January 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

passwd issue
by susele＠maiabox.net 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi everyone, I need to use passwd to change passwords via shell so I can use it in a script to change multiple accounts passwords. I know Red Hat's passwd can do this by use of the flag --stdin How can I obtain the same result in SuSE (using 9.0)? Thanks in advance. André Maia -------------------------- Maiabox.net Webmail System

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Epson Stylus C84
by Fred Miller 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Is anyone using the Epson Stylus C84 with SUSE 9.0? If so, can you get the max. res. of 5760 x 1440? Whats your impression of this printer and any problems? Thanks! Fred -- "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)."

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Re: [SLE] Configuring Printer
by Russ 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

There is no button that says 'Apply' but there is one that says 'Save'. I do click it then click 'OK' but no change. BTW, what is 'US Letter' (8 1/2 x 11), as in A4, 5, 6? I can't find any letters like that on my packages of paper. Just wondering which one it is. Thanks Russ Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > Russ wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am trying to configure my Epson Stylus CX5400 (as a Stylus C82) in >> PrintManager. The colors and what not are great, but the borders are >> way out of whack. I change the settings I think should be changed but >> the test page always prints the same. I even tried to change >> everything while logged in as root. No diff. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> Russ > > Apply the changes and then press OK. >

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SuSE Gnome 2.4, XD2 or ULB Gnome?
by Lars Norén 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

SuSE Gnome 2.4 Not that the standard Gnome 2.2 desktop in SuSE 9 is very bad, slow or ugly or anything, but when I found the Gnome 2.4-packages at SuSE I couldn't resist installing them and try them out. I downloaded all packages from SuSE by ftp, put them all in the same folder and did all sorts of rpm commands and moved conflicting packages to and fro till everything was installed (all but one dev package, I think). SuSE Gnome 2.4 looked fine and worked very well, but I still wanted something more - I've seen Blue Curve in Red Hat... 8, I think it was, and some screen shots from a Gnome DE for Slackware, and I had a feeling that you could do so much more, and better looking, with Gnome and SuSE. XD2 So, what about Ximian Desktop? Yes, Ximian (www.ximian.com/products/desktop/download.html) looks really nice, and I like the instructions for installing it - my grandmother could do that if she still were alive! I started the installer, chose a mirror site nearby and started to download the packages. It all went very smooth and fast, but when it came to the actual installation there was a conflict, despite the initial control of the rpm database, and the installation was aborted and my system left untouched. I deinstalled the conflicting package(s) and did the Ximian installation again. This time everything went fine. I logged out and in again and... Wow! Ximian does... look... reeeally... nice! Yeah, that is the way it ought to be. But it was slow. And a lot of menu entries disappeared. And when I was to install a PDF writer in OpenOffice.org I couldn’t for my life find spadmin, not anywhere. I searched the support at the Ximian site but I couldn't find any matching answers. I tried to deinstall the Ximian version of OpenOffice.org and install the SuSE version again but that only lead to OpenOffice.org didn't work at all, at least not in Ximian (perhaps in KDE though). The update feature in Ximian is really nice and gives a thorough and professional impression (whole of Ximian does) and I guess you should use that instead of YaST, because after installing Ximian, Yast wanted me to update gdm2 again and unless I didn't do that, I wasn't able to get the rest of the updates - gdm2 is security, so I couldn't deselect it. ULB Gnome So, okay, what about James Ogley's ULB Gnome? I've used his packages for gFTP and Blufish for quite some time, and I installed almost all packages once in SuSE 8.2 and though it didn't look exactly like the screen shots at www.usr-local-bin.org, it looked very nice. First a clean installation of SuSE 9 Pro. At package selection I deselected 'KDE' and selected 'Gnome', 'Development for Gnome', 'Simple web server with Apache2' and some other things. After installation I logged in once as root, logged out again and closed down the system and turned the computer off for a while to cool it down and let everything settle. After a cup of coffee I started again and did all the recommended YaST updates, restarted and did the optional updates (MS fonts and nVidia). When upgrading the system by apt, following the apt guide at usr-local-bin (www.usr-local-bin.org/apt.php) a lot of packages were kept back for reasons I don't know, but I simply deinstalled them (Abiword, Mozilla, Epiphany, Evolution, etc.) till only three packages were held back (sane, libgsf and gstreamer-plugins). Then I installed ULB Gnome, and after that I used 'apt-get install' to get all the packages I deinstalled earlier. I did all this as root, and when I logged in on my user account, for the first time, it looked exactly like the screen shots of ULB Gnome at usr-local-bin - Wow! ULB Gnome looks reeeally nice! And it works very well too. Above all it's fast - it's definitely faster than XD2 (at least on my machine) and I think it's faster than SuSE Gnome, both 2.2 and 2.4. Some menu entries disappeared (mysqlcc, Maelstrom, audacity, xsane, opera - see attached file for almost a full list :-) but not at all as many as in XD2. And you can still use YaST for updates in ULB Gnome. Everything works very well in ULB Gnome and my language settings are not changed (as in XD2, where everything changed from Swedish to English). I like the default theme and icons in ULB Gnome, and the menus and layout in general looks and works very well. And the winner is... SuSE Gnome 2.4 was nice and worked well but wasn't that exciting. Ximian was easy to install and looked very nice, user-friendly and gave a most professional impression - it really is the way it ought to be, and it's a DE you're more than happy to show to people that are new to Linux - but it was slow, and it felt like it kind of took over the system a little too much, and it seemed to rely rather heavily on its own special solutions and ways of doing things (recognise that? :-) ULB Gnome, on the other hand, is also very good looking but faster and works very well and integrates better with SuSE - ULB Gnome really gives the impression of being an official part of SuSE, not just a DE that happens to work with SuSE as well as with some other distros. ULB Gnome is the DE I'm still using - it's stable, it's fast, it's very good looking and integrates very well with SuSE - thank you very much James! /Lars hydrogen gwc kino jazz coriander gtkam xsane gtoaster MozillaFirebird k3b BASS bcast mactor motv xawtv xboard mysqlcc Maelstrom -fullscreen xmms %U scribus %f opera %u vumeter -r CheckHardware --sound audacity CheckHardware --sound terminatorX CheckHardware --sound /usr/bin/timidity -iat CheckHardware --sound qamix /opt/OpenOffice.org/program/spadmin /usr/binjavaws %f

