question will be something like, "mount /zip," or "mount /tmp/zip," depending on what you are calling it or will call it, but my hunch is that you need more than that! Go to the "HOW_TO" pages in the SuSE help system that comes with the distro. The Zip disk how-to there is excellent. Even I was able to install my ATAPI Zip disk properly and get it up and running without much trouble by using its instructions and those provided with the hardware by Iomega. As I recall, the worst of it was making a new kernel so I'd have SCSI support, and that was mainly inexperience getting in my way. (I plead the fifth on exactly what I kept doing wrong!) I'm away from my Linux box at the moment, but take a look at that and if you have any further questions, feel free to ask. I do have notes on what I had to do. Stevo -- On Tue, 30 May 2000 17:07:05 Michael J. McGillick wrote: > >Just in case it's important, the drive is an internal Atapi model, not >plugged into the Parallel port. > >On Tue, 30 May 2000, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > >> Afternoon: >> >> What is the correct syntax to mount an Iomega Zip Disk? (100 MB) >> >> - Mike >> >> >> > > >-- >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/ > > --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Before you buy. -- 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] qmail busted?
by gregory.thomas＠nbc.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Monte Milanuk [mailto:milanuk@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 12:28 PM > To: Bill Moseley; suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] qmail busted? > > > I don't think it is just a qmail problem. I have been > having issues w/ people griping (justifiably) at me because > of this 'Sender' field. But I am not using qmail, or > sendmail, or anything (yet) I have been using Netscape > Messenger, and that's it. No MTA involved. but I get > these darned Sender fields injected in my messages using my > local user name. And for those who want to tell me to edit > 'Preferences', 'Mail', 'Identity', I have. Nowhere in > there does it contain 'monte'. It has my email address. > Period. The only way I got Messenger to work properly was doing the following: Setting my FQDN to that of my ISP. Adding a user including my full name. Logging in as that user. I use Messenger only for news. If I don't take the above steps different names from various places in my installation show up in the headers (and Messenger usually ignores most of the stuff I put in Identity). Greg Because e-mail can be altered electronically, the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. -- 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] Console Trashed on exiting from X
by gregory.thomas＠nbc.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

> -----Original Message----- > From: Terry Eck [mailto:eck@raytheon.com] > Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 11:38 PM > To: Mearl Danner > Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] Console Trashed on exiting from X > > > Thanks for the reply. AFAIK this is a one time occurance. > Hopefully it will > not happen again. I just HATE rebooting. If it happens again > I'll have to > note what programs I ran while in X. Also, AFAIK I'm using whatever is > standard for the text display (VC1). > > If I understand you correctly, when I exit the Xserver it has > to restore the video > registers. Is this what happens when I switch from X using > ctrl-alt-F1? > A couple of months ago I was running with kdm for graphical > login. Had been > up for over a week. When I wanted to play Quake II I did a > ctrl-alt-F1 and > to my horror the VC1 was trashed. I've not used kdm since then. > I don't know if this is the same issue but there is a problem between X and the Matrox framebuffer module, matroxfb. Your console will be trashed when exiting from X but a simple alt-F2, alt-F1 always works for me. Also, I have never had a problem directly related to kdm. Greg > Terry > > Mearl Danner wrote: > > > It happened to me when I used svgatextmode to select a text > display other than > > the standard VESA modes allowed by my Matrox Mystique (uses > SVGA server, too). > > It seems the Xserver sometimes can't restore the video > registers properly. > > > > When I went back to standard displays, the problem went away. > > > > If it's an intermittent (or one time only) problem, some > app probably overwrote > > the memory location that stores the VC1 video settings. > > > > On Fri, 26 May 2000 23:51:27 -0500 Terry Eck > <eck(a)raytheon.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > This is the first time I've seen this happen. I normaly > logon VC1 and enter X > > > via the startx command. Last night when I was finished > using KDE and exited to > > the > > > VC the display was trashed. By this I mean there were > vertical white and black > > > lines over the entire screen. I could not make out any of > the information > > displayed > > > on the screen. Tried Alt-F2, same problem. Tried "reset", > no help. I went back > > > into X and everything appeared normal. Exit X to the VC > and display trashed. > > > I finally shutdown and rebooted. > > > > > > Has anyone seen this happen before? > > > > > > Video Card is Matrix Millinum II. > > > X-server is default from SuSE 6.3 using SVGA. > > > > > > Any idea what happened? > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Mearl Danner > > Data Communications/Network Specialist > > Email: jmdanner(a)samford.edu > > Samford University > > -- > Terry Eck <eck(a)raytheon.com> > Office: 972-575-6196_____Beeper: 972-598-0414_____Fax: 972-575-0556 > > > > -- > 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/ > Because e-mail can be altered electronically, the integrity of this communication cannot be guaranteed. -- 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] Windowmaker under GNOME?
by jpennington＠atipa.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

