November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

GeForce 2 and the legacy nvidia driver on SuSE 10.0
by Jean-Francois Lemaire 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hello, Has anyone been able to install the "legacy" nvidia driver for a GeForce 2 graphics card under 10.0? I can get it to compile, but the installer tells me it can't load the module. I tried with version 6629 and 7174. It seems to me it may be an issue with GCC 4. -- Jean-François Lemaire

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/mnt used/not used with Samba?
by elefino 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hi. I'm still playing with getting Samba working, at home - I tinker for an hour every week or two.... Google coughed up an article suggesting that directories be created in /mnt to match any smb shares. I'm not clear on whether this generic advice would apply to SuSE. My /mnt is completely empty right now. My system is SUSE 10.0 If somebody has a working Samba arrangement on a very simple network (two or three PCs on a 4-port router at your house), do you have anything in /mnt on your Samba server? Does it correlate with your Samba shares? Kevin

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RE: [SLE] DHCP vs Static IP - SUSE 10.0 REVISITED
by Marlier, Ian 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Donald D Henson [mailto:wepin@wepin.com] > Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 5:36 PM > To: SuSE Linux > Subject: [SLE] DHCP vs Static IP - SUSE 10.0 REVISITED > > 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 <snip> The SuSE Firewall will cause pings to fail. Disable it, and then try pinging the HP again.

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Contact Moderator
by bob 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Would the moderator please email me privately about a problem. Bob Rea Atlanta GA

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Re: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
by Carlos E. R. 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2005-11-03 a las 13:26 -0600, david rankin escribió: > > and the new disk is number 3, hdd. I can not install grub there, nor > > can I use a boot partition there. I haven't tried lilo yet, but I > > might. I wonder if I could test lilo first without installing it. > > > > The "funny" thing is that the bios does see that disk (although > > incorrectly). Even MsDOS 6.0 (yes, plain old dos) can boot from that > > disk. > > That's stange Carlos. > > I just installed 2 new 250G drives, installed 9.3 and Grub did just fine. > Who knows...... It must be related to my bios, it's a triffle old (circa 2001), it thinks it is a 120 Gb disk (and it is 160). Linux sees it complete, no problem; I can even boot plain dos from it. But grub doesn't see it at all! I have my /boot partition on another HD, because till the kernel boots that HD is inexistent. - -- Saludos Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDanY4tTMYHG2NR9URAnghAKCBcd3gQXcysVsxG5/83og4ScsJLgCfXAeh J7y6tmxd2+ctN1cCy3CEJtY= =hM64 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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manipulating the system speaker
by Tim Hanson 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Does anyone know of a utility to manipulate the system speaker? I am building a pc that will be "storage only," a bunch of drives, headless, no gui, accessible only with ssh from my desktop computer or the main server. What I need is a utility I can put last in the boot sequence, so I know the thing is booted and I can login. Alternatively, is there a utility that will play a short .wav or .mpg from a startup script? -- Insanity is the final defense ... It's hard to get a refund when the salesman is sniffing your crotch and baying at the moon.

