Hi, I've installed 8.0 and it's running really great. I have two issues, however: Fonts: I'm trying to install fonts from my windows directory and am having a little difficulty. I go into Control Center/System/Font Installer and click on "Administrator Mode" and log in as root. I then click "Change Folder" and browse to my mounted windows directory where my ttf fonts are. I click on a font to install and then click OK. The window closes but the font doesn't appear in the list to install. I also tried copying the fonts into a directory that I made in my "home" directory and added that new directory to the XF86Config file. Still no luck. Cd Burning: I've got my cdrom and cdrw set up with ide-scsi emulation. I've added the append=" hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. I ran lilo and rebooted. I've fixed my symbolic links. I can mount by cdrom and my cdrw fine and read cds on both using konqueror. I can cdrecord -scanbus and I get this output: Cdrecord 1.11a13 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0) 'BCD 48SB' ' CD-ROM ' 'C2.4' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX175A1 ' '5YS2' Removable CD-ROM I can't figure out what that warning means. I also set r+w permissions to the cdrw and r+w+x permissions to cdrecord. I ran KonCD, and configured both drives in "Setup." When I try to copy a disk, here's the error message: "/usr/bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ''. Error, Exit status: 2" I can't get KonCD to work. I also can't get xcdroast or eroaster or any other burning program to work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks very much for any help you can give me. John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
* John Glazer (jg10052002@yahoo.com) [020427 20:08]: ::Hi, :: ::I've installed 8.0 and it's running really great. I ::have two issues, however: :: ::Fonts: I'm trying to install fonts from my windows ::directory and am having a little difficulty. I go ::into Control Center/System/Font Installer and click on ::"Administrator Mode" and log in as root. I then click ::"Change Folder" and browse to my mounted windows ::directory where my ttf fonts are. I click on a font ::to ::install and then click OK. The window closes but the ::font doesn't appear in the list to install. I also ::tried copying the fonts into a directory that I made ::in my "home" directory and added that new directory to ::the XF86Config file. Still no luck. If your using KDM then you've got both a kdeinit session because KDM is a KDE program and an Xserver running to run KDM. I would do this. After you've installed the fonts I would hit 'ctrl + alt + f2' and go to another console. Then log in as root and type 'rcxdm stop' which will stop KDM/Xserver and leave you at a prompt. You can log out of console 2 and press 'alt+F1' to get you back to console one. Once this is done make sure that the fonts have been put where it was said they were put and after you make sure this is true. Just do 'rcxdm start' which will restart the gui login (has to be done as root) and you should have access to the fonts in KDE. Also make sure in the control centre that you have anti-aliasing enabled. Cheers! and I hope that made some sense :) -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--
--- Ben Rosenberg <ben@whack.org> wrote:
* John Glazer (jg10052002@yahoo.com) [020427 20:08]: ::Hi, :: ::I've installed 8.0 and it's running really great. I ::have two issues, however: :: ::Fonts: I'm trying to install fonts from my windows ::directory and am having a little difficulty. I go ::into Control Center/System/Font Installer and click on ::"Administrator Mode" and log in as root. I then click ::"Change Folder" and browse to my mounted windows ::directory where my ttf fonts are. I click on a font ::to ::install and then click OK. The window closes but the ::font doesn't appear in the list to install. I also ::tried copying the fonts into a directory that I made ::in my "home" directory and added that new directory to ::the XF86Config file. Still no luck.
If your using KDM then you've got both a kdeinit session because KDM is a KDE program and an Xserver running to run KDM. I would do this. After you've installed the fonts I would hit 'ctrl + alt + f2' and go to another console. Then log in as root and type 'rcxdm stop' which will stop KDM/Xserver and leave you at a prompt. You can log out of console 2 and press 'alt+F1' to get you back to console one. Once this is done make sure that the fonts have been put where it was said they were put and after you make sure this is true. Just do 'rcxdm start' which will restart the gui login (has to be done as root) and you should have access to the fonts in KDE. Also make sure in the control centre that you have anti-aliasing enabled.
