November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Remote Control
by Gustavo Adolfo Cerezo Vasquez 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Receive a Cordial Greeting , I would like to control a graphical application from a remote console or terminal program. For example, I run the Mplayer in order to play a video and I want to send the control keys sequences from other window (konsole) or a remote pocket pc console. How could i do that ? Thanks in advance, Gustavo Adolfo

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Startx Problem
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I just installed SuSE9.2 on my IBM T20 laptop with the KDE desktop. I can start X as root, but when I attempt to start X as a user I get the message: Cannot move old log file ("var/log/Xorg.0.log" to "var/log/Xorg.0.log.old" and further refers me to wiki.X.org which happens to be down for rebuilding. If I do a su as a user then X opens normally but as the root user. Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

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DOSemu Printing
by pinto 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Dear SuSErs, after reading all I can find on printing, at www.dosemu.org , and being stumped by 'wrong format octet stream' errors, it seems best work-around is to use "Ksnapshot" the take a snap of what one wants to print, and, then, to Print that "Ksnapshot" :) . . . any other insights into DOSemu Printing are most Welcome. thanks ...........

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NFS Client Doesn't See Server
by Don Parris 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Running SUSE 9.2. Configured NFS server & attempting client via Yast. Yast configures the nfs-utils (the kernel server) as opposed to the user-space server. Following the NFS how-to, I added the following to /etc/hosts.deny: portmap : ALL lockd : ALL mountd : ALL rquotad : ALL In hosts.allow I entered same as above, but using 192.168.2.0/24 as the net address. I have done the same on the client machines as well, for good measure. I have run rcnetwork restart Problem is that the client doesn't see a server. I can ping by hostname or IP address, so /etc/hosts is configured correctly. I don't recall having the same problem in SUSE 8.0. I managed to successfully configure everything for two boxes back then. What I don't understand is why the client doesn't see the server - that is apparently correctly configured. Any ideas? Don -- DC Parris GNU Evangelist http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anytime anywhere!"

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Looking for people who use 3WARE 7006 in SuSE with one more PCI in motherboard.
by oss 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Is it possible? I would like to set a two PCI card to motherboard. The first card is 3WARE Escalade 7006-2 ATA RAID controller (PCI) The second - any PCI card (My example is D-Link DFE580TX 4port Ethernet adapter) If you use one more PCI card with 3WARE Escalade 7006-2 ATA RAID controller (PCI), PLEASE, show me your hardware configuration. (What motherboard are you use?) All of my PCI cards do not work with this RAID in pair with Intel 865G chipset and with Intel motherboard at all. (The raid start to hang my computer). Thank you. Nick

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Hard disk limit
by Nicolas Scaut 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hello, > I try to install Suse Linux 9.1 Pro on a server with 12 SCSI disk. > When I create a logical disk (with the RAID manager) of 1.5T, I can't > use it with Suse (whatever the partitions I choose or the file system I choose). > When I create a > logical drive of 700 Go, there is no problem (I can create a partition of 700 Go) > > So is exist a hard disk size limit because I don't understand why I > can't create a partition of 200Go on a hard disk of 1.5T. Thanks Nicolas Scaut Attaché spécifique Province de Namur Service Informatique et Télécommunications ----------------------------------------------------- Rempart de la vierge 2, bt 1 B-5000 Namur Tel : 32 (0) 81 25 70 24 Fax : 32 (0) 81 25 70 35 email : nicolas.scaut(a)province.namur.be

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Lost Password
by Darrell Skildum 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I have two systems with SuSE 9.1 installed. On one of them, the password for Root seems to have been changed. I have been careful not to change this. What is the easiest way to re-instate a password for Root.

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Keyboard layout , suse 9.1 and compaq presario r3000
by Rejaine Monteiro 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

Hi ! My system is a SuSE 9.1 and Compaq Presario R3000 and my keyboard is a international keyboard. My system is configured to use US accents and Portuguese_Brazil (pt_BR) language YaST/System/Select Keyboard Layout/Portuguese (Brazil -- US accents). The problem is the key sequence ' + c is not generating a c-cedilla. Instead, I got a c with a acute accent (a c-acute). (and the same configuration on Suse 9.0 works fine) Is supposed to this key sequence generate a c-cedilla. All other accent+vowel works as expected (áéíóúãõ, etc) How can I fix this ? The c-cedilla is a important character in my language. Any ideas will be welcome ! Rejaine da Silveira Monteiro

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I am looking for a price calculation web page system
by Ronald Wiplinger 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I am looking for a web page system, that allows me to select items and gives me at the end a total price. E.g. I want to build a PC. I have the choices of 4 motherboards, but obviously you need only one in a pc, but at least one ;-) You should be able to select what you want (maybe even with icons, clickable to enlarge the picture) When you are done, press calculate, which brings a summary with all components and the sum of the price. At that moment you have the chance: Order or cancel. I can do that with PHP, but if there is something out there what would save time, I would like to try that first. bye Ronald

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driver for external hard disc drive
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

On my system, a dual boot DOS and SuSE I have an external hard disc which I can address in DOS with the help of a device driver. Had a google on this driver -EB850i- with early nill result. The information about the builder of this device showed some very general information about a Taiwan company and an email address of same. Looking after the general name of the device driver -MCDS- gave me a lot of information but most of it was about Mac Donalds. The few leads under device driver/linux did not give me any useful pointers. Has somebody an idea if there is a possibility to address this harddisc which is connected to a parallel port?

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9.2 inst report & problems.
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I ordered the 9.2 "update Version" and received it approx 2 weeks ago. Installation went well, HW detection was the best yet for SuSE, and performance seems good, esp compared to 9.0, the latest version I've used. I was esp surprised at how well the 2.6 kernel worked on my somewhat oldish hardware (ca 2000). However, there are some significant problems with the release on my system: 1. Can't switch consoles when in runlevel 5. Works OK in runlevels 2 & 3. I have no clue why. Never seen this before. New X server (X.org) and new Kernel (2.6). Could be either. 2. System shutdown hangs while shutting down PCMCIA. The last line in the /var/log/boot.msg file is: Shutting down PCMCIA <notice>checkproc: /sbin/cardmgr 5839 After that, the system hangs indefinitely. BTW, even SysRq doesn't work properly here: the "sync" and "umount" keys don't seem to do anything but the "boot" key works OK. Next boot needs an fsck to clean up the mess. Never had either of these problems under any of SuSE 7.0 thru 9.0. 3. Kernel bootsplash doesn't work at all. GRUB bootsplash works OK. However, tty1 doesn't get any kind of graphical treatment though all settings are correct to my best determination (they worked on all previous releases I've used to date). I tried echoing 0x0f01 into /proc/splash as in the Admin Guide w/o success. /proc/splash always says splash is off. BTW, I'm runnng the update kernel, updated via YOU. 4. KDE trashes my personal settings (as has nearly every KDE upgrade) [Sigh...]. Booting back to 8.2 kept the trashed settings and I had to restore my ~/.kde dir from a backup to get my old settings back (yes, I did make a backup copy before the upgrade). This is more of a gripe than anything else; I don't expect a fix for this. I'll just have spend a few more hours redoing the configuration for this release. Anyone else seen any of these? I searched the SuSE portal without finding anything related. I've worked on this for several days and have given up on 9.2 for a few days until I can muster up the energy to have another go at it. Back to 8.2 ... BTW, I'm running a 750 MHz PIII laptop with an ATI Rage Mobility graphics chip. I have 2 cardbus cards installed: 3Com 3CCFE575CT Cyclone Enet and Adaptec APA-1480 SCSI. (Haven't yet tried removing the cards to see which one may be causing the problem.) Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli SuSE Linux 8.2 psaeli(a)zorodyne.com

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Configure background
by Susemail 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

In Konqueror under the View menu there was an option to 'configure background'. How do I do this in 9.1 and 9.2? Thanks, Jerome Nevermind, the option is still there when the location bar references a local file instead of the internet. Jerome

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truncated pages(9.2)
by Doug McGarrett 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

This is a followup to the last message. It turns out that the attachment is actually in MS Word 2000. (Not WordPerfect.) It looks like the formatting has a large left-hand margin, and the words on the right run off the page. Somehow, I managed to get the file up on OO so I could read it all, and if I varied the width of the window, the sentences would reformat so all the words were available. BUT if I hit the "print" button, the file was still truncated, and the right hand side of the page was gone. I can't seem to find a way to set margins in OO--maybe that would help. Or if there is a "reformat" command, what is it? Is there a handbook for OO that I could get at the local bookstore? (I really don't want to print 300 or more pages on my local printer!) I would be happy to forward the nasty file to someone who would tell me how to fix it, and then hopefully I could fix all files that seem to be nasty. On another note, a friendly fellow named Bandicot (I think) said try to use KWord in KOffice7. I can find no reference to that in either of the manuals, or by doing whereis. So I went to Google, and there is a KOffice 1.2.1-7 RPM for RedHat. Is this the program I should try? Will the RH RPM work OK on SuSE? (I thought that RH did not support KDE???) I've been playing with Linux for at least 7 years, and I'm still a newbie. So sue me. --doug

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Odd installation question
by Dennis J. Tuchler 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I would like to install from a DVD, but it would have to be read by an outboard drive. I can't boot from that drive. Is there any way I can boot up and then install from the DVD? Thanks dj tuchler

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How to install gnucash???
by Mike Adolf 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

How can I install gnucash on suse 9.1 personal. I tried packman. It has a listing for gnucash 1.8.8 for suse 8.2. I thought this would be good enough. So I tried to install it. Packman listed 5 dependencies. I tried to install the first one. It listed another dependency libosp.so.3. I could not find a source for a libosp rpm. I gave up. There must be an easier way or is personal 9.1 missing to much to be useful? Mike

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Reducing OS Boot Times for In-Car Computer Applications, Part III:
by cwsiv 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7857 -- Damien Stolarz wraps up his Web series about his company's quest to achieve a five-second boot time--did they make it? -- ----------=====<<<<<CWSIV>>>>>=====---------- | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ ----------===<<<CWSIV(a)JUNO.COM>>>===----------

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Question Regarding Tab Completion in Bash
by Rhugga 19 Nov '04

19 Nov '04

I noticed something with the bash shell recently (might be old and just never really noticed it before) If I have 3 files in a directory, such as follows: file_1.tar file_2.tar file_3.tar.gz If I type 'gzip -df file' and then hit TAB to start path completion, it knows to select the file_3.tar.gz because it is the only file with a *.gz extension. (I am assuming) Just curious where this new functionality was implemented. Is this done to bash itself or via some other mechanism? I am looking to do something like this for some code I am writing... Thx, cc

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Xorg update dependencies failure - rpm missing
by Steven Pasternak 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

I use SuSE 9.1 XFree86 4.4.0-rc2 and want to upgrade to xorg-6.8.1. I go to ftp.suse.com/pub/i386/supplementary/X/Xorg and downlaod the files for xorg-6.8.1 and when I go to install them, it says that I need perl 5.8.5. I have had NO luck finding a perl-5.8.5 rpm. Does anyone know where a SuSE 9.1 perl-5.8.5 rpm is? Thanks in advance

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Can I boot from a SCSI drive?
by Jim Sabatke 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

This is more a SuSE question, so I'm posting it to this list. I can do a manual install of 9.0 by removing the SCSI CD driver and adding the proper SCSI and RAID drivers. The install loads all the software from CD 1 and reboots. The reboot fails with the following message: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 Answers to this are not very definitive on google, but most seem to say that Linux can't boot from a SCSI drive unless the modules are compiled into the kernel. Neither of the SMP kernels supplied with 9.0 seem to work. The other "solution" I've seen is to put "alias scsi_hostadaptor" (also seems to be spelled "adapter" in places) into /etc/modules.conf. I don't know how to get that in there from the install program though. I'm stumped on how to proceed. I don't think I can compile a kernel until I have an install working. This all brings me to two questions: 1. Is this a compiled vs. module kernel problem? 2. Can I get a proper kernel onto the system? Thanks, Jim

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Permission "problem" with a file in /var/lib/YaST2
by Steve Kratz 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

/var/lib/YaST2/ppd_db.ycp - This file exists, but even an "ls" yields a permission denied message. As root, I cant chmod it to anything, chown it to root, nothing. 1 - What is this file, and 2 - Why is it so well protected from being viewed? (This is on a SuSE 9.2 install)

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Re: [SLE] PrismGT wireless problem with SuSE 9.1
by Jan Elders 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 00:57, Joe Khamis wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 05:36, Jan Elders wrote: > > This is my 3rd posting of this problem. The previous two got no reaction > > at all. > > Can nobody help me ?????? > > > > This is the problem : > > I'm trying to use the SMC2835W 802.11g (54Mbps) wireless PCMCIA card > > with SuSE 9.1, without success. I cannot even give any command to the > > card; it remains totally dead. (It works under Windows, so the hardware > > is OK). > > > > This card has a PrismGT chip, and I am running the prism54 driver version > > 1.1 in my SuSe 9.1 > > According to instructions, I downloaded the firmware 1.0.4.3 and > > installed it in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware with the name isl3890 (as > > instructed). > > > > But, when I insert the card in its slot, then I get : > > eth1: prism54 driver detected card model: PRISM Duette/GT > > eth1: islpci_open() > > eth1: resetting device... > > eth1: uploading firmware... > > eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset... > > eth1: device soft reset timed out // cut > > > > Nothing happens, the led's on the card remain dark and I cannot get to it > > with any command at all. Apparently the "device soft reset timed out" is > > the problem, but what can I do about it ??? // cut > > G'day Jan, > > I purchased the D-Link DWL-G520+ wireless NIC to use on my SuSE 9.1 > Professional. > > After much effort and no luck, what worked for me was to visit the > www.linuxant.com web site and download the Driverloader application. > > Once installed (and following the instructions) I could use the WinXP > drivers that shipped with the card to get it recognised in SuSE. > Yes, I also found this solution last week and installed it. Initially it worked fine indeed (and I was a happy man) but later I experienced random system freezes, and had to cut power to restart again. Sometimes I could work for 5 hours without any problems, but at other times the system froze 3 time in an hour. There was no pattern in the freeze moments that I could detect. After deinstalling the Driverloader the freeze problem was gone ! Therefore I am back at deparately trying to get a solution for the "device soft reset timed out" problem as mentioned above. I'm still begging for help. :-( -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

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Files in Desktop only appear after kde restart
by suse＠listas.deis.isec.pt 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hello everyone, Every time I save a file in my desktop, the file doesn't appear immediately. I have to make a restart to KDE and then the file appears. Has anyone got the same problem? Does anyone know how to solve it? Thanks in advance, Maia

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Kmix problem ..
by James Hatridge 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi all... I just installed 9.2, the little horn Kmix icon has an X on it. When I put the mouse on it I'm told "Mixer cannot be found". Any ideas about this? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection

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File types in Gnome 2.8
by Mark Crean 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

I wonder if anyone can help me. I'm running usr-local-bin Gnome 2.8 on SuSE 9.1. I'm looking for what there at least used to be in earlier versions of the Gnome 2 Control Centre, name Preferences, Advanced, File Types and Programs, but this option doesn't seem to exist on my set up. Have things changed in 2.8 or perhaps I am missing a program or need to reinstall something? And if I do need to reinstall, then what's the rpm that contains this stuff? Or if things have changed, in which case how do I tell Gnome to use program A to open file type B, etc.? Just installed SuSE 9.2 on my other PC and am loving it. I installed over Debian Sarge which now seems a bit crude by comparson. There are a score of nice touches around the SuSe 9.2 desktop that a plain vanilla distro can't match. I do hope Gnome 2.8 turns up for 9.2 that pretty soon. TIA :) Fish

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Monitor problem after system left overnight.
by Robert A. Rawlinson 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

I have an older pc with an old slot II Celeron processer. It all seems ok. During the day when it goes into screen saver a small mouse movement brings it right back OK. But when it is left over night and I give it a mouse movement it comes back after a few min. with the screen seeming to vibrate and the mouse no longer will move. I can't do anything with it so I have to power down and restart it. It has an Nvidia MX-200 video card. Has anyone else run into this? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks Bob

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Re: [SLE] How to install gnucash???
by Paul Ryan 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 18:06, Paul Ryan wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 23:09, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 2:53 pm, Paul Ryan wrote: > > > Hey Guy this is no problem !! Try adding a Suse mirror to your > > > installation source. > > > > > > Control Center/Yast2 Moduals /Software/Change Source of Installation > > > /Add/FTP/and then add a mirror in your vicinity. > > > > > well, I tried, and tried, and tried, but couldn't get one to take. > > I tried adding > > ftp.ale.org > > pub/suse/i386/9.2/ > > > > and a bunch of different ways, with/withou leading/trailing slashes.. > > > > > > -- > > Paul Cartwright > > Registered Linux user # 367800 If I read your original posting correctly your using Suse 9.1 personal try the same ftp with pub/suse/i386/9.1 I've got "ftp://ftp.rz.uni-ulm.de//pub/mirrors/suse/i386/9.1" Sometimes you get a message that some file can't be read can't remember what the message was exactly just keep trying happens sometime if the server is busy.

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Re: Help On SupraMax 56i Voice Modem
by James Knott 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Please do *NOT* ask for notification, when someone reads your messages to a mail list. Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

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VPN client under 9.2
by Sharpe, Richard 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi I am trying and failing to find out how to get a VPN client running SuSE 9.2 to access my corporate Windows VPN server, can anyone point me in the right direction or have a howto doc ? I would appreciate this quite a bit Thanks Rich Richard A Sharpe (DBA) Sqlserver/DB2 Amherst Technologies 40 Continental Blvd Merrimack, NH 03054 PHONE .......(603) 579-6180 / (800) 431-8031 Cell phone ..(603) 320-7785 FAX .(603) 578-1072 EMAIL rsharpe(a)amherst1.com "Tenemos que tener fe" ("We must have faith")

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Download Crashes Mozilla 1.7.2 unSer Suse 9.2
by doc 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Tried to download the Linux zip file using Mozilla 1.7.2 under Suse 9.2 on this site: http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php and it keeps crashing Mozilla. Anyone see anyhting that might cause this? -- Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e West Central Florida 100% Linux. Suse 9.2 Drake, Icom, Hallicrafters, Heathkit, TenTec, Yaesu Radio Life: http://www.gospelcom.net/twr/ Linux-Incompatible hardware is defective! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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OOo and MySQL under 9.1 doesn't work.
by steve-ss 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

After an upgrade from SuSE 9.1 to 9.2 I can no longer connect to my MySQL database tables. I'm using JDBC connector/J3 and MySQL as the data type. I can setup a new data source but on clicking the 'tables' I get nothing. My I can see the tables no problem at the mysql command line. Has anything changed (apart from the cryptic new directory where OOo live under I'm using this connector from the MySQL site: mysql-connector-java-3.0.8-stable-bin.jar Anyone else? Any ideas? Thanks, Steve.

