June 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Hosts file "corrected" by something
by Michael D Green 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Hi! When I add lines like the following to my hosts file on the machine puddleglum: 198.162.0.201 fred.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com fred.puddleglum 198.162.0.201 lili.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com lili.puddleglum 198.162.0.201 lulu.puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com lulu.puddleglum something (!?!) comes along behind me and "corrects" these lines (it leaves the other lines alone) to simply: 198.162.0.201 puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com puddleglum (The reason I am putting these lines in my hosts file is to be able to access virtual hosts on my Apache web server on puddleglum from puddleglum.) BTW I'm using SuSE 8.2. Ideas? TIA! Mike Green

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NVIDIA 4643 driver - degraded 3D video perf
by Kirby Nesbitt 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Recently installed the latest video driver file from NVIDIA, "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run" and now see that my frame rates on glxgears has dropped to something like 600 FPS. Also, when the cursor is moved the gears actually stop! Has anyone elce seen this? I had reasonable performance with the 8.2 drivers with my GeForce2 MX prior to installing this release and am wondering if there is a fix? Go back to the current drivers for 8.2? Cheers KN

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LITEON External CD-RW & SuSE
by Juan Francisco Torres Chacón 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Hi I have a USB LITEONE External CD-RW, which works great on Win.... I tryed once to use it on SuSE 7.3. It seems the system recognized the USB device, but not as a CD device.... I need to plug this CD-RW to a machine running SuSE 8.1. 1. What must be done so the OS recognizes it as a CD unit? 2. what program can I use to burn CD on this External CD-RW? (and any tips for making this work on SuSE 7.3 whould be great!) Thanks -------------------------------------------------------- Juan Francisco Torres Ch.

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weird clock problem
by Robert 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Clock on my Suse 8.0 machine starts to run really slowly after some days/weeks/months of normal functioning. One second on my computer lasts for 5-10 real seconds and the only cure for this is rebooting. Anyone else experiencing this weird behaviour? robert

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Re: [SLE] SuSE v8.2 and Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop
by Jeff Bankston 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Marshall" <bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com> Newsgroups: Suse.Linux-e To: <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE v8.2 and Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 07:36, Jeff Bankston wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, Ken. > > > > I've got the VMWare download, and a trial license, just gotta get into the > > docs and see what the > > procedure is for setting it all up. Mostly, do I reformat the hda and > > allocate DOS/fat32 partitions, > > let VMWare do it, how to install the Winapps via vmware, etc. > > > > You *are* aware that VMware requires you to install and run an entire Windows > system? If you just want to run a couple of winapps, you might take a look > at Crossover Office from CodeWeavers. > > > > > > Should be a hoot, looking forward to axeing Windoze...... > > > > The only Winapps apps that I have to use is Word 2000, and Project 2000. > > I've been able to do > > everything else a network engineer could hope to do via Linux. > > > > -Jeff Yes, I've heard that and I have the license for that, but was hoping to avoid using Windoze at all except for the app itself. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll hop up there and see what they're about. -Jeff

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Re: [SLE] Flightgear
by illustre 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 21:36, Hans Krueger wrote: > what do you have for a video card? > I have an ati 7500 > nvidia riva tnt2 model 64 all i did extra was get the dribers from nvidia for 3d and i installed all sdl packages from suse i get some very good frame rates

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RE: [SLE] Microsoft researchers endorse Linux clusters(OT)
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

"Fred A. Miller" <fmiller(a)lightlink.com> wrote: >http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9851 > Fred-- I am glad The Inquirer picked up the New York Times story-- (I choose not to read Tme Times) but the Time's story failed to point out that Gordon Bell (who is a fellow at M$) has given prizes each year (per his website) to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. http://www.sc2000.org/bell/ Bell further states that "the purpose of the award is to track the progress over time of parallel computing in applications." So -- it not like M$ didn't know what he is doing-- and he for sure knows the capability of Linux clusters. Gar __________________________________________________________________ McAfee VirusScan Online from the Netscape Network. Comprehensive protection for your entire computer. Get your free trial today! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/computing/mcafee/index.jsp?promo=393397 Get AOL Instant Messenger 5.1 free of charge. Download Now! http://aim.aol.com/aimnew/Aim/register.adp?promo=380455

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Pinnacle miro DC30+ Video capture/playback
by Barry Higgins 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

First time I've posted here so fingers crossed I have done it correctly. I have a Miro DC30+ video capture/playback pci card which according to the SuSE hardware compatability list is supported. http://hardwaredb.suse.de/showProduct.php?LANG=en_UK&searchtype=simple&prod… My problem/s : I can't seem to be able to use it as a capture card. Where am I going wrong? My system is an AMD 1800xp. Default SuSE v8.2 install. I've tried all the apps I can find on the DVD's - kwintv, motv, xawtv, Mainactor and broacast2000 etc to see if I can capture but to no avail. Most of the errors I've noted while starting the apps in a shell are: E.g. :~>xawtv This is xawtv-3.85, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20-4GB-athlon) can't open /dev/video0: No such device v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device no video grabber device available From that I've deduced the card is either not assigned or setup properly but how do I go about doing so? There were no signs of it being recognised in any of the installations of suse. I have noticed its listed in hardware info under PCI as ZR36057PQC Video cutting chipset. This doesn't quite ring true as I was under the impression it was a ZR36067 based chip but i digress. Other things I've tried are, I've loaded in the zoran-driver.rpm to no avail. Tried installing a "TV card" using expert settings and selecting the "Kernel module" -> ZR36067 but then getting total lost in all the other settings available. You help will be appreciated Barry

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Susewatcher config--revisited
by BandiPat 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Hello again! Ok, all, back to my original question! Who knows where SuSEwatcher gets it settings that it keeps going back to dial-up when I have a direct connection with a cable modem. Who knows about susewatcher as I can't seem to find a manual or other documentation around for it? I can change the config file in $HOME, but shutting down susewatcher, restarting kde or just doing a check for updates, reverts it all back to dial-up connection (Offline). Is that just telling me that the dial-up is offline or that it needs to use that for automatic checking? I have never gotten a notice of it checking for updates via the icon or anything else. I always have to manually do the check, so what's up? Thoughts, suggestions, solutions? Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

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Susewatcher settings
by BandiPat 10 Jun '03

10 Jun '03

Greetings all, I have a question about the susewatcher program. It seems that this program is designed to check on security updates, etc. autmatically and alert you with a change in the icon if there are new updates available, right? That is what I thought as well, but mine does not seem to be doing this automatically. I think I have determined the reason why, but don't have a clue on how to change it. As I have both cable service and a modem connected, it seems to be getting confused as to what it is to use to do these checks. Right now it is indicating the modem, I believe. If you click on the icon, the YOU Status window opens and mine presently shows: Network: Dial-up connection (Offline) I think it should be showing Network: Direct Connection, though for the cable connection? If that is the case, how does one go about changing it to reflect that? Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

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