January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Desperate - need SuSE 7.1 soon!!
by Cleary, Mike 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

I did something incredibly, no, phenomenally STUPID last night and obliterated my entire linux installation. I had wanted to play around with Linux From Scratch and was messing around with some new partitions. For some reason I decided to convert my linux partition from a primary to a logical partition. Oh yeah, I wanted to extend my root partition (reiserfs) and I was under the impression that the partition should be logical & not primary (not sure where I got this idea). I was using Partition Magic and when I tried to do this it gave me an error and said the operation was cancelled. I clicked on OK and poof, my entire root partition was gone. I could not recover it, so I figure I might as well start over! If anyone from SuSE is monitoring this, I would REALLY like to know how soon this might be. I know it must be fairly soon, so there's no point in me going out to buy 7.0. Any hints? TIA, Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary(a)dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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booting up to desk top
by Eric Richards 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

When I first installed suse 6.4 it when to graphical log in you could click onto root or what ever just after the last reinstall it now only boots to text mode and I have to enter "startx" after log in and pass word how can I get it to boot to "root" or other Thanks from Eric ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ sorry, I have so many problems with Suse and not eough time in the day other wise I would try and work out myself printer problem, network problem, sound problem, email problem once I get log up I will work on other myself. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.225 / Virus Database: 107 - Release Date: 12-22-00

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RE: [SLE] sound on suse 7 revisited again and again and again
by Purple Shirt 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

I am pretty sure I am right on this one. The file /etc/asound.conf is used to set the sound card mix options. All it is is to tell what parameter options you want. Yes alsactl can create such file but only if the mixer works which in my case isn't the case. alsactl also can read such file to unmute the card but it also needs the mixer working for this which in my case is not the case again =) Fact is you need a working mixer to read and construct /etc/asound.conf and as the mixer doesn't worked I am in a dead end here. >From: "John Ross Hunt" <bigboote(a)mediaone.net> >To: <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> >Subject: RE: [SLE] sound on suse 7 revisited again and again and again >Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:44:46 -0600 > > >[snip] > > > > file /etc/asound.conf is removed as it was empty anyhow. > > > > reboot.... > > > >[snip] > >You're really going to need an /etc/asound.conf if you want to hear >anything. The 'alsactl' program can be used to create an /etc/asound.conf. >Also, an initial configuration is commonly created with muting enabled. >Use >the 'amixer' program to make sure muting is off. > >-jrh > > >-- >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/faq > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: [SLE] sound on suse 7 revisited again and again and again
by Purple Shirt 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

No I have not compiled it right into the kernel. I use reiserfs and I know since reiser is not directly in the kernel except for suse stock kernel I don't even want to go thru that trouble.since I use reiser I am waiting for it to make it into 2.4 before I ever attempt a kernel recompile because its just not worth the pain it may cause me. >From: Nicolas Beaulieu <gulliver(a)patagonia.dyndns.org> >To: Purple Shirt <purpleshirt(a)hotmail.com> >CC: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] sound on suse 7 revisited again and again and again >Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:27:40 -0500 (EST) > >On Sat, 13 Jan 2001, Purple Shirt wrote: > ><*]I thought getting a pci card instead of isa might help and I now got the ><*]same damn problem with ens1371. The mixer is still fucked. > >Have you ever tried to compile the ES1371 support directly in your kernel? > > >________________ >Nicolas Beaulieu >Economics Department, Universite Laval >Centre de Recherches en Economie et Finances Appliquees (CREFA) >Quebec, Canada >mailto:nicolas.beaulieu@ecn.ulaval.ca >_________________ >http://patagonia.dyndns.org >ICQ 15933500 > >Teamwork is essential: it allows you to blame someone else. >_________________ > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Desperate: How to switch to X11 4.0.2?
by Avi Schwartz 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

Hi, I am really desperate at this point. I need to use X11 4.0.2 since my new laptop has the Ati Rage Mobility 128. I downloaded the 4.0.2 RPMs from SuSE's ftp site and installed them according to the instructions. SAX2 does not work (I tried) so I configured X11 with xf86config. The problem is that when I run startx, X11 3.3.6 starts instead of 4.0.2 (in 16 color 640x480, oh my, Win2K looks so much better with 1600x1200 8( What do I have to do to start 4.0.2 instead of 3.3.6? BTW, is there anyone with an IBM Thinkpad A with the ATI Rage 128 Mobility that got it working properly? Thanks, Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux

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Re: [SLE] sound on suse 7 revisited again and again and again
by Purple Shirt 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

Well that is the point. alsa or alsadev rpms seem to create asound.conf. But the file remains empty. if I am correct alsactl can create asound.conf sound card setup. alsactl though needs the mixer to do this hence it doesn;t work. bash-2.04# alsactl store alsactl: MIXER open error: Invalid argument so the mixer is fucked. hence i can't use alsactl to create a nice asound.conf file. besides that asound.conf is not needed anyway. I should be able to unmute the card with alsamixer. but alsamixer doesn't work because the mixer is fucked. which brings us back to the fact that the mixer is fucked whichever way we look at it. there is in itself nothing wrong with alsa. the modules load. there seems to be some bug caused by god knows what which doesn't make the mixer act and hence 'die ganze sache ist fuer die katze'. mk >From: Nick Zentena <zentena(a)hophead.dyndns.org> >To: "Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt(a)hotmail.com> >Subject: Re: [SLE] sound on suse 7 revisited again and again and again >Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:07:56 -0500 > >On January 13, 2001 11:52 am, you wrote: > > > > > > file /etc/asound.conf is removed as it was empty anyhow. > > You need to create the file. It can't be empty. Mine is close to two >pages >long. From the looks of it most of that stuff is mixer related. That's with >a >1370 but I doubt it's much different with the 1371. What happens when you >run alsactl ? > >Nick _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: [SLE] uh oh....XFree4.0.2...what and how
by mhf 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

