May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE review.
by Fred A. Miller 02 May '03

02 May '03

Review There's a lot to like in SuSE's latest edition, 8.2, and little to complain about. There are security enhancements and graphics tweaks partly due to KDE 3.1, and major administration bonuses in YaST-2. It's clear that SuSE has worked hard to accommodate the corporate desktop market as well as the home user since edition 8.1, which we did not recommend. It appears the company is serious about tempting a mixed-species shop of Linux servers and Windows desktops to harmonize in favor of Linux and thus save considerably on administration costs. Microsoft should worry about the strides SuSE is making in this area. Installation was an absolute breeze and hardly worth mentioning. I loaded it on three machines, a home-built P4 system, an OEM Dell P3 box and a Presario Celeron laptop. There were no unpleasant surprises; hardware detection was flawless and nearly everything I installed worked. YaST has an automatic dependency checker which seems to have been tweaked a bit since 8.1 when it first appeared. One gets a list of dependencies and suggestions for resolving them, such as what else to install, or what to delete, and of course you can ignore it if a package or library you need isn't available in the distro but needs to be scooped up off the Net later. YaST will track RPM packages installed subsequently, even ones not included in the distro, and report dependencies on those as well, which is quite handy. The Rest Here...http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30512.html -- "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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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Got my CDRW/DVD drive]
by John LeMay 02 May '03

02 May '03

Did it again - sorry for the direct reply Adam. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [SLE] Got my CDRW/DVD drive Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 23:04:13 -0400 From: John LeMay <jlemay(a)njmc.com> To: Adam Daniel <adamd(a)forensicdata.com.au> References: <3EB18305.1040308(a)njmc.com> <20030502022420.GM30976(a)mail.local> > Do you really need to update the firmware? if it aint broke to fix it i say. Don't know, however I know under Windows I've had problems burning CD's with old firmware on drives. I did find a project designed to write Linux firmware installers for several drives. Finally! > A device link is just that. Its just an icon with a name thats a short cut to the drive, it doesn't effect your hardware config at all. > Does it really matter what the name of the icon is? if you right click on it and go to properties you can change what device it points to (if you use the ide-scsi driver it will be /dev/sr0) and icon and maybe even the name. Understood. However I've had issues in the past with device links - specifically ones for digital cameras working. Thought there might be something special that needed to be done. > you don't need a device link for your device to work ..try using the command line more and take a look at the mount command (man mount) Heh, I have six terminals - rxvt even, not that Konsole beast - open right now in fact. I'm not a newbie, just a newbie to CDRW devices in Linux. Thanks for the help. There was one last piece I needed to do - insmod ide-scsi after rebooting. How do I get ide-scsi to load at boot? thanks! -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions -- 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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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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wine question
by dep 02 May '03

02 May '03

greets. it has been many months since my last, largely unsatisfying, experience with wine. i have an application that is important to me; the best version of it is native OS/2, but it was ported to windows 3.1 and windows 95 as well. ages ago, when wine was utterly manually configured, i got it to install and run, but it had no access to fonts or printers and collapsed when trying to save files. a year or so ago, when i endeavored to configure wine, nothing even that useful came to pass. i'm given to understand that the wine shipped with 8.2 might be a lot better. i don't expect anti-aliasing (alas!), but it would be great if the installed fonts and so on were available, and the printer and the ability to save files are critical. are these things within it's current realm? also, given the various windows versions on the same cd, which is more likely a.) to install, and b.) work properly? tia. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.

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Savage Driver Problems/8.2
by Jerry A! 02 May '03

02 May '03

My ProSavage DDR card is having issues with XVideo (like in it doesn't work). Are there any other users out there that have a Savage-based card and by any chance compiled v1.1.27t <http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html> of savage_drv.o for 8.2? If not, is there anyone at SuSE working on this stuff (possibly as a YOU fix)? As always, thanks in advance for any and all pointers. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!

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Can't start konqueror from user account.
by Curtis Rey 02 May '03

02 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Date: Thursday 01 May 2003 20:05 pm I just had kde take a burp on me. When I try to execute the Konqueror symlink/icon for the kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing it won't execute. The app tray shows it with a spinning hourglass. When I execute the following command from the console I get this: crrey@Crusher-1:~> kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing ERROR: Couldn't start konqueror from konqueror.desktop: KDEInit could not launch 'kfmexec' However, in the root kde account I have no problem getting it to execute using the icon/shortcut symlinks. Likewise, in either kde account I can alt+F2 and enter a URL and then it comes up. Running the following querry for the permission sets of kfmexec returns the following: crrey@Crusher-1:~> la /opt/kde3/share/applnk/konqueror.desktop - - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3415 2003-01-16 12:40 /opt/kde3/share/applnk/konqueror.desktop I have gone to telinit 3 and clear the /tmp file, and I have also rm'ed the .mcop, .mcoprc. and the tmp-Crusher-1 and sockets-Crusher-1. This would usually clear and confounding files and presents now change. Does anyone have any suggestions as to why this occurred and how to correct it. TIA, Curtis. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+sct27WVLiDrqeksRAmBwAJ9Emt5uMkIcV8cxl51VHIqz7sRA2gCghsAe 5nIk0+nNXsjEYvVxaApXvO8= =OC0M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Emusic download manager...
by Matthew Johnson 02 May '03

02 May '03

Anyone else using this service? Everyone else getting Segfaults on startup? http://primo.mp3.com/gen/188/dlm2 http://www.emusic.com/help/download.html I think it was using wxWindows...Not sure :(. Matt

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xosview in SuSE 8.2
by Jay Vollmer 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi Everybody! When I try to execute xosview, I get the following error: Can not find file : /proc/sys/dev/sensors/*/temp1 Can not find file : /proc/sys/dev/sensors/*/temp2 YaST satisfied all dependencies prior to loading, so what's wrong? -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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Evolution-1.2.2-30 does not work with ami-1.0.11-91 under SuSE-8.2
by ghugh Song 01 May '03

01 May '03

Evolution that was with SuSE-8.1 worked with ami (the Korean language input method system). Now, they do not work together under SuSE-8.2. Also, I still need to hand remove /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ko/Compose. What a silly bug since the days of SuSE-7.0 ! Still long way to go for Linux to become truly international. Regards, G. H. S.

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Dual boot help.....
by Fred A. Miller 01 May '03

01 May '03

Can someone tell me, who has a dual boot 8.2 & XP box, what the text is under "title windows" in their /boot/grub/menu.list file? Thanks, Fred -- "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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