December 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

remote kdm (xdmcp)
by Greg Freemyer 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

I trying to setup a SUSE 10.0 box to allow remote graphical login. I've set the yast check box to true and I'm in init state 5. I'm not running the firewall currently. For some reason I'm not seeing anything from my remote box (cygwin running X). What else do I need to do? Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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RE: [SLE] OO: If you can make it, I can break it!
by Patrick Freeman 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

I hope I am not just stepping in a pile steaming doo, but ... > -----Original Message----- > From: David Culp [mailto:dculp@charter.net] <snip> > Excel in Windows on the same PC > opens instantly, even on cold boot. So does Lotus123 and the > spreadsheet app in Wordperfect Office (I never use it, can't remember > the name). 1) M$ spends a lot of time to make you think the system is up when it is not yet complete. To their credit, some functionality becomes available very early even though not everything is ready. Any app written with their development tools will likely take advantage of the same kind of early partial availability -- or see 2). 2) Windows loads a lot of bloat (even right in the operating system kernel) -- which means a lot of stuff, libraries, etc ... is pre-loaded and all you are doing is starting a thin interface to it. > OpenOffice has come a very long way. But to be taken seriously it needs > be a hell of a lot better. I sometimes think about getting into > programming for no other reason than to work on projects like OOo. > > /rant off > I have to agree completely. I love Linux but it seems the application > load > time is absolutely unbearable. Why should it take 10 seconds to load > Firefox or Evolution, on Windows or Mac OS X the browser and email client > load in a few seconds. It seems this has been a problem for awhile, I > have > been away from Linux for a couple of years and I can remember even back > then > that the application load times were inexcusable. Someone (and maybe > someone has) needs to work on that. The difference is in structure -- Linux is a different choice -- if you want these type of Microsoft-y things -- such as a faster *perceived* application load time, you can probably achieve that on your own, by -- perhaps getting firefox and OOo to load themselves when X starts up. As far as making some of the functionality available to the user prior to load completion, you will probably need to talk to the coders. /prognostication on As a business -- Microsoft had done some very good things -- they have addressed some major pain points for end users. As desktop OS's go, XP isn't half bad (maybe only 30% bad) -- although for myself, I much prefer Linux. The thing is -- they haven't done anything *technologically* superior, per se -- the problem you complain about is about more about customer perception. When the market is right, the likes of Novell and RedHat (etc... possibly a third party specializing in such things -- like crossover office ...) will introduce distros or packages which tune a desktop this way. When that happens, there will be parity for ease of use in the desktop market, and Linux will explode on the desktop. Linux will not take over the desktop, most likely -- but it will make a big dent. MS will remain dominant on the desktop as long as they are a viable company -- the difference will be that there will be real choice for Joe-end-user. Probably, Windows will still grow on the desktop as well as Linux -- in absolute numbers, because global penetration of PCs will continue to increase -- MS will lose relative ground for a while until the market equilibrates. Windows will probably stagnate in the enterprise market, since (mostly) only slow-moving bureaucracies that are already entrenched in Windows will continue to buy MS server products. MS is pushing hard to be on the handheld -- and I think they are doing well there, too -- If that doesn't muddy up the water, I think you'll see MS expose some of their source (I'm not sure if it will be OS source, Office source -- or what, but I suspect OS -- although it may be an old revision, or a separate tree from their actual products). I think the reason they will do this, is that the market will have proven to them that you can make money with an open source model -- if it is structured right -- the pressure to do so, will be their desire to focus on their more profitable elements, and the increased need to either interoperate or lose *all* of the business (not just os or app or whatever) when they *force* businesses to choose. /prognostication off <snip> Well, I smell doo -- I, indeed, stepped in it. PATRICK FREEMAN,

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PROBLEM WITH TAPE HARDWARE COMPRESSION
by KRAMO FIACRE 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi!!! I've got an HP SURESTORE DAT 40 on my SUSE LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 8 BOX SP3. The tapes I use are marked 20/40GBYTE. But I can only make backup up to 20G, whereas on my ALPHA server with tru64 unix, I can save up to near 40 Gbytes using the dev file "/dev/rmt0h" (for tru64 V 4F) or "/dev/tape/tape0_d1" (for tru64 V 5.1B). I try to enable compression using the command "mt -f /dev/st0 datcompression 10", this command achieved succefully but nothing. I try to use the /dev/st0m or /dev/st0a, but these devices files seem not to be associated to physical device. So how can I perform backup with hardware compression? Please help

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Can't locate Apache/Constants.pm
by SheridanJ West 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

I am on 9.2 box - got src apache2 rpm extracted (complains if you dont have that) , and headers rpm and it compliants about Constants.pm which is part of mod_perl-1.29 > Apache::Constants Mod perl (from rpm) is installed too - how might i get this module in perl to make ?, anybody here done it, the header file httpd.d looks good. Any hints very welcome

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Wget
by Tage Danielsen 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello to All I wish all a nice hollyday. I have a problem with wget, I use: wget -r --load-cookies ~/.mozilla/firefox/rlvrthe8.default/cookies.txt --html-extension --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted --save-cookies --keep-session-cookies -p http://inter-data.bai.nu <http://inter-data.bai.nu/> My problem is, I can get wget to login with user and passwd via cookies.txt that work OK, but when wget have to follow the links it is missing the login, and I do not get price and stock level, and I am unable to update my shop. My vendor has got a new website and it woked fine with the old one, but not the newone her. So if anybody have a solution on this I will preciate to know. Regards Tage Denmark

