January 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Gnumeric/gLabels/XChat
by James Ogley 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Updated on www.usr-local-bin.org today: * Gnumeric - The GNOME spreadsheet - Updated to version 1.2.4 * gLabels - label and business card design software - Updated to version 1.93.1 * XChat - IRC client - Updated to version 2.0.7 - fixes critical remote crasher bug James -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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Other Mailing List
by Donald Henson 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

During our "debate" earlier, someone mentioned that SuSE has a mailing list, called other?, where politics and such are NOT off-topic. I can't seem to locate it on the SuSE mailing list web site. Can anyone tell me where to find this list? Don Henson

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ATI 9800 All In Wonder Radeon video capture card -- working for anyone?
by jfweber＠bellsouth.net 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi, gang. I'm thinking of buying an ATI 9800 All In Wonder Radeon video capture card. Unfortunately ATI does not support Linux, and their customer service dept. could not provide any assurance that the card would work. Does anyone have this card running properly? Did it work out of the box or did you need to obtain additional drivers? If additional drivers were needed where did you find them? Any suggestions or assistance is greatly appreciated. This card is too expensive to buy without first knowing it's going to work. Thx. J ** I'm not as good as I was once, but I am as good once as I ever was.. "A nasty bit of rough" by David Feherty ** -- j nemo me impune lacessit wwEd it's just an afterthought; okay ? : The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle won.

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GRUB menu.lst entry questions (boot splash verbosity)
by Philip Amadeo Saeli 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Under SuSE Linux 9.0 (freshly installed), though I've edited an entry in the GRUB menu.lst, setting "splash=verbose", I still have to hit the "F2" key to get the boot messages, otherwise only the progress bar shows. After the system boots, looking at the contents of /proc/cmdline shows "splash=silent" in the cmdline!?! Where does that come from??? I've looked everywhere and haven't been able to solve this one! For reference, I've included relevant lines from my menu.lst. The first entry is the default one created by YaST during installation. The second one is the one I modified. The problem is that when I select the second entry, the boot splash is still silent. Also, I have some questions about some of the entries in the GRUB menu.lst to which I've not been able to find answers. Any help would be appreciated: 1. What does the "native" splash option mean (e.g., "splash=native")? I assume the other two ("silent" and "verbose") are as their names would suggest. 2. What does "showopts" mean??? I've looked everywhere and googled extensively and still can find no documentation on this one (I'even grepped the entire kernel source tree and "string"ed all the grub binaries looking for it!). I only found -one- message (on the web) that even addressed the term, but I couldn't really make sense of the explanation. I really wish that stuff like this would be at least minimally documented! Thanks, Phil ----- Begin included menu.lst entries ----- gfxmenu (hd0,1)/message color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 10 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Linux kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31A splash=silent desktop showop ts initrd (hd0,1)/initrd title SuSE Linux 9.0 Prof kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=0x31A splash=verbose desktop showo pts initrd (hd0,1)/initrd ----- End included menu.lst entries ----- -- Philip Amadeo Saeli SuSE Linux 8.2 (soon 9.0, if I can get it working correctly ...) psaeli(a)zorodyne.com

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OT ? config cisco 675
by Lee 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Would anyone perhaps have experience configging this dsl modem? seems I must convert it to bridge mode..would minicom, or setserial be the correct tools for this? thank you for your time... Lee

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Firebird
by Donald Henson 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

(SuSE 9.0, Gnome 2.2.2, Firebird 0.6.1-55) I decided to try MozillaFirebird. I installed it via Synaptic. When I try to run it using the bash command "MozillaFirebird", a window appears for about 2-3 seconds and then disappears. Help shows about a gazillion options. Can anyone tell me the minimum I need to do to start Firebird and make it actually do something? Any assistance will be appreciated. Don Henson

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VNC riddle
by Dan Am 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi folks, thought I'd get vnc up to relax a bit. Uncommented the lines in /etc/xinetd.d/vnc to get my Browser-kdm window. So: <whine on> netstat shows the relevant ports to be open. nmap does not. not even from localhost. (???) Same thing if I start vnc from the command line. Only thing that works is starting a vncserver from kde directly. But there I do not get a login: connection refused, even though I set my vnc-password. </whine off> Any hints ? Regards Dan -- buddha 2.4.20-4GB 1:44pm up 1:52, 5 users,

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Re: [SLE] Running RealPlayer binary
by Alexandr Malusek 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Jim Sabatke <jsabatke(a)execpc.com> writes: > >Are you really sure you need host-based access control in X? > > > Well, I need to be able to run programs with different KDE libs than > the ones running the desktop. So I login as my normal user, do > development work, then su to a "test" user where I setup the > environment appropriate for running development stuff. IMHO, you can use "sux - test" or "sux test". It works on my machine. -- A.M.

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Killing a frozen program
by Russ 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi All, How do you KILL a frozen program? In Mandrake there was Xkill on the menu and you click it, then click on the offending window and it is nuked. Unless I missed it, I find no similar menu item here. Thanks Russ

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Programming environment selection.
by jaska 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hi All. I'm wondering what programming enviroment to use for following: GUI interface for user (linux/KDE/Gnome), very basic, nothing fancy. Also I need MySQL access from the SW. Yes, it is mostly a basic database application, and I need also to produce PDF in the end. I can use for example PHP as a script in the end just for converting the final output. I've done it with PHP and Apache, but the differences with various browsers makes it look odd sometimes, and also the limitations of HTML makes it not-so-easy to use. Maybe something like QT or similar? I could try various languages that I have with my SuSE 9.0, but I'm relying on the high level of knowledge among You out there to save time. Jaska.

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