May 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 9.2 Pro and Touchpad Issues
by cms 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hello all, Just received my copy of SuSE 9.2 Pro and completed a clean install on my Toshiba Satellite 2435 laptop. For whatever reason, the laptop's touchpad was not detected/installed correctly. Using the laptop has become extremely difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work. I don't recall what driver I've used in the past with SuSE and this laptop--truth is, I never looked. Currently I'm using the generic PS/2 Mouse (Aux-Port) driver as indicated in the Hardware section of YaST's Control Center and the touchpad is somewhat functional, albeit with irritating side effects. With previous versions of SuSE the touchpad was detected/configured correctly and without my intervention. Anyone using SuSE 9.2 with a similar machine? Searches on SuSE's Support Portal turned up zero articles related to ALPS Touchpad devices. This is a snippet of dmesg, related to the mouse/touchpad: ------- SNIP ------- mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64 alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64 alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected Disabling hardware tapping alps.c: Status: 11 01 0a input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio4 input: PC Speaker md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 ------- SNIP ------- Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA Chris Shanahan

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Xvnc does not start KDE anymore after update to KDE 3.4
by Thomas Börkel 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

HI! Since updating my Suse 9.2 to KDE 3.4, Xvnc (started via xinetd) does not start KDE anymore. When I connect to the specified port, I get a grey screen and an X mouse pointer, but no KDE login. I get nothing in .xsession-errors (I guess because Xvnc is being started by user nobody) and nothing in /var/log/messages. vncserver works OK. Any hints? Thanks! Thomas

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RE: [suse-kde] KDE 3.4.1 released
by Black, Alain 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

I haven't used apt on SuSE yet, only on Debian, so this question might just be for my own edification, do you still have to run "apt-get update" to retrieve an updated list of packages? -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Eckl [mailto:daniel.eckl@gmx.de] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 1:25 PM To: suse-kde(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-kde] KDE 3.4.1 released Am Dienstag, 31. Mai 2005 22:15 schrieb Richard Bos: > Op dinsdag 31 mei 2005 21:47, schreef Osho GG: > > Thanks for the info. I don't see them yet at > > > > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.1-i386/RPMS.kde/ > > > > I guess I will wait for the mirroring to happen. > > Heu, they must be there. That freshrpms page is made from the contents of > the directories... Strange. I can see them all, but apt update doesn't get file lists which contains these files. I have (beside others) the repositories: suser-rbos kde kde-unstable Greets, Daniel

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KDE 3.4.1 released
by Osho GG 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hi, KDE 3.4.1 is released. http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.4.1.php Any news about packages? I am interested in the ones for 9.1 Pro :). -- Osho

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Kweather - Suse 9.3
by Jim Flanagan 31 May '05

31 May '05

Has anyone found a fix for the kweather problem in 9.3? I tried rebooting, and got a partial fix. Some stations work, but wouldn't you know my local stations show they are down for maintenance. However, when I boot to my 9.1 install those same stations are working fine. Any suggestions? Tks, Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii dot com

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How to get icewm to show as a choice in KDM
by Sacgeek 31 May '05

31 May '05

Tried installing thru Synaptic, didn't show up as a choice, Uninstalled, installed again, still no joy. In searching I find others having the same problem with Suse and Icewm. So, I suppose I need instruction on how to manually edit the file that the window manager reads for choices. Has anyone else faced this problem, and if so, how was it resolved. Thank you Jim Hall

