March 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

New File System On a Flash Disk?
by Randall R Schulz 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

Hi, I just acquired a 1GB Lexar JumpDrive Sport and it came pre-formatted with a FAT-16 file system (gack!): % file -s /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x3c, OEM-ID "MSWIN4.1", sectors/cluster 32, root entries 512, Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/FAT 248, hiddensectors 32, sectors 2030560 (volumes > 32 MB) , serial number 0x0, unlabeled, FAT (16 bit) How might I go about putting a more rational file system on that device, given them my system accesses it via the whole subfs / automount business (which I really don't understand at all). I have not had any luck coming up with a fruitful Google search on this topic. A related question is what would be a good choice of file system for such a device? I use XFS on my hard drives, but my intuition says that this isn't necessarily the best choice for a device that I'll use to shuttle files between home and work. Thanks in advance for any information and suggestions anyone can offer. Randall Schulz

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Re: [SLE] Tape drive isn´t recognized!
by Joni Hoppen 18 Apr '05

18 Apr '05

Ok, My Tape drive is a Sony SDT-9000 If I go to /proc/scsi/scsi appears Attached devices: none if mt -f /dev/st0 status appears mt: /dev/st0: No such device my version is SuSE Linux 9.0 (i586) Kernel 2.4.21-273-smp4G / i686 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sheridan West" <sjwest01(a)yahoo.co.uk> To: "Joni Hoppen" <joni(a)fundacentro.sc.gov.br> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] Tape drive isn´t recognized! > Joni > > You need ide-scsi, and stick it your boot process > (there is a suse help tech note) > > I cannot get a Travan tape device to work in Suse 9.2, > it works fine in Suse 8.2. In the end I gave up and > bought a dvd rw. > > Your post is short on detail > > --- Joni Hoppen <joni(a)fundacentro.sc.gov.br> wrote: >> I am trying to install a tape drive but the system >> dont recognize in /dev/st0 >> when I installed it before on another computer with >> kde is was so simple. What can i do to make it works >> in text mode? >> >> Joni > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > >

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Slow partition: how to check?
by Pieter Hulshoff 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

Hello all, hdparm tells me that one of my partitions is really slow. While hda3 for instance gives me about 40-50 MB/s, hda4 only gives 4-8 MB/s. hda4 is part of a RAID partition together with hdc4. While hdc4 also gives about 40-50 MB/s, hda4 appears to be very slow. Does anyone know what might cause this, and how I might check or correct what is wrong? Regards, Pieter Hulshoff

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new wine, old problem
by Mike 09 Apr '05

09 Apr '05

Apt-get just updated wine but I still can not get it to run >wine --version Killed >wine --help Killed the last line of strace wine --help execve("/usr/local/bin/wine-preloader", ["/usr/local/bin/wine-preloader", "/usr/local/bin/wine-kthread", "--help"], [/* 65 vars */]) = 0 +++ killed by SIGKILL +++ Has anyone else had trouble with wine? I'm runnning a SuSE 9.0 updated by apt-get on a P4 with 644232k RAM. -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 Machines to trade http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600/trade.html Open Source Weekend http://www.osw.ca

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Router and 2 PC's question(s)
by John B 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Hey all, I really need to cut back on the spending, so unfortunately have to share a dial-up access. I've got one PC with SuSE 9.2, and the other (in another room) that runs W98. I bought a dial-up modem that has a built in router and 2 NIC's, one card for each system. My question(s): Once I put the NIC's in the systems and hook to the router, what kind of thing(s) do I need to do on the SuSE box? I want to use my dial-up access number and password, so that shouldn't be hard to reconfigure on the windows box, but I'm not sure what to do once I have each PC hooked up to the router. Thanks for any help with this. I have tried to read and study some networking sites, but all it seems to do is confuse me all the more. If someone could just give me a few steps or pointers to try, it'd sure be nice. John B.

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SLES9: how to recognize SCSI LUNs >= 8?
by Michael Behrens 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Hi all, does anybody know how i can make the SLES9 to recognize SCSI LUNs >= 8? I have set up a SLES9 (for IA64 architecture) on a DELL 1850 hardware, which has to be connected to a HP EVA3000 SAN via two Qlogic HBAs ql2342. The shipped drivers for the Qlogic HBAs work fine, I'm just not able to recognize virtual disks presented with LUNs >= 8, which I think is due to the module scsi_mod. I tried the parameters "max_luns=128" and "max_reported_luns=128" for module "scsi_mod" both in /etc/modprobe.conf.local and in /boot/grub/menu.lst, but still only LUNs < 8 are recognized by the driver. The qla2*-Modules don't seem to have any options regarding # of LUNs. The HBA's BIOS is configured to see 128 LUNs. It is a fresh installation with all the latest updates from Suse as of 20.1.2005. /proc/cmdline contains: root=/dev/sda6 max_luns=128 max_report_luns=128 vga=0x317 selinux=0 console=tty0 resume=/dev/sda2 elevator=cfq splash=silent -- Regards Michael

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kppp, kinternet or yast?
by steve 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Hi It's ages since I had to do a dialup installation. My client's ISP (wanadoo, Spain) tells me to use kppp to configure the installation. When I go to install kppp, yast tells me that kinternet is the tool to use. In the days of 6.2 I seem to remember it all being done with Yast. Surely, they write to the same files don't they? Does it matter which I use? Cheers, Steve.

