November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Bad blocks on a ReiserFS volume. How to retrieve files?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 14 Aug '24

14 Aug '24

I have a large hard-disk (120 GB) on which some blocks went bad. Now, it cannot be mounted. Attached is what debugreiserfs says. What can I do; I'm newbie to reiserfs architecture. I thought that ReiserFS keeps copies of the superblock or something, like ext2/3 does. reiserfsck says "error occured looks like hardware problem. bread cannot read block 13271040". That's the actual number it displays. PS I have asked the same question on the reiserfs-list, but it's extremely low traffic. Maybe someone here knows more. Thank you Filesystem state: consistency is not checked after last mounting Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x1642 of format 3.6 with standard journal Count of blocks on the device: 29945160 Number of bitmaps: 914 Blocksize: 4096 Free blocks (count of blocks - used [journal, bitmaps, data, reserved] blocks): 29154954 Root block: 14969 Filesystem is NOT clean Tree height: 4 Hash function used to sort names: "r5" Objectid map size 10, max 972 Journal parameters: Device [0x0] Magic [0x34ae2c74] Size 8193 blocks (including 1 for journal header) (first block 18) Max transaction length 1024 blocks Max batch size 900 blocks Max commit age 30 Blocks reserved by journal: 0 Fs state field: 0x0 sb_version: 2 inode generation number: 35482 UUID: 48d29ced-fe37-4c68-adf8-32ace9f2be45 LABEL: Set flags in SB: ATTRIBUTES CLEAN

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Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 17 May '24

17 May '24

I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say about the free SuSE "Installation support". The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected It's rather stupid. I have installed 9.1 using the DVD disk just in the HP DVD drive, but after the installation of 9.1, the KDE/Konqueror /media/recorder cannot access it and YaST2 cannot install additional software from it. Only one "Cdrecorder" is found in My computer and that is the Yamaha 4416 drive, which the KDE/Konqueror file manager assign as /media/recorder11. I am sure 9.1 is the reason, as I hadn't this problems with 9.0. I have tried both an update and two several new installation of 9.1. Neither SJDS nor Windows on the same multiboot PC have problems to detect these devices. In my opinion SuSE should therefore debug 9.1 better and longer, and not leave the problems to the customers. I see SuSE notes on their web saying that they know SCSI scanners are not detected in 9.1. But regarding my HP DVD writer problem, the SuSE support (as usual) don't take the responsibility and argue that this problem (a combination of IDE disk and SCSI devices) isn't included in their free installation support! This sounds remarkable, and I have never had a modern PC of so simple model or configuration that it has fitted the limited rules for the free installation support. Terje J. Hanssen

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[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Web Site Standards
by Bryan Tyson 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: > I tried to visit this site. > http://www.bet365.com > The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. ----------------------------------------- Subject: Create a Real Web Site Please From: Bryan S. Tyson <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> To: webmaster(a)bet365.com When attempting to view your site using Konqueror 2.2.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4, both Linux web browsers, I was curtly informed that my browser is "incompatible." Your site, sir, is what is "incompatible." Stick with established standards and real html, not Microsoft proprietary "features." *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Mount Windows NT(NTFS) drive as drive Z: for all users
by Keith Jacobs 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8 Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted. Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux

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Adding fonts?
by Tracer Bullet 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

