September 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] eject a DVD without Gnome/KDE
by Frank Steiner 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Hi, we are running SuSE 10.1 with a variety of window managers like ctwm, fvwm2, enlightment etc. and are using ivman (now working :-)) for automounting CDs/DVDs. How are users supposed to eject a DVD after it has been mounted? After ivman has mounted a DVD, the eject button on the drive doesn't react and the eject command refuses to work. Even if we add users to group audio, so that they can execute eject, it fails with galois [8:55] fst 1010) eject /media/CDROM/ umount: /dev/hdc is not in the fstab (and you are not root) eject: unmount of `/dev/hdc' failed So how do we get the DVD out of the drive when mounting with ivman? Is setting the mode to 4755 the rigth way? Or does this have security drawbacks? cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] How to troubleshoot system hang
by Peter Sjoberg 09 Oct '06

09 Oct '06

I have a dual opteron system running OpenSuse 10.1 and it has aa very bad habit of hanging. With hang I mean that it's nothing on the screen, no oops, sysrq s,e,i,u,m,t doesn't do anything but b did reboot, sometimes at least. I did add "nmi_watchdog=2" and sending syslog error..crit to a different node in the hope that I would catch something but still I have nothing. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Techwiz, Peter Sjoberg PGP key (12F506C8) on keyserver & homepage Key fingerprint = 3DC2 CEBA 1590 B41A 3780 955A DB42 02BB 12F5 06C8 mailto:peters-opensuse AT techwiz.ca http://www.techwiz.ca/~peters --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Want to add a Bluetooth Modem
by Puneit Singh 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Hello I have a bluetooth enabled nokia phone which can be used to connect to internet by using Bluetooth Dial up networking service. In order to do that, I should be able to add the Nokia bluetooth modem in SUSE 10.1 (Using KDE) How do I do it ___ Thanks and regards Puneit Singh

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[opensuse] missing ksyms form my kernel
by Rene Salmon 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi, I downloaded and compiled a 2.6.16 vanilla kernel from kernel.org for my suse 10.1 box. Now I am trying to compile and install some drivers/modules for this kernel. Everything goes well and the drivers/modules get generated and produce some RPMS for me to install. The problem I run into is that when I try to install the RPM packages I get a missing rpm dependency. error: Failed dependencies: ksym(schedule) = 1000e51 is needed by There is a suse kernel-syms rpm which will probably solve this if I where using the suse kernel. But I am using a vanilla kernel from kernel.org. Any clues on how to generate a kernel and kernel-syms rpm on my suse box from a vanilla source kernel? Thanks Rene -- - -- Rene Salmon Tulane University Center for Computational Science http://www.ccs.tulane.edu rsalmon(a)tulane.edu Tel 504-862-8393 Tel 504-988-8552 Fax 504-862-8392 -- - -- Rene Salmon Tulane University Center for Computational Science http://www.ccs.tulane.edu rsalmon(a)tulane.edu Tel 504-862-8393 Tel 504-988-8552 Fax 504-862-8392 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Font issue with Konqueror (SUSE 10)
by Jorge Fábregas 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hello everyone, I'm using SUSE 10.0 with all updates (provided by SUSE). I'm having an issue with Konqueror (file browser). I have it configured with font size 9. I see this when I open it for the first time. The 2nd time (and every next time) I open konqueror the fonts are reduced one point as if they were of size 8. I see this behaviour with my account and other user accounts on my system. Is it a known issue? I tried google but couldn't find any reference for it. Thanks! Jorge

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How good is your flash plugin? (Audio not in sync w/Video)
by Jorge Fábregas 04 Oct '06

04 Oct '06

Hello everyone, I have a question regarding the flash plugin. I'm currently using flash-player 7.0.63.0 with Firefox on SUSE 10.0. I just really want to know if it's something on my side or if that's the way things are with flash version 7 for Linux... I'm having a slight playback problem watching flash videos. The first seconds are OK but eventually the audio lags behind the video (or vice versa). This is an example from a video on youtube where it is easy for me to notice it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP7NvDN0wuo I really notice the difference when the kid plays the 16 beat groove (in about 1:08). This is a P4 3.0 Ghz. so I don't think I'm having a hardware issue here. Also, I played this same video (on same machine) with Windows XP and Flash version 9 and audio & video on it were perfectly synced. Please provide your comments. Thanksl Jorge

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Auto switching network adaptor
by Matthew Stringer 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi, My Laptop (Suse 10.1) has 2 NIC's, 1 ethernet and the other wireless. If I'm sat in the office I'll use eth0 (wired) with DHCP. But if I need to go down into the server room I use wireless via eth1. The wired and wireless networks are on the same VLAN but there isn't a transmitter I can use from the office so have to use 1 or the other. The problem I have is that the OS doesn't know to switch, both get an IP address but won't switch the routing from eth0 to eth1 (or vice versa). So I have to manually shut down the adaptor I'm not using and restart the other which is a little annoying as my fellow co-workers using the same laptops but with Windows don't have this problem as it knows to use what ever network is available? I also use it at home on wireless, it would be nice to be able to configure the machine so that I could use it at anywhere without having to constantly reconfigure the network settings. Is this possible under Linux? If so how? Regards Matthew

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Linux software equivalents table
by Jay C Vollmer 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Hi everybody. Perhaps some of you will recall a wonderful table of Linux equivalents to specific Windows softwares which was located at the following URL: http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml It was a wonderfully handy thing, but it has disappeared. Does anyone know if this table has been hosted elsewhere? aTdHvAaNnKcSe -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)VISI.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK - IGNORE FULLWISE

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recommend a SSL sertificate issuer for our website?
by 张韡武 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

I don't like the way go daddy boast in the news, moving to Windows is more likely a strategic plan to affect stat percentage of Windows being used as web server by including parked domains. Now our go daddy SSL certificate is expiring (no surprising we choose go daddy the first time: because they made more advertisements), I wish to take this chance to use another certificate issuer. We need cheap Intranet level certificate, from a certificate issuer that is more Linux-friendly. Which certificate issuer Linux admins prefer? For me not necessarily a USA company. In my case we cannot use CACert.org. -- 锐业软服（国内业务） http://www.realss.cn Real SoftService http://www.realss.com 销售咨询(Sales Department): 0086 592 20 99987 (Chinese, German, English) 国际业务(International Sales): 0086 10 8460 6011 (German and English) 联系：厦门大学科技园，嘉庚二号楼6楼邮政：厦门大学2312号信箱（邮编361005）

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Evolution & palm won't talk
by Simon Roberts 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

I've found out a bit more about my problem syncing my palm with Evolution on Suse 10.1. It's something to do with Evolution, not the host OS, or the palm. I know this because I came across 'pilot-xfer' and that works just fine. I hit sync, run 'pilot-xfer -L' and I get the beeps, and a long list of all the databases in the palm. But Evolution still doesn't take any notice of the attempt to sync. Am I missing something as trivial as a button on Evolution to make it start a sync? I don't see one, so I'm expecting that it will notice the /dev/pilot link pop into existence and start the transfer. Perhaps that's not how it's meant to work. I should point out, I'm totally new to Evolution, I was using a KDE tool previously. Any thoughts? TIA, Simon "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." Naguib Mahfouz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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