December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Wine
by Gregory Baboolal 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Hi, I would like to install a windows app but not sure where to start. Wine has been included from the 9.0 distro and as looks to have been installed. However trying to now relate it all back to the documentation is not clear, i.e whats happened to .tool/wineinstall When running winecfg a window pops up allowing one to specify which Win.X version to mimick? Is there something I need to do to get wine to setup the win dirs etc or has already been done. If I have the win program to install in the cd what do I do? wine install mycrapy_win_installprogram.exe? tia.

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kde virtual screen in 9.0
by mail 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Hi. I have just done a fresh install of 9.0 and am greeted with a 640x480 virtual screen (those awful ones where you have to move the mouse to the edges of the screen to see the rest of it). I have to log out then login again to get to my chosen 1024x768 screen. All was fine under 8.2. I wanted the new yast stuff. Not this. Please help someone! Thanks, Steve.

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general hawley, astroturfing and microsoft
by Robert P. J. Day 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

as a feeble attempt to tie the recent idiotic posting by mr. westfall into something remotely related to IT, you might be amused by a related propaganda tactic that is becoming more popular. it's called "astroturfing", and it involves a carefully co-ordinated, professional PR program disguised as a populist, grassroots movement. (in short, a "fake" grassroots movement, hence the name "astroturfing".) astroturfing involves a professional PR campaign generally producing letters to various editors, to give the impression of a legitimate popular movement driven at the grassroots level, when it is, of course, pure corporate propaganda. as an example, feel free to google on "microsoft astroturf" to see what i mean -- microsoft has been involved in astroturfing for quite some time. i don't think the recent general hawley bogus piece technically qualifies as astroturf, but it was hard not to draw a parallel -- it's just another flavor of totally dishonest propaganda. the lesson here is -- if it sounds too well-written or funny to be legit, it probably is. rday

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user login problem
by mail 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

When I boot up, it takes me straight to my user account without asking for a password. Can someone please help? SuSE-9.0 fresh install. Thanks, Steve.,

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RE: [SLE] Ugly fonts
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Claes Holmerson <claes.holmerson(a)polopoly.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I did an FTP install of Suse 9. I am running KDE, but unless I choose >antialiasing of fonts for all sizes, the fonts look very jagged and ugly, >(more than I have seen on any Linux before). With antialiasing it looks >better of course, but the problem then is that my system runs slower. For >example, if I do "find . " in konsole, I can't switch tab easily, like I >could on my previous version. Probably because the system becomes very busy >with antialiasing and thus becomes less responsive. > >Is it possible to turn of antialiasing and still get decent fonts? > >Thanks, >Claes Hi, Sorry to say, but "Ugly fonts" is a common complaint. as a result there was a long thread in the Nov [SLE] list entitled "KMail Font Weirdness." See: http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2003-Nov/0303.html (google is your friend) There have been others, (eg {SLE] Helvetica, Geneva, "Trebuchet MS" fonts download") IIWY, i would start with the above thread, it might give you some ideas. It did me, for example: I adjusted the display size of my monitor and my fonts look better. YMMV. HTH -- In the Beginning was the Command Line ---Neal Stephenson -- __________________________________________________________________ New! Unlimited Access from the Netscape Internet Service. Beta test the new Netscape Internet Service for only $1.00 per month until 3/1/04. Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Act now to get a personalized email address! Netscape. Just the Net You Need.

