March 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Audio/video/graphics demos for Linux?
by Clayton 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

This is not a highly important question, but one that has been meandering around in my head for a couple days now. Has anyone made audio/video/graphics demos for linux? Something like glgears, but more interesting. I remember back in the DOS days that there was always a small group of programmers that took pride in the challenge of doing things like making an executable that was 4096 bytes or less and contained 4 minutes of animations... but I've yet to see much of anything like this in the Linux world. The graphics demo thing is still alive in the MS world ( http://ths.demoscene.org/start.html ). Anyone have any pointers to something like what is on demoscene.org? C.

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Re: [SLE] Has anyone created a Linux Desktop Publishing program?
by Charles Philip Chan 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On March 31, 2003 07:56 am, Thomas E. Beasley, Jr. wrote: > I plan on upgrading to 8.2 [currently using 7.2 Pro).SuSE'll probably > include that on the cd. Thanks for reminding me about KDE. We Gnome > users sometimes overlook this resource. I don't think that KOffice 1.3 will be ready when 8.2 comes out, but it will be included in KDE 3.2 though. There has been a flurry of development going on with much improvement in speed and import/export filters. Kword is really interesting since it works in two modes: DTP and wordprocessing. The wordprocessing mode is nothing but the DTP mode with frame drawn automatically for you when you go on to a new page. Charles - -- "Linux, because up-time matters gawk; talk; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; touch; gasp; finger; gasp; mount;\ fsck; more; yes; gasp; umount; make clean; make mrproper; sleep." - --Drunken Bastard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+iJQR3epPyyKbwPYRAjk7AJ0f2Fa1buYajsu+WrWMYM2AtAX67ACgjLpq KxGRY+rFj1kAYYADlJk6KmA= =8Vex -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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No Sound from KMid
by Sylvanus A. Currie 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi guys, I am a novice when it comes to composing/performing music on a computer. But I understand that I need to understand MIDI in order to get anywhere. However, when I start KMid and open a midi file, I hear no sound even though the progress bar suggests that the application is playing through the file. Looking at settings, I see 5 MIDI devices: 1 x External MIDI 0 and 4 x Emu10k1 WaveTable Ports (0 - 3) All assigned as ALSA devices Also the MIDI map is set to /opt/kde3/share/apps/kmid/maps/gm.map. Can anyone tell me where to start to investigate this lack of sound further Many thanks -- Syl

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Epson C82
by Michael Satterwhite 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Does anyone have an Epson C82 printer running successfully on SuSE 8.1? If so, how hard was it to set up? (It's not on their support database). I need to replace a printer, and Fry's has a great price on this model. -- Penguins eat butterflies, don't they?

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running pptpd on SuSE 8.1 Pro.
by Robert Fenney 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Has anyone had a problem configuring pptpd to run using the runlevel editor in Yast2? When I try to have pptpd run at level 3 and 5 I get an error saying that it need the "route" service also. Thanks! Robert

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Problem with ping to router
by José Carlos Cuéllar 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi to everybody! I've got a little X-File here. I'm setting up a machine with a SuSE 7.1 to perform routing and firewall tasks. The problem is that I'm having problems connecting with one of my routers. I can access to every machine of my network except the router, and every machine of the network can access the router, except the Linux server. I'm using an Intel EthernetExpress PRO100 network cardin the Linux server; the router is a 3COM 826 for ADSL access. I'm really confused with this, I've never seen some like this before. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. José Carlos Cuéllar - jcarlos(a)alc.es Mecemsa Consultores - I+D Avda. de Dénia, 88 - E03016 Alicante Telf. +34 965 26 96 96 Fax +34 965 26 54 53 http://www.mecemsa.es

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medusa and Nautilus
by Bram Mertens 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi Last night I noticed that cron-job is running Medusa every night. Googling around I found that; Medusa is a fast indexer and filesystem search daemon. It is used by Nautilus and Gnome-VFS to perform rapid searches of the filesystem for files meeting various criterion (type, name, size, date, etc). I use blackbox as my windowmanager so I don't need Nautilus to draw my desktop and I don't use Nautilus. Except maybe when I'm reading Gnome docs, I believe the Gnome help-system requires Nautilus, right? Should this cron-job be left "AS-IS"? Or can I remove it? TIA -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <bram-mertens(a)linux.be> Linux User #249103 # # SuSE 8.1 Pro kernel 2.4.19-4GB i686 128MB RAM # # 5:47pm up 13 days, 22:09, 6 users, load average: 2.06, 2.07, 2.07 #

