January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

mixer, kde1/kde2
by S.Toms 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

I've been playing around for the better part of the day, uninstalling/reinstalling kde1 and kde2 and have noticed that with kde1 installed, mixer is fine. As soon as I install kde2 then mixer goes blank. Sound works perfectly, but nothing shows up in the mixer window. It's completely greyed out with a normal window frame. I've also noticed that under yast2, when kde1 is installed, I can access the sound module and test the sound. With kde2 installed, it reports that the sound module couldn't be installed and that I should check that alsa is correctly installed. Again, sound works perfectly, but the sound module won't work. Has anyone narrowed this down further? I'm gonna do some more playing Sunday, see if I can figure out what made it go bad. -- S.Toms - tomas(a)primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.17 "To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it?"

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Samba problems with 7.0
by rbr 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Upgrading my system from 6.3 to 7.0 , SMB services starts no more. I have found that the size of the file /etc/rc.config was reduced from 22000 to 1600 bytes (approx) and the statement START_SMB="yes" was missing. Can anyone help me? TIA and HAPPY NEW YEAR Robert Brisig Lugano. Switzerland rbr(a)ticino.com

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CISCO 4800 Series 11Mbps DSSS PCI Adapter w/128-bit WEP p/n AIR-PCI4800
by audrius＠sisneta.lt 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20001213112226.00bc04f0(a)192.168.200.1> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:33:24 +0100 From: Audrius Verseckas <audrius(a)sisneta.lt> Subject: CISCO 4800 Series 11Mbps DSSS PCI Adapter w/128-bit WEP p/n AIR-PCI4800 Hi, Maybe some one know exactly is this adapter (CISCO 4800 Series 11Mbps DSSS PCI Adapter w/128-bit WEP p/n AIR-PCI48000 WLAN) supported in SuSE. Because ISP guys told me that it is not supported. And we have to buy MS server with proxy and exchange and with 200 clients. That is a lot of $... and a lot of problems. Thanks. Audrius Verseckas

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please ignore -testing KMail 1.2
by ajtiM 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

test

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harddrive geometry
by MaD dUCK 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

hey, when i start the suse installation, my harddrive ( a fujitsu mhg2102at ) is detected as heaving a CHS geometry of 1222/255/63 but the drive actually says it's 16383/16/63. from what i know, it doesn really matter as long as that doesn change once the drive is partioned and formatted, but is there a preferable one? thanks, martin maduck(a)madduck.net (greetings from the heart of the sun) -- the nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first.

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Re: [SLE] yast2 and alsa and lots of angry ranting
by Purple Shirt 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

Ok I guess that should make me feel better. I guess it is a fact that yast2 and alsa somehow have a bug in it which breaks, or makes it hard to get, sound with opl3sa2 card even though alsa in itself supports opl3sa2 just fine. Due to the fact that yast2 is all graphical and leaves not much in sense of tweaking we well on our way into the windows alike world where we sit and have to guess what is going on and try and try and try again and again til it works. Well I know it works I just need to figure out how. Guess my Sunday is planned out. Besides yast1 isn't that great either except for network card setup and installations. I wouldn't dare to use yastx to install printers, samba or nfs or the alike. Directly accessed text files are the way to go.... >From: Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps(a)jlkreps.net> >To: "Purple Shirt" <purpleshirt(a)hotmail.com>, suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] yast2 and alsa and lots of angry ranting >Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:05:22 -0600 > >I had the same problem getting my sound chip (same as yours) working, >and like you I could only use YaST2 to try Alsa, which didn't work for >me either. >So, since my OSS license was still good I got an upgrade and installed >it. Sound is great now. > >I agree with you. SuSE, are you listening? Don't leave YaST1 behind >and put all your updates into YaST2. In my opinion, YaST1 is more >powerful and flexible. >jlk > > > >On Saturday 06 January 2001 18:27, Purple Shirt wrote: > > 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 > >-- >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. > > > >-- >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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Setting Permissions
by Tim Schall 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

I've got what is probablly a simple/dumb question. How do I (or is there a way?) to have new files in a directory granted group write privledges as soon as they are created? I'm running Suse 6.4 and Samba on my file server and want to have a certain sub-directory (My MP3 storage) granted group write privledges as the CD-Ripper/MP3-Compressor creates the files. I want to do this so that files can have their ID3 tags updated by a Win98 box that logs in as a different user but a member of the same group. I've tried having CRON run out periodically and update that directories permission settings but I think it would be smoother the other way.

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yast2 and alsa and lots of angry ranting
by Purple Shirt 07 Jan '01

07 Jan '01

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

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Reiser FS in linux-2.4.0.SuSE-7?
by Alex Daniloff 06 Jan '01

06 Jan '01

Hello SuSE folkz, Just downloaded linux-2.4.0.SuSE-7.tgz kernel and tried to compile it. Surprisingly Reiser FS didn't show up in File Systems configuration menu. Even though I saw Reiser FS modules in linux-2.4.0.SuSE/fs/reiserfs directory. Could somebody please give me a hint how to enable Reiser FS in this new kernel configuration menu. Thanks in advance. Alex

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RE: [SLE] Larger than 4G mem support
by Chuck Carson 06 Jan '01

06 Jan '01

2G? I am running 816 on a RH 6.2 box, kernel 2.2.14-16.11smp on a Quad Xeon box with 8G of RAM, and we have Oracle successfully utilizing 4G on memory. I want to utilizing all 8G of this memory however. Looking at the documentation on the large meory support in kernel 2.4, it explains how the kernel can address as much as 64G memory on the intel architecture. Sorry about this box being RH but my every intention is to move this box to SuSE. I just took a position at this company and everything is RH 6.2 right now, soon to change however. I have already slapped SuSE 7 on 3 hard hit VA-Linux boxes serving primarily mod_perl traffic from front end servers and have seen better memory usage. (still have not pinpointed why) Thanks, CC -----Original Message----- From: Eric Whiting [mailto:ewhiting@amis.com] Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 9:30 AM To: Chuck Carson Cc: 'suse-linux-e(a)suse.com'; suse-oracle(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Larger than 4G mem support The 8.1.6 Oracle for linux (intel) I have used is a 32 bit app so a single instance couldn't use more than a 2G SGA anyway -- but I guess you could run multiple instances on a 4+G box. 2.4 stress? no personal experience -- I ran 2.4 pre9 for a long time without trouble -- but not on a database box. eric Chuck Carson wrote: > > Can you get larger than 4G memory support prior to the 2.4 kernel? I just > built the 2.4 kernel and it seems to be working smoothly, but I need to > upgrade a core Oracle database to this kernel and am a little uneasy with > the kernel being so new. Has anyone done any stress testing against the 2.4 > kernel out there yet? > > Thanks greatly, > CC > > -- > 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 -- 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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