January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

problems with Iomega Zip drives in Suse 9.2
by Gaunce Lewis 04 Feb '05

04 Feb '05

I have just installed Suse 9.2, and can't get my Iomega Atapi zip drive to work. The boot log indicates that this drive is detected as hdd. However, when I run the suse hardware tool, it is unable to find the drive unless there is a zip disk in the drive. When I put a zip disk in the drive, the drive acts as if it is being read briefly more frequently than once a minute. The slows the system down dramatically an produces very frequently repeated string of msgs in the system log of the form Jan 31 00:00:20 linux /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[20540]: new block device /block/hdd/hdd4 Jan 31 00:00:20 linux /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[20550]: mount block device /block/hdd/hdd4 Jan 31 00:00:21 linux /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[20609]: umount block device /block/hdd/hdd4 Jan 31 00:00:21 linux kernel: hdd: hdd4 Jan 31 00:00:21 linux /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[20609]: umount: /dev/hdd4: not mounted Jan 31 00:00:21 linux kernel: hdd: hdd4 As far as I can tell, subfs doesn't support zip drives. I have tried inserting the appropriate entries in fstab for the zip drive such as /dev/hdd4 /media/zip vfat noauto,users but this has no effect. Similar fstab entries worked fine in Suse 9.1 and several different versions of Red Hat. The oddest thing about all of this is that, when I list the directory /dev, there is no entry of the form hdd4. Every other possible hdd# is there, but hdd4 is missing. However, this is the right partition for a vfat formatted zip disk. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Gaunce Lewis

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help with finding kernel-source-2.6.8-24.5.i586.rpm
by rada and gus 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Dear Susers, Does anyone know where can I find the kernel-source-2.6.8-24.10.i586.rpm package for Suse 9.2? I looked on the Suse site and googled without results. Thanks. Gustav Degref.

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Koqueror and cifs
by Henry Standing 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Whenever I access a mounted cifs share in Konqueror, Konqueror crashes. This worked fine in 9.1, and Windows 200 smbfs shares are fine. Any ideas? SUSE 9.2 extract (names & pwds changed) from /etc/fstab: \\ServerA\sharea /home/user/Documents cifs rw,uid=user,gid=users,username=user,password=passwd 0 0 \\ServerB\shareb /mnt/shareb smbfs rw,uid=user,gid=users,username=user,password=passwd 0 0 H -- _ Henry Standing (\o/) Systems Engineer /_\ Oxford Policy Management lists at opml dot co dot uk

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mouse/trackball cleaning (OT)
by Doug McGarrett 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Much of the standard "knowledge" says to clean mice and trackballs with alcohol and cotton swabs--Q-Tips. I have found this to be useless. When you open the device, you will find lint on the little rubber rollers that contact the ball. What you need to do is to scrape the lint off, using the edge of a knife blade. Also, look for lint on the roller-bearings at the ends of the axles that the little rubber rollers are on, and get rid of it. Finally, make sure that the little hair-spring wires that push the rollers against the ball are really doing so, or if not, bend them so they do. If there is animal hair adhering to the ball, remove it. This is a job for sure eyes and careful hands, and a good light. I use a high-intensity desk lamp, a sharp pair of tweezers, a small pen-knife, (an X-Acto will work fine) and a binocular magnifier, obtainable from Edmund Scientific, or (cheaper) from several tool companies. You may not need the last, if you are young and sharp-eyed. As you surmise, I have just done the aforementioned task, with good results. --doug

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How do I kill module ds9490r?
by Paul Alfille 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

I use 1-wire devices -- little chips and buttons made by Dallas Semiconductors that can monitor temperature, humidity, voltages, and switch things on and off. In fact there is quite a community around them, with everything from home HVAC and weatherstations, to door access control. The devices connect through either a serial or USB adapter, and that's where my problem lies. I head a software effort that has adapted the chips to linux, as a filesystem, among other ways. See http://owfs.sf.net It worked perfectly until SuSE 9.2 -- and the reason is SUSE now includes a kernel module ds9490r that attaches to the 1-wire USB adapter. And does nothing. It is an idea with no implementation. Unfortunately, I have to manually rmmod the module before my software, which uses libusb can attach to the device. I understand the wish to make SuSE as totipotent as possible out of the box. Loading a module with no utility that breaks existing software doesn't help, however. So, as simpler question, how do I disable autoloading of the ds9490r? Paul

