March 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE installer won't recognize my mouse
by Maura Edeweiss Monville 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I'm installing SuSE 9.2 (I also tried 9.1) on a PC. he installation seemed to recognize the mouse the fisrt time I launched it (PCS) It's a 2-button and central wheel optic mouse with serial interface (I guess) in fact its plug is green and similar to the keyboard plug. It's not a USB interface. The first installation was interrupted by a power failure while reading the 4th CD (it had already gone throigh the 1st, 2nd,3rd CD). By mistake I touched the power cord with my feet under the desk ..I tried to lo launch SuSE from the hard disk. It started with the login dialog. Unluckily I only had configured the root user and no othe ones. I restarted the simulation from scratch reloading from the CD 1 but since then it never recognized the mouse any more. So I cannot make any choice from the installation menus without the mouse as the arrow keys do not jump over the listed menu choices ... What am I supposed to do ???? Thank you in advance for your help, Maura

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Installing from USB DVD drive
by Bryan Tyson 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

If I have SuSE on DVD but the computer does not have a DVD drive, is it possible to boot with a floppy then launch the installation from an external USB DVD drive? Thank you. Bryan ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 9.2 Professional KDE 3.3.0 KMail 1.7.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson(a)earthlink.net ********************************************************

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numeric keypad "." instead of ","
by Jon Clausen 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I probably *should* know this, but... Workstation; SUSE 9.2 KDE 3.3.0 country/region settings; country: denmark language: US english numbers: decimal symbol: "," thousands separator: "." jon@a13:~> set | grep -i LANG LANG=en_US.UTF-8 I would like to keep the above. Generally I use the numeric keypad to enter ip-addresses all the time. So I would like to have the map the "," key on the keypad to "." Should be simple enough, but I can't seem to dig up the info ATM... TIA /Jon -- YMMV

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Yast2 error
by Jorge Ferrando Monterde 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I get this message when trying to open yast2 install software (f.e. yast2 -i lynx): Segmentation fault at Product.ycp:77 /sbin/yast2: line 194: 5882 Violación de segmento $ybindir/y2base "$module" "$@" ncurses I'm running SuSE 9.2. Any idea? Thanks!!

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Re: [SLE] 9.0 laptop route prob
by wa3knk＠starpower.net 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

New mailer, and I dont see the original, but here goes. Thanks to Ken for the response. Linksys router 80211b. 9.0 on 2 pc's & the Toshiba Satelite 4030cdt. The only one with internet access probs is the laptop as described. It might be relevant that there HAS been a wireless Linksys card plugged in from time to time and recognized by that "--ctrl" ?? command as I tried to make some sense out of that. What command results or file info can I send info about , etc?? Thanks John

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downgrade rpm
by Ryan McCain 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I need to downgrade from openldap2-client-2.2.24-0.1 to openldap2-client-2.2.6-34.i586.rpm. I am doing this because another program I am trying to install requires libler.so.199 and libldap.so.199. These are the versions that come with the openldap2-client I am trying to downgrade to. When I run the command to downgrade I get the following results: omf-h0sck11:~ # rpm -U --oldpackage openldap2-client-2.2.6-34.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) ldapcpplib-0.0.3-28.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libgda-1.0.3-58.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) dirmngr-0.5.5-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-903.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.19-5.2 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwdutils-2.6.90-6.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) opensc-0.8.1-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.53-5.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) kdebase3-3.4.0-12 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-1.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-client-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libsmbclient-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) ldapcpplib-0.0.3-28.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libgda-1.0.3-58.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) dirmngr-0.5.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-903.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.19-5.2 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) gpg-1.2.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwdutils-2.6.90-6.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) opensc-0.8.1-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) multisync-ldap-0.82-7.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.53-5.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) kdebase3-3.4.0-12 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-1.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-client-3.0.13-0.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libsmbclient-3.0.13-0.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-3.0.13-0.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 omf-h0sck11:~ # ... If I attempt to remove the version of openldap2-client installed, I get: omf-h0sck11:~ # rpm -e openldap2-client error: Failed dependencies: liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) ldapcpplib-0.0.3-28.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libgda-1.0.3-58.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) dirmngr-0.5.5-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-903.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.19-5.2 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwdutils-2.6.90-6.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) opensc-0.8.1-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.53-5.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) kdebase3-3.4.0-12 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-1.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-client-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libsmbclient-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) ldapcpplib-0.0.3-28.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libgda-1.0.3-58.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) dirmngr-0.5.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-903.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.19-5.2 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) gpg-1.2.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwdutils-2.6.90-6.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) opensc-0.8.1-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) multisync-ldap-0.82-7.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.53-5.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) kdebase3-3.4.0-12 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-1.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-client-3.0.13-0.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libsmbclient-3.0.13-0.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-3.0.13-0.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 openldap2-client is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 openldap2-client is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 omf-h0sck11:~ # ..I think I'm caught in the preverbial chicken and the egg situation. Any ideas? Thanks, Ryan

