December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE machine haging with blinking leds
by Christian Andersson 10 Mar '03

10 Mar '03

It happens now and then that our SuSE-8.1 server (P4-2.4G, 1G, 160G, G550) hangs heavily with Caps Lock and Scroll Lock flashing. Does anyone on the list know what could be the reason for such a behavior? I'm a bit suspicious about the temperature in the box. Thanks for your suggestions, -- Ch

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Can't find audio cd
by Michael Fischer 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

Having this problem on two different machines, both runnig 8.0. A different 7.1 installation has no problem. Xmms and Grip both do not find any files in /cdrom with an audio CD in the tray. Permissions on /cdrom, and the devices pointed to are identical between the machine where the audio CD is found, and machines where they are not. Unfortunately, I can't use the 7.1 machine for the sound editing work I need to do. Suggestions? TIA. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. michael(a)visv.net Recompile and be happy.

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APC Back-UPS CS 350VA USB and SuSE 7.3
by Christopher D. Reimer 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

Greetings! I'm thinking about getting an APC Back-UPS CS 350VA USB to automatically shutdown my small file/DSL/firewall server (AOpen micro-ATX motherboard, Cyrix M2-333Mhz, 128MB, 10GB IDE hard drive, SCSI cdrom drive, and no monitor). Does anyone have any experience with this particular UPS? Does the stock SuSE 7.3 kernel support a USB UPS or do I have to hack and patch the kernel to make it work? Recommend a similar model with serial support for under $100 USD? Thanks! Christopher Reimer

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MS fonts
by Richard Bos 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

Op zaterdag 21 december 2002 23:43, schreef James Ogley: > * getmsttfonts - to replace the crippled fetchmsttfonts included in 8.1 RPMS for MS fonts are provided via this site: http://avi.alkalay.net/software/msfonts/ The developer looks for reports that acknowledge that the rpms work on SuSE. Perhaps James can compare his packages with the ones provided by the site mentioned above? > Ho ho ho > > Santa -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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floppy disk adapter for smartmedia? anybody?
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Having a digital camera my downloading of photo's still has to go over dos because my pcmcia card reader still has problems recognizing the smartcard in the pcmcia adapter. I also have a floppy disk adapter which until now is not in use because it only works under windows and some mac programs. I searched around but was not able to find any linux driver for this adapter. Has somebody among us this disk adapter working? -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.

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no graphical login
by Juan Rayas 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

Hi, I have SuSEV8.1. I had to login a single user to update some graphic card drivers. the RPM installation went OK, but now when I reboot my system I don't get the graphical login screen anymore. I only get a text screen ith a login prompt. How can I get back to graphical login screen? Thanks, --Juan

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changing out hardware
by Michael L. Hallsted 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

hello all, i have SuSE v8.1 personal installed. i'm just curious about how a current installation handles new hardware. i come from a windows95/98 background, and i know how win9x handles new hardware being thurst on it cold turkey. i've done this more times than i'll admit, for family and friends and at work, but you can change out a video card, or sound card and win9x will still function well enough until you can install the new drivers. i've changed out motherboards and win9x is ok with it. shoot, i've taken hard drives with win9x on it from one computer and stuck it in another computer with different hardware and windows will still boot, figure out that you changed everything, and allow you to install the drivers for all of the new hardware. win98 is the end of the line for me with windows, and i am reading everything i can get my hands on concerning linux and SuSE, but...... i'm just curious is all... [[ and i would of course make sure that all hardware ]] [[ was fully compatible first with SuSE linux]] can i pull out a video card, stick a new one in, and my current installation of SuSE would be ok with that and allow me to configure the new Xserver needed? can i yank out an old motherboard and put a new one in using the same processor and memory, but a different chipset, and my current installation of SuSE would be ok with that and not cough up hairballs? are floppy drives and cdroms so generic now-a-days that they are interchangable in a current installation of SuSE? [ i am assuming yes on this one ] [ but 3rd party confirmation is always nice ] could i buy a new computer system, minus the hard drive, take my current hard drive with SuSE on it out of my older computer system, stick it in my new system, and expect SuSE to be ok with it? or........ is it just better to backup, re-format and re-install anytime i do a major hardware change with SuSE? are there any basic general guidelines to follow when changing out hardware on a computer with a working linux installation? my experience with linux is rather limited right now, but if i have some idea what to expect, then i can plan properly for it. and i am rather curious, since these areas don't seem to be talked about much. i am also the "computer guy" for a lot of people and they are starting to ask about linux, and in some of these areas, i don't have any idea what to tell them. especially, since i generally help people roll their own computers. thanks in advance for any input. michael hallsted -- Michael Lawrence Hallsted home: mailto:tbhccs@cal.net http://www.hallsted.com/index.html http://www.softcom.net/users/mikey719/index.html work: mailto:webmaster@jfmco.com http://www.jfmco.com/index.html

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MPlayer GUI (was: Mplayer sound)
by Kevin Donnelly 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Following my post last week, I've been doing some more with this. As Clayton suggested, I recompiled Mplayer from scratch. If I start gmplayer, I can add mp3s or oggs to a playlist and play them OK. If I run: mplayer -ao alsa9 -vo xv -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/dvd the film starts OK, with good sound. However, if I run the same list of options with gmplayer instead of mplayer, I get the message about the PC not being fast enough to play this. The relevant console messages are attached. I then tried Karol's rpm, but this refuses to launch, with a message that it can't open .VMG info. Again, the console messages are attached. In the event, I have got Xine working, athough it does its usual thing of not playing direct from the GUI - you have to go to the dvdnav submenu and select one of those. I'd still like to follow up why MPlayer isn't working as expected, though, so if anyone has some good lines of inquiry .... Thanks Kevin

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How to mount 6-CD-changer
by ob_ok＠gmx.net 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Hello list, I have searched but not found what I want to know. I have a TEAC CD-C68E 6-disc-changer and want to mount these 6 volumes to the dirs /mnt/cd/1...to /mnt/cd/6 Now, how do I tell the drive which CD to mount into the mountpoints 1 to 6? It is /dev/hdb but I cannot address like I would do if the 6 discs were partitions. Thanks for help and experience-exchange. Happy 2003! Yours, Olli -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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Samba Server And Suse 8.0 Setup.
by jonathan 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Hello I have basically a suse samba server setup. Eth0 is for the internet connection (cable). Eth1 is my internal network. I use eth1 for my samba server. When i have the shares/ drive letters mapped, whatever, Ill goto access them and that computer will just lockup or timeout for about 1 minute, then it will resume operation normally. I have approx. 5 comptuers on the suse server, and they all do this from windows xp to windows 98se. I am using set up addresses of 192.168.0.x, where is greater than 2. My question is have or is there something Ive setup wrong to cause this pause to occur. ? Its becomming very annoying..and frustrating. Im using kernel 2.4.18-64GB-SMP with a dual processor setup. If anyone has any ideas please let me know. Every package installed is orginal versions from the suse install cdroms. (no updates done). Anything come to mind. btw, ive replaced the switch, with a new netgear one, and all the networks at startech ST100 Realtek 8139 chipsets on 100Tx. Anyone... !

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