March 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] suse 6.4?
by jpennington＠atipa.com 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

David <dvalyou(a)yahoo.com> said: > I'm currently using 6.1. Is 6.4 different enough > to upgrade or should I wait for 7? If you have to ask that question, I'd refer you to one of my oldest and favorite maxims; "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Which is more or less along the same lines in this case as "If you have to ask, I ain't gonna' tell ya'." If 6.1 works, keep it. If 6.1 doesn't work, try 6.4. You *know* SuSE is going to make another release in 3-5 months, and if you don't upgrade now, you'll probably ask the same question then, too. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions jpennington(a)atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 -- 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] How to get my Logitech wheel mouse
by jpennington＠atipa.com 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

"Reid, Rowan (GSP)" <ReidR(a)gspinc.com> said: > > > I haven't addressed this question in a while. > how does one get the wheel on my logitech wheel > mouse (maousmanplus) to work. The package you're looking for is `imwheel', which, IIRC, is on the SuSE 6.3 CDs, and the X protocol for your mouse is IMPS/2. The bad news is that support for the Logitech brand devices is shady. What I mean by that is that I actually owned a Logitech FirstMouse+, and sometimes it worked; sometimes it didn't. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions jpennington(a)atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 -- 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] How to get my Logitech wheel mouse
by ReidR＠gspinc.com 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

I haven't addressed this question in a while. how does one get the wheel on my logitech wheel mouse (maousmanplus) to work. Rowan [TSS] Gerber Scientific Products http://www.gspinc.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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Re: [SLE] IBM 730T Pen Based
by Linux＠KidsCare.Net 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

Linux <Linux(a)KidsCare.Net> said: >> Actually it's an intel 486 processor he only needs it to do hand writing >> recognition & sketching in gimp. I think the hard part for him will be >to >> get the hand writting recognition software but dos and windows can do it >> why not linux? He's pretty obsessed with the odd machine. >> Ian I've seen Wacom Tablet support in the 2.2 and 2.3 kernels, but I don't know much about using a stylus-type device. You mentioned that it has a PCMCIA slot? I would assume that it would be possible to pull the disk out and do the install on another machine, but this is strictly an assumption. I've seen lots of `similar' devices running Linux, but not that one in particular. Have you checked /. or Freshmeat? -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions jpennington(a)atipa.com | http://www.atipa.com Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-241-2641 x121 I've searched slashdot, freshmeat google.com/linux etc. This machine has 4 pmcia slots. I didn't realize there was wacom support in the kernels that is really cool. I need to go through the kernel docs sometime I know my hardware I just have trouble with other peoples hw. I think we will just try to installl suse and then build a custom mini kernel. It's been years since I compiled kernel on a 486 lol. I'm running 2.3.51 & 2.2.14 the 2.3's are suprisingly stable. Thanks Ian -- 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] "Error saving bookmarks" in Netscape 4.72
by tduggan＠dekaresearch.com 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

Hi, -----Original Message----- From: gdem3 [SMTP:gwendem@cybercable.fr] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 11:46 AM >that's what I get using 4.72 as a simple user. I can't update my >bookmarks, hence being root. >Any idea? Netscape bookmarks are kept in a simple html file. Look in /home/<your_user_name>/.netscape/ for a file called bookmarks.html. If you can't update them then you should check the permissions and ownership of the file to make sure it is yours and you have read/write permissions on it. On my laptop it looks like this. tim@lepton:~/.netscape > ls -l bookmarks.html -rw------- 1 tim users 1542 Mar 28 12:09 bookmarks.html Hope that helps, Tim P.S. The old saying about power corrupts has special meaning when referring to being root and hard disks. :-) -- 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] ORB drive.
by ReidR＠gspinc.com 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

