November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Good Box for SuSE? ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe nForce4 Chipset w/ P4 3.0 GHz 2MB L2 with dedicated Linux hard disk
by lonn＠lonnd.com 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hi all, I am about to open my wallet for an ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe nForce4 Chipset w/ P4 3.0 GHz 2MB L2 and 1 GIG RAM. I don't expect to capture the major capability of this board with Linux, but WIN XP will use it to good gain. Any issues re: XP and SuSE on different hard disks? In '85 I did some Xenix with Informix SQL (multi-user) stuff on Altos hardware (OE/AR/Inventory) and then in '94 used SCO Open Desktop Unix with Informix SQL (again, multi-user, same tasks) on PC hardware. The docs were *extremely good* or I wouldn't have made the grade. For this board: ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe nForce4 Chipset w/ P4 3.0 GHz 2MB L2 and 1 GIG RAM 1. Can SuSE find the onboard SOUND? 2. Can SuSE find (ONE) NVIDIA 256MB PCI EXPRESS 16X card with second card position empty? 3. Can Suse use either or both of the (TWO) onboard 10/100/1000 ports? Now, after only a sprinkling over a 20 year period, and despite that I may be senior-senile (most of the time), I plan to use MySQL on a separate SATA150 80GB hard disk. I would be very pleased to get some feedback, so I don't place to large a bet on a bad odds thing. Please steer me to another list if there's one more appropriate to partially informed newbie. Is there a better mobo choice for a Linux Box? I don't need the ASUS P5ND2 graphics capability even in the WIN XP apps I will use. Best regards and nice to meet all, Lonn C. Dugan Lonn C. Dugan

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Is this post appropriate here?
by lonn＠lonnd.com 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hi all, I am about to open my wallet for an ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe nForce4 Chipset w/ P4 3.0 GHz 2MB L2 and 1 GIG RAM. I don't expect to capture the major capability of this board with Linux, but WIN XP will use it to good gain. Any issues re: XP and SuSE on different hard disks? In '85 I did some Xenix with Informix SQL (multi-user) stuff on Altos hardware (OE/AR/Inventory) and then in '94 used SCO Open Desktop Unix with Informix SQL (again, multi-user, same tasks) on PC hardware. The docs were *extremely good* or I wouldn't have made the grade. For this board: ASUS P5ND2-SLI Deluxe nForce4 Chipset w/ P4 3.0 GHz 2MB L2 and 1 GIG RAM 1. Can SuSE find the onboard SOUND? 2. Can SuSE find (ONE) NVIDIA 256MB PCI EXPRESS 16X card with second card position empty? 3. Can Suse use either or both of the (TWO) onboard 10/100/1000 ports? Now, after only a sprinkling over a 20 year period, and despite that I may be senior-senile (most of the time), I plan to use MySQL on a separate SATA150 80GB hard disk. I would be very pleased to get some feedback, so I don't place to large a bet on a bad odds thing. Please steer me to another list if there's one more appropriate to partially informed newbie. Is there a better mobo choice for a Linux Box? I don't need the ASUS P5ND2 graphics capability even in the WIN XP apps I will use. Best regards and nice to meet all, Lonn C. Dugan

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Test HDD
by Hans du Plooy 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hi guys, I'm having problems with a windows server that resets spontaneously. Normally I would suspect windows, but seeing as it is a fresh install, the hard drive seems to be the obvious culprit. Is there a tool, preferably one that I can run off a live CD, that will test the hard drive below filesystem level? Thanks Hans

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conventional mounting on Suse 10.0
by Istvan Gabor 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hello all: I would like to turn off automounting in Suse 10.0, especially for optical disks and floppy devices. I think changing only fstab is not enough. In 9.3 also had to change hal behavior creating and .fdi file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/ 95userpolicy/. (see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2005/05/ dkukawka_subfs_nomount.html) In 10.0 the above directory does not exist and seems that the things written in the above manual do not apply. Does anyboby know how to turn off automounting in 10.0? Thanks, IG _____________________________________________________________________ Angolul tanulna, de nincs ideje rá? Próbálja ki a levelező módszert. Hanganyag CD-n vagy kazettán. www.elo.hu/free

