October 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

USB Pins
by John Pierce 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hello! I hope that a hardware guru may be able to help me with this USB Pin problem. MOBO pin outs 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 +5V fused 2 +5V fused 3 USB- 4 USB- 5 USB+ 6 USB+ 7 Ground 8 Ground 9 Key 10 NC Case front USB connectors These connectors are individual, not bundled Black wire = Power Purple wire = Power Red wire = D2+ Tan wire = D2- Green wire = D3+ Blue wire = D3- Yellow wire = Gnd Orange wire = Gnd I have no documentation on this case so I am not sure which bundles should be together: Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. John -- Registered Linux User 263680, get counted at http://counter.li.org

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SuSE 10.2 Beta 1 DVD torrent
by William Gallafent 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hi, Just a note to say thanks to those who organised the availability of this install medium at http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/openSUSE-10.2-Beta1/openSUSE-10.2… It's fairly torrential here already, saturating my home ADSL line in both directions :) Get it while it's hot. Interesting that torrents work best at times of maximum demand, exactly the opposite of traditional non-swarm downloading methods. -- Bill Gallafent.

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desktop question
by Doug McGarrett 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

A few days ago, I found the way to change the background color for the titles of icons on the desktop. I can't find it again, and it bugs me, since I have changed the background color of the desktop. What I'd really like to do is make the title background transparent, as it is in Windows XP, but that doesn't seem to be an option. How do I get back to the title background control? (9.3) Thanx, SuSErs! --doug

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[opensuse] I-Net boot disk for 10.2
by John Meyer 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I know it's in beta, but has anybody been able to get the Internet installation disk working for 10.2. I try to do the F3-F4 described on the wiki, but it doesn't seem to work anywhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [SLE] EXT3 Problem
by PerfectReign 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

On Mon, October 30, 2006 5:41 pm, Greg Wallace wrote: > I am using the EXT3 file system. Today, I powered on the machine and > went > into the other room for a few minutes while it booted up. When I came > back, > it turned out that it had come time for an fsck on the disk and the > disk was > so corrupted that it couldn't be mounted in rw mode. <snip> I don't use EXTx but wonder if there was an update which has caused an inconsistancy in your HDD. I had this happen about a year back while under 9.3 on one of my machines running Reiser. About every third time I'd reboot I'd get stuck having to manually fdisk and repair my hard drive. At first I thought it was the hard drive failing, but when I upgraded to 10.0, the problem went away and hasn't re-appeared. I've been using the same hard drive on that machine (now in 10.1) since I first started with SUSE on 9.1 and only saw the issue for about a month last year. You might check with others in the *nix world who are using EXTx and see if they've got a similar issue. -- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request

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[opensuse] Conventional Samsung Monitor not detected
by antares dark 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hi, nearly i've downloaded and installed opensuse 10.2 Beta 1 for 64 Bits and my CRT monitor Samsung Model "SyncMaster 550v" wich is very popular in my country, is not detected well. Below is the link to .pdf files in different languages with the specifications of the hard for who can fix that. http://www.samsung.com/download/Model_Select.aspx?type=Monitor&typecode=2&s… basically the specs are: Picture Tube -15 (38 cm) Full square type (35 cm viewable). -90° deflection. -Dot pitch : 0.24 mm (H) / 0.14 mm (V). Synchronization -Horizontal: 30 - 55 kHz -Vertical: 50 - 120 Hz Maximum Resolution 1024 dots 768 lines Active Display -Horizontal: 10.5 ± 0.16 inch (267 ± 4 mm) -Vertical: 7.9 ± 0.16 inch (200 ± 4 mm) Maximum Pixel Clock 65 MHz There's more on the pdf files. Thanks __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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GPS Time Standard and Linux NTP
by M Harris 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

This is a follow-up topic to the NTP thread of a couple weeks ago... for those of you who may be interested in accessing GPS as a time standard for your local Suse NTP server, as an alternative to using one of the primary or secondary external NTP servers. Often folks forget about the GPS alternative. I have been playing with the Earthmate GPS LT-20 by DeLorme (carried by BestBuy and others lately). This GPS unit is nicely compatible with Linux (specifically gpsdrive, and gpsd; both ship with Suse 10) as well as minicom or other serial terminal emulator. The device does not require M$ software, nor does it require proprietary drivers. The device is quite small 6.7cm x 4.5 cm x 1.5 cm, and comes complete with an attached 1.5 m USB cable. The LT-20 is USB powered, self-contained, and communicates outbound over USB using the NMEA ascii standard sentences. These sentences may be parsed by a simple script, or extracted via gpsd via telnet. The LT-20 uses a twelve channel RF receiver chip from SiGE (SE4100L) and the GPS micro controller chip from ST Microelectronics (STA2051). Operation is simple... plug it into an available USB port on your local Suse box and go... The NMEA output sentences can be accessed via minicom at 4800 baud N81 to device /dev/ttyUSBx (where x will be 0 for the first device). Otherwise gpsd can be started after plugging in the unit: gpsd -p /dev/ttyUSB0 By default gpsd uses port 2947. Accessing the NMEA output is as simple as running telnet to port 2947 and pressing the 'R' command to receive 'raw' data. telnet localhost 2947 ... the date and time can be extracted with the 'D' command. Obviously the beauty of the GPS receiver is to be able to provide global positioning for navigation, orienteering, etc... but often computer folks forget that the GPS system is an excellent time standard for a local NTP server, or other time coordination scheme. The myth is that GPS time can not be relied upon because of a leap second snafu. This is not true, however. The failure of GPS time has been in the firmware on GPS receivers (programming errors) not the GPS system, software, or clocks. Fortunately the LT-20 handles the time correctly. Consequently, the LT-20 can be used with your Suse linux system as a reliable time standard for your local server without the need for accessing external NTP servers. -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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[opensuse] Identify DSL program?
by Johan Venter 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hello All I have been using OpenSuse for a few weeks but had to reinstall over the weekend. Before I reinstalled, I somehow came across and installed a program that allows you to connect, disconnect, etc.. to a DSL connection. It also displays animated icons to indicate that data is being received or transmitted. I can remember that one can change the background colour of the icon on the task bar and the default was red. Can anybody identify the program? I have searched on Google but cannot find what I'm looking for. Johan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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EXT3 Problem
by Greg Wallace 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I am using the EXT3 file system. Today, I powered on the machine and went into the other room for a few minutes while it booted up. When I came back, it turned out that it had come time for an fsck on the disk and the disk was so corrupted that it couldn't be mounted in rw mode. I had to log in to non-grapchicakl mode and run e2fsck on the disk. It was so corrupted that, after repairing a few sectors (or whatever those low level repair operations apply to) it said there was so much corruption that it had to repair an entire inode. It eventually repaired everything and I was able to boot back up. Normally, when there is a problem of this nature, the errors are fixed on the fly and the boot process just continues with a normal log in. I thought EXT3 was able to do that via its journal in all cases. I used to get hit with this problem quite often under EXT2, but never under EXT3. Is this unusual that EXT3 couldn't recover the disk without me having to run e2fsck? Also, I looked at lost+found and didn't see anything in there so can I assume that everything was recovered, or would I have lost data in this instance? Thanks, Greg Wallace

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OT -- SAS (Serially Attached SCSI)
by Greg Wallace 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Could one of you gurus give me a brief description of what it means to have a SATA-SAS Integrated card in a computer? I assume this somehow allows you to link a SATA drive to a SCSI drive in your machine, but I don't understand what that does for you. Thanks, Greg Wallace

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