August 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Everybuddy for Dummies
by Dominique Michel 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

> I'm not using everybuddy but as it is with the distribution, it must > install with no problem with yast. > If it is for msn, jmsn at http://jmsn.sourceforge.net/ is working very > well. You can do file transfert with it., i don't think at everybuddy > can do that with msn. > Dominique Michel > > Dr. David M. Colburn wrote: > >> OK. I am apparently the dummy, but I desperately need Everybuddy. >> >> Is there anyone out there successfully running the current version of >> Everybuddy under SuSE 8.0? >> >> Can someone either send me the dependencies or provide >> paint-by-number-instructions as to how I may acquire and load them, >> please? >> >> I have wasted hours here at the office trying to make this happen >> without joy. I will have to switch back to M$ Windows if I don't get >> this done within the next day or two ... a fate worse than startling >> a skunk in the dark. >> >> dcolburn(a)trinitycollege.edu >> Thanks! doc >> >> >> > >

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SCSI scanning issue with SuSE distributions?
by conway, heather 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

> 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 >

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"mount fail" when I try to creat an initrd
by Rowan Reid 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

mk_initrd -k bzImage.SuSE-2.4.18 -i"initrd.SuSE-2.4.18" -m "resierfs" -s auto I get the following output. What am I doing wrong I've done it in the past no prob. creating initrd "//boot/initrd.SuSE-2.4.18" for kernel "//boot/bzImage.SuSE-2.4.18" (2.4.18-SMP) failed to mount image Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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After Running Saint
by Linux Leo 27 Aug '02

27 Aug '02

Hi, I ran SAINT and was told that its going to create a directory called .Xauthority. Well after I finished using it, I deleted the ".Xauthority" file along with the ".mozilla" directory in the root directory to save space. Did I do the right thing or did I remove something that could harm the normal working of the system? TIA Leo

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Everybuddy for Dummies
by Dr. David M. Colburn 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

OK. I am apparently the dummy, but I desperately need Everybuddy. Is there anyone out there successfully running the current version of Everybuddy under SuSE 8.0? Can someone either send me the dependencies or provide paint-by-number-instructions as to how I may acquire and load them, please? I have wasted hours here at the office trying to make this happen without joy. I will have to switch back to M$ Windows if I don't get this done within the next day or two ... a fate worse than startling a skunk in the dark. dcolburn(a)trinitycollege.edu Thanks! doc

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X Crashes
by Jon Biddell 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

This is a wierd one - I'm running 8.0, and when using KMAIL, closing KMAIL down seels to kill the whole X server. Any ideas ? Jon

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RTCW, Quake III, no sound
by Dorin Titiriga 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi, I have just installed RTCW, Quake III, under SuSE 8, - also fresh installed - and I have no sound. The rest of the sound it is working great, mp3, mplayer, etc, all but these two games. If I am runing Winex, these two games are sound, so only native executables are broken... How to fix that ?

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rpm for the latest netatalk?
by Count Schemula 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

I give up after a full day of trying. Is there anywhere I can go to find an rpm of the latest netatalk? It's 4+ months old now. Or, does anyone know exactly which flags I should set in ./configure to get all the files in the right place for SuSE 8.0? Could I just compile it and swap binaries only? Kind of a hack, but that's all I know. I tried to read the src.rpm but don't have pin on my computer and man pin did not exist. Thanks for all the help. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com

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[sle] Re: System freezes after nvidia upgrade/patch rpm
by W.W.Webb 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

I just upgraded the nvidia kernel-3 and nvidia glx 3(and other things xf86 glx 4.x driver and loader) through YOU and now my system freezes... Mouse dies, keyboard is unresponsive.I have to hit reset, oh the horror. I have a tnt2 model 64,amd 1700+, 256 mb ddr, 40 gb hd, i think 512 swap... has this happened to anyone else? Anyone know how I can fix it? my system freezes when i play a game, like tux racer or whatever the racing game is. But it also freezes when i check my mail and when i scroll through a document or anything else. This had happened before but when I removed the new nvidia kernel and reinstalled the one from the discs, the problem went away, so i believe it is nvidia and not something else. i promised myself i wouldn't do it again but I had read that someone else got it up and running so i rolled the dice, and lost yet again. in order to write this I had to $ switch2mesasoft. Afterwards i noticed the gears fps went up significantly, although i can't say what they were.Forgot to write them down. ... Last night, i was forced to remove the new nvidia, just moving a window froze the system. when i installed the kernel and drivers i rebooted, ran 3Ddiag and all appeared ok. i actually got through sax2, which didn't happen during the prior installs. And i checked the xf86config in /etc/X11 and it had nvidia and load glx like the nvidia directions said it should. Did i forget a step? I'm confused, but then again I'm a newbie so that shouldn't be shocking.i don't play alot of games but since the card has 3d i thought it would be nice if the system does too. I'll probably replace it at sometime but I'd like to put that off for as long as possible. And since i don't have to reinstall like a did the first two times, I'd like to get it to work. Thanks for any help you can offer.

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rpm problem + nvidia riva tnt
by Andreas Daskalopoulos 26 Aug '02

26 Aug '02

Hi all, After a reinstall last week of SuSE 8.0 i am experiencing a strange problem : I am using nVIDIA RIVA TNT graphics card. I installed 2 rpms files in the previous installation which i downloaded from nVIDIA homepage for my distribution. These 2 rpms are drivers for the card. I was using them for 5 months and all where great (except that x were slow starting up). So i tried installing them in this reinstall. When i checked if they were installed correctly i found out that something went wrong: # rpm -q NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960.suse80.i386.rpm package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960.suse80.i386.rpm is not installed # rpm -q NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2960.suse80.i386.rpm package NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2960.suse80.i386.rpm is not installed Hmmm ... not installed. So i tried reinstalling by executing the command rpm -Uhv. # rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960.suse80.i386.rpm package NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2960 is already installed # rpm -Uhv NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2960.suse80.i386.rpm package NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2960 is already installed Now i got all confused. What's happening here? SAX2 gives me errors when i try to configure x. I am sure that nvidia drivers are not installed correctly. I tried downloading again the driver rpms and do the installation from the beginning. No success. I get the same messages. Also noticed that KDE3 after the reinstall is very slow (has to do with 3d acceleration missing? I dont think so but i would like to mention this) Another thing that annoys me is that i cant use xv as my vo driver using mplayer so i use x11 which is very slow on my machine. When i used the nVIDIA drivers all worked fine with giving the parameter -vo xv with mplayer. Thank you for reading my message.

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