FW: [opensuse] May get some BAD PRESS over this!!

2007-10-13 Thread David Rankin
-Original Message- From: Fred A. Miller Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:46 PM To: opensuse Subject: [opensuse] May get some BAD PRESS over this!! I am on the phone now with a code jockey friend of mine in MN, who does ALL of his .Net teaching all over the Country on a laptop with SUSE

RE: [opensuse] USR5610C

2007-09-26 Thread David Rankin
-Original Message- From: Fred A. Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:35 PM To: opensuse Subject: [opensuse] USR5610C The USR5610C PCI modem arrived today, and I guess I should have known it wouldn't fly out of the box. :( Yast SEEMS to see

RE: [opensuse] sending ASCII file with mail command (Fedora : OK ; OpenSuse : problem)

2007-09-25 Thread David Rankin
-Original Message- From: Jan Engelhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 9:50 AM To: suse Subject: Re: [opensuse] sending ASCII file with mail command (Fedora : OK ; OpenSuse : problem) On Sep 25 2007 09:38, David C. Rankin wrote: I try to send

RE: [opensuse] System Update to 2.6.22.2-ccj52-default : Bash/Konqueror lost opensuseness

2007-08-22 Thread David Rankin
-Original Message- From: Jan Engelhardt Subject: Re: [opensuse] System Update to 2.6.22.2-ccj52-default : Bash/Konqueror lost opensuseness On Aug 21 2007 21:20, David C. Rankin wrote: After a complete system update to 2.6.22.2-ccj52-default on my Toshiba P35 using system update in

RE: [opensuse] System Update to 2.6.22.2-ccj52-default Killed Atheros Wireless

2007-08-21 Thread David Rankin
From: Jan Engelhardt On Aug 21 2007 10:43, David C. Rankin wrote: In one of my less brilliant moves, I thought I would try system update in Yast on 10.2 on my Toshiba P35 laptop. The kernel was updated to 2.6.22.2-ccj52-default. The first major problem is that the updated kernel will

RE: [opensuse] How to speed up Ktorrent

2007-08-09 Thread David Rankin
Well, Arte, Simply go buy 2 bottles of scotch and sit back and sip a few Ponder life for awhile Sip a few more Pretty soon, torrent is done and you're smiling brightly and ready to load the new beta2! I have my cable and bottle dedicated to torrent right now and it's really

[opensuse] Toshiba P35 10.2 install *Overheating*

2007-08-08 Thread David Rankin
Listmates, I finally decided to take the plunge and eliminate the last bastion of MS from my life -- that means the laptop. I installed a new hard-drive loaded XP (well I still need QuickBooks) and then went to load 10.2 for my regular OS on my laptop. The install was *hellish* and

Re: [opensuse] setting up PTR DNS records in Suse

2007-05-30 Thread david rankin
From: James D. Parra Hello, Setup DNS in YAST, great tool for this by the way, however where can you setup the Reverse Lookup records? Many thanks, James However, in the second screen (Domain setup) after you set up the forwarder addresses does give help on how to set up the reverse lookup

Re: [opensuse] Sax and 1800 x 1440

2007-05-17 Thread david rankin
What version of SuSE are you running. It makes a *big* difference -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com -- - Original Message - From: Philip Mötteli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SUSE oss

[opensuse] Configure Postfix Backup Server [Sandy HELP!]

2007-05-09 Thread david rankin
Sandy, list: I have 2 situation where I need to configure a backup for our mail server: (1) I want to configure the remote site 3111skyline.com to accept mail as a backup to rbpllc.com, rankinlawfirm.com, and guillorylaw.com. I have read

Re: [opensuse] video monitor aspect ratio samsung 226bw 22inch wide

2007-04-29 Thread david rankin
Snipped from an earlier post: Rick, Yes, I got it fixed and it was a lot easier than I thought. You just have to *slow* down and follow the steps one at a time. Basically, what you need to do is compile X, mesa and drm from the tarballs and that will leave you with a fresh X window install

Re: [opensuse] *Help* Am I under some kind of attack??

