July 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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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Suse 8.2 and Linmodem
by Mark Thomas 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

Hi everyone, I installed Suse 8.2 on my AMD Duron machine and it works like a charm except.. you guessed it. I have a Lucent modem. The chipset is Agere SV92p.I tried installing the driver that I found on www.heby.de but it didn't work. I have gotten the modem to work with Mandrake, so I'm thinking there is a way to get it working in Suse too. I'm a relative newbie to Linux so I was wondering if anyone has simple instructions for me to get this modem working on my machine. Thanks.

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Netgear MA01RA wireless card setup in 8.2
by Zane Vandiver 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

I have been unable to get this card to work on my Compaq Presario 2170. I have followed the instructions from the support database article on this subject, and I have scoured this list and others looking for help. The card appears to be active, and gets an IP address from my router. I can ping the built-in ethernet card but not the router. I think the problem is in the mode setting, but changing it to anything except ad-hoc generates this error message: ERROR: command 'iwconfig eth1 mode automatic' returned Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument. However, the card still gets an IP address from the router. Also, I cannot seem to turn off either card with the ifdown command. When I ifup again, the dhcp daemon assigns an IP address again, but the connection appears active without the ifup. Does anyone have any suggestions? Zane -- Zane Vandiver <zvan(a)sbcglobal.net>

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SuSEfirewall2 blocking(?) internal network.
by Wesley Skoczen 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

After rebooting my internal network isn't able to connect to internet. Issuing SuSEfirewall2 stop and SuSEfirewall2 start fixes the problem. Is there a way to fix this behaviour? Attached is firewall config.(SuSE8.2) Thanks Wesley /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2: FW_QUICKMODE="no" FW_DEV_EXT="eth0" FW_DEV_INT="eth1" FW_DEV_DMZ="" FW_ROUTE="yes" FW_MASQUERADE="yes" FW_MASQ_DEV="$FW_DEV_EXT" FW_MASQ_NETS="192.168.1.0/24" FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL="no" FW_AUTOPROTECT_SERVICES="yes" FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP="ssh 1521 80 139 3306 7777" FW_SERVICES_EXT_UDP="123" # Common: domain FW_TRUSTED_NETS="24.141.63.70 24.141.54.25 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.60" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_TCP="no" FW_ALLOW_INCOMING_HIGHPORTS_UDP="DNS" FW_SERVICE_AUTODETECT="yes" # Autodetect the services below when starting FW_SERVICE_DNS="no" FW_SERVICE_DHCLIENT="no" FW_SERVICE_DHCPD="yes" FW_SERVICE_SQUID="no" FW_SERVICE_SAMBA="yes" FW_FORWARD="yes" # Beware to use this! FW_FORWARD_MASQ="" # Beware to use this! FW_REDIRECT="" FW_LOG_DROP_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_DROP_ALL="no" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_CRIT="yes" FW_LOG_ACCEPT_ALL="no" FW_LOG="--log-level warning --log-tcp-options --log-ip-option --log-prefix SuSE-FW" FW_KERNEL_SECURITY="yes" FW_STOP_KEEP_ROUTING_STATE="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_FW="yes" FW_ALLOW_PING_DMZ="no" FW_ALLOW_PING_EXT="no" FW_ALLOW_FW_TRACEROUTE="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_SOURCEQUENCH="yes" FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST="no" FW_IGNORE_FW_BROADCAST="yes" FW_ALLOW_CLASS_ROUTING="no" FW_CUSTOMRULES="" FW_REJECT="no" FW_HTB_TUNE_DEV="" -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wesley Skoczen http://portal.skoczen.com Linux Registered User #274645 at http://counter.li.org/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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USB 2.0 support
by Jerome Lyles 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

Does Suse 8.2 support USB 2.0? Thanks, Jerome

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