December 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Anti-freeze suggestions requested
by Jan Elders 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello, Some time ago, I installed Ndiswrapper 0.12 on my SuSE 2.6.5-7.111.5-default in order to get my new SMC 2835W wireless LAN card working. (Ndiswrapper is needed because this version of the 2835W uses a Frisbee chip, for which there are no Linux drivers yet) That worked fine .... for a few minutes and then my system "froze". I could not think of a particular reason for that to happen, but I suspected that maybe something was wrong in my kernel. So, I decided to install the latest 2.6.9 kernel from kernel.org. That went well and I could work with the card via ndiswrapper ....... for a while, after which also the 2.6.9 system "froze". I am totally lost where to look for causes / clues. I don't see anything peculiar in my /var/log/messages, but maybe I'm overlooking something ? Any ideas ? Greetings, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"

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Kylix 3 in SuSE 9.0
by Damon Register 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Finally I got Kylix 3 installed on SuSE 9 but found trouble right away. Even a new blank project fails to compile. I get a bunch of errors with a file called time.h. After a little searching in this group and elsewhere on the net, I found several references to http://unvclx.sourceforge.net so I got 3.5.1 and installed but still I have the same problem. I have seem some posts here from those who say they have been using Kylix but I would certainly like to know how they got it to work. Yes, I know at least one post said there wasn't much future for Kylix and after my experience so far, I am inclined to agree. I would love to use something like Qt but I don't know of any gui builders for the windows side. I have heard of tools for Linux but since I am wanting to write for both platforms, it would be nice is there was a tool for both sides Damon Register

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[Not on topic] Notice to private posters
by Carlos E. R. 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Now and then I receive questions off-list. I don't object to that, I'll answer time permiting if I can. However, those doing so must ensure that their servers do accept my private answers... For example, "Bob Cameron" wrote to me and I regret being unable to answer off-list: <@optusnet.com.au>: host mail.optusnet.com.au[211.29.132.243] said: 554 5.7.1 Rejected 81.41.198.138 is a dynamic IP (in reply to RCPT TO command) - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFB0mRutTMYHG2NR9URAuuxAKCT/syVSWzaLwN3Jxj+LH4b4vC7mQCgjI6I GQBumV6LLZ8MDsl2osGoMs0= =b3v3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Bual boot
by Chris 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

I am happy! I installed win me on a spare hd next to suse 9.2 and thought I would have to reinstall suse. Instead I did a repair and was able to reinstall grub and boot into either. This is great as previously any win os had to be installed first. This means when (inevitabley) I need to reinstall me I will not need to reinstall suse. I thought there might be someone out there who was unaware of this cahnge and would apreciate knowing this. suse even guides you through it! CHEERS for suse. Chris

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SuSE 9.2 CD vs DVD diff list
by matice＠nic.fi 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hello does some one out there have a list of the packages that are missing from the CDs but found on the DVD version? it would be nice to have that so that i wont have to copy 8gb of stuff and search through for individual packages. i heard that there are 1600 packages on the dvd version but i dont know exactly which. regards Matice

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Merry xmas to you all
by Martin Deppe 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Merry xmas and a happy new year to all of you. Martin

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wine and X.org
by Marcio Silveira 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Hello, all I'm running the standard wine installation from a fresh 9.2 setup... Any games I try to run on wine will destroy my X session. It won't return to KDM, the screen will just go black, as if I had selected a bad screen resolution; the only way to get out of it is to CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE (jumping to a ctrl+alt+F1 terminal and killing the wine process won't work). Apps that don't require full screen work just fine. I'm running a ATI 3D Rage II, 1280x1024, 24bit color. I know, it's old, but it worked just fine on suse 9.1. I'm guessing it's something to do with the adoption of X.org instead of XFree86, the major graphical change between 9.1 and 9.2. Has anybody else experienced such issues? I've been using linux since mandrake 8.1, but I haven't started messing with wine until recently. Thanks, Marcio Silveira

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antivir update
by Paul Ryan 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Does anyone know what is going on? This is a new installation I registered antivir with the old installation I get the same message with the Suse registration and with my registration, with the Duzako on or off Thank You Paul Ryan papa@linux:~> su Password: linux:/home/papa # antivir --update Warning: the file "antivir.vdf" is more than 14 days old AntiVir / Linux Version 2.1.0-9 Copyright (c) 1994-2004 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. All rights reserved. --update has been disabled.

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YOU and unlisted updates
by Peter B Van Campen 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Hi Folks, I did a YOU on my 8.2 system and saw nothing there for 8.2, but when I hit finish it d/l'd a new 2.4 kernel 2.4.20-127. It went OK, now running, but it got me thinking that I have seen several instances where an update gets on YOU but is never listed, nor explained. Usually I like to stay up-to-date, but it would be nice to know something about why an update is avail. Have any of you experianced this? PeterB -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --

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Help, hard drive problem - no Linux partitions found.
by Richard Mixon (qwest) 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Would appreciate any ideas before I bite the bullet and have to reinstall. I have a box I was using to setup mythtv using SuSE Pro 9.2. Its an Athlon XP 1500 with a WD 200GB drive, 512MB RAM. I had partitioned it with a 100mb "/boot", 512MB swap and the rest as an LVM storage group, which I then divided up into "/", "/var", "/cache" and "/mythtv". The only unorthodox thing I did (and I say that only in hindsight) was use the partition editor to change my "/mythtv" partition from Reiser to XFS while the partition was mounted. I had read that was much larger for large file. When I rebooted no I got a screen fully of numbers (TTY1, TTY2, ....) and no root partition found. I used CD #1 and asked it to automatically repair the system. It says it cannot find any partitions with Linux installed - of course I've had it rescan multiple times. The partition editor still shows all partitions as they should be. What should I do next? Thanks in advance - Richard

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