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agpgart module
by contiemilio＠virgilio.it 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hello all Is it normal that there is no agpgart module on SuSE 9.2 (x86_64)? Ciao emilio

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MPlayer for SuSE 9.1
by Chaitanya Krishna A 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

hi all, 1.Can anyone suggest a repository for MPlayer for SuSE 9.1? 2.How do I play .dat files? Most of the videos that I want to play are in this format. 3.Whenever I try to open an mpg video file with noatun, xine, or kaffeine, I just get a blank screen and only the audio plays. But if I have Xine running in the background and I also have Kaffeine running and play the .mpg file in Kaffeine, the clip plays. Can anyone suggest what's happening? Kindly let me know how I can play the .mpg movies properly. I meddled with all the menus in Xine and Kaffeine, but in vain. Thanks for your time and help. bye. chaitanya. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Recover question - no kernel
by Moby 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I have a need to reinstall the kernel on a SuSE 9.2 box using the install CDs and booting into rescue mode. The original root partition was at /dev/hda4 and the original /boot was /dev/hda2. Both / and /boot are resierfs. Kernel source and binary RPMS exist on the original / (/dev/hda4) under /home/raw/kernel. Here at the steps I am taking and the issue I keep on facing: 1) Boot off SuSE 9.2 CD1, choose Rescue, login as root. 2) cd /mnt. Then mkdir t4. Then mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/t4. 3) chroot /mnt/t4. 4) mount /dev/hda2 /boot At this point, my file system is back the way it used to be before I destroyed the kernel. Now to install the kernel I have tried using the binary rpms as well as compiling the installing from sources. The problem is that both steps, installing the binary RPMs or making from source, apparently look for information under /sys. In my case, /sys goes away at step (3) above. I understand /sys is a "virtual" file system. My question is how do I get my kernel back? I would like to install a binary RPM instead of compiling and installing my own. However, even when installing from the binary RPM, I see complaints about being unable to find items under /sys. I think this makes it unable to produce a proper initrd, and as a result of which, even though the RPM appears to install fine and I see all the proper looking files at all the right places, on a reboot the machine complains about waiting for /dev/hda4 and then gives up. It seems that the use of /sys severely hinders a quick recovery, such as simply booting as in steps (1) through (4) above and installing the binary kernel RPM. Thanks in advance for any help -- --Moby They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me. -- Pastor Martin Niemöller

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downgrade rpm
by Ryan McCain 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I need to downgrade from openldap2-client-2.2.24-0.1 to openldap2-client-2.2.6-34.i586.rpm. I am doing this because another program I am trying to install requires libler.so.199 and libldap.so.199. These are the versions that come with the openldap2-client I am trying to downgrade to. When I run the command to downgrade I get the following results: omf-h0sck11:~ # rpm -U --oldpackage openldap2-client-2.2.6-34.i586.rpm error: Failed dependencies: liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) ldapcpplib-0.0.3-28.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libgda-1.0.3-58.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) dirmngr-0.5.5-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-903.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.19-5.2 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwdutils-2.6.90-6.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) opensc-0.8.1-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.53-5.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) kdebase3-3.4.0-12 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-1.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-client-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libsmbclient-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) ldapcpplib-0.0.3-28.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libgda-1.0.3-58.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) dirmngr-0.5.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-903.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.19-5.2 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) gpg-1.2.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwdutils-2.6.90-6.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) opensc-0.8.1-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) multisync-ldap-0.82-7.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.53-5.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) kdebase3-3.4.0-12 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-1.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-client-3.0.13-0.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libsmbclient-3.0.13-0.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-3.0.13-0.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 omf-h0sck11:~ # ... If I attempt to remove the version of openldap2-client installed, I get: omf-h0sck11:~ # rpm -e openldap2-client error: Failed dependencies: liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) ldapcpplib-0.0.3-28.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libgda-1.0.3-58.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) dirmngr-0.5.5-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-903.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.19-5.2 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwdutils-2.6.90-6.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) opensc-0.8.1-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.53-5.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) kdebase3-3.4.0-12 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-1.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-client-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libsmbclient-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-3.0.13-0.1 liblber-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) ldapcpplib-0.0.3-28.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libgda-1.0.3-58.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) dirmngr-0.5.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-903.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.19-5.2 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) gpg-1.2.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwdutils-2.6.90-6.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) opensc-0.8.1-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) multisync-ldap-0.82-7.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) apache2-2.0.53-5.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) kdebase3-3.4.0-12 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-2.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) evolution-data-server-1.2.0.0.200503210410-0.snap.ximian.10.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-client-3.0.13-0.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) libsmbclient-3.0.13-0.1 libldap-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) samba-3.0.13-0.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) pwlib-1.8.0-3.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openh323-1.15.0-3.1 libldap_r-2.2.so.7 is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 openldap2-client is needed by (installed) postfix-2.1.5-3.1 openldap2-client is needed by (installed) openldap2-2.2.15-5 omf-h0sck11:~ # ..I think I'm caught in the preverbial chicken and the egg situation. Any ideas? Thanks, Ryan

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