May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

HP Pavillion ZV5000 (AMD64)
by Art Fore 18 May '05

18 May '05

Installed Suse 9.3 on this machine, but the screen looks terrible, so much so that one can harly read the fonts. Changed the fonts to Aria which helped some, also seem to be better with anti-aliasing which is unusual for an LCD display. Resolution is 1680X1050, also a little ODD. Had to remove the mode lines and display lines referencing 1024X768 to force it to that though. This is poorest display for that resolution that I have seen. Is this normal or is there anything that can be done about it? Also, the Nvidia driver will not work with it. X just locks up with a fuzzy display. It is using the "nv" driver. Art

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Problems with an external hdd drive
by Davide Dolcini 18 May '05

18 May '05

Hello I've recently bought an external usb hdd drive. I've formatted it on windows, so it uses the ntfs fs Anyway, i tried to plug the drive on the pc with SuSE 9.3. The drive was mounted automatically, but i was unable to browse the tree of the hard disk. I tried to explore the drive as a normal user and as root, but the result was the same, althought permissions on the directory were set automatically to 777. So i tried to add this line to fstab /dev/sda1 /rem_disk ntfs noauto, user, ro 0 0 i created the /rem_disk dir giving to it the 'normal' permissions i gave to other removable drives. I mounted the device but i was unable again to explore it Right now i can only see files as root. I think the problem's in SuSE's automount system, but i don't know how to do to read the files on the device. Thanks in advice

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OT: Test message
by Mark A. Taff 18 May '05

18 May '05

Test -- Mark A. Taff

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[Question] ns83820.ko
by td＠linuxgang.com 18 May '05

18 May '05

Hi, anybody here aware of this? I am using some DLink DGE-500T Gigabit NICs based on the ns chip. With Suse Linux 9.3 a fatal problem surfaces. Installing Suse 9.3 from scratch invokes the network configuration via Yast and it's scripts. This fails miserably with freezing the system. Doing all config work by hand makes the system work as usual. However, changing any sysconfig parameter via Yast (literally anything that touches the network stuff) that makes Yast start the scripts related to networking freezes the system. Only pulling the plug helps... I did some further checks and figured, that the problem already existed in Suse Linux 9.2 Professional. It's nonexistent in Suse Linux 9.1. I found no problems in using other distributions like Mandrake, Fedora or Knoppix. So I believe there is a communications breakdown between Yast and the driver..? Any hints? best regs td As a side note: Unfortunately, Suse Support is quite ignorant and behaves like a black hole. I filed two requests via their website [20050409430000676] and [20050411990000065]. One they can't find anymore. The other was forward to their office in England (the guy on the phone in Nuremberg told me because I filed it in English..! Which is what they request on their website as a favor to their international staff (!?)). The UK office has closed the ticket without further investigation... (Probably because it came from Germany!?).

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Shell Permissions as User
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 18 May '05

18 May '05

Now I am really confused. I am accustomed to being able to change from the login shell, which in the case of my 9.3 installation is the bash shell, to the C shell by entering csh in a terminal. Suddenly, if I try that I get an error message: computation@abnormal:~/CompChem/nwchem-4.7> csh /usr/bin/.: Permission denied. (csh is linked to tcsh in /usr/bin and invokes the same error message) Yet, I have a number of programs that run in the C shell. I just tried to run one of them, ecce, and it still works. I have written a script that starts the server: #!/bin/csh /home/computation/ecce-v3.2.2/server/ecce-utils/start_ecce_server So apparently the script will evoke the C shell. If I change to root I can switch to the C shell. How can I, once again, accomplish this as a user? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

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Adding Source
by Erik Jakobsen 18 May '05

18 May '05

Hi. On my SuSE 9.3 I want to add a new source to Yast2. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/ham/9.3-i386/suse/i586 On http://www.urbakken.dk/ham.png I show what result I get. What is wrong here ? -- ----/ / _ ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Med venlig hilsen - Best regards --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Erik Jakobsen - eja(a)urbakken.dk -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ SuSE 9.3 - HAMCall OZ4KK

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mc in 9.3 doesn't show files in an rpm
by Joe Morris (NTM) 18 May '05

18 May '05

Just to verify that the problem is not just on my machine, can anyone see the files inside an rpm with the mc in 9.3. I always found that handy, and am disappointed that just after installing 9.3, that no longer works in my mc. It appears to open but no files. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

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What encrypted filesystem is used?
by David Kramer 18 May '05

18 May '05

NB: I don't have 9.3 installed yet, so I can't look at docs on the installed system. In the book and on the web, they just call it an encrypted filesystem, but don't give any technical details. What is the filesystem called? What kind of encryption does it use? Where can I read more about it? Thanks in advance,

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I did it again!
by Harry Giles 18 May '05

18 May '05

I did a Yast update on my 9.2 system, and once again one user can not launch a browser. The last time I was informed it was something to do with a gcc update, but I deleted the info. So, bing as I grew up in the 60-70's, most brain cells are gone, and I can not remember the rpm I had to install (backup) to to fix it. Anyone out there able to help? Blushingly yours, Harry G

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[SLE] Help, cdrom not working with 9.3, is it a bug ?
by Catimimi 18 May '05

18 May '05

Hello, I've a system with 3 SCSI CD or DVD units : - sr0 : /dev/dvd - sr1 : /dev/cdrecorder (dvd recorder) - sr2 : /dev/cdrom The three units worked well with SuSE 9.2 and earlier. I made a fresh install of SuSE 9.3 the three units are created with the same names, but /dev/cdrom is not working and during boot I get error merrages like : cdrom: open failed I made a lot of digging and discovered that udev (?) creates names for the cd and dvd units and that these names are stored in the folder /dev/cdrom which conflicts with the sr2 symbolic link !!! I didn't find how to change onr of these two conflicting names. Had someone the same problem and/or the answer, or have I to report a bug ? Thanks in advance. Michel PS: I temporarily got cdrom to work by destroying the cdrom folder and recreating the link, I get error messages since udev is not able to record the names created but it works.

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