Cheers! and I hope that made some sense :) -=Ben
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Thanks for your reply. I followed your steps but unfortunately it still doesn't work. I can browse to the directory where I copied the fonts from my windows drive, but when I click on a font to install, it doesn't show up in the install list. I"m really stuck here. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
I am very pleased overall with the 8.0 package. It has fixed some dogging problems from the last couple of releases for me. I do have a problem and that is that I can spend an hour tweaking my KDE desktop to where I am happy, reboot and the changes are gone. This has never happened before (back to Suse 5.x) Obviously this is a major pain. Is there some new configuration switcch I have not seen? Specifically, any background graphics I put up go away, any changes to fonts on the desktop go away. Icons I put on the desktop stay but buttons I add to the taskbar go away. Actually, I believe, even changes to the font setting in Konsole go away. SOUNDS like a missing config file somewhere. Any ideas? Scott
"J. Scott Thayer, M.D." [ 28.04.2002 12:13:47 -0400]:
I can spend an hour tweaking my KDE desktop to where I am happy, reboot and the changes are gone.
You aren't by chance working as root? If yes, the problem is known and there is a fix for that. But I'd again say that one should not run X as root as the risks are just to high. If that's not your problem, I'd be a bit helpless up front. Philipp
Hi Philipp, Ok, that's fine you should not run X as root, I noticed the same problem, but can you tell us what's the fix for that ? Thanks ./ luis oliveira
-----Original Message----- From: Philipp Thomas [mailto:pthomas@suse.de] Sent: domingo, 28 de Abril de 2002 17:51 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] I love 8.0 BUT can't get my desktop settings to persist
"J. Scott Thayer, M.D." [ 28.04.2002 12:13:47 -0400]:
I can spend an hour tweaking my KDE desktop to where I am happy, reboot and the changes are gone.
You aren't by chance working as root? If yes, the problem is known and there is a fix for that. But I'd again say that one should not run X as root as the risks are just to high.
If that's not your problem, I'd be a bit helpless up front.
Philipp
I have the very same problem using KDE2 in SuSE 7.3. I haven't been able to solve it, but I've avoided it by installing KDE3 and using it primarily. But KDE3 (at least my installation of it) has it's own little problems which are quite annoying... -Trent --- "J. Scott Thayer, M.D." <docscott@141.com> wrote:
I do have a problem and that is that I can spend an hour tweaking my KDE desktop to where I am happy, reboot and the changes are gone.
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I have the very same problem using KDE2 in SuSE 7.3. I haven't been able to solve it, but I've avoided it by installing KDE3 and using it primarily. But KDE3 (at least my installation of it) has it's own little problems which are quite annoying...
-Trent
Now THAT'S interesting since I never had this with 7.3 or any previous release (and, GASP, I ALWAYS run as root since linux 0.99pl6 in 1994 or 95 and I have never trashed a system for THAT reason :-) ) Scott
--- "J. Scott Thayer, M.D." <docscott@141.com> wrote:
I do have a problem and that is that I can spend an hour tweaking my KDE desktop to where I am happy, reboot and the changes are gone.
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On Sunday 28 April 2002 02:32 pm, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
Now THAT'S interesting since I never had this with 7.3 or any previous release (and, GASP, I ALWAYS run as root since linux 0.99pl6 in 1994 or 95 and I have never trashed a system for THAT reason :-) )
Whippersnapper! My first Linux kernel was 0.95! That having been said, the problem nowadays isn't so much as you trashing the system by running as root, it's by crackers owning a X windows system if you run X as root. If you need rootley powers at any given time (you probably already know this but maybe others in this thread don't) use su to change identity to root for those tasks. It's such a cause for exploits on the net that several IRC channels automatically kick/ban anyone who logs in as root. -- Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides
On Sunday 28 April 2002 14:58, Joshua Lee wrote:
On Sunday 28 April 2002 02:32 pm, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
Now THAT'S interesting since I never had this with 7.3 or any previous release (and, GASP, I ALWAYS run as root since linux 0.99pl6 in 1994 or 95 and I have never trashed a system for THAT reason :-) )
Whippersnapper! My first Linux kernel was 0.95!
