December 2004 - 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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konqueror "document relations"
by udo 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hello together, After upgrading my SuSE 9.2 to KDE 3.3.2 I observe some strange behaviour on new user accounts: When opening a new konqueror (no matter whether openProfile filemanagement or webbrowsing) I get on the left side of the konqueror window a toolbar called "document relations"; to be correct: Dokumentenbeziehungen (Konqueror). When I open konqueror twice, this tool bar doubles, triples, etc.... !!!! Until the window is nearly full. I tried to attach a jpg showing this, but unfortunately the file size is limited to 20.000 bytes. It is really annoying. Is it a feature or a bug? It only happens in new user accounts, accounts created under 3.3.1 and before are not concerned. Any ideas? Help is welcome.. Thanks and regards, Udo

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OT: freenet.de AutoReply
by Andreas Philipp 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

For the last couple of days I have been getting unwarranted messages from the German ISP Freenet.de with the following subject line: "AutoReply: Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht". It is basically a spam message showing links to several pages of freenet.de, crafted as if it was a reply to some message of mine asking for support. My impression is that I receive those message every time I send a message to this list, so I suspect that someone at freenet.de may have set up a list account just so it may send an automated message to everybody who is sending mail to the list. Has anybody else been receiving those message when sending mail to the list? Any idea on how to stop it? Thanks a lot. -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia

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fix: kmail problems w/ preview pane on IMAP account
by Daniel Eckl 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Hi dear list! Some days ago, I reported a problem with the message preview pane when using IMAP. Mathias Homann pointed me to the KDE bugreport he created: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94184 In this bugreport there is stated a solution to this problem. I now made new kdepim3 packages which are identical to the SuSE kdepim3-3.3.2-3 packages, they just differ by adding the patch from the KDE bug 94184. Richard Bos provided a lot of his knowledge, time and bandwith to get me building fine packages and to get these packages hosted on the ftp mirror of gwdg.de. Thank you Richard! Now you can download these packages at http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.1-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/ or ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.1-i386/RPMS.suser-rbos/ or use apt4suse (http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/) and include Richards repository to your sources.list. The repository is suser-rbos. If there are any problems installing this packages, feel free to write me. Best, Daniel

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Manually mounting USB devices
by William Lugg 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

I've got a Rio Cali MP3 player that I hooked up to my SuSE 9.1 box running KDE. The first time I connected it, it noted that I had and displayed a Konqueror window showing its contents. Later, I attempted to copy some files to it and the X server hung. After a CTRL-ALT-Backspace and I logged in again, I plugged the Cali in again and nothing happens. What might I have hosed up that would keep SuSE Plugger from seeing the device when it's plugged in? How can I manually mount the device? I know how to use the mount command, but how do I determine which block device in /dev it is? I guess I'm looking for a more general answer that I can apply to any future event like this one. Thanks. Bill Lugg -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO

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kmail always starting at logon...
by Franky Goethals 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

Hi guys, Since a few days, kmail is always starting at logon, while i'm 100% sure i've closed all applications before logoff. Also i don't use kmail as standalone, i'm using Kontakt... Does somebody know what's happening here ? Thanks in advance, Franky. -- _________________________________________________________ GOETHALS Franky Driegaaienstraat 104 B-9100 SINT-NIKLAAS B E L G I E Verantwoordelijke MVS Support voor Euroclear Bank Secretaris GSE Z/OS Systems Working Group Privaat doeleinden & GSE Workgroup : Tel. : 32 - (0)3 / 776.65.17 GSM : 32 - (0)473 / 98.90.24 Mail & MSN : franky.goethals(a)telenet.be http://gsezos.dyns.cx Professionele doeleinden : Tel. Werk : 32 - (0)2 / 224.15.92 Mail werk : goethals_franky(a)euroclear.com http://www.euroclear.com _________________________________________________________

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Undefined Mode
by kd 29 Dec '04

29 Dec '04

I have a problem that started after installing a new kernel. After the "Boot Options" screen, I now get a message saying; "You passed an undefined mode number. Press return or wait 30 seconds etc..." Can someone explain to me how to fix this. Please make reply simple for a ex-Winxxx user!

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PRINTER FONT: SIZE *TOO* TINY
by Robert Williams 28 Dec '04

28 Dec '04

Happy Holidays All! I know someone on this list can deal with this: Something (operator airhead?) has reset the default print font size to approx. 6 or 7 point size. Far too tiny to read usefully. Using SuSE 9.1 Pro w/KDE as window manager. Printer is HP LaserJet 4Si. Have "cold" re-set plrinter twice. Looking in my ~/.kde/share/" . . . rc" config files shows nothing that allows for the actual size of the *printed* type, only the size when viewed in the respective application (i.e. Konqueror, etc., etc.) Should also mention that I recently (30 days) updated to KDE 3.3.2 fork from SuSE site. Any tips?? TIA, and A Happly New Year To All! ===== Have A Healthy, Prosperous Day!! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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kmail: IMAP and preview pane
by Daniel Eckl 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

Hi dear list members! Does anybody of you use kmail with IMAP? Since KDE 3.3.1 (I think) I have the problem, that (approx.) every 10th mail I select, the preview is not shown, the preview page remains empty. I now use kde 3.3.2 (actual SuSE supplemetary for SuSE 9.1) and the problem persists. There are no messages on stdout or stderr which seem to belong to the problem. I tried with a completely new user to check if it is an update problem, but it isn't. Any thoughts about that? Thanks for helping! Best, Daniel -- +++ Sparen Sie mit GMX DSL +++ http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl AKTION f�r Wechsler: DSL-Tarife ab 3,99 EUR/Monat + Startguthaben

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File already exists error after login (KDE 3.3.2)
by Thomas Börkel 27 Dec '04

27 Dec '04

HI! Since upgrading my Suse 9.0 to KDE 3.3.2, I get a "file already exists" dialog after login (at the end of the login procedure). Someone wants to copy "/opt/kde3/share/apps/susewatcher/update-informations.desktop" to "/tmp/kde-thomas/Desktop-0/update-informations.desktop". Both files are supposed to have the same length and the same date. Strange thing is, the destination file does NOT exist. I can click on "overwrite" and the dialog disappears. Next time I login, the same happens. What's that? Thanks! Thomas

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