June 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

cdrecording probs
by wolfi 07 Jul '01

07 Jul '01

Hi, I have one strange problem with CD-burning: I made all the stuff with my CD-burner the way Eddie Howson had it done, and now it can be used as a reading device (/media/cdrecorder), but when I start kisocd I get the following error message: mkisofs: No such file or directory. Invalid node - <directory> ################################################################ Is your filesystem empty or am I not able to read mkisofs's output? ################################################################ I had this already before 7.2, but then I had a way to ignore this message and burn a CD nonetheless, and in the end, everything was all right. Any ideas about that? (K7-500 MHz, 256 MB, SuSE 7.2, Fujitsu-Siemens 4*4*32 CD-RW 'hdd' with emulation as SCSI device sg1 resp. scd0) Wolfi ================================== mailto:wolfi_z@web.de

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SuSEfirewall2
by admorgan＠mcs.tzo.com 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

I am setting up a system using SuSEfirewall2, I have a internal network, a DMZ and the outside network. I am trying to setup a website on the DMZ to be available on the internal network. I have set this line up in the firewall2.rc.config file: FW_FORWARD="192.168.0.99,192.168.5.2,tcp,3300" This should redirect requests for 192.168.0.99 port 3300 to 192.168.5.2 port 3300 shouldn't it? If not what am I doing wrong. Thank you for your help. -- __ __ ____ ____ | \/ |/ ___/ ___| Austin Morgan | |\/| | | \___ \ Morgan Computer Services | | | | |___ ___) | (501) 857-1189 |_| |_|\____|____/ www.mcs.tzo.com

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tdfx-voodoo5 and glx
by Mark Hounschell 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

I can't seem to get 3d stuff working correctly. I can do 3d stuff it's just the texturing is not there. I can run "ssystem -bench" and it runs at about 90fps but the earth is a white ball. No textures. I'm running x4.0.3 kde2.1.1 kernel 2.4.4-SuSE with the 3dfx kernel modules compiled in directly (not a modules). My XF86CONFIG file has the has glx in the modules section and tdfx in the driver section. At first I only got 6fps and the earth looked normal. I must have been using the mesa renderer. I ran swithx2xf86_glx then the fps went up to 90fps but the earth is white (no texturing)??? I'm starting to think my board is bad. Surely not. Why no texturing????? -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh(a)cfl.rr.com

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Problems with sound after yast2 update
by Brian Galbraith 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Hi folks Having a few problems Since I performed an update of yast2 components using the online update facility, I have lost all sound on my sysyem. I am unable to hear anything using both alsa and yast2. I reinstalled the original yast2 with no success. On booting, the system states that the required modules are not found in /lib/modules. I deleted the modules and installed kernel 2.4.4...no change. Then I reinstalled 2.4.5...still no difference. The following is the console log out put. Both kernels are rpms from /people/mantel, and both worked fine previous to the update.I am using 7.1 with a SB128 Any suggestions? Regards Brian Console log for linux Jun 26 22:10:59 linux kernel: snd: card 1 is out of range (0-0) Jun 26 22:10:59 linux kernel: snd: Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard #1 not found or device busy Jun 26 22:10:59 linux kernel: snd: card 1 is out of range (0-0) Jun 26 22:10:59 linux kernel: snd: Ensoniq AudioPCI soundcard #1 not found or device busy Jun 26 22:10:59 linux kernel: ip_conntrack (2048 buckets, 16384 max) Jun 26 22:10:59 linux kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports -- Brian Galbraith | GnuPG 1.0.6 | SuSE Linux 7.1 -2.4.5 PGP Key 0x8232434C http://website.lineone.net/~bgalbraith/pgpkey.html

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security: procmail
by S.Toms 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

In case anyone wants to know, procmail 3.20 is out and the authors are recommending that previous versions be upgraded for potentionally exploitable security issues. This problem exists if procmail is setuid or setgid on your system. The issues at hand are that procmail could be forced to crash in a way that could be exploited to provide access to a system. Whether this has actually been done is another story. -- S.Toms - smotrs(a)mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.18 Garbage In -- Gospel Out.

