May 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Suse 8.0 Install problems (DMA and SCSI issues)
by Wade Buchanan 02 May '02

02 May '02

I hope I am not rehashing a topic already covered. I have a PIII system with a 440BX based motherboard. The mobo has a Highpoint 370 controller. I have a singel 20 gig IBM IDE drive connected to the Highpoint. I have a DVD-ROM drive connected to a standard 33 mhz ATA controller also on the motherboard. I have a Buslogic SCSI-2 card that a CDROM-R and tape drive are connected to. This machine has been running Suse going back to the 7.0 days. Most recently 7.3 Professional. I have never had any issues running Suse on this machine. The update install does not work at all, but I expected that to begin with. The problem is the machine will not boot(with Floppy) using the standard default install selection. The system hangs at the checking partitions on the hard drive. If I boot into the system using safe settings(turns off dma and apm) the system will boot fine. The install via IDE/ATA seems to go fine while using the DVD-ROM drive. However after the installation is completed I cannot access the SCSI devices connected to my SCSI controller. I checked dmesg to see if the card is picked up and it is not listed there at all. I attempt to install again this time using the SCSI cdrom(expecting the install routine to ask for modules disk 2), which it never does ask for this disk. It will abort/error and says it is going to manual install mode and gives me a screen that allows me to select the modules disk for SCSI. The system then will access the floppy, display a screen that indicates it is loading into ram and hangs there. If you attempt to install using the manual mode from the beginning of the install process the system once again hangs when checking the hard disk partitions. The question is this a known problem with Suse 8? Is there a way to add the SCSI support after the initial installation? Any suggestions or help would be appreciated. I have tried just about everything I can think of to get this system to recognize the SCSI. I have logged a ticket with Suse support several days ago with no response. I don't know what to think or say about that since I have never had to use Suse support before and have not had any problems with my Suse distro. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Wade

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KDE desktop icons won't stay put
by Glenn Holmer 02 May '02

02 May '02

I'm posting here because I haven't had an answer on kde-linux or suse-kde. When I log in as a normal user, the desktop icons are always moved around. I put them back, but when I log out and back in, they always return to the same places, sort of scattered about the desktop. How can I fix this? SuSE 8.0, KDE3. -- =========================================================== Glenn Holmer (gholmer(a)ameritech.net) ----------------------------------------------------------- Performing music well is a matter of distorting the score to produce the desired illusion, namely the existence of the score in a pure state. ----------------------------------------------------------- -Shadow, 1975 ===========================================================

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Mozilla Mail script help needed
by Brian W. Carver 02 May '02

02 May '02

I use Mozilla's Mail program and I modified just the end of the signature script recently discussed here on SLE that Ralph got working on Kmail. I'm wondering if it will work with Mozilla mail. I saved it as .signature in my home directory, then did a 'chmod u+x .signature' to make it executable and then told mozilla where to find my signature file and guess what? It doesn't work. E-mails come back with the exact text of the script, not the output of the script, as I'll illustrate below. Any thoughts on this? Note: The line below beginning $disp is all one line but gets truncated by my mail program (mozilla). -- #!/usr/bin/perl # get current kernel version $version = `uname -r`; # get current uptime @uptime = split /\s+/, qx(uptime); ($hours, $minutes) = split /[:,]/, $uptime[5]; $disp = "Current Linux uptime: " . $uptime[3] . " days " . $hours . " hours " . $minutes . " minutes."; # version string has built-in newline. print "\tYours,\n\tBrian.\nI proudly use SuSE Gnu/Linux 8.0 Professional. \nKernel version $version$disp\n"; exit(0);

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8.0, Intel 82801 audio controller
by Peter Taylor 02 May '02

02 May '02

My remaining obvious problem on this horrid Dell Optiplex GX240 is the sound. It has an Intel 82801 BA/BAM AC '97 audio controller. YaST gives me no indication of having any trouble with it. It works fine with Win2k and Red Hat 7.2 . I have played with all of the mixer settings I could find, but I get no sound. Any ideas? Thanks, Peter Taylor

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RE: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 02 May '02

