May 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

#2 - Followup - SuSE 10.1 / VLC / libdns_sd.so.1
by Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, I am trying to install VLC from apt 10.1 repository (for SuSE 10.1). However, VLC requires libdns_sd.so.1, which is not available. Its seems it belongs to avahi-compat-mDNSResponder, but it also available in packman repository. Thanks in advance.

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Can't install with official DVD
by Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) 27 May '06

27 May '06

I'm sorry if this is the wrong list for that kind of question, but I really don't want to subscribe to suse-linux-e just to ask about this simple matter. I've downloaded the official DVD image. Checked the MD5SUM, and it's ok. But when I try to install on a VMware machine, it still complains about the "No catalog found". I've generated another DVD using makeSUSEdvd and it work perfectly. Any other complains about the official DVD not working? -- % Mauricio Teixeira (netmask) % mteixeira{a}webset{d}net <> Maceio/AL/BR % http://mteixeira.webset.net <> http://pmping.sf.net

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GNOME Printing problems
by Felipe Alfaro Solana 27 May '06

27 May '06

Hi, I've set up a machine with SUSE Linux 10.1. I've also set up an additional Linux machine running CUPS configured with and sharing an HP LaserJet 4050 printer with 4 trays, A4 as default paper size, and using the PostScript driver. Once logged into SUSE Linux 10.1 I can see the exported printers but the print dialog from any GNOME application will show US Letter as the default paper size and won't allow me to change the tray since the source media tray dropdown appears grayed out. What is extremely curious is that OpenOffice.org, KDE applications, KPrinter and Mac OS X allow me to choose to print to any of the 4 trays and A4 appears as the default paper size. Any idea on what is happing here? Thank you very much.

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Re: [SLE] KVM switch?
by James Knott 27 May '06

27 May '06

My Group wrote: > I don't know about that one, but the Tripplite works fine. They should > all be comparable. You have to simply press a few keys to switch between > machines, and that will switch over the kvm. I have a Bytelan KVM, which works well, except for that mouse problem. Others have reported similar problems with other makes.

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can't reinstall 10.0
by Doug McGarrett 27 May '06

27 May '06

Ok, now what am I doing wrong? I have a CD player, and the professional CD's, and I installed Linux 10.0 once, but now I can't seem to do it. I tell the machine CD boot, and then I tell it install, and then it comes up "mouse checker" or something like that, and with either a USB or a PS2 mouse, it can't find the mouse, and everything stops at that point. With the presently installed version of 10.0, which has a serious email problem, either kind of mouse works fine. Is the mobo kaput, or is it me? I would be happy to just fix the email, but I cannot take a chance on it coming up in Chinese anymore. It has to be _fixed_ before I try to check email on that machine. I have also tried the repair, or whatever they call it, from the existing system, but I am completely snowed by what comes up after that. One would think the system would go thru all the files and find the ones that are corroded, and fix them, but that doesn't seem to be the case. What next? TIA--doug -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 5/26/2006

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SUSE 10.1, Fonts and Mono-extermination
by Alvaro Aguilera 26 May '06

26 May '06

Hello, after some discussion with myself about installing or not version 10.1, I couldn't resist and finally installed it, now I have some questions that perhaps someone can answer. My first problem are the fonts, they are just horrible... how can I set the fonts as they were in suse 10? I tried editing the .fonts.conf and adding the "autohint"-thing as someone pointed out, but it didn't show any results. I downloaded the m$ fonts with the script but it doesn't have any effect either... do I have to set the fonts per hand form the kde control center? Second problem: Software updater: It is ugly and doesn't work. Is there a way to go back to the nice susewatcher? I see that mono-stuff was added into yast, or sort of. Can I delete the whole mono-thing and downgrade the current alpha-version yast module for package-management to the old, stable and qt-centric one? Any hints are appreciated. Regards, Alvaro.

