March 2004 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Is KDE 3.2 ready for prime time?
by Paul W. Abrahams 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

I just noticed a couple more posts (the ones about gaim and kbear) that suggest people are having a lot of trouble with KDE 3.2. For myself, it still is giving me big problems, most noticeably the fact that the desktops don't show up on the panel (the bar across the bottom of the screen). And my attempts to install it by several methods have been only partly successful. The problems have included but not been limited to dependency failures that I have few clues for resolving. If someone asked me at this point if they should install KDE 3.2, I'd say no. Whatever improvements it may provide are not worth the hassle of the installation problems. Unless you're one of those folks that likes living on the bleeding edge, of course. Paul Abrahams

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What DVD burner should I buy?
by Tom Nielsen 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

I want to get a DVD burner. Anyone with recommendations? I was thinking of the Sony. Tom -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com

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Another kde3.2 upgrade problem
by Bob S. 07 Apr '04

07 Apr '04

Hello SuSE people, Since my upgrade to 3.2.1 I am having problems with kooka. Appears that it is not working with the upgrade. Part of a package named kdegraphics3-scan which is held back by apt. Following is message received from apt when trying to install kdegraphics3-scan: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- linux:/ # apt-get install kdegraphics3-scan Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kdegraphics3-scan: Depends: ocrad but it is not installable Depends: libexif.so.9 but it is not installable E: Broken packages linux:/ # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Then I tried a dist-upgrade and the kdegraphics3-scan package was again held back. Anyone out there that can help me solve this problem? Bob S.

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RE: [SLE] gnomesu and switched environment
by GarUlbricht7＠netscape.net 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

Andre Truter wrote on Mon, 29 Mar 2004 4:20:31 PM EST: >Hi All, > > I found that when I use gnomesu to start an app as root, > it does not use root's environment, but my own. > > For example, if I start gnome-terminal as root, using gnomesu, > the root terminal has my $USER, $HOME, $LOGUSER, etc variables. > > How can I get gnomesu to run the application in root's environment? > > There is not man for gnomesu and Google does not give much. > >Thanks >-- > >Andre Truter (sig line trimmed) Hi, I take it there is a reason why you can't just use: "sux -" in a terminal, and then after logging in, starting the application as "root." ??? Whatever!!! You might try: "gnomesux -" and see what environment it gives you. Hope this helps. -- In the Beginning was the Command Line --- Neal Stephenson -- __________________________________________________________________ Introducing the New Netscape Internet Service. Only $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp

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mounting floppy very slow in suse 9.0
by Chip Cooper 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

ever since I installed suse 9, mounting my floppy take much more time that it did in 8.2. It will mount, just very slow--it just seems to read and read the disk. Here is my etc/fstab info: > dev/hda6 / reiserfs > defaults 1 1 > /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat > users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 > /dev/hdb1 /windows/D ntfs > ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0 > /dev/hdb5 /windows/F vfat > users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0 > /dev/hda5 swap swap > pri=42 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts > mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 > proc /proc proc > defaults 0 0 > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs > noauto 0 0 > /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto > ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto > ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto > noauto,user,sync 0 0 Any suggestions??

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Second SuSE HDD No Access
by Dr. David M. Colburn 06 Apr '04

06 Apr '04

I have just powered up a newly assembled ATX box with a cleanly formatted and SUSE 9 Pro loaded 20g Quantum Fireball Plus LM20.5 HDD as Master and a much-used Maxtor 6E040l0 40g HDD as Slave. The Quantum is seen in YaST as hda1, etc., the Maxtor hdb1, etc. I have tried to set up a desktop icon for the Maxtor but get an "in use" error. I have tried to look at the Maxtor from Konq to no avail. I do notice that the Grub device map only shows hd0 and fd0 but fail to understand why YaST would see both HDD's even though Grub appears to see only one (not to mention that the Grub device map fails to list either the CD reader or the cdrw device. Can someone explain these anomalies, and the solution to getting Konq to see my second HDD, please? I could reverse the cables and the jumpers on the two HDD's and see what happens but I really should be able to see them in either order and access the Maxtor from SuSE 9 Pro booted off the Quantum. Given that the Quantum is a clean load of SuSE 9 Pro and the Maxtor was set up on an older box I think that the Quantum should be my Master HDD. -- dmc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your journey with God continues here ... Trinity College in Tampa Bay, Florida ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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faks on linux
by Johan 05 Apr '04

05 Apr '04

Hi, I am using suse 9.0 on workstation via suse 9.0 gateway to internet. Is there an application that you can send a fax created on your pc directly to a recipient fax machine? Even better does a application excist to send and receive faxes on your pc? Can this be done via the gateway as above? If so which pc will take the call and fax? Kindly some pointers Please Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning - Still learning.

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RE: [SLE] OOo Pdf Creator
by Ben Higginbottom 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

>Under my last installation of OOo under 8.2, it had installed a wonderful pdf creator, which I >used all the time. I now see that it hasn't installed with version 1.1 under suse 9 and I cannot >find it on Yast in the OOo group. ANyone else know where I can find it and instal it? A PDF creator has been built into OOo 1.1 You can ether save the document as pdf or use the pdf button on the toolbar (5th along). Regards, Ben

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Vsftp and anonymus login
by John 04 Apr '04

04 Apr '04

I have installed the VSFTP and i have comment all the anonymus section. However searching the vsftp.log i discovered that some ip tried and logon to my system as USER anonymus with no password and USER ftp with no password. However, these accounts leads to nowhere with no right, it quite dangerous for me. Please i want your help to harden my security. Thanks in advance.

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[suse-xfree86] Blank screen w/GEForce FX 5200 AGP
by Patrick Shanahan 03 Apr '04

03 Apr '04

SuSE 9.0 AMD ?? Soyo ?? 17 inch LCD GeForce FX 5200 AGP A friend's tnt video card fried (fan) and we replaced it with a 128M GeForce FX 5200 AGP. Ran the nvidia updater (5336), followed directions (root) sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.run sax2 -m 0=nvidia text screen changed to X and blank screen (black). edited /etc/X11/XF86Config, nvidia changed to nv init 5 -> blank screen (black) Ran nvidia updater (4496) with same results. note: With the previous tnt card, the 5336 ver would not work (blank screen) but the 4496 would (w/o 3d, nv not nvidia driver). Changed driver to nv (SuSE original). Same blank screen in X. I know not where to turn. Suggestions welcome, please. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711

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