December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] OT: DVD-Jon acquitted/IBM pays CA AIX SMP royalties
by Pacheco Jason NPRI 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

> Looks like the SCO claims to AIX SMP code is a fallacy - it seems SCO > can't quite figure out if they have a little arse or big ears. What makes you say that? I have been following the response to SCO's recent letter on the linux-kernel mailing list, and the issue seems very far from solved. Linus is convinced that SCO's claim is a fallacy as you say, but nevertheless he is trying to prove his claim by tracking down old sources from the kernel, which is proving to be more difficult than expected.

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Monitor refresh rates needed
by Rohit 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Hi, Surfed the net but can not find the refresh rates for my Liyama Vision Master Pro 502 [21"] CRT monitor. Windows 98 that I have, does not carry the refresh rates for this. The web told nill. Can anyone please help me with this? I need refresh rates for this monitor to be able to configure it well in my SuSE 9.0. Hey, wait ... where does the monitor database reside in SuSE 9.0 - may be SuSE shall autodetect my monitor. However, I can not use SaX2 on my machine because it hangs when using SaX2 [probably because of an integrated Nvidia GPU on my Asus n7v266 mobo with athlon - dunno why...] Any hints in correect direction shall be appreciated. Please reply . Thanks and regards, Rohit ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com

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Fetchmail/Procmail with mixed IMAP/POP3
by Nick Selby 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Hi, A marathon of posts today. All the below refers to a Suse 8.2 machine. I am running Fetchmail to grab mail from two accounts; one is an IMAP account and one a POP3 account. Once I get it from fetchmail, it gets sent to procmail, which then does what it does and forwards the messages to the appropriate user mailbox. Has that just destroyed the IMAP-ness of the mail fetched from the IMAP account? How can I make my MUA (KMAIL) see that this is IMAP mail and synchronize with the server? Sorry if this is vague, and thanks in advance nick --

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Recovering From File System Failure
by Terry Eck 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

I screwed up my system by trying to move the /boot partition located at /dev/hda2. I wanted to make more room on /dev/hda1 to a larger windows partition. Since I had been backing up all my partitions onto a secondary drive I did not think there would be a problem. After deleting both hda1 and hda2 and remaking them using fdisk I copied the backup boot directory to /dev/hda2. Now the problem. The system will not boot since I lost the stage1 part of grub which was on hda2. How could I, using the rescue system from the DVD, reinstall grub so hda2 would contain the stage1 loader. I tried grub-install and grub from the command line in the rescue mode without luck. Can anyone explain, in simple term, how to recover a bootable partition? Thanks, Terry -- Sig line not working yet!

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GNOME on SuSE 8.2
by Ilhamsyah Edwar 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Hi All, I have a problem with my Gnome Desktop Environment. When I try to log off from Gnome Menu, it takes a long time to display the log off dialog box. I had tried to reinstall all Gnome from Yast. I works fine when I use KDE. Can someone help me? Thanks and Regards ilham

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FTP installation source for 9.0 - Yast rejects it
by Paul W. Abrahams 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Following Sid Boyce's suggestion, I attempted to add the SuSE FTP site as an installation source for Yast under 9.0P. I specified the Server Name as: ftp.suse.com and the Directory on Server as: /pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/i586/ I also checked the Authentication/Anonymous box. After clicking the OK button, there was some whirring and then I got a failure with the message: Unable to create installation source from URL `ftp://ftp.suse/com//pub/suse/i386/9.0/suse/i586' Details: ERROR(InstSrc:E_no_instsrc_on_media) Try again? Any suggestions as to how to get past that? Paul Abrahams

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16 white pages
by Frits Wüthrich 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

When I print with Mozilla 1.5 on my SuSE8.1 system, I first get 16 sheets of paper without anything printed, and then finally the print. Is there a way to solve this? -- Frits Wüthrich <frits(a)wuthrich.cc>

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linux newbie with some pcmcia questions
by Alberto de_la_Torre 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

I am using the following as a starting point... http://tuxmobil.org/linux-ze4315us-slack-9.1.html I have an HP ZE4240. I'm trying to get my cisco 350 802.11b card working under suse 9. I've been trying to learn how pcmcia stuff is configured by reading all I can get my hands on, but I'm still very much in the dark. What I could use some clarification on is the list of files and the order they are processed. Also, I'm not clear if using "kernel" pcmcia vs "external" pcmcia uses a separate set of configuration files, or the exact same ones, or if there is some overlap. On my system there is a file /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia which has the following settings PCMCIA_SYSTEM="kernel" or "external" PCMCIA_PCIC="" PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS="" PCCIA_CORE_OPTS="" 1 - Is a setting of "external" above how you would disable kernel pcmcia so you could run pcmcia_cs as outlined on the above web page? 2 - When it says you have to run i82365 instead of yenta_socket, is this (PCMCIA_PCIC) where you set it? When I do an insmod i82365 I get an error message "init_module: No such device" I tried a few parameters like irq_list= but couldn't get it to work. I can insmod yenta_socket with no trouble. I've looked at the script /etc/init.d/pcmcia, but it's too complicated for this beginner to follow. I do see that /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia does not have any execute permissions, so how can /etc/init.d/pcmcia execute it? (which it does) I tried setting the PCMCIA_SYSTEM to external. This lets the system boot (rather than lockup) with the cisco card installed. However I don't see it with either ifconfig or iwconfig. thanks for any help. al

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OT: DVD-Jon acquitted/IBM pays CA AIX SMP royalties
by Sid Boyce 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Two items of Xmas cheer, lwn.net and linuxworld.com. Jon Johannsen has again been acquitted on retrial for originating and distributing the Linux libdvdcss code, one in the eye for the DMCA. Looks like the SCO claims to AIX SMP code is a fallacy - it seems SCO can't quite figure out if they have a little arse or big ears. Regards Sid. PS:- OT, I know, I know! but I'm a wayward sod. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.

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partition resizing gone awry
by Serge Naggar 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Hi, I found some free space and decided to resize the /home partition but I did not backup before I attempted the change - my mistake and a very big one. I used Yast's resizer [I guess it has a big problem] to do the resizing and it seemed to do the job except that the partition's physical size never did change. On bootup the system hung and fsck could not read the partition. The number of blocks showed a difference of 16065 blocks an inconsistency between the physical size [8285515 blocks] and the superblock size [8301580 blocks]. Nothing I did seems to bring back the file system [ext2,3]. I pushed fsck to its limits to no avail. Ideally I need a function which will let me either bring the partition back to its original physical size - modify the superblock to the physical size or cut the partion down to a smaller size. I know that the data covers only about 50% of the partiton. Does any body know of such a function[s] or has any ideas on how to solve this situation? Any help would be appreciated. thanks -- Cheers, Serge Naggar Consulting

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