02 May '02

Thanks! I'll give this a try this evening. My monitor supports 1600x1200, so it should work OK. Thanks again, Mike ------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com ------------------------------------------ "A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse.: - anon -----Original Message----- From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy [mailto:jamie.oshaughnessy@ntlworld.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:08 AM To: Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution With someone else's help from the list, I figured this out. To fix this I: - made sure "1600x1200" was in the Section "Screen"->Sub Section "Display"->Modes - deleted the Section "Monitor"->UseModes line from /etc/X11/XF86Config Note, only do the above if you have a newish monitor. Basically X won't tell the monitor what settings to use and so your monitor has to cope with it. The only thing that doesn't work for me now is 3D support, even though I have the Load "glx" in modules. Jamie On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com wrote: > I have the exact same problem: I had it in > 7.3, and now with a clean install of 8.0. > After getting all the updates via > YOU, I ran Sax2. I could pick 1600x1200, > but when I started the X server to test it, > the highest res was 1280x1024. Sax2 decided > to totally lock up the machine (had to do a > hard reset) at this point so I've quit messing > w/ it for now. > BTW, my card is a GeForce2 MX 400 (AGP) > > If I figure something out, I'll be sure to > pass it on! > > Mike > ------------------------------------------ > Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com > ------------------------------------------ > "A wink is as good as a nod to a blind horse.: - anon > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy [mailto:jamie.oshaughnessy@ntlworld.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 7:19 PM > To: SuSE Mailing List > Subject: [SLE] SuSE 8, Nvidia and limited resolution > > > I've just installed SuSE8, run through YOU to download/install updates > (including the nvidia drivers) and when I set up X using sax2 I can only > use a maximum resolution of 1280x1024. I always run at 1600x1200 (as I > have a big montior) and have done as long as I've been using SuSE and a > Nvidia graphics card (Geforce 2 GTS). I've made sure the monitor freq > settings are correct for my monitor, but no luck. > > Anyone had similar problems? Solution? Ideas? > > Cheers, > Jamie > -- Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy(a)ntlworld.com

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Modem Problem
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 02 May '02

02 May '02

've reinstalled SuSE 7.1/ KDE3.0 on one of my machines and am having a bit of a problem. When I dial out the modem connects without any problems and maintains the connection. I can ping (in a terminal) with no packet loss. Unfortunately, none of the applications, Netscape, etc. seem to find the connection. Any insights as to the solution to this will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

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Script error...
by Rikard DustPuppy Johnels 02 May '02

02 May '02

Hello all.. I am baning my head against a bash script.. I have a load of .bz2 files in a directory (some 100 of them) And i want to decompress ALL of them to another directory. I thought a small script would do. cd /mnt/extra1/files for i in /home/lucifer/download do bunzip2 %i done But as i get to line 2 it burps me a bash: syntax error near unexpected token `bunzip2' what am i overlooking here????? -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rjhn(a)linux.nu mob : +46 70 464 99 39 --------------------------Public PGP fingerprint------------------------------ < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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package for a newbie
by Bruce Young 02 May '02

02 May '02

i showed a friend some screenshots of kde3 and he is now eager to try linux for the first time..... i want him buy suse 8 (i have 7.3 disks), but am wondering which package he should buy, (the professional or the upgrade). i have 7.1 and 7.2 professional packages; could i just give him the books for 7.2 to use for reference with the upgrade, or should he just purchase the 8.0 package? thanx. - bruce __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com

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Java Plugin
by Mike 02 May '02

02 May '02

I'm having trouble installing the java plugin . I'm running SuSE 7.3. I get the following message: Install Results Java 2 Plug-in for Linux: Download was unsuccessful. Please try again. The Java Plug-in is 7.6Mb and will take you 37 minutes to fully download with a 28.8 modem or 19 minutes with a 56K modem. Alternatively, you can download this plug-in directly from our FTP site at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape6/english/6.2.2/windows/win32/plugins/jr… for Windows. Please e-mail ftp-plugins(a)netscape.com if you continue to have problems. Error encountered -- -235 Any suggestions?

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SuSE on Powerbook
by Dominic Maraglia 02 May '02

02 May '02

Moin! I just received a new Dell p3-1.13Ghz laptop on which I had planned to install 7.3; however, the new Dell is real Schwein! Total brick. As I work for an educational institution, it is possible that I can get a new Powerbook for roughly the same price as the Dell -- and the Powerbook is much lighter. Is the PPC version basically exactly like the x86 version or are there major differences? Thanks! Dominic --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

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