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Problem with procmail
by Carlos E. R. 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm having a problem with some mails handled by one particular rule in procmail - all the rest are being handled ok. The .procmailrc goes like this: VERBOSE=on LOGFILE=$HOME/procmail.log ... cut :0 * ^Received: from correo.foo.es { :0 * ^Received: from (ruebert.ieee.org|engine.ieee.org|hormel3.ieee.org|boldfish.ieee.org|aries3.…) $HOME/Mail/in_ieee :0 * ^FROM_DAEMON $HOME/Mail/in_daemon :0 $HOME/Mail/in_foo } The problem is that mail matching the "^Received" clause above goes to the "/var/spool/mail/cer" folder instead of the "$HOME/Mail/in_foo" that corresponds. The log is this, showing a write error: procmail: No match on "^List-Id: <husky-discuss.lists.sourceforge.net>" procmail: Executing "/usr/bin/spamc" procmail: No match on "^X-Spam-Status: Yes" procmail: No match on "^^rom[ ]" procmail: No match on "^From.*FETCHMAIL-DAEMON(a)nimrodel.valinor" procmail: No match on "^To.*virusalert(a)nimrodel.valinor" procmail: No match on "^From.*(MAILER-DAEMON|postmaster)(a)nimrodel.valinor" ... procmail: Match on "^Received: from correo.foo.es" procmail: No match on "^Received: from (ruebert.ieee.org|engine.ieee.org|hormel3.ieee.org|boldfish.ieee.org|aries3.…)" procmail: No match on "(^(Mailing-List:|Precedence:.*(junk|bulk|list)|To: Multiple recipients of |(((Resent-)?(From|Sender)|X-Envelope-From):|>?From )([^>]*[^(.%@a-z0-9])?(Post(ma?(st(e?r)?|n)|office)|(send)?Mail(er)?|daemon|m(mdf|ajordomo)|n?uucp|LIST(SERV|proc)|NETSERV|o(wner|ps)|r(e(quest|sponse)|oot)|b(ounce|bs\.smtp)|echo|mirror|s(erv(ices?|er)|mtp(error)?|ystem)|A(dmin(istrator)?|MMGR|utoanswer))(([^).!:a-z0-9][-_a-z0-9]*)?[%@> ][^<)]*($.*$.*)?)?$([^>]|$)))" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" procmail: Opening "/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock So far, normal. procmail: Error while writing to "/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" procmail: Truncated file to former size A write error. What write error? procmail: No match on "^Received: from pop.tiscali.es" procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored .... procmail: Bypassed locking "/var/spool/mail/cer.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/cer" procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/cer" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Notified comsat: "cer@0:/var/spool/mail/cer" >From sombody(a)somewhere.com Wed Aug 31 20:17:13 2005 Subject: Final.... Folder: /var/spool/mail/cer 952289 I have copied over the emails in /home/cer/Mail/in_foo to another folder, then deleted, recreated in_foo, and finally copied back all the emails. The folder has 57Mb (392 emails) and Pine seems happy with it, no complaints. Ideas? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDFflQtTMYHG2NR9URAuBbAJ96DTk33WG7nb+BfwkIB40MTql0qgCffUW8 i7c5FLtIHFDl86hb4moJhu8= =k4MY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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print from K-Mail run together
by Doug McGarrett 01 May '06

01 May '06

I don't remember seeing this problem on the list. KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are separated. When I print out a mail, some letters, particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations are scrunched together with adjoining letters. I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The typeface on screen (and on paper) is a sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are too close together. Suggestions? TNX--doug

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Can't open Transcode tarball or it doesn't exist
by Peter B Van Campen 29 Apr '06

29 Apr '06

Hi Folks, I have been trying to get a tarball of transcode to compile on my SUSE 9.2 system. Every pkg I have d/l'd from the sites listed on the Transcode Wiki page: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode are unopenable. Every one, including the beta versions. Have I made one of those embarrassing newby errors? Konqi Filemgr says : "The file does not exist" even tho it lists it. Is there a location for a transcode I can open and compile? PeterB p.s. The pkgs are unopenable on my SUSE 8.2 sys also -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --

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screen, mouse, kb lockup
by Doug McGarrett 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7, I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor, the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing. None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams like to say. Is there anything else I could have done? I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen 10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken, this fool will break it!)

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Fwd: Re: [SLE] php4_unixODBC
by Sven Haberer 04 Apr '06

04 Apr '06

good idea - please see here: http://www.susewiki.org/index.php?title=HowTo:_PHP4_ODBC Hope this is detailed enough... BTW, thats my first wiki entry ever... Am Sonntag, 24. April 2005 22:36 schrieb Richard Bos: > Op zondag 24 april 2005 23:36, schreef Sven Haberer: > > If desired, I could post a short description how I did this... > > If you can put it own the wiki (http://www.susewiki.org) than we can all > maintain it. > > -- > Richard Bos > Without a home the journey is endless

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stopping dictionary attacks on sshd
by Dan Abernathy 30 Mar '06

30 Mar '06

Hello all I notice several automated break-in attempts appearing in /var/log/messages regarding sshd. A small sample: Nov 7 14:34:10 d8400 sshd[18607]: Invalid user a from 71.129.198.189 Nov 7 14:34:11 d8400 sshd[18609]: Invalid user aaron from 71.129.198.189 Hundreds of entries like the above, working their way through every English letter using common first names, also names of services like Apache. I ran across this Novell Cool Solutions article: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16341.html It describes the use of a shell script, run once per minute using a cron job, that parses information from /var/log/messages and adds offending IP addresses to /etc/hosts.deny. I saved the script as ssh-block.sh in my home folder, in a subdirectory named cronjobs. I used su to become root and ran crontab -e, and added the script to run once per minute. Entries in /var/log/messages confirm that the shell script is indeed being run every minute, but the contents of /etc/hosts.deny hasn't changed at all, despite the presence of failed sshd log-ins (also written to /var/log/messages). Can someone knowledgeable about shell scripts take a look at the URL above and see if there is a problem with the script? If not, what did I do incorrectly? What's the proper way to run this job regularly? I assume it must be run as root, both to read /var/log/messages and to write to /etc/hosts.deny. Dan

