April 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SAMBA and printing problems
by J. Scott Thayer, M.D. 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Now that my desktop stays put I have a couple of other questions. 1. If I print a multipage ascii document to my HP IIP the second and subsequent pages have the text just about 1/16" too close to the upper edge of the printable area and get chopped. I have found no place where I can globally adjust printing borders. Is there any such thing, even if it means getting arcane with filter files and such? 2. I have SAMBA installed and have modified the smb.conf file to coincide to one I had in 7.1 that was working fine. I can see my linux host box in the network neighborhood on my wifes Win98 box. When I try to open it I get a dialog that says I need a password to access my linux box. I have looked in the Suse docs and gotten out my ORA book on SAMBA but I can't figure what it wants. I have tried all the passwords associated with either system. Any help with either of these problems would be appreciated. Scott

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8.0 Non YOU Updates - how?
by Graham Murray 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

In versions < 8.0 it was possible to point Yast1 at, for example, the supplementary directories at ftp.suse.com (or mirror) and compare with the installed state (eg whether the package is installed, not installed or a different version installed.) Yast2 under 8.0 does not seem able to do this (it only seems to accept locations which mirror the structure of the installation media.) What is the "official" way of doing this under 8.0? I know that it is possible to download files to the local HD and install them individually with RPM (or KPackage) but this does not allow you to compare the remote and local packages prior to downloading.

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How to figure out the IPv6 addr from the IPv4 addr?
by Curtis Rey 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Ok, so let's assume I have an ip addr of 66.188.94.123. How would one figure out the IPv6 hexadecimal equivelant? TIA, Curtis

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How to save scanned file with XSANE?
by Juan Rayas 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hi I have XSANE V0.79 as a plug-in to Gimp. When I try to scan a file, the scan process works fine, but XSANE doesn't give me an option to save the scanned image to a file. Also, when the scan completes, the image doesn't appear anywhere. The only way I can see the scanned image is if I preview it, but I don't see any option to save it to a file. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. P.S. my setup is as follows: SuSE V7.3 KDE HP OfficeJet K60xi on USB port. Juan Rayas

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XCDRoast
by Fred A. Miller 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 GREAT to have XCDRoast working again! I have the new builds for all files needed for 8.0 in 1 zip, for anyone who'd like a file attach. Request via private mail. Fred - -- Geek by Nature--Linux By Choice! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzOECsACgkQeNJ3p8sZ/usInQCeKJQ7n15VGctyb9C1x1kVRKmJ XOYAnA+POondk+lfrhadbbLLWEZKSx5s =Ka6i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RedHat -v- SuSE 8.0 - My opinion
by Al Sutton 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

I've now tried to get SuSE 8.0 Professional working, and I've come to the conclusion it's not suitable for production use, and so I've decided to switch back to the freely downloadable edition of RedHat 7.2. The list of reasons why I'm doing this are; 1) SuSE 8.0 doesn't recognise my IOMega ZIP CD (which is about two years old), whereas RedHat has done for a number of months. This makes me nervous as to which other devices are supported within the Linux kernel, but not in SuSE. 2) SuSE 8.0's support for wireless PCMCIA networking is appauling, and I can't justify it's use on laptops on this basis. RedHat's configuration interface treats wireless networking as just another ethernet device if you want to do simple interface. 3) I'm unable to boot SuSE 8.0 from a floppy disk on machines with USB floppy and/or CD-ROM drives (which is extremly useful for laptops). RedHat 7.2 offers a boot from single disk option for floppy drives. 4) I am unable to download a CD image to do installation from, which means I'm at the mercy of my CD's not being lost, and if they are I have to buy a new set. 5) To install NFS server support I have to install a set of packages which YaST complains may cause problems with each other. 6) SuSE complains if I try perform an installation from CD and then try to install packages from the DVD. Aren't they the same, and if not why not? I find this a shame, because I've heard some good things about SuSE, and I'm in the process of evaluating options for the base Linux distribution for the software product the company I work for sells. My final opinion of the product is that it's unfinished and therefore not suiable for use in productions systems. Before anyone starts offering me pointers to help files, FAQs, or any other source of "how to do this without using the SuSE tools", please don't. I'm of the opinion that if it's not integrated into SuSE's tools then SuSE probably don't want you to use it. The Wireless Lan section of the unofficial FAQ shows this well because it recommends switching off the SuSE setting in order to get things working. Al.

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sax2
by bob barish 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Hello Everyone; I just installed 8.0 and everything went fairly well. I have a logitech ifeel usb mouse. I went to configure the mouse like I have in the past and ran into some snags. First I went I did a ctrl+alt+f1 Then I did an init3 on the command line. Once having done this I typed in sax2 ( so I can make modifications to the mouse configuration) sax2 attempted to start up and asked me if I want 3d acceleration I said no then hit enter. I had a little suprise the monitor went black and then I got a source out of range error and I had to hard boot my computer. I haven't not had this happen before so I am not sure what to do. I do have a working kde desktop. Since I have a working desktop I assumed all the correct modules have been loaded to be able to use sax2. Any suggetions on how I can get sax2 to run so I can make the changes I desire on my mouse. Thanks for all you help bob

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SuSE causes Win2K to lockup on dual boot system
by Art Fore 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

I have a dual boot Dell 8100 laptop that I use at home and at work. When I boot into SuSE 8.0 then go back to Win2K, after logon and windows starts loading programs, it all of a sudden locks up and the only way to get out of it is the power switch. After this, windows does a check disk, then boots and loads OK and can reboot back into windows without going to SuSE and it will be OK. Have done a disk check and defrag, file system is fat32, and used Norten system tools to cleanup the registry. Still same problem. Anyone have any idea on this problem? Art

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Mail script help needed [SOLVED]
by Ralph F. De Witt 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all: I would like to thank Robert and Ingo for all their help in converting my email signature script over to work in SuSE 8.0 Kmail 1.4. After correcting all errors (one of which was the file was not executable, other was a bad character in the file), I know have this bright new shiny sig to insert in all my mails to my windows friends. Thanks all for your help. By the way this is the new script: #!/usr/bin/perl # get current kernel version $version = `uname -r`; # get current uptime @uptime = split /\s+/, qx(uptime); ($hours, $minutes) = split /[:,]/, $uptime[5]; $disp = "Current Linux uptime: " . $uptime[3] . " days " . $hours . " hours " . $minutes . " minutes."; # version string has built-in newline. print "\tYours,\n\tRalph.\nIt said uses Windows XP so I proudly installed and use SuSE 8.0 Professional\nRegister Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt\nGPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net\nKey fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7\nKernel version $version$disp\n"; exit(0); - -- Yours, Ralph. It said uses Windows XP so I proudly installed and use SuSE 8.0 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.18-4GB Current Linux uptime: 6 days 18 hours 49 minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8zdP08irP9FWaA+cRAsrbAKChiLfiyfLfND7WIbb0vBYr/TJC0ACdEfxz 4h24p9WXXEw60o70So8t+Go= =KphY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Raiserfs and enhanced performance in email server
by Manral 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Dear friends Could some one explain as to how RaiserFS is faster than ext2 file system ... I am setting up an email server should i make only the /var partition raiserfs or should i make all the /boot, / ansd /usr etc all of them under raiserfs . Can some one explain the improvement in performance in cas i use raiserfs ..how does it improve the performance ... regards neeraj

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