January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

OT: windooze errors on tv...;)
by Christian Klippel 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

hi all, here in germany at a cable tv station (RP) you can see a error message from windows saying that a shokwave-flash plugin is needed but not installed...;) and that for more than 3 hours now.... funny to see that on public tv...... the video-loop in background plays and in the foreground that msg-box with that red cross... is this a new strategy from M$ to place her advertising ?? <grin> chris -- visit me at http://mamalala.de

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More 2.4 up and running without sound
by Ed Harrison 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Jerry, This may seem ignorant but ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/next/ also has a file called pathes-24.tgz. I know nothing about patches. Is this file necessary? What does it do? How do you apply patches, if it is necessary? I have never patched anything. Ed Harrison SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.2.18, IBM JDK 1.1.8 (20000713) or Warp 4, FP12 or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.3 for fun) PolarBarMailer 1.1.19

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I'm up and running on 2.4 with everything but ....
by Jerry Kreps 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

the OSS sound. I have a licensed copy of 4Front Technologies OSS. It didn't make it. ReiserFS is running ok. The Zip 100 was recognized. My scsi card to the sanner was recognized. My printer was polled. KDE2 works as usual. The boot was very fast -- 2.4 and ReiserFS make a nice combo. And, 2.4 appears to be running faster. Now, off to see what I have to do to get sound back. jLK -- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.

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HP OmniBook 6000: A Disaster Report
by Radule Soskic 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

Hi everybody! I spent my holidays trying to install my brand new SuSE 7 Pro on a brand new HP OmniBook 6000. Now, here's some of my bitter experience: 1. I cut one half of 20Gb Win2K partition with fips and installed SuSE, but had some problems with lilo and "1024 sector limit". Obviously, my 9Gb were too far from the begining of the disk to keep lilo pleased. I am new to Win2K, and also I read some "not-so-clear-to-me (being newbee)" instructions in the manual about coexistence of NT and Linux (lilo) - not a word on Win2K, so I finally (rather early) switched from Win2K to 98SE. I definitely wanted to keep any sort of Windows and make a dual boot between Win and Linux. I also had dual boot 95(98) with SuSE 6.4 on my two desktop Pentiums, where everything works fine. So, I felt it's good move to go for something more familiar to me. 2. So I switched to 98 and did all again. I decided to leave the lilo problem (1024 limit) for later time (downloaded the newest lilo and put it aside) planning to put lilo on floppy first, and later to replace it with the new one in MBR. I understood the new one doesn't care about the physical position of the linux boot partition... 3. Yast 2 went to the point where the boot floppy should be made and prompt for the 2nd CD should appear (what actually happenned first time) But now it decided somehow to reboot the system, going again to the very begining of installation, instead of asking me for the rest of the disks. I was still full of enthusiasm, so I did it all again, this time slightly more modest - choosing "default with office" (previously it was "almost everythinng"). 4. Now I had more success. My system was up and running (running in a broad sense of the word) In fact, here's the list of what wasn't running: - Sound system was not found (ESS Maestro PCI Audio) - Network was not found (3com 10/100 Mini PCI Ethernet) - Modem was not found (3com 56K V.90 Mini PCI) - Graphics was only able to work in 1024x768. I tried all the possibilities - no success! (whereas in Win it shows excellent 1400x1050) My ATI Rage Mobility-M1 AGP was simply not on the list... 5. At the end, I was prepared to stick on 1024x768 because it really was clean and nicely working, even though the screen of 15" XGA deserved better. If only I could fix the rest of problems. But, nothing nice happened to make my holidays up. No sound. No network. No modem. Ende! OK, I know about so called win-modems and even win-printers, but ethernet and sound cards - could it be that what I have here is a kind of Win-notebook??? Sounds scary. 6. OK. I dig out an old modem/ethernet combo PCMCIA and this started to breath, but who wants 33.6K and 10Base-T once he has 56K and 100Base-T in the pack? By the way, I love Linux because of network stuff (for Office and other games I can stand MS Win...). 7. One more thing: every time I try to switch to other console (ctrl-alt-FN2 to FN6)there happens somethiing that looks horrible: all the screen starts toglow briht white, not at once, but part by part like something was badly broken inside....No, nothing like text-mode console or anything. Just burning screen...Fortunately, on ctrl-alt-FN7 my original screen revives back (what a releif !). Virtual consoles - another Linux beauty defunct... 8. To conclude, even my new lilo refused to install. Sorry - I can not recall the reason any more. It just was the part of the night when my intellect shows its superiority to the body, giving up and falling asleep, while dumb muscles still keep running. So, finally, my reflex motorics took revenge by firing up the good old fdisk. Now I have my C: and D: drives back and Win 98 lauging at me every time I boot up my shiny new notebook....Baaaad, huh? 9. I am not saying I am giving up. I just need a break now, that's all.:-) In the mean time, I am ready to receive all sorts of suggestion. If anybody wants to(or can) help, of course... I still think my OmniBook is a great machine. Also I beleive Linux is a great OS, and SuSE is a great distribution. Also, know that this mailning list is a great place, with a lot of great people, great spirit. I already received great advices from some of you. So, I will shut up now. (I talk too much for my English...) Waiting in silence. rms

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Gnome won't start
by michael norman 08 Jan '01

08 Jan '01

I'm running SuSE 7.0. I recently reinstalled as I wanted to repartition the drive. Everything is OK except that Gnome will not start, the error being that it cannot locate the shared library libesd.so.0. how do I fix this please ? Thanks Mike

