August 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

support delay for new hardwre
by H du Plooy 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

'lo all, I was just wondering how long it usually takes before before brand new, but relatively mainstream, hardware becomes fully supported under Linux? I'm planning to buy either a Gigabyte GA-7vrxp (VIA KT333) or GA-7vaxp (VIA KT400) board early next year, and I would like to know if I can expect these boards to be fully supported by then. I'm especially interested in the surround sound that the 7vaxp has, and raid on both. Has anyone used either of these boards in Linux? How do they behave? Kind regards Hans == Find businesses and have your business found: http://www.brabys.com

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Re: [SLE] 3D help with radeon 7000
by H du Plooy 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

What sort of mobo are you running this card on? Your problem *could* be that your mobo can't put enough power through to your graphics card. I had that problem with a FIC socket 7 board when trying anything more powerfull than a SiS 6326... After months of pestering FIC they finally admitted tha my board can't handle the power demands of the TNT2 card (that I've tried about 5 different ones of). Just a possibility... While on the subject, I see that the Radeon 9700 has a power connector (stiffy drive type) on the card, to make sure the card gets enough juice Hans Thom Nuzum wrote: >>Odd... this looks ok, but you say the machine crashes when you run a 3D >>app? Does this include "gears"? > > == Find businesses and have your business found: http://www.brabys.com

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Poweredge 6300
by Matt Miller 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

I'm attempting to install SUSE 8.0 on a Dell Poweredge 6300, but the stock kernel doesn't seem to be initializing the RAID controllers and therefore I am unable to access the harddrives. On boot I am seeing 2 AIC7890's and one AIC7860 controller. A lsmod shows the aic7xxx module loaded, but unused. The Yast2 setup reports no harddrives found. I've tried rmmod-ing the module and re-insmod-ing the module with a few parameters I found on a couple of google searches, but still no dice. I also tried running modprobe...scsi_hostadapter manually to no avail. Any other ideas? Has anyone had experience loading SUSE 8.0 on a the aforementioned server? -- Matt Miller Systems Administrator MP TotalCare gpg public key id: 08BC7B06

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RE: [SLE] Search Engine
by Sean M Lentner 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

This might help http://services.google.com/appliance/request_info/banner_internetweek_good_t hings120x600 -----Original Message----- From: M. Edwin [mailto:edwin@nsi.co.id] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 22:36 To: Suse List Subject: [SLE] Search Engine Dear All, Is there anybody here have experience in using search engine in the web server? I'm plan to use it with Apache and Suse 7.3 in my Web site. Can anybody give me the clue where is I can get this search engine, it's OK if it is commercial product and we have to pay for it. Regards, M. Edwin -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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re: [SLE] Search Engine
by Greg Freemyer 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

>> Dear All, >> Is there anybody here have experience in using search engine in the web >> server? I'm plan to use it with Apache and Suse 7.3 in my Web site. Can >> anybody give me the clue where is I can get this search engine, it's OK if >> >> it is commercial product and we have to pay for it. >> Regards, >> M. Edwin I'm sure there are some OSS search engines that can run on your server, but I don't know any specifics. Both Google and Altavista allow you to add a button to you site that allows your one site to be indexed. i.e. You add a button to www.xyz.com that allows the whole www.xyz.com site to be indexed. They may even allow all of *.xyz.com to be indexed. http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/free_searchbox http://www.google.com/services/free.html With the above, I believe your users will get banner ads, but there is no cost. FInally, both Altavista (AVS) and Google sell search engines that run on your server, and can be highly customized. I have never used the Google one, but I have used AVS extensively. AVS is targeted at very large indexes. For instance, I used to run Siemens web search, and we had several hundred thousand web pages in the index from hundreds of Siemens owned webservers around the world. i.e goto http://search.siemens.com and search for *. I just found 295,022 pages in their index. I think entry level for AVS is $5K or so. For a large index like Siemens, it can easily get to the $100K price range. My company is a AVS resellor if your interested in going that way. We also do AVS consulting. Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com

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Yast2 at CLI
by Bill Parker 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hi All, I have no problem using yast2 at the command line, but is there a way to make it run automatically via cron to look for updates, and install them automatically (not add new s/w to the system, just update anything that is already installed on the system)? yast2 via ncurses isn't too shabby at all, btw -Bill

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Kernel
by Martin.Guillen＠siemens.com.ar 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Hi list: Can I upgrade the kernel of my 7.2 (K 2.4.16) box with yhe kernel that is in /pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/kernel (K 2.4.18)? I'm tryin it but with some troubles. Thank You, Martin.

