June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

distcc is not in 9.3?
by Steven T. Hatton 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Was distcc not included in 9.3? I can't seem to find it. Was this an intentional omission? -- Regards, Steven

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Re: [SLE] Master slave devision for 3 hd and 1 dvd-rw
by Tom Peters 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

At 10:35 PM 6/11/2005 +0200, Richard Bos wrote: >How should I devide 3 HD and 1 DVD-RW over the ide master slave channels? >There is 1 HD already connected to the system, which is at the moment booting >the machine (of course ;). I want to add the 2 HDs in a raid. The current >HD should be kept so data can be copied from it, but there is no need to from >it. > >Is it okay to have a configuration, like: >Current HD on ide0-master >New HD in raid on ide0-slave >New HD in raid on ide1-master >DVD-RW on ide1-slave > >The HDs are in raid(1) for backup not to improve read access. I think that most IDE controllers write to one drive or the other (not both at the same time) so for reasonable performance, I was always advised to place the devices I wanted to perform best, especially when copying to each other, on different controllers. That said, I think you need to have the DVD as a slave device. So your sample config with the mirrored drives split across two controllers (IDE0 and IDE1) should work a little better than, say, putting both of them on the IDE1 controller as master and slave. My 0,015 [Government]A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw --... ...-- -.. . -. ----. --.- --.- -... tpeters(a)nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB ADDRESS http//www.mixweb.com/tpeters 43° 7' 17.2" N by 88° 6' 28.9" W, Elevation 815', Grid Square EN53wc WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531

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NFS user space vs. Kernel space daeomn?
by Steven T. Hatton 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

I am aware of at least one difference in behavior between the userspace NFS package (nfs-server-2.2beta51-209) , and the kernel space version (nfs-utils-1.0.7-3). Experimentation indicates that the user space version supports the sharing of a dvd (by exporting the parent directory /media). I recall in years gone by there were certain automounting functions that only worked with the user space package, but I have not recently reproduced that behavior. Unless, of course the dvd sharing is actually a result of the same behavior. Can anyone say what the advantaged and disadvantages of each of the NFS server packages is in comparison to the other? -- Regards, Steven

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Re: QuickCam 3000 Pro
by Bryan Tyson 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

On Friday 10 June 2005 19:02, Volker Paul wrote: > back in 2002 you wrote in a mail I found through google: > I suggest the Logitech QuickCam 3000 Pro. Works great in Linux. > Now I have a QuickCam 3000 Pro: > # lsusb > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:08b0 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam 3000 Pro > [pwc] > but in Kcontrol->Peripherals-Digital camera, I don't find its entry. > Can you tell me (or send me a link about) how I can use the camera? You did not state what Linux version you are running. With the 2.6 kernel the pwc situation changed. The pwc module is now being maintained here: http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ On my 9.2 system I could not get the pwc offered on this site to compile. I don't remember the errors. Finally I found a site where someone had posted a pwc module compiled for 9.1. It worked for me on 9.2. On my 9.2 system I have pwc.ko in this folder: /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/kernel/drivers/usb/media As you can learn from the saillard site, there is no longer a separate pwcx module. Plugging in the camera usually, but not always, gives me a popup window saying that a digital camera was detected and do I wish to open it. It does not do anything, as apparently it is intended for a digital camera with flash memory that has pictures stored on it. Sometimes it takes 30-60 seconds to pop up. If it does, I just say no. Then do lsmod to verify your pwc module loaded. If pwc is loaded you should be able to view the cam with camstream or xawtv. I use webcam to upload snaps from my cam: http://home.earthlink.net/~bryantyson/bryanscams.htm This cam gives me audio problems if plugged in when the computer is rebooted. In this case the USB audio for the cam mic takes over and I do not have my Sound Blaster mixer. Therefore I recommend you wait until Linux is up and running, then plug in the cam. Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional KDE 3.3.0 KMail 1.7.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ********************************************************

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simple sound recording ?
by Paul Cartwright 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

I am trying to do a simple voice recording using my microphone. using alsamixer I can HEAR sound coming from the microphone through my speakers, but I can't figure out how to make a recording. I have tried krecord & audacity with no luck. Am I missing something simple?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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Importing cyrus imap folder into KMail?
by Steven T. Hatton 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