I imagine it will depend on which orb drive you get. I beelive there is a scsi ide, and lpt. the scsi one I imagine would be a scsi removable devise. regarding the lpt and IDE I am nto sure. I had one but it died still haven't gotton around to fixing it. Rowan [TSS] Gerber Scientific Products http://www.gspinc.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred A. Miller [mailto:fm@cupserv.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:11 PM > To: suse-linux-e > Subject: [SLE] ORB drive. > > > It would appear that many here aren't aware of the ORB drive. The > following is a a quote from one reviewer and is why I'm interested in > the drive, IF SuSE supports it. Lenz? > > Thanks, > > Fred > ______________________________ > > "The Castlewood ORB drive, uses 3-1/2" removable media that > is virtually > the same as that which makes up your PC's hard drive, with a > capacity of > 2.2 GB, more than any other product in its category. The company touts > an impressive 12.2 megabytes per second maximum sustained > data transfer > rate, a considerably faster transfer rate than any removable media > product available today. The Orb drive also boasts a substantial > increase in reliability over it's competition, with an estimated MTBF > (mean-time-between-failure) rating 50 percent better than other > removable cartridge products. Since ORB removable > media drives > are actually true hard drives, they can outperform other > removable media > drives, such as; magneto optical, high-density floppies, > optical DVD and > tape. With a maximum sustained transfer data rate of 12.2 MB p/second, > the ORB can readily record streaming audio and video. And there is no > limit to the number of times an ORB disk can be recorded upon. The ORB > also offers a random access feature, making disk data searches and > retrieval quicker and easier." > > -- > ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller > ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator > --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services > -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm(a)cupserv.org > > -- > 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/ > -- 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] ORB drive.
by fm＠cupserv.org 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

It would appear that many here aren't aware of the ORB drive. The following is a a quote from one reviewer and is why I'm interested in the drive, IF SuSE supports it. Lenz? Thanks, Fred ______________________________ "The Castlewood ORB drive, uses 3-1/2" removable media that is virtually the same as that which makes up your PC's hard drive, with a capacity of 2.2 GB, more than any other product in its category. The company touts an impressive 12.2 megabytes per second maximum sustained data transfer rate, a considerably faster transfer rate than any removable media product available today. The Orb drive also boasts a substantial increase in reliability over it's competition, with an estimated MTBF (mean-time-between-failure) rating 50 percent better than other removable cartridge products. Since ORB removable media drives are actually true hard drives, they can outperform other removable media drives, such as; magneto optical, high-density floppies, optical DVD and tape. With a maximum sustained transfer data rate of 12.2 MB p/second, the ORB can readily record streaming audio and video. And there is no limit to the number of times an ORB disk can be recorded upon. The ORB also offers a random access feature, making disk data searches and retrieval quicker and easier." -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm(a)cupserv.org -- 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] VM killing processes...
by webbie＠phanatic.net 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

Hello.. I just caught my machine doing something rather odd that never happend to me before.. I get home and find the harddrive going crazy and when i finally can log in i see that the load has been on 17 for 15 minutes.. i check syslog and i find this, Mar 28 16:47:41 anubis kernel: VM: killing process named Mar 28 16:52:10 anubis kernel: VM: killing process nmbd Mar 28 16:52:41 anubis kernel: VM: killing process ssh2 I searched thru the suse-linux-e list because i thought i had seen thkis before but i didnt come up with anything.. someone please help, i don't get why it is killing my processes.. i dont even know what VM is Per Eriksson WCT #1857 webbie(a)phanatic.net -- 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] 10 Mbit ISA NIC and 100Mbit network ?
by david＠bottrill.co.uk 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

Hi Alexander You can't mix 10/100 and 10meg cards on the same network, without causing all the 10/100 card to slow down to 10. This assumes that you have a hub that is autosensing. Moyst autosensing hubs have seperate internal busses running at 10 and 100Mhz. The net effect is that all the 10Mhz devices can talk together likewise the 100Mhz device. However the 10 and 100Mhz devices will not see each other. There are two ways around the problem: 1) Buy a small switching hub, in the UK these cost approx. 150 UK Pounds, I guess around $250. This will switch packets between the 10Mhz and 100Mhz devices. 2) The second is to install a second NIC (10Mhz)in one of your boxes and enable IP routing between the two network nics, and a 10Mhz NIC in your 486. David -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Daniloff [mailto:alex@daniloff.com] Sent: 27 March 2000 14:02 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Cc: plug(a)northwest.com Subject: [SLE] 10 Mbit ISA NIC and 100Mbit network ? Hello Linux folks! I need to connect my junky 486-DX2 PC to my 100Mbit network. Unfortunatelly I couldn't find ISA 10/100 NIC. Looks like they don't exist. I can't use 10/100 PCI NIC since 486-DX2 motherboard doesn't have PCI slots. On my network I use 10/100 Hub and all other computers have 10/100 Mbit PCI NICs as well. If I install ISA 10 Mbit network card in this old junk PC will it slow down my whole network? Thanks for any suggestions and your time, 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/ -- 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] YaST and CD-ROM ejection
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 28 Mar '00

28 Mar '00

<HR> <UL> <LI>text/plain attachment: drom.c_ </UL> -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- 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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