January 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

System tray toooo long
by Osvaldo Clua 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

Hi: I am using SuSE9.2 with Nvidia drivers, last YOU update. Suddenly, the system tray elnages itself leaving a lot of blank between icons and The panel get the sliding buttons. Normally there is space enough in the panle. Someone can give me a clue (In the panel I have 1) SuSE button 2)KWeather, 3)Pager, 4)Logoff/suspend, 5)taskbar,6)system tray,7) clock) thanks -- Osvaldo Clúa

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DLT not recognised
by David Chapman 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I have been trying to get my DLT working to run a backup. But Kdat would not recognise it. After searching the mailing list I found a referance to mt_st which I installed but after running $ stint I get this "Can't find the tape characteristics database" Any help please Dave

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Cheap 9.2 ide/scsi backup solution suggestions
by Sheridan West 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

Hi I have a machine that needs a tape backup as my HP Colorado ide 8gb unit id's itself in 9.2 in /proc/scsi/scsi But something on the box is not allowing the unit to be configured. (I need more space than a cdrw can provide) So can i be ignorant and ask Can anybody suggest a cheap 8gb+ storage medium for doing occasional large backups to either an Ide/or scsi bus. I have done a fair ammount of googling - Im admitting defeat. So any possible solutions/suggestion are very welcome ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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James Ogley's site
by Keith Powell 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I have just got a new computer and, of course, have installed SUSE 9.2 again. However, on trying to do some Apt upgrades, I get the messages that suser-jogley and usr-local-bin are either not available or could not be connected. Tried both the gwdg and the mathematik.uni-bielfield repositories. Everything else is working, it's just James' two which are not. Are they still available? I can't find anything in either the archives or on Google. Many thanks for any information Keith

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USB Webcam under SuSE 9.2
by jalal 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

Hi all Happy New Year to ya! Santa brought me a new Webcam that, it turns out, is not quite supported under Linux. No matter, I was going to give it a go with the ZC030x driver and see if anything happens. (The camera is a Creative Webcam NX Pro). Anyway, it raised the question, when I plug the camera into the USB port, the usb system recognizes that something is plugged in. Somehow, it needs to know to load a video driver to activate /dev/video, but how does the usb system know what to load? modprobe.conf contains a line 'alias char-major-81 videodev' which should get it loaded but "someone" in the system needs to know how to call that. I don't quite understand yet how the USB system pulls in the modules that it might need, anyone have any clues or pointers to further reading on the matter? TIA jalal -- GPG fingerprint = 3D45 5509 D380 26A4 523E A9D8 A66A 5F38 CA43 BB0E

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Firewire 800
by Susemail 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I told a friend Suse 9.1 supports the firewire 800 protocal. Am I right. Is there any way to verify it does? Thanks, Jerome

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SuSE 9.2 Personal/Free Download?
by Steven Pasternak 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

When is the release of SuSE 9.2 Personal going to happen? Also, what about the 9.2 Personal free download .iso's? -Steven

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OOT Aceh Tsunami Media Center
by edwin 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

Dear all, Sorry this is OOT, but maybe someone outthere want to know. Indonesian IT volounter just setup the website at http:// acehmediacenter.or.id/ for information about Aceh Tsunami. There is a Missing Person Billboard anyone can use it. Right now the small team of 5-10 IT specialist and media specialist already in Banda Aceh to setup internet link directly to satellite, so the situation in the area can be reported directly to the website. Regards, Edwin

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9.2 partition sizes
by Jim 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

I'm adding a disc to my old scsi bus, and having been through the multi-disc howto, I'm getting ready to revise the partitioning rather drastically. I'm curious what folks here have found they need for space in various filesystems with 9.2. I'm not concerned with data storage, for images, music, games or whatnot; I'll be adding some large ide disc space for that later. But I will be setting up plenty of font space for LyX. With my two scsi discs, I've got 9 + 18 = 27G total. I'd appreciate any reports on your usage in these: /usr/lib/ /usr/X11R6/ /usr/src/ /opt/ (various packages, say, KDE, Mozilla, Gimp, Open Office) /var/ (tmp, cache, esp fonts) / Or maybe the sizes of all the various packages is listed somewhere; I haven't found it in my 9.2 CDs yet, but maybe I just haven't looked at the right place. And yes, I'll probably want to break down and get a DVD player and the 9.2 DVDs. I realize things like mail and news spools are too site dependant to rate comment here. But any rants you have about areas I've not mentioned that you think rate a comment would also be welcome... :) TIA, Jim

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default CD player
by Steve Lett 01 Jan '05

01 Jan '05

Hi all, I'm pretty green still but have upgraded to 9.1 Pro and when I insert an audio CD in the player, it offers: open with kfmclient openURL file:/media/dvdrecroder ? dvdrecorder being the player. I would rather have the KsCD app run the audio CD because I'm familiar with it. I don't know what kfmclient is. Can someone explain how to accomplish? In a world without walls or fences, who needs Windows or Gates? Registered Linux User #287453 ---------------------------------------- '87 Street Comanche #24/100 '92 Cherokee '88 Grand Wagoneer '87 Grand Wagoneer ...and they say there's only one... --------------------------------------- -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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