November 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Hey Man
by Martin.Guillen＠siemens.com.ar 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Hi list: How can I send the content of a man page to a file to review it whit vi. The trivial command man something > somefile doesn't work at all because som part of the text shows very bad. Thak you, Martin.

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RE: [SLE] Building SATAN/SAINT under SuSE 7.2
by Heaton, Simon 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Thanks for this Nick. I now have to confess that I have been really dumb. I have been trawling round looking for Satan when all the time I should have been looking for Saint. In a moment of (rare) inspiration I slapped my SuSE CD into the drive, listed all packages using Yast2 and then searched on "saint" and there it was, v3 all ready and waiting! Oh well, I guess thats what comes from only being human! Kind regards, Simon -----Original Message----- From: Nick Zentena [mailto:zentena@hophead.dyndns.org] Sent: 29 November 2001 19:21 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Building SATAN/SAINT under SuSE 7.2 On November 29, 2001 11:55 am, Simon Heaton wrote: > Hi Nick, > > The only version of Saint I could find was v1 !! So I guess a good start > would be to get a more recent version. Do you happen to remember where > you got your v3 release from? http://www.wwdsi.com/saint/ Lots newer then version 1 -)) Nick -- 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/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com -- The content of this e-mail is confidential, may contain privileged material and is intended solely for the recipient(s) named above. If you receive this in error, please notify Software AG immediately and delete this e-mail. Software AG (UK) Limited Registered in England & Wales 1310740 Registered Office: Hudson House, Hudson Way, Pride Park, Derby DE24 8HS

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Mozilla Spell Checker?
by Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM) 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Does anyone know if there is (or plans to include) a spell checker for Mozilla. I am in the process of testing the possibility of allowing the Windows users on our network to have the same advantages of Mozilla in Windows I enjoy in Linux. There is a greyed out option to check spelling before sending in .9.6. I am tired of the constant security patching required to use IE 5.5 and Outlook Express 5, and am hoping Mozilla might catch their imagination. Thanks for any help. :-P -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris(a)ntm.org Web Address: www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 "We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God." --Dwight Lyman Moody

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Re: scuzzy SCSI detection - SOLVED!
by Robert Storey 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

The suggestion (Thanks Karol!) that I needed to recompile the kernel was the answer. I recompiled Slackware after turning off "SCSI generic support" and "SCSI logging facility". Now Slackware boots up without a hitch. There never was a problem with SuSE or Redhat as these distros have these options disabled by default. - Robert Storey On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 20:27:58 -0500 "Karol Pietrzak" <noodlez84(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > > I have an Advansys Ultra SCSI card and I've been > using it perfectly with my scanner, Plextor > 12/10/32S and Yamaha 8424SZ for two years now > (kernels 2.2.X to 2.4.16). The SCSI detection > part of the boot process does not have these > problems. > > Because the kernel deals with all this, find out > what kernel version is in each distro that you > are using (uname -r). Send back a nice little > list with distros and kernel versions. > > I would recommend compiling your own kernel. I'm > guessing you haven't done that (or haven't done > it _well_) because of all the extra cruft that > takes place, judging from your boot log. > > On 29 Nov 2001, Robert Storey wrote: > > > I'm having an unusual problem with the way my > > computer detects attached scsi devices. I > > actually hate to direct my question to this list, > > because the problem does NOT occur with SuSE or > > Redhat, but it does occur with Slackware and > > Debian. However, since nobody on the Debian list > > knew the answer (and Slackware doesn't seem to > > have a list), I'm hoping somebody here can help. > > > > What happens is that Linux does correctly > > identify my scsi card (Advansys) but then it > > takes FOREVER to test for connected scsi devices > > on all 7 ports. Each test results in 2 timeout > > error, and this increases bootup time long enough > > to brew a pot of coffee. This whole scuzzy scsi > > detection procedure generates numerous error > > messages, which I've included below. > > > > My guess is that it's a hardware problem, and > > maybe I'll have to replace the scsi card. But > > then again I'm perplexed that SuSE and Redhat > > work fine with the card and don't generate error > > messages, plus Slackware and Debian also work > > fine (but only after this lenghty process of > > generating error messages). Any enlightening > > thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Karol Pietrzak > PGP KeyID: 3A1446A0 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1

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Re: [SLE] xawtv and frequencies (2)
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

>with xawtv. However, I am somewhat familiar with TV. In the >US, >the sound carrier is always exactly 4.5 MHz above the picture >carrier. >In Europe, they use a different number, but I don't have the >information Well, for the moment I am living in Indonesia and although my European TV set works here well, I think that perhaps here a different distance is used. >on the 'Net. Try "sound carrier" on Google and see what it >brings. Will do, I am curious ;-). >BTW, don't use the expression "image frequency" to mean the >freq >of the picture carrier. "Image frequency" has a specific >meaning >in the RF world, and has to do with superheterodyne systems. Promise I try to think of it. Reason why I am looking into the problem is that on my WinTV card (Hauppage bt848) I only receive one of the two. Either pictures or sound. I do not get them both ;-( As I have no idea how Xawtv decides where the sound is when it is tuned in on the pictures I was wondering whether the sound carrier is always a standard distance from the picture frequency or xawtv finds somewhere a lookup list.

