openSUSE Users December 2002

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by Howard Coles Jr.

On Saturday 30 November 2002 08:02 pm, Patrick wrote: > On Saturday 30 November 2002 04:39 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote: > > On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:17 pm, Ali Naddaf wrote: > > > Howard, > > > > > > If you feel more comfortable with Windows, please consider > > > switching back. After all, variety is the spice of life and some > > > prefer Windows to Linux and some Linux to Windows and neither is > > > right nor wrong; these are personal preferences. If Linux is not > > > working for you, the right thing for you is to go back and use > > > Windows. > > > > > > This mailing list is for asking technical questions and finding > > > answers and has served well for many users. If you have particular > > > technical questions about SuSE Linux, feel free to post them and > > > the kind people on this list will try to help you as much as they > > > can; I doubt anything can be achived by the type of complaints that > > > you had in your mail; those questions belong somewhere else. > > > > > > Have fun and enjoy life. > > > > 1. How do I straighten out the mess that has some how screwed up my > > ability to use the two cdroms I have (DVD and HP CD-RW)? > > 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 manually 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!!! > > -------------------------------- > Howard, > At some you have gotten confused and frustrated. Whether it was SuSE or > something else that caused it, is unknown. I know you have read many > times the solutions to getting CD drives working on this list and I fee > sure you have probably fixed some of your own a time or two. I just > believe you have let frustration overtake your memory which keeps you > from fixing your bug. > > As your DVD & CDROM are the same drive, then your links must point to > the same device, sr0! The CDRW will link to sr1 then to give you your > 3 drive setup and allow you to burn again. So, you should have links > /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/sr0 & /dev/dvd pointing to /dev/sr0 & then, > /dev/cdrecorder pointing to /dev/sr1, ok? Be sure also that you have > directories /media/dvd & /media/cdrom & /media/cdrecorder. Be certain > that you have the proper entries in /etc/fstab as well. Of course, you > need to be sure in your lilo that you have the hdc=ide-scsi and > hdd=ide-scsi, as burning still needs to have the IDE drives emulate > scsi to operate correctly. Be sure also in your /etc/sysconfig/kernel > you have the ide-scsi module loading as well. I'll have to check all this again. Did it once, but I was tired maybe I missed something. And your right, the frustration is getting a little more than I want to deal with. I still cannot figure out what caused CUPS to flake out so bad after the upgrade to 8.1, and even on a fresh install of 8.1 CUPS really went wacko. I need the DVD drive pointed to an hdc device because I have to have dma=on for some reason when I play a dvd movie without it I get all manor of pauses. Is it possible to have the DVD/cdrom pointed to /dev/hdc and the Burner to /dev/sr1? or will that cause confusion? > > For your audio stuff, you just need to be sure the permissions on > /dev/sg0 and /dev/sg1 are set correctly for the user you want to have > access to them. Both sg0 & sg1 on my system has me the user and disk > group with RW privileges for both user and group. The sgX devices are > used for the audio slave in Konqueror for ripping MP3 & OGG files > easily. Well, that explains that. I'll check that now. Thanks. -- 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

18 years, 10 months

Fetchmail as root

by Nick Selby

Hi, I was wondering about the following re fetchmail. I followed Suse's suggestion (multiple FAQs on their site plus what came with the software) about setting up fetchmail which seems to have it running as root or at least under root's auspices. On another machine I've got Libranet running, based on Debian. In setting up fetchmail, I got the following advice: "You can either set up fetchmail to run as root or as an unprivliged user. Running fetchmail as root is unsafe and Debian does not install this by default." Can anyone elaborate on the dangers Debian refers to; or say why Suse's How-To (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/fetchmail.html) - which DOES point out that this is merely one way of many to set up fetchmail - seems to suggest that doing it under root is the simplest or easiest way? Thanks in advance, Nick

18 years, 10 months

/srv /media

by DJ

Hi, Just curious if anyone knows why SuSE created /srv and /media? I had already created our web under /usr/local/www. Thank you. -- __________________________ DJ mailto: linux_programmer(a)hotmail.com

18 years, 10 months

Compose key and 8.1

by zentara

Hi, Does anyone have know what key to press to get a Compose key in a plain ascii console. <Right-Shift> + <Right-Control> is working for me in an xterm , but I can't seem to get a compose key in a plain terminal. What file contains the key assignments? -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

18 years, 10 months

Fwd:   [#19041] could the group who got this thing running w/ Suse pls contact me w/ instructions?

