March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] burning cd's
by Doug McGarrett 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Your CD player must be able to read and play mp3 files. Some of the newer ones do, but most do not. Check the specs on your cd player, and if you need to do that, you may have to buy a new one. A few of the latest auto cd players also will. --doug At 22:37 03/23/2002 -0800, Chris Large wrote: >Is there a way to burn mp3's to a cd so that they can play on any cd >player like an audio cd does? > > > > *--------------------------------* > | Chris Large clarge(a)macn.bc.ca | > | http://clarge.bc.ca | > *--------------------------------* > > >-- >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 and the >archives at http://lists.suse.com >

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New 7.3 install. Need help
by Chris Large 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

I've just got a brand new P4, 1.6ghz cpu, 400mhz bus, 512mb ram, adaptec 29160 controller, 18gig seagate cheetah hardrive, ide cdrom, intel pt845?? moterbroad. I can not get 7.3 to load. I get to the point of calibrating APIC timer ... ....CPU clock speedis 1595.3360 mhz ....host bus clock speed is 0.000mhz cpu:0, clocks:0, slice:0 And it stops. This happen with the boot floppy or the cdrom and in text mode. If i go with graphics I get a blank screen. If i boot in safe i can get get the normal installation screen. So why is that ? And also what is the right scsi module to use with that 29160 controller card? *--------------------------------* | Chris Large clarge(a)macn.bc.ca | | http://clarge.bc.ca | *--------------------------------*

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LaTeX under Suse Linux
by Debbie Rogers 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hi! I was wondering if there is a LaTeX package in the SuSE distribution, like latex2e, DVI, etc... If so does anyone know what the packages are called? If not can anyone recommend public or commercial versions for linux? Much thanks Debbie ===== -------------------------------------------------------- When I am good, I am very good...but when I am bad, I am even better! -Mae West __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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processing text files: which tools?
by Cincai Patron 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hi, I need to process a textfile, but don't know which tools to use, need some insight: The original text format is like this: 1,2,3,4,5 1,2,4,5,6 Now I need to insert something (maybe a line or more) before each line which contains the last token. Also, the last token should be in new line, so the format is something like this: some new lines bla blab la 5 blabla 1,2,3,4 5 some new lines 6 blabla 1,2,4,5 6 which tools I need to use? I know / have a little experience with sed, but that's as far as replace/insert character in a lines, not inserting new lines...? TIA -- Verdi March -- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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Rpm Database Is Stuffed
by Dave Barton 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Is there any way to repair the rpm database in SuSE 7.3? On my last few attempts at installing different rpm packages through kpackage, gnorpm or command line, the install starts, runs for about 10 minutes, breaks up the screen display, freezes the system and sits there spinning the hdd into oblivion. The only way out is a hard reset. On a couple of occasions the packages did in fact install successfully, others show up in kpackage as having been installed, but are in fact not on my hdd. Selecting the kpackage file list for these non-existent packages brings up a message correctly saying that the package is not installed. Using kpackage's uninstall option reports the same thing and makes the package disappear from the installed list. Reloading the list or restarting kpackage restores the fictitious packages to the list. It's very likely that I generated this problem, by accidentally installing a Gnome specific package with kpackage while running KDE, because that was the first time the rpm installation crashed and has continued to crash my system ever since then. It may have no relevance to this problem, but just before this first crash I tried to perform a YOU update which just died at the end of the download stage. Any suggestions or guidance on how this can be fixed (not a reinstall pleeeeeeease) would be appreciated. TIA Dave

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realtek8139
by marquis＠altern.org 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

hi, I used to install suse61 by nfs throuh 2 realtek8139 network cards, by it doesn't work with suse72, it's very slow and crashes Yast in the end. It makes no difference I use 8139too or rtl8139 modules, transfer rate is 15 UDP pachet/sec (was up to 1000 packets/sec for suse61). I thought problem was with 8139too, known for problems with nfs, but same with rtl8139. Thanks for your help if you have an idea! marquis

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activate pop daemon manually
by abarthel 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hello, I had many problems with Postfix on SuSE7.3 till I learned that inetd was deactivated on SuSE 7.3 for security reasons (on a PRO version?) and that a default pop servor was not installed like it was usually the case with earlier SuSE version. That's the problem with default settings especially when your favourite distributor change them every three months. But a question: I activated thus manually inetd to have a pop daemon working (I activated pop2 and pop3 but I suppose pop3 is enough for Postfix, sorry I did not have a course on all the available POP protocols). Is there a way to activate the pop3 daemon manually without going through inetd? -- Alain Barthélemy

