July 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

accented characters, SuSE 7.1
by Bob Torres 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Hi, First off, if anyone from SuSE is reading this list, congratulations on an excellent distro. I'm really floored by how easy it was to install and configure SuSE, especially given my experience with other distributions for PPC. With that said, I need some help now. By and large, I communicate in English, but on occasion, I need to compose emails in Spanish. What I need to figure out how to do is switch keyboard configurations on the fly, or how to send the accented characters and tildes. I tried the directions in the support database, but they didn't work for me. I also tried the International settings in KDE2, but they ended up screwing up my English keymap, and I had a hard time getting it back. For what its worth, I'm running SuSE 7.1 out of the box, with Gnome. Accented characters appear correctly in the terminal, but I just can't seem to make them myself! I'm also using an external extended USB keyboard, by Macally. Any ideas? TIA... Bob ......................................... PhD Candidate, Development Soc, Cornell U. [e] bob(a)rjtorres.net [www] www.rjtorres.net [aim] djbobyt [icq] 95880740 [advice] assume nothing

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Re: LVM on PowerMac/Yaboot bug
by Andrei Verovski 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

>No. lilo assumes that the directory /boot is on the same partition as /. > >You need a special boot partition anyway for yaboot itself which can >contain the kernel. So I dont see a urgent reason to act. > Hi, Olaf, I would like to deploy the following partitioning scheme: HFS /macboot for yaboot within fake System Folder containing os-chooser, ext2 for /boot (Linux kernel) and ReiserFS for /root on LVM RAID 1. At this moment /boot and /root are on the same ReiserFS partition. And as I reported before, yaboot may work and may not (in my case not). Your colleague (I do not remember who, sorry), replied that he knows the reason of this yaboot's artifact and will fix it soon (Jeff Mahoney ???). I do not use LILO PPC on Mac, it is COMPLETELY useless, manual editing of yaboot.conf and os-chooser is just simpler (LILO PPC does nothing but updates these two files from lilo.conf). LILO PPC should be completely GUI to be a real value. Right now I see no reasons for a front-end for two conf files. ******************************************************** * Best Regards --- Andrei Verovski * * e-mail --- andrei.verovski(a)bigfoot.com * * * * Personal Home Page * * http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/ * ********************************************************

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archive of this list?
by Jonathon Wallen 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Hi all, being a newcomer to this list I'd like to know if there's a searchable archive of the list anywhere on the web. Many thanks, -- - ____________________________ - Jonathon Wallen - B,DES College of Fine Arts, UNSW - z2213441(a)student.unsw.edu.au - ____________________________

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Secure Remote Control
by vulani＠webmail.co.za 03 Jul '01

03 Jul '01

Hello everyone, I haven't used Linux before but have a Mandrake disk and am contemplating to buy SuSE. I would like to know if there is a program which one can use to remoteley log into other machine via LAN, WAN or the Internet. Regards Vulani ________________________________________________________________ Mid-year intake! Enrol NOW & stand a chance to win 25% discount http://www.milpark.co.za

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xconsole
by Joss Winn 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Hello, Hopefully this is an easy question to answer. I use BlackBox (sometimes with Gnome 1.4) but I don't always get my xconsole starting up by default as I do with Window Maker or KDE. Sometimes it is there, other times, not. Could anyone let me know what the command is that SUSE have used to get the blue xconsole to come up by default on some desktops? I can run 'xconsole' but it is clearly not the same as the default that suse have set up. A trivial question but one that has been bugging me thanks Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org

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/Newbie+7200/ Boot Problems
by Yuri K 02 Jul '01

02 Jul '01

Hi All, Just installed, yet not sure that I haven't messed it big. What files shall go into HFS boot partition for this old world machine? I found a detailed post from Mr Bradley Smith in archives, but he deals with a newer hardware. I chose minimal installation and something is wrong with man. /usr/shared and $MANPATH seem to be OK. Just a side-note: for $50 they could produce less confusing manual, information is scattered too widely and is unstructured. Still, it's a lot of work in a relatively short period of time and this is one of few Unix flavours that can be installed on my old box. Best, Yuri K Vancouver, WA, USA

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