February 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] OpenSUSE emacs broken out of the box
by Alex Bennee 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, I've upgraded from SuSE 10.1 to OpenSuse 10.2 and have everything working apart from the X11 version of emacs. Attempting to run it I get: 18:36 >emacs -q Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*" to type FontStruct Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" to type FontStruct The whole emacs display is then full of boxes instead of the usual text. If I run with my .emacs it's usually enough to segfault emacs. I did a bit of digging with Google and found the following message: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2006-02/msg00071.html But was unable to glean anything from it. I have pretty much all the fonts installed and everything else seems to be displaying fine. Grepping over /etc/ and /usr/share didn't seem to show anything setup to refer to this font descriptor. A strings on the emacs binary seems to show this is a default config. I did find some mentiones of .Xdefaults and .Xresources on the net but nothing that seemed to make any difference. Besides shoudn't any config magic for emacs be part of the emacs-x11 package so it runs out of the box? As suggested looking at the referenced email I tried looking at how many fonts where installed: >xlsfonts | wc -l 657 However greping for helv or cour didn't show any up. Can anybody offer any light? Is it just me and some artifact of the upgrade or is emacs broken? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Still trying to get DVD to work
by Stevens 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Is there anyone on the list who is running Suse 10.2 whose DVD drive automatically mounts media when inserted? If so, I would like to engage in a chat session to do a "stare and compare" to figure out how my setup differs, because my puter absolutely, positively refuses to automatically mount cd or dvd media. "lshal -m" will detect it's presence, Yast knows when the distro DVD is loaded, but that's it. I have fought with this problem since I installed 10.2 on 7Jan07 and it is to the point that if I cannot resolve the issue, I am kissing Suse goodbye, as the system is almost worthless to me if I cannot use the cd/dvd drive. Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Unfound USB]
by Fred A. Miller 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

On Sunday 04 February 2007 1:49:48 am Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Saturday 03 February 2007 16:34, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > ...openSUSE 10.2 ... > > The box is an HP with AMD Athlon 64 X2 (dual core) 4200, 1G RAM, > > 250G SATA drive....nVidia 6150LE chipset > > ... > > > ...all USB ports ... DON'T (work) with SUSE!! .... > > Hi Fred, > > The problem is with SMP kernel for more than one CPU present in the system: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231118 > the link at the end has typo. Use this one: > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/x86_64/HEAD > and > kernel-default.x86_64.rpm > is link to latest release candidate, now that is rc7. > > You can install rpm, but you need kernel sources to compile nVidia driver > anyway. > > BTW, The 6100 worked fine on Athlon 64, and tradition continues with > FX5200. Same about USB ports. Rajko, didn't you list a source for a new RPM....already compiled? I assume all the needed libs, etc., would also be available? I don't have the time to screw around building a kernel. WAY TOO MUCH on my plate right now. nVidia works fine now. Thanks, Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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re: [opensuse] Default installed kernel
by James Montgomery 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

> I know the default is picked at install time, I just checked my machine and > found it installed 'bigsmp i686', the machine is a single P4 1.5G , I wonder > if this is causing me some of my little problems like my usb troubles?? > > Any Ideas?? > > > Thanks, Mike > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org Mike, Rajko's message regarding the SMP kernel can be found at: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-02/msg00388.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] OT - maybe (kde question)
by Stevens 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

The "My Computer" icon brings up a konqueror window with the sysinfo:/ screen, but what it reports for "Disk Information" is interesting. It has entries for 1) both partitions of this drive, 2) the usb drive that is plugged in and 3) the floppy drive, but I have two other disk drives in the computer, one has 4 partitions and the other has one (ntfs). Both of those drives are disabled in the bios. I can mount them because the OS sees them, regardless of what the bios says. Yast Hardware sees them. Why don't they show up in "My Computer" also? ======= -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] KDE login manager
by Stevens 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

How do I disable the opensuse login manager screen and use KDE's login manager? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Gnome Screensaver not asking for a password
by Rory Slegtenhorst 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Rodrigo, > I suppose you have the 'Lock screen when screensaver is active' option > checked in in the Screensaver preferences, right? Yep :) -- Rory Slegtenhorst rory dot slegtenhorst at gmail dot com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Gnome Screensaver not asking for a password
by Rory Slegtenhorst 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, I'm using SuSE 10.1 and Gnome... I lock my screen using the menubar, but when I move my mouse again, I get my desktop back without being asked for a password... Any idea's on how to fix this? Cheers, -- Rory Slegtenhorst rory dot slegtenhorst at gmail dot com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is.
by Fred A. Miller 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

ANOTHER 64-bit problem, or I think it is. Some apps. like FireFox and OpenOffice come up with a warning about an instance of the app. already running, even though it isn't. FireFox is dead in the water - WON'T run. Openoffice will load, but then won't close so I have to kill it. DON'T tell me I have to put XP Media release back on this sucker!! If SUSE won't run on this 64-bit monster, then I won't be getting an account I've wanted for awhile. :( Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse] Re: Hi
by Samir van de Sand 05 Feb '07

05 Feb '07

Hi, na ! It was like that: I wanted to reply to an email of a friend and apprently it was sent to the Suse mailing list (franky: I've no idea how that happened ..). Top List? You mean I should write my text after the quote? Actually, I think mailing lists are confusing and totally obsolete, but unfortunately the Suse forums don't look too promising so I have to get used to it :D On Monday 22 January 2007 01:39, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Samir van de Sand <samir.vds(a)googlemail.com> [01-21-07 19:34]: > > Dude, sorry ! > > I've misstake you with someone else. As you I'm still getting used to > > Kmaiil :D > > > > regards Samir > > > > On Monday 22 January 2007 01:26, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > * Samir van de Sand <samir.vds(a)googlemail.com> [01-21-07 19:11]: > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > leider hat Andrej momentan meinen USB Stick ausgeliehen. Ich kriege > > > > ihn am Diesntag wieder, dann kann ich dir auch die Dokumente geben! > > > > > > English please. It's an english language list. > > > > > > thankyou > > Aha, kmail doesn't know what language to use. I knew there was > something wrong with it. I wouldn't use it. > > Don't know how you would mistake me for someone else. I'm me and > everybody knows it. :^) > > PLEASE, learn to trim your quotes, and DON'T TOP POST. Explanation > available if you don't understand. Or is that another trait of kmail? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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