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system update question
by bob smith 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hello, I was curious about the system update method. Is this only to be used when going from version to version such as SuSE 7.2 to 7.3, or can it also be used to update your current software as well? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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no internet through suse firewall2
by steve 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hi Local net on eth0, samba and nfs. Works fine Internet on eth1: nothing gets through the server is 192.168.0.1 and the clients 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.2 etc Here are the settings. (if I remove the FW_DEV_EXT and leave it blank all the machines can get internet but I think that they are unprotacted) Could anyone help us? FW_DEV_EXT="eth1" FW_DEV_INT="" FW_DEV_DMZ="" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="no" FW_MASQ_DEV="$FW_DEV_EXT" FW_MASQ_NETS="192.168.0.13 192.168.0.14" FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL="yes" FW_AUTOPROTECT_SERVICES="yes" FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="3128 53 21 139" FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_EXT_IP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_DMZ_IP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_TCP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_UDP="" FW_SERVICES_INT_IP="" FW_TRUSTED_NETS="" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_TCP="yes" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_UDP="yes" FW_SERVICE_AUTODETECT="yes" FW_SERVICE_DNS="yes" FW_SERVICE_DHCLIENT="no" FW_SERVICE_DHCPD="no" FW_SERVICE_SQUID="yes" FW_SERVICE_SAMBA="yes" FW_FORWARD="" FW_FORWARD_MASQ="" FW_REDIRECT="" FW_LOG_DROP_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_DROP_ALL="no" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_ALL="no" FW_LOG="--log-level warning --log-tcp-options --log-ip-option --log-prefix SuSE-FW" FW_KERNEL_SECURITY="no" FW_STOP_KEEP_ROUTING_STATE="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_FW="yes" FW_ALLOW_PING_DMZ="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_EXT="no" FW_ALLOW_FW_TRACEROUTE="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_SOURCEQUENCH="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST="no" FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST="yes" FW_ALLOW_CLASS_ROUTING="no"

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RE: [SLE] bootable CD's
by Berge, Harry ten 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Have a look at 'isolinux' (http://syslinux.zytor.com/) which is a version of the really good syslinux. It makes it possible to create a bootable CD-ROM with the help of an initial ramdisk (the same way as with syslinux and a boot floppy) but WITHOUT the constraint of a 1.44M size. So you really are free to make a ramdisk of your own personal settings. You can create the CD using ordinary mkisofs/cdrecord and it works great! Harry > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike [SMTP:bcomber@freezer-burn.org] > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 8:59 PM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: [SLE] bootable CD's > > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a bootable CD for Windows. I know I need to create an > > image of a bootable floppy for this. No problem. I did a dd if=/dev/fd0 > of=boot.img. That created the image of a bootable floppy. > > Now I try to get it burned onto a CD. I've tried both Xcdroast and mkisofs > > from the command line. No luck. Most of the time it tells me that it can't > > find the boot.img file. But it is there, and it is the right size. I'm > missing something quite simple but can't figure it out. The man page is of > > little or no help other than giving the -b eltorito_img_file command. no > examples to be found on the page at all. > > Does anyone know how to do this? > > TIA > > Mike > -- > Powered by SuSE 7.3 Kernel 2.4.16 KDE 2.2.2 Kmail 1.3.2 > For a great linux portal try http://www.freezer-burn.org > 8:53pm up 1 day, 11:53, 4 users, load average: 1.91, 1.95, 1.88 > > -- > 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 and the > archives at http://lists.suse.com

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RE: [SLE] Microsoft wireless Desktop
by wolfi 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

> -----Original Message----- > From: Paszkowski Wojciech [mailto:wpaszko@kki.net.pl] > Sent: Tuesday, 26 March, 2002 0:06 > To: SuSE List > Subject: [SLE] Microsoft wireless Desktop > > > HI All > I'v problem with MS wireless desktop setting ... > keybord working OK but mouse not :-( > If I setup it as ps/2 working only 2 buttons , If imps/2 not > working at all , so maybe some one known how can I set this > M$ thing ... ? > > -- > Wojciech Paszkowski > wpaszko(a)kki.net.pl Is it a mouse with a scrollwheel in the middle? Then you should adapt your /etc/X11/xf86config file to look as follows in the 'Input device' section: Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "ButtonNumber" "5" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "InputFashion" "Mouse" Option "Name" "Autodetection" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "Sysp" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Should work that way ===== Cheers ... Wolfi mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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Re: [SLE] Baffled newbie trying to reach NT LAN
by Brian Durant 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

