March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- 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/Doku/FAQ/

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Adding fonts?
by Tracer Bullet 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

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[SLE] LILO - files
by sander.van.vugt＠azlan.nl 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hi, I'dd like to know what the following files in the directory /boot are about. Can anyone give me a clue or point me to some documentation? - boot.b - chain.b - map - System.map-2.2.14 - chos.* Thanks in advance, Sander ********************************************************************** Disclaimer This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is adressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do do not necessarily represent those of the Azlan Holdings bv and/or subsidairy. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited If you have received this email in error please notify Azlan Holdings MIS Helpdesk by telephone on +31 (0) 79 3443200. ********************************************************************* -- 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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Triple Booting and Time Travel..
by lee 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

Before I do research on how to do this, it is possible to do this right, > on a 2 drive box, with SUSE 8.0 on 1 drive, Debian and 98se splitting > the other? I'm already dual booting fwiw.. > > Thank you for your time. Speaking of time, please check yours. Your email showed up with a date of March 2, 1999... Thanks, Stan Yes, I'm a time traveler you see, I'm only in this time segment now to check on a few stock investments I had in mind...thanx for the tip Stan.. Lee :-)

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LILO & triple booting
by lee 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

Before I do research on how to do this, it is possible to do this right, on a 2 drive box, with SUSE 8.0 on 1 drive, Debian and 98se splitting the other? I'm already dual booting fwiw.. Thank you for your time.

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Dell 2650/Perc3 Raid Controller easy switch??
by shado＠mc.net 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

I am currently using a Dell 2650 Poweredge server without a raid controller. It's using the standard adaptec onboard SCSI as it stands. I'm wondering if anyone has installed the Perc3 raid controller and had the Linux install just pop right up (assuming the megaraid module was loading)? I wouldn't need to reformat if all I was doing was switching controllers and hardware mirroring, right? Thanks, Rich shado(a)mc.net

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Can't find audio cd
by Michael Fischer 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Having this problem on two different machines, both runnig 8.0. A different 7.1 installation has no problem. Xmms and Grip both do not find any files in /cdrom with an audio CD in the tray. Permissions on /cdrom, and the devices pointed to are identical between the machine where the audio CD is found, and machines where they are not. Unfortunately, I can't use the 7.1 machine for the sound editing work I need to do. Suggestions? TIA. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael(a)visv.net Recompile and be happy.

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APC Back-UPS CS 350VA USB and SuSE 7.3
by Christopher D. Reimer 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Greetings! I'm thinking about getting an APC Back-UPS CS 350VA USB to automatically shutdown my small file/DSL/firewall server (AOpen micro-ATX motherboard, Cyrix M2-333Mhz, 128MB, 10GB IDE hard drive, SCSI cdrom drive, and no monitor). Does anyone have any experience with this particular UPS? Does the stock SuSE 7.3 kernel support a USB UPS or do I have to hack and patch the kernel to make it work? Recommend a similar model with serial support for under $100 USD? Thanks! Christopher Reimer

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Samba Server And Suse 8.0 Setup.
by jonathan 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Hello I have basically a suse samba server setup. Eth0 is for the internet connection (cable). Eth1 is my internal network. I use eth1 for my samba server. When i have the shares/ drive letters mapped, whatever, Ill goto access them and that computer will just lockup or timeout for about 1 minute, then it will resume operation normally. I have approx. 5 comptuers on the suse server, and they all do this from windows xp to windows 98se. I am using set up addresses of 192.168.0.x, where is greater than 2. My question is have or is there something Ive setup wrong to cause this pause to occur. ? Its becomming very annoying..and frustrating. Im using kernel 2.4.18-64GB-SMP with a dual processor setup. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Every package installed is orginal versions from the suse install cdroms. (no updates done). Anything come to mind. btw, ive replaced the switch, with a new netgear one, and all the networks at startech ST100 Realtek 8139 chipsets on 100Tx. Anyone... !

