Suse

Mounting smbfs file system
Hi all On my very old SuSE 9.3 system, when I wanted to mount a "samba" file system, I've used either "smbmount" or "mount -t smbfs". On my brand new opensuse 11.0, I was neither able to find these two commands nor to find the package(s) providing them. I've already installed the packages "samba" and "samba-clie... 7 Jul 2008 16:37

problem to use usb scanner with vuescan in 10.2
Hi, I am trying to connect an old HP7400c scanner via the usb with the vuescan program in 10.2, which uses libusb to access the scanner. Vuescan actually connects to the correct usb port, it gets the correct vendor id and product id, but then it stops. Also if I run vuescan as root. There is an error message ... 6 Jul 2008 19:07

AC`97 sound controller
I guess I have to wipe my system and reinstall 11.0 openSuSE to get the sound working again. Nothing seems to work in Yast. Too bad I can't get that installation sound probe thing to run. Sounds work fine in W2K. -- Claude Hopper ? 3 :) 7/8 ... 7 Jul 2008 07:21

Keeping Firefox 2
I disabled the Firefox update during the system update. But I can not mark it "Taboo" in package management. The tabooing button is greyed. This would mean that it wants hard to be updated? Now, fortunaltely I hit an error that does a favor. The automatic update in cron, zypper up -y -t patch --skip-interac... 8 Jul 2008 13:06

Parallels unable to compile
houghi wrote: Yes, this is not distro related, this is kernel related, we are aware about OpenSuse 11. Unfortunatly no answer of when a new version will be coming. Offtopic: the kernel in openSUSE 11.0 sucks........ not able to run it normal under the laptop. -- EOS www.photo-memories.be Running ... 6 Jul 2008 12:58

Making changes in partitions, openSUSE
I have copied my system disk onto another one and as such the copy is perfect. I made the clone with cp /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb2 Everything is copied there and the copy works fine. Now, the new disk is obviously bigger and there is space for the partitions to grow. I just cannot change the partitions. The proble... 6 Jul 2008 07:52

Rsync dependencies
I have been fiddling with the 11.0 KDE Live CD. To fix stuff screwed by update from 10.3 to 11.0. I needed rsync which it doesn't have. Adding it drags about 75 megs of other stuff like OpenOffice Templates, java, alsa etc. If say memory is limited, installing these may be a bit problematic. If a fast Inte... 7 Jul 2008 11:27

e-sata on 11.0
Hi! I found an article (Star Question) in Linux Format August edition on this subject. I'm not going to copy the whole article here, but only mention the key point. The article is reffeering to a file named: /etc/pmount.allow And the entry in the file is: echo '/dev/sdd*'>>/etc/pmount.allow The problem is th... 5 Jul 2008 20:41

VHS tape to divx
central wrote: I have a pile of VHS tapes here, some commercial, some home done, that I would like to get into divx files on a hard disk. I realise that its going to a long job, and that I could bodge something with hardware to copy them from my old VCR to my standalone DVD recorder but I really want ... 7 Jul 2008 09:24

suspend to ram
Have a problem with a dell laptop. Suspend to ram (s3) works properly about 50% of the time. It Aways suspends properly, but will not resume sometimes. It just shuts off like I turned it off, have to press the power button to restart the box and bring up grub and reboot. This also happens with Vista so I'm thin... 13 Jul 2008 16:08