May 2003 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

KDM Icons
by Travis Owens 02 May '03

02 May '03

Hello all! Just a quick question about the icons (people) used to represent the users in the KDM login window. Does anyone know where those icons are and where KDM references them from? I'd like to be able to change from the "guy" looking one to a "girl" looking one (if SuSE made one) for different users. I've check the KDE control center... It's only got like 3 or 4 listed and they're all lame compared to the little guy that's default. I just left him in there for now, but I'd like to change it... Initial searches proved unsuccessful... :( Thanks in advance! :) -- Travis Owens <towens(a)linuxmds.com> Linux MDs

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Re: [SLE] Got my CDRW/DVD drive
by Adam Daniel 02 May '03

02 May '03

DOH ..i did it as well John Adam On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:04:13PM -0400, John LeMay wrote: > > >Do you really need to update the firmware? if it ain't broke to fix it i > >say. > > Don't know, however I know under Windows I've had problems burning CD's > with old firmware on drives. I did find a project designed to write > Linux firmware installers for several drives. Finally! Really ..whats the URL?, id be interested in that also ..ive just updated the firmware on a SCSI cdr drive to fix a multi session problem and a i had to move the drive to a win box to do it, what a pain in the ass. > > >A device link is just that. Its just an icon with a name thats a short cut > >to the drive, it doesn't effect your hardware config at all. > >Does it really matter what the name of the icon is? if you right click on > >it and go to properties you can change what device it points to (if you > >use the ide-scsi driver it will be /dev/sr0) and icon and maybe even the > >name. > > Understood. However I've had issues in the past with device links - > specifically ones for digital cameras working. Thought there might be > something special that needed to be done. > > >you don't need a device link for your device to work ..try using the > >command line more and take a look at the mount command (man mount) > > Heh, I have six terminals - rxvt even, not that Konsole beast - open > right now in fact. I'm not a newbie, just a newbie to CDRW devices in > Linux. lol ..sorry if i sounded condescending at all, ive just come across a alot of users who underestimate the power of the command line in linux and just want a bit of point and click to get stuff working. For me x windows is just a way to run more terminals on one screen and view webpages with full graphics :) > > Thanks for the help. There was one last piece I needed to do - insmod > ide-scsi after rebooting. How do I get ide-scsi to load at boot? just drop it in your boot.local file (/etc/init.d/boot.local) add the "insmod ide-scsi" at the end and it will load at the end of the boot sequence. > > thanks! Glad i could help ..i hate posting help requests and getting no answers :) Adam > > -- > John LeMay > KC2KTH > Senior Enterprise Consultant > NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 > Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions -- Technical Consultant ----------------------------------------------------------------------- FORENSIC DATA SERVICES PTY LIMITED http://www.forensicdata.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. If you received this e-mail by mistake please notify us immediately and delete all copies of this message. You must not disclose or use in any way the information in the e-mail. It is the responsibility of the recipient to virus scan this

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Mozilla & fonts
by Ernesto Marquina 02 May '03

02 May '03

Hello all, I've just installed SuSE 8.2, and I was wondering if there is a way to make the mozilla fonts just like konqui (or something similar to that), when I load a page in mozilla, the fonts doesn't look smooth. Is there a way? Thanks, Ernesto

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Can't mount cdrom udf
by Chris Grainer 02 May '03

02 May '03

-- Chris Grainer <chrisgrainer(a)yahoo.com> Hi, I'm a newbie and I have many problems and questions. I will try to post them all seperately. I hope you all will bear with me. I just installed 8.2 today, even though I never resolved problems with 8.1,which I've been fighting with for about a month. Situation: cdrom will mount cds, but will not mount cds I burned under windows. Apparently, Adaptec Directcd uses UFD as its fs. SuSE support says that this fs is not compiled in the kernel and is not supported, However, I,ve read that kernels 2.3.17+ support UFD. So what do I do now? I know I can unzip these files to my windows partition and then copy them to linux, but I would like to learn how to use them in linux. Chris

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first script
by Joe Dufresne 02 May '03

02 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I wrote my first script this morning. having never done one before, can anyone spot any errors in it. it seems to work fine, but if I missed something...? Also re: comment for line 3, what do i use to setup a rotating tagline file? Joe # .sig file, show version, kernal, hostname on line one # version: echo "SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) | Kernel 2.4.19-4GB / i686 | " | tr \\n " " | mozilla.sig # host name echo "Posted from:" | tr \\n " " >> mozilla.sig hostname >> mozilla.sig # show uptime on line 2 uptime >> mozilla.sig #quote on line 3 # quote by LNS, later to be change to a series of quotes by him & others to change once per X minutes echo "Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them,'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'! L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach" >> mozilla.sig # email & blog link on line 4 echo "nqs(a)tmcom.com | Blog: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html" |> mozilla.sig # GPG key link and geek code link on line 5 echo "GPG key can be found at: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ | Geek Code: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/geek_code.html" >> mozilla.sig # end - -- SuSE Linux 8.1 (i386) | Kernel 2.4.19-4GB / i686 | Posted from: Miverna ~ 8:16am up 6 days, 23:56, 6 users, load average: 1.39, 0.72, 0.52 Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them,'I'll defend you as if you were my own family.' And anyone who objects levels the deadliest insult possible: 'I don't trust you unless you're rendered harmless'! L. Neil Smith, The Probability Broach nqs(a)tmcom.com | Blog: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html GPG key can be found at: http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ | Geek Code: http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/geek_code.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+sTwHojW9aOH101IRAo7DAKC1riJpJRRvXsxwpshyiKbSYE0xUQCggZTi oCzzsvz7L5MjP+amOpvt4Ww= =GQAu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [SLE] Can't mount cdrom udf
by Chris Grainer 02 May '03

