December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Iomega FireWire & USB1.1 Peerless Drives
by Linux World 999 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Two Iomage drives have to be connected to SuSE 8.1. One has a USB interface and the other a firewire. The capacity of each is 20GB. Does any manual configuration have to be carried out or will the OS recognise the drives and install them automatically? Any comments from current users of these drives on Linux would be helpful.

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Re: [SLE] Firewall advice
by Derek Fountain 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

> => Does it carry a web browser that supports frames and > => Javascript, and can I > => install it onto a box with no CD drive? > > Well, it's small, has a very good support page, requires no CD-ROM (I > assume you could FTP it to the box ??), and is configured by editing a > couple of fully-commented conf files... If it doesn't carry a copy of Mozilla, Netscape4/7 or Konqueror, I won't be able to configure my ADSL modem with it. The modem is configured using a browser interface, and will only subsequently work when used from the same MAC address as it was configured from. That was the reason I switched from Smoothwall, which is a fine firewall, to SuSE in the first place. -- Australian Linux Technical Conference 2003: http://www.linux.conf.au/ Explain to your boss the benefits of you going...

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XFree86 V3 required ?
by LaoToma 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi! The video card on my laptop is a ATI RAGE MOBILITY M1 AGP. All worked fine until I used Sax2 to 'tweak'. Now the LCD screen is sort of flickering, and I do not have the color resolution I used to have. I try to revert to the normal 1024x768 24bit color, but I got the error message 'Your video card requires Xfree86 V3' Could someone help please? TIA Lao Toma

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Incomplete TaskBar in KDE was logged as 'root'
by LaoToma 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi! Strange ... If I login as a 'normal' user, the KDE taskber is OK with the clock and = all the 'usual' icons closed to it (like Korganiser, Shutdown, etc ...) If I login as 'root', there is neither clock nor any of the 'usual' = icons closed to it. How can I have the 'normal' taskbar whwn logged as 'root'? I used to = have it under 8.0 TIA LaoToma

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Missing Info
by Dave Barton 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

I am running SuSE 8.0 and it has suddenly lost the 'info' command. The 'man' command works fine. Could somebody please tell me what I have to do to restore the 'info' command ? TIA Dave -- Registered Linux User #288562 http://counter.li.org

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RE: [SLE] How much memory/disk is required during YOU?
by Hahnsson Henrik 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

> I suggest you use fou4s too. Alexandr, Sounds like this could do it - haven't heard before about this program. I'll give it a try tonight. Thanks! /Henrik

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changed.
by Erik Jakobsen 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi. Why does a new 8.1 install always set my DVD drive to cdrecorder, and my CD-RW to CDROM ?. -- Erik Jakobsen

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Read NTFS (Solve)
by Hangga 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Dear All Linuxer, I've solved my problem since my Suse 8.0 could read NTFS partition on Windows XP. So this is how I make it happened (regarding to Christian Schoepplein [schoeppi(a)suse.de, Silviu Marin-Caea [silviu(a)genesys.ro] & Stuart Powell [SPowell(a)pcsolutionsmn.com]): 1. I make directory on /mnt directory => mkdir /mnt/ntfs 2. I change the fstab file => /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 0 3. I restart the system. 4. I login as ordinarry user 5. I create shortcut on desktop to /dev/hda1, with Windows XP Name (what's a name??;-)) 6. So, everytime I click that WindowsXP Icon, Konqueror will display the windows XP partition. All files in that partition could copied on my document directory. Many Thanks to all off you, Hangga

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RE: [SLE] Intel 810 Chipset and SUSE 8.1 Pro[Solved]
by sanjay 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Patrick, Thanks, this has been helpful. But my point was that if the kernel supported AGPGART (which it does say while booting up and does function normally thereafter) then SAX2 should understand that, if it has a problem with the chipset(very likey) then it should come up with a different error message instead of an AGPGART error. That's the reason why I'd say SAX2 needs improvement, atleast in error handling. Regards Sanjay > -----Original Message----- > From: PL O'Smith [mailto:penguin0601@earthlink.net] > Sent: 29 December 2002 19:52 > To: sanjay > Subject: Re: [SLE] Intel 810 Chipset and SUSE 8.1 Pro[Solved] > > > >====================== > Sanjay, > I suspect that if you compiled the latest CVS version of XFree86, you > would get overall better results than the kernel could provide you. > Since your problem is actually a "graphics" problem and not a system > problem, the kernel update will only give you better motherboard > support. There has been much discussion on the Intel graphics chipsets > (built in graphics) on the XFree86 list. The chipsets are have been > quite problematic i810, i845, etc and your best solution is to disable > that in your bios and get a good graphics card. I think that > motherboard still provides a 2x or 4x agp slot, which is what agpgart > is used to activate, not a chipset graphics. You get what you get with > builtin graphics that uses system ram for video ram. There is no > problem with sax2 or the kernel, although the newer kernels will better > support the chipset. Which is what I think you experienced with the > kernel update, better Intel chipset support, not better graphics > support, as that is handled by Xwindows and XFree86. > > Hope that helps clear some things up for you. > > Patrick > > --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- > Registered Linux User #225206 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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Intel 810 Chipset and SUSE 8.1 Pro
by sanjay 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi, I recently installed SUSE 8.1Pro on my PC which is based on Intel 810 chipset. The chipset is recognised by the istaller and even offers me 3D Accl. support with a experimental status warning, I have reinstalled the system several times with both options but neither works. I even installed the Intel 810 drivers available from the Intel site. But it doesn't help. Configuring with SAX2 also results with the AGPGART error, even when I don't enable the 3D feature. From the KDE I can restart the computer but I can never login as a different user. The X server crashes or stays busy infinitely? I use the console mode ALT-F1 etc. to login as root and sutdown the PC. From the console mode I can run the command 'startx' with success only once, I can't log out successfully from the KDE or any other GUIs. Trying to run 'startx' from say tty1 after having logged out (unsucessfully from KDE) results with the following error messages: (EE) GARTInit: AGPIOC_INFO failed (Invalid argument) (EE) I810(0): AGP GART support is not available. Make sure your kernel has agpgart support or that the agpgart kernel module is loaded. (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found I guess either the X config is at fault or I need to recompile the kernel with AGPGART support. (As I am sure the hardware is not to blame as I have successfully run Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 7.2 on this system and the XServer works fine). Any advice for getting the Xconfig right or the best way to recompile the kernel will be much appreciated. Many thanks in advance. Sanjay __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

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