February 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] UltraEdit
by Doug McGarrett 04 Feb '02

04 Feb '02

/snip/ >Nope. Alpha here means "not even beta yet", i.e. very early in it's life. Beta software is software that is not yet "released" as "officially useable" ( otherwise known as "stable") because it's still in the works and the developer doesn't consider it "ready to go" yet.. This has nothing to do with DEC/Compaq ALPHA and in fact I do not belive WINE runs on anything but x86 (AMD/Intel). > >>Is there a Window-like SuSE application that supports UltraEdit ??? >>This editor is much easier to use and efficient than any editor coming >>with SuSE. > >Hey, at least give emacs a fair try in GUI mode (X Windows). 1. WINE is never likely to run on anything but the X86 environment, since it mimics the .dll's that Windows requires, and they are written for the X86 environment. There was a nice article on WINE in a magazine I picked up at LinuxWorld, but I don't have it here. I think its name starts with IT. If I remember, I'll pass that info on tomorrow evening. (It is a useful article, and I WILL try to remember.) 2. WINE has been around for years, and it's always been in ver 0.x. But I think it's in 0.9.x now, not sure. That would mean its owners think it's not too far from ready. 3. Question of my own: For those who have put some real time into WINE, (I am confused a little by what I read in the article), is it necessary now to make a separate partition independent of the Win98 partition to run programs already in the Win98 partition under WINE? That is, do you have to reinstall your Windows apps in a new, non-Win98 partition? 4. Appropos of the last item, I saw and talked to the WIN4LIN people at LinuxWorld. In order to use this, they said, you have to install W4L on you Linux partition, and then INSTALL WINDOWS FROM SCRATCH ON THAT WIN4LIN PROGRAM, INCLUDING ALL YOUR WINDOWS APPS. Apparently, you CANNOT run Windows programs from your installed Windows system. As a result, I did not take advantage of a fairly good show discount. I have some licensed programs that have been thru several upgrades over the years, and I do not wish to have to find the floppies and old CD's in order to go thru the upgrades again. (A lot of Windows programs upgrades require that the old version be installed on the machine before you can upgrade.) (It's also true that if you can find the disk with whatever file the upgrade is looking for, you can fake the system out. Unfortunately, you usually do not know what file it looks for.) 5. EMACS? Good heavens, man, this is the 21st century! Why subject anyone to that kind of torture?

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new motherboard
by Leo de Bruijn 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Hello, I'm running suse 7.2 + kde2.2.2 on a pentium II 350 mhz motherboard. Today I got a Mainboard M830 motherboard with a 1000 MHZ AMD Athlon processor the SiS 735 chipset and built in AC97Codec. So i can put in my AGP video card, my 256 MB sdram memory, my PCI video card my pci 56k modem. Only the chipset, the processor and the soundcard are different. Will my OS recognise these differences automatically? Or what do I have to do to get a working system again Can somebody help me please? TIA Leo -- _____________________________________ ----- Kmail 1.3.1 -- SuSE Linux v7.2 pro -----

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Samsung ML1210 printer and 7.3
by David Bartlett 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

All, I have a Samsung ML-1210 printer connected to a samba/windows networked machine. I was able to print fine to it with SuSE 7.1 but having upgraded to 7.3 I can no longer get it to work. The drivers that came with the printer include a new version of ghostscript 5.5. The current version (6.51) has to be removed and the new Samsung provided one installed for the printer to work. I can forcefully do this and get the printer to work on the local LP0 port, but it doesn't work via the samba/windows machine (using CUPS). BTW I couldn't get it to work at all under 7.3 using LPD. Unfortunately hacking the ghostscript seems to cause other problems with yast2 being unhappy that there are several broken dependencies. Besides I really don't like "downgrading" :-)) So: - Has anyone managed to get this printer to work with 7.3? - Any idea why I can't get CUPS to print to a networked printer? (the user name and pasword seem to be correct in the printer.conf file.) - Since Samsung produces drivers for this printer, when might we see it supported out of the box by SuSE? TIA David.