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[Fwd: Your Amazon.com Inquiry] shipping SuSE 9.2 out of the USA
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Just FYI for those of us living outside the USA still wanting to get hold of 9.2. Use the Amazon sites outside of the US ie GB. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Your Amazon.com Inquiry Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:42:53 GMT From: Amazon.com Customer Service <cust.service03(a)amazon.com> To: hylton(a)global.co.za Thank you for writing to Amazon.com. Please accept my sincerest apologies for the inconvenience caused in this regard. I'm sorry, but we are not able to ship software items to your location. At this time, we can ship only books, music, videos, and DVDs to destinations outside the U.S. Our complete shipping policies, including rates and restrictions, may be found on our Help pages: http://www.amazon.com/help/shipping/ Also, note that some items, such as Apparel & Accessories, are sold and shipped by registered third-party merchants. Each merchant sets their own shipping policy. For more information, visit this page: http://www.amazon.com/o/tg/browse/-/537794/ There are various restrictions on manufacturers' warranties and the import and export of some items throughout the world that do not apply to books, CDs, and videos. For that reason, Amazon.com can't ship many of the products we sell outside the U.S. The business of our international customers is very important to us, and we are working hard to improve the service and selection we provide to you. Please note that some of these restricted products, such as software and video games, are available to selected destinations from our international partner sites: http://www.amazon.co.uk http://www.amazon.fr http://www.amazon.de http://www.amazon.ca If you need help translating your inquiries into a particular language, you'll find translation sites are available on the Internet. Thank you for shopping at Amazon.com. [snip] Best regards, Sandeep Chaurasia Amazon.com Customer Service http://www.amazon.com ============================== Check your order and more: http://www.amazon.com/your-account >Date: Sun Nov 14 10:09:01 GMT 2004 >Subject: Other Services >From: hylton(a)global.co.za >--------------- 11/14/04 02:06:46 NAME: Hylton Conacher COMMENTS: Please advise if the SuSE Linux Professional 9.2 can be shipped to South Africa and not be against US export laws ie 128 bit encryption. --------------- -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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Gnome and switchuser
by Blue Fox 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

How do I use the tool switch user(to switch X sessions without logging out) while I'm in GNOME? Thanks

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SuSE 9.2 Initial Review - Big Kudos and Few Nits
by L. Mark Stone 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

I've been running SuSE 9.2 Pro for a few days, so I thought it might be helpful to report what I have found. First, a BIG THANK YOU to SuSE for fixing the dpt_i2o kernel module! We have a bunch of client sites running servers with SCSI controllers depending upon this module. Those boxes can now be upgraded freely when appropriate. Second, the fit and finish is excellent. KDE and the whole system seems noticeably snappier (Athlon 1.2MHz w/ 1GB RAM.) than 8.2 and 9.1. Third, kpilot found, set up and sync'd with my Palm Zire 31 without any hand fiddling of the visor module. No module recompile, modprobing nor symlink setup was needed. It just worked! Kudos! But there are a few nits (which I will report on the web site later today...) we found. 1. apcupsd was apparently compiled without usb support, so the daemon won't talk to our APC Back UPS 350s anymore. Worked fine in 8.2... 2. nvu, at version 0.41 was missing the CSS editor. From the nvu web site it looks like the CSS editor was part of that version. At Pat Shanahan's suggestion, we uninstalled the SuSE nvu rpm and installed the binary 0.50 version from the nvu web site. The CSS editor now appears in the program menus. 3. The KDE "Save Session" functionality seems to have some new defects when logging in to a fresh KDE session. First, (video card is a Matrox G450 dual head in traditional, 2-screen mode), the system launches gkrellm on screen one, even though we only run it on screen two. Second, the system won't launch vmware, even though it is running (with no running vm's) when we hit the "Save Session" button. This worked fine in 8.2 as well. We even updated KDE from the bundled 3.1 version to the (unsupported) 3.1.1 version to no avail, even using the rpms released as of yesterday. 4. The clamav packages generate errors (we also installed amavis) when updating virus definitions. Freshclam complains that it can't notify clamd on port 3310. Ann Hopkins suggested a fix that worked in the past for her, but it didn't work for us. We tried both the rc3 rpms bundled with 9.2, as well as the plain .80 packages from the projects tree on ftp.suse.com. SuSE has announced that new rpms are soon to be made available via YOU, so we'll see what happens then. Possibly could also be a firewall configuration issue, but we'll wait for the new clam rpms and then test again first. 5. The KDE Control Center Font Installer in Administrator mode now changes font names to all lowercase when installing third party fonts. Not a problem in and of itself, but to get OpenOffice to see Type1 fonts installed on the system (without using spadmin) automagically, OpenOffice requires that the *.afm files be copied into the same directory in which the font files were installed. We always had to do that *.afm copying manually, but now we have to rename the afm files to be all lowercase, which we never had to do before. Took us a while to figure this one out. That's about it so far! Best regards to all, Mark -- _______________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678

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How to install packets without YaST
by Alexandr R. Ogurtzoff 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi! I need to setup additional software on remote host with SuSE 8.2 installed on it. When I try to start yast I get this error: #yast2 warning: the ncurses frontend is installed but does not work You need to install yast2-ncurses to use the YaST2 text mode interface The yast2-ncurses-2.7.13-7 and ncurses-5.3-28 are instaled. I can see it in rpm -qa output. What does it meen this error? Which other tools can I use for adding software? I know about rpm and console ftp-client of course , but how to trace dependency inside rpms ? Any ideas? Who does it know how to repare yast? Thanks for your support! -- Best regards Alexandr R. Ogurtzoff { UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are }

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Nvidia video driver
by contiemilio＠virgilio.it 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi all! I tried to install the Nvidia driver for my video card on SuSE 7.1 following the "Nvidia Installer HOWTO for SuSE Linux users". make cloneconfig && make dep sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run -q the system crashes and I must reboot by the reset button (and then manually repairing the filesystem). I substituted the original 2.2.18 kernel for a 2.4.16 default one. emilio

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Ugh: Evolution Very Buggy (IMAP)
by Rhugga 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Just curious if anyone is using Evolution to talk to Exchange. It works sporadically and times our frequently with various ldap errors. Our exchange server is on the same subnet and is hardly breaking a sweat resources wise. My mailbox is relatively small (way less than 1gb total mail). Someimtes it will display all my mail folders and thereafter when I try to change folders it says scanning folders... and will eventually fail 99% of the time. Alternatively, are the any other mail programs (ldap capable) that are ready for true enterpise use? Thx, rhugga

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BitTorrent
by David Robertson 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Is anyone using BitTorrent on 9.1? I simply cannot figure out how to get it to work and the documentation is of no help whatsoever. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction. David -- "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance" -Sam Brown

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courier-imap in 9.2
by Hans du Plooy 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi all, I just installed 9.2 for the first time. All is fine, except for one small problem - when trying to start courier-authdaemon, I get: sigaar:/home/hans # /etc/init.d/courier-authdaemon start Starting Courier Authentication Daemon (plain) Error: authdaemond no longer handles its own daemonizing. Use new startup script. startproc: exit status of parent of /usr/lib/courier-imap/authlib/authdaemond.plain: 1 failed I read through the changelog (4mb odd file) and release notes, didn't find anything useful on google either. Has anybody seen this? Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

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Nvidia weirdness (SOLVED)
by John B 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hey gang, Found in the list archives for November, a letter that said to: init 3 modprobe nvidia sax2 -m 0=nvidia When done making the configurations and back at the root prompt: depmod Then what I did, was logout of root and login as user and did: startx Nvidia splash came up and I had my 3D. Then I just logged out of that session and as root rebooted and all is fine. Thanks to everyone who reads and writes to this list, we sure do help each other out a lot and this proves it. John

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Sending email via SMTP through AOL
by Dylan 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi All, I've got a friend connected with his AOL account using the penggy dialing s/ware, and successfully connected to his email to receive by imap. Unfortunately, we are hitting a wall trying to send a test mail through the account. We received an error telling up to use port 587, which we have dutifully done (trying no encryption, ssl and tls) but to no avail. The only response we can get is that the screen-name is the wrong length or format. Does anyone have any pointers or experience with this? Cheers Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet

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ClamAV Permissions Issue on 9.2
by L. Mark Stone 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Running SuSE 9.2; used YaST to update to the latest ClamAV version (.80). Freshclam returns an error: outside:/home/lmstone # freshclam ClamAV update process started at Mon Nov 15 14:25:36 2004 main.cvd is up to date (version: 27, sigs: 23982, f-level: 2, builder: tomek) Downloading daily.cvd [*] daily.cvd updated (version: 588, sigs: 2875, f-level: 3, builder: tkojm) Database updated (26857 signatures) from database.clamav.net (212.14.28.36). ERROR: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd on 127.0.0.1:3310 connect(): Connection refused I stopped and restarted clamavd manually, and it works OK. I can also telnet from a command prompt on the host machine on port 3310 OK: lmstone@outside:~> telnet 127.0.0.1 3310 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. So it's not clear to me what this error is all about, if it is benign, or how to fix it if not. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark -- _______________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678

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kdeinit running more then once
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Have not found manpages for kdeinit and my web connection is so bad that a Google for the moment is not possible. Therefor to the list, why is kdeinit running four times with different pid numbers on my 9. box? Is that normal?

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Sending a report from a setuid root program
by Alfredo Cole 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi: I have a program that must be run as root using sudo. The program needs to print a report via kprinter, SuSE 8.2 and KDE 3.3, and then choose the option to send a PDF file through kmail. The problem is that the temporary file is created in /tmp with rw permissions for owner (root) only, and can not be read by kprinter. Is there a way to make the intermediate file that the program creates, have read permissions for group and others? Thank you. -- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC www.acyc.com - www.clshonduras.com - SolCom - www.acycdomains.com

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Pysol
by Fred A. Miller 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Where is it?!! 'NOT on the CDs! Fred -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin 1759

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rpmbuild rebuild of cdrecord error
by yonaton＠tds.net 18 Nov '04

18 Nov '04

Hi gang, I just ran into something weird while trying to rebuild the src.rpm of cdrecord from Packman's site. Here's the output at the end: + gcc -O2 -g -march=i586 -mcpu=i686 -fmessage-length=0 /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/cdinfo.c -o cdinfo + cd mkisofs + ../Gmake.linux apple_driver ==> COMPILING "apple_driver" /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.4/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lscg collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [apple_driver] Error 1 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.75826 (%build) Does anyone have an idea what this 'apple_driver' thing is? Where do I get it? What is it anyway? Thanks for any info

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Re: [kde] SuSE 9.2: Where is kuickshow?
by Peter B Van Campen 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 5:10 pm, Carsten Schlipf wrote: > Thanks a lot. This package is *NOT* on the CD. What the hell is SuSE > doing? > > Peter B Van Campen wrote: > > On Saturday 13 November 2004 3:12 pm, Carsten Schlipf wrote: > >>Hi everybody, > >> > >>the default image viewer in SuSE 9.2 is gwenview, which is awfully > >>slow. I was always happy with kuickshow, b > > > > Hi, > > > > I found it in this pkg: > > > > kdegraphics3-imaging - Image-Related KDE Applications on the DVD > > > > PeterB > > ___________________________________________________ > > This message is from the kde mailing list. > > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. Hi, What package did you buy? PeterB

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Something Between Upgrade and Fresh Install?
by Randall R Schulz 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hi, UPS says my 9.2 upgrade box will arrive today. I'm wondering if there's a way to do what is basically a clean install to a currently empty partition while copying configuration information from an existing installation. The intention is to leave my existing installation untouched but to create a new installation that is like an updated form of my existing installation. Lacking such a directly supported option, can anyone suggest a way to manually effect such an installation? Some way to copy all the local configuration modifications (relative to an unmodified base installation) from a working 9.1 installation to a newly installed 9.2 installation? Any ideas are welcome. Randall Schulz

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NVU Missing CSS Editor in 9.2?
by L. Mark Stone 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Trying to use nvu on 9.2. nvu loads fine, but the menu item Tools > CSS Editor (or something similar) seems to be missing. How do I load the CSS editor? Do I need to install another package? Thanks! Mark -- _______________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678

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apache2, gallery, and permissions
by Stephen Boulet 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

I'm running the excellent gallery software (http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php) on my server. It serves up photo albums. I'm curious about a FAQ entry from their site. They recommend setting a directory in the httpd root to 777. Is this a good idea? -- Stephen If your desktop gets out of control easily, you probably have too much stuff on it that doesn't need to be there. Donna Smallin, "Unclutter Your Home"

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MySQL from CD only in MyISAM format for storage. (0002)
by George Stoianov 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has seen the Max version of MySQL on the CD set?? My set has only MySQL and I cannot save tables using BDB... Thanks. George ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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SuSE 9.2 Pro - Good news (0001)
by George Stoianov 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hi guys, I just wanted to share my good experience with SuSE 9.2 install and wireless access. So far it is has been great! Before 9.2 with 9.1 I was using XP because I needed wireless no I am writing this email with Epiphany using my favorite operating system :). I am using a Toshiba 2450 laptop with an integrated wireless card. The only thing I am having a little problem with is the large menus in KDE and Gnome I downloaded the NVidia driver and despite changing the resolution I still get 1024X768 instead of the 1280X1024 I set and is displayed Yast. Any tips are appreciated. Thanks. George ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] samba network]
by Luis-Miguel Astudillo 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Good morning Jack, Well I desactivated the FW and guess what no more networking (either for Firefox or Konqueror) and I had to reboot the workstation. Once rebooted, my workgroups and domains were visible once more without changing anything to the previous config on the Samba client.. But will investigate further down because now I don't have a firewalled laptop. Even transfered 13.6Gb from my SME Samba server without an hitch but here is what I see : 1. The window title says 0% of 16,777,216.0 TB (Copying) 2. 11.7GB of 16,777,216.0 TB complete 3. 0% percent progress bar 4. 6.0 MB/s (23:59:59 remaining). 5. 323/406 folders 67../9177 files Once finished - 13.6Gb transfered, 9177 files and 406 sub-folders. It seems that the transfert is well under way cause I check via iptraf on my SME server but the KDE Window doesn't seem to display nothing right. If any comments please reply. Regards, Luis-Miguel Astudillo Jack Malone wrote: > At 01:26 AM 11/17/2004, Dorin Titiriga wrote: > >> sama problem here from a long time, but no people seems to known how to >> solve this.... unforunately..... I was expected that in suse 9.2 this >> problem to be solved, because it was prezent in 9.0 and 9.1 ..... this >> demonstrate how much care have Novell/Suse for customers... Strange >> too, in Novel Desktop linux this problem is not prezent... >> On Mi, 2004-11-17 at 06:48, Luis-Miguel Astudillo wrote: >> > > > > My suse 9.1 an 9.2 boxes both see the samba network just fine so its > not the os's thought must be config problem, check to make sure you > have the same workgroup name set on all machines. an check the > firewall in 9.2, go an disable it an see if that helps. > > jack > > -- Luis-Miguel Astudillo Architecte TI - Intel/Bladeservers/Windows-Linux-AIX/Stockage Services Conseils AIGS Inc. 523, croissant Brown Deux-Montagnes. QC J7R 6Y2 Canada Téléphone: (450) 491-2347 Télécopieur: (450) 491-2733 Céllulaire : (514) 213-6270

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Broadcom NIC cards (bcm57xx) = DEVIL
by Ryan McCain 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Broadcom NIC cards are the devil. If you have an option to use another NIC, do so. I've spent well over 2 weeks working w/ Dell and Novell attempting to get the Broadcam cards to maintain their network connectivity, with no luck. rn

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Nvidia trouble...so weird
by John B 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Heya gang, I don't know why or how, but when I first installed 9.2 on a spare hdd that shared windows with it, the Nvidia driver installed and worked just fine (though it took twice to get it to take). Now, I've installed 9.2 on my main hdd, and the driver won't install for anything. I keep getting the 'screens found but nothing that can be used' message. I've tried using YOU to install it, but nothing happens or works. I've rmmod'd the Nvidia driver, but it keeps sayin' it's not there to remove. This really sucks and is just too weird. How can it work fine one time and not on a second hdd? Anyway, I'll try to look up in the archives for any answers, unless someone knows something else to try. By the way...what would be the command for removing the Nvidia driver? It's the one I downloaded from Nvidia's website, the 6629 or something like that. Thanks for any help, John

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RE: [SLE] Broadcom NIC cards (bcm57xx) = DEVIL
by Khanh Tran 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

I've got both 10/100 and 10/100/1000 dual port Broadcom NICs working for hours on end in all of my servers under SuSE 9.0... Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Richard [mailto:ratcheson@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 1:21 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Broadcom NIC cards (bcm57xx) = DEVIL On Wednesday 17 November 2004 10:54 am, Ryan McCain wrote: > Broadcom NIC cards are the devil. If you have an option to use > another NIC, do so. I've spent well over 2 weeks working w/ Dell and > Novell attempting to get the Broadcam cards to maintain their network > connectivity, with no luck. Ryan, which cards are you using? What kind of problem are you having? I have a Dell laptop with thier wireless card installed - My hardware info lists it as the BCM94306- and it runs beautifully using both the ndiswrapper and linuxant wrappers. Although I have yet to get the damn thing to work right with XP. Linux was a no brainer. ra -- Old age ain't for Sissies! -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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9.2 network / firewall problem
by FX Fraipont 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

I am experiencing problems with wy home network after 9.2 install. My setup is: a 9.2 server (connected to the internet via an ethernet card and adsl modem), three XP clients, and one 9.0 client. pinging clients from server yields a result > 1000 ms pinging server from client the same accessing the internet from the clients is extremely slow (fairly logical). I suppose my SuSEfirewall2 setup must be at stake I used to have a setting like this: FW_DEV_EXT="eth0" FW_DEV_INT="eth1" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="yes" FW_MASQ_NETS="192.168.10.0/24" Upon install, 9.2 installed these settings: FW_DEV_EXT="dsl0" FW_DEV_INT="eth-id-00:a0:24:29:24:d3 eth-id-00:04:61:58:24:62 " FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="yes" FW_MASQ_NETS="192.168.10.0/24" surely it does not make sense to include both network cards in FW_dev_int, since one points to the interneal network (eth1 192.168.0.99) and the other to the internet via the dsl modem(eth0 168.192.2.21). When I restart the firewall, I get this error message: WARNING: Error inserting ipfwadm (/lib/modules/2.6.8-24.3-default/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipfwadm.ko): Device or resource busy can anyone help? Thanks. FX

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9.1 kdm kills keyboard
by Felix Miata 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

This "just" started happening. I don't recall anything I did on the last boot several days ago before turning it off. So, I don't have any clue where to start looking. If I boot to runlevel 3, everything works, but only until I do 'init 5' or telinit 5'. Then the keyboard just dies. If I boot directly to runlevel 5, nothing but the reset & power buttons work. To run X, I must login and then do startx. This I do not like. How can I fix this? -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

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samba network
by Dorin Titiriga 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hi.... I just finis to instal suse 9.2 on 2 computers ans I am unnable to brows my samba network In kde desktop, Netwoork browser - samba - I receive a error "Unable to find any workgroup in your netowrk" This error apear on both computers If I write on konqueror smb:// and the IP adress for a computer I can see the shares, But If I use smb:// computer name - I get the same error as above Also, I am unnable to see suse 9.2 computers from windows computers. The only way to acces suse 9.2 computers from windows computers is to make a search for suse 9.2 ip adress computers. Samba is in theory correct configured with Yast 2. All the computers from network have static IP adresses, and all the computer have te same network group name (RETEA) - even the suse 9.2 computers So, if it is a person out there with a solution for this, please help, because I intend to migrate the server to suse 9.2, and, in this situation, the fact that I have buyt suse 9.2 was a lost of money. PS. Also, In console mode, if i try smbmount //computername/sharefolder /mnt, I have the same error,,,,

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SLES8 on 2850
by Gary Pearson 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Anyone have success getting SLES8 installed on a Dell 2850 with a perc 4e/Di raid controller? TIA Gary Pearson System Administrator Trimble Navigation 5475 Kellenburger Rd. Dayton, OH 45424 937-245-5390

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acpi fan module
by Khanh Tran 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

I'm trying to get the fan speed to throttle on and off when necessary. I'm running SuSE 9.0 on an Asus Pundit. I've also noticed that the fan on my IBM Thinkpad also is constantly on. Can anyone help me figure out why it won't throttle off? I've got the fan module loaded, but /proc/acpi/fan has nothing in it. Thanks... Khanh Tran

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9.2 and NFS issue
by Tim Nicholson 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Having upgraded one system from 9->9.2 (clean install). I have discovered a problem connecting to an NFS share on a 9.0 system. For security reasons, the share is set with the hosts wildcard set to the specific IP of the other system. When both systems were 9.0 this worked fine. Now however the connection is refused by the server unless I revert to a * wildcard. (I have tried 192.168.1.* etc etc) Obviously 9.2 is now telling the server something different to before, does anybody know what is going on here? -- Tim http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.