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how to mount a vfat filesystem with mod 777 ?
by Ulrich Schneider 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

Imagine the following situation: - computer 1 has linux running and there is a vfat partition mounted - computer 1 is running samba on that vfat partition (i.e. the vfat partition is a share of samba) - computer 2 wants to have write acces on the samba share The problem is, that computer 2 has no write acces, because the vfat partition is mounted 755. The samba.conf file is the following: [public] comment = Schreibbares Verzeichnis path=/home/sure/netzwerk/public public=yes readonly=no browseable=yes create mask=777 How can I make the partition mounted as mod 777 ? Thanks in advance ! Ulrich Schneider

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Emergency need lilo su command I've been hacked
by Rowan Reid 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Sorry for the cross post All of a sudden my root password doesn't work. Looks like I've been hacked (though the last time I ran YOU was three weeks ago) it's a Firewall/Web system with ports 80,22,postgres open. Anyways I need to know the command to boot lilo to super user mode. Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Kernel panic has me panicked, help
by Rowan Reid 28 Oct '02

28 Oct '02

Last two days I have had the following kernel panic twice. Prior to this I have never had a problem. The first time I had the problem I was running YOU and while retrieving the update list the server crashed. I have also included log snippets pertaining to the problem. Kernel Panic: Aiee killing interrupt handler In interrupt handler not syncing. <messege log snippet> WINDOW=5902 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 Oct 24 02:12:20 s3a-www kernel: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:04:75:b1:3d:6c:00:60:49:01:5a:de:08:00 SRC=209.73.225.94 DST=**.**.76.66 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=120 ID=8915 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=54049 W INDOW=0 RES=0x00 ACK RST URGP=0 Oct 24 02:18:45 s3a-www kernel: IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:04:75:b1:3d:6c:00:60:49:01:5a:de:08:00 SRC=65.192.24.190 DST=**.**.76.66 LEN=78 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=104 ID=65496 PROTO=UDP SPT=18200 DPT=137 LE N=58 Oct 24 02:34:38 s3a-www syslogd 1.4.1: restart. Oct 24 02:34:39 s3a-www /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[446]: modprobe: Can't locate module evdev Oct 24 02:34:39 s3a-www /etc/hotplug/usb.rc[446]: modprobe: Can't locate module joydev Oct 24 02:34:43 s3a-www kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Oct 24 02:34:43 s3a-www kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.18 Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: Loaded 11742 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.18. Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.18. Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: Loaded 10 symbols from 2 modules. Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: 00:08.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x6100. Vers LK1.1.16 Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www kernel: 00:09.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0x6200. Vers LK1.1.16 Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www sshd[532]: Server listening on 192.168.1.1 port 22. Oct 24 02:34:44 s3a-www sshd[532]: Server listening on 65.45.76.66 port 22. Oct 24 02:34:50 s3a-www /usr/sbin/cron[713]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Oct 24 02:34:51 s3a-www smpppd[745]: smpppd version 0.73 started Oct 24 02:35:32 s3a-www kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Oct 24 02:35:33 s3a-www kernel: ip_conntrack (512 buckets, 4096 max) </message log snippet> </boot.msg log snippet> Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.18 Loaded 11742 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.18. Symbols match kernel version 2.4.18. Loaded 5 symbols from 1 module. klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started. <4>Linux version 2.4.18 (root@lnx-s3a-np) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)) #11 SMP Wed Aug 14 01:52:38 PDT 2002 <6>BIOS-provided physical RAM map: <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) <4> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000004000000 (usable) <4> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) <4>On node 0 totalpages: 16384 <4>zone(0): 4096 pages. <4>zone(1): 12288 pages. <4>zone(2): 0 pages. <4>No local APIC present or hardware disabled <4>Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=lnz-2.4.18 ro root=302 <6>Initializing CPU#0 <4>Detected 200.458 MHz processor. <4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 <4>Calibrating delay loop... 399.76 BogoMIPS <4>Memory: 61172k/65536k available (1311k kernel code, 3980k reserved, 405k data, 256k init, 0k highmem) <4>Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <4>Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) <4>Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) <4>Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) <4>Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) <7>CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 <5>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. <7>CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. <4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX <7>CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 <7>CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 <4>CPU0: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03 <4>per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 159.74 usecs. <5>SMP motherboard not detected. <5>Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. <4>Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0) <4>All processors have done init_idle <4>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb0d0, last bus=0 <4>PCI: Using configuration type 1 <4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware <6>Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. <6>Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. <6>isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... <6>isapnp: No Plug & Play device found <6>Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 <6>Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 <4>Initializing RT netlink socket <4>Starting kswapd <5>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized <6>Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. <4>pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured <6>Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled <4>block: 128 slots per queue, batch=32 <4>RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <4>PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 <4>PIIX3: chipset revision 0 <4>PIIX3: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio <4>hda: ST36530A, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:273, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 <6>hda: 12715920 sectors (6511 MB) w/448KiB Cache, CHS=13456/15/63, (U)DMA <4>hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <6>Partition check: <6> hda: [PTBL] [791/255/63] hda1 hda2 <4>floppy0: no floppy controllers found <6>SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256). <6>Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann <6>agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 28M <7>agpgart: no supported devices found. <6>[drm] Initialized tdfx 1.0.0 20010216 on minor 0 <6>[drm] Initialized radeon 1.1.1 20010405 on minor 1 <6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 <3>request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted <6>NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 <6>IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP <4>IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes <4>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) <6>Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM <6>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 <4>Freeing initrd memory: 562k freed <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). <4>reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:02) ... <4>Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem <4>reiserfs: replayed 1 transactions in 2 seconds <4>Using r5 hash to sort names <4>ReiserFS version 3.6.25 <4>VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. <4>change_root: old root has d_count=2 <5>Trying to unmount old root ... okay <4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 256k freed <6>Adding Swap: 192740k swap-space (priority 42) Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped. </boot.msg log snippet> Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Top output not adding up.
by Rowan Reid 17 Oct '02

