June 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[SLE] Lost communication with my keyboard!
by John Perry 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Note that all the following is from memory; I can't log into my computer, so I'm using my wife's XP machine for this message. Yesterday I decided to see what the Google Earth stir was all about. So, I downloaded it, installed it, and it didn't run. Terminated with a message like "Rage 128 timed out". I have an old ATI Rage 128 Ultra video card (at least that's what the Yast hardware program tells me), and an Envision 17" monitor. The Google Earth readme says I should have 3D acceleration enabled, so I looked into the video settings. I looked into the 9.0 paper manual and found reference to 3Ddiag, ran it, and it said 3D was working fine. So I went into sax2 to change the video mode to 3D, since I remembered that 3D on my card was "experimental, therefore dangerous", and I'd never had a need for it before. Apparently I was already in 3D accelerated mode, but I noticed that my monitor was set up for a 15" Envision. I reset it to the correct 17" selection, and, since it seemed to work fine, I restarted my machine. I'm now stuck at the KDE login prompt, able to move the mouse but not key in any characters to give my password. I'm pretty sure I made no other changes. I can boot up in safe mode, and I can deal with the command line and vi with no problem, but I don't know what to change to get my keyboard back in normal mode. Can anyone help? This is the first serious problem I've had since upgrading to 10.1, and I really need this machine, or I'd dig back into the manuals myself. John Perry -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] KDE Question
by Wagner, Steven G 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Maybe the wrong list for this question, but I'm running 10.1 and somehow I deleted the main menu button on my desktop. I'm running on a laptop and the touchpad mouse sometimes is so sensitive it causes unwanted actions. I moused over the menu bar and it flickered and disappeared. I got _a_ menu bar back that lists all my apps, but I liked the default the way it was with the recent documents area and everything. Anyone know a quick way to revert to the default? I've been all through KDE Control Center and can't find a configuration window for this. Thanks, Steven Long Live LAMP! www.gentoo.org www.apache.org http://dev.mysql.com/ www.php.net/ ...because Windows/IIS/MySQL/PHP = WIMP! Check it out: http://digital9ja.tripod.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.3/374 - Release Date: 6/23/2006 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Gnome functions..
by Anders Norrbring 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

I'm trying to use Gnome instead of my old KDE, but I can't figure out how to open a file browser/manager WITHOUT opening the entire desktop via a X-session over SSH. In KDE, I simply used 'konqueror / &' to start it, but how do I accomplish the same task in Gnome? If I use 'nautilus', it first starts the file browser, then the entire desktop.. Kinda annoying. -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Two 10.1 install problems unsolved.
by Mike Adolf 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

I am new to SuSe and I like it. After installation I was able to configure most of what was not done during installation. However, two problems remain. 1. I have no system sounds (startup... shutdown). All other sounds (CD, TV, DVD, sound files) work ok. 2. Small fonts. It seems that KDE apps have "normal" sized fonts. But, non KDE apps ( Gnucash, Netbeans 5.0, FireFox, My own java apps) have a font too small for confortable reading. On other distributions I have used, these apps had normal sized fonts, so I don't think I should have to configure each separately (which I don't know how to do). Mike -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Suse 10.0 + Samba
by Szili Péter 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hy everybody I installed Suse 10.0 OSS with Samba. When I Use XP pro client, that works fine, but when I use with Win98 client, I can't to run some readonly EXE files. This EXE is Clipper 5.2e program, linker: blinker 3.20 Why ? Szili Peter szilipeter(a)tvnetwork.hu My smb.conf: ... # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2006/06/23 15:13:11 [global] workgroup = STATUS server string = Samba Server map to guest = Bad User time server = yes server signing = Auto socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY printcap name = CUPS mangling method = hash os level = 2 preferred master = no local master = no domain master = no ldap ssl = No valid users = szp read list = szp write list = szp veto files = /*.eml/*.nws/riched20.dll/*.{*}/ store dos attributes = Yes strict locking = Auto delete readonly = Yes restrict anonymous = no max protocol = NT [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/tmp create mask = 0600 printable = Yes browseable = No [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/drivers write list = @ntadmin, root force group = ntadmin create mask = 0664 directory mask = 0775 [fdrv] path = /home/szerver/fdrv admin users = szp acl check permissions = No acl map full control = No guest ok = Yes nt acl support = No afs share = Yes case sensitive = No veto oplock files = /*.exe/*.EXE/ map system = Yes map hidden = Yes oplocks = No strict locking = No dos filetimes = No msdfs proxy = no

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[SLE] Mailing Lists
by ianseeks 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi Does anyone know if there is a decent program/way to read the lists.suse.com archives without using a browser? I'd love to be able to search all the month for suse-linux-e in one go rather than a month at a time. regards Ian -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Screen blanking problem in 10.1?
by Ted.Harding＠nessie.mcc.ac.uk 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi Folks, I'm asking this on behalf of someone else, whose new to Linux and has recently installed SuSE-10.1 -- unfortunately the latest SuSE I have is 7.2, so I'm not familiar with the details of recent configuration procedures! Here is the information he has given: Ever since putting SUSE 10.1 on the PC the graphics card shuts down the signal to the monitor after 5 minutes of no activity. I have set the power management to never and have no screen saver active so was wondering if it is a SUSE known problem. It is becoming a bit of a pain. Also found that if I set the power management to maximum 1 hour then the screen blanks after one hour but if I set it to never then the screen blanks after 5 minutes. The screen comes back if (e.g.) a key is touched, so it's a normal screen-blanking, I think. This looks like something not behaving as it should. Has anyone experienced this, and can suggest a work-round? It's also possible that, as a beginner, he has overlooked something. With thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding(a)nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-Jun-06 Time: 21:57:52 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Wireless issues on 9.3
by ianseeks 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

HI Using Proxim Gold on Suse 9.3. This was working brilliantly when I first installed it, WPA worked and always connected to the router. But since doing an update via Yast earlier this year, WPA stopped working so i reconfigured the router to stop WPA (i know - not safe) and all was well again. I've just done another update to KDE 3.5.3 and now the card will not go live until i run Yast/Network Devices/Network Card. If I exit once it shows me the cards available its fine, but if I change the IP address or something and then Finish so SuseCOnfig runs, it stops the card working again. I've tried stop/starting /etc/init.d/network but that does not make a difference. Anyone have any ideas? Does anyone know if the Proxim Gold works ok on 10.1 - I'm very reluctant to upgrade my laptop until they have sorted out the Updating issues and, I think, some issues with wireless networking (maybe they don't affect Proxim). regards Ian -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] I want to refuse emails with future date
by Ronald Wiplinger 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Does anybody know how to add a feature in procmail that would check the arriving email and if it is an email of more than 12 hours ahead just drop it? Same for emails that arrives after 72 hours. bye Ronald -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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[SLE] Evolution or Thunderbird
by CS - Ronald Wiplinger 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Since I am on Linux I used many different email programs. In the last years Mozilla or now Thunderbird. At a new installation I made recently I came across Evolution. Questions: 1. what are the benefits of Evolutions or Thunderbird? 2. how to move over to Evolutions from Thunderbird? bye Ronald -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help(a)suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq(a)suse.com

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