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Nvidia Interview
by Sid Boyce 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Apologies to the OT Police, but this provides a good perspective on a very frequently discussed topic in this forum. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/t253027.html Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====

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Dell laptop for $600.... likely to run SuSE 9.X??
by Gil Weber 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Dell is having a sale -- ends tomorrow, Wednesday. They're offering a laptop for just $600. Is there any way to predict that this unit is likely or unlikley to work with SuSE 9.1 or, hopefully, 9.2? Here's the URL with the details. http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&oc=i1000… Thanks! Gil

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Acroread printing errors
by Christopher Carlen 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Hi: Suse 9.1 When I print from Acroread, I get these errors: kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no filter found for text/plain This error appears in a dialog titled "Acrobat Reader" and has the Motif look, not KDE, so it appears to be generated by the reader, not kprinter. It doesn't happen if I print to a .ps file, and it happens with a multitude of drivers chosen for the HP5000 printer. My print command in acroread is just "kprinter" Thanks. -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle(a)sandia.gov

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Memory stick
by Chadley Wilson 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Greetings, I have a memory stick here which is bootable, How does one make an image of the memory stick and save as an iso, With a cd I would normally use dd if=/dev/cdrom of=filename, The problem is I don't know how to find out what device my memory stick is using. This is what I have tried cat /proc/devices lsusb lsdev I have looked in dev under /dev/usb/ but don't see anything that resembles the memory stick. Could some one please help here! TIA -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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XFree86 to Xorg
by Steven Pasternak 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

I use SuSE 9.1 with the default XFree86 that comes with the distro (4.4.0-rc1 I THINK). I want to change to xorg 6.8.1. Is it safe? will sax2 generate a config file that will work? What packages are needed? Should I uninstall xf86 first or install it while X is running? Thanks!

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9.2 Erroneous Thermal Event causes shutdown
by Andrew Betts 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

I've just added modules to get thermal readings from my motherboard (i2c_piix4 and w83781d) and I'm getting erroneous shutdown events: Nov 16 20:05:50 desktop kernel: Critical temperature reached (327 C), shutting down. Nov 16 20:05:50 desktop [powersave][5300]: Info: ACPI Event happened: thermal_zone THRM 000000f0 00000001 ignore Button because of resume: no Nov 16 20:05:50 desktop [powersave][5300]: Info: Thermal event happend. Nov 16 20:05:50 desktop [powersave][5300]: WARNING in Function updateTemperatureState; line 1280: Error during temperature evaluation, has the thermal module been unloaded? Then please restart the daemon. Nov 16 20:05:50 desktop init: Switching to runlevel: 0 I'd like to keep this nice shutdown at critical temperature feature. But is there any way to make the system ignore these obviously erroneous readings (327C!!). [BTW the thermal module is loaded] Many thanks -- Andrew Betts Jasp Computer Services Ltd

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FTP
by Aaron Bridge 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Can anyone tell me when the 9.2 download will be available via FTP?

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Postfix not working on suse9.1
by TT 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Folks, My apologies if this isnt the right forum but I was hoping someone could help me with postfix. I am using suse pro 9.1. It appears that all my mail I try to send out gets stuck in the que. I tried to flush it but it doesn't appear to work.I checked the mail logs and it appears that it is timing out trying to reach the recipient. However, I don't think this is the problem as I can send email to the same locations from the same network on a different box. Im not 100% sure if Postfix is configured correctly but here is my scenario. This is a test machine behind a firewall with a 192 nat address and no domain (which could be the problem). Anyone who has any insight as to why this can't send mail and everything is in que I'd sure appreciate some help. Thanks for all responses in advance. TT The information in this electronic mail message is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this Internet electronic mail message by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful.

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USB to serial cable
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Could somebody give me some help in recognizing a USB serial connection. I am using 9.1 and KDE 3.3. Case. I have a camera which still has to be connected via a serial connection. As I have problems with my second serial port (cable or irq) I thought it would be a nice idea to use a usb serial cable. Connecting my camera and switching it on did nothing which was no big surprise because hotplugged devices are not any more found in the (former) "My computer " button but at media there is nothing new either. How can I activate the new usb attached device and where should I find it hotplugged?

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I cannot belive it!!
by nick murphy 17 Nov '04

17 Nov '04

Dear All I need some help. I never thought I would have to do this. After years of successfully installing SuSE on anything and everything, laptops, desktops, servers - from 6.0 to 9.1. I am stumped by 9.2!!! I don't know what the clever people at Novel have done but the usually fool proof installation is broken. I get the looking for some installation files hang on normal installation, with or without acpi. So I went for manual install. It then crashes on hard drive driver load - a red box comes up and it starts again. There seems to be no way out of this blind circle of recurring nightmares. Has anyone got any ideas - short of giving up on 9.2 and waiting for 10. Nick

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SuSE9.2 64-Bit installation problems
by Alex Daniloff 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hello SuSE folkz, We have a big problem - unable to install SuSE 9.2 on our new dual AMD-64bit Opteron machine with Adaptec 2120S RAID-5 controller. I tend to suspect that it's because 64-bit version of SuSE 9.2 has been provided on a single side dual layer DVD alongside with 32-bit version. Test install of the previous distro of SuSE 9.1 64-bit version went just fine (it had two side DVD with 32-bit on one and 64-bit on another side). Here are the problems: 1. In normal and save installation modes SuSE 9.2 installer hangs indefinitely on 'searching for info file'. End of story. 2. In manual installation mode SuSE 9.2 installer loads proper drivers (e.g aacraid for Adaptec 2120S RAID) but it exits its graphical mode with a report 'No hard drives found'. Test install of 32-bit version of SuSE 9.2 from the CDs went just fine but what is the advantage of using 32-bit OS on 64-bit platform!? Could somebody please give me a practical advise how to overcome this issue. SuSE staff, please make your comments on this problem. Regards, Alex

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Packman and Yast
by michael norman 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Recently somebody gave a link describing how to add Packman as a source to yast which I though i'd kept. Have now lost it and can't find it again, my googling skills not being that good, could someone repeat it for me please. Thanks Mike

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Very very slow external ftp
by Francisco Pastor 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi all I have recently upgraded to Suse 9.0 and now ftp is not working fine. When I connect to any ftp server in our internal network everything goes fine. But if I try to connect to an external ftp server the connection is so slow that I exceed the server response time and the connection is rejected. Everything was working fine with Suse8.2. Maybe I've lost some config file when upgrading? Thanks in advance, Paco -- ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Francisco Pastor Meteorology department Fundación CEAM paco(a)ceam.es http://www.gva.es/ceamet http://www.gva.es/ceam Paterna, Valencia, Spain ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Usuario Linux registrado: 363952

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SuSE9.1, Macrom. Flash 6 oy 7 - arrow keys do not work
by Ivan Nazarenko 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I am using the latest fglrx driver, and everything else is pretty standard. Yet, if I try this site, for instance: http://adverts.freeloader.com/zurich/ I can turn on the engine with 'z', but the arrow keys do not work. Other flash programs that rely on arrow keys don't work also, so I know this is not an issue with this particular site. I tried konqueror wirh flash 6 default of SuSE9.1, and tried also firefox with latest flash 7.0.25. The problems continues. Does someone have a solution? Regards.

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PrismGT wireless problem with SuSE 9.1
by Jan Elders 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

This is my 3rd posting of this problem. The previous two got no reaction at all. Can nobody help me ?????? This is the problem : I'm trying to use the SMC2835W 802.11g (54Mbps) wireless PCMCIA card with SuSE 9.1, without success. I cannot even give any command to the card; it remains totally dead. (It works under Windows, so the hardware is OK). This card has a PrismGT chip, and I am running the prism54 driver version 1.1 in my SuSe 9.1 According to instructions, I downloaded the firmware 1.0.4.3 and installed it in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware with the name isl3890 (as instructed). But, when I insert the card in its slot, then I get : eth1: prism54 driver detected card model: PRISM Duette/GT eth1: islpci_open() eth1: resetting device... eth1: uploading firmware... eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset... eth1: device soft reset timed out eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full eth1: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full Nothing happens, the led's on the card remain dark and I cannot get to it with any command at all. Apparently the "device soft reset timed out" is the problem, but what can I do about it ??? I've already done a lot of googling and saw the same problem mentioned several times, but nowhere a solution. :-( Can anybody please help me with what might be going on here and how to resolve this ? I'm struggling already for over two weeks with this problem. Thank in advance, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

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250+GB drives reliability
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

** "from the bottom of my heart, off the coast of Carolina, after one or two false starts ** I'm kinda getting the feeling you guys aren't really too chuffed about the way these drives last. I wonder if that is why they are so , um... inexpensive at lest when compared to the price of the largest available scsi drives. SO I wonder about getting a USB or Firewire one for backups perhaps or to carry a clone from box to box... ( ot maybe to plug into a business room's computer in order to keep my files from getting spilled out onto an Xp drive. ( I'm half convinced that is how my email password at Bellsouth was picked up. Not completely but it almost makes more sense that some curious person would bother to download my email off the server. It would have been smarter , were they looking for CC numbers or the like to leave it there so I didn't find out someone was reading my email. Can you say encryption??? Well no, apparently, most windows clients should do it but to get someone to encrypt or accept encrypted email is like pulling teath. Still, is the general consensus that these huge drives aren't really reliable for longer than say 1.6 years? and by two full years of service one could expect a failure? -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? '

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Undoing personal desktop settings with 9.2 install?
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I have a 9.0 system where I have edited the K menu. Which file in /home/ do I need to delete to restore the menu as it was before I edited it. I do not want to change my background and screensaver settings, just the K 'menu' settings I thought I'd like, but consequently don't. along the same lines 9.2 has far many more applications in it and hence a more complicated K 'menu'. Would installing 9.2 and then replacing the /home with a backed up copy also change the K 'menu' structure, or do I just need to delete the same file I did in 9.0? -- The Kedited Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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xdm + pam_mount = crash
by Andreas Burkhardt 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

High, i habe here onto 2 laptop crashes with kdm. 1. installed is xdm and pam_mount 2. in /etc/pam.d/xdm where 2 lines addedt: auth required pam_mount.so use_first_pass debug session required pam_mount.so debug 3. reboot, graphical login, login, kde are working fine. 4. but after the logout (only session) dosen't restart the login screen, but the console screen. One messge in /var/log/messages for this is: Nov 16 13:01:02 efi kdm[1020]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from manager process In /etc/init.d/xdm i habe added after the $DISPLAYMANAGER a -debug 15. So we can read in /var/log/messages a little bit more: Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: ping X server Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: X server alive Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: source reset program /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: source /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14744]: execute: /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset ; USER=andy LOGNAME=andy DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-dd I5Wn PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin SHELL=/bin/sh HOME=/home/andy Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: pam_unix2: session finished for user andy, service xdm Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: pam_mount: received order to close things Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: pam_mount: real and effective user ID are 0 and 0. Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: pam_mount: volcount is zero Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm: :0[14494]: pam_mount: pam_mount execution complete Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: caught signal 17 Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: select returns 1 Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: receiving command from sub-daemon for display :0 ... Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: -> no data Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: getter closed Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: select returns 1 Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: manager wait returns pid 14494 sig 11 core 0 code 0 Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: ScanServers Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: ScanAccessDatabase Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from manager process Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: ExitDisplay :0, endState = 4, serverCmd = 0, GoodExit = 0 Nov 16 13:33:12 efi kdm[14486]: stopping display :0 to state 4 Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: zombiefied Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: getter closed Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: caught signal 17 Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: select returns -1 Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: getter closed Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: select returns 1 Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: manager wait returns pid 14493 sig 0 core 0 code 0 Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: ScanServers Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: ScanAccessDatabase Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: zombie X server for display :0 reaped Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: stopping display :0 to state 4 Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: Removing display :0 Nov 16 13:33:13 efi kdm[14486]: getter closed 1. Can somebody reproduce this error? 2. How can i turn off this error? I think about an programming error in pam_mount.so, but i dosen't know, how to debugging something like this. An ulimit -c 200000 seems not working at an *.so.

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Duplicate of DVD-1
by Bruce Marshall 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

A week or so ago there was a long discussion on how to make a duplicate of the 'dreaded double-layered DVD'. I made one. It appeared to be ok and it booted just fine but now in trying to do an install with it, it says that it can't read the package material so it can't suggest what to install. And in fact, there is nothing to install because it appears that there are no packages. The ARCHIVES.gz is there as well as all of the other files. The only thing I can think might be wrong is that the DVD wasn't given a label in the process and therefore the install may not think it has the right DVD. Has anyone tried to install using a duplicated dvd? Thanks

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usb wifi and usb bluetooth
by Josephine 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hello list. got a quick question: are there any happy or horror stories with one of the following devices: - yakumo WLAN QuickWLAN USB (or possibly other yakumo wifi usb) - Netgear MA111GR Wireless USB Adapter (or possibly other netgear wifi usb) - D-Link DWL-122 Air 11Mbit WLAN USB Adapter - any yakumo usb bluetooth dongle - MSI BToes Funk-LAN Adapter USB Bluetooth 2.4GHz Dongle Class I I would apreciate any info, link, etc. Thank you. Josephine

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Login Splash Screen
by Donald D Henson 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

(SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional) I have a (piddly) problem. I installed an upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 on my fileserver and main workstation. The login splash screen still shows Version 9.1. I just installed a fresh install of 9.2 on my laptop. The laptop's login splash screen shows Version 9.2. How do you go about changing the login splash screen? (This is not something you do every day.) Any pointers will be appreciated. -- Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules

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MP3 Support, Once Again
by Rhugga 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Okay, just spent 2 hours browsing for any rpm's that would install under SuSE 9.2. I tried this rpm: xmms-mp3-1.2.10-1.1.fr.i386.rpm It almost matches the version shipped with 9.2: xmms-1.2.10-56 What rpm are people using to enable mp3 playback? Is it better to remove the stock xmms and just install the latest packages of everything? (which is what I always ende dup doing in the past) Thx, rhugga

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OT - Need to find a repair shop
by Jim Sabatke 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

My dog flipped my HP zd7000 off my desk and wrecked the LCD screen. Has anyone on this list had experience with anyone they can recommend for repairs? Cost is important too. Thanks, Jim

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Re: [users] Help with formula in Calc
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 05:20, David O'Brien wrote: > >>Hi group >> >>I need to count the occurrences of pairs of data in a spreadsheet. e.g. >> >>Col A Col B >>Red Yes >>Red No >>Green No >>Green No >>Blue Yes >>Blue No >> >>I need to count the number of rows where both Red and Yes occur, both Green >>and Yes occur and both Blue and Yes occur. These are individual counts that >>will appear in different cells on another sheet. In this case, the solution >>is: >>Red 1 >>Green 0 >>Blue 1 > > I think > http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgId=795557 > offers a way to do what you want. Check it out and also > http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=75848 Couldn't the COUNTIF function be used here? Not sure though how to get the function to only count either 'yes' or 'no'. -- The COUNTIF Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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9.2, Translucency in X, Composite Extension, xcompmgr locks up X
by Andrew Betts 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I'm trying to get translucency working in X. As soon as I start xcompmgr everything disappears and tries desperately to redraw itself... but fails. Eventually X locks up. xcompmgr is giving a stream of errors such as: error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11312 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11322 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11329 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11339 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11349 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11359 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11369 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11379 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11389 error 9 request 152 minor 4 serial 11399 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11423 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11495 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11572 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11639 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11706 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11773 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11840 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11907 error 166 request 152 minor 8 serial 11974 etc I'm using a matrox G450 dual head. -- Andrew Betts Jasp Computer Services Ltd

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fsck.reiserfs run manually
by bruce＠scharlau.co.uk 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi all, discovered a bad hard disk, and now the system won't boot fully. Instead I get message : fsck.reiserf /dev/hdb3 failed (status 0x8) run manually! for each of the hard drive partitions (/dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2 and /dev/hdb3) and a message at the end saying fsck failed. Repair manually and reboot. The root filesystem is currently mounted read-only. ... Anyways, I try mounting the partitions, but get /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device. I saw something about vgcfgrestore, which suggested that there should be some files about partitions under /etc/lvmconf, but don't see that directory in my Suse 9.0 system. Any suggestions? Bruce

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yast hosed in 9.1 - help
by Francesco Scaglioni 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Hi, I was installing an rpm that said it required popt - not having a suse disc with me I d'l a popt rpm and installed it with rpm. Since then yast will not run. Text mode errors out with the fact that the ncurses is installed but not working properly and that I need to install yas2-ncurses. Graphical mode wont run at all. Problem is that without yast I do not seem to be able to correct the problem. Any suggestions much appreciated. TIA F

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Install question?
by Brad Bendily 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Suse 9.1 or, so far, 8.x-9.x. I haven't tried 9.2 yet. Why does the installation program of Suse not detect network cards and automatically load them? I can understand maybe if i'm booting off a floppy, but I've been using the boot.iso for a while now. I usually do FTP installs, but I have to load the network card manually. Why is that? Why can't the installer detect the network card and load the drivers? -- Brad Bendily - CNA/CLE Systems Administrator

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Installing OpenOffice & nfs
by Taavi Dovnar 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I wanted to move from OO 1.1 to OO 1.3. First I did a "-net" install in a machine. Then I managed to do workstation installation under one user. But for other users I can't do it. Error message - "OO can't be installed in the directory you chose, because that file system does not support symbolic links" All users home directories are from servers with NFS. What could be the solution? I don't want to create separete directories for OO for all users in local machines :)

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OpenOffice upgrade
by steve-ss 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I upgraded 9.1 to 9.2 today. My OOo desktop icon no longer works, the OOo mysql driver has been deleted and none of my data sources are there. I have a backup of my /home directory from when OOo was under /opt. Now I have a dot folder with what looks like the same folders. I found /usr/lib/ooo.1.1 too and got my icon back from the dot file. I copied my backup to the /home/.ooo.1.1 but now OOo freezes the system beyond ctrl-alt-del and I can't get a console either. /var/log/messages gives no clues. Can I get back to where I was before? Cheers, Steve.

