August 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Help with a Dell Latitude 510
by Chuck Payne 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

Hey Guys, Just got a new laptop from work, a Dell Latitude 510, but I like to get dual monitor working, but it's either monitor or lcd on laptop. Also, anyone know how to get wireless working. Thanks Payne -- -- Command, n.: Statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 10.2 Alpha3 => Alpha4 ?
by Christophe Veber 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

How should I upgrade from Alpha3 to Alpha4 when it becomes availlable? Is an update via you/... possible/reasonable or should I do a complete re-install?

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[SUSE10.1] libsmpeg-0.4.so.0
by Tobias Haf 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi, for the new version of the game "Frets on Fire" libsmpeg-0.4.so.0 is needed (ImportError: libsmpeg-0.4.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory). But I can't find a package which includes that file. A google-search just results in a rpm for SUSE 9.3. Any hints? Greets, Tobias

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Squid problem in 10.1
by Hans du Plooy 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Hi guys, This happened on several machine with both 10.1 OSS (and some of the rc releases) and the boxed set of 10.1. After starting the machine, squid is running, but not usable. All that's needed to remedy is to restart squid. Problem solved. Has anyone seen this? There's no useful output in the logs or in console. Thanks Hans

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[SLE] Keyboard bug 10.1
by GIorgis Georgakoudis 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

I am experiencing a strange keyboard bug...it seems that the repeat rate time interval gets messed up as it repeats characters randomly...i.e: trrrrrrrrrryiiiiiiinnnnnnng tooo typpppppppeeeeeeeeeee. Anybody experiencing the same and have found a solution or anybody cares to investigate it? Giorgis Georgakoudis -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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Sound card woes
by Robert Fitzpatrick 03 Sep '06

03 Sep '06

Upgraded a machine from 10.0 to 10.1 yesterday where the sound card did work and now it does not. I have a Creative es1371 card that shows up in Sound Configuration list without a number assigned. It does nothing when I click delete and exits when I click Edit. How can I remove this and start over setting up the card? Any help appreciated. -- Robert

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[opensuse] Fw: Driver Repository for openSUSE / SuSE Linux Enterprise (nVidia)
by Dominique Leuenberger 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

I think this answer can be of general interest. So according to nVidia there is NO restriction for distribution on their driver. A good place for it would thus probably also be the Build-Server, wouldn't it? With a dependency on the Kernel, if I understand this system right, the BuildService would trigger a recompile of the module. Any comments on this are more than welcome! Greetings, Dominique Begin forwarded message: Dominique, NVIDIA has no restrictions in redistributing the NVIDIA X driver. You should inquire with Novell whether they have any specific requirements or restrictions in redistributing their RPMs. Thanks, Lonni On 08/30/2006 07:51 AM Dominique Leuenberger wrote: > Lonni, > > I forgot something in my last reply; I was to fast in clicking. > Is there a problem about hosting the drivers on another server than > the nVidia Server? > > I mean, it would be quiet conveniant to host the driver on the > BuildService of Novell, as most users are looking there to find all > sort of RPMs for their installation. > > Regards, > Dominique > > Quoting Lonni J Friedman <lfriedman(a)nvidia.com>: > >> Dominique, >> Thanks for your email. The RPMS that you noted below are actually >> created & maintained exclusively by Novell. NVIDIA's involvement is >> solely to host the RPMs. Any questions about updates to the RPMs or >> additional packages should be directed to Novell/SuSE. >> >> Thanks, >> Lonni J Friedman >> NVIDIA Corporation >> >> On 08/30/2006 03:04 AM Dominique Leuenberger wrote: >>> dear sir, >>> >>> on download.nvidia.com/novell you're offering a repository for Suse >>> Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server, which also works with >>> openSUSE 10.1 >>> >>> I have two questions regarding this: >>> - Are there plans, and if yes, in what timeframe, to distribute the >>> latest released driver (8774) via this repository too? At this >>> moment, there is still the previous driver in the repository. >>> >>> - Will nVidia also support NON-Enterprise products like openSUSE >>> 10.2 (upcoming release in december) and eventually other >>> distributions? >>> >>> The complete task of compiling and packing could probably be solved >>> using the BuildService from Novell, which is in progress of being >>> opensourced. I'm sure you'd have some good chances to get something >>> alike or even use their system. >>> >>> We (the Linux community in general) are very grateful for the >>> excellent drivers we get from nVidia and many of us would not even >>> dare thinking about another manufacturer for Graphic Cards. >>> >>> Looking forward to a reply, >>> Dominique >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) >> and may contain >> confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure >> or distribution >> is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact >> the sender by >> reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Install source
by Hans van der Merwe 02 Sep '06

