December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

RE: mp3 to wav converter
by Martin 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Does anybody know about decent mp3 to wav converter. I already got cdparanoia but can't make it work with files on HD, it always touches cdrom. Is there a way to fool it to think HD is cdrom? Thx, Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

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Hard Disc as Installation Boot Disc (SuSE9.0)
by Matthew Smith 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Hi All I have a slightly weird situation where I am trying to install to a machine (old IBM laptop) which has no floppy OR CD. I tried putting the hard disc in a desktop machine and doing an installation, but even with careful configuration, it got jammed half way through booting. What I was thinking of doing was creating a single ext2 partition on the hard disc and dd'ing the contents of the boot CD (boot.iso from downloaded version). Assuming that I can get it to boot, I can then run a networked installation using a PCMCIA network card. The problem is the fact that this works with the isolinux bootloader. Can anyone tell me any way that I can get this to work? Cheers Matthew Smith

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Destroyed GRUB ... Heeeeeeeeeelp :-(
by Russ 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Hi All, I boo boo. I edited the GRUB conf file in YaST and now it won't work. I tinkered and tinkered but finally just did a fixmbr with mt XP CD so I could boot to something. I tried booting to the SuSE fix but didn't know enough about Linux commands to do what I wanted. Before I did any tinkering it booted to a grub prompt: GRUB> Tried many things here but no good. I even booted with Knoppix 3.3 and found the file I think I needed to fix but it wouldn't allow me to. Didn't have permission. Anyway, I want SuSE back .................. Help Thanks Russ

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Anyone runs Java Plugin in Konqueror succesfully? thanks
by Milan Zimmermann 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Hi, If you can run the Java plugin succesfully in konqueror, could you let me know? In SuSE 8.2, I have no luck with Java Plugin. I posted earlier with more details but no reply, so I am just trying to see anyone uses it. Thanks

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Using dvd burner on Windows machine
by Nick Selby 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

I've successfully mounted a DVD burner which lives on the W2K machine across the room from my Suse 8.2 machine, but I cannot get K3B to see it. I mounted the dvd burner to a mount point which I made, /media/windows/dvd and when I try to point K3B at it it says, "Could not find an additional device at /media/windows/dvd" Can anyone help? TIA, nick --

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RE: [SLE] resolved: ssh problem with passwd on SUSE 9.0
by Stephen Villano 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Actually, I took a look at the page. I also have the same difficulties here. Since I usually SSH into a gateway box then ssh in to the servers from outside it normally wasn't an issue and was back burnered. This is what fixed it for me: # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here! PasswordAuthentication yes #PermitEmptyPasswords no I un-remmed the PasswordAuthentication yes and it works perfectly with putty and telneat. Guess that was disabled to reduce the threat of brute forcing passwords... -----Original Message----- From: Greg Freemyer [mailto:freemyer-ml@NorcrossGroup.com] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 6:23 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] resolved: ssh problem with passwd on SUSE 9.0 Looking at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse-security&m=106706811709000&w=2 It appears there is a bug somewhere in the mix between: putty / sshd / pam If I understand it correctly, in SUSE 9.0 sshd is configured to exclusively use pam for authentication. With standard password authentication, that is working fine for Linux ssh clients, but it is not working with putty. I have followed the threads suggestion of directly enabling password authentication in sshd_config if you want to use putty. I'm not sure that this has any negative features, but it was obviously not the plan for 9.0. I'm surprised I have not seen this come up on SLE before. Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- 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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mp3 question...
by James Hatridge 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

Hi all... I've got a couple of files that are too big (ca. 60 - 70mb each) to get into audacity to edit. How can I break these files up into, say, 5 to 10 minute size? And then put them back together when I'm done editing? Thanks JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer WartHog Bulletin Info about new German Stamps http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/bulletin Viel Feind -- Viel Ehr' Anti-US Propaganda stamp collection http://www.fuzzybunnymilitia.org/~hatridge/collection

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openoffice mime types
by steve-ss 30 Dec '03

30 Dec '03

I clik an OOo file in 9.0 and get it unzipped when all I want to do is edit it. I have a ticket open on this with SuSE but get the standard reply like I used to do with red hut pizza. I have daily YOU's. Is there a cheap and cheerful solution to solving this on a 20 box lan? And if I *do* have to enter every box (ssh or WHY) what should I do? My college director say's hel'll help me if he knows it's the latter ;-) Please help. Steve.

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Gnome
by Bill Wisse 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

Haia I'm using SuSE 9.0 and KDE. I want to try Gnome and at the Log-in screen I tick "Gnome" but no Gnome comes up. The KDE splash screen appears. (AFAICT I have installed all the relevant Gnome files from the disk). Anybody an idea how I can fix this or what to check? Thanks -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."

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palm (serial cradle) on a T21 thinkpad
by Christoph Lehmann 29 Dec '03

29 Dec '03

Hi I have suse 9 running (gnome desktop) on a T21 thinkpad. unfortunately I cannot get any connection with my palm, even after setting a link from /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/pilot. I downloaded all the packages (evolution and the required gnome-pilot stuff) from usr-local-bin.org but nevetheless no connection to the pilot any help is very welcome christoph -- Christoph Lehmann <christoph.lehmann(a)gmx.ch>

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