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apt components and Suse 9.1
by Susemail 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Any suggestions on apt components to use with 9.1? Google was little help. Thanks, Jerome

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gdm session configuration
by David Robertson 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

How do I add another session to the gdm login screen? I'm playing around with different desktops - rox, xfce4 - and would like to able to login from gdm. Most of the info I have found points to editing /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions, but all that I have in there is xfce4, which appeared after I installed it. I already have kde, gnome (ulb 2.8) and windowmaker installed. Is this another case of SuSE putting things in non-standard places or has the configuration changed with gnome 2.8? Thanks for any help. David -- "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance" -Sam Brown

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9.2 and SATA
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Does 9.2 support SATA drives. I have a machine destined to be a fileserver with a monster 250Gb SATA drive which I'm just itching to load with SuSE either 9.0 or 9.2.. To my knowledge 9.0 does not support SATA, does 9.2? -- The SATA Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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wireless config :: nickname problem
by Laurent Renard 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Here's my "network restart" stdout : > Shutting down network interfaces: > eth0 device: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) > Ethernet Controller (rev 42) > eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:00:e2:72:dd:35 > dÃ©truit `/var/run/sysconfig/route-stack-000006-eth0-eth1' > dÃ©truit `/var/run/sysconfig/route-stack-000007-eth0-eth1' > [1A..done eth1 device: 3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless LAN PC Card > [1A..doneShutting down service network . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . ...done > Hint: you may set mandatory devices in /etc/sysconfig/network/config > Setting up network interfaces: > lo > lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 > [1A..done eth0 device: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE > (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42) > eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:00:e2:72:dd:35 > eth0 IP address: 192.168.2.13/24 > [1A..done eth1 device: 3Com 3CRSHPW_96 Wireless LAN PC Card > eth1 warning: using NO encryption > ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 nick ibm2' returned > Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) : > SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. > eth1 IP address: 192.168.2.18/24 > [1A..doneSetting up service network . . . . . . . . . . . > . . . . ...done The error : > ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 nick ibm2' returned > Error for wireless request "Set Nickname" (8B1C) : so i cannot connect my wireless card to my network. I got 2 network cards and 2 sames hosts in /etc/hosts Thanks for your help guys ;) -- Laurent Renard Epicuri@ Websolutions www.epicuria.be <http://epicuria.be> 114, Rue Vandervelde 7033 MONS ( BELGIUM ) TEL/FAX : +32 65 31 77 81 SKYPE : leolargo2004 ------------------------------------------------ Scanned with Clamav Antivirus on Procmail Server This e-mail and any attachment thereto is confidential and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contenaid herein is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation Ce message electronique, y compris tout document joint, est confidentiel. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire de ce message, toute divulgation, copie ou utilisation en est interdite. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le detruire et en informer immediatement l'expediteur. Merci de votre collaboration

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NFS mount & OS/2
by Felix Miata 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I have connected to my OS/2 box two SuSE boxen, v8.2 that I've been using for quite some time, and v9.1 that I'm trying to configure. On the 8.2 box, 'mount -gid0 -uid0 X: 192.168.1.52:/tmp' from OS/2 creates the mount successfully, as umount X: successfully unmounts X:. However, on the 9.1 box, 'mount -gid0 -uid0 X: 192.168.1.90:/tmp' on OS/2 creates an error message: NFSU1003: Drive X: could not be attached to the file system. NFSU1028: Error creating NLM client. 'showexp 192.168.1.90' on OS/2 returns: Export list for 192.168.1.90: /tmp 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 NAICT, both the 8.2 box and 9.1 box have properly configured nfs, hosts, hosts.allow & hosts.deny, because the 8.2 & 9.1 boxen have no problem mounting & unmounting each other's exports. hosts.deny on both have only one uncommented line "portmap:ALL". 9.1 has a commented line that 8.2 doesn't "#http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL", which I don't see explained in 'man hosts_access'. "rpcinfo -p 192.168.1.90" returns: On OS/2: "rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: RPC_SYSTEM_ERROR - RPC_SYSTEMERROR" On 8.2 & 9.1 both: program vers proto port 100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper 100000 2 udp 111 portmapper 100005 1 udp 1018 mountd 100005 2 udp 1018 mountd 100005 1 tcp 1021 mountd 100005 2 tcp 1021 mountd 100003 2 udp 2049 nfs 100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs >From another forum someone suggested the following would provide clues about the above error: suse8.2# chkconfig nfslock nfslock on suse8.2# rpm -q --whatprovides nfslock no package provides nfslock suse9.1# chkconfig nfslock nfslock: unknown service Anyone know how I can fix this? -- "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/

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Re: [SLE] Problems with SuSEfirewall
by Eric Wagar 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

> > > > What is thr output from "insserv -vr SuSEfirewall2_final"? > > > > > > newone:/etc/init.d # /sbin/insserv -vr SuSEfirewall2_final > > > Segmentation fault > > > > So it's crashing. If you run > > > > strace -o insserv.strace insserv -vr SuSEfirewall2_final > > > > and mail me the file insserv.strace I might be able to see what's > > tripping it up My first attempt at sending the message failed. So, I put it on my webserver: http://209.25.194.148/suse/insserv.strace

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2.6.9 burning problem
by Steven Pasternak 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I use 9.1 and kernel 2.6.9 with the 'bootsplash' patch ONLY. When I burn CDs as root they work, but not as someone else. I used k3bsetup2 and changed all of the permissions to 4710. As a normal user I get this debugging output (I hope this isn't kernel 2.6.8/2.6.8.1 all over again!): System ----------------------- K3b Version:0.11.17 KDE Version: 3.3.1 QT Version: 3.3.3 cdrecord ----------------------- /usr/bin/cdrecord: Warning: not running as root user, fs= option ignored. /usr/bin/cdrecord: Resource temporarily unavailable. No memory for SCSI structure. Cannot open SCSI driver. /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. /usr/bin/cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. Cdrecord-Clone-dvd 2.01a27 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 JÃ¶rg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://www.suse.de/feedback Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM cdrecord comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=/dev/hdc speed=52 -tao driveropts=burnfree -eject -data /home/steven/Documents/other/Archives/ISOs/Fedora (Redhat)/FC3/FC3-i386-disc1.iso since it works as root, it must be permissions. Thanks in advance!

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PHP postfix mail problem no recipient problem on SUSE 9.1
by Chris W 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I have a PHP script to send an email that I know is correct. Ever since I installed SUSE 9.1I get a no recipient error from postfix. I know others have had this problem but after an extensive search I can find no solution. As of yet no one seems to know, or is not willing to tell how to fix this config problem that SUSE screwed up when they released 9.1. I have also heard it is still a problem in 9.2 as well. So here is some incentive, I will send $25 via paypal to the first person who can tell me how to fix this. BTW using some other mail function that isn't part of the core PHP isn't a solution. If you want to see the error on your own SUSE 9.1 install just run the PHP test mail program and look at the mail logs. <?php $message = "This is a Test Message "; mail('1qazse4(a)cox.net', "test message", $message); ?> -- Chris W Not getting the gifts you want? The Wish Zone can help. http://thewishzone.com

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Problems with SuSEfirewall
by Eric Wagar 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

I am trying to stop SuSEfirewall from loading during boot time. So, when I chkconfig it off, it complains: ... newone:/etc/sysconfig # /sbin/chkconfig SuSEfirewall2_init off /sbin/insserv failed, exit code 0 newone:/etc/sysconfig # /sbin/chkconfig | grep SuSE SuSEfirewall2_final on SuSEfirewall2_init on SuSEfirewall2_setup on ... When I also try to use YAST, there is a failure to turn it off. Unfortunately, there are no errors in the messages file. Is my only way to edit the actual init script and remove the start levels? Or, am I missing some software? Thanks eric

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SUSE newbie install question
by Mike Adolf 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

Greetings: I have been using Mandrake for a couple of years but decided to switch to suse. The installation (Personal 9.1) went well and most things work. One thing I can't get going is my zip 100 drive. There is nothing in fstab about the zip and /mnt is an empty dir. Is seems suse uses /media, which has only cdrom and floppy. I expected the zip drive to appear under YAst hardware, but it doesn't. Anyone have a zip 100 up and running? Thanks, Mike

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A bug in yast2 profile manager?
by Agusti Dosaiguas 16 Nov '04

16 Nov '04

If for any reason this file exists /var/lib/scpm/#LOCK, which means that SCPM is locked, and there are no SCPM processes running, and you try to use yast2 profile manager, it shows an empty profile list and says that SCPM is disabled. If you then try to enable it the process freezes. To solve this you only need to delete the lock file and run scpm -s reload. It is an easy solution, but it would be a good idea if the yast2 module check for this situation. Or am I the only one with this problem? Agusti

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Help with Kmail
by Jerry Westrick 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Dear Listas... I don't know if this is of-topic or not. If so sorry... I bought a laptop, I now want to move over all my kmail stuff to the laptop. I've attempted to copy the "/home/jerry/Mail" directory to the laptop but kmail then fails to start. Anybody know how to do this? Jerry

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Installing 9.2 from HTTP:// location
by Steve Kratz 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Ok, I managed to get this to work once before, and now, for the life of me, I can't get it to work again... I have a WinXP machine set up with its IIS implementation. I copied everything from each of the 9.2 CDs into a "92" folder on that web server. Inside my network, it's fully accessable as http://192.168.1.100:8080/92/ (port 8080 due to my ISP scanning for port 80 and threatening to turn you off for running servers!) I can browse through the folders on the http:// site, I can download the files, so I know there's no permission problems. When I boot CD #1, I've tried typing in: install=http://192.168.1.100:8080/9.2, as well as hitting F3, choosing http, and entering the info there (I do not enter the http:// in front of the server address, and enter 92 (and have tried /92 and /92/) for the directory. (Just for fun, I also copied all the contents (8 gigs... yeesh!) of the DVD to that webserver, and I can't get it to install from there either.) Here's what happens... It loads the kernel, gets to the YAST screen, then gives the "options" screen with a message of "No packages found" for the software selections. The "92" folder I created is basically a dumping ground for each CD copied as: cp -rv * /92 This folder contains all the media.1, media.2, suse/* folders, etc. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

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Postfix problems
by Neil White 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi all, I have got postfix running on SuSE 9.1 but have some problems. It runs as a backup MX for a sendmail server running on Redhat 9. I am having a spam related problem, but I dont know where to begin... Whenever I enable postfix so that it is accepting external connections, spam levels rise. Where for example the backup MX runs on a host called mail.my.net I am getting spam in the form of subject(a)mail.my.net. What amazes me is that NOWHERE (to my knowlege) is the hostname mail.my.net listed on the net - the solve purpose of this host is (at present) backup MX. So my question is, how are spammers sending mail to domains for which this is backup MX and making the senders address appear to have come directly from the mail host ? Confused ! Whitey.

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VNC - Programs won't open
by Carlos Rodrigues 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, I began using VNC to remotly manage suse because I can't start wine app via console. I tried browser and the standalone viewer. In both cases VNC opens the desktop but crashes on every application I open, even console. This probably as to do with geometry issues. Any help is very appriciated. Carlos Rdorigues My xstartup: ------------------------------ #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey #xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" & /opt/kde3/bin/startkde & ------------------------------ Log after trying to open console: ------------------------------ WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) \x04 Major opcode: 6 WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) \x02 Major opcode: 5 WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) \x09 Major opcode: 7 WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) \x09 Major opcode: H WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) \x0d Major opcode: < Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":5.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":5.0". Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display ":5.0". Failed to get list of devices WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) \x02 Major opcode: 5 WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) \x09 Major opcode: 7 WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) \x09 Major opcode: H WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) \x0d Major opcode: < WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) \x02 Major opcode: 5 WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) \x09 Major opcode: 7 WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) \x09 Major opcode: H WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter) \x0d Major opcode: < WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) \x09 Major opcode: I QImage::scanLine: Index 0 out of range ------------------------------ -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 7.0.279 / Virus Database: 265.3.0 - Release Date: 13-11-2004

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Re: [SLE] 9.2 and SATA
by Anthony Brock 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

>>> Steven Pasternak <stevenp500(a)bellsouth.net> 11/15/04 01:20PM >>> >Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > >> Does 9.2 support SATA drives. I have a machine destined to be a >> fileserver with a monster 250Gb SATA drive which I'm just itching to >> load with SuSE either 9.0 or 9.2.. To my knowledge 9.0 does not >> support SATA, does 9.2? >> >What about 9.1? I haven't upgraded to 9.2 yet, but 9.1 ROCKS! I'm pretty >sure that it supports SATA :-) 9.2 would support SATA to the same extent (at least) as the associated Linux 2.6 kernel. Take a look at: http://www.linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/sata.html In my case, this article would have been MUCH more helpful prior to my hardware purchase. As it is, it helped me identify and purchase a replacement controller that now works. Good luck, Tony

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find a word in a file and remove it
by Patrick B. O'Brien 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, I need to find a word in a file then remove it. I'm doing the following, but with no luck, thanks. 'find /var/spool/mqueue/ -type f|xargs grep toulon -exec rm {} \;' TIA

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Re: [SLE] I cannot belive it!!
by Branimir Vasilic 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi Piet, > I gues you do not have sata. I don't have SATA. > and I do asume you have the latest stable bios upgrade (if you don't: do) No, but this motherboard has been running SuSE 8.0 and 8.2 for almost 3 years without any problems. > try a minimal install with "acpi=off apic vga=normal" > what does that do? I already installed 9.2 and I am actually quite happy with the performance (the speedup, in KDE at least, is actually noticeable which I didn't expect). I tried most combinations of the install options and the problem was with ACPI since every time it would lock up. After I switched to the non-graphical installation I could see I was getting a kernel panic specifically referring to ACPI (in the graphical installation it wouldn't get to the point where you could select to see the kernel messages). When I changed the S1/S3 settings in the BIOS I could boot. I still haven't installed 9.2 on the other machine though, I just checked if the install would go past the point where it would lock up. Thanks, Brana

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Exploding capacitors
by Paul W. Abrahams 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I know this is somewhat off-topic, but I want to alert everyone to the problem of exploding capacitors on motherboards, which I just learned of tonight. A friend of mine was hit by it and the defective capacitor caused a short that took the power supply and monitor with it. Your Linux system is only as good as the hardware underneath it! The problem is that some Asian manufacturers have been turning out these defective capacitors, based on a stolen electrolyte formula that they didn't get quite right. The bad capacitors have appeared on ABIT boards as well as on computers from Dell and IBM. If you think this might be an urban legend, just check the article in IEEE Spectrum: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/feb03/ncap.html Paul

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9.2
by Fred A. Miller 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Except for not all apps showing up in the menus, most everything is excellent with 9.2! I did a clean install, EXCEPT for my /home partitian. On this box, at least, this is the FIRST time that I've had NO problems reading a CD in the CD writer and not having to play games getting the drive to open to remove a disc!! FINALLY the auto mount/unmount seems to work correctly. GOOD job SUSE. I used Yast to get the nVida driver, and SAX2 installed it perfectly. I did notice that a good deal of the good 3D screensavers AREN'T included - NOT NICE! Also, XCDRoast wasn't included either. 'Course, these might be available on the DVD, but I'm like many other's who DON'T have one and I'm NOT about to add one to this old box. Fred -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin 1759

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resolution
by Mitja 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I like to change a resolution in console but i don't know how. I have SuSE 9.2 and i use a Grub. Thanks in advance, Mitja

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terminology question
by Dennis J. Tuchler 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

what does "noarch" mean when the term is used with files to download? Thanks dj tuchler

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3ware 7006-2 , SuSE, i865G
by oss 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hello world. I've a serious hardware problem. More than one year I've used D865GBFL (Intel motherboard) with 3WARE Escalade 7006-2 ATA RAID Controller with two Seagate Barracuda 120G ATA disks and SuSE 9.0. And I've tested it with new SuSE 9.2 (all worked fine). Now I've got D-Link DFE580TX Four-port ethernet card. After installation of this adapter into my computer the server started to hang from several seconds/minutes of work. It happens and with another PCI a card - Cronyx PCI (8port RS232 controller (http://www.cronyx.ru)) I have not had time to establish the driver of these devices at all! But! All works well if to establish my 3WARE 7006-2 and simple Intel Ethernet Card i82557. Strange. Who knows, why my controllers do not work in pair with 3WARE Escalade 7006-2 ? P.S. I've tested it situation with another intel mother board D865GLCL (i865G chipset too). The result is the same. But All my devices are work fine on a 440BX chipset. (Test on a old ASUS motherboard without needed productivity) Thank you for any future help. Nick.

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Single user S mode file system read only !
by ABHISHEK GUJAR 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, On suse linux we have 7 run levels, 0 to 6 and the single user maintenance mode 'S' or 'single'.On system boot the init program runs /etc/init.d/boot script which runs all the scripts in boot.d(here it mounts the fs read write ) and then switches to the default run level, running start scripts in rc*.d dir. However if you boot directly into run level S by typing S or single at boot prompt, init does not run any of the scripts in boot.d dir and hence the file system is still read only when the system comes up in single user mode(S). My question is where or at what point does init decide that if it has boot into S, it should not run the /etc/init.d/boot..thereby keeping the fs read only?? The /etc/inittab file does not show this logic although it does say that if you boot in emergency(-b) mode it should not run the boot script..but thats different coz its not a run level.. Thanks, ----Abhishek __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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SuSE 9.0, software RAID1 & Invalid raid superblock magic
by Zvone Zagar 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, Today, after running a SuSE 9.0 PC with software RAID1 for several days, i have issued: 'dmesg | grep md' The last lines of the output gave me something to worry about: md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: considering hde1 ... md: adding hde1 ... md: adding hdc1 ... md: created md0 md: bind<hdc1,1> md: bind<hde1,2> md: running: <hde1><hdc1> md: hde1's event counter: 00000004 md: hdc1's event counter: 00000004 md: RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway. kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k md-personality-3, errno = 2 md: personality 3 is not loaded! md :do_md_run() returned -22 md: md0 stopped. md: unbind<hde1,1> md: export_rdev(hde1) md: unbind<hdc1,0> md: export_rdev(hdc1) md: ... autorun DONE. Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay md: autorun ... md: considering hde1 ... md: adding hde1 ... md: adding hdc1 ... md: created md0 md: bind<hdc1,1> md: bind<hde1,2> md: running: <hde1><hdc1> md: hde1's event counter: 00000004 md: hdc1's event counter: 00000004 md: RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway. md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md0: max total readahead window set to 508k md0: 1 data-disks, max readahead per data-disk: 508k raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: updating md0 RAID superblock on device md: hde1 [events: 00000005] md: hdc1 [events: 00000005] md: invalid raid superblock magic on md0 md: md0 has invalid sb, not importing! md: no nested md device found md: ... autorun DONE. md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: could not import hde1! md: could not import hdc1! md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on md(9,0), internal journal I ran the following commands: mdadm --examine /dev/md0 gave me: No Superblock found on /dev/md0 ... hdparm -T /dev/md0 spitted out: ... 1212 MB/sec (nothing to worry about) the 'cat /proc/mdstat' was: Personalities : [raid1] read_ahead 1024 sectors md0 : active raid1 hde1[1] hdc1[0] 156280192 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> The system is has been running without any problems. I admit that i'am a bit confused. Should i pay attention to the last lines of 'dmesg' or the message can be ignored. I have checked the output on another PC (similar setup with SuSE 9.0). The output was the same. It seems (at least for me) that there are some issues with raidtools. Any clue ? Thanks Zvone Zagar

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Sudden Mail trouble
by Carl William Spitzer IV 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

SuSE Meta pppd (smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.16 on linux. Status is: disconnected trying to connect to smpppd connect to smpppd Status is: disconnected Status is: lurking pppd[0]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. pppd[0]: Using interface ppp0 Status is: lurking pppd[0]: local IP address 192.168.99.1 pppd[0]: remote IP address 192.168.99.99 pppd[0]: Starting link Establishing connection due to activity. Status is: connecting pppd[0]: --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.54.0 pppd[0]: --> Initializing modem. pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATZ pppd[0]: ATZ pppd[0]: OK pppd[0]: --> Sending: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 pppd[0]: AT Q0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0 pppd[0]: OK pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATM1 pppd[0]: ATM1 pppd[0]: OK pppd[0]: --> Modem initialized. pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT2052041 pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier. pppd[0]: ATDT2052041 pppd[0]: --> Timed out while dialing. Trying again. pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT2052041 pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier. pppd[0]: NO CARRIER pppd[0]: ATDT2052041 pppd[0]: --> No Carrier! Trying again. pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT2052041 pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier. pppd[0]: OK pppd[0]: --> Timed out while dialing. Trying again. pppd[0]: --> Sending: ATDT2052041 pppd[0]: --> Waiting for carrier. pppd[0]: ATDT2052041 pppd[0]: CONNECT 115200 pppd[0]: --> Carrier detected. Chatmode finished. pppd[0]: Serial connection established. pppd[0]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 pppd[0]: PAP authentication succeeded pppd[0]: Local IP address changed to 66.81.19.160 pppd[0]: Remote IP address changed to 69.19.219.36 pppd[0]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 4999), status = 0x0 Status is: connected Even though I am connected mail does not send and receive. Is there a way to determine if its the phones or the ISP? -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/

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9.2 install and etc...
by John 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hey gang! Just got my 9.2 today and I installed it on a second hdd to test it out. WOW! Everything, I mean *everything* went smooth and easy. All my hardware was found and setup. The Nvidia install I had to do twice to get it to work, but I have 3D acceleration now too. It looks good, and seems to run slightly faster than 8.2. I need to get used to the automount stuff though, heh...hard to get used to seein' the cdrom and cdrw always 'mounted' on the desktop, lol. Kppp gave some trouble though...kept tellin' me the lock file couldn't be made, or something like that, but I gave kinternet a try (I usually hate it) and it's much better than the last time I tried it! Other than the kppp thing, there is one thing that's been brought up by someone else on the list, about making windows appear the way they did the last time you used them...there's no 'save window setting' in the right-click on the title bar menu anymore. The 'advanced' window settings make absolutely no sense to me either, so I can't figure out how to make the windows open full screen (maximized) all the time (the ones I usually want and use full screen that is, like konqueror, etc). Anyone got a workaround for that yet on 9.2? Again, 9.2 sure seems fantastic so far...the real test will be when I try to get my webcam goin', heh heh. Be good all, John B.