It looks as though Cyrus has met his Queen Tomyris on my server. For now, I have given up on trying to restore the imap server. I still have about 1300 messages in the imap folder that I would like to recover. The KMail import tool doesn't seem to have an option for this, and different tricks such as cat *. > catall, then treating catall as a mailbox file, did not work. KMail understand each file in the directory as being a mail message, but when I tried importing them, the import tool created a directory for each of the 1300+ messages. Not quite what I was looking for. Ideas? -- Regards, Steven

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Transparent KDE Menu - SuSe 9.2 PRO
by list＠lpgc.net 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hi all! Im trying to tune my KDE desktop so it has a better look, but ive found a few problems ... First of all, why is my KDE 3.3.0 transparent menu option disabled?? (as usr or root). Second i cant change the parameters from the XanalogTV screen saver.It uses SuSe wallpapers and i would like to use mines. Allso ive been browsing http://www.kde-look.org/ but there isnt much related to SuSe distros. Is there a better place, if possible, specific to SuSe Linux distro? Nice and reliable Linux makes me happy ... Thanks in advance for any help. Bye

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linux raid question
by Hans du Plooy 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hi guys, I was wondering, if I have a machine running two discs in a kernel based raid-1, and one of the discs go south, what are the steps involved in removing the one disc and getting the other one up and running again? Just change the fstab entries? Then, if I have an identical disc as a replacement (say I was smart enough to buy three discs and keep one for incase ;-) how do I go about adding the second disc and creating a new raid without putting the installation and data on the good disc in any danger? Thanks -- Kind Regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

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Master slave devision for 3 hd and 1 dvd-rw
by Richard Bos 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

How should I devide 3 HD and 1 DVD-RW over the ide master slave channels? There is 1 HD already connected to the system, which is at the moment booting the machine (of course ;). I want to add the 2 HDs in a raid. The current HD should be kept so data can be copied from it, but there is no need to from it. Is it okay to have a configuration, like: Current HD on ide0-master New HD in raid on ide0-slave New HD in raid on ide1-master DVD-RW on ide1-slave The HDs are in raid(1) for backup not to improve read access. Is this okay or is it better to have the first raid disk on ide0-master? -- TIA, Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 and SUSE 9.3, /dev/vbi
by Claes＠work 12 Jun '05

12 Jun '05

Hello, has anyone managed to get the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350 card to work with SUSE 9.3? Especially, on an Athlon64 system. YAST did not work, but after googling I managed to install firmware by extracting it from the supplied windows drivers. Now ivtv detects my card and loads the firmware. However, there seems to be something wrong with my /dev/vbi* files. When I start kdetv, it ends with: kdetv: WARNING: VBIDecoder: vbi_capture_v4l_new error: Sorry, /dev/vbi4 (Vanilla iTVC15 card) cannot capture any of the requested data services. kdetv: WARNING: [VBIDecoder::restart()] no permission to access device kdetv: WARNING: MainWindow::setupInfraRed(): Lirc not available kdetv: WARNING: SaverControl: Error in DCOP communication. Unable to disable KDE Screensaver. kdetv: WARNING: ... failed. kdetv likely does not to work with your device and/or your current filter config. And if I run scantv it looks like this: claes@linux:~> scantv ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217728;index=1;name="44.1 kHz";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217729;index=1;name="Layer 1";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217730;index=1;name="[L1/L2] Free fmt";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217731;index=1;name="Stereo";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217732;index=1;name="Subbands 4-31/bound=4";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217733;index=1;name="None";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217734;index=1;name="CRC off";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217735;index=1;name="Copyright off";reserved=176): Invalid argument ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217736;index=1;name="Copy";reserved=176): Invalid argument please select your TV norm 0: NTSC 1: PAL 2: SECAM nr ? 1 please select a frequency table 0: us-bcast 1: us-cable 2: us-cable-hrc 3: japan-bcast 4: japan-cable 5: europe-west 6: europe-east 7: italy 8: newzealand 9: australia 10: ireland 11: france 12: china-bcast 13: southafrica 14: argentina 15: australia-optus 16: russia nr ? 5 [global] freqtab = europe-west [defaults] input = Television norm = PAL invalid value for input: television valid choices for "input": "Composite 0", "Composite 1", "Composite 2", "Composite 3", "Tuner 0", "Composite 4", "S-Video 0", "S-Video 1", "S-Video 2", "S-Video 3" vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi] open /dev/vbi: Invalid argument What is /dev/vbi, and why does it not work? Thanks, Claes

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