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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kmail and imap: something stucks
by Henk Weebers 25 May '05

25 May '05

Hi list members, Till last Sunday I used kmail. I collect my mails over imap protocol. But occasionally it took a time to finish looking up. Now it will not finish anymore. :'( This mail to you is written with Mozilla Thunderbird. I have no complains about Thunderbird. So, something is wrong with Kmail. At Sunday kmail couldn't find $HOME/Mail in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc due to not finding $HOME and stopped. Still the command "echo $HOME" gives me the right answer. I changed $HOME to /home/<user>. A third problem is that I cannot switch desktop to a second user. Now, these are three problems of which I can't oversee if there is a common disturbing factor. How can I make repairs? Henk

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Screensavers
by Fred A. Miller 24 May '05

24 May '05

Does anyone know what happened to the GREAT fireworks screensaver that was included in 9.2....not in 9.3. Thanks, Fred -- "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!" Brought to you by the US Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Act(s) numerous Presidential Directives, etc.

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Please confirm: kontact 3.4.x unable to save to LDAP adressbook
by Markus Feilner 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hello List, I gues i have configured something wrong, but would you please confirm: Is kontact of KDE 3.4x able to write to a LDAP directory adressbook? Thanks! -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Markus Feilner --------------------------- Feilner IT Linux & GIS Linux Solutions, Training, Seminare und Workshops - auch Inhouse Beraiterweg 4 93047 Regensburg fon +49 941 9465243 fax +49 941 9465244 mobil + +49 170 3027092 mail mfeilner(a)feilner-it.net web http://www.feilner-it.net

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Editing Kmail address list
by James Mohr 24 May '05

24 May '05

Hi All! When composing an email, I can click on the "Select" button to choose an address list. One entry says "0 email addresses" and I would like to remove it. However, I cannot find a way to remove it. I looked through the online Kmail doc, but did not find anything about this. I also tried googling, but I couldn't come up with anything useful. So, I was hoping that someone else hat a clue about this. Thanks in advance. Regards, jimmo -- --------------------------------------- "Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are." -- John Wooden --------------------------------------- Be sure to visit the Linux Tutorial: http://www.linux-tutorial.info --------------------------------------- NOTE: All messages sent to me in response to my posts to newsgroups or forums are subject to reposting.

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Kmail will not start up and gives an error.
by Henk Weebers 24 May '05

24 May '05

Last Sunday kmail stuck in searching mails in a map. So I asked that window to close the kmail application. With success. But after restarting kmail, I got an error that Kmail couldn't make the map $HOME/Mail. Off course that map is present and contains the existing mails. The same error exists on all other users. What could be wrong? Henk

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Compressed Files In Navigation Panel
by Dave Barton 22 May '05

22 May '05

Is it possible to stop Konq displaying compressed files (zip, tar.gz, etc) in the Navigation Panel? I am using KDE 3.4 on SuSE 9.3 TIA Dave

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kweather
by chuck holland 21 May '05

21 May '05

Has anyone had problems getting kweather to work with 9.3....I get a message that says station doesnt exit and the date on the report is year 2002. thanks chuck

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[Fwd: Re: [suse-kde] kweather]
by chuck holland 21 May '05

21 May '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [suse-kde] kweather Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 00:29:30 -0500 From: Richard Atcheson <ratcheson(a)earthlink.net> To: suse-kde(a)suse.com References: <428EB097.60405(a)go-concepts.com> On Friday 20 May 2005 10:52 pm, chuck holland wrote: > Has anyone had problems getting kweather to work with 9.3....I get a > message that says station doesnt exit and the date on the report is year > 2002. > > thanks > > chuck Works for me. You must go into the config and set it up for your stations. Also, after setting the place in Weather Service, I had to go to Display and select the location again. No call letters to be set with this one now. Strange thing this time, when I changed the locale to US I had to reboot to get it to take the new settings. Must be a windows app now. Richard Thanks Richard, seems restarting fixed it, sounds like windows for sure. Chuck ra -- 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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SuSE 9.2 - Kopete can't log in to MSN
by Lars Haugseth 20 May '05

20 May '05

Since a couple of days ago, Kopete could no longer log in to the MSN instant messaging network. According to this message, the problem has been fixed: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.debian.devel.release/browse_threa… Indeed there's a thread on the suse-linux-e list about fixing this by compiling the SVN version of Kopete, but this will only work in KDE 3.4, which I haven't installed. Is there an updated RPM available for SuSE 9.2 w/KDE 3.3, or any other method to get this to work? -- Lars Haugseth

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Suse 9.3 Wireless Tool
by Ken Kapptie 19 May '05

19 May '05

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? -- Ken Kapptie kappter(a)gmail.com (801)209-5262

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usbmount ?
by Timur 18 May '05

18 May '05

Hello, I'm struggling in mounting an USB mass storage device: the drive is recognized (as shown by the log file - SCSI address 6) but it is not automatically mounted... is there a command that I can use to mount it? thanks Timur __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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[FWD: Re: [suse-kde] Suse 9.3 Wireless Tool]
by KBB0927＠cs.com 18 May '05

18 May '05

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Re: [suse-kde] usbmount ?
by Timur 18 May '05