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How to update subversion on a Suse 9.0 Pro
by gonews＠free.fr 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hello, I'm working on a Suse 9.0 Pro with Subversion. The installed version is an old one and I would like to update it. > svn --version svn, version 0.27.0 (dev build) compiled Jun 9 2004, 14:52:54 In Yast, my software source media are: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/yast-sour… If I have a look in 'Install and Remove Software' from Yast, things installed are: - subversion 0.27.0-209 (available version 0.27.0-95) - subversion-doc 0.27.0-54 (available version 0.27.0-95) - subversion-server 0.27.0-209 (available version 0.27.0-95) As the latest version (1.1.2) is not available from Yast, I tried to install the RPMs available here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/poeml/subversion/9.0-i386/ So using Konqueror, I tried to install the package subversion-1.1.2-2.i586.rpm but I get dependencies errors: > subversion requires libneon.so.24 and having a look in Yast, I have version 0.23.9-116 installed and Yast does not propose me to upgrade. So I've been looking on the web for it and I found that: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1514988/com/libneon-0.24.7-alt1… Using Konqueror and Yast, I tried to install libneon-0.24.7-alt1.i586.rpm but again I got into trouble: > libneon requires libcrypto.so.4 > libneon requires libggsapi_krb5.so.2 > libneon requires libk5crypto.so.3 > libneon requires libkrb5.so.3 > libneon requires libssl.so.4 and I'm pretty sure that if I try to upgrade these libraries, I will fall on other dependencies problems and so on... So could someone explains me how to cleanly install subversion 1.1.2 on my suse 9.0 ???? Thanks in advance, G.

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Camstream...
by John B 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hey gang, I was wondering if anyone has the latest and last Camstream tarball. I have 030623, but I'm positive there are much newer ones. Thanks for any assistance. John

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Network card + CPU load
by Hans du Plooy 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi everybody, I have noticed that on my workstation (P-III 1ghz, 512mb, Intel chipset, 100mbit 3com network), I can copy stuff over the network at about 8-9mb/s at the best of times. When I do this, my CPU usage is quite high. I notice the same thing on my home PC (2ghz Athlon, 384mb, Via chipset, SMC network card - tulip driver). On both these machines the CPU load seems to be directly proportional to the transfer rate on the network interface. I can only assume that his is because both these cards do a lot of the hard work in software, in the driver. Can anyone confirm/deny/explain this? Either ways, our office would be migrating to a gigabit network soon, and I'm tasked with finding good network cards. Can anyone recommend a gigabit network chipset that fully implemented in hardware - i.e. the network card itself does all the heavy lifting. I'm looking for someting that would affect the CPU usage as little as possible. Thank you -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

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Firewall headaches with NFS
by Dan 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

HI there all. Snowy weather over here in Denmark. What's the weather like where you are? I have been trying to setup a NFS server and a NFS client this afternoon. Two linux machines. I can get it to work via YAST on both machines but only if I DEACTIVATE the firewall on the server. (there is no firewall running on the client, though I'd to set that up as well at some point.) I have been surfing the net trying to find out what ports to open and have discovered that the NFS ports are dynamic. I tried opening ports 111, 2049 as well as 2100:2499 and 600:1399 but still without success. The client can only connect to the server if the firewall is off. Any ideas? Sorry, this is probably just a stupid newbie question! Hope you can help. Regards, Dan

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Kongi History
by Chris H 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Greets; I was wondering, is it possible to output Kongi's history file. While I am sure this is possible, unfortunately I cant seem to find where Kongi stores its history cache or flatfile? regards /ch

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