April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Wine.
by Fred A. Miller 02 May '03

02 May '03

Recently, I helped a buddy of mine install 8.2 on a dual AMD Tyan box in Texas......spent a lot of time from here on the phone with him. He prefers Agent for mail, and I have to admit its a GREAT app. He used the below site as reference to setup Agent under Wine ON HIS OWN (NOT knowing Linux at all!). I'm posting it here as there may be someone else who could use this info. Fred http://www.oliversampson.com/computer/#Agent -- "DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -Paul Rickard

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Kazaa Lite on SuSE
by Radu Voicu 02 May '03

02 May '03

Hi there! Did anyone installed Kazaa Lite on SuSE Linux? If yes, could you give me some guidelines / config files? Regards, Radu

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Re: [SLE] acpi
by Avi Schwartz 02 May '03

02 May '03

The problem with the admin guide is that (1) acpi vs. apm are described only for laptops while the problems with having acpi turned on are with laptops/desktops/servers and (2) it doesn't tell you that if your NIC doesn't work, try to turn acpi off. Also, on page 239, I read the following: "The Linux implementation of ACPI is still incomplete and therefore only partially usable. A substantial improvement in this matter can only be expected for the 2.6 kernel." If that's the case, I have to wonder why did SuSE enable acpi by default. Avi On Wednesday, Apr 30, 2003, at 12:01 America/Chicago, Marshall Heartley wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 12:49, Avi Schwartz wrote: >> Maybe it is mentioned in the manual, I don't know, I am still trying >> to find it. Lets try the index: acpi - nope. How about the >> troubleshooting section? Nope. Network Integration? Ditto. How >> about >> the installation section? I don't see anything about acpi. Please >> point me to the correct page number. >> > > Found the reference in the admin guide that can be accessed from the > Susehelp program. It is under Configuring and using laptop computers. > >> My motherboard manual? No mention of ACPI. BIOS settings? Nope. And >> what about all the people that buy a prebuilt machine which comes with >> no motherboard manual? > > Mine ststed the acpi breifly > >> Not everyone has the latest computer with acpi support and not >> everyone >> knows what the f?I&^$ is acpi. > > This is true. -- Avi Schwartz avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com

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HD activity/speed
by Gert Caers 02 May '03

02 May '03

Dear list, when i was ripping my cds lately i noticed the following: when i rip cds to the /usr partition on my desktop system i notice considerably longer write times + more frequent disc access to my HD then when ripping to /tmp info: /usr is 56GB and resides on IBM 60 GB disc 7200 rpm info :/tmp is 4GB and resides on Seagate 27GB disc 7200 rpm both are reiserfs my Q: has this anything to do with the block size, the hardware or am i imagining that the one needs more disc access then the other? Gert Caers

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Re: [SLE] CD burning opinions wanted
by Mark Gray 02 May '03

02 May '03

Trey <urlik.skarsol(a)gte.net> writes: > Hey folks. > Under 8.1 it had difficulties with my burner /dev/sr0 > I was able to get K3b running well by installing from source. > I did the same thing with my new install of 8.2 > It still only seems to work as root?? > > So I was curious if k3b is considered the best linux burning prog? > I figured it was, as Suse seems to push it as the default. > > What program do ya'll use? > Are there good alternatives that may give me less headaches? The best burner by far is cdbakeoven -- it really has a great user interface. But you are going to have to "compromise" your security no matter what. Just add yourself to the disk group, and change the permissions and ownership of cdrecord and most every burner program that relies on cdrecord for the low level dirty work will work: markgray@mmx:~> l /usr/bin/cdrecord -rws--x--- 1 root disk 281324 2002-09-09 15:28 /usr/bin/cdrecord Note that you have to log out and log back in before the group change can take effect. If you are using either the /etc/permissions.paranoid or /etc/permissions.secure security setting you will have to change the entry for cdrecord in these files also -- otherwise SuSEconfig will change the permissions back again every time it is run. See man chown, man chmod.

