February 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

mouse/trackball cleaning (OT)
by Doug McGarrett 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Much of the standard "knowledge" says to clean mice and trackballs with alcohol and cotton swabs--Q-Tips. I have found this to be useless. When you open the device, you will find lint on the little rubber rollers that contact the ball. What you need to do is to scrape the lint off, using the edge of a knife blade. Also, look for lint on the roller-bearings at the ends of the axles that the little rubber rollers are on, and get rid of it. Finally, make sure that the little hair-spring wires that push the rollers against the ball are really doing so, or if not, bend them so they do. If there is animal hair adhering to the ball, remove it. This is a job for sure eyes and careful hands, and a good light. I use a high-intensity desk lamp, a sharp pair of tweezers, a small pen-knife, (an X-Acto will work fine) and a binocular magnifier, obtainable from Edmund Scientific, or (cheaper) from several tool companies. You may not need the last, if you are young and sharp-eyed. As you surmise, I have just done the aforementioned task, with good results. --doug

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How do I kill module ds9490r?
by Paul Alfille 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

I use 1-wire devices -- little chips and buttons made by Dallas Semiconductors that can monitor temperature, humidity, voltages, and switch things on and off. In fact there is quite a community around them, with everything from home HVAC and weatherstations, to door access control. The devices connect through either a serial or USB adapter, and that's where my problem lies. I head a software effort that has adapted the chips to linux, as a filesystem, among other ways. See http://owfs.sf.net It worked perfectly until SuSE 9.2 -- and the reason is SUSE now includes a kernel module ds9490r that attaches to the 1-wire USB adapter. And does nothing. It is an idea with no implementation. Unfortunately, I have to manually rmmod the module before my software, which uses libusb can attach to the device. I understand the wish to make SuSE as totipotent as possible out of the box. Loading a module with no utility that breaks existing software doesn't help, however. So, as simpler question, how do I disable autoloading of the ds9490r? Paul

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Script to create folders and move files.
by Rikard Johnels 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Hi all. I need pointers on either where to find help on, or help with a script to create numbered folders. I want to create folders according to the standard; "dd-mm-yyyy-xx" where "dd" is day, "mm" is month, "yyyy" is year and xx is a running number. If one folder "-01" exists the script checks for "-02" etc. Its to transfer all images from a flashcard Here's what i want it to do (Automount of a USB disk. ( /mnt/sda(x) ) check where it is mounted ( sda(x) ) mkdir /mnt/sda(x)/backup/<dated foldername> cp /mnt/sda1/drive/files/* /mnt/backup/<dated foldername>/* rm /mnt/sda1/drive/files/* It really doesnt matter if its in Bash, Perl or whatever. Anything goes as long as it works. -- /Rikard --------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Johnels email : rikjoh(a)norweb.se Web : http://www.rikjoh.com/users/rikjoh Mob : +46 735 05 51 01 PGP : 0x461CEE56 ---------------------------------------------------------------

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What drives the KDE hourglass?
by Pierre Patino 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Hello I'd like to know exactly what triggers the hourglass in KDE. Can someone tell me? I know that I can change its default maximum time but I would like to know exactly what makes it: 1) Appear 2) Spin around 3) Disappear The reason is this: I have a script which launches mozilla if mozilla is not running, otherwise it tells the already running mozilla to open another window.This is to avoid the "multiple instances need multiple profiles" issue. If I mozilla is not running, launching my script from a desktop icon creates a little spinning hourglass which promptly disappears when mozilla loads and a browser window appears. If I launch the script again, another spinning hourglass appears. However, it does not go away until many seconds after mozilla has opened another window. I know that my script has terminated successfully a long time ago too. Any ideas? TIA

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What is good video card for CAD?
by Robert A. Rawlinson 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

I have a wonderful grandson who is going to start in engineering in college. He wants to build a good system for using CAD. Would one of you CAD types mind letting me know what is a good video card for this? TIA. Bob Rawlinson

