July 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Trouble installing SUSE 9.3
by Rafe 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Help I am trying to install SUSE 9.3 to a ibm thinkpad transnote. This laptop has a usb floppy which it can boot from and a usb cdrom which it cannot boot from. I used another linux machine to create the bootdisks (1-7), but I have not been able to boot from the first bootdisk. I get an error about not being able to boot please use another disk and type a key to try again. I think the error messages is trying to tell me that I have a bad floppy. So, I went out and bought a new box of floppies - still does not work. I tried formating under linux and even thu the linxu box verifies the floppy, it still will not boot. What am I doing wrong? I assume I need to boot to a floppy and then load the usb drivers for the cdrom drive. I am guessing that these drivers are found on 1 of the 7 bootdisks that I made from cd1. Bootdisk1 starts to boot - it gives me a screen full of choices like failsafe, linux, etc. but once I type something it tries to boot linux and stops with the try another disk error. Any ideas?? Rafe

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[SLE] Trying to install Captive-NTFS and LUFS on Suse Linux 9.3
by Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

I have been able to use usb hard drives formated with NTFS in (r/w) mode for quite a while in SuSE 9.3. Why dont you check the mounts and see if that it works for you? I was able to do it with the Yast2 partitoner util and with dosfsck , especially with the SD cards. Again, I am NOT using DOS16 or DOS32 but NTFS and reiserfs with usb 2.0 hard drives with no problems reading AND writing to the hard drives. Just don't forget to sync 3x prior to pulling usb cables. Adam On 7/2/05, Braun Brelin <bbrelin(a)openapp.biz> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm trying to install Captive-NTFS to allow me to have a writable NTFS > file system. > > I'm having a great deal of difficulty in doing this. > > Captive-ntfs is installed but it's complaining that LUFS isn't running. > When I try running prepmod I get the following errors: > > /usr/include/asm/hw_irq.h:28: error: `NR_IRQ_VECTORS' undeclared here > (not in a > function) > /usr/include/asm/hw_irq.h:32: error: `NR_IRQS' undeclared here (not in a > function) > Failed to prepare lufs.ko module for your Linux kernel > 2.6.11.4-20a-default. > Detected Linux kernel sources "/lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-default/build" > do not appear to be valid. > > > It seems to want an rpm called kernel-headers-2.6.<xx>, but I can't find > that anywhere, I've looked at ftp.suse.com with no luck. > I even tried downloading the lufs source and compiling it but the > autoconf configuration file complains about no kernel headers. > > Anyone know where these kernel headers are? i'm running Suse 9.3 > professional edition on an AMD 64 Athlon. > > Thanks, > > Braun Brelin >

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Disappointed in 9.3
by Info 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Was ruuning 8.2 and quite liked this distro. Decided to upgrade to 9.3. Wouldn't updgrade so had to install from scratch - big mistake! Finding 9.3 very slow. Took install suggestions as far as disk configure is concerned but do not really understand what happened. Told it may be something to do with the way the disk(LVM) is configured? Open Office keeps falling over. Desktop hangs quite often - what does this remind you of? At least killing the X-server allows me to sign on again. Would like to be able to switch on/off NIS also network devices? Seriously considering reverting to Fedora

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ATi Mach64 DRI
by Hans du Plooy 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi guys, I bought myself a secondhand Compaq m700 notebook. It features an ATi Rage Mobility, which (as far as I can find on the 'net) is a Mach64 of sorts. I know this card has hardware 3D capabilities, but YaST2/Sax2 tells me otherwise. Does anyone know how to get DRI going on this card? I'm not so much interested in 3D, but having hardware scaling/overlay to watch DVD would be really nice. Thanks -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com

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OpenOffice YOU security update
by Thomas G Land 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi, Versions listed in the Yast2 patches table installed 1.1-43 i586 avail 1.1-100 i386 install source YOU:OpenOffice_org-52141 BUT: I have actually installed 1.1.4 downloaded from OO website. I treplaced the version installed from the SuSE CD's. Will I screw up my system if I accept this update? It appears that it wants to install the entire 1.1 version over 200 plus MB's. If so how can I make Yast2 YOU stop listing the 1.1-100 as a required securiity update? Susewatcher constantly shows secirity updates as avail. TIA Topm Land

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Strange Konqueror Problem
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Konqueror 3.4.0/KDE 3.4.o level "b"/SuSE 9.3 If I attempt to change to a subdirectory, or open a file, I get a 'Can't open directory <name>' error. However I can open a directory by right clicking on the directory and selecting Open in a new window. Browsing the net, however, Konqueror doesn't demonestrate this behavior. This isn't a serious problem as I prefer Krusader as a file manager and Netscape as a browser. It is, rather, somewhat perplexing. What is going on, or more importantly, how do I fix it. -- 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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Anti-Aliasing
by Mark Crean 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Hi SuSE 9.2 has really nicely anti-aliased type compared to Debian which I also have on my system - good solid lettering, good contrast between black and white, minimal smudging around letter forms, etc. I'm guessing that the SuSE technicians must have tweaked a few files to achieve this. Does anyone know which ones? I'd like to try to improve the rather basic look and feel on my Debian install. TIA :) Fish

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Transfer mail via disk
by John R. Sowden 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

I need to transfer my stored email (kmail) on my Suse 8.0 machine to my new 9.3 box. What I have to traqnfer with is a DVD-RAM drive/media. How do I do this without wiping out my new mail, keeping indices intact, etc. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net www.americansentry.net

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Re: [SLE] how long should I wait for SUSE 9.3 FTP ISO?
by James Knott 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

Jie Li wrote: > Thank you guys. > I just read the suse.com faq, it said no ISO available. seems that > they need to update this. > ok, one more question: > I only find 5CD version. is there any DVD version? Why would you need a DVD version, if everything fits on a CD. To do an ftp install, you have to use the network install CD. Once you download and burn it, you can then install SuSE over the internet. Also, the ftp install is for installing over the internet, as opposed to downloading the CD images and installing SuSE from them. Any packages not on the CDs can later be installed from the servers.

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ESSID
by Kaare Rasmussen 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

I have a SMC2632w PCMCIA card. It is set up correctly with yast. ESSID is entered and it is stored in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-bus-pcmcia. But it isn't initialised. Even though I can see that the ESSID parameter is stored in the configuration file, I have to manually enter iwconfig eth1 ESSID "<essid>". Anyone knows why - and has a solution?

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