January 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

SuSE 9.2 Pro and Touchpad Issues
by cms 25 Sep '05

25 Sep '05

Hello all, Just received my copy of SuSE 9.2 Pro and completed a clean install on my Toshiba Satellite 2435 laptop. For whatever reason, the laptop's touchpad was not detected/installed correctly. Using the laptop has become extremely difficult. The mouse opens *almost* every window and app that it trails over and hardware clicking/tapping doesn't work. I don't recall what driver I've used in the past with SuSE and this laptop--truth is, I never looked. Currently I'm using the generic PS/2 Mouse (Aux-Port) driver as indicated in the Hardware section of YaST's Control Center and the touchpad is somewhat functional, albeit with irritating side effects. With previous versions of SuSE the touchpad was detected/configured correctly and without my intervention. Anyone using SuSE 9.2 with a similar machine? Searches on SuSE's Support Portal turned up zero articles related to ALPS Touchpad devices. This is a snippet of dmesg, related to the mouse/touchpad: ------- SNIP ------- mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64 alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64 alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected Disabling hardware tapping alps.c: Status: 11 01 0a input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio4 input: PC Speaker md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 ------- SNIP ------- Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA Chris Shanahan

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Konqueror lockups on root directory
by Craig Patterson 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Any time I open Konqueror with either 'file:/' or with the root folder in the tree view panel, it locks up. It doesn't matter whether I do it as a user or root. When I close the Konqueror window with the close button, after a 10 or 15 seconds I get a dialog box with the following: Window with title "craig - Konqueror" is not responding. This window belongs to application konqueror (PID=7087, hostname=localhost). Do you wish to terminate this application? (All unsaved data in this application will be lost.) Any ideas what might be the problem? Where would I look for the config files and log files for Konqueror? Thanks, Craig

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KDE Sounds
by sargon 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

After hosing my kernel I did a complete re-install of 9.2 on my laptop. I then ran an apt dist-upgrade of the system, then logged in to tweak everything. For some reason, sounds don't work. They did before I re-installed. And they don't work in root either. If I test the sound system via the Control Center, I hear the sounds. But in no apps do they work, and the KDE system messages don't work. If I go into Konsole and play something from the command line using play some_sound.wav this also works. I changed the sound settings to use an external player (the play command), but still no sounds. I deleted the knotify files, logged out and back in, but still nothing. The kdm log shows nothing wrong. And everything worked before I had to re-install Any ideas? Suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Unable to Install Fonts (fetchmsttfonts.sh)
by cms 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Hello all. Just finished a clean install of SuSE 9.2 Pro on an older box I had lying around (PIII 800MHz, 690Mb SDRAM, 40GB Maxtor HDD, old ATI Rage XL graphics). I had SuSE 9.2 running on this machine a few months ago when 9.2 was first released. For some strange reason, I am unable to install the MS TT Font patch (fetchmsttfonts.sh) either via YOU or from command line. The patch just hangs during the download and never finishes the install process. For example: (As SU - from command line) linux:/tmp # ./fetchmsttfonts.sh ./fetchmsttfonts.sh: line 1: -----BEGIN: command not found ./fetchmsttfonts.sh: line 2: Hash:: command not found note: No proxy is used. Please set the environment variable "http_proxy" note: to your favorite proxy, if you want to use a proxy for the download. note: note: bash: export http_proxy="http://proxy.provider.de:3128/" note: tcsh: setenv http_proxy "http://proxy.provider.de:3128/" EULA: Fetching ... done andale32.exe: Fetching ... The script just hangs when attempting to fetch the fonts regardless of the amount of time I wait. From within YOU the download hangs as well. I've tried getting the patch from various ftp and http sites both in the US and Europe, but no go. I even tried altering the fetchmsttfonts.sh shell script to point to different download locations for the fonts but still, no go. All suggestions/hints are welcome. TIA Chris Shanahan

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Xplanet
by Thomas Wedehase 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Hello List, has anyone any Information how to configure Xplanet? i really like it and it is running. But I wanna change the latitude and longitude, so Europe or the US will be in the center. Can anyone help me with that?? I am using KDE 3.3.2 and Suse 9.2 and Xplanet 1.1.1 Thomas -- Thomas Wedehase Nuernberg, Germany www.thomaswedehase.com

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Re: [suse-kde] KDE not Starting
by William Lugg 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