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Re: [SLE] OT: What Perl Modules are installed?
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Patrick Shanahan <paka(a)wahoo.no-ip.org> wrote: > >* Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaid(a)att.net> [12-23-03 17:02]: >> >> how do you test to see what perl modules are installed? >> >> Is there a quick command that does this for Perl? >> Something like how we can do "rpm -qa" to see all rpm's installed... > > try: > > # perl -MCPAN -e shell > cpan> i > >-- >Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 >http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org > Patrick, with all due respect, IMHO I think your reply is misleading. The question that was asked is there a command in perl similar to "rpm -qa", which tests to see what perl modules are installed? Instead you gave a script to for "Installing CPAN Modules" where "CPAN" stands for the "Comprehensive Perl Archive Network" and can be accessed at http://www.cpan.org/ Agreed that once installed CPAN has a way of determing what PERL modules are installed --- but a warning that your script was going to download a bunch of .gz's would have been nice. -- "Paranoia is heightened awareness." -- __________________________________________________________________ New! Unlimited Access from the Netscape Internet Service. Beta test the new Netscape Internet Service for only $1.00 per month until 3/1/04. Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Act now to get a personalized email address! Netscape. Just the Net You Need.

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Re: [SLE] /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttys0 - What's the difference?
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Jerome Lyles <susemail(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > >On Tuesday 23 December 2003 05:07 am, Mark Gray wrote: >> Sid Boyce <sboyce(a)blueyonder.co.uk> writes: > ---<text snipped>----- > >What does tty stand for (especially the y:-) >Thanks, >Jerome > Doing a quick google search I cam across this: "tty - Definition: /tit'ee/ (ITS pronunciation, but some Unix people say it this way as well; his pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones), /T T Y/ 1. teletypewriter. { ie Tele TYpewriter } 2. (Especially Unix) Any terminal at all; sometimes used to refer to the particular terminal controlling a given job (it is also the name of a Unix command which outputs the name of the current controlling terminal). 3. (Unix) Any serial port, whether or not the device connected to it is a terminal; so called because under Unix such devices have names of the form tty*. Ambiguity between senses 2 and 3 is common but seldom bothersome. 4. A TDD. from: [Jargon File] COPYRIGHT Â© 2000-2003 WEBNOX CORP. http://www.hyperdictionary.com/computing/tty -- In the Beginning was the Command Line ---Neal Stephenson -- __________________________________________________________________ New! Unlimited Access from the Netscape Internet Service. Beta test the new Netscape Internet Service for only $1.00 per month until 3/1/04. Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Act now to get a personalized email address! Netscape. Just the Net You Need.

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Synaptic quitting
by Jerome Lyles 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

I clicked the synaptic upgrade button to upgrade gtkhtml and synaptic quit. The messages in the terminal window were I started synaptic are: (synaptic:29648): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1827 (gtk_widget_hide): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed. The quit message: /usr/sbin/synaptic: relocation error: /usr/sbin/synaptic: undefined symbol: _ZN15pkgVersionMatchC1ESsNS_9MatchTypeEi Is the fact that synaptic quits with this message an error in synaptic? Thanks, Jerome

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Xfree86 and LIRC, but would also like to say thanks
by Timothy Johnson 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

This is my first time using Suse Linux. Little different at first but all in all I like it, better then Redhat. But I would just like to say thanks for this mail list. Thanks to it I have been able to get lots of things working on my laptop. Just two things remain. The first one is my Resoution when I go to a lower res then 1600 * 1200. It makes the screen smaller then my LCD is. I believe this can be fixed in the XFree86 Config file. Could someone please tell me if I am right. Would I just have to change the refresh rate for the lower res. And second is I cant seem to get my IR port working. I have pretty much given up on it. But was wondering if anyone here got it to work with Suse 9.0. Thanks all for your time.

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problem unmounting external devices in kde
by Bernie Gardner 24 Dec '03

24 Dec '03

Sorry if this has been discussed previously but I can't find the answer. I have a sandisk usb reader which has slots for multiple card types. It works great except if I mount a card in kde I can't unmount it without exiting kde. Attempting to unmount, either through the desktop icon or from a terminal gives a device busy error. This is in Suse 9.0. In 8.2 this would happen if Konqueror was still open, but closing Konqueror would allow the device to be unmounted. I have looked at running programs, and killed all which might be related to the device but still couldn't unmount it. Thanks for any suggestions! Bernie Gardner w1az(a)arrl.net

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