January 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Canon S40 or S45
by Bruce Marshall 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Does anyone on this list have a Canon S40 or S45 camera? Interested in knowing whether it will act as a USB mass-storage device... Thanks. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/28/03 19:07 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies."

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Where is Windoze?
by Doug Weeks 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Again, I'm a newbie on SuSe....I have a dual boot with about 10gigs alocated to windows 98. With Mandrake I could mount the windows partition with a file manager and manipulate files, put docs from open office into "My Documents" on the windows partition. With SuSe, I chose the default installation which boots windows fine. However, 2 things different: 1-there was no /home partition created-is this weird or do I just make a folder for /Home. 2-under /mnt there is no windows partition listed. Is it somewhere else? I know its there cuz I can boot to it? Bear with us newbs Doug

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i just need an animated-gif viewer
by Adagilson B B da Silva 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Eye of Gnome couldn't see that. neither can Gimp. There's no IrfanView for Linux. What should I use to see animated gifs in Linux? thanks a. -- Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva Bibliotecário FIOCRUZ-Centro de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhães Fone 81 3302-6524

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re[2]: [SLE] MS mailexchange replacement
by Greg Freemyer 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

>> On Friday 31 January 2003 01:52 pm, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: >> > I am fighting to replace in one company I am working for the M$ mail >> > server to a Linux box, but so far I could not find anything that really >> > can do all these things that the Exchange server can do (mail, calendar, >> > .....) >> > >> > Does anybody know of a product (Linux) that could replace it needless? >> http://www.suse.de/en/business/products/suse_business/openexchange/index.h >> tml Per the below SuSE OpenExchange cost about $1000. http://www.suse.de/en/business/products/suse_business/openexchange/misc/slo… and it specifically talks about per user licenses, not just support. But I see at http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny03/V33/press.cvn?id=11&p_id=12 that it won "Best Network/Server Application" as an Open Source Product. What don't I understand? Greg Freemyer

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Shrinking Windows Partitions
by James.Rocks＠equant.com 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hi, Since every install installation appears to be able to do this I wonder if anyone knows what utility in SuSE can shrink the main windows partition which occupies the whole of the first drive? James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ

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RE: [SLE] next suse version, any rumors, any clues...
by Alleman, Lowell 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

I've had moderate success using Eudora (version 5, I think?) with wine. It's been a while... I seem to remember that there were a few specific things that would not work correctly under Wine, but it defiantly seemed to be useable. Unfortunately, I don't remember what those those 'things' were... Not that this has anything to do with the next release of SuSE.... Sorry. I'd like to know that myself. I have a coworker who is going to be buying a copy of SuSE soon.... I hate buying a boxed version just to find out that a new version will be out in a few weeks... - Lowell -----Original Message----- From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:dougmack@i-2000.com] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:25 PM To: p_s; suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] next suse version, any rumors, any clues... For sure, there will be a new issue around June or July. That's the way they do it. Then another around November, or so. I just wish that they'd put out the fires and produce a super-stable easy to use distro, with NO bugs. I like SuSE, I think it is just as stable as RedHat, it costs a lot less, and it favors KDE, rather than the ugly Gnome. But they always have to do something to the distro, and always break something. Unfortunately, none of the distros have Eudora, so here I sit on MSWIN doing this. --doug At 21:13 01/29/2003 +0200, p_s wrote: >I am currently running 8.0 pro on my both boxes and I have an itch to >get newer version, but I am bit confused wiht current 8.1.. have hear >lots of good and bad critisism about it.. Since it's already few months >old, I wonder if someone has any knowledge about next version.. when >might that be released etc.. what does it feature etc... propably KDE >3.1 :-) GTK 2.2 etc.. > >Thanks, > >P_tr > > >-- >Check the headers for your unsubscription address >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com >Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com > -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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How to uprade from 7.3 to 8.1
by Robert Pollard 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hello all, I have been looking at the ftp site at SuSE and can't determine the files to download and how to do it. Do I have to compile the kernel or is there a binary that is available. I do have an Athlon AMD 1800+ processor. If I need to recompile the kernel to take advantage of it that would be quite alright. Where do I get started? I need the files to download to totally upgrade the system and how to do it. Thanks, Robert Pollard

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Desktop Linux Event Continues to Lose Support
by Fred A. Miller 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think SuSE SHOULD pull out, as well as SUN. This type of corp. manipulation has NO place in the Linux community. Fred http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=198 - -- If you listen on a quiet nite you, can hear the sound of a Windows 2000 Server reboot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQE+OcNUrnzt99/TR+cRAnOTAJUQZjpwSq+kdnNWADTwotCgLb44AJsHxVqT wnBpqdj8tyn0vbfvnMbJ+Q== =oRgT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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nfs in 8.0pro
by p_s 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

I want to share some files between my two computers at home... I try to set up NFS share with YAST2 but can't get it right. The "server-side" i configured with YAST2 and under NFS server. I have dir /public right in the root of my filesystem, that need to be shared. I selected that directory to be shared and in Hostwild cards I have * (options are empty...) Client-side then... Again under YAST2 but now with NFS client I configured the server IP, I even managed to see the other box in my LAN, so the IP is now set.. The filesystem is set to /public and mountpoint is /free (which I created to the root of this machines filesystem. Options I left to default. Then I click 'Finish' and get message 'unable to mount NFS entries from /etc/fstab'. What to do? this is what I got in /etc/fstab conserning this case: 192.168.0.100:/public /free nfs defaults 0 0 PS. sorry if this same thing is posted twice, mail server in our office is doing strange things today...

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RE: [SLE] login screen doesnot have KDE anymore
by Purdom, Jesse 31 Jan '03

31 Jan '03

-----Original Message----- From: Richard Bos [mailto:allabos@freeler.nl] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:12 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] login screen doesnot have KDE anymore Hello Baris, I encounter the same problem. I think however, that it might be better to discuss this issue at suse-kde, what I will do. Op vrijdag 31 januari 2003 09:23, schreef Baris Erbas: > Hi, > I installed KDE3.1 and eerything went well. I even restarted my > computer without any problems whatsoever. However, when I turned on > the computer this morning the only X enviroment I see is the > default(which is not KDE probably only an > xterm) and I see all the users on the left hand side(such > as root, nobody, and all the deamons). When I type > "startkde" on the xterm window KDE starts. > What could have I done to get this problem? > > The only possibility I can think of is that I deleted all > the /tmp files .mcop files just to get KDE work without any problems.. > > hope somebody can give me some advice... > > thx all! Hello Richard and Baris, I encountered this problem as well after installation of KDE3.1 (running SuSE v8.0 Pro.). Once I finished the install I ran SuSEconfig as root and was greeted with a message saying that /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc had been modified by the user and that SuSEconfig would not touch it but would create a copy of the file called kdmrc.SuSEconfig. Renaming kdmrc.SuSEconfig to kdmrc corrected the problem. I have noticed however that changes I make in Control Center > System Administration > Login Manager (such as setting a custom background or setting 'Show Users' to None in the Users tab) are being ignored. I'm not sure if this problem is related to the original Login Screen issue or not, but I suspect it may be. Hope this helps. Jesse

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