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re: [SLE] Record grep
by Greg Freemyer 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Jay, awk is a general purpose program for doing all sorts of reporting. It is a little slow, but highly functional. It is great for scanning logs/formatted text files. I have written several "hundred line" awk scripts. For what you describe try: awk -F: '/root/ { print }' /etc/passwd If you want specific fields try: awk -F: '/root/ { print "user = " $1, ", uid = " $3, ", shell = ", $7}' /etc/passwd If you want the pattern to be in a specific field, not just anywhere on the line try: awk -F: '$3 == 0 { print }' /etc/passwd The one thing I have never tried is a multi-char separator. Even if it is not explicitly supported, a short awk script could pull in the whole line and scan for the separator string. Greg >> Hi everybody! >> Does anyone know of an existing command-line utility that will look >> through a simple database file (with records separated by some ascii >> character, or series of characters) for a pattern, then print the >> entire record to the screen when a record containing a match is found? >> I've written a little utility in C which does this, and I've been thinking >> about adding some additional features before offering it to the community. >> I won't bother if I'm reinventing the wheel however, so if anyone knows if >> such a thing exists already, please let me know. >> -- >> JAY VOLLMER >> JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM >> TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE >> -- >> 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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RE: [SLE] Problem with ping to router
by José Carlos Cuéllar 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

The server has three different network cards, but I'm just using one of them by the moment (the other two are unplugged). I don't know if there could be a hardware conflict of some kind, but it's very odd that the ping from the linux server gets response from every machine of the network except the router, and everybody receives an echo ping from the router except the linux server. :-( -----Mensaje original----- De: cliff pankonien [mailto:jackdaw@harescrambles.org] Enviado el: lunes, 31 de marzo de 2003 19:00 Para: José Carlos Cuéllar Asunto: Re: [SLE] Problem with ping to router you say it will be a router/firewall, do you have two nics? ----- Original Message ----- From: "José Carlos Cuéllar" <jcarlos(a)alc.es> To: "Suse English list" <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 12:08 PM Subject: [SLE] Problem with ping to router > Hi to everybody! > > I've got a little X-File here. I'm setting up a machine with a SuSE 7.1 to > perform routing and firewall tasks. The problem is that I'm having problems > connecting with one of my routers. I can access to every machine of my > network except the router, and every machine of the network can access the > router, except the Linux server. > > I'm using an Intel EthernetExpress PRO100 network cardin the Linux server; > the router is a 3COM 826 for ADSL access. > > I'm really confused with this, I've never seen some like this before. Any > ideas? > > Thanks in advance. > > José Carlos Cuéllar - jcarlos(a)alc.es > Mecemsa Consultores - I+D > Avda. de Dénia, 88 - E03016 Alicante > Telf. +34 965 26 96 96 > Fax +34 965 26 54 53 > http://www.mecemsa.es > > > -- > 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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Help getting suse 8.1 on inspirion 8200
by Paul Kraus 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I installed suse 8.1 on my laptop over the weekend. Everything went great. However I had a few hang-ups. Must fix --------- Starting with video. Once I installed the Radeon 9000 drivers (following directions on the net) x was beautiful at 1600x1200. However if I switch to console then the screen becomes unreadable. And when it goes through shutdown it also gets all screwy and unreadable. How can I fix this? I can't see having Linux installed if I cant use the text consoles. APM doesn't work at all so I have no way of telling how much battery power I have please tell me this is correctable. Also it found my cdrw drive 6 different times so I have 6 of these drives installed. Can live without but would like to have them fixed -------------------------------------------------- Next was the wireless mini-pci nic. I take it from the web that there is no fix for this if that's true no big deal.. Then was the internal modem from my research this seems to be the same scenario as the wireless nic. Paul Kraus

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which rpms can be used with SuSE
by Bram Mertens 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi I have quite a collection of rpm-files on my hd that I downloaded when I ran RH. I ran the following command in the dir where I keep them: rpm -qp --queryformat "%-25{DISTRIBUTION} %{NAME}\n" * | sort This showed that there are quite a few different "distributions" listed, which distributions are compatible with SuSE 8.1 Pro? Rpm-files that have SuSE as "distribution" will probably be ok, right? Or would older versions be incompatible somehow? How about the others? Is there a way to check? TIA -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <bram-mertens(a)linux.be> Linux User #249103 # # SuSE 8.1 Pro kernel 2.4.19-4GB i686 128MB RAM # # 5:48pm up 13 days, 22:10, 6 users, load average: 2.07, 2.07, 2.07 #