2007-04-25 Thread david rankin
From: Darryl Gregorash On 2007-04-24 23:12, david rankin wrote: snip Thanks for all the responses! It looks like the primary problem is a lot of lame servers out there. As Carlos explained, the IP in question does not resolve with reverse DNS. However, I would not call that your primary

Re: [opensuse] upgrading php5 on Suse 10.0

2007-04-25 Thread david rankin
From: James D. Parra James D. Parra wrote: What is the best way to get PHP5 upgraded without breaking Apache or anything else on the system? The ready built packages for 10.0 at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/php/SUSE_Linux_10.0/ ? ~~ Hello, Thank you for the link. I

[opensuse] *Help* Am I under some kind of attack??

2007-04-24 Thread david rankin
Mates, I am experiencing an excessive load from the internet that looks like some kind of attack. The log entries that repeat over and over are: Apr 22 11:14:54 bonza proftpd[10488]: bonza.rbpllc.com (216.101.241.110[216.101.241.110]) - FTP session opened. Apr 22 11:14:54 bonza

Re: [opensuse] dns on Suse 10

2007-04-24 Thread david rankin
From: James D. Parra Hello, I've configured dns via yast on for internal use, however I have a couple of questions. When using nslookup from a windows box pointing to the Suse dns server we get the following error; C:\tempnslookup www.website.com 192.168.0.2 *** Can't find server name for

Re: [opensuse] *help* Built 2.6.20 kernel - boots fine, no keyboard, no mouse, no network

2007-04-19 Thread david rankin
From: John Andersen On Wednesday 18 April 2007, david rankin wrote: The machine boots just fine on 2.6.20.6 and 2.6.20.7, the only problems are (1) keyboard; (2) mouse; and (3) network. Everything else works fine (Apache, MySQL, smb, nmb, sata, etc...) How would you know? Hmm

Re: [opensuse] *help* Built 2.6.20 kernel - boots fine, no keyboard, no mouse, no network

2007-04-19 Thread david rankin
From: Thomas Hertweck david rankin wrote: From: Thomas Hertweck [... create link linux-linux-2.6.20 ...] That should not be necessary. Sorry, everything I have read, said do it, so I just did it In principle, the link /usr/src/linux is not required at all and has mainly historical

Re: [opensuse] *help* Built 2.6.20 kernel - boots fine, no keyboard, no mouse, no network

2007-04-18 Thread david rankin
From: Thomas Hertweck david rankin wrote: This is really comical - sort of. I am running opensuse 10. Is that 10.0? Yes I have been through heck compiling a new kernel. I got the 2.6.20 kernel and did the following Get the latest and greatest kernel, unpack it into /usr/src/linux

[opensuse] Compiling Kernel - What is ata_piix?

2007-04-17 Thread david rankin
Mates, Trying to solve the problem of why I have no keyboard or mouse after compile of 2.6.20 on opensuse 10.0. Error during boot is ...FATAL ata_piix failed. What is ata_piix and why didn't it get into the kernel? Any help appreciated. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. 510 Ochiltree Street

[opensuse] *help* Built 2.6.20 kernel - boots fine, no keyboard, no mouse, no network

2007-04-16 Thread david rankin
Mates, This is really comical - sort of. I am running opensuse 10. I have been through heck compiling a new kernel. I got the 2.6.20 kernel and did the following Get the latest and greatest kernel, unpack it into /usr/src/linux-2.6.20, create a symlink linux-linux-2.6.20 cd linux zcat

Re: [opensuse] Re: How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-12 Thread david rankin
From: Craig Millar Perhaps this will be of assistance? http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_suse Craig Thanks Craig, I had found that page and it does contain some good information. However, I did get a little confused when the page talked about backing up cp