On Monday 25 March 2002 20:43, you wrote: > You must be running a firewall. Which one are you running? No firewall on my machine, but Norton Personal Firewall on the Win machines. This has never presented a problem in Win 2k, why would it in SuSE? Cheers, Brian

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netscape
by Landy Roman 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

i am not a big netscape fan but their latest release is impressive

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Mouse pointer missing 7.3 KDE 2.
by Time To Paws 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hey all... I had to re-install 7.3 and all, mostly because I set DSL up wrong, well I got the dsl going and can access the internet. So I did a update the system through yast2. As far as I can tell everything went ok during the update. But when I rebooted my SUB (Kensington) mouse pointer became a block of white. It still works but it is annoying. When I did a search on what might have gone wrong, it said I had to add 'Option sw_' under device so I did, and no change. I also updated the drivers for my graphics card (tnt nvidia) but still no pointer.. Any ideas????? Adolph & Sharon Weidanz S/V Time To Paws 78 43' Endeavour

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Universal Global Variables for Socksing
by Carl A. Cook 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Hello list, I am setting up to Socks through a firewall. To do this I need to set two environment variables and run a daemon. The daemon will then capture every connect() from any process and route it properly. Problem is, I need to turn this on and off dynamically. When I run my script, the env variables are exported, and thus are only visible in processes started *after* invocation. But I need them to be visible to EXISTING processes as well, and they are not. If I set these on startup, all processes do see them, but not when I turn off the variables. So, no dynamic control. I'm hoping there are uber-variables, or a variable area that *existing* processes would see when one is added. Can someone advise? #! /bin/sh # # Author: Carl Cook # # /usr/_utilities/runBouncer # ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: bouncer # Required-Start: $network # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 5 # Default-Stop: # Description: Tool for Socks proxying. ### END INIT INFO . /etc/rc.status . /etc/rc.config # Determine the base and follow a runlevel link name. base=${0##*/} link=${base#*[SK][0-9][0-9]} # Set variables. LOGFILE=/var/log/bouncer.log PIDFILE=/var/run/bouncer.pid LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/sockscap.so SOCKS_PROXY=127.0.0.1:1080 # The echo return value for success (defined in /etc/rc.config). return=$rc_done case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting service bouncer" ## Start daemon with startproc(8). If this fails ## the echo return value is set appropriate. /usr/_utilities/bouncer --allow 192.168.0.* --daemon --full-time --logfile $LOGFILE --pidfile $PIDFILE --port 1080 --socks5 export LD_PRELOAD SOCKS_PROXY echo $LD_PRELOAD $SOCKS_PROXY rc_status -v ;; stop) echo -n "Shutting down service bouncer" ## Stop daemon with killproc(8) and if this fails ## set echo the echo return value. killproc -TERM /usr/_utilities/bouncer && unset LD_PRELOAD export SOCKS_PROXY= rc_status -v ;; restart|reload) $0 stop && $0 start rc_status ;; status) echo -n "Checking for service bouncer: " ## Check status with checkproc(8), if process is running ## checkproc will return with exit status 0. checkproc /usr/_utilities/bouncer rc_status -v ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}" exit 1 esac exit 0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8n9x4nQ18+PFcZJsRAvA1AJ4mgGoXbPsKNjF85TriJPrKbxqhfQCeMkef fdQFZDav+nrldWpTr0f9fEU= =4kgr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Problem with Konqueror
by Chris Parman 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hello Everyone, I just installed SuSE 7.3 (Sparc platform) and I'm observing slight problems with Konqueror. It seems that Konqueror has problems with Yahoo mail. The specific issue is with I try to "Sign on" to my Yahoo mail account I receive a error from konqueror stating this. ****************************** Could not connect to host login.yahoo.com ****************************** That's about it...... Other than that, Konqueror functions well. Thank you in advance for your help. -Chris

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mozilla source question
by Keith Winston 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

I know this is not the right list for this, and I don't really expect anyone to know this, but you never know... I am trying to build a semi-secure version of mozilla for use in a kiosk. I have the SuSE 0.9.8 source and I want to disable the right mouse button completely. In the /BUILD/mozilla/embedding/browser/photon/src/PtMozilla.cpp file, I found a header reference called nsIDOMMouseEvent.h, but I can't find it anywhere in the source tree. Does anyone know where this file is or where I should look for right mouse button methods? Mozilla is a beast. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net

