September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Bad blocks on a ReiserFS volume. How to retrieve files?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

I have a large hard-disk (120 GB) on which some blocks went bad. Now, it cannot be mounted. Attached is what debugreiserfs says. What can I do; I'm newbie to reiserfs architecture. I thought that ReiserFS keeps copies of the superblock or something, like ext2/3 does. reiserfsck says "error occured looks like hardware problem. bread cannot read block 13271040". That's the actual number it displays. PS I have asked the same question on the reiserfs-list, but it's extremely low traffic. Maybe someone here knows more. Thank you Filesystem state: consistency is not checked after last mounting Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x1642 of format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 29945160 Number of bitmaps: 914 Blocksize: 4096 Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks): 29154954 Root block: 14969 Filesystem is NOT clean Tree height: 4 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Objectid map size 10, max 972 Journal parameters: Device [0x0] Magic [0x34ae2c74] Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18) Max transaction length 1024 blocks Max batch size 900 blocks Max commit age 30 Blocks reserved by journal: 0 Fs state field: 0x0 sb_version: 2 inode generation number: 35482 UUID: 48d29ced-fe37-4c68-adf8-32ace9f2be45 LABEL: Set flags in SB: ATTRIBUTES CLEAN

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Web Site Standards
by Bryan Tyson 26 Sep '21

26 Sep '21

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: > I tried to visit this site. > http://www.bet365.com > The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. ----------------------------------------- Subject: Create a Real Web Site Please From: Bryan S. Tyson <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> To: webmaster(a)bet365.com When attempting to view your site using Konqueror 2.2.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4, both Linux web browsers, I was curtly informed that my browser is "incompatible." Your site, sir, is what is "incompatible." Stick with established standards and real html, not Microsoft proprietary "features." *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Mount Windows NT(NTFS) drive as drive Z: for all users
by Keith Jacobs 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8 Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted. Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux

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Adding fonts?
by Tracer Bullet 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

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print from K-Mail run together
by Doug McGarrett 01 May '06

01 May '06

I don't remember seeing this problem on the list. KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are separated. When I print out a mail, some letters, particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations are scrunched together with adjoining letters. I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The typeface on screen (and on paper) is a sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are too close together. Suggestions? TNX--doug

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screen, mouse, kb lockup
by Doug McGarrett 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7, I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor, the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing. None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams like to say. Is there anything else I could have done? I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen 10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken, this fool will break it!)

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SCSI RAID recovery
by Robert Amodeo 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I have a fileserver running SuSE 8.0 with 2 IDE Drives and a SCSI RAID (RAID5). The system boots up to one of the IDE drives, and the SCSI RAID drive runs as a mounted filesystem (/dev/md0). (all filesystems are REISERFS). Problem: The SCSI RAID drive has crashed (won't boot up), and I need to recover it (repair it, through some utility). Further: The software does not seem to want to mount the disks, even though the SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) recognizes the disks, and they are listed as OPTIMAL. I tried to repair the disk(s) (with reiserfsck), but it produced an error message: reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2 reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16 reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs form found on /dev/md0 The literature suggested that this error message is hardware related (either a disk is physically damaged, or maybe the RAID isn't recognized), but again, the disks are recognized (and therefore, so is the SCSI Card). I tried to boot up with SuSE CD 1 in Recovery mode, but not sure what to do there (i.e., after the root prompt - just run reiserfsck?). Literature suggests there are plenty of tools to handle disk recovery, and especially RAID support, I can't find reference to them anywhere. The installation of the RAID was trivial (using the YAST2 partitioning GUI window on startup), and yet recovery seems to be a mystery. This can't be right. Does anyone know where there are "decent" and "usable" recovery tools? OR ... does anyone know what "specifically" to do in this case? Can I re-partition without formatting, and recover the existing data? Any help is appreciated - I'm sure I'm missing something "obvious", but can't find "obviously" what to do in the literature, docs, etc. Thank you. Robert Amodeo School of Engineering and Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles

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Re: [SLE] Time synch problem
by Carlos E. R. 23 Feb '05

