August 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Viewing PowerPoint Presentations
by propheci 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

hi, is there anything i can use to view PowerPoint presentations short of Wine or VMWare? i'd like to avoid StarOffice if possible. thank you, xiaolei

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Search Engine
by M. Edwin 29 Aug '02

29 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

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RE: [SLE] NVidia +Sax2 +GLX - Cannot enable 3D - Follow-up - comp iling from source
by Currie Sylvanus 29 Aug '02

29 Aug '02

I don't think I've had it working before. I am a relative newbie to linux having played with various distros since SuSE 6.1. However, 3 months ago I quit M$ Windows for good and committed to SuSE 8.0. I am basically happy with the installation for everyday use but in order to persuade the family that linux is a suitable gaming environment I do need to enable hardware 3D acceleration. As it stands now I have been through various checklists for installation to no avail and am left with 2 options 1. Compile from source 2. Give up and try another vendor. Economics and my personal fondness for fettling dictate that I try to compile the source drivers. Again I've hit another wall in that although I have installed the source packages: `make install` within the NVIDIA_kernel directory fails with missing headers (auto.h) and `make cloneconfig` fails with a message indicating there is no definition of cloneconfig within Makefile Can anyone explain how to enable `make cloneconfig` and/or compile the source NVidia drivers? what is this "gears" program that I've seen mentioned for testing 3D performance? P.S. you may have noticed the email address is different. This is at work - the easiest way to reach me during office hours (BST) -- Regards, Sylvanus A. Currie WMP Technical: Data Migration NETS: 777-2423 PSTN: +44 (0) 1452 65 2423 Home: +44 (0) 1902 35 3166 O2: +44 (0) 77 5253 4452 And it came to pass that GOD's wife said unto HIM: "Did I not tell THEE it would all end in tears?!" -----Original Message----- From: Z_God [mailto:zeldario@wanadoo.nl] Sent: Monday, 26 August 2002 11.10 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] NVidia +Sax2 +GLX - Cannot enable 3D Weird problem, have you ever had it working before (other distro, older driver)? Maybe you could try an older driver from the NVidia ftp site. You should also try mailing NVidia about the problem. Op zondag 25 augustus 2002 18:31, schreef suse: > Yes, > linux:~ # rpm -qg NVIDIA > group NVIDIA does not contain any packages > linux:~ # rpm -q NVIDIA_kernel > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960 > linux:~ # rpm -q NVIDIA_GLX > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2960 > linux:~ # <snip> |* This message has been sent from the British Energy Group. |* |* British Energy plc |* |* Registered Office:- |* 3 Redwood Crescent, |* Peel Park |* East Kilbride |* G74 5PR |* United Kingdom |* |* Registered in Scotland (Number 162273). |* |* This email message and any attachments are confidential |* and are intended for the use of the addressee only. If you |* are not the addressee you should not copy or use them for |* any purpose, nor disclose their contents to anyone else. |* If you believe you have received this email by mistake please |* notify us immediately by telephoning +44 (0)1452 653113. British Energy believes the UK's best option is to continue to generate 25% of the country's electricity from Nuclear Power. To find out more, look at the arguments on www.theenergyreview.com.

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ICQ for Linux
by Juan Francisco Torres Chacón 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I have tryed 2 applications for ICQ on my SuSE 7.3 licq kicq2 Strange thing is I get disconnected from the server after 5 minutes. Everytime i reconnect, it happens again. I wonder if this is an application problem, or something is happening to ICQ servers, or (may be) applications mentioned above lack the configuration need to make it work behind a firewall (due to UDP, ports, etc), because I dont know if these applications need incoming UDP ports or something... Is there any application for ICQ beside the 2 mentioned above BTW, I also tryed the new ICQ2GO using Netscape 4.78, but it also hangs up..... (i think this is a problem from the applet) Thanks -------------------------------------------------------- Juan Francisco Torres Ch.

