June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

a tip for mozilla users annoyed by auto-searchbox
by zentara 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Hi, I find that one of the most annoying thing about mozilla is the way a "search box" opens up everytime you type in a URL, asking you to search some search engine for the URL. To me it's just a "flickering annoyance". When I want to search, I'll enter a search URL,.....sheeesh. :-) Anyways, I finally played with it, and figured out how to stop it. Go to /home/username/.mozilla/user(default or yourname)/********.slt/prefs.js Change the following line to "", like so: user_pref("browser.search.defaultengine", ""); Don't just comment out the line, or it will default to netscape.search -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation

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8139too
by nizar_abed 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

hi everybody, i have installed suse 8.2 on amd 2000xp with realtk 8139too on board... the ip of the amd is 192.168.0.2 and connected through 192.168.0.1 with redhat9, i have problems with the connection: sometimes i'm connected and sometimes i'm not! i have attached the messages log that i don't understand... another machine , 192.168.0.3 , with suse 8.2 also, it's pentuim III with 8139too , and the connection is excellent!!! please help... thanks __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com Jun 29 14:15:01 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) Jun 29 14:15:01 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:01 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:01 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:01 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Jun 29 14:15:13 AMD2000 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 29 14:15:13 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. Jun 29 14:15:13 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) Jun 29 14:15:13 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:13 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:13 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:13 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Jun 29 14:15:31 AMD2000 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 29 14:15:31 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. Jun 29 14:15:31 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) Jun 29 14:15:31 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:31 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:31 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:15:31 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Jun 29 14:15:50 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Jun 29 14:16:01 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present Jun 29 14:16:02 AMD2000 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 29 14:16:02 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. Jun 29 14:16:02 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) Jun 29 14:16:02 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:16:02 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:16:02 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:16:02 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. Jun 29 14:16:26 AMD2000 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 29 14:16:26 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. Jun 29 14:16:26 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) Jun 29 14:16:26 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:16:26 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:16:26 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. Jun 29 14:16:26 AMD2000 kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.

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Perl w/o threads
by Kaare Rasmussen 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

I have a program that needs Perl with no thread support. SuSE Linux 8.2 ships with Perl thread enabled. What can I do to get a Perl w/o threads. Do I have to install it from scratch, or does SuSE have a rpm ?

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Chosing SLE8 or RH Enterprise for custom server CD installation.
by Magnus Hagebris 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

I have been given the choice of chosing Linux distribution to ship our software on, and normally I would chose SuSE right away, but not this time... We are going to ship our software on high scale servers and ordinary workstation releases are out of the questions. The machine needs to be boundle with support and not this email list :-) I need a way of producing a custom made installation CD, the same way I have done with ALICE/SuSE7.3 for another product. But now I need the Enterprise version and currently Fabian has not added support for creating custom made CD's into SLE8/UL. I guess I have to play around with AutoYast a while before making any decisions there. I could also use Redhat's kickstart feature, but then I have to create the custom made installation CD manually. Further more I need to wait for their new Server release, since the current Redhat Enterprise kernel(2.4.9 heavily modified) just don't work... Anyway, all my promblems are really maintainence/patching and simplicity. We cannot allow a user to patch their system without us making sure those patches works with our software. Personally I believe it would work for 99.999% of the time, but that is not good enough. With SuSE(!SLE8) you can redirect the user to a different patching site, I don't know about SLE8. With redhat I assume you have to write your own patching scheme, since they require you to register with RHN and we would no longer have control over patching. I rather not care about having to verify patches, but we have third party software/kernel modules that requires a certain kernel etc. Currently I believe the workload are the same on both dists, unless I find some good shortcuts. E.g. for RH create a kickstart and a extra CD with our software, but that requires too much user interaction. I really like my SuSE7.3/ALICE installation CD, totally automated and 5 minutes installation gives you a fully running system... Great :-) After all this BS; do anyone have some suggestions? Or some plain tips, experience to share?! /Magnus