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TV spool
by Carlos E. R. 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is there a program in Linux, that allows me to save the TV stream to a file, then watch that file somewhat later, at the same time you are saving the program? There are hardware boxes that do this. You know, you are watching a program, somebody phones you, so you press a key, and later you continue watching from the point you stopped, while the box continues saving the rest of the program that is still on air. But to do that on a PC, in Linux? - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDcKEHtTMYHG2NR9URAjhGAJ4zENessY1F846qOYQQQlql7EE9MACfVo+j kWFCdTZLa39Rrm+1k9BBaMk= =AQcO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Mounting an SD card with a Ricoh CardBus
by CPHennessy 22 Feb '06

22 Feb '06

Hi, I've a laptop with a SD card reader, which when I use "lspci" I can see is a 06:09.0 Cardbus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3) When I insert an SD card it is not mounted automatically. Should it be ? How can I mount it manually ? Thanks, CPH

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Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG under SuSE 9.2?
by Jesper Andersson 20 Feb '06

20 Feb '06

Dear everyone, I wonder if anyone has any experience of getting the wireless eth-card in a Dell Latitude D600 to work for SuSE 9.2? The card is an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG. It is recognised by the system as such, and I am able to configure it in Yast without any obvious problems. However, it doesn't get an IP-address. This is in contrast with the same laptop in the same location booting the XP partition, in which case it finds the network, gets an IP and chats away happily. The setup is the same for SuSE and XP: DHCP, named ssid, WEP-ASCII-5char encryption. The following may be relevant version numbers Kernel 2.6.8-24 wireless-tools 27pre26-10 ipw-firmware 3.3 During boot I get the following messages (some of which sound a bit omnious, but I am not certain how serious they are) that I interpret as related to the problem <4>ieee80211_crypt: unsupported module, tainting kernel. ("tainting is bad, right?") <7>ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL' <4>ieee80211: unsupported module, tainting kernel. . . <4>ipw2200: unsupported module, tainting kernel. <6>ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200 Network Driver, 0.8 <6>ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation . . <6>eth1: Setting MAC to 00:0e:35:ad:e3:81 <3>ipw2200: Calibration and the later on when trying to connect eth1 device: Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05) eth1 configuration: wlan-id-00:0e:35:ad:e3:81 ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 mode Managed' returned Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. eth1 (DHCP) . . . . . no IP address yet... backgrounding. waiting If anyone recognise the problem and has a solution to it I would be for ever grateful. Please also be gentle with me if/when replying. I am a bit of a beginner and don't handle jargon very well. Puss Jesper

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postfix setup.
by pelibali 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi, I'm not sure, that its easily possible, but running few comps in a network, I would like them to pass my root e-mails to my own machine. I setup already the alias, so my "normal" user can read everything already, but only locally. This I would like to change by the following scheme: - if my computer is available, then the messages should be transfered, - if my computer is not online, messages should wait in a queue, until it appears again. This should happen with no error-messages, no expiring, etc. I don't ask for complete solution for this problem, but please let me know, what I would need to get the above system up and running. At present I have postfix installed and running on all the comps; UIDs/GIDs are identical on all of them; all SUSE, but various versions. Thank you, Pelibali

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External disk choice
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

I have a 4-year old DELL desktop with a heavy CRT monitor that I'm going to give away soon . I also have a 2 month old laptop. Both computers run Linux/SuSE. I would like to buy an external disk to save most of my s/w development now residing on my old desktop. But I would like to be able to use it also with my laptop. Both computers have some USB ports so I daresay an external USB disk would be fine .. I'd appreciate some suggestion about a USB reliable, large capacity but portable, external disk or any alternative solution. Thank you in advance. Maura

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unsuscribe
by Linda Miller 07 Feb '06

07 Feb '06

unsuscribe

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SCSI RAID recovery
by Robert Amodeo 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I have a fileserver running SuSE 8.0 with 2 IDE Drives and a SCSI RAID (RAID5). The system boots up to one of the IDE drives, and the SCSI RAID drive runs as a mounted filesystem (/dev/md0). (all filesystems are REISERFS). Problem: The SCSI RAID drive has crashed (won't boot up), and I need to recover it (repair it, through some utility). Further: The software does not seem to want to mount the disks, even though the SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) recognizes the disks, and they are listed as OPTIMAL. I tried to repair the disk(s) (with reiserfsck), but it produced an error message: reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2 reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16 reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs form found on /dev/md0 The literature suggested that this error message is hardware related (either a disk is physically damaged, or maybe the RAID isn't recognized), but again, the disks are recognized (and therefore, so is the SCSI Card). I tried to boot up with SuSE CD 1 in Recovery mode, but not sure what to do there (i.e., after the root prompt - just run reiserfsck?). Literature suggests there are plenty of tools to handle disk recovery, and especially RAID support, I can't find reference to them anywhere. The installation of the RAID was trivial (using the YAST2 partitioning GUI window on startup), and yet recovery seems to be a mystery. This can't be right. Does anyone know where there are "decent" and "usable" recovery tools? OR ... does anyone know what "specifically" to do in this case? Can I re-partition without formatting, and recover the existing data? Any help is appreciated - I'm sure I'm missing something "obvious", but can't find "obviously" what to do in the literature, docs, etc. Thank you. Robert Amodeo School of Engineering and Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles

