December 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

email/imap -client software
by p p 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

This might lead to flaming war here, but despite that I'd like to know suggestions for good email-client software... I have used mozilla -mail, but it is really heavy, though I like it's user-interface and features, possible to handle many accounts, hendling attachments, integration to browser sometimes speeds things up etc I'd like to know what other good, stable graphical app thera are? needed: -light -graphical (my girlfriend also has to use that....) -can handle many imap accouts (no other protocols needed) -no need for news-group ability -can handle mail-threads -light -for linux of course ! -free Thanks, P_

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USB modem
by kilkbcc 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

i ve a USB modem Wisecom 56 k that it doesn t work in any serial ttyS* or /dev/modem Suse 8.1 sees the modem as Thomson Electr Windows sees it at Com 3 any idea how it ll work? Thanx in advance

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Something wrong with ... Does anyone knows ???
by Dmitri 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

I had installed SuSE Linux 8.1 Professional a couple of moments ago. I login and when loginning is done, I tried to configure my KMail, but my system hanged and two lamps on my keyboard remained flashing(Caps Lock and Scroll Lock)!!! And that's happening every time when I am trying to do something, like check my mail. Can anyone suggest - what is happening with my PC ??? In Windows(Alternate OS :)) everything works very well. ----------------------------------------- Hot Mobiil - helinad, logod ja piltsõnumid! http://portal.hot.ee

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printing in Mozilla 1.2.1
by Radule Soskic 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi everybody, I have a strange problem with printing in Mozilla. Every time, my printouts start with about 15 empty pages. I upgraded to 1.2.1, from usr-local-bin site, but the problem remains the same. Anybody has a solution? TIA -- Radule Soskic

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OT: suse.nl
by Frederik Vos 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Just something i don't like, Suse.nl is owned by a company Micromedia (micromedia.nl) hosted on IIS ... But it's just like a official Suse site .. -- regards Frederik Vos VosBerg@SuSE & L4L http://www.vosberg.be

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Install problems/questions with 8.1
by Clayton 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

I am trying to help a friend to install 8.1 on his computer - P2-400, 64MB RAM, 1.7Gig HD (set as /), 170MB HD (set as /swap), Matrox G2 video, standard mouse and keyboard. The CDROM is not bootable so we created boot floppies. We boot up the computer using the floppy disks, and all proceeds normally (either in GUI, or text based). The first GUI screen comes up and asks for language selection, and we select US English. Now things deviate from every other install I have done with these same SuSE8.1 master CDs. The Installation Settings screen comes up and under software it only says "Default system." The additional selections for Help & Support Docs, KDE, Office Apps, and Graphical Base System are missing. If we go into Software Selection, there is only one option "Default system" there. Minimum system and Minimum graphical system are missing. We can go into Detailed selection, but then the filter only gives us a list of applications... nothing is grouped. For example I cannot select "All of KDE" since the groups are missing. I can install KDE or Gnome manually by selecting each individual package (and manually resolving dependancies) though. If we follow the install through allowing it to just have Default install, we only get a command prompt when the install finishes - expected since the GUI bit is not installed. If we manually install each component of a GUI -say Gnome for example - we are able to configure it after the install (setting WINDOWMANGER etc) and bring up a GUI using startx. This teds to be very unreliable since I usually miss something with the manual package selection. I have tested the boot floppy install on a different computer (P3-600 laptop, 192MB RAM) and everything went normally. The only significant difference I can see, other than the slower processor is that there is only 64MB RAM. But, 64MB meets the minimum requirements to install with YaST. So... why would the installer be so completely different on this one machine? Any ideas or suggestions? Anyone else ran across an install that was missing things in the installer screens? C.

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Port forwarding
by Derek Fountain 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

How do I set up external internet to internal network port forwarding on SuSE-8.1? HOWTOs refer to a utility called ipmasqadm which I can't find on my system. -- Australian Linux Technical Conference 2003: http://www.linux.conf.au/ Explain to your boss the benefits of you going...

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How to configure lvm
by Richard Bos 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

What is a good harddisk devision in case the logical volume manager is being on the harddisk. Following situation: - the system has a 6GB hda disk and a 80GB hdb disk - hda has been installed with windows - hdb can be fully used for linux, which can be suse-8.0, 8.1, etc Is it now possible to assign the harddisk fully to lvm and to one volume group, or should there be a volume group per distribution (8.0, 8.1, etc). Must there be some space left for swap? Can /boot be managed under lvm? Just curious and looking forward to hear your experiences with lvm. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless

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How to upgrade Qt?
by oeren＠ykb.com 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi, I use Suse 8.0 with KDE 3.0.0 on it by default. I want to upgrade Qt, because some of the programs i downloaded needs a newer Qt. I downloaded the latest version, but kpackage says KDE and Yast ui uses the old one. Ok, i'll also be happy to upgrade KDE, but then it says a lot of programs use KDE packages.. Do i have to upgrade all the programs? Or can i install two seperate versions or Qt? I think already there is Qt and Qt3 seperately on my system.. TIA, OGUZ EREN YAPI VE KREDI BANKASI A.S. / TEKNOLOJI YONETIMI Tel : 262 647 21 29 Fax : 262 647 17 12 www.ykteknoloji.com ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bu mesajda, yalnizca muhatabini ilgilendiren, kisiye veya kuruma ozel bilgiler yer aliyor olabilir. Mesajin muhatabi degilseniz, icerigini ve varsa ekindeki dosyalari kimseye aktarmayiniz ya da kopyalamayiniz. Boyle bir durumda lutfen gondereni uyarip, mesaji imha ediniz. Gostermis oldugunuz hassasiyetten oturu tesekkür ederiz. This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Thank you for your co-operation.

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KreateCD
by James Hatridge 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

HI all... I got my CD burner up and running today. BUTTTTT I'm makeing one mess after another. Can someone give me an idea what to do? First I tried to burn some mp3 files to CD. It seemed to work, but when I later tried to mount the new CD among other errors there was this: ISOFS: unable to read i-node block Also during the starting of the burn the system opened and closed the tray 2 or 3 times. ############ Later I tried again with some data files, most zip, html, txt, etc. This time the burn went even better and the tray did not open at all. BUT when I tried to mount it I got: mount: Not a directory Any ideas? Thanks JIM -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 ------------------------------------------------------ BayerWulf Linux System # 129656 The Recycled Beowulf Project Looking for throw-away or obsolete computers and parts to recycle into a Linux super computer

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