February 1999 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SuSE Linux] KDE 1.1 (Koffice)
by bfootdav＠bellsouth.net 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

Kaare(a)webline.dk, UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR wrote: > > Just installed KDE 1.1. Looks great! > > But I also installed koffice, and it didn't show up in the menus. At > least I think so - where is it supposed to be? > You can find it in /opt/kde/bin. You probably know this, but what you might want to try is running the program koshell (I think) which gives you a nice front end for the office suite, though it took me a while to actually get it to work properly. David Bellows - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Gnome and the SuSE rpm farm
by mperry＠basin.com 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

If you are interested in using the suse 6 rpms off of the www.gnome.org site, a few notes about compiling programs from scratch. I wanted to compile xchat, guitar, and a few other selections. I read the gnome and balsa lists quite a bit recently but ended up downloading and rpm'ing all the devel libs also to get things to compile. I dont know why this is but now I have a working system to build gnome aware applications under SuSE 6. This took me awhile. I am using the windowmaker which comes with the suse gnome stuff and its pretty cool and fast. If you are looking for something fun to try, visit the gnome website and download all the 99.8 rpms. Be sure to follow the directions on the web page as when I first did gnome 99.8 some things were seriously broken such as png image loading. I dont have a subjective or objective impression regarding gnome other than I thinks its really cool and the applications seem well thought out. Its nice to have suse 6 rpm files and I would like to thank whoever made this possible. I also use kde 1.1 on occasion. I believe that gnome 1 level should be released in a few so hopefully we will see 1.0 level rpms soon. The recent rpm farm for gnome is nice; thanks SuSE and everyone who had a hand in contributing. -- Michael Perry mperry(a)basin.com ------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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Re: [SuSE Linux] KDE 1.1 (Koffice)
by bfootdav＠bellsouth.net 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

Kaare(a)webline.dk, UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR wrote: ---snip--- > > you get a nice front end for the office suite, though it took me a while to > > actually get it to work properly. > > Hm. What did you do? For me, the New button doesn't work and the Open > button just finds some .kdelink (complaining about not being able to > find some names) and then bombs out with an QPixmap: Invalid pixmap > parameters. > When you open up koshell, you should notice one of those dockable toolbars in the viewing area. On my system it is positioned horizontally with nothing on it. By clicking on it you should be able to move it to reposition itself vertically it seems like you also might need to resize the window (make it bigger). Hopefully then you'll see an icon bar containing icons for KWord, Killustrator and several other programs. When you choose one of these programs it looks like it actually gets opened up in the same window that koshell uses and just inserts all the new toolbars. The nice thing is that it keeps the icon menu (for KWord, KIllustrator et al) up so yo can also call up any of these programs as you need them. The new and open options don't work for me either in just a freshly opened koshell, but of course when you open up one of the new programs they should all work as expected. There definitely needs to be some work done on this (KOffice is still only alpha), but I really think it looks promising. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] console video mode after boot
by jpf＠dircon.co.uk 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

I am trying to change the video mode to 100x30 at startup. I cannot get lilo.conf 'vga = ' or rdev -v /boot/vmlinuz <mode> to pass the mode to the kernel. The mode is 9 or 0122 after typing 'scan' when using 'vga = ask' and I can type 0122 after pressing <return> and it switches to the correct mode immediately. Can anyone help please? can SVGAtextmode do this? I have not had any luck using the variable in rc.config to set this either. Thanks - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] vnc seg. faults
by mephisto＠unidial.com 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

I've installed vnc-3.3.2r3 from source on my S.u.S.E. 5.3 linux 2.0.35 machine and vnc-3.3.2r6_x86-win32 on a Win95 box. Unfortunately the vnc-client running on my linux box will segmentation fault anytime an attempt is made to access a menu item from the taskbar of the server W95 system. Also, when viewed from linux the W95 icons are often mostly obscured by black rectangular sections. The W95 box runs 256 colors while the linux box is 24bit on a 4mb Matrox Millennium card. On the linux side I've tried both the binary vnc distribution and have built the lot from source, with the same result in both cases. Any help or suggestions you may have will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Lance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lance Heller email: lheller(a)unidial.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] Some questions about defaults
by mjackson＠deskmedia.com 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

I am a recent (and proud) owner of SuSE 6.0. I have a question for any SuSE people that might be listening in on the list... Why do some of the tools default to German in the international version? Examples: susehilf & sax. The English options are easy to select, but some people weren't German majors <g>. -- Martin Jackson: mjackson(a)deskmedia.com ====================================== Computer & Information Science Major Minnesota State University, Mankato ====================================== Linux....the penguins are coming! - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] sax
by rknebel＠mail.uplink.net 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

Hi, When I tried to use sax in version 6.0 it is all in German. Considering I do not speak German this is a problem. What did I do wrong?? Thanks Rick Rick Knebel rknebel(a)uplink.net <A HREF="http://woodstock.csrlink.net/~bknebel"><A HREF="http://woodstock.csrlink.net/~bknebel</A">http://woodstock.csrlink.net/~bknebel</A</A>> - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] RE: sax
by linuxisgood＠dialupnet.com 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

I had the same problem. Use the -l switch followed by en for English. ax -l en Hope this helped -- Mark McDermott Huntsville, Al Using SuSE 6.0 Linux - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] STB Nitro 3D
by dsoper＠efn.org 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

Hi all, I just installed SuSE 6.0 on my workstation at my job :-). Works great, no problems, but.... The box has an STB Nitro 3D graphics card, 2MB RAM on board, and I've noticed that manipulating windows is about 1/4 as fast as my putzy old 486, running 5.2, with a Diamond Stealth VLB 2000 graphics card (S3 Trio 64+, 2MB RAM). My workstation is a no- name clone PII 200, 96 MB RAM. Is this just the nature of this card, or is something screwed up? Please consider that my 486 has a pretty tight 2.0.36 kernel, while I haven't had time to rebuild the Pentium II kernel yet. Any advice would be appreciated. Cheers, Dennis "Custard pies are a sort of esperanto: a universal language." --Noel Godin - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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[SuSE Linux] pppd unexpectably fails SYNDROME
by hsundt＠uswest.net 28 Feb '99

28 Feb '99

[SuSE Linux] pppd unexpectably fails SYNDROME Who expects pppd to fail, anyway? I do! I know about removing "lock" from /etc/ppp/options but NOTHING is that simple. There is YAST options, options, rc config, hosts, hosts allow, pppd to chmod, YAST networking--->ppp setup lines to fill out and those you mustn't fill out, and chat scripts hidden places I don't even wash with a rag on a stick! ...and kppp gives me a pppd failed notice about 3 seconds after the click I hear 5 seconds after the login and password are exchanged. I am running S.u.S.E. 6.0 on a Gateway 2500 "SOLO" laptop with a pcmcia card modem. It worked for awhile under 5.3, then I did a reinstall and could never get it working again... I LOVE 6.0. My screen is 16 bit colors, everything works, but I desprately need to get ppp going. Any help will be totally appreciated. Yours, "I'm sorry to still keep bugging you" Hal - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

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