August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

no CD sound
by Mike Roy 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hello everyone: Recently I did a complete and clean install of SuSE 9.3 / 64-bit. Everything worked including the CD player (KsCD). I'd simply insert a music CD and then the CD frontplate would appear and the music would play. I then used YOU (YaST Online Update) to update the files. Now, there's no sound from the CD. The frontplate appears, the counter shows the time used, track number etc., the controls work (stop, eject), but no sound. Now, I can hear streaming audio over the internet, it is just the CD player not working. When I went to YAST and did a search for 'sound', both the ALSA and ALSA-32 bit entries showed up in RED. I also found a number of entries - also in RED - when I did a YAST search for KDE. As near as I can determine, there is an older version of these files available (on the DVD). Now, are these the files causing my problem and, if so, should I simply remove them and re-install the older version from the DVD? Or is there another file I should be looking at? I know this is a simple problem and it might be as simple as replacing the files marked in RED with older copies (if this is the correct answer). Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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Partitioning
by Buddy Lindsey 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Ok, I am trying to partition my HD but I don't understand what is going on here. With 9.3 It was easy to understand, but now I am confused it says device size type start end /dev/hda 55.8 hts58060m91t00 0 7294 /dev/hda1 43.8 HPFS/NTFS 0 5728 /dev/hda2 11.9 Extended 5729 7294 /dev/hda5 11.9 Win95 FAT16 5729 7294 I thought that /dev/hda was the MBR so I don't see how it is 55.8 gb. Now i can understand why /dev/hda1 is 43.8 gig because I set it that big. THe most confusing point is the extended and the win95 partitions are both set to 11.9gig and i cant seem to removee either to change it. Does anyone have any suggestions? I need to dual boot this system, but don't want to resize it. I need the 11.9 gig to be the suse partition. I also can't remove the windows partition at all. Any ideas and help would be appreicated.

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init.d activation
by jdd 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

I wouild have confirmation that I don't err :-) logically when one install a server through yast, yast asks for package if not present, configure _and start_ the server? yes or no? for it seems not to be always the case. I just installed samba server and it was not launched, I had to do this by hand. thanks jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

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Re: [suse-kde] Re: GMail complaining about Konqueror
by Shriramana Sharma 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

On 8/19/05, Stan Glasoe <srglasoe(a)comcast.net> wrote: > Try using "Opera 7.53" identity under Other... works for maps.google.com > also as well as "Safari 1.2.4 on Mac OS X". Well, I'm now on my dad's system (different town) which is running Yoper 2, and it has only Konqueror 3.3 on KDE 3.3 and doesn't have the specific versions of the two you suggested. The older versions that can be emulated by Konq 3.3 don't solve the problem.

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Thunderbird e-mail address (solved)
by Mike Roy 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Hello everyone: Thanks to all of you that responsed to my earlier post - how to copy and store the e-mail addresses found in Thunderbird. A combination of the responses plus the FAQs on the Thunderbird home page helped me solve the problem. Under Thunderbird, you can create 'profiles' which include bookmarks, addresses and other information. In a terminal, go to: /home/(your user name)/.thunderbird (a hidden file, thus the 'dot' before the name) Once at this directory, run the program: thunderbird -profilemanager If you follow the prompts, you can create additional profiles OR, you can see the exact path and location where the profiles are stored. Then you simply copy the profile to a safe location and, presto, you have a current and safe copy of your e-mail addresses. Again, thanks to all of those that responded. Cheers, Mike

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setting up 2 servers with a SAN for high availability
by Per Jessen 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

I've recently acquired two Compaq servers and a Compaq Storageworks array. I'm fairly familiar with both, except that this uses fibre channel and 2 fibre switches etc. The previous owner had the whole thing running Windows, but I'll (obviously) want to run Linux on it. I've got access to the array using multipathing, but it's not quite there yet. I'm looking for anyone who's had some experience in working with fibrechannel and SAN under Linux - someone who could point me in the right direction wrt software etc. /Per Jessen, Zürich

