November 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

02 Dec '02

Hi, I'm having a really hard time trying to encode ogg files. Whenever I use oggenc the whole machine completely freezes. I have tried oggenc both as a user and root with the same results. If i do something like: oggenc -q 5 track5.wav -o track5.ogg , it starts off fine, but always freezes the machine after a couple of seconds. After rebooting the machine, I have noticed that the track5.ogg output file has never been created. I have tried using the rpms off the CD, the rpms from vorbis.com and the .tar.gz files from vorbis.com, but get the same result all the time. I have also tried using oggenc via other apps, eg: Grip, abcde, ripit etc, but the same thing happens every time. Incedentaly, the other ogg tools seem to work fine, eg ogginfo The really annoying thing is that I had this working fine a couple of weeks ago, but I reinstalled SuSE and now it won't work. I have even tried changing the acpi and apm options in grub, and also using the failsafe option in grub, but no change My system: SuSE 8.1 oggenc 1.0 (CD version) /dev/hda3 9.0G 4.0G 5.1G 45% / /dev/hdb1 38G 4.3G 33G 12% /data Duron 1200, 256 MB I can't find anything on google about complete system freezes from oggenc, so if someone has even the vaguest idea about what could be wrong, I'd be very grateful. Nik

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VNC, KDM, Graphical Login
by DJ 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi, Anyone know what the /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/XServers file should look like to get the graphical login on the client? I had this working under SuSE 7.1 :-), but unfortunately KDE files weren't under the /etc structure and didn't get saved. :-( Thank you. -- __________________________ DJ mailto: linux_programmer(a)hotmail.com

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firewall blocks xntp system time maintenance
by SuSEnixER 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

SuSE 8.1/cable internet access. I have xntpd running and cannot maintain system time thru SuSEfirewall2. I have: FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_UDP="yes" and iptables -A input_ext -j ACCEPT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -p udp --sport ntp --dport ntp But, neither rule seems to allow ntp access thru the firewall. I know that the firewall is blocking because, if I stop the firewall, ntp will update the system time. # iptables -L | grep ntp DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ntp ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED udp spt:ntp dpts:1024:65535 DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ntp DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ntp ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED udp spt:ntp dpts:1024:65535 DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ntp ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED udp spt:ntp dpts:1024:65535 Also, SuSE 7.3 gave me firewall logs, /var/log/firewall, but SuSE 8.1 does not. Have I configured something wrong or is it just different? I see that everything that was in firewall (log) is also in messages (I think). -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org icq#173753138

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Configure usb scanner
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hi, I have the following problems: I installed an Acer/Benq 3300 usb scanner that works fine. The problem is that the scanner is only recognized by the system after I run the script "acerfirm u176v042.bin" that update the firmware of scanner. Every time I was turn on my computer I need to do that. How can I automatically do that on the startup? Thanks Thadeu

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Can't get on the GnuPG site
by Tom Nielsen 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Can anyone get on www.gnupg.org? I've been trying to download the program but haven't been able to connect for 2 days now. Any other place to download and get newbie type information on GnuPG? Thanks! -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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(OT) Future of Linux in US?
by Steve D 02 Dec '02

02 Dec '02

Hello all-- Apologies for this (hopefully very brief) off-topic thread. I'm hoping that a few references may be made, by the knowledgeable people on this list, to a few good sources of thought and conjecture regarding the following-- Although I presume (personally hope) other countries will pursue better alternatives, as a U.S. citizen and after reading a little about the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, Microsoft's Palladium initiative, the "Fritz" chip and the cooperative responses by the U.S. government so far to Microsoft and to the entertainment industry (regarding "digital rights management") I have become somewhat worried about the future of Linux, and computing in general, in the U.S. Could someone refer to one or more good Internet sources where one may be able to read the comments and ideas of those who really know and understand this subject? Thank you. Steve D. New Mexico, US

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No pause character in modem dial string
by Gary Ernst 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

