openSUSE Users September 2003

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Black screen after NVidia update - 2nd posting

by Jan Elders

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

18 years, 8 months

OT: pppd dying on trying to connect

by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

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 ========================================================================

18 years, 8 months

Raid 0 speed question

by H du Plooy

Hi all, For those who have lots of experience with this: I need more hard drive space and a faster disc too. Assuming software based raid is reliable enough for a home user, and money is very tight, I have two options: 1. Buy a new fast disc 2. Use kernel software raid to mirror the current Western Digital Caviar 5400rpm 2mb cache 10gb drive with a 10gb partition on a new (but now very cheap) 5400rpm 40gb drive. The remaining 30gb on the new disc would be /home Which setup would be faster? Thanks Hans

18 years, 8 months

Realplay and Flash plugin problem

by Dennis Nigbur

Running SuSE 8.2 on an Athlon 1.3GHz Thunderbird, I reproducibly find that the browser plug-ins for Realplayer and Flash don't work in Mozilla. This happens with all versions of Mozilla, including the version included on the SuSE CDs (1.2.1 I believe), the current version 1.4 and the 1.5 beta from the mozilla.org page, and the 1.4 RPM from usr-local-bin.org. Realplayer: I've copied the rpnp.so and raclass.zip files as requested. Although the stand-alone Realplayer works fine when started from the shell by typing "realplay", the plug-in doesn't seem to work. The pop-up window with the Realplayer interface appears, then the program just stops responding, causing Mozilla to "hang". With the RPM version from usr-local-bin, I still seem to be able to close Mozilla by closing the konsole from which I've started the program; with the other versions, there seems to be no way to close the Mozilla window at all. Flash: Again, the plug-ins are installed as per Mozilla's instructions. When visiting a site with Flash content (e.g. macromedia.com), Mozilla just crashes and exits with a segfault. This happens both with the Flash plug-in on the SuSE CDs and with the version downloaded from macromedia.com. Does anyone know what this behaviour means, and how to remedy it? Thanks in advance, Dennis

18 years, 8 months

Spamassassin question....

by James Hatridge

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hi all... Ok, I really really want to stop the hot girl ads etc. So I installed Spamassassin. But now what? I don't see anyway of getting the damn thing to start working! I use KDE and Kmail, but no where does the how-to's talk about Kmail. SO, would one of you kind people out there give me a 1,2,3 list of how to get this working? Thanks JIM Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 - -- Our country was colonized by the religious, political, economic, and criminal rejects of every country in the world. We have been carefully breeding insane, obsessive, fanatic lunatics with each other for over 400 years, resulting in the glorious strain of humanity known as "Americans". You have to expect some... peculiarities. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3in Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBP0H5+XvM2SsNv63DAQFG2QP/SycoLBvoE7/UZ+OLFXkgQpA/Q728YZAv jsGgqvTRwdVxfT69fPf8ixChpaSW1dfrdd37hhHxh/w6lO1VoydIHgplO0qOiIu3 yllNh5tG+zu/+TwX8imgO4K6snr6Aq65hu+8R7lrxTVpXzrC6NPcrTG+UZILYz7m J+NapJ/57TM= =SjqU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

18 years, 8 months

Horrific spam/virus - fetchmail?

by H du Plooy

I've been getting more and more each day of this latest virus, each with a bonus attachement of about 140k. So far, 48 today - this is a mess on a 56k dial-up... I have fetchmail getting my mail from five different pop accounts. Is there a way to tell fetchmail to delete anything with exe attachments from the server without downloading them? Or another commandline tool that would do that? Something I can have in a script that would run before fetchmail? Deleting them from the servers manually (there is a webinterface, or using something like kshowmail), is not really an option - too much mail coming in per day, and this would (so far, thankfully) actually take more time online while the meter's running... Thanks Hans

18 years, 8 months

Re: [SLE] (Revisited) Works in Windoze, NOT in SuSE!?!?!?!?!?!?

by bernd＠covenantmail.net

----- Original Message ----- From: Basil Chupin Sent: 9/28/2003 4:56:34 AM > bernd(a)covenantmail.net wrote: > > HELP!!! <snip> > > > > 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. <snip> > > PLEASE Save Me!!! <snip> I'm going to cut to the chase here, because I am using windoze and my ISP's webmail. Basil, I have already done everything, several times, that you stated in your e-mail that I am now replying. I sincerely appreciate the suggestions you and others have provided in the past. I have used, and referred to them often. This problem is entirely new, and has nothing to do with my length of connection problem. I can't connect at all! ****Problem is as stated in my previous e-mail above. I can't use -anything- to connect to my ISP from linux. I get the errors regarding my name servers, and can't access anything!!! No e-mail, no web, ftp, ...!!! Regarding the name servers, all I have ever done is yast/modem (for use with kinternet), wvdial.conf (for use with wvdial), options (used by pppd), and kppp. My dns settings are always auto, as my ISP provides them during the connect sequence. I have not messed with dhcp as John suggested that I do. I wouldn't know what to do there. I have dumped all my yast modem settings, wvdial.conf, and started fresh with system defaults (which has worked in the past, except for connection length problems). Yet the dns problem still remains. What on earth have I screwed with to mess up the auto dns settings outside of wvdial.conf and yast/modem??? I'm about ready to backup /home, toast it all, and reinstall SuSE from scratch!!!!! Maybe that would take care of everything!?! Sorry! Bernd

18 years, 8 months

filtering E-mail attaches

by Vitaly Shishakov

Hello! Just as, probably, some of you, i am tired of getting tons of 150kb messages containg yet-another-worm-for windows. Does anybody have a good advise about how could i use my procmail on my server to filter it out? how to bounce it?

