March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

??? modutils vs modules
by Andrei Verovski 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hi, Anyone have a clue what is the difference between modules and modutils, they seem to be doing the same? I have both 2.2.18 and 2.4.2 kernel, should I install modules alongside with modutils? Also, I have 2.4.3pre4 kernel and modules 2.4.1-1, is it OK or I need to compile newer modules? I've got boot error message char-4 major not found, but it seem to be harmless. Thanks Andrei

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KDE2.1 Desktop problems help needed
by Ralph De Witt 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI all: I have two desktop problems that I have not been able to solve. One is the splash screen does not reach 100% and close it remains at 0% now and will disappear when clicked on. I tryed removeing the recommended file logging out with out the restore option and logging in but that did to help. Second is the fact that when I create links on the desktop to applications they donot work. When I look at the properties they look like all of the other functional icon links. From the right click context menu I choose create new then link to aplication. I then choose a icon and fill in the button name on the general tab, on the Execute tab if fill in the Command line by Browseing to the executable file. I then press ok to create the desktop icon/button. But when clicked on it does nothing. I am not able to locate the actual file that it creates to look at to see what the problem may be. Any assistance you can give for these too problems would be appreciated. Ralph - -- It said uses Windows 98 or better so I installed SuSE 7.1 Proud user of SuSE 7.1 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6ukX78irP9FWaA+cRAnviAJ977Rt3zavDdavAMyAUaOZgnYInGQCfQcXe 6FsVPhw5Nlz2Odt9cySd6f8= =gYUj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Question?
by Giovanni Gualino Alonso 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

I download the new version(7.1) of suse but i dont Know how it must be burned into several cd's You can help me Thanks sincerily Giovanni Gualino Alonso

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Xfree86 Upgrade
by Bob Bobbo 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hi, can someone tell me where i can find XFree86 Updates? Thanks in Advance, Bob _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Who will protect our info in a .Net world? If Bill asks me, I will!
by Fred A. Miller 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2699718,00.html -- -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm(a)cupserv.org

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problem getting back into pro-7.1
by JB 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Some of the typed lines in in x windows in my pro-7.1 were either cut off in the middle if the typed line or even looked as though they were even hand written. I ran sax2 in order to hopefully fix that and now my mouse pointer is a big square and I have no control in x windows. I am trying to figure out how to turn off x windows but have not been able to get into the unix like text environment and really don't want to reload for 10 hours again. Does anyone know how I can get back into my system without reloading? Also how can Xwindows be kept from automatically starting?

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ADSL: so close, yet so far...
by mhf 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Update: 1. Inserted SNET Primary and Secondary DNS numbers into adsl-start. Could not make connection. Experienced Time Outs each time. 2. Changed back to inserting "server" into the DNS section of adsl-start. Connected successfully. Using Lynx, I tried to connect to Yahoo using the numbered IP address http://64.58.76.179. Lynx attempted to connect to the site stating something close to "Sending request HTTP address; Waiting for Response." Lynx then got stuck and was not able to receive response to connect to the site. 3. Larry Holland suggested that I try at prompt: route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 64.252.1.200 metric 1 This produced a network error message regarding SIOCADDRT. Not really sure what that is.....I looked for a manpage, but there's no entry for it. Hmmm, this is very frustrating. I can create an open connection, and send requests for responses, but I don't seem to be able to receive any packets back through my adsl connection. Also, I tried to reach http://linuxlife.org using Opera browser, but Opera did the same thing---- was stuck attempting to load data from the website for 12 minutes before I closed out. Might this have anything to do with the problem?----- When I boot up, one of the messages I see indicates, "Starting PCNFS/BWNFS daemon requires portmapper failed ("failed" is written in red) I believe this has to do with allowing shadow passwords in user profiles, but not sure if it has any effect upon dial-up or ethernet connections. I don't know what to do next..... Mike Flug michael.flug(a)snet.net

