May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

PAR2 GUI frontend?
by Clayton 16 May '05

16 May '05

Does anyone know of a GUI frontend for PAR2? I know I can get the command line version out of sourceforge - and have... just would be more "convenient" to have a GUI frontend for it rather than having to drop to the CLI each time. C.

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LAN Problem
by Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. 16 May '05

16 May '05

Another strange problem that has occurred after upgrading my system from v9.0 to v9.3. In 9.1 I could access Igor, a MS XP box on my LAN via either Krusader or Konqueror via Samba and/or LinNeighborhood. Up until today, the linux browser could only see some of the MS directories that were accessable in 9.0 - strange point number one. For some reason, starting with a fresh boot this morning the browsers now see none of the MS directories. LinNeighborhood used to work, in 9.0, with out complaint. No more! It can see all of the direcories on the XP machine, but when I attempt to mount one I get: smbmount //IGOR/P /root/mnt/IGOR/P/ -o username=Administrator%*****,fmask=644,dmask=755,uid=0,gid=0,ip=,debug=0,workgroup=ffc,port=139 Can't resolve address I have acccepted all of the defaults for LinNeighborhood. Neither of the machines is behind a dedicated firewall as I depend on the routher firewall. This situation puts a serious crimp in my research as I routinely move files between the machines. I don't have the faintest idea as to what is going on and will appreciate any and all assistance. Thanks in advance -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry

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mouse creep ( 9.1 )
by Francesco Scaglioni 16 May '05

16 May '05

Hi, Am running 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 8500. Recently the machine seems to have developed a mouse creep. Oddly the mouse only seems to creep when eg holding down an alt or a ctrl key, or ocassionaly it will creep when using the keyboard. Sometimes it will stop at the edge of the currently active window and at other times creep to edge of screen. ANy thoughts as to weather this is a software or a hardware problem TIA F

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K-mail files, etc.
by Mike Roy 16 May '05

16 May '05

Hello everyone: I'm about to do a fresh install of SuSE 9.3. However, before I do that, I want to save my Konqueror bookmark folders. Does anyone know where SuSE hides this stuff? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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Seemingly random program crashes
by perlcgi2000 16 May '05

16 May '05

I'm using suse 9.1 and KDE. I keep getting seemingly random program crashes - Firefox or Ximian Evolution just disappear from the taskbar without even an error message. I thought Firefox was to blame so I got the latest version. I also upgraded gtk-qt and checked my memory (which is fine). Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can track the problem down ? (I'm a noob so I'm kinda clueless here). Thanks, Digsy ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - want a free and easy way to contact your friends online? http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Squirrelmail - PHP4 or PHP5
by Jim Flanagan 16 May '05

16 May '05

Afternoon, Does it matter which version of PHP I set up for Squirrelmail? I read that Squirrelmail is written in PHP4. Will it work with PHP5? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to either? TIA -- Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii.co

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ntfs
by Hans Krueger 16 May '05

16 May '05

has anybody have any luck writing to ntsf drive with suse 9.3 ? -- Hans hanskrueger(a)adelphia.net

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Gnumeric / Gnome / 9.1
by Francesco Scaglioni 16 May '05

16 May '05

Hi, Running 9.1. GNumeric now refuses wo run, erroring out with :: ,------[ gnumeric error message ] | (gnumeric:20040): Gnome-WARNING **: Accessibility: failed to find | module 'libgail-gnome' which is needed to make this application | accessible GTK Accessibility Module initialized Atk Accessibilty | bridge initialized `------ YAST tells me that libgail is instored. Have tried unistalling then reinstalling gnumeric to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestions?? TIA F

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FW: [SLE] Suse vs RH
by Matthew Stringer 16 May '05

