June 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: [SLE] Secret software
by Christoph Ruepprich 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

>I have a main machine at work and a laptop I bring in every >day. The laptop >sits to my left, and when I want to use it I have to twist >through 90 degrees >and pick up the mouse and keyboard. Not anymore. With x2x I >can just move the >mouse off the left side of my screen and the pointer appears >on the right >side of the laptop display. How are the two computers networked? CR

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Evolution HOWTO
by Ron Cordell 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

So.... what was the final solution to get Evolution going, anyway? I installed the latest SuSE GNOME updates from the FTP server, and that made GNOME 1.4 mostly functional. However, I can't get Evolution to work, since there seem to be some missing libraries. -ronc

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VoIP compatible software to Net2phone or similar
by Ronald Wiplinger 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

I am looking for a VoIP software, which can work with Net2phone. I know Net2phone is not the best software, but it has worldwide gateways!!!! bye Ronald

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Dead Threads Recommendation to List./SuSE
by Brian W. Carver 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

I wonder if SuSE would consider assigning/hiring an employee to respond to unanswered requests to this list on a weekly basis. I suggest an employee, because I assume that if anyone on the list KNEW the answer, they would have already provided it. I'd guess, but don't know, that if this employee just devoted Mondays to cleaning up the prior week's dead threads that might be all the time it required (assuming a fairly knowledgable SuSE employee.) Or, it could be someone's full-time job and they could simply stay 1-week behind the list. If something was posted last Monday and hasn't gotten a response by this Monday, then the SuSE-Support-Guru tackles it. (And so on for Tuesday...) OR, in the open source collaborative spirit, perhaps a team of more experienced SuSE list-readers could volunteer to tackle this project. If one person took last Monday's dead threads, and one person took Tuesday's dead threads, etc., we'd only need 7 or so experienced SuSE users to make a go of this. In the case where you've stumped the expert, they should simply respond to the list that this is the case, and this might catch the eye of one of our other resident experts, and push things towards a solution. I'm defining a "dead thread" as a question that receives absolutely no responses. This doesn't handle those threads which receive numerous responses that don't resolve the problem. (I myself have started more of those than I care to think about right now.) But until list-users more actively posted [SOLVED] at the end of a successful thread, it would likely be too difficult for one person (especially a volunteer) to pour over every thread and then guess whether it was solved. That then leads to another recommendation I welcome comment on. While, an e-mail that just says "Thanks" adds to the already high volume of the list, if people more actively replied with Re: [SLE] My Topic [SOLVED] and then described which solution worked for them, it would become possible for us to more easily track which questions never got adequately addressed, and would make archive searching more valuable for those who come after us. P.S. If you think "dead threads" are a non-issue, I can count over 60 requests to this list, in just the last week, that received ZERO responses. (Some are not yet a week old and may yet be answered, but I think even a 3-4 day old request with no answer would likely alienate a newbie to the list. My 1-week plans above wouldn't address this exactly, but newbies could observe that dead-threads are tackled at the 1-week mark and would then be less likely to lose hope.) Anyway, I think it's in SuSE's best interest to hire people for this purpose as it could contribute significantly to the general opinion users have of the quality of the distribution. Or, if we users want to give back to SuSE and its users, then we need only find 7 SuSE gurus who are willing to devote one day a week to answering on average 9 or so questions that slip through the cracks. (I'd also be open to an area-of-expertise guru system, but then assigning the dead threads becomes a little more complicated, but workable.) Comments welcome. -- Brian Support EFF! http://www.eff.org/ They're defending YOUR rights online.

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re: [SLE] routing and default gateways
by Greg Freemyer 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

In general, you can't do what you want to do. Routing is typically done at the IP level of the 7-layer stack. You are asking for it to be done at the TCP level. I am not a Linux tcp/ip expert, so there might be a Linux specific solution. In particular, normal routing is done based on the destination IP. If the Linux ip driver supports source IP routing, you might be able to get this to work. I have seen source IP routing requested before, but I don't know of any implementations. Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com >> Hi, >> I was wondering if anyone could advise me? I have a web server live on the >> internet, which has two internet live network cards, on different IP >> addresses. >> Lets say, eth0 has the IP : 213.254.182.144/24 and eth1 has the IP : >> 193.128.89.158/24 >> Both are internet reachable. >> I would like to define some routing rules such that any traffic that >> originated through eth0, is sent back out via eth0, and likewise, traffic >> that came through eth1 goes out via eth1. >> I was thinking of something like : >> route add default gw 213.254.182.145 eth0 >> and >> route add default gw 193.128.89.157 eth1 >> where 213.254.182.145 and 193.128.89.157 are both routers. >> Would this work? I've not tried it yet and so this is all theory so far. >> Thanks in advance, >> Paul >> Please note, I completely made up the IP addresses! >> -- >> 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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AZERTY on the `kdm' (?) display
by pinard＠iro.umontreal.ca 01 Jul '02