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PWC webcam-driver
by Koenraad Lelong 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Hi, I downloaded the last version (pwc-10.0.6a) from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/files/ and tried to compile it for SuSE 9.1 but I get errors. I installed the kernel sources, did a "make oldconfig" (is make cloneconfig better ?), had to make a link to a symbols file (don't remember exactly). That's what is output : kllap:/home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a # make make -C /lib/modules/2.6.5-7.151-default/source SUBDIRS=/home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.151' CC [M] /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.o /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c: In function `pwc_isoc_cleanup': /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:937: warning: implicit declaration of function `usb_kill_urb' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c: At top level: /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2081: error: parse error before numeric constant /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2081: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2081: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2081: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2082: error: parse error before "int" /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2082: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2082: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2082: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2083: error: parse error before "int" /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2083: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2083: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2083: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2084: error: parse error before "int" /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2084: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2084: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2084: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2085: error: parse error before "int" /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2085: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param_named' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2085: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2085: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2086: error: parse error before "int" /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2086: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2086: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2086: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2087: error: parse error before "int" /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2087: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2087: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2087: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2089: error: parse error before "int" /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2089: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param_array' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2089: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2089: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2090: error: parse error before numeric constant /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2090: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `module_param_array' /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2090: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2090: warning: data definition has no type or storage class /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2077: warning: `leds_nargs' defined but not used /home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.c:2079: warning: `dev_hint_nargs' defined but not used make[2]: *** [/home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a/pwc-if.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-7.151' make: *** [default] Error 2 kllap:/home/koenraad/webcam/pwc-10.0.6a # I googled, but didn't find much. One thing that might help : my gcc is version 3.3.3 (standard installation from DVD). In one message from google, I read that the module should be compiled with the same compiler the kernel had been compiled with. How do I check this ? Any suggestions, pointers ? TIA -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.

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K3B killed my Burner
by wmeler 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

I installed a version of k3b 11.20-3 and now my machine doesn't know how to burn. In k3b it says "no burner found" or something to that effect (even though I can se the burner in k3b setup. Also, I can see the burner under Hardware Information in Yast and under the CD-ROM option. I get the follow when I do a "cat /var/log/messages" and I believe this is why my burner no longer works. This is after restarting the machine so this is mostly from the boot process itself: Mar 11 14:58:41 raphael kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Mar 11 14:59:01 raphael /usr/sbin/cron[6347]: (root) CMD ( rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly) Mar 11 15:02:13 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael last message repeated 41 times Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 501 Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael last message repeated 2 times Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael last message repeated 7 times Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 501 Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael last message repeated 2 times Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:02:15 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael last message repeated 42 times Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 501 Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael last message repeated 2 times Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael last message repeated 7 times Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 501 Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael last message repeated 2 times Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:02:54 raphael kcmshell: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:03:06 raphael k3b: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael last message repeated 41 times Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael k3b: resmgr: server response code 501 Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael last message repeated 2 times Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael k3b: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael last message repeated 7 times Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael k3b: resmgr: server response code 501 Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael last message repeated 2 times Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael k3b: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:03:07 raphael k3b: resmgr: server response code 502 Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: hdd: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdd, iso_blknum=16, block=16 Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: hdd: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: hdd: rw=0, want=1252, limit=4 Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: hdd: rw=0, want=1028, limit=4 Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael submountd: mount failure, Invalid argument Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Mar 11 15:03:08 raphael kernel: ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: hdd: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdd, iso_blknum=16, block=16 Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: hdd: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: hdd: rw=0, want=1252, limit=4 Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: hdd: rw=0, want=1028, limit=4 Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: UDF-fs: No partition found (1) Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael submountd: mount failure, Invalid argument Mar 11 15:03:09 raphael kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Please advise and thanks in advance! -- Cheers, wmeler

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ULB GNOME 2.8.0.2
by James Ogley 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Available today: ULB GNOME 2.8.0.2 This is a minor revision, not a full desktop upgrade. It includes netapplet, the seriously cool network switcher, as well as updated gnome-vfs2 and libgnome packages to use Firefox as the default browser, cos I've just fallen in love with it over the last few months - so it now depends upon SuSE's MozillaFirefox package (from the mozilla apt component) (Note: built for SuSE 9.1) -- James Ogley james(a)usr-local-bin.org GNOME for SuSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms

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