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7.1 Won't Install, and Worse
by Stan Koper 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hello all, Nice to see all the wonderful comments about SuSE 7.1, but unfortunately I haven't been able to share in the success. In fact, SuSE 7.0 was a dog, as far as I was concerned, generating frequent segmentation faults all over the place. But I didn't pay much for 7.1 personal, $19.99 at Best Buy, minus my Shaw's grocery card 10% discount. But it did inspire me to reinstall 7.0, which seemed to go better this time. Unfortunately, I thought I should upgrade the kernel to 2.2.18, and so I did that, with the result that the system is now freezing, with a disk error/Kernel OOPS message as described below. This is an Abit IT5H motherboard, probably version 1.2 or 1.5, with a Cyrix 200 chip. It has 96 megs of memory, a CS4936 sound card, and an EIDE CD-ROM, 24x. I forget what kind of video card, but PCI SVGA. This is the gateway machine to my home network, so it has a 3COM 3C509 ISA card as eth0, hooked up to a cable modem, and a Realek 1839 10/100 PCI card as eth1 for the internal connection.. When I first set this machine up as the gateway, it had an IDE hard drive, probably 3 gigs, under a 5.x version of SuSE. Then I upgraded to 6.4, and installed everything on a new 8 gig IDE drive. At that time eth1 was a cheapo NE2000 card. Everything worked fine. About the time that SuSE 7.0 came out, I was able to purchase a Seagate 9 gig SCSI drive for about $25, and got a Tekram DC-390 for around $30. So what I did was unplug the ide drives, plug in the cable from the SCSI drive to the controller card, go into the bios setup and erase the IDE drive entries (well, run the ID hard drives program), and reboot so that only the SCSI hard drive was up and running. I installed 7.0 on that drive. Installing was problematic. This was 7.0 professsional, and at one point I even returned the set to the store, because it wasn't reading files on one of the CD's. But the replacement did the same thing. Anyway, I eventually got it installed and working, although with fairly frequent segmentation fault messages, mostly having to do with apache, and probably a few other things. But since I blew that away and reinstalled 7.0, those problems are gone.. But 7.1 doesn't install at all. First, it doesn't recognize the hard drive right off the bat. That drops it out of Yast2 to Yast1. So I install the SCSI module for the tekram card. Then I add the network modules, but only the Realtek card is found, not the 3c509 (not really a problem, 7.0 didn't recognize the 3com card either, it just has to be done later). At that point I'm ready to roll, and I select installation/update. The CD spins, and then stops, and there it sits. Nothing. Nada. Dead. So I figured stuck with 7.0, I might as well upgrade the kernel. I used the *rpm for k_i386, not k_dflt. And now this. Any suggestions? Thanks, Stan Koper SCSI disk error: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 2504000 scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:05 sector 65704 reiserfs_bread: unable to read dev = 2053 block = 8203 size = 4096 unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 13fe6f47 current -> tss.cr3 = 05fbd000, %cr3 = 05fbd00 *pde = 00000000 Oops = 0000 CPU = 0 ELP = 0010 : [<c017ff34>] EFLAGS = 00010286 eax: 848babf3 ebx:c0180342 ecs:e3eab380 edx:13fe6f33 esi: c5fa1d18 edi:c5fald58 edp:c5fa1ca1 esp:c5fa1c8c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process init (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage = c5fa1000) Stack: c5eb314c c5b291d0 c3e5c018 00000018 c5fa1ca0 00000001 00000002 0000010a 0a619f7f 000001f4 c3eab380 c5fa1d78 00000003 c0180342 c5eb341c c5b29230 00000003 c5fa1d18 c1fa1d58 c3e5ce40 c5fa1d04 c0180318 c5fa1d18 00000000 Call Trace : [<c0180342>] [<c0180318>] [<c0180f0a2>] [<c0180342>] [<c0180342>] [<c0132617>] [<c01324da>] [<c0132860>] [<c01329f7>] {c01c7f04>] [<c01c8215>] [<c01395ac>] [<c019720a>] [<c01395ac>] [<c0197eda>] [<c0197a85>] [<c01972db>] [<c019729e>] [<c0197b127>] [<c019889e>] [<c013470a>] [<c010a485>] [<c010a344>] Code: 0f b7 4a 14 03 4b 24 09 4f 10 8d 47 0c 50 55 51 52 e8 ce f5

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SQUID
by Van Deuren Joris 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hi, I installed the SQUID rpm. Set the SQUID startup at boottime option to "yes" (rc.config) Configured my squid.config so that connections on port 3128 are possible. Connected myself to the internet. Restarted SQUID so my changes in squid.conf will be active. Configured the proxy settings in my browser.... And ..... I try to connect to an internet page with my browser.. I receive the SQUID page telling me that I'm not allowed to go to that address. "Access Denied" Does anyone know what I did wrong???? Greetings Joris.

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[OT] how to rip a CD (making mp3s)?
by wilson＠claborn.net 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hey all, I've recently purchased an SBlive!. I wanted a card for voice input, heard that SBLive!s were the best and found one on sale so a snatched it up. Since I haven't had a sound card before, and am not really into music too much, I've totally ignored all of the conversations about music on Linux. Thus I don't know what-apps-are-the-coolest-today like most everyone else does :-) But now that I have this snazzy sound card, I'd like to make some mp3s off of a CD track, but I have no idea where to start. Can someone please recommend some apps and give me some basic instructions? If anyone has something to say about music players and sound editors, I'd like to hear that too, but the mp3 making info is what I'm really after. TIA ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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