August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] SPAM: Captorials - Creating the first visual helpdesk on the web
by jim tate 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

This may be the wrong place to post this, And I'am not trying to promote this site. But I feel what is happening here, is great for new users to help them to learn Linux. And from what I can see, present day linux users can help, and add to it. Jim http://captorials.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help(a)opensuse.org

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[SLE] hotswap sata disks
by Roger Oberholtzer 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Of course hot swapping SATA disks is not currently supported in Linux. As such, udevmonitor reports nothing when the disks are inserted or removed on a system that does support this at the hardware level. There is work in libata, but nothing functioning for use in a production system. So, what would be the next best thing? I assume I would need to do a script that handles un-mounting the disks, and then a rescan of the devices. And then a re-mount.. I remember doing this way back with SCSI devices. But perhaps there is a best way to scan for SATA devices? The tricky bit is that I have 4 SATA disks that will sort of work in sets. And the user will probably want to pop in one in the set when looking for something. I do seem to be rambling a bit, but it is because I can't decide the best approach. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems AB Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- 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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2200B/G wireless is not recognized.
by pelibali 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi, I have an Acer Centrino laptop running SuSE 9.1 Pro. It includes an Intel 2200B/G wireless card, which is in fact not recognized (eth1 device: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 4220 (rev 05)), but works flaw- lessly with the ipw2200 driver/firmware. I assume that the device should be added manually to the database hwinfo has; any advice would be appreciated which file should be modified and how. I know that it's a minor issue, because the device itself is OK, but... Thank you, Pelibali

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[SLE] tightvnc and suse
by Richard Bown 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Hi I've been using tightvnc on Mandrake for a long time, its very easy to use on that distro, click on the icon from the apps menus and enter the remote address and display number, then off it goes. Seems to be a little different on suse,I've tried vncconnect -display address port but I get richard-g8jvm@g8jvm:~> vncconnect -display 1 192.168.90.1:5901 vncconnect: unable to open display "1" Have I got to start another app at my end before it will connnect ? .TIA Richard -- 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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SPAM: Simple Command Question
by Dennis J. Tuchler 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

I hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and got to the desired command screen. How does one get back into the desktop without rebooting? There must be a Howto somewhere for such things! dj tuchler

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DRI on ATI Mach64 chip: Where's the kernel module mach64.ko?
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

I've been chasing the holy grail of enabling hw 3D support on my 5-year-old laptop which has a lowly "Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x rev 100". Interestingly, in 9.2, there was a kernel drm module for it (/lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/char/drm/mach64.ko) but no X server module. In 10.1, the opposite is true, the X server module is there (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/mach64_dri.so) but the kernel module isn't! I've searched high and low for the elusive kernel driver in question without success. Looking at 9.2, the source RPM for the kernel module was km_drm and it seems the ultimate source for the kernel drm modules was the Xorg source tree. However, the source for this particular kernel driver seems to have disappeared from the Xorg sources and is not in the kernel sources either! Anyone have any idea where I can find the drm/mach64.ko kernel module or sources for building such for SL-10.1? Thanks! Phil -- Philip Amadeo Saeli SuSE Linux 9.2 [... almost 10.1 ...] psaeli(a)zorodyne.com

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SPAM: sources DVD?
by M Harris 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

hi folks, My boxed set for 9.2 came with two double layer DVDs: 1) installation, and 2) sources. My boxed set for 10.0 comes with only one double layer DVD for installation. Where is the sources DVD? Thanks -- Kind regards, M Harris <><

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Problems with Kopete
by Sean Rima 04 Aug '06

04 Aug '06

Anyone else having problems getting kopete to connect to msn Sean -- Strange Things happen under the midnight sun When men and dogs go hunting for gold ICQ: 679813 YIM: thecivvie Jabber: tcob1(a)jabber.org AIM: tcobone1

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Getting KDE header or -devel rpm
by Sean Rima 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Anyone know where I can get this, cannot find it anywhere Sean -- Strange Things happen under the midnight sun When men and dogs go hunting for gold

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HP keyboard driver 5187
by danilyn harris 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

My boxed set SuSE contains the keyboard layouts for a couple of multimedia keyboards from HP, but not the 5187. Does SuSE /Novell have HP drivers for the 5187 keyboard.? thanks in advance M Harris <><

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