April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

balsa refuses to launch acrobat or any other program
by Carlos E. R. 06 May '03

06 May '03

I use Suse 8.1. I had to recompile the packaged balsa, because it is unable to send email. But my compiled version is unable to launch any application, like acrobat or xpdf to see an attached file.pdf on an email, it freezes. This behavior happens in both balsa-1.4.2 and 2.0.6 (the later is for gtk2). I don't remember if it happened with the suse packaged version, 1.2.4. Any idea why this could be? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson

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A software for Entity relationship of a relational database design.
by Prabu Subroto 05 May '03

05 May '03

Dear my friends... Is there an open source software for designing or at least to scetch the entity relationship of a relational database design ? Thanks.... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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VMware 4.0 incredibly slow - SuSE 8.2!!
by Radu Voicu 05 May '03

05 May '03

Hi there! On SUSE 8.2, vmware-config.pl runs smoothly, vmware launches perfectly, but the installation of a win98 system, for instance, lasts about 12 hours... any hints? P.S. After vmware-tools installation, the guest system is also slow P.P.S. Also the "guest vmware bios) is incredibly slow to navigate... My system: celeron 1Ghz, 256Mb ram, mainboard MSI6368 Regards, Radu

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Mozilla steals Firebird name [OT]
by Paul Reeves 05 May '03

05 May '03

I apologise if this is slightly off-topic, but it is of relevance to the open source community. Mozilla have decided to steal the Firebird name for their Phoenix browser. Firebird is an open source software project that started in August 2000. It develops a cross-platform database engine and associated tools. It is available for a wide number of platforms, including Linux. Many of Firebird's Linux developers use SuSE by preference. The Mozilla project's Phoenix browser has run into legal problems with the bios owners of the same name. So they had the bright idea to change the name to Firebird. Their legal advice is that it is OK and that no-one could confuse a database engine with a web-browser. The opinion of the Firebird project is rather different. We feel very strongly that confusion will exist between two major Open source software projects using the same name. The Mozilla project did not even have the courtesy to consult us before they took this action. There are two important issues here. One is moral. It doesn't seem right to me that one open source project should steal the name of another. The other issue is precedent. If they can do this, what is to stop a project being created to develop (for sake of argument) the Konqueror word-processor? Or the Galeon database engine or <pick your favourite project name>. The Firebird project's initial response to this is to encourage anyone who feels this is wrong to contact the Mozilla project leaders. They can be contacted here: mailto:drivers@mozilla.org You can see the original announcement from Mozilla here: http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3075 And the Firebird Project's main web-site is here: http://www.firebirdsql.org/ Our official response is not up there yet, but will be soon. Paul -- Paul Reeves member of the Firebird Project email written (ironically) from Mozilla

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acpi
by dep 04 May '03

04 May '03

folks, it seems as if a trend is emerging here. for some reason -- whether it is hardware that is not built to the appropriate level of a still-evolving standard, or linux's application of that standard, which was cooked up by microsoft, intel, and toshiba -- acpi as shipped with suse 8.2 and enabled by default is breaking a lot of stuff. for a start, many if not all gigabyte motherboards are unable to use network cards or the onboard networking. this seems true of the mbs of some other makers as well. as with early pcmcia or early usb (or, sadly, current serial), something is badly broken. the support database does not even hint that this is a problem -- even if you do a search on acpi. (the three items listed all deal with power management or vmware.) nor would anybody -- i do not know what led linuxworld999 to it -- guess that acpi is the culprit. could, maybe, someone from suse who is on this list forward a note to the guys who handle the database, such that an appropriate entry be made? this thing is a real showstopper unless, as has been suggested, one have another distribution/version available or another machine. and, while you're at it, a little something about disabling hardware detection if you have a serial mouse (didn't, for instance, replace your perfectly functional $100 kensington trackball)? the database is silent on this issue as well. it would turn a lot of sour stories -- i'll gladly quote the ones sent to me privately -- to happy ones if people were able to find out about this stuff. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.

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SuSE's support is a worthless piece of ...
by Avi Schwartz 04 May '03

04 May '03

My laptop's built-in ethernet card is not working under 8.2 Pro. It used to work with previous versions of SuSE and still works under different Linux distributions (Gentoo, for example). So I fill a support request and what answer do I get: "Please consider that our free installation support has a defined scope. Unfortunately, configuration of network cards is not covered within this scope, so please understand that we cannot answer the support requests you have submitted." So what now, I am just SOL? Thanks you SuSE, I guess in the future I will take my business somewhere else. -- Avi Schwartz avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com

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Re: [SLE] large programs
by Derek Fountain 04 May '03

04 May '03

> > 4GB per process, split 3:1 between user space and kernel space. > > Any idea where I can find more info on this ? Well the physical memory management is a kernel controlled thing, so you need to look at kernel resources like the kernel list or kernel traffic pages. > I do remember reading a while ago that glibc limited it to 2G > (or at least that I cannot malloc more than 2G in one go ). malloc() takes a size_t as its parameter, and size_t is an unsigned int, so the limit should be 4GB on a 32 bit platform. The user space limit is 3GB, so it should be able to malloc that. I have no way of testing it and I don't have the glibc source on this machine. If you have suitable hardware, what happens when you try? -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003

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VMware4.0
by eja＠urbakken.dk 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hi. I have just installed the SuSE 8.2, and was trying to set up the VMware 4.0 version, but I get the following message: "eurit:~ # vmware-config.pl Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel. None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes] yes Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] The directory of kernel headers (version 2.4.20- 4GB) does not match your running kernel (version 2.4.20-4GB-athlon). Even if the module were to compile successfully, it would not load into the running kernel. What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]" How can I fix that situation ??. Med venlig hilsen Erik Jakobsen Urbakken 8 Oeland D.K. 9460 Brovst Denmark eja(a)urbakken.dk

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moving from Netscape to Mozilla
by Donn aka N5XWB 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hey Group: I am trying to move from Netscape to Mozilla. My area of concern is howto move email addresses to mozilla from netscape due to Netscape encrypting of email addresses. Bookmarks are a html flat text so easy to deal with -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org Info: http://www.knoppix.net

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anyone know of a free mswindows xwindows server
by Joe Baptista 02 May '03

02 May '03

I need to port xwindows programs to a mswindows box. And I already know about vncserver - that won't work for our setup. thanks joe baptista Joe Baptista - only at www.baptista.god "Don't believe anything! We will chase the rascals back to London!" ... Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf former Iraqi Information Minister

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