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Changing time make X go crazy
by Steven T. Hatton 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

This is, for the most part, just a curiosity. I've noticed that changing the system date setting through either the panel applet in the KDE, or through an xterm makes my monitor go into standby. It comes back if I click the mouse (and I will assume other HID events would produce the same behavior.) Can anybody explain why this happens? Steven

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Mounting a SGI disk?
by Rikard Johnels 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Hello all! Trying to mount a older SGI harddrive on a SuSE 9.3 system After loading the scsi driver it detects the drive ok, But i cant mount anything. I need to recover some files from it and have no access to a SGI box. fdisk shows: Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 522 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda1 boot 2 470 960925 a SGI xfs 2: /dev/sda2 swap 471 510 81920 3 SGI raw 9: /dev/sda3 0 1 2584 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda4 0 522 1070422 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512 1: ide sector 3 size 283648 2: sash sector 557 size 283648 Disk /dev/sda9 (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 1 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda9p1 boot 2 470 960925 a SGI xfs 2: /dev/sda9p2 swap 471 510 81920 3 SGI raw 9: /dev/sda9p3 0 1 2584 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda9p4 0 522 1070422 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512 1: ide sector 3 size 283648 2: sash sector 557 size 283648 Disk /dev/sda11 (SGI disk label): 64 heads, 32 sectors, 522 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes ----- partitions ----- Pt# Device Info Start End Sectors Id System 1: /dev/sda11p1 boot 2 470 960925 a SGI xfs 2: /dev/sda11p2 swap 471 510 81920 3 SGI raw 9: /dev/sda11p3 0 1 2584 0 SGI volhdr 11: /dev/sda11p4 0 522 1070422 6 SGI volume ----- Bootinfo ----- Bootfile: /unix ----- Directory Entries ----- 0: sgilabel sector 2 size 512 1: ide sector 3 size 283648 2: sash sector 557 size 283648 mount /dev/sda1 /media/cdrom/ mount: /dev/sda1: can't read superblock desktop:~ # mount /dev/sda4 /media/cdrom/ mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device desktop:~ # mount /dev/sda11 /media/cdrom/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda11, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so desktop:~ # dmesg |tail XFS mounting filesystem sda1 XFS: nil uuid in log - IRIX style log Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sda1 (dev: sda1) XFS: dirty log written in incompatible format - can't recover XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5 XFS: log mount failed EFS: partition table contained no EFS partitions desktop:~ # mount -t udf /dev/sda11 /media/cdrom/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda11, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so desktop:~ # dmesg |tail XFS mounting filesystem sda1 XFS: nil uuid in log - IRIX style log Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: sda1 (dev: sda1) XFS: dirty log written in incompatible format - can't recover XFS: log mount/recovery failed: error 5 XFS: log mount failed EFS: partition table contained no EFS partitions UDF-fs: No VRS found How can i mount this system and recover my files? -- -- /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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DHCP vs Static IP - SUSE 10.0 REVISITED
by Donald D Henson 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