16 May '05

Not sure what you want to know: Took 2 HP DL380's with 6GB RAM, Dual 3.4GHz EM64T Xeon's and RAID 5+1 Installed Suse Enterprise 9 on one (out of box install) Installed RH ES4 on the other (out of box install) Ran Apache 1.3 and Informix 10 on both boxes Both machines were using VIP addresses behind a Red Line load balancers. The Red Line boxes try to balance the load by directing traffic to the server that responds quickest. Looking at the MRTG graphs the RH box runs at 9Mb/s and the Suse 26Mb/s. I don't know why the response time of the Suse box was so much faster that the RL box directed so much more traffic. Also the load average on the Suse box was lower than that of the RH box despite serving more traffic. -----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] Sent: 15 May 2005 13:27 To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse vs RH On Sunday 15 May 2005 12:46, Matthew Stringer wrote: > > The rest of the tone was also favorable to SuSE in the SuSE vs. RedHat > > comparison, so this interpretation is at least consistent. > > > > Didn't think my English was that bad. It wasn't. But you don't seem to want to answer my plea to see the details of your benchmark. That is bad -- 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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EchoLinux and NATing
by Donn Washburn 16 May '05

16 May '05

Hey Group; In the past I had a phoneline connection that worked great (except buffering) with a VoIP HAM related program called echoLinux and echogui. As a matter of fact I used to talk on the 442.150 repeater in Austin form Sugar Land. Trouble is when we got a adsl line from Altell and a DSL Speed Stream 5200 router it ended. Our router has a DHCP IP# that is stable and all boxes on the LAN have 192.168.1.# If I call uup echogui it goes out and comes back with a list of stations available. Thats when the problem starts - I never connect with a out station. I think it is a port forwarding problem - to which I have setup on the DSL router tcp, port number (as shown in /etc/services), my IP# (192.168.1.#) and the rebooted it. No luck! Anyone have a clue or know of a way to track the problem. -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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YaST Removed /etc/lp0
by Merton Campbell Crockett 16 May '05

16 May '05

I have a HP Business InkJet 2250 connected to a parallel printer port on my SuSE system. The last time that I was able to share the printer was under SuSE 9.1 using LPRng. Using CUPS, I could never get it configured. I didn't bother with it under SuSE 9.2. After upgrading to SuSE 9.3, I decided to have another go at sharing the printer with other systems. After mucking about with it over the weekend, I noticed that there was a cupsd.conf.rpmnew file. I decided to remove and re-install the software using YaST. Although the CUPS installation went smoothly, I continued to have problems. The reason I was having problems was that YaST had removed /dev/lp0. Every time that I try to add the device, YaST complains that the printer isn't there. How do I get /dev/lp0 back short of re-installing SuSE 9.3 on another disk? Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc(a)CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard

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Re: [SLE] ntfs
by Nick Jones 16 May '05

16 May '05

--- Hans Krueger <hanskrueger(a)adelphia.net> wrote: > has anybody have any luck writing to ntsf drive with > suse 9.3 ? > > -- > Hans > hanskrueger(a)adelphia.net http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Captive-ntfs. Works great for me. Good luck -Nick __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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ftp version of suse 9.3
by Christopher Townson 16 May '05

16 May '05

Hi - does anyone know if a definite date has been set for availability of suse 9.3 via ftp? Chris

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VNC
by Steven 16 May '05

16 May '05

Has anyone used VNC to access a remote linux box to view the KDE session on a given display (display:0 for example)? What firewall settings were used?

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SuSE 9.2 Postfix/MySQL-Maildrop-SA-ClamAV-Amavis Howto?
by Rob Brandt 16 May '05

16 May '05

Before I go about reinventing the wheel on this, does anyone have a howto on getting all these things working together on SuSE AMD-64 9.2? Or better yet, rpm's for this configuration that will work with one of the available update utilities? This is a new server and I have yet to choose an update tool. Thanks Rob

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syslog
by M. Edwin 16 May '05