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[suse-isdn] [SLD] ISDN4Lx vs capi4linux
by Oliver Ob 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Note: I have found no list with the topic somewhat like ISDN-ENGLISH, so if you know a better destination for this question inform me, pls. > http://www.capi.org > http://www.avm.de > http://www.wuebben.org/members/markus/development/fmi/ > http://www.capircvd.de > www.isdn4linux.de (vorallem das Mailinglistenarchiv) These sources are o.k., but if would like to obtain some OVERVIEW (which is hard to get in any linux topics which is the worst on linux anyways) on how CAPI4linux and ISDN4Lx compare and what each of them is able to do for you. Any direction you can point me to? *M*tia! Olli

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2 copies of emails ?
by W.D.McKinney 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Is everyone seeing 2 copies of e-mails ? -----Original Message----- From: Purple Shirt [mailto:purpleshirt@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 12:28 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] yast2 and alsa and lots of angry ranting Don't take the following too serious because I am losing my mind. Ok so I use SuSe since 5.3. Great product and it has come along nicely. Once in a while you cross a problem though where you think: what a fucking shit. yast2 is such problem. I read others here complain about yast2. I mean who to fuck needs this graphics crap? all I want is a working utility which assists in setup. yast1 used to be this tool and keeps being handy for my work. yast2 never really crosses my mind. previous to suse 6.4 getting sound was a bit difficult. You had to usually compile it yourself. I remember spending months in 5.3 to get my sound to work. Once I finally did it worked perfectly. until 6.4 rolled around and with it yast2 and the fact that SuSe started trying to include sound setup with its distro. From there on sound setup may have become easy for people who like yast2 and think it does a good job. For me yast2 makes sound almost impossible to enjoy. I got opl3sa2 card. The problem is that if I use the alsa.rpm and alsadev.rpm and use yast2 to set sound up it gives me sound but loops forever. it's not sound its noise. So there I tell myself that I just don't use yast2 and compile my sound like in the past myself. The problem is ever since suse created this automatic sound setup its impossible to compile alsa yourself. I constantly get this stupid error: amixer: Mixer 0/0 open error: Invalid argument So now I spend 3 hours on trying to get my sound back. I had it achieved once under 6.4 and 7.0 but it took me hours and now where I put new HD in my box I came to the same problem again. The sound is harder to configure than it was before suse tried to do it for me. The problem now isn;t even that I don't have sound. The mixer 0/0 problem will not even vanish if I uninstall and reinstall packages freshly. what a junk. I wish we all go back to good old text file setup and none of this yast2 junk. sorry for the rant. mk PS: I noticed there was now a conf.modules and modules.conf file in the distro. Maybe I slept but since when did this happen? It's not even symlinked. They are separate files. is SuSE so special that it needs it both ways? _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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/faq

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RE: [SLE] Closing Open Ports ?
by dmckinney＠akfiberstar.com 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Message-ID: <79C9E272CA9DD111A6910060082B1BE37CEA1E@HAPPY> From: Dee McKinney <dmckinney(a)akfiberstar.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:03:59 -0900 Subject: RE: [SLE] Closing Open Ports ? Ben, No matter what I do though these ports are still showing up ? Port State Service 111/tcp open sunrpc 931/tcp open unknown 934/tcp open unknown 939/tcp open unknown Is this something that can be dealt with locally ? /Dee -----Original Message----- From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto:brosenb@suse.com] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 10:05 PM To: SuSE Linux English Subject: Re: [SLE] Closing Open Ports ? Greg, /etc/services is just a list of ports associated with services. If one wants to close the ports then you would have to comment out the line associated with them in the inetd.conf file and restart inetd. This is basic Unix/Linux thing .. it works this way on my Solaris (sparc) box, SuSE Linux box and my freeBSD box.. It's inetd that controls these things..not /etc/services. Regards, * Greg Thomas (ethant(a)pacificnet.net) [001217 22:11]: -**- -**-Yes, but once you kill the process associated with the port, if it is -**-commented out of /etc/services the daemon should not start up -**-the next time init scripts are run. This is an indirect way of -**-doing things, though. Haven't checked this on Linux but Solaris, -**-HP-UX, and OpenBSD behave this way. -**- --

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Recompiled SuSE 2.4 kernel and installed modutils-2.4 but....
by Jerry Kreps 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

when I did the "make modules_install" the progress listing just before the prompt reappeared was: "unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0/kernel/drivers/media/radio/radio-miropcm2.0 depmod: aci_write_dmc aci_indexed_dmc aci_write_cmd_d " I don't know if the "make modules_install" command completed or not. Further, I noticed that the /lib/modules/2.4.0/pcmcia directory is empty. The 2.2.16/pcmcia dir had lots of library files in it. The "make oldconfig" option brought up my old configuration but the responses to many of the ones were just blind guesses or default values. For example, besides the pcmcia stuff, the parport stuff was defaulted to "N" but I need it to boot the zip drive and the printer stuff. I made it "M" (module) but then I was asked a bunch of questions about parport that I had no clue about, so I defaulted the answers. Not getting any pcmcia libraries suprised me, since 2.2.16 has a lot of them. I copied bzImage to /boot as vmlinuz240 and created a section in lilo.conf to boot it. And, I also noticed that in /boot there was a "System.map-2.2.16" but no 'System.map" file. ??? I copied the new one over as both System.map and System.map.2.4.0. So, the only task I have left is to run LILO to set the MBR boot record. I've recompiled kernels sever times in the past, but this is the first I've done that I don't feel comfortable about. rerunning LILO. Any advice? JLK -- Scientific theories, according to Sir Karl Popper, can be "falsified," or proven wrong, by experiment. Unscientific theories -Marxist dialectical history and Freudian psychology were Popper's favorites- are formed in such a way that they cannot be falsified by data.

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Reiser FS patch for 2.4.0 plain kernel.
by Alex Daniloff 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Hello Linux folkz, Does somebody know where I can get Reiser FS patch for newly released 2.4.0 plain kernel? Thanks in advance. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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