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fou4s
by Erik Jakobsen 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

Hi. If I run fou4s -i, I get this: eurit:/ # fou4s -i WARNING: different versioning scheme: kdeaddons3: 3.0.2-29 > 3.0-5 = true New kdeaddons3: 3.0.2-29 (old: 3.0-5) [optional, 0kB] Getting kde8/kdeaddons3-3.0.2-29.i386.patch.rpm WARNING: different versioning scheme: kdeadmin3: 3.0.2-33 > 3.0-1 = true New kdeadmin3: 3.0.2-33 (old: 3.0-1) [optional, 0kB] Getting kde8/kdeadmin3-3.0.2-33.i386.patch.rpm -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards - Vy 73 de oz4kk Erik Jakobsen - erik(a)urbakken.dk SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional.

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RE: SCSI scanning issue with SuSE distributions?
by conway, heather 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

Thanks Patrick. Yup...I ended up coming up with a diff that's similar and it seems to be helping. It works on SuSE 7.3 so far anyway. ;) Thanks. Heather -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Mansfield [mailto:patmans@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 2:30 PM To: conway, heather Cc: 'suse-linux-e(a)suse.com'; 'linux-scsi(a)vger.kernel.org' Subject: Re: SCSI scanning issue with SuSE distributions? On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 09:52:20PM -0400, conway, heather wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I'm hoping you can help. I'm working with SuSE attached to a CLARiiON > > array and the SuSE SCSI stack is incorrectly reporting CLARiiON devices. > > SuSE SLES 7, v7.3, and v8.0 all experience the same problem. > > The problem is as follows: > > When a SuSE host is attached to the CLARiiON, it is inaccurately reporting > > that there are 254 devices per HBA. For clarity's sake, I do not think > > that problem is that Linux doesn't support more than 128 devices....that > > isn't the problem here. > > For instance, if a system has two HBAs with only 8 CLARiiON devices > > allocated to each HBA for a total of 16 actual devices, the SuSE > > distributions will report 254 devices per HBA. The system should see only > > a total of 16 CLARiiON devices, but instead, it reports that it sees 508. > > This happens with the qla2x00.o and qla2200/qla2300.o drivers that are > > incorporated into the SuSE distributions as well as the 'EMC-approved' > > v4.47.16 qLogic driver and v4.20L Emulex driver. > > RedHat doesn't have this problem when attached to CLARiiON arrays, but > > their SCSI scanning is definitely different. I have put together a couple > > of patches, but so far haven't come up with the right combination to > > correct the problem. > > Has anyone seen this previously? If so, do you have a patch to resolve > > the problem ? > > Thanks in advance for the assistance. > > Heather Heather - There were changes to RedHat way back for PQ problems that don't appear in the mainline 2.4 (at least 2.4.19), to fix issues for a Scsi_Device when it had a PQ value (of 1 or such) it was configured into the system, even though it could not be used. Look at the diff between 2.4.19 and redhat (appended here), the code is "if (lun != 0 && (scsi_result[0] >> 5) == 1)". It should probably also have sparse lun check as part of the if, so sparce lun devices don't stop scanning when one of these luns are hit. If you're hitting this problem there should also be read capacity failures. Something like this is needed in 2.5.x. Reference: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=98462326621762&w=2 --- scsi_scan.c Fri Aug 2 17:39:44 2002 +++ /home/patman/scsi_scan.c Wed Aug 28 11:20:09 2002 @@ -155,16 +155,16 @@ {"TOSHIBA","CDROM","*", BLIST_ISROM}, {"TOSHIBA","CD-ROM","*", BLIST_ISROM}, {"MegaRAID", "LD", "*", BLIST_FORCELUN}, - {"DGC", "RAID", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, // Dell PV 650F (tgt @ LUN 0) - {"DGC", "DISK", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, // Dell PV 650F (no tgt @ LUN 0) - {"DELL", "PV660F", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, - {"DELL", "PV660F PSEUDO", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, - {"DELL", "PSEUDO DEVICE .", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, // Dell PV 530F - {"DELL", "PV530F", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, // Dell PV 530F + {"DGC", "RAID", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, // Dell PV 650F (tgt @ LUN 0) + {"DGC", "DISK", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, // Dell PV 650F (no tgt @ LUN 0) + {"DELL", "PV660F", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, + {"DELL", "PV660F PSEUDO", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, + {"DELL", "PSEUDO DEVICE .", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, // Dell PV 530F + {"DELL", "PV530F", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, // Dell PV 530F {"EMC", "SYMMETRIX", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN | BLIST_FORCELUN}, {"HP", "A6189A", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, // HP VA7400, by Alar Aun - {"CMD", "CRA-7280", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, // CMD RAID Controller - {"CNSI", "G7324", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN | BLIST_LARGELUN}, // Chaparral G7324 RAID + {"CMD", "CRA-7280", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, // CMD RAID Controller + {"CNSI", "G7324", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, // Chaparral G7324 RAID {"CNSi", "G8324", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, // Chaparral G8324 RAID {"Zzyzx", "RocketStor 500S", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, {"Zzyzx", "RocketStor 2000", "*", BLIST_SPARSELUN}, @@ -196,10 +196,14 @@ static unsigned int max_scsi_luns = 1; #endif +static unsigned int scsi_allow_ghost_devices = 0; + #ifdef MODULE MODULE_PARM(max_scsi_luns, "i"); MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_scsi_luns, "last scsi LUN (should be between 1 and 2^32-1)"); +MODULE_PARM(scsi_allow_ghost_devices, "i"); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(scsi_allow_ghost_devices, "allow devices marked as being offline to be accessed anyway (0 = off, else allow ghosts on lun 0 through allow_ghost_devices - 1"); #else @@ -219,6 +223,21 @@ __setup("max_scsi_luns=", scsi_luns_setup); +static int __init scsi_allow_ghost_devices_setup(char *str) +{ + unsigned int tmp; + + if (get_option(&str, &tmp) == 1) { + scsi_allow_ghost_devices = tmp; + return 1; + } else { + printk("scsi_allow_ghost_devices_setup: usage scsi_allow_ghost_devices=n (0: off else\nallow ghost devices (ghost devices are devices that report themselves as\nbeing offline but which we allow access to anyway) on lun 0 through n - 1.\n"); + return 0; + } +} + +__setup("scsi_allow_ghost_devices=", scsi_allow_ghost_devices_setup); + #endif static void print_inquiry(unsigned char *data) @@ -318,13 +337,9 @@ memset(SDpnt, 0, sizeof(Scsi_Device)); /* * Register the queue for the device. All I/O requests will - * come in through here. We also need to register a pointer to - * ourselves, since the queue handler won't know what device - * the queue actually represents. We could look it up, but it - * is pointless work. + * come in through here. */ scsi_initialize_queue(SDpnt, shpnt); - SDpnt->request_queue.queuedata = (void *) SDpnt; /* Make sure we have something that is valid for DMA purposes */ scsi_result = ((!shpnt->unchecked_isa_dma) ? &scsi_result0[0] : kmalloc(512, GFP_DMA)); @@ -605,6 +620,23 @@ */ /* + * If we are offline and we are on a LUN != 0, then skip this entry. + * If we are on a BLIST_FORCELUN device this will stop the scan at + * the first offline LUN (typically the correct thing to do). If + * we are on a BLIST_SPARSELUN device then this won't stop the scan, + * but it will keep us from having false entries in our device + * array. DL + * + * NOTE: Need to test this to make sure it doesn't cause problems + * with tape autoloaders, multidisc CD changers, and external + * RAID chassis that might use sparse luns or multiluns... DL + */ + if (lun != 0 && (scsi_result[0] >> 5) == 1) { + scsi_release_request(SRpnt); + return 0; + } + + /* * Get any flags for this device. */ bflags = get_device_flags (scsi_result); @@ -642,8 +674,11 @@ SDpnt->removable = (0x80 & scsi_result[1]) >> 7; /* Use the peripheral qualifier field to determine online/offline */ - if (((scsi_result[0] >> 5) & 7) == 1) SDpnt->online = FALSE; - else SDpnt->online = TRUE; + if ((((scsi_result[0] >> 5) & 7) == 1) && + (lun >= scsi_allow_ghost_devices)) + SDpnt->online = FALSE; + else + SDpnt->online = TRUE; SDpnt->lockable = SDpnt->removable; SDpnt->changed = 0; SDpnt->access_count = 0; @@ -675,7 +710,7 @@ } SDpnt->device_blocked = FALSE; - SDpnt->device_busy = 0; + atomic_set(&SDpnt->device_busy,0); SDpnt->single_lun = 0; SDpnt->soft_reset = (scsi_result[7] & 1) && ((scsi_result[3] & 7) == 2); @@ -844,11 +879,26 @@ * I think we need REPORT LUNS in future to avoid scanning * of unused LUNs. But, that is another item. */ + /* if (*max_dev_lun < shpnt->max_lun) *max_dev_lun = shpnt->max_lun; else if ((max_scsi_luns >> 1) >= *max_dev_lun) *max_dev_lun += shpnt->max_lun; else *max_dev_lun = max_scsi_luns; + */ + /* + * Blech...the above code is broken. When you have a device + * that is present, and it is a FORCELUN device, then we + * need to scan *all* the luns on that device. Besides, + * skipping the scanning of LUNs is a false optimization. + * Scanning for a LUN on a present device is a very fast + * operation, it's scanning for devices that don't exist that + * is expensive and slow (although if you are truly scanning + * through MAX_SCSI_LUNS devices that would be bad, I hope + * all of the controllers out there set a reasonable value + * in shpnt->max_lun). DL + */ + *max_dev_lun = shpnt->max_lun; return 1; } /* -- Patrick Mansfield