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Apache2 Won't Start
by Linuxjim 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all. I'm setting up a new SuSE 10 install. Apache 2 won't start. I had apache2 working, with php5 and squirrelmail, but something dorked up. I get the following error... ------------ Starting httpd2 (prefork) Syntax error on line 10 of /etc/apache2/mod_status.conf: Invalid command 'Order', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration The command line was: /usr/sbin/httpd2-prefork -f /etc/apache2/httpd.conf [1A..failed --------- mod_status.conf reads as follows... -------- <IfModule mod_status.c> <Location /server-status> SetHandler server-status Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost </Location> </IfModule> -------- I'm not sure what this means, but I don't see any misspellings. Not sure what other module it might be looking for. It was working, basic index.html came up (set owner and group to "root" in htdocs. I was looking around in Yast>Netwrok Services>http, I might have changed the running status of one or two modules, but not sure what happened. Many thanks, Jim

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Using k3b
by Tim Hanson 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

I have a large jazz CD collection, a lot of which may not be available forever. I'm concerned with things I've read that CDs and DVDs may be subject to deterioration. I also know that CDs can also be damaged by scratches, etc. I'm familiar with and have successfully used the CD cloning utility of k3b to create a playable (with a standard CD player) duplicate CD, but I want to copy the entire image to my hard drive, so I can keep it there in case the original becomes unplayable later. I have no interest in creating a bunch of duplicate CDs, most of which will never be used in my lifetime. When I clone directly to my hard drive, the program created two files: k3b_0.img and k3b_0.img.toc. This is fine, but I can't figure out how to write this image to another CD. I've read the documentation that comes with the program without success. -- "Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets" -- The Brigader, "Dr. Who" -- We cannot put the face of a person on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead. -- James E. Day, Postmaster General

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Gizmo for SuSE 9.3
by Alfredo Cole 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi: Is there a rpm package for SuSE 9.3? It seems to be targeted at debian-based systems only. Any other installation instructions would be welcome. Thank you. -- Alfredo J. Cole Grupo ACyC

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9.3 Review
by David Johanson 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Linux Magazine (Linux Pro in the US) has a 4 page review of the 9.3 release in the June 2005 issue, pgs 44-47. "Novell's Suse Linux 9.3 is a feature-rich, and robust Linux distribution. At first glance, the new version does not seem much changed from 9.2, but a lot of work has gone on under the hood. The distribution is definitely good for new users. If you already have Suse Linux 9.x or a similarly recent system, the update is only worth the effort if you are unhappy with your current setup. If you use external media on a regular basis, the update is definitely a good idea. . . . " dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe

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Re: [opensuse] support for hda=remap command
by David Flood 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Thank you sir. I will try that when I get home from work and let everyone know if it works. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke(a)gwdg.de> Sent: Nov 9, 2005 3:35 AM /etc/modprobe.conf.local is the right place for special module options, also for those which make it into initrd.

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New machine problems, looking for culprits
by Paul Alfille 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

A new AMD64 bit machine, new SUSE 9.3, should be heaven. Machine hangs after a few minutes of use, but I can't tell why. I hope someone recognizes a problem part so I can address it. Parts: Motherboard: Asus A8V-E includes: Disk controller: VIA SATA and IDE drives Network: Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E gigabit sound, usb, firewire on board CPU: AMD Athlon64 XP3500+ Graphics: Gigabyte PCI-Express 6600GT (NX66T128D) Attempts: WinXP: Embarassingly stable. SuSE9.3 (64bit) crashes Fedora Core 4 64-bit crashes Ubantu64 crashes DamnSmallLinux (embedded under XP with QEMU) stable!!! Obviously SuSE is my choice. I keep trying online update, hoping that the system will stay up long enough to complete and that a fix is coming. Any thoughts? Paul Alfille

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ATI Drivers and SuSE 10
by William H Lugg 19 Dec '05

19 Dec '05

Well, I just updated my 64-bit machine to SuSE 10. Wow, it couldn't have been easier! Except... I'm having trouble finding my way to the tools necessary to get the 3D video driver working for my ATI Radeon 9550 video card. The release notes when I did the upgrade indicated that I could use YOU, but I'm not seeing how that works. Alternatively, it seems like I should be able to point YaST to a site that has SuSE rpms for the driver. Where should I go to get the file(s) I need to get this beastie to working? Thanks. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO

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Bug #105871 High speed USB storage device with low data rates
by Basil Chupin 18 Dec '05

18 Dec '05

It would appear that this bug was first detected on 19/08/05 and was eventually placed on high priority to be fixed in SuSE v10. Does anyone know when this bug WILL be fixed? I check for new fixes everyday and none have yet appeared. There is a "fix" for this bug (and it works well) but it only works for what are called pendisks or flashdisks or flash "sticks" but it does not solve the problem (unless one creates a separate file for each detected volume and loads the appropriate one at the right time) if one attaches to the USB port an external HD - like I have and which has 3 partitons all formatted in different colours (ntfs, FAT32, and reiserfs). Cheers. -- Don't argue with an idiot, people may not see the difference.