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truncated pages
by Doug McGarrett 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

As editor of a small newsletter, I receive a batch of articles which I edit and proof-read. They come from a Macintosh, but I think they are converted to WordPerfect before I get them. In WP/Win, they are perfectly readable. However, when I received these attached files in Linux, and attempted to read them with OO, the pages seemed to be terminated at about 80% width, and all the words on the right side of the page were gone. If someone can tell me how to send an attachment to the list, I will forward the files, and maybe then someone can figure out how to read them. (I had to forward the files to myself, and open them in XP / WordPerfect.) --doug

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Backspace Not Working Properly
by Rhugga 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Running 9.2 Pro, I am using the konsole util for my terminal prog, however, I can't seem to get the backspace to work correctly. I could not find the setting under any of the konsole drop down windows and I tried explicitly setting 'stty erase '^H'' in my profile. (this method worked on other distro's of Linux running with konsole) The output of stty yields this: billabong:~ #stty speed 38400 baud; line = 0; erase = ^H; -brkint -imaxbel I have the following line in my $HOME/.bashrc: stty intr '^C' erase '^H' susp '^Z' I made sure and sourced this file. ( . .bashrc) What am I missing here? Thx, rhugga

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Is 9.2 available for FTP download?
by Deep Thinker 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Just wondering. Is SuSE 9.2 available for FTP download now? If not, does anyone know when it will be? I would like to update my kids computer (currently running 9.0). Thanks, -- d33p th1nk3r

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Re: [SLE] Has performance been forgotten?
by Bahram Alinezhad 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Brian Berrigan" (bberrign(a)renc.igs.net) wrote: ---------- I am very tired of your stupid, arrogant posts. You don't know anything of importance, you ask moronic questions, you don't listen to good advice given, GO AWAY and learn some manners! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<- Completely agree. I suppose you are about one month late to respond because you was busy to send the best possible description of me; Although good, but there is some contradictions: > I am very tired of your stupid, arrogant posts. Perhaps you like me and are committed to read my posts and send reply ;) > GO AWAY and learn some manners! OK, But probably not to learn from you! After all, I invite you follow the thread titled "9.2 is really slow" if you are interested in the subject. Thank you for your notice, Bahram Alinezhad, Rudehen, Tehran, Iran. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com

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Whither Amavis and ClamAV on 9.2?
by Lucky Leavell 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Finally got 9.2 installed but find no amavis-new or clamav on the media. (They were on the 9.1 media.) I prefer to use the SuSE-blessed versions but if not available ... Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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Fw: Recovery Help
by Russ 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I have a problem in booting to SuSE 9.1 Pro. I had a dual boot system with WIN ME and Suse. My ME got corrupted, so I reset the MBR with YaST (LILO) and then shutdown and disconnected my HDA with SuSE.I used a boot disk from ME and did an fdisk /mbr. I then formated and installed a WIN XP system. I then reconnected my SuSE hard drive but every time I try to boot from the DVD, I get the SuSE splash screen and select boot from hard drive and it goes to WIN XP. If I discond my WIN drive and convert the SuSE drive to a master it still will not boot. I thought I could reconnect the hard drive and then use the DVD to boot and go to YaSt and resetup the Dual boot. This worked once on 9.0 but I was using Grub instead of LILO. Any help that would prevent me from reinstall Linux would be great. I do have a backup of my Home Directory and several other changed items. Thank you in advance. Sorry about the email from Windows but its my only choice right now.

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html symbols question ..
by James Hatridge 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi all... A few weeks ago someone wrote that to stop the bots from getting your email address off your web site you should use symbols instead of letters ie "ü" means the German ü. Anyway can someone tell me where to find a complete list of these symbols or at least the ABCs? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection

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Re: [SLE] You Have A Mail
by David Robertson 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 20:29 -0500, Mitja wrote: > On Sunday 14 November 2004 13:26, you wrote: > > > > > Open YaST > Network Services > Mail Transfer Agent. > > The first window is "General Settings" - select dialup. If you're only > > going to use this for internal mail, you won't need virus-scanning. The > > next window is "Outgoing Mail" - leave everything blank. Next is > > "Incoming Mail" - "accept remote smtp connections" should be unticked. > > Leave server, protocol, remote user name, password, local user, blank. > > If something is filled in, select "details" and you will see an account > > that you can delete. It should all be blank. Fill in the appropriate > > user for "forward root's mail to xxxxx" and select "procmail" for > > delivery mode. Check in "aliases" that the destination for root is your > > user. Finish. > > > > I have 9.1 and have just done all that with no errors, so it should be > > OK. > > > Hi, > > I did what you wrote (in General Settings i select a permanent) but still > nothing. System messages don't work for me. Before did work and i use Pine in > console but in 9.2 nothing. > > Regards, > > Mitja Hi You sent this to me directly, so I've forwarded it to the list.. Is postfix running? What does it say in /var/log/mail? Is there anything in /var/spool/mail/root or /var/spool/mail/user? David -- "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance" -Sam Brown

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Samba
by Marek Pawinski 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi I have samba set up and can see the Windows machine but can not write to it. I try to change the permisions on the Suse machine's /mnt point but they stay the same. Then i try to browse the network from the Windows machine and nothing, the Suse machine does not show up at all. What am i missing here as i have the same settings i use with other distros which work. I disable my firewall and to no avail. Must say nfs was a breeze with Suse 9.1, just this samba is giving me grief. Marek

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KDETV, volume control on 0 but still sound leakage
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Have a small problem with the volume control during the use of kdetv on SuSE 9.1. I have a small TV image in the left corner of my screen in order to keep track of some of the TV programs I want to follow. Whatever I do sound is leaking. The volume can be set to mute or zero but I still get sound. The only thing I can do is turn the volume of the speakers on zero. Have looked into all niches but do not seem to solve this nuisance.

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SLES 8 SP3 with two bonding interface at RX-300
by Pereszlényi Ferenc 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, A would like to use a Fujitsu RX-300 server with four NIC port (2 internal BMC5700, and 2 Intel 82546EB) bonding two virtual NIC. I tried to configure with: # ifconfig bond0 hw ether xx1:xx1:xx1:xx1:xx1:xx1 # ifconfig bond0 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy netmask zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz broadcast vvv.vvv.vvv.vvv # ifenslave bond0 eth0 # ifenslave bond0 eth1 # ifconfig bond1 hw ether xx2:xx2:xx2:xx2:xx2:xx2 at this point i receive the following error SIOCSIFHWADDR: no such device (i tried to configure with ifcfg-bond0, ifcfg-bond1 too, but i receive error message 'ifup: Could not get a valid interface name -> skipped') If i try configure a port a single mode (as eth0,1,2,3) then it is working fine. Can you give me an advice how can i use a two bonding interface? Thanks your help, regards Ferenc

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SUSEHELP hangs at indexing in 9.2
by Johan Nielsen 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Have any of you experienced this in 9.2 Do any of you have a fix for this. A reinstall don't seem to fix the problem Thanks in advance Johan

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is there to be a 9.2 version of red carpet ?
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

** "from the bottom of my heart, off the coast of Carolina, after one or two false starts ** Or at least red-carpet as a way to dl from other sources like packman and kde etc? I have one user who swears by that sytem ( I tend to swear at it more often, but different strokes for different folks, so long as they don't blow up me network are fine by me <G> ) Any info I can impart to the impatient ones will be appreciated, even if it's going to be no and never <G> TIA , you gurus , wizards, and wonder workers -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit

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Yast configuration damaged. How to repair?
by Wilfred van Velzen 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hi, Somehow my Yast configuration got damaged (Suse 9.0). Probably because I had a test script in /usr/local/sbin, called 'test', which got used instead of the regular /usr/bin/test ... Now when I want to 'install of remove software' with yast, the collumn 'avail. vers.' is empty. And also the search function does only return packages it can find in the installed packages but not from the list of all available packages that are on the CD's... How do I fix this? -- Bye, Wilfred.

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Re: Xawtv
by peter Nikolic 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

On Monday 15 Nov 2004 08:05, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > Hi Pete. > > I now have icewm to run on my server. But its a very high resolution, > that makes all very little. > How can I change that ?. > > I also installed ov511, and it is working I can see. > > ThenI would install xawtv, but get this error when I compiled it. > > checking for X... no > checking for jpeg_start_compress in -ljpeg... no > Oops: jpeg library not found. You need this one, please install. > Note: to compile stuff just the library packages are not enougth, > you need also the *-devel packages. > make: *** [arch-i586-linux/Makefile] Error 1 > > What is it, that I need here ?. > > Erik. > > P.S. The checking for X... no is not true, as I can startx and get icewm > up ! Have you got the X devel stuff installed Erik..?. Pete. -- Linux user No: 256242 Machine No: 139931 G6NJR Pete also MSA registered "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan, The time is here to FORGET that M$ Corp ever existed the world does not NEED M$ Corp the world has NO USE for M$ Corp it is time to END M$ Corp , Play time is over folks time for action approaches at an alarming pace the death knell for M$ Copr has been sounded . Termination time is around the corner ..

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Missing space on my hard drive, 100% used and deleting files gives back no space.
by Colin Murphy 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

This is with Suse 9.1 on a Reiser filesystem. Unfortunately I allowed my /tmp directory to fill up and even though I am deleting files I don't seem to be getting any space back. I did not have the forsight to put /tmp on a separate disk partition, so my entire root directory is affected. Luckily my /home is on it's own partition, but has not filled up, so I am able to get some work done. Anything that wants to open a temporary file just crashes. I have some other partitions, mainly used for holding mp3s and alike that have the same problem. All of these partitions, /, /home, and /data[1-4] are on the same physical hard drive. The partitions with this problem show up un Konqueror's 'Properties' tab as being 100% used as well as showing 65.8MB free. This is with 10GB partitions. It seems odd to me that they should all show 65.8MB free. I did run reiserfsck but it didn't report anything unusual, but there could well be command line switches to utilise that I do not know about. Has this been heard of elsewhere and is there a simple cure? -- Colin(a)SpudULike.me.uk As seasons go I especially like pepper.

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Mounting Firewire Drive
by Scott Leighton 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I have an Iomega 120gb external drive that can use either firewire or usb. When I plug it in usb, it gets recognized and I have no problem mounting it as /dev/sda1 When I plug it in firewire, it appears to be recognized, at least I do get messages in the syslog, but any attempt to mount it comes back with a /dev/sda1 is not a block device. The messages in syslog are.... Nov 14 16:53:42 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000 compliant, resetting... Nov 14 16:53:43 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 Nov 14 16:53:43 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023 Nov 14 16:53:48 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 Nov 14 16:53:49 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-01:1023 Nov 14 16:53:49 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[0010dc0000614f3c] Nov 14 16:53:49 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023 Nov 14 16:53:49 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node resumed: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0010dc0000614f3c] Nov 14 16:54:02 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00d0b80e780312a1] Nov 14 16:54:02 helphand /sbin/hotplug[5800]: /etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent: line 22: VENDOR_ID: Bad invocation: $VENDOR_ID is not set Nov 14 16:54:02 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023 Nov 14 16:54:02 helphand kernel: ieee1394: unsolicited response packet received - no tlabel match Nov 14 16:54:02 helphand /sbin/hotplug[5819]: /etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent: line 22: VENDOR_ID: Bad invocation: $VENDOR_ID is not set Nov 14 16:54:07 helphand kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1205 $ Ben Collins <bcollins(a)debian.org> Nov 14 16:54:07 helphand kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048] Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: Vendor: HDS72251 Model: 2VLAT20 Rev: Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06 Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: SCSI device sda: 241254720 512-byte hdwr sectors (123522 MB) Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand /etc/hotplug/block.agent[5903]: try 1 while waiting for /block/sda's bus_id 1:0:0:0 Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: sda: sda1 Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Nov 14 16:54:08 helphand kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Nov 14 16:54:09 helphand /etc/hotplug/block.agent[5938]: new block device /block/sda/sda1 Nov 14 16:54:09 helphand /etc/hotplug/block.agent[5903]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 5938 holds it Nov 14 16:54:11 helphand /etc/hotplug/block.agent[5903]: new block device /block/sda Nov 14 16:56:09 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023 Nov 14 16:56:09 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00d0b80e780312a1] Nov 14 16:56:10 helphand /etc/hotplug/block.agent[6176]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 6221 holds it Nov 14 16:56:10 helphand /etc/hotplug/block.agent[6221]: umount: /dev/by-path/not: not mounted Nov 14 16:56:11 helphand /etc/hotplug/block.agent[6176]: umount: /dev/by-path/not: not mounted Nov 14 16:56:16 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-01:1023 Nov 14 16:56:16 helphand kernel: ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting... Nov 14 16:56:17 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 Nov 14 16:56:17 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023 Nov 14 16:56:26 helphand kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 Can someone point me in the right direction for figuring out what is preventing the drive to be used via firewire? Scott -- POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.5-7.111-default x86_64

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will this work w/ 9.x?
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

** "from the bottom of my heart, off the coast of Carolina, after one or two false starts ** Specs for Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250BTV tuner card included in bundle: * 125 channel cable ready TV tuner (NTSC/NTSC-J Only) * Composite/s-video input to connect to VCRs, camcorders, cable and satellite boxes. * High quality MPEG2 video and audio encoder * dbx-TV stereo decoder all you lovely hardware gurus out there, and a couple of you who apparenlty use haupauge will this one work do you think? The above is all the data supplied by the catalog folks, a call to them results in some idiot reading me the line from the catalog .. duh! I'm also looking at a Turtle Beach cap card that looks very nice, if it will work. Gotta yell at a TB guy to find out. They are loath to let me know if thier stuff does work unless there actualy is an active free software development project going on. <sigh> but every now and then you can get a harried tech to tell you yes it will no it definately can't ( not enough chips or something since windows is so often happy to shove processing for items onto the main compuer processor .. Guess dear BillyG still thinks that 640k is enough for anybody, and the fast processors now available must be idle most of the time... silly boy! Anyway, if you guys have any info to share I'd be best pleased, if I find out anything useful I will post it here -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit

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SuSE 9.2 OpenOffice Additional Fonts Problem [SOLVED]
by L. Mark Stone 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

We have licensed some specialized Type I fonts for graphics work, and so each time we do a new Linux install we have to manually install the fonts so that OpenOffice can find them. Under SuSE 8.x through 9.2, the process is supposed to be the same: 1. Use the KDE Control Center in Administrator mode to add the fonts. 2. Copy the afm files to the directory in which the fonts were installed. 3. Start OpenOffice and the new fonts will appear in the font selector drop down. But in SuSE 9.2, this procedure didn't work. What we found was that, when the font files were copied, SuSE renamed the font files to all lowercase. The afm files (as well as the original font files) were mixed case, so, as far as OpenOffice was concerned, no matching afm files, no font to display. Once we renamed the afm files to be all lowercase, everything worked. We searched in the Administrators Guide and the portal, but came up with nothing. Not sure why this new behavior was introduced, but thought it would be helpful to know for anyone adding additional Type I fonts to their 9.2 system. Best regards to all, Mark -- _______________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678

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Wireless and cordless withy SuSE 9.1
by Dick Angus 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

I have just moved into a situation that requires a wireless network. This is new to me. I have SuSE 9.1 on 2.8Mhz machine. My wife has an iBook with OS-X 10.3. The entry point for the cable modem is about 30 feet from the computer location and we can't run physical cable. It's a masonry walled apartment and we are just renting for now. Can anyone recommend a router/hub and wireless devices (USB would be the easiest) that we could use for both systems? Also, my mouse is dieing (one of the old ball type) and I'm looking at a wireless keyboard/mouse combination to try and reduce cable volume around my machines. Most of the devices I see (I'm located in Spain) appear to be Windows specific. Can any one recommend a wireless keyboard/mouse combination that works well with SuSE 9.x? TIA for your great advice on both topics. -- a note from Dick's corner of the dining room table

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does anyone know if the problem w/ reiser that was in 9.1 is fixed?
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

** "from the bottom of my heart, off the coast of Carolina, after one or two false starts ** IIRC on 9.1 sometimes w/o warning the reiser files system just died. It happened often enough that many of us just reinstalled on one of the other systems jfs xfs etc. I didn't use it on any of my 9.2 installs so far but wondered if this problem had been fixed or if we are just going to have to wit til reiser4 is released to begin again. ( Specs I've read look pretty spiffy, but no long term performance data is yet available... probably for obvious reasons, there hasn't been a long enough time to have passed since it's release to have any meaningful checks.. ) Just in case you think we have stopped drooling over all new tech w/ the release of 9.2 it's gorgeous but there is always something else glittering just out of reach. <evil grin> -- j -- nemo me impune lacessit

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Sony Vaio A197 Tips...
by Jerry Westrick 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hello SUSistas... I Brought a Sony VIAO A197 yesterday.... Quite a machine. Installed SUSE 9.2 on it and most works (of course), but the final touches are missing... What I would like to work on now is the Sound card... It's listed in the Yast2->hardware information as 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio COntroller Model Sony (same as Above) Does anybody know how I can find info on how to get this to run? or where I can find information about this thing? Jerry

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kpilot errors on 9.2
by Eric Wagar 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