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RE: [SLE] apache
by Dee McKinney 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

I would like to see SuSE change the default /etc/httpd/httpd.conf from "-FollowSymLinks" to "+FollowSymLinks". This would help a lot of users. Is there a good reason why it's not +FollowSymLinks as a default ? /Dee -----Original Message----- From: Robert C. Paulsen Jr. [mailto:paulsen@texas.net] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:09 AM To: Jack Malone Cc: Robert C. Paulsen Jr.; suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] apache On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:34:35PM -0500, Jack Malone wrote: > Hi robert, thanks for the replies the other day on the apache help message. > I had to do a complete install from scratch to get apache working like you > did. it works here at work but not at home so I guess another install there. > another question now do you know what I need to do to make say > /home/jack/public_html > readible now . i have gone an done a > chmod o+x /home/jack an also chmod o+r /home/jack/public_html an still can > not pull the page there from a windows machine. I can enter the ip address > of hte suse box an get the default suse test info page. Am I doing > something wrong here or what. I had this working once in the past an now I > forgot what I did to make it work. thanks for any info. > Three things I can think of right now: First: You have might not have the permissions right. What you describe above looks like it should be OK, but check to make sure. Here is an ls -l of my directories: > ls -ld /home/robert drwxr-xr-x 54 robert users 4096 Jun 29 12:53 /home/robert/ > ls -ld /home/robert/public_html drwxr-xr-x 12 robert users 4096 Jun 28 08:46 /home/robert/public_html/ > ls -l /home/robert/public_html/index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 robert users 8801 Dec 31 18:31 /home/robert/public_html/index.html Second, On SuSE, Apache is configured by default to not follow symbolic links. If /home or /home/jack etc. is a symbolic link it will not work. There is an option ("-FollowSymLinks") in httpd.conf that you can change to "+FollowSymLinks". Third: You might have messed up your httpd.conf. Compare with the one from your working setup. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen paulsen(a)texas.net

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Fonts/Netscape in 7.2 ?
by Dee McKinney 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Anyone else having a problem with fonts in 7.2 using the stock supplied netscape ? What if any is the fix ? Thanks /Dee

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RE: [SLE] Fred
by Patrick Nelson 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Same here! Brian Marr wrote: ------------------- I would like to see Freds Posts continue on this list suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Cheers Brian Marr -- 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 and the archives at http://lists.suse.com

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Use of Linux
by n6tadam 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Dear Lists, This is perhaps slightly off topic, so bear with me. :-) I am interested to know, how many of you, actually use a non-root account to get work done. Since there is so many risks of constantly using a root account, how in the world are you supposed to get work done without being logged in as root?? For example, most of my bash scripts that I write, require the use of certain files, which, if not ran as root, would require me to run numerous chmod/chgrp commands to get them to run. How have people, gotten around this?? Regards, Thomas Adam Please note that the content of this message is confidential between the original sender and the intended recipient(s) of the message. If you are not an intended recipient and/or have received this message in error, kindly disregard the content of the message and return it to the original sender. If you have any complaints about this message please reply to: office(a)purbeck.dorset.sch.uk The Purbeck School E-Mail server running: users.purbeck.dorset.sch.uk

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JFS Tools ready for testing
by Lenz Grimmer 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Hi, if anyone plans on toying around with IBMs journaling file system "JFS", I have created RPMs of the required userland tools for SuSE Linux 7.1 and 7.2 (i386) - they will be available from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/grimmer/RPMs/i386/ and http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/export/RPMs/i386/ soon. (The web server already has them, mirroring to ftp.suse.com takes a while longer). A kernel with JFS included will take a few more days, though, but we are working on it. The patches from the IBM web site should apply cleanly to the SuSE kernel sources. Feedback is very welcome! Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany You got to start somewhere if you're going end elsewhere.

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How close is SuSE 7.2 to LSB?
by StarTux 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Just got round to reading deps nice article on Linuxplanet (cannot believe he tried that GCC/glibc upgrade...Tried that once and it failed to compile and I did something else instead, glad I did that!) I remember hearing awhile ago how close 7.0 or 7.1 was to the LSB, is there going to be another comparison soon? If dep is on the list still, did you try checking out the portal.suse.com site? I have found it occaisonly useful. But "why" were this problems happening? Recently when I tried the tarball install it went well until I specified alsa and a couple of others (I believe one was glx, but with an Nvidia card it may have been looking for the wrong GLX). Videolan, for me, works far better than Xine. Being on the Creatures Beta they seem to have no problems, I could ask them, but it seems very much like that games at least have settled on the /usr/local/games as a directory to install to. Matt -- "The only thing complex about Linux are the users themselves."