Well, I bought an ATI Radeon 9550 video card, installed it, installed SuSE 9.2 and went to ATI to get the drivers for it. After a couple of false starts, I got the 64 bit AMD driver and installed it according to the instructions provided on their web site. It basically made X die a horrible death which I ended up recovering from by reinstalling 9.2 again. What is frustrating about this is that I emailed ATI twice about this using their "Customer Care" process. I have received two automated responses and a sum total of zero beyond that. So, my questions are as follows: 1. Does anyone know how to actually get help from ATI? I was given the impression that they were more sensitive to the needs of the Linux community, but that's not what I'm seeing in their (non-existent) customer support. My other machine has an Nvidia card and I've never had a problem with the drivers for it (admittedly under SuSE 9.0 and I did have to endure the kernel module build). 2. Has anyone had experience with the 9550 and SuSE 9.2? Any suggestions on a driver configuration that works? If anyone is interested I have a file that contains the error info from startx. Thanks for the help. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO On Sat, 25 December 2004 10:04 pm, BandiPat wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 11:31 pm, William Lugg wrote: > > Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. > > > > What chipset do you recommend for a video card? I was under the > > impression that NVidia was the best choice because the performed > > better and support Linux more that others. > > > > Thanks again. > > =========== > > Well, to hear everyone go on about the Nvidia cards on the mail list, > you would think there isn't anything else out there! ;o) > > I started out with a TNT nvidia card and it did perform well, but then > problems like this started showing up! I got help from some of the > best guys on the list and even SuSE, without ever getting the bugs > worked out of Nvidia's drivers. > > After that little incident, I ordered an ATI 7200 card. Popped it into > the machine, run sax2 and no more problems. Went from that to the 9200 > card and have just been very satisfied with ATI since. The kernel > includes the radeon module and X.org supports them nicely, although the > very latest models may not have full 3D support, because of the newer > chipset, but at least 2D is always there! With the work that the X.org > developers are doing and with ATI helping support them, their cards are > seldom very long without support. > > I've never been dissatisfied with 3D on the cards in any of the games > I've played. Some machines I've seen properly setup for Nvidia were > good and a few seemed faster, but never a significant difference. The > difference comes from not having to deal with Nvidia drivers again! > ATI supplies drivers as well and some have said those provide better > 3D, but again, I don't see enough difference to bother. > > If 3D is not something so important, then the Matrox cards are wonderful > too! They probably have the best 2 monitor support of anything and 2D > is outstanding. Try to stay with the name brands. Although many card > makers use the chipset of either, I've found pure ATI cards the best > with PowerColor cards, using the ATI chips, second and less expensive!

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KDE Taskbar behavior
by Heberto del Rio 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hi, I have a SuSE 9.2 pro linux box running with KDE as my default session, I have particular trouble with a GNOME 2.x application: wxDesigner. When I run this application from a console the application runs beautifully, it gets the the theme specified using gtk-qt-engine. The problem start when I add an application button for this application to the taskbar, the button is created and the application is launched everytime that I click on the button. The problem is that the theme is taken by the application so when I start playing with the wxDesigner it crashes. The reason why is crashing is that is not getting the themes as specified by the gtk-qt-engine. Any Idea why this behavior? Any suggestion how to fix the problem? BTW, the same happen if I launch the application using the Alt+F2 sequence (it crashes) Heberto

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benutzer wechseln
by Stefan Krüger 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Hallo KDE 3.3 Ich hätte eine kurze Frage: Wie kann ich die Aktion "Benutzer wechseln" von kicker mit einer Tastenkombination versehen? Oder: Welchem Befehl entspricht das? Vielen Dank Stefan -- IBM TP R40 - Suse9.2 - KDE - 2.6.8-24.11 voicechat with me using skype http://ui.skype.com my skype username: alfonx ICQ: 310673006

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K3b
by Ohadi, Hamid 25 Jan '05

25 Jan '05

Hi there, I have backed up the home folder of my pc to some tar.gz files. The files are 3.6GB altogether. I burned them on a DVD using K3b. K3b debug logs don't show nothing wrong but the actual size of the files when I browse to the DVD is only 38MB! Could anybody please help me to figure out what's going on? My k3b is 0.11.12 using KDE 3.2.1 on SuSE 9.1 Pro. regards Hamid

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kde3.3.2_update konqueror kann html nicht mehr anzeigen
by Heribert Hock 24 Jan '05

24 Jan '05

Hallo, habe kde3.3.0 auf 3.3.2 über yast/ftp upgedatet. Konquer kann html nicht mehr anzeigen und zeigt folgende Fehlermeldung: "Es gab einen Fehler beim Laden von Modul KHTML. Die vermutliche Ursache ist: /opt/kde3/lib/libkhtml.so.4: undefinded symbol: _ZN3KIO9NetAccess14synchronousRunsEPNS_3JobEP7QWidgetP9Q MemArrayIceEP4KURLP4QMapi7QStringSB_E" Habt Ihr einen Tipp? Vielen Dank. Gruss Heribert

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