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tar question
by Dennis Tuchler 02 May '03

02 May '03

I understand there is an application that will break up large tarballs into small pieces for transfer to diskette, and then rejoin them into a single, unpackable tarball. Where can I find such an application? Thanks -- Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler(a)earthlink.net>

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Custom case badges
by David Krider 02 May '03

02 May '03

I want to make some custom case badges with a SuSE logo. However, I need to start out with some high-quality stock. I can't find anything like what I want on my system or online. Does anyone know where I can find some graphics to -- at least -- start with? Understand that when you order custom case badges, they need to be high-resolution, per the printer's instructions. I need a 600 dpi image, at 1" square. So I can't use little icons or such. Best case I can see right now is scanning the top, right corner of the manual and doing some serious work to it. Anyone know how to "bubblize" an image in gimp (or know where to point me) to make it look like the default SuSE KDE menu button? Thanks, dk -- David "Dunkirk" Krider, http://www.davidkrider.com Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being." Linux: Will you use the power for good... or for AWESOME?

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RE: [SLE] [bit OT] NVIDIA fan problem
by Jonathan Cowherd 02 May '03

02 May '03

I had a fan go out on my Geforce2 mx which was causing my video to do bizarre things. I replaced the fan on it with a bitter one and used some thermal glue and I haven't had problems with it since. My replacement fan doesn't use the fan power on the chip, it uses power from the MotherBoard like CPU fans. Jonathan Paul Cowherd Linux and Java Administrator Genscape, Inc. Email: jonathan.cowherd(a)genscape.com Office: (502) 583-3730 Mobile: (502) 314-0444 > -----Original Message----- > From: Rohit [mailto:rohits@mahindrabt.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 2:08 AM > To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com > Subject: Re: [SLE] [bit OT] NVIDIA fan problem > > > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, O'Smith wrote: > > Have you tried NVidia's site to either download a manual or > view the > > specs for that card? > > Yes. I tried all the help from them but realised that they > did not specify about the fan. > > I finally took my card out and looked at it. The fan was HOT > after a night's uptime on my machine. Thank God the chip has > not blown yet. Tried rotating the fan manually, it was really > hard to do it. I am sure a motor could not have moved the fan > by itself. Surprisingly the motor is on even now. Just that > it fails to move the fan. > > I am looking for a replacement. I think that I have been > lucky so far, not having pushed that card too much without > the fan. Thanks for the inputs, all. > > Rohit > > ********************************************************* > Disclaimer > > This message (including any attachments) contains > confidential information intended for a specific > individual and purpose, and is protected by law. > If you are not the intended recipient, you should > delete this message and are hereby notified that > any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this > message, or the taking of any action based on it, > is strictly prohibited. > > ********************************************************* > Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.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

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make modules_install kills sound?
by theodore.schulze＠us.army.mil 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hello, Last Friday I compiled a new kernel to add framebuffer support on my SuSE 8.0 system. I have been running vmlinuz-2.4.18-4GB. I did a "make bzImage modules modules_install" but before installing the new kernel, I had to shutdown the machine so my computer room could be used as a guest room. When I rebooted on Sunday, sound would not start up, and I get the error message "could not find snd-sb16". (I have a Creative Labs SoundBlaster16 card installed.) I tried to fix this by running alsaconf, but it too complains that it can't find snd-sb16. Yast2 also would not configure sound, giving me an error message indicating that the module was not found or the IRQ was incorrectly set. Using find, I tried searching for snd-sb16.*, but it is not found. A reinstall of all things alsa also did not work. Can someone offer me a clue as to how to get sound working again on my box? Thanks, Sean Theo. Sean Schulze theodore.schulze(a)us.army.mil

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Cable Modem + DHCP + SuSE 8.0
by Fabio Sena 01 May '03

01 May '03

Gentlemen, I am trying to make with that my SuSE Linux uses a connection that comes of my Cable modem, using dhcp in mine eth0, when I initiate rcnetworks it I inform the following one to me : eth0 ...... no IP address yet.....backgrounding What I need to make besides informing that eth0 goes to use DHCP, needs to edit some script or some archive of configuration? []'s Fabio Sena

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