January 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] 6.3 upgrade fonts and Staroffice
by fsanta＠arrakis.es 20 May '00

20 May '00

Hi everyone. Just upgraded to 6.3 and found that all our type1 fonts had been lost from Staroffice. Fortunately they remanined intact in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 but we had to do a type1inst in that directory to get the fonts.scale file back then xset fp rehash in KDE and then reinstall them in each user's installation. I think that this may help the poster of a font question earlier on which I just deleted. Naughty. Best wishes from Steve at FeF, Spain. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] [suse-security-announce] majordomo vulnerability (fwd)
by jmgrant＠primenet.com 16 May '00

16 May '00

> To: suse-security(a)suse.com > Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 15:22:26 +0100 (MET) > Cc: suse-security-announce(a)suse.com, security(a)suse.de > X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL47 (25)] > Message-Id: <20000102142226.B93C667AE(a)Galois.suse.de> > From: marc(a)suse.de (Marc Heuse) > Subject: [suse-security-announce] majordomo vulnerability > > Hi, > > the mailinglist software "majordomo" was found having several local > vulnerabilties. However, the licence of the program prohibites us providing > a fix! :-( This is one big reason I'm trying to get away from non-free software. Anyone have recommendations for a good alternative to majordomo, hopefully one that's on my SuSE CDs? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Sound in Linux
by matt.wong＠intelligroup.co.nz 25 Apr '00

25 Apr '00

Hi Sam On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Sam Carleton wrote: > Ok, I have SuSE 6.2 running on two boxes at home. One is my main box > that has a sound card in it. I am running the fvwm2 window manager, not > KDE. Is there sound support for fvwm2? Other then games, is there any > real reason to install sound support? I got sound running on my machine at home last night. I don't have much (translate: any) experience with fvwm2 (running Window Maker) but I wanted sound to play MP3s and RM files. As such I haven't configured sound for Window Maker because it's damn annoying. I think it all comes down to personal preference. If you have a use for sound then go for it. Otherwise having something running that's taking up system resource can be all bad. My home machine is a workstation, not a server and I want it to do most things that Windoze can do, except do it in a very stable fashion =) Cheers Matt -- Matt Wong matt.wong(a)intelligroup.co.nz Senior Basis Consultant Intelligroup New Zealand Mobile: +64 25 710 233 http://www.intelligroup.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Hard Drive follies
by tjhanson＠home.com 23 Apr '00

23 Apr '00

I upgraded my system and along with the new board, processor, memory, and all that I bought a 30 gig hard drive. I could not get fdisk to see more than 7.9 gigs of it, even though I did all the standard things like flash the bios, use the installation diskette from the manufacturer, etc. The only way I was able to partition the drive was to use the Windows 95 fdisk, with all its limitations including the one from marketing which limits to one primary partition per drive. Eventually I partitioned a 15 gig primary and a 15 gig extended, then changed the type, formatted and gave mount points in YaST. Now there is a 15 gig primary, a Windows extended, with a Linux logical as the only partition there. Cripes. Is there a better way? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] mount and xdm
by l41484＠alfa.ist.utl.pt 04 Apr '00

04 Apr '00

From time to time i can't mount floppies (as a regular user) because something (yast?? suseconfig??) is removing the suid bit from mount. Who is doing it and how can i stop him doing it? (i have security setting on secure and i would prefer to leave it that way) How can i allow remote users login to the server through X (xdm) but without starting xfree on the machine. I mean i want users to login through X remotely but not locally. TIA. -- Tiago Pascoal (l41484(a)alfa.ist.utl.pt) FAX : +351-1-7273394 Politicamente incorrecto, e membro (nao muito) proeminente da geracao rasca. Recem empossado (engajado) cidadao da republica das bananas. "Even more amazing was the realization that God has Internet access. I wonder if He has a full newsfeed?" (By Matt Welsh) -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] Reiser FS
by alex＠daniloff.com 29 Mar '00

29 Mar '00

Hello Linux folks! I got a couple of question regarding new Reiser journaling file system. Is somebody of you actually using it? Is there any advantages Reiser FS over EXT2 in terms of speed, ability to recover after crash? Can I install reiser fs with my plain kernel 2.2.14? Thanks in advance, Alex -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] screen resolution
by alfred＠optics.rochester.edu 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