17 Oct '02

I copy pasted my top out put below. Not sure if that was a good idea or not. My question is why is it showing 58Megs of ram being used but the % memory usuage barely adds up to 30% also could someoone guide me in understanding what the pri ni and such are thanks 2:38am up 23 days, 15:25, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 42 processes: 41 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.7% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 98.4% idle Mem: 61992K av, 58900K used, 3092K free, 0K shrd, 13432K buff Swap: 192740K av, 9364K used, 183376K free 22804K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1227 wwwrun 9 0 5568 2260 1972 S 0.0 3.6 0:09 httpd 804 wwwrun 9 0 5360 2088 2068 S 0.0 3.3 0:10 httpd 26105 ***** 11 0 2104 2060 1872 S 0.0 3.3 0:01 sshd 26103 root 9 0 1732 1672 1504 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 sshd 26122 root 9 0 1640 1640 1252 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 bash 26106 ***** 9 0 1544 1544 1168 S 0.0 2.4 0:00 bash 26121 root 9 0 1116 1116 792 S 0.0 1.8 0:00 su 421 root 9 0 1056 1036 412 S 0.0 1.6 0:12 klogd 805 root 9 0 1208 1028 988 S 0.0 1.6 0:00 bash 26174 root 14 0 976 976 776 R 1.3 1.5 0:03 top 937 root 9 0 1332 876 748 S 0.0 1.4 0:14 nmbd 533 root 9 0 852 700 664 S 0.0 1.1 0:14 sshd 596 root 9 0 1308 688 572 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 sendmail 590 mail 9 0 1192 684 596 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 sendmail 938 root 8 0 1068 576 496 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 smbd 418 root 9 0 580 560 468 S 0.0 0.9 0:03 syslogd 802 root 8 0 4232 548 532 S 0.0 0.8 0:02 httpd 796 root 9 0 872 508 508 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 login 733 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 734 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 735 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 736 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 737 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 738 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 739 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 6891 root 8 0 492 436 416 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 inetd 713 root 8 0 484 424 384 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 cron 557 at 9 0 432 380 344 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 atd 798 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 799 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 800 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 801 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 803 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 500 bin 9 0 432 348 348 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 portmap 765 root 8 0 504 248 232 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 smpppd 1 root 8 0 76 64 44 S 0.0 0.1 0:05 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:13 kswapd 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:12 kupdated 9 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Wireless PCMCIA in a Desktop: Will Linux Recognize it?
by Dennis J.Tuchler 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I would be thankful for answers to some questions: about wireless cards 1) Re: Wireless Ethernet Cards for Desktops. How does one get Linux to recognize an ethernet card (e.g. a wireless card) that is not on the list of supported cards shown by YAST2? 2) Re: Installing a PCMCIA card onto a Desktop. I understand that one can install a wireless PCMCIA ethernet card in a desktop with the appropriate PCI card. Is there any problem with Linux's recognizing the card under these circumstances? Under Linux 8.0, is there any problem with recognition and use of a wireless PCMCIA? I read the relevant HowTo, but that installed under Debian and I think (guess) an older kernel. Thanks -- dj tuchler dtuchler(a)earthlink.net