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Re: [SLE] OO: If you can make it, I can break it!
by Adam Vazquez Kb2jpd 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Then do us a favor. Write to the original authors about what works and what doesn't. Storyboard it if possible. Show them what needs to be changed. Sometimes the next great idea comes from the users, not the programmer. Adam -----Original Message----- From: James Knott <james.knott(a)rogers.com> Subj: Re: [SLE] OO: If you can make it, I can break it! Date: Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:47 pm Size: 592 bytes To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Hans du Plooy wrote: > OpenOffice has come a very long way. But to be taken seriously it needs > be a hell of a lot better. I sometimes think about getting into > programming for no other reason than to work on projects like OOo. Well, how about starting with khrono. SUSE last included it with 9.2, though it still worked with 9.3. Now with 10, it no longer works. -- 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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Re[2]: [SLE] Old versions of Linux distribution
by Carlos E. R. 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2005-12-30 a las 09:25 +0100, Roland Turcan escribió: Please reply on list. > <<< 30.12.2005 9:23 - Carlos E. R. "robin1.listas(a)tiscali.es" >>> > CER> Anyway, I think you may find it here: > > CER> ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/discontinued/i386/7.2/ > > Thanks, but this link isn't alive "550 Failed to change directory". > There is only 7.3 but that is not ISO for burning to CD. Yes, I knew 7.3 was there, I thought 7.2 might be as well. But you will not find an ISO image of the CDs because at that time SuSE did not put it on their servers, that was their policy. You were supossed to install by FTP, there is only a small image (around 200 Mb) for booting up and installing using ftp to pull the rpms. - -- Saludos Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDtS/StTMYHG2NR9URAoZ6AJ4zraqe3Qx9vfV0A+LRh9bUWVRKawCgkqBx owbkLh6jOxOiVJdBr06jlrU= =hDsz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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re slowly upgrading my system
by Paul Ryan 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 20:45, Phil Burness wrote: > I'm about to start upgrading my system from a P111 800Mhz to probably an AMD > Sempron 2800 64bit processor. > > What effect will I see if I take the drives as they are and connect them > straight to the new motherboard / processor? Sorry guys you read the question wrong he wants to know if he can just plug the hard drives into the new MB > I want to avoid a new install at > this stage - although later I'd like to go to 64 bit. Let me know just did a rebuild of my son's PC and haven't booted SuSE yet > > Phil > > -- > Phil Burness > Linux User since 1991 - currently using SuSE 9.3 > Warrington - United Kingdom

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apache2 files >2Gb on SuSE10.0
by Mark Keir 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi, I am attempting to set up a webserver as a file point for some *.iso images and vmware player filesystems. I am having some difficulty in making very large files available (>2Gb) as they are not seen in the autoindex list and error out when trying to directly download them. Anyone know if there is a workaround enabling this apart from getting apache2.2? System: SuSE10.0 professional, 32bit i686, filesystem involved is ext3 Mark

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HP nx6125
by Hans du Plooy 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi guys, Does anyone have this notebook? I have the PY416EA model - it is a Turion64 1.8ghz, with Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE). I'm having a few problems: 1. Onboard Wireless: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] - it doesn't have a linux driver. I set up ndiswrapper, and that works fine, but it is junk - poor reception, poor performance, unstable. But I can live with that, for now. The problem is, when I do network intensive stuff, like copy big files, the notebook sometimes reboot. Not reset, just a normal reboot as if I typed "reboot" in the cli. 2. Booting hangs at the "loading keymap" or something like that bit. When that happens I press the wireless/bluetooth button twice (switch off + switch on) and it continues to boot normally. 3. PCMCIA - doesn't work at all. It's a normal well supported controller, uses the yenta driver. But when you stick something into it, it simply doesn't pick it up. I really want to use my Netgear PCMCIA wireless card (see #1 above). I have verified with a knoppix CD that the socket does work. In SUSE, I've fiddled around, tried various combinations of inserting and removing modules and restarting coldplug, dbus etc and got it working once, but I could never repeat that. The relevant lspci info: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller 4. ACPI doesn't work well. the CPU heats up to about 75 degrees celcius before the fan comes on. Sometimes the fan doesn't switch off. The different powersave profiles doesn't work correctly either. On "performance" it sticks to 1800mhz, on anything els it sits on 800mhz. I would expect that on "dynamic" it should raise the CPU speed if I compile something or do something CPU intensive, but it doesn't. I have fiddled endlessly with the options, modifying the profiles, to no avail. All of the above problems exist in both the 32bit and 64bit versions of SUSE 10.0. One more question: The notebook has a biometric sensor. Has anyone worked with such hardware? Could you please point me to good documentation? It would be nice to play around with this too. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Hans P.S. A few observations, for anyone in the market: this particular model is a lot of computer for the money. Display is 1400x1050 (only on the top model) and very clear. The modem is an ATI device and is supported (by alsa, of all things). Network is gigabit and works well. Performance is very strong, especially when compiling stuff. And lastly, the sound chip, also ATI, is by far the best sound I've heard from any onboard sound. It has the sweetness and roundness of the Soundblaster Live cards. Very very nice! If the wireless doesn't bother you (the only non-SUSE problem I have), it's a great buy, good value for money, and a very nice and solid notebook.

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