August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Modifying one kernel module
by Koenraad Lelong 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hi, I patched a kernel module (lm85.c). To use it is this procedure OK : make cloneconfig make modules then copy the module to it's right place and modprobe it. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.

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MoBo : Intel D865GLC & sensors
by Koenraad Lelong 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hi, I'm trying to get the sensors of that motherboard to work. sensors-detect found SMSC EMC6D100 or EMC6D101 (lm85 driver). I think this is the temprature sensor for the board. How do I get this to work ? I loaded the i2c-modules for the lm85, but running sensors returns 'No sensors found'. There is another sensor-chip PC87372, but this seems unsupported for the moment. Anyone else running this board and using the sensors ? TIA -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.

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Root password - is it THAT simple to alter it?
by Basil Chupin 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

I've nad the need to look at what is available on the 'net about what to do when one forgets what the root password is. Is it really THAT simple on SuSE to alter the password for the root? Anyone can boot my system and go about altering my root password to be then able to steal all my secrets? Cheers. -- The first myth of management is that it exists.

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Kaffeine
by Ben 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Kaffeine is not working at all on SuSE 10 beta 2, yes it will start up but there is no video or sound. It is a old problem because within 9.3 it was the same, for a while. Is there allready a solution for SuSE 10? Or will it come with 10 beta 3. By the way , is it possible to get Mplayer working with the codecs from 9.3/ Lot of questions this time. Ben Henderson

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/home on it's own partition
by houghi 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Is there a reason that /home is not on its own partition anymore by default? The advatage of having it on its own are that when you do a new instalation, you can easily keep your own data. houghi -- "Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process ..."

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gtk2 2.8
by Mitja 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hi! After update gtk2 to 2.8 version backgrounds in the non KDE (Gnome) applications menus are black. What is wrong, please? Mitja P.S. SuSE 9.3, KDE 3.4.2

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Converting 9.3 CD ISOs to a DVD ISO
by Shriramana Sharma 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

I attach the script I got from a friend for converting the five downloadable CD ISO images to a single DVD ISO image. Run it on a partition with at least 4 GB free space. For me, the final md5sum was: 622c7592a940dd1faa34843eb81144b5 SuSE_9.3.iso [No warranty, no responsibility for anything this script does to your computer! ;)] -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org (o- Penguin #395953 //\ running on ancient Indian wisdom V_/_ and modern computing efficiency #!/bin/bash # Uncomment this section if you have physical cds and want to convert them to # ISOs first. You need to have the ISOs, named as in this script, for this # script to work predictably. #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #echo Please insert disk 1 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso #echo Please insert disk 2 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD2.iso #echo Please insert disk 3 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD3.iso #echo Please insert disk 4 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD4.iso #echo Please insert disk 5 of 5 and hit any key to continue. #read key #dd if=/dev/cdrom of=SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD5.iso #------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #Mount the CDs in loopback mode: mkdir CD1 CD2 CD3 CD4 CD5 mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD1.iso CD1 -o loop mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD2.iso CD2 -o loop mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD3.iso CD3 -o loop mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD4.iso CD4 -o loop mount SUSE-9.3-Prof-i386-CD5.iso CD5 -o loop # Create a basic structure to overwrite files we need to modify for the CD (the checksums and boot files). cp -a CD1/boot . mkdir i586 i686 noarch # Create the NEW MD5SUMS as one file in order to allow SuSE to validate (thus install) all of the files from every CD and not just CD #1 # For the i586 directory: cat CD1/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD3/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD4/suse/i586/MD5SUMS CD5/suse/i586/MD5SUMS > i586/MD5SUMS # For the i686 directory: cat CD1/suse/i686/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/i686/MD5SUMS > i686/MD5SUMS # For the noarch directory: cat CD1/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD2/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD3/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD4/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS CD5/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS > noarch/MD5SUMS # Now, create the ISO: mkisofs -o SuSE_9.3.iso -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin -c boot/loader/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -l -P SuSE -r -T -V SuSE_9.3 -x CD1/boot -x CD1/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD1/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD1/suse/i686/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/i686/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD2/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD3/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD3/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD4/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD4/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -x CD5/suse/i586/MD5SUMS -x CD5/suse/noarch/MD5SUMS -graft-points CD1 boot/=boot suse/i586/MD5SUMS=i586/MD5SUMS suse/noarch/MD5SUMS=noarch/MD5SUMS suse/i686/MD5SUMS=i686/MD5SUMS suse/=CD2/suse suse/=CD3/suse suse/=CD4/suse suse/=CD5/suse media.2/=CD2/media.2 media.3/=CD3/media.3 media.4/=CD4/media.4 media.5/=CD5/media.5 # Now just burn the ISO to a DVD (hint: use 'growisofs' or your favorite GUI-frontend to 'growisofs'). Optionally, you can mount this ISO like you did #above to verify it will work correctly, or if you don't want to actually burn it. Just call: #mkdir DVD #mount SuSE_9.3.iso DVD -o loop # Enjoy!