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I/O Bound server?
by James Ogley 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi, One of our internal DB servers is currently showing each CPU as 0% idle in top, but it's still responsive, and the system load is still nice and low. It's been like this for a few hours now, and it's causing us a little concern. We're wondering whether it might be I/O bound, but we're reluctant to install sysstat on it, because of the masses of dependencies that would need to be fulfilled (this after all is a server tucked away in a comms room, so it doesn't have X or anything on it...). Anyone have any suggestions of other tools we could use to determine whether it might be I/O bound or not? Cheers James -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc Work: james.ogley(a)pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Personal: james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk www.rubberturnip.org.uk Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org *********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance Plc. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify our Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************

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DVD+ Writer
by John Murphy 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Have a HP USB DVD200e writer I want to use to make a data backup of my linux system. I've quickly browsed a few programs but they seem to use DVD- disc and I need to write DVD+ disc. Any suggestions? John

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Nothing installed?
by Bruce E. Harris 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I am having a problem with my 8.1 system. YaST2 and rpm both report I have nothing installed on this system, libs, no apps, nothing. SO I cant use YaST to install or upgrade anything. RPM reports deps errors, and I must use --nodeps or install from source. THis all started during my last YaST software install. YaST hung during the final phase, and I left it overnight. I had no choice but shutdown and reboot and YaST and RPM have never been the same since. I have tried to rpm --rebuilddb, no change. Reinstall all the YaST parts using rpm -i --nodeps and rpm -Uvh --nodeps and no inprovement. Without any help, the only option I can see is a new reinstall, and I hate that option. TIA ]-- Best Regards, Bruce "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin

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Black screen, no NVdriver, new kernel?
by Curtis Rey 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Ok, as I feared, I updated the kernel k_athlon as was suggested by Roman D to obtain the need kernel fix. And I suspected that my nvidia drivers would be problematic (shock shock). So, I find that the kernel module/drivers is not being loaded at boot up. It is listed in the modules.conf (device # 195) and if I modprobe -k NVdriver it will load. But the associated "agpgart" that normally loads is not, of course, and I can do a modprobe -k for this and it will load as well. However, both are listed as "unused" and seem disassociated from each other. Also, using sax2 -l -m 0=nvidia or 0=nv I have repeated problems with init of my monitor (Samsung SyncMaster 753DF) which is listed in the XF86 4.3 monitor db (and I have the latest from the supplm dir on the SuSE ftp server). I have repeated problems anytime I even think about changing anything kernel related with the NVidia config, sax2, yast, and generally getting it to work in the slightest. Does any one have any suggestions? I can remove and reinstall, but IIRC someone has posted a specific manner in which to take care of this problem, something about a readme and/or special page in the sbd (I have searched the sbd at length and there are only the generic Nvidia help pages - most of which I can recite from memory). Seems that there were a special/specific way to install/config the nvidia crap that re-established it on a usable basis! (god I'm getting so tired of this, over and over again, every time something changes on the kernel level or similiar with sax and nvidia and loading the damn modules /end rant). TIA. Curtis.

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Rosegarden
by Thomas Widlundh 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi, I'm hoping someone on this list will be able to enlighten me on Rosegarden, the note editor sequencer program. The new version is 4 0.8.5 and there are some versions for SuSE 8.0 and 8.1. It seems that one have to sign up as a member to download it. Well, it doesn't work to me. The suse-rpm-files aren't clickable at all. The tar.gz-file of 2.5 MB downloads as only a couple of kB:s. How is one supposed to download this? Anybody knows? Here is the address to Rosegarden. Here one can find the versions for SuSE. It seems one is (re)directed to a Kde site. I've tried to mail some people there but the mail daemon turned me down. http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/ Regards, Thomas

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Something that _does_ work, finally. Sax2
by Steven T. Hatton 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

For a very long time Sax and Sax2 have not been useful in configuring my system. I've heard others report similar problems with their ViewSonic monitors. For some reason, Sax(2) just wouldn't get along with these G810s. If kept shutting them down. Well, the ViewSonic 810 selection still doesn't work, but the generic 1600x1200 75 hz does work. This is a very good thing for me. Now I can set my system up and know that my hand tweeks are not introducing problems. Just thought I'd share something positive since I've been posing all these problem reports. STH

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How to start a second KDE Session on Ctrl+Alt F8?
by Sandor Laza 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi, I used to have a nice button in SuSE 8.1 KDE, called "Start new session" which used to start a new KDE session on F8, F9 etc... Since I upgraded to KDE 3.1.1 it is gone. There must be something trivial, but I have no idea how to get it back. If anyone is still using KDE 3.0, please tell me what was the command behind! Thanks, Sandor -- Sandor Laza 2261 DZ Leidschendam, Patrijshof 10 The Netherlands slaza(a)xs4all.nl slaza(a)hotmail.com civertan(a)civertan.hu

