February 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] problems with KVM switches.. losing mouse control on 8.0
by Jon San Juan 07 May '02

07 May '02

I am using a multiple servers with a KVM switch and I find that I lose control of my mouse as I return back to the SUSE 8.0 KDE. Are any you experiencing the same thing. I have tried other mice and different KVM switches. -I am using a Belkin KVM switch with hot key functionality for changing monitors. -I am using PS/2 mice The only way I can stablize the mouse is if I return to YAST 2 and try to re-configure the mouse when it is a problem... Otherwise I have been rebooting to get the mouse stability.

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Converting Albums to MP3
by James Mohr 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Hi All, I want to convert my record collection MP3 and I am looking for a way to do it. Somewhere in my memory is a program that will record what comes into the sound card and indentify the pauses between songs and separate them into individual WAV files. Once in WAV, the conversion to MP3 is pretty easy. However, it is this first step that has me stumped. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreaciated. Regards, jimmo

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Version 8.0 installation from hard drive with YaST2 possible?
by joe lerch 16 Apr '02

16 Apr '02

"No installation data found on medium" "Could not mount the source medium" Previously I was alawya able to use the orginal YaST to do hard drive installation, I was never able to get YaST2 past the above errors, if I exit YaST2 and start YaST everything works fine. It has always been this way for me and I didn't mind as I like using YaST. However, I am told that version 8.0 will no longer have YaST. Does anyone know if version 8.0 of SuSE pro will allow paying customers the right to copy the installation disks to their hard drive and do a complete installtion and further updates directly from the hard drive? If I have been skipping something, please let me know, it has been a while since I installed 7.3 my curent SuSe distro installation disks are on my /hda11/7.3 thanks in advacne joe

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Apache + CSS
by Jethro Cramp 14 Apr '02

14 Apr '02

I'm learning to use CSS with html (anything to try and make an ugly webpage look better) and I can't get it to work. At this stage I'm not sure if it's a problem with apache (which I know next to nothing about) or my html/css. I'm running vanilla apache as it came with SuSE 7.3. (Apache 1.3.20) I have the following files in /home/jsc/html_public/chinees-blauw/ index.html chinees-blauw.css The css file reads: .test { background:black ) The html file reads: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Chinees Blauw</title> <link title="cb_main" rel="stylesheet" href="chinees-blauw.css" type="text/css"></link> </head> <body> <table height="100" width="100%" align="center" class="test"> <tr> <td>Hello</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> I am expecting to not be able to read the word 'Hello' as if the style sheet works then it should be black text on black background. I am accessing the page through http;//localhost/~jsc/chinees-blauw/index.html and of course I can see the text. I have tried all sorts of different combinations of relative and absolute paths for the link to the stylesheet. I have checked the style by substituting the <link ...> tag with the <STYLE> definition and it works. So my question is do I have to tweak apache to get css to work or am I doing something else wrong? TIA, Jethro

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Re: [SLE] Boot Disc Construction Time Again
by Alexandr Malusek 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Oliver Ob <ob_ok(a)gmx.net> writes: > I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which > I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk. Search for distributions containing the word "single" on http://www.linux.org/dist/english.html. Some new distributions may not be there (e.g. DemoLinux 2.0, http://www.demolinux.org/). Also see the Bootdisk-HOWTO. -- Alexandr.Malusek(a)imv.liu.se

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YAST2 Freezes
by Anthony W. Marino 09 Mar '02

09 Mar '02

Just about ANYTHING I do with YAST2 freezes my screen. I can run YAST1, however, I want to run YAST2. (Tecra8000 laptop; 512 meg ram 12gb drive) Any suggestions would be appreciated! Anthony

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ISO images of SuSE 7.3
by Joseph Hobbs 07 Mar '02

07 Mar '02

Do you know if SuSE has ISO images of SuSE 7.3 on any of their FTP servers? I have to install SuSE on a box with no Floppy drive, so I need a bootable CD! All I can find on their sites are single file downloads! I know most other distro's distribute as ISO via FTP, I was wondering if SuSE did as well! Any info? Joseph Hobbs Compaq Web Services / GEAE Team Tier 2/3 Support | Team Lead Backup hobbsj(a)somecrazyfool.com Joseph.Hobbs(a)ae.ge.com

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(Newbie alert) Zip drive confusion.
by Brian Durant 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Hi all, I have just tried to access my USB 250 Zip drive in SUSE 7.3 Pro, only to receive the following message: "Could not mount device. The reported error was mount /dev/sda4: unknown device." I have checked and ziptool is installed, I have a Zip icon on my desktop, but obviously, something needs to be configured somewhere. I read /usr/share/doc/packages/ziptool/README, but there wasn't any help as far as I could decipher. Any ideas? Cheers, Brian

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Linux type Download Accelerator Plus utility?
by Brian Durant 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

Hello again, Is there a download utility in the Linux world that works like Download Accelerator Plus? -- Cheers, Brian mailto:durant@cbn.net.id

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ReiserFS questions
by Tim Harrell 06 Mar '02

06 Mar '02

I'm planning to give the Reiser FS a run-in (or should that be ruin?) and I have a few questions I'd be grateful to get advice on: 1) Is the reiser support in 7.2 (2.4.4-4GB) safe? I'm not intending to upgrade my kernel anytime soon. 2) How does it get set up in /etc/fstab? Is it just a matter of changing ext2 to reiserfs? 3) What's this I hear about tail and notail modes? I notice that mkreiserfs has a '-v format' option which can be either 1 or 2 but it explains nothing about what these mean. Thanks, -- Tim Harrell <tim.harrell(a)ntlworld.com>

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