May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

kde file manager super user mode
by fsanta 03 May '03

03 May '03

8.2 under kde. Where is the 'file manager super user mode' that used to be on the 8.1 system menu? Or how can I put it back? Thanks, Steve.

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Sodipodi
by Marshall Heartley 03 May '03

03 May '03

I was wanting to look at the program sodipodi and I noticed that it does not recognize any fonts. Does anyone have a clue what I can do to get this app to see the fonts that are already installed? This is a 8.2 system. Thanks. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."

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[OT] Windows 3.11 transition to SuSE; OK for neophytes?
by expatriate 03 May '03

03 May '03

Greetings Being the de facto neighbourhood computer expert/admin/geek, I've come across a situation where I might need the assistance of someone more experienced. I've volunteered to facilitate bringing a couple from the 20th to the 21st century. Their current system is a 10+ years old HP computer with a 40MB disk running Windows 3.11. He rarely uses the computer and most of his exposure to it is an occasional game of chess. She does a fair amount of Word (MS Word 6.0) and Excel (didn't check but probably the same vintage). At present, they have no internet connectivity but they feel the pressure ( "can't I just send you an email?"). I've established their needs as follows: 0) ADSL hardware 1) Web browsing and email 2) Word processing and spread sheets 3) CDROM reading/writing (don't have writing abilities at present) 4) Ability to get digital camera pictures into their computer so his artwork can be placed on eBay (have yet to get camera) 5) Printing to an HP 660 printer My concern is that if I build this for them with Linux, I would be the only local source of help. If I build this with Windows, more of their friends could assist them when I'm not around or when I leave the country for good. Obviously I would prefer not to promote Microsoft products. At the same time, their budget is modest. So I guess the main questions are: Can Suse 8.2 handle neophytes with limited point and click experience? Can anyone share a similar experience? TIA and Cheers

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SuSE Noobie (from redhat) Initial Impressions of 8.2
by MaC 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hi, No one is probally interested ;), but I figured I would voice my opinions (my wife is now sick of them, so u lot get em :)) As the title says, I'm a EX redhat user (from 3 days), I've been using Linux now just over 5 years (and no windows either!), so I pretty confident around the system, and run 30 servers at work, the problem was they and my home machines were all Redhat based, yeah I've been there , Gentoo (to time consuming), Slackware (cool, IMHO crap package management), Mandrake (too buggy), Debian (apt is great, just not too cutting edge, yes I can use unstable), blah!, blah! and well Redhat... I've been slowly getting sick of rehat for around a year, numerous problems: 1. RPM is really broken. 2. their own rpms have really weird depandicies 3. system very, very slow 4. kernels are usiually weird. on the plus the Gnome desktop is really nice, compared to most over distros (and that includes SuSE), and I'm very used to it. Anyway, I read a review the other night and tried SuSE 8.2 Live Eval, and I loved it right away, and even gosh! liked KDE (yes I have always hated KDE, but then always used Gnome since the 1.0 days), so I rushed out literly withing 20 mins of using the Eval and bought the Professional version. Heres my opinions (so far :)): And so far I'm not going back to Redhat, its completely knock me off my stool (chair), ok its got its fair share of bugs and errors, but what distro hasn't?: 1. Unable to find my monitor (yet even RedHat 6.2 can find it..weird) 2. YaST2 package installer takes some getting used too (then its pretty esy) 3. Xine has no sound! 4. Foobillard is completely broken (same on RH). 5. Gnome is crippled, No AntiAliasing fonts, very basic setup (yes its the reverse from redhat, their KDE is). 6. Weird package names compared to Redhat (yes I know this is not redhat, this is my problem). 7. Everything just works (90%). 8. No gnome-spell for evolution (hence my spelling mistakes) 9. The biggest plus is speed and stability compared to RH, on my old RH system , If I had Xmms, evolution, Mozilla open , then tried to run say UT 2003 or RTCW, it would judder, stutter, xmms would halt. On SuSE, nothing, not even a blip from xmms, it was if I never had enything else running, perfect. 11. I actually now like KDE :) 12. SuSE have actually bothered to give WindowMaker a real menu :) Anyway feel free to call me a troll :) Mark

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moving from Netscape to Mozilla
by Donn aka N5XWB 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hey Group: I am trying to move from Netscape to Mozilla. My area of concern is howto move email addresses to mozilla from netscape due to Netscape encrypting of email addresses. Bookmarks are a html flat text so easy to deal with -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org Info: http://www.knoppix.net

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USB in 8.1 is dead...help
by Steve C. 02 May '03

02 May '03

Greetings, I have followed the directions in the "Problems with USB in SuSE Linux 8.0" info sheet and still can't get USB working. 8.1 shows my Intel 82371 AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB Controller as okay, but the USB UHCI Root Hub is in the "unknown" list. My HP 5200c is supported but I'm lost on this one. Dare I say USB Mandrake 9.0 (yuk) works fine but I prefer the overall SuSE experience overall. Thanks in advance for any help.

