[wplug] SuSE Issues
Robert Coutch
robert.coutch at verizon.net
Tue Dec 30 03:26:36 EST 2003
X is configured on SuSE by running sax2.
Run it as root.
Sounds like your problem was some simple timing issues.
This can be very bad, however on an LCD monitor as I believe you said you
have.
sax2 should help. Jump into the console CTL+ALT-F1 and log in as root (if you
can). Enter init 3 to get X stopped. Then run sax2 or sax (if sax2 barks at
you).
Another way to try SuSE 9 is to download the LIVE evaluation CD.
It works like knoppix in that you boot from the CD and run from the CD.
I just got done putting SuSE 8.2 on an old dual P-133 IBM PC Server.
It's slower than I can stand but the SMP kernel installed and runs great.
The machine has 3 small SCSI drives so I set up LVM to allow spanning across
all the drives for one large partition (except for /boot and swap).
The install was flawless.
I'm going to put SuSE 8.2 on my RedHat 7.2 server this week as that software
is pretty out of date. I just hope my PostgreSQL database will transfer over
with little trouble.
Hope this helps,
Bob
On Monday 29 December 2003 04:46 pm, Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> So as of late, due to the happiness that RedHat has been exuding in support
> of users and the OEMs, I decided to give SuSE 9 a try.
>
> Install: Went rather well considering it was a network install. The
> interface was ok. Had to do install over internet as I wanted to try it
> before making any monetary investments in media. First issue was that you
> have to record your source server(s) and directory path for the
> installation location. (Oh, and not just the names but the IP as name
> resolution does not function outside of manual intervention.) You also had
> to manually tell it to detect and enable the NIC, quite important for a
> network install.
>
> After a rough start, which I chalked up to that who German 'way of doing
> things', I walked through the post install mini configuration. Was
> seemingly simple; prompted me to enable all pertinent devices, even go my
> sound card and win-modem.
>
> First boot: Boot time was a tad slow but not completely unusual. Apparently
> it does some kind of automatic logon of the user account you create. (don't
> remember it asking me to turn that on). The real problem was that the
> screen was split 3/4 of the way down and then "wrapped back onto itself".
> Kind of hard to explain but it was like the 'bottom' of the screen was
> about 2inches too high and then instead of truncating it (or where you have
> to 'pan' the mouse up to see the rest) it just wrapped the missing top
> 2inches of the monitor down onto the bottom. I ran the configurator and
> tried different video monitors, cards, etc to no avail. Tried to find a
> 'bugzilla' for SuSE but that does not seem to exist. Ended up emailing
> support at suse.com and go a response back telling me to respond with the
> support number off my copy of SuSE. (though the email did point to a site
> that had some archived help fixes that I checked out.... nothing about this
> kind of issue sience 2.2v kernel stuff). The situation would have been
> workable if not for the last feature that Konquer's functionality as a web
> browser is abysmal and my selection of Mozilla as an 'additional' option to
> be installed ended up with a plethora of missing configuration files. This
> meant I had to reboot into windows to look for and try fixes.
>
> I believe it is a XF86Config file issue. So long as the TFT is disabled the
> system boots fine with a regular monitor. I copied the configuration file
> from a Knoppix 3.3 (which works great) and after cleaning up some font
> references X started but had the same issue.(I also did the same for a
> Fedora XF86Config file which was the exact same 4.3.0 version).
>
> After googling around for a while I have just about given up on SuSE. Sad,
> considering that most big OEMs are hopping in bed with them as fast as they
> can as one of the last 'corporate' distros.
>
> XF86Config file:(this is a Fedora version +mod to Font section)
> ************************
> # XFree86 4 configuration created by pyxf86config
>
> Section "Server Layout"
> Identifier "Default Layout"
> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS0"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS1"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS2"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS3"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS4"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS5"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS6"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS7"
> InputDevices "/dev/ttyS8"
> InputDevices "/dev/psaux"
> InputDevices "/dev/logibm"
> InputDevices "/dev/sunmouse"
> InputDevices "/dev/atibm"
> InputDevices "/dev/amigamouse"
> InputDevices "/dev/atarimouse"
> InputDevices "/dev/inportbm"
> InputDevices "/dev/gpmdata"
> InputDevices "/dev/mouse"
> InputDevices "/dev/usbmouse"
> InputDevices "/dev/adbmouse"
> InputDevices "/dev/input/mice"
> InputDevices "/dev/input/event0"
> InputDevices "/dev/pointer0"
> InputDevices "/dev/pointer1"
> InputDevices "/dev/pointer2"
> InputDevices "/dev/pointer3"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
> Load "dbe"
> Load "extmod"
> Load "fbdevhw"
> Load "glx"
> Load "record"
> Load "freetype"
> Load "type1"
> Load "dri"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
> # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
>
> # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
> # Option "XkbDisable"
>
> # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
> # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
> # keyboard, you will probably want to use:
> # Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
> # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
> # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
> #
> # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
> # For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
> # Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> # or:
> # Option "XkbLayout" "de"
> # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
> #
> # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
> # control keys, use:
> # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
> # Or if you just want both to be control, use:
> # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
> #
> Identifier "Keyboard0"
> Driver "keyboard"
> Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
> Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
> Option "XkbLayout" "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> # If the normal CorePointer mouse is not a USB mouse then
> # this input device can be used in AlwaysCore mode to let you
> # also use USB mice at the same time.
> Identifier "DevInputMice"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Monitor0"
> VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> ModelName "0"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
> VertRefresh 40.0 - 70.0
> Option "dpms"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "ati"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "ATI Mach64"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Monitor0"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "DRI"
> Group 0
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
> *******************************
>
> Jeremey Wise (440)-519-6006
> Systems Consultant(CNE,MCSE,CSE)
> Agilysys, Inc.
> Jeremey.Wise at Agilysys.com
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