August 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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How do I remove a sym link?
by Tom Nielsen 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

I've googled, but decided not to spend all night searching. File1 sym'd to file2 file2 sym'd to file3 file3 I want to remove the sym link from file2....how? -- ---------------------------- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com ----------------------------

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Compaq Proliant ML310 Server (No Hard Disks Found)
by Fareed Hussein 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Dear users, When installing SuSE Enterprise Server 8 on a Compaq Proliant ML310 server, we get a error "Hard disk not found" I assume its because a Smart Array Driver is required. Please may you advise where I can download the Compaq Smart Array 641 boot-time loadable device driver? Do I press ALT then insert the floppy disk during the install process? I have created a driver disk using rawwrite, press ALT at installation, insert disk, but SuSE just does nothing... Does not detect any controller. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Fareed

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KDE 3.3 /SuSE 8.2 and Signing emails
by Guillermo Ballester Valor 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I upgraded to kde 3.3 yesterday in my production system SuSE 8.2. (using apt, and using --reinstall flag). All gone well. It looks very nice. Thanks KDE team!. The only problem I got is that I couln't sign my mail with kmail anymore. I spent some hours trying to solve the problem without success. Finally, I guess it could be the gpg code (it had 1.2.2-rc1). I backported the SuSE 9.1 rpm file (with version 1.2.4) and after few fixes it runned and installed OK. Then the kmail problem signing email is SOLVED !!!. Any other 8.2 user has suffered the same problem with GPG when upgrading to KDE 3.3?. I'm not sure about it is a general problem. If the answer is yes then I will release the backported gpg rpm to my 8.2 repository (suser-gbv). Guillermo - -- Guillermo Ballester Valor gbv(a)oxixares.com Ogijares, Granada SPAIN Linux user #117181. See http://counter.li.org/ Public GPG KEY http://www.oxixares.com/~gbv/pubgpg.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBKvsSOA2UfsyErNQRAo7PAJ9lQZ8hfnB7zE9b3Xg8vATj65KWNgCfeE9i ewwhZ4TVQwDxjlygRAF3a7s= =IAzp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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SATA drives and SuSE
by Alberto Santana 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

A friend of mine got a Dell Precision 450 with 2 SATA drives which SuSE 9.0 can't recognize (installer says there are no hard drives). I know it can be installed in legacy mode (BIOS). Is it worth doing it or will 9.1 be a better way to go? Any comments/experiences??? alberto ------------------------------------------------------------------- Alberto Santana, Ph.D. Center for Chemical Sensor Development for Explosives Department of Chemistry University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez P.O. Box 9019 Phone: (787) 832-4040 x3760 Mayaguez PR, 00681-9019 http://www.uprm.edu/~asantana

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Windoze envionment on Linux?
by John N. Alegre 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

Is WINE still the Windoze emulater of choice on Linux? Is it on the SuSE Pro 9.1 disks? Where can i find docs on set up, config, and installation of Windoze software. About the only two things I need are an old version of Quicken 2000 to look at some old Quicken ledgers and a current version of Microsoft Publisher. All comments welcome john

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Will SuSE 9.2 contain the gatos (radeon AIW TV playback/recording) drivers?
by Pieter Hulshoff 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

I've been the happy owner of an ATi AIW (9000) card for quite some time, and was wondering if there are any plans to include the gatos drivers in the next SuSE release so AIW users can finally use their TV recording abilities under their favourite Linux distribution. Regards, Pieter Hulshoff

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apt updates
by Jerome Lyles 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

I'm using apt (synaptic) to upgrade some of my upgradeable files (alsa,apt,cups-drivers,audacity,gimp,k3b,openvpn,synaptic). But in every instance apt insists on also upgrading arts,art-devel,kdebas3,kdebase3-devel,kdelib3, and kdelib3-devel. It wants to upgrade the kde packages to 3.3.0-1, I'm using 3.2.3-7; Suse 9.1. Should apt/synaptic be insisting to upgrading the kde and art packages to upgrade the programs I tried to upgrade? For example, why should I have to update the kde packages to 3.3.0-1 for synaptic, a frontend for apt? Is there a problem here? Thanks, Jerome

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How do I install a bunch of files with rpm?
by Tom Nielsen 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

I downloaded a lot of kde rpms and instead of installing them one by one, I'm wondering if I can do so all at once with some command? Tom -- ---------------------------- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com ----------------------------

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PGP keyserver
by Danny Sauer 01 Sep '04

01 Sep '04

Ok, so this is really a gpg/pgp question, but what are you guys using for a keyserver? I have "keyserver search.keyserver.net" in my .gnupg/options and it never finds anything + never publishes my darned key. Is there a working keyserver out there somewhere that I can switch over to? This list is about the only place it matters, so I'm looking for opinions from you folks... Thanks. --Danny

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