March 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Want to remove Gnome and start again ( off suse 7.1 )
by dids 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

It seems ( unless Im wrong ) that most gnome progs expect gnome to be in /usr/local instead of /opt/gnome whatever, i would like to remove all the gnome stuff on my machine ie libs etc and start again by hand. Can someone give me some pointers about which directories i can remove Ive already done the rpms etc Id also like to know which environment vars Suse is setting up for me by default and how to stop it. eg GNOME_DIR thanks dids

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Ok, what do I do now?
by Jerry Kreps 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

When I did an "install everything" on the Beast this afternoon, I selected the 2.2.18 kernel. SuSE, on the other hand, decided on it's own that what I really needed was the 2.4.0 sources! So that's what I've got installed. I ran YaST and told it to install lx_sus22 source files. I get a response message saying that such an action is not wise. My thought is to go ahead and ignore this message and install the 2.2.18 sources anyway. But, having ran into unannounced brick walls before, I am wondering what land mines I might be stepping on if I do this? Should I uninstall the 2.4 sources first? JLK

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cd burner?
by Marley, Mike 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

I have just set up my 7.1 box and I am floored by it. I absolutely love it. I am new to linux and this is the third distro I have tried after redhat and mandrake. htis is by far the best. now that i have decided to stick with it, i want to get a burner so i can inch closer to dropping microsh*t altogether. i would love to hear everyone's opinion on which ones work best, both scsi and ide. thanks in advance for any info you wise people can impart to me. Mike not registered linux user yet, but very close :)

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Star Office Crashes System
by Jethro Cramp 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

Since I installed SO52 from the rpms from the 7.0 DVD I haven't been able to use it successfully. Everytime I start it up it starts (taking forever - I'm sure it was much quicker when I used it in the past) and then once it's started as soon as I click on anything it hangs my whole system. I can't kill the X-server nor can I change to another terminal. A complete crash. The only upgrades that I have done to my system since the clean install are to KDE2.1 and XFree86 4.02. Has anybody else experienced this or have any idea what might be causing this? Could it have something to do with the jvm that I selected when installing?(Can't remember which one but if anyone has any recommendations I'll uninstall/re-install and set it up differently). TIA, Jethro

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What are these ports and how can they be disabled?
by jayhen 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

What are these ports and how can they be disabled? Cannot find them in inetd.conf My localhost name is not "talarian" udp 0 0 *:snmp *:* udp 0 0 *:bootps *:* udp 0 0 linux.local:netbios-dgm *:* udp 0 0 linux.local:netbios-ns *:* udp 0 0 *:netbios-dgm *:* udp 0 0 *:netbios-ns *:* udp 0 0 *:pftp *:* udp 0 0 *:859 *:* udp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* tcp 0 0 localho:talarian-mcast3 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 localho:talarian-mcast2 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 5dyn44.a:mapper-ws_ethd pccws10.pcconn:www-http ESTABLISHED tcp 0 0 *:blackjack *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:netbios-ssn *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:http-rman *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:pop3 *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:exec *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:telnet *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:ftp *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:www-http *:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN raw 0 0 *:tcp *:* 7

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Re: [SLE] monitor power management
by Eddie Howson 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

On Saturday 17 March 2001 13:04, you wrote: > ** Reply to message from Eddie Howson <eddie(a)cs.rhul.ac.uk> on Fri, 9 Mar > 2001 10:16:48 +0000 > > > I am currently running SuSE 7.1 > > with the 2.4 kernel and KDE 2.1. I have the power management features > > enabled in KDE Control Center. Xset also reports that power management is > > enabled. However, the monitor remains on if after 24 hours of non use!! > > Has anyone else had similar problems? Is there something that I am > > missing or have overlooked? Would be grateful for any advice or help. > > I am running 6.4 with X 4.0.2 and kernet 2.4.2. > > I have had this problem in the past. Solution is in Readme files for X > 4.x.x. > > In the file /etc/X11/XF86Config, under Monitor section, put option "dpms" > > Under section ServerLayout, put: > > Option "BlankTime" "10" > Option "StandbyTime" "20" > Option "OffTime" "45". > > This arrangement has enabled power saving for me over the last several X > servers, and kernel versions. > > > Ed Harrison > SuSE 6.4, Kernel 2.4.2, X 4.0.2, IBM JDK 1.1.8 > or Warp 4, FP12 > or Windows98 (running in vmware 2.0.3 for fun) > PolarBarMailer 1.1.19a Thanks Ed I have tried something like that without any success but I will give a try. At home, I found that if I switch to a console screen it works quite happily. I suspect that either something in the XFree setup or the KDE 2.1 setup is preventing it from kicking in. I will let you know if I have any success. Eddie

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Blackscreen when leaving X/Shutdown
by jens nielsen 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

Hi ppl, First, I use SuSE7.1 Professional on an AMD Irongate system with a NVidia TNT2 Ultra. After installing the NVidia drivers to get my dose of Quake 3 Arena, I have run into a problem with blackscreen. It happends some time after booting into X. I lose my consoles and the screen remains X-like while shutting down (sometimes it just hangs during shutdown and I have to kill the system). If I replace the NVidia driver with NV, everything works fine. In the SuSE support database (and if you can read German), the solution is to either use an ascii login or use GDM. This works fine for me, except that I cannot boot my terminals anymore. I have almost the same setup on old SuSE 7.0 installation and here the problems doesn't exist. I have noticed that I sometimes get an MTRR error from the kernel. Any solutions to kill this problem? Later, Jens Nielsen

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7.1 text-based install?
by Geordon VanTassle 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

I'm trying to install a system with an ancient, low-grade monitor. Is there some way that I can get some sort of text-based install, rather than a GUI/"pretty" one?????? I can't see a bleedin' thing after it starts to go through the INIT process. AURGH!

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Re: [SLE] IP MASQ
by David McArdle 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

At 07:23 AM 17/03/2001 -0600, you wrote: >See comments below > >Quoting David McArdle <waylander1(a)dingoblue.net.au>: >[snip] >> FW_DEV_WORLD="modem" > >Almost certain this should be: > >FW_DEV_WORLD="ppp0" Thanks very much for that Jeffrey. I think I am nearly there with it. The only problem I am having now is a message right at the end of the boot sequence which says something like: Error fetching interface. Ignore if not active (eg[i]ppp0) Warning Interface is faulty. I wonder if you or anyone else can help with this? Cheers, David McArdle

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RE: [SLE] Star Office Crashes System
by Jethro Cramp 19 Mar '01

19 Mar '01

Dear Jonathan, Hi again. Thanks for the advice the problem is that I have some old spreadsheet documents stored in SO's format that I need to look at. AFAIK there isn't any other software that can import .sdc files. However not to worry - I am in the middle of downloading SO for Windows (guess I'll have finished it by tomorrow) as a temporary measure so that I can open the files and convert them to another format. Bye, Jethro

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