February 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Open Office font problems
by Christopher R. Carlen 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi: I have Suse 7.3 and Open Office 641. I have stripped most fonts and font paths out of the system and XF86Config, and have installed only the fixed width and cursor fonts demanded by the X server. In addition I have installed truetype fonts for most purposes. These fonts work very well in almost all applications. However, I need a few Type1 fonts installed. So I began installing some into my Type1 dir (I had deleted everything from my font paths, and am hand replacing only those fonts that I want). I installed the IBM Courier Type1 fonts (just copied the .pfa and .afms from the original X font installation) and ran type1inst. I also installed the Utopia fonts. See the end of the message for outputs of xlsfonts and copies of my fonts.scale and fonts.dir. In Open Office, when I select either the Courier or Utopia fonts, the result is that the cursor becomes very large, sometimes the whole height of the page. When I type no characters display, but the cursor moves. The Courier font works fine in KDE apps., but there is a slight problem with the Utopia font in KDE apps. See another post titled "KDE shows regular font as italic." There is no way it seems to select an encoding in Open Office, and I suspect this may be a problem. This is because in KDE, the font dialogs don't show the Type 1 fonts, unless I select the iso8859-1 encoding. The fonts that come with Open Office are adobe-fontspecific encoding. I tried putting a line with this encoding in the fonts.scale and fonts.dir, rehash, etc. But OO is still unable to display the font. I suspect either a font metric problem or an encoding problem. How to re-encode type 1 fonts? I haven't tried to recalculate the .afms with one of the utilities available. I will get to that later. Any ideas? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts.my/Type1 # cat fonts.dir 8 UTRG____.pfa -adobe-utopia-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 UTI_____.pfa -adobe-utopia-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 UTBI____.pfa -adobe-utopia-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 UTB_____.pfa -adobe-utopia-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 cour.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 courb.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 courbi.pfa -ibm-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 couri.pfa -ibm-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 The fonts.dir and fonts.scale are the same. Here is the xlsfonts output: ~ $ xlsfonts|grep utopia -adobe-utopia-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-utopia-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-utopia-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -adobe-utopia-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -- -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle(a)sandia.gov

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Seeking forward with Xine
by jaakko tamminen 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi I can't get any picture after I drag the pointer onwards in a AVI-movie. The sound sometimes comes alive after dragging, but no picture never... Is this known problem, or is it just me? Jaska.

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deleting files (basic)
by Tom Kostiainen 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi! Just a basic question. How do I delete multiple files in Linux. rm *.* didn't want to delete all the files (not at least those that wore "hiiden" .xxxx like). I had to feed one file at the time to get them deleted. Cheers! - tk

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Re: [SLE] SuSE and Win XP
by Ben Rosenberg 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I don't actualy care if you need Windows my friend. That's not the issue up for debate. :) What I was saying by this email is that I usually don't say much about dual booting because I think it's shite. ;) But since I said something about it what I ment was this...if you want to put XP and SuSE on the box then you could partition say a 20G drive like this.... --beginning of the drive 5G = Windows 15G = Linux For the most part lilo still sees XP NTFS as regular ole NTFS and if you install Windows first and let it install it's bootmanager...install SuSE and let it write lilo to the mbr. Lilo will boot XP just fine..I've done it. You should use XP to make the 5G partition and leave the rest blank, then when your done tweaking your XP partition..updates..etc..etc. Then boot off the SuSE disc..partition the 15G blank space with the tools that come with SuSE..at the end of the install put lilo in the mbr and make sure everything is labelled correct. You should be good to go. Believe me when I say that I don't care who needs Windows or whatever situation. It's just me...and it's not ment to offend or anything else and it's not to start a discussion/flamewar or whatever. Discussing why people need Windows isn't even on my agenda. I've been a computer user since the TI99 days...I doubt anyone could change my mind. Cheers! And have a good week! :) * David Robertson (der(a)uklinux.net) [020205 03:11]: ->Well, it's ok to put a small boot partition of, say, 20MB before the ntfs ->partition, but you probably don't need it. I used Partition Magic to resize ->but I did have it already. SuSE copes with it OK but other distros don't ->like the partition table it creates. -> ->Unfortunately, some of us do need to have Windows in one form or another on ->our computer to run specific software. Neither Win4Lin or VMware are quite ->there yet. -> ->David -> -> ->On Tuesday 05 February 2002 06:51, you wrote: ->> Here's a rule breaker: ->> ->> You have to have Windows on the first partition of the first drive or ->> nothing will work right. That is if your going to use the default ->> bootloader for a Windows OS or Lilo. ->> ->> /end of rule breaker ;) ->> ->> * GunnarH (gunnar.haland(a)c2i.net) [020204 22:24]: ->> ->I have innstalled XP on my computer and want my SuSE 7.3 on it to, but ->> SuSE ->can not resize my D disk. ->> ->It is some kluster error of some kind. ->> ->What to do????? ->> ->Gunnar ->> -> ->> -> ->> ->-- ->> ->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 and the ->> ->archives at http://lists.suse.com ->> -> ->> ->> -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- ->> Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ->> -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- ->> "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I ->> think it might not be a bad thing." -JC -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC

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Alternative Mirrors
by Ray Booysen 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Does anyone have some mirrors for ftp.suse.com Thanks Ray Booysen

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Web/mysql ..
by Jim Hatridge 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi all, I'm looking for a HOWTO on how to access mysql from my browser. Does anyone know of something (simple) that I can d/l from the 'net? TIA! -- 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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/dev/gpmctl
by Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi: Does anybody know what is /dev/gpmctl and why it doesnt have a major number? Thanks, Raul

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netcat
by Raúl Gutiérrez Segalés 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

Hi: The other day I saw a nice trick done with netcat ; a guy opened up a port in his server (make it port 555) and I did telnet server.com 555 and then I typed a messages and he received it (probably to a file).. Does anybody no how to this?? Any reference or other uses for netcat? Thanks, Raul

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Dual booting SuSE73 and Win XP
by Eddie Howson 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I have SuSE 73 and Win XP. XP has replaced my 2K installation on my machine. However, I found after installing XP, lilo would not run. It only got as far as LIL. I used the 1st SuSE CD to manually boot my linux partition and then restored lilo to the MBR and now XP refuses to start. Restoring the MBR allows XP to start but lilo fails again, even if I run it from a floppy. Has anyone got any ideas as to what is going on, where to start or how to fix it? I know how some of us feel about MS windows but please can we forego the MS wise cracks. I would be grateful for any practical advice. Thanks Eddie

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Recognising a different CD drive.
by Keith Powell 05 Feb '02

05 Feb '02

I have two internal IDE CDROM drives, the first is a player connected as Primary/Slave. The second is a CDWriter connected as Secondary/Master. I want to play audio CDs from the second drive, but I can't find a way of getting SuSE/KDE to do this. It will only find the first drive and try to play from that. I have changed Control Centre/Sound/Audio IO Slave from /dev/cdrom to /dev/cdrecorder as I thought from reading the manuals, that may do it. But it doesn't. The second (Secondary/Master) drive plays audio CDs in Windows, so the audio lead is plugged up correctly. What do I have to edit to get the second drive recognised instead of the first? I am running an unmodified version 7.3 as I am setting up a new computer. Many thanks for any advice. Keith

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