July 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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Xvnc does not start KDE anymore after update to KDE 3.4
by Thomas Börkel 21 Aug '05

21 Aug '05

HI! Since updating my Suse 9.2 to KDE 3.4, Xvnc (started via xinetd) does not start KDE anymore. When I connect to the specified port, I get a grey screen and an X mouse pointer, but no KDE login. I get nothing in .xsession-errors (I guess because Xvnc is being started by user nobody) and nothing in /var/log/messages. vncserver works OK. Any hints? Thanks! Thomas

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fehlende User-Liste beim grafischen login / missing User-List in graphical login-screen
by olaf-linux＠gmx.de 15 Aug '05

15 Aug '05

Hallo ! Unter Suse 9.1 Personal hatte ich beim grafischen Einloggschirm eine Liste der Usernamen. Unter Suse 9.3 Professionell ist diese liste verschwunden, dort habe ich nur zwei Eingabefelder für Namen und Passwort. Wie bekomme ich die Liste wieder? Gruß Olaf Hi! In Suse 9.1 personal I have a list with the User-names in the graphical login screen. In Suse 9.3 professional thers is no list. How can I get the list ? bye Olaf

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Logout dialog frame problem
by roach 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hi, I've downloaded a nice logout logo from kde-look.org, unfortunately I now find myself with a large white frame around the logo and distorted buttons. I've looked in the Control Center, /opt/kde3/share/ and asked at kde-look.org. But still haven't found out how to remove the frame. Can somebody offer a suggestion or advice? Thanks. All the best. -- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg South Africa

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Installing KDE 3.4.2. using yast on 9.0
by Sebastian Koerner 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

What is the path I have to enter in yast? The one for 3.4.1 (ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.0/yast-source) won`t work (No instsrc on media). The Structure in yast-source seems to have changed: No "media.1" "content" and "directory.yas"t files there for 9.0 ?! Same thing on ftp.suse.com Please advise Sebastian Koerner

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BUG in KDE 3.4.2 upgrade
by Jon Nelson 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

I just upgraded to 3.4.2 and encountered a bug. KDE seems to be ignoring my TMPDIR (and TEMPDIR) environment variables *sometimes*. Specifically, aRTS will refuse to start and so on. I have since reverted my TMPDIR and TEMPDIR environment variables so I can get my sound back, but this is a long-standing issue I'd like to see resolved. Why can't kde just use TMPDIR like everybody else? -- Carpe diem - Seize the day. Carp in denim - There's a fish in my pants! Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse(a)jamponi.net>

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UPCOMING VERSION OF KDE GETS NEW FEATURES
by Fred A. Miller 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

UPCOMING VERSION OF KDE GETS NEW FEATURES K Desktop Environment open-source community made improvements to its desktop offering. KDE 3.5 will feature new functionalities and a new office suite, KOffice 1.4.1. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/newsItem/0,289139,sid39_gci1111… -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time.

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how 2 resolve "openldap2-client" install dependencies
by OpenMacNews 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

