June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Proxy
by Marko 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Hi I installed SuSE 9.3 at work but im struggling to get the updates because of our proxy. My username is user(a)domain.com but in the yast proxy settings you cant input the "@" character so i cant input my username. I's there a file where i can change this or a way to bypass it? Thanx

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Re: [SLE] Wireless Internet at public hotspots -- update
by James Knott 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

clarkt(a)cnsp.com wrote: > Try wificonfig from sourceforge. I use it our all my wifi configs. It > will tell you what spots are in the area, connect you to the one you want, > and hold the pass codes for each hotspot that is secure. I'll give that a try. tnx

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Yet another Sound Trial (YaST) 2]
by David Johanson 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Anders, Did you ever figure this out? The thread seemed to die out without anyone coming up with a concrete answer. I'm at a loss as to what to do next unless it's to file a report with Novell. dave > On Friday 08 April 2005 12:56, Glenn Holmer wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 05:11 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote: >> > On Friday 08 April 2005 05:07, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: >> > > In mine (9.2 ,KDE 3.4), it is DigitalPlayback=true >> > >> > Oops, yes, you're right, my mind thought one thing but my fingers typed >> > another :). Sorry >> >> Still doesn't work. Checkbox still doesn't appear after this edit. >> "Select audio backend" is blank, but not greyed out. Set "Select audio >> device" to /dev/dsp. Further edited kscdrc to set audio system to arts, >> no joy. > > OK, I'll have to look deeper then. > > I remember this issue being up once before, it's not 9.3 specific I don't > think. And I vividly remember digging through the source to find the solution > (which I did, IIRC), but I can't for the life of me remember what it was > On Monday 30 May 2005 15:06, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > David Johanson wrote: > > 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. > > Do you have an audio cable connected to your CD drive? So far for > me, kscd in 9.3 is broken in regards to digital extraction. Same here, see this thread: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Apr/0876.html I am using xmms to play CDs. -- ====================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ====================================================== "Greater coherence cannot be achieved. Not even the Netherlanders have managed this." -Anton Webern ====================================================== . -- 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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OTish Overlaying images
by Dylan 02 Jun '05

02 Jun '05

Hi All, Does anyone know of an application which would let me define reference points in two (or more) images such that the two can be overlaid on each other. Specifically, I am hoping to lay images of maps over aerial photos and other maps, so the software would need to be able to calculate the necessary rotation and re-scaling to fit an overlaid image to a base image. Thanks for any suggestions. Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet

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Re: [SLE] socket files
by Ken Schneider 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:16 -0600, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote: > Hi Ken, > > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ken Schneider wrote: > > Anyone know how to create a socket? Running milter-amavisd which is > > expecting a socket file in /var/run/amavis and the dir is empty. > > I often use mknod > > mknod -p socket_name > > or > > mknod p socket_name > > depending on version of linux. > That just gives me the following error: pc5:# mknod -p /var/run/amavis/amavis-milter.sock mknod: invalid option -- p Try `mknod --help' for more information. And I get the same error with mknod p (without the minus sign. And please keep it on the list. -- 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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changing suse window style in 9.3
by Gabor Istvan 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hello all: I've installed suse 9.3 and realized that it has a new suse window style (eg the window title bar is different). I preferred the look of the old suse style in 9.0 9.1 9.2. Is there any way to use that style in 9.3? TIA, IG

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Re: [SLE] Wireless Internet at public hotspots -- update
by James Knott 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

> Download the libglademm-2.4 srpm file. This is the source code that will > be used to create a set of rpm files to install libglademm. > > As root, run the command rpmbuild --rebuild libglademm*.srpm > > this will build the rpm files that you need. You may get a message about > needing glibmm2, and if so, download that srpm file and follow these > instructions to install them (just change the file name)then build > libglademm. Those files will be found in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586. > > cd to that directory and do rpm -Uhv libglademm* > You should now be able to build wificonfig. > > Clark > Still no luck. I installed those four files. When I run the above command, I get an error: "thinkpad:/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586 # rpm -Uhv libglademm* error: File not found by glob: libglademm*" I get several errors, when running the rpmbuild command and still when I try to run configure for wificonfig, I get: "checking for libglademm-2.4 gtkmm-2.4 gthread-2.0 libxml-2.0... Package gtkmm-2.4 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtkmm-2.4.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'gtkmm-2.4', required by 'libglademm', not found configure: error: Library requirements (libglademm-2.4 gtkmm-2.4 gthread-2.0 libxml-2.0) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them."

