July 2002 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

DVD software
by Michael McGibben 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

Hello folks, Does anyone know of DVD software for use with Suse 8.0? Thanks. Michael

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Mozilla, KDE and SuSE 8.0
by Andrew Williams 07 Jul '02

07 Jul '02

Hi, first a word on Mozilla. Most of us know that the newest stable version can be found on ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/mozilla This directory does not appear to be on any of the mirrors. I have just found the beast on the mirrors - go to (for example) i386/supplementary/GNOME/update_for_8.0/base/ Which is (I am sure) the only logical place to hide it ;-) Now to kde. I spend quite a bit of time in mozilla under kde. While the Konq hardly ever aborts on me, Mozilla is a lot less stable. This is my second attempt at writing this mail because the first one got lost when Mozilla died when my DSL connection timed out. The original 8.0 versions of kde3 and Mozilla were just plain instable, the newest versions are a bit better. When I start Mozilla, moving the mouse before it has completely loaded often causes it to fail to load. This failure in turn often then causes kdeinit to terminate (error message: something to do with DCOP) which means I have to exit kde, kill the startx session with .ctrl.C and try again. I wonder if other people recognise those symptoms. A while ago, I cleaned up my /tmp directory. This left me totally unable to start X11 (kde) at all. Not even knowing what the problem was, I finally ended up re-installing virtually the entire system except for /home. That will teach me to take backups - mea culpa. This brings me to the 8.0 release itself. I am used to 'tailoring' releases (especially on the servers I control) to batten them down against crackers. This is something that I do not feel able to do with 8.0. Cause and effect are sufficiently opaque to me (wiping /tmp and thus killing kde is the worst example) that there is no way I could upgrade any of 'my' servers to this level. They will remain on 7.3 for the time being, the most likely upgrade path at the moment being Slackware. KDE is not even an issue there, they do not have X at all. I have DSL here. Without DSL to download the updates, this version of SuSE would have been a total mess. My first SuSE level (5.1 or something) was essentially *stable*, as were most of the others I have used since. Going very off-list (kde) here, yast2 cannot handle initial upgrade installation when read-only partitions are present, even if these are mounted as something like /cd_doc_copy. None of yast2's business! Upgrading my laptop was a total mess, with frequent stops where I had to reboot and restart. The error-message (if one came at all) was 'spurious 8259a interrupt: IRQ7'. This turned out to mean that SuSE 8.0 did not like my Logitech wheel-mouse, something that 7.3, 7.2, 7.0 and so on down had been quite happy with (ok, I used yast1 for all of them). This turned into a rant so a </rant> is appropriate here. Hopefully 8.1 will be an improvement. -- opinions personal, facts suspect. http://home.arcor.de/36bit/samba.html

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Kong possible broken in 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 in SuSE 8.0
by Ralph F. De Witt 06 Jul '02

06 Jul '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I am not able to view text files in Konqueror using the embeded viewer. This is true for version 3.0.1 and 3.0.2. Both versions were downloaded from the SuSE site and installed with out problems. When I use Konqueror to browse my files and left click on a text file a window is displayed in the right pane that has a white color background with a right side slider. The window fills about 1/3 of the pane. It is about 22 lines long. The top line is blank and contains the couser. This is follewed by about 20 lines containing a tilde at the start of the line. The last line contains: "/tmp/kde-ralph/EmbeddedVimaQTEga.tmp" 0 lines, 0 characters, 00-1 and at the end of the line all. I can find nothing in my config that has changed from verson 3.0 where this worked. Can any one point me to what might need to be tweaked to make it work? - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE 8.0 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.18-4GB Current Linux uptime: 1 days 18 hours 14 minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9Jjz78irP9FWaA+cRAiRHAJoDaVg60Fi0HFpOjRBU0MtxNDKWZwCgm3b+ 7LWfx8DQ5MFGSlWWrD9z7uk= =8rTt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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kde logout options
by Peter Valent 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

Hi, I have installed a fresh new Suse 8.0 system, and upgraded KDE to 3.0.2 When I am logged in via kdm, and want to logout I use the K => logout option. The only choise I get now, is to "save session for future login" while on other kde systems I get a nice option menu, where I can choose between: - login as different - turn off computer - restart computer Does anybody now where I can find the magick switch to enable this menu option ? Thanks, Peter.

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modprobe thanks
by Michael McGibben 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

Thanks to all who helped. Michael

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[suse-kde] Kwin freezing / 3.0.2
by Frank Reifenstahl 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

Hi, since updating to SuSE 8.0/KDE 3 (now 3.0.2) the screen very often freezes (mouse moves, but no keyboard reaction) especially when moving a file selection window that's opened from konqueror. No /var/log/messages entries. I don't know whether it's a problem with konqueror, XFree86 or maybe OpenGL. The idea for the latter one comes from XScreensaver. I had to disable many of its GL-Moduls because they freezed the system. Any idea? BTW, the 3.0.2 update killed all off my global shortcut configuration. Thank you! Kind regards Frank

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suSe and gcc3
by Maxime L'Homme 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

Hi, I would like to know if suSe will release a version competely compiled with gcc 3 soon. Thanks. Maxime.

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[suse-kde] Windows without decoration
by Frank Reifenstahl 05 Jul '02

05 Jul '02

How to tell kstart/kwm to forgo any decoration for arbitrary X applications started with kstart? Kind regards Frank

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8.1?
by Carl 04 Jul '02

04 Jul '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 . Is there any ETA on 8.1? 7.3 keeps gobbling up my memory. So pervasive I have to reboot. - -- Justice, n.: A decision in your favor. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj0jvLAACgkQnQ18+PFcZJvIrwCeKhyM4+m9g9GfviD8+7ktUAnU aD8AnA5gqBq8h9luBWzR8f8wzjx2A/bK =LOE3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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modprobe
by Michael McGibben 04 Jul '02

04 Jul '02

Hello all, Can anyone tell me where to find modprobe? I'm running Suse 8.0 and although the description of modutils says that it includes modprobe, it doesn't seem to be there. Thanks. Michael.

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