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Linux/Office
by h g 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Has anyone had any experience with a similar scenario? An small government office with 15 machines all using MS Office. All files in and out are MS Office format. The possiblity exist for replacing the Windows/Office installs with Linux/StarOffice. The key is that all files have to be flawlessly and seamlessly intregrated with other offices which insist on MS format. All of the local office machines are on their own separate network. TIA Henry -- When I discovered Linux I also discovered that I didn't need Microsoft anymore. SuSE 8.0 Linux user # 95851

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Re: [SLE] Oops. _loaderFileToMem
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Thank. That helps enormous. One question though. Why does the memory check program from SuSe does not give an error indication. One thing I saw is that the 76K of the 128 MB memory does not show up as tested. Only from 76K to 128M seem to be tested. Would this be the indication of a malfunction or is the first 76K used for something else? Memory both from the machine and myself is a problem ;-). JF>malloc() is the memory allocator. In a C program, JF>malloc() resides in libc JF>and allocates memory for the application. This JF>particular problem appears JF>to be caused by an I/O error while loading a critical JF>program (possibly JF>/sbin/init). JF>IMHO, your system apprears to have a hardware problem JF>of some sort. JF>I would suggest that you remove your memory (make sure JF>you are grounded), JF>and insert them in a different order. Also, if your JF>memories are of JF>different types the system can fail under some JF>circumstances. In practice, JF>it is best that all memories in a system are of the JF>same type, speed rating JF>and brand (although not imperative). Also, if you are JF>using 133Mhz, try JF>slowing that down to 100 in your bios. JF>Lastly, but not likely, you could possibly have a JF>problem with your disk. JF>Remember virtual memory. Physical memory is broken up JF>into pages. It is JF>possible that there was some swapping going on during JF>the load, and there JF>is some corruption in the swap area. JF>On 30 Aug 2002 at 19:36, Constant Brouerius van Nidek JF>wrote: JF>> _loaderFileToMem() malloc failed JF>> JF>> and some lines lower JF>> JF>> fatal IO error 104 JF>> -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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Re: [SLE] PDA Palm m105 and Suse 8
by Nick Selby 30 Aug '02

30 Aug '02

Thanks everyone, for the replies. I bought the thing and will come back with how it worked. . . Nick On Thursday 29 August 2002 20:26, Jonathan Cowherd wrote: > I've gotten my Kyocera 6035 smartphone with palm 3.5 working seemlessly > with pilot-xfer through my serial port @ 112kbps. I'll try Jpilot tonight. > I don't see why the m105 would be any different. > > Jonathan Paul Cowherd > Linux and Java Administrator > Genscape, Inc. > Email: jonathan.cowherd(a)genscape.com > Office: (502) 583-3730 > Mobile: (502) 314-0444 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Selby [mailto:php@nickselby.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 1:37 PM > To: Keith Winston; suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] PDA Palm m105 and Suse 8 > > > Thanks, Keith, > The m105 seems to have OS 3.5. Hopefully it won't be $99 down the toilet! > > Nick > > On Thursday 29 August 2002 19:27, Keith Winston wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 09:50, Nick Selby wrote: > > > On Thursday 29 August 2002 15:47, Keith Winston wrote: > > > > I have to disagree that the zaurus is crap. I was a Palm user for > > > > 5 years and while Palms are great, they are in a different class > > > > than the zaurus. I had no problems syncing my Palm to Jpilot, > > > > that was with Palm OS 3.x. I did have problems with a recent Sony > > > > Clie and Palm OS 4.x syncing with SuSE 8. > > > > > > SO are you saying that the 105 won't properly sync? The cost ($99) > > > sounds good to me if I can make it work with Suse,and frankly I > > > don't need all the extra features of the Zaurus - I'm reallly > > > looking for something to "turn it on and it goes" rather than > > > getting myself into a long process of posting here for help with a > > > PA- and then taking three days to port over my existing Palm info > > > (which has dumped into evolution quite nicely!). > > > > I don't know about the m105. Palm syncing worked for me with a Palm V > > and a Visor Prism. It did not work with a Sony Clie. The Sony had > > the new Palm OS 4.x which may have been the difference. > > > > Best Regards, > > Keith

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