March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

KDE cannot mount floppy or CDROM
by Bob Bobbo 23 Mar '01

23 Mar '01

Hi, I have just managed to sort of upgrade to KDE 2.1.0, and everything works fine, even my mouse, but it cannot mount my floppy or cdrom drive. Whenever i try mounting the floppy it says it is an ivalid block device and it says it can't find ym cdrom. Thanks in advance, Bob _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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./configure - qt-2.2.4 not found?
by Stewart Watson 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hi, A month or so ago I had a problem with the configure where apps which required qt 2.2.* and above would give me the subject error. Now with 7.1 i have the same problem. My KDE2.1 system runs with absolutely no problem, everything works! /usr/lib/qt is linked to /usr/lib/qt-2.2.4 as is /usr/lib/qt2 but I still get this problem when I try to build an app from source. Any thoughts anyone? -- Stu "The specification said Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux"

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Re: [SLE] Web Cam
by Purple Shirt 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

I can tell you what not to buy. Do not buy a Kodak DVC or other Kodak webcam. Kodak has no interest in Linux. >From: Crazy Diamond <crazydiamond21(a)yahoo.com> >To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >Subject: [SLE] Web Cam >Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 04:48:27 -0800 (PST) > >Could anyone offer his / her opinion on the best >Web-Cam for linux? > >Thanks >Crazy D > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > >-- >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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Kde splash screen - long time to log out - icon repositioning - problems fix
by Mark Hounschell 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

All 3 of these problems are because of the startkde script in SuSE's kde2.1 rpms. If I use the vanilla startkde script from kde.org all 3 of these problems dissapear. The spash screen hang problem is caused by the lines that reads as follows: # We set LD_BIND_NOW to increase the efficiency of kdeinit. # kdeinit unsets this variable before loading applications. LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kdesktop +kcminit +kicker +klipper +khotkeys kwrited Apparently this stuff gets started automatically from /opt/kde2/share/autostart and shouln't be started from startkde as of 2.1. The logout delay/hang I'm not sure of but if you use the vanilla startkde script that goes away also. The icons not staying where you put them also goes away if you use the vanilla startkde script. I can see in suse's startkde script that they are doing some stuff to build you a default desktop and position them for you. Of coarse they are doning ALOT more than the vanilla script. I was hesitant to use the vanilla script but it works. You just have to change the reference of .kde to .kde2. It also won't build you a default desktop for a new user but I can do that myself. I would prefer for SuSE to fix their script but in the mean time I'll be using this one that already has the .kde change to .kde2. Mark

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procmail/fetchmail
by Landy Roman 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

i am getting this msg in my fetchmail log couldn'y chdir to $HOME/MH that is my inbox and the headers show up but not the mail?????? -- SuSe 7.0 Linux 2.4.2 i686 Thu Mar 22 07:05:00 EST 2001

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Re: [SLE] SuSE, the new US leader?
by Purple Shirt 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

