May 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Drive assignments
by Tim Hanson 02 May '07

02 May '07

I elect not to have HAL assign media as I load / connect it, which means I manually mount everything. I know that my dvd writers are /dev/hdb and /dev/sro, and that my sata drives are /dev/sda, for example. What devices does my Sansa mp3 player use? There are two of them, one for the player itself and another for the installed micro-SD chip. Also, when connected the player behaves like two usb drives. -- The qotc (quote of the con) was Liz's: "My brain is paged out to my liver" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Vista and Samba shares
by Hans van der Merwe 02 May '07

02 May '07

Is there any progress in getting Samba and Vista to access each-others shares? I know you can change the NTLMv2 to v1 on Vista to make it work, but our IT guy wont fall for that - its a Samba issue according to him (and I sortof agree). How does OSX and older Windows clients get to access Vista? E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Scanning via network
by Clayton 02 May '07

02 May '07

I"m trying to help a friedn set up his computer on 10.2. He has a Canon MP600R printer, scanner, kitchen sink. It's set up as a network device, and connected to his router. We've setup network printing (using the Canon 4200 driver) and it works perfectly. The next step is the scanner. It is also a network device. I know the IP address of the scanner/printer (used it to configure the printer) but...... I don"t really know how to set up the scanner as a network device. The YAST scanner setup has an option to enable or use a network scanner, but it seems to be expecting a scanner daemon running on another server.... whatever the Canon scanner is doing, it seems that it isn't providing the right answer back... Has anyone else played with network scanners? and maybe got the scanner on the Canon MP600R working? C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Spamassassin Mail Headers.....
by G T Smith 02 May '07

02 May '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Is it just me, or has spamassassin been modified so it changes the message subject to include spam indicators, as well as the embedding the results in the headers in the last update? Not sure I really want this to happen as it could foul up the bayesian training a little bit! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGN9ELasN0sSnLmgIRAjawAKDW6/AXnzmahFi45TeI98+LiuKe+QCff+Vt VN/c+7lO0bFFBffZ4sy1MxI= =lwqt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Semiconductor industry... was Re: [opensuse] Micro pauses, or CPU spikes?
by Clayton 02 May '07

02 May '07

> > I worked in the semiconductor industry for a long time. I know the > > subject well. Funny though, you never seem to see SUSE in the > > industry... loads of Solaris based software though (running the wafer > > steppers and wafer scanners). > > > Wafer scanners? > > I've never worked with the technology myself, but as far as I can > understand, it is a laser that is blowing bubbles on a silicon dye? The > micro or nano technology referring to the size of the dye used? Where > do you use the scanners? Whoops... waaay offtopic now. Lets move this to the Offtopic list Wafer stepper and scanner refers to the way in which the reticle is imaged on the wafer. In simple terms, a wafer stepper steps to a location on the wafer, the shutter is opened, the entire reticle image (the circuit pattern.. think photographic negative) is exposed on the wafer (using laser light) in an area usually 22mm x 22mm, the shutter is closed, and the machine steps to the next location and repeats. There is a lot of other things going on, like minute adjustments to compensate for the topology of the wafer, aberrations in the lens and so on, but this is the basics for how it works. A wafer scanner works similarly, but instead of exposing the entire image from the reticle in one "flash" of laser light, the image is scanned onto the wafer over an area usually 26mm x 33mm, in much the same way/principal as a photocopier works. OK, not exactly, but it's a good analogy. There isn't really dye involved in the process... it's called "resist". Again, think of it more in terms of photography. A photo-sensitive liquid (the resist) is applied to the wafer (making the wafer the rough equivalent to the film in your camera). It is sensitive to a certain light wavelength... like 193nM (current and experimental technology has successfully got it down to 30nM). When it is exposed to the laser light, the pattern from the reticle is left behind on the silicon wafer. The resist is washed off, and the process is repeated over and over building up the various layers. There are more processes involved depending on what you are making... but this should give you and idea of what is happening. There are all sorts of interesting problems and solutions working at this level. Like the resist for example... the polymer chains in the resist are long enough, and the lines being imaged are small enough, that you end up with "fuzzy" lines... the polymer chains in the resist fall out of the lines. There are solutions to this of course... different resists, different imaging techniques etc. An interesting industry if you like using massive machines to make incredibly tiny lines on silicon or ceramic. :-) The bigger the machine, the smaller the lines it can make. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Micro pauses, or CPU spikes?
by Clayton 02 May '07

02 May '07

I've been trying to chase down an extremely annoying problem I've been having. On what you could almost call heartbeat regularity, roughly once ever 2 to 3 seconds, my computer has been doing a micor-pause. One of the CPUs (AMD X2 3800+) spikes to 100% and everything freezes for a fraction of a second. You don't notice it unless you're watching a video file or playing a game... then it becomes annoying to the extreme. I don't have zmd installed.. or beagle... so I started looking into the processes running... stopping or killing one and seeing if it made a difference. I traced it down to ruby. If ruby is running I get the regular CPU spike. Kill it... problem is gone. I can't uninstall ruby without pulling down Amarok as well. Not much of an option. I know that Ruby is a scripting language... beyond that not a lot... question is, how is it that Ruby is killing my performance so much. If it's a scripting language.. what is it doing that spikes my CPU to 100%... or what would be using it and spiking the CPU with whatever it"s doing. Amarok hums along just fine with Ruby dead and gone.. no functionality is lost in Amarok - that I can see. Has anyone else noticed this issue? Any suggestions or ideas what is going on? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Starting things as root at boot time
by Bob Williams 02 May '07

02 May '07

I've recently installed the Squid web proxy cache. To start the daemon, I have to su and type /usr/sbin/squid. Is there a simple way of doing this automagically whenever I start my machine? -- Bob openSUSE 10.2 x86_64, Kernel 2.6.18.8-0.1, KDE 3.5.6 r31.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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RE: [opensuse] Samba not behaving (Suse 10.0)
by James D. Parra 02 May '07

02 May '07

> I've setup a share with guest only access (user=nobody), however windows > computers keep requesting a username and password just to view the share. > How do I make samba not request login for a share that should be globally > available and unrestricted? Oddly, I have a similar guest share on another > Suse 10 install and it doesn't request a login. > > Many thanks, > > James >Which version of windows? and are you using a domain or workgroup >configuration. All versions of windows, xp & 98. Workgroup config, I believe. Very basic. ~James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Samba not behaving (Suse 10.0)
by James D. Parra 02 May '07

02 May '07

Hello, I've setup a share with guest only access (user=nobody), however windows computers keep requesting a username and password just to view the share. How do I make samba not request login for a share that should be globally available and unrestricted? Oddly, I have a similar guest share on another Suse 10 install and it doesn't request a login. Many thanks, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Chameleon and Suse Menu
by David Gregg 02 May '07

02 May '07

I'm using openSUSE 10.2 and can't seem to get the chameleon to display on the suse menu. If I switch to kde menu it shows fine, but I don't know of any setting to make it show when using the suse menu. also the top of the suse menu doesn't display properly, sorta like the graphics show up fuzzy with streaks through it... this also doesn't happen when using the kde menu...this same streaky fuzzyness also shows up just prior to the gui loading up, so I'm not sure if the problem is related, nor do I know how to take a screenshot or if it's even possible at that point in the boot process. I can email a screenshot directly to anyone interesting in seeing what I'm talking about. David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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