December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

DHCP & Networking - HTH
by humvee 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi All I have been struggling for some time to configure Suse 8.2 for network & internet access via a 2nd old computer running Smoothwall 1.0 and usb adsl (although I would imagine this would apply to anyone using a router as well but don't know for sure.) But I now have had success. I provide the detail in the hope that it helps someone else. Ensure that dhcpcd is installed. If you have a message - as i did -similar to: eth0 [dhcp] ...no IP address yet ......backgrounding during boot and subsequent rcnetwork restart does nothing and ifup/down/status/config doesn't help either it may be that you need to identify whether the acpi is the cause of the problem (seems from forum posts that this is more prevalent on newer systems) boot into safe mode. If this reveals an ip number for ethx where x= the number for your nic go into YAST2 as at 2) below. An additional problem was self-inflicted in as much that I had scanned a number of forums/maillists for help and had tried lots of different solutions and had basically scrambled the eth0 configuration!! The process I went through therefore was: 1) a clean install of Suse. - I had been trying to set up my network for quite some time and had followed all sorts of advice from this list and many others and this had "clogged" up the process. 2) I amended the GRUB bootloader via YAST2 to include the "acpi=off" instruction. path= YAST2_System_Boot Loader Configuration. Then select "Edit Configuration Files" and in the section of the file headed "Linux" enter "acpi=off" (without the quotes) - I entered this after the entry for "hdd=ide-scsi" but I imagine anywhere after the "root=" bit would work. 3) My system is nVidia orientated so I then installed the latest kernel binary RPM to set up the nvidia mobo & nic. See: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/ReleaseNotes_Linux_nForce… (or later depending on when you might use this note) 4) Restart the computer. (rcnetwork restart didn't do the job) 5) Test your browser connectivity and it should - hopefully - all be working ;-) Anyway hope this helps someone and my thanks to all who have tried to help me. humvee (still a n00b and proud of it)

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Re:[SLE] Quake 3 and sound in Suse 9
by sebastien 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

hi, got the same problem as you : Since I installed SuSE 9.0, no sound with quake 3, with the same error message. And I can't get alsa ouput work with xmms (oss works fine). It tells me there is no output device. What kind of chip you are using for sound ? I use a SiS chipset for sound, the one which is integrated on the motherboard. I tried different kernel (2.4.22 and 2.4.23rcX) and i updated the alsa drivers, but this did not fix the sound problem with quake 3 and xmms. I think I will buy a cheap sound blaster live which is better supported. ---------- Initial Header ----------- From : Glenn Pedersen <glennped(a)optusnet.com.au> To : Suse <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Cc : Date : Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:29:27 +1000 Subject : [SLE] Quake 3 and sound in Suse 9 Hi guys, Just recently got Suse 9 and am having problems with the sound in quake3. Btw this worked fine in 8.2. I get no sound at all and this is the error message that i get from the console. btw i have tried as root and the same thing happens. ------- sound initialization ------- Could not mmap dma buffer PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ trying mmap PROT_WRITE (with associated better compatibility / less performance code) /dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not mmap /dev/dsp ------------------------------------ Any ideas? Cheers, Glenn -- 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 ********** L'ADSL A 20 EUR/MOIS********** Avec Tiscali, l'ADSL est à 20 EUR/mois. Vous pourrez chercher longtemps avant de trouver moins cher ! Pour profiter de cette offre exceptionnelle, cliquez ici : http://register.tiscali.fr/adsl/ Offre soumise à conditions.

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Ripping CDs: alternatives to kaudiocreator
by Paul W. Abrahams 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Does the SuSE distribution include any better alternatives for ripping tracks from CDs than kaudiocreator (which comes in the kmultimedia package for KDE)? The kaudiocreator program has several drawbacks: 1. It seems to be hardwired to read from /dev/cdrom; I can't find any way of telling it to read from anywhere else. 2. It has no documentation that I can find. 3. It doesn't allow for ripping just the initial part of a track. Paul Abrahams

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User .xintrc ignored ?
by Jan Elders 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hello world, Could it be that the .xinitrc file in my home directory is ignored ? Reason I ask is that I have added in the .xintrc file in my home directory the following (near the end of the file) : # # Add your own lines here... # xmodmap -e 'keycode 96 = EuroSign' However, after my user-session is started, key 96 still renders the F12 function and not the eurosign. When I go to shell and give the same command then it works OK. So, my preliminary conclusion is that the .xinitrc file in my home directory is ignored at startup of the session. Is that possible ? If so, how could I remedy that ? TIA and HAND, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

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sa-learn on server (Postfix/Procmail/Cyrus)
by Jon Clausen 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi list At this point I'm more looking for opinions than actual help... I have the server set up with system-wide spamassassination. Lately SA misses spam more frequently, and I need to train it. The server runs Cyrus, and I access mail from Mutt via IMAP. I've been reading some, but I have a hard time deciding which avenue to take. It seems there two main roads with this situation; 1: Put the missed spam in a separate (IMAP) folder, and have a cronjob call a script which pipes the files to sa-learn. 2: Set up a 'training account' and forward the missed spam to this account. As seen on: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-slox-e/2003-May/0107.html What opinions/experiences do you all have with the two methods? One thing I'm particilarly interested in, is with option 1: Since /var/spool/imap and below, is cyrus', any script acting on the files in there can't be user owned. So what do you guys do? Make an entry in roots crontab, with user = cyrus? Also how does Cyrus react when files get moved/deleted from the imap-directories? What if there are several accounts on the server? I mean, then the 'teach-sa' script has to look in several different directories. Not neccessarily a big problem, except if the users change the name of the missed-spam-folder... Is option 2 in fact a 'better' (easier/more painless to set up/maintain), than option 1, when we're talking about a 'real' server, with multiple accounts? TIA /Jon -- Whatever rocks your boat!