02 Sep '06

Im adding http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse/ to my install source. It takes forever..... After bit of sniffing I found that its downloading http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/suse/re… this file is 17M; after its done I click Finish and then it downloads the file again!!, and again when I open Yast Software Management, and again when I click on the Update Manager thingy on the Panel. This is way to much downloading of the same file. I did uncheck the Refresh flag on the source. Anyone else seeing this? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm

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Acrobat Reader 7 on SuSE Linux 10.1
by Lívio Cipriano 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hi, My Acrobat Reader Takes 2 minutes to load. Any idea why this happens? Lívio

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'whois' not working in suse 10.0
by Arie Reynaldi Z 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hi All, After couple of times trying, i notice that 'whois' command in suse 10.0 not working as usual. Before suse 10.0, whenever i type 'whois', it will shows this: using whois-4.6.9-40.4 back1:~ # whois Usage: whois [OPTION]... OBJECT... -l one level less specific lookup [RPSL only] -L find all Less specific matches -m find first level more specific matches < ---- cut ----> And I can check domain from it. 'whois linux.com'. But in suse 10.0, it shows nothing. using whois-4.7.5-3.2 gwcbn:~ # whois linux.com gwcbn:~ # Has anyone had problem like this ? I really need to use whois, cause it's more easy and quicker then browsing thru web to check domain name. regards, -- Arie Reynaldi Zanahar reymanx at gmail.com http://www.reynaldi.or.id

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Unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2
by Craig Millar 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

I have noticed that the earlysyslog, mdnsd, and nscd services are failing during boot. Trying to run them manually seg faults, as does netstat. The only logged information I have found is in dmesg: Unable to load interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2 I can't seem to find a satisfactory answer to this, most other occurrences of this that I found seem to suggest that the vfs has hit the max open files limit, for eg here: http://gnowledge.org/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20020114/029520.html The suggestion is to increase the value in /proc/sys/fs/file-max but doing so, even significantly, has no effect. Does anyone else have any troubleshooting advice? /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is linked to /lib/ld-2.4.so Thanks Craig