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3d in 7.2
by michael norman 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

I am using 7.2 on a pentium 111 with 256meg ram and a Voodoo 3 2000. Out of ths boax and with agpart complied into the kernel I am getting a return from gears of around 86 fps. This seem rather slow, is there soimething I can do to improve it ? thanks Mike

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APC installation mangles halt file?
by Mark W. Knecht 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Hello, Continuing on with my APC installation on SuSE EMail Server II, it mostly works. Pull the power plug, shutdown initiates, but apparently the APC installation program mangled /sbin/init.d/halt. This is running on two Redhat machines correctly, but the halt file is very different on those machines so I'm not making good comparisons yet. I'm getting a complaint of an error near [ @ line 102 I'm attaching the file here (it's small) hoping someone reads this script stuff better than I will see an obvious mistake. Thanks in advance for the help and pointers. Mark

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[SLE] Sleepy machine?
by Dennis 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

I have this problem and need some advice/opinion. One of my remote office PC using 7.1 pro working as DHCP and internal DNS running on Intel i815 mobo keep falling a sleep in the middle of the night (3am, 7am, 11pm, etc randomly), and loss connectivity both locally and remote (where my office is) when trying to connect the next morning. The fact is it just need to touch the keyboard and it wake up and running as it suppose to be. But this is a big problem as the remote site is unmanned most of the time. APM is not active, no funny logging in the /var/log/message but the log just stop there? what can be wrong? I have a similar setup using i820 PC doing the same thing in another remote site and it does not have this problem. Both PC setup is almost (I supposed) the same. Any comment? Dennis/sg

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7.2 installation
by Anders Johansson 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Well, I finally received 7.2, and I tried two types of installation. First, an upgrade from 7.1 and then a clean install. Strangely, this time, the upgrade went better :) The clean install never asked me what kernel I wanted to run, which the upgrade did. A bit odd, but no big deal for me. The default kernel worked, which is all that matters at this stage. Optimizations can come later When I first booted the clean install, the mouse wouldn't work, it just went and hid in the corner and wouldn't respond to mouse movements. I've had this before and it means that it hasn't been correctly identified as imps/2. I decided to reboot and try the text install, but I forgot to enter 'manual' at the prompt so I got right back into yast2. Imagine my surprise when the mouse worked this time. hm. The rest of the install went without problems (although my printer still isn't supported :() The upgrade worked at the first attempt, without any issues at all, I'm glad to say. This is wonderful :) The rest of the weekend will be spent trying to find differences from 7.1. On the surface there doesn't seem to be much, but I'm sure there's a lot if I dig deeper. Regards Anders

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suse archieves
by Landy Roman 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

when i look in the archies for suse mailing list and click on jun 2001 when it comes back it says jan 2000-jun28 2001 why does it show all the way back to jan 2000

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2.4.5/nVidia
by Ben Rosenberg 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Anyone using Mantel's 2.4.5 kernel w/ nVidia cards? Did you just have to recompile the kernel module for the nVidia card? Or was there something more to it? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- The only argument for the superiority of Windows over UNIX is that General Protection Fault outranks Colonel Panic.

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Fixed! -> Re: [SLE] gcc?? / kernel compile issues
by Ambrosius 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 25 June 2001 02:11, you ( Mads Martin Jørgensen ) wrote: > * Ambrosius <ambrosius(a)mailandnews.com> [Jun 25. 2001 00:07]: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sunday 24 June 2001 22:55, you ( Mads Martin Jørgensen ) wrote: > > I can't even do a make xconfig! > > ======================================== > > Well here's the last few lines after make xconfig: > > > > root@jezebelle:/usr/src/linux-2.4.5 > make xconfig > > rm -f include/asm > > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > > make -C scripts kconfig.tk > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/scripts' > > cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk > > ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk > > echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk > > echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk > > cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk > > chmod 755 kconfig.tk > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/scripts' > > wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > > Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0" > > Error in startup script: invalid command name "button" > > while executing > > "button .ref" > > (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51) > > make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 > > Try doing a 'make menuconfig' in a shell instead. If you really want > the xconfig remember to export the display correctly, and allow the > connection on user side. Found the problem. folks figured I'd respond to list (never hurts to have it on the archives). Turns out I had two problems: 1. BIOS Flash to a unstable version. (seems the bios file 6vx7-4x.f38 has some issues) 2. Mismatched RAM modules. (I yanked mods out of my machine and used my wife's as a test bench). After putting one of these modules in her machine and putter her's in mine I could compile the kernel with one bombout. So I booted to windoze (shiver) and flashed to older bios revision... Since then it's been ok, and my CPU temp has dropped down off the 80+ level too. After a fresh compile and an immediate reboot to enter BIOS and check temp there it was a full 20 degress cooler. Now I know that some would drop because the proc was no longer under load, but bear in mind this is in comparison to same sequence with bios f38. I've sent emails to gigabyte but no response. (shrug). Thanks for your help in this matter guys, it's appreciated :-) Next task: Is there a way to make the nvidia 1251 drivers run under mantel's 2.4.5 kernel? What am I missing? THey even bomb in my vanilla compile too. Any thoughts? Danke' Ambrosius - -- ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ??????????????????????????????? Name: Harold aka "Ambrosius" Email: ambrosius(a)mailandnews.com (L)ICQ Number: 117212600 Distro: SuSE Linux 7.1 Pro Registered Linux User: 216397 ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ??????????????????????????????? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7OdIz1UIAeY3WgCcRArNfAKCTAlRT3Nej2FoYaOUl5MSiEZbAFQCgnwBw sHPGk9e3iaPk8SJvbYADHGY= =xWX7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: KOffice Review: KWord
by Jonathan Drews 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