02 May '03

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 05:53, Marshall Heartley wrote: > > > Try "mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom". > Without the quotes and adjust the /dev/ and /media/ to where your device > actually is. > > > Try that command and see how it works. Info can be found by typing > man mount Thanks, but it didn't work. All mount -t commands seem to result in this: Usage: mount -V : print version mount -h : print this help mount : list mounted filesystems mount -l : idem, including volume labels So far the informational part. Next the mounting. The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'. Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted. mount -a [-t|-O] ... : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab mount device : mount device at the known place mount directory : mount known device here mount -t type dev dir : ordinary mount command Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device. One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere: mount --bind olddir newdir or move a subtree: mount --move olddir newdir A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom, or by label, using -L label or by uuid, using -U uuid . Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options]. For many more details, say man 8 mount . UDF seems to be supported as mount man says this: -t vfstype The argument following the -t is used to indicate the file system type. The file system types which are currently supported are: adfs, affs, autofs, coda, coherent, cramfs, devpts, efs, ext, ext2, ext3, hfs, hpfs, iso9660, jfs, minix, msdos, ncpfs, nfs, ntfs, proc, qnx4, ramfs, reiserfs, romfs, smbfs, sysv, tmpfs, udf, ufs, umsdos, vfat, xenix, xfs, xiafs. Note that coherent, sysv and xenix are equivalent and that xenix and coherent will be removed at some point in the future -- use sysv instead. Since kernel version 2.1.21 the types ext and xiafs do not exist anymore. cdrom points to hdc which is correct, I have no idea why it won't work. suse support continues to say this: The support for the UDF filesystem for CDRW disks is not compiled into the kernel by default. To enable support for this filesystem you would need to recomplile the kernel to include this support. Any additional help would be much appreciated, I've been trying to resolve this issue for a couple of weeks. Thanks, -- Chris Grainer <chrisgrainer(a)yahoo.com>

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Re: [SLE] Got my CDRW/DVD drive
by John LeMay 02 May '03

02 May '03

>>Don't know, however I know under Windows I've had problems burning CD's >>> with old firmware on drives. I did find a project designed to write >>> Linux firmware installers for several drives. Finally! > > > Really ..whats the URL, id be interested in that also ..ive just updated the firmware on a SCSI cdr drive to fix a multi session problem and a i had to move the drive to a win box to do it, what a pain in the ass. http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private… There isn't much there, which is why it took me so long to remember where I saw it - on the cdrecord page! I guess it's still a "work in progress". Anyhow, I'm off to bed now. I'll try burning my first CD tomorrow! thanks again! -- John LeMay KC2KTH Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC | http://www.njmc.com | Phone 732-557-4848 Specializing in Microsoft and Unix based solutions

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kde a little messed up after update
by pheonix1t 02 May '03

02 May '03

hi gang, after a recent update kde is a bit wacky now. The taskbar is still kde, but the desktop and file manager are now gnome! This only happened on 1 user, the other users are OK. I was wondering about running the kde wizard that shows up when you first install suse but I don't recall the command to make that run. I tried looking in the kde docs and help section...but no luck. What is a good way to get the default kde settings back? Thanks, Oskar

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[SLE] Order of modules in XF86Config
by Nebbish 02 May '03

02 May '03

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm confused about this one. I recently got a radeon 9000 64 mb, and set it up for 3d. In Tux racer there was this annoying rolling wave where the tracks should have been. I fixed it by copying the module section of Phillip's XF86Config into mine. This was mine ... Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "speedo" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "v4l" Load "extmod" EndSection This is Phillip's ... Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "type1" Load "speedo" Load "freetype" Load "extmod" Load "glx" Load "v4l" Load "dri" EndSection Not only did the rolling wave disappear but the fps in gears improved. The 3D image quality also improved for the large screen gears. Can anyone explain how this caused an improvement? TIA - -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+sfaUgRkqp4VSuLMRAoksAJ48wjkzV8qWQgAmEtZGHZx7mlTLaQCdHkLV V0FxQ8oofqaFKPc748D++Kc= =vmkH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Custom case badges
by David Krider 02 May '03

02 May '03

I want to make some custom case badges with a SuSE logo. However, I need to start out with some high-quality stock. I can't find anything like what I want on my system or online. Does anyone know where I can find some graphics to -- at least -- start with? Understand that when you order custom case badges, they need to be high-resolution, per the printer's instructions. I need a 600 dpi image, at 1" square. So I can't use little icons or such. Best case I can see right now is scanning the top, right corner of the manual and doing some serious work to it. Anyone know how to "bubblize" an image in gimp (or know where to point me) to make it look like the default SuSE KDE menu button? Thanks, 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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