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xset/turning off laptop's backlight
by Eric Pierce 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Howdy all. I'm trying to get my laptop monitor's backlight to go off, and eventually set it up so it does so automatically (after a prescribed time). I've tried the following 3 commands, but they all do the same thing which is blank the screen only (i.e., the backlight is still on). xset dpms force standby xset dpms force suspend xset dpms force off If I do 'apm -S' the backlight does go off, but the harddrive spins down as well (not quite what I'm after here). Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks for any help, Eric __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/

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Re: [SLE] java
by David Herman 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

On Monday 25 March 2002 05:35 pm, Patrick wrote: > On Monday 25 March 2002 03:10 pm, David Herman, was heard saying: > > On Monday 25 March 2002 02:59 am, Fergus Wilde wrote: ---------snip---------------------- > > Maybe someone else could try these sites and enlighten me as to a > > way to get them working. > > > > http://webpac.spl.org/webclient.html (seattle public library) > > http://webpac.kcls.org/ (king county > > library) > > > ======================== > David, > It seems that the sites are using a brand new plugin for java not > available for our SuSE distros. I am downloading the plugin now for > Netscape 6.2.1, which should also make it available for Konq once > installed. If you have not gotten the new Netscape, I do recommend > it, even over Mozilla as it seems to be very well behaving on my > setup. > > That is all I have found for the moment and will test again after > getting the new plugin. I hate it when these sites can't leave well > enough alone! Always gotta be screwing around with stupid > unsupported code! grrrrrr > > Patrick Thanks I'll give that a try. -- dh

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Questions about SuSE 8.0
by Martin Jackson 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hi everyone, I have been a SuSE user on and off since 6.4, so I am familiar with the admnistrative tools and so on. I really appreciate SuSE's leadership in making things like LVM and USB available before other distributors do. I have a couple of questions about 8.0: 1) Is a browseable package list going to be released for 8.0? If so, when? 2) Does 8.0 include PostgreSQL 7.2? 3) Is there any facility to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time in 8.0? Thanks, Marty

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where are security patches?
by dep 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

greets. i just went looking for the security patch directory on the suse ftp site and didn't find it, at least not in any recognizable form. i'm disinclined to entrust much of anything to YOU, because it tends to mung stuff i want left alone. so. could someone point me to the location of the update rpms? tia. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- linux for the rest of us. hey, it loads fast, anyway.

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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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QuickCam Express USB in SuSE 7.3
by Scott Nichols 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hello, I hope that there is someone out here that can help me out with this situation. I will try to be as brief as possible and still give the details. I have a bttv card that works fine and is using /dev/video0. So I have a QuickCam Express USB and I want to set it up on /dev/video1. I load the module mod_quickcam that came with SuSE and I see in USBView that its installed and working fine. Then I use xawtv -c /dev/video1 and the screen opens I get this error in Term: This is xawtv-3.72, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.10-4GB) /dev/video1 [v4l]: no overlay support v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway config: invalid value for input: Television valid choices for "input": "Camera" ioctl: VIDIOCMCAPTURE(0,fmt=3,size=176x144): Invalid argument Now I have been told that is normal. but when xawtv starts I get a green window with a small line at the top that is video. I can run my hand over the cam and see it in this small line in xawtv. I look in xconsole and it tells me, repeated several times: error: quickcam: frame size is incorrect! This will repeat until I turn xawtv off. I have been everywhere looking for a answer for this and how to adjust the frame size to make this work but nothing. I have been in chat's and all over the web. I even emailed SuSE about it and no help. Does anybody have any idea on how to get the problem fixed? Thanks for your time, Scott

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(OT) HP Toner/Drum question ...
by Jim Hatridge 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

HI all Would someone with HP know-how please tell me something? I'm looking at a couple of used HP laserJets, 4 and 5 /5L... They all say "without Toner/drum". in German "Ohne Toner/trommel-einheit". I've looked thru my office supply lists and can not find a drum for these printers. Is the toner and drum one unit? Or is the drum just not find-able? I've found ads for toner for about 70euro. Is this a good price? If not, can someone suggest a source in Germany for this. Thanks! JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer

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Install KDE 3 in SuSE 7.3
by Jose Thadeu Cavalcante 26 Mar '02

26 Mar '02

Hi, How can I do to install KDE 3 in SuSE 7.3? Thanks -- Jose Thadeu Cavalcante thadeu(a)superig.com.br Linux user #228006

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