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Re: [SLE] Root password - is it THAT simple to alter it?
by James Knott 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Rich wrote: > james.knott(a)rogers.com wrote: >>Yes. The first line of security, is physical security. Even without >>changing the password, it's easy to boot a rescue disk and access the >>files. The same applies to Windows etc. Even a password protected >>computer won't help, as a hard drive can easily be moved to another >>computer. The only way around this is to use encryption or prevent >>physical access to your computer. >> > I'm trying to figure out how to use a smart card, along with PAM-USB to > secure access to my PC. There were a couple of articles in Linux Journal recently, about using encrypted file systems. The second article descriped booting from a USB pen drive and having the entire hard drive encrypted.

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1 CD install ready to test
by Andreas Girardet 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hello fellow openSUSE enthusiasts. As announced last week I have now finished 2 seperate iso's based on standard beta3. Both are single CD installation iso's without any modifications to the actual packages. I will continue maintaining these and additionally to those create and maintain a gnome iso. You can find them at ftp://opensuse.linux.co.nz/pub/SUPER/iso/ super-openSUSE-20052908-standard-kde.iso: kde base install on 1 CD (570 Mbyte) super-openSUSE-20052908-standard-minimal.iso: minimal install on 1 CD (390 Mbyte) A set of iso's with SUPER modifications already included will also be available in a few days. These iso's will be called -enhanced-kde.iso and enhanced-minimal.iso to differentiate them from the ones without any modifications (just straight openSUSE) called -standard-kde.iso and -standard-minimal.iso. This is the first set of iso's and I would please ask you to test them and add any packages you would like to add to them to the following Wiki page. Any bugs should also be reported to that site. http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/1_CD_install The iso's are done using the standard recommended Novell way. I have modified control.xml to have a more streamlined installation. I have tried to add /boot and /home (you can see that in the control.xml), but for some reason it ignores it, maybe a suse.de person can give me a hint? I followed the NLD documentation from our website. Apart from that it is a straight install of beta3. I added a new My.sel under suse/setup/descr, which contains the needed packages. All in all a very straight forward process and I am thoroughly impressed with the modularity and simplicity of our installer. Having played with Anaconda in the past, I find our installer refreshingly simple yet very powerful. Have fun! Regards, Andreas openSUSE is SUPER: To help in the SUSE Performance Enhanced Release project visit http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/SUPER

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Pic of Bangalore on beta 3
by Shriramana Sharma 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

I saw on some online screenshots that beta 1's default background was a picture of Prague, while its code name was Prague. I don't have the bandwidth to download beta 3, but I'm curious as to whether the default background is a picture of Bangalore, since the code name is Bangalore. If yes, could someone please send a screenshot to me at: samjnaa utt gmail daut com? Thanks. -- (o- Penguin #395953 lives at http://samvit.org //\ subsisting on ancient Indian wisdom ... V_/_ and modern computing efficiency! :)

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