October 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Unable to Start SLAB Menu
by Chee How Chua 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Hi, I'm running openSUSE 10.3, Gnome. Recently, the SLAB menu stopped running - meaning that I don't see it on the menu panel at the bottom. I've tried adding it using 'Add to Panel', but it still doesn't appear. This happened after I tried to open a directory on my local file system. I have no idea why Nautilus hung on me while I'm opening a folder. This happened to ONE particular nested folder. Nautilus had no problems with all other folders on my system. >From gnome-terminal, I'm able to open the directory. The problem happens only when I open it with Nautilus. So everytime it hung, I force-quit it since it turned 'dark' (Compiz way of saying 'it hung'). After doing this a couple of times, now SLAB does not appear at all. I've since removed the problematic directory but it does not solve the problem. In addition, every time after boot up, the first time I log into the desktop, the menu panel at the bottom is blank. I have to do a CTL-ALT-Backspace to restart the X-server once to revive the menu panel. On a related note, every time I add Deskbar to the panel, a crash window appears. This symptom has always been there since the first time I installed openSUSE 10.3. Could these two problems be related? Appreciate any advise. Cheers, Chua -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] FW_REDIRECT and masquerade
by primm 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

I want 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.3 to have a direct internet connection. I want 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.5 to use squid on 3128. In 10.2 I masqueraded 2 and 3 and redirected 4 and 5. On 10.3 my 10.2 SuSEfirewall2 script redirects but doesn't masquerade even though I changed the if names. There's a router 192.168.1.1. It takes internet traffic from an adsl router routing external telephone lines stuff to 192.168.0.1. This works fine. Everyone can see the Internet on 3128. Sometimes though I turn off the proxy. Experienced lan setters uppers will know why. But I still want 1 and 2 to have Internet access. I have joe's own wordstar, yast, and my old 10.2 script to hand. For me, the 10.3 yast masquerade dialogue totally confuses what seems a simple issue which I had working fine in 10.2. I'm root on 192.168.1.1. How do I procede? Love from Lynn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Epson Perfection 4990 Photo..........con't.
by Fred A. Miller 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Even though there were reports that the drivers for this beast would run on a Linux 64-bit system, they won't. So, just to be able to use the scanner, I'm back to 32-bit 10.3 and a slower system.....ugh! Now that it's running, it won't do any higher res. than 2400, even though it's supposed to do 4800x9600.....oh well. I ought to be used to this by now after all these years, but I'm not. :( Fred -- This message originated from a Linux computer using Open Source software: openSuSE Linux 10.3. No Gates, no Windows....just Linux - STABLE & SECURE! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] More about ati drivers
by Hudibras 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Hi, I've been reading all these compiz, ati and XGL messages, but results are not so good as expected. I've recently installed new ati 8.42.3 driver. It works, but some odd things happened. My ati card is a Radeon X300 Series. Kernel 2.6.23.1. When I try to open ATI Catalyst Control Center, it says that ati driver is not installed, or not well configured. I've done every explanation in http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~cyberorg/2007/10/24/ati-8433-on-opensuse-the-… but I'm not satisfied with the results. I've deleted compiz-icon, because it completely freezed X (windows refresh was about several minutes). So, my question is: what is left in order to get a right XGL? Am I doing something wrong? Is 8.41 driver better than this new one? Is it necessary to have installed and execute compiz-fusion icon? As you see, they are so many questions, so I've decided to write, because I'm in a real mess. Thanks a lot in advance, AOP. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Grub on CD
by Clive Rogers 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Hello All, I have a friend who is trying Linux after listening to me go on about how good and stable it is for a few years. He is happy to install to a partition on his harddrive but is not happy to have grub in his mbr. So my question is can grub be put onto a CD so if he wants to boot into linux he puts the CD in to the drive and let it boot into linux ? If he can how would he go about putting a bootable copy of grub on a CD ? -- Kindest regards, Clive http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fighting for darker skies. From 52:26ºN 01:27ºW (Coventry, UK) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Making MP3s - SUSE 10.3
by James Knott 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

How the #@$@#$ do you make MP3's in SUSE 10.3? There was a utility in 10.2 that I used to create them. Kaffine appears able to create .ogg files, but not mp3. However, I don't have a portable player that handles .ogg. I can't figure out how to get Amarok to even play a CD!!! tnx jk -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Where can I download the kernel source rpm for 10.3?
by Aaron Siegel 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hello I have just recently upgraded to OpenSuSE 10.3 and would like to install the kernel source so I can start building the custom modules. I have not been able to find this package. I have look in the oss-src repository; http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/src-oss/suse/src/linux-…. It appear only the header are available. Where is can I download the kernel source package? Thank you Aaron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] PERC2/SC and SLES10
by Chris Arnold 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

I have an old test dell poweredge 4300 with a PERC2 raid card. I use to have SLES9 installed on this box with no problems. I need to see if i can get zimbra mail and edir installed and working together on the same system but with 2 NIC's. During the install of SLES10, while probing for hard disks, it reports "no hard disks found". Do you have to load the PERC driver during the install manually? Shouldn't SLES10 find this old raid card and load the drivers? Anyone else seen this before? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] device designation
by Dennis J. Tuchler 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

I want to mount a printer on a usb port. I can't find the device designation of a usb port. Please help. -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] nVidia and Acrobat question
by Igor Jagec 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

I update my system every day, but I noticed that some packages are still outdated. For instance nVidia proprietary drivers and Acrobat Reader. Do you have any plans to update these packages? Cheers! -- Igor Jagec

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