March 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

battery problem on Thinkpad G40
by kbonasia＠mclink.net 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

After a first installation in my IBM Thinkpad G40 of a SUSE Linux 9.0 Professional it show a warning message that inform me the battery is low, but the notebook is connected to 220Volts and the battery is full charged. Why this? I don't find in the control panel more information about how to setup the complete power control via Linux, but only a checkbox how to show and play some alarm when the charge is low and extremely low... -- Calogero Bonasia

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Fixing MP3 files?
by The Purple Tiger 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Lo all :) I have a large number of MP3 files that are corrupted in various ways - a harddrive that was dying had them on and suffered random corruption. Now I am okay with audible glitches in the MP3s, but xmms seems to choke on a few of them some way through and I assume this is due to the corruption in the MP3 file itself and it just sits there part of the way through the file. I am looking for a program to fix the MP3 files - basically something to read them and write out a proper MP3 conformant file based on the original. Thoughts? Thanks :)

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Spamassassin Article
by Graham Smith 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

This article appears to be quite a good introduction to Spamassassin http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200402/200402.htm There are a number of other articles which may prove useful. The index can be found here:- http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/archive.htm -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------

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mozilla --> pdf ... hyperlinks?
by Hans du Plooy 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Hi all, Currently I'm doing one of two things to make pdf files from web pages I would like to save: 1. Print to file - .ps and do ps2pdf14 on the resulting ps file. 2. Load the page in OpenOffice (Yes! You can! But it's quite slow) and hit the pdf button. Both give very nice looking pdfs, but neither preserve the hyperlinks (obvious in solution 1). Is there a way to make pdfs from web pages without losing the links? Thanks -- Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za

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Network-Traffic (volume in MB) loggen for each Host
by Andreas Härtel 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Hello, I know - this isn't a new toppic, but I've searched the internet and havn't found anything. So my question: I've got a Router (192.168.0.5), which forewards all incomming traffic to another PC (ip 192.168.0.1). Now there are three hosts, which communicates with the PC (.0.1) over the router. I want to log the volume in MB, which every host is sending or getting over this Router (.0.5). Thanks for tipps, Andreas

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Unofficial SuSEFAQ project needs your help
by Togan Muftuoglu 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Hi everyone, As the subject header says the project needs your help in adding new content. While I am still unpacking the big part is finished and I can play with my projects again. However, while I was away SuSE 9.0 came lots of new comers joined etc. etc . As a result I was not able to follow the current threads since October and that is in a few days two months time. So I need FAQ entries the question and the answer just in simple text format (yes putting url links so that I can follow the thread will help) Any mini howto's are also welcomed send it to my direct attention note: my mail server does not like spam at all so make sure you have your reverse address delegated. If that becomes a problem please post it to the http://sf.net/projects/susefaq Thanks in advance. -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://susefaq.sf.net

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Rhythmbox and realaudio?
by John Pettigrew 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

I've just downloaded rhythmbox et al. from ulb and quite like the look of it (although it takes *ages* to start up because I've got loads of music :-) One thing, though - it has "internet radio" support but I'm not sure what this means in terms of formats. I usually listen to BBC Radio 1 using xmms on my PC, which is a RealAudio stream. However, Rhythmbox doesn't like this - it complains with one of the following errors: 1) creating uri "rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra" (No such file or directory) 2) creating uri "rtsp://rmlivev8.bbc.net.uk/farm/*/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra" (Interrupted system call) Any idea whether and how I can get this working? TiA John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john(a)headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!

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RE: [SLE] SuSE 9.1? (With a 2.6 kernel?)
by Ben Higginbottom 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

>In terms of time, a SuSE 9.1 ought to be taking shape about now. Has >anyone heard anything about a new release? Will SuSE's acquisition by >Novell delay the next release? Will it include Ximian Desktop? If not, >can we assume that a new release of XD2 will follow soon after? >From what I've heared from people at SuSE UK, it will be a 2.6 kernel with KDE 3.2 and either Gnome 2.4 or XD2 or both. When I asked they hadnt made a final decision. I've no idea on X or glib, but it should be released mid-april, and with samba 3. >I got wind that the desktop guys at my Fortune 250 company -- the people >who mandate what the users run -- are thinking about taking a look at >Linux, mostly because of how hard we've been hit by the latest email >viruses. Obviously, I'll be recommending SuSE for such a thing, but I'd >sure love to show them a new version with the speed improvements in the >2.6 kernel I keep hearing about. Well come september one of the beacon schools in manchester will be using 9.1 on the desktop, using OpenOffice for the office suite, TotalRekall (possibly) as the database frontend and last year we paid for development on WINE to ensure that all the schools educational programs worked under it (our diffs are now included in the current build). We already have them using Moz as the browser, but oddly our biggest hang up was with the file manager, in the end were probably going to use Xfe. Its only about 120 machines + 60 laptops that will be pure linux, with prehaps 300 others dual booted along with 2000 users, but the status as a beacon school and technology college will cause other schools to take a look at and consider linux against the other leading OS. Plus were going to be able to hand out to the kids as soon as they start the software that they'll be using for nothing, and in my copious free time I intend to put together a knoppix varient so I can give them the entire enviroment :) Good Luck, Ben

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kernel: VM: killing process
by Simon Oliver 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Since the last two couple of kernel patches I've had problems with various services unexpectedly dying (including sshd, cupsd and ypbind). Here's what I see in the logs: Feb 27 05:11:07 tweety -- MARK -- Feb 27 05:16:02 tweety kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf 0/0) Feb 27 05:16:18 tweety kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf 0/0) Feb 27 05:18:14 tweety kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0xf 0/0) Feb 27 05:18:15 tweety kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1 d2/0) Feb 27 05:18:15 tweety kernel: VM: killing process sshd I have k_smp, 2.4.20, 105 SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586), VERSION = 8.2 Linux version 2.4.20-64GB-SMP (root(a)SMP_X86.suse.de) (gcc version 3.3 20030226 ( prerelease) (SuSE Linux)) #1 SMP Sat Feb 7 02:07:52 UTC 2004 This all started on the 20th February and there have been thirteen instances since then. Any ideas? -- Simon Oliver

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YaST
by Nick 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Who know? How the YaST know which packets are installed and which ones - not? Is there some file with the installed packet names? Nick

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