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Installing Fonts
by Donald D Henson 26 May '06

26 May '06

I'm running SuSE 10.0. I have a TrueType font file that I would like to install. Google turned up a couple of procedures but they looked very error-prone plus they had been there awhile and could be out of date. I thought there was a routine in YaST that would do what I want but I can't seem to find it. Can anyone point me to a practical and safe way to install a single TrueType font? My undying appreciation for a good answer. Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules

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cisco vpn client
by Peter Van Lone 26 May '06

26 May '06

I have followed Kai's how to instructions at: http://www.perfectreign.com/modules/articles/article.php?id=3 and everything seems to work, but: 1)the icon on the desktop fails to launch the client. No term window comes up, no connection is made. I get a spinny thing for a few sec in the panel, and then ... nothing. 2)I cannot connect unless I su first. Is that normal? One has to have root priveledges to establish a vpn connection? Any ideas how to address these issues? P -- Atheism is a non-prophet organization

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Workaroud for a SATA nForce 250 SCSI Parity Error problem
by hatespam00-mlist＠yahoo.com 26 May '06

26 May '06

Hi everyone, I have the following configuration: MSI K8N NEO2-FX,nForce3 250Gb,Socket-939 Raid, ATX, SATA, GbLAN, Sound, AGP8X AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8GHz Socket 939 1Gb kit DDR PC3200 Premier Dual Channel - OCZ XFX GeForce FX5500 128MB DDR, AGP8X, Tv-Out, DVI-I, Retail Maxtor DiamondMax 10 160GB SATA2 8MB 7200RPM LG DVD Drive, GDR-8164RBB, 16x52, Black OEM Eventually, not without struggling, I managed to install and run SLES 9 64bit + SP3 on this box (I use it as a very small office server running TFTP, FTP, Apache and Samba). The trick was to lower the CAS settings on the memory and use ide=nodma. So with these settings it was running fine for a month or so. Now I want to “upgrade” it to SUSE 10.0 or SUSE 10.1 64bit since I need some packages from those releases that seem to be a hassle to install them in SLES 9 (i.e. MIT Kerberos 5). The problem is that I just can’t install them. Tried with both and hit the same issue: once I select “update” option and the installer tries to mount existing Linux partitions, I can see on the logger that infamous “SCSI Parity Error”, “device busy”, timeout and I/O errors while accessing the hard drive. And the only way out is to use the POWER RESET button. SLES 9 seems to mount the SATA as an IDE (/dev/hdg1 thus I can use ide=nodma to get around the issue) but SUSE 10.X sees it as a SCSI drive (dev/sda) and thus ide=nodma. Both use sata_nv module. Now all I want is somehow install SUSE 10.X on it – don’t care about performance. Is it any way I can “force” SUSE10.X installer to “mount” the SATA disk as an IDE disk and not as a SCSI – the same way SLES 9 does ? Is there any updated sata_nv module I could use ? Or can I use any other “generic” module for this SATA chipset and drive ? Your thoughts on this matter will be very much appreciated. Thank you. Best regards, Florin

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ATI Propriety Linux Driver
by Ralph Ellis 26 May '06

26 May '06

I just installed the ATI Proprietary Linux Driver on my system and I just thought that I would toss out a few comments for those people who are thinking about doing this upgrade. I have an ATI Radeom 9600XT card with 256mg in an 8X AGP slot. In Windows it can do 2D and 3D acceleration but is not particularly fast for heavy duty gaming. I mainly use this as a home business machine so that is not a big issue. It can play DVDs just fine with no dropped frames. The standard Suse Linux 10.1 driver for this card will do 2D acceleration but not 3D. I know from installing the ATI Propriety driver in Suse 10.0 that installation was a little tricky and it never did allow 3D acceleration. The installation process is much simpler this time around because you do not have to run an elaborate X11 installation and configuration routine after the install. Once the driver is installed all you have to do is run an aticonfig --initial script in your /usr/X11R6/bin directory. When you run the full ATI installer as opposed to the smaller XOrg or XFree86 packages, you have a choice of an Automatic install where it picks the package for your or do a Custom install to support either XOrg or XFree86 or to Generate a Specific Driver package based on your kernel and Linux distribution. The Generate a Specific Driver option is the most compatible with whatever your current hardware or software is so I choose that option, ran it in a terminal as root and then ran the aticonfig --initial script. Everything worked fine but 3D acceleration was still not enabled but I did have a choice of a two head display which I did not need. I rebooted the system and started up in Suse 10.1 Failsafe mode with no graphics. I logged in as root, ran YAST and when I went to change the graphics card configuration, the SAX system immediately suggested a configuration. I accepted this configuration without changing it, saved and rebooted. The SAX system correctly changed the acceleration to 3D, disabled the option for a second display, altered some font sizes and reset the AGP handling from the Agpgart system that Suse usually uses to its own setup. My card cannot fully support Xgl. It will run but the speed penalty is huge for my card. I would need a new high end graphics card to support Xgl fully. If you want Xgl, I would suggest only using a card on their official hardware compatibility list. Good luck on your own fiddling Ralph Ellis

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