July 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] True Type Fonts Under Linux
by Alexandr Malusek 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Nick Selby <nick(a)nickselby.com> writes: > Does anyone have an opinion as to the workability of the following > fix under Suse 7.2? It comes from > http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/fonts/trutypef.html FYI: There is an article "Setting Up Font Anti-Aliasing in SuSE Linux 7.1 and 7.2" on http://portal.suse.de/ describing how to install TrueType fonts. It's very easy in SuSE 7.2. The direct link follows: http://portal.suse.de/en/content.php?3occccccccccccccccccccmcccccoccccocccc… -- Alexandr.Malusek(a)imv.liu.se

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Boot Disc Construction Time Again
by Oliver Ob 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Hi mates, this is for some boot disk concerns. I want to learn how to create my own Linux boot disk using which I can run a REAL TIGHT linux from this disk. Any pointer to valueable texts, what I plan is this: Boot Linux incl. Network Run insmod ppa for my ZiP-parallel drive Is there enough place for a mignite comm? or clone? regards! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ =Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤

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True Type Fonts Under Linux
by Nick Selby 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Does anyone have an opinion as to the workability of the following fix under Suse 7.2? It comes from http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/fonts/trutypef.html Luckily, Redhat 5 and newer has a Font server that will allow you to use any true type fonts on your Linux PC. Copy whatever fonts you want on an off of a floppy, burned CD, over the network, whatever and do the following: mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf cp /path-of-fonts/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf ttmkfdir > fonts.scale mkfontdir Where the path-of-fonts is is of course where you copied your TTF files to. After this is done, go ahead and reboot. Unfortunatey, this doesn't work for Caldera or the other releases (go figure), however, I can install xfstt (version xfstt-0.9.99.tar.gz was the new one when I wrote this). It took some hacking because the INSTALL text had a few holes in it. I did as it said but got PATH NOT FOUND errors. I made the paths FIRST and then everything went smoothly. I still did not have fonts! At this point I added to my XF86Config and r.c.local scripts and IT WORKED! After unzipping and untarring the file into a directory...... mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype mkdir /var/cache ...then type in the following (as per the INSTALL text file)..... make && make install xfstt --sync xfstt & after that edit your XF86Config.eg file to include the following line where you see the rest of the Font Paths: FontPath "unix/:7101" After you do this, edit your rc.local file (usually located at /etc/rc.d/) and add the following two lines to the end of it: /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --sync /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt & The directions in the INSTALL text file are pretty straight forward. Follow them and my instructions and you should be just fine! It's so cool! I'm burning a TTF CD right now!! NOTE: (Sent in by Hooloovoo) For RH users: In the file /etc/X11/fs/config, there is a "catalogue" section. Add the TrueType font directory to that section. So if your catalogue section was: catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi You would make it: catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, (your-ttf-dir) RH6 doesn't always start xfs properly, so you may have to do it yourself. At the console prompt, type "setup" and go to the "System Services" section, and unselect xfs. In the file /etc/rc.d/rc.local, add this line: /usr/X11R6/bin/xfs -config /etc/X11/fs/config -port -1 And the font path in /etc/X11/XF86Config should be unix/:-1. Restart the font server and X and you should have your fonts. You can find your LoseDoze fonts in /mnt/win/windows/fonts. TIA, -- ------------------------------------ Nick Selby, Flyguides, Inc Aviation Multimedia Publishing 103 Foulk Rd, Suite 202, Wilmington, DE 19803 USA http://flyguides.com | nick(a)flyguides.com US phone 301 691 6056 US Fax 301 652 8667 European Mobile: +49 178 659 6900

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Re: LinuX-Talk mailing list
by David M. 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Here's some info: You just posted to the list. LOL David M. > Can you send me info on this list? Thanks. > >

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kernel source questions
by Alex Angerhofer 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Hi List: 3 quick questions: 1. How can I rebuild /usr/src/linux-2.4.4.SuSE after I inadvertantly deleted it? i Reinstalling kernel 2.4 from the CDs will not do it. 2. I switched to kernel 2.2.19 after having problems with vmware on 2.4.4-4GB. Whe is there no /usr/src/linux-2.2.19 directory? 3. Where on the 7.2 disks are the suse linux sources? They used to be called lx_suse, IIRC, but that package doesn't seem to be on the CDs anymore? Thanks for any tips, Alex.

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suse archieves
by Landy Roman 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

when i look in the archies for suse mailing list and click on jun 2001 when it comes back it says jan 2000-jun28 2001 why does it show all the way back to jan 2000

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Diald, pppd and more.
by Erik Jakobsen 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Hi. Running SuSE 7.2. I'm trying to get diald and ppp to work here, but I have some troubles getting it to run. Here is a copy of the dctrl screen: Sun Jul 1 10:37:40 2001 CEST Calling site 195.249.0.237 Sun Jul 1 10:37:41 2001 CEST Connected to site 195.249.0.237 In fact the site is NOT connected even if shown. Sun Jul 1 10:37:41 2001 CEST Running pppd (pid = 7499). Sun Jul 1 10:38:41 2001 CEST pppd startup timed out. Check your pppd options. Killing pppd. In my options there are the following items active: duron:~ # grep -v ^# /etc/ppp/options | grep -v ^$ debug noauth modem asyncmap 0 nodetach lcp-echo-interval 30 lcp-echo-failure 4 lcp-max-configure 60 lcp-restart 2 idle 600 noipx novj noccp nobsdcomp nodeflate noaccomp nopcomp duron:~ # Sun Jul 1 10:38:41 2001 CEST start tap0: SIOCSIFMETRIC: Operation not supported Sun Jul 1 10:38:41 2001 CEST start tap0: RTNETLINK answers: No such process What is that ?. Sun Jul 1 10:38:41 2001 CEST Disconnected. Call duration 60 seconds. Sun Jul 1 10:38:41 2001 CEST IP transmitted 0 bytes and received 0 bytes. Sun Jul 1 10:38:41 2001 CEST Closing /dev/modem Sun Jul 1 10:38:42 2001 CEST Delaying 45 seconds before clear to dial. And the show starts over and over again. Can anybody help me ??. P.S. my chatsript is shown to get opened, but I cannot see it is. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - erik(a)urbakken.dk SuSE 7.2

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2.4.5/nVidia
by Ben Rosenberg 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Anyone using Mantel's 2.4.5 kernel w/ nVidia cards? Did you just have to recompile the kernel module for the nVidia card? Or was there something more to it? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- The only argument for the superiority of Windows over UNIX is that General Protection Fault outranks Colonel Panic.

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usb/firewire pocketdrive
by Mikael Eriksson 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

Hi! Is there anyone who has tested LACIE's pocketdrives, available in 10,20 and soon 30 GB. It's compatible with win*whatever and Mac OS, but nothing mentioned about other OS's for example Linux. It's connected by usb or firewire. That would be nice, carrying 20 GB in Your pocket. Home <-> Office, copying a complete system between machines, backups and so on... BUT will it be working...? So the question is, has anyone tested? m.v.h Micke E ******************************************** Mikael Eriksson Sikeå Hamn 0934-152 51 070-650 55 66 master33(a)linux.nu ********************************************

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Thanks
by Dee McKinney 01 Jul '01

01 Jul '01

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