July 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Booting from USB ext HD via a CD
by Dr. Gavin Pillay 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi All, I have a situation in that my notebook won't boot from an external USB HardDisk, and it does not have a floppy drive. What I wish to do, is install linux (any flavour as long as I can use XFCE), on the external drive but boot up via CD. I don't want anything written to the MBR of the notebook internal harddrive. I'm sure someone has either done this, or knows how to. Any help would be appreciated. I've been "googling" it for a bit, but still haven't found a proper method. Thanks -- SynapseR

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KNemo
by Mitja 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi! I have cable modem Internet and i use eth0 to connect. KNemo configuration is also eth0 but after reboot it doesn't recognize and works on eth1. If i reboot again it will find eth0... What is wrong, please? Thanks, Mitja

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PDF brochure
by Carl William Spitzer IV 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

I am trying to print a landscape layout PDF in gnome. its coming out portrait and running off the page? Its not mine so I can not alter it. How do I print? -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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Evo in SuSe 9.3 pro iso downloads
by Kelly J. Morris 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Which version of Evolution is included with the SuSE 9.3 Pro ISO for downloading and burning to DVD? TIA Kelly -- Kelly J. Morris <kjmlists(a)comcast.net>

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xterm & luit
by Anthony Edwards 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Since moving to SuSE 9.2 from SuSE 8.2, I have experienced odd xterm behaviour when running certain applications in terms of how various characters are displayed (or not, as the case may be), for example the UKP character (£). If I post an article to a Usenet newsgroup using slrn running in an xterm window, for instance, including the £ character, that character is visible when I read the article using slrn. However, the £ character is not visible in other poster's articles when read using slrn. I have also experienced odd charset related effects when connecting to externally hosted shell accounts using ssh running in an xterm, with various characters being unreadable, or not viewable at all. After Googling for answers for a while, I have resolved that issue completely by invoking ssh on each occasion as follows: anthony@ultra:~> LC_ALL=en_GB luit ssh -l username remote_host Which works perfectly. I have discovered this evening, by trial and error, that invoking local xterms for use with slrn as follows results in perfect slrn character display also: anthony@ultra:~> LC_ALL=en_GB luit xterm -bg black -fg white -geometry 80x36 & This should not be necessary though, should it? I must emphasise that it is only since the move to SuSE 9.2 that this issue has arisen, and exists on all machines on which I have installed SuSE 9.2 to date. -- Anthony Edwards anthony.edwards(a)uk.easynet.net

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9.3 - Online Update -vs- System Update
by Frank Bax 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

What's the difference between "Online Update (YOU)" and "Install and Remove Software" and "System Update"? All of them end up at "Package Manager". I managed to find this page: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11823.html which says YOU is for applying security patches to installed software, but not for changing versions of software. I did happen to notice that a downgrade of OOo (2.0beta to 1.1.3) appears to be an option in YOU (haven't tried that yet), but not the other two - which seems to contradict info on webpage?

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usb camera and konqueror
by David Lazanja 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

My first post was ridiculously long about this issue... I have a USB camera that's should be accessed as an external USB drive (using the usb_storage module). The camera is detected by udevd/hotplug and is mounted as a subfs file system. From the command line I don't have any problems accessing the directories on the camera and moving files to and from the camera. However, there is a problem when using konqueror. After detection, a camera icon appears under "My Computer". Konqueror uses the camera:// protocol when clicking on the icon. The first directory on the camera shows up, but then by further clicking on that directory, nothing else happens. From the command line I check to see if the camera is still mounted, and it is not. This issues only happens when accessing the camera using camera:// in konqueror. The issue occurs in 9.3 Pro. My view is that the camera:// protocol should know whether to use gphoto2 or to just access the camera as an external usb drive. My guess is that it's being accessed using gphoto2 by konqueror. Any help is appreciated. Thanks David -- # Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics # Columbia University

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Adding my wlan0 interface to the firewall
by Sean Rima 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Because I have a non supported WIFI card, I have to use ndiswrapper but I cannot see anyway to add it to the firewall. I tried in YAST but it loses it as soon as I reboot the laptop. I am using ndiswrapper to configure the card from boot.local. Should I be adding it before this to get it added to the firewall script? ATM, it is not a problem but I am away and will be using hotspots to access the net whilst I am away Sean -- ICQ: 679813 FidoNet: 2:263/950 Jabber: tcob1(a)jabber.org AOL: tcobone Vodafone Messenger: thecivvie

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problem mounting windows 2000
by Sergio Dominguez 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi all, I know this has been treated several times, but none of the solutions given in the list has worked for me. I am trying to mount a windows 2000 share using mount -t cifs //130.xxx.xxx.xx/flex /home/sergio/aeolia/flex -o user=sergio,domain=xxx.xxxx.ac.uk,uid=sergio,gid=users,rw which works fine for machines having windows XP, but fails dramatically for machines with windows 2000. Can someone give me a hint? the error I get is mount error 20 = Not a directory Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) I am on Suse 9.1 Pro, with all updates. Thanks everyone, Sergio -- <lilo> Fairlight: udp is the light margarine of tcp/ip transport protocols :) -- Seen on #Linux

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Audacity
by Regis Matejcik 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Anyone using audacity? It's part of the SuSE 9.2 distro, but when I tried to install it I got dependency errors. It says it needs libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0 and libwx_gtk2-2.4.so.0(WXGTK2_2.4) I did a google search for these items and didn't find an exact match. Any hints on where to find them or other ways to get audacity to work, or possibly a similar program? thanks, Regis Matejcik

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