16 May '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, This morning I found that my syslog is not running as it is expected. In my logrotate.d/syslog everything is very basic /var/log/warn /var/log/messages /var/log/allmessages /var/log/localmessages /var/log/firewall { compress dateext maxage 365 rotate 99 missingok notifempty size +10240k create 640 root root sharedscripts postrotate /etc/init.d/syslog reload endscript } Usually it generate compress files everyday, but since yesterday it stop. I restart syslog but nothing happens. Can someone here have experience in this matter. Any help will very much appreciate. TIA Edwin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) iD8DBQFChBCUkaMcq796kjoRAmP5AJ9xJ4/r/fH7OZWwLQnb8BspdX7tKwCgghl2 GWYfbFXgN2inAUU8B3bUNeg= =gFuo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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My curiosity is getting the best of me - Fonts
by Jim Flanagan 15 May '05

15 May '05

My fonts are dorked. To make a long story short, I had to move my 8.2 installed /usr and /var to a different partiton, to make room for my 9.3 install. Now when booting the old 8.2 install, the fonts are totally dorked. (Not sure how else to say it). Everything else seems to be working fine. I probably won't matter for long, as I'm migrating to the 9.3 install, and hope to be finished with that in a few days. But, my curiosity is getting the better of me, and was wondering how to fix this, and perhaps what caused it. If you need more detail, you can see my original post and thread at, http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-May/1342.html Many thanks, as usual. -- Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii.co

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8.0 boot file is bad
by John Sowden 15 May '05

15 May '05

in Suse 8.0 I have to use startx to bring up kde. just before the login-in text mode-I get an error as follows: /etc/init.d/rc5.d/S11nscd~ line 123 syntax error: unexpected end of line When I go there, sure enough, the file is truncated in the middle of a loop statement. Can I 'rebuild' this file, or is it special to my install? --- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net

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rdesktop Color Depth Question
by L. Mark Stone 15 May '05

15 May '05

Perhaps I have my facts wrong, but I understood that rdesktop 1.3.1 (bundled with 9.2 Pro) supports RDP5, which I further understood supports 16-bit color depths when connecting to Windows 2003 TS servers. But, even using the -5 switch, I can only connect at 8-bit. Is my understanding incorrect, or did I miss something? More importantly, what do I need to do to get rdesktop to connect to a W2K3 TS server using 16-bit color? Thanks! Mark -- _________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.rnome.com

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logitech mouse ( the one w/ a docking station ) can't scroll...
by jfweber 15 May '05

15 May '05

It used to, So something changed somewhere, but why? OTH, My cordless keyboard is actually behaving better... SO, did I do something weird w/ the settings , or???? There aren't that many choices.. esp. for a cordless keyboard/mouse setup. Has anyone else had this problem? Did you find a fix for it?? I googled and checked the support DB, but if it's there, I missed it... Tia -- j

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skype
by Ken Schneider 15 May '05

15 May '05

After upgrading to 9.3 skype no longer connects to the internet p2p. Is anyone else having this problem? The program runs, there just is no traffic. Even using ethereal (a packet sniffer) shows no traffic. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge

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Installing other distros RPM packages?
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 15 May '05

15 May '05

I have a working SuSE 9.0 system which I use. All of the packages are off the 9.0 CD's and I 'prefer' to only use SuSE compiled RPM's as then I know files are going to be installed in the correct place, wherever that may be. From time to time I see software package updates, either on CD or the web but they are for another distro ie Mandrake and perhaps others. Is it possible to use those RPM's via YaST and still have them install in the correct SuSE locations or as it might be a Mandrake RPM it will install in locations Mandrake would have. Basically the question revolves around location, location, location. Being in the right place at the right time, is crucial to property and most other things and I wonder if the installed location is as important or different between distros using the same package format? As both Mandravia and SuSE subscribe to the FHStandard can the above assumption be made? Regards -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================

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Firefox and Tools->Extensions->Update??
by Jon Nelson 15 May '05

