May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] large programs
by Derek Fountain 04 May '03

04 May '03

> > 4GB per process, split 3:1 between user space and kernel space. > > Any idea where I can find more info on this ? Well the physical memory management is a kernel controlled thing, so you need to look at kernel resources like the kernel list or kernel traffic pages. > I do remember reading a while ago that glibc limited it to 2G > (or at least that I cannot malloc more than 2G in one go ). malloc() takes a size_t as its parameter, and size_t is an unsigned int, so the limit should be 4GB on a 32 bit platform. The user space limit is 3GB, so it should be able to malloc that. I have no way of testing it and I don't have the glibc source on this machine. If you have suitable hardware, what happens when you try? -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

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Frozen Bubble quirk
by O'Smith 04 May '03

04 May '03

Hi All, Don't know how many of you have managed to find this new game included with 8.2 yet, but if you haven't, you should probably take a look. Anyway, my problem seems to be with going fullscreen with the game. The windowed mode plays without a hitch, but ask for fullscreen and it goes off into a resolution not supported by my monitor. I had the same problem with Tuxracer to start with, but was able to edit the minimum resolution in the configuration file to fix it. I have found the config file in my /home directory for FB, but there is nothing to denote screen resolution. Anyone have any ideas as to how to specify a minimum resolution or cure it's reluctance to go full screen? Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.9.1i --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

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Getting information about a web site
by Kenneth Payne 04 May '03

04 May '03

I'd like to be able to query a website and see what it runs on : Operating system, Web server, and perhaps ISP. Are there any nice commands in SuSE 8.1 for this? Best wishes - Ken

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Hardware scan not working
by Michael Satterwhite 04 May '03

04 May '03

At least on the English site. If you go to the extended search (the simple search is fine) and search for a scanner that has full support, it returns no entries. I couldn't even get it to return a printer that was made by Epson. There has to be at least one ... I have one sitting next to me. Is it this way everywhere?

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Partitioning
by Carl William Spitzer IV 04 May '03

04 May '03

Disk Druid is Red Hat http://www.google.com/lynux Partititions are created with disk druid, fdisk or partition magic. Unix like filesystems are created with mkfs (make filesystem). It has it varients. There is is mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.ext, mkfs.minix, mkfs.msdos, mkfs.vfat, mkfs.xfs, mkfs.xiafs. ============================================================================= Other than Partition Magic which can create ext2 partitons what is available. I now have backed up my legacy box and want to use either 7.3 or 8+ depending on the problems. In attempts with 8.0 It kept incisting on using four primary partitions. I have one primary to boot legacy and one containing extended partions for d: through h: This box has only a CDR the other has the CDRW. Should I install direct or install on the second box and do a network load? CWSIV ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!

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MPlayer and DivX
by Ernesto Marquina 04 May '03

04 May '03

Hi all, When I was installing SuSE 8.2 I selected the package MPlayer and KMPlayer, at the package description said that this program supports DVD. VCD and DivX. Now I'm trying to run a DivX movie (that works on Windows using the DivX codec) under MPlayer and it just doesn't work. Do I need to install any other package from the SuSE CDs?, or do I need to download the DivX codec from www.divx-digest.com ?. Isn't the DivX support already included? Thanks Ernesto

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amd k6-3d and 8.2
by harry302 04 May '03

04 May '03

I was about to purchase 8.2 but read that the amd k6-3d (i am using the 450 Mhz) is not supported. I checked the suse hardware database and it said it is only supported up to 8.1 Is this true or do you have to do something else to get to run on a such a system? Any information or direction I would greatly appreciate it. Harry A.

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sco
by Landy 04 May '03

04 May '03

is suse still firends with sco? http://www.suse.de/de/ul.html

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http://www.securityfocus.com/guest
by Donn Washburn 04 May '03

04 May '03

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Port replicator problem
by Steve 04 May '03

04 May '03

Hi, I just bought a port replicator (new in box) for my Toshiba Tecra 8000 (what the heck, it was $10 on ebay). It duplicates all the ports on my Tecra (duh) plus it adds a couple pmcia slots. The ports work fine, but I can't seem to get linux to recognize any cards in the extra pcmcia slots. I believe it's aware of the slots - /proc/bus/pccard has two directories (00 and 01) when the Tecra isn't docked and four directories (00, 01, 02, and 03) when it's docked), but I can't configure any cards in those extra slots. Is there something I'm missing? Do the two slots on the Tecra have to be filled before I can use one of slots on the port replicator? Thanks, Steve

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