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socket files
by Ken Schneider 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Anyone know how to create a socket? Running milter-amavisd which is expecting a socket file in /var/run/amavis and the dir is empty. -- 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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RE: [SLE] Re: remastering suse 9.3 DVD
by Steve Kratz 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

> If your drive cannot read duallayer DVDs, your hardware is faulty. > Every video DVD out there is DL. > > Thorsten Pretty wide statement -- Most assuredly "every" video DVD is not DL. >From raw-ripping MANY DVDs over time, almost every one that's an hour and a half or shorter is below 4.7 GB - or single layered.

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I changed the mouse, ...
by Ronald Wiplinger 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I had a mechanical mouse with a ball and replaced it with a Logitech Value Optical Mouse on a SuSE 9.2 pro system. As expected, the mouse is not to use now. It is jumping around and open windows as it wishes. How can I fix that? bye Ronald

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Red Carpet service for apt repositories
by Jack Brooks 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hello fellow red carpet users! Seb Payne has managed to create a service for red carpet linking up to the apt repositories. You can add it to red carpet with this url: http://www.evolutioncolt.com/carpeting Don't forget to hit the "UPDATE" button after adding the service and then selecting the channels you want. I'd like to thank Seb for his efforts and Clayton at smaug for giving it a go as well. Both of your efforts are greatly appreciated. Jack

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Kmail 'select To' frustration
by JB 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hiya gang, Using SuSE 9.3's Kmail, when I want to compose a new email, and click the 'select' button for the 'To' line, it brings up a list of addresses to pick from window. Most are the addresses I have in my addressbook because they're the ones I put there, but there are others that are there that I don't want in there, but I cannot for the life of me get rid of the darn things. They aren't in kabc, nor in my addressbook if I bring it up. Where are these things being stored? Why can't I right-click on them and delete them? Any clues to fix this little niggling problem greatly appreciated. PS Got my 67 year old mom using 9.3 now too, and she uses it 100% of the time, she doesn't boot into her windows partition ever anymore, but this Kmail thing is bothering her also, a lot more than it's bothering me, heh.

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kernel message Help
by MindBender 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

need help what these kernel message means May 29 11:21:28 ephlodur kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 69.17.187.159:6881/26139 shrinks window 2001025157:2001025159. Repaired. May 29 11:21:29 ephlodur kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 69.17.187.159:6881/26139 shrinks window 2001025157:2001025159. Repaired. thanks |__|___|___|__\\|// - ?__|___|_____|___|_____| |__|___|___|__(o o)______|___|_____|___|_____| |__|___|___oOOO(_)OOOo____|___|_____|___|_____| email : ephlodur(a)rocketmail.com What we need is Awareness we can't get carelless. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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lilo.conf and vga/vesa screen resolution
by James D. Parra 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hello, Can someone point me to the "vga=???" numerical specs for changing the screen resolution in lilo.conf. Currently "vga=794" (1024x768?)is blurry. I am looking for the numerical list and the corresponding resolutions. Thank you in advance, ~James

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RE: [SLE] lilo.conf and vga/vesa screen resolution
by James D. Parra 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

> Hello, > > Can someone point me to the "vga=???" numerical specs for changing the > screen resolution in lilo.conf. >/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt > > | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 >----+------------------------------------- >256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307 >32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319 >64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A >16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B Thank you, Anders. I noticed "vga=794" works with some monitors, but what is "794" referring to? Thanks again, ~James

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eth1: Too much work in interrupt, status e401.
by Marcus Vinicius de Arruda Santos 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

all, anyone know what this message means (eth1: Too much work in interrupt, status e401). the nic is a 3con 3c905C-TX/TX-M (100BaseTx no auto-negotiation), this server runs squid, 2gb ram and P4 2.40GHz the interface stops when this occurs thanks Marcus

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RE: [SLE] Re: remastering suse 9.3 DVD
by Steve Kratz 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

> > because of SuSE's silly dual-layer DVDs. The webserver's a tiny 1U > > rackmount, and has a laptop DVD drive in it. Of course, it's one of > > the ones that won't read DL discs. > > ie. it is broken. > > Blaming SuSE for having faulty hardware doesn't seem that > sensible to me. > > mfg > Nik The hardware isn't faulty - Distributing Linux on a media set that requires brand new hardware is a little bit of a flakey idea, in my opinion. Is there really any huge reason to not have a 32-bit DVD and a 64-bit DVD like 99% of the other major distros? All it is, IMO is an inconvenience.