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Help running CS server, runs fine under redhat
by Cody 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I upgraded a game server (hardware/os, etc) and I can't get CS (Counter Strike) to work on it, but it works on the old. There are no error messages on the server side, just no one can connect to it, with the message of: "could not connect to game server \n reason:could not complete connection attempt". Old system Was Redhat 6.0, new system is SuSE 8.0. The program runs, shows up in lan/internet games, and shows that the game is happining (rounds ending, chancing maps, etc) But no one can connect to it. Oh, and here is a thread I started elseware: http://server.counter-strike.net/cgi-bin/ib4/ikonboard.cgi?s=089680344e2391…

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YAST2 - KDE 3.0.3 - non functional modules
by Ian P 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

hi, I have two separate issues here. 1. Since my upgrade from KDE 3.0.2 to KDE 3.0.3. the modules in Yast2 have stopped working. I had this same prblem woth KDE 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 upgrade but lived with it until KDE 3.0.2 which fixed it. I have applied all the yast2 patches etc. I run a Yast2 module (hardware/Autodetect Printers) from my user login and enter the Administration mode and enter the correct password which is accepted. It then displays "YaST2 is starting up" for a short while and then nothing else happens. I've tried this from the Control Centre and menus but the same thing happens. I also tried Network/Advanced but got the same message. But running the ncurses version the modules work except the printer ones. The printer problem in ncurses may eventually give the same error (see below) as in the Gui but I think the GUI one fails before reporting the error. I think this maybe a QT problem because some of the other modules work either. 2. The printer problem reported in ncurses is that I have BSD spooler and cups loaded together - anyone know how to de-configure the BSD one? I thought installing CUPS deleted all other systems. Is there a Suse-Yast mailing list anywhere? regards and thanks for any help given

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Unsolicited Praise
by Thomas Nyman 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I sometimes post to the group, sometimes my problem is solved, sometimes not..but regardless of the outcome many people donate time and effort. To all of those that lend a helping hand...many thanks, and may the kernel be with you! Thanks for being there! from a Happy Suser

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re: Fear and loathing on apt-get trail
by Franklin Maurer 28 Aug '02

28 Aug '02

I fixed the dualing package error, and have removed netscape and shop-aware. But now I have some questions / concerns. Why is apt-get telling me to force the installs through? At least that is what it seems -f means. I thought the benefit of apt-get was it took care of the dependencies for you. Can i uninstall things apt-get got? Will they show up in kpackage or gnorpm? The reason i ask is my system doesn't like nvidia's latest kernel, and just in case it gets downloaded can i remove it? Is there a list of the updates available, like in YOU,? I haven't installed synaptic yet so that might cover it. Does apt-get upgrade, or install other versions? I want to try gnome2, and the new kde's but i want to keep gnome and default kde too. Is this possible? How? thanks.

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