November 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[Newbie] adding fonts to star office 5.2
by Chun Ki Shin 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi, guys.. I just downloaded some truetype fonts and installed to X system, but not to star office 5.2...? Where is the right place to install...? I looked at /opt/office52/share/fonts/ and I found the folder type1.....Is this the place...? BTW, I'm running SuSE 8.0 Thanks for your help, _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband. Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp

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rpmnew & rpmsave
by Rodney Wishart 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

After upgrading to ver 8.1, I have several files mostly in /etc which end in .rpmsave and .rpmnew. While booting a message, "searching for unresolved configuration files" displays a list of these files and says see /var/adm/configcheck.the contents of the text fileconfigcheck are: /etc/X11/qtrc.rpmnew /etc/aliases.rpmnew /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew /etc/init.d/isdn.rpmsave /etc/init.d/ldap.rpmsave /etc/init.d/xntpd.rpmsave /etc/inittab.rpmnew /etc/isdn/isdn.conf.rpmnew /etc/mail/submit.cf.rpmnew /etc/openldap/ldap.conf.rpmnew /etc/printcap.rpmnew /etc/printcap.rpmorig /etc/sendmail.cf.rpmnew /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.rpmsave My system is running well for about three weeks now. My question is, can I just delete these files. I suspect they are backup files no longer needed.

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Restricting desktop area in KDE
by Ole Kofoed Hansen 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

For a long time, I have been annoyed by what is actually a minor detail on my desktop. On the righthand side of my desktop, I have an icq client and gkrellm running. I would like to make KDE treat these windows just as if they were panels, so that other programs don't just pop up on top of them. It is not good enough if I just set them to "Always on top" because then other programs can still be partly obscured. If anyone has hints to help me solve this, it would be greatly appreciated. Regards Ole

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Slow YOU update times in 8.1
by Doug Glenn 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

I am experiancing 15-20 minute waits on a cable connection before it displays the results where I can choose the packages. This same time occurs no matter what site I select, or if I select manual or automatic. This is on a Athlon 1800 system with plenty of ram and drive space, so it is not hardware related. I can also browse the web and get email without pause while YOU is running. I have both name servers in the resolv.conf, and my own system in hosts (although I recently added it, the problem existed before I added it). Throughput at dslreports.com shows 800+ throughput. So it does not appear the bandwidth is impaired either. Has anyone seen this and resolved it? Has it been reported to Suse? I cannot find any reference in the SDB regarding this or in this newsgroup (that I found) Doug

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X, Savage driver from sources - will it work?
by Serguei Chabanov 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi, I have s3 ProSavage graphics card. It is embedded in the motherboard (laptop) so I cannot upgrade. I use my laptop to watch videos, and the video driver is the bottleneck. MPlayer people (great software, those using xine should give it a try) suggest using a recent version from the maintainer: http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html Now X drivers are supposed to be distribution-independent, but SuSE must have good reasons to keep its own modification. Therefore, simply overwriting the existing binary does not work. Is there a way to make X server ignore module mismach? If not, and I have to build from sources, I gather it is a big project. Could I possibly accomplish it without knowledge of C? Any advice would be appreciated. Regards, Serguei PS To add to a list of complaints about the distro: LDAP v3 server can be installed, as well as GUI clients. Clients do not seem to fully work (read only). After a lot of googleing, I've found that clients are compiled without v3 support. No info in /usr/shared/doc/packages/... whatsoever. As they say, go figure.

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make modules_install
by Nachiket 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

When I do a 'make modules_install' I get the following problem- make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.18.SuSE/arch/i386/lib' cd /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB; \ mkdir -p pcmcia; \ find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.18-4GB; fi depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/drm/sis.o depmod: sis_free depmod: sis_malloc deshpande:/usr/src/linux # I think due this error some of modules don'nt get installed at all. How do I get rid of this error ? -Nachiket -Nachiket

