June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] RealPlayer G2 on SuSe 6.2
by yh＠ottawa.com 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Yesterday, I finally got sound going on my Linux setup. I downloaded RealPlayer G2 and it worked beautifully. Today, RealPlayer run but no sound coming out. All other sound functions still work. I can still play my CD, have system sound BUT no sound when I run RealPlayer. /var/log/message said kernel: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error? but KDE sound still work. I have re-installed RealPlayer 3 times now, still no sound when I run the RealPlayer. Any help is appreciated. Ying yh(a)ottawa.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Creating a new user for a deamon
by Rowan Reid 15 Jan '24

15 Jan '24

I'm setting up a cron job for a analysis tool, I'm trying to use the SuSE tools where possible but YAST doent' allow you to create new user without a home I tried /dev/null is there a proper way to do this ? Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717

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Web Site Standards
by Bryan Tyson 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

On Wednesday 03 July 2002 03:38, Michael wrote: > I tried to visit this site. > http://www.bet365.com > The result upset me so much i sent them this. I sent the letter below, and I encourage everyone on the list to send a similar letter. ----------------------------------------- Subject: Create a Real Web Site Please From: Bryan S. Tyson <bryantyson(a)earthlink.net> To: webmaster(a)bet365.com When attempting to view your site using Konqueror 2.2.1 and Mozilla 0.9.4, both Linux web browsers, I was curtly informed that my browser is "incompatible." Your site, sir, is what is "incompatible." Stick with established standards and real html, not Microsoft proprietary "features." *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Mount Windows NT(NTFS) drive as drive Z: for all users
by Keith Jacobs 25 Sep '21

25 Sep '21

We have an winNT server and need to auto mount a shared folder as if it were a windose mapped drive Z: on SuSE8 Could someone please explain how to do this and how to make sure it is set-up for every user everytime the system is booted. Thanks Regards Keith Jacobs New to Linux

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Adding fonts?
by Tracer Bullet 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Hi all, Reading some mails on the GIMP mail list, I ran across the procedure to install some more fonts for not only Gimp, but the system and StarOffice to use also. Well, I installed the fonts, went to the shell and issued the command xset fp+ <font directory> and then the rehash command and all fonts are there! Ok, that went well, but each time I restart the system, I have to do it all over again? Is there a way to make it permanent and read the new fonts like it does the ones the system installs or is that a no-no? end of line Tracer Shell commands: xset fp+ <new font directory> xset fp rehash -- ---KMail 1.2--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb(a)sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb

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print from K-Mail run together
by Doug McGarrett 01 May '06

01 May '06

I don't remember seeing this problem on the list. KMail print on screen is clear and most letters are separated. When I print out a mail, some letters, particularly the "t", the "si" and the "sk" combinations are scrunched together with adjoining letters. I am printing to an HP 2200D laserjet. The typeface on screen (and on paper) is a sans-serif font. Even on screen, it is slightly scrunched in spots. "ri" and "ti" and "tt" and "th" are too close together. Suggestions? TNX--doug

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screen, mouse, kb lockup
by Doug McGarrett 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

While attempting to stop a video playing on Macro Media Flash Player 7, I managed to lock out everything. I could not move the mouse cursor, the arrow keys and the rest of the kb didn't work, ctl-alt-del did nothing. None of the function keys did anything. (The video was something downloaded from the 'net via Firefox.) I wound up pulling the big switch, as us hams like to say. Is there anything else I could have done? I'm trying to put Linux to practical use, and this is the first time I've seen 10.0 crash, so it's good, but not fool-proof. (If something can be broken, this fool will break it!)