I think what he was trying to say is that the numbers mentioned on the page are meaningless unless you look at the situation they display. Any good statistitian<?> would have included the time frame the numbers were gained in. They probably would also have mentioned that SuSE did have a jump from just having released the new distro. Otherwise SuSE could have additionally posted month by month sales or month over year sales and we could judge on the point you make that SuSE is gaining market share. The numbers mentioned do not prove what the article is trying to say. It should have been something like this: <sample article> In February 2001 SuSE had this percentage of sales: 48% (Note: They released a new product) In February 2000 SuSE had this percentage of sales: 25% In August(?) 2000 SuSE had this percentage of sales: 35% (Note: The last time they released a new product) </sample article> These three numbers are picked by me but they tell more than the numbers in the press release. 1. They tell that you do sell more boxes when the release is fresh. 2. They tell that sales from distro to distro picked up(percentage wise if all other competitor sales remain constant). 3. SuSE gains market share. But then it all doesn't matter because the non-questioning readers read it and say "yeah great suse rocks and they gain market share" and the questioning readers know the little flaw in the press release and how to interpret it but still know suse rocks and gains market share. so its all good =) mk >From: Michael Hasenstein <mha(a)suse.com> >To: Jethro Cramp <jsc_lists(a)rock-tnsc.com> >CC: tbutler(a)uninetsolutions.com, SuSE Linux English <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com> >Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE, the new US leader? >Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:17:04 -0800 > >Jethro Cramp wrote: > > > > There was a discussion on this some days ago. > > > > We are all pro SuSE but this is probably a marketing manipulation of the > > figures. Is this measured by sales (if so what period)? By downloads? By > > number of installations running SuSE? > >This is NOT a manipulation. What on earth makes you think we >manipulate?! > >This is the number of boxes purchased by people during one week as >measured by PC-Data. PC-data numbers don't measure everything (not all >sales), but in percentage points they are okay, from our past >experience. > >In the weeks when we just had started with SL 7.1 it was >RH-Mandrake-SuSE very close together and Caldera-Turbo waaaayyyy behind. >The one week with us at 48% is of course an extreme, but we HAVE gained >a lot through the recent years. What makes this really exciting is of >course not this one release that's great for marketing but is admittedly >an exception, but the fact we're still #1 in the latest pc-data report >shows it's not just an only-once happening. Each of RH, Mandrake, SuSE >can make it to #1 right now with a new release, true. But it's also true >SuSE is much bigger also in the US (and not just Europe) than most >people thought! > >The sad news is that Linux sales are still negligible compared to >Windows. > > > > When you start looking at it without this kind of information the >figures > > are meaningless. > >They are NOT meaningless. It just depends on what you look for in them. >They provide valuable hints. They are NOT made-up data, they are real >ard facts, and if you think hard facts about real sales are >meaningless... oh well. > >-- >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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Starting X with 8bpp
by david.herbison＠hl.siemens.de 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hi, does anyone know how to start a second X server with just 8 bits per pixel. I am running the SuSE 7.1 XFree864.x mach64 server and have tried X -bpp 8 :1, but it starts a second server with apparently 24 bits. Using Sax2 I have configured the server for 24 bits, but it doesn't seem to be possible to set up both bit resolutions. Any ideas? David.

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RE: [SLE] SQUID
by Andrew Branch 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Hi Joris, Did you add entries to the acl and http_access sections of the squid.conf file? Find them in the configuration file and follow the examples there. Andy -----Original Message----- From: Van Deuren Joris [mailto:Joris.VanDeuren@siemens.atea.be] Sent: 22 March 2001 07:30 To: 'SuSE-linux-e(a)suse.com' Subject: [SLE] SQUID Hi, I installed the SQUID rpm. Set the SQUID startup at boottime option to "yes" (rc.config) Configured my squid.config so that connections on port 3128 are possible. Connected myself to the internet. Restarted SQUID so my changes in squid.conf will be active. Configured the proxy settings in my browser.... And ..... I try to connect to an internet page with my browser.. I receive the SQUID page telling me that I'm not allowed to go to that address. "Access Denied" Does anyone know what I did wrong???? Greetings Joris. -- 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] Is SuSE Support still alive?
by Koos Pol 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:33:30 -0800, Ralph De Witt said: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | On Monday 19 March 2001 12:02, you wrote: | > Hello all, | > | > Can some of the SuSE'ers please comment on how Support is doing? | > I requested installation support 2 weeks ago on 7.1, but I only get | > automated messages. It seems *very* quite over there... | > | > Thanks, | Hi: | I did the phone in thing and got good results after waiting for around 10 to | 15 minutes. My email problem still has not seen any responses from a tech, | just the one automated message. This leads me to believe they are short of | tech's to handle it all. I just hope this is temporary. What good is the | sixty or nintey day install support when it take the better part of that to | get one answer? | | Ralph Indeed. And for me (and probably for a lot of others) it is not really an option to make abroad phone calls, so there... :-( -- ---------------------------------------------------- Koos Pol T: +31 20 3116122 Systems Administrator F: +31 20 3116200 Compuware Europe B.V. E: koos_pol(a)nl.compuware.com Amsterdam PGP public key available

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Remote upgrade
by Egan 22 Mar '01

22 Mar '01

Anyone else tried upgrading a remote server? I recently finished upgrading one of my remote servers from 6.4 to 7.1, but it was a difficult exercise using rdist to upload a locally upgraded mirror of the remote, to an empty partition on the remote, then making adjustments and rebooting. It was tense, rebooting the remote after making many changes. I was wondering if anyone has better techniques. Egan

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