May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Gawd awful boot screen
by James Knott 21 May '05

21 May '05

I've recently installed SuSE 9.3. One thing I don't like, is that incredibly ugly, out of focus image that now appears, when the computer boots. How can I change it to something that's not so bad? I've tried changing themes, accordiing to the instructions in another thread, but it only takes effect after login. That image also appears during shut down. tnx jk

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Routing issues with eth1(internal) & eth2(external)
by Mark A. Taff 20 May '05

20 May '05

All, I sure hope someone can enlighten me. I am having a weird routing issue. Everything works OK, except I can't access the the external interface from a machine on my internal network. See network map pdf at http://www.marktaff.com/network.map.pdf See output of `ifconfig` and `route` below. From any internal (192.168...) machine, I can't ping/ssh liberty1-ext, but I can ping/ssh to liberty1-int. From each internal machine, I can reach all the other internal machines, and the router's external ip, but not liberty1's external ip. From outside my private network, I can ping/ssh liberty1-ext just fine. I want to be able to access the machine via liberty1-ext both at home and while traveling, yet still be able to access the private network from liberty1 via liberty1-int interface. Could the problem be my hub? Do I need to replace it with a switch, or perhaps a separate router? Seems like the hub should work? Thanks for all your help. -- Mark A. Taff +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ liberty1:~ # ifconfig eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B5:44:34:B3 inet addr:192.168.0.111 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b5ff:fe44:34b3/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:197992 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:13195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:63024816 (60.1 Mb) TX bytes:2299455 (2.1 Mb) Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8000 eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C5:B3:6D:63 inet addr:24.16.122.35 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.240.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:c5ff:feb3:6d63/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:8708383 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:48430 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:8845 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1003929910 (957.4 Mb) TX bytes:6020982 (5.7 Mb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:879444 (858.8 Kb) TX bytes:879444 (858.8 Kb) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ liberty1:~ # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 c-24-16-112-0.h * 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 0 eth2 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default c-24-16-112-1.h 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth2

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Wireless PCMCIA cards?
by Ben Rosenberg 20 May '05

20 May '05

Hello all. This has probably been beat to death but I'll ask anyway. Which PCMCIA cards just work with SUSE? The person I'm asking this for isn't all the sharpest knife in the drawer so he doesn't want to mess with ndiswrapper. Thanks in advance. -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."

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DVD Write failure
by David Johanson 20 May '05

20 May '05

In attempting to write a single sided (Memorex 4X DVD-R recordable) DVD with K3b and SuSE 9.2, I get repeated failures (although the first attempt and only that worked) with the following consistent information (except for the file size): Iso9660 Filesystem (Size: 3.7 GB) Press burn; get in display: Waiting for media .. . Writing DVD-R in DAO mode. Using growisofs 5.21 - Copyright (C) Andy Polyakov <appro(a)fy.chalmers.se Starting writing... :-( unable to open64("/dev/sr0",O_RDONLY): Permission denied Fatal error at startup: Permission denied Sony DVD RW DRU-510A Displays in Konquerer as: usb-DRX510UL_SYQ13030:0.0.0 but there is no icon on the desktop nor appropriate line is fstab. It will read the one DVD I was able to burn and it reads other DVDs. Display of debugging info provides the following: growisofs comand: ----------------------- /usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/sr0 -use-the-force-luke=notray -use-the-force-luke=tty -use-the-force-luke=dao -dvd-compat -speed=4 -overburn -gui -graft-points -volid SuSE 9.2 Backup -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR VERSION 0.11.15cvs (C) 2003 SEBASTIAN TRUEG AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer K3b - Version 0.11.15cvs -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1 -volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-dcjohan/k3b4DCZsa.tmp -rational-rock -hide-list /tmp/kde-dcjohan/k3bw9FMKa.tmp -allow-leading-dots -full-iso9660-filenames -relaxed-filenames -disable-deep-relocation -iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-dcjohan/k3b7KqC0b.tmp Any help would be appreciated. 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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ATI Radeon Drivers problem
by Vladimir Niksic 20 May '05

20 May '05

I own a Radeon 9600 pro video card. I downloaded a driver from one of the SuSE ftp sites, and got it to work fairly easily. 3D works great, glxgears shows a lot of fps. :-) However, the problem is that, when I kill the X server for whatever reason, the computer just locks up. When I restore the original xorg.conf, everything works great, and killing the X server does not lock up the computer. Am I the only one with this problem? Has anyone else had similar experiences?

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kernel upgrade
by Fritz Oppliger 20 May '05

20 May '05

Is it possible / adviseable to upgrade SuSE 9.2 with Linux kernel 2.6.8.2x to kernel 2.6.11? with other distros it is supposedly EASY. But YOU shows I'm at current level which is NOT 2.6.11 ? -- Greetings from Humboldt County California

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server upgrade?
by steve 20 May '05

20 May '05

Is it worth the time upgrading a minimum install nfs, nis and 9.3 nfs installation server from 9.2 to 9.3? Cheers, Steve.

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kde spash screen
by steve 20 May '05

20 May '05

How do I setup the KDE splash screen to appear system wide rather than each user having to specify it individually? 9.3 Cheers, Steve.

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Problem ripping CD
by sargon 20 May '05

20 May '05

I am attempting to rip a CD using Kaudiocreator, but I receive the following error: CDROM read or access error (or no audio disk in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to: /dev/dvd I have checked the permissions, the drive works (I installed SuSE 9.3 and StarOffice from it), so I am baffled. The device has the folling mappings: /dev/dvd symlinked to /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/hdc I also tried Grip to no avail. When I try to listen to any CD with any of the SuSE-supplied CD players, each tells me "permission denied." This worked perfectly under SuSE 9.2. When installling 9.3 I performed a clean install. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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NVU
by Fred A. Miller 20 May '05

20 May '05

Does anyone know of a compiled working current version of NVU? If so, where is it? Thanks! Fred -- "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!" Brought to you by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act(s) numerous Presidential Directives, etc.

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