July 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

9.1 unuseably slow
by David Bottrill 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

We received a copy of 9.1 today at work and I have installed this on three machines with dissapointing results. The first machine was an IBM Thinkpad R40 with a Centino 1600 CPU. This machine worked fine and the performance was great. The second and third machines were unusable, KDE takes serveral minutes to start, attempting to start YAST for instance will take about a minute for the SU box to appear and then another minute for YAST to load. I get similar results for all applications I have tried, in all instances the system performs like a P100 with very little RAM. The machines that run slowly are both Athlon XP based machines, one being an Athlon XP 2400 with 1GB of DDR RAM on an ECS Elite motherboard. The second machine is an XP2000 with 512MB of PC3200 RAM on a PCChips motherboard. I have applied all the updates with no effect. Any ideas would be appreciated, I've had to switch back to 9.0 as the whole 9.1 experience is unuseable has anybody got any ideas? David -- David Bottrill Registered Linux user number 330730 www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699

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3600 RPM Drive Too Slow?
by dmc 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

I have found a source of cheap ($20.) 120GB 3600RPM HDD's. Other than needing to be patient using one in a backup role should I anticipate any problems with SuSE 9 or 9.1? My concern is potential time-outs or the like. -- Blessings ... dmc West Central Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This E-mail was generated using SuSE 9.0 Linux & Mozilla. This PC is free of all Microsoft products. Visit: www.suse.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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LDAP Profile on Suse Server
by Nagesh Jois 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Hi All, Slight of-topic question!! I have a Suse Server version 8.0 which is a Ldap,DNS and samba server for our network. I've added a Solaris 8.0 system to my network.I'am trying to use the same login credentials to login to the solaris box.But I'am not able to login. I guess I have to create/configure LDAP client profiles on an LDAP server to support Solaris. PL let me know how to do this?????? regarrds Thikimy --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!

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Trouble installing GLX drivers
by Robert Pollard 21 Aug '04

21 Aug '04

Hello all, I have made a little progress from my original problem in that I can boot into KDE now. I have successfully installed NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-2880.suse80.i386.rpm. I am now trying to install NVIDIA_GLX drivers and keep getting the following error: file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o from install of NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2880 conflicts with file from package XFree86-server-4.3.0.1-46 after typing: sudo rpm -ivh NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-2880.suse80.i386.rpm I have SuSE 9.0 and couldn't find any drivers later than 8.0. I don't even know if this could be the problem. If I have incorrect drivers please point me to a site where the latest OpenGL drivers are located. I have tried renaming a few of the libGL* drivers in various directories starting at /usr/lib but nothing seems to help. It would be nice to know which file it is having a conflict with. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Robert Pollard

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Partition Magic vs. Linux partitioner
by Paul W. Abrahams 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

I have a hard drive that works perfectly well under Linux but Partition Magic thinks it's incorrectly formatted. I've heard that there's some disagreement between PowerQuest (the company that wrote PM) and the Linux world over what the correct format of a partition table is; each thinks the other has it wrong. Does anyone on this list know about the disagreement and the best way to get around it? (The SuSE database yields nothing.) Paul Abrahams

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Ovider?
by Carlos E. R. 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hi, When I run (as user) wvdial on a console on SuSE 9.1, with the same configuration files as in SuSE 8.2, I get these messages (the connection works): --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied --> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky. --> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied --> --> CHAP (Challenge Handshake) may be flaky. --> pid of pppd: 6840 --> pppd: ovider --> Using interface ppp0 --> pppd: ovider --> pppd: ovider --> pppd: ovider .... --> Connected... Press Ctrl-C to disconnect --> pppd: ovider And a lot more of those "ovider" in between. What on earth are those "ovider" things? :-? I don't care about /etc/ppp/pap-secrets not been writeable - any way, pppd is suid: -rwsr-sr-- 1 root dialout 255044 2004-06-01 16:41 /usr/sbin/pppd* -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Why does Kpilot open Kmail at HotSync
by Alejandro Fernandez 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

I am using Kpilot to sync my palm (Suse 9.1). Everytime I perform a hotsync, KMail opens. I am not using Kmail to read my e-mail. Is there a way to stop Kmail from poping up? Regards, Casco -- Alejandro Fernández LIFIA - Laboratorio de Investigación y Formación en Informática Avanzada Facultad de Informática; Universidad Nacional de La Plata Calles 50 y 115 La Plata - 1900 Argentina Phone: +54 221 4228252 Ext: 219 e-mail: casco(at)lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar

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bootsplash 9.1 pro
by Carl William Spitzer IV 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Boot splash is installed. but on reboot the grub menu is still text not graphical. what turns it on. In 8.2 pro it had a nice graphical around the menu. Can I use my own graphic? -- | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/

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Microscopic fonts in GNOME SuSE9.1 ?
by Alex Daniloff 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hello SuSE folkz, After upgrading from 9.0 to 9.1 fonts in GNOME became unreadable - microscopic. Could somebody tell me please how to change it or reset to default font size. Thanks in advance, Alex

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ATAPI
by Donald D Henson 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

(SuSE 9.1 Pro) I've been trying to get grip to work. On the grip list, they tell me I need to specify a specific ATAPI device using a command-line option something like: -D ATA:0,0,0 except that I need to replace the zeros with my specific system information. Unfortunately, no one of the grip list seems to know how I can determine my specific system information. I'm sure there's a command somewhere, similar to fdisk for partitions, that will give me the info I need but I'll be danged if I can find it. Will some kind soul please tell me what command I'm looking for? Sincere appreciation for your time. -- Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The Non-Aggression Principle Rules

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