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So is Linux ready for Multimedia
by Salman Khilji 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Yes I suppose I am going to cause some flame....I guess I apologize for that.... Just getting so frustrated with all this GPL and Linux crap today that I HAVE to say this. I tried all GPL based crap today trying to convert DV video to divX video. None of the Linux tools worked for me. THe only one that did partially was mencoder (part of Mplayer). Nothing else worked including transcode (which requires rocket scientists to work with---and finally it would simply hang trying to do anything). I spent hours and hours with no luck. I also tried the GUI for transcode named dvd::rip which plainly SUCKED and generated a bunch of erros trying to run transcode. In the past I spent hours compiling transcode and mplayer from source and all the other million dependencies it requires. MEncoder has a bug which does not encode the video from the specified # of seconds into the input files. Yes you give it an option like -ss 140, but the output really does not start at 140 seconds.....rather its some random # that I could not figure out. As a result I start guessing a number like 100 seconds, encode 5 second video....then find out its not where I want...then I guess 125....still not right...then guess 155...not right and too far....so guess 145...you get the story. As a result it took hours trying to do something that would have taken minutes on Windows. I got frustrated with it so much that I finally rebooted into Windows ME....downloaded some shareware...and got the task done in minutes! Simply click mouse button to select the beginning .... then click to select the end of the clip..... Press a button and voila!! its done. No compile from source crap.....not resolving dependencies crap. It just works. All the GPL based crap for video processing is in very early stages and not usable. I am waiting for MainActor 5 and see how good that is. I suppose GPL does not compete in terms of quality with commercial based products. Authors of GPL based software start projects with greate enthusiasm....but then they get tired by version 0.3 or 0.4 and stop working on it. Then another person gets the idea....and instead of taking whats present to the next level starts another project from scratch and then by version 0.2 realizes that its a much bigger task than anticipated and stops working on it. As a result we get 10 products that all suck. I would rather see one video processing tool that works. I dont' want 10 that simply are crap compared to the Windows counterparts. A few more days like today will simply have me go to BestBuy and get Windows XP and say good bye to Linux for good. Salman

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Enabling Backstore in Xwindows
by LinuxWorld999 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I have intalled Virtual Computing Network on my Linux and Windows computers. In the follow-up literature on the subject, one suggestion is to enable the "Backstore" option in X windows to improve M$ windows updates in X windows. I have been unable to find any information on how to do this. Can anyone give me any help or pointers? Thank you in advance. LW999.

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Suse 8.0 or Greater PostFix or SendMail which is Better
by R. S. Patil 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Dear Friends, I have a LAN with 10+ W9x Nodes and a Linux Server with suse 8.0 I have a POP mail Account with my ISP. I would Like to establish a Internal Mailing system which will enable my 10+ different users to mail each other as well they should be able to send mail outside. Similarly they should be able to collect mail from the pop mail account of mine which are aimed to a specific user. the outsider will address mail to internal user as follows "Internal User" < myac@mydomain> and the internal user will write reply to as "Internal User" < myac@mydomain> which MTA is suitable for this task Postfix or SendMail ? Our experience with Linux is just 6 months to 1 yr. Thanks Best Regards R. S. Patil

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RE: [SLE] /etc/sysconfig
by M. Edwin 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I'm using 7.3, what do you mean by using /etc/rc.config directory structure. M. Edwin -----Original Message----- From: Togan Muftuoglu [mailto:toganm@dinamizm.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:37 PM To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] /etc/sysconfig * M. Edwin; <edwin(a)nsi.co.id> on 31 Mar, 2003 wrote: >Hi all, > >I read through the document from Togan Muftuoglu and found that the >configuration file for SuSEfirewall2 is on /etc/sysconfig, but after I >install the SuSEfirewall2 and reboot the machine there is no file on >there. Am I should create the file manually? a friend of me using >iptables and he create iptables on sysconfig using "iptables-save > >/etc/sysconfig/iptables", or actually we don't need the file only >setting up the parameter on /etc/rc.config.d/firewall2.rc.config? Which SuSE version are you talking about if less then 8.0 then /etc/sysconfig does not not exist and should use the /etc/rc.config directory structure -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx -- 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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ntpdate killed my Xserver !
by SuSE ASPEC GroundZero 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

ntpdate just killed my Xserver ! everything was back to narmal after that ! Why that ?