23 Feb '05

El 2003-07-09 a las 13:37, C Hamel escribió: (You forgot to post to the list) > I am afraid I don't even know how to ask a question, at this point, but I'll > make an attempt: Exactly where should this ntp thing be called to set the > clock ...or(/and) by what process? It is a very proper question :-) Well, it depends. There are two ways. If your computer is up all the time, and has a permanent network connection, you can use the ntpd daemon, which polls a set of servers about once a minute, and _very_ slowly adjusts the system clock; it can even note the systematic error or drift, and take that in to account to discipline the system clock. There are many options available for the daemon: see full doc in: http://localhost/usr/share/doc/packages/xntp-doc/html/index.htm Or, you may have a temporary network connection, like I do; I will explain this in some detail. We can adjust the clock to "internet" time, once, sometime after we connect to internet. This, apparently, can be done with the daemon, using some option I don't fully understand. Or we can use ntpdate - a program which is to disappear some time in the future, but that I use, and SuSE uses as well in its own script. For this, we can simply call "/etc/init.d/xntpd ntptimeset" - and assume that when "ntpdate" finally disappears SuSE will adjust the script appropriately ;-) Of course, /etc/ntp.conf has to be configured; at least, it must have a list of servers: server IP_address server name_address This is sufficient for "xntpd ntptimeset" to work; just leave the rest of the config at the default values. If you want to use the daemon, then I'm not the person to ask :-) Ok, so when is the appropriate time to make this time adjust? Well, ideally, during system boot-up, after network connection is established. This is done properly by the service xntpd, if enabled. The SuSE script "/etc/init.d/xntpd start" does first a clock set using ntpdate, if the variable XNTPD_INITIAL_NTPDATE is set to "AUTO". Then, it starts the daemon to keep time synchronized. And, if our network connection is not permanent? Then, the script "/etc/ppp/poll.tcpip", which is called from "/etc/ppp/ip-up", will adjust the clock first thing: assuming we have some servers configured, it will be done every time we connect to internet with the modem. I do it differently, only once every five times, and I also update the hwclock. The danger of this method is that the clock might suddenly go forward or backward a bit (seconds or hours, it depends): not very nice on a *nix system, but we can not avoid it. More details to be aware of: what happens to the hardware or CMOS clock? Well, the script "/etc/init.d/boot.clock" (read it, it is documented) does this sequence of things (using the command "hwclock") before starting system services: - Create if it doesn't exist, the file "/etc/adjtime" - Adjust hardware clock (CMOS) for known drift during the time the computer has been off; this depends on the previous file to work. - Copy CMOS clock (hardware) to system time (CPU and OS maintained). After this, the system goes fully up, and maybe, the clock is adjusted from the internet or by hand (danger!). But (and this is very different than windows) the CPU maintained clock has to be copied back to the CMOS, because the kernel doesn't do it. SuSE does it in the script "/etc/init.d/halt" that copies system time to hardware time just before power off. Me, I prefer to do it just after I adjust to network time, inside "ip-up.local", like this: /usr/sbin/rcxntpd ntptimeset /sbin/hwclock --systohc More things to be aware of: a common mistake is manually adjusting the system clock from kde control center (for example), and not updating the hwclock at the same time: the drift adjust algorithm of hwclock thinks that the CMOS clock is fast or slow by the same amount you adjusted the clock, and the next boot it will adjust the time by several hours... The solution is to delete "/etc/adjtime" and call "/sbin/hwclock --systohc" just then (documented on the SuSE sdb). Well, this has been enough chatter on my part; let's hope I didn't make many mistakes :-) -- Saludos Carlos Robinson

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How to add secondary IP address to a SuSE box?
by joe_pr＠myrealbox.com 16 Sep '04

16 Sep '04

Hello, I am converting one of our Domino servers fro NT4 to SuSE 8.2. Is there any way to add a secondary IP to the network card? I used to have such a setup for the current NT box and eve tried this config with Mandrake but thi sdoes not seem to be possible with YAST2. Any idea anybody? Thanks Josef Prusa

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[SLE] LILO - files
by sander.van.vugt＠azlan.nl 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hi, I'dd like to know what the following files in the directory /boot are about. Can anyone give me a clue or point me to some documentation? - boot.b - chain.b - map - System.map-2.2.14 - chos.* Thanks in advance, Sander ********************************************************************** Disclaimer This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is adressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do do not necessarily represent those of the Azlan Holdings bv and/or subsidairy. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited If you have received this email in error please notify Azlan Holdings MIS Helpdesk by telephone on +31 (0) 79 3443200. ********************************************************************* -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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9.1 unuseably slow
by David Bottrill 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