What was that... 4 days before 0.99????? ;-) This old man just can't remember... You are absolutely right in principle AND practice. And I am online 100% of the time. So I am on a private network behind a hardware firewall. And the only other person on the network is my wife who sits about 2 feel away from me and could beat my password out of me anyway..... Scott
That having been said, the problem nowadays isn't so much as you trashing the system by running as root, it's by crackers owning a X windows system if you run X as root. If you need rootley powers at any given time (you probably already know this but maybe others in this thread don't) use su to change identity to root for those tasks. It's such a cause for exploits on the net that several IRC channels automatically kick/ban anyone who logs in as root.
On Sunday 28 April 2002 03:17 pm, you wrote:
Now THAT'S interesting since I never had this with 7.3 or any previous release (and, GASP, I ALWAYS run as root since linux 0.99pl6 in 1994 or 95 and I have never trashed a system for THAT reason :-) )
Whippersnapper! My first Linux kernel was 0.95!
What was that... 4 days before 0.99????? ;-) This old man just can't remember...
Only a little while before the first 0.99, but a while before pl6. 8-)
You are absolutely right in principle AND practice. And I am online 100% of
Then, now that you're having actual problems, perhaps it's time to start doing things properly. ;-) If you really don't want to be troubled to present a password to su, SuSE's "root console" entry in the tools menu allows one to make it remember your root password. -- Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after reaching puberty.
All this having been said.... does anyone know that patch for this problem??? Just for the sake of argument, I DON'T use the root console for all my daily work but I still want it to remember any settings I give it to make it a nicer place to visit on those RARE occasions where I might be FORCED (against my better judgement and all extant Unix/Linux dogma) to do so...... How's that?? Ya buyin' it? Cool.... Now gimme the magic!!!!! :-) Scott
Then, now that you're having actual problems, perhaps it's time to start doing things properly. ;-) If you really don't want to be troubled to present a password to su, SuSE's "root console" entry in the tools menu allows one to make it remember your root password.
From: J. Scott Thayer, M.D. [mailto:docscott@141.com] Sent: domingo, 28 de Abril de 2002 20:52 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] I love 8.0 BUT can't get my desktop settings to persist
All this having been said.... does anyone know that patch for this problem??? Just for the sake of argument, I DON'T use the root console for all my daily work but I still want it to remember any settings I give it to make it a nicer place to visit on those RARE occasions where I might be FORCED (against my better judgement and all extant Unix/Linux dogma) to do so...... How's that?? Ya buyin' it? Cool.... Now gimme the magic!!!!! :-)
Scott
Then, now that you're having actual problems, perhaps it's time to start doing things properly. ;-) If you really don't want to be troubled to present a password to su, SuSE's "root console"
entry in
the tools menu allows one to make it remember your root password.
According to some post on the suse-kde mailing list you have to: touch /root/.skel/kdebase3 The full article is at http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/html/thallma_rootkde_80.html ./ luis oliveira
The patch exists: YOU! It's safe, when installing a new distro, to run YOU (online update), to correct these little problems. Le Sunday 28 April 2002 09:51, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. a écrit :
All this having been said.... does anyone know that patch for this problem??? Just for the sake of argument, I DON'T use the root console for all my daily work but I still want it to remember any settings I give it to make it a nicer place to visit on those RARE occasions where I might be FORCED (against my better judgement and all extant Unix/Linux dogma) to do so...... How's that?? Ya buyin' it? Cool.... Now gimme the magic!!!!! :-)
Scott
Then, now that you're having actual problems, perhaps it's time to start doing things properly. ;-) If you really don't want to be troubled to present a password to su, SuSE's "root console" entry in the tools menu allows one to make it remember your root password.
To keep settings make sure you check "save session for futurer logins" only have to do this once. Always works for me. Matt
Turns out it is a little trickier than that. Apparently, as I suspected, a file was left out of the system. In its absence the default desktop is recreated each time you restart. The magic is: touch /root/.skel/kdebase3 and I can vouch for it's efficacy. Scott
To keep settings make sure you check "save session for futurer logins" only have to do this once. Always works for me.
