February 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Building X.Org from source
by Paul Howie 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I have a laptop with an S3 Twister-K graphics chip and Im want to enable its OpenGL support under SuSE 9.2. I have found a page (http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Building) which has instructions for doing just that, but it involves compiling a new version of X.Org, MESA and DRM. I don't think that I can do any of this via RPM, so I was wondering what issues I might have with YAST once I'm finished. Paul

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Logitec Web Cam on SuSE 9.2 can it work?
by George Stoianov 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello everyone, I have a Logitec Web Cam that I am wondering if it is at all possible to make it work on SuSE. It is a USB cam and I read that "CPiA webcam driver for Linux" (http://webcam.sourceforge.net/) does not even listed as supported. Do you have any tips? Thanks in advance. George ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

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FUSE -- filesystem in user space.
by Paul Alfille 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Can I propose FUSE be included with the standard SUSE distribution? The FUSE system has gained a lot of momentum. It is a generic filesystem driver that exports all its calls to the user space. This allows easy creation of innovative file systems, like database-backed filesystems, encrypted filesystems, and (mine) the OWFS 1-wire filesystem. See http://fuse.sourceforge.net FUSE has been included with the mm series of kernels. Unfortunately, having an external kernel module means my users have to reinstall FUSE after every kernel update, which seems to be rather common. Including fuse with the standard distribution would add no significant complexity or tradeoffs, and make SuSE a stronger distribution.

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Syncing AvantGo with Gnome Pilot in 9.2
by Preston Crawford 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Has anyone been able to do this yet? I used to do it in SuSE (I think) 8.1, because they included it with the distro. Maybe 8.0. But somewhere in there they stopped including the AvantGo conduits. So I used to bring in the conduits (the actually library files) manually from another distro compiled with the same version of glibc and that would work. It was a very hacky way to get the job done, but the only way I could find. Well, I'm trying to get this going under 9.2 and I notice that it's seemingly now included with the distro. Now in 9.2 it includes an rpm called libmal. I look it up and it is described as being for AvantGo. I look up the website... http://jasonday.home.att.net/code/libmal/ ... and it says "libmal is really just a convenience library of the functions in Tom Whittaker's malsync distribution, along with a few wrapper functions." So what gives? If this is installed functionality, then how do I use it? Has anyone gotten this to work? Preston

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XP and 8.2 Dual Boot, want to install 9.2, any gotcdhas?
by david rankin 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Mates, I have an XP and 8.2 dual boot that I would like to remove 8.2 and install 9.2 in its place. It seems like the easiest way to do this is to just boot from the 9.2 DVD and tell it to wipe out the 8.2 install and put 9.2 in its place. I do not want to destroy the XP install. Is there anything special I need to do? Anybody run into any problems doing this? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankin-bertin.com --

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Browsers take a long time to resolve ip address
by Robert A. Rawlinson 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I just recently installed Suse 9.1 on an older pc. I have most everything working now but I have a problem when the browsers (Mozilla 1.7 & Konquarer) try to convert an address to the ip address. It acts like something has to time out and then it goes ok until it has to resolve another address. I set up the gateway and it does eventually get the ip address. Does anyone have any idea where to start looking? Bob Rawlinson

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Suse 9.2 mini install - Hard disk install does not mount drive
by John Bailo 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I also am trying the hard disk install of Suse 9.2 from the mini ISO. I booting the mini ISO, and selected the Hard Disk option. After specifying the mount and the directory where the DVD ISO is, I am told my "partition cannot be mounted". What can I do ?

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gnome desktop
by Paul Cartwright 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Is there some trick to adding gnome to the options for desktop manager? When I select the drop-down menu for session type, I get a bunch of options, including windowmaker and KDE, but not gnome. I have the gnome, and gnome desktop packages installed. running SUSE 9.2 Pro. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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