November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SUSE 9.2 and cdwriter odd behaviour
by Jim Hamilton 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hi I have just installed a suse 9.2 pro environment onto one of my systems. In general not too bad an experience. The item I want to check with the list is periodically the drawer on my cdwriter comes out with no request from me i.e. like an eject command has been issued. Setup is a DVD ROM and a CDWRITER share the secondary IDE bus. No problems with the DVD ROM only with the writer. I can access the writer but it will still eject the drawer. This was not a problem with the 8.1 environment previously installed. Any pointers welcome. BR Jim -- Jim Hamilton Perth, Western Australia

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Re: [SLE] volume control doesn't work
by Tim Hanson 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

*OOPS* Sorry. That was a good hunch. I enter X in text mode, runlevel 3. Also, if it matters, I don't use KDE. On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 21:42 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Sunday 21 November 2004 21:40, you wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 21:33 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote: > > > try chmod 666 /dev/snd/* > > > > That took care of it. I only did it to /dev/dsp. > > You didn't anwer my question though, I'm trying to determine where the bug is. > Right now my theory is that it's a bug in the text mode login. So: do you > boot to text mode or to graphical?

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Re: Samba HOWTO
by Michael W Cocke 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Sorry about that - I hit the wrong reply to. Mike- -- If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs... You may have a great career as a network administrator ahead! -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,

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lm_sensors?
by Marc Christensen 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I have installed SuSE 9.1 and now 9.2 on hardware that has sensor hardware but I am confused at how to get sensors working so that I can see CPU tems, fan speeds, etc. What is the processes for setting this up? Thanks... -- Marc Christensen

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PCMCIA Driver for Desktop
by scsijon 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I have recently been given an old pcmcia PCI Card (PCI Card that allows you to plug in a pcmcia "Module card" into a desktop workstation). The card uses a spare plug off the IDE2 cable and has a number of chips that handle the conversion. No labels, marks, etc as usual and they don't remember where it came from or when except it was back in the mid1980's when they first set it up. I have been asked if it's possible to use this with Linux as their current system (a program written in dos 3) has reached the end of it's lifespan and they want to "move on". At least I have the source code for the simple tables program, and that will be easy to convert (for once). 1- Does any of the "driver" people online know if this is the norm for pcmcia to feed from the ide bus? 2- Does anyone have a pointer for how-to to writing a driver interface as the pcmcia seems only to convert levels to 20 parallel inputs (like a open-collector to a 6821 parallel chip, for those technically minded). And yes, I am asking before I try as both my "play" machines are already busy, will be til after christmas, and never having looked at device drivers or interfaces for them I'd like a pointer or two first. regards and thanks in advance to any help given scsijon

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SLES 9 - How to configure multiple email domains in LDAP
by Richard Mixon (qwest) 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

I am trying to configure postfix/cyrus/LDAP to handle two email domains, say user(a)domain1.com and user(a)domain2.com. I've read and read the admin guide, googled and googled, and experimented a good deal also. I seem close but cannot quite get there. Here's what I've done. 1. On install I took the YAST defaults to create a default server certificate for domain1.com and told it to use LDAP for user authentication. 2. Created a new LDAP database for domain2.com. Actually I'm wondering if I really need to do this - can I just have two branches in one database - one for domain1 and one for domain2? 3. Anyway, then created a new CA and server certificate for domain2.com. But looking at slapd.conf, I do not really see a way to point LDAP at two sets fo certificates - so I did nothing with this. 4. When I go into Yast->Security->Add Users there seems to be no way to indicate which domain a user is in. If "user1" exists in domain1.com, I am unable to create user1 in domain2.com - I get the message something like "There is a conflict between the entered user name and an existing user name." Thanks in advance for any ideas/suggestion - Richard (Sorry for the cross-post, but traffic in the SLES forum seems light).

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I'm tired--9.2
by Doug McGarrett 22 Nov '04

22 Nov '04

Hello, all--and probably goodbye-- I know you have been helpful thruout all this time-- I've been with SuSE since 7.1, but I've had it. The mail program (KMail) seems to forget its SMPT information, it also forgot its screen mode, now having to click twice on a message, and then having it come up in a little quarter- screen window. I've never been able to get any kind of sound, much less video, even tho the built-in noises work. Open Office will no longer open. I don't know where I go from here-- back to XP, for a while, I guess. I have a copy of Free-BSD, which I've never tried, but I guess I will. (9.1 crashed in such fashion that nothing would revive it. Before then, 8.2 gradually deteriorated to unusability. 9.2 has _already_ degraded to unusability.) This is a fairly modern machine, and XP runs perfectly on it. I guess I will be watching for a few days, while you all flame me, but enough is enough. Thank you for the help you have offered over the years. --doug

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] problem to boot...
by Marc Collin 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Marc Collin wrote: > Le 21 Novembre 2004 11:34, Anders Johansson a écrit : >>So this is something you've compiled yourself? What did you select as >>target machine, and which executable format did you select when you >>configured the kernel? > > ya compiled myself > > i used .config gived with suse kernel.. (all is standard) > > use i586, elf, ext3, ext2, fat... Output of "file /boot/vmlinux-2.6.4-52" and did you remember to "mkinitrd"? Regards Sid. ok: file /boot/vmlinux-2.6.4-52 /boot/vmlinux-2.6.4-52: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, not stripped -- La boîte à prog http://www.laboiteaprog.com

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Strange boot sequences for 9.2 Pro (0003)
by George Stoianov 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Hello, Today I had to reinstall 9.2 as MySQL Max was missing from the CDs and I need to use it. So I started with the DVD but for some reason it would not boot on my computer. I assumed it is because my DVD-ROM device is a few years old and sure enough when I tried it on a new machine it worked no problems. So I had to use the old cheat approach and booted from CD 1 and as soons as yast and the kernel where loaded and I had to choose the language for the install I popped out CD 1 and put in DVD 1...all is going well so far. But it is a strange way of doing things....and why is there less on the CDs. Does anyone now how to change the source of installation so that after having installed from CDs you can choose the DVD as the source...I tried that with success? Thanks. George ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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/tmp cleaning
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 21 Nov '04

21 Nov '04

Whilst reading through the list email, I decided it would be a good idea to clear out my own /tmp directory. Can I safely assume that as long as there is no one logged on, besides root to delete all the files in the /tmp directory, that I could safely use the command: #> rm -fr /tmp/* ?? Reading the email further I see that it can be enabled via YAST but when I tried, I failed :( Richard Bos wrote: >> >>>Anders Johansson wrote: >>> >>>>It is a good idea though to clean up old and unused junk. So setting >>>>CLEAN_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP to "yes" would be a good idea >>> >>>Where's that option found? >> >>Oh, sorry, it's in /etc/sysconfig/cron Anders, I see that file on my 9.0 system is empty. Should I insert CLEAN_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP=yes in it? Thought I'd try adding the option via YAST, courtesy of Richard's post, but... > yast -> system -> misc -> editor for sysconfig files. > than: system -> cron ... does not lead to a solution as my sysconfig file editor in under system and there is no subdirectory Misc, only a Misc 'brother' to System. This is all on a 9.0 system -- The tmp getting full 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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