October 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Getting AGP started
by Tracer Bullet 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

Hey all, As I have been working on getting the latest Nvidia drivers to work on my system, I have learned many new things about my system and setting things up! That is a good thing right? :-) One thing I am still puzzled about is the AGP slot on motherboards and getting them working. Thru ignorance, I thought the AGP slot was automatically activated when power hit the motherboard, but after some research, fine that it has to be activated with software, such as the agpgart module or Nvidia's agp module. Well, since I have an AGP slot and a video card inserted there, I also would like to get mine working! The questions asked of me during my research included: 1. Is AGPGART package installed? 2. Is AGP enabled in your XF86config file? (ex: NvAgp=2) 3. Is AGP enabled in your kernel and loaded? My system responses: 1. Wasn't, but is now 2. Yes/No It is in my XF86config file, but running NvAgp=2 or 3 causes a system lockup at the login screen. 3. Yes, in kernel, supposedly loaded, but does not show up when you issue the lsmod commmand in a console. If you do a ismod agpgart command, the agpgart.0 module shows up, but does not seem to activate the agp slot as "gears" doesn't show any increase in speed. (presently about 400 fps with my card) Plus if you do a 3Ddiag, shows no agp or the lsmod, shows agpgart.0 (unused). Hints, advice, suggestions? I am open to them all as I would like to obtain a resolution to this mystery. end of line Tracer -- ---KMail 1.3.1--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

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OT:Computer Ethics in the Renormalized World
by Steven T. Hatton 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

I know this subject is off topic, but I can think of no better place than this list for me to discuss this issue. In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks there will certainly be an increase in the kinds of technology capable of tracking the actions, locations, identities, financial activities, communications, and other aspects of the behavior of individuals and groups of individuals. Very few people would condemn the application of these capabilities to groups such as the terrorists who committed the recent crimes which have threatened the lives and wellbeing of decent people all over the planet. OTOH, these same technologies could be used to track the behavior and conduct of other groups or individuals who are perhaps not guilty of any crimes but those of thought. Such tools could be used by governments to track and oppress such religious groups as the Falun Gong in China, Christians in Iran, Wiccans in the US or Europe. They could be used to track and oppress political parties which oppose the current status quo. Anyone who has read 20th Century European history will understand the potential abuse such tools are subject to. This is subject is of significant personal concern to me for several reasons. Among these are the fact that I am fairly adept at designing systems of this nature, and have actually contributed to such efforts in the past; I am a member of a tiny religious minority which is subject to continual persecution, and which has been unjustly characterized by the US Government as a result of a few statements and actions by individuals claiming to represent us as a whole; I am an American (since 1776 on most branches) and I believe in the freedoms and Rights affirmed by the US Constitution. It seems inevitable such systems will emerge, and will continue to become more sophisticated and powerful. Anyone who has looked at the global world situation and who has run the numbers on population dynamics realized there is great potential for huge ecological, economic, and agricultural disaster which threatens to drive otherwise decent people to extremes of behavior which could potentially lead to significant global conflict as humanity struggles over the insufficient number of life boats on a sinking ship. The power of the kinds of information systems I am discussing when considered in the context of such an unstable world is, to me extremely frightening. I feel confident that there is a genuine threat to individual liberty manifested in this emerging technology. I am in a situation where I don't know what my moral responsibilities are. I am certain that the failure to discuss the potential dangers merely serves to compound the threat. I have many significant questions, and no good answers. To demonstrate but one aspect of my concern consider my ISP. I get my internet service from the same company which provides my telephone service. This company can monitor, without my awareness, my phone conversations, my e-mail traffic, my news group behavior. They can determine what websites I access, and, unless that information is encrypted, what information I download. If the US Government were to investigate my behavior, they could potentially aquire a warrent allowing them to monitor all of the above mentioned behavior. I have been investigated in the past when applying for a security clearance. The result of that investigation was rather disturbing. Though I had committed no crime (other than prior use of certain substance familiar to all recent presidential candidates) my life was severely disrupted as a result of the investigation, and how the information obtained was used. That was in the mid 1980s. It would now be much easier to obtain the same kinds of information as was used to undermine my personal financial security. If what I'm saying doesn't frighten you, think about it until it does. -- Open Source Software depends on your support. If you use it, be sure to give something back. http://www.suse.com | http://www.kde.org http://www.mozilla.org | http://www.xemacs.org

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RE: [SLE] 7.3
by Jostein Berntsen 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