Re: [opensuse] How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-12 Thread david rankin
From: Kenneth Schneider On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:59 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: david rankin wrote: Will my .config from the 2.6.13 kernel source I got from yast work with the new kernel source from kernel.org? Yes. Copy the old .config file to the new kernel source directory, then do 'make

Re: [opensuse] How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-12 Thread david rankin
From: Thomas Hertweck david rankin wrote: [...] What am I doing wrong? I can't get make cloneconfig to work. Please have a look at my other email in this thread. make cloneconfig does not work with vanilla kernel sources. Before you continue to play with the new kernel, please have a look

[opensuse] How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-11 Thread david rankin
Mates, What is the best way to get and install the 2.6.20 kernel on Suse 10? Are there development binaries somewhere? Do I have to compile from source? I am doing this because I need the version 1.3 dri kernel driver. Any other suggestions. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. 510 Ochiltree

Re: [opensuse] How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-11 Thread david rankin
From: Jonathan Ervine Stuart wrote: Jose, I installed from source pulled from kernel.org. I don't know if there are rpms anywhere for this. There is always kernel of the day (kotd) on software.opensuse.org - I've just looked and it seems it's up to 2.6.21-rc6 at the moment, which might be

Re: [opensuse] How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-11 Thread david rankin
From: Jose Stuart wrote: Jose, I installed from source pulled from kernel.org. I don't know if there are rpms anywhere for this. Stuart -Original Message- From: Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Apr 11, 2007 11:48 AM To: david rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Suse Linux suse-linux-e

Re: [opensuse] How to install 2.6.20 kernel on opensuse 10

2007-04-11 Thread david rankin
From: Kenneth Schneider On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:59 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: david rankin wrote: Will my .config from the 2.6.13 kernel source I got from yast work with the new kernel source from kernel.org? Yes. Copy the old .config file to the new kernel source directory, then do 'make

[opensuse] Help need new Kernel for SuSE 10 with new i915.ko driver

2007-04-10 Thread david rankin
Mates, I have recently built X from source using the xorg modular tree in order to be able to use a 22inch lcd at 1680x1050 on my SuSE 10 install. The resulting display is awesome, but dri will not load because of a kernel driver mismatch. The relevant Xorg.0.log is: (EE) intel(0): [dri]

Re: [opensuse] how to include a user in audio group?

2007-04-05 Thread david rankin
- Original Message - From: Pierre van der Laat Ulate Hello everyone: It seems i have not been able to listen to any sound in my user account because it is not included in the audio group. Which brings me to the important question: how can I include a user in the audio group? Thank's

Re: [opensuse] Help Widescreen 1680x1050, Intel 915G can't get display configured

2007-04-03 Thread david rankin
From: Sunny On 3/28/07, david rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mates. I have a new Acer AL2216W that runs native at 1680x1050. The install is Suse 10 with xorg-x11-6.8.2-100.2. The video card supports 1680x1050 Oh man, I just saw what you are using ... so bad luck. I ordered one

[opensuse] What source package provides xorg-server.pc on Suse 10

2007-04-03 Thread david rankin
Mates, I am trying to compile xf86-video-intel-1.9.93 from xorg. ./configure fails with the error: Package xorg-server was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-server.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package

Re: [opensuse] Help Widescreen 1680x1050, Intel 915G can't get display configured

2007-03-29 Thread david rankin
From: Leen de Braal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for the information. That was a great page that looked exactly like it should work, but *uugh* it didn't. I am uning 915resolution instead of the 855resolution so I will give that a try. Any other thoughts??? I have tried 855resolution with

Re: [opensuse] Help Widescreen 1680x1050, Intel 915G can't get display configured

2007-03-28 Thread david rankin
From: Leen de Braal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mates. I have a new Acer AL2216W that runs native at 1680x1050. The install is Suse 10 with xorg-x11-6.8.2-100.2. The video card supports 1680x1050 natively and works well under M$. I cannot for the life of me get the display to work under suse 10 at

