April 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Laptop power management - 8.1
by John Birkhead 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi, I just installed 8.1 on an IBM 600X laptop and the although the battery appears on the KDE toolbar there is a red cross thru it. Clicking on the cross tells me that ACPI is not correctly installed - 'AC Adaptor' and 'Control Method Battery' need to be enabled and my kernel rebuilt. The package apmd appears to be installed (v.3.0.2-184) but starting or stopping the service gives a 'not supported by kernel' error. SuSE Help doesn't seems to help much. Any suggestions would be appreciated... Thanks, John

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TFT Monitor problem.
by Keith Powell 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

I have just changed from a CRT monitor to a new LG 15" TFT one. Before I changed, I was running the old monitor at the same settings as the new one requires - 1024x768 at 75Hz. The new monitor works correctly both in Windows98 and Libranet. I didn't have to change anything in Libranet, the new one just worked. However, it doesn't work in SuSE8.1. I can boot and everything looks correct. When it gets to the part of the boot process where KDM starts, the screen goes black and I get an error message: INPUT SIGNAL OUT OF RANGE. Then, nothing else happens. Booting into text mode, to try to run the text mode version of Sax2 (to see if I could find anything wrong) goes well until the prompt. Typing "Sax2" makes the screen go black again with the same error message and then nothing. So I can't run Sax2 to check anything. As I said, the new settings are the same as the old ones. So I can't understand why it won't work in SuSE. I can't find any answer to this problem either in the manuals or in the list archives. Please can anyone give me some advice? Many thanks Keith

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xntp configuration
by John Birkhead 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi, I would like to have my system automatically set it's time using NTP but configuration on SuSE 8.1 is a little beyond me at the moment and the SuSE support database doesn't have any recent documents with configuration details. Any help would be appreciated... Thanks, John

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Moz/Netscape and printing.
by Fred A. Miller 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I know......questions about this before. IS there anyway to get Netscape to "see" the system defined printer(s)? Thanks, Fred - -- If you listen on a quiet nite you, can hear the sound of a Windows 2000 Server reboot. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+h3NHrnzt99/TR+cRAlFLAJ9y+NixMsyfxiNsEgymGvPEddoJGgCeI2Gl E5alifVWA58mnNivLlwf3F0= =mpT/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Helvetica fonts and /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
by Steven T. Hatton 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

has anyone verified my observation that Helvetica (and other) fonts are broken by /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 from QT 3.1.2? I don't want to waste the time of the SuSE developers with problems that are on my end, but if this is their problem, then I want to be sure it gets reported correctly. As I said, I can save the .so from QT 3.1.1, install QT 3.1.2 and fix or break my fonts according to which version of libqt-mt.so.3 is in place. This just became more important to me because I'm having problems with Gideon (the KDevelop alpha 3.0.0). The dump is mentioning this lib. I am using my own QT in the QTDIR, and I built Gideon against that. The kdelibs are very sensitive to KDE/QT missmatch, and I really want to get to a state where I'm only using one QT 3.1.2, and KDE 3.1.1 for 'normal' use. STH

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How to directly print pdf/ps documents with StarOffice 5.2
by Hans-Georg Lerdo 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi guys! (Sorry if this is common knowledge already...) Just a few comments on how to print DIRECTLY to pdf/ps with SO 5.2: - open SO - open printer setup (via icon on SO desktop) - click on generic printer and then the 'Connect' button - change 'default_queue=lpr...' to 'default_queue=kprinter -d <your printer>' - click ok - close printer setup Now when you print kprinter comes up and you have the full choice of printers available: pdf/ps/email/other installed printers. Granted, it's one more step in the printing process, but it offers a great deal of flexibility!!!!! My system is 8.0 with KDE 3.1 and CUPS and the procedure above works VERY well!! L8r Hans-Georg

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SuSE Kernel 2.4.19 won't re-compile ?
by George Reynolds 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

