March 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

xfree86 4.3
by Tom Wesley 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

hi all has anyone tried installing the 4.3 rpm's from the suse ftp? Any problems with the install? I'm downloading them now, just wondered if anyone had killed much with them Thanks, tom

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Recommended Music organizer for KDE?
by Peter B Van Campen 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Dear Lists, This PC has a large and growing collection of MP3s; they are getting to be a pain to manage. I use a SLIMP3 ethernet connected stereo component player so I don't really need a player. The SLIMP3 server app has no editing functions :o( There is a cool windows app that displays ID3 tag info in a tool-tip 'bubble' when the cursor rests on the file. It also adds a tab in the Windows properties that allows editing of that files ID3 tag. If there something like this for X it would be perfect. It is called "MP3-info Shell Extention" V3.3.17. A more database like app would also be welcome. Please share your experiances! Thanks . ......... PeterB p.s. besides encoding my own CDs I am a paying customer of EMUSIC http://emusic.com I have found lots of great music there; reasonable too. -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 --

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USB Card Recommendations
by Stuart Powell 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Hello, everyone. I am planning to add a USB card to my old IBM PC Server 704 in order to hook up a new printer to it. Ideally, I would like a card with 4 or more ports instead of just two. Does anyone have any suggestions for cards available in the US that will work with SuSE 8.1 Pro ? I have been looking at Belkin, Adaptec, SIIG, both USB1.1 and USB2. None of them seem to explicitly say "Works with Linux", and I'd rather buy one that works first time, instead of trying a few that don't and finally finding a good one. I'm also mulling over the combo cards with USB2 and Firewire, even though I don't have any USB2 or firewire devices right now. Again, it comes down to a compatibility issue. If the cards will work fine, it might be worth a few extra dollars now just in case I do get any of these faster devices in the future. I checked the linux-usb site, and they seemed to infer that all OHCI/UHCI (USB1.1) and EHCI (USB2) drivers are in kernels 2.4.19 and above, although the USB2 driver is still marked experimental. So, do any of you have great success stories, or tales of woe, with any particular products that would fit the bill ? Thanks, Stuart.

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Netscape and Mozilla printing without ending. I shame on my collegues and boss.
by Prabu Subroto 03 Mar '03

03 Mar '03

Dear my friends.... At the computer of our secretary is happening a ridiculous thing. I shame on them because I always promote/recommend to use linux (SuSE Linux 8.1). If she prints a page from the internet with Mozilla and Netscape than the printer prints not what on the Mozilla or Netscape's display but only machine code and runs never end. But if she prints from Star Office, than it prints properly. I don't know exactly when the problem started. May be since I update her SuSE Linux (i'm not sure). If she prints with konqueror than it prints properly. Help me, before I shame on everybody else at my office and before the secretary of my boss cries on my boss to push me change the operating system to "Mickey-Soft Windoof" (MS Windows). I reinstalled the netscape but it also didn't succeeded. I tried to uninstall with "rpm -u netscape" or "rpm -e netscape" but it didn't work. Thank you very much in advance. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/

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How to tell glibc version?
by Carson, Chuck 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

It used to be you can determine the versiob of glibc using 'ls -l /lib/libc.so.6' on SuSE. This only yields the following with SuSE Office Desktop: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1312483 Nov 14 10:30 /lib/libc.so.6 Also, I have a few applications that break under 8.1 with some libc errors. Is sometrhing amiss with glibc on SuSE Office Desktop? Thanks, CC ---------- This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.

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Access data on freebsd partition
by Fabian Dost 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

Hi. I wonder how I can access the data of a freebsd partition. The partition type seems to be "165" but this doesn't tell me much. Would be great if somebody knows how it works. Thanks, Fabian

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Problem updating with apt
by John LeMay 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

So, following some advice posted here on the list a while back, I did a "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" last night before I went off to bed. When I checked out the progress this am, apt-get complained that is was "leaving back" all of the installed kde 3.0.x packages, and rpm had failed on trying to install the kde 3.1 packages that apt-get had downloaded. Am I missing something? Why were the 3.0.x packages "left back"? I assume this syntax (while grammatically incorrect) is trying to say that it is not going to upgrade the kde packages. If so, then when is apt grabbing those packages and causing rpm to fail trying to install them? Finally, why is rpm failing to upgrade those packages (autorun with -Uvh options) indicating package conflicts between the kde 3.1 and kde 3.0.x packages? -- 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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Audio CD burning
by Thomas Widlundh 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

Hi, I managed to create an audio CD with x-cd-roast once. The second time, and further on, the roast created a CD alright, fixated it it in the end, but.... It seems to be something missing on the CD. Devices are not considering it as an audio CD. In the roast I can read the contents of the CD, though. The audio tracks seems to be there alright. But the CD is unplayable. KOnCD doesn't work at all. There are errors and there are missing files or path, i.e. cdrdao. This one comes from YaST for SuSE 8.0 - the original. X-cd-roast comes from this too. Ver 98 something. Now I've created excellent wav-files with the wonderful program Audacity, I can listen to them by different programs in SuSE like Konquerer, Xmms, and so on, but I cannot burn the to an audio CD! Of course I start xcdroast as root, there no other way what I know of for now. What can poosibly be wrong? Regards, Thomas

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RE: [SLE] Compaq 1850r
by Stuart Powell 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

Hello, Kirk. http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_noapic.html On my IBM 704 server, the 8.1 Pro installation worked great, but post-install the RAID cards simply wouldn't work. APIC was switched off during installation, but enabled for the regular boot up. Once I added the line to disable it, the RAID cards started working immediately. I found that "noapic" worked for me, whereas "disableapic" made no difference. Did you do the system erase before trying to install SuSE ? The BIOS has a field for what OS is going to be installed, and it makes slight differences. We had a Proliant 2500 that would refuse to have W2K Server installed if the BIOS was set up for W2K, but would work perfectly as soon as we switched it to make it think we were putting NT on it. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: Kirk Moore @ Speakeasy [mailto:mouserkm@speakeasy.net] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 13:48 To: stuart(a)yorkshirepudding.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Compaq 1850r Its hanging on the Network card... I have been told this is a common problem. I do have the latest P07, and have SmartServ 5.50 The system is coming from a Windows 2000 Adv Srv setup, and has worked flawlessly.... question: How do you disable the APIC? <snip>

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Fwd: Don't like Don't read
by Peter B Van Campen 02 Mar '03

02 Mar '03

Forwarded with out comment ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Don't like Don't read Date: 02 Mar 2003 09:07:49 +0100 From: henjay <henjay(a)xs4all.nl> To: peterb924(a)Ameritech.Net Peter, You are free do delete or read any message posted to the news group. If you do not find the subject interesting delete it. Unnecessary commenting is spamming. DicK Head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------------------------------- -- -- Proud to be a SuSE Linux User since 5.2 --

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