July 2007 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] a good small font for developing with gvim?
by Zhang Weiwu 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Dear list I had been developing by open xterm, maximize it, run vim in it. The benefit is it happen to be more than 160 columns wide, allow me to split vertically to edit two related programs each at 80-column width. It has 3 problems: I. sometimes vim in xterm stop responding suddenly, and never coming back, reason unknown; II. my color schema doesn't work because xterm support limited number of colors III. I prefer gvim for its menu. I'd like to select a small font for gvim so that I can maximize vim window and use two 80-column window inside of it without xterm. That way I need a font at 6 pixel wide. I cannot found such a font. in xfontsel I select 6 for pxlsz and only two fonts are available: "clean" and "fixed", both are two small to be readable at 6 pixel (then what font xterm is using that is readable even at 6 pixel??) and both are not selectable in gvim's choose font dialog. Can someone recommend me a 6-pixel-wide readable font (like the one used by default in xterm) and usable in gvim? Thanks in advance! P.S. maybe the best solution is to run at 1280 px wide screen with 8-pixel font, which is 160 column wide, but yet what I need is 161 column wide because there is one column used as separator:( -- Zhang Weiwu Real Softservice http://www.realss.com +86 592 2091112 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] RealPlayer
by Jerry Feldman 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

My wife decided to subscribe to the Big Brother feeds (ugh!) and wants to view them on my laptop. However, RealPlayer 10 gives me error messages when I try to open a URL both on SuSE 10.1 and Suse 10.2. http://www.real.com/bigbrother If I try to use an http URL from Real Player it complains. I clicked on the signin, and it tries to load signin.rnx. In any case, I know this is an RTFM, but my wife wants to be portable. As I mentioned, I have RealPlayer 10 and Helix installed. I did a quick search on the OpenSuse archives and was not able to find the information I needed. (I know this was discussed before, but as I mentioned, I was not able to locate the info I needed). -- Jerry Feldman <gaf(a)blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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[opensuse] Firefox 2.0.0.4-8.3 not showing some JPEGs
by Carlos F Lange 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Hi, I updated my Firefox from http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/SUSE_Linux_10.1/ to 2.0.0.4-8.3 a couple of days ago and now it cannot display some JPEG images, such as the background image showing 3 suns in my old symposium page: http://www.mece.ualberta.ca/space/ and an image of the Foleo that should show up below the video here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=606&tag=nl.e540 If I try to load the image alone in this case I get: The image “http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/images/foleo.JPG” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. Anyone else getting this? Older Firefoxes I have don't show this problem. -- Carlos FL Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Network install frustration
by John Bennett 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

I have spent the last 8 hours trying to install on a PC with a CD and no floppy..... I have an Opensuse 10.2 DVD, and a PC running it on the network, but for the life of me, haven;t been able to connect via FTP, HTTP, SMB, NFS and various other options. I can run up the PC using a Bart disk, create a partition and copy files to that.... but still no luck. One of my main queries is: when pointing to an SMB share with the install, what is the install supposed to look like?? ie is it just the DVD (ie share the dvd drive and put the original dvd in) or is it a "special" mix of files.... or a directory on the DVD??? So many questions.... But regardless of that, I am sure I have tried all those options, just to continually get a message similar to "invalid installation image...." HELP!! Then again.... I am trying to replace XP on my wifes PC, with a decent OS, but it just aint workin'! It may be an omen.... this is my wifes PC, and I am the local "Desktop Support" rep!! :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Duplicate printer problem
by Jim Sabatke 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

