March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Zip question...
by James Hatridge 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Hi Rick. On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Rick Green wrote: > On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, James (Jim) Hatridge wrote: > > > > > Hi all > > > > I've got my Zip 100 external working. It works great with blank diskettes. BUT > > when I try to mount the zip tools disk I get this error: > > > > Mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device. > > > > I tried to mount it as both a vfat and msdos. Either worked, any ideas? > > The Zip Tools is an unusual beast - it has both FAT and MAC partitions on > it, so I wouldn't be surprised if the FAT was something other than > partition 4. > I never figured out why they made partition 4 the standard for > pre-formatted ZIPs... This was the problem! I changed it from sda4 to sda1 and it worked. Thanks! -- Jim Hatridge Proud Linux User #88484 Owner -- beowulf-newbie list I didn't vote for his daddy either! Libertarian Party www.lp.org ------------------------------------------------------- BayerWulf Jim's Beowulf Project Looking for giveaway computers and parts Email Jim for details on how you can help build a poor man's super computer.

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base network
by Landy Roman 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

from suse manual page 150 "your machine has to have a supported network card......" cat /proc/net/dev should show eth0 yet they dont say what to do if the card is supported and no sings of it my ethernet controller shows unknown device 0985 when i do lpsci -v suse claims to support the card base on tulip keyword in suse DB after trying their advice; just nt using lx_suse kernel, i cant get this thing to be seen, can someone shed some assistance....... -- SuSe 7.0 Linux 2.4.2 i686 Sun Mar 25 16:05:00 EST 2001

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Re: [SLE] Diamond S3 Savage 4
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

At 23:19 25/03/01 +0200, you wrote: >Hi everibody, >i would buy a IBM NetVista A40I, but i saw that the graphic card is a S3 >Savage 4: is supported? >Thamks & regards >Massimo Arnaudo You might find the answer to your question there: http://www.xfree.org/4.0.3/Status.html Patrick

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Re: mk_initrd
by filip 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Hi, Well, I think there is someting wrong.! You said having a scsi card, driver aix7xxx. hda, hdb, .... represents IDE disks, sda, sdb, sdc.... represents SCSI disks. So I really don't know what you did. Try to give us your hardware details and what you did so the list can help you. Ciao, Filip. Le Dimanche 25 Mars 2001 22:28, vous avez écrit : > Thank you very much. I did all but problem exsisting :(. > > mk_initrd > using "/dev/hda3" as root device (mounted on "/") > > creating initrd "//boot/initrd" for kernel "//boot/vmlinuz" (2.4.2) > no version "2.4.2" modules found > > Mitja

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Diamond S3 Savage 4
by Massimo Arnaudo 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Hi everibody, i would buy a IBM NetVista A40I, but i saw that the graphic card is a S3 Savage 4: is supported? Thamks & regards Massimo Arnaudo -- E impari che puoi davvero sopportare, che sei davvero forte, e cha vali davvero. HomePage http://spazioweb.inwind.it/arnaudo LinuxGroup http://lugge.ziobudda.net

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SuSE 7.1 via Mac OS X - and the winner is ..
by dids 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Suse 7.1 Spent 2 days wasting my time trying to install OS-X on my powermac, finally got it working and yes its pretty, but irritating. Trying to get OS9 to work at the same time and machine refuses to boot. You need OS-9 for older mac apps. It seems that this is a product that was rushed out way too early. Yes I had problems with Suse 7.1 but only irritating glitches. I have almost stopped using W2k these days ( apart from for Dreamweaver ). I wouldnt be doing the same with Mac OS-X. pity. hopefuly they will get it sorted soon well done SuSE/Linux dids

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...and yast 2!
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Err... hi! I forgot to speak about the yast 2 issue: it doesn't want to connect to a ftp server though yast 1 does it without any problem. Is that normal? Patrick

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issues with xf86 4.0.3, kde2.1, yast2
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

Hi again! I have several issues with my Linux configuration. I had upgraded to 7.1 and kde 2.0 was working, but... I upgraded xfree to 4.0.3 and KDE to 2.1 at the same time. Now, when I type 'startx', KDE complains that dcopserver is not running. I tried the following: > 1) download http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/truetype.tar.gz > and put these fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype/ > 2) run: SuSEconfig -module fonts > 3) rpm -Uvh qt-experimental.rpm but it doesn't change anything. And this one too: > All 3 of these problems are because of the startkde script in SuSE's >kde2.1 rpms. If I use the vanilla startkde script from kde.org all 3 >of these problems dissapear. but it generates many errors and doesn't start X. I also saw that someone had suggested to startup dcopserver manually but I don't know how to do this. That was problem number one which is blocking for me. Problem 2 is that the picture at the screen is shaking horizontally when the hard disk is accessed. I don't have this problem in a win... environment. It means that it's not a simple hardware problem. My graphic card is an ATI Xpert@play (rage pro). Any idea where this could come from? Problem 3... I should rather say questions. Where do we change the desktop size? I don't like it to be bigger than the display. Where do I tune the positive and negative synchronization of the screen? Now both horizontal and vertical are positive and I think that I might get a better image quality if they were negative. I thank you a lot for your suggestions about these issues! Patrick

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3D in 7.1
by michael norman 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

I have a Voodoo 3 2000, p11300 and 196 mb ram. I have installed SuSE 7.1 pro and configured X with sax2, resolution 1024x768 @ i6 bit. I have set the card to use 3d acceleration and run 3Ddiag which tells me verything is OK.

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PP Scanner question...........
by James Hatridge 25 Mar '01

25 Mar '01

HI all I'll be getting a copy of 7.1 from a friend in the next few days. Then I'll see what all the shouting about <G>. One question I have is: What's the status on getting printer port scanners working with Linux? I've had one now for a couple of years and always have to reboot into W$ 3.1 to run it. Also on the idea of getting rid of W$. Is Koffice included in 7.1? I d/l'ed it about 6 months ago for 6.3 and never got it working. I even tried the Koffice list and they were such rude b"$§%"ds that I unsub'ed it. Right now I'm using W$ Publisher for a quarterly stamp bulletin that I write. If I could replace it with Koffice I can get rid of W$. TIA! -- Jim Hatridge Proud Linux User #88484 Owner -- beowulf-newbie list I didn't vote for his daddy either! Libertarian Party www.lp.org ------------------------------------------------------- BayerWulf Jim's Beowulf Project Looking for giveaway computers and parts Email Jim for details on how you can help build a poor man's super computer.

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