May 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Digital Camera Question...
by Martin Richard 29 May '02

29 May '02

Hi! I have a question about digital cameras. Where can I find a list of supported cameras? And, is there someone using a sony digital camera with linux?? How it's going? I plan to buy a Sony Digital Camera but I really don't know if the product will work, so please if someone got a model working, tell me which one? I have a list of interesting models... DSCP50, DSCP51, DSCP71 Thanks Martin

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Backing system from NT server
by Tom Nielsen 29 May '02

29 May '02

Here's a good question! Let's see who the pros are... I'm the only guy at my company that's running Linux (long story so let's not get into it). My W2k server backs up all the machines everynight via a OnStream Tape drive and NTbackup program. Can I backup my linux box with the tape and NTbackup? If so, how? (detailed please...it's been a long night). If not, is there anyway to back up my system on a nightly basis? Thanks, Tom

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yast2 without colors, like 'yast -m'
by Chavez Gutierrez, Freddy 29 May '02

29 May '02

I'm using Suse 7.3. Yast have a parameter '-m' to start without colors (mono). I've been trying to do the same with Yast2 (starting without colors) with "yast2 -m" but it doesn't work..."man yast2" doesn't function and when I run "yast2 --help" it tells me something extrange about y2bignfat. Thanks for your help. Regards, Freddy Chavez.

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booting old linux installation - dualboot
by Andre Truter 29 May '02

29 May '02

Hi All, I have just installed my workstation with SuSE on a new disk, while I kept my old RH installation on the old disk. I cannot manage to boot into RedHat now. SuSE did a default lilo setup that included the old disk, but when I select RedHat linux in lilo boot, it gives me another, non-graphical lilo selection menu with all the boot options and it will only boot in one of the SuSE options. I have tried different options, but all I got so far is to boot the SuSE kernel, but with the RedHat root. (All modules fail ofcourse.) Any ideas as to how to boot in RH again? My partitions: /dev/hda -- SuSE MBR /dev/hda1 / (SuSE) /dev/hda2 swap (SuSE) /dev/hdb -- RH MBR /dev/hdb1 /boot (RH) /dev/hdb5 /data (RH) /dev/hdb7 / (RH) /dev/hdb6 swap (RH) My current lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda change-rules reset read-only menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg lba32 prompt timeout = 80 message = /boot/message image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux append = "hdd=ide-scsi" initrd = /boot/initrd root = /dev/hda1 vga = 791 image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse label = failsafe append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off hdd=ide-scsi" initrd = /boot/initrd.suse optional root = /dev/hda1 vga = 791 image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86 image = /dev/hdb label = "RedHat linux" Thanks -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->

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new mailing list announcement
by Christopher Mahmood 29 May '02

29 May '02

Hi all, We just added two new lists: suse-programming and suse-programming-e (German and English respectively). The purpose is to have a place to discuss development and ask programming-related questions without being subjected to the load that SL or SLE generate. As always, to subscribe mail suse-programming-e-subscribe(a)suse.com < /dev/null or mail suse-programming-subscribe(a)suse.com < /dev/null if you'd rather be on the German list. Please don't send test messages if you are going to subscribe, thanks. -- -ckm

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[SOLVED] Re: re[4]: [SLE] Using cygwin/Xfree-86 to access Suse
by Stuart Powell 29 May '02

29 May '02

Hello. Greg, you are my absolute hero. It turns out that PGPNet created a virtual NIC with an IP address of... drum roll please... 0.0.0.0. I disabled that interface, and now I have my KDE desktop working very nicely from my W2K box. Thanks, Stuart. >>> Greg Freemyer <freemyer(a)NorcrossGroup.com> 05/29/02 01:43PM >>> Stuart, By following the advice in some other e-mails, I finally got to where I was having the same problem as you. In my case it was caused because I had a poor network setup on my Win98 box. When I did a "ipconfig /all" on the windows box, it showed 2 different ethernet ports even though I only have one NIC. The first one had an IP of 0.0.0.0. I went to control panel, network and deleted the unused network and rebooted The XWin -query server command is now working for me. Maybe you also have something funny with your windows network config. Greg <snip>

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Stupid firewall question...
by Tom Nielsen 29 May '02

29 May '02

Let's all pretend I have a firewall on my home system. Now, I want to access my computer from my office. My home system is linux and I'm accessing it from linux (not using linux firewall program). My home system is connected to the net via cable modem with a hub/firewall box. Inside I'm running private IP addresses. Firewall IP: 123.123.123.1 (of course that's not really the IP) My machine: 192.168.0.1 How do I setup the system to connect to my machine? I imagine that I have to use a port on the firewall that will forward information to my linux box. Correct?? E.g. 123.123.123.1:900 > 192.168.0.1 I'm only taking a wild guess here, so please tell me where I"m going wrong. Thanks, Tom

