January 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] (off topic) HD size wrong in W98
by Marc Bouron 12 Jan '01

12 Jan '01

Thanks to those who responded positively! I've managed to "fix" this, using the Ranish Partition Manager (gratis, via www.ranish.com) It pointed out to me that although the partition size was 10Gb, the "maximum size" was 20Gb - whatever that means. So I simply tabbed to the relevant field and made the maximum size 10Gb also. W98 now thinks I have a 10Gb C: partition. BTW, Ranish is Linux-friendly too. Cheers, Marc. >From: "Marc Bouron" <marc_bouron(a)hotmail.com> >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: [SLE] (off topic) HD size wrong in W98 >Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:57:00 -0000 > >Apologies for a slightly off-topic subject, but I guess it's something that >people on this list might have dealt with in the past. > >I'm building a new system. Sadly, step number one is to install Windows >98! > It has a 20Gb UDMA drive which I used fdisk to split into two (SuSE will >go on another disk later - not yet installed). > >Whilst I have two 10Gb partitions (one in an extended partition), W98 >reports the size of the C: drive as 20Gb! Clearly something is not quite >right and I guess W98 may well get into trouble later. (D: is reported >correctly as 10Gb.) > >Is there something I've missed, or some way to convince W98 that I have two >10Gb partitions? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: [SLE] AHA-19160 and SuSE 6.4 or 7.0
by Anders Johansson 12 Jan '01

12 Jan '01

I have it installed, using the aic7xxx.o kernel module. It installed without a problem, and performance is as advertised, as far as I can tell without having run any real benchmarks. On Thursday 11 January 2001 18:45, Linux News User wrote: > > Hi to all !! > > Have any one of you use an Adaptec AHA-19160 SCSI Controller Card with SuSE > 6.4 or 7.0 without problems ? > > and how is it's performance ? > > Thanks

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Suse 7.0 - truetype installation problems
by Adrian Burd 12 Jan '01

12 Jan '01

I've successfully upgraded from Suse 6.3 to Suse 7.0 and want to start using some of the truetype fonts I was using with XFree 3 with the new XFree 4. However, I can't seem to get them installed. The installation is a pristine Suse 7 system straight out of the box. The command XFree86 - showconfig gives the following: adrian@laotzu:/etc/X11 > XFree86 -showconfig XFree86 Version 4.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 8 March 2000 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (see http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE Module Loader present and the relevant sections of the XF86Config are Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest" ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection Section "Module" Load "speedo" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "dbe" Load "freetype" EndSection So as far as I can see everything is set up to use the freetype engine and truetype fonts. I successfully installed the freefonts and sharefonts collections and they work fine. To install a truetype font I did the following: 1) Put the font into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype 2) made sure that the filename was all lower case (e.g. peigno.ttf) 3) Ran ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale 4) Ran mkfontdir 5) Now I have a fonts.dir file which looks fine, i.e. 2 peigno.ttf -2Rebels-Peignot-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0 peigno.ttf -2Rebels-Peignot-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 6) If I try to run xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype then I get the following error: adrian@laotzu:~ > xset fp+ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax 7) xset q returns the following for the font path: Font Path: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont which does NOT have the truetype directory in it, even though it is in the XF86Config file. So where am I screwing up? Any suggestions from those who have truetype working with Suse 7 would be much appreciated since I've been banging my head on this for a couple of days now. Many thanks, Adrian Adrian Burd, Dpt. Oceanography, Texas A&M University http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~ecomodel

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USB & upgrade
by Darrell Nobles 12 Jan '01

12 Jan '01

I am looking for a way to upgrade 6.3 so I can use my Handspring Visor w/ USB cradle- any suggestions? Do I need to upgrade the kernel to 2.4? I haven't had any need to upgrade any programs or add patches, how much work am I looking for, a Sunday afternoon with a cold beverage- or 2 or 4, and relaxing in front of the monitor for an hour or so? Thanks Darrell _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Re: Kernel 2.4 & SuSE ?? / SuSE and Oracle 8.1.7
by Michael Hasenstein 12 Jan '01

12 Jan '01

"Eduardo J.Vega Arguedas" wrote: > > Hi Michael !! Hi (I'm now back from vacation in Moscow (of all places ;-) )) > Did you know any thing about the status of the Kernel 2.4 I'm a little late telling you it's officially out... > and the certification of Oracle under SuSE ? ??? no news... whatever Oracle releases we certify. Plus, Oracle has started porting Oracle 9i. On SuSE Linux 7.1Beta!!! (so far they used RH 6.0 as porting platform, and it's really time to switch to something newer.) This means MUCH less certification work for us ;-) > Also is the release of 8.1.7 Certified to run under SuSE 6.4 and 7.0 ? Certified on 7.0. we don't "back" certify an old SuSE Linux with new Oracle releases, the upgrade is only $50, after all.