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Evolution memory hog?
by Carl William Spitzer IV 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Recently in 9.1 Evolution seems to slow the box and when I check top in konsole I find its hogging the cpu to almost 90%. This box is fully updated? Why is this occuring? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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Thunderbird from Windows to Suse 9.3
by James Wright 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hello, I have dual boot for Windows XP and Suse 9.3. In Windows I did not have a smtp server setup to send out mail. I needed to bring the email I had stored in XP to Suse, as that is what I primarily use. I use Thunderbird in both XP and Suse. I accidently erased my account settings in XP. I set up the exact same account, and even copied the folders into that accounts folder. It did not bring up my mail. The folders and email are still on my XP partition. All I want is for the e-mail to be in Suse. In Thunderbird you cannot import from Thunderbird. Is there a way to bring a copy of the e-mail folders/files into Suse from the XP partition (which I can access through command line or konqueror). I don't need them in XP, and don't want to fiddle around in XP trying to restore it, just to forward it to myself. Thank you. - James W

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how to stop history from dropping failed command?
by Steven T. Hatton 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I don't know what has changed to make bash history drop failed commands, but it has been doing it for quite some time. Guess what. I rarely want to pull back the last command and edit it if it succeeded. What's really strange is it doesn't drop all failed commands. For example, I entered `svn svn://anonsvn.kde.org' once, and it didn't put the command in my history. I entered the same command to use it as an example for this email, and it is now in the history. Anybody know what is going on here? It really bugs me! -- Regards, Steven

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Firefox plugins problems
by Jostein Berntsen 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Hi, Has anyone had problems with firefox plugins after upgrading to Firefox 1.0.4-1.1? I can't get Java, Flash og PDF to work anymore after upgrade, while it worked perfectly before. When I go to about:plugins they are listed, except Java which sould be installed. Trying the "Install Missing Plugins" does not work. ls -l /usr/lib/browser-plugins totalt 2534 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 856 2004-05-20 23:34 flashplayer.xpt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2096844 2004-05-20 23:34 libflashplayer.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 446899 2004-11-02 09:54 mplayerplug-in.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 53 2005-02-08 10:23 nppdf.so -> ../../X11R6/lib/Acrobat5/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39099 2004-12-17 21:06 nsdejavu.so KDE Version: 3.4.1 - Jostein -- Jostein Berntsen <jbernts(a)broadpark.no>

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Copy spool mail files?
by Jim Flanagan 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Is there a way to copy email from one boot /var/spool/mail to a differnt boot /var/spool/mail? One is SuSE 9.3 and the other is 8.2. I only have 3 users set up so far. TIA Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii.com

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Failure to see my Jaz drives
by J. Scott Thayer, M.D. 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I am running 9.3, my first update since 8.0. Everything looks pretty good overall. I have a SCSI controller card with 2 external Jaz drives chained off of it. As far as I can tell the system knows about the controller card but never has recognized the disks. This was not a problem in 8.0 or earlier versions. I looked around and can find no tool to sniff out the drives. I used the repair system operation on the install disk to see what I could come up with but no go. At one point I (inadvertently) wound up in the curses based, yast package and had a chance to look at what modules it thought were installed and a SCSI entry was there. Any ideas as I how I should proceed? lsmod does show scsi_mod in the output if that helps. dmesg always used to show references to both drives (sda and sdb) but now the only entry is 'SCSI subsystem initialized'. The drives ARE working as the machine is dual boot and they are visible to XP. Thanks

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"mtst -f /dev/nst0 tell" fixed
by Robert Paulsen 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Last December I posted a message on this list indicating that the following command started to fail after a kernel upgrade: mtst -f /dev/nst0 tell /dev/nst0: Inappropriate ioctl for device There was no discussion about this in the list, but I did get a personal reply a month or two later asking if I was able to resolve the problem. (I was not). I have since upgraded to SuSE 9.3 and the problem is now resolved. I lost track of the name and email address of my correspondent so can't send the good news personally. Perhaps she will see this note!

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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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