May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] SuSE 8.2 w/ fvwm2
by Stanley Long 05 May '03

05 May '03

KDE and dual monitors didn't do well together in SuSE 5.3 days, so I learned fvwm2. SuSE 8.2 has the newest stable fvwm2 desktop, but some things fell out: 1) the SuSE menu-button doesn't have YAST2 in its pulldown menue :-(( 2) I can't read the new colorful xclock on my 1280x1024 screen, even on a really nice NEC 21" monitor. 3) The left-mousebutton pulldown menue lost the "xterm" command. Up through SuSE 7.x, there was an ".fvwm2rc" in the /home/user directory so I could change these things. Question: What (and where) is the configuration information for fvwm2 stored now? There are definite improvements. The "Create Configuration File" makes fvwm2 grab newly added software and add to its right-mousekey menues. I like it. SuSE 8.2 makes it rather easy to have Windowless offices. :-))

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cups printing
by Jan van Roessel 05 May '03

05 May '03

Hi list, I have recently installed Suse 8.2 but cann't get pinting to work, am using a remote lpd server (slackware) using the raw queue. when configuring cups using Yast2 (lpd filtering and forwarding queue) i don't get an error back the printjob just "hangs" in te local print queue. After increasing te log level i get this error back: remote host did not accept control file (117). (worked fine with earlier versions, and still does on other machines) With kind regards Jan van Roessel Foxi Consultants in Technology BV

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susewatcher
by malcolm 05 May '03

05 May '03

According to Suse knowledgebase, susewatcher should show various icons when it automatically starts. If I connect a usb memory card after booting 8.2 top shows susewatcher cpu usage up to 97%. An sda1 icon comes on the screen and repeatedly disappears and re-appears with the other icons shuddering. This continues for about 10 minutes and then the screen settles down. Click on sda1 icon and it shows the contents ok. The same with a camera connected. None of the susewatcher wizard icons show on the screen which should happen. 8.2 pro update clean single machine install - only other thing that does not work is kooka, but that didn't work in 8.1. Just plugged in the Epson scanner. Susewatcher didn't seem to start, according to top. The scanner works using iscan, only did a preview - no problem. What am I doing wrong. Thanks, Malcolm

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Running Illustrator 8.0 and Dreamweaver MX]
by Hans Krueger 05 May '03

05 May '03

Hey Ben works great do you know when the ver for suse8.2 going to be out? thanks From: Ben Rosenberg <ben(a)whack.org> To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Running Illustrator 8.0 and Dreamweaver MX Date: 03 May 2003 14:13:05 -0700 * Tony Alfrey (tonyalfrey(a)earthlink.net) [030503 14:08]: -> ->HEY, WAIT WAIT WAIT A MINUTE!!! ->You've got Illustrator working in wine????? ->I really want the details on how you did this !!! CXOffice is by CodeWeavers. It runs a ton of Windows programs. You might visit their site. I'll warn you ..this is payware but it works. It's a "tweaked" version of Wine that you can get an winehq but they do the tweaking so you don't have to. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com Hans hans007(a)prexar.com registered Linux user 289023 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

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APM Lifebook C1020
by Odd Arild Olsen 05 May '03

05 May '03

APM suspend to RAM works sometimes. Wake up correctly renders the desktop, but most of the times the PC is frozen. Does anyone have the correct APM setup for this Fuji-Siemens laptop running SuSE 8.2? -- Odd Arild Olsen

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windows 2k dns--bind interoperability--help
by Saeed Ahmed 05 May '03

05 May '03

Hi All, I have a requirement to setup linux DNS subdomain like test.xyz.com where xyz.com is running on windows 2000. Pl advise if any one has setup such configuration of DNS. Best Regards Saeed *******************************************************************************

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18 box lan update 8.1-8.2
by fsanta 05 May '03

05 May '03

What's the best way? How do others go about it? How do you get around having to boot each client from cd1? Thanks, Steve.

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Q: The SuSE Package Conventions Documentation
by Marcus Schopen 05 May '03

05 May '03

Hi all, reading documentation for builing own RPMs, I found the helpfull "SuSE Package Conventions" documentation (see http://www.suse.de/~mmj/Package-Conventions/ ). I have a problem with /etc/sysconfig/ config files. Before writing sysconfig files for an own RPM, I played a little bit with the zope RPM package from SuSE 8.0. I installed it, then I put a ZOPE_WEVDAV_PORT="8088" variable to the original /etc/sysconfig/zope file. BIG Problem: YaST2 shows the ZOPE_WEVDAV_PORT variable in the "etc" section of the sysconfig tree (this grafic-interface-thing of sysconfig). I tried it with several other packages. All additional variables to sysconfig files will be put to "etc" section. What's going wrong here? To be sure, I build a new zope RPM using the original SuSE src.rpm. I add ZOPE_WEVDAV_PORT="8088" to the SOURCE/sysconfig.zope file, built a new binary rpm and installed it. Same problme. My new ZOPE_WEVDAV_PORT is placed in "etc" section in the sysconfig tree. All other ZOPE variables are placed in right zope section. This drives me realy crazy!!!! BTW: How do I create subfolders in the yast2 sysconfig tree? Thanks for helping Marcus -- Marcus Schopen (0> P.O. Box 10 25 25 //\ Deutsche Zope User Group D-33525 Bielefeld V_/_ www.dzug.org

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Mutt hangs at "SASL auth" for IMAP in 8.2
by Jon Clausen 05 May '03

05 May '03

So far I'm pretty happy with 8.2, it installed nicely and works fine. I'm gonna need help figuring out what went wrong with Mutt though. 8.2 is installed in parallel with 8.1, and /home is shared between the two. This means that my .muttrc is available and is read by both mutts. Something must've changed between the two versions, or else I'm just missing something... I have my mail server (Postfix/Cyrus on 8.1) running in a DMZ. When I boot my workstation to 8.1, fire up Mutt and connect via IMAP to the server, everything is fine. When I do the same with 8.2, Mutt just hangs forever at "Authenticating (SASL)..." I've given 8.2 identical network settings (hostname, ip-number) as 8.1, and I have the same uid in both systems. Ideas anyone? I managed to get Kmail set up, so I can access my mailboxes on the server, and send mail, but I would *really* like to get my Mutt back. (Especially since it seems that the problem I had with Konsole not being able to show the 'threading' characters has been fixed in 8.2/3.1) TIA Jon Clausen -- If we can't be free, at least we can be cheap!

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'Rec'd this, and thouhgt I'd share it.
by Fred A. Miller 05 May '03

05 May '03

Subject: Redhat, Mandrake, Suse I recently got a new Compaq laptop, I fought with it for days trying to install redhat, finaly gave up and tryed mandrake both totaly locked up after incorectly installing a driver for the firewire port(1394) which I did not want anyway, but there was no way to turn it off, I got ticked and sent the thing back and got a new HP laptop, more $$ more features, but Unfortunatly I couldnt get a amd cpu with out waiting another month by special order so I have to put up with the intel (p4) at anyrate it does excatly the same thing and redhat or mandrake refuses to install I sent e-mail till I was blue in the face, Called redhat, all they would say was send us big bucks and we will give you tech support no they would not garenty they could/would fix it... they was rude and totaly worthless on the phone. D/loaded suse... Guess what installed flawlessly, works perfectly, FREE ONLINE UPGRADES. can do rpms , the installer program ( Yast2 ) is wonderfull. I'll leave Cobra alone but all the rest of my systems are going to SUSE. Doc... -- "DRM.. Digitally Retarded Media. That's exactly what it is - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints." -Paul Rickard

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