18 years, 8 months

Re: [SLE] Cannot scan as except as root on SuSE 8.2.

by Guy Zelck

Hi Carlos, Carlos E. R. wrote: >El 2003-09-24 a las 21:08, Guy Zelck escribió: > > > >>>There is a command line resmgr. You may check the actual permissions you >>>have: >>> >>>cer@nimrodel:~> /sbin/resmgr list >>>rws- /dev/scanner >>>rw-- /dev/usbscanner >>>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner >>>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner0 >>>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner1 >>> >>> >>> >>My output is : >> >>rws- /dev/scanner >>rw-- /dev/usbscanner >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner0 >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner1 >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner2 >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner3 >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner4 >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner5 >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner6 >>rw-- /dev/usb/scanner7 >> >>This seems ok. I'm beginning to think that although I logged in via kdm >>that somehow the "desktop" class hasn't been set. This is maybe due to >>the fact that I installed kde 3.1.3 packages. They were build for SuSE >>though ( Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback). >> >> > >Acording to the above, you do have permission to use the scanner. Man >resmgr says: > > list [family] > Display the list of devices available to the user. > >and "user" is the user calling resmgr. > > There's nothing wrong with the resmgr setup as such. It's just that my user isn't recognized as belonging to the 'desktop' class and thus gets no access to the devices. So I tried this as root : resmgr login guy /dev/pts/2 resmgr grant guy desktop This makes me explicitly a member of the desktop class. But guess what, it still doesn't work. Whether I use xsane or xscanimage has nothing to do with it. The other problem is there isn't realy a device when using libusb. sane-find-scanner shows the following : found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0, product=0x0401) at libusb:001:002. If I try "resmgr open -ro /dev/usb/scanner0" as root it yields : status code 502 server message follows: permission denied If you do "ldd /opt/kde3/bin/kdm", do you get the same as I get? Nmly : libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40028000) libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0x400f6000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400fe000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40101000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x40113000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40117000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) Just thought that maybe I should see /lib/libresmgr.so.0.1 in the list but I guess not. Probably libpam is enough but I wonder how pam knows that is has to go look in pam.d/xdm to verify things. The resultcode you get in your logs is 200 as I expected. This is good and better than the 502 I get. > >My kde is the one that came with suse 8.2 with the updates YOU did. The >scanner is an epson 1650, using usb, yes. The permissions are, right now: > >crw------- 1 cer root 180, 48 2003-03-14 14:08 /dev/usbscanner >crw------- 1 cer root 180, 48 2003-03-14 14:08 /dev/usb/scanner0 >crw------- 1 cer root 180, 49 2003-03-14 14:08 /dev/usb/scanner1 > > > I plan to put back the original kde 3.1.1 and see if that solves things. Guy.

18 years, 8 months

Help with combo drive and K3b

by Kirby Nesbitt

Cry for help here. Just upgraded to K3b 0.9 and I am unable to see my LG 4480B CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. I ran the K3b config as root and it did detect my drive as a writer. Also added my self to the users list but when logged in as myself k3b does not recognize the drive (as a RW). Logged in as root, I get the following entries under K3b..>Settings-->Configure K3b...>Devices Devices - Reader: No entry Writer: HL-DT-ST-RW/DVD GCC4480B System Device Name: /dev/sr0 (0,0,0) Interface Type: Generic SCSI Vender: HL-DT-ST Description: RW/DVD GCC-4480B Version: 1 Max Read Speed: 48 Max Write Speed: 48 Cdrdao driver: auto CD-Text Capable: auto Supports Burnfree -ok- CD/RW drive -ok- Supports DAO Writing -ok- Logging in under my user name and running K3b, settings-->devices get the following: Devices- Reader: System Device Name: /dev/sr0 (0,0,0) Interface Type: Generic SCSI Vendor: - Description: - Version: - Max Read Speed: 48 Cdrdao driver: auto Writer: No entry..Blank ! ----------------- When attempting to copy a CD, the CD copy window indicates "CD Reader Device" as none, and the "Burning Device" is also blank. I have run the configuration utility under YaST2 (SUSE 8.2) in an attempt to straighten out the CDR configuration however it does not seem to help. It is indicating a single device entry: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B /dev/sr0 This device only seems to be recognized when running K3b as root (per above) but still fails the copy process. Appreciate any help in straightening this mess out. TIA> Kirb N

18 years, 8 months

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openSUSE Users September 2003