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SCSI RAID recovery
by Robert Amodeo 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I have a fileserver running SuSE 8.0 with 2 IDE Drives and a SCSI RAID (RAID5). The system boots up to one of the IDE drives, and the SCSI RAID drive runs as a mounted filesystem (/dev/md0). (all filesystems are REISERFS). Problem: The SCSI RAID drive has crashed (won't boot up), and I need to recover it (repair it, through some utility). Further: The software does not seem to want to mount the disks, even though the SCSI BIOS (Adaptec) recognizes the disks, and they are listed as OPTIMAL. I tried to repair the disk(s) (with reiserfsck), but it produced an error message: reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 2 reiserfs_open: bread failed reading block 16 reiserfs_open: neither new nor old reiserfs form found on /dev/md0 The literature suggested that this error message is hardware related (either a disk is physically damaged, or maybe the RAID isn't recognized), but again, the disks are recognized (and therefore, so is the SCSI Card). I tried to boot up with SuSE CD 1 in Recovery mode, but not sure what to do there (i.e., after the root prompt - just run reiserfsck?). Literature suggests there are plenty of tools to handle disk recovery, and especially RAID support, I can't find reference to them anywhere. The installation of the RAID was trivial (using the YAST2 partitioning GUI window on startup), and yet recovery seems to be a mystery. This can't be right. Does anyone know where there are "decent" and "usable" recovery tools? OR ... does anyone know what "specifically" to do in this case? Can I re-partition without formatting, and recover the existing data? Any help is appreciated - I'm sure I'm missing something "obvious", but can't find "obviously" what to do in the literature, docs, etc. Thank you. Robert Amodeo School of Engineering and Applied Science University of California, Los Angeles

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[SLE] LILO - files
by sander.van.vugt＠azlan.nl 06 Sep '04

06 Sep '04

Hi, I'dd like to know what the following files in the directory /boot are about. Can anyone give me a clue or point me to some documentation? - boot.b - chain.b - map - System.map-2.2.14 - chos.* Thanks in advance, Sander ********************************************************************** Disclaimer This email is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is adressed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do do not necessarily represent those of the Azlan Holdings bv and/or subsidairy. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited If you have received this email in error please notify Azlan Holdings MIS Helpdesk by telephone on +31 (0) 79 3443200. ********************************************************************* -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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9.1 unuseably slow
by David Bottrill 02 Sep '04

02 Sep '04

We received a copy of 9.1 today at work and I have installed this on three machines with dissapointing results. The first machine was an IBM Thinkpad R40 with a Centino 1600 CPU. This machine worked fine and the performance was great. The second and third machines were unusable, KDE takes serveral minutes to start, attempting to start YAST for instance will take about a minute for the SU box to appear and then another minute for YAST to load. I get similar results for all applications I have tried, in all instances the system performs like a P100 with very little RAM. The machines that run slowly are both Athlon XP based machines, one being an Athlon XP 2400 with 1GB of DDR RAM on an ECS Elite motherboard. The second machine is an XP2000 with 512MB of PC3200 RAM on a PCChips motherboard. I have applied all the updates with no effect. Any ideas would be appreciated, I've had to switch back to 9.0 as the whole 9.1 experience is unuseable has anybody got any ideas? David -- David Bottrill Registered Linux user number 330730 www.bottrill.org Internet SIP Phone: 1-747-244-2699

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DVD playback...
by Matthew 14 May '04

14 May '04

Good day, Yes there are legal reasons why SuSE cannot have DVD playback of those pesky movies, but what be done? Would it be too expensive for Novell/SuSE to license a codec? Seems like there is a new copyright law in Germany that has made PackMan be more cautious. No one has made a player for Linux that is 100% legal, is it due to expense? Matt

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Re: [SLE] OpenOffice slow in 8.2
by H du Plooy 27 Dec '03

27 Dec '03

On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 22:19, Fred A. Miller wrote: > Uninstall it, download the latest release, and install it. 'Should fix > your problems. The release that ships with 8.2 is buggy. > > Fred Thanks Fred, that's exactly what I did, installed OOo 1.1Beta. Works smooth as silk if I stop Setiathome, but remains unusuable if seti or anything cpu intensive is running. This in itself isn't so bad, except that I didn't have this problem under 8.1 and 8.0, where I had seti runing with nice=1 all the time and OOo was working smoothly. Just trying to understand this Thanks Hans