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/etc/sysconfig
by M. Edwin 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi all, I read through the document from Togan Muftuoglu and found that the configuration file for SuSEfirewall2 is on /etc/sysconfig, but after I install the SuSEfirewall2 and reboot the machine there is no file on there. Am I should create the file manually? a friend of me using iptables and he create iptables on sysconfig using "iptables-save > /etc/sysconfig/iptables", or actually we don't need the file only setting up the parameter on /etc/rc.config.d/firewall2.rc.config? Can anybody give the answer. TIA M. Edwin

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apt and kde3.1.1
by michael norman 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

TIA Mike

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Record grep
by Jay Vollmer 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi everybody! Does anyone know of an existing command-line utility that will look through a simple database file (with records separated by some ascii character, or series of characters) for a pattern, then print the entire record to the screen when a record containing a match is found? I've written a little utility in C which does this, and I've been thinking about adding some additional features before offering it to the community. I won't bother if I'm reinventing the wheel however, so if anyone knows if such a thing exists already, please let me know. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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Re: [SLE] Downloaded SuSe 8.1 - Now what?
by Nicholas Parsons 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Just download the .iso images from http://www.linuxiso.org They have all the major distributions on there as well as FreeBSD. ~~Nick --- On Sat 03/29, Ben Rosenberg < ben(a)whack.org > wrote: From: Ben Rosenberg [mailto: ben(a)whack.org] To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 18:33:30 -0800 Subject: Re: [SLE] Downloaded SuSe 8.1 - Now what? * Turd Ferguson (turdferguson(a)infowest.com) [030329 18:22]: ->Subba, -> SuSE FTP mirrors are generally used when installing over the Internet ->from a bootable disk. They are not designed to download ISOs from as ->you may have seen with other Linux Distros. I don't believe there is a ->way to make an .iso out of the files you downloaded. -> ->Can anyone else verify, or dismiss this? Nope. Your right. There is an iso image to make a bootable CD so that an FTP install can be preformed. It's pretty much the easiest way other then buying a set of CD's. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see. -- 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 @suse.com _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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LVM Configuration and Resources
by Rodrigo Nascimento 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi List, I need to read a documentation about Logical Volume Manager in SuSE Linux. Someone had a documentation about this? Thanks.... Rodrigo Nascimento Linux always !!!!!!!!!!!!!! --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail O melhor e-mail gratuito da internet: 6MB de espaço, antivírus, acesso POP3, filtro contra spam.

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Any Good C/C++ online references?
by Steven T. Hatton 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I'm not even sure what I have on my hard drive. It seems I've broken the help indexer, so perhaps what I'm seeking is right here, and I just can't get at it. I'm looking for a good online reference for C/C++. I haven't written in these languages for years, and I was never fluent. Does anybody know of a good online reference for these? Are any included with SuSE 8.1? I can't get the C/C++ documentation working for KDevelop 2.1.5 either, so if your answere is there, then please let me know how to get it set up. STH

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RE: [SLE] Record grep
by Nicholas Parsons 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Don't kill yourself with C when you don't need to use it. For the purpose you listed below, a one line perl script could be written. Plus the perl regular expression engine is quite efficient and excellent. ~~Nick --- On Sun 03/30, Jay Vollmer < jvollmer(a)visi.com > wrote: From: Jay Vollmer [mailto: jvollmer(a)visi.com] To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:25:14 -0600 (CST) Subject: [SLE] Record grep Hi everybody! Does anyone know of an existing command-line utility that will look through a simple database file (with records separated by some ascii character, or series of characters) for a pattern, then print the entire record to the screen when a record containing a match is found? I've written a little utility in C which does this, and I've been thinking about adding some additional features before offering it to the community. I won't bother if I'm reinventing the wheel however, so if anyone knows if such a thing exists already, please let me know. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE -- 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 _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Re: [SLE] Slow dial-up
by Bernd Koepsell 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Peter Simanyi wrote: > This helps for me: > http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/cg_slowinternet.html > Thanks. I had to set up the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local file myself, as per the instructions on the site. Is this supposed to be a shell script or a text file? How can I verify that this file is called when starting a dial up? What script would automatically call and execute this file? When I "ping"ed the site, without download, I was getting a time of 269ms. When I downloaded a web page (nothing big) my time went up to 7600ms, until the page was loaded. Are you finding the same? Please take a look below and see if anything rings a bell that I should change. Will be reading through the other site on Monday. Thanks. zentara wrote: >Well you could try to use the setserial commands to change your com port >to 115 Kbps. It should be setup properly for you nowadays, but in the old days >the default com port speed was 9600, or some low value. You could put the >setserial command in boot.local. >Does you /etc/ppp/isp.options file have a line 115200 in it? > Thanks. I changed the port speed via setserial although Baud_base was already 115200. I do not have a boot.local file. Will my changes to the port via setserial not be recognized unless I use the command in boot.local? I also don't have a /etc/ppp/isp.options file. I found a possible problem with a shared IRQ. It looks like my modem/ttyS4 is sharing IRQ 5 with my USB 2.0 controller/ehci-hcd. Take a look at some of the info below: --- from: /usr/bin/procinfo irq 0: 3650116 timer irq 8: 4 rtc irq 1: 114485 keyboard irq 9: 0 acpi irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 10: 748324 EMU10K1 irq 3: 0 usb-uhci, usb-uhci, irq 11: 2197751 usb-ohci, nvidia irq 4: 4 irq 12: 482937 PS/2 Mouse irq 5: 33873 ehci-hcd irq 14: 61833 ide0 irq 6: 2 irq 15: 34731 ide1 from: Setserial /dev/ttyS4, Line 4, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x1000, IRQ: 5 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000 Flags: spd_vhi skip_test --- I changed speed from "spd_normal" to "spd_vhi". The rest is stock install. Anything ring a bell? Further suggestions? TIA Bernd