I'm the guy who got frustrated trying to set up a laptop on my LAN after installing SUSE 10.0 and decided to go back to SuSE 9.3. It turned out that I couldn't get 9.3 to reinstall properly either. After several days of trying this and that, I finally determined that I had an intermittent problem with my laptop's optical drive. Short version: I bought a new laptop and installed SUSE 10.0 on it without any apparent problems. However... I am still misundertanding something about configuring the NICs. Everyone was a big help the last time we hashed this out. If you all would continue to help me figure this out, I'd really appreciate it. Here's my setup. It's changed a bit as the result of our previous session. My local network is Ethernet and is implemented with a Linksys router switch. The router switch connects to the cable via a cable modem. I've loaded SUSE 10.0 on the brand new laptop. The laptop connects to my lan via an internal 10/100 Ethernet card. At this point, everything is hard wired. The host names are: linux.site (file server and primary workstation) - SuSE 9.3 camino.site (secondary workstation) - SuSE 9.3 hplaptop.site (mobile workstation) - SUSE 10.0 There are three linux machines, but only one running 10.0, on my lan. The two 9.3 machine's NICs are configured to use DHCP. They can access the Internet and can ping in either direction to/from each other. When hplaptop is configured to use DHCP, hplaptop can access the Internet and can ping either of the other machines but the other two machines cannot ping hplaptop. If I change hplaptop to use fixed IP addresses, all three machines can ping everything on the local network but hplaptop cannot access the Internet. Here's a ping from linux.site to hplaptop.site, everything using DHCP. ===== dhenson@linux:~> ping hplaptop.site PING hplaptop.site (192.168.1.63) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 192.168.1.2: icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=4 Destination Host Unreachable --- hplaptop.site ping statistics --- 6 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 4999ms , pipe 3 dhenson@linux:~> ===== I'm not sure where ping is getting the hplaptop IP address but it is the one listed in the /etc/hosts file. Here's a listing of that: ===== # # hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address # mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly # used at boot time, when no name servers are running. # On small systems, this file can be used instead of a # "named" name server. # Syntax: # # IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname # 127.0.0.1 localhost # special IPv6 addresses ::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback fe00::0 ipv6-localnet ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts 192.168.1.60 linux.site linux 192.168.1.61 toshiba.site toshiba 192.168.1.62 camino.site camino 192.168.1.63 hplaptop.site hplaptop ===== My router-switch's IP address is: 192.168.1.1 My router-switch's subnet mask is: 255.255.255.0 As far as I can tell, the hosts all have the same subnet mask. The router-switch's DHCP is set to start issuing at 192.168.1.2 and to issue up to 48 addresses. I'm so confused at this point that I'm not sure if I'm giving you the info you need. If you need anything, just ask. -- Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules

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resmgr problem with /dev/mixer
by Sid Boyce 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

I'm seeing this problem on x86_64 SuSE 10.0, SuSE 10.0 x86 is OK and on Mandriva 2006 x86 where one box is OK and the other isn't, When the x86_64 box is booted, sound modules are not loaded, I have to do "rcalsasound restart" as root and change ownership of /dev/mixer from root.audio to <user>.audio. I have put a line in /etc/resmgr.conf add /dev/mixer desktop noacl With that line I still have the problem. On the Mandriva box the sound modules start, but I have to alter the ownership of /dev/mixer. In both cases sound works, but there is no mixer until I change the ownerships of /dev/mixer. /dev/snd/* all have root.audio ownerships and I leave them that way. Just a heads up in case anyone else is seeing this and I shall submit a bug to SuSE and Mandriva (resmgr not used). Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

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Re: [SLE] Printer filter to PDF file
by Terje J. Hanssen 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

> Tried also a Gnome login to OpenSuse, but didn't see the pdf file filter > available for the "Gnome printer". Possibly can it be set up also here? Looks like the solution is here: http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ Thanks, Terje J. Hanssen

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multiple install-sources in YaST
by Istvan Gabor 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hello all: There can be set up multiple installation sources in YasT. For examle KDE updates from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/x86_64/supplementary/KDE… and packages at ftp://packman.rsync.zmi.at/suse/10.0/. But there are packages, eg k3b that exists in both repositories. In this case when I use YaST to install softwares, in the packages window only the packman version is shown, the other version is not visible. How can I make all the different versions visible in the package-window so that I can choose which version (packman or default suse in this case) to install? Thanks, IG _____________________________________________________________________ Angolul tanulna, de nincs ideje rá? Próbálja ki a levelező módszert. Hanganyag CD-n vagy kazettán. www.elo.hu/free

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