Has anybody had some experience doing this? Does unusual_devs.h need to be formatted in some specific way? (Click on the entry to see the stuff below the cut tag) <lj-cut> I have added this: /*Some driver details for running USB Hard Drives */ UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x05e3, 0x0702, 0x0000, 0x9999, "Genesys Logic", "USB IDE Hard Disk", US_SC_SCSI, US_PR_BULK, NULL, US_FL_START_STOP ), UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x05e3, 0x0702, 0x0000, 0xffff, "Genesys Logic", "USB IDE Hard Disk", US_SC_SCSI, US_PR_BULK, NULL, US_FL_START_STOP ), /*Some stuff for running Fijitsu 6 in1 card reader */ UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x0d7d, 0x0240, 0x0000, 0x9999, "Fujitsu Siemens", "6in1 card reader", US_SC_SCSI, US_PR_BULK, NULL, US_FL_START_STOP ), #ifdef ......rest of file I do the following: cd /usr/src/linux (ok) cp /boot/vmlinux.config .config (ok) make xconfig (don't change anything - ok) make dep (ok) make clean (ok) make bzImage - some warnings, but stops on the following: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=semaphore -c -o semaphore.o semaphore.c semaphore.c:329:1: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated semaphore.c:333:35: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated semaphore.c:335:27: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated semaphore.c:338:35: warning: multi-line string literals are deprecated gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=signal -c -o signal.o signal.c gcc -D__ASSEMBLY__ -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/include -traditional -c entry.S -o entry.o gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i586 -DKBUILD_BASENAME=traps -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c traps.c traps.c: In function `do_int3': traps.c:658: warning: implicit declaration of function `kdb' traps.c:658: `KDB_REASON_BREAK' undeclared (first use in this function) traps.c:658: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once traps.c:658: for each function it appears in.) traps.c:658: `kdb_eframe_t' undeclared (first use in this function) traps.c:658: parse error before "regs" make[1]: *** [traps.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19.SuSE/arch/i386/kernel' make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 </lj-cut

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RE: [SLE] Changing for LILO
by Quinlan, Grant 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

When I purchased and installed SuSE 8.1 I was surprised to see GRUB instead of LILO but it seemed to be working quite well. Then I installed a new RAID controller to support a mirrored set of disks and needed to build and include modules to support the controller in my boot image. The manufacturer had detailed instructions on how to build the module and then add it to a LILO boot, but these instructions did not seem to apply to GRUB at all. Searching the newsgroups, FAQs, and other web resources did not yield any information on how to get this to work with SuSE's tools for working with GRUB either. Mostly by reading scripts, source code, and trial and error I was able to figure out the process on my own and get it working. The instructions that I came up with for adding a module to the GRUB boot were vastly simpler and quicker than the instructions I had for doing the same thing with LILO. (See "How to set up the HighPoint RocketRaid 404" in this list on 1/30/03) In summary, I can see why SuSE would decide to go with GRUB. I wish that they had gotten some of the needed documentation together before they made the change, as it could have saved me several days of trouble. Grant Q

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How to make boot-floppies from initrd and vmlinuz files
by David List 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

I am trying to install SuSE Linux sparc on an UltraSparc I and have asked on the sparc list on how to make boot floppies for this system since it demands a 64-bit kernel on the boot floppy instead on the 32-bit kernel in the floppy image on the SuSE Linux sparc CDs. I got the answer on the sparc list that there was a initrd64 and a vmlinuz64 file on the CD, and I found these files. I do not know, however, how to use these files. I know that they are the initial ramdisk and the kernel, but I haven't tinkered with systems using initial ramdisk before, so I haven't got any clue about how to make floppies from these files, and I haven't been able to find anything in the SDB articles. Can anyone help? Best regards, David List

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Project Management
by Paul Kraus 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

Anyone have a link for a good project management tool. I do a variety of tasks and would like a place to organize them for instance I want an app that will let me set a task (New Program) then allow my to write out the description of what I want it to do then branch that out into the different functions that I need to write. It would be great if this was not programming specific and would work with any project. I have scored the net but terms like project management or program management turn up tons of stuff on all the different Linux projects. Thanks Paul Kraus

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