I am trying to (again) sync my Tungsten E to Kontact. I got it to work once, but now it won't budge. The error in Kpilot is: 20:12:30 Daemon status is `Waiting for sync' 20:15:55 Pilot device /dev/ttyUSB1 does not exist. Assuming the device uses DevFS. 20:15:56 Trying to open device /dev/ttyUSB1... 20:15:56 Already listening on that device Check Pilot path and permissions. 20:15:56 Could not open device: /dev/ttyUSB1 (will retry) 20:16:06 Already listening on that device Check Pilot path and permissions. And, in my messages log: Nov 13 20:02:23 newone kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Nov 13 20:02:23 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Product: Palm Handheld Nov 13 20:02:23 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc. Nov 13 20:02:23 newone kernel: usb 1-2: SerialNumber: PalmSN12345678 Nov 13 20:02:28 newone kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Handspring Visor / Palm OS Nov 13 20:02:28 newone kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 3.5 Nov 13 20:02:28 newone kernel: drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 5.0 Nov 13 20:02:28 newone kernel: visor 1-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Nov 13 20:02:28 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Nov 13 20:02:28 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 Nov 13 20:02:28 newone kernel: usbcore: registered new driver visor Nov 13 20:02:28 newone kernel: drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor / Palm OS driver v2.1 Nov 13 20:02:38 newone /etc/dev.d/tty/50-visor.dev[12887]: add tty device /class/tty/ttyUSB0 Nov 13 20:02:39 newone /etc/dev.d/tty/50-visor.dev[12923]: add tty device /class/tty/ttyUSB1 Nov 13 20:02:59 newone kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 Nov 13 20:02:59 newone kernel: visor 1-2:1.0: device disconnected Nov 13 20:02:59 newone /sbin/hotplug[12941]: unknown command Nov 13 20:02:59 newone /sbin/hotplug[12942]: unknown command Nov 13 20:03:42 newone su: (to root) eric on /dev/pts/2 Nov 13 20:03:42 newone su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su Nov 13 20:03:42 newone su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service su Nov 13 20:03:42 newone su: (to root) eric on /dev/pts/2 Nov 13 20:03:42 newone su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su Nov 13 20:06:45 newone kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 Nov 13 20:06:45 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Product: Palm Handheld Nov 13 20:06:45 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc. Nov 13 20:06:45 newone kernel: usb 1-2: SerialNumber: PalmSN12345678 Nov 13 20:06:45 newone kernel: visor 1-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Nov 13 20:06:45 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB2 Nov 13 20:06:45 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB3 Nov 13 20:06:56 newone /etc/dev.d/tty/50-visor.dev[13261]: add tty device /class/tty/ttyUSB3 Nov 13 20:06:56 newone /etc/dev.d/tty/50-visor.dev[13265]: add tty device /class/tty/ttyUSB2 Nov 13 20:06:58 newone kernel: visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 Nov 13 20:06:58 newone kernel: visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1 Nov 13 20:06:59 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:09:01 newone kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3 Nov 13 20:09:01 newone kernel: visor 1-2:1.0: device disconnected Nov 13 20:09:01 newone /sbin/hotplug[13390]: unknown command Nov 13 20:09:01 newone /sbin/hotplug[13389]: unknown command Nov 13 20:13:14 newone kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 4 Nov 13 20:13:14 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Product: Palm Handheld Nov 13 20:13:14 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Palm, Inc. Nov 13 20:13:14 newone kernel: usb 1-2: SerialNumber: PalmSN12345678 Nov 13 20:13:15 newone kernel: visor 1-2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected Nov 13 20:13:15 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Nov 13 20:13:15 newone kernel: usb 1-2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1 Nov 13 20:13:25 newone /etc/dev.d/tty/50-visor.dev[13669]: add tty device /class/tty/ttyUSB0 Nov 13 20:13:25 newone /etc/dev.d/tty/50-visor.dev[13672]: add tty device /class/tty/ttyUSB1 Nov 13 20:15:31 newone kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4 Nov 13 20:15:31 newone kernel: visor ttyUSB0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 Nov 13 20:15:31 newone kernel: visor ttyUSB1: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB1 Nov 13 20:15:31 newone kernel: visor 1-2:1.0: device disconnected Nov 13 20:15:31 newone /sbin/hotplug[13770]: unknown command Nov 13 20:15:31 newone /sbin/hotplug[13742]: unknown command Nov 13 20:15:55 newone kernel: visor ttyUSB2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB2 Nov 13 20:15:55 newone kernel: visor ttyUSB3: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now disconnected from ttyUSB3 Nov 13 20:15:56 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:15:57 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:15:57 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:15:58 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:15:58 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:15:59 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:15:59 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:16:00 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:16:00 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:16:01 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:16:01 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:16:02 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:16:02 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:16:03 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:16:03 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:16:04 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:16:04 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:16:05 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 Nov 13 20:16:05 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 500 Nov 13 20:16:06 newone kpilotDaemon: resmgr: server response code 501 I see when I do an 'ls /dev/ttyUSB*' that there are no USB devices. Now that I see that, I even more confused. How did it work before? And, since there is no device now, how do I get one? Any ideas? Thanks eric

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Automounting data DVDs and CDs causes multiple Konquerors to open.
by Colin Murphy 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Anyone care to take a guess at what I've managed to break on my system here. Loading a data DVD into the drive results in an unlimited number of Konqueror file managers to open up. How do I: a). Get the automounter system to work sensibly or b). Turn off the automount so that I can mount it manually and then point just the one file browser at it. Thanks in advance. -- Colin(a)SpudULike.me.uk As seasons go I especially like pepper.

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Network browsing
by David Sexton 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

I am having problems browsing Network with suse samba client is configured correctly. Wen Click network browsing i get an error that says Unable to find any work groups. am I doing some thing wrong or do I need to install some ting? Thanks david

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grub refuses to grub
by Don W. Jenkins 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

I managed to solve a lingering problem I've had with my freezing display after narrowing it pretty much to a hardware problem in the mother board. I had a new ASUS P4S800 sitting around that I wasn't using, so I swapped it in today, so I have that and a Celeron 2.4 gig, 512mb of memory, Nvidia FX 5200 video card, Proxim Orinoco wifi card, a 30 gig HD for Windows and 60 gig HD for Linux, a regular CDROM and a CDRW. I was pleased to find that everything booted, got detected and worked the first time, and there appears to be no problem with the display now. It was freezing in everything, including Windows, gradually worsening. But what I can't do any more is get Grub to boot the machine. No matter which distro I try to install and have install Grub, when I try the reboot, I get an "error 25" whatever that is, and the boot process just stops. For some reason Grub isn't able to pass off to the second HD where the actual boot sector is, and I gather, where the actual Grub menu is to select Windows. To complicate things, I cannot get Linux to rewrite my MBR, because I have Win2000 Server installed, which uses NTFS, which does not allow write permission from Linux. And I don't recall, or never knew how to rewrite the MBR from fdisk on a Windows boot disk. I've even tried to get Win 2000 to reinstall, but it is doing funky things at the point where it is supposed to reboot and continue the install. It just keeps going around again if the CD is in the ROM, and if it is out, Grub is still in the way. It hasn't rewritten the MBR yet. If I try the Linux boot floppy, it hangs at the point where it would hand off to the boot sector on the second HD, also. Does this ring any bells? I'm probably going to have to wipe the Windows partition and do a clean install, and maybe the same for the Linux side. Or since I have a Win XP laptop, I may just make this a Linux machine and forget the dual boot. Thanks, Don J.

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[SLE] SuSE 9.2 installation troubles
by P.M. Groen 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi there, Today I got my boxed set from SuSE and tried to install SuSE 9.2. Well No Luck... Where 9.1 runs smoothly, now i can't get the kernel to boot up. My mainboard is an Asus P4P800 with 512 Mb, ICH5 SATA controller (with connected harddisk) and an IDE DVD-recorder. There is also an Adaptec 2904 with a zip-drive and a cd-rom present. So far, never had any problems. When I start with the DVD, it just stops with the message "searching for infofile" and just hangs there. Ok. No problem, boot again and switch to console #3. After the lines: ata_piix.ko and aic7xxx.ko i'll get the "memory oops 1" and the machine hangs. This happens with every gruboption I can think, including the "Manual Installation". Is the money I spend on this set down the drain or is there a way to get it working on my configuration? Regards, Peter Groen

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Spanish keyboard
by Pablo Ortúzar 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi, Since SuSE 7.3 I've been using English as overall locale and a Spanish keyboard, with no problems. When I was using SuSE 9.1, I did an apt dist-upgrade and lost all accents in Lyx. I reported the bug both to KDE and SuSE. After installing SuSE 9.2, I have no accents in Lyx AND in KWord. A strange idea of progress, isn't it? Luckily, OOffice is still OK. -- Pablo Ortúzar

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Network resources
by Stewart Taylor 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi all I've got a problem with one of the bits of kit on my home network. Although it seems to be working I can't access it to change the configuration. It was setup with a static ip address but now won't respond to calls on that address. i want to check to see if it has been changed somehow. Is there any way to get a list of all the items on a network. I've one computer running 9.1 and one running 8.0. Any help will be appreciated. TIA Stewart

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VMware GSX and PAM?
by Anders Norrbring 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Can anybody please help me with how I can configure VMware GSX 3 to accept logins via PAM? I have all user accounts in LDAP, and not in /etc/passwd as the GSX server expects in its default settings. I run both the GSX server and its MUI. Anders.

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Bluetooth on HP nx5000 gone after upgrade to SuSE 9.2
by Andre Truter 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

I have an HP nx5000 laptop (not the one that comes with SuSE preloaded - it came with WinXP, but I replaced it with SuSE 9.1) Under 9.1, the bluetooth worked fine. I could enable and disable it with the special button. When I look in the messages log, it looks like a usb device that is plugged in and out. It detects the built-in bluetooth as a usb device. The switch enable/disable both bluetooth and wifi. SuSE 9.1 did not detect the wifi (BG2200). Then, after upgrading to SuSE 9.2, the system detected the wifi and configured it, but the bluetooth is not detected. When pressing the button, it seems as if only the wifi is enabled or disabled. Sometimes the blue light (indicating wireless enabled) will come on after pressing the button, but the light will go out soon afterwards and then no visible response to the button presses. In the messages file I can see that it detects the button being pressed, as it complains about the key mapping (did this with 9.1 also) and I can see that the wifi is configured on every second press, but nothing on the usb system. Only once did I see something in the log that might have reference to the bluetooth device: --<snip>-- Nov 14 10:27:34 asterix kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd7 on isa0060/serio0 ). Nov 14 10:27:34 asterix kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e057 <keycode>' to make it known. Nov 14 10:27:34 asterix kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0xd7 on isa0060/serio 0). Nov 14 10:27:34 asterix kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e057 <keycode>' to make it known. Nov 14 10:27:35 asterix kernel: usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 Nov 14 10:27:35 asterix kernel: usb 4-1: device not accepting address 2, error -71 Nov 14 10:27:35 asterix kernel: usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using address 3 Nov 14 10:27:35 asterix kernel: usb 4-1: device not accepting address 3, error -71 Nov 14 10:27:36 asterix kernel: eth1: Setting MAC to 00:0e:35:44:dd:0c Nov 14 10:27:36 asterix kernel: ipw2200: Calibration Nov 14 10:27:39 asterix kernel: usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using address 4 Nov 14 10:27:40 asterix kernel: usb 4-1: device not accepting address 4, error -71 Nov 14 10:27:40 asterix kernel: usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using address 5 Nov 14 10:27:40 asterix kernel: usb 4-1: device not accepting address 5, error -71 --<snip>-- The bluetooth and USB system works, because when I plug a bluetooth USB dongle in one of the usb ports, everything works. It is just the internal bluetooth system that is not detected anymore. Any ideas where I can start looking? PS: Google did not give me much, except that it might be a module that needs to be loaded, but which module? Thanks -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

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Reiser gone bad
by Jim Sabatke 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

I lost a disk, mostly. It has loads of bad blocks and tons of data that I need. I've tried reiserfsck with both --rebuild-sb and --rebuild-tree. Nothing seems to work. I copied all the directories onto a new install disk, but it copies the bad blocks as bad blocks which means I can't even get into some directories on the copied to disk. I realize some data may be gone forever, but among the bad blocks there are plenty of good data. How can I recover this? Google with error messages shows very few results, and mostly in German. TIA Jim

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Kaffeine and DVDs?
by Mike Adolf 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

In the past I have been able to get xine/kaffeine to play dvds by installing libdvdcss as an rpm. Now, however, I see on the pacman site that the German copyright interfears with its distribution. The site gave as brief procedure for installing via a tar. Before I try this I thought I would see if any one has experience with getting kaffeine to play DVDs on suse 9.1 personal? Mike

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When is ftp 9.2 expected to come out ?
by Robert Rozman 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi, in the past there has been 1 month delay for ftp version. Since 9.2 was announced on 6.10, that means we're close to ftp release ? Regards, Robert.

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SuSe 9.1 and PPTPD.
by Brad Dameron 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

I have been trying to get VPN under SuSe 9.1 working for some time now. I can connect and access public sites but can not access my local lan. Here is my configuration. PPTPD Server (Version 1.2.1) eth0: 206.173.53.xx (Public IP) eth1: 192.168.1.xx (Private IP) I am using PPPD version 2.4.2. This server is also my linux router for my Private lan. So the SuSefirewall is doing packet forwarding/masq. /etc/pptpd.conf: option /etc/ppp/options.pptpd localip 192.168.1.253 remoteip 192.168.1.180-190 /etc/ppp/options.pptpd: name * refuse-pap refuse-chap refuse-mschap require-mschap-v2 require-mppe-128 proxyarp debug lock nobsdcomp /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2: FW_QUICKMODE="no" FW_DEV_EXT="eth-id-00:b0:d0:df:e2:67 ppp0 ppp1 ppp2 ppp3 ppp4 ppp5 ppp6 ppp7 ppp8" FW_DEV_INT="eth-id-00:b0:d0:df:e2:68" FW_DEV_DMZ="" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="yes" FW_MASQ_DEV="$FW_DEV_EXT" FW_MASQ_NETS="0/0" FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL="no" FW_AUTOPROTECT_SERVICES="yes" FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="1723 53 https ssh" FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_EXT_IP="gre" FW_SERVICES_EXT_RPC="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_IP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_RPC="" FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_IP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_RPC="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_QUICK_IP="" FW_TRUSTED_NETS="" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_TCP="no" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_UDP="DNS" FW_SERVICE_AUTODETECT="yes" FW_SERVICE_DNS="no" FW_SERVICE_DHCLIENT="no" FW_SERVICE_DHCPD="yes" FW_SERVICE_SQUID="no" FW_SERVICE_SAMBA="no" FW_FORWARD="" FW_FORWARD_MASQ="0/0,192.168.1.54,tcp,22" FW_REDIRECT="" FW_LOG_DROP_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_DROP_ALL="no" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_ALL="no" FW_KERNEL_SECURITY="yes" FW_ANTISPOOF="no" FW_STOP_KEEP_ROUTING_STATE="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_FW="yes" FW_ALLOW_PING_DMZ="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_EXT="no" FW_ALLOW_FW_TRACEROUTE="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_SOURCEQUENCH="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST="int" FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST="no" FW_ALLOW_CLASS_ROUTING="no" FW_CUSTOMRULES="" FW_REJECT="no" FW_HTB_TUNE_DEV="" FW_IPv6="" FW_IPv6_REJECT_OUTGOING="yes" FW_IPSEC_TRUST="no" FW_IPSEC_MARK="" FW_LOG="" I can not ping ppp0 from the server when the VPN user is connected. Nore can I ping the private IP from the Win XP client. And I noticed the netmask is 255.255.255.255 which would show why it couldn't access the other machines on the lan. Anyone see anything that I need to adjust? I need the VPN connection to be the same as if I had plugged the machine into the local switch. Any help appreciated. Thank you, Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com

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Ati Radeon 9200 and Suse 9.2 Pro
by zio budda 14 Nov '04

14 Nov '04

Hi, I have upgrade my notebook from Suse 9.1 PRO to 9.2 PRO, but now my graphic card ATI Radeon 9700 does not work anymore. I have found some info about Suse 9.1 PRO and ATI Driver, but for 9.2 ? I have installed fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.6.i386.rpm (from ATI web-site) but the program into the rpm does not recognize Xorg 6.8.x and say me that the package can be used only for X11 4.0 and sup. Any help ? Tnx.

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why cant i send mail with squirrelmail?
by Nick Smith 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

i have a mail server set up and can successfully send mail using an email client aka thunderbird, im running postfix/courier-imap all the users are stored in a mysql db, i can recieve mail fine as well. im using apache and squirrelmail for my webmail. i have to use relayhost = mail.comcast.net in my postfix config so that my mail doesnt bounce, my ip is a DUL. when ever i send mail through SM i get timeouts when connecting to my ISP's mail server mail.comcast.net, on about 3 different ip addresses. its my understanding that SM uses the same setup that the clients do, SM is running on the same server as the other services aka courier and postfix. so why can i send mail with a client and not with SM? i have SM setup to use localhost for both incoming and outgoing mail so it uses my servers settings. what can i provide for you to better assist me? i have been messing with this for almost 2 weeks have asked countless people and mailing lists with no resolve. here is my postconf -n if that helps: mail root # postconf -n alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-aliases.cf command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/lib/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10 home_mailbox = .maildir/ html_directory = no inet_interfaces = all local_destination_concurrency_limit = 10 local_recipient_maps = $alias_maps $virtual_mailbox_maps unix:passwd.byname local_transport = local mail_owner = postfix mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq manpage_directory = /usr/share/man mydestination = $myhostname, $mydomain, localhost.$mydomain, localhost mydomain = computernick.com myhostname = mail.computernick.com mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 myorigin = computernick.com newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.1.5-r1/readme relayhost = mail.comcast.net relocated_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-relocated.cf sample_directory = /etc/postfix sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = postdrop smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 virtual_alias_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual.cf virtual_gid_maps = static:100 virtual_mailbox_base = /home/vmail/ virtual_mailbox_domains = nyc0nshack.com virtual_mailbox_maps = mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-virtual-maps.cf virtual_minimum_uid = 1000 virtual_transport = virtual virtual_uid_maps = static:1001 thanks for any and all help nick

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Firefox loses bookmarks after NVidia driver install?
by Joe Polk 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

I know this isn't a SuSE problem, but I'm lost. I tried to install the NVidia driver with YOU and that went all wrong. So I reverted back to a saved XF86Config. Weird thing is, now all my bookmarks are gone in Firefox! The rest of my profile (desktop, etc.) are fine. Everthing I'm reading says Firefox bookmarks are kept in your firefox/defaults/profile/bookmarks.html file, but that file has nothing. And my old firefox (pre v.1 release) folder also has a bookmarks.html file but it looks generic. Could they be somewhere else? -- <<JAV>>

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How do I get/compile 2.6.8-24.3 suse kernel?
by Andrew Betts 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Can someone tell me if the kernel-source package (2.6.8-24) can compile a 2.6.8-24.3 kernel? I'm assuming the .3 part is some extra patches(??)... But I can't seem to pursuade online update to patch the kernel source.