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[opensuse] openSUSE Mirrors and p2p for easier ISO distribution
by Anthony L. Bryan 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hello, I thought you might be interested in the Metalinks for openSUSE, which are automatically generated by one of your mirrors (http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/) at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/. Metalinks are really useful for large files like ISOs and contain all mirror and p2p locations along with checksums and other metadata. I've attached one (edited, doesn't contain all mirrors), its an XML file and is pretty self explanatory, but there are two good descriptions here: http://torrentfreak.com/metalinker-integrating-http-ftp-and-p2p/ 'We've all seen those download pages where a couple of http, ftp and bittorrent mirrors are listed. We often just pick one of these, but wouldn't it be great if you could use them all at the same time? Metalinker has the solution. It works like this, the .metalink file tells your download manager where it can get the file, and connects to these different sources at the same time.' http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/08/28/metalinks-integrated-bittorrent-http -and-ftp-downloads/ Right now, Metalinks are used by OpenOffice.org and a few smaller Linux distributions. I think they could be useful to you too. Metalinks are supported by a number of download managers on Unix, Mac, and Win. There are 2 for unix, a command line version (http://aria2.sourceforge.net/) and one with a GUI. If you have any questions, please contact me. Anthony Bryan Metalink [ www.metalinker.org ] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <metalink version="3.0" xmlns="http://www.metalinker.org/" origin="http://metalink.packages.ro/download/download/opensuse/openSUSE-10.2 -Alpha3-i386-CD1.iso.metalink" type="static" pubdate="2006-08-30-11:22:09" generator="Metalink Gen - http://metalink.packages.ro" refreshdate="2006-08-30-11:22:09"> <publisher> <name>Package resources</name> <url>http://www.packages.ro</url> </publisher> <license> <name>GPL</name> <url>http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html</url> </license> <description>OpenSuSE</description> <tags>linux,suse,opensuse,distribution</tags> <identity>openSUSE-10.2-Alpha3-i386-CD1.iso</identity> <version>10.2-Alpha3</version> <files> <file name="openSUSE-10.2-Alpha3-i386-CD1.iso"> <os>Linux-x86</os> <size>682434560</size> <verification> <hash type="md5">e9ba3bd40e6393f18265c5096a81adf3</hash> </verification> <resources> <url type="http" location="jp" preference="10"> http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/opensuse/distribution/SL-current/iso/o penSUSE-10.2-Alpha3-i386-CD1.iso </url> <url type="ftp" location="jp" preference="10"> ftp://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Linux/packages/opensuse/distribution/SL-current/iso/op enSUSE-10.2-Alpha3-i386-CD1.iso </url> <url type="ftp" location="jp" preference="10"> ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/openSUSE/distribution/SL-current/iso/openSUS E-10.2-Alpha3-i386-CD1.iso </url> <url type="http" location="jp" preference="10"> http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/openSUSE/distribution/SL-current/iso/openSU SE-10.2-Alpha3-i386-CD1.iso </url> <url type="http" location="id" preference="10"> http://suse.cbn.net.id/i386/10.0/distribution/SL-current/iso/openSUSE-10.2-A lpha3-i386-CD1.iso </url> <url type="ftp" location="tw" preference="10"> ftp://ftp.isu.edu.tw/Linux/SuSE/distribution/SL-current/iso/openSUSE-10.2-Al pha3-i386-CD1.iso </url> <url type="magnet" preference="90"> magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:DBWEPZSBBWHFE27JXM2LYMF7RYB63TOM&xt=urn:tree:tiger:S QKL5VHEGCPTWNOSAZO44CNQ6EDNUC6TYTWQMGI&xt=urn:ed2k:9b03d0fe271a1c3929795 0507141b997&xt=urn:kzhash:e8b5cc42cdc0aef78dda7d561b938b3d15166fa5c9bb33 8c33f8f5a3b6e7f37a1a90a23b&xl=682434560&dn=openSUSE-10.2-Alpha3-i386 -CD1.iso </url> </resources> </file> </files> </metalink> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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SuSE-compatible Firefox RPMs
by Paul Abrahams 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

These days Firefox is being updated pretty often because of security threats. I've been using the tarballs on the Mozilla website, but I'd prefer to use SuSE RPMs if they are available. I'm running 10.0, not 10.1, so I need a source that doesn't work only for the latest release of SuSE. Is there a source for downloading the Firefox RPMs that is no more than a day behind the Mozilla tarballs? Paul

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DNS issues - Suse 10
by James D. Parra 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

Hello, Just set up Bind on Suse 10, to replace an MS DNS server, and everything appears to be working well except for the MX record; an MX entry was made for the domain in Bind. When I point a Linux workstation to the Bind server, I can ping everything and find entries via nslookup and dig, however when I try to use 'mail user(a)mydomain.com', I get the following error and the e-mail doesn't make it to its destination; Pointed to Linux DNS; Aug 29 17:30:42 Linux-server postfix/smtp[23619]: 7CB3EF3E0C: to=<jamesp(a)musicreports.com>, relay=none, delay=0, status=bounced (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=musicreports.com type=AAAA: Host found but no data record of requested type) ~~~ However, when I point the Linux workstation to the MS DNS server, the mail gets through; Pointed to MS DNS; Aug 29 17:48:27 Linux-server postfix/qmgr[6825]: 2DCADF3E0E: from=<root(a)musicreports.com>, size=435, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 29 17:48:27 Linux-server postfix/smtp[23686]: 2DCADF3E0E: to=<jamesp(a)musicreports.com>, relay=mail.musicreports.com[192.168.0.25], delay=0, status=sent (250 OK) ~~~ What is going wrong and how can I fix this? Many thanks in advance, ~James

