November 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

FAT32 driver and big disk drives
by Greg Freemyer 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Is FAT32 under SUSE 8.2 reliable with a 250GB partition? Is it likely more reliable with SUSE 9.2, or something in between? M$ claims FAT32 supports upto 8 TB under WinXP. === Background I have a large tar backup tape (~200GB) made from an ext2 filesystem. There are roughly 300 files, all 640MB each. (Sized to fit on a CD). I am trying to restore the tar backup to a newly formatted 250GB FAT32 partition. Looking at the tar output (saved to a log file), everything is working fine and my file sizes are correct. Doing a "ls" on the filesystem shows that a number of the files are 0 bytes long. Unfortunately, all 300 or so files comprise a single logical entity that I need to access from a Windows box. Linux cannot write to NTFS and none of Windows EXT2 drivers seem reliable enough to use for this. I guess my next attempt will be to get cygwin to read in the tape. Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer

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ogg --> wav question
by Jake 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I back-up my favourite audio CDs to my HD in the ogg format. Now, one of my source CDs is broken so I want to decode the ogg file on my HD back to wav so I may burn a replacement. What tool can decode the ogg back to a wav please?

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RE: SuSe 9.2 on ftp
by Martin 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Would be ever 9.2 available for ftp download/install? Thx, Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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gdm
by boricua Orman 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

is there a way for gdm to show all users that can log in in login screen?

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Openoffice form wizard
by steve-ss 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

The form and report writing wizard doesn't work in the OOo database in 9.2. Does anyone know a workaround apart from installing the real thing from openoffice.org? I have 20 boxes like this. Thanks, Steve.

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Slow DVD Playback on SuSE 9.2
by Davide Dolcini 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hello, I was trying to re-install xine because crypted dvds playback won't work on a 'standard' suse package. I uninstalled kaffeine, totem, libxine, xine & the other plugins, and i downloaded packages from packman. Now xine works and plays dvd but it's almost impossible to watch them: the playback is really slow, sometimes the dvd hangs and i've to wait seconds to see the images again. How can I fix it? Thanks

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Experiences with XFS Filesystem
by Laurenz, Dirk 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Hello out there, i want to know about your XFS Filesystem experience. You may describe positive and negative experiences. I'm interesseted in both. Especially in the solutions for the negative experiences. It's also interessting, why you moved to XFS and from which filesystem. Thanks a lot in advance. Mit freundlichem Gruß, Dirk Laurenz Systems Engineer Fujitsu Siemens Computers Sales Central Europe Deutschland Professional Service Organisation Nord / Ost Hildesheimer Strasse 25 30880 Laatzen Germany Telephone: +49 (511) 84 89 - 18 08 Telefax: +49 (511) 84 89 - 25 18 08 Mobile: +49 (170) 22 10 781 Email: mailto:dirk.laurenz@fujitsu-siemens.com Internet: http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com http://www.fujitsu-siemens.de/rl/servicesupport/itdienstleistungen/competen… *******************************************************************************************************************

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RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100
by Thom Nowakowski 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Ok, this is getting now to the point of being irritating. It's obviously a bug in SUSE 9.2 and the way it works with certain centrino cards/laptops Can anyone tell me what files suse/ipw2100 uses for encryption and network? I will just try editting them myself and see what happens. Like I said, I get a link and I'm connected, set my default gw route but still no luck!! Can't ping or anything. I had a suggestion to turn off dhcp client on my wired nic on bootup and see if that helps which I will try later but this is getting ridiculous. A patch for Suse 9.2 is needed!! ________________________________ From: boricua Orman [mailto:boricua@pepino.is-a-geek.org] Sent: Wed 11/24/2004 6:05 AM To: Michael Sacco Cc: suse Subject: RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 2100 not there http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/List On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 00:47 -0500, Michael Sacco wrote: > Strange... > > Well, if I were you guys, and I really wanted it up and running, I would > download the ndiswrapper and use that module then. I had to set that up > when I was using 9.1 because the ipw2200 was not supported out of the box. > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ is the website, and there is pretty > straight-forward documentation. The install is relatively quick, you don't > need to recompile the kernel. Rather, you just compile the module for the > kernel you are already using. > > Testing this will also help pin down what the problem is. If ndiswrapper > works, then it's most likely the ipw2100 module. If ndiswrapper does not > work, then it's most likely a setup issue. > > Mike Sacco > > -----Original Message----- > From: boricua Orman [mailto:boricua@pepino.is-a-geek.org] > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:14 PM > To: Michael Sacco > Cc: suse > Subject: RE: [SLE] wireless card ipw2100 > > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:29 -0500, Michael Sacco wrote: > > This is going to sound silly, but I would try enabling power management. > I > > have the ipw2200 in my system, and sometimes it won't work unless I have > the > > power management on. It can be turned on by using the following command: > > > > iwconfig eth1 power on > > > > A quick type of "iwconfig eth1" afterwards should show that the command > took > > > > stays on for a second and back to off > > > -- > 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 > > > -- 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

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Amarok and audio streams
by Susemail 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

Has anyone been able to get Amarok to play anything at all. If you have please tell me how. I've been trying all day on 3 different systems using 9.1 and 9.2 to get Amarok to play a stream, any stream. I've read the handbook but I can't get Amarok to work at all. I know it's not good form to complain but what makes this really frustrating is that I pointed my safari browser on my Mac at http:// yp.shoutcast.com this morning and it's been playing all day! Xmms shows itself pre-buffering and connecting over and over again but it doesn't play anything. These two programs should play streams in a straight forward way. They don't for me. If they do for you please let my know how??? Thanks, Jerome

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HowTo play Shoutcast
by Susemail 24 Nov '04

24 Nov '04

I put http://yp.shoutcast.com in the Xmms location bar but nothing plays. Shoutcast documentation says Shoutcast should work with Xmms. How do I play a given stream on Shoutcast using Suse audio tools? I tried AmaroK too. Thanks, Jerome

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