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9.2 / NVIDIA question.
by John N. Alegre 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

My box has a NVIDIA GeForce4 Graphics card. With both 9.0 and 9.1 install / upgrade I the card was NOT configured at install / upgrade time. What I needed to do was ... 1) Use the nvidia installer for 1.0-5336. sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run 2) Configure XFree86 with sax2 -m 0=nvidia This is a big of a pain. I was wondering if this was necessary with 9.2 upgrade from 9.1 john

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hwscand problem on SuSE 9.2
by Branimir Vasilic 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

I have been using 9.2 for some time now and most things work great but I have recently noticed a problem with hardware detection daemon (hwscand). At random times it kicks in and takes up my CPU completely rendering the machine unusable for a minute or two. I have hwscan, which is supposed to check new hardware at boot disabled, but it seems it is not the same thing. When hwscand starts I kill the process by hand since /etc/init.d/hwscan stop doesn't kill hwscand. I noticed that hwscand gets run buy some usb detection process but I don't know which and how to disable it. Has anybody had a similar experience? Thanks, Brana

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[SLE] SuSE 9.2 installation troubles
by P.M. Groen 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Hi there, Today I got my boxed set from SuSE and tried to install SuSE 9.2. Well No Luck... Where 9.1 runs smoothly, now i can't get the kernel to boot up. My mainboard is an Asus P4P800 with 512 Mb, ICH5 SATA controller (with connected harddisk) and an IDE DVD-recorder. There is also an Adaptec 2904 with a zip-drive and a cd-rom present. So far, never had any problems. When I start with the DVD, it just stops with the message "searching for infofile" and just hangs there. Ok. No problem, boot again and switch to console #3. After the lines: ata_piix.ko and aic7xxx.ko i'll get the "memory oops 1" and the machine hangs. This happens with every gruboption I can think, including the "Manual Installation". Is the money I spend on this set down the drain or is there a way to get it working on my configuration? Regards, Peter Groen

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Good news Firefox 1.0 Now out
by cwsiv 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

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Wireless card not accessible !!??
by Jan Elders 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Hello, This is my second cry for help. I'm trying to use the SMC2835W 802.11g (54Mbps) wireless PCMCIA card with SuSE 9.1, without success. I cannot even give any command to the card; it remains totally dead. (It works under Windows, so the hardware is OK). This card has a PrismGT chip, and I am running the prism54 driver version 1.1 in my SuSe 9.1 According to instructions, I downloaded the firmware 1.0.4.3 and installed it in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware with the name isl3890 (as instructed). But, when I insert the card in its slot, then I get : eth1: prism54 driver detected card model: PRISM Duette/GT eth1: islpci_open() eth1: resetting device... eth1: uploading firmware... eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset... eth1: device soft reset timed out eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response 1000, trigging device eth1: timeout waiting for mgmt response eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full eth1: mgt_commit has failed. Restart the device eth1: mgmt tx queue is still full Nothing happens, the led's on the card remain dark and I cannot get to it with any command at all. Apparently the "device soft reset timed out" is the problem, but what can I do ??? I've already done a lot of googling and saw the same problem mentioned several times, but nowhere a solution. :-( When I unplug the card, I get : eth1: no IPv6 routers present eth1: hot unplug detected eth1: removing device eth1: islpci_close () And after a while, I see : unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 6 Assuming someone else called the IRQ last message repeated 2 times unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 6 unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1 to become free. Usage count = 6 etc. etc. Subsequently, inserting my "old' 802.11b card (which always works fine) also leads to nothing. The system doesn't even react. This has probably to do with the "waiting for eth1 to become free." message ?? So, I decide to reboot, but then I get a system hang after the message : Shutting down sound driver. Nothing happens any further, I have to cut power (which I don't like at all) ! I have a suspicion that the main cause of the problems is the fact that IRQ 10 gets assigned to this card. cat /proc/interrupts tells me : 10: 6 XT-PIC yenta, ohci1394, eth1 My good-working "old' 802.11b card always gets IRQ 9 all by itself. ( 9: 33311 XT-PIC eth1) Can anybody please help me with what might be going on here and how to resolve this ? TIA and HAND, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

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Video Problems
by William Westfall 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

I have installed the latest NVidia drivers correctly and everything is working except games in the full screen mode. If I am able to window a game it works perfectly, but when I try full-screen everything goes crazy. What setting did I miss applying? I am using SuSE 9.2 with the latest nvidia driver from nvidia.com. BTW it did it also with the YOU installed nvidia driver, it must be a setting somewhere I just can't figure it out. Thanks

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Starband on Linux
by Eric Scott 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Yo; I've got Starband's basic satellite internet package/modem/dish/whatever. The don't officially support Linux with this hardware and have taken great pains to create their own protocal to make sure that you have to have a Windows boxconnected to their modem. Neway, anybody know of an open-source hack that'll let me use this modem from Linux and trash my old Windows router? Thanx, ES -- Registered Linux user #366862 Not that you care, but this message was sent from a 750MHz Athlon system running SuSE Linux 9.1 (Kernal 2.6.5) and KMail 1.62. I aslo run Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Kernal 2.4.18), Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.2.20), Mandrake Linux 9.2 (Kernal 2.4.22), and YellowDog Linux 3.0 (Kernal 2.4.20) on various systems and architectures for various reasons. Yeah, and there's a old Mac OS in there somewhere that I use as a bootloader for Linux, and a Windows XP box used as a router for my Linux-based network, but they don't count, 'cuz they aren't "real" OS's. Who me? Biased? Nah! "Failure is not an option with Microsoft; it's bundled with the software!" Not only am I a Linux freak, Mac-lover, and Microsoft-hater, but I'm a Christian as well. To risk using an un-meaningful cliche: Jesus has changed my life for the better! He's my best friend and talking to Him and knowing that He's helping me is what lets me deal with stress with ease. I'm not happy-go lucky, I just know that with God's help I can handle it. My faith is based on facts too. Don't believe me? Go to www.messengersofchrist.cjb.net to find out more (If it's ever up).

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Re: [SLE] Ethernet ADSL Modem set-up troubles
by mollica.luca＠hsr.it 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Hi, according to previous threads, I have tried to set up ADSL connection as described, but I got no success. Following also the instructions written on the hard copy manual of SUSE 9.0 Admininstrator Guide, I have set up my ethernet interface with a static ip (192.168.222.21,that I have chosen according to the modem IP is 192.168.222.254), and trying to ping the Bcast I have also seen TX/RX le blinking and I have received/sent pakages, setting up SubNet Mask on 255.255.255.0 and no Gateway. But trying to connect through Kinternet, the log was like this: Status is: lurking Plugin: pppoe.so loaded PPPoE plugin initialized status is disconnected pppd[0] died : pppd options error (exit code 2) Do you have any idea of what is happening and/or what is wrong in the setup ?? I have also tried to change eth0 address according to the one suggested by SUSE, and no way: I have also tried to set up physical address of the modem as gateway, and also in this case the result was the same ..... :-( Thanks L

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Peerguardian
by Raúl Moratalla 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Hi, I installed peerguardian 0.3 but when I run it I get the following messages: Downloading the blocklist guarding.p2p.zip, please wait. Archive: guarding.p2p.zip Converting the blocklist, please wait. PGD Converter started, version 0.21 Exporting to iptables, this may take over a minute on an old machine. iptables: No chain/target/match by that name iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) Rules have been successfully exported, applying DROP policy. iptables: No chain/target/match by that name Congratulations, rules should be successfully imported, rule is DROP ---------------------------- iptables: Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) ---------------------------- iptables: Invalid argument It seems that it has some problems creating the rules, does anyone know how to solve this? I have no kwnoledge about iptables. Cheers, Raúl

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tvtime and 9.2
by Donn Washburn 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Hey Group; SuSE's version of tvtime is 0.9.12 seems to be broken on the US broadcast UHF freq VHF/UHF (NON cable). It seems to miss some of the UHF freq. Version 0.9.15 works and is out there. Do a "google.com" to find it. Also as root set /dev/rtc to "chmod 644 /dev/rtc". Then run it as "root" from a Xwindows session and setup your information - save it. "su" will not work - as "root"! -- 73 de Donn Washburn __" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 Dump Microsoft Software - Stop virus email Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Re: [SLE] Good news Firefox 1.0 Now out
by jcannare1＠comcast.net 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

I've got Firefox 1 loaded on SuSE pro 9.1 - once extacted there were no problems. I had to do a few tweaks but it was OK past that....it's a lot faster than Konquerer or Mozilla (regular). > I know little about rpms or source rpms, > but I donloaded MozillaFirefox-1.0-0.1.i586.rpm from that site > and installed it with > yast -i MozillaFirefox-1.0-0.1.i586.rpm > John > > > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:23:16 -0600, John N. Alegre <lists(a)johnalegre.net> wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2004 16:44, John Ryan wrote: > > > I got the Firefox rpms from > > > ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.0/ > > > and it installed perfectly using > > > yast -i <the rpm> > > > > > The only thing I see there is the source rpm. > > > > -- > Check the headers for your unsubscription address > For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com > Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com > Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > >

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Dell Poweredge 6400
by Jim Sabatke 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

I fell into one of these beasts. I haven't figured out how to get SuSE install (9.0 Pro) to recognize the SCSI drives yet. I've found on google that it can be done, but not how to do it. Any pointers? TIA Jim

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Re: [SLE] Good news Firefox 1.0 Now out
by John Ryan 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

I know little about rpms or source rpms, but I donloaded MozillaFirefox-1.0-0.1.i586.rpm from that site and installed it with yast -i MozillaFirefox-1.0-0.1.i586.rpm John On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:23:16 -0600, John N. Alegre <lists(a)johnalegre.net> wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 16:44, John Ryan wrote: > > I got the Firefox rpms from > > ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla/firefox/1.0/ > > and it installed perfectly using > > yast -i <the rpm> > > > The only thing I see there is the source rpm. >

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lineak
by Jake 13 Nov '04

13 Nov '04

Anyone using this? http://lineak.sourceforge.net I just want to make my keyboard work properly under suse and search of archives pointed to lineak. When I attempt to run: jake@linux:~> lineakd -vc LTDAK I get: NOTE: if '-f', '-e','u', '-d', or '-m' parameters are used in conjunction with '-c', please make sure you specify those BEFORE '-c' ! Lineakd V0.8.2 Getting modifiers for display. scrolllock_mask = scrolllock_mask = pslock_mask = Loading plugin: /usr/lib/lineakd/plugins/kmixplugin.so Segmentation fault -------- Perhaps there is a better way to map keys to commands? I'm using 9.2 pro with kde, the keyboard is a Logitech Deluxe Acccess (PS2). Actually all I *really* want is to map the mute key because I listen to music while I work but get business calls while doing so.... would also be quite nice to be able to hit the "email" key to launch kmail since I use it so much.

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DVD-Laufwerk Problem SuSE 9.2
by Georgios Nikolis 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hallo, ich habe SuSE Linux 9.2 auf ein Notebook installiert (ein FSC Amilo 7620 AMD Athlon Mobile XP 3000+ 512MB) und ich habe Problem mit dem optischen Laufwerk (DVD+RW ohne Firmenangaben). Das Laufwerk wird beim Boot erkannt (als /dev/hdc mounted on /media/cdrecorder), ein entsprechender Eintrag in /etc/fstab existiert auch. Das Laufwerk bleibt jedoch voellig inaktiv, Konqueror bleibt beim Versuch /media zu oeffnen haengen. Die Shell ebenso. Ein Versuch Yast2->Hardware->CDROM zu betreten fuehrt zum selben Ergebnis. Dagegen zeigt der SuSEPlugger, dass ein DVD+RW, das angeblich configured und available sein soll. Ich habe 9.2 schon auf paar anderen Maschinen installiert, das Problem hat aber nicht aufgetaucht. Haetten Sie vielleicht eine Idee, woran das liegen sollte? Georgios Nikolis -- Georgios Nikolis Department of Computer Science, Heidelberg University Discrete Optimization Research Group Im Neuenheimer Feld 368 69120 Heidelberg Germany Room 105 Fon: +49 6221 545745 E-mail: Georgios.Nikolis(a)informatik.uni-heidelberg.de

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Multiple Java Versions With Suse 9.2? How??
by Francisco Castanheiro 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does someone have multiple java versions in suse9.2? With 9.1 was easy, the only thing i had to do was to put the right setup in /etc/java/java.conf and run setJava. But it seems that setJava was depraced, and i couldn't found a single document that explain the new jpackage system. Please, if someone knows... i really need to add jdk1.5.0 to the standard 1.4.2 that suse brings by default. I know that i could do thing the hard way, but i don't want to break a new system. Thanks for any help. Regards. - -- Francisco Castanheiro http://mozilla.shopizzy.com "In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right ... something is wrong." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBlT4GW+wvMcphyhgRAtG9AJwNYTXXO/xi4KBpTlZ/5yF0NsZbwgCeKHoC ttoJx6BvQF76M4BTpFrudZQ= =6Uf0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [SLE] Booting Problem
by Jerome Lyles 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

On Thursday 14 October 2004 06:35 pm, Jerome Lyles wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2004 04:53 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Jerome Lyles <susemail(a)hawaii.rr.com> [10-14-04 21:39]: > > > Tried it, no change. Unless you have another idea I think I'll wipe > > > this partition and load a backup from June. > > > > I'm wiped out. ////// :^( > > > > gud luk, > > Thanks anyway, it was a good try. > Jerome The Problem: fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. Please note that the root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write: # mount -n -o remount,rw / CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and REBOOT the system. (none):~# So I bought a new hard drive , loaded 9.1 from the DVD, did the 'online update' and rebuilt my home directory from backup. Everything worked perfectly, except rebooting during the installation. I was dumpted into a grub shell so I booted the system from the install DVD and finished the installation. Everything was working perfectly. Rebooting no problem. Then I decided to do what got me into trouble once before-I did a system update using Yast. After the system update I wasn't able to boot because 'fsck failed' again. I rebooted into rescue mode and ran reiserfsck-'no corruptions found'. So I thought maybe I should do the clean install and the online update and the system update before I restored my home directory from backup this time. But before I did that I asked myself once again: If the filesystem checks out clean why is fsck failing? It's not because the file system is corrupt; so what could it be?? So I did this: gg:"fsck failed" and got 1710 hits. So I checked them out. It turns out this problem has been around since 1996 on the web, has occurred on different architectures and flavors of *nix. Here are a few comments: "I've encounter this several times. Sometimes fsck will "fix" it; sometimes it won't. If it won't, the only solution is reformat the bad partition. Be sure to do a badblock check, the one that actually writes and reads to every block on the partition. It's very slow, but thorough. It is important to take the time to do this. Bad blocks can wreak havoc with your filesystem. After doing all that, reinstall what was on the bad partition, if possible. (Fortunately, you can get your data off.)" "So I do exactly as it says and it does the same thing next reboot." "I also tried changing the disk names in fstab... like put them all to the letters they should be. i.e hdg5 to hdc5 but to no avail. It just did the same thing." "After rebooting the machine to 1.0 fsck failed during boot (of course) So I killed the shell went multi user and proceeded to recompile fsck from the 1.0 sources. Everything *seems* back to normal now." "i downloaded the root-fs from several mirrors .. always the same .. so i don´t think that the file was corrupt or something like that .." "Subject ext3 errors Hi all, I have installed a new server, and created ext3 (data=ordered) filesystems on RAID1 partitions. I finished the installation a few weeks ago, and today I tried to install in in the place of the old one. I have worked a few hours on the server, mainly in the /etc directory, and copied a few gig's to the /home dir, which was on a separate partition than root. After that I have rebooted, to check that everything going up OK. Well, nothing was OK. The fsck failed with many "Freeing blocks not in datazone" and "Journal aborting" errors, and I came up with a read-only root partition. I manually e2fsck'd it, saying yes to all questions, and rebooted again. Next time it was the same story: fsck always failed, found many errors, the lost+found growed... AND, the real interesting story: all of my modifications in the /etc directory, which I made at least an hour or more, was lost! Just as if nothing has been written to the disk from the journal for at least an hour. Also, there were some corrupted files, and also, some obvious fs errors after an fsck, for example, accessing /etc/apache-ssl/apache.conf resulted some errors like this: Jun 6 21:56:25 zeratul kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jun 6 21:56:25 zeratul kernel: 09:01: rw=0, want=1085624632, limit=20972736 The end of the story: I booted from CD, copied the whole root partition's contents off-disk, reformatted the RAID1 partition with mke2fs -j, copied back the contents, and it seems that now everything is good (so far). I don't think that the problem is in hardware, because of the RAID1, and also, these are brand-new 80G Maxtor SCSI drives. What can cause an error like this? This is a linux 2.4.26 on a PIV-2666, debian testing dist. Thanks, Ferenc Engard" So...what's happening here? I did some more digging and found the source of the problem behavior in /etc/init.d/boot.rootfsck. This is the relevant code: # do fsck and start sulogin, if it fails. # FSCK_RETURN=0 # on first startup of a system with a lvm root device lvm /dev entries # may not exist at this time, so skip fsck in this case ROOTFS_BLKDEV=`fsck -T -N / 2>/dev/null` ROOTFS_BLKDEV=${ROOTFS_BLKDEV%% } ROOTFS_BLKDEV=${ROOTFS_BLKDEV##* } DES_OK=0 if test -n "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" -a "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" != "/" -a -b "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" ; then DES_OK=1 fi if test ! -f /fastboot -a -z "$fastboot" -a $DES_OK -eq 1 ; then FSCK_FORCE="" test -f /forcefsck && FSCK_FORCE="-f" And this is the heart of the problem: if test -n "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" -a "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" != "/" -a -b "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" As I understand it this is a three way comparison: The -a option means "-n "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" " equals "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" and "/" equals "-a -b "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV"" And then the "-n "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" -a "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" != "/" -a -b "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV"" comparison makes three. One or more of these comparasions is failing and the code assumes it's means a file system failure. But does it? Reiserfsck says evertything is fine. Now "ROOTFS_BLKDEV=`fsck -T -N / 2>/dev/null`" tells fsck to check something (some metadata) but not do do an actual filesystem check. I edited out '2>/dev/null' but I didn't see the error output on screen or in /var/log/boot.msg. I believe there is an error in the process fsck uses to check the meta data or an error in the meta data itself; an error that reiserfsck does not recognize as an error. I ran echo $ROOTFS_BLKDEV and test -n "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" -a "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" != "/" -a -b "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" but only blank lines were returned. Unanswered questions: What are the differences these three names represent: ROOTFS_BLKDEV=`fsck -T -N / 2>/dev/null` ROOTFS_BLKDEV=${ROOTFS_BLKDEV%% } ROOTFS_BLKDEV=${ROOTFS_BLKDEV##* } Is there a way to see the values they represent? What do these modifiers do: %%;##* Is there a way to see the values " test -n "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" -a "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV" != "/" -a -b "$ROOTFS_BLKDEV"" represent? Does 'DES_OK' represent the meta data? What is the meta data? Thanks, Jerome

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Re: [SLE] technical help
by DC Parris 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

---------- Original Message ------------- Subject: [SLE] technical help Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:05:05 -0600 From: "Dennis J. Tuchler" <dennis.tuchler(a)earthlink.net> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com I notice that a great deal of traffic on this listserv relates to problems that arise in installation. Many of the people who send such e-mail have CDRom/DVD sets of 9.2. I wonder if there is something wrong with the technical help with installation that SuSE offers with the package. That is, when I get my 9.2 package and have trouble installing it, will it be disadvantageous to take the time and wait for an response from SuSE technical help? dj tuchler ________________________________________________ Hmmmm... Don't quote me, but I suspect most of the folks who post on the list are more comfortable just using the list that they use everyday anyway. I suppose I could have called SUSE about my NIC issue - might have solved the problem in 10 minutes, instead of a week. Although it took longer to solve the problem, it was, in osme very important ways, more advantageous to solve my problem via the list. I was forced to think through what I was doing. Next time, I'll know better how to troubleshoot LAN connectivity issues. If I had called SUSE, I may have learned how to punch numbers instead of thinking. Perhaps that's one of the great advantages of a user list? I suspect the non-techy folks crossing over from the Winworld probably make the SUSE helpdesk team earn their pay. :) Not that I'm a technical genius, but it might be good for us to keep the line clear. :) Don -- DC Parris Matheteuo Christian Fellowship webdev(a)matheteuo.org http://matheteuo.org/ Free software is like God's love - you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!

