April 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

XDM help for beginner
by James McCreery 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

I could really use some help here. I would like to customise my XDM login and having read up about it have come to the conclusion that this is done via the /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources file. However, changes I make to this script make no difference at all to my login screen which has a white with black text rectangular login box in the centre (with the heading "X Window System). This black and white login box is what I want to change and I have looked at every file in /etc/X11/xdm but cannot find the script that controls it. As I expected, I can control the background of the login screen via /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup but this black and white rectangular login box remains completely mysterious! Any help is much appreciated james. ********************************************************************* This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify postmaster(a)haymarketgroup.com Whilst every endeavour is taken to ensure that e-mails are free from viruses, no liability can be accepted and the recipient is requested to use their own virus checking software. www.haymarketgroup.com **********************************************************************

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popper question
by Geordon VanTassle 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

Anyone have any idea why popper would only allow download of one message at a time? I have a client running Eudora Pro who can only get one message to download at a time. ANy suggestions would be appreciated. It'll make my life oh so much easier, too! ;) TIA, Geordon

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Second monitor
by john.janmaat＠acadiau.ca 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

Hello, I am running SuSE 7.1 Professional on an IBM Thinkpad. Except for some sound issues, it is working well. I have a second monitor which I want to run at a different resolution. (higher than the default 800x600 of the panel on the laptop). Are there any good tools for performing such a configuration? Thanks, John.

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KDE Help - Search
by Cleary_Mike＠emc.com 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

I upgraded to 2.1.1 a couple of nights ago with no problems. But I still can't get "Search" to work in KDE help. I HAVE tried doing: Update Index --> Generate Index. It reads a bunch of files, but then stops. It never seems to do the "extracting search terms" or "generating index" steps. It looks through 3000+ files and then stops just as if it is finished. If I then try to search for something, nothing happens. Is there something else that needs to be initialized before this will work? Do I have to do something to set up htdig? TIA, MIke ------------------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike(a)emc.com x6033 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.

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yast2 and sound
by Purple Shirt 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

Hello, with 7.1 yast2 for first time configured my sound right. There is a thing you could improve upon though. When you configure it for the first time it asks you to set a level of loudness. I wasn't sure what to set it to because different applications are different. I set it to about 30 which seemed right then. Now I wish I had set it to about 50 because it is quieter than I want it to be by default. Going back into yast2 you can't change it though. You can only add or remove the card. Hate to remove the working card and run the risk of not getting it back =). Not a problem just a feature thought. mk _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Problem with graphical login manager. Suse 7.1 Pro.
by Colin Murphy 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

The graphical login manager, I don't know what it's called, doesn't accept any keyboard input. The display comes up with the user icons, the mouse works - so I can select an icon, the keyboard doesn't work - so I can't enter a password. I have X configured as I need it for users, if I start up a boot to stop at init 3, then log in, then do startx, then all is well. -- Colin Murphy - QL.4.Ever(a)bigfoot.com - ICQ# 13630409 A GLLUG Greater London Linux User Group organiser, for the 'mo. http://gllug.linux.co.uk

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KDE Logout Delay
by Charles Marcus 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

Has anyone found a definitive cause/fix for this yet? I am still having this problem (Splash screen hang is fixed). I have tried numerous clean installs, mv'd .kde2 and the 3 in /tmp, and still have this problem. I have noticed that the console displays a message about 'modprobe - can't find mod' Anyone?? This is a very irritating problem... TIA Charles

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Re: [SLE] Starting MySQL at boot
by Purple Shirt 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

You can find them at: http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/suse/suse/i386/7.1/suse/ap3/ and already released updates at: http://ftp1.sourceforge.net/pub/suse/suse/i386/update/7.1/ap3/ mk >From: Albert Wagner <alwagner(a)tcac.net> >To: suse_users<suse-linux-e(a)lists.suse.com >Subject: Re: [SLE] Starting MySQL at boot >Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:52:40 -0500 > >I used rpms from the MySQL site. I am using the SuSE 7.1 Personal ed., and >I >can find no rpms for MySQL on my cds. Is the SuSE MySQL rpm only available >in the Professional ed? > >-- >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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kwintv segfaults / won't compile
by Chris Reeves 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

Hi people, I recently (last 24 hours) compiled kernel 2.4.3 on my main SuSE 6.1 workstation. The kernel and all associated utilities etc. have compiled fine, and the bttv module appears to work with kradio and xawtv. kwintv, however, segfaults on startup although it worked before the upgrade. The only other error message is one which appeared even before the upgrade when kwintv was working properly: Warning: KToolBarButton: pixmap is empty, perhaps some missing file I tried compiling the latest kwintv (0.8.5) from source, configuring it for KDE 1/QT 1.44. I have both QT 1.44 and QT 2.3.0 installed, and for the purposes of this compilation, $QTDIR was pointing to /usr/lib/qt (where QT 1.44 lives). I get this same compilation error with kwintv 0.8.4 also. Here's the configuration: galaxy:/working/kwintv-0.8.5 # QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt galaxy:/working/kwintv-0.8.5 # ./configure --with-kde-version=1 The compilation goes pretty smoothly until: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/opt/kde/include -I/usr/lib/qt/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -O2 -c wizScanData.cpp wizScanData.cpp: In method `wizScanData::wizScanData(class QWidget * = 0, const char * = 0)': wizScanData.cpp:154: no matching function for call to `QProgressBar::setIndicatorFollowsStyle (bool)' wizScanData.cpp:155: no matching function for call to `QProgressBar::setCenterIndicator (bool)' make[3]: *** [wizScanData.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/working/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/working/kwintv-0.8.5/kwintv' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/working/kwintv-0.8.5' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 I can't find any mention of 'setIndicatorFollowsStyle' in /usr/lib/qt (or /usr/local/qt, where QT 2.3.0 is located). Any suggestions? Summary of pertinent (and not-so-pertinent) data: P166MMX / 128MB RAM SuSE 6.1 kernel 2.4.3 qt 1.44 (/usr/lib/qt, rpm including qt-devel) and 2.3.0 (/usr/local/qt, self compiled) installed blackbox window manager kwintv 0.8.5 Thanks in advance, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\

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IPTABLES start script
by ESix 03 Apr '01

03 Apr '01

After looking through the susefirewall2 setup, it says at the begging if you just want simple masquerading run these lines.. This alludes to not running the susefirewall2 scripts? Where do I put the iptables command so it is executed every time my system is started? Does anyone have a rc script that they use for simple masq'ing without port filtering? Thanks Eric

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