December 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

ARTSD, what is?
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 10 Jan '02

10 Jan '02

Using Top, I see a lot of activity going on at something called artsd. Don't know that program and could not find anything on it. And when I leave KDE for the console on my 7.3 version. I see a lot of errors showing up. Warning: leaving MCOP Dispatcher and still 13 references alive This is followed by a whole bunch of: Arts:: Sample storage etc... The last line reads as Warning: leaving MCOP Dispatcher and still 155 types alive. I do not like such messages and want to stop them. How? and what do they mean?

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Settin up a mail-server
by Jaakko Tamminen 08 Jan '02

08 Jan '02

Hi I need to set up SuSE 7.2 mail-server, that needs to: Get the e-mails for 4 user accounts from ISP, store them locally, and deliver the e-mails to local workstation (outlook in win-98) when user click on "receive". Some filtering might be a good idea... Accept sent e-mails from local win-box users, and resend them to ISP with that users name. I'm quite puzzled with the magnitude of different software. Could someone succest what software I should use to set this up? I don't need deep explanation, but I can't seem to select correct ones so that they work together. Do I need to set the user-accounts also in Linux, or can I "pass thru" e-mails for non-Linux users? How about copying all the traffic to a "monitoring" account in Linux? Jaska.

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APSFILTER BUG: PATCH
by Raphael Marmier 05 Jan '02

05 Jan '02

I have identified the apsfilter related printing problem reported by Purple Shirt on the 8 Dec. 2001, in the suse-english mailing list. Due to a nasty bug at the beginning of apsfilter, printing of non plain-ascii postscript is just impossible, as it gets interpreted as text (ironic, isn't it). Apple MacOSX and probably others sends Postsript files which contains special characters like null characters. It took me two full days to pinpoint and fix (I had no previous knowledge of lpd and apsfilter). However, the fix is quite straight-forward for someone who master apsfilter's internals, except, maybe, for a second bug that would still deprive french users and possibly others from printing. I find it surprising that no one at SuSE seems to have taken any action so far. The following patch fixes both bugs. Of course, SuSE is free to use it at once and publish the patched apsfilter for Yast Online Update ASAP ;) to apply the patch, put it in /var/lib/apsfilter/ cd /var/lib/apsfilter/ patch -p0 < apsfilter-patch Raphael Marmier raphael(a)marmier.net *** apsfilter Sun Dec 30 05:59:52 2001 --- apsfilter.new Sun Dec 30 05:29:28 2001 *************** *** 87,99 **** # # Strange GNU grep 2.3 (and higher?) ! # grepver=$(grep -V 2> /dev/null | head -n 1) GREPOPT="" case $grepver in ! *GNU*grep*) ! major=${grepver##* } ! minor=${major##*.} ! major=${major%%.*} ! test $major -ge 2 -a $minor -ge 3 && GREPOPT="-a" ;; *) ;; --- 87,102 ---- # # Strange GNU grep 2.3 (and higher?) ! # And strange consequences of excessive localisation ;) Raph grepver=$(grep -V 2> /dev/null | head -n 1) GREPOPT="" case $grepver in ! # The french grep -V puts "GNU" _after_ "grep", causing old expr to fail! ! *GNU*) ! vernum=${grepver##* } ! # Must make sure we grab the first 2 digits. Newer versions have three! ! major=$(echo $vernum|cut -d'.' -f1) ! minor=$(echo $vernum|cut -d'.' -f2) ! test $major -eq 2 -a $minor -ge 3 \ ! -o $major -ge 3 && GREPOPT="-a" ;; *) ;;

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Hauppage TV Card Remote Control
by pete atkinson 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

I'm not sure where to start on this one.. My TV Card (Hauppage) comes with a remote control. KWinTV worked straight out of the box except for the remote control.. Does anybody know how to get this working ? Many Thanks Pete

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problem installing suse 7.3 on pentium 4
by i-engg3 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

Greetings guys I was trying to install suse 7.3 on a newly brought Pentium 4 with Intel mb.I faced problem in that. After selecting install from the boot menu, with blank screen the installation stopped. I tried manuall installation with text mode. Here after got some messge, again the installation was stopped. (infact the installation did not start). The last messeges i got were something like Intel (R) 4 CPU with 1500MHz stepping 0a Checking htl instruction ... ok CPU:0 Clocks 0 Slice 0 I checked with memtest here it shows L1 cache unknown. L2 cache unknown. Does it mean that my cache is not recognized by suse? do I have to disabled in from bios? Please guide me how should I proceed. -kvs

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Re: [SLE] trying to get lilo back on MBR
by Matt 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

Hi, I had no end of problems on 7.2 In the end I had to create a small DOS partition then it worked. I too had my / partition on /dev/hd'x'3 Regards Matt -----Original Message----- From: Mike [SMTP:bcomber@freezer-burn.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:47 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] trying to get lilo back on MBR On Tuesday 23 October 2001 19:15, you wrote: > hi, > > MBR on /dev/hda has been erased and I am trying to get my lilo back. > > my / is /dev/hdb3 > > I booted from suse disk 1 with [rescue] option > mounted /dev/hdb3 on /mnt > > but simply typing > # lilo > or > # lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf > > didn't solve my problem. > what should I do? > > thanks, > baris When you boot from the CD, you can boot the installed system. It asks where your / directory is, and in this case it would be /dev/hdb3. Once you do that, you can run lilo, and all should be well. Had to do this and got the same things you did. Once I booted the installed system it worked.. Mike

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VMware Workstation.
by Erik Jakobsen 04 Jan '02

04 Jan '02

Hi. I'm using suse 7.3, and VMware Workstation 3.0. I try to setup the parallelport where my HP1100A is connected. Nothing else is connected to the port: parport_pc 19280 1 parport 22240 1 [vmppuser lp parport_pc] The parallel port supply in the kernel is set as module, and should be ok then. When I boot Windows XP, I receive the following message: "The "/dev/parport0" device is used by another program. Device parallel will start disconnected" I then try to switch the parport ON after the booting of WIN98 XP, but I receive the same message. Anybody that can tell me whats wrong ??. -- Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / vy73 de OZ4KK Erik Jakobsen - erik(a)urbakken.dk SuSE Linux 7.3

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ReiserFS + mirroring + ATA
by Chris.Smith＠raytheon.co.uk 03 Jan '02

03 Jan '02

Hi, I have two hard disks:- ata1 - master = IBM 30Gig ATA100 (/dev/hda) ata2 - slave = IBM 30Gig ATA100 (/dev/hdb) Any ideas how I can software mirror these and use ReiserFS as a disk format? SuSE has to be bootable off either of the disks *and* if one drive blows up, I need to be able to swap it out with another one and rebuild the mirror pretty quickish. I dont need to hot-swap - powering down is fine. Can someone give us an idea where to start please! Cheers, - Chris.

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Big gaps in boot messages
by PCHintz 02 Jan '02

02 Jan '02

Recently I have seen this after installing 7.3 on several machines. The normal boot messages seen at start-up have lots of blank lines (carriage returns?) between them. Anybody else seen this or have a fix? Thanks PCHintz

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Dell Laptops and APM.
by Ben Rosenberg 02 Jan '02

02 Jan '02

Has anyone heard of having to create a seperate partition for APM to work on Dell laptops? I was told that this little slice had to be created so that Linux could write info to it when it hybernated. I've never heard this before and I'm wondering if it's crap. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...

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