May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Sound with Totem Player 1.5.1
by Witold Wolski 28 May '06

28 May '06

Hi, In order to be able to play avis on SUSE 10.1 I have updated the totem player with the packages available on packman. totem-1.5.1-0.pm.1.i686.rpm<http://packman.links2linux.org/download.php?t=b&id=22002> libxine1-1.1.1-16.pm.0.i686.rpm<http://packman.links2linux.org/download.php?t=b&id=20240> (xine-lib) <http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=124> speex-1.1.12-0.pm.0.i686.rpm<http://packman.links2linux.org/download.php?t=b&id=18968> (speex) <http://packman.links2linux.org/index.php4?action=338> w32codec-all-20060501-0.pm.0.i586.rpm<http://packman.links2linux.org/download.php?t=b&id=21711> The image quality is fine. However the "sound track" is completely useless. It seems like being enormousle preamplified and this causes extremely strong noise. In contrast a really old totem 0.100 on a debian installation on my desktop, has no problems reproducing the same avi files with an excellent image and sound quality. I, am recording quite a lot of avi files with my compact camera and I would really like to use linux for playing them. Help in solving this problems would be highly appreciated. Is it only my impression that the multimedia support on suse is non-existent? Eryk

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IA-64 installation whoas
by LDB 28 May '06

28 May '06

I have tried to install SLES 9 on an intel IA-64 server. When yast starts up the whole installation freezes. This happens no matter what options I pass to the kernel. Here is the hardware description: http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/platforms/sr870bh2/index.htm Any ideas or is there another list tailored to IA64? I should say it was already suggested that I use SP3 CDs for the installation as opposed to the original. Thanks, LDB

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Networkmanager on VAIO Laptop
by David Bottrill 28 May '06

28 May '06

I'm setting up 10.1 on a Vaio laptop for a friend. The laptop has a Sony 83801DB fast Ethernet adapter and an Intel 2200 wireless adapter. Both work fine using ifup to manage the interfaces, but if I switch to Networkmanager (on KDE) then Networkmanager reports no interfaces found. I have a Dell Inspiron 8600 which has both fast Ethernet and an Intel 2100 wireless card and Networkmanager works a treat on that. Any ideas? -- David Bottrill david(a)bottrill.org www.bottrill.org Registered Linux user number 330730 Internet Free World Dialup: 683864

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"Neighbour table overflow"
by Bruce Marshall 28 May '06

28 May '06

I just put up a server system on 10.1 (text only) and am getting the message above in /var/log/messages about every two minutes. Anybody have a clue what is causing this?

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Thunderbird Mozilla-Mail and MSN
by Clint Tinsley 28 May '06

28 May '06

Anyone know of how to make SuSE's Thunderbird work with MSN's secure authentication protocol on POP3/SMTP. Mozilla-Mail 1.7.13 on Linux which I have been using and works great but Thunderbird 1.5 on SuSE 10.1 will not authenticate using SA. I have moved all my inbox and local folders over from Mozilla-Mail to Thunderbird on SuSE 10.1 but I am currently at a brick wall because without Secure Authentication (SA) which is required for using MSN's POP3/SMTP services. TIA.

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9.2 USB hard drive enclosure recommendations
by Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) 28 May '06

28 May '06

The subject says it all. I am currently running 9.2 on my production system and have approx 1.5Gb of email and documents. A family member is getting 10.1 for me from the UK but they are only due back around the middle of June. Of course I would like to install it when it arrives but will not at do so at the risk of my other email and documents. Hence I would like to take a copy of my /home onto an external drive that would connect to the PC via USB. That way once 10.1 is installed I can import the old mail from the external drive.(Please tell me that Sea Monkey/Thunderbid/Mozilla allow mail imports in 10.1) I would think that going the enclosure route is the best as then I can upgrade the drive inside as and when I need to/can. I had a brief look at the linux-usb and the Lacie site but didn't seem to pick up what I was looking for. I did see that the Lacie 160Gb d2 external drive is Linux compatible but I wonder if anyone has prefernces for other makes or have used a particular item successfully on 9.2. In addition I do not thinkk it is exactly what I am looking for. Are there other sites I should rather look at? Help appreciated.

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Apache2: Error 404
by Ronald Wiplinger 28 May '06

28 May '06

I have a minor error, but cannot see it. I have installed sqwebmail on one of my virtual domains and the vhost.conf includes the parts below, as well as the permission of sqwebmail dns2:/etc/apache2/vhosts.d # grep cgi-bin vhost.conf VirtualScriptAlias "/srv/www/vhosts/%0/cgi-bin/" <Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/%0/cgi-bin"> dns2:/etc/apache2/vhosts.d # grep htdocs vhost.conf VirtualDocumentRoot /srv/www/vhosts/%0/htdocs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9816 May 28 09:13 /srv/www/vhosts/www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/sqwebmail http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin-sqwebmail shows: Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster <mailto:joseph@bellus.com.tw>. Error 404 accesslog shows: dns 203.xx.xx.126 - - [28/May/2006:10:08:53 +0800] "GET /cgi-bin/sqwebmail HTTP/1.1" 404 1038 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3" errorlog shows: [Sun May 28 09:21:05 2006] [error] [client 203.xx.xx.126] script not found or unable to stat: /srv/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail What do I miss? bye Ronald

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Picassa for Linux
by Kai Ponte 28 May '06

28 May '06

Just thought y'all would like to know. Google has opened a link to a version of Picassa for Linux. Since I've been using it on my Win2K system, I thought I'd give it a whirl. It works nice! I've never been really fond of Digikam or FSpot so this will work great for me. http://picasa.google.com/linux/ Here's a screenshot of my laptop running Picassa on 10.0 today... http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/2006/picassa_linux_lg.jpg I just used the RPM that google provided and it installed without a hitch. Enjoy! -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.livebeans.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Re: [SLE] SUSE 10.1 -- quite impressive -- thanks to SuSE team
by lerninlinux＠comcast.net 27 May '06

27 May '06

-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Witold Wolski" <wewolski(a)gmail.com> > Hi, > > I spend the last 2 weeks installing various linux distros on a new latitude > X1. And I think I will go with the Suse 10.1 for a while. It is is a good > distro for someone how does not wants to be bothered with linux > administration interna. And I do not want to. It recognises most of the > hardware. Yast is a user friendly tool (although surprisingly still buggy > tool). At least you have all the tools for configuring and installing in one > place. I am also quite happy with the support for the KDE desktop given by > suse. > > The only thing that really s... is that the support for multimedia is poor. > Non of the installed multimedia players is playing avi files for examples. I > can not find an officially supported mPlayer rpm etc... You do understand the reason for this? It is all about software patents. This is the reason you see the arguments for odf, and against odf (by Microsoft). If you control the format that things get saved in, once you control it, you can charge pretty much whatever you want, as you hold THEIR data hostage. > > Of course there are plenty of other things that should be improved and are > buggy. The bottom line is, I am very surprised how easy it is to set up > linux on you laptop, how cool it runs without much effort and how fast you > can get help on this mailing list. > > Thanks to suse and this mailing list. For getting things working, check out http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/254/42/ . Software patents and Linux, started being an issue several years ago, as they dropped MP3 support, when Franhoffer (spelling?) started enforcing his patents.

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common images
by jdd 27 May '06

27 May '06

I see a new page (good idea): http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_Infrastructure and, on this page: files.opensuse.org does this mean we will have a common image repository for the wiki? it would much ease the translations... thanks for this page jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos

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