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D-Link DWL-G510 (RT61) looses ESSID
by Sylvester Lykkehus 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

*Hi For a couple of months ago, I bought a wireless network card for a stationary computer D-Link * *AirPlus G DWL-G510 (PCI) IIRC, there are several versions of this card, with different chipsets on them. I got the one with a RaLink chipset, and were happy to find out, that ralink provided drivers for this chipset. Afer downloading the driver for RT61 wireless cards from RaLink, i followed this very nice howto http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Setting_up_RT61_Wireless_Cards It was success at first hit, and I am currently running it together with a Linksys AP, set up with WPA-PSK. **After setting up my wireless interface, it connects just fine, and iwconfig shows something like (unimportant output removed):* *ra0 RT61 Wireless ESSID:"SolidAP" Mode:Managed Frequency:11 MHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:97:41:84 Link Quality=61/100 Signal level:-80 dBm Noise level:-111 dBm 0 errors, 0 invalid etc. Now, to the problem: After a random amount of time (sometimes minutes, sometimes days), it looses the association with the ESSID, and never reconnects. iwconfig outputs: **ra0 RT61 Wireless ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:11 MHz Access Point: 00:16:B6:97:41:84 Link Quality=0/100 Signal level:-80 dBm Noise level:-111 dBm **Why does it loose the association ? And even weirder, a simple /etc/init.d/network restart does NOT help, I have to do the following in order: stop network rmmod the driver module insmod it again start network before it gets the ESSID back. Any clue ? *

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OT - is there an off-topic list?
by Daniel Bauer 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi everybody I thought there was a Suse "off-topic" mailing list for things not directly related to Suse/Opensuse - I can't find it on the opensuse website... Doesn't it exist anymore or did I just mean there was one? Daniel (I am looking for a place to ask if registering a domain name should be done somewhere else than network solutions, because WHOIS always leads to a webpage saying network solutions is the worst registrar) -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch

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Suse's new competition: Paris Hilton(!!!)
by stephan beal 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

You're not going to believe this: http://bbspot.com/News/2006/08/paris-hilton-tinkerbell-linux.html "First," she [Paris] writes, "I think The Open Source Movement is, like, really hot. I've been dabbling with coding for ages, but it's taken me some time to find the courage to release it." i had to check the calendar to make sure it's not an April Fool's joke. -- ----- stephan(a)s11n.net http://s11n.net "...pleasure is a grace and is not obedient to the commands of the will." -- Alan W. Watts

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Mobile phones: How to get photos off a Nokia 6230 via USB
by Joachim Schrod 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hello, I have a Nokia 6230 mobile phone (not the 6230i) and a USB cable to connect it to the computer. I don't have a serial cable. I'm looking for a way to download pictures from the phone. When I connect the phone to the USB bus, lsusb lists the phone correctly, the module cdc_acm is loaded, and a device /dev/ttyACM0 is created. That made me hope that at least some support is there. Up I go in search for an application. I searched on Google, but didn't find anything in the first 60 or so matches. I tried digikam, but that doesn't recognize the phone. Autoscan doesn't work, and manually adding some arbitrary cameras that look like phones doesn't work either. gphoto2 is only for serially connected cameras, AFAICS. The same with gnokii. If that is not true, I would appreciate experience reports to know that I have to dive deeper in the documentation than I did. Then I stumbled over gammu. The example configuration file had the information that the 6230 phone has actually no USB chip and needs to be accessed over a protocol called dku2 or dku2phonet and via the /dev/ttyACM0 that got created. I thought `great', configured and tried it -- but to no avail: gammu --identify outputs a message that the phone does not answer. My 2.5 questions: -- Has anybody had success to connect this phone via USB and access it on Linux? If yes, with which application? -- Which applications are supposed to work with USB-connected phones or cameras? I.e., for which application is it sensible to investigate further? TIA for any answer, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod(a)acm.org Roedermark, Germany

