June 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] Adaptec AAA-UMDA controller card.
by dsiebert＠gate.net 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Does anyone know if the Adaptec AAA-UMDA controller card will work under LINUX. I got a great deal on one and figured that Adaptec would support LINUX. I seem to be wrong. Any drivers for this or does anyone know of a good EIDE raid 5 controler that will work? -- 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] laptop pcmcia - where are the module sources?
by suse＠clrlight.demon.co.uk 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Yet again ... :) My laptop's internal IDE CDROM failed, so I have connected a SCSI CDROM via PCMCIA, and also I have a PCMCIA ethernet card. Obviously I need PCMCIA support during installation. This is ok: the 'modules.img' disk provides the support I need. But, when I was rebuilding the kernel I noticed that 'pcmcia' is not a kernel option. Where are the sources for the pcmcia modules and how/when do they get (re)built? brian -- 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] laptop problems: cirrus SVGA screen offset
by suse＠clrlight.demon.co.uk 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hi again The saga of the twinhead laptop continues. It has a cirrus CLGD7543 chipset. When I try to use the XF86_VGA16 server in 800x600 then the display is displaced downwards - there is a 30-pixel high blank area at the top of the screen, and the bottom of the display is lost. No adjustment of numbers on the modeline creates any effect, but adding "+hsync +vsync" cures the problem. So far, so good. Using the XF86_SVGA server is a similar story, but now the display is displaced upwards by 30 pixels, and the "+hsync +vsync" has no effect. Nothing has any effect. I can't get to see the top 30 rows. If I change the modeline to generate only 599 rows then the problem is "cured" - the top of the display is at the top of the screen, and the bottom row is blank (- well, it would be.) My "working" modeline looks like this: Modeline "800x600" 30 800 856 976 1040 599 601 602 603 +hsync +vsync Does anyone know how to drive this thing in true 800x600 resolution? brian -- 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] laptop problems: serial mouse
by suse＠clrlight.demon.co.uk 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hi there I've installed SuSE 6.2 on a Twinhead laptop, thereby encountering several mysteries. The machine has a built-in touchpad, but I want to use a serial mouse instead of the touchpad. Both sax and XF86Setup are happy to configure the touchpad as a ps2 mouse on /dev/psaux. However, when I try to use a serial mouse then no combination of /dev/* or protocol produces any effect whatsoever - it is as though the mouse is not connected. If I try to cat </dev/ttyS0 then I get no input from the mouse. However, this entire physical setup works perfectly under win95, and I think I have sucessfully used this mouse (as serial) on a different linux computer. Anyone suggest what might be going on, or indicate what I have forgotten? The kernel is the stock EIDE 2.2.10, as loaded from the installation disk. (I tried making other kernels, with built-in serial support, and with modular serial support: behaviour remains the same.) The mouse is a 3-button Logitech Mouseman. The laptop serial device appears to be at the conventional 03F8/int 04 location. If I attach a Trust mouse then both sax or XF86Setup go completely nuts with apparently continuous and completely unusable input from it, so it looks as though the serial port is capable of receiving info. I'm completely stuck :( brian -- 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] major and minor problem
by clarge＠macn.bc.ca 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

How do i change the major and minor numbers for the floppy drive, and what should they be? *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge(a)macn.bc.ca | | http://gone for now | *--------------------------------* -- 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] Touch pad sensitivity
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hi, -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Feldman [SMTP:Gerry.Feldman@compaq.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 3:45 PM >I have a Compaq Presario 1900 XL161 with a touch pad, and I was >curious if there is some code available to adjust the sensitivity. (I am >running an unpatched SuSE 6.4). I did a quick search of the howtos >and did not see anything interesting. Yes, I had a problem with my 1675 and there is a fix. IIRC I found it on one of the links for a compaq model here, but can't remember which. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ I also remember there being a link from the synaptics homepage (they make the touchpad in my model) http://www.synaptics.com if I'm not mistaken. The program you're looking for is called tpconfig (or similiar). The problem I had seemed to be noise on the ps/2 bus as a ps/2 mouse would also be jumpy, now I use a serial mouse and am trying to move to USB :-) I don't like the touchpad much, it just seems too coarse. Good luck, Tim -- 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] Re: [suse-security] SuSE Security Announcement:
by herman＠knief.net 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Thanks so much for the new kernel... unfortunately, when I installed it (using rpm -F k_deflt.rpm - also did rpm -F lx_suse.rpm for source) it screwed my system... initrd was not updated and it seems that there is enough different about the way the kernel was built, that it fails to load the module for the SCSI adapter on one of my systems, and on the one that is IDE based... it fails to load the network adapter and the usbcore module, and it complains about failures when it mount /dev/pts. Did I do something wrong? Or did I miss something? - Herman -- 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] mount crashes with Segmentation Fault
by sle＠mmts.nsys.by 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hello, Guys! dd if=/dev/zero of=/mydir/myfile bs=1024 count=10000 mkfs -t ext2 /mydir/myfile mount /mydir/myfile /mnt -o loop Each command works OK, but after doing the last one, mount says "Segmentation Fault" and shows _this_ thing to the tenth console: MVER - is my machine's name Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 04f77000, %cr3 = 04f77000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: *pde = 00000000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Oops: 0000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c8878746>] Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: eax: 00000003 ebx: 00004c00 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: esi: c8879610 edi: 00000700 ebp: fffffff7 esp: c764ff6c Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Process mount (pid: 22567, process nr: 89, stackpage=c764f000) Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Stack: 00000003 00004c00 c0124576 c7470700 c8878ed3 c8879610 00000700 00000003 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: c2da09e0 ffffffe7 c012c4b9 c7476bb0 c2da09e0 00004c00 00000003 c764e000 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: 00000003 bffff628 bffff628 c35b1260 c7476bb0 c0108f88 00000005 00004c00 Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Call Trace: [blkdev_open+50/64] [<c8878ed3>] [<c8879610>] [sys_ioctl+413/440] [system_call+52/56] Jun 22 19:21:23 MVER kernel: Code: 8b 0c 82 85 c9 74 03 ff 41 1c 89 cb 85 db 0f 84 ae 01 00 00 Any ideas of how to make it work? 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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[SLE] Kernel update error
by dgr＠sk.sympatico.ca 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

Hi I just finished the kernel update using the RPM package updater. It went so smoothly that I missed it when I went to get a cup of coffee. Upon reviewing the /var/log/messages file I discovered an error generated. Jun 27 14:25:28 RootRider in.identd[186]: started Jun 27 14:25:29 RootRider modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000 Jun 27 14:25:29 RootRider modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000 Everything else sems normal so what is this error refering to? Is it something I didn't do or is it a bug in the new kernel that it can't locate the binfmt-0000 file? Anybody with any leads? thanks for any info.. Doug dgr(a)sk.sympatico.ca -- 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] Touch pad sensitivity
by Gerry.Feldman＠compaq.com 27 Jun '00

27 Jun '00

I have a Compaq Presario 1900 XL161 with a touch pad, and I was curious if there is some code available to adjust the sensitivity. (I am running an unpatched SuSE 6.4). I did a quick search of the howtos and did not see anything interesting. -- Jerry Feldman Contractor, eInfrastructure Partner Engineering 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/ Compaq Computer Corp. 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 -- 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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