March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] problems with KVM switches.. losing mouse control on 8.0
by Jon San Juan 07 May '02

07 May '02

I am using a multiple servers with a KVM switch and I find that I lose control of my mouse as I return back to the SUSE 8.0 KDE. Are any you experiencing the same thing. I have tried other mice and different KVM switches. -I am using a Belkin KVM switch with hot key functionality for changing monitors. -I am using PS/2 mice The only way I can stablize the mouse is if I return to YAST 2 and try to re-configure the mouse when it is a problem... Otherwise I have been rebooting to get the mouse stability.

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Converting Albums to MP3
by James Mohr 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Hi All, I want to convert my record collection MP3 and I am looking for a way to do it. Somewhere in my memory is a program that will record what comes into the sound card and indentify the pauses between songs and separate them into individual WAV files. Once in WAV, the conversion to MP3 is pretty easy. However, it is this first step that has me stumped. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. Regards, jimmo

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Wrong major or minor number
by Oliver Ob 21 Apr '02

21 Apr '02

Hi folks. i tried to partition hda from my brain remembering some thing around 4 partitions. wrote part. table from results that gpart told me. tried to mount. error occurs "wrong major or minor number" what does that tell me? cannot even mount hda1 or hda2 (1 used to be dos, 2 was linux main partition) Must be the sign the partition table is bad. Maybe a geometry problem, ... how can i get access to hda1 (former dos) and hda2 (type 82) partitions to evacuate my data? Olli

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Version 8.0 installation from hard drive with YaST2 possible?
by joe lerch 16 Apr '02

16 Apr '02

"No installation data found on medium" "Could not mount the source medium" Previously I was alawya able to use the orginal YaST to do hard drive installation, I was never able to get YaST2 past the above errors, if I exit YaST2 and start YaST everything works fine. It has always been this way for me and I didn't mind as I like using YaST. However, I am told that version 8.0 will no longer have YaST. Does anyone know if version 8.0 of SuSE pro will allow paying customers the right to copy the installation disks to their hard drive and do a complete installtion and further updates directly from the hard drive? If I have been skipping something, please let me know, it has been a while since I installed 7.3 my curent SuSe distro installation disks are on my /hda11/7.3 thanks in advacne joe

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Apache + CSS
by Jethro Cramp 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

I'm learning to use CSS with html (anything to try and make an ugly webpage look better) and I can't get it to work. At this stage I'm not sure if it's a problem with apache (which I know next to nothing about) or my html/css. I'm running vanilla apache as it came with SuSE 7.3. (Apache 1.3.20) I have the following files in /home/jsc/html_public/chinees-blauw/ index.html chinees-blauw.css The css file reads: .test { background:black ) The html file reads: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Chinees Blauw</title> <link title="cb_main" rel="stylesheet" href="chinees-blauw.css" type="text/css"></link> </head> <body> <table height="100" width="100%" align="center" class="test"> <tr> <td>Hello</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> I am expecting to not be able to read the word 'Hello' as if the style sheet works then it should be black text on black background. I am accessing the page through http;//localhost/~jsc/chinees-blauw/index.html and of course I can see the text. I have tried all sorts of different combinations of relative and absolute paths for the link to the stylesheet. I have checked the style by substituting the <link ...> tag with the <STYLE> definition and it works. So my question is do I have to tweak apache to get css to work or am I doing something else wrong? TIA, Jethro

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Re: [SLE] cd /usr/src/linux
by Brian Durant 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

All that trouble ;-) and my computer still doesn't shutdown when I shutdown SuSE :-( Only one setting in my Soyo Dragon Plus! motherboard BIOS, so I can't change anything there. Any ideas, anyone? Nils' original instructions before compiling were as follows: > > Start up menuconfig or xconfig. > > In General Setup > > Power management > > ACPI Support set Y > > ACPI Bus management set Y > > System set Y > > Processor set Y At least it doesn't reboot on shutdown like it used to. Brian

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how to get internet to cross suse firewall2
by scc 09 Apr '02

09 Apr '02

Hi We have a server with eth0 for our internal samba network and the internet cable is plugged into eth1. We have Squid running. The server is 192.168.0.1 and the clients 192.168.0.2 etc. The internal lan works fine and we have set up a local intranet to prove it. If I set FW_DEV_EXT to eth1 nothing gets through from the internet. If I leave it blank, then it's fine but presumably unprotected. What else do I need to set apart from FW_DEV_EXT. I'd prefer to use Yast 2 to set up suse firewall2. Thanks for any help. Steve.

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Wvdial
by Richard Ibbotson 08 Apr '02

08 Apr '02

Hi I'm used to configuring SuSE machines to work with ISDN and ADSL for the internet. But, when it comes to 56K modems and Wvdial I haven't got much of an idea what to do. A friend of mine is using an SuSE 7.2 machine that I installed for him. He wanted to run Wvdial on it which works fine after I installed and configured it. Now he's made up his mind that he wants it to dial out whenever he opens a web browser or wants to send or receive mail. Having looked at the SuSE database and the man pages I understand that I need to use wvdial.dod. So, that means that I change the settings in /etc/rc.config to start dial on demand at boot time. I did that and the machine didn't connect. So, had a look at the SuSE support database once again. It revealed a page at...... http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/hoe_wv_dod_start.html Having made sure that the script wasn't anywhere on the machine I downloaded this one and put it under /etc/init.d/wvdial.dod and linked it with "/etc/init.d/wvdial.dod /sbin/wvdial.dod" just as the page above tells me to. I didn't do the part about ... ln -s /sbin/init.d/wvdial.dod /sbin/init.d/rc2.d/S20wvdial.dod ........etc because the page I mention above is for SuSE 6.xx and I'm using SuSE 7.2 and things have changed in the 7.xx release from the 6.xx release. As I say, dial on demand isn't working and in spite of looking under /var/log/messages I can't find any error messages.. The machine connects with Wvdial manually without problems. Does anyone out there have any ideas what it is that I might be looking for here ? Is it the DOD script that isn't configured properly ? Or is it a general fault that occurred with the SuSE 7.2 release of Wvdial ? I've also looked in PAP and CHAP secrets under /etc/ppp and nothing doing in there either. Thank you -- Richard www.sheflug.co.uk

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Palm m515 and linux ???
by Wojtek Malinski 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

Hi, I'm looking to buy m515, but before I do so I would like know it can do for me certain things. 1. Can I synch it (date book and other info) under linux? is there such program? 2. Can I defined certain nr of web pages which I can automatically download daily on my laptop (under linux) using one command and using another command transfer all this onto palm and automatically delete news from previous day? What program do I need? 3. Can I synch my mail to mutt or kmail? If so how? or am I doomed to M$ products? Thanks for any help, Wojtek

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contactsheets within gimp
by PR 03 Apr '02

03 Apr '02

the gimp group hasn't been helpfull sofar so maybe one of you can help me out: in photoshop there is a function to generate automatically a contactsheet from a map containing jpeg, tiff or whatever. is such possible within gimp? my idea is to autogenerate thumbnails of images in a map so they can be put on a website. piet

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