May 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

PXE Boot image
by Pereszlényi Ferenc 05 May '04

05 May '04

Hi, Can you help me to how can i generate PXE Boot Image (to TFTP server)? Where can i find a working documentation to SLES 8 ? Thanks your help Ferenc Pereszlenyi

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SuSE indoctrination too early?
by Damon Register 05 May '04

05 May '04

Am I indoctrinating my 3 year old son too early? Now when I come home he says "I want SuSE Linux" so he can play music with XMMS. Maybe I should get more games setup too? If Gates can do it by "giving" all that software to schools, why can't I beat him to it at home? Damon Register

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Slideshow screensaver
by Michael Satterwhite 05 May '04

05 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've just installed SuSE 9.0 on my laptop; my desktop is running 8.2 because I couldn't get 9.0 to run on it. While configuring my desktop, I looked for the slideshow screensaver that I've used under 8.2. I don't see it anywhere. Has it been renamed, or is it available anywhere? tia - ---Michael -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAlEVzjeziQOokQnARAq/pAKC057myrsT/MwimHwfmmLbYv2WZzACdG4jb xwJojpmklJXrgQRiSplAqmY= =BSJY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Suse 9.1 + ATI radeon 9500 pro drivers
by Titiriga Dorin 05 May '04

05 May '04

hello, I have problems with my videocard. I have no ideea how to mahe ati linux drivers to work with suse 9.1. So, any sugestions ?

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Speaking of paint/photo programs...
by BandiPat 05 May '04

05 May '04

Hi all, I have been keeping up with some of the discussion here, when the gentleman asked about image editing, etc. Then as the thread turned into a whining fest for Photoshop and the world will end if Adobe doesn't provide it for Linux, I started doing some research myself. Since any company that makes money from their software will admit, Linux scares them. And for good reason it should, because in fact Linux users have grown use to getting outstanding software for little or no money. As more & more folks move to Linux on the desktop, there will be more opportunity for those businesses to make money still with their software, but they don't seem to think that is the case just yet. Or at least some don't, there are exceptions it seems. Of course, we have an outstanding desktop publishing program available now, Scribus, which gets better with each day. We have Gimp for much of the graphics work, Inkscape for vector graphics, but apparently no graphics programs usable for image/photo editing? Or do we? CinePaint looks to have real possibilities, especially since most of Hollywood is using it for movies and high level film editing. There also seems to be a new guy in town that comes from the Amiga computer originally. Photogenics.HDR from Idruna Software. Here is an excerpt from their site: http://www.idruna.com/ "Idruna Photogenics HDR is the first 32 bit per channel floating point High Dynamic Range paint package for Windows and Linux. HDR images allow real world levels of illumination to be represented, which makes Photogenics essential for those working with film, digital cameras, and 3D rendering software..." There is a demo version available, Linux native it appears, which I haven't looked at yet. I have used Photogenics on the Amiga, but usually it's capabilites exceeded my needs. With the increased need for digital editing these days, this program sounds like it might just fit that "hole" everyone needs to fill. The actual program is a bit pricey, but I guess for those needing this type of software, it's just pocket change, especially if they have ever purchased Photoshop! ;o) Give it a look, Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

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Thoughts on 9.1 (long, Hmmmm... really long)
by Adolph & Sharon Weidanz 05 May '04