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font count and application startup times
by Klaus Kaiser 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hey, I am running 2 SuSE boxes, one with 9.2, the other one with 9.3 installed. The 9.2 box comes with KDE 3.3.0, 9.3 comes with KDE 3.4.0. Playing around with Kwrite and various language settings I found the following: Kwrite in a german language environment takes 1.9 seconds to start at the 9.2 Box, but 4.0 seconds at 9.3! However, kwrite in a chinese language environment takes 11.3 seconds to start at the 9.2 Box, but "only" 5.2 seconds at 9.3. While I like the better chinese language environment performance, I am verry unhapy with the bad performance under the german language environment. It seems to me, that this has somethin to do with xft. By reducing the number of fonts, application startup times can be reduced enormous. The 9.2 box comes with 634 fonts. After reducing font count to 2, kwrite takes about 1.9 seconts to start under the german language environment, but only 3.6 seconds under the chinese language environment. Compare this with the startup times with 634 fonts installed. Reducing font count at th 9.3 box fron 734 to 2 hase the same effect: kwrite, german environment 2.1 seconds, chinese environment 3.9 seconds. Is this some xft related bug? or is it normal behavior? Shouldnt application startup times be independet from the number of fonts installed? Klaus takes 1.9 seconds to start ___________________________________________________________ Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: http://mail.yahoo.de

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HELP ME!I have destoyed kde!!!!!!!!!!
by Alaios 28 May '05

28 May '05

Hi! I have just destoyed my pc. I have suse 9.2 and i used apt-get to install packages... the problem is that the apt-get corrupted some files (so dont use it in suse) and my kde cannot start now.. Plz tell me what to do in order to rescue the system kdeinit gives me the following error kdeinit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: undefined symbol: _ZN12QCommonStyle7metaObjE Any good suggestion? I think that i should find the rpm packages and reinstall them....I dont know where i can find packages and how to install them... Thx.. Have a nice day __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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Kmail and gpg
by Alvin Beach 27 May '05

27 May '05

Hello all, I just purchased suse 9.3 and I am doing a fresh install. Everything has gone well except for decrypting email. I have kgpg running and all setup (all private and public keys imported, etc.) I have kmail setup and I can send and retrieve email. However, when I receive an encrypt email, Kmail says that my passphrase is bad. But it didn't ask. Kmail does work for checking the signature of email (but only if they are not encrypted). Kmail does ask for my passphrase when I can send encrypted email. I find this very frustrating. I am upgrading from suse 9.1 which setting up gpg in kmail was done in 2 minutes! I have been souring the web and finding things to try (like starting gpg-agent?) but nothing is working. Anyone on this list find a solution for suse 9.3? Thanks, Alvin -- Please reply to only this mailing-list so others can take part as well. Thanks.

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RE: [FWD: Re: [suse-kde] Suse 9.3 Wireless Tool]
by KBB0927＠cs.com 26 May '05

26 May '05

To answer my own mail, go to www.kde.org, click on kde apps, click on network tools and you should find wireless assistant v.0.3.9 which will allow: detection, rescan, device id, and configuration of a wireless device. Keith KBB0927(a)cs.com wrote: > > >Subject: Re: [suse-kde] Suse 9.3 Wireless Tool >Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:05:47 -0400 >From: KBB0927 >To: eddie.howson(a)dsl.pipex.com > > >Also, search KDE apps on www.kde.org. I think about 1-2 mons ago, there >was an app that scanned for wifi and allowed connection. I am at work, but >if you have not found an answer by tonight, I will try and get back to you >later. > >-- Keith >eddieleprince <eddie.howson(a)dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > >>On Wednesday 18 May 2005 15:13, Fred A. Miller wrote: >>> On Wednesday 18 May 2005 9:53 am, antonio-bravo(abs) wrote: >>> > Ken Kapptie wrote: >>> > >I have been a little frustrated with my laptop running XP and Suse 9.3. >>> > > XP of course sees and uses the Orinoco device on my SRX99 Sony perfect. >>> > > I had the wireless working briefly on the Suse side but now it is now. >>> > > Does anyone know of a good utility to install to at least see what >>> > > available wireless networks are available? >>> > >>> > you can try kwifimanager (it has an scan option) >>> > or iwlist wlan0 scanning >>> > wlan0 or the name of the wifi adapter. >>> >>> Kwifimanager will scan, yes, but it's deficient in that you can't select an >>> available network. >>> >> >>You could also try netapplet. >> >>Eddie >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >>For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help(a)suse.com >>Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e >> >> > >

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