May 2002 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Window Managers (was "How to Remove KDE?")
by Robert Storey 28 May '02

28 May '02

There was a discussion last week about using another window manager besides KDE or Gnome, and I chipped in with the suggestion that you can set your window manager permanently to XFCE (or whatever WM you like) by editing file .xinitrc in your home directory to include a line like this: exec xfwm I was using Redhat 7.2 at the time I wrote that - it was before I installed SuSE 8.0 (I installed it yesterday). Now I see that particular method doesn't work with SuSE. What you have to do is set the $WINDOWMANAGER variable (Redhat doesn't set a $WINDOWMANAGER variable). You do this by editing file .bashrc in your home directory by adding a line like this: export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/xfwm The above is for XFCE. If you prefer Windowmaker, then: export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/windowmaker It's annoying that Redhat and SuSE don't handle this issue the same way. Another little challenge for us users. I also previously gave the advice that Kmail runs rather slowly outside of KDE and suggested that Sylpheed was good because it's nice and fast. Well, that's still true, but I've found in SuSE 8.0 that Sylpheed has been "improved" so that it crashes whenever I hit the "reply" button. So I'm back to using Kmail. It's slow, but it does have nice features, and I'll no doubt give Evolution a test run. - Robert

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problems seeing audio CD's
by Charles Griffin 28 May '02

28 May '02

Hello, I am using SuSE 8.0 and I havea little lingering item to fix. I have a cdrom and a cdrw. I can read data cd's in both just fine. I can burn to the cdrw with no problems. I can play audio cd's with xmms perfectly. Here's the only thing I can't do: browse the audio cd within Konqueror. I used to be able to do this with SuSE 7.3 and could rip from the cd within konquerer by typing audiocd:/ in the taskbar line and then dragging and dropping the ogg or wav files. Someone else recently mentioned it here on the list in a thread about burning cd's. I know you don't mount audio cd's, but I used to be able to browse the contents of an audio cd and now I cannot. Any suggestions would be most appreciated! Regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

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Need advice on choosing a color printer 4 SuSE Linux.
by - 28 May '02

28 May '02

Hi, I am new to this list, but I have been a SuSE linux user since V 7.1. I wish to purchase a printer that is highly compatible with linux in general, and SuSE linux in particular without the necessity of an overly obscure or arcane workaround. Color printing is an absolute must as currently I have a Lexmark Z51 which has only mono support. I would like any recommendations that experienced users may have. I have visted www.linuxprinting.org and found some little, but usefull information there. I am considering a Canon S800, or an Epson ?C80? printer of the type that use separate cymk cartridges (which seem preferable over the expensive lexmark solution). Also I am considering, as a last resort, a Lexmark Z53 or Z55 and am aware of the lexmark linux drivers available for these. Please share your knowledge and experiences in this matter with me.... especially in regard to the above mentioned models or any other model or make that you might recommend for quality color printing. Thanks Max Webb

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root password lost
by Fábio Rabelo 28 May '02

28 May '02

One of my clinets has changed the password of root user, and just forgot then ! There is anyway to change it ? Thanks Fábio Rabelo

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8.0 installation freeze and Adaptec 7896 SCSI Controller?
by Allen Jones 27 May '02

27 May '02

I am having the same problem, but I know it has to do with an adaptec 7896 SCSI controller in my box. I have not been able to install anything later than 7.0. I've tried the aicxxx_old fix SUSE has told me to try and it is for nothing. Allen Jones >>> Alain DIDIERJEAN <alain.didierjean(a)free.fr> 05/26/02 16:53 PM >>> Michael Haiduk a écrit : > > I recently purchased 8.0 Personal. I decided to do a clean installation, so > I deleted my existing 7.3 partitions and booted from the first CD. When I > got to the "Detecting Hard Disk Controllers" message, my mouse pointer > became extremely slow to respond to mouse movement. By the time all > hardware was detected and it was time to move to the next step, both the > keyboard and mouse were 100% unresponsive. So I pressed the reset button > and installed 7.3 (which works perfectly), thinking perhaps an upgrade to > 8.0 would work. It did not, I got the same results. I tried installing 8.0 Same problem here. It happened as well for v6.4 & 7.1. But at that time, I just switched to Yast & get installed. Any suggestion ? I bought 8.0 professionnal to install on AsusP2B-D, 2xPentium II 266 Tekram 390 T SCSI controler... -- 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 archives at http://lists.suse.com

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Can the kernel be modified to allow users to open ports < 1024?
by JW 27 May '02