Gary Kline <kline(a)tao.thought.org> said: > > Yesterday I was experimenting (aka playing-around) with GNOME in > a test login and tried to bring up the WindowMaker manager. Zero > luck.... I use ctwm here and am looking for another wm that may have > better devel tools or some kind of integrated development environment. What do you mean by `zero luck', exactly? ;) > I've poked around with wmaker here (FBSD), and it looks good. So why would > it be missing from my SuSE distribution? I installed virtually > everything. Do I need to run ``wmakerconf'' by hand first? Has anyone > else bumped into this? That's pretty normal sounding to me... -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions jpennington(a)atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 -- 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] Netscape updates screwing up plugins
by bshelton＠online-isp.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

Why is it that every time I update Netscape from SuSE's site it trashes my plug-ins and all? Getting to the point where I don't wanna ever update again. I'm getting r e a l tired of redoing this crap. AM I missing something, or failing a procedural step that causes me this grief? -- Brad Shelton On Line Exchange http://online-isp.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] qmail busted?
by milanuk＠yahoo.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

I don't think it is just a qmail problem. I have been having issues w/ people griping (justifiably) at me because of this 'Sender' field. But I am not using qmail, or sendmail, or anything (yet) I have been using Netscape Messenger, and that's it. No MTA involved. but I get these darned Sender fields injected in my messages using my local user name. And for those who want to tell me to edit 'Preferences', 'Mail', 'Identity', I have. Nowhere in there does it contain 'monte'. It has my email address. Period. So the problem is coming in somewhere else (in Netscape, or whatever). Sorry if I seem a little touchy on this, but I got several off-list emails from people who didn't read my earlier posts, then pointed out what I already had done, and (this is what burns me) did it using a bogus email address. Grrr... I am setting up my email & news system this week and going back to mutt and slrn! At least there I have more control over my headers! This email _shouldn't_ have a weird sender field, as I am sending it from Yahoo!'s web mailer. As an aside, is there a good way (using procmail, or whatever) to recycle my old emails from ~/nsmail/ into my new mailbox for mutt? Also, I believe I am not getting all the posts to this group. I see messages in GeoCrawler archives that I haven't seen in the mail I received, and I get followups to posts that I never saw either. WTF? Thank you for your time Monte --- Bill Moseley <moseley(a)hank.org> wrote: > I, like many, use fetchmail to deliver to my local MTA > which is sendmail. > > It seems as if fetchmail will use the Sender: header as > the sender envelope > to deliver messages if available. Unfortunately, it > seems like qmail is > creating this Sender: header from the local machine which > may not be a > resolvable name as far as DNS is concerned. I have > sendmail setup in the > default way which rejects unresolvable sender envelopes. > > This Sender: header causes the message to bounce, but > since the sender is > not resolvable, the bounce fails and it gets delivered to > postmaster > locally, missing the body of the message. > > I'm seeing a lot of these bounces from various lists, but > mostly from this > list. And as far as I can remember, all were sent via > qmail. So I'm > assuming this Sender: header is set by qmail. > > Does anyone know if there is a setting in qmail that > controls what the > Sender: header is? > > Thanks, > > Bill Moseley > mailto:moseley@hank.org > > -- > 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/ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.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] Wall
by tabanna＠aig.forthnet.gr 30 May '00

30 May '00

Hi SuSErs :) ~ while compiling a Kernel, one constantly sees the name 'Wall' .. . . why so ? . . . was Mr Wall a Kernel Wizard ? thanks -- ____________ sent on 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] Flash plug-in keeps breaking...
by doomx＠home.com 30 May '00

30 May '00

I get it working, then after a while, it stops working and the plug-in pulldown won't allow me to set a plug-in under edit > preferences > navigator > applications. I'm using Netscape 4.73. I've installed libflashplayer.so and Shockwave Flash.class in both home/mole/.netscape/<plugins> and in opt/netscape/plugins It works as root now, but not as user. It did work as user, and I have not changed anything that I know of. Anything else I can try to keep this thing working? thanks! -- 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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