I'm attempting to set up my modem via YaST2. All works well until I try to enter a comma in the dial-string ie:9,xxxxxx It seems YaST2 will not accept a comma in the dial string. Anyone know of a circumvention ? TIA Gary Ernst

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Strange ./configure Error Message
by L. Mark Stone 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

I'm trying to install the latest version of Quanta. Yast and apt do not have the latest version, so I d/l'd the bz2 file from Sourceforge. After I expanded the file, I went to run ./configure, and got the following: bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # ./configure bash: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied bronxville:/home/lms/Documents/Downloads/quanta-3.0 # I'm running SuSE 8.1. I'm not a programmer, so the whole build process is something I do rote, without really understanding what's going on. I don't want to be a programmer either; I just want to run the app! Thanks! -- ______________________________________________ A Message From L. Mark Stone http://www.lmstone.com

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Partitioning problem on installation
by Ferdy Bassi 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Hi all. I just bought SuSE 8.1 Pro. My partition table is: /dev/hda1, fat32, 5Gb, Win98 /dev/hda2, ntfs, 6 Gb, Win2k /dev/hda5, 9 Gb, planned for linux /dev/hda6, fat16 for xosl /dev/hdb1, fat32 for documents /dev/hdb2, swap for linux Xosl installed on hda6 is a very powerful and nice bootmanager. I'm using it to manage double booting of Win98 and 2k and it works fine. I started SuSE 8.1 installation and I choosed from Yast2 "custom partitioning". Well, Yast2 keeps telling me it can see only /dev/hda, no hda1, hda2, etc.. and it keeps planning to reformat the entire /dev/hda to set a unique big partition for SuSE Linux. I tried everything: I selected "First Hard Disk" instead of "Custom partitioning", I selected "Base partitioning on Yast suggestion" (or something like that...), but no way. So I tried to reboot my system using an old Linux system floppy (SYSLinux...) and I tried fdisk from that floppy. The command fdisk /dev/hda from that floppy can see all the partitions I have. So, what's wrong with Yast2?? TIA, Ferdinando

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Too Difficult
by Howard Coles Jr. 01 Dec '02

01 Dec '02

Why do I have to fight SuSE to get so darn little done? 1. I want to grip cd's, can't. some crazy problem with my sound card, then get that fixed (on my own no less) and now I can't see the music cds from grip, or koncd, or kscd etc., why? Works fine under Mandrake, RedHat, others, but not SuSE. 2. I want to install on a laptop and run wireless. Can't SuSE doesn't recognize the Wireless NIC or the built in modem. RedHat does, and Mandrake does. 3. I want to install all the "devel" packages so I can compile downloaded apps, like a much newer everybuddy. Takes 1.5 hours to manually select all the devel packages that the "select all Development packages" check box in the install routine DOES NOT SELECT! Why can't "ALL of KDE" really mean "ALL of KDE"? The same for the rest of the package selections? Why do I have to manually go in and select the rest? And in 8.1 THERE IS NO menu option to save the selections to a floppy or file, why not? If you are going to make me spend over 1.5 hours selecting crap that should get selected by default, and least give me an easy way to save my selections so I don't have to do it again! You want to know why people go back to Windoze? This is why. I am tired of fighting my PC to get little to nothing done. I am tired of fighting CUPS to get anything printed, the NIC drivers to stay on the net, etc. and on and on. You should not have to be a Linux expert and spend hours and hours configuring your box to get simple things done. Why do I want to use SuSE? Their update process is the best, I paid $80 for it, and I like the look and feel of the whole distro. but if I can't use it what good is it? Right now, my main machine has some wacked out problem with the video. IF it leave it sitting for about 5 - 10 mins my screen gets horribly scrambled like there is some frequency signal causing problems. I also can't figure out what wierd thing happened to my cdroms. I have a DVD player, and an HP cd burner. Both on the second channel of the ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make it /dev/hdc and the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 ( which I believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I manuall set me cd player to use /dev/sr0 and put a cd in the dvd rom it plays!!! So I change the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn cds!!! -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16! "The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing, and the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding." Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5

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