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Piping dd and tar AND gzip
by Oliver Ob 25 Jul '02

25 Jul '02

I am copying an image with dd if=/dev/hdc1 of=/image Now, I would like to pipe this in order to get this image tgz'ed in ONE task. appending | tar -cz does not work. Any help out there? thanks! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<<

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Evolution HOWTO
by Ron Cordell 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

So.... what was the final solution to get Evolution going, anyway? I installed the latest SuSE GNOME updates from the FTP server, and that made GNOME 1.4 mostly functional. However, I can't get Evolution to work, since there seem to be some missing libraries. -ronc

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Invalid sync freq. after running X
by Theo.Sean Schulze 26 Jun '02

26 Jun '02

Hello, I have just recently done a fresh install of SuSE Professional 7.3. I had a running system that crashed hard (harddrive failure), and I had to replace it. With my old system, the screen would blank after a period of inactivity. The monitor would show a short error message "Invalid sync." and then shutdown into standby mode. This was ok, and I figure this is how it is supposed to work. With the new system, I get the same behavior as with the old, providing I haven't had any X sessions. If I have had an X session, the console blanks, and the monitor issues its "Invalid sync." message. Then it shows the message "Invalid scan freq." while showing wavy horizontal lines interspersed with an occasional wide greenish band going up the screen. The monitor does not go into standby mode. When I move the mouse (gpm is running) or type a character, the console returns to normal, and the monitor briefly displays the frequencies 38kHz/60kHz. Could this behavior have something to do with the "vga=" line in /etc/lilo.conf? The old system had "vga = normal". This freshly installed system has "vga = 788" in it, I assume by default. Could it have something to do with APIC? The entry for the default kernel, which I have been booted into when this happens, shows the line: 'append = "enableapic vga=0x0314 hdb=ide-scsi"'. The monitor is a 19" Cornerstone Color 45/101sf with horizontal scan rates from 31 to 101kHz and vertical scan rates from 50 to 160kHz. The sync on this monitor is Separate, H, V or composite H/v TTL level, or Sync on Green at 0.3 V p. (I am guessing this last explains the green bands.) Regards, Sean -- Theo. Sean Schulze tschulze(a)nuthole.de "[T]he key to maintaining leadership in the economy and the technology that are about to emerge is likely to be the social position of knowledge professionals and social acceptance of their values." -- Peter Drucker

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Any Bellsouth dsl users in the house ?
by jfweber＠eternal.net 17 Jun '02

17 Jun '02

**** imagine; all of everything that is or was, can be reduced to an equation less than one inch long ! *** Okay , getting completely and thoroughly discusted w/ verio , we have gone so far as to contact bellSouth .. who , of course , tell us, they "do not support linux" and wont even send us the modem unless we have windows something on the box.. <heavy sigh> I still have a windows partition I can fudge a bit for purposes of this experiment <g> tho husband is seriously worried that w/o support we wont be able to use it .. I can't imagine why, if anyone did support an OS I was currently using , I'd have to see what was further out on the bleeding edge<g> Anyway, any users of Bell South in particular , or DSL generally care to share ? headaches , heartbreaks , willingness to suggest answers to tech support type questions .. ??? Especially if you might be willing to take this off list for private discussions, and electronic handholding and "there , there , type soothing noises for Gil ( that's the spouse <g>) TIA y'all Blonde -- j afterthought : DOS tip #17: add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to CONFIG.SYS.

