Lilux-help November 2004

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12 participants
14 discussions

by Serge Marelli

Hi, I went on the website, downloaded the firefox installer and "installed" it (as root) but my other users can't use it. For some reason, it won't start. It did work when I ran it as the user who installed it (root). I'd like to know the following things in general: - do I need to be logged in as root to install firefox on my system? - if not, should be logged in as root to install firefox on my system? - where should I install firefox? in /usr/local/bin/? in /opt/ ? - there are three different users on my system, what should I do to make sure they all can use firefox once it's installed? About my specific problem, I launched firefox from the shell and got the following error message: <quote> user@host:~> firefox Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client! (firefox-bin:5584): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: </quote> thanks for any help Serge -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux - http://www.lilux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ Free Software Foundation - http//www.fsf.org/

19 years, 5 months

Re: [Lilux-help] QEMU & bridged networking

by Brent Frère

Eric Dondelinger <Eric.Dondelinger(a)linux.lu> wrote: > Hi, > > after having seen Brent play around with QEMU, I decided to give it > a try - and it is indeed nice, even if it feels slower than VMWare. Sadly, it is really an emulation, so (as reported on their web site qemu.org) it runs roughly 4 times slowlier than the same program running natively on the host computer (in the x86 on x86 case). If you download the last binaries in tgz format from the qemu.org web site, (the one that must be untared in the / directory), there are documentations in there. No time yet to read it, but there are some at least. > I've got one problem though, which is networking - the documentation > is frankly lacking, and I didn't as yet find out how to set up > bridged networking (i.e. what VMWare normally does). I did google, > but the results there are also not what I expected (including google > groups). > > Does someone have pointers to *decent* documentation for this stuff? > > TIA, Eric > _______________________________________________ > Lilux-help mailing list > Lilux-help(a)lilux.lu > http://lilux.lu/mailman/listinfo/lilux-help > -- -- Brent Frère Private e-mail: Brent(a)BFrere.net Postal address: 5, rue de Mamer L-8280 Kehlen Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg European Union Mobile: +352-021/29.05.98 Fax: +352-26.30.05.96 Home: +352-307.341 URL: http://BFrere.net

19 years, 5 months

[Fwd: Problème de connexion à LuxDsl avec Linux]

by Thierry Coutelier

Please answer to the author of the original mail as he is not on the list yet. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Problème de connexion à LuxDsl avec Linux Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:41:05 +0100 From: Marc Müller <mm071167(a)pt.lu> To: <contact(a)linux.lu> Bonjour, Depuis quelques jours j'ai installé Suse Linux 9.1 Professional sur un de mes PC. Malheureusement je n'arrive pas à installer mon modem Alcatel Speed Touch USB sous Linux. Les P&T Luxembourg ne pouvaient pas m'aider, étant donner qu'ils offrent de l'aide seulement pour les utilisateurs de MS Windows. Est-ce que vous pourriez m'aider à ce sujet ? Merci à l'avance Salutations Marc Müller 15 rue d'Oetrange L-5407 Bous Tél: 23697542 Gsm: 061 343264 mail: mm071167(a)pt.lu <mailto:mm071167@pt.lu>

19 years, 5 months

QEMU & bridged networking

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, after having seen Brent play around with QEMU, I decided to give it a try - and it is indeed nice, even if it feels slower than VMWare. I've got one problem though, which is networking - the documentation is frankly lacking, and I didn't as yet find out how to set up bridged networking (i.e. what VMWare normally does). I did google, but the results there are also not what I expected (including google groups). Does someone have pointers to *decent* documentation for this stuff? TIA, Eric

19 years, 5 months

SuSE kernel 2.6.5-7.111

by Alex

Hi I recently upgraded via YOU to this kernel and since then, I can't mount any CDROM Drive. The kernel always says: No medium found. I thought that it was an error in my bios settings, but in Knoppix all went fine. Before I do a downgrade to my previous kernel, I want to ask if someone heard about bugs of this kernel-version. Thanks. Al

19 years, 5 months

Printo to PDF? [yes/no]

by Serge Marelli

Hi, I don't know where and what I'm doing wrong. I'm using SuSE Linux 9.x [x<2] and I don't have a printer, so I often print to PDF wich I print at another location ($ORKPLACE) When I go to a webpage using KDE's Konqueror and want to print it, I'm able to print it to a PDF document. However, when I'm using Mozilla (no time yet to install Firefox) I only get the option to print to .ps ..! How come? where can I change the settings? thanks Serge -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Serge Marelli, Luxembourg E-mail : serge.marelli(a)linux.lu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LiLux - http://www.lilux.lu/ Defending Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/ Free Software Foundation - http//www.fsf.org/

19 years, 5 months

I have to re-run yast after every boot to keep configuration of sound and powermanagement

by Frédéric Becker

Hello, When starting kaffeine in SusE 9.2 with my centrino on-board chip sound, it says: "All drivers failed to initialize". It is the same with MPlayer, who crashes a start-up. When I reconfigure the sound system with yast, every hing works just fine until I reboot the system. What can I do to keep sound system running by default? In addition to that I have quite the same trouble with kpowersave in the KDE system tray who doesn't show the suspend options until i re-run the yast-powermanagement. Thanks a lot Frédéric Becker.

19 years, 5 months

[Fwd: [Lilux-help] I have to re-run yast after every boot to keep configuration of sound and powermanagement]

by Frédéric Becker

as root for yast. F.B.

19 years, 5 months

VMWare 3.1 Workstation & Mouse

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi, @work, I'm using VMWare 3.1 on my desktop for different tasks. On that machine, I run Debian Sarge (testing) with a 2.4 kernel. To prepare a course for instance, I used it to generate screenshots from a booting Knoppix CD - which worked just fine in VMWare. (obviouly without VMWare tools installed - they only get to be installed on a fully "installed" guest OS, which can't be done with a Knoppix CD) Now, I installed VMWare on my Laptop, which also runs Debian Sarge, for this task under a 2.4.27 kernel (I normally run 2.6.8.1). Booting Knoppix under VMWare, I have an extremely "slow" mouse, whether I use the integrated touchpad or an external USB mouse. This means that for "normal" mouse movements, I only get a few pixels' worth ov movement of the cursor. N.b. just booting the laptop from Knoppix is no problem at all. Does anyone have an idea what's happening there, and how I could fix that problem? TIA, Eric

19 years, 5 months

Re: [Lilux-help] LinuxDays 2005 - LiLux courses

by Eric Dondelinger

Hi again, so far I still got no candidates for the networking course. I took the liberty of writing a tentative abstract (hence v0.1), this has until tomorrow before becoming definite ;-). Please have a look at it. If you see something where you feel like "hey, I could do that part!", please do contact me. It's not like a single person would have to do the entire course (unless so wanted). You're welcome to do one part of this stuff... Greetings, Eric

19 years, 5 months

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Lilux-help November 2004