November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sound and SuSE 10,0
by Chadley Wilson 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Greetings, I am just curious,,, Has anyone here experienced a sound issue with 10 on more that say 8 PCs, all different specs? (sis, via, intel) Here at Pinnacle Micro in SA we use MSi Mainboards, and components. The sound is detected and configured correctly, I check the order of initialization and it looks good. But when KDE or Gnome starts there is a problem. I have solved this by adding an rcalsasound restart in the boot.local on each machine. Surely there is something else that loads after the sound that causes this... I wonder if my guess is right! Chadley

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Re: New USer
by Neal Wingate 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

WARNING: NEWBIE Hello all. I was was hoping someone could advise me on how to get started. Could someone point me to a good resource on file directory structure, how to install packages (is that what it's called) and general good house keeping hints? I promise to read and learn before asking silly questions in the future. Thanks you for your time, Neal ----- A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defence.

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Suseconfig hangs after online update (Suse 9.3)
by James D. Parra 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hello, After updating install, Suseconfig hangs on "tetex". <snip> Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.tetex... Tried stopping and restating suseconfig, but it hangs indefinitely on tetex. Any clues on how to correct this? Many thanks, James

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slib and SuSE10
by Donn Washburn 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hey Group; Anyone running SuSE 10 and "SuSEconfig" seeing a problem that "guile and slib" is having? I have tracked out the error to {guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib)} which works but when the rest of the command is {guile -c "(use-modules (ice-9 slib) (require 'new-catalog)") it fails. That is because new-catalog is not known and as best I can tell it is not a valid command variable. Replaced with "random" and the error goes away. Not being 100 % sure of what "guile" is for and short of screwing with "info guile" - man offers no help. Anyone known what guile and new catalog are supposed to do? -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage:" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Apache2 and php error
by Donn Washburn 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hey Group; This type of error comes from every file.php program. Like phpMyAdmin, timesheet and blogcms. All of them are in /srv/www/htdocs/. php modules are defined in /etc/apache2 by Yast2 and it has been restarted lots of times. OS: SuSE 10 Beta 4 modules: php4-mysql-4.4.0-5 mod_php4-core-4.4.0-5, apache2-mod_php4-4.4.0-5 pcre-devel-6.2-2 pcre-6.2-2 Error (sample) Warning: preg_match: internal pcre_fullinfo() error -3 in /srv/www/htdocs/phpMyAdmin/libraries/defines.lib.php on line 36 Anyone have an idea? Could it be coming from a modules conflict. -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage:" http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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remote xdm kdm confusion
by Peter Sutter 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

I have problems in accessing some SuSE V9.2 systems remotely. A X -query system :port works with all those X servers that were originally running SuSE 8.2 and were upgraded to SuSE 9.2; it fails to connect to all systems on which SuSE 9.2 was installed from scratch. What baffles me, is that if I choose xdm as the display manager on the server, it works, if I choose kdm as display manager, it doesn't. Where does the difference in behaviour come from? The display manager settings in YaST is on all systems exactly the same, /etc/sysconfig/diaplaymanager is identical, as is /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. I prefer kdm over xdm and would like to get it going. Thanks for any help Peter

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SuSE 10.0 Eval + TNT2
by Rui Santos 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hi, This is something that has happend to me and, could proove usefull to someone at the same time I place my question. I installed SuSE 10.0 Eval on a machine with a NVidia TNT2 (I know - It's old). The problems begun, when i wanted to activate 3D on the Card. So, as usual i ran you to update the driver automaticly. Bad idea... The card stoped working at all... Next step was to download the latest nvidia-install from nvidia.com and give it a go. It also didn't work... So, after reading a few dosc at nvidia.com, i found out that, all installers >= 75xx don't support the NVidia TNT2 amongh others. So I've tryed version 7174 of the nvidia-installer. It almost worked. The problem now was that, after a reboot, there was no display available to be loaded. The solution was to add a few lines to /etc/udev/static_devices.txt. Those lines were: #nvidia by Rui Santos nvidia0 c 195 0 666 nvidia1 c 195 1 666 nvidia2 c 195 2 666 nvidia3 c 195 3 666 nvidia4 c 195 4 666 nvidia5 c 195 5 666 nvidia6 c 195 6 666 nvidia7 c 195 7 666 nvidiactl c 195 255 666 After this all worked well. Is there any other way to solve this? Is this the correct way? It seems to work... -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/

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connecting two machines with a router, no internet connection
by James P. Bennett 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hi, As the info below will show, I know nothing at all about networking and, until last week, never needed to. I have a simple router which worked fine when connecting two PCs running XPpro. Now I'm trying to use it to connect two workstations, each running SuSE 10.0 (one 32- and one 64-bit), but there is no connection to the internet or to any isp. (Yes, I know I could do this with a crossover cable, but I shall intermittently have network connection soon.) I tried assigning one machine a local address of 10.0.0.1, making it the dhcp server, but no joy. There seems to be no way to use Yast to create the connection that I want. Any suggestions? jim bennett

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Adding package repositories
by ashutosh 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I just wanted to add third party package repositories using 'Installation Source' in YAST control center,but it just seems to wait indefinetly on 'Adding installation source' dialog after I put put in values and click to add the source.Is there any debug mode or log file or command line alternative that tells what is going on? regards, ashutosh

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LILO vs GRUB
by Matt Stamm 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm recent pruchased a new PC with a single SATA drive. I was unable to install SUSE to this PC using the default install. Every install attempt resulted in a GRUB error on the initial boot after the first CD. Changing the bootloader from GRUB to LILO fixed the problem and resulted in a successfull install. I'm concerned that I could not install SUSE with the default settings. It appears that SUSE, and the Linux community prefers GRUB and that GRUB is a more powerful bootloader than LILO. I do not plan on having any other OS on this PC other than SUSE. Should I be concerned that I could not use GRUB? What is the downside to using LILO instead of GRUB ? Any advise or comment would be appreciated. Matt

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