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RE: [SLE] bash question
by Seth Payne 12 Jan '01

12 Jan '01

Ok, I did that but it ends up displaying u@hW for a prompt. what am I missing? -----Original Message----- From: Jesse Marlin [mailto:jlm@compgen.com] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:07 PM To: Seth Payne Cc: 'suse-linux-e(a)suse.com' Subject: [SLE] bash question Seth Payne writes: > Hello, > > I have a general bash question. One thing I really like about SuSE is that > the bash shell displays the current directory. Is this setting in the > /etc/profile or .bash_profile file and what is the syntax to enable this? Its an environment variable called PS1. Do a echo $PS1 and see what it currently set to. To change try export PS1=<new string>. $ echo $PS1 [\u@\h \W]\$ PROMPTING When executing interactively, bash displays the primary prompt PS1 when it is ready to read a command, and the secondary prompt PS2 when it needs more input to complete a command. Bash allows these prompt strings to be customized by inserting a number of backslash-escaped special charac- ters that are decoded as follows: \a an ASCII bell character (07) \d the date in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May 26") \e an ASCII escape character (033) \h the hostname up to the first `.' \H the hostname \n newline \r carriage return \s the name of the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion following the final slash) \t the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format \T the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format \@ the current time in 12-hour am/pm format \u the username of the current user \v the version of bash (e.g., 2.00) \V the release of bash, version + patchlevel (e.g., 2.00.0) \w the current working directory \W the basename of the current working directory \! the history number of this command \# the command number of this command \$ if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $ \nnn the character corresponding to the octal number nnn \\ a backslash \[ begin a sequence of non-printing characters, which could be used to embed a terminal control sequence into the prompt \] end a sequence of non-printing characters The command number and the history number are usually dif- ferent: the history number of a command is its position in the history list, which may include commands restored from the history file (see HISTORY below), while the command number is the position in the sequence of commands executed during the current shell session. After the string is decoded, it is expanded via parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, string expansion, and quote removal, subject to the value of the promptvars shell option (see the description of the shopt command under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below). > > Seth > > > > > > > -- > 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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bash question
by Seth Payne 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

Hello, I have a general bash question. One thing I really like about SuSE is that the bash shell displays the current directory. Is this setting in the /etc/profile or .bash_profile file and what is the syntax to enable this? Seth

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Perl and ImageMagick
by Tor Sigurdsson 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

Hi, Has anyone actually bee able to use the Image::Magick perl library that comes with SuSE 7.0 ? tosi@svartur:~ > rpm -qi imagemag Name : imagemag Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 5.2.0 Vendor: SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany tosi@svartur:~ > rpm -qi perl Name : perl Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 5.005_03 Vendor: SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany tosi@svartur:~ > rpm -qi plmagick Name : plmagick Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 5.2.0 Vendor: SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany Release : 48 Build Date: Mið 20.Sep 2000, 19:41:07 GMT Install date: Mið 10.Jan 2001, 14:50:49 GMT Build Host: Stevin.suse.de Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: imagemag-5.2.0-48.src.rpm Size : 137801 License: 1996 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company Packager : feedback(a)suse.de URL : http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html Summary : Perl interface for ImageMagick Description : PerlMagick is an objected-oriented Perl interface to ImageMagick. Use the module to read, manipulate, or write an image or image sequence from within a Perl script. This makes it suitable for Web CGI scripts. You must have ImageMagick 4.0.8 above and Perl version 5.002 or greater installed on your system. Notice that plmagick requires >= 4.0.8 of IM, but the installed is 5.2.0 tosi@svartur:~ > perl - use Image::Magick; Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so' for module Image::Magick: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so: undefined symbol: GetImagePixels at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169. at - line 1 BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at - line 1. Regards, Tor Sigurdsson -- ______ /---------------------------------------\ \ | Þór Sigurðsson | Tor Sigurdsson | t | | Netmaður | Network Specialist | o | |-----------------------------------------| s | | tosi(a)rhi.hi.is | i | \---------------------------------------/_____/

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General Question on kDE Usage
by Neville Cobb 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

I was just wondering how users are working with KDE1 and KDE2. Do you have both running and use both? Are most working with KDE2 only? Is KDE2 mature enough to replace all funcationality of KDE1? I suppose the next version will only have kDE2 support Nev

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Can't remove MySQL do to lack of /sbin/chkconfig
by wilson＠claborn.net 11 Jan '01

11 Jan '01

Howdy, Why doesn't SuSE have an /sbin/chkconfig? The MySQL people have done something to the latest rpm that requires it in order to remove. It is probably a Red Hat thing that's not in all distros. That would be horrible. People like them need to make sure they make packages that work in all distros. Any idea what I can do here? Should i install a chkconfig from rpmfind or will it screw something up? I can't even "rpm -e" it with --nodeps. ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com

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