01 Jul '02

Hi, SuSErs. I'm not much familiar with KDE, so I hope to find some help here. Using SuSE 8.0 at initlevel 5, the nice login display displays one picture per user and two boxes, one for the user, and one for the password. The problem I have is that whenever I type in the user box, the keyboard is read in AZERTY mode. Clicking the picture fills that box, so I easily escape the difficulty that way. But I would like to know how to choose another keyboard in that situation. Typing the password is no problem for _me_ on _this_ machine, as by pure chance, my password does not use characters where AZERTY and QWERTY differ. Once logged in, the X keyboard is not AZERTY anymore. It works like `cf', which is my desire, and the choice I registered in `/etc/sysconfig/'. So the problem exists only in the login box (this is the fact of `kdm'?). -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard

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OpenOffice
by Robert Storey 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

Maybe this was addressed before, but I missed it. Installed OpenOffice 1.0 today. The good news is that it seems to have some nice features. The bad news is: 1) Noticeably slower than StarOffice 5.2 2) Unbelievably crappy fonts in the menus - almost illegible. There's probably no hope for fixing the speed, but does anyone have an idea about better menu fonts? I'll confess that my video card only supports Xfree86 3.x - a new video card and upgrading to Xfree86 4.x might fix the font problem (then again, maybe not). The actual document fonts are OK - it's just the menus (and interestingly, the Help manual under the Help menu has good fonts). Since these are problems with OpenOffice, does anyone know if upgrading to payware StarOffice 6.0 would fix these problems? I'm willing to pay if it really fixes things, but not willing if I wind up with the same illegible menus and tortoise-like speed. - Robert Storey

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Re: [SLE] cannot fsck because root is not read only
by John Sved 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

Thanks Steve, I did as you suggested. fsck -N -V /dev/hda5 indicated the correct EXT2 filesystem fsck -V /dev/hda5 worked OK. No errors detected. running fsck again showed /dev/hda5 to be clean. However the ERROR ! cannot fsck because root is not read only message still appears during the boot A few lines later there is the message /dev/hda5 is rw Restore device permissions Do I simply, as root, use konquerer to set the permissions of /dev/hda5 to user R, group R where user is root and group is disk ? At present user is R and W and grout is R and W. -- John steve wrote: > > On Sunday 30 June 2002 05:09, John Sved wrote: > >>During the boot sequence I see the following message on screen. >> >>ERROR ! cannot fsck because root is not read only. >> >>This started afer using mkinit or mk_init following the removal of a NIC >>module. That was fixed but since then the ERROR message occurs. >> >>How should I restore the normal fsck after 20 boots. >> >>/dev/hda5 is the root >> >>What is the correct command to make root read only at boot time and >>restore the normal operation? >> >> >>-- John >> > > Boot up into single user by adding single to the boot line. I.e. 'linux > single'. Then you'll get to a root login prompt. Login and run your fsck on > /dev/hda5. Remember that your fsck should match the type of filesystem you > use. I don't do it often enough to remember if it does that automatically. > Though I think it would exit with a code if you use it on a wrong type. > >

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Synchronization of Supplementary Packages
by Jamie O'Shaughnessy 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

I know the extra updated packages on ftp.suse.com are supplementary, but it's a real pain that SuSE don't keep them in sync. e.g. under Gnome there is a mozilla-1.0-10.rpm but under Mozilla there is a mozilla-1.0-4.i386.rpm - so you can't use the mozilla-mail-1.0-4.i386.rpm (to get mail in mozilla) package unless you install the Mozilla directory version of mozilla - of course then you can't use the galeon out of the Gnome directory :( I know it's work for SuSE to keep doing these builds, but it's frustrating as a user to go through this. Jamie -- Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy(a)ntlworld.com

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DVD playback quality
by Mojojojo 30 Jun '02

30 Jun '02

Hi all, I was wondering if the DVD playback quality (in Linux) can be improved by changing video card. Currently my video card were based on TNT/TNT2. TIA.

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