July 2001 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Window manager choices for KDE
by Derek Fountain 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

The ongoing KDE window manager incompatibilities with Java (I've just downloaded JBuilder5 from Borland and it doesn't work properly) leave me with little choice other than to drop Kwin and use a different window manager. I like KDE, so can anyone suggest a KDE compliant window manager on SuSE-7.1 which will be an unobtrusive replacement?

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LILO + SuSE 7.2 on SCSI-Drive
by Vincent Allard 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hi, Situation: when i start my PC, LILO presents to me the choice of kernel to start ==> OK BUT when i restart my PC without doing a physicaly shutdown, LILO starts without proposed me choices. I suspect that it's not normal. Any suggestion? Vincent

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Re: [SLE] Scanner advise.
by Bryan Tyson 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

On Monday 30 July 2001 19:08, Dave wrote: > I have a Visioneer 4400 USB; any easy suggestions as to how it > should be set up. The boot process does not identify it in any manner > I can detect. That model is not listed on the usb scanner page http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners-usb.html However, he gives the following advice: If you are in the market for a new USB scanner to use under Linux then I strongly recommend that you select an Epson scanner. All the Epson scanners conform to the Epson scanner language and the SANE backend is actively maintained. As a result all the Epson scanners work under Linux and SANE. While they might not be the cheapest option they are by far the safest option. I took this advice, and I am now happily scanning away with my Epson 1200U. *************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional KDE 2.1.2 KMail 1.2 Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ***************************************************

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Re: [SLE] sending an automatic mail to new users]
by Raul Gutierrez Segales 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

> Probably the best thing to do would be to send yourself a mail with what > ever message you want in it. Ok > Have a look in your mail box in /var/spool/mail/yourname and grab the mail > (headers and all) and save this to a new file. Ok > All you will need to do in future is just copy this file into > /var/spool/mail/newuser But this would mean I would have to did manually, perhaps I should write a script to make users and after making the users copy the email file to the /var/spool/mail/$newuser (it would be a variable in the script). But that would mean I wouldnt be able to use YaST anymore....I will think about it... > Kind regards, > > Paul Thanks for your help, Raúl _______________________ Raul Gutierrez Segales oxford(a)campoalto.edu.py

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Moneydance not working
by rjwohlfar＠bigfoot.com 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

I'm trying to get Moneydance to run under 7.2. Whenever I try to start it, I get the error "***Out of memory, exiting***". Is this a problem with Java? Or with Moneydance? How might I go about fixing it? -- Robert Wohlfarth rjwohlfar(a)bigfoot.com "Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?" -- Matthew 6:25b

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Re: [SLE] Gnome broken - Unable to reach the control center??
by Jamie O'Shaughnessy 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Robert, Yes I can confirm this works, fantastic. I have built/installed root-portal (from source) and it had installed a file "root-portal_applet.gnorba" in /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA/services. I moved the file to /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA/services, removed the /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA directory and then created the symbolic links you said below. Works fine then. I expect anyone building gnome applets will get this problem with SuSE 7.2 - if you get the "Unable to reach the control-center" warning, this is the way to fix it. Many thanks, Jamie On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, rjwohlfar wrote: > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Jamie O'Shaughnessy <jamie.oshaughnessy(a)ntlworld.com> > Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 18:22:40 +0000 (GMT) > >I've tracked this down a little further and I'm getting the following > >printed to the console when I'm running the control center: > > > >** WARNING ** : Unable to reach the control-center > > > I had a similar problem crop up this weekend. Installed SuSE 7.2 last > week. And it had been using my old GNOME configuration (from SuSE 6.4) > just fine. Then I added a new applet to the GNOME Panel. Lost all > applets and the Control Center! > > Here's the solution I came up with... > rm /etc/CORBA > rm /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA > ln -s /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA /etc/CORBA > ln -s /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA > > I did check the directories /etc/CORBA and /opt/gnome/etc/CORBA before > deleting. They were both empty. If you have files in there. Move the > files to /etc/opt/gnome/CORBA first! > > CORBA is how GNOME embeds the stuff into the Panel and Control Center. I > had trouble about 6 months ago with CORBA being setup wrong. That's what > made me look for the directories. With the symlinks, the Panel and > Control Center were back to normal. > > If this solves your problem, would you please forward the message to > "suse-linux-e(a)suse.com" and "feedback(a)suse.com"? I'm having some trouble > with my e-mail still... > > Thanks! > > -- Jamie O'Shaughnessy jamie.oshaughnessy(a)ntlworld.com

