June 2000 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] Couple of Helix Gnome questions
by avi＠CFFtechnologies.com 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Hi everyone! I am currently using Helix Gnome under Suse 6.3 and really like it. I have a couple of questions though, that I hope some one can answer: 1. Gnome Terminal: When running YAST1 within Gnome Terminal, the function keys (F3, F4, etc.) don't work properly. I looked at the preferences but I didn't see any setting that can be changed to fix this. 2. Sound: I am using the commercial OSS driver. Under KDE everything works just fine. Under Gnome, only some of the applications produce sound. For example, Real Player plays just fine, but XMMS is silent. Thanks, Avi -- Avi Schwartz Get a Life avi(a)CFFtechnologies.com Get Linux -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] Old issue - sorry
by fgs＠epulse.net 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Hi, There was some discussion of this a while back but no solution to a particular problem came out of it. Months ago an initial install of Star Offce 5.1 (from the 6.2 distribution) failed. I let it go (too much else to do). Now when I come to re-install I get an "This installation has expired please reinstall" message after a fresh install. I deleted the sofficerc and users.rdb from home but have the same problem. Where else does the profram record the previous failed install? It would seem that although the installation failed the date has been recorded somewhere and is being referred to by the current set up process. How can I track where it is looking so that I can either edit or delete teh old date record and thus et teh damn thing installed. Thanks in hope Francesco PS I tried a mail to sunand star months ago and the reply was basically tough titty. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] SuSE 6.4 Customizations
by mike＠universe.ne.mediaone.net 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Good Morning: I'm trying to find out if anyone has modified the installation of SuSE 6.4. let me try to illustrate what I'm talking about. I downloaded the SuSE 6.4 tree. All of the folders are set up exactly as they appeared on the web site. I went through to make sure permissions were correct to. To test that everything was correct, I created the bootdisk from the image that I downloaded in the disks directory, and did a full install of SuSE 6.4. It worked beautifully. Now, what I would like to be able to do is to download the updates from the SuSE ftp site, swap out the files that those are replacing, and then be able to do a clean install from all patched RPMs. I also have one or two RPMs that I created myself, one being for apache-1.3.12+mod_ssl that I would like to be able to include in the file list when I run Yast. Has anyone done this? If so, could we swap emails back and forth discussing what needed to be done? My eventual goal would be to get everything prepared on the hard drive, and then create the CDs from the set up on the hard drive, so I could take my custom SuSE set up and install it on another machine. I'd like to write a document detailing the steps necessary to do this, and explain what is going on at each phase. Creating the iso and burning the CDs to a blank are trivial matters. The part I need help with is setting up the tree correctly so that everything jives. Looking forward to any help :) - Mike -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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RE: [SLE] linux will not respond to any input from the kbd
by jazar＠anet.net.sa 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

On 30 Jun 2000, at 14:47, Maarten Sneep wrote: > > On 30-Jun-00 jazar(a)anet.net.sa wrote: > # Hi > # > # Anyone knows why when I unplug my PS/2 mouse, and then > # when start X windows, my computer will not respond to anything I > # press in my keyboard and I have to restart my computer using the > # reset switch. Things will return to normal when I plug in the mouse > # again. > # > # I have SuSE 6.4... > # > # Thanks. > > We have had some strange problems with an asus motherboard, and PS/2 mice. But > these only occurred while starting X and with the mouse configured ans plugged > in. However, you may want to check that this isn't related. > > Maarten Sneep Yes, I have an ASUS P5A-B MB with an K6-2 500MHz.... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] Re: [newbie] Silly question - I don't know how to use man
by mendes＠mgconecta.com.br 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Hello Thanks all for the suggestions regarding getting man to work. Here is what I tried: a) Re-installation of man softaware - It didn't work. b) Copy of somebody else's man.config to /etc/man.config. - It didn work. c) Use man as man -M /usr/man - it worked. The funniest thing about it is I don't know why man won't work. root@armagedon:/etc$ man -d Reading config file /etc/man.config found man directory /usr/man found man directory /usr/local/man found man directory /usr/X11R6/man found man directory /usr/lib/perl5/man found manpath map /bin --> /usr/man found manpath map /sbin --> /usr/man found manpath map /usr/bin --> /usr/man found manpath map /usr/sbin --> /usr/man found manpath map /usr/local/bin --> /usr/local/man found manpath map /usr/X11R6/bin --> /usr/X11R6/man found manpath map /usr/bin/X11 --> /usr/X11R6/man found manpath map /usr/bin/mh --> /usr/man it sounds good, doesn't it? Unfortunately it doesn't, root@armagedon:/etc$ man -w /usr/local/qt/man Man is stuck with qt somehow. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot. Eduardo -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] Chat program
by speaker1＠mindspring.com 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Hi all: I did some digging and did find a chat program that will talk to other systems (AIM, and MSN)-http://www.everybuddy.com/faq.shtml Will test in post results if anyone is interested. Darrell -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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Re: [SLE] Shameless plug: Vote for SuSE
by nmarques＠netual.pt 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Lenz, Sure... voted... anyway try to get yast2 out of my sight... ;p SuSE loss many users here in portugal due to YaST2... the damn thing even crashes when detecting a AWE64 sound card.... No flames man... flames > /dev/null Nelson Marques >Hi, > >I couldn't resist :) > >http://www.firstlinux.net/pollBooth.php3?pollID=1 > >Bye, > LenZ >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------ > Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH > mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 > http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany > Your lucky color is fading. > > >-- >To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com >For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com >Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/

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[SLE] DWG viewers for Linux?
by lsayre＠stratos.net 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Are there any .dwg viewers for Linux? Lawrence Sayre --------------------------------------------- "Man's mind is his basic tool of survival!" (a quote from the famous 'John Galt' speech in the equally famous book "Atlas Shrugged") --------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] linux will not respond to any input from the kbd
by jazar＠anet.net.sa 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Hi Anyone knows why when I unplug my PS/2 mouse, and then when start X windows, my computer will not respond to anything I press in my keyboard and I have to restart my computer using the reset switch. Things will return to normal when I plug in the mouse again. I have SuSE 6.4... Thanks. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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[SLE] After upd. 2.2.16: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 / ppp0
by e.maryniak＠pobox.com 30 Jun '00

30 Jun '00

Helo list, I've upgraded on 6.4 to kernel 2.2.16 (kernel source) and after a kernel recompile (used same settings when 'make menuconfig'-ing as for previous kernel) and install, and reboot i got various problems: a. gpm did not work and errors about the serial ports: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0 b. also the VM errors other people complained about (a second kernel compile did not work, cuz gcc crashed! 32 Mb should be enough, shouldn't it?) Did anybody had this? And how did you solve it? I only 'rpm -Uvh' installed lx_suse (2.2.16) source --- should you also install a new devs package (i remember seeing a ref to that)? However, lx_suse.rpm did not require that... Btw, the mk_initrd and lilo were done by make, i compiled as (big kernel): # make menuconfig # make dep clean bzImage # make modules modules_install # cp -p /usr/src/linux/.config /boot/vmlinuz.config.suse64.eric # make bzlilo (Inserted a floppy): # make bzdisk # make clean Bye-bye, Eric -- Eric Maryniak <e.maryniak(a)pobox.com> Home page: http://pobox.com/~e.maryniak/ University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychology. Tel/Fax: +31 20 5256853/6391656. Internet: http://www.neuromod.org/ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy about Microsoft products: It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other words --- and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded --- their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe(a)suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq

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