We received a copy of 9.1 today at work and I have installed this on three machines with dissapointing results. The first machine was an IBM Thinkpad R40 with a Centino 1600 CPU. This machine worked fine and the performance was great. The second and third machines were unusable, KDE takes serveral minutes to start, attempting to start YAST for instance will take about a minute for the SU box to appear and then another minute for YAST to load. I get similar results for all applications I have tried, in all instances the system performs like a P100 with very little RAM. The machines that run slowly are both Athlon XP based machines, one being an Athlon XP 2400 with 1GB of DDR RAM on an ECS Elite motherboard. The second machine is an XP2000 with 512MB of PC3200 RAM on a PCChips motherboard. I have applied all the updates with no effect. Any ideas would be appreciated, I've had to switch back to 9.0 as the whole 9.1 experience is unuseable has anybody got any ideas? David -- David Bottrill Registered Linux user number 330730 www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699

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DVD playback...
by Matthew 14 May '04

14 May '04

Good day, Yes there are legal reasons why SuSE cannot have DVD playback of those pesky movies, but what be done? Would it be too expensive for Novell/SuSE to license a codec? Seems like there is a new copyright law in Germany that has made PackMan be more cautious. No one has made a player for Linux that is 100% legal, is it due to expense? Matt

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SAMSUNG ML-1710 in SuSE 8.2...?
by Chun Ki Shin 31 Dec '03

31 Dec '03

Hi, Does anyone have an experience on installing SAMSUNG ML-1710 printer in SuSE 8.2...? I need your help... I downloaded tar file from the below, http://www.samsung.com/Products/Printer/support/Download/driver/driver_Sams… and click on the file name lpp-1.0.6.i386.tar.gz and installed....Installation seems to be fine...but, it never prints out. Any idea..? Thanks, Shin, _________________________________________________________________ Compare Cable, DSL or Satellite plans: As low as $29.95. https://broadband.msn.com

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Re: [SLE] OpenOffice slow in 8.2
by H du Plooy 27 Dec '03

27 Dec '03

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:19, Fred A. Miller wrote: > Uninstall it, download the latest release, and install it. 'Should fix > your problems. The release that ships with 8.2 is buggy. > > Fred Thanks Fred, that's exactly what I did, installed OOo 1.1Beta. Works smooth as silk if I stop Setiathome, but remains unusuable if seti or anything cpu intensive is running. This in itself isn't so bad, except that I didn't have this problem under 8.1 and 8.0, where I had seti runing with nice=1 all the time and OOo was working smoothly. Just trying to understand this Thanks Hans

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Gnome Screensavers
by Thom Nuzum 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Hi Folks, I can't seem to get any of the Screen Savers to start in Gnome, though they are all working in KDE... or are they only for KDE? They are in the Gnome menu:system Screen Savers. Thanks (i know they aren't so important)

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No route.
by Erik Jakobsen 06 Nov '03

06 Nov '03

Hi. I use a socalled Clarkconnect server based oh RH9.0. I very often have used the ssh command the a local machine running SuSE 8.2. If I enter ssh 192.168.1.xxx, I receive this: "ssh: connect to 192.168.1.xxx port 22: No route to host." What does this indicate, and what possible services are maybe not running ?. It came suddenly and so far I'll say, that I haven't touched anything, that could have done it. Advices are more than welcome. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - eja(a)urbakken.dk. Licensed radioamateur with the callsign OZ4KK. SuSE Linux 8.2 Proff. Registered as user #319488 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org.

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5-button USB wheel mouse configuration for double click, SuSE 8.2
by expatriate 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Hello Two hours of Google and Linux websites and I can't find the answer. My wife has RSI and would like to use one of the buttons on her mouse for doubleclick. Here is how her XF86Config looks: Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Buttons" "7" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Name" "Autodetection" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection After running xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 6 7 4 5" ! note left-hand mouse Everything works OK except that the side buttons behave as buttons 1 and 2 (as reported by xev). Just like a three-button wheel mouse. Can the side buttons be differentiated? Is it possible to assign a doubleclick to one of them? Is it possible to assign a drag lock to the other one? TIA & cheers P.S. Kensington Optical Elite mouse.

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Martian source
by Pep Serrano 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Hi all, I got fixed IP for my ADSL since last week. But now I am getting lots of martian messages sort of: martian source xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx from 127.0.0.1, on dev ppp0, where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is my public IP, the IP address in the interface ppp0. I got an ADSL/Ethernet modem in ppp0 with the public fixed IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx connected to my host by means of eth0 0.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 Also I have another ethernet interface eth1 192.168.0.254/255.255.255.0 to connect to my internal home network. Here is my routing tables: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.254.254 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 40 0 0 ppp0 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 40 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 192.168.254.254 0.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 ppp0 Anyone can tell me what sort of illegal trafic is catching my kernel? Cheers! Pep Serrano

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KDE-kiosk.
by Prabu Subroto 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