Matt
. I'll note here that when I had my filesystem set to Secure (Y2) my root settings would not persist. As soon as I set to Easy they would. Maybe filesystem security actually works. When I'm finished configging, back to Secure. BTW, if you cannot get syslog-ng to start, you are likely missing a KEY package that was not installed by default: syslogd And, does ne1 know why Y2 INSISTS on installing lprng? I use Cups, and have to repeatedly tell it NO when installing software. On Sunday 28 April 2002 18:04, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
Turns out it is a little trickier than that. Apparently, as I suspected, a file was left out of the system. In its absence the default desktop is recreated each time you restart. The magic is:
touch /root/.skel/kdebase3
and I can vouch for it's efficacy. Scott
To keep settings make sure you check "save session for futurer logins" only have to do this once. Always works for me.
Matt
Where do you change the filesystem to 'easy'? -Chuck AnonymousCoward wrote:
. I'll note here that when I had my filesystem set to Secure (Y2) my root settings would not persist. As soon as I set to Easy they would.
Maybe filesystem security actually works. When I'm finished configging, back to Secure.
BTW, if you cannot get syslog-ng to start, you are likely missing a KEY package that was not installed by default: syslogd
And, does ne1 know why Y2 INSISTS on installing lprng? I use Cups, and have to repeatedly tell it NO when installing software.
On Sunday 28 April 2002 18:04, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
Turns out it is a little trickier than that. Apparently, as I suspected, a file was left out of the system. In its absence the default desktop is recreated each time you restart. The magic is:
touch /root/.skel/kdebase3
and I can vouch for it's efficacy. Scott
To keep settings make sure you check "save session for futurer logins" only have to do this once. Always works for me.
Matt
. In Yast2 (Y2)|Security. BTW, the Firewall2 was blindingly easy to set up. I'll test it now. Hope it's good. On Monday 29 April 2002 11:16, Rhugga wrote:
Where do you change the filesystem to 'easy'?
-Chuck
AnonymousCoward wrote:
. I'll note here that when I had my filesystem set to Secure (Y2) my root settings would not persist. As soon as I set to Easy they would.
Maybe filesystem security actually works. When I'm finished configging, back to Secure.
BTW, if you cannot get syslog-ng to start, you are likely missing a KEY package that was not installed by default: syslogd
And, does ne1 know why Y2 INSISTS on installing lprng? I use Cups, and have to repeatedly tell it NO when installing software.
On Sunday 28 April 2002 18:04, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
Turns out it is a little trickier than that. Apparently, as I suspected, a file was left out of the system. In its absence the default desktop is recreated each time you restart. The magic is:
touch /root/.skel/kdebase3
and I can vouch for it's efficacy. Scott
To keep settings make sure you check "save session for futurer logins" only have to do this once. Always works for me.
Matt
-- Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
. Firewall is doing its job. Only thing is, auth is visible (tho closed). I wonder if that's related to ssh? On Monday 29 April 2002 11:16, Rhugga wrote:
Where do you change the filesystem to 'easy'?
-Chuck
AnonymousCoward wrote:
. I'll note here that when I had my filesystem set to Secure (Y2) my root settings would not persist. As soon as I set to Easy they would.
Maybe filesystem security actually works. When I'm finished configging, back to Secure.
BTW, if you cannot get syslog-ng to start, you are likely missing a KEY package that was not installed by default: syslogd
And, does ne1 know why Y2 INSISTS on installing lprng? I use Cups, and have to repeatedly tell it NO when installing software.
On Sunday 28 April 2002 18:04, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
Turns out it is a little trickier than that. Apparently, as I suspected, a file was left out of the system. In its absence the default desktop is recreated each time you restart. The magic is:
touch /root/.skel/kdebase3
and I can vouch for it's efficacy. Scott
To keep settings make sure you check "save session for futurer logins" only have to do this once. Always works for me.
