January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Xfree, updates
by Patriiiiiiiiiick 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Hi! I just installed SuSE 7.0 through the net. I have two questions. - I wanted to configure Xfree 4 through SaX through YaST but it crashed during this process. Now, SaX doesn't want to start-up anymore. How do I fix that? - When I install from the ftp server, are all the files already up to date or do I have to go and pick up all the patches? Thanks! Patrick

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Re: [SLE] Bug in Acrobat ?
by Togan Muftuoglu 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:23:24PM +0100, Jean Messerlin wrote: > In the menu File->Preferences->General, disable the option > "Use page cache", quit and restart to take effect. This seems to > solve the problem especially if you are "tight" on memory (64M > or less): When I turn on the option, it can use up to 150M for > a 300 page document (memory leak?), as when it is off it might > barely attain 16M. This also solves the "purple page" bug i have > experienced. Well I will try that as an option but if Acrobat is unhappy with 256 MB ram plus 128 MB swap that is starnge > > Else if it does not work, you might try the previous version (3.0?), > which worked fine. > I will consider this also Thanks a lot -- Togan Muftuoglu

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Bug in Acrobat ?
by Togan Muftuoglu 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Hi everyone, Whenever I have a big pdf file that I am trying to read via Adobe acrobat after couple of pages, sometimes 10 sometimes 100 Acrobat crashes. If I try to read the same file via XPDF everyting is fine Is this happening only in my case or is it common. How can I use the strace specific to acrobat to see what is happing . TIA -- Togan Muftuoglu

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Compaq, DOE, Biotech Firm To Build $150 Million Linux Supercomputer
by Fred A. Miller 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Compaq, DOE, Biotech Firm To Build $150 Million Linux Supercomputer The U.S. Department of Energy said its Sandia National Laboratories are teaming with Compaq Computer and a biotechnology company to build a massive supercomputer that's supposed to be able to process at least 100 trillion operations per second. http://computerworld.com/cwi/story/0%2C1199%2CNAV47_STO56666_NLTos%2C00.html -- ----/ / _ Fred A. Miller ---/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Systems Administrator --/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Cornell Univ. Press Services -/____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ fm(a)cupserv.org

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LFS support in 2.4.0/ext2
by Mark Hounschell 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

I know that LFS support is in 2.4.0 kernel. Will ext2 be able to handle LFS also. I know reiser is supposed to but what about ext2??? -- Mark Hounschell markh(a)compro.net

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Re: [SLE] Command-line image processing
by Volker Kuhlmann 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

> I'm looking for a command line program that will perform resizing, etc. > on an image. The only program I know of which does that is Image Magick. It does pretty much anything. The only drawback is that it's incredibly buggy, with the bugs changing with just about every minor version. This makes it very difficult to write software (e.g. scripts) which use IM as the underlieing image processor. See my http://volker.orcon.net.nz/soft/makeimage script for creating and handling archives of images, as well as processing previously archived images for inclusion in documents. It would do exactly what you're looking for. Read the script itself for some mimmicky which you have to expect with different versions of IM... in case you don't have one which works with makeimage, there's one which will in the same place, and you can install it anywhere where it doesn't interfere with the one you might already have. Please let me know any comments you'd like to make... > If you just add a ! after the geometry specification it will, > thusly: > for image in *.jpg; do > > convert $image -geometry 160x120! thumb-$image This would be a bad thing to do as the appended ! changes the aspect ratio of the image, which is hardly ever something you'd want. If you need an image of a certain size, crop it properly, don't just make it look crappy by jamming the aspect ratio into something. The above makeimage shows how to generate thumbnail-indices of a pile of given images even if they have any size you like. Volker

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Monitor
by h.haitao＠ic.ac.uk 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Dear all, I have a SUSE linux on my PC. It works well. Recently, since I changed the monitor, there is no figure on the monitor after the computer self check. That means I can not login to the computer. I only know I can solve the problem by re-installing the linux. But I don't want to do that because I don't want to lose the data on the computer. Could anyone please help me to make the monitor work or tell me the command to switch to the character based terminal ? Thanks haitao

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Fwd: Microsoft has seized business - LOL
by MaD dUCK 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

woohoo! ----- Forwarded message from Joris Lambrecht <jlambrec(a)landis.be> ----- (following the rumour they moved to windows 2000 advancedserver/datacenter to host microsoft.com) Or at least that's what they WANT US TO BELIEVE http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16321.html They do claim one site is still on-line however. http://www.microsoft.co.uk/ ----- End forwarded message ----- [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- "we should have a volleyballocracy. we elect a six-pack of presidents. each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate." -- dennis miller

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Re: [SLE] Yast2 Dead
by Cliff Sarginson 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

> Hi, > everytime I install Suse (6.4 and 7.0), Yast 2 only works for a couple of > weeks and then just asks me for the root password and then quits. > > anyone else seen this, anyone know how to get it back? I don;t know if many people will have seen that particular problem. But yast2 is very broken. Try and use yast1, which at least works ! Cliff

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KDE2
by Stephen B. Moore 24 Jan '01

24 Jan '01

Let me start out by saying that I am very new to linux, for I'm sure I'll show my ignorance... I have KDE2 running on SuSE 7.0 pro version. When I'm using netscape (or rather when I click on the location textbox in netscape) sometime this really annoying menu comes up that takes the focus away from netscape. This happens about every other time I do this... The menu has the following choices on it: Web-URL- Actions for http://whateverwebsite Open with Netscape Open with Konqi ==================== Edit and process again Do nothing Is there any way to stop this menu from appearing? I've looked around in the Control Center and found nothing that looked like it to me. I've also looked in the kde help and found nothing. Or am I just clicking on it in the wrong way? I'm not sure how to check what version of netscape I have... Whatever came with SuSE 7, I'm sure. I've had nothing but positive experiences with linux. I just recently removed my windows partion for good. Thank you very much for your time. Stephen Moore

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