September 2005 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

help for sight impaired people
by Doug McGarrett 09 Dec '05

09 Dec '05

Some weeks ago I inquired here about assistance for those who have difficulty seeing, as I am one, at present. I am effectively blind in the left eye and have cataract in the right. Some of this may be ameliorated in the future, some will probably not be. Nothing came back at all. The font in K-Mail out-going is about 8 point on my 17" screen, as is the font on the message names for the incoming mail. I have not been able to change this, altho the actual incoming message font I was successful in changing. I do not have access to my Windows machine at present, due to mechanical failure, and this is the only way I have to communicate. Is there no way to make SuSE Linux friendly to optically-challenged users? Please, someone, reply. --doug

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PC running (SuSE 8.2 Pro / WinME) bootloader lilo -> grub
by Mick Higgins 08 Dec '05

08 Dec '05

Hi List, I have belatedly made the change from lilo to grub carefully converting my lilo config to grub'ese. It seems to work as expected. However, I have a couple of questions which I cannot track down in any off-line source (man, info, howto's etc.) and I am not able to trawl google or list archive with a time-limited unmetered dial-up connection at present. 1. In lilo I always used the boot-floppy option so as not to upset WinME. How do I do something similar in grub? 2. When the bootloader menu appeared in lilo I could interactively overide the default runlevel (ie: boot to runlevel 3 not 5) when necessary. How is this achieved in the grub menu? I will accept a URL to the appropriate list archive entry or web page. Apologies if this has been dealt with before. -- ** Message sent via KDE KMail v1.7.2 on SuSE Linux v8.2 ** Please reply in the format that this message is sent. ** Thanks.

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NTP set up in YAST is loosing time
by Peter B Van Campen 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Hi, I have used NTP in previous SUSE 9.X, but on 9.3 I used YAST to set up NTP. YASTs dialog says that it will sync to a time server at bootup. In the past I am sure that the local PC was re-sync'd quite often. I rarely ever saw a difference of more than a second between my "Atomic" wall clock or watch. But now I see the PCs time getting more and more 'off' the longer it has been booted. This is irritating and non-intuitive. The systems should stay in sync with the 'official' time servers. One should NOT have to re-boot just to get the clock back in sync. Is the a way to tell the system to regularly 'sync up'? Has anyone out there found a way to keep a 9.3 system time accurate? PeterB

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Touchpad
by meister＠netz00.com 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi, I have a Acer Aspire 3022WLMi Laptop with a Synaptics touchpad. If I install ksynaptic I can configure a lot of features, but I can't make the touchpad recognize a finger tap as a click. If I uninstall ksynaptic everything works again. Somebody else with this problem? If I use YaST to configure the display, sometimes I get very strange values for HorizSync and VertRefresh. If I switch to runlevel 3 and run sax2 the detection works better. I tried to activate the internal modem by loading snd-atiixp-modem, but it always complains: ALSA sound/pci/ac97/ac97_codec.c:2060: MC' 97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xff00) It doesn't matter wether I load the snd-atiixp module before or after snd-atiixp-modem. If I remove snd-atiixp-modem and use hsfmodem, it works. Has anyone made snd-atiixp-modem work? -- mdc

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Time
by jim 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Why is it everytime you boot into Suse10, that the time is different, the time zone doesn't change. Jim

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Re: [SLE] new kernels, nvidia, yast
by Robert Paulsen 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 18:42, Peter Nikolic wrote: > On Wednesday 10 August 2005 00:26, Donn Washburn wrote: > > You will also need a completely configured kernel source for NVidia's > > file to run > > You might also check subfs in /usr/src/kernel-modules > > SNIP > > Say WHAAAAAAA! if it is a stock SUSE keernel you need to do NO SUCH THING > AT ALL . > > if you play with fire with the kernel.org kernels then maybe but the stock > suse upgrades do not need touching at all install all four kernel update > files then you need do nothing but what i said previousley as i have been > doing for too long to remember .. > What you said previously: > cd to the place you have the driver stored the for suse 9.2 do > " ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run -q" accept the driver answer yes to the > rest of the questions about the installed driver , Driver installs then " > init 5" bingo X and KDE or the other one up and running if you had a > previous NVIDIA driver installed there is NO NEED for the sax2 bit (that > always fails big time for me any how so i hand brew things ) That didn't work for me with the latest upgrade. When I executed the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.run it said there was no matching driver found and offered to compile it for me -- which worked just fine. I am running the SMP kernel. Don't know if that is why it couldn't find the driver. # uname -a Linux paulsen 2.6.11.4-21.8-smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux If you examine the executable you will see that it is a script file with some binary drivers embedded into it. The text portion of the file lists the supported kernels and the list doesn't include the latest SuSE kernel (smp or not). The script then checks the Nvidia ftp server and can't find it there either. For the compile to work, you do need to first install the kernel source and do the following, as root: # cd /usr/src/linux # make cloneconfig # make prepare

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ftp.gwdg.de really slow recently?
by Osho GG 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

Hi, I have been using the apt repositories at ftp.gwdg.de for a while now. I have never had any problems with them. However, I have been observing lately that it has become really slow in the last month or so. Does anyone share this experience? Does anyone have any recommendation for a ftp mirror (preferably in us) that is updated reasonably quickly and has apt repositories mirrored? thanks, -- Osho

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OpenOffice 2.0
by James Knott 20 Oct '05

20 Oct '05

Now that OpenOffice 2.0 RC1 is available, does anyone know if a SuSE version is available yet? And if so, where? tnx jk

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stable,updated,zero-cost,FLOSS virus software
by David Storrs 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

What are people using for anti-virus software? I've got BitDefender running on my machine, but I'd like to find something zero-cost that has a nice GUI so that when I set up boxes for friends and family, they can use it. Regularly (and automatically) updated virus definitions are a must, here. Dave

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YOU security update error
by steve 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Hi SuSEWatcher tells me that new security updates are available so I run Yast>Online Update But I get an error: Retrieving acroread: "Adobe Reader for PDF Files" ... Retry Retrieving acroread: "Adobe Reader for PDF Files" ... Aborted ERROR(You:RPM has invalid signature.) Any ideas how to get rid of this?

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