May 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Writing on-line Patdhes to a Patch CD?
by Terje J. Hanssen 31 May '04

31 May '04

Can someone tell me If and possibly How in Suse 9.x it is possible to write the Online-update patches to a CDR/CDRW Patch disk? If later reinstallation ore more installation of the whole OS, the patching would be faster from this 'backup Patch CD'. Is the Yast2 tool "Patch CD" applicable for this purpose? Terje J. Hanssen

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Dumb DSL question
by Jim Sabatke 31 May '04

31 May '04

Can SuSE (9.0) connect properly to DSL? Particularly SBC/Yahoo? I assume the answer is yes, but SBC says they don't support Linux and they haven't answered my emailed questions about it. -- Jim Sabatke Hire Me!! - See my resume at http://my.execpc.com/~jsabatke Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.

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Does 9.1 Support the Epson Perfection 4870 Photo Scanner
by Stephen Reynolds 31 May '04

31 May '04

Can someone who is running 9.1 check to see if YaSE lists the Epson Perfection 4870 Photo Scanner in the supported scanner list please. I'd also like to know if the Epson Stylus C83/C84 printers are also listed. Regards, Steve

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Re: [SLE] Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Terje J. Hanssen 31 May '04

31 May '04

> Terje J. Hanssen wrote Sat May 29 2004: >> >> I am sorry to conclude that my upgrade from SuSE 9.0 Pro to 9.1 Pro has >> been waste of time and money for me, so far. The same I have to say >> about the free SuSE "Installation support". >> >> The reason is that my SuSE 9.1 installation only detects 1 of my 3 SCSCI >> devices (as I wrote in another subject on this forum: >> http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/3254.html) >> >> Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected >> HP DVD Writer 100i NOT detected >> Epson 1640SU scanner NOT detected Terje J. Hanssen wrote Sun May 30 2004: > > Downgraded and reinstalled SuSe 9.0 (over 9.1): > > Yamaha 4416S CDRW recorder detected and works > HP DVD Writer 100i detected and works > Epson 1640SU scanner detected and works > > > SuSE 9.0 works ........ :-) > Well, I started this thread and wish to round it off from my side. My aim was not "black or white" SuSE, but a feedback and constructive criticism to get a better and working 9.1, as I would expect from SuSE! And I feel sure that this gradually will be the case; SuSe simply have to the sooner the better. The main reason I guess, has been that the hungry Linux people have called for the new 2.6 kernel, and that SuSE eagered to show that they were the first to be able to deliver. In my opinion, 9.1 is not ready for production yet and should not have official released and sold so early. It should still have been in beta and for free download some time, so that most of the arised installation and hardware issues could be uncovered and fixed. Customers buying the 9.1 upgrade from SuSE, simply expect that 9.1 works properly when replacing 9.0 on the same hardware, without paying extra support to solve initial weaknesses. If not, this should have been a new primary 10.0 release. Regarding hardware, I wish to mentione as a SuSE plus at the end that I originally bought SuSE 9.0 Pro, when it proved to install and work streamlined on my Intel N440BX/Astor server. Redhat 9.0 which I tried first to install, didn't even detect this SCSI hotswap back panel and that installer broke each attempt. Also SuSe 9.1 has now installed OK on this older plain SCSI hardware, and I haven't discovered any hardware detection issues, though I have had limited time to test it. Therefore, while working with 9.0 on my workstation, I am still waiting for a working 9.1 for my payed Pro Upgrade ........ Terje J. Hanssen

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I cannot play a CD
by Karel De Vriendt 31 May '04

31 May '04

I am running SuSE 9.1 on an ABIT mother board (with an AC97 sound chip). In GNOME, I have the sounds associated with pressing buttons, etc. In XMMS, I can play mp3 files In the standard GNOME CD player, the player find the CD and can play the CD but there is no sound (with the volume slider in of the player in middle position). In Alsaplayer, the CD is not found. In XMMS, when I configure the input plugin - CD audio playern I can check the drive, the drive is found: Device /dev/cdrecorder OK Disc has 25 tracks Total lenght 70:54 Digital audio extraction text OK Directory /media/cdrecorder OK But when I want to constitute the play list, the directory /media/cdrecorder seems to be empty. when I do in a terminal: cd /media/cdrecorder /media/cdrecroder> ls I get /bin/ls: .: No medium found But "grip", with CDRom device set to /dev/cdrecorder find the tracks on the CD. But as with the standard GNOME CD player, I can play the CD with grip but no sound (with the volume control set completely to the right). But I can grip and encode the files. Help plse. All suggestions are welcome Many thanks in advance,

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Loading Modules in SuSE 9.1 vs 8.2
by Terry Eck 31 May '04

