March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

ADSL help...to save a new user.<Urgent>
by Mark Doucette 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

Hi all, I've just convinced a friend of mine to install SuSE 7.3. Everything went fine except now he is asking me how to connect to the net via his Telus Velocity ADSL connection. I'm running cable so this is new to me. I don't have alot of time today to research this and he is getting frustrated and I'm afraid of loosing him back to WinBlows haha. If anyone can please help with this urgent situation, that would be greatly appreciated. Especially another Telus ADSL user. With the amazing state that the SuSE distro is in, I know I could convince him that linux is the answer, but having a net connection is the key here. Also, he has an SMC EtherEZ ISA network card that wasn't picked up on install, even though it was detected on prior attempts at running linux <ie SuSE 7.2,6.4 etc> Thanks all -- Mark Doucette kranked(a)oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----

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There is a bug in Suse Kernel 2.4.16??
by Praise 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

Hi all! I have been using two cd-rw (a Philips 16/10/40 EIDE and a Waitec T-Rex SCSI 16/10/40) plus two cd-rom (Plextor 40x SCSI and an Asus 34x Eide). The Eide stuff is working through scsi emulation. Everything works fine for common reading for all. BUT I am having problems: the couple Asus+Philips has some problem doing dao copies (using cdrdao), it does not always fail: it fails 80% claiming that there is no cd in drive (destination). Also, using cdparanoia on both drives slows the system to death (only 80% of the times!). Using cdparanoia on the SCSI will give me similar problems, but it does not freeze the system. It just slows everything abit when it is trying to read the cd. I also have the same problem doing dao copies on waitec t-rex. The scsi drives are mounted on a different system than eide ones. The only thing in common is the kernel, Suse Kernel 2.4.16. The distro is 7.1 on both cases but I have been using self compiled versions of latest cdrdao and cdrecord on the scsi system. There is something known about this?? Any idea on how to solve it?? Praise

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Win. XP, Win. 98 and SuSE Linux 7.3 on a 37 GB harddrive
by Roy Leembruggen 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

I have been running Linux and Windows for around one year on a 37 GB hard drive, first with Win. Me and now with Win. XP. To do so required some figuring out to get round the '1024 cylinder problem' . Using Partition Magic I did the following: 1) Resized the FAT32 Primary partition down to 22.8 GB 2) Created a 20 Mb Primary Ext2 /boot partition at the start of the drive by moving the FAT 32 partition up. 3) Created an Extended partition with the remaining space of approx 15 Mb; and within it 3 logical partitions, FAT32 - swap - and Ext2 root (/) Everything worked fine, with System Commander as the boot manager, until yesterday when I found that my Interactive Banking program had a compatability problem with Windows XP, so decided to add Windows 98. Rather recklessly in hindsight, I went ahead and converted my second FAT32 partition from 'logical' to 'primary', which was very easy, and I was left with 3 Primary partitions and 1 (smaller) Extended Linux partition. Booted up Windows XP subsequently without any problem, but Linux to my surprise gave out the dreaded 'kenel panic - unable to mount fs' message. Using the Rescue system did not help so I thought my problems were over when I re-installed Linux. - but the problem persisted with exactly the same 'kenel panic - unable to mount fs' message. The problem lay apparently in the fact that the extended partition now lay outside the 1024 cyl. range, and Partition Magic reported this fact and suggested marking the Extended partition as ExtendedX. However by this time I was tired of experimenting, so merely 'back-tracked' by converting the second FAT32 primary->logical and now I am back where I started, Windows XP and Linux - but no Win. 98 My unanswered questions are as follows 1) Can anyone explain the mystery of 'marking' an Extended partition as ExtendedX - not mentioned anywhere in the Partition Magic Manual. 2) Upto now I thought that only the /boot partition needed to be within the 1024 cyl. range, but now it appears that the root ( / ) partition also needs to be. 3) According to Yast2 Partitioner the root ( / ) partition starts at 4210 and ends at 4864 in the first place, so what difference does it make since it was already outside the 1024 cyl. range at the start! 3) Does all this mean that my only option for Linux with Win. XP and Win. 98 would mean booting Linux from a floppy?

