January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Suse 9.2 & Nvidia Geforce MX4000 video card
by Barrie Hill 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Mike, I have a Geforce MX 4000 running on SuSE 9.2. (and SuSE 9.1) It is a bit of work to get it going with the Nvidia driver, but this is how I do it. You need to get the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run driver package from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6111.html The latest is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run, but I haven't been able to get it working. There appears to be a known bug with this card and the latest driver. You will need the driver above for the MX4000. You may get some help at the nvidia forums as well. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14 There is a howto at http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html#020suse92 , but this didn't work for me. You need to install the correct kernel source package for your kernel. Use uname -r to get your kernel version. baz:/u00 # uname -r 2.6.5-7.111.30-default (This is the kernel from my SuSE 9.1 system) You then need to do a setup a few files in your kernel source area. cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig make modules After make module has run for a while, press CTRL C. The files you need are created in the first few files. You then need to go to run level 3 and cd to the directory that the nvidia driver is. Then sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run -q --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux Ignore the warning about rivafb Configure X.Org with sax2 -m 0=nvidia (Note: 0 is a digit, not a letter!) After sax2 is finished you can start you X with init 5 You should get a nvidia splash screen up and X should be up and running. The info above is very brief and not that well put together and does assume that you have some linux knowledge. If someone knows of a published howto could you please pass it on. You need to follow this procedure when you get a new kernel as well. This works for me but isn't necessarily the best way to get this driver to work. Hope this helps. Cheers, Barrie Hill > I just purchased a Geforce MX 4000 and tried installing SuSE 9.2, only > to find that the video adapter is not recognized by SuSE. Has anyone > here had any luck installing the nVidia Geforce MX 4000 video adapter? > It's defaulting to the Vesa adapter. > > Any help is greatly appreciated! > > Thanks, > Mike

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How to stop un-ejecting disk?
by Christopher Carlen 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hi: I put a Panasonic SW-9573 DVD drive into my Suse 9.1 machine. It works fine, except KDE and/or Suse's Windows-like "let's try to think for the user" silliness is causing the following problem: I put in a DVDROM to read, went to Konqueror's "Devices" clicked the DVD, and it mounted and showed the contents as expected. Then the drive continued to spin forever, and the LED lights every few seconds. The OS just continues "checking" the media, it seems. Then if I right click and select "eject" for the DVD, it ejects, then before I can get a chance to remove the disk, it sucks it back in a remounts it! How to fix this? Thanks. -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle(a)sandia.gov

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Relaying.
by Carlos E. R. 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hi, How on earth do I tell postfix to use diferent relays based on destination address, from addres, and posibly, ISP used to connect each time? That's the only way I could use relay servers instead of emailing direct - which I can't do, as all my providers seem to be blacklisted tonight. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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Newbe ask's where to untar files
by Chris White 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hi All, I am relatively new to Linux and have a question about tar files. I am running Suse 9.1 and had down load a tar file (firefox installer) into my download directory. I then untared it in my home dir and things were fine till I decided to delete the install dir. Well to make a long story short after deleting the folder I could no longer click on hyper links in email (evolution) to get to web pages etc. After much much googleing and mailing list searches, head banging on desk I found out how to fix it. I would have pulled out my hair but that option has all ready been used years ago. ...I'm bald now ..LOL My question is where is the best place to store and untar files in Suse 9.1 or any Linux distribution for that matter so I don't screw up as bad again ? Thanks in advance for your time and efforts. Cj "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

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Enabling non-anonymous users in vsftpd
by James Knott 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

I've been trying to enable user access to vsftpd in SuSE 9.2. I've added "guest_enable=YES" to /etc/vsftpd.conf, but users still are denied access. There is also a string variable called "guest_username", but I have no idea what's supposed to go there. Anonymous ftp login works fine. Any ideas? tnx jk

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SB Live 24-bit.
by Fred A. Miller 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Those of you who advised the new SB Live 24-bit card would work, were wrong. The module WON'T load......period. 'Back to square one........again. Fred -- The only bug free software from MickySoft is still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..."

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bind & nscd
by matice＠nic.fi 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

hello is there any particular need to have nscd run on a suse 9.1 system? or can i disable it, to what i know nscd performs address name lookup proxying. but that is not necessary of the server itself is a dns server and answers and forwards queries....am i missing somethin?? regards Matice

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Re: [SLE] VMware WS eaudio on SuSE 9.2?
by Michael W Cocke 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:03:56 -0500, you wrote: >On Tuesday 25 January 2005 02:31 pm, Michael W Cocke wrote: >> How are you creating the .mpx files? TTBOMK, the Lyra doesn't know >> what to do with a plain MP3. > >What's the model number of your Lyra? Ours are the 1021 (64mb) and the 1071 >(128mb) The only operational difference between those two are that the 1021 >isn't as smart about the information it shows on the screen so you have to >place the 'title, artist, album' info right into the mp3 file. > >But I'm using only mp3's. Maybe you have a model that won't play mp3s.... >'Sorry about thet' if so.... Jumping Jeepers! My wife has the 1071, which will indeed play MP3s with no need for Musicmatch. My old RD2211 won't (which is why I can claim ignorance with a straight face), but that's as good a reason as I need to upgrade. One less windows app - thank you for the info!! Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- 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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3ware sata controllers info
by Jack Malone 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

I have had several of the 3 ware ide raid controlles in my machines over the past few years but never have used one of the sata raid controllers. I'm thinking that I'm having a speed problem with ide 3ware raid an want to try out the sata version. I have seen that several people have had problems with sata an want to make sure that if I install one an use it as the boot device that I want run into any problems. I plan to use the Escalade 9500S-8 Storage controller (RAID). Thanks for any info on this one. If this is not a good controller an can you recommend one that your using with good drifve speed. Our server here is has asus k8v 64 bit mother board with 3200 amd cpu in it. I have about 26 or so computers logging onto this server. Since our accounting software upgrade (accpac) we have been seeing some slow downs in accessing it over the network, an from what I can see it not a network/bandwidth issue nor a ram problem so im thinking it might be the ide harddrives an filesystem. also seem to have a slow backup backing up to dlt vs80 tape drive. Before the upgrade we were not experiencing this slowness in using accpac on same machine. Thanks. jack malone Network Administrator EAST TEXAS LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND dba HORIZON INDUSTRIES 903-595-3444 http://www.horizonind.com

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Help with new ATI drivers
by sargon 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

After fighting the new (proprietary) ATI Radeon driver for three days, I decided to revert to the Xorg drivers, but I have run into problems. Suggestions are greatly appreciated. I removed the ATI driver and the kernel sources via rpm. I also ran modprobe -r to remove the fglrx module (the ATI driver module). I then did a modprobe radeonfb to install the original kernel module, and changed my XF86Config (I copied the backup I had previously made). However, whenever I reboot the ATI module still loads, and I must modprobe to get things correct. I obviously have missed something incredibly simple, but the brain is frazzled....

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