May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Viewing DVD Movies
by Joseph Loo 24 May '05

24 May '05

I have found I can play an unencrypted version of DVD but no encrypted version. Also there does not seem to be any sound. Maybe I should remove all the xine and reload it again. Cristian Rodriguez wrote: >2005/5/22, Joseph Loo <jloo(a)acm.org>: > >>I am running the x86_64 version. I am wondering if the 64 bit version >>has some problems. >> >> >I ' m using 64 bits too. > >

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hotplug & its mount point
by John Sowden 24 May '05

24 May '05

I would like to plug in a usb memory stick, or a usb hard drive and know in advance where it is going to mount, extactly. My backup and archive programs check to make sure the correct removable device is installed (using dosemu) and DVD-RAM media, sparq media and ubb sticks. I cannot do this under linux without knowing the mount point of the device. I am running suse 8.2. I like to put my external media in a directory called /media. I would like to name the device, especially the mem sticks, as I have several and I could put a label on the device. Alse, since I use different encryption keys for different pieces of media (not type), ID becomes an issue. I checks man pages, info pages, admin manual in the suse help. none address this issue. tia --- 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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xorg problem in 9.3
by Kastus 24 May '05

24 May '05

Anybody on this list running a system without xdm/kdm? I mean init level 3 and starting X manually with startx. /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg is not suid root in 9.3 (it was in 9.2) and it is the mode coming from xorg-x11-server package. X fails to start without being suid root, of course. Is it a bug in xorg-x11-server-6.8.2-30 (and then I am going to report it to SUSE) or am I missing something obvious here? Thanks, -Kastus

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Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.3 Pro 5 CD ISO set
by Bill M. 24 May '05

24 May '05

I wanted to thank Randall, Cristian, Christopher, Jack, and James for your valuable feedback about the BitTorrent 5 CD SuSE 9.3 version I've recently downloaded. Any idea about when the FTP version of 9.3 pro will be available? Has SuSE/Novell released a date for this? I have emailed SuSE/Novell and they do offer an upgrade from the 8.2 Pro version -- I think they said $59 for another boxed set with 60 days support instead of the regular 90 days support. I had previously purchased and used SuSE 8.2 Pro boxed set until the laptop died. I have tried many "live" distros on a Dell Inspiron 5150 (sames specs as listed in the "Notebook with XP and SuSE" thread currently being posted), and have been very satisfied with the prospects of successfully loading SuSE. (Never have gotten the Dell/Broadcom 1350 wireless 802.11g card to be usable with the Live distros I've tried.) Again, thanks for your input and suggestions - much appreciated. -*-Bill

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Please Help ! gtk fonts
by B. Stia 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hello SuSE people, There has to be somebody out there that knows the answer to this. There was a previous thread on this topic that resulted in at least 20 replies, but no fix. I have googled forever and find nothing. I've read howto's and did a man on everything I could think of. Short recap: Changed my old 17" monitor running at 800x600 for a new 21" tft-lcd monitor that is run at 1600x1200. Verified that the lcd and the system have the same dpi/resolution. All of the KDE stuff was reconfigurable to increase font sizes and icons to a satisfactory useable size. Runniing 5 apps that utilize gtk. All of the fonts in these 5 apps are so teeny they are practically unuseable. (Note: Can increase the dpi significantly and the app will appear much larger but the fonts remain the same) I am convinced, and PLEASE tell me if I am wrong, that the dpi has nothing to do with the font size utilized. There must be some kind of system wide control to change the fonts in ALL of these apps. I had this same problem several years ago and could be solved by running gnomecc and/or by changing settings manually in gtrkrc. gnomecc no longer exists and for some reason I do not have .gtkrc or .gtkrc-2 installed in my home user directory. Someone suggested gtk-qt-engine which is supposedly an applet to resolve these things between KDE and the gtk apps. Can't figure out how to run it and it is installed. Found an app called Qt Settings (is that the gtk-qt-engine interface?) which I ran and appears as that should do what is needed. Does not reset anything. Also, I know that UserChrome.css supposedly can be used for Firefox and NVU to set user preferences. That doesn't seem to work either but maybe I am not doing it correctly. That leaves 3 other apps that don't have that configurability even if it did work. Just don't know what to do anymore. I have spent days on this. Someone has to know the answer. Please help. Half the apps I use every day aren't really useable. I really need a Guru to step in here and hold my hand. Bob S.

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Odd behavior.
by Fred A. Miller 24 May '05

24 May '05

I'm sure this has been discussed before but I guess I didn't "catch it." I've tried to figure out what app. is causing the system to write briefly to the hard drive every few seconds........rather annoying. Is this normal for 9.3, as 9.2 didn't do this on this box....same file system, etc. Fred -- "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!" Brought to you by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act(s) numerous Presidential Directives, etc.

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Treading new ground... (2)
by John 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi, I'm about to embark on an installation of 9.3. In some articles I've been looking at (about core components like postfix, for example) there is an implication that if I want to use this with another product, say, OpenLDAP, then I must re-compile from the source with certain options set. If I were to use YaST to install postfix and OpenLDAP, apart from tweaking the configuration files, are they already configured to work together? (I'm looking to set postfix, fetchmail, dovecot, squirrelmail, PHP, MySQL, Apache, HylaFAX, OpenLDAP, OpenSWAN, Samba and CUPS and would prefer to use them 'out of the box' rather than having to rebuild!) Many Thanks John - a relative newbie but somewhat confused ;-)

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raid test failure of hda
by Richard Bos 24 May '05

24 May '05

After succesfully installing a raid1 (with disk hda and hdc) and lvm, I'm now testing a disk failure. I can easily do this as the system has been equipped with a removable harddisk slot for hda. Before I continue, I can start the system as configured by yast that is using hd0,0. The other raid disk is hd1,0 (which is confirmed by 'find /boot/vmlinuz on the grub prompt). I added an entry to grub/menu.lst that uses hd1,0. I can successfully boot the system now using either hd0,0 or hd1,0. After I remove hda from the slot the system stops in an empty grub menu (ascii). Disk hdc is bootable, ... oh wait hdc's mbr is empty of course... Is this the reason that it is not starting? Just tried to install grub on hdc, but the answer from the system is: # grub-install /dev/hdc /dev/md0 does not have a corresponding bios drive. Is it possible to alter the MBR in /dev/hdc? ps: I can also start the system using by selecting 'installation' from the suse disk and than -> boot installed OS -> this finds that a bootable system on /dev/md0 (while hda is removed from the system)... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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X-Face HOWTO?
by Jay Vollmer 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi everybody. Is there someone who can tell me how to go about creating an x-face file, or point me to a HOWTO? -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)CONSOLIDATEDLINT.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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Yast unable to mount NFS share
by James Knott 24 May '05

24 May '05

I'm trying to set up Yast "Software Source Media", using an NFS share. I've exported the directory containing the contents of the SuSE 9.3 DVD, using the no_root_squash option. Both root and users can mount that share. However, when I try to set up Yast to access that share, I get an error message "Media:insufficient permissions". Any idea, as to the cause of the problem? tnx jk

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