I think this sounds like poetry. Jostein >===== Original Message From "Ladislav Bodnar" <ladislav(a)linuxfreemail.com> ===== >If you think that the German translation is terrible, you should try some >more exotic languages. Recently, I used babelfish to translate a Korean >Linux web page and this is what I got: > >"From, more it is hotter 2001 years the reel which is a snail linux 7.1 >green onion li cu with coolly try to forget a summer at the time of of the >which it is different with meaning together, the snail linux 7.1 reel li cu >with opportunity, well the Korean alphabet distribution petal which becomes >it will be able to use from the place where the individual and the >enterprise and school others OS are necessary to come with meaning in order, >it was new in the field and try to get up the wave of freshness one linux >name it came. Are the snail linux 7.1 green onion with together, more people >the world of freedom and challenge, and, more over the OS which is not >necessary will hesitate a selection, it is a green onion which comes in >toward the world of linux ~ it expects and it sees, the line carefulness su >ley to everybodys it is visible. Changes and the green onion is mac gain and >loss give with the rebuke and the love ~ " > >I still think it's better than staring at a completely unreadable (for me) >text, not least for the entertainment value. And you get to learn about >green onions as well. > >Ladislav Bodnar >www.distrowatch.com/suse.htm > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Anders Johansson" <andjoh(a)cicada.linux-site.net> >To: "Jostein Berntsen" <jostber(a)online.no>; "suse-linux-e" ><suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> >Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 7:31 AM >Subject: Re: [SLE] 7.3 > > >> Thank you. Now I can be confused i two languages :) >> >> That babelfish is just horrible ("let alone to change or delete may"? This >> page by Yoda written was, perhaps? :) >> >> Anyway, in german (and I could understand most of it. More than I can >> understand of the babelfish results.) or in english I still can't find the >> most interesting thing of all: the package list. Previously, there has >always >> been a list of the included rpms and their versions, but here I can't find >it. >> >> To SuSE people: is the package list on the site, and I just can't see it, >or >> did you forget to put it up? >> >> Anders >> >> On Sunday 30 September 2001 01.21, Jostein Berntsen wrote: >> > Babelfish will try to help you with your German: >> > >> > >http://babel.altavista.com/?urltext=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suse.de%2Fde%2Fprodukt >> >e%2Fsusesoft%2Flinux%2Fsuse_linux.html&lp=de_en >> > >> > >===== Original Message From andjoh(a)cicada.linux-site.net ===== >> > >October 13 in german. When in the rest of europe? >> > > >> > >I like what I see on the screenshots, and what my *very* broken german >can >> > >decipher in the text. >> > > >> > >I can't wait :) >> > > >> > >Anders >> > > >> > >-- >> > >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 and the >> > >archives at http://lists.suse.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 and the >> archives at http://lists.suse.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 and the >archives at http://lists.suse.com

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Matrox G400 dual-head not working in text-console
by Jaakko Tamminen 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

Hi I have Matrog g400 Dual head, and it is working with X. When I switch to text-console (alt-Fx), my monitors complain about wrong refresh rate. Where do I change the refresh rate for text-mode when leaving graphics mode? Jaakko Tamminen -------------------------------------------------------

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Matros G400 dual-head not working in text-console
by Jaakko Tamminen 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

Hi I have Matrog g400 Dual head, and it is working with X. When I switch to text-console (alt-Fx), my monitors complain about wrong refresh rate. Where do I change the refresh rate for text-mode when leaving graphics mode? Jaakko Tamminen

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Re: [SLE] scanlogd
by THOMAS ADAM 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

> How do I use scanlogd on a SuSE 7.2? In which log file can I read port scans? > I tried to set on /etc/rc.config the variable to start scanlogd to yes. > When booting or calling rcscanlogd it prints the message "starting" in green... > Then I try with "rcscanlogd status" and I get "unused". > > Is there any document about it? > I looked into /usr/share/doc/packages/scanlogd and also man pages but haven't found any information on how to configure it on SuSE 7.2. > > Thanks. Try looking in the following folder: /var/log(s) there might be something :-) --Thomas Adam

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scanlogd
by Pep 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

How do I use scanlogd on a SuSE 7.2? In which log file can I read port scans? I tried to set on /etc/rc.config the variable to start scanlogd to yes. When booting or calling rcscanlogd it prints the message "starting" in green... Then I try with "rcscanlogd status" and I get "unused". Is there any document about it? I looked into /usr/share/doc/packages/scanlogd and also man pages but haven't found any information on how to configure it on SuSE 7.2. Thanks.

