November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Radeon 9600XT
by Mark Annandale 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

G'day folks Has anyone had any kind of success getting 3D to work with the abovementioned graphics card and Suse 9.2. Having a look at the ATI website it appears that only kernel 2.4 has any measure of support. Many thanks as always Mark A

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RE: [SLE] Need Windows EXT2 Reader Advice
by Greg Wallace 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

-----Original Message----- From: Darryl Gregorash [mailto:raven@accesscomm.ca] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 10:18 AM To: Greg Wallace Subject: Re: [SLE] Need Windows EXT2 Reader Advice On Thursday, November 25, 2004 @ 10:18 AM, Darryl Gregorash wrote: >Greg Wallace wrote: > >>Right off the bat, I know that won't work, since my backups are app 6G. >Oh >>well, at $29.95, it's really not too big a gamble. I'll let you know how >it >>works for me. >> >>Greg W >> > >You could have saved yourself the money: man 1 split > >"split -b 1024m inputfile filename" will produce split a file named >"inputfile" into 1GB files named filenameaa, filenameab, and so on. To >reproduce the original file, "cat filename* > inputfile". The default >for "filename" is x (ie you can leave off the output name in the split >commandline, and get files called xaa, xab, and so on). > >To reduce the number of output files, you could use something like "-b >2000m" but just be sure to stay away from the DOS/Win 2GB (=2048MB) >limit for FAT32 (no point in pushing your luck :) ) > >Note that neither split nor cat remove their respective input. >> Thanks for the info. Maybe I could have saved the $29.95, but I've got to say that EXTFS Anywhere 3.0, so far, looks pretty darn good for the money. I have, on my Windows machine -- * Successfully mounted the EXT2 partition on my USB drive on my Windows machine (very simple -- go to the MOUNT option (straight off of the START menu selection), select the partition you want to mount, and hit enter. * Copied a new file to the partition, moved the drive over to my Linux machine, mounted it and accessed the file. * Copied a 6G file from the partition onto a different Windows NTFS partition. * Renamed files on the partition (from Windows, it looks just like any other hard drive, so, as usual (say using Samba), you see directories as folders. The installation is as basic as you can get. You download the file, unzip it, which gives you a single EXE Windows installer file, and execute that EXE. Once installed, you simply select EXTFS Anywhere from you START menu and it launches the application. To mount, you simply highlight the Linux partition and either accept the drive letter it suggests for mounting it to or choose a different one. To unmount (this one is sort of obscure), you select mount (seems like they should have a separate unmount menu selection) and tell it to not assign a drive letter (which, in effect, causes an "unmount"). Maybe there are glitches that I have yet to encounter. I haven't tried writing a large file to it, so I can't say what would happen if I tried that (I don't personally need to be able to do that, at least not at present). Maybe there are other problems I just haven't hit yet. But, so far, it's looking pretty darn good for $29.95. Greg W.

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sles9 ps issue -threads/children show no usage.
by Rod Rioux 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Since this list was so helpful last time, Thanks to everyone that replied. I seem to be having another issue, it seems when I run a multithreaded app the when you look at it with ps it doesn't report the cpu usage for any of the threads. The parent process ramps up at startup, but goes to 0 while running, and when you stop the process the parent ramps up, while all of the children stay at 0. These are our load tests so they should be showing some sort of information, considering that they really hammer the box. Has anyone seen anything like this before ? Any help would be great .. /rod

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mailing list
by it clown 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hi All, Why does this mailing list seem to be very quiet?Is there a new mailing list?I am running 9.1. Regards _____________________________________________________________________ For super low premiums, click here http://www.dialdirect.co.za/quote

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Speed comparison - SuSE 9.2 compared to Fedora Core 3
by Steve Kratz 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

I was playing around with my old "test" laptop this weekend (Celeron 366, 256mb RAM, 20 gig HD) and decided to try Fedora Core 3 out to see what it was like. Now, I'm completely convinced that I want to use SuSE over FC3, but one thing I noticed with Fedora is there's a dramatic speed increase - everything feels more responsive. Both FC3 and SuSE 9.2 were running latest updates available, acpi=off, apm=on, FC3 had pretty much everything on for services while SuSE had most of the "extra" stuff off (ISDN, hardware probing, postfix, etc...) Anyone ever looked into performance tuning on 9.1/9.2 for a machine with decent RAM specs, decent HD space, but lacking in the CPU department? TIA Steve

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nfs "permission denied"
by Tim Hanson 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

After installing 9.2 on both a server and a client, I started nfs on the server without problems, but attempting to start it on the client turned up a "permission denied" message. The last time I used nfs, if memory serves, was on 9.0, and the same /etc/exports file and entries into /etc/fstab on the client were successful. /etc/exports was a simple: * /home (rw,no_root_squash) * /var (rw,no_root_squash) /etc/fstab on the client side: suseutil:/var /var/suseutil.var nfs defaults 0 0 suseutil:/home /home/suseutil.home nfs defaults 0 0 As I said, these entries have worked with past SuSE versions. My conclusion is that SuSE has tightened something. Does anyone know what it is or where I should start looking?

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OpenSwan 2.x for Suse 9.0/9.1?
by Terje J. Hanssen 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

I wonder if there exist "ready made" OpenSwan 2.x rpms for Suse 9.0/9.1 (kernel 2.6), and if somebody has succeeded to get them to work? http://www.openswan.org/ Maybe, does there exist any user-doc or exeperience to install and set it up? I still have to reboot to Win2k to run a proprietary VPN client to connect from home to my remote office router with firewall ..... Regards, Terje J. Hanssen

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Re: [SLE] Alsa 1.0.7: No SB Audigy LS Soundcard found
by Terje J. Hanssen 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Sid Boyce wrote: > The only 1.0.7 rpms I've found are on packman's site and I doubt they > are compatible with what's in the kernel, there are no accompanying > kernel modules either, i.e the driver. > If you download the 1.0.7 driver from http://www.alsa-project.org/ and > follow the INSTALL file, it should create the needed modules. > Regards > Sid. yes, it is the alsa 1.0.7 rpms from packman I have installed http://packman.links2linux.de/index.php4?action=217&vn=2 Though these rpms installed ok, I also wondered if there really were installed new drivers for any new cards, as neither Yast2 nor alsaconf could find my Creative SB Audigy LS card. What I found was the following, which looks like a configuration file only(?) /usr/share/alsa/cards/AudigyLS.conf I wonder if somebody has succeeded to get Alsa 1.0.7 to work on Suse 9.1 (2.6 kernel) and/or on older Suse 9.0/8.1 (2.4 kernels)? If so, I would be happy to get some user tips regarding the critical points mentioned above, as this is a quite new area for me. And is it possible/easy to install "ready made" kernel modules as rpms, if sombody has succeeded to create them on beforehand? Thanks, Terje J. Hanssen

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Sendmail File Locking ?
by Dawson, Alan 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Does anybody know the Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7 shipped with SUSE 9.0 uses posix locking ? As referenced here http://www.mailarchive.ca/lists/comp.mail.sendmail//2003-05/0214.html Thanks Alan Dawson -- ICT Services

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ATI 9100
by oss 26 Nov '04

26 Nov '04

Hello, is the ATI 9100 chipset fully linux compatible? I would like to install SuSE 9.2 linux to ASUS P4R800-VM motherboard. Nick

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