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Re: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
by Carlos E. R. 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2005-11-04 a las 08:55 +0100, Gerhard den Hollander escribió: Please, remember to post to the list. > > Yes, it does have to do. It is 9.3, an installed system working for > > several years now; what I was doing is upgrading one HD, not the system. > > But in that case, grub (again) has nothing to do with it. > > All that matters is if the booted system sees the 3rd disk. > > Maybe Im misreading you, but it sounds like you are using grub to diagnose > wether or not suse 93 can see your /dev/hdd . No. I said already that Yast sees the disk, fdisk sees the disk, the kernel sees the disk; and the system is up and running, with that disk. I said that it is _only_ _grub_ who does not see that disk, but I hope that now the point is clear. I had to place /boot on another disk, or it would not see it. > Of course grub does not see the list. > You have added a disk, but you have not updated grubs device map Shouldn't Yast be clever enough to do that? Perhaps it did, perhaps it didn't. The file is dated on Oct 8, that is fairly recent. > The autocompletion feature you are using in your original example only > offers the devices that are listed in /boot/grub/device.map. I didn't see in the manual a mention of that. Is it needed only for autocompletion, or something else? If I force hd3 it complains. | grub> root (hd3,1) | | Error 21: Selected disk does not exist > > That is something else then saying that grub does not see the disk. As far as the messages I see go, yes, it does not see the disk. Why, is another thing, and it is not clearly stated in the manual what I should do. The troubleshooting section didn't help. I read it. > > Suggested reading: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html I'm not connected. I have the manual included in the distro, the info pages. I suppose you mean "grub-install --recheck", but that does nothing but pop the useless help page again: | |Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device |... | --root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR | instead of the root directory |... | --recheck probe a device map even if it already exists | |INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename. | And INSTALL_DEVICE is: a) where the MBR is b) where /boot partition is c) where "/" partition is? Mind, all three are different devices in my case. Should I also use the option --root-directory? What is the exact command I should use, then? Anyway, it is a simple text file, I'll edit it by hand. It works. I'll try booting later. I'll let Yast bootloader install do his job. [...] No go. I get "Grub Hard Disk Error" before even getting the boot up menu. This means: Hard Disk Error The stage2 or stage1.5 is being read from a hard disk, and the attempt to determine the size and geometry of the hard disk failed. and the systems (plural) were now unbootable, all of them. I went to Yast rescue thing on DVD, it repaired a few things, broke some others (including the bootloader) and systems remained unbootable. I tried "boot installed system", which also failed, because it mounted the root filesystems RO - even if mount command said that it was RW. I had heard of that problem before, but without access to my systems, I couldn't read it up. I booted then the rescue on CD, got a linux, repaired a bit of what the Yast rescue had broken on /etc/fstab - for instance, this: dev/hda9 /data2 swap pri=42 0 0 dev/hdb5 /data2 swap pri=42 0 0 It is saying I should MOUNT my swap partitions!!! :-/ and reinstalled grub where it was, getting the command from a backup: root (hd1,1) install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd1,1)/grub/menu.lst quit rebooted, and up and running. So, several hours later, I stay where I was at the beginning... grub can NOT read my big disk. The linux kernel can. MsDOS 6, can. Good grief! :-( Perhaps I'll try lilo. At least, I can understand how it works. - -- Saludos Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDbMzwtTMYHG2NR9URAt+UAJwM0uQ+xHlNN6K8rxU0SlSq2K7EIACdFUka 7147FjQyljAm5rvvnUfgilQ= =/Np0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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frequent hard disk failures - 9.3?
by Carlos F Lange 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Hi, Since I upgraded my 2 PCs at home and 9 PCs at the university to SuSE 9.3 (clean install, all partitions ReiserFS) I had 4 hard disks either crashing or showing bad sectors. In all cases the failure is (I still need to confirm one case) hardware related and there is no apparent pattern: they were Maxtor, Western Digital (2), and Seagate disks, EIDE and SATA, new and old, on Intel and on AMD boards, so I can't pin the blame on any particular brand or type. But I can say that it is definitely an unusually high number of hard disk failures. Since I am one of only 2 in the department running SuSE and my colleague also had a hard disk crash while running 9.3, whereas the rest of the MSerfs (and a couple of Mac addicts) in the department may have lost one HD in the same period, it is starting to look bad. :( I wonder if it is just here, or if someone else also noticed higher number of crashes. I remember a previous thread from July, where people tried to blame ReiserFS and others convinced them it was mainly hardware. Well, hardware seems to be the case here, but then again, SuSE and ReiserFS were the only things in common among the 4 failed HDs I had in the past 4 months. Am I seeing things, or what? Carlos -- Carlos Frederico Lange -------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientific Programmer: professional who loves to _find_ own errors.

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lprng to cups
by Simon Dales 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

A new machine has CUPS and some old ones have LPRNG; how do we print from the old PCs to the printers attached to the CUPS m/cs? Bearing in mind the old PCs work just fine, so replacing LPRNG with CUPS isn't an option. What I was looking for was some kind of LPR-like client. -- Simon Dales, Software Consultant "The impossible is easy"

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LDAP yast2 server config
by Chadley Wilson 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

Greetings, I am setting up a server and would like to configure it with LDAP. The server is to be used and administered by other techs who are not linux orientated, Is the a yast2 module I can get somewhere for configuring and maintaining and ldap server, or is there an ldap console for linux that I can install? Thanks Chadley

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