Hi everybody.... I am using KDE 3.0.x not yet 3.1 and SuSE Linux 8.1 . I have written a web enabling database application with PHP4. The users use the application with internet browser mozilla. My boss said that his sellers may only use the internet browser for the database application. So how can I lock everything in KDE 3.0.x ? I want after the user login, the mozilla will be automatically launched. I also want if they close the mozilla than the user will be automatically kicked out (log out). Is it possible with KDE 3.0.x? Do I have to upgrade 3.1 ? Thank you very much in advance. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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How to spawn another shell script in separate process
by Andrei Verovski 19 Oct '03

19 Oct '03

Hi, I have a shell script A which runs as non-root. From this script (A) I am need to launch script B which must run as root, while continuing running script A without waiting script B to finish (in other words, I am need to spawn script B from script A in separate process). Anuone can suggest me how to do it? Thanks in advance for any suggestion. ********************************************* * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * Personal Home Page * http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac * Mac, Linux, DTP, Development, IT WEB Site *********************************************

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Re: Re: [SLE] (Revisited) Works in Windoze, NOT in SuSE!?!?!?!?!?!?
by bernd＠covenantmail.net 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

HELP!!! Please save me from my stupidity! My modem no longer works in linux at all! If your suggestions help me, then I won't have go into the long gory details. Because I'm working from that dark place called windoze, right now, because I'm sick, and also working on a couple hours of sleep, I've had to write this e-mail 3 times already. It keeps getting shorter each time. I was running some tests on the init strings. I do not have a functioning kppp at present, and therefore can't use its' terminal program. I also don't have any other terminal program to directly send commands to the modem from the keyboard. Sooo... To run these tests I have been editing a -new- copy of wvdial.conf and running wvdial from the shell. Long story really short... Here's what I think is going on. I am now getting errors from the output of wvdial (using the tried and true -saved- copy of wvdial.conf). I am told that there are errors with the name servers and www.suse.de can't be found!?! So now I can't use wvdial or kinternet to connect. I swear I didn't program the wrong init string in the modem, because I am able to get it to work in windoze. I went exploring in yast, but I aborted all areas that I was clueless about. Well, apparently not all!!! PLEASE Save Me!!! Bernd

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Black screen after NVidia update - 2nd posting
by Jan Elders 14 Oct '03

14 Oct '03

Hello world, Does someone recognize the black-screen problem I posted last Friday ? Although there are many posting on NVidia in this discussion group, I didn't see anything similar discussed yet, and got no reactions so far. Greetings, ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [SLE] Black screen after NVidia update Date: Friday 05 September 2003 22:16 From: Jan Elders <jrme(a)xs4all.nl> To: SuSE Discussion <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Hi all, After upgrading my kernel (including the source) with YOU to 2.4.20-100, I have downloaded the NVIDIA Installer for Linux IA32. Subsequently, I followed the instructions in www.suse.de/de/private/download/xfree86/index.html section “SuSE Linux 8.2 with update kernel or self-compiled kernel”. - went to runlevel 3 (by restart in Safe Mode) - did the following : cd /usr/src/linux make cloneconfig && make dep cd /windows/e/Linuxdata/Downloads/nvidia/ (= my download directory) export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=yes sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run - thus ran the NVIDIA Installer - then I changed /etc/X11/XF86Config section Device: replaced Driver “nv” by Driver “nvidia” (according to the NVidia installation instructions) - went to runlevel 5 --> No more display ! (remains black) !!!! - I solved this by running SaX2 (in Safe Mode) : set Monitor model = LCD 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz set Color & Resolution = 1024 x 768 - 24 bit After this I had my display back, but no 3D !!!! Looking in XF86Config shows that Driver is set back to “nv” (apparently by SAX2). So .... it seems that setting the driver to "nvidia" ruins my system ? Or , in other words, I think the new NVidia driver is not working correct here. BTW, I'm using a laptop with a 1024x768 LCD screen. What could be the problem ? TIA and HAND -- Jan Elders Nuenen the Netherlands

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OT: pppd dying on trying to connect
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 11 Oct '03

11 Oct '03

Hi all, I need to find out why my pppd daemon is dying when the modem is doing its handshaking ritual. I would like to look in the logs but I do not know where to look other than /var/log. Any ideas why the pppd is dying? I am using kppp on an internal ISA USR modem that is certified to work under linux by linmodems.org. suggestions, asides from buying a new external modem? -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced Windows user Registered Linux user # 229959 Using Linux Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3 on a 2.4.19-16mdk kernel ========================================================================

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