15 May '05

I've recently noticed that the 'Update' button is missing from the Extensions dialog in firefox. Furthermore, I've noticed that the firefox I get from www.mozilla.org /does/ have the Update button, but the versions I've gotten from suse do not, and I include the "stock" version supplied by suse as well as the one supplied by the 'mozilla' supplemental. Does anybody have any insight into where my Update button has gone? I have MozillaFirefox-1.0.4-0.1 installed, and the 1.0.4 version from mozilla.org. The same behavior existed with 1.0.3 with version MozillaFirefox-1.0.3-1.1. -- Carpe diem - Seize the day. Carp in denim - There's a fish in my pants! Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse(a)jamponi.net>

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SuSE 9.3 experiences so far
by Pieter Hulshoff 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hello all, With all the negative publicity about SuSE 9.3, I thought I'd give some positive sounds. Sure, I've had some quirks to fix with this installation (it wouldn't install from my DVD player; only from my CD burner, it booted into xdm i.s.o. kdm, "End current session" doesn't always function as it should, etc.), but overall this is the fastest I've managed to get a distribution working for me ever. After installing the updates, some packages from Packman, and some separate software (whose brilliant idea was it to remove kuickshow?) I haven't had any major problems yet, and I've happily been playing all those music and video files I've got lying around. I've been ripping cds, and been communicating with the Windoze machines my wife and daughter insist on using. I've been sending email, playing Stars! through wine on a normal resolution (1280x1024), played around with OpenOffice.org 2.0, and been very impressed with the look and feel of KDE 3.4. Overall I can say that I'm happy to've made the switch from 9.1 (which after fixing all the bugs worked quite well for me) to 9.3. If I encounter any major problems, I'm sure I'll report them back to the list. :) Regards, Pieter Hulshoff

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Get Linux newsfeed from Windows SBS 2003?
by Sandra Jäger 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hello, I need your help for setting up a newsfeed from inn SuSE Linux 7.1 to SBS 2003. Despite numerous attempts I cannot get the old postings from SuSE Linux onto the SBS 2003 newsserver. I still have access problems. I would like to migrate the old postings from SuSE Linux onto the new Window Small Business 2003 newsserver. The Windows Small Business 2003 newsserver is up and running. I can post messages there. I configured on SBS 2003 a pull-newsfeed (peer-to-peer) with the name of the Linux Server. Is it sufficiant to authenticate as any known linux user or do I have to use a special one? E.g. user news? Some time ago I succeeded in getting the old news from SuSE Linux 7.1 to our Slox Server via the package "suck". However, Slox is now replaced by SBS 2003. I configured the same things that back then worked for Slox for our SBS 2003: - added the SBS 2003 to /etc/news/newsfeeds - added the SBS 2003 to /etc/news/nnrp.access (Read und Post rights) - added the SBS 2003 to /etc/news/innfeed.conf den Server as peer Whenever I activate the newsfeed on the SBS 2003 server (as User administrator), I get the following errormessages in the /var/log/news/news.err: Apr 4 12:52:34 linuxserver nnrpd[4324]: read_udp: recv Connection refused Apr 4 12:52:34 linuxserver nnrpd[4324]: sbs2003server.firma.local actived socket couldnt be read AYTACK Connection refused Apr 4 12:52:36 linuxserver nnrpd[4324]: sbs2003server.firma.local NOT using actived result: Up to now the SBS 2003 only got the newsgroup folders but no messages! Thanks for your support. Best regards, S.J.

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USB hard disk problem
by Ronald Wiplinger 15 May '05

15 May '05

/var/log/messages shows: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02:0 wakeup usb 1-9: new full speed USB drive using addres 2 usb 1-9: device not accepting address 2, error -110 usb 1-9: new full speed USB drive using addres 3 usb 1-9: device not accepting address 3, error -110 usb 1-9: new full speed USB drive using addres 5 usb 1-9: Product NewMotion Tech usb 1-9: ManufacturerNewMotion Tech Initializing USB Mass Storage driver ... scsi8: SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb 1-9: reset full speed USBdevice using address 5 scsi: Defice offlined - not readyafter error recovery: host 8 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 5 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB: Mass Storage support registered Howver, I cannot find my USB harddisk anywhere, not on /mnt nor on /media Any idea? bye Ronald

