December 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] install suse 8.0 and have an puzzled desktop interface KDE forever (REVISITED)
by Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hello friends, I set my *shared memory size* to just 4 MB and the "shadows" is gone. THE PROBLEM: I have *just 4 MB* (from 256 available) for my video card (onboard — I´m using a pcchis m598lmr). My BIOS can't reserve more than 8MB. Although, 8 MB left "shadows over my desktop" (artifacts according Silviu, see: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2003-07/1032.html and to see how it was with 8MB: http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Adagilson/shadowsOfAppsOverMydesktop.png ...How could I solve this question? thanks for any help a. As I can't free more > Adagilson B B da Silva wrote: > > Hello Silviu, good-morning > > You're right: i meant it is leaving "puzzled" shadows over my desktop. > > sorry, for my portuguenglish :) > > I have an onboard mobo (m598lmr pcchips) with SIS530. It works fine for > > win98, winme, winxp, etc. > > Hmm, it doesn't have any reason not to work with XFree too... Perform > that upgrade, and if that doesn't solve it, try with another vertical > refresh. Or try relaxing the memory parameters in BIOS, considering > your video chip uses a part of the main system memory, maybe it's not > fast enough. > >-- >Silviu Marin-Caea Systems Engineer Linux/Unix http://www.genesys.ro >Phone +40723-267961 > -- Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva Bibliotecário FIOCRUZ-Centro de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhães Fone 81 3302-6520

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Re: [SLE] install suse 8.0 and have an puzzled desktop interface KDE forever (REVISITED)
by Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hello friends, I set my *shared memory size* to just 4 MB and the "shadows" is gone. THE PROBLEM: I have *just 4 MB* (from 256 available) for my video card (onboard — I´m using a pcchis m598lmr). My BIOS can't reserve more than 8MB. Although, 8 MB left "shadows over my desktop" (artifacts according Silviu, see: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2003-07/1032.html and to see how it was with 8MB: http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Adagilson/shadowsOfAppsOverMydesktop.png ...How could I solve this question? thanks for any help a. As I can't free more > Adagilson B B da Silva wrote: > > Hello Silviu, good-morning > > You're right: i meant it is leaving "puzzled" shadows over my desktop. > > sorry, for my portuguenglish :) > > I have an onboard mobo (m598lmr pcchips) with SIS530. It works fine for > > win98, winme, winxp, etc. > > Hmm, it doesn't have any reason not to work with XFree too... Perform > that upgrade, and if that doesn't solve it, try with another vertical > refresh. Or try relaxing the memory parameters in BIOS, considering > your video chip uses a part of the main system memory, maybe it's not > fast enough. > >-- >Silviu Marin-Caea Systems Engineer Linux/Unix http://www.genesys.ro >Phone +40723-267961 > -- Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva Bibliotecário FIOCRUZ-Centro de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhães Fone 81 3302-6520

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Ugly fonts
by Claes Holmerson 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

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 -- Claes Holmerson Polopoly - Cultivating the information garden Kungsgatan 88, SE-112 27 Stockholm, SWEDEN Direct: +46 8 506 782 59 Mobile: +46 704 47 82 59 Fax: +46 8 506 782 51 claes.holmerson(a)polopoly.com, http://www.polopoly.com

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Rhythmbox/Enchant
by James Ogley 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Updated on www.usr-local-bin.org today: * Rhythmbox - music management program for GNOME - Part of the GStreamer section - Updated to version 0.6.3 - Adds dashboard support (no, I don't know what this means either) - bugfixes * Enchant - spell-check library used by Abiword - Part of the Dependencies section - Updated to version 1.1.3 - Adds support for Hebrew spell checking, using also available hspell library Nadolig Llawen James -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james(a)rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter(a)myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0) GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org