27 May '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Doubtless this information exists on the www but google isn't being friendly today. I have a special situation where it would be *extremely* good if users could open their own ports < 1024. SMTP and pop3, at the very least - FTP would be good too. I was thinking, surely there would be a way to patch the kernel to allow this sort of activity. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? Any idea where I could find information about this short of bugging lkml (which I really don't want to do)? Thanks! - - -- - - ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE88m9dQ5u80xXOLBcRAs4WAJ0YhU+29NYWarDMotGFXLhnyein9ACfcNc1 Ids2qTLgXTSTlSy0sL1Yr9I= =SGX8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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mozilla update via apt gone wrong
by Josef 27 May '02

27 May '02

I updated my copy of mozilla (suse 8.0) via pat to mozilla RC3 in orde to give it a try. mozilla,mozilla venkman,mozilla mail and mozilla-xmlmterm rpm's were downloaded and installed with apt. Unfortunately when I try to load mozilla or mozilla-mail alla I get is a window with blue background and nothing else. Has anybody else encountered such a problem and fixed it? Thanks in advance, Josef

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A wish
by arawak 27 May '02

27 May '02

I really wished people could or would stick to the mailing list meaning and not use it as a dumping ground for opinions. Just for an example "Gnome is crap" it doesn't help others newbie's or advanced users. Messages like this and slanging matches don't help. I sometimes ask questions which are abit dumb but at least I do some sort research first and try it, and think before asking the list. An old methodology KIS ... do research 1st, read books, check internet webpage's & think, then once exhausted then ask the lists. Dre :-)

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Advice/Help needed to fix system errors introduced with updates.
by Ralph F. De Witt 27 May '02

27 May '02

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I recently tried to update to KDE3 3.01 supplimantary directories, but had some seg faults when trying to install and other problems. So I backed out all packages and reinstalled from DVD for SuSE 8.0. Today I finally tried out Apt-get and came up with these errors. Unkitty:~ # apt-get update E: Opening /etc/apt/sources.list - ifstream::ifstream (2 No such file or directory) Unkitty:~ # apt-get update Get:1 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.security [54.1kB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.security [134B] Get:3 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.update [120kB] Get:4 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.update [132B] Get:5 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.kde [237kB] Get:6 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.kde [129B] Get:7 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.gnome [130kB] Get:8 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.gnome [131B] Get:9 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.mozilla [25.2kB] Get:10 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.mozilla [133B] Get:11 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.extra [4459B] Get:12 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.extra [131B] Get:13 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/pkglist.usr-local-bin [35.4kB] Get:14 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.usr-local-bin [139B] Get:15 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.security [14B] Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.security Get:16 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.update [12.6kB] Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.update Get:17 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.kde [22.6kB] Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.kde Get:18 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.gnome [25.9kB] Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.gnome Get:19 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.mozilla [832B] Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.mozilla Get:20 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.extra [14B] Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.extra Get:21 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base/srclist.usr-local-bin [14B] Hit ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386 release.usr-local-bin Fetched 670kB in 1m3s (10.5kB/s) Processing File Dependencies... Done WARNING: 'susetour_en' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'sudo' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'mkisofs' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'xloader' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'lukemftp' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'perl-Digest-MD5' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'i4lfirm' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'shadow' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'kdebase3-SuSE' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'xmodules' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'pico' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'pine' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'tcpdump' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'w3m' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'cdda2wav' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'yast2' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'sysconfig' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'yast2-lib-printer' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'cdrecord' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'yast2-config-printer' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'i4l' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'yast2-module-backup' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'pam-modules' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'sendmail' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'evolution' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'kdemultimedia3' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'xf86' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'susewm' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. WARNING: 'kdebase3' has 2 packages with same version but different dependencies. That usually means a packaging bug. Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done W: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ will not be authenticated. W: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/ will not be authenticated. All updates for security etc were done with YOU from ftp.gwdg.de and had no errors. KDE3 3.0.1 update was done by ftp using Kong to download the whole directory I found no errors in the download file sizes. My question to all is What is the best way to proceed to correct these errors? It looks like most of these errors were introduced with the normal SuSE update mechanism. I have written SuSE feedback. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE 8.0 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.18-4GB Current Linux uptime: 2 days 37 hours minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE88gUE8irP9FWaA+cRArVRAJ4nsv2Ne+LIBnn8DeV7WwQI14IOSQCghYGa tJPIgBZr28Cz0mi42ss9yZs= =s5dt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Updates.
by Fred A. Miller 27 May '02

27 May '02

Is SuSE going to make KDE updates available via YOU? 'Would be nice if they did! Fred -- --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 ---

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