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k3b - ripping CD's slow
by Phil Burness 15 May '05

15 May '05

K3b v3.4.0 is taking about 50mins to rip a CD, this seems like a *very* long time and I'm sure it used to be a lot quicker. Phil

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rpmbuild
by John Bailo 15 May '05

15 May '05

I don't quite understand rpmbuild. Is there an FAQ? My questions are: If I download a package, can I recompile it for my machine and then install the "refreshed" rpm? Would that make it "run better" ?

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Kmail help with restore Mail directory
by MindBender 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hello all, Prior to installing SuSE 9.3 I saved the Mail directory and after the installation I resored the the Mail directory so I keep all my previous e-mail. Now when I start Kmail all the mail directory are there in Kmail and the mail also but I can no longer read those mail. They are shown in Kmail with the correct subject but when I click to open the mail..the Subject is change for 'No Subject' and a new window mail is open but no mail is shown. if I use Konqueror to browse the the mail directory and click on a mail I can open it with no problem. Can anybody help me to how do I now setup Kmail to read my old mail correctly.. Thanks for the help Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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kernel of the day kernels build from source?
by Osho GG 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi, I have SuSE 9.1 and I would like ot use certain kernel of the day kernels. I would like to build kernel rpms from source (as the ones that are built already are built with a different version of gcc than the one that comes with SuSE 9.1). Does anyone have a how-to about how to do this? thanks, -- Osho

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bounce junk mail
by Colin Carter 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi, I am using KMail. When I get junk mail I usually just bounce it and never hear back. But today when I bounced a "give me your money" email it just sat in the outbox and blocked the queue. Nothing would go past it. It was from azeezabdul2005(a)netscape.net When I trashed it the queue moved. Any ideas? Regards, Colin

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suse 9.2 ftp installation error
by Kai Zhang 15 May '05

15 May '05

Cannot read package data from installation media. Media Error? Im installing Linux suse 9.2 via FTP. I downloaded boot.ioi from and burned it into a CD. I've got ADSL and disabled firewall. The installation gets as far as the install settings page then i recieve the above Error. Any help would be greatley appreciated.

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Sound on Gateway 3522GZ
by Sean O'Dell 15 May '05

15 May '05

Hi all, I'm new to the mailing list and have a short list of problems getting SuSE 9.3 working 100% on my Gateway 3522GZ notebook. I'll just ask one thing at a time and maybe someone can help. If not, oh well. For the most part 9.3 has been fantastic; I didn't expect so much to just work like it has. Just a few lingering problems. Sound The built-in sound card was detected, and I get no errors at all. Everything seems fine; apps seem to be able to use the sound device, I can fiddle with KMix, etc. My speakers, however, are silent. (headphones too) Sound worked just hours before I installed SuSE 9.3 when the notebook still had Windows XP on it. I've made sure ALL mutes are off (they already were) and both of the two hardware mutes (at the volume control and the keyboard) are off. lspci reports: 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) lsmod reports that what I think is the right driver is loaded: snd_intel8x0 31808 5 Just no sound coming out of the thingy. Any ideas? Sean O'Dell

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MySQL Noob Question
by Bob Rea 14 May '05

14 May '05

I have installed 9.3, and I would like to learn something about mysql again. I looked at it a while back. How does one log on to the server? Is there a default user and password set? Last time I used it, I used user root and the root password. -- Bob Rea mailto:gapetard@stsams.org http://www.petard.us http://www.petard.us/blog http://www.petard.us/gallery Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg

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Multimedia Pack
by John Bailo 14 May '05

14 May '05

I've read about something in 9.3 called a "Multimedia Pack". Is there one for 9.2? What does it do?

