September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] SuSe 8.2 and NVidia Geforce FX5600
by Rohit 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Bruce Barrera wrote: > Okay, but why, I have installed RedHat on another partition with the > same driver/installer and everything went fine? RedHat ran smoothly and > with 3d accel and I didn't have to tweak anything? I think this may be > SuSE's fault not the installer, don't you think? I would examine the X server's log from RedHat and would try to see whether my X is running at 1x, 2x or 4x in RHL. Without going into why, I would try to see what is different. If it has been implemented that way in RHL that it permits only 1X or something.... Even a failed X shall give you logs in SuSE and probably you should compare them. Rohit ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com

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Gaim
by James Ogley 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Updated on www.usr-local-bin.org today: * Gaim - multi-protocol instant messenger client - Updated to version 0.70 - Yahoo! authentication fixed Enjoy -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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network problem
by Rohit 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi all, Still no go on network. Although "ifconfig -a" shows me correct information as I am expcting from my network card, "route -n" disappoints me with gateway IP being shown as 0.0.0.0 while the network IP is alright. -from an older mail Check your IP address "ifconfig eth0". "route -n" to see if your gateway is OK and check your DNS entries in /etc/resolv.conf. Regards Sid. -done Thanks sid. I made that much progress. I think this thing stopped after I did a complete upgrade of SuSE SMP kernel for the HTT machine my professor friend has, and then had to change the IP address. Change in IP address seems to have no access to network. -- Rohit ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- +9122 5692 2108 G9,Floor-1,Chandivali : SDE : TLSI : 9821394599(a)bplmobile.com This mail sent using Linux. You can safely open any attachments and use them. The note below, if any, is compulsorily added for non-mahindrabt recipients. ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com

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answer three years later
by Damon Register 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

This list is really great. Yesterday I wanted to setup Samba on a SuSE 8.0 installation. The problem was that I had to connect an external SCSI CD drive in order to install from the SuSE 8.0 CDs. I needed to rescan the SCSI bus without restarting the PC and I remembered seeing that subject some time ago in this list. I checked my folder of saved messages and found "[SLE] Rescanning SCSi bus withoutr rebooting" from 12-04-2000. At the time I didn't have any need for that but thought it looked useful so I saved it. Thanks to Greg Thomas I got the help I needed. Damon Register

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enabling/disabling core dumps
by alan＠ibgames.com 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi, I want to enable core dumping on a process so I can do post mortem debugging. This is a server process fired up by inittab which changes its owner from root down to the the correct owner. Since it doesn't run via the shell - in fact the shell never runs at all on this account, how do I turn core dumping on? (Come that how do I turn it off when I've finished as well!) Any help on this one, or pointers as to where to look would be appreciated. alan -- http://www.ibgames.net/alan Registered Linux user #6822 http://counter.li.org Winding Down - Weekly Tech Newsletter - subscribe at http://www.ibgames.net/alan/winding/mailing.html

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Gaim/libnss3.so
by James Ogley 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

OK, given that so many people seem to be having problems with using the new Gaim because of the linking against libnss3.so, I'm doing updated packages that are statically linked. The packages will be slightly larger, but you won't have to worry about whether you have Mozilla or not, or if ld.so.conf is set up right. They'll be on the website by the end of the day. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.2) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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KDE 3.1.4 for SuSE 7.3
by Nick Katsamas 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi all, Did KDE 3.1.4 packages for SuSE 7.3 will be released soon. The only update i notice was on the qt3* packages. -- Best regards **************************** Nick Katsamas e-Mail: nkat(a)forthnet.gr ****************************

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Canon i950
by Shalom Naumann 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi. Is there a way of getting the Canon i950 to work in SuSE? I figured out that if I choose the BJ800 then it works, but at about a third of the correct size. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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SuSe 8.2 and NVidia Geforce FX5600
by Bruce Barrera 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi folks, Let me introduce myself, my name is Bruce and I'm new here and came looking for help. For days I seek a solution to a problem with my new vid card, a MSI Geforce FX5600. I changed my vid card and my mobo (to a VIA KT400 based one) and reinstalled SuSE 8.2 (my preferred Linux box). Everything in instalation went fine, I setup the system and get going. The 'nv' default driver was selected was yes, all went sooo fine. Until I decided to enable 3D acceleration. I need it. I work with openGL so without 3D accel, the OS has no meaning to me. Downloaded last Nvidia drivers 44.96 and went to runlevel 3, ran the installer and okay, every thing went fine again! Edited the XF86config file and switched from 'nv' to 'nvidia'. I thought: "SuSE is great! All the installations procedures went so easy, how it could be that still have people who says that Linux sucks, that Linux is hard, blabalbal". I was convinced myself that everything in life is easy when you are using a great Operating System. I was wrong. My hell just started. I wrote 'startx' at the console, relaxed at my confortable chair, put my hands at my head and waited. Waited a looong time. Ooops I forgot to press ENTER =) Just kidding...the screen was black with a little garbage at the bottom. I thought "W ell, it must be configuring himself lets wait more" and I'm just waiting till today (it has been 5 days) =) I tried to update the kernel with YOU (to 2.4.20-100) and nope. Tried to put NVAGP option set to zero in device section of XF86config. Nope. Tried to downgrade driver to 44.63 version. Nope. Played with all the options of Sax2. Nope. Tried to enabled 3D with Sax2 and manually. Nope. Tried to go to some exorcism sessions and nope too =) What could be wrong? Does SuSE doesn't support FX family at all? Does SuSE linux lacks support to new VIA KT400 chipset? Or it is Nvidia's fault? Or it is me that is a jerky and don't know to to do a simple 'new vid card setup' ? =) The odd thing with Sax2 was that he detected my vid card as a 'unknow 0x0312' graphics card. Searching the web I found that 0x0312 id the hardware id for FX5600 cards...but why does he has the Geforce FX5800 in his list and mine that is a step later he does not? Why? the best thing I got was to see Nvidias logo when I forced Sax2 to configure the system as it has a FX5800. The system crashed one moment later. Resuming: System boots fine, I see SuSE logo and progress bar. X seems to start loading, but screen goes black and system hangs. If I boot at runlevel 3, everything is fine. If I use nv default driver, yes it rocks! No 3D accel tough. Maybe I can upgrade to latest kernel? Is there a rpm with 2.4.22 kernel for SuSE 8.2? If so where do I find it (already searched at google, I promise) =) It is worth upgrading to 2.6 version? If so how do I do it? (never upgraded a kernel other way than from rpms) Any other suggestions? Thansk for your time...hope the mail was sufficient funny for you to read it all! =)

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glibc
by Robert Schweikert 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

Hi, Does anyone know if there is a glibc update coming from SuSE 8.2? According to the cross over office mailing list there are number of problems in glibc-2.3.2-6 which have been resolved in glibc-2.3.2-8. Thanks, Robert

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