Re: [opensuse] Help Widescreen 1680x1050, Intel 915G can't get display configured

2007-03-28 Thread david rankin
Thank you for the information. That was a great page that looked exactly like it should work, but *uugh* it didn't. I am uning 915resolution instead of the 855resolution so I will give that a try. Any other thoughts??? I have tried 855resolution with the same results.. Any other

Re: [opensuse] Help Widescreen 1680x1050, Intel 915G can't get display configured

2007-03-28 Thread david rankin
From: Sunny [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/28/07, david rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Section Modes Identifier Modes[0] Modeline 1680x1050_60.00 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section Screen DefaultDepth 24 SubSection Display Depth 15

Re: [opensuse] group ware info

2007-02-21 Thread david rankin
From: Jack Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a request from a few users wanting to have some of the features of ms exchange email server. I do not need it for email because we outsource our email to a third party, its cheaper for them to host it our 40 uers then it would be for me to run

Re: [opensuse] Database Frontend for linux Postgres

2007-02-19 Thread david rankin
From: Art Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of an opensource database frontend for Postgresql database along the lines of MSAccess? I have tried the following with no success Art My only though would be to dump the database to ascii and read it (load data infile) in to mysql and then

Re: [opensuse] ssh problem from remote LAN

2007-02-01 Thread david rankin
From: Carl Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue January 30 2007 13:28, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Set up a SLES 10 server and although I can ssh to it from any box on the local LAN I can't get to it from a remote LAN even though I can ssh to any other box on the local LAN via ssh. snip Hi

Re: [opensuse] Error with BIND security update

2007-02-01 Thread david rankin
From: Peter Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ysgrifennodd Carlos E. R.: Force download of the rpm again. It's broken, the signature says so (not missing, but invalid). Ie, delete the rpm in /var/lib/YaST2/you/mnt/i386/update/10.0/rpm/. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Bingo! Thanks Carlos. And

[opensuse] imapd command stream end of file??

2007-01-29 Thread david rankin
Mates, (Sandy) Lately my mail server has been throwing errors. Specifically, Jan 29 16:10:57 bonza imapsd[20120]: Command stream end of file, while reading line user=david host=mail.3111skyline.com [66.76.63.120] What is weird is that it will go ahead and connect. It seems sporadic. The

[opensuse] Postfix - Allow myself to relay - Sandy?

2007-01-26 Thread david rankin
Mates (Sandy in particular) How do I configure postfix to allow myself and other specific users to relay mail across the server? Say I'm at home and I want to send mail outbound from my server at work using Outlook. Since my server doesn't allow any relaying, the send fails -- as it

Re: [opensuse] Postfix - Allow myself to relay - Sandy?

2007-01-26 Thread david rankin
From: Sandy Drobic [EMAIL PROTECTED] david rankin wrote: Mates (Sandy in particular) How do I configure postfix to allow myself and other specific users to relay mail across the server? Say I'm at home and I want to send mail outbound from my server at work using Outlook. Since my server

Re: [opensuse] printing to a printer on a windows XP machine

2007-01-23 Thread david rankin
From: Phil Burness [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 23 January 2007 03:33, david rankin wrote: From: Darryl Gregorash [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2007-01-22 11:10, Phil Burness wrote: snip On the XP machine my username is [EMAIL PROTECTED] password example2 Are you sure your username

Re: [opensuse] Re: printing to a printer on a windows XP machine

2007-01-23 Thread david rankin
From: Phil Burness [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 23 January 2007 14:34, Eberhard Roloff wrote: Phil Burness wrote: Here is the response from the suggestion above: mymachine:~ # smbclient -U [EMAIL PROTECTED] -L BSMITH2 Password: example2 session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE Phil

Re: [opensuse] Help with spamassassin -- Sandy??

