January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Problems with SB-PCI128
by Santos V Benjamin A 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

I have a intel motherboard cc820 with the SB-PCI128 integrated. I configure that card using yast2 as Ensoniq 1373. The sound is right, but when i restart and run windoze sometimes i have not sound. So i run windoze with sound and restart run linux i get the message Ensoniq .... not device found. Thanks, Ben Santos. -------------------------------------->

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New BIND packages?
by Rachel Greenham 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Any news on updated BIND packages - either to 8.2.3 or 9.1.0 - for SuSE 6.4 and SuSE 7.0 in relation to the security holes that have recently come to light? I notice that several other distros (Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake) have updates out already. :-P Just that I spent a while last night trying to upgrade to 9.1.0 from source without success - it seems to be nontrivial and I haven't found why yet. -- Rachel

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Interesting Problem when NFS installing on a laptop
by Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hi, I was trying to do an NFS install of SuSE7.0 on to my laptop. I used the laptop (and eide and bootdisk) disk images to boot the laptop. The boot proceeded and the PCMCIA modules loaded, including the drivers for my Xircom LAN+Modem Card. But it couldn't connec to the server.. Instead of installing, I decided to run the rescue bootdisk and see what was wrong, or could I even ping the server. On getting into the rescue system I couldn't ping the server. Looking at ifconfig, etc.. all looked ok. So I decided to bring down the networking part and build it myself, again it didn't work! Then I noticed on my server the 10Mpbs was called Ethernet, while it was 10Mbps on the laptop. So when bringing up the eth0 I added the "hw ether" to the ifconfig line. Then everything worked! Is there anyway to force the SuSE Install to do this? Or maybe a way of getting the install to run from within the rescue system? Thanks RikD.

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Graphing software for Linux?
by Alex Daniloff 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hello Linux folkz, I've got a project at work in which I need to access certain .csv format files with parameters and display these parameters in the form of graphs (Pareto chart, Cum. plot, Corelation, e.t.a) in the browser window (Netscape or M$ Exploder). Could somebody advise me what Linux based graphing software is the best suited for this task? I assume that I can get all these parameters from .csv files by writing script in Perl or JavaScript. But I stuck in finding how to display them graphically in the browser window. Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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RE: [SLE] Java Development on SuSE 7.0
by napi5 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Well, Perhaps, I missed out on something with borland but, I found my experience with their product to be one of the worst I've ever had in life. It sold for close to $90 (more than my last 5 linux systems) I could not even use the product until I filled out a questionnaire on-line (which included ALL my personal information) and then registered the product; at which point, I received my "activation key" (those word sound familiar?) for the product. The product really took over my system. And in the end I was unable to get a simple applet to work using awt components with a gridbag layout because of the code it kept placing in my source files. Had lots of trouble removing it as well. I don't consider myself programmer of the century but I thought I wasn't asking to much of the product. All in all it was a extremely bad experience. Dare I say much worse than any MS product I've had to deal with in the past. I'm very disappointed in Borland at the moment. They have surpassed MS in the commercial game in my opinion. If I have given the product a hasty judgment please let me know. Thanks, Robert Napolitano

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SV: [SLE] Java Development on SuSE 7.0
by Lennart Börjeson 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Well, I must say I don't recognize your description of JBuilder at all. I've tried several different Java IDEs and for the moment, JBuilder holds the first place. The "Foundation" edition is free of charge nowadays, but you must still register to get a key. But the "Professional" and "Enterprise" edition are priced way out of the reach of most private citizens, they are about 1000USD/2000USD respectively. Of course requirements varies at lot. If you want something cheap, I believe JBuilder Foundation and Sun Forte are the best contenders. IBM Visual Age has a GUI paradigm I personally find strange, but it is the ONLY Java IDE I know which has can incremental compiler integrated with debugger - you can change code on-the-fly in the middle of a debugging session. I especially don't recognize your describing JBuilder as "taking over". What do you mean? For me, JBuilder is just an icon on the desktop, free to click or not, with a comparatively small RAM footprint when running, too. /Lennart -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: napi5 [mailto:napi5@optonline.net] Skickat: den 31 januari 2001 02:33 Till: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Ämne: RE: [SLE] Java Development on SuSE 7.0 Well, Perhaps, I missed out on something with borland but, I found my experience with their product to be one of the worst I've ever had in life. It sold for close to $90 (more than my last 5 linux systems) I could not even use the product until I filled out a questionnaire on-line (which included ALL my personal information) and then registered the product; at which point, I received my "activation key" (those word sound familiar?) for the product. The product really took over my system. And in the end I was unable to get a simple applet to work using awt components with a gridbag layout because of the code it kept placing in my source files. Had lots of trouble removing it as well. I don't consider myself programmer of the century but I thought I wasn't asking to much of the product. All in all it was a extremely bad experience. Dare I say much worse than any MS product I've had to deal with in the past. I'm very disappointed in Borland at the moment. They have surpassed MS in the commercial game in my opinion. If I have given the product a hasty judgment please let me know. Thanks, Robert Napolitano -- 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

