March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

PLEASE HELP-problem getting back into pro-7.1
by JB 21 Mar '01

21 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 starting automatically.

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Re: [SLE] USB Scanner Help
by Martin Drake 21 Mar '01

21 Mar '01

Thanks for trying to help. I've not been able to get near the PC for a few days to look at the problem again. Going through your message: On Saturday 17 March 2001 02:39, you wrote: > I did it !!! I got my HP Scanjet 4100C USB scanner running !! Way to go! > > Stats: > SuSE 7.1 > kernel: 2.4.0-4GB (not sure if USB works with kernel 2.2.18) In theory, I think it should...(but it would be kind of someone to tell me if I'm just wasting my time here). > > Make sure you have "sane-1.0.4-3" & "xsane-0.70-0" installed. > They were on the SuSE 7.1 CD's. Yes they are both installed. > > Look at: > /usr/src/linux-2.4.0.SuSE/Documentation/usb/scanner-hp-sane.txt > for instructions. Basically a "lsmod" shows: > > Module Size Used by > scanner 5952 0 (unused) > hid 11744 0 (unused) > usb-uhci 21712 0 (unused) > usbcore 46480 1 [scanner hid usb-uhci] Those modules are all installed (but different sizes to yours). > > Then edit "/etc/sane.d/hp.conf". It should look like: > /dev/usbscanner > option connect-device I've copied your hp.conf file (I was originally missing the line "option connect-device"). BTW: is there anything special about your /dev/usbscanner? Does it link in any way to /dev/usb/scanner0? Do you know what the point of this doubling up might be? > > Then, as root, do: "xsane -s" Ta Da !!! It came up !!! Not here it doesn't :-( > > I had to do a "chmod 666 /dev/usbscanner" to get "normal users" > to be able to run xsane. > > Now I have to figure out how to use xsane. But the scanner now > works. Only need "xsane -s" the first time. Just "xsane" after that. > > Hope thsi helps... > -=[cwa]=- > -- > Christopher W. Aiken > Scenery Hill, Pa, USA > chris at cwaiken dot com > www.cwaiken.com > SuSE 7.1 Professional Linux In USBView, it takes a while but I can eventually see a device "usbscanner" and the details correspond with the 4100C. However, when I try "scanimage --list-devices" I get nothing (not even the two dummy devices that the SANE documentation talks about. When I try to be more explicit with "scanimage --device-name hp:/dev/usbscanner" it throws up a segmentation fault message. Perhaps I'll just end up going over to 2.4.0 Thanks again, if you can give me any more clues I'll be grateful. Martin Drake Luxembourg

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Apache standalone server
by Timothy A. Fritz 21 Mar '01

21 Mar '01

Dear Readers- I was able to successfully set up my linux box as a standalone web server for a program I use (for those familiar with crystallography, the program is CNS). However, I upgraded from Suse 6.3 to 7.0 and now when I try to access the CNS files using my machine as a web server, Netscape says it is unable to locate the server (my machine). I am including some information from some files and output from some commands to give a little more info. Any help would be appreciated. By the way, the program CNS requires perl in order for the web server function to work. Here's some info about my machine: Output from ifconfig -a: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:94 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:94 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol POINTOPOINT NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1262 errors:3 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3 TX packets:1134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4 NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 Output from netstat -r: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo Content of /etc/hosts: # # hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. # On small systems, this file can be used instead of a # "named" name server. # Syntax: # # IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname # 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.2 HYPERION.usr.local.httpd HYPERION Content of /etc/networks: # # networks This file describes a number of netname-to-address # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. # loopback 127.0.0.0 # End. Thanks for your help. Regards, Tim Fritz -- Timothy A. Fritz /Dept. Biochemistry and Biophysics /S1060B UC San Francisco /San Francisco, CA 94143-0448 /Tel: 415-502-8663 FAX: 415-476-1902 /e-mail: tafritz(a)msg.ucsf.edu

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£d with 7.1
by michael norman 20 Mar '01

20 Mar '01

At last I have 7.1. Absolutely fantastic, best yet. One thing thought, I have a Voodoo 3 2000 video card and under 7.0 using Xfree 3.3.6 I could run all the 3d games and screensavers. How do I do that in 7.1 ? I configured the card using Sax2 to run with 3d acceleration but nothing works. What packages should I have installed ? Do I need to add the 640x480 to the available reesolutions ? How do I do that ? Grateful for any pointers as to what to do. Mike

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upgrade on ftp with DHCP
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 20 Mar '01

