Hi

I've got Suse 10.1 running on my IBM Thinkpad T22 everything is fine but I'ld like to fine tune things a bit better. So was hoping someone could advise

Firstly I'ld like to increase the memory allocation to my intergrated graphics chip. Its currently 8mb but I read somewhere that since laptop grraphics are intergrated you can increase the amount of memory they use. So I'ld like to know where in SuSE I can change this variable.

Secondly, is there a way to temporarily turn off the automatic hard installation. I have a PCMCIA card which Suse recorgnises and installs but the driver doesn't work properly and for some reason it refuses to accept any changes I make to the configurations in Yast telling it to use ndiswrapper instead of prism54.

Thirdly, this I guess is more a smb networking question. I have set up a smb network which I know works because I've transfered files between my linux and windows boxes.
I can see my windows box from linux but I can't see linux from windows.

Also under SuS 10.0 I could setup smb network printing without any trouble now under SuSE 10.1. Firstly Printer Manager under Utilities detects the network but not the printer, I try to bypass this by typing in the printer address but I keep being asked for a password. I've tried all my passwords and user names including the administrator but does not work. I've even setup new accounts on the windows box but nothing.


Thanks

That's four questions, not three

First Question: I stand to be corrected here, but I believe the RAM allocated to video is managed through the BIOS. I am not sure you can adjust it via the software.

Second Question: Just leave the entry for the prism driver unconfigured. Have you read everything about ndiswrapper? If not, go here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...ofessional_9.2
and here:
http://nextgen.no-ip.org/~andrew/linux/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapperinfo10.php

Third Question: Again, I stand to be corrected, but I believe you will need to activate the Samba Server to create Windows shares under Linux. I did it once with Corel Linux... worked very nicely. You may also need to change firewall settings, or disable it entirely.

Last Question: Is the printer attached to a Windows PC, or is it resident directly on the network? If the former, Samba should handle it; just set it up as a Windows shared printer. If the latter, open printer admin at http://localhost:631 and add the printer there. I think you need "socket://<printer ip address> as the device to attach to, and select appropriate make/model from there...

That should be "socket://<printer ip address>:9100

Hi tskears

thanks for the reply and info. me can't count

Re: Graphiic
Yeah I know the memory allocation is typically done through BIOS but the IBM Thinkpad BIOS is a bit dodgey. Its not like a normal BIOS screen and sadly has no mention of the graphics chip at least not that is obvious to me. That's why I was hoping that maybe there was a way to override the settings in SuSE. You know like the BIOS editing tools you get for windows from some motherboard makers but for linux, but perhaps not.

Re: SAMBA
I do have the samba server running from boot-time, I can see, access and manipulate the windows shares from SuSE but just not the other way round. I've tried things like manually adding the SuSE IP address and network ID into /windows/system32/etc/hosts
but no joy. My SuSE firewall is permanently off as well and windows is set to accept all pings from the SuSE IP address.

Re: Printer
It is on a Samba share and it is shared in windows however for some reason I just can't get it to work and I'm not sure why. I've done everything I did when using SuSE 10.0 where it worked fine, even if I had to use a different driver so couldn't do much with the prinint preferences. However it work. Now in SuSE 10.1 Samba does not pickup the printer though it picks up the network the printer is on

Re: PCMCIA

Thanks for the links. Sadly I've already done everything but script file thing at

http://nextgen.no-ip.org/%7Eandrew/l...pt/ndiswrapper

I delete the originial configuration but YaST adds a new one automatically and if I ignore it and just add a new interface and call it say wlan1 ndiswrapper does not detect it. Instead it detects the card as eth1 but i can't configure this in YaST and not sure how to do the static IP addressing and WPA-TIPK stuff and set it to automatically load and connect at boot-time in ndiswrapper. I can do this with unencrypted networks and WEP keys but not with WPA.

However I'll try the ignore thing again and make sure I've not been changing the module from Prism54 to ndiswrapper or something that's confusing it.

Hi

Done what you said with leaving the YaST added configration blank I also moved the card to the uppermost slot and added my own configuration using ndiswrapper as the module. It seems to work properly now though I have not rebooted yet. Hopefully it should work on reboot. I've just had so much to do today. Once it started working I just kept using it.

Re: Printer

on the add new printer screen using smb(windows shared) installation. The scan will only pick up the neworked computers properly if I choose the annonimous(no login/password required) option but I keep getting a NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error on trying to brouwse for the printer in the Windows box. However if use any of the other options i.e. guest login or normal account. The scan does not pickup the windows box, just the workgroup. And again if I manually input the information (workgroup, server, printer) I keep being asked for login details which keep being rejected, yet they are all correct. Is there something I can do to solve this.


Thanks

Hello!

I can only answer your first question since I'm neither a SAMBA user or a tweaker.

The answer varies , some times the intergrated graphics chip automatically or "on-the-fly" changes the amount of system memory available for graphics.

You could try opening the "BIOS Setup Utility" by pressing DEL if you have a Phoenix Award BIOS. Try F1 or ESC if that does not work.

Look for "Intergrated Peripherals" or something of the sort.

Regards, Suselinuxfan