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Gnome Screensavers
by Thom Nuzum 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Hi Folks, I can't seem to get any of the Screen Savers to start in Gnome, though they are all working in KDE... or are they only for KDE? They are in the Gnome menu:system Screen Savers. Thanks (i know they aren't so important)

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KDE-kiosk.
by Prabu Subroto 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

Hi everybody.... I am using KDE 3.0.x not yet 3.1 and SuSE Linux 8.1 . I have written a web enabling database application with PHP4. The users use the application with internet browser mozilla. My boss said that his sellers may only use the internet browser for the database application. So how can I lock everything in KDE 3.0.x ? I want after the user login, the mozilla will be automatically launched. I also want if they close the mozilla than the user will be automatically kicked out (log out). Is it possible with KDE 3.0.x? Do I have to upgrade 3.1 ? Thank you very much in advance. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

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Re: [SLE] Laptop Wireless
by Branton Boehm 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

I'm reposting this, because I think that it's been pushed down far enough that people aren't seeing it. Basically, I've got my internal wireless card setup as my eth-pcmcia-0 device. Someone said something about how it should be bridged to eth1 and then I can use it. It doesn't seem to be doing that. Can anyone help? Thanks, Branton > >I'm sorry that I haven't yet got this working... I really do appreciate >your help. > > >>>>3.1) fire up yast2 >>>> configure network card as pcmcia (DHCP settings might be >>>>troublesome, use hardcoded IP, just for testing at least) >>> >>> >>>YaST2 doesn't give me the option to configure the "Harris Semiconductor" >>>(my wireless card) that it detects as PCMCIA. If I click "Configure", it >>>goes straight to the screen where you set the IP address. I can click >>>"Configure" where it says "Other (not detected)" and then I get the >>>choice of a PCMCIA device. But I don't know how to hook that up to my >>>internal wireless card. >>> >>>If someone could point me in the right direction here, I would really >>>appreciate it. (Currently, the wireless is configured as eth1 and not as >>>PCMCIA.) >> >>Thats exactly where you need to go - Others/Pcmcia - and set up config for >>IP&gateway&DNS there. >> >> >>After it got pcmcia-ethX device, it will be bridged as ethY, and on >>restart of all things it will know that you got it.. >>Basic simple test - is that after you got it all - ifconfig should >>display ethY configured (might miss IP though, if wireless gateway is >>unreachable, but rest should be there) > >I've now got a eth-pcmcia-0 device that was configued in YaST2, but I don't >see that it was bridged anywhere. Is that something that I need to do or >should it be done automatically? Here is the output of ifconfig: > ># ifconfig >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:E2:58:9A:5B > inet addr:192.168.1.110 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::200:e2ff:fe58:9a5b/10 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1047 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1003 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:403170 (393.7 Kb) TX bytes:127242 (124.2 Kb) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0x9000 Memory:81a00000-81a00038 > >lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) > >eth0 is my ethernet card (which is working correctly). It doesn't appear >that the internal wireless card was "bridged" like you referred to. So... >what do I do now? > >Thanks, > Branton Boehm > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > >-- >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 _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

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Triple Booting and Time Travel..
by lee 31 Aug '03

31 Aug '03

Before I do research on how to do this, it is possible to do this right, > on a 2 drive box, with SUSE 8.0 on 1 drive, Debian and 98se splitting > the other? I'm already dual booting fwiw.. > > Thank you for your time. Speaking of time, please check yours. Your email showed up with a date of March 2, 1999... Thanks, Stan Yes, I'm a time traveler you see, I'm only in this time segment now to check on a few stock investments I had in mind...thanx for the tip Stan.. Lee :-)

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LILO & triple booting
by lee 23 Aug '03

23 Aug '03

Before I do research on how to do this, it is possible to do this right, on a 2 drive box, with SUSE 8.0 on 1 drive, Debian and 98se splitting the other? I'm already dual booting fwiw.. Thank you for your time.