For the SuSE list members here is a very nice overview of Koffice's Kword. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: KOffice Review: KWord Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 17:38:16 +0000 From: Kent Nguyen <kent(a)mslinux.com> To: KDE User List <kde-user(a)lists.netcentral.net> Hi guys, I finished up the first part of my KOffice review: KWord. If you're interested you can read all about KWord here: http://www.mslinux.com/reviews/koffice.html KWord is a frame and component based word processor. One of its kind to date. It a good design: doc/view model and an excellent team. -- Cheers, Jonathan

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Sorry MMJ, here is correct info
by Corvin Russell 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

This user's mail is forwarded to yahoo where his account has been full for a while now. Delete? suse-linux-e-return-63077-fod=nemohackers.com(a)suse.com -- Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca>

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h3xus@yahoo.com: you are over quota
by Corvin Russell 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

h3xus(a)yahoo.com is over quota for some time now. MMJ - can you do something about this? Thx -- Corvin Russell <corvinr(a)sympatico.ca>

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Soundblaster16 issues with Suse 6.4 and 7.1
by Ron Sinclair 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

I posted about this exact same problem a few months ago, but got so frustrated with this problem that I gave up and took a break from Linux as a whole. Now, I'm back at it. Here's the problem: I have a Soundblaster 16 ISA card that I cannot get to work with Suse 7.1. I've never had a problem with this card working with other distributions and I have a crapload of them on my bookshelf. I've PnP disabled in BIOS. My card isn't PnP. Yast2 won't detect the card, and if I try to add this card to the system setup manually, I get the error, "The kernel module snd-card-sb16 for sound support could not be loaded." I tried ALSA and without ALSA....either way won't work. I've tried to install OSS (pkg opso) but it seems this is not on the Suse 7.1 CD set. I did a search of the disks for this package when installing some other software from the disks and the search was negative for opso. Will the same opso from 6.4 work with Suse 7.1? If so, I'll try it...if not, is there a 7.1 opso build on Suse's site? I haven't looked yet because every few minutes, Suse will lock up my whole system and I end up having to reboot...console messages right before lockup show "recording overrun," whatever that means. Other errors I'm seeing at the console are: Console log for 500mhz Jun 26 13:54:01 500mhz kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:09.0 Jun 26 13:54:01 500mhz kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports Jun 26 13:54:01 500mhz kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x6a3/0x53f) is not claimed by any active driver. Jun 26 13:54:01 500mhz kernel: usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x2204) is not claimed by any active driver. Jun 26 13:54:44 500mhz kernel: isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... Jun 26 13:54:44 500mhz kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Jun 26 13:54:45 500mhz kernel: <Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 3,7 Jun 26 13:54:45 500mhz kernel: <Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0,0 Jun 26 13:54:45 500mhz insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.0-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o: post-install sb failed Jun 26 13:54:45 500mhz insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.0-4GB/kernel/drivers/sound/sb.o: insmod char-major-14 failed I commented out ALL sound device lines from /etc/modules.conf to try to stop the errors above but they are still coming, although at a slower rate. Here's how things look now: Jul 1 01:08:47 500mhz modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 Jul 1 01:08:47 500mhz modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 Jul 1 01:15:06 500mhz kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Jul 1 01:15:06 500mhz kernel: snd: Sound Blaster 16 soundcard #1 not found or device busy Like I've said, I commented every single line that had to do with sound in /etc/modules.conf and the soundcard is STILL being detected and it's modules loaded. I'm also sure I have all the soundcard settings correct (DMA, IRQ...). I do get sound with all the errors, but only at the X-server's initialization (KDE, actually). MP3 and video players won't work....before, they would work but I couldn't control volume and equalizers. I don't know why Suse has always had problems with my SB16. It's worked in numerous other systems I've built, with other OSs, but NEVER Suse. I've only gotten it to work with Suse once and I had to ditch ALSA and use OSS for it to work....now I find that the OSS drivers aren't showing on the CDs for 7.1. I'm not about to buy another soundcard, although I should. The SB16 is so damn old...any cut-rate OS should detect it. I'm about to backup some material so I can soon try a reinstall of Suse since sound isn't the only thing I'm having problems with (CDR and NIC also). I'll give the current install about one more week before I kill it and have another go at installation.