05 May '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hey all... I couldn't wait for my copy of 9.1 to get here, and I'm out of school* for only this week, I downloaded the version that is floating on the a.b.x.i.l, and installed it on my laptop. It is a one year old Gateway 600XL w/ 2.5ghz Pentium, 512meg of ram, 60gig Harddrive, Lucient (Orinoco) wireless card, built in ethernet 10/100, 17in LCD monitor, synaptic touchpad, and a usb mouse. I want to say up front that the items below are not to be taken in a negative way. I love 9.1. It is faster, snappier and overall the greatest thing I've seen. I can't wait for the boxes. 1. The first time I did the install i had the 60g partioned into 5g for /home, 47g for / and 2.5g for swap. 9.0 was installed with just about every upgrade that i could find. On my laptop I like to be just shy of bleeding edge when I can. My desktop has to have only stable stuff. So I get to play on the laptop. The install went pretty good. The new graphic of the lizard is kinda luminescence. Since I didn't want to delete my /home dir, when I selected the packages, I came up with about 75 conflicts. To make a long story short, I screwed something up and ended up doing a complete wipe and starting over (saved the data). So with a brand new install I have the following thoughts. please remember that I am pretty new to linux, and these may be my screw ups. Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.4-54.3-default Loaded 23440 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.4-54.3-default. Symbols match kernel version 2.6.4. No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. 1. During the boot process the new pci scan gives astericks(*) and W's for the scan. On the same line I get an 'inserting hw_random' error. Says the module hw_random.ko isn't in the directory (forgot to write which one down, something w/ /char/). I looked at the text file that came with 9.1 and it said to DL the newest rng-tools (1.1 I think). installed it. Didn't make any difference, still have the same error. Doesn't seem to matter though. Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5 <notice>start services (random isdn hotplug) Initializing random number generator done Hotplug is already active (disable with NOHOTPLUG=1 at the boot prompt)done <notice>exit status of (random isdn hotplug) is (0 0 0) <notice>start services (coldplug) coldplughwup: Loading module 'orinoco_cs' for device 'static-0' ~ scanning input: done ~ scanning pci: ******..WW**modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting hw_random (/lib/modules/2.6.4-54.3-default/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random.ko): No such device W***done 2. As can be seen above it loads my wireless card as 'static-0' but it is called wlan-bus-pcmcia in network setup. The next funny thing is when I try to find out the ip address, the eth1 was the only device that showed up w/ an IP address (eth0 is disabled, more on that in #3), but no listing for static-0 or wlan. Guess it doesn't matter as my internet connection is up and running through the router (I have some questions on that, that I ask in another email). 3. I tried to enable bothe the wired eth0 and the wireless with DHCP, but as under 9.0 I couldn't make it work. ** Not that i've tried very hard. I just create 3 profiles (Home-wireless, School-wireless, work-wired) 4. Hmmm ACPI. This gave a scare. When I first booted I was doing some looking around when I noticed that my cpu fan seemed to running on overdrive. I loaded a superkaramba theme (One of my favorite programs) and it said the cpu was at 100%. I called up a konsole and ran 'top'. powersaved was using abot 80% of the cpu. i let run for a minute or two with no change. I disabled the program (renamed it) and restarted the system. Everything ran fine. I then did an 'Online Update' (quick note, Yast menus have changed position on my system, and a couple of new entries). Nothing to do with ACPI was listed. I renabled 'powersaved' and since then it has run fine, although intermitenly the screen goes blank for a split second. Almost as if the power saver was shutting it off, while on AC. The main battery died, so I haven't been brave enough to test the 'close screen' options, or any others yet. <6>ACPI: RSDT (v001 GATEWA 600YG2 0x20030129 LTP 0x00000000) @ x1fef8198 <6>ACPI: FADT (v001 GATEWA 600YG2 0x20030129 PTL 0x0000001e) @ 0x1fefef64 <6>ACPI: BOOT (v001 GATEWA 600YG2 0x20030129 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1fefefd8 <6>ACPI: DSDT (v001 GATEWA 600YG2 0x20030129 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 <6>ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 <6>ACPI: local apic disabled 4. When I ran sensors I didn't get any mention of the cpu temps, so I'll keep playing with this. <6>CPU#0: Thermal monitoring enabled 5. Synaptic: I use this to keep my systems up to date (I admit, I'm lazy). The repositories know that my system is 9.1 and not 9.0, as just about everything I have installed shows up under 'locally installed or obsolete' and has nothing for me to update. 6. When shutting down I get 'Fatal Error: ds module, pcmcia, hermes, and Orinoco modules still in use'. Not sure what this means (told you I was a newcomer), but the system still shuts down fine. Last two nitpicking items (wheeeeeew) On the login screen, ya know that dumb little picture next to the log-in name? Well, I changed it in KDE, but for some reason the bug p[icture keeps coming up no matter what else I've picked. I'm sure it's just a simple little thing I have to delet in .kde or something. It's way down my list of things to play with. The last thing is Kmenu (KDE 3.2.X). It grew like 300% in size. Nothing I've done there has changed the size, resizing icons, panels, or anything else in control panel seems to affect it. Hmmmm.. Probably something I overlooked.... As I said above, I eagerly looked forward to getting this release, and I was fully rewarded.This is the greatest thing since sliced bread!!!!!! I love it!!! *(Old fart who went back to college) - -- Adolph & Sharon Weidanz '78 43' Endeavour Ketch S/V Time To Paws -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAmEz2lC+PSm9+eB0RAiYHAJ4waJTuMDXVvWzlDdstpxbv7KsVuQCfTwYn K0OV4S/8nRvT5VogXlMJytw= =6OLO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: [SLE] realtime clock probs
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 05 May '04