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YOU
by Frits Wüthrich 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I have decided I don't understand the YAST2 Online Update on my SuSE8.1 Prof system. I checked to see if there were any updates, and there was an update for a compression library of something in the 20k. I unchecked the KDE update, and it downloaded over my 26k modem connection is just something like 10 seconds. After installing I started YOU again, and now it is downloading the KDE update, (3.0.4-3 IIRC) which was indicated to have a size of 0 kB. It is already dowloading for hours now. In the YOU window, there is a window on the top right indicating the available and installed files corresponding to the selected package in the top left window, is that the real size of what is going to be downloaded? That doesn't seem to be correct either. This is the latest update, on Thursday there were no updates available for me, so I was very current with my system. I didn't get KDE3.1.1, I only got whatever YOU told me was available. The annoying thing is that during the download there is no statusinformation what so ever, I would expect to see the total download, the alreday downloaded size, the download speed, the remaining download time. -- Frits Wüthrich Pentaxianado

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Remote installation documentation...
by Thomas Jones 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Has anyone come across any remote installation doc's for SuSE. More preci= sely version 8.1. Looks like a very intriguing future project. I am looking at various docs and noticed the use of the following: ssh -X Xvnc Unfortunately, the SDB doesn't have either of these keywords listed. ;( Thanks for your help. - -- Thomas Jones Linux-Howtos Network Administrator OpenGPG Fingerprint = F13B C0A9 69C1 0C0C 6FB9 C4FA 413D A4A2 6A3D F6E9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+h5VIQT2komo99ukRAtEmAKCGOxCkVa58ZBotQxahAobts8MkGQCeOu6V GEO8hfvdAPmojbFnHJNEXw4= =Jj1d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [SLE] Linux (Bash?) Equivalent of OS/2 "Detach" and "Start"
by John LeMay 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

> SIGSTOP does /not/ put a > process into background, it does what it says; it stops a process, > i.e. the process doesn't use CPU time, while a process in the > background (by '&' or 'bg') is of course still running. Seems like this could be summarized a bit. Let me have a go at it here. From my console I can start an application by typing it's command and it will start. This is a given obviously but needs to be pointed out since everything else is just a modification of sorts of the command. For example, if I wish to start mozilla, I type: jlemay@gambit$>mozilla ..and mozilla starts up (so long as X is running!). If I want to start another program from that same console, I need to stop mozilla first - at least temporarily - by giving the console window focus again and doing a "CTRL-z". I now have a prompt back, but Mozilla seems frozen. It is - kind of. It's actually stopped. I can bring it back by issuing the "bg" command. When I do, Mozilla immediately becomes responsive again since it is no longer stopped. I could actually have started Mozilla (or any other application) and immediately put it in the background by appending " &" at the end of the command like so: jlemay@gambit$>mozilla & Now mozilla starts and I'm presented with my prompt again. Completed three steps with one command this time. The "fg" command would bring Mozilla back to the foreground relative to the console and my prompt would be inaccessible again. I think that explains backgrounding processes pretty well. I suppose "nohup" might also be helpful, but since I've never used it I'll leave that up to someone else to discuss if an explanation is needed. -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions

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Linux (Bash?) Equivalent of OS/2 "Detach" and "Start" Commands?
by L. Mark Stone 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

I'm looking for the bash equivalents of two OS/2 command line features for running programs, "Start" and "Detach". I am probably missing the obvious, but I don't see the equivalent in the bash man pages. Under OS/2, running "start program.exe" from a command prompt launched the application and freed up the command prompt for additional input immediately. Like in Linux, if you just ran "program.exe" at a command prompt, you no longer had use of the command prompt until you exited the program. Similarly, "detach program.exe" also launched the program and gave the user immediate access to the command prompt. But "detach" was used only for those programs that did not require any keyboard or mouse input, nor any screen output, to run. Under Windows, this would be called "Run as a Service." Are there Linux equivalents to these commands? TIA, Mark -- ___________________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone http://www.lmstone.com