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Re: [SLE] Recover X
by B.M.C.S. 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Hi Francis, Thanks for that info. mc is just like Xtree + Zedit, my favourite DO$ file manager and text editor. At this rate I won't need X, I might just stay in the command line mode ;-) Dave Barton >Le Jeudi 29 Novembre 2001 01:33, Dave Barton a écrit / wrote : > >> Also, is there a "simple" text editor (something like DOS Edit) that >> can be used to edit config files outside the X server. While I am sure >> that editors like vim have wonderful and powerful features for those >> of you who have been working with them for years, I am a newbie to >> Linux and for the moment I just need to get a simple job done in the >> simplest way I can. Maybe later on I will discover the power and >> features of vi etc. > > You can use the wonderful Midnight Commander (mc) to navigate in you system > and to edit all the files you want. To directly edit/view a file just type : > mcedit file_you_want > > Francis --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.298 / Virus Database: 161 - Release Date: 13.11.2001

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SuSE rpms of Galeon 1.0??
by Monte Milanuk 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Anyone out there know of where a person might find galeon 1.0 rpms built for SuSE instead of Redhat? The galeon rpms at sourceforge won't install, griping about gconf and some other stuff like mozilla, even if they are installed already. TIA, Monte

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network problems
by Chris Large 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

I have an internet work as we most do. any ways to the problem. The other morning i woke up to the network beinb done to the outside world. I thought i was a provider problem so i rebooted the machine. the machine came back up with "eth0 not active". I thought it was the network card that was shot so i bought a new one and put it in, the problem is still there. I run eth0 to the outside world via the cable modem. I also run eth1 as an internel network thru masqurading. If i go into rc.config and swap the following lines around IFCONFIG_0="" IFCONFIG_1="dhcpclient" so that eth1 is now conneted to the cable modem and switch the cables on the back of the machine around it works and i can go on to the net. I also change START_FW="no" from "yes" that way the firewall is turned off. When i set it as it is suppose to be everything seem to go right except for the last part of the fire script. this is a 7.2 system with the old firewall script as i counld not get the new firewall script to work. any idea where to look to fix this *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge(a)macn.bc.ca | | http://clarge.bc.ca | *--------------------------------*

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Re: [SLE] xawtv and frequencies
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 21:03:04 +0700 >Constant Brouerius van Nidek <constant(a)indo.net.id> wrote: >> I have the latest stable xawtv installed on my Suse 7.2. >> At the moment I have a good image but the sound is some 20 >ticks away from >> the accompanying picture. >I am afraid that I may not be able to help very much this time >, but I am >curious >about your problem. >I suppose that you are running xawtv 3.65 which was released a >couple of days >May I ask: (1) did you run the scantv utility to set up your >xawtv config? : I ran scantv and tried out every combination of broadcast and Pal system. With some of the combinations I got three (out of 11 that I have now) channels. With those as a start I used eastern Europe and looked for the stations there. Finely I found 11 of 13 posibilties. No sound though. That is 20 ticks away from the image. KwinTv does not give me anything at all. At least nothing visible. 11 stations are found but I have not found any sound or images. I assume that my problem has something to do with the local TV frequencies. The stations that I have found where on the East. Europe scale -10 clicks from a full channel. >(2) >can you include your config in a post for us to look at -or No problem, it is not such a big text file ;-) Here it is: [global] ratio = 4:3 freqtab = europe-east pixsize = 128 x 96 pixcols = 1 jpeg-quality = 75 keypad-ntsc = no keypad-partial = yes osd = yes # [Station name] # capture = overlay | grabdisplay | on | off # input = Television | Composite1 | S-Video | ... # norm = PAL | NTSC | SECAM | ... # channel = # # fine = # (-128..+127) # key = keysym | modifier+keysym # color = # # bright = # # hue = # # contrast = # [defaults] norm = pal input = television capture = over color = 65535 bright = 34733 hue = 64880 contrast = 38025 [TVRI Bandung] channel = 32 fine = -14 key = Shift+F3 color = 47178 bright = 32768 hue = 37990 contrast = 34733 [METRO TV] channel = 58 fine = -11 key = Shift+F4 color = 32768 bright = 32768 hue = 32768 contrast = 32768 [SCTV] channel = 46 fine = -10 key = Shift+F5 [TPI] channel = 38 fine = -9 key = Shift+F6 bright = 43248 hue = 16645 contrast = 20995 [RCTI] channel = 44 fine = -10 key = Shift+F7 bright = 37194 hue = 35648 contrast = 43076 [INDOSIAR] channel = 42 fine = -10 key = Shift+F8 color = 32768 bright = 32768 hue = 32768 contrast = 32768 [ANTV] channel = 48 fine = -10 key = Shift+F9 color = 32768 bright = 32768 hue = 32768 contrast = 33423 [TRANS] channel = 30 fine = -9 key = Shift+F10 color = 63869 bright = 38447 hue = 32768 contrast = 17559 [TV 7] channel = 50 fine = -29 key = Shift+F11 color = 62911 bright = 35803 hue = 32756 contrast = 21734 [Global TV] channel = 52 fine = -14 color = 32768 bright = 32768 hue = 32768 contrast = 32768 [LATIVI] channel = 54 fine = -10 color = 32768 bright = 32768 hue = 32768 contrast = 32768

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need some help on new hardware...
by Johannes Liedtke 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Hi, a new machine is overdue... so I was wondering if anybody here has had (good or bad) experiences with any of these components: (I'll be running a SuSE 7.3 on it) mainboard & CPU: - GigaByte GA-7 DXR & AMD 5k86 K7 1600+ graphics: - Elsa Gladiac 511 A64 (64MB, Nvidia GeForce MX 400) cd-writer: - Ricoh MP 7083 IDE 8/8/32 (pretty cheap...) scanner: - Epson Perfection 1250 USB I'd be really glad about any additional suggestions and/or warnings about the hardware... Johannes

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