July 2021 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

old HP printer
by mcgarrett 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

With great difficulty, I think I've found one or more ppd files for an HP Laser 2200D. They're all for various old versions of Windows. Will any of them work in Leap? Trying to get some kind of printer going until I recover from the lightning strike, and I'm pretty sure this boat anchor still works. One example is this: LaserJet USB (DOT4) communication driver for HP LaserJet 2200d This driver only solution provides DOT4 USB bi-directional communication functionality on Windows 8 and higher operating systems. Thanx--doug

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lastlog permissions
by Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello List, for quite some time, I've noticed that the permissions and group of /var/log/lastlog (and sometimes a few others, like [bw]tmp) differ from what chkstat expects. This is, of course, easily fixed with chmod and chown, but the old permissions tend to re-appear after zypper updates. It's probably not really a problem, but does anyone know where the diffence comes from? Thanks, A. -- Ansgar Esztermann Sysadmin Dep. Theoretical and Computational Biophysics http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/grubmueller/esztermann

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Trouble with the touchpad while typing
by Carlos E. R. 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hi, I have Trouble with the touchpad while I type, almost since ever, currently with XFCE in Leap 15.2. The touchpad activates randomly, apparently touched by my hand and destroys what I typed. I have in settings "Disable touch pad while typing" set to 2 seconds. Type "SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad". Edge scrolling. This is supposed to impede the trouble I have, but it does not. If I type and I try to move the mouse pointer it doesn't respond till two seconds have passed, which is a nuisance I would accept if it worked. There are two types of incidents. One, the cursor location suddenly moves several paragraphs up in the middle of typing a word, thus within centiseconds. Certainly inside the 2 seconds protection. Two, a large portion of the text I'm typing suddenly gets selected, again in the middle of typing a word (I type fast), so that on the next letter I type the entire highlight gets replaced with that next letter, erasing at times all my work. In the first case, I can select the offending text and move it to the correct location, or hit undo. In the second case, I have to use undo, so I don't actually lose my work. Almost always it happens inside Thunderbird. At least, i don't remember it happening in other apps. It is possible that the protection I need is from accidental tap, not accidental move. minas-tirith:~ # hwinfo --mouse 40: PS/2 00.0: 10500 PS/2 Mouse [Created at input.249] Unique ID: AH6Q.ZHI3OT7LsxA Hardware Class: mouse Model: "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Vendor: 0x0002 Device: 0x0007 "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" Compatible to: int 0x0210 0x0002 Device File: /dev/input/mice (/dev/input/mouse0) Device Files: /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, /dev/input/event1 Device Number: char 13:63 (char 13:32) Driver Info #0: Buttons: 2 Wheels: 0 XFree86 Protocol: explorerps/2 GPM Protocol: exps2 Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown minas-tirith:~ # -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))

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burning flash drive with dd--fails
by mcgarrett 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Why doesn't this work: dd bs=4M if=/home/doug/Downloads/Win10_21H1_English_x64 of=/dev/sda Here is the downloaded file in /home/doug/Downloads: -rw-r--r-- 1 doug users 5824122880 Jul 22 22:20 Win10_21H1_English_x64.iso Here is the fail message: dd: failed to open '/home/doug/Downloads/Win10_21H1_English_x64': No such file or directory (Since I am IN that directory, I first tried without specifying the directory, but got the same failure.) Confused as usual--doug

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Evergreen, where has the Long Term Support gone...
by Chuck Payne 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

Good morning, So, question. We use to have Evergreen which was going to be our LTS version, so that when a distro reached the magical .3 in the release, we could switch to Evergreen. I haven't seen anything on it in while, has Evergreen stopped? Do we not have any LTS version? I am switching a lot of systems from openSUSE 42.3 to 15.3, and I am saddened by the number of software packages that seem to have been removed. One of the reasons I started using SuSE back in the day was, it had the most packages, which was awesome. Here is an example, Nginx has a log of module packages that are no longer there. Oh, please don't tell me to go too software.opensuse.org, is great only if people keep their software up-to-date. I don't know how many packages I have found only to get that it going to do break major things. Even Tumbleweed seems to be losing packages. Did I miss something? By the way, I did try to sent this to opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org, but got a bonus back fromn election-official-ower(a)list.opensuse.org, so not sure what is up with that. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008. -- Terror PUP a.k.a Chuck "PUP" Payne ----------------------------------------- Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux. ----------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Terrorpup openSUSE Ambassador/openSUSE Member skype,twiiter,identica,friendfeed -- terrorpup freenode(irc) --terrorpup/lupinstein Register Linux Userid: 155363 openSUSE Community Member since 2008.

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urgent: how to write to reiserfs on 15.3?
by Daniel Bauer 30 Jul '21

30 Jul '21

Hi, all my encrypted external disks are with reiserfs. No I want to read/write to one of them on my new pad and it says "unkonwn filesystem type 'reiserfs'. What do I have to install so that 15.3 remembers the forgotten system? I installed reiserfs-kmp-default and libreiser4-1_2-1 and libaal-1_0-7 it can read the disks but not write to them. What else do I need? Need urgent help please, thanks! Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Málaga https://www.patreon.com/danielbauer https://www.daniel-bauer.com

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plasma windows setup
by jdd＠dodin.org 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hello, I just buy a 4k screen. Now my most usual setup is 27" 4k left, full HD (laptop) center and full hd right. The new screen should be used only for video editing, not always. But my usual setup is completely changed by the new screen: even the cursor size is changed (much bigger). I use the "supplementary action" from kde to open my main applications on the desktop I want (I have 10 of them), but fail to find a way to have all my applications open in the "main" screen (as setup in the kde panel), because the x coordinate changes any hint? thanks NB: I still use 15.1, for some reason I can't make my system works as expected in 15.3 jdd -- http://dodin.org

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python3-apt
by Michael Spartana 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hi, Steam is asking for python3-apt. The only package I see that I have is python38-wrapt. Is this the correct package. I don't know the name of the tumbleweed version, and I don't want to guess at it. Thanks, mike

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2-Terabyte-Mushkin-SSD?
by -pj 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

The largest Mushkin SSD I can purchase is 2 Terabytes. What are your thoughts on a drive that may be within my needs. If following the basic/standard COW protocol. So seriously.. it's just a "desktop computer" thinking about a brother-MFC-J485DW printer....someday..:| I do not like Crucial nor others on information (What is the nicest SSD for openSUSE TW currently?) Honestly I really do not like to support many more companies than my 85.00 USD a month internet provider now. <-You may get my drift. I am hoping to put the massive (to me) into an old HP Lenovo m-91p - Everything is fine now with the - well all of it really. Just wanting to see what your thoughts are on SSD's and Copy on Write. ----COW---- Copy on Write. I thank you for your opinions. --Finest Regards

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openSUSE as FreeIPA client
by Ciro Iriarte 27 Jul '21

27 Jul '21

Hello!, Reading the documentation, I see that I could configure opensuse machines as a FreeIPA client using the stock sssd, although the ipa-client-install command is not available. I see that yast could be used (yast2-auth-client), but I would like to know if there's a non-interactive CLI tool I could use to automate the configuration. Regards, CI.-

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