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RE: [SLE] Weird I/O error?
by Alleman, Lowell 29 May '02

29 May '02

Did you try to rebuild your RPM database. I have no idea if this will work or not, but it is something I would try. rpm --rebuild-db I could be completely off track here, it's hard to know for sure. You may want to backup the /var/lib/rpm directory before you start. Lowell Alleman > -----Original Message----- > From: Travis Owens [SMTP:towens@linuxmds.com] > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:34 PM > To: SuSE Linux Discussion > Subject: [SLE] Weird I/O error? > > Hello all! > > I've been using 8.0 since it came out, installed as an upgrade from 7.3. > I used the DVD for the install source. > > I've told the machine it's supposed to use install source CDROM, but > it's not able to figure out that my system doesn't use hdc or hdd for > cdrom, but it's sr0 from scsi-host-emulation. :^/ > > So, I then set it up to use harddisk installation source, and just > reference /cdrom ;) > > Well, here's the real problem. I wanted to change a couple of packages > from CUPS to LPRNG to test somethings. When I went into the package > manager, it said I had a conflict with nfs-server and nfs-utils. I had > seen this before, but never cared about it. This time I thought how > about running the system correctly? So I opted to remove server. > > When it went to install LPRNG, it said the package couldn't be found, > but it pointed right at it in the log!? :( > I tried to manually install it from the CLI and it gives me an error. > I've tried remount the drive and still the same problems. > I looked the disk over to make sure it's not scratched or smudged, and > it's clean. > I tried several other packages to install, and it still gives me the > same error: package not found. :( > > Upon rpm -qp <package> to some (only some of them worked) I got > responses from the package for info. But the rest said: > input/output error (5) > query of <package> failed > > I'm not mad, just really confused. What's going on? > > TIA > Travis > > > -- > 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 archives at http://lists.suse.com

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Re: [SLE] Stupid firewall question...
by Tom Nielsen 29 May '02

29 May '02

I want to be able to access files from home and be able to determine status of home system (i.e., processes). I was thinking of using vnc. IP: Static I'm only going to assume the answer to the third question is YES. But I'm not sure. I can play microsoft golf with others on my W2k partition (home is a dual-boot), if that helped. Tom On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 12:01, jaakko tamminen wrote: > Hi > > First we need more information. > > What services do You want to offer from home to Your office? > Is Your IP static or dynamic? (does it change or stay the same all the time?) > Does Your ISP allow connection request to pass thru to Your home? > > When You have these answers, rest is easy. > > Jaska. > > > On Wednesday 29 May 2002 21:50, you wrote: > > Let's all pretend I have a firewall on my home system. Now, I want to > > access my computer from my office. My home system is linux and I'm > > accessing it from linux (not using linux firewall program). My home > > system is connected to the net via cable modem with a hub/firewall box. > > Inside I'm running private IP addresses. > > > > Firewall IP: 123.123.123.1 (of course that's not really the IP) > > My machine: 192.168.0.1 > > > > How do I setup the system to connect to my machine? I imagine that I > > have to use a port on the firewall that will forward information to my > > linux box. Correct?? > > > > E.g. 123.123.123.1:900 > 192.168.0.1 > > > > I'm only taking a wild guess here, so please tell me where I"m going > > wrong. > > > > Thanks, > > Tom > >

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RE: [SLE] yet anotherYaST2 problem
by mslpop3 29 May '02

29 May '02

Try reinstalling YaST2. I was running SuSE Enterprise when I attempted to launch YaST2 from KDE, it just didn't start. I just reinstalled. Michael Lockwood -----Original Message----- From: Bernie Gardner [mailto:bernie.gardner@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:09 AM To: SuSE Subject: [SLE] yet anotherYaST2 problem I have been unable to use yast2 from kde for a couple of weeks. I have 8.0, and have not upgraded to kde3.0.1. The control center comes up ok, but most of the modules don't work. The text/ncurses version works fine. I tried running from a terminal in kde after sux which results in this message when trying to run one of the modules: # yast2 quickstarting sw_single beginner /sbin/yast2: line 154: 25673 Segmentation fault /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base $module "$@" qt -geometry "$Y2_GEOMETRY" -style="$Y2_STYLE" -fn $Y2_XFONT I added line breaks for ease of emailing, the last three lines were a single line in the output. I don't think this is related to kde. I got identical results from gnome. I have updated to the latest version of yast2 using you, but the problem existed before the update. Thanks for any suggestions, Bernie Gardner -- 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 archives at http://lists.suse.com

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