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Epson Perfection 636U?
by Farrell, Thom 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hi! Can anyone tell me the steps that they took to get an Epson Perfection 636U up and running on SuSE 7.0? Failing that can someone tell me which backport was used in 7.0? I know that 6.4 used the 2.3.47 backport and that it posed problems for Epson scanners ( http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/usb_scanner.html ). I have been unable to discover which backport was used for 7.0. After a fair amount of struggle I have yet to get SANE to see my Epson Perfection 636U. My current pet theory is to suspect the usb backport patched into the stock 7.0 kernel has problems with epson scanners. I have compiled from source the 1.04 version of sane with the 20001225 epson backend which is documented as being a working configuration on the SANE site as well as the Epson backend site. I have added the scanner module with appropiate vendor IDs, created the needed devices, and modified the configuration file under sane.d as directed but still no joy. Suggestion gladly accepted. Cheers, Thom ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Common sense is what tells you the earth is flat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------

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Re: [SLE] ghostscript in SuSE 7.1
by Volker Kuhlmann 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

> Hey Ben R. any idea about ghostscript status? Are we still going to be > stuck with the version running on 7.0 or will it finally be upgraded? SuSE won't ever be allowed to ship the latest version of ghostscript due to its licensing terms. > Also, what about getting the rpm spec files for compiling maybe, so that It would be good to be able to download the latest version from SuSE's ftp server, but I'm not sure whether that is legal. Alternatively, SuSE could provide a spec file and patches - I looked at it with 5.10 and the patches SuSE provided with that were enormous. Unfortunately, SuSE has shown no interest in this whatsoever. Fortunately though, you can download ghostscript 6.50 rpms from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ these days. Volker

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ghostscript in SuSE 7.1
by S.Toms 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hey Ben R. any idea about ghostscript status? Are we still going to be stuck with the version running on 7.0 or will it finally be upgraded? Also, what about getting the rpm spec files for compiling maybe, so that we can include our particular printers updated driver (hp932c) if it doesn't happen to be already compiled in whichever version. -- S.Toms - tomas(a)primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v7.0+ - Kernel 2.2.18 Atlanta makes it against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.

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Preparation for a new 7.1 install
by filip 31 Jan '01

31 Jan '01

Hi all, Slowly starting backups for the new 7.1 install. So I'd like some advise : I always have two scsi disks for a SuSE. I'm not so good in linux so one is for testing out things, the other one kept as a stable one. ( say test for 2.4.0 and stable for 2.2.18 ). On the other hand, I'd like to keep disks with full capabilities ( still having the /boot on each disk in case one crashes ); My double question could +/- be resumed in : should I have one boot partition for the two disks or make symlinks to keep the 2 /boot partitions. There is enough space disk on both ( 18 GB ). Now I do the same with 2 /boot partitions. The only thing I do not quite understand is how lilo is acting in this case. So I have : sdb1 /boot ext2 sdd1 /boot ext2 sdb2 / rfs sdd2 / rfs sdb3 /usr rfs sdd3 /usr rfs etc....... sdd is my test disk. When I do tests now on sdd , kernel compiling, mk_initrd I have to copy bzImage, etc.... in /boot of sdB, reboot in sdb, make lilo.conf arragements in sdb and run lilo in sdb; then reboot on sdd to see if my changes works. In this situation what would be the best way to partition the two disks ? Or would it be better to make a symlinks from lilo.conf and lilo ( all on sdd ) to the same situated on sdb ? TIA Filip.

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