September 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Does k3b support burning of 8GB dvd?
by Richard Bos 26 Sep '05

26 Sep '05

Did anyone try to use k3b for burning a 8GB iso already? Does it work? What to look our for? My kde version is 3.4.2 on suse93. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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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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broken dependencies with latest kde 3.4.2 from supplementary
by Mathias Homann 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hi, as others might have mentioned before, there are broken dependencies with the latest kde 3.4.2 packages from supplementary, and others also have mentioned that the easiest way to fix that is a dummy package that "provides" those two missing deps. I have created such a dummy package, put it into my own installation source, and behold, yast2 gladly installs those kde.*-devel packages it refused to earlier. If anyone wants that dummy package, i can put it online somewhere. bye, MH -- gpg key fingerprint: 5F64 4C92 9B77 DE37 D184 C5F9 B013 44E7 27BD 763C

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Dependencies again...
by Ingo Strauch 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Hi all! I did my regular check for updates and found a new KDE version available. I'm using fou4s (SuSE 9.1) to update but this is what I get: error: Failed dependencies: kdelibs3-arts is needed by kdelibs3-devel-3.4.2-25 mDNSResponder is needed by kdelibs3-devel-3.4.2-25 I don't find those packages anywhere. At least the kdelibs3-arts I expected to be somewhere in the supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.1 hierarchy... While in principle I think the KDE updates work nicely (quickly available, for all supported SuSE versions, a lot easier than at SuSE 7.2 times) there's almost always a problem with dependencies. Maybe someone remembers, but I already complained here in this list when the QT updates suddenly depended on xorg and not on XFree that shipped with SuSE 9.1. My solution was to compile the QT-SRC-RPM and fix this dependency myself. That option no longer was available when also KDE packages started to depend on xorg. Compiling this, too, would have taken too long. So I ended up upgrading to xorg. That alone wasn't too bad, but it took me three afternoons to get a fully working combination of X, KDE, ATI 3D drivers, Kernel and an RPM database without conflicts/dependency problems. To me this is just too much effort for a simple (semi?) official update. I don't know if similar problems happen in the not-so-old SuSE versions, but for the sake of the average customer I suggest to get rid of such unnecessary difficulties. My 2 cents... Ingo -- Ingo Strauch ---- Registered Linux User #227900 (http://counter.li.org/) GPG Key Fingerprint = DEC8 1B12 9573 6BE7 7A99 C33F 809C 8C2C 772E 66A1 http://www.the-one-brack.org/

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Kontact / addressbook plugins
by K. Elo 16 Sep '05

16 Sep '05

Hi, since a couple of days I am trying to manage distribution lists with Kontact/KAddressBook (SL 9.3+KDE 3.4.2.+KMail 1.8.2+KAddressBook 3.4.2). I have imported my evolution-contacts into Kontact and there were several, not very often used distribution list among these contacts. But, as I attempted to send a mail to one of these lists, I noticed the list was not a list anymore, but a contact with several e-mail addresses. After doing some research on this I found out (in the KAddressBook help file) a "distribution list manager" plug-in should offer the possibility to manage distribution lists. There should also be a "Extensions" list on the "General" tab under Options->KDE-AddressBook, with which one should be able to enable/disable these plugins. But: there is none, just a filed called "Environment map" (which apparently has absolutely nothing to do with plugins)!!! Does anybody know a solution for this problem? The packaged mentioned on some pages googled by myself - kaddressbook-addons and kdepim-common - are not available for SL 9.3. I really need to find a solution. Thanks in advance and have a nice weekend! Kimmo Finland

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KDE can't access to floppy disk
by Stefano Kueng 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Hi, running SuSE 9.3 I can access to floppy disk (/media/floppy) from a terminal but not from GUI (KDE 3.4.0 level "b"). As I click on the floppy disk icon there is a message box that say: "The process for the protocol media is unespectly dead" or something like this (I've an italian installation) and the system isn't able to mount the floppy. If I access the /media/floppy with the konqueror browser all work fine, too. What should I do? Many thanks in advance for your answers Stefano

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KDE and shutdown script
by Sami A. Hassanein 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hi I am running SUSE 9.3 on a notebook. I want to run a user script when KDE goes down - where do I have to place such scripts? I heard that you can put any shutdown scripts into the directory ~/.kde/shutdown but nothing happens. I realized that the environment variable KDEDIRS is not set. Does anybody know how I can run a script if KDE goes down? -- Thanks for any help. Sami

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inetd
by on6dp 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hallo, I'm a user of SUSe since long time . My first version was 7.0 and I just have upgrade my Suse 8.1 to 9.2 but I have a problem with inetd In 8.1 version the inetd was a packege called INETD and the config file was /etc/inetd.conf but when I have installed the 9.2, I don't find more the inetd package and when I'm trying to launch the rcinetd start , I have a FAILED back So what can I do ? I have since that it exists a Yast2-inetd but I don't know if it's the new name or .. ? Is the configuration name always inetd.conf or inetd.cfg ???? Can you help me because I need to access my computer via telnet and It doesn't run because my inetd don't run Best reagrds Paul, on6dp

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Re: [suse-kde] KDE and shutdown script
by Richard Bos 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Op dinsdag 6 september 2005 22:48, schreef Catimimi: > No, would it be useful ? it is not a bug but a addon. So, open a feature request. Let it to the kde devs wether it is usefull or not. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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New mail notification app
by Robert Fitzpatrick 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Anyone know a good app to sit in the systray to notify of new e-mail for various IMAP accounts? Maybe already packaged my SuSE 9.3 KDE distro? It is a shame Evo has lost that feature since 2.?, but it would be better to have selective notifications anyway. Thanks. -- Robert

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