March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Is SuSE's ftp down?
by Purple Shirt 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

it's been down since 3 days at least. >From: Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps(a)jlkreps.net> >To: SLE <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> >Subject: [SLE] Is SuSE's ftp down? >Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:41:52 -0600 > >I am not able to connect... >Can anyone else? >JLK > >-- >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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Greek keyboard layaout?
by ADMIN R00T 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Hello > Anyone managed to write Greek in Kmail? (KDE2 suse 7.1) I can see greek lettes but cannot write! > It is important for me ! > If anyone have any ideas pls send me an email! > Thank you in advance __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

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KDE 2.1: kxmlrp: how to disable?
by Corvin Russell 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

I don't need kxmlrp listening on port 1025. I can't seem to figure out how to disable it. Any ideas? TIA Corvin -- Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca>

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Re: [SLE] 7.1 Won't Install, and Worse
by Samy Elashmawy 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Low level formats , are those still possible ? How is this done in bios. I thought you had to use your os to fdsik and partion. I remeber back it the dos days , som manufactureres gave out flopies to do low leval formats. I thoght the newer drived could not be low leval formated ? At 09:57 AM 3/15/2001 -0500, John Karns wrote: >You may have a surface damage problem on the HD. Try a low level format >via the BIOS util with the Tekram (F2 or F6 when prompted during >boot). This should mark unread/unwritable sectors as being bad (provided >the number doesn't exceed a limit which is drive specific), thus allowing >you to proceed. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >John Karns jkarns(a)csd.net > > > >On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Stan Koper said: > >>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 > > >-- >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 > >

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Realteak 8139
by Darrell Nobles 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

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Re: [SLE] X Windows
by Edwin Erdman 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

I am using an Expert 128. As I said, this (7.1) is the first Sax could even find my card! I always had to use the older configurators. I just checked my local archives and found a reference to the following URL for some supposed drivers for the Radeon: http://www.xfree.org/cvs/changes.html Good Luck Ed PS It turned out that Sax had put mode lines for higher resolutions than I use inth the XF86Config file. I just had to remove them. On Saturday 17 March 2001 21:13, you wrote: > Ed, > > I don't have the answer to your question, but I was wondering if you would > tell me what ATI card you're using. See, I tried to get an ATI Radeon to > work but eventually gave up on it. I went out and purchased an ATI Xpert > 2000 card that was specifically listed as supported since XFree 3.3.6. SaX > surprised me and scooped up the Xpert 2000 without a problem, but I still > hope to get the Radeon working someday. > > Thanks for your time. > > Mike Flug > michael.flug(a)snet.net > > 3/17/01 3:10:36 PM, Edwin Erdman <erdmaned(a)ticon.net> wrote: > >Hello all, > >Re SuSe 7.1 > >I really know better, but I had an attack of terminal stupidity today and > >tried running SAX2. It does now find my ATI video card (first time ever). > >However it left me with that *&^%$(^ virtual desktop so that everything > >keeps sliding all over creation. Can someone take pity on me tell me the > >name of the file in which I can turn this thing off? > >-- > >Edwin O. Erdman > >Penguinista - diagonally parked in a parallel universe !!! > >User# 135893 Machine#s 59387, 82657, 82659 > >SuSE 7.1 - KDE 2.01 > > > > > >-- > >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

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7.1 Upgrade Annoyance
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Just upgraded from 6.4 to 7.1. A few minor annoyances and one major. The major annoyance is that the installer found all of the partitions on the platform, but won't mount them. Here's the installer generated fstab: /dev/hdb13 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/hdb12 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc2 /data2 auto noauto,user 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /windows/E vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /windows/F vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /windows/G vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /windows/H vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb8 /windows/I vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb9 /windows/J vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb10 /windows/K vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb11 /windows/L vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc1 /windows/M vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdc3 swap swap defaults 0 2 A solution to the problem will be very appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Sax2 Xfree4 and ttfonts
by SCC 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

Hi everyone. I've added a ttfont directory in Sax2 but see no ttfonts under kde. is there something more to it than just adding the font path in the sax2 dialogue? Do the fonts have to be somewhere special? (at the monet they are in my /home/ ~ directory). SuSE 7.1. Thanks for any help, Steve.

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SafeWeb Warning
by peter hollings 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

SafeWeb ( https://www.safeweb.com/ ) is a websurfing anonomizer. Their TriangleBoy software is free, open source, runs under Linux and is designed to penetrate firewalls that would otherwise block access to SafeWeb. However, I want to make the Linux community aware that an article in the February 26 Sm@rt Partner magazine ( www.smartpartner.com ) reported that a venture capital fund (named In-Q-Tel) funded by the US Central Intelligence Agency had made an investment in SafeWeb. Since TrinagleBoy is open source, its security might be verified, but in the absence of that, I would be cautious. At least, it's open source! With Microsoft, we'd have no opportunity for verification!

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XFree86 rpms for 7.1
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 18 Mar '01

18 Mar '01

The other day I noticed some rpms of Xfree86 4.02-7(?) for 7.1 on the SuSE ftp site. So I dutifully downloaded them, burned a CD & took 'em home to install. I used Yast1 to install. The Xmodules, Xloader & the glx all installed no prob. - but the main Xfree file (8 megs or so) would not install (it could not find something in the file). I tried again from the console using -force, --nodeps, etc. and it said that the rpm "could not be installed". So I figured I had a bad download & tried to go back to the ftp site & try it again. The directory containing these rpms was GONE. This was all on Friday (3/16). It is now 3/18 & I still can't find the rpms on the ftp site. I must assume they were pulled because the Xfree rpm was broken. What's the status SuSE? Any idea when these updates will return? Mike ------------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com x6033 ------------------------------------------------------- We are born naked, wet, and hungry. Then things get worse.

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