On Tuesday 08 November 2005 11:58 am, Marshall Lake wrote:
I am a first time user of SUSE Linux. I installed 10.0 on an HP Media Center PC 873n with a Dell 2001FP monitor and a HP LaserJet 4 printer.
So far I have three questions/problems which I'm hoping someone can help me with ...
In the /var/log/messages file there is following messge: "linux kernel: DMA write timed out". The message was being output every ten seconds from initial boot but it stopped in the middle of the night last night. Can anyone tell me what would have caused the message?
No clue. DMA is associated with hard drives and cd/dvd drives. Check in YaST/Hardware/DMA settings.
I cannot get the printer (HP LaserJet 4) to function. The following error messages are being sent to /var/log/messages when I try to lpr: unable to open /var/run/hpiod.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 75 unable to connect hpiod socket 50000: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 693 unable to send ProbeDevices: Broken pipe
I believe the hpijs drivers is for InkJets not lasers. Go back into YaST/Hardware/Printer and choose the other driver for LaserJet 4.
I cannot get display mode "1600 X 1200 (UXGA)" to function which, by the way, was the default mode of installation for me. The highest resolution which functions according to SUSE installation is "1600 X 1024 (WSXGA)". However, when I interrogate the monitor (Dell 2001FP) it says it's displaying only 1280 X 1024. In my previous installation (Mandrake 9.0) 1600 X 1200 functioned fine. I tried using the XF86Config file from my previous installation to no avail.
When reconfiguring graphics displays in SUSE, logout of the desktop GUI, go to a console screen (Ctrl+Alt+F1 ... F6) and 'init 3' to stop X. From command line run 'sax2' and set the monitor up. You may need to manually adjust its settings or have the windows *.inf file on floppy and import it. Test your setup and then do an 'init 5' and go login and see if that works.
-- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net
Stan