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Downgrading my Kernel
by John Meyer 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi, I need to downgrade my kernel so I can work with the debugger in Kylix. Does anybody know how I do this?

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gcc-g77 missing from SUSE10 DVD
by Terry Eck 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Am I blind or is the FORTRAN compiler missing from the latest 10.0 distribution. SuSE 9.3 contained the gcc-g77 rpm but I cannot seem to locate the similar rpm for SuSE 10.0. Can anyone help? I installed the ftp version and just purchased the boxed SuSE 10.0 hoping to install the FORTRAN compiler, no luck so far. Terry -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) -- 2.6.13-15-default -- Sat 11/26/05 11:30am up 1 day 1:07, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.05, 0.04

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Scanner on parallelport.
by Erik Jakobsen 10 Dec '05

10 Dec '05

Hi. Is it possible to get an old parallelsacnner to scan in SuSE 10.0 Eval ?. I have the impression, that its should be an USB or SCSC scanner. Erik Jakobsen

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help for sight impaired people
by Doug McGarrett 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Some weeks ago I inquired here about assistance for those who have difficulty seeing, as I am one, at present. I am effectively blind in the left eye and have cataract in the right. Some of this may be ameliorated in the future, some will probably not be. Nothing came back at all. The font in K-Mail out-going is about 8 point on my 17" screen, as is the font on the message names for the incoming mail. I have not been able to change this, altho the actual incoming message font I was successful in changing. I do not have access to my Windows machine at present, due to mechanical failure, and this is the only way I have to communicate. Is there no way to make SuSE Linux friendly to optically-challenged users? Please, someone, reply. --doug

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pppd doesn't always call ip-down
by Carlos E. R. 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have observed that, sometimes, when the modem connection goes down, the pppd daemon doesn't always call ip-down - or rather, not /etc/ppp/ip-down.local. The pppd daemon calls /etc/ppp/ip-up when the connection goes up, and /etc/ppp/ip-down when it goes down. Those scripts, written by SuSE, call in turn /etc/ppp/ip-up.local and /etc/ppp/ip-down.local, where we can place our customization. I employ those scripts (.local) to launch mail fetch/send cycles and a few things more, like clock sync. In fact, ip-down is a symlink to ip-up: there is only one script, but with two different sections based on the basename. The "down" section code of ip-down contains this: ip-down) restore_nameservers isdn_restartinterface start_firewall # call ip-down.local if it exists and is executable: if test -x /etc/ppp/ip-down.local ; then /etc/ppp/ip-down.local "$@" | logger -p security.notice -t ip-down.local > /dev/null & fi ... For example, tonight it failed. I can see that the pppd daemon calls ip-down: Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: Terminating connection due to lack of activity. Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: Connect time 4.4 minutes. Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: Sent 29179 bytes, received 144156 bytes. Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 9097) Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x6 "Link inactive"] Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x6] Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: Connection terminated. Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: Waiting for 1 child processes... Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel pppd[7913]: script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 9097 * Nov 7 23:58:30 nimrodel pppd[7913]: Terminating on signal 15 * Nov 7 23:58:30 nimrodel pppd[7913]: sending SIGTERM to process 9097 * Nov 7 23:58:30 nimrodel pppd[7913]: Exit. Nov 7 23:58:29 nimrodel snort: pcap_loop: recvfrom: Network is down But ip-down does not run, it doesn't print anything. Normally, it would print something like this, at least: Nov 4 03:27:39 nimrodel ip-down: SuSEfirewall2: Warning: ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled. _________________________^^^^^^^ but sometimes, like tonight, it doesn't print. Some times it runs, sometimes it doesn't. An intermittent failure... In fact, looking again at it, I think pppd is killing the script ip-down ("sending sigterm..."). Why? When it works, the log is somewhat different (the differences are marked with an *): Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: Terminating connection due to lack of activity. Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: Connect time 3.5 minutes. Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: Sent 42882 bytes, received 86405 bytes. Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 649) Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x6 "Link inactive"] Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x6] Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: Connection terminated. Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: Waiting for 1 child processes... Nov 7 21:52:41 nimrodel pppd[32132]: script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 649 * Nov 7 21:52:44 nimrodel pppd[32132]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 649), status = 0x0 Nov 7 21:52:44 nimrodel pppd[32132]: Exit. Where should I loot at? Ideas? (I have SuSE 9.3, but I have seen this behavior previously, I think). - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDb+wqtTMYHG2NR9URAgKIAKCTtA0+45JphEBe0igV5gCQpwbOBgCfajcd Qsq5AMZf/w4UQn1SFf4XNQs= =SAVJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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PC running (SuSE 8.2 Pro / WinME) bootloader lilo -> grub
by Mick Higgins 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi List, I have belatedly made the change from lilo to grub carefully converting my lilo config to grub'ese. It seems to work as expected. However, I have a couple of questions which I cannot track down in any off-line source (man, info, howto's etc.) and I am not able to trawl google or list archive with a time-limited unmetered dial-up connection at present. 1. In lilo I always used the boot-floppy option so as not to upset WinME. How do I do something similar in grub? 2. When the bootloader menu appeared in lilo I could interactively overide the default runlevel (ie: boot to runlevel 3 not 5) when necessary. How is this achieved in the grub menu? I will accept a URL to the appropriate list archive entry or web page. Apologies if this has been dealt with before. -- ** Message sent via KDE KMail v1.7.2 on SuSE Linux v8.2 ** Please reply in the format that this message is sent. ** Thanks.

