May 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

genealogy program for SuSE
by Mike Roy 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hello everyone: I have a friend I'm trying to convert to Linux. One of his major hobbies/interests is genealogy and I think it would be great if I could show him a Linux-based program that would meet his needs. Now, I've tried Gramps but have had no end of problems trying to get the thing to work. There seems to be some major problems between SuSE / gramps and rather that spending forever and a day trying to make it work, is there another Linux-based genealogy program that will work under SuSE? Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers, Mike

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10 GIG partition not big enough to contain a minimal instalation
by Joe Zien 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Subject says it all. I am trying to install SuSE 9.3 Pro. I tried to install 9.3 on a 4 GIG, then made room for 7 GIG and finally on a 10.6 partition and still get the above message. Something is wrong here. I have libranet 2.8.1 and can install a minimal system on a 400 MEG partition. Any suggestions, still want to try 9.3. You can download libranet 2.8.1 at libranet.com for free and it is a debian system, which uses apt-get, a better system than rpm. I know you can get apt-get for rpm, don't want to start a flame war. jozien

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32 bit software on 64 bit
by Mohammad N. Tina 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi, I have Dell powerEdge 1850, with dual processor 3.6 GHz, I bought SLE 9.0 and used the x86 CD when installtion starts i got a message " you are installing 32 bit software on 64 bit computer" to my knowledge the specs are for 32 bit I continued the installtion with no problem...but should i use the EMT64T( i tried it did not give this message but there alot of errors loading modules I will install oracle on this server... any suggestion?? Thanks --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site!

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Yet another Sound Trial (YaST) 2
by David Johanson 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Like many on this list, I can't get sound properly configured with 9.3. Searching google has not provided anything helpful. Hardware is as follows: Asus P4T533 with onboard AC97 Audio Controller (disabled in the BIOS) Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live Platinum 512 MB RAM SuSE 9.3 installed on IBM SCSI Drive LOTS of other hardware I believe irrelevant. For the record, all this works as advertised under Win2K, so I'm assuming, for now, no hardware problems. It also worked on earlier releases of the 9.x series. KsCD loads automatically and plays, even identifies the correct CD and track in the system tray, but gives no sound over the speakers or headphones. Ctrl Cntr | Sounds & Multimedia | Sound System | has enable sound system checked and auto_suspend checked with a 5 second delay. Neither test sound nor test midi produces anything audible. | System Bell gives a tone set at 600Hz and 200 msec duration but I believe that is being output on the system speaker. Ctrl Cntr | YaST2 Modules | Hardware | Sound | shows two different sound cards as being configured: [0] CM18738-6ch-MX as running (this should be the P4T533 onboard AC97 audio controller which is disabled in the system BIOS. This card has the master vol set at 70 and the PCM volume at 48. Test of these settings gives no audible output. All the other settings are at 48. Since I have it theoretically disabled in the BIOS, this is what I would expect. But since it is theoretically disabled, I'm a bit confused as to why it is even showing in the list and showing as running. [1] CT4760 SBLive! as running and the card I want to use. This card has the master and PCM vols both set to 48; the other 24 options are all set at 50 or higher. I believe this would allow the sound to be heard if it was being output at all. As in card [0], test of these settings gives no audible output. This holds true for both user and root which I believe is not what others have reported. Not sure at this point how to proceed. One thought was to delete the sound card [0] definition leaving only the current SBLive! option but I haven't tried that as yet as it seems like something disabled in the BIOS can't be running even if 9.3 says it is. Am I wrong in this assumption? For what it's worth, I can't get sound in my Mepis 3.3 distro either. All 3 distros reside on their own SCSI drives and do not talk with one another. Is this possibly a KDE related problem? Since one (Mepis) is ver 3.3 and the other (SuSE) 3.4, I was discounting this as a likely problem candidate. At this point any suggestion greatly appreciated. dave -- David C. Johanson Linux Counter # 116410 Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 People who behold a phenomenon will often extend their thinking beyond it; people who merely hear about the phenomenon will not be moved to think at all. -- Goethe

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Stupid Terminal Program question
by Greg Freemyer 31 May '05

31 May '05

All, I just bought a used NBX-100 PBX. I need to connect to its rs-232 port from a Linux admin PC to set the IP and other basic info. In the MS world, I would use hyperterminal. I've forgotten what the old command-line tool is "cu" from the uucp package?? I have not used that in years, but I remember it as a pain to setup. Is there a KDE/gnome that has hyperterminal like function? Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century

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usb-stick problem (bis)
by FX Fraipont 31 May '05

31 May '05

I'm resending this, as I got no answers: >I've just installed 9.3 on my wife's laptop. >With 9.2, when she inserted her usb-stick, it was mounted automatically and a konqueror window opened and showed the contents. >With 9.3, it does not work any more. >mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /media/usbkey works, but this procedure is not really practical. >How can I revert to the 9.2 type functionality? I've added /dev/sda1 vfat /media/usbkey -noauto to fstab, and now inserting the key opens a konqueror window, but the key is not mounted. I have to do it manually from konsole. any ideas to fully automate the process? thanks Fx

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Updates FTP
by Marko 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi I wanna make a SuSE updates FTP server for all of us at work that use suse(everyone else on mandrake and hav their FTP for updates) now whats the procedure to do that? I know it needs a certain directory structure and so forth, but ive been strugling to move my updates from home (/var/lib/YaST2/you...) to work, i pont to i386/... but it never finds any extra packages. Any help would be great. Thanx

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SuSE 9.2 doesn't boot anymore
by Martin Deppe 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi, my SuSE 9.2 box (450 MHz, 768 MB RAM, 1 hard disk with 30 GB) doesn't boot anymore. Today I did a YOU. Next time I tried to boot, it didn't do it anymore. It is stopping after trying to initialize the nfs mounts: Importing Net File Ssystem (NFS) Windows ME is booting as expected. Windows 2000 as well. I booted with the SuSE 9.2 DVD and chose automatically repair the system. It found 3 packages which had errors and I told it to repair them. Result: no difference. I tried to boot the failsafe option: no difference. I can ping the box from another one, but not login (it didn't get to that point). Well any ideas would be appriciated! Thanks Martin

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Default profiles & switching
by James Knott 31 May '05

31 May '05

I have a few profiles on my notebook, which I use according to the type of network connection I want. Normally, I want the configuration for my home lan and have it set as the default profile in grub. I can then easily change profiles to another network connection. However, if I want to boot directly into another profile, I have to edit the Boot Options line, to change the profile. Using F3 to select a profile doesn't work. If I remove the default profile from grub, the F3 method now works. Is there any way to have a default profile and still be able to use F3 to select an alternate profile? tnx jk

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Mailing-list software for linux
by Laurent Renard 31 May '05

31 May '05

I'm looking for a free linux software ( no php, ... ) to send 1000+ emails to mailing-lists. Do you know something ? Thank you ;) -- Laurent Renard

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