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Re: [SLE] Re: USB Pen Drive - Enabling unmounting and other issues
by Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd Mobile w/ Treo 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

The default strategy for removable mass memory storage devices is to not cache writes until there are a sizable amounts of writes and the driver/module has the delay-write implementation in its code. If in Win98, the user/admin had only two choices, make it a fixed drive with delayed cache writes for higher performance (remember the adjustment for cache on the 2x+ cdrom drives?) or a removable media drive with all writes flushed to disk. I would sync ;sync ;sync ; and then do a safe umount for the usb devices. I already porked a 512M SD Card in a SD read/writer in SuSE 9.2 and 9.3 and do not wish to repeat the expierence. BTW, it was porked by a Treo 650 and it can not be used properly. I wished someone who write a proper recover utility that does not blindly read the MS FAT descriptor block that is still telling me the SD card is now 256M of clusters of 1 byte size and no way of fixing it via software. And yes, I have tried all the linux software out there with no success. Adam SuSE 9.3 -----Original Message----- From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa(a)gmail.com> Subj: [SLE] Re: USB Pen Drive - Enabling unmounting and other issues Date: Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:17 pm Size: 1K To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com On 8/19/05, Christopher Shanahan <cshanahan(a)comcast.net> wrote: > On Friday 19 August 2005 09:57, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > > But then is the absence of this "unplug this device safely" feature in > > Windows 98 a suggestion that Win 98 actually handles the matter like > > Linux? > > No. To use a USB thumbdrive -- or any removable device -- in Win9x you have > to > install a driver specific to that device. If you've used a thumbdrive in > Win9x > than I'm sure you recall loading a device driver. Yes of course, but the point I was making was that I did not need to unmount (aka flushing write data to) the USB device in Windows, and was allowed to remove it once there's no program writing to it. Of course, I've also been told that under Win 2K or XP too I can do the same. I usually take the safe way out - humour Windows and use the "unplug safely" function. But my q still stands. How come Win 98 doesn't give me a tray app for unmounting the USB device? Of course, such a complaint is better on a Windows list, but still, if Win 98 could do it, Win 2K or Win XP could too, just tell the user that the device can be pulled out when there's no write operation. Similar situation exists (pulling out when no writing going on) in Linux, but I noticed that there are a couple of programs installed which do this - isn't KwikDisk for this? -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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g77 missing from SUSE 9.3
by Terry Eck 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Anyone on the list notice that FORTRAN is missing from SUSE 9.3? Since I'm an Old Fart who still uses FORTRAN I'm wandering what to do. The version of gcc on 9.3 is 3.3.5 while on 9.2 it is 3.3.4. I'm not sure I can install g77 from SUSE 9.2 on a 9.3 system. Any ideas? Terry Eck -- SuSE Linux 9.3 (i586) -- 2.6.11.4-21.8-default -- Thu 08/18/05 7:25pm up 13 days 0:58, 3 users, load average: 0.31, 0.27, 0.27

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samba (beta2)
by jdd 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

it's me or sambaserver dont works on beta2? Starting Samba SMB daemon /etc/init.d/smb: line 46: checkproc: command not found /etc/init.d/smb: line 51: startproc: command not found failed peter-suse:/home/jdd # /etc/init.d/nmb start Starting Samba NMB daemon /etc/init.d/nmb: line 43: checkproc: command not found /etc/init.d/nmb: line 48: startproc: command not found failed (after config by yast) jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr

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rpm for 9.1 mod_auth_pgsql
by Super Code Monkey 19 Aug '05

19 Aug '05

Does anyone know if there is an rpm for mod_auth_pgsql in Suse 9.1? I tried Googleing a few things but came up with nothing. thanks in advance for any help. ------- Code Monkey (recently demoted from Super Code Monkey) Whoa whoa WHOA whoa whoa Whoa whoa whoa WHOA whoa whoa... this is not my Batman cup ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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