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kde updates
by geek＠PageZero.com 15 Jun '02

15 Jun '02

I suspect that i am merely stupid and that this is the reason i cannot figure out how to do an online update to the latest KDE release. It is my assumption that i need to provide a directory string at ftp.suse.com, but can't for the life of me figurre out what it is. Although i can find the files, yast2 can't, and i never seem to be able to download the right files in the right order to just run the rpm's myself. For the sake of my crumbling self-esteem, can someone please help me. bc

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Windows emulator for Linux
by Jaakko Tamminen 09 Jun '02

09 Jun '02

Hi What would be a good win-98 emulator for Linux? Is it vmware of win4lin? I have tried the vmware that comes with SuSE, but I found it to be quite slow what comes to screen handling. Reason is that my spouse wants to go to Linux, but one bookkeeping software and banking software needs win-98. We are also ready to pay for this sw... Jaska.

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[SLE] problems with KVM switches.. losing mouse control on 8.0
by Jon San Juan 07 May '02

07 May '02

I am using a multiple servers with a KVM switch and I find that I lose control of my mouse as I return back to the SUSE 8.0 KDE. Are any you experiencing the same thing. I have tried other mice and different KVM switches. -I am using a Belkin KVM switch with hot key functionality for changing monitors. -I am using PS/2 mice The only way I can stablize the mouse is if I return to YAST 2 and try to re-configure the mouse when it is a problem... Otherwise I have been rebooting to get the mouse stability.

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Converting Albums to MP3
by James Mohr 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Hi All, I want to convert my record collection MP3 and I am looking for a way to do it. Somewhere in my memory is a program that will record what comes into the sound card and indentify the pauses between songs and separate them into individual WAV files. Once in WAV, the conversion to MP3 is pretty easy. However, it is this first step that has me stumped. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. Regards, jimmo

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Wrong major or minor number
by Oliver Ob 21 Apr '02

21 Apr '02

Hi folks. i tried to partition hda from my brain remembering some thing around 4 partitions. wrote part. table from results that gpart told me. tried to mount. error occurs "wrong major or minor number" what does that tell me? cannot even mount hda1 or hda2 (1 used to be dos, 2 was linux main partition) Must be the sign the partition table is bad. Maybe a geometry problem, ... how can i get access to hda1 (former dos) and hda2 (type 82) partitions to evacuate my data? Olli

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Version 8.0 installation from hard drive with YaST2 possible?
by joe lerch 16 Apr '02

16 Apr '02

"No installation data found on medium" "Could not mount the source medium" Previously I was alawya able to use the orginal YaST to do hard drive installation, I was never able to get YaST2 past the above errors, if I exit YaST2 and start YaST everything works fine. It has always been this way for me and I didn't mind as I like using YaST. However, I am told that version 8.0 will no longer have YaST. Does anyone know if version 8.0 of SuSE pro will allow paying customers the right to copy the installation disks to their hard drive and do a complete installtion and further updates directly from the hard drive? If I have been skipping something, please let me know, it has been a while since I installed 7.3 my curent SuSe distro installation disks are on my /hda11/7.3 thanks in advacne joe

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Apache + CSS
by Jethro Cramp 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

I'm learning to use CSS with html (anything to try and make an ugly webpage look better) and I can't get it to work. At this stage I'm not sure if it's a problem with apache (which I know next to nothing about) or my html/css. I'm running vanilla apache as it came with SuSE 7.3. (Apache 1.3.20) I have the following files in /home/jsc/html_public/chinees-blauw/ index.html chinees-blauw.css The css file reads: .test { background:black ) The html file reads: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Chinees Blauw</title> <link title="cb_main" rel="stylesheet" href="chinees-blauw.css" type="text/css"></link> </head> <body> <table height="100" width="100%" align="center" class="test"> <tr> <td>Hello</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> I am expecting to not be able to read the word 'Hello' as if the style sheet works then it should be black text on black background. I am accessing the page through http;//localhost/~jsc/chinees-blauw/index.html and of course I can see the text. I have tried all sorts of different combinations of relative and absolute paths for the link to the stylesheet. I have checked the style by substituting the <link ...> tag with the <STYLE> definition and it works. So my question is do I have to tweak apache to get css to work or am I doing something else wrong? TIA, Jethro

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