March 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

PDF plugin for Netscape doesn't work in 7.3
by David List 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

I experience a problem when opening links pointing to .pdf-files with Netscape Navigator 4.78 in SuSE Linux 7.3. I get a message telling me: "Could not load the plug-in 'nppdf.so' for the MIME type 'application/pdf'. Make sure enough memory is available and that the plug-in is installed correctly." When I run Netscape Navigator as root and open these links, the plug-in works, but not when Navigator is run as a regular user. I have tried reinstalling Netscape Navigator and the plug-ins package for Netscape. The nppdf.so file looks like this: dt:~ # ls -al /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat4/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 112256 Jan 27 2000 /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat4/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so Permissions for the file look OK to me. What could be wrong? Best regards, David List

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gdlib
by rnc-suse 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Hello, I was looking on the installation CDs for the GD lib from Thomas Boutell. Did not find it in the Graphics section. Is it available on the install cds or needs to be installed separatly? Thanks for any info. Robert

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Printer pole and chatter about MuttPrint
by Ben Rosenberg 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

I hate to do this. But here goes... I have an HP 600C Deskjet and I want to replace it. This thing is so old God printed the 10 commandments on it. It prints "ok" but I would like something a wee bit faster and with clearer text. Any suggestions in the $300 range? And no multi-function things. Just a straight printer will do. :) BTW...that muttprint question from earlier seems to have solved itself. I installed some of the missing tex pkgs and whatever it didn't have that made it cranky..it's got now and with muttprint+CUPS...man this is sweet. :) Printing from terminal apps is no longer a pain in the ass..just pipe it through muttprint and it formats everything quite nicely. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- 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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LaTeX and MuttPrint.
by Ben Rosenberg 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Can anyone thing of any reason that muttprint would work perfectly with 7.2 yet not work at all with 7.3? It gives this cryptic error that "LaTeX didn't work" and that's it. -----=====-----=====-----=====-----=====----- 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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AGAIN splash (SORRY!!!)
by Berge, Harry ten 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

When you enter in '/etc/lilo.conf' the line 'vga=0x0317' I see in my dmesg the following error: vesafb: ... Looking for boot splash picture... no good signature found. That's interesting.... Idea's????? Met vriendelijke groet, Harry ten Berge Test Engineer Holland Institute of Traffic Technology HITT B.V. P.O. box 717 Apeldoorn email :berge@hitt.nl <http://www.hitt.nl> tel : +31 555432537 fax : +31 555432554

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Re: [SLE] photo organizer
by Landy Roman 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

> > can anyone recommend a nice photo organizer? > > > You might take a look at compupic. It is on the Suse disks. > > Paul T. > nice, thanks

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RE: [SLE] splash screen
by Berge, Harry ten 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

I have a machine with 256 MB ram...... So that should not be a problem :-) I've found out that in the directory '/usr/share/splash' a link is created called 'bootsplash.*' which are linked to the correct picture. When you put in /etc/lilo.conf your vga on 771 then you get the penguin (that's a start...) but NO nice SuSE screen... Another strange thing is when you install with Yast2 there is an entry in the proc called : /proc/splash. Here you can control again the splashscreen. But when installing with Yast1 there is no such entry! So, anyone knowing the answer becomes one of my heroes! > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Hatridge [SMTP:James.Hatridge@epost.de] > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:39 PM > To: Berge, Harry ten; SuSE general (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [SLE] splash screen > > > HI Harry, > > If you're writting about the Lilo splash screen, you need at least 64mb of > > memory before it will work. If you have less only a green box will show at > > boot. > > Give us more details and I'm sure someone can help. > > JIM > > > > On Thursday 28 February 2002 13:34, Berge, Harry ten wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I have a system installed with yast1 WITHOUT splash screen. I WANT to > > enable splash screen, but how do I do that? I've the line > > 'BOOT_SPLASH="yes"' in my rc.config but it doesn't work.... > > > > Can anyone help me? > > > > > > Met vriendelijke groet, > > > > Harry ten Berge > > Test Engineer > > Holland Institute of Traffic Technology HITT B.V. > > P.O. box 717 > > Apeldoorn > > email :berge@hitt.nl > > <http://www.hitt.nl> > > tel : +31 555432537 > > fax : +31 555432554 > > -- > 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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Trying to print the euro symbol
by Webillo Disperso 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Hi. Although in SuSE 7.2 I can handle the Euro symbol in text consoles and X, I've tested printing with a file built in binary containing characters 0xA4's (the Euro symbol in ISO 8859-15) and 0x80's (the Euro for Microsoft). Surprisingly, 0x80's showed the Euro symbol in the printing, but not the 0xA4's (it showed something like an 'o' with four little marks). Looking in sdb.suse.com, I only found to include a file '/etc/apsfilterrc.y2prn_lp.upp' with contents: ENCODING="ISO-8859-15" No success at all. (I had configured the printer with CUPS, which correctly found it). The printer is an Epson Stylus Color 400 (I suppose a Windows printer). Any idea to get the Euro symbol correctly printed? BTW, someone figures why Microsoft chose 0x80 for the Euro, being 0xA4 the supposed standard? TIA.

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suselinux-reference_en.pdf
by Hans Krueger 02 Mar '02

02 Mar '02

Does anybody know if thier is a good one of the suse linux reference manal that is good the one on the disk I have is no good the the one from the ftp sight is bad to. that's for 7.3 Hans Krueger hans007(a)prexar.com "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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I/O error on /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1
by Robert C. Paulsen Jr. 01 Mar '02

01 Mar '02

Twice over the past few months I had problems with KDM crashing on boot-up and killing X. Once this started, there was no way out other than to re-install the liblcms rpm. (A little detective work showed that it died loading liblcms.) As I say, this happened twice, but I haven't seen the problem for quite some time. But, just a few minutes ago, When I booted my Thinkpad, I spotted a couple of error messages go by during the boot process: <2>EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,7)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=539900, block=1081356 <2>EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,7)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=850817, block=1703956 Turned out that inode 539900 is in liblcms.so.1! (inode 850817 was in the directory /usr/lib/i686.) Even so, X and KDM/KDE came up without problem. I booted the rescue system off of CD1 and did an e2fsck which reported no errors. I remembered one change I made to boot.local based on a message in this mailing list. I added: hdparm -c1 -k1 /dev/hda I removed that before rebooting and everything was back to normal. I'll see if the problem *stays* fixed, but I really won't know for quite some time since it only happened about once a month or less anyway. And I'm not even sure the problem started after that change. So, does this make sense to anyone? If the problem was with the hard disk (or its parameters as set by hdparm) how come it always showed up with the same file, even after two re-installations? I know that at least with the first re-install I removed all the KDE rpms before re-installing them so I don't think the file was at the same physical location on the hard disk each time. P.S. SuSE 7.3 on IBM Thinkpad T21 (Intel) -- ____________________________________________________________________ Robert Paulsen robert(a)paulsenonline.net My old email address (paulsen(a)texas.net) will soon be discontinued.

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