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Re:[SLE] Quake 3 and sound in Suse 9
by sebastien 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

hi, got the same problem as you : Since I installed SuSE 9.0, no sound with quake 3, with the same error message. And I can't get alsa ouput work with xmms (oss works fine). It tells me there is no output device. What kind of chip you are using for sound ? I use a SiS chipset for sound, the one which is integrated on the motherboard. I tried different kernel (2.4.22 and 2.4.23rcX) and i updated the alsa drivers, but this did not fix the sound problem with quake 3 and xmms. I think I will buy a cheap sound blaster live which is better supported. ---------- Initial Header ----------- From : Glenn Pedersen <glennped(a)optusnet.com.au> To : Suse <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> Cc : Date : Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:29:27 +1000 Subject : [SLE] Quake 3 and sound in Suse 9 Hi guys, Just recently got Suse 9 and am having problems with the sound in quake3. Btw this worked fine in 8.2. I get no sound at all and this is the error message that i get from the console. btw i have tried as root and the same thing happens. ------- sound initialization ------- Could not mmap dma buffer PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ trying mmap PROT_WRITE (with associated better compatibility / less performance code) /dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not mmap /dev/dsp ------------------------------------ Any ideas? Cheers, Glenn -- 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 ********** L'ADSL A 20 EUR/MOIS********** Avec Tiscali, l'ADSL est à 20 EUR/mois. Vous pourrez chercher longtemps avant de trouver moins cher ! Pour profiter de cette offre exceptionnelle, cliquez ici : http://register.tiscali.fr/adsl/ Offre soumise à conditions.

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quotacheck on live file system
by Stand H 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi all, The status of the quota is wrongly reported. The user has removed all of his file but repquota still reports the user data exceeds quota. Is it safe to run quotacheck -avumf? I need -m and -f flag because the quota is on and the file system is read/write. I can't remount the file system as read only because it is a very busy server. quota soft ver is quota-3.03-110 and Linux is SuSe 8.0. Thanks, Stand. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003

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Help needed installing PHP on Suse (general)
by Marius Roets 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi Everybody, I'm sort of unfamiliar with the details of how rpm works. Here is my problem. I have installed apache and PHP from yast2, and it works fine. Now I want to change some of the compilation parameters of PHP. For instance, I want to compile it with the "--with-gd" option. How would I go about doing this using Suse. In the past I have downloaded the tarball for apache and PHP, and this was no problem. I just did a new ./configure and make etc. Regards Marius Roets

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IBM TP X30 - Cisco Aironet 350 MiniPCI Wireless Card
by Audrius 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi List, maybe some one on the list are using IBM TP X30 with that card? I can not get it even detected by YAST. What is strange, that card is listed in SuSEPlugger. But if I start YAST (from SuSEPlugger), there is no new card only eth0. My friends are using Mandrake and Fedora without such problems. But I love SuSE and would like to stay with it. Audrius

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Replying to posted messages]
by jhb 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

-------- Original Message -------- From: - Fri Jan 2 21:31:18 2004 X-UIDL: <200401021109.59444.Gary.Gapinski(a)grc.nasa.gov> X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Return-Path: <suse-linux-e-return-173766-jhb01_suse=adelphia.net(a)suse.com> Received: from lists.suse.com ([195.135.221.131]) by mta2.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with SMTP id <20040102161104.ODCX7357.mta2.adelphia.net(a)lists.suse.com> for <jhb01_suse(a)adelphia.net>; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:11:04 -0500 Received: (qmail 8694 invoked by alias); 2 Jan 2004 16:10:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: <mailto:suse-linux-e-help@suse.com> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:suse-linux-e-unsubscribe-jhb01_suse=adelphia.net@suse.com> list-post: <mailto:suse-linux-e@suse.com> X-MIME-Notice: attachments may have been removed from this message X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e X-Message-Number-for-archive: 173766 Delivered-To: mailing list suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Received: (qmail 8659 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2004 16:10:01 -0000 From: Gary Gapinski <Gary.Gapinski(a)grc.nasa.gov> Reply-To: Gary.Gapinski(a)grc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Glenn Research Center To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:09:59 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200401021051.48243.abrahams(a)acm.org> In-Reply-To: <200401021051.48243.abrahams(a)acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401021109.59444.Gary.Gapinski(a)grc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: [SLE] Replying to posted messages While I don't know how to add it to the floating menu, "L" is Reply-to-Mailing-List shortcut key, and a toolbar entry is also available. -- 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 -- The stillness of God speaks louder than a choir of voices. Every day is a gift. That is why we call it the present. SuSE 7.3 >P133m SuSE 9.0 > Athon 1.33g win2000 > Omnibook 6000

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OpenOffice.org with Danish i18n
by Janus Sandsgaard 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

How do I set my OpenOffice.org to use Danish menus etc.? I installed the Danish i18n rpm, but OOo keeps speaking English to me. I am running SuSE 9.0 Personal and all KDE menues etc. are in Danish. -j -- My baby daughter loves Linux! <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000564.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000556.html> <http://idun.sandsgaard.dk/archives/000563.html>

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