April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

MMC reader and 8.2
by John Pettigrew 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

You might recall that I had problems getting my MMC reader to work with SuSE 8.1, but that it eventually worked. However, I have now upgraded to 8.2 and, bizarrely, it seems not to work on the new system. When I plug it in, the device shows up in /var/log/messages, is assigned a scsi id, and appears in the list in usbview. However, it never gets mounted, eventually timing out. Nothing further happens even if I leave it for ages. If I remove it and then connect it again, this appears to freeze the usb system completely (the pc won't even shut down properly, freezing at the "shutting down hotplug services" stage). Does anyone know whether anything has changed in the usb system that might explain this, and that I might be able to return to the 8.1 state? I am rather disappointed that 8.2 seems to have removed some devices from its support list! John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john(a)headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Fields of Valour: 2 Norse clans battle on one of 3 different boards

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RE: ATI driver upgrade
by Martin 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

I have downloaded two ATI-4.3.0-9.i386.tar and drm-kernel-1.100.0-9.tar to upgrade my redeon X driver and possibly get drm working. I couldn't find any clear description how to make this upgrade happen so can anybody tell me what would be the best procedure to do it? Thx, Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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8.2 & remote access
by Francesco Scaglioni 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Hi, I have been telnetting into suse laptops ( in-house network ) since version 6.2 with no problems. Have installed 8.2 and allowed access - can telnet in fine but when trying to start emacs I get the following error mesage: error while loading shared libraries : libc.so.6 failed to map segment from shared object : cannot allocate memory This only applies when telneted in ( either from remote of from localhost ). Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA Francesco

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mail, kmail etc how does it interact?
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Still strugling with my 8.1 setup and 8.2 is on the way. Have a working Kmail and was happy until I solved an error that every time popped up at booting time. It was an error with postfix which seemed to be unhappy with some unintelegble reasons. After reinstalling postfix from the cd at boot up there is no argumentfrom postfix but now I get parts of my post in the /var/mail/cons (cons is the user). I am using gkrellm wit animation on when email is there and the pinguin is making overtime. How did the email enter in that directory, how can I get it back in my kmail and what should I change in order to receive the email in the riight pplace in the future. I am still wrestling with a small homenetwork and think that somewhere I need postfix for exchange of messages between the connected computers. Is that right. Whenever I look into the info and man pages they are always talking about sendmail and I have the feeling that that is sometimes the program, sometimes not. Help!

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Head to Head: SuSE 8.2 Pro Vs Red Hat Linux 9 in Desktop Usage
by Graham Smith 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

This is a desktop comparison of Red Hat Linux 9 and SuSE 8.2 Professional Edition. We have used Red Hat Linux 8 for all our work since last fall, and installed version 9 as soon as it became available. However, we have not been fully content with Red Hat, so we gave SuSE 8.2 a try when it became available this month. http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3423 -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------

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8.2 / Apache 2 / SuSEconfig
by Žiga Dolhar 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Hello list, I've been trying to successfully configure the bundled Apache 2 [and .45 as well] -- with no success. The bundled Apache 1 runs with no problems. The problem seems to be in missing suse_*.conf files, which are present for version 1 of Apache, but not 2. However, I created them manually and specified the needed modules and were able to successfully run a2 then. It seems like SuSEconfig doesn't create/edit the suse_loadmodule.conf file [and possibly not even suse_misc.conf], although it does write [and configure] suse_misc.conf with no problems. I also noticed that SuSEconfig doesn't create the md5 hash in /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/etc/apache2/ for loadmodule file [again, suse_include.conf is present in here]. Although I can use Apache 2, I would be very happy if I could get yast/suseconfig work as it [probably] should. Is this a known bug / is there a solution? I've searched the google but was unable to track anything familiar. p.s.: I've tried installing SuSE 8.2 pro on two machines, reproducing the same issue. Yours & TIA, Ziga Dolhar

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8.2 problem: Xserver crash
by Jerome Lyles 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

I loaded 8.2 last night and it went flawlessly, except for this: XFree86.0.log: (II) LoadModule: "fglrx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o (II) Module fglrx: vendor="Fire GL - ATI Research GmbH, Germany" compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 2.5.1 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.5 [R200Setup] XFree86 version mismatch - detected 4.3.0, required 4.2.x (II) UnloadModule: "fglrx" (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/fglrx_drv.o (EE) Failed to load module "fglrx" (module requirement mismatch, 0) (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4 (EE) No drivers available. Fatal server error: no screens found The correct version of module fglrx is loaded and then unloaded because the system expects a 4.2.x version. How can I fix this? Thanks, Jerome

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Legal to copy cd's?
by Eric 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Is it legal to copy the SuSE 8.2 Professional CD's and distribute them to your friends? SuSE DOES offer the packages on ftp anyways...but is that a whole seperate issue.