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Konqueror won't play WM
by John Bailo 14 May '05

14 May '05

I am trying to play the streaming audio from this site: http://www.unknowncountry.com Click on the Dreamland link. The result is this: http://texeme.com/konquerorwontplaywm.png The popup launches, and some kind of plug in (Kaffeine I think) appears, but then it just blacks out.

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SCPM woes after 9.2 to 9.3 upgrade
by Phil Feller 14 May '05

14 May '05

After upgrading from 9.2 to 9.3, I noticed that doing /sbin/scpm switch <profile name> starting asking me whether I wanted to save changes to the profile when I knew that there hadn't been any changes. I also noticed that the configurations for the profile that I was switching into wouldn't be correct. I looked into the SCPM database and see that, for example, it has /var/lib/scpm/profiles/home/file/_etc_sysconfig_network_ifcfg-wlan0.1 as one of the files for the network resource group for my home profile. Looking in /var/lib/scpm/profiles/home/file, I see that _etc_sysconfig_network_ifcfg-wlan0 is the file that I want to have used and _etc_sysconfig_network_ifcfg-wlan0.1, dated-stamped May 1 (the last time that I switched out of this profile prior to the upgrade). I have tried doing /sbin/scpm save to save the correct configuration information, but it hasn't worked. I'm wondering whether: 1) there is a way to reinitialized the SCPM database and start over (my profiles are few and not too complicated), or 2) hand edit the SCPM database to point to the correct resource files. It's tempting to try /sbin/scpm disable; rm -rf /var/lib/scpm/*/*, and just start over, but I don't want to mess anything up. Phil Feller

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9.3 and now kavi2svcd is broke
by Paul Cartwright 14 May '05

14 May '05

I'm not sure what happened, but kavi2svcd stopped working. I have SUSE9.3 and kavi2svcd 0.8.4-1 Now when I run it, the dialog window comes up, I select an AVI file to convert, and the window crashes. I am sooo tired of reinstalling apps to make 9.3 work! I know it was working in 9.3 but I have no idea why it stopped working. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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Novell Linux Desktop 9
by Jason Riker 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hi All, I wanted to get a feel for how many people are actually using NLD9. Are there enough of us to start a dedicated mailing list? Thanks, Jason

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YOU with Suse 9.2 does not update
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 14 May '05

14 May '05

After installing 9.2 I wanted to make an YOU. After downloading the patches it started to go through the packages and then stopped at Applying delta....OK This info is repeated ad nauseum so I canceled the update. Tried it another three times with the same effect. Even if I only picked only one packet, the delta... was there. Reading through the patches there was a patch to be useful for the seldom case where deltarpms would give problems. Even this patch was useless. It did not repair this seldon occurring problem. Google did not really turn up an answer so I would like to find out if somebody on the list has an idea how to update.

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Suse Linux information required - New user
by Padiyath Sreekumaran 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hello, Iam new to Linux as well as to this list. I have taken the responsibility of 2 Suse Linux machines. I see that Suse Linux V9.1 is installed on the machine. I have not done much with Linux. I see that Suse has given some security patches for some of the SW. These machines are production machines (one is 32bit and another 64bit) I would like to know the following: 1. How I can get and install the patches(any utlities like up2date etc. on Suse) I will appreciate very much if I can get step by step procedure so that I can keep the the downtime very less. I can get a listing of the SW installed on the machine with rpm -qa command. But afterwards? If there is a kernel patch then I would like to know how I have to proceed with this. Present kernel version 64 bit: 2.6.4-52-smp #1 SMP 32 bit: 2.6.5-7.111-bigsmp #1 SMP Thanks in advance. With regards, Kumar ------------------------------------------------------------------ Padiyath Sreekumar | Tel: +41.56.310.3643 Paul Scherrer Institut | email: kumar.padiyath(a)psi.ch AIT | Office: WHGA/U132 WHGA/U132 | Fax: +41.56.310.3649 CH-5232 Villigen PSI | Switzerland | -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Spam Filtering
by John Bailo 14 May '05

14 May '05

Suse 9.2 KDE There seems to be built in anti-spam in Kmail, but when I go to run the wizard it says that spamassassin is not on my machine. I went to Control Center to check and it is installed. Is this feature functional?