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Nokia Software and Software Updates
by Oliver Ob 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Is there any software worth using for: - adding nokia tunes - adding nokia grafix - updating nokia gsm software (example update for 3210) -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I http://home.t-online.de/home/spacecraft.portal I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - soon back online +49.4503.TRSi1/TRSi2 <<<

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cfdisk complains about my partition table
by Kavau 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Hi, I recently read in the fdisk manpage that cfdisk would be a better program to use, so I thought I would give it a try. But all it says is: FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 5: enlarged logical partitions overlap Press any key to exit cfdisk What are enlarged logical partitions? Is it time for me to panic? Or is cfdisk just too strict? My partition table follows. I used several programs over time to create and modify my partitions. I think the first one was created using Partition Magic, the second one by DiskDruid under RedHat, and the rest using YaST. I'd appreciate any comments. Klaus ----------------------------------------------------------- linux:/home/kavau # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 271 2048728+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 * 272 544 2063880 83 Linux /dev/hda3 545 839 2230200 5 Extended /dev/hda5 759 839 612328+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda6 545 579 264568+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 580 758 1353208+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order linux:/home/kavau # fdisk -lu Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 839 cylinders Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 63 4097519 2048728+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 * 4097520 8225279 2063880 83 Linux /dev/hda3 8225280 12685679 2230200 5 Extended /dev/hda5 11461023 12685679 612328+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda6 8225343 8754479 264568+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 8754543 11460959 1353208+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com

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SuSE noshow at LWCE NY 2002
by Nadeem Hasan 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Hi, I was at LWCE yesterday and found SuSE to be absent from the floor. I came to know later that they cancelled their spot. So with this and coupled with the fact that they laid off most of the US staff, does it mean that SuSE is no longer interested in US market? Lenz? I was also surprised to see Mandrake booth. This year, the floor was even smaller and attendence lighter. Cheers, -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan(a)nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/

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Announcing new Linux Off-Topic List
by Timothy R. Butler 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Hello fellow SLE'ers, Well as many of you know, for some time now, there has been a defacto standard place for topics not fit for SLE (general Linux discussions, news, and so forth) to go - LX-Talk. Well LX-Talk has had some (flamewar) problems in recent days resulting in my creation of a replacement list for it, and the migration of some former LX-Talkers to the new list. If you are interested in joining a new discussion list for topics such as Linux news, computer news, troubleshooting, and so forth, this list is for you. This list is also for you if you have left LX-Talk because of it's increasing volitility. You can sign up for the new list at http://uninetsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/ofbtalk_uninetsolutions.com . -Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler tbutler(a)uninetsolutions.com Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============

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logcheck rpm and input
by S.Toms 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Hey all, I've been playing around with the psionic logsentry program and I made both src and binary rpm's to run on SuSE 7.2. What I'm wondering though is the best way to automate the execution of the program at certain times. What I've come up with is the following within rc.config # # psionic logsentry settings # # should logsentry be started? (yes/no) START_LOGCHECK="yes" # # at which intervals should logsentry be run? # ie: (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly) LOGCHECK_TIME="daily" I then created an execution script in each of the cron folders located in /etc, that check the variables within rc.config and execute according to the setting specified. In otherwords, if you told it hourly, then the script in cron.hourly would be the only one executed, if daily is chosen then only the crond.daily would be executed, etc.. #!/bin/sh # # # logcheck. This script will run psionic logcheck at specified time # based on variables set within rc.config. # # Copyright (c) 2001-2002 S.Toms <smotrs(a)mindspring.com> # # please send bugfixes or comments to smotrs(a)mindspring.com. # # Author: S.Toms <smotrs(a)mindspring.com>, 2001 # # # paranoia settings # umask 022 PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin export PATH # # get information from /etc/rc.config # if [ -f /etc/rc.config ] ; then . /etc/rc.config fi # # check to see if logcheck should be activated # test "$START_LOGCHECK" = yes || exit 0 test "$LOGCHECK_TIME" = daily || exit 0 LOGCHECK=/usr/sbin/logcheck.sh # # check that logcheck exists and execute # if [ -x "$LOGCHECK" ] ; then $LOGCHECK fi exit 0 What I'm wondering is, is there a better way, a nicer way, a more convenient way to do this that can be controlled fron rc.config? -- S.Toms - smotrs(a)mindspring.com - www.mindspring.com/~smotrs SuSE Linux v6.3 - Kernel 2.2.14 In Lexington, Kentucky, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.

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Kylix beginners book recommendations?
by Lawrence Sayre 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

Do you have any good Kylix book recommendations for a beginning programmer? Lawrence Sayre ------------------------------------------------------ My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a moral being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. Ayn Rand (in the appendix to 'Atlas Shrugged') ------------------------------------------------------

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OT: imon patch
by Donald Knecht 03 Feb '02

03 Feb '02

anyone gotten an imon patch to patch on a 2.4 SuSE kernel? which patch are you using / or how did you fix the patch? oss.sgi.com has a patch for 2.4.7 but not 2.4.4, so i though i'd upgrade to 2.4.7 using the update from the suse ftp site, however i can't seem to get past a certain point in the patch about filesystems.c anyone had any luck? TIA, don

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