February 2008 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse] Desperate Situation
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

My situation could not be worse. I managed to get control of Yast again and disabled ALL repositories. Then I uninstalled WINE and WINE-DEV. I uninstalled CrossOver totally (also the bottles). CrossOver 6.2.0 (latest version) worked with SuSE10.3 at the beginning. I started to have a lot of problems when I enabled the on-line automatic upgrades. Therefore I meant to reinstall WINE from SuSE10.3 DVD and then CrossOver starting from a clean configuration. When I reinstalled WINE I realized it must be downloaded from somewhere anyway because the DVD was not accessed. Then I reinstalled CrossOver 6.2.0 successfully. But the pain started when I tried to install any Windows application (see attached pictures). I tried CrossOver Installer and also tried to download its rpm file and installed it through rpm command. The result is the same! I also tried to install CrossOver 5.3.0 as it worked fine with SuSE9,3 ON THE SAME COMPUTER SYSTEM. But again it won't install ant Window application. For some reason CrossOver seems to be unable to hook up with WINE ???? I also rebooted and launched REPAIR SYSTEM. It loaded the kernel from the DVD. When I chose INSTALL/UPDATE it printed out "error occurred during installation" and presented me with 3 choices (CD-ROM, Network, HardDIsk). I picked CD-ROM (actually it's a DVD). It printed "error reading sector 1282. This DVD is broken". The same message was printed when I tried "Verify Installation". Then I selected Power-Off and rebooted from hard-disk. I think I can only reinstall SuSE10.3 but sisnce it cannot read the DVD (that I used for the previous installation) ... where can I reinstall from? I have been advised to get in contact with some Linux/SuSE expert in the area where I live at present, in the case I will loose control of the computer. I am in San Antonio Texas. Is there anyone living at close range that I can call on emergency ? Thank you so much, Maura Maura Edelweiss M.

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[opensuse] HP Printer C4380
by Fred A. Miller 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

jdd wrote: > Erik Jakobsen a écrit : > >> If I press the scan in the HPLIP window, XSANE starts up [snip] 'GLAD that the C4380 is in the new hplip, but I'd like to know why the new version isn't showing up on the openSUSE update sites via YOU? Fred -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] SuSE 10.3 + CrossOver + MathType
by Maura Edelweiss Monville 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Here is my experience with using MathType integrated with CrossOver 6.2.0 running on SuSE 10.3. It took me almost a day to put all the pieces together and get an integrated tool to produce nice looking slides /documents. MathType is a s/w package that very easily integrates with MS Office tools on Windows. It helps a lot with generating documents that contain formulae, plots, and pictures (see attached picture). Getting it work with MS Office run through CrossOver is made difficult because both MathType and CrossOver documentation is misleading. MathType is not in the list of products supported by CrossOver. Therefore you're on your own when it comes to installating and integrating it. CrossOver by default installs all non supported packages in different "bottles" called "unsupported" If you follow this CrossOver built-in procedure then MathType won't be integrated with MS Office. In order to integrate it with MS Office MathType has to be installed in the same "bottle" where MS Office is installed. Installing it in a surrogate bottle won't work. For instance, I have have both Windows XP MSO and Windows 2000 MSO. CrossOver installws XP MSO in a bottle called win98, and 2000 MSO in a bottle called win2000. I installed MathType 5.2 with XP MSO (see attached picture). CrossOver will try to put MathType in a surrogate bottle called "unsupported win98". Discard this choice. Force MathTpe installation in win98 and ignore CrossOver warning stating this is likely to cause troubles. The true Windows fonts file must be loaded by Yast. To make it visible to MathType the true fonts must also be installed by CrossOver in the same bottle where MSO and MathType are installed. Regards, Maura Maura Edelweiss M.

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[opensuse] "Software Manager - offline mode" new yast module needed
by Anton Moiseev 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Hello, When I start "Software Manager" yast module, it takes really much time before I see the window with a list of packages - it downloads updates for each the repository info xml files in order to find out which packages now have updated versions in repository etc. I have 256K ADSL connection, and it takes about 5 minutes the "Software Manager" to start. This is ok, if I want to install a new package or to find updates for existing, because I know it would be impossible to do it without refreshing server info. But if I want just to take a look at a list of packages, or to remove one - this becomes rather annoying to wait all this time for the operation I do not need at this moment. I know that I can set a flag for each repository, so it will not download updates when the "Software Manager" is started, but as I have said, some times I need to start this module to get new packages (so download updates operation is required), and sometimes to remove them (download updates becomes annoying). Switching on/off this flag in repository manager before each time I would like to start "Software Manager" is not really good solution - I would rather wait few minutes doing something else, and then return to it. This is why I do not see other solution than to create 2 separate Yast modules: - the 1st one would start as current yast Software Manager - it would download updates for the repositories accorging to the settings for each repository; - the 2nd one would be exactly the same app with only one difference - it will not go online for repository updates on startup, so it would start rather quickly. Another variation of the same idea is to change Software Manager, so it will never download repository updates itself - this operation would be moved to the separate yast module like "Refresh Repository Info" - so the user will decide on its own when he would like to make his repositories up to date. I could think of suggesting better solutions like optimizing existing update process so it would take less time and traffic, or creating some kind of background daemon which would update repositories periodically, so the would be always almost up-to-date, but all this does not sound doable in the nearest time, and adding new Yast Module seems to be easy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] sanitising file names for fat32
by Philippe Landau 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Before making a backup of a drive to a fat32 external usb drive, i would like to rename all files containing special characters not permitted on fat32 partitions, like "?" ":" "\" and "|". I would prefer to delete question marks and transform the others to "-". What is the best way to do that ? Kind regards Philippe -- 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] ext3 check forced = frustration
by Carlos F. Lange 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