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Dual Head Video Card Recommendations?
by Chuck Stuettgen 14 May '05

14 May '05

I am planning to setup my system with dual 17" LCD monitors and am looking for recommendations for a dual head video card that will work with Novell Linux Desktop, which is based on SuSE 9.1? I don't need 3D capability and won't be playing games.. I just want to be able to have one desktop span both monitors.

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2 errors-linux-gate.so.1 and hard link count wrong
by Paul Cartwright 14 May '05

14 May '05

I was trying to install freepops, and I'm getting this error message: freepops: Depends: linux-gate.so.1 but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. linux:/home/pbc/Documents/movies/kavi2svcd/xvidcore-1.1.0-beta2/build/generic # ldd /bin/sh linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libreadline.so.5 => /lib/libreadline.so.5 (0x40032000) libhistory.so.5 => /lib/libhistory.so.5 (0x4005f000) libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x40067000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400ac000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x400b0000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) so, I did a search for linux-gate and got this message: # find / -name linux-gate.so.? find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/1/task: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. what does this mean?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

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How to set IP address?
by Jim Flanagan 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hi all, How do I set the IP address on my nic? I have a new Suse 9.3 install, connected to an firewall/router/dhcp via ethernet. I'd like to change the address (internal) from that the router gave this box. I looked at ifconig --help but was unsure if that was the way to go, an which options to select. Many thanks, -- Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii.co

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JRE 1.5
by John Bailo 14 May '05

14 May '05

I installed the jre 1.5 to be able to run azureus, the bittorrent client. Now there are many package inconsistencies when I use YOU. Is jre 1.5 compatible with Suse 9.2 ?

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bluetooth start up commands at the boot
by Osho GG 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hi, I have a IBM Thinkpad T42p laptop on which I run SuSE 9.1. I use bluetooth mouse with it which works great. However, every time I boot, I have to run two commands (hcid and hidd --server) to get the mouse to work. I would like to know where I can put this command automatically so that they are run automatically everytime it boots? thanks, -- Osho

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Suse 9.2, SIS 741GX and Xv problem
by Elvis Chen 14 May '05

14 May '05

hi all, I have recently purchased a new motherboard (Asus A7S8X-MX) based on Sis 741GX chipset. All seems to be working (video/sound/nic/USB), but I do have some minor problem: namely, the Xv extension of X11 doesn't work with the video. I encountered this problem with MPlayer (from packman). The default MPlayer uses Xv extension, resulting in *BLUE* windows no matter what file-format it is playing. If I use "-vo" option and specify other format (such as "-vo x11"), the movie plays fine. The only problem with this solution is that re-sizing video-windows does NOT work: it cannot be resized. According to the manual pages in x.org, the Xv extension is enabled by default for Sis chipset. What can I do to fix the "blue" screen problem? any help is very much appreciated,

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Amarok Doesn't Play Stream
by John Bailo 14 May '05

14 May '05

If I click on an mp3 streaming radio station Amarok will launch and then, instead of playing the stream, it appears to try and download it to a file. How can I get Amarok to work? Does Amarok support Real and WM streams?

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DVD/DLs and K3B
by Mike Roy 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hello everyone: I'm using SuSE 9.1 / 64-bit mode and I'm trying to make a copy of the SuSE 9.3 DVD before I do the install. Now, the new 9.3 is a dual-layer DVD (more than 8 Gigs of data). K3B can 'read' the DVD/DL when 'forced' but when it comes time to write, I get an alert that says the 'media' [the blank DVD/DL] is not recognized. My question: is K3B under SuSE 9.3 able to burn the dual-layer DVD/DLs? Or, is there another program I can use to burn my back-up copy. The burner does 'read' the dual-layer DVD/DLs so the problems seems to rest with the software. Any answers greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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