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KDM after 2.2 beta1 update
by Jonathan Drews 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

HI: After updating to KDE 2.2 beta 1, my login splash shows all the directories. I went to /opt/kde2/share/config/kdmrc and edited it to show only the reevant users but it had no efect. What then is the login manager configuration script. I searched the SDB, SuSE,s htdig help system and /usr/share/docs but found nothing. -- Cheers, Jonathan

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Apache Probs
by Thomas Bishop 01 Aug '01

01 Aug '01

Hello, I scoured the archives trying to find a similar problem and hopefully solution, but nada. Apache won't start. Rcapache stop fails. Rcapache start says done, but it isn't. I get connection refused messages in Netscape on other machines. Could this be a firewall prob? I think I have this right, but what would I put in rcfirewall to allow the LAN access to this webserver? In /var/log/httpd/error_log I see "address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 80". ???? I have uninstalled mod_authldap as I read something about it not playing nice with php4. This is on a fresh install of 7.2Pro as a server . Please point me in the right direction. I'm doing the same things I did in 7.1 to get it going, but no joy. -- TRBishop tb64710(a)alltel.net SuSE 7.2 Pro

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RE: [SLE] suse7.1 w/ win2k question
by yuk bon 31 Jul '01

31 Jul '01

my main question is really: what's the extra partition that windows is adding in? under win2k, the 4gig HD shows as 4gigs, but during the suse install, it shows as a 3.7gig primary and a 300meg partition. if i've got a windows swap partition and delete it with windows fdisk, will the additional space be taken up by win or left as 'unpartitioned'? i was also wondering what would be a good file system choice? (fat16/fat32) i'm going to slave a 30gig drive to the windows partition, so i'm going to need large disk support -- can linux read fat16/32? i'm looking to share some info from each OS (well, win to linux, really.) i thought linux was able to read NTFS5...or is it just that YaST2 won't read NTFS? -d. charles said: >i'm trying to do a dual boot install with win2k and suse 7.1; >machine specs: 4gig HD, pII, 128ram. >reading the install instructions that came with suse, it says >if the drive >is 1 big partition (ie just 1 primary partition) that during >install yast2 >will start up a repartitioning program; when i get to that >part, yast sees >the drive as partitioned (one 3.7 gig part and one 3meg >partition) and wont >start the repartitioning program at all. under windows, the >drive is shown >as a single 4 gig partition -- can someone tell me what's >happening? (and >how to fix, which is more important.) > >answers would be appreciated, or a link to a relevant web >page would be >equally welcome. > >-d. > If you installed Win2K using NTFS then yast is not going to be able to do anything with it. You will need to use some other partitioning program, i.e. PartitionMagic, SystemCommander to reduce the size of the 2K partition and then install SuSE in the free space it creates. Charles (-: _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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PC All SCSI ==> CDROM NOK with SuSE 7.2
by Vincent Allard 31 Jul '01

31 Jul '01

Hi, i've a PC full SCSI: -Hardisk 0: IBM U2W -Hardisk 1: QUANTUM U2W -Plextor Ultraplex32 SCSI CD-Reader -Yamaha 4260 SCSI CDR+CDRW I've no access to my two CD-ROMS???? In the boot, he recognizes wel the two CD-Roms. In my Kernel, i've verify that SCSI and CD-Rom SCSI was enable. Where is the problem? Vincent

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