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Problems with mod_php4/8.1
by The Wizard 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

All - Atfer a recent YOU update, mod_php4 stopped working, causing apache not to start. I saw in the archives some different proposed solutions to this problem; none of them worked. I have tried replacing the libmm version with - the source version 1.1.3 - the source version 1.3.0 - the rpm version 1.2.1-38 from SuSE still no joy. The error message I get is "PHP Fatal error: Unable to start session mm module in Unknown on line 0" I am running SuSE 8.1, with - kernel 2.4.19-274 - mod_php4-4.2.2-168 - mod_php4-core-4.2.2-168 - apache-1.3.26-57 For the time being I disabled mod_php in the apache config, but php gets the same error from the command line, so I don't think it's an apache problem. Anyone got solutions other than replacing libmm? Mark Almeida mailto:markea@earthlink.net

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Time Change
by Richard Ibbotson 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

Hi Since we've just changed our clocks over here I thought I'd better change my system time on my workstation so that my e-mail shows the +0100 value. Just now it shows +0000. I've tried to play around with hwclock and YaST2 to no effect. That was since last night. I just can't get either YaST2 or hwclock to have any effect on my system time. I can change it backwards and forwards but that's all. Still can't get the +0100 value to show up in my e-mail application. Also tried the KDE control centre. Can anyone help with this ? SuSE 8.1. -- Richard

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framebuffer
by tony s 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

I just built a new kernel without the framebuffer option. My system does not boot thru this kernel. It gets stuck at "Loading Linux..." or something like that. What is the problem ? If I have the framebuffer option on, there is no problem. -T _________________________________________________________________ Visit Malaysia. Win a free trip! http://server1.msn.co.in/msnspecials/malaysiatourism/index.asp Have an exotic holiday

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Downloaded SuSe 8.1 - Now what?
by Subba Rao 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

Hi, I have downloaded SuSe 8.1 from a FTP mirror. I have recursively downloaded all the directories under /suse/i386/8.1/. Now, how do I make a bootable CD and install SuSe 8.1? Thank you in advance for any help. -- Subba Rao subba9(a)cablespeed.com

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RE: [SLE] Downloaded SuSe 8.1 - Now what?
by Nicholas Parsons 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

Did you download the .iso files? Also what Operating System are you currently using? If you are currently using the dreaded windows then there is a program called EasyCD Creator which will create bootable CD's for your SuSE .iso images. ~~Nick --- On Sat 03/29, Subba Rao < subba9(a)cablespeed.com > wrote: From: Subba Rao [mailto: subba9(a)cablespeed.com] To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 20:54:21 -0500 Subject: [SLE] Downloaded SuSe 8.1 - Now what? Hi, I have downloaded SuSe 8.1 from a FTP mirror. I have recursively downloaded all the directories under /suse/i386/8.1/. Now, how do I make a bootable CD and install SuSe 8.1? Thank you in advance for any help. -- Subba Rao subba9(a)cablespeed.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 _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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March 27/29 KDE 3.1.1 bits are broken
by Steven T. Hatton 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

I am convinced there is a serious problem with the bits from SuSE's RPMs of KDE 3.1.1. I'm not sure where the problem is, but I did mv /opt/kde3 /opt/kde3-suse; ln -s /opt/kde3-cvs /opt/kde3 to put my own build in, and things work which were not working with the SuSE build. I filed a bug report, but I haven't added this to it. I'm almost certain the problem is int the KDE bits and not the QT bits. If I could identify the RPM, I might be able to tweek something to make it work. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, try using kdevelop with the latest KDE 3.1.1. STH

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RE: [SLE] YOU
by Andrew Kirilenko 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

Hello! > The annoying thing is that during the download there is no > statusinformation what so ever, I would expect to see the total download, > the alreday downloaded size, the download speed, the remaining download > time. Yes, that's the problem of the online uodate in SuSE... There is no any status info etc. I've already posted this into SuSE wishlist. The best way is to start update at the night. Best regards, Andrew.

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CD copying
by DB Troll 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

Could someone please tell me how to copy cd,s. I am using 8.0 and kde3.1, I also have x-cdroast. When I check these they both have the cd-rw as reader and writer. I cannot seem to configure either to use the cd-rom as reader so that I can burn on the fly. TIA David

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lockups under 8.0 with the newest .18 kernel pkg.
by Ben Rosenberg 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

Could someone clarify for me if the latest kernel release for 8.0 is giving any issues? I've had 2 deadlock ups since I installed it. It's behaving a lot like 8.1 did when it had an AMD southbridge bug. Did something creep into the 2.4.18 release for 8.0 that behaves the same? This is why I didn't install 8.1 after it was said to have been fixed.. I didn't want to take the chance. :/ -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.