20 Mar '01

Hi all! I would like to upgrade my system using ftp. I means that I boot on a floppy, load the module for my network card, configure the network and begin the installation. The problem is that I should be using DHCP. Before, the lease time was long enough to renew it and then take all the time to install linux. Now, it is 10 minutes long. How should I do to use dhcp while booting on a floppy? Or is there another way to do the upgrade or full install by ftp? Thanks for your help in advance! Patrick

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Sound problem with 7.1
by Lionel Chan 20 Mar '01

20 Mar '01

Greetings, I'm running SuSE 7.1. Configured my ISA AWE64 card with the following results: - 1) System sound ok (eg., opening, closing kde windows) 2) MP3 player works ok 3) KSCD runs but no sound at all :-{ Searched SuSE sdb but couldn't find any relevant articles. Anyone with the same problem? Any idea where I've gone wrong? Thanks very much in advance. -- ~Linux Forever~

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Postgres installataion in SUSE 7.0, lacking dirs i ~postgres/data
by Lars Forseth 20 Mar '01

20 Mar '01

Hi! My first posting seems to get no response, but I have been researching my problem a little more. This evening I cleaned out all postgres related stuff, and reinstalled, using yast1. From the /var/log/postgres file I can read this afterwards: "No data directory -- can't proceed. /usr/bin/postmaster does not find the database system. Expected to find it in the PGDATA directory "~postgres/data", but unable to open file with pathname "~postgres/data/base/template1/pg_class". No data directory -- can't proceed." Looking into this dir I get this: "larsf@Yoda:~ > cd ~postgres/data larsf@Yoda:/var/lib/pgsql/data > ls -al total 12 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 20 19:56 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 20 19:56 .. -rwx---rw- 1 postgres daemon 27 Aug 6 2000 pg_options larsf@Yoda:/var/lib/pgsql/data >" Looking for pg_class results in this: "larsf@Yoda:/var/log > locate pg_class /usr/include/pgsql/catalog/pg_class.h" So it seems I'm lacking some dirs and files, presumably SUSEconfig has failed in building the template1 standard database and database dir during install of the RPM's; why? What to do? Could somebody supply a stock data dir so I could copy it into this dir, and get postgres up and running? Regards, LarsF -- -------------------------- Lars Forseth http://www.uio.no/~forseth MS WIN > /dev/null TUX rules --------------------------

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New GCC goes on smoothly...
by Matthew Johnson 20 Mar '01

20 Mar '01

Good day, Just installed GCC and it glided onto my system very smoothly, I even risked doing it remotely. However, I do have one question that is hard to verify remotely: I was getting an error message on starting most applications that "locale not uspported in C library", was that important? Matt

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NFS/SuSEfirewall
by Thomas Bishop 20 Mar '01

20 Mar '01

Hello list, New frontier: setting up NFS. One of my machines cannot mount a directory from this machine (firewall). My best guess is that I am blocking port 2049, but I do not know which setting in SuSEfirewall to change to allow internal machines to mount NSF directories. I get permission denied messages on the other machine. This machine *can* mount directories from other internal machines, which led me to believe the firewall is the culprit. Sorry if this is a dumb question....I'm no guru, but learning. Thanks. -- Tom Bishop tb64710(a)alltel.net RLU #12043 SuSE 7.1 PRO

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Test LAN ...
by INF - F. Roque Ojeda Masias 20 Mar '01

20 Mar '01

Hi all, this is my first post to the list. I´m new in linux and want to practice a bit with it. At home i have three computers, twoo with Ms Windows and one with Linux. Every Windows machine has a NIC and the Linux machine hast two NIC´s. I connect the Windows machines to the Linux one with a UTP Cross-Over (hub to hub) direct nic to nic cable. Its more easy if you see it ... +---------------------+ +---------------------+ | WIN1 | | WIN2 | | 192.168.0.10 | | 192.168.0.11 | | 255.255.255.0 | | 255.255.255.0 | +---------------------+ +---------------------+ | | | | | | \ / \ / \ / +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |192.168.0.1 | | 192.168.0.2 | |255.255.255.0| **LINUX** | 255.255.255.0 | |Eth0 | | Eth1 | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ My question is how can i make WIN1 see WIN2 ? I´ve beeing playing around with route command but it seems not to work. Asswell i would like to know how to make the routing table start with the system; when i restart the routing tables i have entered just disapere. Thanks in advance. P.S.: If it helps, i´m using Suse Linux 6.3. And i don´t have $$$ to buy a HUB. Ahh ... , the Linux machine sees the two Ms Windows. =========================== F. Roque Ojeda Masias Servicio de Informatica Ayto. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Tfno.: (928) 44.62.74 Email: rojeda(a)laspalmasgc.es ===========================

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