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8.1 - Kernel panic, install support non-existent
by Joe Sullivan 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hey, Having grown weary of waiting and waiting and waiting for supposed installation support to give any kind of response whatsoever... (apparently responses won't come until after the install support period expires, so what's the point)... 7.3 and 8.0 have run fine on my system. I have a Duron 800Mhz processor on a First AE31 mainboard, with the most recent BIOS update. Something is causing a kernel panic with 8.1. It may run for a while, there's no install problems, but eventually there's a panic and of course that's a system freeze. The problem is I can't figure out what's causing the panic. With a Duron processor, the Athlon kernel is installed by default. Freezes. Tried a new install using the k_deflt kernel instead. It seems to run a bit longer, but I still end up with a freeze. The SuSE support database gives no real clues either. There was one writeup about having both a CD-RW and CD-R with a fix, and I did that. But still the freeze. I doubted that was the problem, though it was an issue for my system. I've tried running it without online updates, and with. Still freeze. The panic occurs at what seems to be random times. Doesn't matter if I'm playing XMMS, or checking my mail. I can find no warnings or anything in any var/log files. I'm beginning to feel like I wasted my money on this Pro 8.1 package. I refuse to believe it's the whole i586/gcc3.2 change, because I've gotten Mandrake 9 and RH8 to both install fine. But I paid for and prefer the SuSE setup, so I don't want to switch to either of those. Is there *any* way to figure out what is causing the kernel panic? Does it write anything *anywhere* before it panics? Thanks, Joe

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PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0
by Geoffrey Horn 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Is anybody successfully using lifelines 3.0.21 with SuSE 8.1? I cannot get any lifelines (genealogy) postscript report files to print at all. Some data is sent to my printer but nothing is printed. Previous reports from lifelines version 3.0.19 are in PS-Adobe-3.0 format and still print OK but the newer version of lifelines is in PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0 format. I can't see anything on the internet about this. What is EPSF anyway? Is this a SuSE problem, or is it lifelines I wonder. Any ideas anyone? -- Geoff Horn

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Unofficial SuSE FAQ Monthly Reminder
by Togan Muftuoglu 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

Hi, Mirror Sites of the Unofficial SuSE FAQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The up to date version of this FAQ is available here . You may want to try the main mirror site if you encounter difficulties in reaching the primary site. Current Unofficial SuSE FAQ Mirror List * http://susefaq.sourceforge.net * http://toganm.tripod.com * http://www.smaug42.com/susefaq * http://www.bmtsolutions.com/suse_faq/index.html * http://www.jon.fl.net.au/suse/unofficial-faq * http://www.e-vega.info/susefaq * http://www.ods.co.cr/susefaq/ * http://www.netbulans.com/susefaq * http://www.wdm.com/susefaq * http://www.myxdu.com/susefaq For those who would like to mirror this FAQ please drop me an email so I can update the mirror info. Please do not use a mirroring script or a mirror tool against the main site. The easiest way would be to get the files of the files from Sourceforge project page. http://sourceforge.net/projects/susefaq There is also an rpm version of SuSE FAQ which integrates into SuSEhelpcenter making it searchable by any word. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42064&release_id=1116… It is also available via apt just issue apt-get install susefaq In order the ease setting up SuSEfirewall2 there is a document which explains how it works and how to configure. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42064&release_id=1166… There is an experimental (in terms of layout) articles section currently on the following topics located at http://dinamizm.ath.cx/articles and http://susefaq.sf.net/articles * SuSE Bash Initialization * CD Ripping * Apt for rpm * PAM Pluggable Authentication Module * RPM RedHat Package Manager * Open Secure Shell OpenSSH * How to do local YaST2 Online Update * Is my package fixed? Or: How to look into RPMs Most of the Howtos available on the Internet assume that we are using another distro. Hence although the information is there, in order to apply it, one has to understand the details that are needed to make things work as they should do. One of the goals of this project is to explain things in terms that the layperson can understand, using SuSE tools and the SuSE directory structure, along with the SuSE boot concept. Much of this information can already be found under /usr/share/doc/packages. However, it takes a long time before the user finally discovers what is available and where it is located. How can you contribute ? As you will discover while surfing this site, you will encounter some articles are contributed by other people. You too can contribute to the creation of an information rich website making your SuSE experience an even pleasant one. If you haven't got your Sourceforge Login yet get now by clicking http://sourceforge.net/account/register.php. Once you have done your registration drop a private email to me with your Sourceforge id. Enjoy your SuSE Linux -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx

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