Matt
-- Ladybug, ladybug, Look to your stern! Your house is on fire, Your children will burn! So jump ye and sing, for The very first time The four lines above Have been put into rhyme. -- Walt Kelly
--- "J. Scott Thayer, M.D." <docscott@141.com> wrote:
(and, GASP, I ALWAYS run as root since linux 0.99pl6 in 1994 or 95 and I have never trashed a system for THAT reason :-) ) Scott
I don't run as root most of the time, but it wouldn't matter if I did. Either way, I have the root password, which means I'm a threat to my system. :o) I'm sure that if I could be satisfied with the default SuSE installation, without trying to update everything, I'd have no problems at all... but what fun would that be? -Trent __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness http://health.yahoo.com
Ahhh, I can see there are a few rebels out there! ;-) Scott
I don't run as root most of the time, but it wouldn't matter if I did. Either way, I have the root password, which means I'm a threat to my system. :o)
I'm sure that if I could be satisfied with the default SuSE installation, without trying to update everything, I'd have no problems at all... but what fun would that be?
-Trent
Hi,
I've installed 8.0 and it's running really great. I have two issues, however: (snip) Cd Burning: I've got my cdrom and cdrw set up with ide-scsi emulation. I've added the append=" hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. I ran lilo and rebooted. I've fixed my symbolic links. I can mount by cdrom and my cdrw fine and read cds on both using konqueror. I can cdrecord -scanbus and I get this output:
Cdrecord 1.11a13 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0) 'BCD 48SB' ' CD-ROM ' 'C2.4' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX175A1 ' '5YS2' Removable CD-ROM
I can't figure out what that warning means.
I also set r+w permissions to the cdrw and r+w+x permissions to cdrecord.
I ran KonCD, and configured both drives in "Setup." When I try to copy a disk, here's the error message:
"/usr/bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ''.
Error, Exit status: 2"
I can't get KonCD to work. I also can't get xcdroast or eroaster or any other burning program to work. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks very much for any help you can give me.
John ============================ John, It seems that KonCD is still having problems as I and others cannot seem to get it working either. The warning on your drive simple means that
On Saturday 27 April 2002 23:07, John Glazer wrote: the expected speed of the CD drive is not what the scanning found. I have that same warning with a cdrom here. It is rated at 52x max, but it does not and most don't run at max speed, give that speed to cdrecord, thus a warning, nothing to worry about. The reason the drive is not being seen is probably because it is linked to hdd or hdc rather than sr0 or sr1 as it should be. 8.0 did that to my second drive as well and after I deleted the cdrom symlink and created another to sr1, all worked well with the cd burning programs. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
--- Patrick <tracerb@sprintmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I've installed 8.0 and it's running really great. I have two issues, however: (snip) Cd Burning: I've got my cdrom and cdrw set up with ide-scsi emulation. I've added the append=" hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" in lilo. I ran lilo and rebooted. I've fixed my symbolic links. I can mount by cdrom and my cdrw fine and read cds on both using konqueror. I can cdrecord -scanbus and I get this output:
Cdrecord 1.11a13 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 0,0,0 0) 'BCD 48SB' ' CD-ROM ' 'C2.4' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX175A1 ' '5YS2' Removable CD-ROM
I can't figure out what that warning means.
I also set r+w permissions to the cdrw and r+w+x permissions to cdrecord.
I ran KonCD, and configured both drives in "Setup." When I try to copy a disk, here's the error message:
"/usr/bin/cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ''.
Error, Exit status: 2"
I can't get KonCD to work. I also can't get xcdroast or eroaster or any other burning program to work. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks very much for any help you can give me.
John ============================ John, It seems that KonCD is still having problems as I and others cannot seem to get it working either. The warning on your drive simple means that
On Saturday 27 April 2002 23:07, John Glazer wrote: the expected speed of the CD drive is not what the scanning found. I have that same warning with a cdrom here. It is rated at 52x max, but it does not and most don't run at max speed, give that speed to cdrecord, thus a warning, nothing to worry about.
The reason the drive is not being seen is probably because it is linked to hdd or hdc rather than sr0 or sr1 as it should be. 8.0 did that to my second drive as well and after I deleted the cdrom symlink and created another to sr1, all worked well with the cd burning programs.
Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
Patrick, I checked the symlinks and both point to sr0 and sr1. I can mount both drives fine and read from both in konqueror, but cdrecord won't burn to a cd. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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