On Sun February 17 2008 04:42:29 Philippe Landau wrote: > > I will carry on through the one or two bugzilla enhancement entries > > (the one for the boot process - bug 344271 - and a new one for > > Yast, which Phillippe may create, or else I will). > > Carlos, cooperation, great :-) > You are experienced, what could we say there ? Phillipe, thanks for creating https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=362585 I will add my comments and my vote there. -- Carlos FL "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." - G. H. Hardy -- 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] Logitech MX Revolution middle mouse button doesn't work
by Hugo Espresati Serrano 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Hi, Maybe it helps you: http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx/ * Description* btnx: Button Extension- a GNU/GPL mouse tool for GNU/Linux btnx is a daemon that enables rerouting of mouse button events through uinput as keyboard and other mouse button combinations. For example, you can configure an extra mouse button to send a Ctrl+Alt+Right command to switch workspaces. This is especially useful for mice with more buttons than Gnome or KDE can properly handle, *or mice that need evdev and a 100 step howto to register button events at all. btnx integrates revoco, a program that allows changing MX Revolution's wheel behavior.* btnx-config is a GUI configuration tool for btnx. btnx requires btnx-config to work, because btnx-config also detects your mouse and its buttons. This combination should work for just about any mouse. Bye bye :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Defragging: possible? necessary?
by Fred A. Miller 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

James Knott wrote: > Rajko M. wrote: >> On Sunday 17 February 2008 11:29:45 am James Knott wrote: >> >>> Philipp Thomas wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:28:13 -0500, James Knott wrote: >>>> >>>>> It's another area where Windows is behind the times. >>>>> >>>> Not really. NTFS is rather fragmentation resistent. It's only FAT and >>>> its decendants that lacks considerably. >>>> >>>> Philipp >>>> >>> Then why does the defragmenter in XP show how fragmented NTFS partions are? >>> >> >> Fragmentation resistant doesn't mean fragmentation free. >> > I never said it does. Fragmentation resistant file systems will fragment, as they approach capacity. But even an NTFS partition that's only using a fraction of it's capacity may still require defragging. Fire up the defragger on any NTFS partition that hasn't been defragged for a while and tell me what you see. I've had more than one Windows mail server in my care, before replacing it with Linux. ALL of them HAD to be defraged once a week or performance really went in the toilet.....yes all using NTFS. NOT so with Linux and ext3, for example. Fred -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse] Error installing vmware - fails building vmmon module
by Mike 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

Recently patched 10.3 followed the instructions found here http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtovmwareserversuse.html # rpm -qa kernel* gcc* make kernel-docs-2.6.22.5-31 kernel-default-2.6.22.17-0.1 kernel-source-2.6.22.17-0.1 make-3.81-66 gcc-4.2-24 # make mrproper; make cloneconfig; make modules_Prepare no errors then when I run # ./vmware-config.pl Building the vmmon module. Using 2.6.x kernel build system. make: Entering directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22.17-0.1-default/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. modules make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.17-0.1-obj/i386/default' make -C ../../../linux-2.6.22.17-0.1 O=../linux-2.6.22.17-0.1-obj/i386/default modules CC [M] /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o In file included from /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.c:80: /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘ ...’ before ‘compat_exit’ /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘ ...’ before ‘exit_code’ /tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/./include/compat_kernel.h:21: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declarat ion of ‘_syscall1’ make[4]: *** [/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only/linux/driver.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** [_module_/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only] Error 2 make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.22.17-0.1-obj/i386/default' make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2 make: Leaving directory `/tmp/vmware-config3/vmmon-only' Unable to build the vmmon module. I've looked in compat_kernel.h but can make no sense of it -- Collector of vintage computers http://www.ncf.ca/~ba600 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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AW: AW: [opensuse] Logitech MX Revolution middle mouse button doesn't work
by Sven Panne 17 Feb '08

17 Feb '08

----- Ursprüngliche Mail ---- Von: Sven Panne <sven_panne(a)yahoo.com> An: Benji Weber <b.weber(a)warwick.ac.uk>; opensuse(a)opensuse.org Gesendet: Sonntag, den 17. Februar 2008, 16:59:01 Uhr Betreff: AW: [opensuse] Logitech MX Revolution middle mouse button doesn't work > [...] > Any hints for debugging this further (e.g. how to test if the kernel itself reports the middle button press)? I've found a simple test program for EVDEV read: http://www.frogmouth.net/hid-doco/c537.html#AEN584 Using this on /dev/input/event2 on a plain text console (i.e. no X11), one can see that events are sent for e.g. the left and right button, but nothing is sent for the middle button. This leads to the conclusion that my problem is totally unrelated to X11 itself, but it seems to be a kernel problem. As I said: Everything works under Windows XP, so this is not a HW problem. Any hints how to proceed? I'm a bit clueless now... Cheers, S. Heute schon einen Blick in die Zukunft von E-Mails wagen? Versuchen Sie´s mit dem neuen Yahoo! Mail. www.yahoo.de/mail -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help(a)opensuse.org

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