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URGENT: KDE crash after some copy paste / nvidia drivers problems
by Elton Machado 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

I have a problem with my KDE that is when i trei to copy and paste several times a string in a textbox of any QT program it simple crash and exits to console. I have another problem with my nvidia that is when i trie to go to console o try to chg from X session to console and back and so on my keyboard lost functionality and i an't kill the task and do resolve the situation. I know if i configure magi key request it could me resolve the situation of lost the keyboard input but every time i try to reconfigure the kernel it askme after i configure it for i module that i can't find aflter configure it even with make cloneconfig The module is: snd-card-ens1371 And because of this yast2 or other tool says it can't configure sounds back and I have to load manualy the es1371.o module. Thanks in advance. -- Elton Machado info(a)ideiasdigitais.co.pt http://www.ideiasdigitais.co.pt PGP KEY # 69EBD43A Portugal *** O tempo pode ser o teu melhor amigo. Se tiveres tempo para o saberes. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional Registered Linux -- 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 and the archives at http://lists.suse.com

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pop/fetchmail problem -LONG
by Donald G.Knecht 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

hey mail gurus ;) a while back, probably a year ago at least, i set up my linux box to pull all of our office email off our dial-up pop server and then act as a mail server for our small office network of mostly W$ boxes. i use fetchmail to get the messages from the pop server. this has worked fine for a long time, and for some reason, (which i want to blame on the W$ boxes), we have lost several large messages today. i ran fetchmail in the morning as always and saw a rather large attachment get downloaded for my sales dept. along with several small emails. when they tried to get thier emails thier client (netscape mesenger) said no mail........so i loged into my linux box under thier account and ran pine locally, no mail found, then i looked at thier file in /var/mail and there was no mail there either, so i looked at the /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn files maybe a clue there. /var/log/warn has this: Oct 1 16:07:44 ss20 sendmail[7449]: f91Jo1I07446: SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to mail.funport.com Oct 2 08:05:16 ss20 sendmail[9060]: f91Jo1I07446: SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to mail.funport.com I also noticed very heavy outbound ppp traffic on gkrellm after getting the mail, there was no reason for this as i wasn't using the web browser at the time and ther was no mail qued to go out, so i just killed the ppp conection. logs aren't showing any other ip address than the pop server. fetchmail is deleting mail from the server after downloading so i can't retrieve a copy from the dial-up pop server. any thoughts? ideas? i can't find any new mail on the W$ box, ethernet connection is fine. don

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DHCP w/hostname identifier?
by Rick Green 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

I am trying to set up my laptop to acquire an IP address from a DHCP server based on a specific 'host identifier' which is not the MAC address. I'm using dhcpcd, an according to its manpage, I can invoke it with the -h option, and it will send the string. My trouble is that I have a PCMCIA ethernet card, and I'm getting lost in the maze of scripts that lead to the dhcpcd invocation. It appears to me, that upon inserting the PCMCIA card, the cardmgr identifies the card as type 'network', and invokes /etc/pcmcia/network. This script sources /etc/pcmcia/network.opts, and then eventually calls /etc/init.d/dhclient with parameters 'start eth0'. This script in turn builds an argument string in $DHCLIENT_ARGS and calls dhcpcd. So, thinking that I understood what was happening, I inserted the following line into /etc/pcmcia/network.opts: DHCP_SEND_HOSTNAME = "ebony" and I inserted the following lines into /etc/init.d/dhclient: test -n "$DHCP_SEND_HOSTNAME" && \ DHCLIENT_ARGS = "$DHCLIENT_ARGS -h $DHCP_SEND_HOSTNAME" ...This didn't work - a check of /proc/<pid>/cmdline told me that the -h option wasn't being set. I moved the declaration of DHCP_SEND_HOSTNAME to /etc/rc.config.d/dhcpcd.rc.config. Partial success - I can now see the -h option is being set, but I'm still getting an IP address from the transient pool, instead of the fixed-ip I want. So now I'm looking at my dhcpd.conf. Here's the relevant sections: subnet 192.168.156.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { option routers 192.168.156.101; pool { range 192.168.156.102 192.168.156.120; deny unknown clients; } pool { range 192.168.156.201 192.168.156.220; allow unknown clients; } } host ebony { option dhcp-client-identifier "ebony"; fixed-address 192.168.156.104; } And here's what I'm seeing in the log: dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:e0:98:02:e8:3b via eth0 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.156.220 to 00:e0:98:02:e8:3b (ebony) via eth0 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:e0:98:02:e8:3b (ebony) via eth0 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.156.220 to 00:e0:98:02:e8:3b (ebony) via eth0 dhcpd: if IN A ebony.aapsc.com rrset doesn't exist add 3600 IN A ebony.aapsc.com 192.168.156.220: connection refuseOct 2 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.156.220 (192.168.156.107) from 00:e0:98:02:e8:3b (ebony) via eth0 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.156.220 to 00:e0:98:02:e8:3b (ebony) via eth0 Can someone clue me in to what I'm missing? -- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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