18 May '05

Martin, Thanks for your answer. --- Martin Br�ggebors <martin(a)ninu.de> wrote: > > Could you please post the part of the logfile where > your /dev/sd... is > recognized? > Actually it never got recognized as /dev/sd... my system just recognize it as an USB storage device using address 6. See below: May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using address 6 May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: usb 5-8: Product: USB Mass Storage Device May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: usb 5-8: Manufacturer: Myson Century, Inc. May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: usb 5-8: SerialNumber: 100 May 12 22:59:08 edi kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 12 22:59:09 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 6 In past, when my PC was recognizing it, the log was: May 3 19:57:49 edi kernel: usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using address 3 May 3 19:57:49 edi kernel: usb 5-7: Product: USB Mass Storage Device May 3 19:57:49 edi kernel: usb 5-7: Manufacturer: Myson Century, Inc. May 3 19:57:49 edi kernel: usb 5-7: SerialNumber: 100 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Vendor: ST38421A Model: Rev: 8.01 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 16498944 512-byte hdwr sectors (8447 MB) May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 16498944 512-byte hdwr sectors (8447 MB) May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb3 sdb4 < sdb5 > May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 3 May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage May 3 19:57:55 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. On 5th May, using the same USB port I got: May 5 21:15:19 edi kernel: usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using address 3 May 5 21:15:19 edi kernel: usb 5-7: Product: USB Mass Storage Device May 5 21:15:19 edi kernel: usb 5-7: Manufacturer: Myson Century, Inc. May 5 21:15:19 edi kernel: usb 5-7: SerialNumber: 100 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Vendor: CzCzCzCz Model: CzCzCzCzCzCzCzCz Rev: CzCz May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1132086138 512-byte hdwr sectors (579628 MB) May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: SCSI device sdb: 1132086138 512-byte hdwr sectors (579628 MB) May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdb: unknown partition table May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Vendor: CzCzCzCz Model: CzCzCzCzCzCzCzCz Rev: CzCz May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: SCSI device sdc: 1132086138 512-byte hdwr sectors (579628 MB) May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: SCSI device sdc: 1132086138 512-byte hdwr sectors (579628 MB) May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: sdc: unknown partition table May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 1, type 0 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 3 May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage May 5 21:15:25 edi kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. May 5 21:15:35 edi /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[5742]: new block device /block/sdc May 5 21:15:35 edi /etc/dev.d/block/50-hwscan.dev[5745]: new block device /block/sdb May 5 21:15:35 edi /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[5765]: mount block device /block/sdb May 5 21:15:35 edi /etc/dev.d/block/51-subfs.dev[5764]: mount block device /block/sdc So the Drive was not recognized... for this reason I changed USB port but same result. Now every time I plug the drive to whatever USB port I got a message similar to the one of the 12th May (maybe changing the scsi address part from 6 to 3) > Another hint: Some USB - devices without a partition > on them (eg. recognized > as /dev/sda, not as /dev/sda1) do not work. The hard disk is already partitioned since it was used under Windows and I'd like to copy some data from it. Thanks, Timur __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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kinternet(qinternet) pppoe servicename, acname
by Valery Zhuchenko 18 May '05

18 May '05

Hi! In man for pppoe described following options: ------------------------ -S service_name Specifies the desired service name. pppoe will only initiate sessions with access concentrators which can provide the specified service. In most cases, you should not specify this option. Use it only if you know that there are multiple access concentrators or know that you need a specific service name. -C ac_name Specifies the desired access concentrator name. pppoe will only initiate sessions with the specified access concentrator. In most cases, you should not specify this option. Use it only if you know that there are multiple access concentrators. If both the -S and -C options are specified, they must both match for pppoe to initiate a session. ------------------------ I'm using this options to establish connection with my provider. Which similar settings of kinternet(qinternet) can I configure (for example, in /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/myprovider, or in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-dsl*)? Thank you! Valery.

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Re: [suse-kde] usbmount ?
by Timur 17 May '05

17 May '05

--- Alvin Beach <abeach(a)deepvision.ca> wrote: > I find this happens for me when I bootup with my > thumbdrive in the USB port. > If I remove and reinsert it, then it auto mounts. > > If that doesn't work, check /etc/fstab and see if > there is an entry for it. > Also check /media (I have SuSE 9.1 Pro). If you see > something like: > > usb-storage-odd-GENERIC-USBMassStorage:0:0:0p1 > Unluckely there is not an entry in /etc/fstab, I checked that as well because I knew that if it was there I could have just mounted it with the mount command > Then do: > > mount > /media/usb-storage-odd-GENERIC-USBMassStorage:0:0:0p1 > Actually there is a /media/usb-storage-odd-GENERIC-USBMassStorage:0:0:0p6 directory (probably created when the system automagically mounted the device, but not having an fstab entry the system does not know what to mount there. FYI I'm using Suse 9.2 and KDE 3.4. If I run Yast2 system information part, I'm able to see the device (SCSI address 6) in the USB mass storage section but dunno how to mount. As mentioned I also see a message in /var/log?messages every time I plug/unplug it... any suggestion on how to solve it? thanks, Timur Discover Yahoo! Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM and more. Check it out! http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html

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