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SuSE Menus Missing
by Anthony W. Marino 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

I'm missing my SuSE specific menus/links (ie; YAST, YAST2 and etc). Is there anyway that I can rebuild them? Thank You, Anthony

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ADSL help...to save a new user.<Urgent><Duplicate right Time>
by Mark Doucette 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

This is a duplicate since i noticed that my system time was way off. Hi all, I've just convinced a friend of mine to install SuSE 7.3. Everything went fine except now he is asking me how to connect to the net via his Telus Velocity ADSL connection. I'm running cable so this is new to me. I don't have alot of time today to research this and he is getting frustrated and I'm afraid of loosing him back to WinBlows haha. If anyone can please help with this urgent situation, that would be greatly appreciated. Especially another Telus ADSL user. With the amazing state that the SuSE distro is in, I know I could convince him that linux is the answer, but having a net connection is the key here. Also, he has an SMC EtherEZ ISA network card that wasn't picked up on install, even though it was detected on prior attempts at running linux <ie SuSE 7.2,6.4 etc> Thanks all -- Mark Doucette kranked(a)oberon.ark.com WinFree and Lovin' it. SuSE Rox Linux! Registered Linux User # 240512 ----////----

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What good is Failsafe?
by James Worrest 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

Perhaps I haven't looked that carefully through my SuSE 7.3 Personal edition manuals, but when and why would you use the failsave mode? ---Jim

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xinetd and ipv6
by Alessandro Dotti Contra 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

Hi everybody, I've just replace inetd with xinetd on my suse 7.2 box. When I looked to the xinetd's log I found all ip address logged as ipv6. When I start xinetd it reports: ronin xinetd[4365]: xinetd Version 2.1.8.8p3 started with ronin xinetd[4365]: ipv6 ronin xinetd[4365]: libwrap ronin xinetd[4365]: loadavg ronin xinetd[4365]: options compiled in. How can I reconfigure xinetd to log ip address as ipv4? Thank you very much alex -- Alessandro Dotti Contra alessandro.dotti(a)libero.it http://digilander.iol.it/yellowjester/

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Install from HD with graphic Yast2??
by Shuohuan Chang 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

Hi, Is there any possible for me to install suse from Harddisk with the interface of graphical Yast2, just like the one on SuSE CD installation?? Or, where can I get it (linuxrc from cdrom boot)? Is it legistimate for people to hand out the linuxrc from the cost version of suse? For people who download suse from ftp are capabled to make their own version of suse installation ISO with graphical Yast2 installation possible. Thanks for answering / helping. jsc

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Hancom Office - fonts
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

I installed the eval version of Hancom Office Pro 2.0 last night, and in general it looks really good. It opened a Word document w/ no problem (including a large table), but the font does not look good. The best I can describe it is that it looks "rough". I believe someone else on the list mentioned something like this before, and I'm wondering if they managed to fix this......? Ever since I upgraded to 7.3, fonts have been screwed up. Even my desktop fonts. I have true type fonts installed, I have turned anti-aliasing on and off, followed all the fonts discussions on the list, etc. The fonts just never seem to look as "crisp" and clear as before (i.e. w/ 7.2). If anyone has managed to find the magic fix, please pass it on................:) TIA, Mike -------------------------------------------------------------- Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com -------------------------------------------------------------- You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You're not paid enough to worry.

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software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)
by Clayton Cornell 30 Mar '02

30 Mar '02

OK, I give in. I have searched the archives, and done a whack of Google-ing, and come up with nothing useful. I could have sworn there was a discussion about this on the SuSE list back around Christmas, but I cannot find it.... I am trying to get Wolfenstein to start up correctly (in SuSE7.3, nVidia GeForce2 video) and I am getting this error: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= GL_RENDERER: Mesa X11 *********************************************************** You are using software Mesa (no hardware acceleration)! Driver DLL used: libGL.so If this is intentional, add "+set r_allowSoftwareGL 1" to the command line when starting the game. *********************************************************** ...WARNING: could not set the given mode (3) ...loading libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.1: QGL_Init: Can't load libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.1 from /etc/ld.so.conf or current dir: /usr/local/games/wolfenstein/libMesaVoodooGL.so.3.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failed =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I remember something about the solution being a symbolic link - in /usr/lib???, but I cannot find any refernce to this. Anyone feel like pointing me in the right direction here so my nVidia card drops into the right mode? Clayton

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