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Abit ic7-g and suse 8.2 support
by Josef332 12 Aug '03

12 Aug '03

Hello fellow Susers. I want to install Suse 8.2 on an Abit IC7-G with an intel 875 chipset.Is the hardware supported by this version of the Suse distro? All the HDD's to be installed along with it are SATA so I presume tehre may be a problem installing them? Previous experience with sata disks in linux had them working very slowly and I could no possibly install the OS on them. Any experiences that a fellow user may have had with this kind of motherboard/chipset would be welcome. Thanks

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how to read ms-tnef as mail attachment
by Francesco Scaglioni 05 Aug '03

05 Aug '03

Hi, I have been sent a thing as part of a mime email that is a doc in format ms-tnef -- does anyone have a suggestion as to how best to read it? Many TIA Francesco

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Is there a open source search engine?
by Greg Freemyer 23 Jul '03

23 Jul '03

All, I've got a Samba fileserver working pretty well, but it would be nice if I could have a web interface that allowed end-users to search for documents on the fileserver. Sort of like a google interface to the fileserver. The trouble is that a lot of the docs are in word, acrobat, etc. Does anyone know an open source search engine that has converters? I've looked at a couple of commercial search engines that would do the job, but I found the prices shockingly high. (i.e. $20K for a 100,000 document index) Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com

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RealPlayer for 8.0 ?
by W.D.McKinney 22 Jul '03

22 Jul '03

Is there any RealPlayer available on the ftp site ? It's my DVD but not via apt-get ? Thanks /Dee -- W.D.McKinney (Dee) http://3519098920

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Scrolling Track Ball?
by Peter B Van Campen 20 Jul '03

20 Jul '03

Hi Guys, I have been fooling around with scrollong mice and SuSE 8.2 and the KDE control center handles them well. But my favorite 'pointing device' is a Logitech Marble Mouse (funny name for a track ball, I know) This is the symetrical 9ball in the middle) trackball w/ 2 buttons. They have a new modle that has an additional 2 small switches just for up and down scrolling. I don't know how this works in Linux, X and KDE; it is not a wheel, so may be implimented in the Windows driver. Has anyone of you gotten this unit to work on our beloved SuSE? Thanks to ALL ................ PeterB -- -- Proud to use SuSE Linux since 5.2 Loving using SuSE Linux 8.2 May 2003, Munich, Germany ordered 15,000 Workstation Lic for SuSE 8.2, despite M$ cutting their bid to $0.10 on the Dollar This will be remembered MyBlog http://vancampen.org/blog/ --

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SuSE8.2 Prof.(DVD) install problem: Stalls on "Evaluating package selection"
by Magnus Hagebris 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

I tried to install SuSE8.2 on my Dell Laptop(8100 Inspiron with SuSE8.1) last day and when using the DVD the installation process stalls on "Evaluating package selection". When I used the ordinary CD's the install proceeded. So what's up with the DVD? What's the point having the DVD if they don't work? I used the DVD for 7.3, 8.0, 8.1 and I have no intention to switch to CD's now... :-) Cheers, Magnus

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Finally using a Linux mailer
by Greg Freemyer 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

I have finally configured my system to let me use a Linux mail client from my Windows PC. Hopefully my messages will now get threaded properly. :-) I'm using evolution. Does that have a way to group messages into threads? Or is the purpose of threading just in the archives? FYI: What I'm doing. I have Win2K installed on my PC for business reasons. (I have to run Goldmine.) I have cygwin/XFree86 installed to give me a X desktop. Then I ssh over to my Linux box in the lab and run evolution with the display coming back to my local XFree86 setup. Seems to be working so far, but I don't have any resize ability on the windows. Hopefully I can figure out how to do that shortly. HTH Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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New runlevel?
by Allister Gearon 13 Jul '03

13 Jul '03

Hi all, Is it possible to create a whole new runlevel, say runlevel 7, in 8.2. I wish to leave the currently configured runlevels as they are (whilst experimenting) and be able to do what I want on a 'spare' runlevel. TIA Al -- Allister Gearon Engineering Dept. Coombe Works Derby Road Kingsbridge Devon, TQ7 1JL United Kingdom engineers(a)fairford.co.uk

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