November 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Re: [SLE] Firefox and PDF
by Kai Ponte 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 1:13 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: > > > > Now FF is out of beta perhaps it will work. Ill send the above link to > > the box I am using 1.5 on. > BTW: Firefox has been out of beta for quite a while. The stock version on > SuSE 10.0 is 1.07. > > The way the pdf plugin should be installed to work is: > 1. find out where firefox is installed: > /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib on SuSE stock releases. > > 2. in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins, you need to remove the symlink to > nppdf.so. > > 3. in /usr/X11R6/lib/Acrobat7/Browser, there is a text file, > Browser_Plugin_HowTo.txt. > There is also a script: install_browser_plugin > Run this script (as root), and install the plugin in /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib > when it prompts you. This will copy nppdf.so to > the /opt/MozillaFirefox/lib/plugins directory. > > At this point, you should be able to bring up a pdf properly from Firefox. > (Note: If you are not using Firefox from the standard SuSE location (/opt) > it may be in /usr/local/MozillaFirefox/lib. You da man! This worked. Now I can read this... http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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Updating KDE using smart.
by Erik Jakobsen 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi. I have installed smart on my SuSE Eval 10.0. How do I update KDE to version 3.5 with it. Are there repositories for it or ? Erik Jakobsen

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Re: [SLE] SuSe 10 - Internet issues...
by Kai Ponte 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

> > Sweet, I've finally got SuSe 10 up and running. I'm a rather inexperienced > Linux user, so please, bear with me here. NP. We can all be inexperienced together... > domain and IP address, but I can't find where to specify the address of a > DNS server. Help...please? > Simple. Get into the network setup in YaST. (Is that name going to chagne to YAST, soon?) Assuming you don't have DHCP to auto-detect your network settings, then you will have the "Static Address Setup" radio button selected and your IP/Subnet Mask filled out. Right below will be a panel with the name, "Detailed Settings." The button "Host Name and Server" is what you want. Click on it. The second panel down will have your Name Servers (DNS) entries. Your ISP has probably given you a name server IP address. Fill that in under the Name Server 1 and (optionally) Name Server 2 fields. If, OTOH, you have DHCP, then you should call your ISP to see what's going on. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part

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KDM Login Screen Options
by Randall R Schulz 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi, Is there any straightforward way to get a clock displayed in the KDM login screen? I don't know if it was 9.3 or 9.1, but I know a recent version of SuSE Linux allowed it, but I cannot find such an option any more (and I'm hoping I just don't know where to look). Thanks. Randall Schulz

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Printing problem
by H du Plooy 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi guys, I added my old Deskjet 610C to my SUSE 10.0 system (was in for a service). When trying to print I nothing happens, just some stuff in the logs. Google has not yielded much. Any ideas? Nov 17 23:58:19 rincewind kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). Nov 17 23:58:19 rincewind kernel: pnp: Device 00:0a disabled. Nov 17 23:58:19 rincewind kernel: pnp: Device 00:0a activated. Nov 17 23:58:19 rincewind kernel: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. Nov 17 23:58:19 rincewind kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA] Nov 17 23:58:20 rincewind kernel: parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 610C Nov 17 23:58:20 rincewind kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). Nov 17 23:59:23 rincewind hp: unable to open /var/run/hpiod.port: No such file or directory: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 75 Nov 17 23:59:23 rincewind hp: unable to connect hpiod socket 50000: Connection refused: prnt/hpijs/hplip_api.c 693 Nov 17 23:59:23 rincewind hp: unable to send ProbeDevices: Broken pipe Nov 17 23:59:23 rincewind kernel: lp0: ECP mode Nov 17 23:59:24 rincewind kernel: lp0: ECP mode Nov 17 23:59:24 rincewind kernel: lp0: ECP mode Thanks Hans

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Loading onto USB devices: Any Developments?
by Dennis J. Tuchler 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

I use SuSE 10 and XFCE4. I just loaded 16 MB onto a usb device and it took a very long time. I know that this is a bug that Novell is working on. How will it be made known when the fix has been produced? Is there any indication of progress in this matter? -- Best regards, djtuchler Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 USA

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Cyrus IMAP - Non-local passwords
by Jim Flanagan 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi, I'm setting up Cyrus IMAP on Suse 10.0. I found out how to set up mailboxes using cyradm, have 2 set up so far. One is the same name as a normal login user, and the other is not a login user. Cyrus accepts the login password of the normal login user. How do I set the password on the non-login user to access this user mailbox only? Also, how do I set Cyrus up to only accept connections over imaps (port 993)? Many thanks, Jim Flanagan

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SUSE 10, wireless and default routes and such
by John Summerfield 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

This is on a laptop. How wireless interfaces work on non-portable computers is, I think, a different matter altogether. I installed SUSE 10 while disconnected from my LAN and all was well. Wireless cam up on boot, I got IP address etc, updated resolve.conf and set routes and life was good as far as those things go. I then reinstalled, while attached to LAN by wire and air, and now I can get an IP address, but the other things don't happen. I've used find and grep and vim till I'm blue in the face and I don't see what to change. Yast doesn't give me any options that I can find, and I can't find any likely references to resolv.conf or the various interfaces I've used. Please tell me, what do I change? The most desired behaviour is this: If wire is plugged in, it's configured with IP address etc, routes are set up and resolv.conf is reconfigured. If wireless is plugged in, it's configured with IP address etc, local routes are set up. If wire is not plugged in, then all routes are set up and resolv.conf is reconfigured. If two (or more) wireless devices work, the fastest is configured with default routes and resolv.conf is reconfigured, if there is no wire. Just for the moment, I will settle for wireless working as my primary interface (as it is).

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SuSe 10.0 - System Hanging on Install
by Donald Musser 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi everyone, I'm a relatively new Linux user, trying to install SuSe 10.0 (I'm installing SuSe on my brother's recommendation). I downloaded the ISO files, burned the images to CD, and started the fresh install. I got through installation setup on disc 1, but when it reboots (with disc 1 still in the drive), and I choose "boot from disc" to continue the install, the system hangs after starting the HAL daemon (I don't get into any graphical interface). I tried restarting without the disc, which worked fine...until I got to the next step of the install, where I was instructed to insert disc 2. When I do that, the system hangs completely. Can't switch to another console, ctrl + alt + del does nothing... The support portal lists a possible fix, telling me to manually eject the CD and that SuSe will detect it and instruct me to re-insert the disc. This does not happen for me. Even after going through emergency CD removal, the system remains hung. Please help! -Myles

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RE: id3v2 help
by Martin 01 Dec '05

01 Dec '05

Hi experts, I'd like to ask for a bit of help with using id3v2. My mp3 files have names in form 'author_author__song_name.mp3' and don't have id3 tag at all. I'm trying to get author and song name to id3 tag from file name like this: ls *.mp3 | xargs -n1 -i basename \{\} .mp3 | xargs -n1 -i id3v2 -t `ls *.mp3 | basename \{\} .mp3 | awk -F__ '{print $1}'` -A Greatest_Hits_80s -g Pop {}.mp3 This does not produce what I would expect and title is "author_author__song_name" instead of "author_author". When I try ls *.mp3 | xargs -n1 -i basename \{\} .mp3 | awk -F__ '{print $1}' or ls *.mp3 | xargs -n1 -i basename \{\} .mp3 | awk -F__ '{print $2}' I get author or song_name as expected. How can I combine the two and achieve what I want? Is there any other way to do this? Thx, Martin --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.

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