August 2005 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

No screensavers anymore after update to KDE 3.4.2
by Thomas Börkel 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

HI! After updating my Suse 9.2 from KDE 3.4.1 to 3.4.2, one of the users (only this one) has an empty list of screensavers. It still works OK for other users! I tried to rename .kde with no positive effect. Out of the blue, I restored a Suse 9.0 user directory from that user and started with that and the screensavers where there again! Then, with the 9.2 user directory, they were there, too. After working for a few days, the list of screensavers is empty again for that user. What can that be? Thanks! Thomas

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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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Re: [suse-kde] Kein Sound mehr
by Thierry de Coulon 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

On Tuesday, 30 August 2005 20:08, berkah wrote: > Seit dem letzten easy-linux-CDs (einschl. Multimerdia-Pack 1 ) und > YAST-Online-Update gibt's bei meinem Suse 9.3 keinen Sound mehr - hab auch > nichts gefunden, woran liegt... (vorher ging's optimal). > > H.B. Könnte daran liegen, dass dein Kernel upgradiert wurde - dann gibts mit Alsa Probleme. In /var/log/dmesg schauen, ob es da Fehlermeldungen gibt. Falls ich richtig liege, muss Alsa für den neuen Kernel neu kompiliert werden. Thierry -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa

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Kein Sound mehr
by berkah 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Seit dem letzten easy-linux-CDs (einschl. Multimerdia-Pack 1 ) und YAST-Online-Update gibt's bei meinem Suse 9.3 keinen Sound mehr - hab auch nichts gefunden, woran liegt... (vorher ging's optimal). H.B.

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Problems installing Festival 1.9.5 on Suse 9.3
by Marc Scheib 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Sorry for bothering you: I am trying to install the Festival RPM from the KDE Accessibility Project, but YAST does not show anything about the new Version. I am a bloody newbie to the Suse Installation System and therefore would like to ask you kindly for a hint on my installation problem. I am working on a Suse 9.3 Installation. Konqueror shows me a button 'Install Package with YAST' when I download the RPM from http:// accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php, but when I click on that button YAST shows me only the old Version 1.4.3 from the Suse- Repository.. Please, how can I point Yast towards the new RPM? Thank you for your cooperation, Marc Scheib (mailto:marc(at)mindbomb.de)

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Re: [suse-kde] Problems installing Festival 1.9.5 on Suse 9.3
by Marc Scheib 30 Aug '05

30 Aug '05

Thank You Kevin for your explanation. It worked like a charm after I had 'su'ed into the RPMs directory and entered rpm -Uvh fest*.rpm like Scott recommended :) Even YAST reports the new version, marking it locked for downgrades :) Thank you all for your hints and recommendations! cheerio Marc On 30.08.2005, at 03:54, elefino wrote: > On Monday 29 August 2005 20:02, Marc Scheib wrote: > > > >> Please, is there a way to somehow manually install RPMs without >> engaging YAST? >> > > Um... open a console window, cd to the directory where you downloaded > the rpm, and (if you don't have a version of the program already > installed) : > > rpm -i <packagefilename> > > If you already have a program installed (via rpm) and want to get > rid of > it: > > rpm -e <packagename> > > If you have a version installed and are upgrading: > > rpm -U <packagefilename> > > To find out more about the rpm command and its options: > > man rpm > > I'm not totally clear on when it's advisable to install as yourself > or when > you should su - root before running rpm. > > If you've never used rpms before, you may have no problem at all > (because > everything that the new package needs is already in place) , or you > may > get messages about dependencies (conflicts and missing things (like > versions of libraries) that the rpm needs to install and work > properly). > > If you are really unlucky, you get dropped into dependency hell, where > you google for hours or days, trying to find package after program > after > app after library after compiler after......... each one leading to > the > next and contradicting two that you've already done.... :-) > > Usually YaST is good about minimizing dependency problems, but only > for sure if you are getting SuSE-specific packages from reliable > sites, > and are installing a version that's been assembled for your version of > SuSE. Dependency hell is more likely to happen if you try to install > generic packages or ones that have been assembled for other > distributions > like RedHat. > > Another option is apt-get (apt4rpm), which can be tricky to get > configured, > but which then does a very smooth job of resolving dependencies. > > Kevin >

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KDE/GNOME menu entries
by Kirk Coombs 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Can somebody point me to information on how the kde/gnome menu entries are generated? Kirk

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Update mishaps
by Alvin Beach 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Hello all, After I recently upgraded from the supplementary/[KDE,GNOME,misc]/update_for_9.3 I have lost some icons for OpenOffice, Scribus, Inkscape and some others. Also, the menus in Gimp have a black background? Has this happened to anyone else? I guess this is what I get for using bleeding-edge updates? Alvin -- Please reply to the mailing list.

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Hi (NVidia issue := solution)
by Syed Mamun Raihan 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I found the issue with nvidia driver. The problem is with Sax2 configuration. It sets geometry using something that is not compatible. Select useframebuffertiming. By the way I am use GeForce2Go. If it helps someone else then I think this is the issue .. Take Care Raihan

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Slide Show
by Thomas Wedehase 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

hello List, i am looking for a program for generating nice looking slide shows. i have tons of holiday pictures and i want to generate a slide show so i can watch on a DVD Player. Does anyone know a program (with gui) were i can build slide shows. (with music and blending the pictures) greetings from good old germany -- Thomas Wedehase Bischofsgruen, Germany www.thomaswedehase.com PGP Fingerprint: 87BF 699C FAF8 430D 0080 7706 CEEF 89E4 6487 0C60

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