December 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

parallel port switch
by Chris 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Hi, I am in need of a solution to be able to use my printer with both my susue and my xp box and my laptop. It's a parallel port model (brother 1040) and works great with suse. I have tried using a switch box but no luck. The switch box works otherwise. Any Ideas? Chris

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SUSE taking over the World! Finally!
by Allen 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/0/4662743FE8FF0106CC256F56007A25C7?Ope… Long link but a good read. I've been plugging for SUSE since I first used it and nothing can touch it. The only thing that even comes CLOSE is Slackware. SUSE is really getting up to par on the business world, and I think it's great. And look at the screen shot towards the bottom! BEAUTIFUL! Take that XP, RedHat, Sco, And every other shitty OS.

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Looking for alarm clock app...
by Michael W Cocke 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Looking for an alarm clock/reminder application. The key requirement is to be able to set recurring alarms for "the first Tuesday of the month (for example)", rather than by exact date. Anyone know of one? Thanks! Mike- -- If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs... You may have a great career as a network administrator ahead! -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,

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SMP Kernel for 9.2 ?
by W.D.McKinney 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Hello, I am loading up 9.2 Pro on a Compaq DL380 dual P111 1GHz and wondering where to find the correct SMP kernel ? Thanks, Dee

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setup two ip addresses on SuSe 9.1
by Stand H 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Hi all, SuSe 9.1 has changed its way of working with devices. I spend alot of time finding a way to assign two ip addresses to one NIC device. I found an article on its website but still can't help me. Can anybody give me the step-by-step howto setup two ip addresses on the same NIC device? Thanks, Stand __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page � Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com

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network install
by Glenn Holmer 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Can anybody point me to a good set of instructions on how to install SUSE 9.2 from a network source? My main box has DVD, but not the test boxen I want to install on. I tried exporting the DVD via FTP; got the install to start and YaST came up, but when he got to the package selection, he couldn't find anything. Do you actually have to copy the files to disk? -- ================================================================= Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ----------------------------------------------------------------- The one sticking point between us and the open-source community is that we actually think that compatibility matters. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -James Gosling, creator of Java =================================================================

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Re: [suse-kde] Gnome Application Appearance Under KDE
by Randall R Schulz 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Carl, On Wednesday 01 December 2004 14:00, Carl Hartung wrote: > <snip> > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 15:49, Randall R Schulz wrote: > <snip> > > Hi Patrick, > Hi Randall, > > After reading your exchange, I was reminded to open Gnome Control > Center to 'spruce up' Evolution & Mozilla under KDE. > > I selected it from Utilities->Desktop, it opened fully populated and > functional, I set my desired theme and then Quit -- no difficulties > at all. I'm still on 9.0 Pro if that means anything. I'm inclined to think the symptoms I experienced with the Gnome Control Center not launching and with the "xhost +local:" work-around allowing it to run is _not_ normal. I'm running SuSE Pro. 9.1 and, as I indicated in the original post, using the supplementary updates to get the latest KDE (3.3.1, Level "a", whatever that means...). > regards, > > - Carl > > PS/OT: Is it me, or are a lot of the posters on our SuSE lists a bit > 'testy' today? Today? Randall Schulz

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Veritas and SUSE 9.2 don't play nice. Any clues why? Error msg included.
by Ben Rosenberg 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

If anyone couple help me out I would be very grateful. I've just upgraded to 9.2 and when I try to display Veritas 3.4.x or 4.5.x through an ssh tunnel as I've done for the last 4 years.. it craps on itself with the message below. Yes, I do the "ssh -X" so that it will do X forwarding. I have no idea what the errors below are. The 3.x version is a motif application and the 4.x is a java application but both crap on themselves when they start. Any input would rock. Thanks. The error: (root@cody) ~> /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/xnb & [13:23 04-12-01] [1] 22529 (root@cody) ~> X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)12-01] Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage) Resource id in failed request: 0x48 Serial number of failed request: 248 Current serial number in output stream: 248 [1] + exit 1 /opt/openv/netbackup/bin/xnb -Ben -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."

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Installing SuSE 9.2 on a Dell Optiplex GX270
by Peter A. Taylor 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

My work computer is a Dell Optiplex GX270, with an Intel 865G graphics chip, and a Dell E771P monitor. Under SuSE 8.2, I was unable to get it to recognize more than 1 MB of video RAM. (Or the wheel on my USB wheel mouse.) I recently tried to install SuSE 9.2. The installer recognized the wheel mouse correctly, but when I got to the main installation menu, where it proposes the software load, partitioning, boot method, etc., the left side window and the main window appeared to be black on black, and completely unreadable. The same thing happened both using safe settings and after trying to set the monitor selection to monochrome. I could presumably work around this because there is a visible button on the bottom of the screen that brings up the needed menus, but I'm not sure this is a smart thing to do. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause the black on black problem? Thanks, Peter Taylor

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Can't install netscape from Konsole- Suse9.0
by AndrewLGreig＠netscape.net 02 Dec '04

02 Dec '04

Hi all, Brand new to Suse, so I installed 9.0 from a magazine CD, just to dip my toe in the water. Being a cut down version to fit on one CD there were certain things which were not installed, understandable. I would like to configure a local mirror as a source for Yast2 but it protests that there is no installation media in that directory. I thought that Yast2 may be a bit like apt-get for RedHat or urpmi for Mandrake, so I expect that some configuration of software sources is in order. The rpm repository for suse on my local mirror is http://planetmirror.com/pub/linux/suse/suse, how can I set this up within yast2, please? Once the software sources are specified, can I just type (for example) yast2 scribus and have it install and resolve the dependencies as well? I was hoping to get Evolution working on this but so far it looks like dependency hell. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks -- Andrew Greig "Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool; and so is wisdom to a man of understanding" Prov 10:23 __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp

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