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Re: [SLE] Browsers take a long time to resolve ip address
by Darryl Gregorash 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Oops -- forgot to readdress to the list. Robert A. Rawlinson wrote: >> Those 2 variables, IPV6_FORWARD and IPV6_PRIVACY, are in >> /etc/sysconfig/sysctl in 9.0, but they may have been moved in 9.1. >> Grep recursively for "IPV6_" in /etc/sysconfig/* They may of course, >> be renamed, so look at the script that turns up when you grep for >> "modprobe". >> > I thank you for all the help you have offered. I did in fact find the > statements you point out in the boot files. I commented them out and > rebooted but > still the problem exists. So as you advised I will have to continue > looking. I will find it eventually. For now I have to get back to the For now, I guess you could just add in a line rmmod ipv6 or perhaps (better?) modprobe -r ipv6 in /etc/init.d/boot.local, and hope it goes away. I don't think the module will be loaded anywhere outside the /etc/init.d/boot* scripts, so that -should- take care of it. Of course, it is also possible SuSEfirewall2 may sense it is not loaded, and load it prior to loading ip6_tables. Sorry I can't help you further on this, I'm running 9.0 and will bypass 9.1 entirely -- my next install will either be 9.2, or whatever comes after that.

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Re: SuSE 9.2 and GA-8TRS350MT mobo
by Andre Truter 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:02:35 +0200, Henry Fourie <henry(a)althalus.co.za> wrote: > > Hi Andre, > > Found this on the net. What was your problem with this and did u managed to > get it solved. > > I have the same motherboard and I'm also trying to istall 9.2. The install > "hangs" when it tries to format the / parition. > I never got it solved. We had to install SuSE 9.1 and stay with the default kernel. As soon as you update the kernel, the same thing happens. Something in the later SuSE kernels is not playing nice with that motherboard. As soon as it starts to read the disk, it just does not get any further. You should be able to switch to different terminals with Ctl-Alt-F1, F2, etc. I ran a top in another terminal and the machine seems to run fine, but the reading of the disk just never get anywhere. Unfortunately there are no error messages, nothing. I tried Bios upgrade, different disks, all kinds of different BIOS settings, but nothing. At this stage your best bet is to go for SuSE 9.1 or a different distro. If I remember correctly, Ubuntu did install, but I had a problem with grub afterwords -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~

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How to update subversion on a Suse 9.0 Pro
by gonews＠free.fr 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hello, I'm working on a Suse 9.0 Pro with Subversion. The installed version is an old one and I would like to update it. > svn --version svn, version 0.27.0 (dev build) compiled Jun 9 2004, 14:52:54 In Yast, my software source media are: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/yast-sour… If I have a look in 'Install and Remove Software' from Yast, things installed are: - subversion 0.27.0-209 (available version 0.27.0-95) - subversion-doc 0.27.0-54 (available version 0.27.0-95) - subversion-server 0.27.0-209 (available version 0.27.0-95) As the latest version (1.1.2) is not available from Yast, I tried to install the RPMs available here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/poeml/subversion/9.0-i386/ So using Konqueror, I tried to install the package subversion-1.1.2-2.i586.rpm but I get dependencies errors: > subversion requires libneon.so.24 and having a look in Yast, I have version 0.23.9-116 installed and Yast does not propose me to upgrade. So I've been looking on the web for it and I found that: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1514988/com/libneon-0.24.7-alt1… Using Konqueror and Yast, I tried to install libneon-0.24.7-alt1.i586.rpm but again I got into trouble: > libneon requires libcrypto.so.4 > libneon requires libggsapi_krb5.so.2 > libneon requires libk5crypto.so.3 > libneon requires libkrb5.so.3 > libneon requires libssl.so.4 and I'm pretty sure that if I try to upgrade these libraries, I will fall on other dependencies problems and so on... So could someone explains me how to cleanly install subversion 1.1.2 on my suse 9.0 ???? Thanks in advance, G.

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Firefox is dead !!
by B. Stia 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi SuSE people, Fired up Firefox and went to a website that said it needed a flash plug-in. OK , let it download it. Plugin downloads and Firefox dies. Try to restart Firefox - nothing - just tries to restart and then just dies and never opens. Restart X -nope ! Reboot - nope! What is this ????? How can a plugin kill an app like Firefox ??? Please help !!!! Bob S.

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[Fwd: Re: [SLE] Wireless lan]
by MJang 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

> My question is, when I fire up Kwifimanager I get info about the second AP but > I want to get trough to the AP connected to the aerial to put in some > filters and see the signal strengths and connection speed. > What can I use to do this, I prefer a GUI but if nothing else I can use the > CLI. > I'm using 9.2. I think the iwlist scanning command provides this information (as long as your network card is connected and there are active APs in range). Are you looking for more? Thanks, Mike

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