Suse

Why is installing software....so....darn....slow?
I'm new to Linux and to openSUSE. One thing I noticed is that anytime I download a RPM, it takes next to forever to install. First, it spends about 5-10 minutes "resolving dependencies". Then it spends another 5 minutes "preparing software". Then it installs the software, sitting at 0% completion for another 5... 30 Sep 2007 22:44

zypper updater (Was: Updater broken)
Andreas Stieger wrote: On 2007-08-16, Guenther Schwarz <guenther.schwarz(a)gmx.de> wrote: As I can't delete the non-existing source with 'zypper sd 7' I had to do it manually on all machines. What a PITA. The correct URL seems to be: <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUS... 4 Sep 2007 17:36

LFS errors
I have a LFS over two drives and get the following error when I want to mount it: root(a)penne : mount /media/backup/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/system/LVM, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Th... 16 May 2007 14:49

10.2 and sendmail
I'm fairly new to Linux, although well experienced with windows, I have set up a server with Suse 10.2 running Apache and PHP5. I want to be able to send email from php scripts. How do I configure sendmail to do this ( I don't want the server to receive mail.) I've searched the web but just can't find a simple ... 9 May 2007 11:23

What sets up network interfaces?
What makes this happen during bootup? (From boot.msg) ----------------------- Setting up network interfaces: lo lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 doneWaiting for mandatory devices: wlan-bus-pci-0000:00:10.0 __NSC__ 17 15 wlan0 device: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01... 14 Mar 2007 18:40

mp3 player
Is there a good mp3 player for openSUSE 10.2? I've got thousands of mp3 music files but Amorak says it can't play them :-( TIA Steve G ... 14 Mar 2007 18:07

SuSE 10.2 video output Xv with black video screen
Hi all, finally i was able to setup all the multimedia stuff on my pretty new SuSE 10.2 installation. However i am still not able to use the xv video output in MPlayer. All other outputs work but are not really satisfying. Google did not help very much. The project specific documentation is pretty good but refer... 5 Mar 2007 17:36

OpenSuse 10.1 -> 10.2 : undefined sybol FT_Library_SetLcdFilter
What package have you used for installation? I have the same problem, not with firefox, it runs fine, but with other commercial application Carsten Holz wrote: Everything is fine now. I reinstalled libXft and it runs. CU ... 2 Jan 2007 19:34

automount
Hi, I just upgraded from susse 10.0 to 10.1 and it seems like my USB disk doesn't get automounted on boot :( Why not? How to enable? My /etc/fstab looks like: [fstab] /dev/hda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda2 /windows/C vfat users,gid=u... 4 Jul 2006 06:58

Success Suse 10 and Belkin Wireless G PCI F5D5700
After several days working on other WiFI PCI cards I got a Belkin device at CompUSA for $35. Details: Belkin Version 5000 Wireless G Part #: F5D7000 - P10097-C (This came from sticker on the PC Board) IC-ID: 4711A-WW4201D (This came from sticker on the PC Board) Part # F5D7000 (This came from the Box) My ... 30 Apr 2006 00:07