January 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Installing Mozilla 1.6
by Paul Penrod 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Has anyone had success in installing Mozilla 1.6 on SuSE 9.0 Pro? If so, what did you do (outside of uninstalling Mozilla 1.4 first). Thanks, ...Paul -- Managing good programmers/engineers is tantamount to herding cats...

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[Fwd: Problem with a modem]
by David 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

- Hi all. I have a Compaq laptop, with a modem that it's imposible to getcorrectly running under linux. I'm looking on Internet and i found that this is a Winmodem. What can i do? Are there any package to solve this kind of problems? Thanks a lot. David -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Manzano-Macho Ontological Engineering Group Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) email: dmanzano(a)delicias.dia.fi.upm.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Manzano-Macho Ontological Engineering Group Dpto. Inteligencia Artificial Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) email: dmanzano(a)delicias.dia.fi.upm.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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My results of Wine versus CrossOver Office
by Jeff Bankston 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I promised that I'd post some results about my escapades in using Windows apps on Suse v9. But first, a few observations, all just my own personal feelings and findings. Nothing scientific at all, just backed by years of using Windows apps and a few years of Linux/Unix (Berkeley) stuff. When I rebuild my Windows laptop, I follow a general process of installing the OS, then patches, then MSIE v5.5 and its patches, then the individual apps themselves and any patches that the apps might have. I follow that general process when installing Linux as well, and it seems to work well. Now, on to the juicy stuff. One thing that I didn't really grasp is that the installation of Suse v9 automatically select the Wine alpha/beta, yes I know about watching what boxes is checked. When I went to test Crosover, I first did so with Wine installed and then Wine _not_ installed - the not installed version worked better, was more stable. With Crossover installed, I took that as my initial Windows OS installation, it had MSIE v5 loaded, which I patches successfully. Then, I updated MSIE to v6 SP1, patched successfully and ran fine. But, the java VM wasn't installed and couldn't be found. So, if you need to access a web site/server that mandates the Microsoft JVM, you're SOL, even Microsoft's web site said so, I next installed MS Office 2000, all went fine and apps run so-so. A bit sluggish, but okay for the time that I have to use them. My most often used app is Outlook 2000 to connect to an MS Exchange v5.5 mail server. That's when I found my first problem - there's only one mail profile, no option to use multiple setups. The suggested workaround for this that exists in the Crossover docs didn't work, no other solutions found. I installed Visio 2000 Pro, went fine and the app runs okay. If that worked, I thought that I should be able to install CD2's icon set. It didn't work, and Crossover warned me about it beforehand, so that was good. Thus far, Crossover has worked okay for what I needed it for, but just as a tolerable setup. I can appreciate their work and efforts, I'm sure more work is going to make it better as time goes on. But, I reported these findings to Codeweavers, no reply and no offers to help. I guess being a demo install doesn't equate me to an interested party trying to help, so they must not think me worthy of feedback. Whatever. As it stands, I'm running on more and more of Linux apps as time progresses and less dependence on MS. I'm basically just diving deeeeper and deeeeeeeeper as the days go on, today I made thru 6 hours before having to revert to my Windows 2000 hard disk. An hour ago, I found out why - I had to have interoperability with my text files between Linux and MSDOS/Windows text files. My creations in KWrite were afoul, KWrite wasn't creating plain text files with the CR/LF. I found out that I have to check the box (which isn't persistent between uses of KWrite) that formats the file as MSDOS format with regards to CR/LF. These are just a few things that means that, in my illustrious opinion, Suse v9 is easily up to task to handle any task that I can think of for this network engineer, but the interoperability between StarOffice/OpenOffice and MS Office is just not quite ready for prime time. Close, but far enough off to cause some folks to wait. I'm going to keep at it in hopes of making more inroads. All in all, 2004 should be a fun year to watch. If anyone has questions, I'll gladly go into details later. FWIW -Jeff

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SuSE 9.0, installation of TeX style-file: texhash doesn't rebuild database
by Jean-Luc Kaiser 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I wanted to report an issue concerning the installation of TeX style-files on a clean SuSE 9.0 system (tetex-2.0.2-48) and a solution. texhash doesn't rebuild the TeX-inputfiles-database: #texhash texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... texhash: /usr/share/texmf/ls-R lacks magic string. Skipping... texhash: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... texhash: Done. In fact: # head -n 3 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R .: aliases bibtex I edited /usr/share/texmf/ls-R, and now texhash works fine: # head -n 4 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R % ls-R -- filename database for kpathsea; do not change this line. ./: aliases bibtex # texhash texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... texhash: Updating /usr/share/texmf/ls-R... texhash: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... texhash: Done. Jean-Luc

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Does anyone have MainActor working from the 9.0 disks?
by Tom Nielsen 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I've been trying for the past month to get MA to play my avi file I got from my digital camera. No luck. I read somewhere that MPlayer was supposed to help, along with the w32codecs. No luck. Has anyone got MA to play an avi? If so, was there a trick to it? MA from the 8.2 disks worked perfectly. As a point of reference, I've downloaded some avis from the net and those don't work either, but everything plays on mplayer or kaffine. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Top posting and Outlook Express
by Paul W. Abrahams 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I personally don't use Outlook Express except on those rare occasions when I have to, and I'm not very familiar with it. But there are folks on this list, I believe, who for whatever reason are using it to participate. My impression (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is that when you're replying to a message using OE, OE doesn't make the text of the original available for editing -- in fact, you don't even see the original when you're composing your reply. So that raises the question, which someone more familiar with OE could usefully answer: is it somehow possible to compose more useful replies, following good quotation practice, under OE -- and if so, how. OE may be a hideous abomination, but it still behooves us to assist OE users, who may have no choice in the matter, in participating usefully on this list. Paul Abrahams

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Can't boot into Windows....I need to play a game!
by Tom Nielsen 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I went to boot into Windows to play my favorite game....Rainbow Six (the only thing Windows is good for anymore) and when I clicked on Windows, all that happened was that the screen went black for a second and came back up to my grub boot options. I hit windows again and the same thing happened. So, I went back to into Suse and checked my boot configuration. I see windows at: Windows other (hd0,0) (/dev/hda1) Everything looks correct. I think. Upon looking at my sections management for windows I see: Section Name Windows Section Type Other -------- root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 I think that's correct. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks, Tom

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USB and camera hotplugging
by Paul W. Abrahams 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

I'm having some difficulties in getting my digital camera to work consistently under Linux. What's the best source of information on hotplugging USB devices? Paul Abrahams

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xawtv overlay problem
by Johannes Egerer 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hello, I recently upgraded from SuSE 7.3 to 9.0 ( by formatting disk and installing 9.0 so no real upgrade!). I used to watch TV with my Hauppauge WinTV on xawrv. Under SuSE 7.3 I could press F and had a complete TV picture with only the KDE Menu bar shown (which could be slided to the side). There was no window frame no background to see any more. But now under SuSE 9.0 xawtv does not react when I press the F-Button and I cannot expand the tv window beyond a certain size by clicking on the expand window box (but this size is nearly the whole screen in 1280x1024 so I imagine a total overlay should be possible ie. no 768x576 limit). I know that I have to load v4l in my XF86config and something has to be done in the .xawtv file in my home directory. I thought keeping the old file should do the trick, but it did not... -- Sieht gut aus...schade und ich hatte noch so viele gute Ideen! Don't summon anything bigger than your head!

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YOU says that there is an update but wrong one
by sean＠tcob1.net 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

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