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Adaptec SCSI RAID 2120S
by Ivan Gustin 02 May '03

02 May '03

Hi, I have Adaptec SCSI RAID controller 2120S with 2 x Seagate 36 GB Ultra320 on Intel S845WD1H Woodruff motherboard with 2.4 GHz P4 and 512 MB ECC RAM. I want these disks in RAID 1 (mirror) and to be bootable. I can't install SuSE 8.1 Pro because install routine doesn't recognize RAID controller, so it cannot see SCSI disks. I tried to load aacraid module, but I only got a message: aacraid.o: init_module - No such device. I tried with many parameters (io, irq...) without succes. Adaptec says on many places that he support SuSE Linux with proper driver (on CD, on Web...). There is a note about something that SuSE Linux cannot boot from Adaptec RAID disks, but it can be solved (first to remove SCSI driver). I tried to install SuSE Linux 8.1 Pro on IDE disk and then try to install RAID driver, but no success. How can I load aacraid module on the proper way? Is there some parameters needed to be specified? I know all parameters about controller (io, slot, pci, irq...), because Yast2 can find it and shows all informations. Can SuSE Linux 8.1 boot from RAID disks? Is there better Adaptec RAID support in SuSE 8.2? Thanks for suggestions from anyone who uses this controller. -- Ivan Guštin -- Ovaj mail provjeren je antivirusnim programom ESET NOD32 prilikom prolaska kroz mail server. This mail has been scanned by antivirus software ESET NOD32 during passing through mail server.

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CDRom
by John Lowry 02 May '03

02 May '03

Hi everybody-- I'm running 8.1 on a Sony Vaio. After booting, the system doesn't recognize my CDrom, or perhaps I don't know what to call it... However, doing a cdrecord -scanbus, I get the following: cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.11a28 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jvrg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.2.0 Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'Sony ' 'MSC-U01N ' '1.00' Removable Disk 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) 'Y-E DATA' 'USB-FDU ' '3.12' Removable Disk 2,1,0 201) * 2,2,0 202) * 2,3,0 203) * 2,4,0 204) * 2,5,0 205) * 2,6,0 206) * 2,7,0 207) * So, it would appear that the system sees it and the floppy. I can get to the floppy (/dev/sdb). How do I get my CD to work? Is there something I can do to find out what /dev entry it has or should have? Thanks for your attention. --John

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Idle curiosity
by Dennis Tuchler 02 May '03

02 May '03

I just installed SuSE 8.2. This is my third installation, two of which were Personal and one of which was Professional. In all the time I have installed SuSE, I never used disk 3. What is on disk 3? Thanks -- Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler(a)earthlink.net>

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Spamassassin with Postfix and Procmail
by David Krider 02 May '03

02 May '03

If you read the docs that SuSE puts in /usr/share/doc/packages/spamassassin, I think you'll find that they have you doing some weird things. I've been beating on this all afternoon, and I think I have a better way of dealing with this. The SuSE-recommended method has postfix calling procmail as an argument to smtpd. I don't really understand the handoff here, and I can't find any reference to how these are constructed. It may be a better way, but here's the problem *I* have with it. Once handed off to procmail, procmail reads the system-wide rc file (/etc/procmailrc). An example one is given in the SuSE docs. That example has it pass the mail through spamassassin, and then deliver via a hard sendmail command. The net net of this procedure is that you have a spamassassin-tagged email in your user mailbox. Period. There can be no futher user-defined procmail or spamassassin filtering. I tried commenting out the procmailrc stuff about sendmail, but this wouldn't deliver mail. So I had to do something else. What I did is go back to the "old" way, the default way that spamassassin would have you do it. I added "mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail" to /etc/postfix/main.cf. This hands off processing to procmail like before, but it does it differently enough such that I can comment out the other half of the procmailrc file. After tagging, system-wide, by spamassassin, it gets subjected to normal user mangling through ~/.procmailrc files. The other thing is that -- I guess, because I haven't tried -- but from what I read... If you were to use spamc instead of spamassassin in the system-wide procmailrc file, you would allow users to invoke their own ~/.spamassassin files as well. I'm just a fan of procmail, because local users could pass their local procmail handling off to spamassassin again in their local procmailrc files. Have I type "procmail" enough times yet? Hope this helps someone else. Regards, dk -- David "Dunkirk" Krider, http://www.davidkrider.com Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being." Linux: Will you use the power for good... or for AWESOME?

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