hi all, i've a fairly uptodate install of SuSE9.3-ftp, upgraded from 9.2-ftp using apt-get for pkg mgmt. after my upgrade, i've had one nagging dependency that i can't seem to resolve (well, 'safely', neway ...) w/o seemingly needing to rip-out-n-replace half my system. namely, "openldap2-client". given the apt output below, is there a way around this particular dependency? at this point (my goole-bar is 'smokin' ...) , details would be appreciated! thx, richard % apt --no-checksig install openldap2-client Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: MozillaThunderbird libapr1 xine-lib The following packages will be upgraded openldap2-client The following packages will be REMOVED: MPlayer MozillaFirefox OpenOffice_org OpenOffice_org-gnome OpenOffice_org-kde apt apt-file apt-libs at autofs autoyast2 autoyast2-installation clamav clamav-db cron cups cups-drivers-stp dbus-1 dbus-1-glib dbus-1-qt dirmngr dovecot gimp gimp-cmyk gimp-devel gimp-help gnome-desktop gnome-spell2 gnome-vfs2 gpg gpg2 gpgme gtkhtml2 hal hp-officeJet kdeaddons3-kate kdeaddons3-konqueror kdeaddons3-kontact kdeartwork3 kdeartwork3-splashscreens kdebase3 kdebase3-SuSE kdebase3-devel kdebase3-nsplugin kdebase3-samba kdebase3-session kdebluetooth kdemultimedia3-video-xine kdenetwork3-lan kdepim3 kdepim3-devel kdepim3-kpilot kdepim3-mobile kdepim3-sync kdepim3-time-management kdesdk3-kdecvs kdeutils3 kdevelop3 klamav kplayer kpowersave ldapcpplib libbonoboui libgnome libgnomeui librsvg libsmbclient libxine1 libxine1-aa libxine1-directfb mailx mplayerplug-in net-snmp openh323 opensc openssh openssh-askpass perl-libapt-pkg postfix powersave privoxy pwdutils pwlib rpm samba samba-client samba-python samba-winbind submount suse-build-key susehelp susehelp_en synaptic thinkeramik xntp xsu yast2 yast2-backup yast2-bootloader yast2-control-center yast2-country yast2-dhcp-server yast2-dns-server yast2-firewall yast2-http-server yast2-inetd yast2-installation yast2-kerberos-client yast2-ldap yast2-ldap-client yast2-mail yast2-mouse yast2-ncurses yast2-network yast2-nfs-client yast2-nfs-server yast2-nis-client yast2-nis-server yast2-ntp-client yast2-online-update yast2-packagemanager yast2-packager yast2-pam yast2-perl-bindings yast2-phone-services yast2-pkg-bindings yast2-power-management yast2-powertweak yast2-printer yast2-profile-manager yast2-qt yast2-repair yast2-restore yast2-runlevel yast2-samba-client yast2-samba-server yast2-scanner yast2-security yast2-sound yast2-storage yast2-support yast2-sysconfig yast2-tftp-server yast2-tune yast2-tv yast2-uml yast2-update yast2-users yast2-x11 yast2-xml The following NEW packages will be installed: MozillaThunderbird libapr1 xine-lib WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! apt rpm (due to apt) apt-libs (due to apt) pwdutils suse-build-key (due to rpm) 1 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 150 removed and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 12.8MB of archives. After unpacking 811MB disk space will be freed. You are about to do something potentially harmful To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' ...

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how can I set my desktop-settings as default
by olaf-linux＠gmx.de 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

Hi ! Suse 9.3 prof. How can I "copy" the kde-menu and kde-look from a User to another User? Or, better: how can I set "my settings" (screen/desktop, Menu ...) as the default, so any new User has automatically my default settigs ? bye Olaf ### Hallo ! Suse 9.3 Prof. Wie kann ich die kde-Einstellungen eines Users auf die anderen User übertragen. Oder, noch besser: wie kann ich "meine" kde-Einstellungen (Desktop, Menu ...) als Standard setzen, so dass jeder neu angelegte User automatisch diese Einstellungen bekommt ? Gruß Olaf

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Throubles after upgrade to KDE 3.4.1 on SuSE 9.2
by Stefano Kueng 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

Hi all, after upgrading my SuSE 9.2 (KDE 3.3) to KDE 3.4.1 I have some throubles with the USB devices (USB stick & USB card reader). After the automount I can't "navigate" into the directorys with konqueror. If I try to switch to the /media/ directory the application (konqueror) "hang on" and I should kill it. If I disconnect the USB device all works fine (but I can't read/write from/to it!!!). I had problems with OpenOffice.org 1.1.3: it doesn't work with KDE 3.4.1 and the OpenGL scrensavers don't work, too. I fix the problem with OOo 1.1.3 upgrading to OOo 1.1.4 and I deactivate the screensaver... someone has any ideas for the USB problems? If the problems persist I think I should downgrade my system to KDE 3.3 (if it is possible) because previous the upgrade my system worked very well (I only can't connect MSN with the old kopete!) Many thanks for your help. Stefano

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