Sam, I can't say thank you enough for pitching in. Indeed, it does sound like getting a network going between the windows box and linux box at this stage of my "development" (using the term quite figuratively :-) ) is not the best use of anyone's time. Solution: I have borrowed a friend's old external CD burner. I d/l'ed all 12 rpm files in the SuSE70 folder at the ftp site, and also d/l'ed the 5 rpm files in the DRI folder in case I need the open-gl drivers too. Once the CD is done, I can then move forward by creating the /home/tmp directory on the linux box, mount the cdrom and copy everything. I'll dig into the readme and relnotes before doing anything further. Keep hope alive! Thanks again. Mike Flug michael.flug(a)snet.net > > I think the easiest way to go would be to get networking going on hte > Linux box. Unless you have a CD-burner on hte Windows box you wont be able > to get the RPMs onto your Linux filesystem. Trying running YaST to get > networking set up. > > Once you do that, the files you need to download > are at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/X/XFree86/XFree86-4.0.2-SuSE/ > under the suse70/ directory. Be sure and read the README and RELNOTES > carefully. >

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fetchmail problem
by New Star Service Company 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

few days ago I install SuSE-7, due to my small harddrive space I don't install X-windows. I'm complete newbie and I start journey in Linux world with SuSE. I do hope, I find help to learn SuSE. My problem is to get email from my ISP server. I use yast2 to configure wvdial. wvdial works well. I'm able to send email but problem to received. Here I use fetchmail . I read manpage of fetchmail. after got internet connection I use this command in my /home/partha , but fetchmail give me error, I don't understand what's happen.please help me to solve this problem. > fetchmail -K pop.spnetctg.com enter password of partha(a)pop.spnetctg.com : [ i enter password here ] fetchmail: IMAP connection to pop.spnetctg.com failed: Connection refused 23 message for partha at pop.spnetctg.com (74621 octets) reading message 1 of 23 (3797 octets) .... fetchmail : SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail: SMTP transcation error while fetching from pop.spnetctg.com fetchmail : Query status = 10 (smtp) FYI, I only edit /etc/resolv.conf , no other files. DO I NEED TO EDIT MORE FILE, WHICH FILES AND HOW.

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This is Funny!!!
by James Hatridge 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

FBI reveals Carnivore to be hoax, announces "YHBT" The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations announced today that its Carnivore e-mail monitoring system does not, contrary to previous reports, actually exist. "You have been trolled," FBI director Louis J. Freeh told a crowd of reporters at a press conference. "You have lost. Have a nice day." A system allegedly capable of collecting e-mail at the ISP level, the Carnivore troll has made headline news over the past year. Over 1,000 news organizations and countless citizens are believed to have to "bit", and online discussions on sites such as KuroDot.org continue to "feed" the troll. The Supreme Court declined to "bitchslap" Freeh for his actions, ruling unanimously that the nation's election and meta-election systems were sufficient to deal with trolls. "The 'bitchslap' should be reserved for extreme offenders such as Saddam Hussein," said Chief Justice Rehnquist. "Not even Katherine Harris' DoS attack against last year's election was deserving of a 'bitchslap.'" Freeh is believed one of about a dozen "hallowed trolls" of the U.S. government, who reportedly congregrate on a secret www.whitehouse.gov troll thread to plot their next targets. Other prominent government trolls include Ralph Nader, U.S. Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), and President-Elect George W. Bush, the lattermost of whom claims to have successfully "trolled the grammar flamers" for over a year. Many reacted to the FBI's announcement with disgust. "The fawking trolls have taken over the government," said programmer Scott Lockwood III. "These guys are even worse than 'vote whores' - they're actively spreading misinformation and poor policies. Look at the 106th Congress --over 1/3 of the bills proposed were either incoherent or pure flamebait. I watch C-SPAN at +1, and I still have to put up with this nonsense. The signal-to-noise ratio in the United States is lower than it's ever been." Some, however, praised Carnivore as an intelligent joke on the gullible media. "Trolling is nothing more than a reaction to the narrow-minded dogmatism of the American public," said former president Ronald Reagan, perpetrator of the infamous "Star Wars" troll. "And Freeh's 'Carnivore' is one of the best trolls I've seen." Reagan was also quick to point out the difference between Washington's "true" trolls and "spammers" such as the cigarse.cx guy. "Bill Clinton may be infamous for his 'Paula Jones naked and petrified' posts, but he's not a troll," explained Reagan. "A true troll announces seemingly coherent but logically flawed policies, such as promising to both cut taxes and spend more on programs, designed to expose voters' hypocrisy." In response to the Carnivore hoax, Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR) has already introduced a bill that would amend the Constitution with a "lameness filter" designed to thwart future trolls. Hooley, however, admitted that the amendment stood little chance of success. "Capitol Hill would be pretty vacant if it passed," she said. Added Hooley: "First bill!"

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pine, pop3 and sender email address
by Garry Smith 13 Jan '01

13 Jan '01

Hi, I am using pine on SuSE Linux 7.0 Pro to access my pop3 mail account. I can read my mails fine from the pop3 server. I would like my pop3 email address to be used in the 'from address' on all mails sent using pine (obviously so people can then reply to my pop3 account). I have managed to change my name in the From field (the receiver sees this correctly), but I can't see how to insert my pop3 address. Currently the receiver gets the following line in my emails: From: Garry Smith <Garry@YAST_ASK> I can see how to set the domain part of the mail address, but my pop3 address before the @ is different from my username on the Linux box.. Does anybody have any ideas? Many thanks in advance regards Garry

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