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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