I installed SuSE 10.0 on a friend's machine. He had a fairly frequent problem where all of his jobs got stuck in the print queue. When I checked the queue in Yast, there was always a second printer that had been added (not by a user), that was setup identically to the original entry, except for the printer name. When I would remove the original printer definition and setup the duplicate, the printer would start working fine again, until the next time it happened. I upgraded him to 10.2 and the problem surfaced again right away. I've googled this to death and have found only a few references, the best being a Ubuntu solution which I didn't understand. Any help out there? TIA, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] 64bit Suse 10.2 - Emc retrospect client and orcad license server broken...
by jbrave 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Has anyone else seen these two apps fail after upgrading to 10.2? Joel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] auto partitioning a disk
by Matthew Stringer 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi, If I've a disk I want to partition automatically, I've been using something like: sfdisk -uM << EOF ,2048,S ,,L EOF Which works fine. However if the drive was used for something else and has partitions n such already on it then the script doesn't work properly. So I was using dd if=/dev/zero of=$DEVICE count=1024 to mash anything that was there before. This works too, however if I'm running a HostRAID card it breaks the RAID mirror! I was wondering if there's a more eloquent way of using the whole disk regardless of what used to be on it without manual intervention? cheers Matthew -- 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] Question for openSUSE installation disk space.
by Giorgos 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi!!! :-) I left the installer, to do its job and the setup has completed succesfully! ;-) Now, I have the following configuration: --------- /dev/hda2 fat32 1gb /dev/hda1 ntfs 95gb /dev/hda3 extented 90gb /dev/hda5 ntfs 71gb /dev/hda6 linux-swap 2gb /dev/hda7 ext3 20gb unallocated 6gb /dev/hda4 ext3 38gb -------- Note: GRUB is NOT installed at MBR! However, I still can't boot to Linux! :-( After rebooting (when setup completed), I received the following error message: "Booting from local disk... GRUB Loading stage 1.5. GRUB Loading , please wait... Error 18." Then nothing. My system was unbootable (from disk). I booted at GAG (gag.sf.net) installation floppy, I installed it, and booted to Windows once again! :-( Then, since I was online again, I asked a friend of mine (a Debian user), and pointed me to this text (about GRUB's error message): >> 18 : Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS >> This error is returned when a read is attempted at a linear block >> address beyond the end of the BIOS translated area. This generally >> happens if your disk is larger than the BIOS can handle (512MB for >> (E)IDE disks on older machines or larger than 8GB in general). I'm suspecting, that this bug happened, just because my stupid BIOS is fairly old and has NO proper LBA support for bigger than 80GB disks. Please note that: a) Elite has abandoned my motherboard, so there is NO BIOS update. b) Ontrack's LBA support utility that WD (as most disks manufacturers) provides for free, never worked properly for me. c) Modern OSes (recent Unises and WinXP SP1 and later, had their own LBA drivers, so they're not depending on BIOS. eg. a recent Linux LiveCD will never face a problem of that type). Anyway. I'm using GAG for years, for booting to WinXP and FreeDOS. I'm thinking that since GAG is Linux based (as GRUB is), if I can install GRUB at MBR, maybe this solves the problem. Can I install GRUB (or LILO or any other boot manager that is openSUSE compatible), on MBR? Ehm...Hmm... How? I don't know! :-) PS: Those are just my thoughts. Not necesarrilly correct. :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] sax2 refuses to run
by Carlos E. R. 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is what I get: # sax2 --reinit ... [24] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (==) NVIDIA(0): Using HW cursor (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration (==) NVIDIA(0): Video key set to default value of 0x101fe FATAL: Module nvidia not found. (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! (EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting *** (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia" (II) UnloadModule: "ramdac" (II) UnloadModule: "fb" (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found now, why the heck does it want to use the NVIDIA kernel module, propietary, instead of the plain "nv" module, that DOES work? I have to force it via "--modules 0=nv"... - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGjUxOtTMYHG2NR9URAvzzAJsFsqQFzzFd/2e9b6//AtipAGY+UQCgjqP1 3Pg2YpvRfl3OQVAsv6wBj98= =Aviw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 background (wallpaper) settings not applied/updated
by Sylvester Lykkehus 06 Jul '07

06 Jul '07

Hi, "Suddenly" (or so it seems), I can not change wallpaper from the KDesktop configuration dialog. kcontrol -> Appearance & Themes -> Background, no settings in this dialog has any effects on the background. Running kcmshell background in a terminal does not produce any errors/output when changing the background settings, and they are not applied. I can however, change the background with dcop call (|dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper|), but that changes nothing in the desktop configuration dialog (it is out of sync with reality). I have not upgraded any KDE packages recently, which could have broken it, and I did change the wallpaper not long ago, without problems. Any ideas ? Qt: 3.3.7 KDE: 3.5.6 "release 31.1" SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) OSS Best regards Sylvester Lykkehus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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