February 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Windows Media Viewer files
by J. Scott Thayer, M.D. 10 Mar '03

10 Mar '03

Is there any app that plays .wmv files in LInux? TNX

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SuSE machine haging with blinking leds
by Christian Andersson 10 Mar '03

10 Mar '03

It happens now and then that our SuSE-8.1 server (P4-2.4G, 1G, 160G, G550) hangs heavily with Caps Lock and Scroll Lock flashing. Does anyone on the list know what could be the reason for such a behavior? I'm a bit suspicious about the temperature in the box. Thanks for your suggestions, -- Ch

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Harddisk installtion
by Andrew Kirilenko 09 Mar '03

09 Mar '03

So nobody have experience with installation from local harddisk??? -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!

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Making LFS safe from SuSE?
by me＠prestoncrawford.com 09 Mar '03

09 Mar '03

I'm wanting to learn Linux internals better. As such I'm going to build Linux From Scratch (LFS). However, I'm not sure how to best approach this. LFS must be built from an existing distro. I want to maintain my desktop SuSE 8.1 install as pristine possibly. So naturally I'm a little concerned about installing all the devel packages, doing all the compiling, etc. So I was wondering what eveyone thought of this. Would I be best off creating ANOTHER partition with a SuSE (or other distro) install that I didn't mind breaking if need be? Thoughts on this. Preston

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re: [SLE] Re: Hardware shopping, How about AMD if make it as a small server?
by Greg Freemyer 09 Mar '03

09 Mar '03

>> Hamm...yes~~ , i have seen certain kind of IDE raid card only about 34 US >> and provide 2 channel ATA 100. But does AMD athlon + PC motherboard = >> stable >> ??? I never test this and have some doubt about it. In my experience the highspeed AMD chips run fine until that $10 cpu fan dies. Then you get to replace the CPU, the motherboard, the RAM, and maybe one or two other things. We bought several 2+ GHz AMD based machines a year ago. Three of them had fan failures and the resulting damage before we gave up on AMD. We now use/buy only Intel. Intel chips handle a fan failure much more cleanly. Greg Freemyer

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Find command
by Oliver Ob 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

Alright, I have run some Mandrake Disk for a test - and it wrote to my Suse System without even asking me! Shit! It made some changes which I now need to know (no discussion on this please) Now I need to know all files that have been changed on FEB 20 at 1930 plus/minus 10 minutes. I took a look at man find, man find did not tell me much. So, at a guess I ask this here: How do I find the above described files? I need to know all files that have been changed on FEB 20 at 1930 plus/minus 10 minutes. Thanks! -- *º¤.,___,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤.,¸¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I / __|__ http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I / / |_/ http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I \ \__|_\ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I \___| mailto:VGAP-93-subscribe@yahoogroups.com I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - moving house, but online! +49....TRSi1 <<<

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Midnight Commander without mouse(gpm)
by Oliver Ob 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

I am trying to use MC without mouse. I looked at mc --help, but executing "mc -d" which should turn any mouse support off, results in NOT starting mc, but error: Cannot open shared object file (missing libgpm.so.1) Well, as said, I do not want mouse support on this machine (There is no mouse connected), so I do not want to have gpm installed. Now: How do I tell this to mc when its own option -d does not work obviously? Tnx! -- *º¤.,___,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤.,¸¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I / __|__ http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I / / |_/ http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I \ \__|_\ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I \___| mailto:VGAP-93-subscribe@yahoogroups.com I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - moving house, but online! +49....TRSi1 <<<

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Network question - here NFS
by Oliver Ob 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

Alright, this is the third one for today. I have 2 PCs here, PC One mounts NFS shares from PC TWO. Both use Suse 7.3 TWO's export: / IPofPCone(rw,no_root_squash) Now that I mount it on PCone, I have the whole / tree of "2" in my mnt. Now the problem. I mounted another Linux HDD (Type83) inside PC TWO, why cant I see this one on PCOne, even though I have exported ENTIRE "/" to do just this? -- *º¤.,___,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤.,¸¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I / __|__ http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html I I / / |_/ http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/friends.html I I \ \__|_\ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VGAP-93 I I \___| mailto:VGAP-93-subscribe@yahoogroups.com I >>> Telek0ma iBBMS - moving house, but online! +49....TRSi1 <<<

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Enabling mouse wheel properly
by Harry G 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

I have a IBM RO07UO wireless mouse, which I got for only $19.00 at Comp USA (clearence item. They want more room for M$ Hardware). It installed fine under Suse 8.1, but it only scrolls down with the wheel, not up. How can I fix this? Harry G

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RE: [SLE] My SuSE Linux is very slow sometimes.
by Peer Stefan 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Hi, > From: Prabu Subroto [mailto:prabusubroto@yahoo.com] > Dear my friends.... > > I wonder why my SuSE Linux 8.1 becomes very slow > sometimes. It becomes slow if my harddisk suddenly > being busy because of an unknown process. I guess > because fsck but I am not sure. I hope it's not fsck, because it needs an unmounted filesystem. It's rather updatedb, a daemon, which updates the locate-database. It uses find, which produces pretty heavy load (scans all mounted filesystems for files ...). If you recognize such a load try "ps -elf | grep update" and "ps -elf | grep find" and "top" is also a pretty good tool to check for hungry processes. > What is the unknown process actually? And how can I > stop /cease it ? updatedb is started from the root-crontab, you may change settings there or even disable it. > Thank you very much in advance. you're welcome, Stefan

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