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sound blaster 16 - no midi in kmid, midi/karoke player but timidy works, mp3 works etc..
by phil 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

Cobbler's Hornpipe.mid Mail evolution nsmail test GNUstep Nautilus kvirc-2.1.0 office52 vmware phil@lead:~ > mc phil@lead:~ > playmidi chp.mid Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details please see the file COPYING. no sound there... ;o) bash-2.05# insmod op13 insmod: op13: no module by that name found bash-2.05# cat /dev/sndstat cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device bash-2.05# lsmod Module Size Used by snd-seq-oss 28848 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-oss 18816 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-plugin 15024 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 5120 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] tdfx 53648 1 snd-seq-midi 3568 0 snd-seq-midi-event 2992 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi] snd-seq 42656 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event] snd-card-sb16 4544 1 isa-pnp 28176 0 [snd-card-sb16] snd-sb16-csp 15888 0 [snd-card-sb16] snd-sb16-dsp 15888 0 [snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp] snd-pcm 30560 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-sb16-dsp] snd-mixer 24224 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp] snd-opl3 4848 0 [snd-card-sb16] snd-hwdep 3376 0 [snd-sb16-csp snd-opl3] snd-timer 8560 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm snd-opl3] snd-mpu401-uart 2512 0 [snd-card-sb16] snd-rawmidi 9664 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4032 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd 34032 1 [snd-seq-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-mixer snd-opl3 snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3632 7 [snd] <snippage of other private devices> hrmm. i am lost. i have no midi i only had suse for about a week now. I want to drive my neighbor crazy with a cool drum machine heheh can anyone suggest the settings. maybe something in modules.conf I been commenting / uncommenting, booting, rebooting etc. I just ain't found the right combination. who's got a plain old sound blaster 16 and working midi? (attach your modules.conf) I don't mind getting mail.

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Re: [SLE] 7.2 installation
by Purple Shirt 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

> >I also have to say that as far as I can see, and I only got it on Thursday, >that this new release is the least significant improvement on the previuos >version that I have used. (I am using the pro update). I don't mind the >cost >but I think I'll consider carefully how quickly to move to the new veresion >next time. > >What do others feel ? Just from reading the press releases and so forth you should have realized that 7.2 was 7.1 with updated packages and updated yast2. Due to the fact that SuSE does deliver ftp updated for such things as KDE2 you cannot count that against them. They always said that they don't tell you to buy every release. And this is good. It shows Linux development is coming to a point where they don't crank out huge differences in apps and libraries and kernels over the next two years. It will be constant, xf 4.x, KDE2, 2.4 kernel, glibc, qt whatever-number, gcc 3.0, mozilla 1.x. I guess this means they can concentrate on fixing the fact that reiser support (what to do if reiser fucks up) still has flaws and tweak things to perfection here and there. oh and maybe give us packages for livejournal.com server and clients we been waiting for for months now. mk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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icq & firewall. Cant make direct connections anymore
by dids 30 Jun '01

30 Jun '01

I used to have a firewall w. ipchains 2.2.1x I upgraded to 2.4 w. suse7.1 and couldnt get ipchains working even though It should have, so I upped to iptables. I run the monmotha firewall script for iptables, seems ok I cant get icq to connect apart from through the icq servers, anyone have any ideas. It says you should open UDP 4000 and this huge wacko list of tcp ports or alternatively open some and tell your icq client to use just those. Ive tried opening 2000-2020 and telling licq these are the ones, but still no joy. Anyone know how to get icq working correctly w. firewall ? thanks dids

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