I've spent the last few weeks getting my SuSE box up and running, with a fair amount of success. However, there is one annoying detail which I would very much like to have fixed, if only I knew how. The issue I'm talking about is that I've been unable to get my system to behave well at a resolution of 1024x768 or higher; the most I've gotten is 800x600 at 16 bit color depth. 1024x768 gives a nasty 'snow' phenomenon which makes my desktop unworkable. What's strange is that under M$ Windows I can get 1024x768 at 8 or 16 bit color depth as well as 1280x1024 at 8 bit color depth (the latter though only at 60 Hz). Some of my system's details: SiS5597 video card xfree86 version 3.3.4 SVGA X server SuSE 6.2 kernel 2.2.10 Does anyone on this list have any experience with SiS cards? What is the highest resolution which I should expect to get with this system? How can I fix this problem? Thanks, Alfred -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] sound problems
by a.keswani＠unsw.edu.au 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

allo I have been having very annoying problems trying to play audio CDs. I am using SuSE 6.2 and have compiled OSS and SB16 drivers into my kernel (2.2.14pre15) I can play mp3's fine but not CDs I have tried using a mixer to mute and then un-mute the CD player - to no effect I have used different CD playing software, cdp and workman. Neither worked. The CD is read and actually played by both aps but no sound comes out of the speakers. I used to be able to play CDs back in the days of Win32 (ugh) - so I knwo that it is possible. Can anyone suggest anything? -Abhinav -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] alsa unresolved symbol
by ahenry＠cusa.dyndns.org 21 Mar '00

21 Mar '00

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 After spending a couple of days figuring out AlSA with only little luck, I have a few questions that I would like answered. I would like to do this without being dependent on the SuSE distribution, so I have started from scratch at AlSA's homepage hoping to do it from tarball. I first did try to use AlSA that came with SuSE (6.2), and got the same unresolved symbol errors described below without running alsaconf (probably something I should have tried). First, I get a ton of unresolved symbol errors when loading the sound module for my SB64AWE ISA (PNP) card: ### cusa:~ > insmod snd-card-sb16 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_rawmidi_free_Reb730527 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol __snd_rawmidi_register_Rd5dbb808 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sb16dsp_interrupt_R4e84af00 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sb16mixer_read_R2867ac97 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol isapnp_find_card_R1389d506 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol isapnp_resource_change_R09b965af /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sb_csp_new_device_R9878dc23 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sb16dsp_new_mixer_Ra3557b21 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sb16dsp_new_device_R2549ea90 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_hwdep_register_R385af804 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sb16dsp_configure_R21f7a532 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_mpu401_uart_interrupt_Rf99de02a /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_mpu401_uart_new_device_Rf33a55ba /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_hwdep_unregister_R8acfb895 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol isapnp_find_dev_Rfeb6936f /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_sb16mixer_write_R5e5f40aa /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol snd_hwdep_free_Rcfcbaa35 /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: unresolved symbol __snd_rawmidi_unregister_Rd1ba9787 Using /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o ### I also have seen reference to a "soundcore" module in the various README, HOWTO, and FAQ documents associated with AlSA, but cannot find that module on my computer. How important is it? I compiled in PNP support into the AlSA drivers, so I should not need to fiddle with the PNP system utility? When I start up a session with GQMpeg, I get the following entry in my syslog: ### Jan 16 03:50:58 cusa insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-card-sb16.o: insmod sound-slot-0 failed ### Finally, these are the relevant entries in '/etc/conf.modules': ### alias char-major-14 soundcore alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sb16 alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 options soundcore io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330 ### This is what I get from lsmod: ### cusa:~ > lsmod Module Size Used by snd-mixer-oss 3580 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-mixer 25632 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss] snd-pcm1-oss 12588 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-pcm1 16892 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm1-oss] snd-pcm 8364 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm1-oss snd-pcm1] snd-timer 7388 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm1] snd 33536 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss snd-mixer snd-pcm1-oss snd-pcm1 snd-pcm snd-timer] serial 18484 1 (autoclean) ### Anything look out of the ordinary? Again, I appreciate all of your time and assistance. Thank you for helping this GnUBIE. - -- [-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- adam j henry =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=] | [http: www.heidelberg.edu/~ahenry] [pgp: 0x92B1EDF5] | | [mailto: ahenry(a)heidelberg.edu] [icq: 5794025] | [-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBOIGIjqknFKpzlXZZEQKBJQCfdWoBFVozCAv8Kur/m105KjvdyokAnRtP DqJlM62qIGI7daT3kHJIJoP9 =UrfK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] sound problems - in addition
by a.keswani＠unsw.edu.au 20 Mar '00

20 Mar '00

I just plugged some headphones into the cdrom and I can certainly hear the funky tunes pouring out of the cd player but nothing gets to the speakers... the little grey cable that connects the audio out to the soudn card is well and truly ther and it works fine under Win32 as I said... hope this helps to solve the prob.. -A Abhinav Keswani wrote: > > allo > > I have been having very annoying problems trying to play audio CDs. I > am using SuSE 6.2 and have compiled OSS and SB16 drivers into my kernel > (2.2.14pre15) > > I can play mp3's fine but not CDs > > I have tried using a mixer to mute and then un-mute the CD player - to > no effect > > I have used different CD playing software, cdp and workman. Neither > worked. The CD is read and actually played by both aps but no sound > comes out of the speakers. I used to be able to play CDs back in the > days of Win32 (ugh) - so I knwo that it is possible. > > Can anyone suggest anything? > > -Abhinav -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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