October 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 9.0 Upgrade
by Donald Henson 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Well, I took the plunge and did an upgrade from 8.2 rather than a clean install. I had a full backup in case anything went wrong but it went very smoothly. It was encouraging as well as discouraging that three problems I had before the upgrade were still there after the upgrade. Apparently, those are my problems to resolve. Anyway, I just wanted to add my experience to those of others who have reported their upgrade/install experiences. Don Henson

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Cannot play avi (mjpeg) files in SuSE 9.0
by Kenneth Payne 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hi - One of the things that seems to have fallen off the wagon in my upgrade to SuSE 9.0 is the ability to play AVI files. I've got some litle animations made with Blender. They are JPEG-based AVIs. They've always played perfectly under previous versions of SUSE using the KDE embedded viewer or AKtion or MPlayer. Now they won't play at all. Xine tells me that they are MJPEG and it's an unsupported codec. I've tried installed the old KDE multimedia stuff with YAST but they won't play these files either. Any suggestions? - Ken

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The GIMP/GTK+/control-center2
by James Ogley 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

New/updated on www.usr-local-bin.org today: * The GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program - Packages return to the site - Version 1.3.21 - Python plugin included - As per SuSE 9.0 default, can be installed alongside the 1.2.x package * GTK+ - The GIMP Tool Kit, used by GNOME - Part of the Misc Stuff section - Packages return to the site - Version 2.2.4 - Include drop-shadow patch * control-center2 - Part of the Misc Stuff section - The packages previously on the site included a very broken theme manager - I had uploaded the wrong ones on Monday. This is now fixed. All users are recommended to upgrade James -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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Canon BJC-2100
by Old Sarge 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

To Carlos, et al: In looking at my manual, which I only have on disk, I can find NOTHING to make Suse and my printer to work together in any fashion. It mentions a Windows and an Apple Mac driver, but it does NOT give any information on what emulators or substitutes will work with it. I have already tried the BJC-600 substitute, to no avail. I have been led to believe that there is a gimp driver that will make it work, but even finding the driver does no good, as there are no installations instructions worth mentioning. I am not a programmer, nor can I mindread software, and need to know what to do to get it installed. I am not going to upgrade to SuSe anything, and don't use the excuse that SuSe cannot make a driver: Mandrake can and does!! >:o -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!

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SuSE 9.0 is very nice
by Damon Register 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

I just received my SuSE 9.0 Pro last night and already installed it. I am very impressed. Since SuSE 6.2 I have been tinkering with Linux. With each of the releases that I have tried, I have seen more improvement but this is really great. It was getting late by the time I finished the installation so I didn't have any time to play but so far I am really impressed. I even selected on line update at install and it appeared to run with no trouble. That built in remote desktop sharing is very nice too. Perhaps Linux is finally at the point where I might have at least some chance of converting friends Damon Register

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uninstall SuSE8.2?
by stephen winners 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

I would like to uninstall SuSE 8.2 and start over again. I cannot find any instructions on how to do that? Any hints on where to start? StephenW Sarasota. FL __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/

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completion of my list of installed programs
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

For the first time I compiled a program by myself. Frightening but I think the waiting was worthwhile. Going to my trusted Yast I found that the program is not mentioned in the list of installed programs. What did I forgot after the compilation? I remembered to use Suseconfig after the compilation but was there something else?

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HELP : Installing 9.0 for web server with 64Mb Ram
by Adam Leach 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hi, I'm trying to configure a new web server box to run my works external web site. The problem is that the machine has only got 64Mb ram and I can't find any compatible ram around the office. Its going to run as a Samba/Apache/etc server with no KDE/X. So how can I install SuSE as it keeps on encountering an unknown error. Is there a way how I can format the disk and create some swap space before running the installer. Or is there another way??? I've tried booting the rescue system, but that will not run. Any ideas. Thanks Adam

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SuSE 9.0 alsa problems still
by Jonathan C. Sitte 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

I have a Sony PCG-V505BX running SuSE 9.0. Still getting choppy sounds. I have tested Mandrake 9.2 also and has the same results with alsa. OSS works fine with both. Also alsa works find with Mandrake 9.1 and SuSE 8.2. I even tried updated alsa with no better results. I am thinking that this may be some new code in the kernel? I am not sure but its a shot in the dark at this time. The best thing for me right now is if I can get other people with the same hardware to confirm this with me. Every thing else in this machine is working perfectly. I love SuSE 9.0 so far. Its a great release of my favorite GNU/Linux distrobution. Please let me know if this is a kernel issue. I guess I could always start trying newer and older kernels. Before I start doing that though I would love to confirm this with others with same hardware. I have already tried using other WindowManagers etc. So I do know its not KDE. In theory if OSS works fine then there must be something wrong with alsa and the kernel. Possibly something in between. Anyways I will stop ranting for now and keep everyone posted. If I get anoyed enough with this I will contact mantel and see what I can get out of him. Nothing seems to be working without doing some kernel hacking. I am about 90 percent sure that something new in the kernel is causing this to sound poor under alsa. Cheers, -- Jonathan C. Sitte <jcsitte(a)staticnull.org>

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Re: [SLE] cronjob - daily - FAILURE (Solved?)
by Jason Joines 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Andrea Bellan wrote: >Hi, > >today I read your e-mail >http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Sep/1206.html concerning the >"duplicate log entry for /var/log/samba/log.smbd" problem. >I had this problem too (Suse8.1+some Updates). >I found the referred duplicate entry in the following files: >/etc/logrotate.d/aaa_base >/etc/logrotate.d/samba >Try "grep samba /etc/logrotate.d/*"; the entries repeated twice in the list >you'll get cause the above mentioned problem. > >Bye AndreaB > > That was it. I commented out the samba entries in /etc/logrotate.d/aaa_base and it solved the problem on both my 8.1 boxes. Thanks, Jason ===========

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