September 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SusSE 8.1 disabling write barriers
by Roger James 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

After upgrading my 8.1 kernel with the latest online updates I now get the following error messages atr boot up. <4>hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } <4>hda:saw err in ide_end_drive_cmd, disabling write barriers <4>hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } <4>hda:saw err in ide_end_drive_cmd, disabling write barriers Are they serious? Can I ignore them? Can I fix them? >From googling I think they may be something to do with ordered write mode on a ReiserFS (jounalled) filesystem. But I have no idea what that means. Help.. Roger

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Good ethernet PCI card for SuSE 7.2
by Chris Roubekas 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Anyone has a good 10/100Mbit card to recomend for a SuSE7.2 PC?? I currently have an Rtl8139 and it is just pissing me off because it cannot get any higher than 4Mbit transfer rate!!! Any suggestion for a PCI Network card to run @ 100 mbit is deeply appreciated! Chris

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Toshiba Portege and Dual Head Display
by Jethro Cramp 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

A friend of mine who has been using Windows on his laptop is trying to switch to Linux on the desktop (Yeay!). He is using debian. The one big problem we can't overcome is setting up dual head on the laptop so that he can use both the laptop screen and an external 17" LCD. The set up already works unders WinXP. The chipset is from trident. Has anyone done this with a laptop, especially a toshiba portege? It would be nice to know whilst we are bashing our heads against a brick wall that this is solveable. TIA, Jethro

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SD Cardreader
by Bill Wisse 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Haia After all the misery in trying to get a (Multi) cardreader to work, I'm going to try now with just a single SD Cardreader. Anyone has something like that successfully running with SuSE 8.2? Your help is much appreciated because I live in the middle of the South Pacific on an island with no shops. (everything has to be ordered overseas). -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."

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For or against ..Hyperthreading.
by Ben Rosenberg 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

I have partly a question and partly a survey. I just got a P4 2.4ghz (c) proc, mb w/ 512M DDR400 dropped in my lap at work so I could upgrade my workstation in the office. It does have hyperthreading. I've never user HT hardware and I've heard conflicting reports about it. I have it turned off right now and I haven't installed the SMP kernel since I'm not sure I'm going to bother. I guess my question is...for a workstation doing webbrowsing, documents in OO, Gaim, playing mp3's and s**tloads of xterms. Does HT give or take away from the enviroment as far as speed and all that. All opinions are welcome. :) -- 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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Two APT questions
by Keith Powell 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

I have a lot of packages in my /var/cache/apt/archives folder. I would like APT to install them all on a new SuSE installation on another hard drive rather than downloading them all again. So I burnt them on to a CD. I then copied them on to the new hard drive, keeping the same path. However, I can't get APT on the new hard drive to install them. If I reselect all these packages with Synaptic, it wants to download them all again, not look in the folder. How can I get APT to look in the folder and just install them from there? I have tried "rpm --rebuilddb" but that hasn't solved it. An associated question: Does APT make a log of what it downloads? I think it must do. For example, if 8 packages are marked in Synaptic for downloading and the download is interrupted after only a few have been downloaded, if these same 8 packages are later marked again for the download to be resumed, those already downloaded are skipped, but they are all installed. I can't find where it logs what it is doing. Perhaps there is one (simple?) answer for both questions? Any help will be gratefully received. Many thanks Keith

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hp compaq nx 9010
by Andreas Vlachos 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

I was wondering whether anyone has tried to install SUSE on this laptop. I have not found anything in the Internet so any experience will be useful! Thank you. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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fetchyahoo
by Rajesh Ganesan 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Hi, I tried to run fetchyahoo (perl script to fetch yahoo mails) in our suse8= =2E1.=20 And, i get the following message: Can't locate MIME/Head.pm in @INC (@INC contains:=20 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0=20 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i586-linux-thread-multi=20 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at=20 /usr/bin/fetchyahoo line 47. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/fetchyahoo line 47. Can somone help me? This works fine in a MDK9.1 machine of my friend's. Thanks in advance. Rajesh

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how do I get rid of XD2
by Thinker 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

I am using XD2 but I really don't see the benefit of it. I think Gnome was just as good if not better. I know Ximian is based on Gnome but it seems that there is no advantage to having one over the other. The only good thing I have seen from Ximian is perhaps evolution. So, after much consideration, I have decided that I would like to purge XD2 Desktop and put my system back like it was, so that I can use apt to upgrade my gnome packages the right way? I want to keep evolution 1.4.4 but that is about it. 1. Am I on the right track? 2. How do I go about doing this? Thanks, -=Thinker

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sound conversion
by Carl William Spitzer IV 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

I have several wav files I want to reduce to mp3 so they will take up less space. I checked the on disk documentation. Can this be done in standard SUSE programs? 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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