January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

A little something about NVidia GTS...
by Matthew Johnson 27 Jan '01

27 Jan '01

Got it working!!! Got a FPS of 190 using Ssystem! I used to get 80 on my Voodoo 4 2000 AGP (although that aybe driver related). Sometimes it hits 200! It was very easy to do once I realised a stupid mistake I did due to messing about trying to get AGP X4 mode running on Windoze (its used only for games btw). Thanks for filip for mentioning this, although at the time it did not sink in.... Here are the Laws: BIOS settings *must* have the option for signing an IRQ to the video card *enabled*! This is under PCI plug and play section, or something to that effect (search if you have to). Also, switch PnP aware BIOS to no. Make sure you have the Linux source installed (under d section), then make menuconfig, make sure MTRR is enabled (thanks again to filip for this one) and disable SMP, unless you have a dual processor system) Save this and then make dep. I rebooted after this. Then bring up Yast, go to choose/install packages and then FTP, edit the line so it shows this ftp.suse.com:/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86 Then go to XFree86-4.0.2-SuSE, then suse70, select sax2 and install this. Then install all the x stuff (the directory above sax2). Finally go into the nvidia section and select nv_glx-0.95, you can probably select km_nvglx-0.95-2 too and it may work. However....I went to www.nvidia.com and driver section under Linux and downloaded the newest tarballs... I gziped -d and tar xvf them, went into the NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6 directory and ran make. Did something different here, I enabled X4 mode (not recomended as it can freeze up VIA chipsets) through editing the os-registry.c file. Noticed that some pcmcia device has unresolved symbols, but ignored that. Next I gzip -d the NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-6 module and went into that directory and ran make, it took care of the rest. The reason I had to install the SuSE nv_glx driver was the fact that I was getting a MesaLib error with ldconfig. Well thats it, not too bad!! I made a big mistake not checking the BIOS....Oh well, now understand this deal a lot better. By the way 2.4ac12 has a fix for the VIA AGP problem, but I will wait for 2.4.1. Hope that helps someone somewhere! Matt

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mpage???
by MaD dUCK 27 Jan '01

27 Jan '01

excuse me, would someone please reinstate my sanity and disconfirm that suse 7.0 does *not* come with mpage - and neither could i find mpage on suse.com??? what the heck are they thinking??? i don't want to install the vividata or applixware rpms just to get one of the most useful unix utilities ever... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- as of next week, passwords will be entered in morse code.

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Nvidia GTS and Xfree86 4.02 problems
by matthew 27 Jan '01

27 Jan '01

Good day, Having major problems getting this one to work. I follow the instructions but can never get the NVidia driver to load (it shows up on lsmod). The last time I tried I got a strange modprobe query. I loaded the NVidia driver via insmod, then tried modprobe, still came up saying that the module was not loaded, tried modprobe again and it seemed to load it again! Lsmod showed the module was loaded, but moprobe did not complain to say it was loaded already. /etc/modules.conf has the NVidia line installed... Anyone got any ideas? this is frustrating...I am using the sources of the SuSE ftp site. With many thanks, Matthew

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Re: [SLE] 7.1 release date
by wilson＠claborn.net 27 Jan '01

27 Jan '01

At 11:29 AM 1/26/2001 -0800, you wrote: >Hey, maybe I should buy from Europe? Will amazon.co.uk have it? Yes they will. I bought 7.0 from the UK in order to get around the annoying crypto problems (for those who don't know: yes, it's perfectly legal to use that crypto in the US. You just couldn't send it back _out_ of the US previous to the last revision of security/export laws) >I could >always get my brother to get it for me and then ship it over. Naw just order it, it's cheap as US + saves time. >Any >difference between the US version and the UK version? Or is just in the >spelling :-). Well yeah, it had the crypto...and GB English was selected by default, but that's nothing more then a mouse click. ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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hard drive problem
by landie＠concentric.net 27 Jan '01

27 Jan '01

background: trying to put my linux drive in new machine system saw linux drive as /dev/hdd and not /dev/hdb i ran rescue system change /etc/lilo.conf to read hdd but when i run lilovia /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf i get error " sorry, dont know what to do with device 0x0102" can someone shed some light into this please

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Xfree install with rpm
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 27 Jan '01

27 Jan '01

Hi again! I wanted to install Xfree 4.0.2. When doing it with rpm, it tells me windowmanager is missing. Where do I find this one? I know the instructions say to use the --nodeps parameter but I don't really feel like doing that. Patrick

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] SuSE 7.1 and ReiserFS
by Brian Galbraith 27 Jan '01

27 Jan '01

I think Richard meant this to go to the list so I have taken the liberty of forwarding it. Brian ----- Forwarded message from Richard Bos <allabos(a)freeler.nl> ----- From: Richard Bos <allabos(a)freeler.nl> To: Brian Galbraith <brian.galbraith(a)bigfoot.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 7.1 and ReiserFS Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 01:06:12 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Related to this question: will suse-7.1 be shipping the autorpm/rpm-aptget tool. I don't know it's name, but I hope suse knows what I mean. Which X version will be included 4.0.1 or 4.0.2? Thanks in advance, -- Richard Bos For those who have no (/)home the journey is endless ----- End forwarded message -----

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Broken Links
by Richard Smith 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Hi Can anyone advise? When I run SuSEconfig in SuSE 6.4 I get Error: file texmf.cnf not found in ``/usr/share/texmf/web2c''. TEXMFMAIN ``/usr/share/texmf'' seems to have the wrong value from a texmf.cnf file. among many similar messages. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf is a broken link to ../../../../etc/texmf.cnf But /usr/share/texmf/web2c is actually a link to /var/lib/texmf/web2c and so the ../'s follow the REAL path up to / via /var, and down to /etc. In /etc sits a file called texmf.cnf , so why the broken link?? The answer is that I have a /tmp partition (shared with another distribution), and my /var is actually a link to /tmp/VAR.SuSE. So the REAL path to /etc/texmf.cnf needs an extra ../ to get back to / and thence to /etc. "find" showed up many other broken links, broken for the same reason. 2 questions: 1. How can the original /var be copied or moved to /tmp/VAR.SuSE without breaking relative symbolic links? 2. How can package updates be done without perhaps breaking these links? 3. (Extra) How many installations are in the same boat? Richard Smith

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Quotable Quote
by Cliff Sarginson 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

"I have recently read about a new form of software, that which is in a permanent state of beta release. Linux and Netscape are 2 good examples of this."

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Mupad again
by Jonathan Drews 26 Jan '01

26 Jan '01

Hi Jerry: I discovered, by accident, that the SuSE version of MuPad responds to EMACS key bindings. The only quirk is that backspace acts as delete. Other than that it works fine. Also it will not plot. On a different subject, Killustrator works great for drawing fused rings and the projection drawings for chiral compounds. I can't wait for 7.1 to arrive. I have a stock KDE 2.01 installfrom SuSE's ftp and it works pretty good. -- Cheers, Jonathan

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