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
i tried:
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
(which is used, i did a "ll -u /etc/X11/xorg.conf")
Section "Monitor"
[...]
DisplaySize 336 270
[...]
AND
in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br vt7 -dpi 97
but a
ll -u /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
shows me that it is never used
BUT the result is always the same
> xdpyinfo | grep -n5 dot
54-number of screens: 1
55-
56-screen #0:
57- print screen: no
58- dimensions: 2560x1024 pixels (678x271 millimeters)
59: resolution: 96x96 dots per inch
60- depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
61- root window id: 0x188
62- depth of root window: 24 planes
63- number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
64- default colormap: 0x20
because /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers isnt used it is clear that it is no effect
but why it does ignore the DisplaySize
(i even tried DisplaySize 200 270 -> also ignored)
is it because of i am using TwinView?
After installing KDE 3.4 Supplementary from SuSE's ftp server via Yast I
have noticed a few inconsistencies in the installation.
First, there are several packages missing:
akregator-1.0_beta8-5.i586.rpm
bookcase-0.11-3.i586.rpm
kdegraphics3-3.4.0-13.i586.rpm
qmatplot-0.4.2-297.i586.rpm
There are simlinks in yast-source/suse/i586 pointing to these packages
but they do not exist.
Also, the kdepim3-organizer package is version 3.3.2-3 which is causing
conflicts with the other pim packages.
This seems to be the case in the supplementary updates for 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2.
--
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Systems Administrator
SportPaint, Inc.
Phone: 1 (502) 964-5353 x515
Fax: 1 (502) 966-0931
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A week or so ago I started (on SLE) the thread:"Deskjet printer app
has a bug? Signal 11". Many of you helped. Thru the 'above and beyond
the call of duty' help from Joe Morris, a lot of it off list, he got
me going fine.
I am using this list instead because BandiPat recommended it.
BUT, I wanted to increase *margins* for email and did so from Kmail
Menu toobar: Message/Print/Properties?Margins/
I fixed the margins but now my font size is so small I can hardly read
it.
I am running SuSE Pro 9.2 using KDE version 3.3.2 Level 'a' with
kernel 2.6.8-24.11 default. My machine is listed as i686.
ANOTHER QUESTION: should I try to update to version 3.4 at this time
or wait until a later date? I am mostly interested in getting Version
2 of Open Office Org (wordprocessor part) but will gladly take
anything that comes in addition.
Thank you for any help you may be able to give. I would need more
detailed instruction since this is my first month on Linux.
Andy
Hi all,
I want to be able to start a second X session out of my current
session. I know this question has been raised several times, and
the start itself is not my problem. I have multiple entries in the
Xservers files, and the second session comes up. No problem.
But I am already logged in as the user under which I started the
session.
What I want is to start the new session as root (e.g. via some SUID
program), and want the kdm login screen to appear so that I can
choose which user and session type I want to start the session
under. And I want to be able to do this out of any session type I
am currently running (kde, gnome, xfce...)
Any idea how to achieve that?
Thanks in advance
Mario
This is something I should know by now, but I don't.
Question 1: How do I create a *sub-folder* in:
file:/home/andy/Documents/Christianity?
I was able to do so when I created a sub-folder named "Christianity"
for the main folder called "Documents". But I forgot how I did it.
(It's called senility).
Question 2: I guess the suffix for a created document - whether it be
created originally in OOo, or by copying a web zine site to OOo -
is .swx.
It is my understanding that .swx documents can not be read in
Microsoft Word (any version). If that is true, and I want to be able
to email some of my created documents to other people who have
Windows only, how can I create a document on Linux with an MS ",doc"
suffix?
Thanks guys. You provide an invaluable source of knowledge.
Andy
Dear All,
by reading other people messages on this mailing list
I understood that - when migrating to a new KDE
version - it is always good to start with a fresh new
.kde directory.
For this reason my intention in migrating from KDE 3.3
to 3.4 is to rename my current .kde to .kde_old and
slowly move only the old files/directories that I
really need.
Now, I have a question: in order to allow Kmail
(Kontact) to use the settings that I currently have,
what are the files that I need to copy?
(.kde/share/apps/kmail and .kde/share/config/kmailrc
?)
Regards,
Timur
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Hi,
after figuring out that the directory hierachy for SuSE rpm on the
KDE-server 8and its mirrors changed) I was surprised that there are no
bas, development, etc folders any longer. Instead everything is put
into one folder except the i18n pachage.
However I did not find a lot of applications from the former
applications folder. Where did they go? Are ther no longer SuSE
application rpms available?
Already during my last update I was wondering why there e.g. is no
kdebase3-3.4.x package and was assuming that the files might have gone
into other packages instead. After having a look into the 9.2 brach I
did find kdebase3-3.4.x packages. Why are there no such packages for
8.2?
Best regards
Stefan
Am Dienstag, 29. März 2005 17:52 schrieben Sie:
>
> I know it's not very elegant but it works. has anybody an idea what might
> have been the reason?
>
> Chris Mager
Hello everybody,
I experienced a strange behavior of KDE the last times I started it.
After having logged in as user and reboot it went up and automatically logged
in as the user I couldn't log in any more. Unfortuanately the keyboard
wouldn't work. After rebooting several times I managed to log out the session
and came again to kdm login.
After logging in as another user and restarting the system again kdm appeared
justb normally and now I can log in as any user again. Strange.
Well synaptic told me there is some kde update - so what junkies! keep
updating :-)
Thanks evreybody for the suggestions made.
Have fun !
Michael Eichstädt
Hello everybody,
I face the problem that after upgrading to 3.4 on a 9.2 SuSE all users can log
in, only one won't do. I do really need to log in this one because most of my
mail accounts work with him.
Please help me.
I already tried :
-deleting temp directories
-deleting kdm config files (only effort is different look and root not allowed
to log in any more :-( )
-run genkdmconf
Is there any other suggestion?
Greetings to all of you
Michael Eichstädt