by jfweber＠bellsouth.net

I got the MA701 wireless card that many of you recommended. but I'm still having major problems .. and the guy who sent this is one of them.. A search on their site produced some red hat info ... but it was for 6.x and so on... BTW it's of some note that it doesn't work w/ XP either: or so the site claims. IT is mucho better on battery life tho, so if I could get it running, I could surf my suse 8.1 box as well as the net... TIA y'all ** Forwarding message from support(a)esupport.netgear.com on Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:27:56 +1100 Return-Path: <support(a)esupport.netgear.com> Received: from DCSNRXCH01.mssexchange.datacom.com.au ([202.139.56.2]) by imf38bis.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id To: jfweber(a)bellsouth.net <snipped> Message-ID: <eGain(a)1052Sat30Nov200210.27.56> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DateReceived: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:44:00 -0500 Dear Sir/Madam, Thank you for contacting Netgear Support. My name is Manu & I will be handling your enquiry. No drivers are available for linux machine for MA701 adapter. This unit will not work with linux machine. Regards Manu Sharma Netgear Support support(a)netgear.com Please help us serve you better by clicking here mailto:support@netgear.com.au?subject=Feedback if you would like to provide any other valuable feedback. (Note: this feedback is not sent to an agent so you will not receive a reply.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --Original Message-- linux setup MA701.. It appears to be connected to my wireless / ethernet router. i.e. the led is a solid green w/ very rare flashes ... however. I cann't ping any one of the computers in hte lan, nor can I ping the router. As in, I type ping 192.168.xxx.xxx it braodcasts , but never ever gets any information back. The same thing happens w/ the internet I can get it to atempt to get to a web site, but it always finds no host. I've not registered it yet, as it seems not to be a product I want to keep. ( It doesn't do anything that I can see So it's potentail use is more than limited , it's bloody useless!! I am using a zaurus 5500 w/ the latest upgrades. It is of course not a windows system, but I had heard raves for this specific model from other Suse/Zaurus users. help!!! ##ERIGNORE## NAME: jfweber EMAIL: jfweber(a)bellsouth.net QUESTION: linux setup MA701.. It appears to be connected to my wireless / ethernet router. i.e. the led is a solid green w/ very rare flashes ... however. I cann't ping any one of the computers in hte lan, nor can I ping the router. As in, I type ping 192.168.xxx.xxx it braodcasts , but never ever gets any information back. The same thing happens w/ the internet I can get it to atempt to get to a web site, but it always finds no host. I've not registered it yet, as it seems not to be a product I want to keep. ( It doesn't do anything that I can see So it's potentail use is more than limited , it's bloody useless!! I am using a zaurus 5500 w/ the latest upgrades. It is of course not a windows system, but I had heard raves for this specific model from other Suse/Zaurus users. help!!! CATEGORY:   OS: Suse linux 8.1 DRIVER/FIRMWARE VERSION: MA701 PURCHASE DATE: 11/28/2002 SERIAL NUMBER: MA71A27ZC006633 COUNTRY: usa ESCALATE: [X] None of the above ERSID: 1038595394.9064.8 -- j afterthought: I come from a good home ... that's why they don't want me back.

18 years, 10 months

posibley this is

by jfweber＠bellsouth.net

** Reply to message from "Howard Coles Jr." <hcoles(a)subdimension.com> on Sat, 30 Nov 2002 12:34:18 -0600 I don't know about your other problems , but at least I might be able to sort one of them out for you <g> at least if you are in Suse 8.0 , you didn't say, or I missed it. > I also can't figure out what wierd thing happened to my cdroms. > I have a DVD player, and an HP cd burner. That is your problem.. apparently the programs can't , at least not yet , actually produce the view that is in Konqueror ( easiest wayt to rip cds into whatever variation of new versions you wish ( ogg, mp3, wave etc ) ) IF there is more than one "cd" which is esentially what you have. And even if you don't want to use soemthing as exotic as the konqueror setup there seems to be some sort of confusion when there is more than one "cd" setup on the box. I suspect the problems you are having, W/ the Cdroms ,relate to that. Also , be sure that if you are trying to play music cds that the sound card is actually setup for the music cd player, adn the speakers are set to the sound card . (Ie they are plugged into the sound card ) I have two sound cardds and that has caught me out a couple of times. IIRC there was something about this back in the 7.3 documentation ? somehwere in all those books evryone complains about every time a new version of Suse comes out. Could be 8.0 tho. I'm pretty sure there must be something in the hardware database, or posibley Togan's Unofficial Suse Faq .. which I'm sure soemone can supply the url for... I , unfortunatly have a "memory leak" today of the proportions that make a black hole look tiny and insignificant. You didn't mention the version so I have no idea what might be happeing w/ the rest of your box... Tho it does take a long , and tending toward very long, time to get everything installed and setup at once.. It might be better if you settle on a default installation that you can live w/ ( your defualt if you like ) and get the problems w/ this or that widget settled before you attemtp to load up everything on the dvd! If there is a binery or "do it yourself tar package" of whatever is installed by red hat for your wireless stuff you problably install it on your suse box.. just an idea -- j afterthought: Life after death? Is that like terminate and stay resident?

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openSUSE Users December 2002