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Request for Codenames for SUSE Linux 10.1, 10.2
by Andreas Jaeger 07 Dec '05

07 Dec '05

During the 10.0 beta phase we had the theme "Towns of Development teams" and used these for Codenames like Prague, Boston etc. 10.1 Alpha1 was named "Auckland" under the same theme. For the future, I'd like to open the discussion on what we do. I propose the following policy: * We only use one Codename for the whole release, e.g. for the whole 10.1 release cycle, no codenames for snapshots or betas. * We have a theme that we can use for all our codenames, so the 10.1 and 10.2 codenames have the same theme. * A codename should be able to be visualized. I'd like to have e.g. a different photo on the grub boot screen for each Alpha/Beta etc. - all under the same codename. So, there should be different ways to visualize the object that are interesting and we can easily get say ten variations. What do you think of this? So, let's open a competition: Send your proposals for a theme together with some examples for codenames and how they can be visualized. An example: Theme: "Towns of Development Teams" Codenames: Prague, Boston, Nuernberg,... Visualization: Photo of a place in the town. I've created a wiki page for this, please add your proposals there, it is: http://www.opensuse.org/CodenameCompetition I'd like to choose 5 out of the proposals and then let's vote for the Codenames. Let's collect codenames for the next 7 days (until end of 2005-11-20) and then vote on them. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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isolinux initial keyboard dead (Asus P5GD2 Board, suse-10.0 CDs/DVDs)
by Bernd Melchers 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Asus P5GD2-Premium Board Pentium 640 CPU, 2x512 MB Ram PS/2 Keyboard Cherry RS 6000 M ATi X600 Graphics Powercolor SATA Maxtor 250 GB disk I maintain some systems with the above configuration. They boot flawlessly with Knoppix, suse-9.2 and Windows XP-CDs. They work flawlessly with Knoppix, suse-9.2 and Windows XP. But it is NOT possible to boot them with (suse-9.3 or) Suse-10 installation or live CDs or DVDs, neither x64 nor i32 versions. I upgraded mb bios and DVD-Drive-Firmware, nothing helps. I changed BIOS PnP/OS, ACPI-2 and APIC Options, nothing helps. I see this: I insert the optical medium, boot, the Bonjour-Screen appears. Then when the grub boot menu appears, the keyboard is absolutely dead. So it is not possible to select an boot option. Therefore, after the time out, grub boots into the "boot from harddisk"-Menu-item and dies. I checked the MD5-Sum of the optical disks and could use them to install other computer with other mainboards. mit freundlichen Grüßen Bernd Melchers --

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OpenOffice 2.0 and Gnome Menus
by Birgit Kellner 06 Dec '05

06 Dec '05

Hi, the OO 2.0 beta version delivered with SuSE 9.3 had proper Gnome file selector dialogues, but was otherwise buggy. I then installed the official OO 2.0 release from the source code as soon as it was available - gone were the nice Gtk dialogues, and I was left with the (much more impractical) original dialogues. Now I updated the whole system to OpenSuSe 10.0; again, no gnome dialogues, even though the gnome-plugins for OO are installed. Any clues how I can get the Gtk dialogues back? Thanks, Birgit Kellner

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Memtest and installing 9.3
by JB 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi gang, I'm trying to install 9.3 on my girlfriend's system but having some troubles. All the hardware seems to be picked up fine, and everything works great up until it's time to install all the software I picked. It starts to install, but at random intervals and (I guess) random packages, it pops up windows saying such-and-such rpm cannot be installed (something about bad checksum). We tried this 6 times (a LOT of time went by doing this). I later thought 'maybe it's the RAM'. I wrote her an e-mail telling her to do the memtest86 thing, but she says it opens a console and wants a root login name and root password. Since we haven't been able to install anything there is no root anything. How do I get the thing to do the memtest if there's no root name or password? I really want her to try Linux and she's wanting to also, even her daughter is pretty enthusiastic about trying it out. Thanks, John -- Ragheads and illegal aliens...the world's cockroaches.

