August 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] Outgoing transmission speed unexpected low
by Marlier, Ian 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Bos [mailto:radoeka@xs4all.nl] > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 4:52 PM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] Outgoing transmission speed unexpected low > > In a network I have 3 linux systems. 2 of those are suse systems and the > 3rd > one is a linux firewall/router (not suse). The suse systems are a 9.2 and > a > 9.3 system. The outgoing ip/ethernet transmission speed of the 9.3 suse > system is only 1.0-2.0 MB/s as reported by scp. While for the incoming > traffic it is 6.0MB/s. This 6.0MB/s speed is measured for the other > systems > (fw <-> 9.2) as well. I wonder what can be reason why the outgoing speed > is > so low. > > The network connection has been switched to another network port, but the > outgoing speed remains low. > > Does anyone have an idea what can be the reason for the low outgoing speed? > Can this be caused by a bad network card, a hanging network process > (although > the system is almost idle)?? Outgoing transmission speed within the network (that is, to another one of the three machines that you have connected behind the gateway)? Or outgoing transmission speed to the internet?

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2 nic's faster surfing when using Azureus ?
by Paul Ryan 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi there on the list I have the problem that when I use Azureus or E-Donkey that my surf speed is realy slow it takes forever for pages to load and I wanted to know if my speed would improve by connecting a second nic to my router.(is already one installed in the box)Thank You Paul

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Kernel updates & display positioning
by Anthony Edwards 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I have noticed for some time that, when installing a kernel update using YOU, after rebooting the positioning of the display image on the monitor screen has changed. Sometimes a little, sometimes significantly. This invariably requires (sometimes a great deal of) monitor settings tweakery to get back to a usable and/or aesthetically pleasing positioning of the image after kernel updates. A work colleague who uses Debian informs me that this is a not a feature of Linux in general, but may well be SuSE specific. I have experienced this with all SuSE versions from 7.3 onwards, on a variety of hardware. What causes this, and are there any steps that one can take to prevent it happening? -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards(a)uk.easynet.net

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Re: [SLE] updating optical-drive firmware in Linux
by James Knott 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

jdd sur free wrote: > James Knott wrote: > >> Then again, I get nervous about trusting Windows to do hardware updates. > > are you sure there is not a plain dos disk along with the windows version? > jdd > You'll have to ask the OP.

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Re: [SLE] Package installs
by Joe Zitnik 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I've tried several. I've also found some posts on discussion forums describing the same issue. How bout we do this backwards, can someone point me at a valid source for SLES 8 so I can upgrade my apache v 1.x and all dependencies to apache 2? It would be much appreciated. I'm finding bunches of sources for SLES 9x and SuSE 9, but finding them for SLES 8 is turning in to a real bugger. >>> suse-list(a)bout-tyme.net 8/5/2005 11:08 AM >>> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 10:23 -0400, Joe Zitnik wrote: > I'm running SLES v 8 and trying to upgrade the Apache install from > version 1.x to version 2.x. In yast2, no matter where I tell it to > install RPM files from via the web in add installation source, it tells > me there are no installation files there. I can browse to the FTP > server and view the RPMs in Konqueror, but it's like it doesn't see > them. Am I doing something wrong?????? Show us which URL you are using, it may not be a YaST source. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge -- 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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Package installs
by Joe Zitnik 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I'm running SLES v 8 and trying to upgrade the Apache install from version 1.x to version 2.x. In yast2, no matter where I tell it to install RPM files from via the web in add installation source, it tells me there are no installation files there. I can browse to the FTP server and view the RPMs in Konqueror, but it's like it doesn't see them. Am I doing something wrong??????

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.3 Nvidia Xorg 6.8.2 won't work...
by alwin＠bakkenes.nu 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, Unfortunately, the xdm setting issue is not the problem that I am seeing. I have Xorg crashing on me rather hard. regardless of which login manager I use. KDM,GDM crash Xorg as well! I can do xinit and have X working without any window manager, but manually starting kde or gnome crashes X. Currently, the only error in my Xorg.0.log file regaring the libfb.so module lacking "fbmmx". That made me think about my cpu (A celeron 2.0GA). More hints? Alwin > > > Discussed here quite a few times in the last two or three months. A > > google list search will provide you with the proper procedure to solve > > this problem. -- root(a)bakkenes.nu

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updating optical-drive firmware in Linux
by Gabor Istvan 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Dear folks: I would like to update the firmware of my CDRW and DVDRW drives in my computer. I use only linux (currently SuSE-9.3) and I even don't have MS-Windows installed. But it seems that the firmware update files can be run only under Windows. My question is: Can I use wine to run these updaters? The other thing is: How could we press the drives' manufacturers to release OS independent or non-windows updaters? Thanks, IG _______________________________________________________________________ [freemail] extra 1GB-os postafiókkal, Önnek már van? http://freemail.hu

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YOU and delta rpms
by sktsee 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on how YOU determines whether to update packages using delta rpms vs. downloading and updating an app with a regular binary rpm. The reason I'm asking is that this morning I was letting YOU update the stock kernel-default on my 9.3 system. Given my configuration, it was going to update kernel 2.6.11.4-21.7-default to 2.6.11.4-21.8-default plus the kernel source, kernel nongpl, kernel syms and ltmodem packages. In the past, whenever YOU updated the kernel it downloaded the delta rpms which took a lot less time to download given their small size. In fact, YOU showed that the estimated size of today's update was going to be around 5 MB. However, I noticed that instead of downloading the delta rpms, YOU was downloading the full kernel package. I cancelled the download and tried again, but YOU did the same thing. I did check to see if deltas were available from the mirror I had selected (University of Chicago) and they were there. I also tried another mirror (Georgia) and got the same result. So at this point I'm stumped as to why YOU is updating using the full rpm instead of using deltas. As I'm on dialup, I'd like avoid the approx. 60 MB download and figure out how to get YOU to update with the deltas since they are available. Any ideas? -- sktsee

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directory dates on burned CDs
by Gabor Istvan 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Dear folks: I have backuped some of my data on CDs using K3B burner application. When I checked the burned CD I realized that the dates of directories were modified to the actual date when I burned the CD. For a decent backup it is important - at least for me - to have the original dates in the backup. To check the origin of the problem I've created an iso image by mkisofs and found that in this iso image the directory dates were NOT altered. So it seems that K3b is the culprit. The only thing I don't know if this is a bug or this behavior depends on a (hidden) setting. Does anyone have similar problem? IG _______________________________________________________________________ [freemail] extra 1GB-os postafiókkal, Önnek már van? http://freemail.hu

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