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2 network cards
by LinuxWorld999 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

On a toshiba laptop, two pcmcia network cards have been installed for use with SuSE 8.1. However, using ifconfig, only one card is listed as eth1. The other card eth0 is not listed. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 3000-X11. SuSE specifically recognises eth1 correctly as a Cardbus Lan card but not the other 3com card which is a combined lan and modem card. However, if the combined card is the only card, SuSE recognises the card and the dhcp server assigs it an ip address. When the second lan only card is inserted, only this card is recognised and the combined one is not assigned an ip address. When running WinXP on the same machine, both cards are recognised and can be bridged. Can anyone give ant guidance on how to configure two netword cards in SuSE 8.1? Thank you for any assistance. LW999.

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flex and yacc
by Hans-Georg Lerdo 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

Hi guys! The whole hing works on the Solaris system I work on. But at home on suse I have trouble compiling flex and yacc results... He're the details: I have two files: test.lex and test.y. Both I run through flex and yacc: yacc -d test.y flex test.lex On the Solaris system this one "cc y.tab.c -ly -ll -o run" produces a executable file that works correctly (since it only checks the syntax of the source code). Now I want/need to work at home on the grammar with memphis but want to get to the same result with the un-mod files first. And there it is: the compilation of the c files doesn't work: "cc y.tab.c -ll -ly -o run" is bad... (same with gcc and g++ and...) The "ll" lib on my suse system is called "lfl" as I was told on the German list, but "ly" is still the problem... If I leave it out I get: hg@Thinkpad:~/Documents/University/COP 6726/project/current> gcc y.tab.c -lfl -o run lex.yy.o: In function `yylex': lex.yy.o(.text+0x46e): undefined reference to `yyerror' /tmp/ccH1E2Uo.o: In function `yyparse': /tmp/ccH1E2Uo.o(.text+0x189): undefined reference to `yyerror' /tmp/ccH1E2Uo.o(.text+0x3d1): undefined reference to `yyerror' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status hg@Thinkpad:~/Documents/University/COP 6726/project/current> If I put it in I get: hg@Thinkpad:~/Documents/University/COP 6726/project/current> gcc y.tab.c -lfl -ly -o run /usr/i486-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -ly collect2: ld returned 1 exit status hg@Thinkpad:~/Documents/University/COP 6726/project/current> Anybody have any ideas/solutions??? Thanks in advance! L8r HG

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Re: [SLE] kernel sources for 2.4.20
by Michael Sacco 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

One problem that I had was that acpi was there, but the modules "battery" and "ac" weren't getting loaded. If I manually loaded them, then acpi would work. -----Original Message----- From: "Turd Ferguson"<turdferguson(a)infowest.com> Sent: 3/29/03 1:19:17 AM To: "suse-linux-e(a)suse.com"<suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Subject: Re: [SLE] kernel sources for 2.4.20 Is it possible to build a kernel off of an existing installation? For instance, adding ACPI support to a laptop that didn't get it for whatever reason? Please advise, </Jared> -- 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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Re: [SLE] Video Card Support
by Roy D.Mercer 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

> > From: David Johanson <dcjohan(a)patriot.net> > Date: 2003/03/29 Sat PM 08:37:17 EST > To: SuSE Support Group <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> > Subject: [SLE] Video Card Support > > I ordered the 8.2 pro release yesterday and am curious as to specific video card > support. In looking at the SuSE hardware support database, I noted almost 7 full > pages of cards from ATI, but what I couldn't find listed specifically was the TV > card variety from ATI. Has anyone used an ATI video card successfully under 8.1? Yes. I have an ATI 7000 PCI video card. Suse is the only Linux distro out of the 6 different Linux distro's I have loaded in the past 6 months that would recognize and work without a ton of configuration problems so far. Roy

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Audigy support
by J. Scott Thayer, M.D. 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

Can anyone comment on the degree of support for Audigy soundcards un 8.0+? Scott

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Video Card Support
by David Johanson 30 Mar '03

30 Mar '03

I ordered the 8.2 pro release yesterday and am curious as to specific video card support. In looking at the SuSE hardware support database, I noted almost 7 full pages of cards from ATI, but what I couldn't find listed specifically was the TV card variety from ATI. Has anyone used an ATI video card successfully under 8.1? dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe

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