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Firewall stops internal ICMP.
by pelibali 04 Dec '05

04 Dec '05

Hi, I have a small home-net, where a SUSE 10.0 machine serves as a router. Everything works as expected, all the clients can surf / e-mail, whatever, but there is a smaller issue disturbing the harmony... We have dial-up connection and surprisingly I found, when we have no active connection, our clients _don't_ know about and they really wait until the initialized e.g. web-address will be timed-out. So in fact the router doesn't immediately let the clients know, that there is no connection and they have to find it out after a while, just "alone". Checking the firewall log showed me, that the ICMP (error-) messages don't arrive to the clients, because they get blocked (192.168.0.1 is the router, 192.168.0.6 is the client; in particular case trying to imap-ing e-mails from 146.123.123.123): Nov 26 11:28:17 trincsi kernel: SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.0.1 DST=192.168.0.6 LEN=101 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=64 ID=3105 PROTO=ICMP TYPE=3 CODE=0 [SRC=192.168.0.6 DST=146.123.123.123 LEN=73 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=20782 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=59061 DPT=143 WINDOW=6368 RES=0x00 ACK PSH FIN URGP=0 OPT (0101080A0004BF9602DCDD03) ] Please could you suggest me a solution, how to get these ICMP packets arrive to my clients and let them through susefirewall? Maybe that's the same issue, but from clients I simply can't ping the router! I never needed it and don't plan to use something like that, but probably I would have to allow icmp somehow generally. I spent already hours with the configuration, until now no fruits. Any ideas are very welcome. Thank you, Pelibali

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SuSE 10 Install Failure
by David Johanson 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

I purchased the boxed set of 10 and have been trying for over a month to get it installed on my SCSI based system. I put in a service request to Novell over a month ago and we have been "playing" around since then trying to see what's wrong with my system. When we finally reached a point of determining that the problem was that YaST was getting confused with the install because I have more than one CD/DVD drive in the system, it was announced, today, that Novell does not support installs on SCSI based systems anymore except on a pay for call basis and it was suggested I ask about the install problem on this list. So, has anyone had any problems installing on a SCSI based system and if so what has been the work around? System consists of the following: 4 matched removable SCSI HDs, only one of which is turned on during the install 1 each DVD writer and reader and 1 each CD writer and reader. All except the DVD writer are SCSI, the DVD writer is IDE and is the device used for the install attempts (I've tried all 4 devices but all fail during the loading of the packages) because it ( the IDE Sony DVD) is by far the fastest device. Below is a typical error I get when trying to perform the install during the package writing phase: "error: /var/adm/YaSTInstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_ 0X00000001/MEDIA/suse/i586/ghostscripts-fonts-other-8.15rc1-29.i586rpm:MD5 digest: BAD Expected (cb29d41081097a3cd4feeda767aeb453) != (e8aa68850260b19cbc0d44f43a330b2d)" This error will repeat with just a different package name for all packages other than the first three packages. Below is a quote from Novell tech service: "After installation of the first packages the access to /mnt/var/ gets lost, resulting in errors like: Could not open logfile '/mnt/var/log/YaST2/y2logRPM' cannot get exclusive lock on /mnt/var/lib/rpm/Packages cannot open Packages database in /mnt/var/lib/rpm Yast got confused by your quite unusual system." I've installed all versions of SuSE Linux, from 7.3 - 9.3 inclusive, on this box before without this problem. Any help on how to get 10 installed greatly appreciated. dave

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SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV in /var/log/warn?
by Steven T. Hatton 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV What does this mean? I'm having trouble transferring data from a site which I believe is very fast. I've noticed there are messages in the warn log containing the string shown above and also the IP address of the sever in question. Any ideas?

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feature-request: Voting in Bugzilla
by Alexey Eremenko 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Hi all! The current openSUSE project's bugzilla has 1 serious drawback - no voting system. Some problems might seems to be "small" by the development community, but turn out as serious issues for users. For this reason I ask you, the openSUSE project leaders to add a voting system to openSUSE bugzilla, like in Mandriva, where users can vote for problems/ bugs/feature-requests, that must be solved first.. A *Community* project needs this effective way to *communicate* with its users. -Alexey Eremenko. 20.nov.2005.

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To compile 64 bit?
by B. Stia 03 Dec '05

03 Dec '05

Hello SuSE people. Question: Am running an AMD 64 processor. There are still not all programs that are 64 bit. I know that the system will handle 32 bit stuff but I was wondering if an src file can be compiled to 64 bit. Ex: Tonight I went to download smart at Guru's site. There were no 64 bit versions, only i686 and src's. I hesitated to download either because I didn't know if either of them would work without problems. Bob S..