31 May '04

In trying to track down why I cannot get sound to play with kdetv under SuSE 9.1 I was checking the data in /etc/modules.conf on 8.2 and noticed that /etc/modules.conf in 9.1 is empty and there is another file which appears to replace it (modprob.conf). Instead of using "on" and "off" as in modules.conf, modprob.conf appears to use /bin/true. Example: modules.conf: alias block-major-48 off modprobe.conf: alias block-major-49 /bin/true and later: modules.conf: alias char-major-116 snd modprobe.conf: install char-major-116 /bin/true char-major-116 are the /dev/audio files. Right above the "install char-major-116 /bin/true" there is this line: "#remove this if sound is configured" I wonder if the line for char-major-116 is causing the problem? I am getting sound from the system (frozen-bubble works) and I can cat a au file to /dev/audio and it works (cat chime.au >/dev/audio). I just cannot get kdetv to run with sound. Can anyone tell me how the new modprob.conf functions? I would think that /bin/true would be similar to "on". -- SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) ---- 2.4.20-4GB-athlon --- Mon 05/31/04 13:55 1:55pm up 17:04, 5 users, load average: 0.60, 0.36, 0.29

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Dual Booting 9.0 and 9.1
by Lucky Leavell 31 May '04

31 May '04

I am currently running 9.0 and would like to install 9.1 on a partition now occupied by SCO Linux 4 (no comments please!) 9.0 is currently installed on /dev/sda5 I want to install 9.1 on /dev/sda3 but retain the ability to boot/access 9.0. How do I go about this? Thank you, Lucky Leavell

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RE: Digital video camera and 8.2
by Martin 31 May '04

31 May '04

Can anyone advice how to get Hitachi DVD camera recognized by SuSe 8.2? I can see it hooked up to USB via Yast2 'Hardware_Information' but dunno what trick to pull up to be able to mount it. Thanks for any advice. Martin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

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Re: [SLE] Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!
by Luiz Carlos 31 May '04

31 May '04

Folks, you are forgetting that we are here to change information about LINUX, more specifically SuSE Linux... Therefore, control, to change insults doesn't take the anything! --- On Mon 05/31, peter Nikolic < p.nikolic1(a)btinternet.com > wrote:From: peter Nikolic [mailto: p.nikolic1(a)btinternet.com]To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.comDate: Mon, 31 May 2004 21:33:49 +0100Subject: Re: [SLE] Sorry SuSE: 9.1 is Waste of time and money!On Monday 31 May 2004 21:09, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Monday 31 May 2004 03:00 pm, Jake wrote: > > On Monday 31 May 2004 19:09, peter Nikolic wrote: > > > Oh Dear talk about yourself pal troll indeed at least i > > > aint no stuckup twat that that cant have a bit of fun so > > > shut up and think before you go calling people a troll cus > > > things could just get dirty follow my jist .. > > > > > > troll my aunt fanny. > > > > > > Dick splat > > > > This is unacceptable and downright rude. > > This person should be removed from the list. > > What would you expect from someone who calls himself "Quinton > 11"? Probably all of 12 years old. > > -- > +-------------------------------------------------------------- >--------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh(a)bmarsh.com > Bellaire, MI 05/31/04 16:08 + > +-------------------------------------------------------------- >--------------+ "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all > evidence that you tried." Excuse me sunshine if you take the time to get so frigging education you would have some chance of knowing the significance of that OFFICIALLY ISSUED CALLSIGN so just go away and play with your box of toys child -- G6NJR Pete otherwise known as "Quinton 11" A Linux Only area Happy bug hunting M$ clan Pete,,,,, :-) -- 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 _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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[SLE] SuSE 9.1 was not for me a waste of time and money !
by Catimimi 31 May '04

31 May '04

Hi all, Reading the difficulties you meet with 9.1, I think that reporting satisfaction is necessary. My system : - dual pIII 933 Mhz processor, - dual embedded SCSI controller ( not adaptec but LSI !!!) - VIA chipset !!! - Nvidia GeForce 5900 !!! - 8 SCSI units : 3HD, DVD, CD writer, CDrom, Scanner, DAT - Pinnacle TV - SB Live - KDE3-3.2 and SuSE 9.1 recognised all my hardware at new install. I used all the releases of SuSE from 7.0 and I never upgrade. Everything runs OK : - VMware 4.5 - Upgraded Wine Rack - Nvidia drivers with 3D and AGP 4X (problem here with the framebuffer with latest releases of the driver but not due to SuSE) - 1024x768 TV out - ... Since I use VMware I disabled the use of subfs in fstab. I have just difficulties with Xine, I'm working on it .. and with ... the alcatel speedtouch ADSL USB modem no longer works, it looks like a compilation compatibility and as the alcatel module isn'i open source I'm not able to recompile it. It was a good occasion to fire this modem and buy an ADSL ethernet router. I'm willing to share my experience if I can help someone. Looking forward... Michel.

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