05 May '04

John Sowden <jsowden(a)americansentry.net> wrote: > > in Suse 8.0, I have noticed that the time gets off by months, > even once by years. I can fix it in ms-dos (dual boot) > and it works fine. > > now i notice on booting that linux hangs > on the real time clock entry for about a minute > before it continues, no warning message, etc. > thoughts? > >-- > John Sowden ---<sig line trimmed>--- Hi John, I am running dual boot also. What I do is go into M$ and roughhly adjust the time using their control system. (I had to do it for daylight savings time.) Then I go back into Linux, and open up a link to an offiical time site (eg: http://www.time.gov/ ) and then set the time off the command line as root, eg: "date --set 14:55:25" the above will set the system time to 14:55:25; then I do: "hwclock --systohc" so that system time is copied to the cmos chip; and then do: "rm /etc/adjtime" (all w/o quotes) so time adjusting scripts don't think that the clock was slow or fast, and repeat the adjustment automatically on boot. This question is often asked. See for a longer explaination Carlos' post: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Nov/0001.html Hope this helps, Gar -- Age is a very high price to pay for wisdom -- __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $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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AGAINST PERL & PHP
by Enrique Arizón 05 May '04

05 May '04

I was reading the replays to "bat files on Linux" and was worried about how many people still defend such a old fashion piece of crap language called "Perl". Perl suck. Perl is parasitic, Perl goes nowhere. Yes, it was great 30 years ago when theory on software languages was in its childhood but hey, wake up, those days you have much better languages to do what Perl can do and many other things Perl just can't. I could list a few but I will just point to Python. It's much easier, much more powerfull, much cleaner, much more versatile, much faster, much more productive. Cross platform (Unix, Windows, Mac, ...). Just look how many proffesional software packages run with Python (Mailman -www.list.org-, Plone -www.plone.org-, PythonCad (www.pythoncad.org) google.com -some parts of it-, Redhat Install & Config tools, PyUnit, ...). Even big consultancies are dropping Java and .Net in favor of Python due to its greater productivity. Or look here http://www.scripps.edu/~sanner/python/ or here : http://simpy.sourceforge.net/ or just here: http://www.python.org/workshops/1996-06/papers/d.arnold/paper.html ¡try all that stuff with parasitic-Perl if you dare! Sincerelly I think Perl is right now one of the best allyes of M$ against Unix and Linux in particular. ¡Drop Perl as soon as possible!

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RE: [SLE] Samba as BDC for Win2k3?
by Ben Higginbottom 04 May '04

04 May '04

>Thanks Simon, confirming my suspicions. >Just so I can explain to my boss ('n MS professional) - what is the >Samba shortcoming that prevents this? IIRC, the replication protocol that MS employs is (to my complete surprise) very poorly documented. Their (the samba team) working on it, but its unlikely to be included until the late 3.x releases. Regards, Ben

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PHP5 RC2 RPMs for SuSe
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) L1 04 May '04

04 May '04

Hi, Someone have built PHP5 RC2 RPMs for SuSE? If yes, please be so kind to post URL. Thanks in advance Andrei

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