2007-01-22 Thread david rankin
- Original Message - From: Sandy Drobic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Help with spamassassin -- Sandy?? david rankin wrote: Sandy! I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam arsenal

Re: [opensuse] printing to a printer on a windows XP machine

2007-01-22 Thread david rankin
From: Darryl Gregorash [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2007-01-22 11:10, Phil Burness wrote: snip On the XP machine my username is [EMAIL PROTECTED] password example2 Are you sure your username on that system is not just bob.smith? I would think Darryl is right. A good way to test whether your windows

Re: [opensuse] How to switch from KDE to Gnome: v.10.2

2007-01-19 Thread david rankin
From: Ron Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUSE 10.2. How can I switch from KDE to Gnome? Gnome does not appear in the Session options even though it is installed. A search via Google and on linuxforums.org provided nothing other than theoretically Gnome should be in the Sessions menu. On the forum I

Re: [opensuse] Anyone else getting weird email messages like this?

2007-01-17 Thread david rankin
From: Greg Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just what I needed. Another strange problem. Anyone else getting mail messages that look like this? # THIS IS A WARNING ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. #

Re: [opensuse] network printer--Windows

2007-01-16 Thread david rankin
From: Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, all-- Let us assume that I have a Windows machine connected to a Win Printer-- a lowly Lazerjet that Linux doesn't particularly know or love. Let us further assume that I have figured out how to network a Linux machine with the Windows machine.

Re: [opensuse] TEST Am I really on this list?

2007-01-13 Thread david rankin
- Original Message - From: Tom Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 01:45 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That's the exit hop from suse to your isp, that took 18 minutes. Too much. The only one that can tell what happened is a suse

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

2007-01-12 Thread david rankin
- Original Message - From: Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:39, James Knott wrote: You want Dubya to trust some other country to ensure his goofs get covered up? ;-) You don't know what I want w.r.t. the 43rd president of the U.S. (By which I mean I

Re: [opensuse] Re: This is OT, but you guys are gonna love this one!!

2007-01-12 Thread david rankin
- Original Message - From: Anders Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 12 January 2007 22:26, Mathias Homann wrote: Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2007 22:17 schrieb david rankin: I'll chime in on this one. What I want originates in the House of Representatives, is tried in the Senate

[opensuse] Spamassassin - Working - How do I make it smarter??

2007-01-10 Thread david rankin
Mates, I now have spamassassin working and it is checking mail (see the header below): Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on nemesis.skyline.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=HTML_50_60,HTML_MESSAGE,

[opensuse] Help with spamassassin -- Sandy??

2007-01-09 Thread david rankin
Sandy! I am now trying to incorporate spamassassin into my anti-spam arsenal. I am finding a dearth of information. usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin is not much help. I have spamd up and running. I am confused by the reference to creating a .procmailrc in my home directory mentioned on

Re: [opensuse] Open-source leader leaving Novell for Google

2006-12-24 Thread david rankin
Jesus, I hope it isn't true. But if it is, we will miss him dearly, both here and very much so on the Samba list. However I can under stand and respect the decision. Good luck and God speed Jeremy. Jerry, can you pick up the slack?? An ill wind blows for us all as a result of the MS

Re: [opensuse] Samba Admin Help

2006-12-14 Thread david rankin
- Original Message - From: Billie Erin Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] david rankin wrote: - Original Message - From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2006/12/13 22:29 (GMT-0500) Thomas Miller apparently typed: Unfortunately, it failed to change the password. I am assuming

Re: [opensuse] Samba Admin Help

2006-12-13 Thread david rankin
- Original Message - From: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2006/12/13 22:29 (GMT-0500) Thomas Miller apparently typed: Unfortunately, it failed to change the password. I am assuming the default password is blank? So when it asked for my old password, I should just hit enter.

[opensuse] Help! How to convert mpeg 720x480 to 352x240

2006-11-10 Thread david rankin
Mates, I am in a real bind. I have mpeg2 files in 720x480 format that I need to convert to 352x240 format so I can cut clips from them. I am on a short time line. What tool does this?? transcode? mencoder? Any advise and a quick reply would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -- David C.