January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

copying Kmail filter
by Constant Brouerius van Nidek 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

After having ended up with a total trashing of my updated Suse 9.1 due to a bad memory block and a harddisc problem I have installed a fresh Suse 9.1 on another partition. My /home is not damaged because I have it on a separate disc which does not seem to be affected. I want to use e.g. personal settings from my trashed instalation and are in most cases successful. I am stuck though at the Kmail filter settings. Neither a complete copy nor an edited kmailrc seems to work. Could somebody give me an idea how I can get back the filter settings which I have groomed over a long time?

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/net/hostname with NIS on SLES9.
by Ajay Mulwani 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I am new to SuSE Linux/ SLES. Could some one pls. suggest how to setup /net/hostname functionality with NIS configured. The system that I have is installed with autofs-3.1.7 and I am able to access all other automount points except /net/hostname. Thanks, Ajay

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Poor colours when printing.
by James Knott 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I've noticed that when printing colour documents, that the colours tend to be very weak (poor saturation). As an experiment, I printed a document from my notebook computer, running SuSE 9.2, via cups to my desktop system (SuSE 9.0). The colours were all washed out. I then printed the same document, from the notebook, running XP and the colours were fine. When I print from my desktop system, the colours are again washed out. In all cases the application was Mozilla, but it the problem occurs with printing from any app in Linux. Given that XP had no problem printing the colours, I think I can rule out both my printer (Canon S600) and cups as the source of the problem. Since the problem is not confined to Mozilla, I doubt that it's the cause. Is there any way to adjust the colour saturation? I use kprinter on both Linux systems. tnx jk

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Question about KOffice
by Dennis J. Tuchler 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I have KOffice 1.3.3 operating under KDE 3.3.0 and SuSE 9.2, I would like to upgrade KOffice and its various applications without upgrading the whole KDE desktop. Is that possible? Will KOffice 1.3.5 function under KDE 3.3.0? Thanks dj tuchler

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Simple Disk Quota editor?
by Anders Norrbring 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

I want a simple disk quota editor, much like "Give user putte 250MB of space"... I just can't get used to the thought of editing 600+ users in VI... It's just not possible. I tried to run Webmin 1.170, but it doesn't even work with the quota system, the screens just hang. Are there any useful little utility out there to set/edit quotas? Command line, web i/f or X doesn't really matter. Anders.

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SuSE IRC channel...?
by C Hamel 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Does SuSE have an IRC channel? -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio

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Problem With 2.6.8-24-10-default Kernel in 9.2 Pro
by L. Mark Stone 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

I've had two issues with this kernel and am curious who else is having similar problems. ::Issue #1:: Although it seems benign/recoverable, for the first reboot after installing this kernel I get an error in the logs that the system can't load what's listed in modules.dep because it can't find the file modules.dep--even though the file exists. A second reboot and then the system has no problem finding the file. ::Issue #2:: This one is a show stopper: With the -10 kernel we get frequent hard lockups, about once every hour or two. Doing a ctrl-alt-bkspc fails to restart the X server; the keyboard and mouse become frozen/non-responsive, and the only recovery is via the power button. We can see this coming when we go to launch an app, we get the bouncing mouse cursor, and then the app fails to launch and the mouse cursor returns to normal. At that point, the next app we launch will lock the system up. There's nothing in the logs. We went back to the -5 kernel for a while, waiting to make sure the revised -10 packages hit all the mirrors. Then, late last week we reinstalled the -10 kernel from the ftp.gwdg.de mirror. And we still have the same problems. So, for the moment we've gone back to the -5 kernel, and the system has had no lockups for the past two days. Anyone else seeing either of these? Best regards, Mark -- _______________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.RNoME.com

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ADSL with PPPoE
by Ronald Wiplinger 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

I use SuSE 9.0 and try to setup an ADSL connection with a fix IP address over PPPoE. Interestingly it worked, but I did something and it stopped working! My data: PPPoE: login name, password adsl-start shows me connected! and gives me an pppoe IP of 61.x.x.a and an opposite IP address of 61.y.y.b I cannot ping the opposite I address (maybe blocked by the provider) I setup my fix ip address in the network card info of YAST eth0: 222.c.c.37 the default gateway gives me already doubts: I tried 222.c.c.254 and I tried 61.x.x.b I cannot ping anything outside! I see the ADSL modem is flashing (LAN and WAN) though. netstat -rn looks ok for me as well as ifconfig. Any ideas? bye Ronald

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lost my DVD drives
by Konstantinos Georgokitsos 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Hiall, My System is SUSE 9.1. It all started with some hickups with burning DVDs in K3b then after a restart K3b suddenly could not detect any media anymore. I also noticed that I could not read anything from any of my drives (one DVD one DVD-Recorder). listing /media/dvd with an inserted CD. Normally it automounts the CD and seconds later it is available under /media/dvd/ and /media/dvdrecorder/ respectively. I have no idea how to bring them back. Yast still finds the drives, and thinks they are setup correctly: Name Device Link Mount Point DVD-ROM DDU1621 /dev/hda /dev/dvd /media/dvd _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A /dev/hdb /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder Also, here's the relevant fstab entrys (that look quite normal): /dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 and finally the links in the /dev directory: kongeo@linux:~> ll /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-01-14 07:34 /dev/cdrom -> hda kongeo@linux:~> ll /dev/dvd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-01-14 07:34 /dev/dvd -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-01-14 07:34 /dev/dvdrecorder -> hdb during boot it looks like: <4>hda: DVD-ROM DDU1621, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hdb: _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>hdc: WDC WD800JB-00FMA0, ATA DISK drive <4>hdd: WDC WD800JB-00FMA0, ATA DISK drive <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 [....] <4>hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 <4>hdb: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache I have no idea where else to look. Can anybody help me? Kostas

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Re: [SLE] Poor colours when printing.
by James Knott 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Michel Garnier wrote: > I suggest and I'm sure that it'll work that with YaST2 you change your > printer type to Canon S800, it is > the model I use for my printers !! > After that you'll find the filter entries I spoke of earlier. Looks good. I now have settings in Kprinter, for adjusting the colours etc. I wonder who messed up with the S600?

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