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adsl and suse9, waiting for pado
by Leen de Braal 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hello list, Having troubles getting adsl up with suse9. I am using pppoe (is this correct??), adsl modem is a speedtouch, and this one needs a login-name and password (modem is on 10.0.0.138, my networkcard eth0 is 10.0.0.150, ping is possible). Last thing I see in the logs is: pppd(0): Sending PADI Waiting for PADO. Check your setup and cables and try again. Setup provider0: ASKPASSWORD='no' DEMAND='no' DSLSUPPORTED='yes' FIREWALL='no' IDLETIME='300' ISDNSUPPORTED='no' MODEMSUPPORTED='no' MODIFYDNS='yes' PASSWORD='xxxxxxx' PHONE='' PROVIDER='mxstream' USERNAME='userxxx@adsl-comfort' DEFAULTROUTE='yes' IPADDR='' MODIFYIP='yes' REMOTE_IPADDR='' What is missing?? TIA Leen

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SUSE ver 9 & http ? inc. Bastille
by Lee 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Not sure how to word this, but some time ago there was a thread about Firewall 2 when enabled shutting down traffic, searched the archives since before 9.0 ws released and can't find the threads for the life of me !! Would anyone perhaps remember what changes were needed so I can enable my firewall w/out hindering http requests? It's not browser or email client specific, as neither will reach when the firewall is enabled, stop it via the run editor and all is well.. I have done all the security updates available(afaik,via yast). In re: to Bastille, saw mention that a symbolic link ws missing in this app, downloaded the patch via yast here as well, but no luck getting this to work either..must be run as root perhaps, w/the command "InteractiveBastille", as ws the case with Mandrake a few years ago...anyone out there running Bastille? Thank you all for your time..

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editing the K menu
by Jay Vollmer 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hi everybody. I've discovered that I've lost the ability to edit my K menu under SuSE9.0. Specifically, I can make changes in KmenuEdit, but the changes are never applied - yes, I clicked on the "apply" button. Is there a file somewhere in $HOME/.kde that holds these entries, which may be corrupted? I'm typically the one at risk of corruption. -- JAY VOLLMER JVOLLMER(a)CONSOLIDATEDLINT.COM TEXT REFS DOUBLEPLUSUNGOOD SELFTHINK VERGING CRIMETHINK IGNORE FULLWISE

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/dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttys0 - What's the difference?
by Dylan 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Greetings Sages... I have been trying (successfully, I'm pleased to say) to get a serial connection going for my telescope. In the process, I came across both / dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttys0. Now, ttyS0 is clearly the serial port (=COM1) since that's the device which works and the other gives me an error. BUT, what is ttys0 (etc...) for? Indeed, why are there soooooo..... many unused and apparently useless devices in the /dev directory? Secondly, /dev/ttyS0 has group uucp, and group rw privelidge by default (at least that's how I found it). My user is also in group uucp, but I recieved read/write permission denied on the device until I set it to rw-rw-rw- Cound this be because I'm distributing login with NIS? All boxes are runninf SuSE8.2, so I figure the user IDs will be the same... Cheers Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg

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8.2 Personal to 9.0 Personal: a downgrade?
by Paul W. Abrahams 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

I've recently "upgraded" from 8.2 Personal to 9.0 Personal. I was dismayed to discover that some programs I often use, specifically "locate" and "emacs", had been deleted from my system by the transition (and were not included on the 9.0 Personal CDs). I can understand the programs not being on the CDs, but actually deleting them from my system without warning seems to me to be a very unfriendly and unwise thing to do. At least I should have been given the option of deleting them or keeping them. I don't know what else is missing, either. Has anyone else encountered this behavior? Paul Abrahams

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Problems installing with diferent drivers
by Jose Colmenares 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hi. I'm a newbe to SuSE. I downloaded the .iso file to install via ftp, but the install program stalls no matter what kind of instalation i run (safe mode, etc...). It seems to have a problem with a ide device, for it hangs at the messege: reading info ide1.3 or something like that. So I decided to install the thing manualy. I had installed debian on another computer, so it shouldn't be that dificult. As it turns out, my network card isn't listed (genius lan). In other mailing lists i found out that the NE2000 driver could work, and the other OS installed is using a realtek driver. Anyhow, for both drivers -wich are listed, or at least similars ones- the sistems gives a messege like: insert parameters for <driver>. So: i.- How do I now what parameters to give?, ii.- How do I now the sintaxis to use?, iii.- where can that information be found? I'd appreciate any help. José Colmenares --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Todo lo que quieres saber de Estados Unidos, América Latina y el resto del Mundo. Visíta Yahoo! Noticias.

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