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Re: [SLE] Squid problem in 10.1
by Hans du Plooy 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 17:11 +0800, w01F wrote: > maybe some services or processes wasn't started which squid depends on > when it get started at booting time. I don't see how that would be an issue. If I restart it it doesn't complain about about service depenancies, and it works. Just on startup not. Hans

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Re: [SLE] Suse's new competition: Paris Hilton(!!!)
by "Michael E. Jaggers" <mej＠mindspring.com> 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

>Before you start, don't forget make clean Now, see, that's the problem. I never thought I'd hear the phrases "make clean" and "Paris Hilton" used in the same discussion. Mike

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Help with 10.1
by Debi Dorman 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi everyone. I am a novice to SUSE Linux. I recently, with the help of a friend, updated my 9.3 to 10.1. After doing so, I have yet to be able run an update with YOU. Also, tried copying my DVD media to my HD, and it did not copy some of the fiels in some of the folders. Did a media check and it said "md5sumwrong" I purchased the SUSE 10.1through Amazon.com I also have the 6 CDs. Could my problem be related to a bad DVD? Should I try to reinstall? Any help or suggestions would be most appreciated. Thank you. Debi

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Kernel version
by Stevens 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Yesterday I installed a new kernel: "Linux version 2.6.5-7.276-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 Mon Jul 24 10:45:31 UTC 2006" is what dmesg says which I read as being built as of 7-24-2006. I am looking for an updated rtl8150.c network driver that contains a section for a ZyXEL USB ethernet device. I thought that it was included in the 7-24 build since it is included in 2.6.18-rc2 of 7-15-2006. Do I just not understand the process? On a related note, what kernel version can I run in my Suse 9.1 system? I show the highest number available to be 2.6.5-7.276 for 9.1. What happens if I try to install the 2-6-18 kernel? Will the system hose up? Fred

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Re: [SLE] installing a webcam
by Ricardo Rodríguez - XEN 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

>>> James Knottjames.knott(a)rogers.com> 30/8/2006 13:19 >> >You can run most apps with either desktop. And yes, you can install >both desktops and choose at login. In fact, you can even have both >running at the same time, when you start another desktop. > Thanks, James. I'll try to install Kopete in the Gnome desktop. But it will be great to have both Gnome and KDE available in the same box. I've been looking for KDE packages in Software Manager and the are plenty of them. Please, what packages I must install to have a fully functional KDE desktop as a startup option? Thanks! Best regards, Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez XEN, Resources Management

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Wired network card not available after booting
by Marco Mans 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Hi! I'm running SuSE 10.1 on my Toshiba Tecra S3 laptop for a couple of months now. Since the installation I got a strange problem. After booting the networkmanager shows only my wireless network card. The wired network card is not available. When I run YaST/Network Devices/Network Card the network card is recognised and work perfectly (I don't even have to complete the wizard!). So since SuSE 10.1 my working day starts always with YaST!!!! Does anyone knows how to solve this? This is my wired network card: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) Thanks in advanced. Marco Mans

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Re: [SLE] Acrobat Reader 7 on SuSE Linux 10.1 [The End of a Mystery]
by Lívio Cipriano 31 Aug '06

31 Aug '06

Well... like I suspected... the explanation was to simple... The hamster stuff :-) I tried to load acroread with beagle and zen turned on/off, I timed it with time command and I checked the running processes with ps -A and aux. Acroread, in the first run tooked 2 min to load and after was very irregular, so it was a obvious case of hogging. Solution: uninstall the SuSE version, download and install the Adobe version (has only 45Mb instead the 90Mb of SuSE). Now, I don't bother to count the time it takes to load... Might be that SuSE has good reasons to alter the original packages, but, I must confess, don't see an obvious reason for that. The same happens with eclipse. I use the plain download version. I only have to uncompress it to /opt and choose a java location. Lívio ----- Original Message ----- On Thursday 31 August 2006 03:13, Lívio Cipriano wrote: > Well... I just deleted my ".adobe" config dir and now loads must > faster. > > Mystery solved? As you so wonderfully put it: "... the explanation can be a mystery" :)

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