April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Some keys don't work after reboot
by Fabian Dost 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hi. Recently I noticed that these keys <>| don't work on my keyboard any more. It has a German layout. I can fix it by using yast -> system -> choose language -> German. But I have to do this after each reboot. The keys work fine when I shutdown the x server and work on a console even after a reboot. Thanks for your help, Fabian

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Problem with ping to router (solved)
by José Carlos Cuéllar 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hi to everybody. I've finally solved my little X-File with my Linux server and the Cisco ADSL router. After trying a lot of different things, I finally changed one of the network cards of the Linux server. The initial configuration set on my server was two Intel Pro/100+ cards and one Realtek RT8139 card. I removed one of the Intel cards and plugged in another Realtek RT8139. After this hardware change I run YaST and everything started to work. It seems clear that there was some kind of hardware conflict that caused a misconfiguration in the server. But, really, this is the most strange thing I've ever encountered in a Linux server. Thank you very much to Eric Bambach, Ken Schneider, Andrew Kirilenko and Cliff Pankonien, who tried to help me with this problem. Greetings. José Carlos Cuéllar - jcarlos(a)alc.es Mecemsa Consultores - I+D Avda. de Dénia, 88 - 03016 Alicante Telf. +34 965 26 96 96 Fax +34 965 26 54 53 http://www.mecemsa.es

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Politics on this list [OT]
by expatriate 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

<bonfire avoidance on> About the only politics we can "safely" agree on this list is that Microsoft's raison d'e(tre is to make money by any possible means and the Linux philosophy is to create great software and disseminate it at low cost. Discussions on foreign policy, religion, morality etc. will only elicit strong emotions without true debate. I have very strong opinions on just about everything but I feel that this list is exactly the wrong place to express them unless they're germane to suse-linux. I respectfully request that we refrain from generating or acknowledging inflamatory statements. <bonfire avoidance off>

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Re: LVM, IDE Software RAID, 2 Channles, 4 Disks
by Simon Oliver 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

David Konerding wrote: > It would be very possible that your file data would span the two disks > on the channel Yes, but the data is lots of small files so this should be a rare event. > or that two processes would be accessing the disk > simultaneously across both disks on the channel. The current system already has four disks on two channels, configured as a single linear volume. So the problem of simultaneous access on the same channel from two processes already exists. I am trying to make the best of a bad situation :-( I suspect I will end up buying a four channel IDE RAID controller. > I believe LVM supports nested mirroring and striping, so I see no reason > why it wouldn't work. I see two scenarios - ______disk0 Ch.A ----<______ disk1 ______disk2 Ch.B ----<______ disk3 1. make the two disks on each channel linear volumes and stripe across the two linear volumes: vol_1 = disk0 + disk1 vol_2 = disk2 + disk3 s_vol = vol_1 stripe vol_2 2. make two stripe volumes across the controllers and then combine them into a linear volume vol_1 = disk0 stripe disk3 vol_2 = disk2 stripe disk1 l_vol = vol_1 + vol_2 Do you have any opinion which would be best solution given that the filesystem runs at near full capacity.? How would I go about achieving this via LVM? > Disk arrays normally need tuning > to provide the performance enhancement you think it should be able > to achieve. What tuning options are there? Are you talking about stripe size? How does one determine the best stripe size for a volume (apart from empirical tests)? -- Simon Oliver

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printer print out : epson sylus c60
by joe budd 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hello, I have a epson sylus c60. When i print 1) about a half an inch below where the printing start the second and third rows of text or graphic are overlapped. (That is if the first twenly lines of text are blank i then the text starts the second and third lines of text are overlapped). 2) text or graphic that shows up in previewing at the bottom rows of the page is missing in the printout. I have tried different paper size settings but that doesn't seem to matter. Any ideas. -- Thank you. Joseph Budd Programmer Web Development Iserv Co. PH: 616-493-0587 FAX: 616-493-0550

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gaim 0.60 apt rpm
by John LeMay 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

I just installed gaim 0.60 via apt here and seems that the sounds (arrive.wav for example) were not included in the package. Gaim is looking for these files in /opt/gnome2/share/sounds/gaim, however this directory doesn't exist. find couldn't find the files either. Anyone know why these files were left out? -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions

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A couple of odd problems I'm having...
by Fred Sloniker 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

(1) I upgraded to KDE 3.1 today, and the upgrade went pretty smoothly (aside from having to try a bunch of permutations of the order to install the RPMs in before they all went in; I'm sure there was some automatic way to do it, but not knowing it, I just kept YaST installing them one by one). However, all the SuSE-specific icons went bye bye for some reason during the install, as well as some other icons (like the Gnome dice icons). Is there a simple way to get them back? I was using some of them for applications... (2) I'm having an odd problem with sending email. If I try to send a message, I get an authorization failure, but if I immediately resend the message, it works. If I wait a while, it'll fail again. Any idea what I've misconfigured?

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SUSE GIRDS UP FOR GRID ACTION
by Fred A. Miller 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

SUSE GIRDS UP FOR GRID ACTION (Source: Network World Fusion) SuSE's new Linux Enterprise Server 8.0 for the Itanium processor was recently chosen to be one of the cogs in the TeraGrid project. http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742157 -- Fred A. Miller Systems Administrator Cornell Univ. Press Services fm(a)cupserv.org, www.cupserv.org

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Sharp Zaurus and SuSE
by Travis Owens 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

Hello all! Just got my Sharp Zaurus PDA and was wondering if any of us SuSE users here have used it before? If anyone has any tips/tricks or experiences you could share on using a PDA (especially a Linux one) with Linux, please let me know! :) Thanks! -- Travis

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Re: [SLE] gaim 0.60 apt rpm
by John LeMay 09 Apr '03

09 Apr '03

> So, you have 0.60 working with your present 8.1 system? Is your glibc > 2.2 version? I thought as soon as they moved to 0.60 it also moved to > the new glibc too. Yup, working here with glibc 2.2.5 - I believe what came with 8.1 as I don't recall upgrading it. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions

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