June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

FYI: Games for Linux
by Sven Burmeister 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Hello everyone, in the past I tried several times to find good games for Linux, which, although it gets better, is not taht easy. Especially if one is looking for Multiplayer games that work on Linux and Windows. I am not a big fan of Wine, as I could never get it to run reliably, which could be a user problem but anyway. By chance I discovered SuSE packages for a game similar to Command and Conquer, which runs on Linux, as well as Windows and can be played on the net. It's called netPanzer and aims more at the battle than the tactics. Packages can be found at: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.3-i386/RPMS.suser-scorot One can get missing libs from the 9.2 folder. I guess that most people already know the ID Software games like Quake etc. Ther is one game, where one does not even have to copy any level-files from the original CD. The game is an online ego-shooter and one can get it at: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/pc/msdos/games/idgames/idgames/idstuff/et/linux If somebody knows more good games, please post them here, I'll put up an wiki-article to make it easier for people to find those games. Does anybody know by any chance of a game like Siedler (Settler?) or Anno 1503 for Linux? Sven

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suggest a webcam and scanner that "just work" with NLD9 (SUSE 9.1)
by Silviu Marin-Caea 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Can you guys suggest some webcams that will "just work" with NLD9? I mean, no drivers, no patching, no other effort... Just plug it in and start using it. Should be a known and common model, nothing fancy, USB, and have 640x480. Maybe something from Creative, Philips, Logitec whatever. The same for a scanner, USB, no drivers required. HP maybe? Thanks.

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interactive whiteboard
by steve 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Anyone using one with any sort of success? Any recommendations? 9.3 Cheers, Steve.

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adding new SCSI drives to system without rebooting
by Eric Wagar 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I have defined luns on a FC device. Is there a way to probe/reset the FC bus/controller to get the new devices? And, other than doing an ls, <probe< ls, is there a way to see which devices were added (maybe through the messages log?) Thanks eric

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Device default permissions
by Chadley Wilson 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Greetings, I have a problem with the modem device, we use uucp and everytime we need to access the ttyS1 device we get access denied, crw-rw---- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Jun 10 12:52 ttyS0 To me it seems to need execute access, I believe this is something that uucp is looking for. minicom and wvdial are quite happy with the above permission structure, but uucp is complaining. I usually chmod +x /dev/ttyS0 and that works, however this is not really a method I am happy with. OH and the permissions are reset at every reboot. Is there somewhere that I make the permission change permanent? crwxrwx--- 1 uucp uucp 4, 64 Jun 10 12:52 ttyS0 -- Chadley Wilson Redhat Certified Technician Cert Number: 603004708291270 Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================

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Mplayer-suite broken?
by Sergio Dominguez 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Hi, fixed the apt thing, but seems like the package I was running behind (Mplayer-suite) is broken, or so it says apt. Makes it dependent on faad2, which when installing says that there 's no candidate aeolia:/home/sergio # apt-get install faad2 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package faad2 has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package faad2 has no installation candidate aeolia:/home/sergio # I think I have every repository under the sun (at least those I have been able to find and add without breaking the 299 line length) and when I try to install Mplayer it tells me: Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: MPlayer-suite: Depends: faad2 but it is not installable E: Broken packages Any ideas here? Thanks, Sergio__ Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. -- Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum

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Epson stylus c46 driver?
by Frits Wüthrich 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

I bought an Epson Stylus C46 printer, which works fine under WindowsXP. On the same dual boot box I have SUSE 9.1. Is there a way I can get this printer to work using SuSE Linux? There is no driver from Epson available on the Epson website for linux. In YAST2 the printer is recognized, however it can't be installed as this model is not available in the list of Epson printers.. -- Frits Wüthrich

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USB HD and SuSE9.#
by Donn Washburn 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

Hey Group; I see a problem with SuSE 9.# and a running USB HD. Ref. -" mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 " ERROR: mount /dev/sda1 is not a block device I have tried booting and sometimes it works. I have tried adding it to /etc/fstab. And no matter which kernel or thing I try - sometimes it will mount right after booting and others it won't. In any case (not running KDE) it seems to only work at boot time and for a short order. After about 10 minutes it will not mount at all. I have tried power on the HD first, plugged or unplugged and sometimes it works. It works about 25% of the time is the problem. Which deamon could be causing this problem? Are is it a modules, fs or USB 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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Upgrade GTK on 9.2 (repost)
by Eric P 10 Jun '05

10 Jun '05

What is the recommended method to upgrade a GTK install on 9.2? Thanks, Eric P.

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Re: [SLE] dvdbackup
by FX Fraipont 09 Jun '05

09 Jun '05

Glenn Pedersen wrote: > Have you got a direct link as I cant seem to find it. > >Thanks Glenn > > > > You're right, it's not available on Packlman (anymore?). http://dvd.chevelless230.com/dvdbackup.html

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