June 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

pointing stick on dell latitude d600
by Sunny 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hi, after all I installed successfully 9.3 on this machine. Now the problem I have is, that during the install both the touchpad and the stick (the nice thing between the keys on the keyboard) were working, and I was able to use both to move the mouse pointer. But then, after the install, on the first login, the plugger discovered the "right" type of the device - ALPS DualPoint TouchPad - asked for root password to configure it. And after this "configuration" the stick works no more, as well as its buttons. The touchpad itself and its buttons are OK. As I prefer to use the stick, does anyone know a solution for this problem? I have found a similar post on the suse forums for 9.2, but no solution. Cheers Sunny

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Boosting performance
by Ciro Iriarte 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

I'm running SuSE 9.2 on a Proliant DL380, was working fine, only had problems copy and entire tree from one FS to another (it seems to hang). The backup to tape was during 3 hours. The changes made (/boot/grub/menu.lst): * Deleted the "desktop" kernel parameter * Changed the "elevator" kernel parameter from "as" to "cfq" Now, the backups takes 1h 40 min to finish, any comments? Ciro

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Transfer mail via disk
by John R. Sowden 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

I need to transfer my stored email (kmail) on my Suse 8.0 machine to my new 9.3 box. What I have to traqnfer with is a DVD-RAM drive/media. How do I do this without wiping out my new mail, keeping indices intact, etc. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net www.americansentry.net

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How to remove panel message on Gnome Startup SuSe 9.3?
by Adam Vazquez Kb2Jpd 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

hello from Adam I have been running SuSE 9.3 from 9.2 and usually run Gnome with Metacity. When the panels come up, I keep getting "I've have detected a panel already running, and will not exit" box with a don't enter icon. What do I do to not have this message come up every bootup to Gnome? Thanks in advance. Adam

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9.3 panel boloon boxes too big
by John R. Sowden 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

While we are on this 'too big issue', home do I make the huge "balloon help' boxes on the panel small or non-existant? These are th ones that pop up when the mouse goes oven an icon. -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail(a)americansentry.net www.americansentry.net

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FW: [SLE] rejected email to list
by Greg Wallace 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

On Thursday, June 30, 2005 @ 4:26 AM, I wrote: >On Wednesday, June 29, 2005 @ 7:23 AM, Art Fore wrote: >><suse-linux-e(a)lists.suse.com>: >>ezmlm-reject: fatal: message already has a Mailing-List header (maybe I >>should be a sublist) (#5.7.2) >>--- Below this line is a copy of the message. >>Return-Path: <art.fore(a)comcast.net> >>Received: (qmail 26996 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2005 15:18:38 -0000 >>Received: from unknown (HELO Relay2.suse.de) (195.135.221.8) >> by 0 with SMTP; 29 Jun 2005 15:18:38 -0000 >>Received: from Relay2.suse.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) >> by Relay2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B43451E >> for <suse-linux-e(a)lists.suse.com>; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:18:38 +0200 >>(CEST) >>Received: from Relay2.suse.de ([127.0.0.1]) >> by Relay2.suse.de (Relay2 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with >>ESMTP >> id 06960-09 for <suse-linux-e(a)lists.suse.com>; >> Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:18:37 +0200 (CEST) >>Received: from mx2.suse.de (ns2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) >> (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) >> (No client certificate requested) >> by Relay2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150234509 >> for <suse-linux-e(a)lists.suse.com>; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:18:36 +0200 >>(CEST) >>Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net >>[204.127.202.59]) >> by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B6951D29B >> for <suse-linux-e(a)suse.com>; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:18:36 +0200 (CEST) >>Received: from [192.168.121.33] >>(adsl-71-129-145-33.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net[71.129.145.33]) >> by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP >> id <20050629151826014003p666e>; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:18:32 +0000 >>Message-ID: <42C2BBBB.5080804(a)comcast.net> >>Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:18:19 -0700 >>From: Art Fore <art.fore(a)comcast.net> >>User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) >>X-Accept-Language: en-us, en >>MIME-Version: 1.0 >>To: suse-linux-e(a)suse.com >>Subject: SPAM: Evolution-Thunderbird >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at Relay2.suse.de >>X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.4 tagged_above=-20.0 required=5.0 >>tests=BAYES_80, >> DNS_FROM_RFC_POST, DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS >>X-Spam-Level: ***** >>X-Spam-Flag: YES >This line seems to stick out -- >Received: from [192.168.121.33] >Why is there no name attached to 192.168.121.33? To a spam filter, it >would >seem it would look like it was coming from an address with no real sender >(maybe like it's being generated from some sort of spam engine). Sort of >like you getting a note from me and the "From" being blank. >Greg Wallace I have previously relayed messages through my email account from inside another network and gotten messages back saying I wasn't a registered user. Maybe if the address had been missing my name I would have gotten a spam message instead. Are the messages you have been sending that have been getting trough being relayed, or are you sending those directly from your suse-linux-e registered email address? Greg W.

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glabels
by Donn Washburn 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Hey Group; Whom ever suggested the Gnome program "glabels". Thanks! I downloaded it compiled it and it works great. One question is on a CD label with two labels per sheet, how do you get it to do "Disc 1 of 2" and on the other label "Disc 2 of 2". It is a nifty small program that does about any Avery label plus bar codes, pictures and more -- 73 de Donn Washburn Hpage: " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " 307 Savoy St. HAMs: " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " Sugar Land, TX 77478 BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador LL# 1.281.242.3256 " http://counter.li.org " #279316

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Kmenu Icons Too Big
by Steven Pasternak 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Hi! I use SuSE 9.3 (kde 3.4.0), and on my main user, the icons on the kmenu are unreasonably large. On root or other users, the icons are normal size, but on my account, they are too large. How do I change this? Kcontrol didn't have a module that fixed this (the appearence&themes->icons/advanced didn't help). Thanks! -Steven

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Loading modules at boot
by J. Scott Thayer, M.D. 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Where does one specify additional modules to load at boot. Specifically I want my SCSI driver loaded at boot. Suse support talks about modifying a line in rc.config but I can't find that file and suspect that things have moved on since that was written. Scott

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Suse 9.3 or kde problem with closing lid on IBM Thinkpads
by Khanh Tran 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

I just installed 9.3 and it's great, but I have a Thinkpad X40 which has a problem with the screen. If I close the lid and then open it again, I get about 5% of garbage on the top of the screen. It then offsets the mouse location so I have to click about 5% higher than the actual button. Anyone know how to fix this? I've been running sax2 and just testing the config to reset the screen, but I'd like to not have to do this. Also, I set the action for closing the lid in the thinkpad config to not do anything (turned off suspend). Thanks to anyone who can help... Khanh Tran Network Operations Sarah Lawrence College

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