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GRUB menu.lst entry questions (boot splash verbosity)
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Under SuSE Linux 9.0 (freshly installed), though I've edited an entry in the GRUB menu.lst, setting "splash=verbose", I still have to hit the "F2" key to get the boot messages, otherwise only the progress bar shows. After the system boots, looking at the contents of /proc/cmdline shows "splash=silent" in the cmdline!?! Where does that come from??? I've looked everywhere and haven't been able to solve this one! For reference, I've included relevant lines from my menu.lst. The first entry is the default one created by YaST during installation. The second one is the one I modified. The problem is that when I select the second entry, the boot splash is still silent. Also, I have some questions about some of the entries in the GRUB menu.lst to which I've not been able to find answers. Any help would be appreciated: 1. What does the "native" splash option mean (e.g., "splash=native")? I assume the other two ("silent" and "verbose") are as their names would suggest. 2. What does "showopts" mean??? I've looked everywhere and googled extensively and still can find no documentation on this one (I'even grepped the entire kernel source tree and "string"ed all the grub binaries looking for it!). I only found -one- message (on the web) that even addressed the term, but I couldn't really make sense of the explanation. I really wish that stuff like this would be at least minimally documented! Thanks, Phil ----- Begin included menu.lst entries ----- gfxmenu (hd0,1)/message color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 10 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Linux kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31A splash=silent desktop showop ts initrd (hd0,1)/initrd title SuSE Linux 9.0 Prof kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31A splash=verbose desktop showo pts initrd (hd0,1)/initrd ----- End included menu.lst entries ----- -- Philip Amadeo Saeli SuSE Linux 8.2 (soon 9.0, if I can get it working correctly ...) psaeli(a)zorodyne.com

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Firebird
by Donald Henson 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

(SuSE 9.0, Gnome 2.2.2, Firebird 0.6.1-55) I decided to try MozillaFirebird. I installed it via Synaptic. When I try to run it using the bash command "MozillaFirebird", a window appears for about 2-3 seconds and then disappears. Help shows about a gazillion options. Can anyone tell me the minimum I need to do to start Firebird and make it actually do something? Any assistance will be appreciated. Don Henson

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VNC riddle
by Dan Am 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi folks, thought I'd get vnc up to relax a bit. Uncommented the lines in /etc/xinetd.d/vnc to get my Browser-kdm window. So: <whine on> netstat shows the relevant ports to be open. nmap does not. not even from localhost. (???) Same thing if I start vnc from the command line. Only thing that works is starting a vncserver from kde directly. But there I do not get a login: connection refused, even though I set my vnc-password. </whine off> Any hints ? Regards Dan -- buddha 2.4.20-4GB 1:44pm up 1:52, 5 users,

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[SLE] TCP / IP Printing
by fareed＠iplex.co.zw 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Dear list, To achieve the above I used ICE.TCP on SCO Openserver 5.0.x and it worked wonders. It comes with a application called ICELPD which listens to port 2346. When a user sends a print to the printer its executes a printer interface script, example printermodel.scr. The *.scr creates a file-file stores it in /usr/tmp. Client gets it via port 2346 and it prints locally. I've got the ICELP printing deamon for Linux working. My question is where do I place the script file. You could possibly call the script file a driver? In SUSE it asks for a ppd file and does not recognise *.scr. I've check in /usr/share/cups/model Perhaps someone can recommend something? Perhaps even a diffrent solution totally? I use the ICE.TCP printing solution for speed. Its very very fast. Check out www.jriver.com Thanks Fred

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SuSeconfig Question
by Chuck Stuettgen 02 Jan '04

02 Jan '04

Does anyone know what configuration file controls the start order for the services in the /etc/rc.d/rcx.d folders? Specifically, which file resets the order to the SuSe defaults if the order has been modified? I know how to disable SuSeconfig, but at this point I am not interested in that. I simply want SuSeconfig to stop changing the startup order of the PCMCIA service. With Mandrake and Redhat once I changed the startup order so that PCMCIA started before network I *never* had to worry about Redhat's up2date or the Mandrake update utility changing it back. SuSeconfig on the other hand insists on setting PCMCIA to S08pcmcia which comes after S05network. I set pcmcia to be S04pcmcia so it starts before network. This insures that I always get a network connection no matter what network I am connecting to. I realize that hotplugger is supposed to start pcmcia but it is simply unreliable when it comes to pcmcia cards. I should note however, it works fine with USB devices. Before I changed the boot order so that PCMCIA would start first I would not get a network connection when first booted up. This because when the network is set to start first and the only connection to the network is a wireless pcmcia card, that hasn't started yet, you can't get an DHCP assigned ipaddress. So if someone can tell me which file I can modify so the startup order of PCMCIA won't be reset when yast or YOU is run I would be grateful. Thanks -- Chuck Stuettgen <cstuettgen(a)myrealbox.com> http://www.cfs-tech.homelinux.net

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