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Mouse and Xorg
by radioact1ve 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hello everyone! I have two questions real quick. I thought 9.2 had switched to Xorg, but when I look at xorg.conf, its really just a link to XFree86config. Why is this? Second, Suse recognized that I have a alps touchpad on my laptop. Thing is that somtimes it noticed that I double tap, other times it just ignores it. And the pointer is so slowwwww. Anywhere I can configure this? Thanks for your time! -- - Miguel radioact1ve(a)gmail.com http://radioact1ve.blogspot.com/

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Freenet.de & ASMTP
by James Hatridge 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi all... My wife got a free email account from freenet here in Germany. They use ASMTP to send mail. But Kmail has only SMTP, which does not work. What can I do? Thanks, JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection

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Kernel paging error
by Tim Feeney 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

I have a Suse Linux 2.6.3 system that is getting the following errors: Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000015d9690d5c4 RIP: Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff8025010f>{memmove+15}PML4 8063 PGD 0 Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: Oops: 0002 [1] Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: CPU 0 Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: Pid: 26212, comm: DataServer Not tainted Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: RIP: 0010:[memmove+15/64] <ffffffff8025010f>{memmove+15} Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8025010f>] <ffffffff8025010f>{memmove+15} Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffffff804b55e0 EFLAGS: 00010212 Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: RAX: 0000000000000004 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 000000000000006b Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: RDX: 0000000000000228 RSI: 000001001cf845c8 RDI: 0000015d9690d5c4 Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: 000001001cf84548 R09: 0000000000000000 Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: R10: 0000000000000004 R11: 0000000000000050 R12: 000001001cf84048 Nov 12 03:42:01 jupiter kernel: R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 00000100134c2b80 R15: 000001001cf84000 Nov 12 03:42:02 jupiter kernel: FS: 0000000000a3d960(005b) GS:ffffffff80537d40(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Nov 12 03:42:02 jupiter kernel: CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b Nov 12 03:42:03 jupiter kernel: CR2: 0000015d9690d5c4 CR3: 0000000000101000 CR4: 00000000000006a0 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Process DataServer (pid: 26212, stackpage=100025ed970) Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Stack: ffffffff801c1143 00000100060a84c0 0000000000000004 0000077400000000 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: 00000000000004ec ffffffff804b5abc 0000022817ed2000 ffffffff804b56c8 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: 000001001cf84048 0000000000000004 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff801c1143>{leaf_paste_in_buffer+147} <ffffffff801acfda>{balance_leaf+9690} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff801ad432>{do_balance+162} <ffffffff801bacd8>{fix_nodes+632} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff801c681a>{reiserfs_paste_into_item+154} <ffffffff801b1d92>{reiserfs_get_block+3602} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff80174d49>{__find_get_block+201} <ffffffff80174d49>{__find_get_block+201} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff8017561e>{__block_prepare_write+366} <ffffffff8015836c>{buffered_rmqueue+316} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff801b0f80>{reiserfs_get_block+0} <ffffffff8017609a>{block_prepare_write+26} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff80156528>{generic_file_aio_write_nolock+1304} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff80156957>{generic_file_write_nolock+87} <ffffffff801c42ad>{search_by_key+2189} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Code: f3 a5 f6 c2 02 74 02 66 a5 f6 c2 01 74 01 a4 eb 11 48 8d 74 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: RIP <ffffffff8025010f>{memmove+15} RSP <ffffffff804b55e0> Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: CR2: 0000015d9690d5c4 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <4>time.c: Lost 0 timer tick(s)! (rip ffffffff8013d91e) I am not knowledgable in how to decode this to find out what the problem is. When this happened the system had a loadaverage of 600+. After I rebooted the system if ran ksymoops and got the following snippet that points to an internal application (DataServer) having a problem writing out. Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Process DataServer (pid: 26212, stackpage=100025ed970) Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Stack: ffffffff801c1143 00000100060a84c0 0000000000000004 0000077400000000 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: 00000000000004ec ffffffff804b5abc 0000022817ed2000 ffffffff804b56c8 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: 000001001cf84048 0000000000000004 Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Call Trace:<ffffffff801c1143>{leaf_paste_in_buffer+147} <ffffffff801acfda>{balance_leaf+9690} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff801ad432>{do_balance+162} <ffffffff801bacd8>{fix_nodes+632} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff801c681a>{reiserfs_paste_into_item+154} <ffffffff801b1d92>{reiserfs_get_block+3602} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff80174d49>{__find_get_block+201} <ffffffff80174d49>{__find_get_block+201} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff8017561e>{__block_prepare_write+366} <ffffffff8015836c>{buffered_rmqueue+316} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff801b0f80>{reiserfs_get_block+0} <ffffffff8017609a>{block_prepare_write+26} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff80156528>{generic_file_aio_write_nolock+1304} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: <ffffffff80156957>{generic_file_write_nolock+87} <ffffffff801c42ad>{search_by_key+2189} Nov 12 03:42:04 jupiter kernel: Code: f3 a5 f6 c2 02 74 02 66 a5 f6 c2 01 74 01a4 eb 11 48 8d 74 Any pointers in how to further debug this would be great. Thank you. Tim

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Re: [SLE] autodetection of network
by Mikkel Hansen 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Thanks for quick reply. Scpm is really a neat command! mikkel >From: ti(a)amb.org (Ti Kan) >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] autodetection of network >Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 23:47:32 -0800 (PST) > >Mikkel Hansen writes: > > I am running Suse 9.2 on my laptop. The problem is, that at work I am on >a > > network with a statically set IP address, while at home I am set up by >DHCP. > > Is there a way to make Suse autodetect which network I am on? I was >thinking > > that a script might do the trick, but I have no idea how that would >look. > > Currently I have to start up Yast, and set the information at start up. > >Rather than auto-detecting, set up two SCPM profiles. One for home and >one for work. You can then run with the appropriate profile depending >on where you are. See scpm(8) and also the documentation in the SuSE >administrator's manual. > >-Ti >-- >Ti Kan >http://www.amb.org/ti >Vorsprung durch Technik > > >-- >Check the headers for your unsubscription address >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > > _________________________________________________________________ Få en gratis Hotmail-konto http://www.hotmail.com med udsigt til 250 MB lagerkapacitet

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.2 and Webcam
by Andrew Betts 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:20:30 +0100, Pablo Ortúzar <portuzar(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 00:04, Andrew Betts wrote: > > > > I have a pwc webcam... It's a pity the kernel requires patching to get > > it to work now. > Hi, > > no it doesn't: go to http://www.saillard.org/pwc/ > See the README. > I installed the pwc-10.0.4.tar.bz2, and it works. > Pablo Ortúzar > My apologies. I didn't realise someone reverse engineered the NDA binary! Thanks :D

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atmel-firmware on suse 9.2 pro
by Laurent Renard 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hello everyone ;) i try to connect my 3COM 11MBps Wireless LAN Office Connect PCMCIA card ( 3CRSHPW196 ). I installed the atmel-firmware that runs perfectly with hotplug on Debian Distro. How could i connect it using Suse ? It seems that hotplug cannot load it ... Thanx everyone ;) -- Laurent Renard -- Laurent Renard Epicuri@ Websolutions www.epicuria.be <http://epicuria.be> 114, Rue Vandervelde 7033 MONS ( BELGIUM ) TEL/FAX : +32 65 31 77 81 SKYPE : leolargo2004 ------------------------------------------------ Scanned with Clamav Antivirus on Procmail Server This e-mail and any attachment thereto is confidential and are intended for the sole use of the recipient(s) named above. Any use of the information contenaid herein is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender either by telephone or by e-mail and delete the material from any computer. Thank you for your cooperation Ce message electronique, y compris tout document joint, est confidentiel. Si vous n'etes pas le destinataire de ce message, toute divulgation, copie ou utilisation en est interdite. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le detruire et en informer immediatement l'expediteur. Merci de votre collaboration

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New kernel
by contiemilio＠virgilio.it 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Dear all I just updated the kernel of my SuSE 8.1 (from 2.4.19 to 2.4.21). All went well. Verifying the boot messages I saw, among the others, these lines: ... ... hde: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } hde: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ... ... hdf: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdf: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } hdf: cache flushing failed. disable write back cacheing for journalled file systems hdf: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdf: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ... ... My two HD are on third IDE channel (hde-> third master - hdf -> third slave). What do those lines mean? The system seems to work fine, however. Bye emilio

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RE: [SLE] 9.2 DVD question.
by Prengel, Ralf 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Higginbottom [mailto:b.higginbottom@trinityhigh.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:18 AM > To: Hans du Plooy > Cc: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] 9.2 DVD question. > > Hi Hans, > > On 09/11/04 04:45 PM, Hans du Plooy <hansdp(a)newingtoncs.co.za> wrote: > > > > Is there a way to make a bootable DVD that contains everything > > *except* the > > x86-64 files? > > > > We spent a little time on monday looking at doing this, the > problem we ran into though is that x86 on its own is still > larger than 4.7Gb. Admittedly we didnt spend a hell of alot > of time looking at it so there may be more you can strip out. > > Regards, > > Ben > Found thsi some minutes ago (german) http://www.linux-community.de/story?storyid=14798

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RE: [SLE] SMP kernel
by Khanh Tran 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

What type of RAID controller or driver are you using? I run HP/Compaq servers and found that after the initial install completed, adding apm=off and acpi=off was necessary to make the system boot. Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College -----Original Message----- From: Listeny [mailto:listen@system-canvas.com] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 2:42 AM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: [SLE] SMP kernel Hi, Some months ago, I tried to update SMP kernel modules from initial packages(SL9.1). After updating, my Suse box could not boot... My box is DELL PowerEdge 1400SC (Xeon x 2,1GB RAM, RAID5 array). Boot panic looks like raid driver missing. I afraid of SMP kernel correspondings. Does some one mentioned same situations ? And also latest SMP kernel module can run on PowerEdge1400SC/RAID ? Sorry, I joined this list today. If this topic was already discussed, please let me know timestamps of old articles. Thanks. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Suse on HP netserver LH4
by LeoRivas 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi all We are planning a migration from winnt+domino to suse91pro+domino. We have a specialist who planned all this pretty well, but we have some thoughts about it: Will the disk array controller be detected properly on install, or should we do some twaeking? Will the dual p3 cpu be set up only by installing the SMP-kernel od there is more to do? Thanks in advance LeoR

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autodetection of network
by Mikkel Hansen 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi, I am running Suse 9.2 on my laptop. The problem is, that at work I am on a network with a statically set IP address, while at home I am set up by DHCP. Is there a way to make Suse autodetect which network I am on? I was thinking that a script might do the trick, but I have no idea how that would look. Currently I have to start up Yast, and set the information at start up. regards Mikkel _________________________________________________________________ Få alle de nye og sjove ikoner med MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.dk/

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Flash Card reader stops working under 9.1
by Josh Berkus 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Folks, This is odd. I've a flash card reader, a dumb little "Dazzle" brand one. It worked with a manual mount under 8.2, but under 9.1, I can't make it mount at all ... neither manually nor automagically. Can I get a pointer to some diagnostic utilities and hints? I'm kinda stumped, the device is acting like it's not plugged in (and yeah, I did check that). -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco

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Re: [SLE] Printing from SuSe 9.1 Pro
by John Ryan 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

I did that, and there was no problem with adjusting the fonts from within the Mozilla browser that came with the 9.1 Pro distribution. It just seems that Firefox needs to be configured to look somewhere to see the fonts. But where and how? John On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:13:06 +0100, Francesco Teodori <francesco.teodori(a)gmail.com> wrote: > John Ryan wrote: > > > Hello, I have just installed Firefox 1.0 from the SUSE FTP server. When I > attemp to change fonts as Francesco suggested (serif with suse serif, sans > serif with suse sans) suse serif and suse sans are not in the list provided > under edit | preferences | Fonts & Colours Anybody know how to make them > available on those lists? John On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:26:25 +0100, Francesco > Teodori <francesco.teodori(a)gmail.com> wrote: > John Ryan wrote: Hello, I recently installed SUSE 9.1 Pro on a laptop and > on a desktop. Both are connected over an Ethernet network to a HP Laserjet > 4000N printer. I set both up using the YAST GUI: YAST | Hardware | Printer, > configured the printer with the correct IP address, Set the model as HP > Laserjet 4000, printed a sample page and it worked fine. However, when I > print a page from a browser, the fonts are changed. Some of them are changed > to one that is very difficult to read. The problem occurs from both the > laptop and desktop. >From Windows on both, there is no problem. One of the > machines had Suse 9.0 personal before, and there was no problem. Any ideas? > regards, John I had the same problem with Mozilla, I found that after > changing the default fonts (edit->preferences->appearence->fonts) (i.e. > serif with suse serif, sans serif with suse sans) printing is fine Francesco > Those fonts come with the SuSE 9.1 CD's. Try to install all the ttf related > packages coming with the distribution. > Francesco >

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CLI wildcards?
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi, On some occasions I have had to type a very long command that is not in the history file or access multiple file with a common character. ie files aa, ab, ac, ad, ae, af What character could I use to simulate wild cards similar to the DOS * ie $> cp /home/a* /home/hylton/ appreciated -- The wildcard Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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CD/DVD(recorder), ZIP-drive default fstab entries...
by Peli 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi List, At SUSE's SDB pages http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/hmeyer_91_revert_from_subfs.html I found the exact fstab entries for 'dvd' and 'floppy' drives, but there was not mentioned, how the options for the 'dvd' should be modified e.g. in case of CD(recorder) or DVD(recorder) devices. There was also no detailed description for ZIP-drives, so in case it's possible, please help me to make the correct entries, e.g. at present I use /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder auto noauto,user,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/zippo vfat noauto,user,exec,sync 0 0 So actually for 'dvdrecorder' I just removed the read-only flag compared to 'dvd' and for my parallel ZIP-drive I attempt to use 'floppy's defaults, except, that I defined vfat here: till now everything seems to work. I have SUSE 9.1 with automount disabled, so would be crucial for me to know the "real defaults", and not to try improvizing... Thanks for any suggestions/corrections, Peli Ps. BONUS question - is there a way to boot from a parallel ZIP-drive, or the option in the BIOS boot-config as 'ZIP' is actually just for ZIP-drives with IDE interface?! Thx.

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Promise raid controller
by Hans du Plooy 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

On a client's server I have SuSE 8.0 with the following raid controller: lspci -v 02:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 5744 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22 I/O ports at dff0 [size=8] I/O ports at dfe4 [size=4] I/O ports at dfa8 [size=8] I/O ports at dfe0 [size=4] I/O ports at df00 [size=64] Memory at feaa0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 1 dmesg: PROMISE FastTrak Series Linux Driver Version 1.02.0.22 scsi0 : FastTrak Vendor: Promise Model: 1X2 Mirror/RAID1 Rev: 1.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 234441472 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 > The controller works with the drivers supplied by Promise, and works OK but not particularly fast. I want to upgrade this box to 9.2, for various reasons. I would like to know if anyone is using this particular raid controller in a raid-1 configuration under SUSE 9.1 or 9.2 with the kernel driver, and how well it works. Also, will transferring the raid set from the Promise driver to the kernel driver work? Will the kernel driver pick it up (I'm not sure how much of this controller is hardware raid). Thank you -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

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Re: [SLE] Printing from SuSe 9.1 Pro
by John Ryan 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hello, I have just installed Firefox 1.0 from the SUSE FTP server. When I attemp to change fonts as Francesco suggested (serif with suse serif, sans serif with suse sans) suse serif and suse sans are not in the list provided under edit | preferences | Fonts & Colours Anybody know how to make them available on those lists? John On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:26:25 +0100, Francesco Teodori <francesco.teodori(a)gmail.com> wrote: > John Ryan wrote: > > > Hello, I recently installed SUSE 9.1 Pro on a laptop and on a desktop. Both > are connected over an Ethernet network to a HP Laserjet 4000N printer. I set > both up using the YAST GUI: YAST | Hardware | Printer, configured the > printer with the correct IP address, Set the model as HP Laserjet 4000, > printed a sample page and it worked fine. However, when I print a page from > a browser, the fonts are changed. Some of them are changed to one that is > very difficult to read. The problem occurs from both the laptop and desktop. > >From Windows on both, there is no problem. One of the machines had Suse 9.0 > personal before, and there was no problem. Any ideas? regards, John I had > the same problem with Mozilla, I found that after changing the default fonts > (edit->preferences->appearence->fonts) (i.e. serif with suse serif, sans > serif with suse sans) printing is fine > Francesco >

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Help pls: 9.2 asking for boot disk 6?
by Laur Ivan 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi all, I've got a hold of 9.2 and, as I can't but off the CD, I had to make up floppies. after making all 3 boot floppies, the 5 modules and rescue, fired the boot process and... after starting to load the kernel I get the following sequence: "Insert Boot Disk 2" (did that) After a short while: "Insert boot disk 1" (did that too) After another short while "Insert boot disk 6" ....????? silly question: which disk 6? I've tried modules, rescue to no avail... plus, following the README's instructions to concatenate floppies (cat bootdsk? >boot.all; mount -oloop ...) has the same result as mounting the first bootdisk only... I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to what i'm doing wrong... Thank you in advance, Laur

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.2 and Webcam
by Pablo Ortúzar 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

On Friday 12 November 2004 10:20, Pablo Ortúzar wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2004 00:04, Andrew Betts wrote: > > I have a pwc webcam... It's a pity the kernel requires patching to get > > it to work now. Hi, no it doesn't: go to http://www.saillard.org/pwc/ See the README. I installed the pwc-10.0.4.tar.bz2, and it works. Pablo Ortúzar --

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DWG files - CAD Editor needed
by Henry Standing 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

I have recently overseen the re-cabling of two buildings, and have received architectural schematics detailing the position of every data point, and how they are patched into the cabs. Which was nice.... They are in DWG format though - which is a little tricky to deal with. Does anyone know of any CAD software (that runs on SUSE 9.1, tar.gz OK, rpm better :) which can: 1. Open .dwg files read-only 2. (and this is a long-shot) Allow editing of dwg files? Many thanks -- _ (\o/) Henry Standing /_\

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SMP kernel
by Listeny 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Hi, Some months ago, I tried to update SMP kernel modules from initial packages(SL9.1). After updating, my Suse box could not boot... My box is DELL PowerEdge 1400SC (Xeon x 2,1GB RAM, RAID5 array). Boot panic looks like raid driver missing. I afraid of SMP kernel correspondings. Does some one mentioned same situations ? And also latest SMP kernel module can run on PowerEdge1400SC/RAID ? Sorry, I joined this list today. If this topic was already discussed, please let me know timestamps of old articles. Thanks.

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HP 1000 Printer install howto
by William Westfall 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Finally got this POS working... Someone posted a few days ago about how to do it and since I have the new 9.2 SuSE built decided to give it a try again. SUCCESS! Follow the directions on this site and your HP 1000 printing problems will be a thing of the past! http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ after you follow the instructions make sure and complete this step before going into YaST to setup the printer... 'The firmware doesn't load via hotplug after after 'make install'. Solution - before you hook up the printer, after you restarted CUPS, run './getweb 1000' as in the install procedure. It will download some stuff and make a script called 'hplj1000' in the root of the source tree. Copy that file to '/etc/hotplug/usb', verify it's permissions (should have read and execute for root at least), then run /etc/hotplug/usb/hplj1000 install-usermap Then everything works perfectly :) After setting the printer up in YaST I had to reboot my system to get everything working, maybe you'll need to maybe not. Drop me a line if you have problems... I have been tring to get this HP 1000 to work for over a year and have intimate knowledge of the beast. Good Luck.

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technical help
by Dennis J. Tuchler 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

I notice that a great deal of traffic on this listserv relates to problems that arise in installation. Many of the people who send such e-mail have CDRom/DVD sets of 9.2. I wonder if there is something wrong with the technical help with installation that SuSE offers with the package. That is, when I get my 9.2 package and have trouble installing it, will it be disadvantageous to take the time and wait for an response from SuSE technical help? dj tuchler

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Installing kernel without Yast
by contiemilio＠virgilio.it 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

I have just downloaded the k_deflt-2.4.21-168i586.rpm for my SuSE 8.1. I would install it using these commands: rpm -Uhv --nodeps --force <kernel> then mk_initrd Is it right? I downloaded the source too (in tarball format). How can I install it? Better, where can I find any documentation? Thnak you. emilio

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skype and Dell audio
by Paul Cartwright 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Someone asked me to install Skype ( VOIP Telephony program ) and I did. I am running SUSE 9.2 and have a Dell Dimension 4400 box. The audio card shows up as a Dell 82801 BA/BAM AC' 97 card. I can't seem to get the audio working, and I noticed on the skype forum site that many people had problems with audio, and a lot of those were DELL boxes.. does anyone have Skype working on a Dell desktop box?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800

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