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Partitioning
by DB Troll 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After reading all of the post today on home/dir I thought it might be to my advantage to add the /home and /opt partitions to my HD but after reading the reference manual and googling I am still not sure how to do this in either YaST or command line as root. My partitions now are dev/hda 18.6 GB ST320413A 0 2433 dev/hda 6.7 GB Win95 FAT32 0 881 dev/hda2 1.0GB LinuxSwap swap 882 1012 dev/hda3 10.9GB Linux Native / 1013 2433 > dbtrol@linux:~> cat /etc/fstab > /dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2 > /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 > /dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 > /dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0 > dbtrol@linux:~> df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 11G 5.5G 5.5G 50% / > shmfs 369M 0 369M 0% /dev/shm Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to go about this or if I should even contemplate doing so. TIA David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+renr3VVncqMjOZsRAuucAJ428GHIu/Oge9vTvHcWmLGkBYUWlACfScEm I+fvoF0b18+/LGsDYb2nR8o= =n1mL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SuSE 8.2 - Realtek 8100B does not work
by Mariusz Jurgielewicz 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

I cannot make my on-board network card working properly. It works under Windows as Realtek RTL8139/810x Family and under Knoppix Live CD Linux as 8139too. I tried to set it up using YAST either as DHCP or static ip. If I try to ping other machines on my intranet I get unreacheable network. When I do capture in Ethereal on other machine it looks like it sends broadcast, machine that I am pinging sends response which is ignored and another broadcast is send. On Windows it sends broadcast, receives address resolution reply then start sending and getting ICMP pings. It looks like driver issue for me. This is output from rtl8139-diag -aa -ee: rtl8139-diag.c:v2.10 9/18/2002 Donald Becker (becker(a)scyld.com) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0xc800. The RealTek chip appears to be active, so some registers will not be read. To see all register values use the '-f' flag. RealTek chip registers at 0xc800 0x000: ad1b3000 0000fdd3 08000000 40000000 0008a24e 0008a24e 0008a24e 00002000 0x020: 02a1a000 02a1a600 02a1ac00 02a1b200 02940000 0c0a0000 0708fff0 0005c07f 0x040: 74400680 0000f78e 134c5984 00000000 008d1000 00000000 0080c510 00100000 0x060: 1100700f 01e1782d 000145e1 00000000 00000704 000207c8 60f60c59 7b732660. Realtek station address 00:30:1b:ad:d3:fd, chip type 'rtl8139C'. Receiver configuration: Normal unicast and hashed multicast Rx FIFO threshold 2048 bytes, maximum burst 2048 bytes, 32KB ring Transmitter enabled with NONSTANDARD! settings, maximum burst 1024 bytes. Tx entry #0 status 0008a24e complete, 590 bytes. Tx entry #1 status 0008a24e complete, 590 bytes. Tx entry #2 status 0008a24e complete, 590 bytes. Tx entry #3 status 00002000 incomplete, 0 bytes. Flow control: Tx disabled Rx disabled. The chip configuration is 0x10 0x8d, MII half-duplex mode. Interrupt sources are pending. Rx Complete indication. Transmit OK indication. Decoded EEPROM contents: PCI IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139. PCI Subsystem IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139. PCI timer settings -- minimum grant 32, maximum latency 64. General purpose pins -- direction 0xe5 value 0x12. Station Address 00:30:1B:AD:D3:FD. Configuration register 0/1 -- 0x8d / 0xc2. EEPROM active region checksum is 0a8b. EEPROM contents (64 words): 0x00: 8129 10ec 8139 10ec 8139 4020 e512 3000 0x08: ad1b fdd3 8d10 f7c2 8801 03b9 60f4 071a 0x10: dfa3 9836 dfa3 9836 03b9 60f4 1a1a 1a1a 0x18: 0000 5940 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 8000 0x20: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

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