May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[OT] SuSE's not afraid of the tiny little wolf cub.
by Ben Rosenberg 05 May '03

05 May '03

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000048630,20274208,00.htm --snip-- SuSE: SCO poses no legal threat By Stephen Shankland, Special to ZDNet 05 May 2003 An agreement with SCO Group protects Linux seller SuSE from legal action stemming from SCO's accusation that Unix software was copied into Linux, SuSE said. "We have a joint development agreement with them, which includes appropriate cross-licensing arrangements," said SuSE spokesman Joe Eckert on Friday. "Our lawyers feel that covers us from any actions that SCO may take." --snip-- Just thought you all might like to read this. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.

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stand-alone keypad/display devices
by Tom Emerson 05 May '03

05 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Are there any devices available similar to "credit card swipe readers" that have a keypad and display and can easily interface with a linux-based computer? This goes along with my label/register printer question -- basically, I want to put a computer that controls access to a network into an existing store, so I need a way for store employees to easily print authorization codes [and/or activate codes] without needing a full-sized keyboard, screen, and printer taking up counter space. - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+tdUEV/YHUqq2SwsRAjILAJ91XhUwJN/KAvbZoR6ITgzZ130m8wCfQqWE n9IVJI7drDg3v5jseqtviuk= =g7Ol -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Printer question: label printer used as register/tape printer
by Tom Emerson 05 May '03

05 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Can it be done? I was looking at the brother and seiko label printers today - -- I have a need for printing "sideways" in comparison to how it appears these printers are set up, i.e., more like a cash register or printing calculator "tape". Furthermore, can these use plain paper rolls (that is, without actual sticky-labels)? Basically, I want to print a one-time-use access code, so I don't need anything larger than say a business card [in fact, I'm planning on pre-printing some codes on business cards, however "down the road" I'd like to print a code on-demand] or would a traditional "register printer" be more appropriate [which raises the questions: where can I get one, and will it be linux-compatible?] - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+tdP6V/YHUqq2SwsRAqvKAKCzyH+rOWI/W74Hnh3raoTe3SALEwCfSx3W p5pxqDYdYwVbxytwXtlfVWM= =/dZ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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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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RE: eth0 issue after wake up
by Martin 04 May '03

04 May '03

As we have nice and long acpi discussion here may be same of the experts would care to try to help me out .... I'm not using acpi as it just didn't work even my IBM T30 works with acpi just fine on win2k so I'm using apm. Does it work? Honestly i don't know as first I didn't have apmd running and any time I suspend the laptop it worked. The only issues I had with that is 1.) screen didn't get locked 2.) eth0 got the same IP as before, which is annoying as I suspend it mostly when I need to go to another place and get there a new IP via dhcp. I realized that apmd should be running so using YaST I put it to init level 2,3,5, modified /etc/sysconfig/powermanagement to bring eth0 down/up upon suspend/resume thinking this is my solution. Well, it just DOESNT work. I even try to remove the module, again modifying powermanagement file but still nothing. My workaround is to run a script which does ifdown eth0, ifdown eth1, ifup eth0 ifup eth1. The has to be a bit of a delay between bringing up eth0 & eth1 as otherwise default gateway won't get installed properly. I don't have any workaround as of yet to lock the screen after suspend. I believe this all should be done by apmd but obviously it's just doesnt work as intended. Anybody has any idea what's wrong??? Hope, this is NOT hw ... Any idea would be appreciated. Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com

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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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Pan for Suse?
by Dennis Tuchler 04 May '03

04 May '03

I installed SuSE 8.2 with the Gnome desktop as well as KDE's desktop. Pan is missing. Does that mean there is no Pan that works under 8.2? That would be too bad. dj tuchler -- Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler(a)earthlink.net>

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Kernal
by Joe Dufresne 04 May '03

04 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does 8.2 use a 2.4.X or 2.5.X Kernal? Joe - -- SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) Kernal: 2.4.19-4GB i686 Posted from: Miverna ~ 1:04pm up 1 day, 18:34, 5 users, load average: 0.44, 0.82, 1.44 What his attitude -- toward your ownership and use of weapons -- conveys is his real attitude about you. And if he doesn't trust you, then why in the name of John Moses Browning should you trust him? -- L. Neil Smith, concerning private firearms ownership nqs(a)tmcom.com | Blog: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html GPG key can be found at: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ | Geek Code: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/geek_code.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+tXJ+ojW9aOH101IRAud7AKDRMZ4Byca7rm1xzae6CKotrFfbJwCeLWEA BiZgsVk/QcnXvrAB0y6hGdI= =oHOJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Suse 8.1 Initrd error 15
by Peter Liedholm 04 May '03

04 May '03

Hello I have tried to install Suse 8.1 and after a successful install (at least no error msg) the system fails to boot. It says initrd(hd0,0)/initrd Error 15: File not found I can boot from the install floppy, but I want to fix this problem. Standard install with minimal graphical system on an old Pentium 166 with 1,5 GB HDD. Used Ext2 instead of Reiser for "root". Regards /Peter _____________________________________________________ Gå före i kön och få din sajt värderad på nolltid med Yahoo! Express Se mer på: http://se.docs.yahoo.com/info/express/help/index.html

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ide-scsi issue [solved - almost]
by H du Plooy 04 May '03

04 May '03

A while ago (January or so) I wrote about ide-scsi using so much cpu power when writing. It was suggested that DMA wasn't enabled on the CD-RW drive. What I didn't understand was that DMA needed to be enabled for the corresponding /dev/hdx device - I didn't know you could do that. Found that out thanks to a typo, and now all is fine. I can burn at any speed, and CPU usage remain low (althoug still higher than in windows). Now my question. dmesg shows me the following: VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive hdc: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8161B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HL-DT-ST GCE-8481B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive so the kernel is a ware of the DVD and CD-RW drives' DMA capabilities. Why doesn't it enable it by default? Is there a bootparameter that will tell the kernel to switch it on? This would help with installations! (see my other post) Thanks Hans == Download ringtones, logos and picture messages at Ananzi Mobile Fun. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?mobile

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