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openSUSE @ FOSDEM 2006
by Christoph Thiel 02 Dec '05

02 Dec '05

Hi everyone, the sixth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting (commonly known as FOSDEM, [http://www.fosdem.org/] will take place during the last week-end (25&26) of February 2006 in the city of Brussels, Belgium. It's an annual 2-day event hosting talks, tutorials, and stalls for the free software/open source community. It is organized by volunteers at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Access to all parts of FOSDEM is free, but donations and sponsors are welcome to help fund the event. As you may have already noticed (because Pascal blogged about it), we will have an openSUSE 'DevRoom' (Developer Room) @ FOSDEM and most likely a booth as well. Therefore, we are in the very early stages of preparation and would like to team up with you to organize the openSUSE @ FOSDEM event. To start off, we would like to get your opinion on what topics, presentation, talks, tutorials, etc. you would expect from openSUSE @ FOSDEM? And if you would like to deliver a presentation, talk, tutorial? The ultimate goal would be to have presentations distributed equally amongst community members and SUSE / Novell employees. Here are some possible topics, that are basis for discussion far: - presentations + openSUSE in general (what happend so far, what's up next) + openSUSE build infrastructure + SUSE Linux 10.1 - highlights and features - dicussion + SUSE Linux 10.2 - dicussion / plans for the future + Usability and Documentation - tutorials + packaging the SUSE-way + using the build infrastructure + LIVE CD construction + Customizing SUSE Linux That's it for the moment, we are all looking forward to a lively discussion and a great collaboration. Have a nice weekend Christoph

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10.0: Amarok issues: freezes when handled & won't play files with odd charachters
by JW 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Just installed SuSE 10. Amarok, which was a fairly nice application in 9.3, will "freeze" for about 5, 10 seconds whenever I do anything, such as queue a track, add media, or use the sidebar. If a song is playing it will "pause" while the app is thinking about doing what it needs to. Is there anything I can do about this? It's incredibly annoying. I'm always queuing the next few tracks I want to listen to while it's playing and the little "freeze" routine in the new version just makes me unhappy. Another problem is that it won't play songs with unusual charachters in the ID3 tag, like a question mark: "What Child Is This?". never realized so many Christmas songs had questions marks in the title until now ;-) What's worse is it won't skip them, if just sits there claiming it's playing and never making sound, or moving on to the next track. Anyone else having these problems? XMMS plays all the files just fine, just like always. If I could get the Wake Up Alarm to compile on 10.0 I'd leave amarok alone and go back to XMMS. Thanks. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com

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SUSE 10 DVD
by Kai Ponte 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Just FYI, my copy of Linux Magazine arrived today. It includes the full (not OSS) DVD of SUSE Linux 10.0. Now, if someone would kindly tell me why the Chameleon is named "geeko." -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Re: [SLE] SUSE 10 DVD
by Kai Ponte 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:33:47 -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: > > >> Now, if someone would kindly tell me why the Chameleon is named > >> "geeko." > > > >I suppose it is a pun on the name of the gecko which is a > >Chameleon-like animal found at least in California. > > Wrong :) We had a public naming contest four or five years ago and geeko > was the name that won. Ahh, okay, thank you. I am glad to hear that was the reason. Since I started with SuSE a few years ago and noticiting that SUSE 10 continues with the chameleon, I often wondered why a chameleon would be named like a gecko. Of course, IMO, geckos are far more pleasing to the eye than chameleons. :P -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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3DLabs Wildcat 4210 and X
by Rikard Johnels 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hello all! I just got a what i believe is a 3D Labs Wildcat card in a older SGI box. At least that is what the info on the machine said was in there... Can i get it to run anything than VESA 800x600? I cant seem to find any modules for that card. lspci shows: 01:00:00 VGA compatible controller: Intergraph Corporation Sun Expert3D-Lite Graphics Accelerator (rev 64) SaX2 says its a vesa card. And only gives me 800x600@16 bpp and i know for sure the card can do 1600x1200 Anyone running such beast under X? -- -- /Rikard ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- email : rikard.j(a)rikjoh.com web : http://www.rikjoh.com mob : +46 (0)736 19 76 25 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >

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Press release from Novell about KDE/Gnome
by Kevanf1 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

I've just got this in a newsletter direct form Novell. It should ease everybody's mind...I hope. KDE and GNOME There has been a lot of debate over the last few days in the media and on message boards about what is happening regarding GNOME vs. KDE at Novell. Here's the situation. All future enterprise-class Linux product releases, including Novell Linux Desktop, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Novell Open Enterprise Server, will continue to ship with both the GNOME and KDE desktop environments. In upcoming versions of Novell enterprise applications, the default desktop environment will be GNOME. When customers install Novell Linux products, they will be given the option to choose either the GNOME or KDE environment during the installation process. If the user makes no explicit choice, GNOME will be installed. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Take care. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

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ftp4.gwdg.de FTP Server Down (HTTP is OK)
by Randall R Schulz 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi, I don't know if Eberhard M. is aware of it or not, but the FTP server on ftp4.gwdg.de has been down since at least about 16:00 GMT yesterday (Tues. morning here on the N.A. west coast). The HTTP counterpart is up and running. Randall Schulz

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