September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Changing IP address
by Shesh Kondi 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

I have a reqmnt to switch from a DHCP to a static IP on my laptop all the time. In Red Hat, it is very simple to do this using "System Settings --> Network " from the main menu. How do I do this on Suse 8.2? For now, I am forced to change the ifcfg-<device> file under /etc/sysconfig/network. -Shesh

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Samba 3.0
by Greg Freemyer 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

I see that Samba 3.0 was released yesterday. Hopefully Lars Muelle (IIRC) will post a SuSE 8.2 rpm soon so we can start experimenting with it. I know it is supposed to have the ability to fully participate in a AD domain, but that is about the limit of my knowledge. Anyone know anything about it from a bug persective? I'm thinking of putting it on a test server to see how it does, but if it has a bunch of known bugs, there is no point. Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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Nvidia and Suse 8.2 Black screen with 3d
by Glenn Pedersen 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

Hi guys, I am really having trouble getting the Nvidia drivers to work in Suse 8.2 with 3d enabled. I am using a MSI motherboard MS-6738 which does have an on board graphics card but its disabled when a graphics card is plugged into the Agp slot. There is no option in the bios to manually turn the on board gfx card off. I have a Geforce 2 mx400 plugged into the agp slot. I have tried ver 4349, 4363 and 4496 but they all do the same thing. When ever I try to start X after enabling 3d i get a black screen and cant see or do anything. I am able to telnet into my Suse 8.2 box and kill X. If I then run the switch2nv script i can then start X with no problems but as soon as I try switch2nvidia the same thing happens again. Black screen with no response except via telnet. While i was connected to the Suse8.2 box via telnet I grabbed this error message from /var/log/messages Sep 24 11:30:01 linux kernel: 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kerne l Module 1.0-4349 Thu Mar 27 19:00:02 PST 2003 Sep 24 11:30:01 linux insmod: Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/ke rnel/drivers/video/nvidia.o will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA Sep 24 11:30:01 linux insmod: See http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules Sep 24 11:30:01 linux insmod: Module nvidia loaded, with warnings Sep 24 11:30:03 linux kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Sep 24 11:30:03 linux kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory : 321M Sep 24 11:30:03 linux kernel: agpgart: Trying generic Via routines for device id : 3116 Sep 24 11:30:03 linux kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000 The second last line has me intrigued. Would that be the drivers trying to drive the onboard gfx card by mistake? or am I barking up the wrong tree here :) Btw the same hardware with Suse 8.0 and Nvidia drivers 3123 work fine with 3d enabled. Any ideas anyone? Cheers , Glenn

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Toshiba DVD-RAM SD-w2002 hangs system
by Benjamin P Myers 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

The recent Toshiba DVD-RAM thread reminds me that I need to ask about a problem I had with my toshiba dvd ram. I'm using ext2 filesystems on my dvdrams. It seems that small transfers work fine, and reads work fine, however when someone tries to copy a large amount of data to the dvdram the machine works fine for awhile, but the load average gets higher and higher until the machine becomes unresponsive. A few times the machine has come back, if I recall correctly, but this has made the dvdram pretty useless for the reason we got it (backup). I'm running SuSE-8.1. I've been meaning to sic vmstat on it, but haven't gotten around to it yet, as I'd have to install the dvdram again. Has anyone else had similar problems with dvdrams? Any solutions? Thanks -Ben

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32M of memory & SuSE 8.2
by Alec Podrezenko 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Hello! Can SuSE 8.2 run on P-I with 32M of RAM?

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konsole "default" font
by Nick LeRoy 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Hello... How does "konsole" get it's settings for "normal", "tiny", etc.? How can I change them? Somehow, my upgrade to 3.1.4 seems to have changed my default konsole font to some awful-ugly font, and I'd like to change it. Yes, I know that I can set it to a "custom" font, but I'd like to be able to change the whole "family", so that secting "large" or "medium" will change to a different font in the same family (or whatever word you'd use). I've tried grepping through .kde, etc., and I just can't figure out how to set it. Thanks much in advance! -Nick

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help: kdm killed xd2??
by Eugene Salinas 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Hi everyone, I installed XD2 last night on SuSE 8.2 from vmware. everything worked just fine and i could log into it last night from gdm. this morning however gdm was gone and the irritating kdm reappeared. it has no mention of Gnome2 or any gnome for that matter and compulsively tries to log me into KDE. Now I don't understand what's happening because red-carpet shows me that all the xd2 files are properly installed. so two questions -- 1. how do i start xd2 now? 2. how do i get rid of kdm and return to gdm? thanks a lot, eugene.

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Powerlalert tipp lite software
by mark bannister 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Anybody used Tipp-Lite's Poweralert software V11.0x or V10.1.95, UPS management software. I tried installing it but don't know enough to make it work. Has anybody done it? Mark B.

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An XFce4 question.
by Ben Rosenberg 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Anyone using XFce4? I wondering how to make something show up on all desktops. It's a borderless transparent Eterm so there isn't a title bar to click on for this. Thanks. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

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IMAP console mail reader?
by jrn＠oregonhanggliding.com 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Does anybody know of a mail client that runs in a terminal ( text mode ) that can support IMAP connections to view and send mail? Thanks, Jim

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