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Japanese word processor?
by The Purple Tiger 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Hey all, This is only slightly OT, as it also has to do with Mac OS X, but also deals with SuSE 8.2 on my machine :) I am looking for a word processor that has ports for SuSE 8.2, and also Mac OS X that supports input of Japanese characters and doesn't have a steep learning curve. The reason? A friend of mine in the US of A is at a summer school and needs to write documents in Japanese [as that is the whole point of the school ;)] but they only "support" Microsoft Word [they have a plugin for that] and she can't afford to spend an arm and a leg on Office for Mac OS X. I also need to run the aforementioned software on SuSE 8.2, and so am looking for something that can handle this. Oh, and quickly too ;) So, anyone have any ideas? Thank you for your time :)

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file association
by Leo de Bruijn 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Linux 8.1 kde 3.1.0 When I start kview or Kuickshow the refuse to open a .jpg file. .JPG files open normaly In Gimp .jpg files open normaly Is this a bug or did I miss something? -- Hartelijke groeten, Leo ## SuSE Linux 8.1 KDE 3.1.0 Kmail 1.5 ##

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Re: [SLE] Suse 8.2 - Belkin KVM SOHO series 2
by Paul Kraus 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse 8.2 - Belkin KVM SOHO series 2 Date: Friday 27 June 2003 8:49 pm From: Paul Kraus <pkraus(a)pelsupply.com> To: Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org>, suse-linux-e <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> On Friday 27 June 2003 1:41 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 10:32:24 -0400 > > "Paul Kraus" <pkraus(a)pelsupply.com> wrote: > > I have 1 windows xp pro workstation, and a newly fresh installed 8.2 > > server. I have a ps2 key board and a Microsoft intelemouse explorer > > (big gray and red mouse with thumb buttons and the top button, and a > > wheel.) > > > > When I switch from xp to Linux with the KVM my mouse behavior on the > > Linux box is completely wasted. Everything jumps around and the mouse > > goes nuts. Completely unusable. > > > > I have been doing some reading that says that I should make sure I > > don't have more then 1 mouse driver loaded. How can I check this In > > Suse? > > > > Has anyone else had similar problems. If so what did you do to rectify > > them. > > > > The mouse is the USB version going through the USB -> ps2 adapter that > > came with the mouse. > > How does the mouse behave if you boot Linux with the mouse attached. It works just fine. As a test i selected the MS ps2 driver and that solved the problem. However its not much of a solution as i now can't use the wheel or third button. Paul Kraus -------------------------------------------------------

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SuSE 8.2 - Samba is sharing, but not visible in "My Network Places"
by Tim Penhey 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

I have a (only) slightly modified (from the default 8.2 install) smb.conf which is happily sharing a couple of directories to my windows machines. However it does not appear in the workgroup on the right hand side of the explorer (tree on the left). If I type in the machine name in the address bar \\spike it does appear in the tree panel, but still not on the details. Does samba need to be set up to browse master for this to happen? Tim

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CD-ROM blues
by Peter Evans 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Warning: idiot newbie question. I'm using SuSE 8.2 (not that I suppose this is relevant) and have put a CD-ROM -- the one stuck in the back of Haugland & Jones' book *OpenOffice.org 1.0 resource kit* -- into the DVD-R drive and actually managed to make it do something. (That only took about an hour of experimentation!) It opens a Konqueror window for file:/media/dvdrecorder which displays what looks like a web page. How, other than via that web page, do I get to see what's on the disc? Even if I use su, typing "ls -a" within /media/dvdrecorder reveals nothing. I don't understand the difference between /media/dvdrecorder and /dev/dvdrecorder (mount point and link respectively, according to YaST), but anyway I (even with superuser superpowers) am told that the latter doesn't exist. I've already decided that I don't after all want to copy this CD to my hard drive, but I'll want to do something similar in the future, so I want to be able to dig around a CD-ROM. This apparent inability is nuts. What have I overlooked this time?

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Netscape Upgrade Question...
by Anthony Gunia 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Hi all, I would like to upgrade my Netscape v4.8 to Netscape 7.x on SuSE 8.2. Should I remove the current version, or just install the new one over the other? Also, will this effect Mozilla, and if so, any hints on how to deal with this? Thanks all! Anthony gunia(a)calumet.purdue.edu

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