Re: [tlug] Suse blues

["paul arenson" <paul@example.com>]

Wow...so many replies!
And it is beginning to make sense and become
less a thing of mystique and intrigue

Thanks to:
1)Scott and his
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html
Also,
2)Shawn
3)David (Norway? I lived for a year in Denmark in '75) and
also worked on a farm in Bro/ttum, Norway).
4)Matthias
5)Stephen
6)Jonathan Byrne
and a few people who wrote off the list, plus David Nettles from
suse-linux-ja@example.com!!!!

One thing I found is that instructions that I THOUGHT were difficult, were
not.  I just didn't understand that, for example, "X" simply means the
desktop. I though it was something in the TERMINAL.  And I discovered that
terminal neededn't be so scarey.  In pre-Mac days, on my Apple II as a
member of TWICS, I had to use Telnet and Pine.   It seems that is
basically also TERMINAL, right?

Another thing I found is that some of my mouse problems disappeared when I
disconnnected one of the video outputs from my computer to the monitor (IO
Data 19inch combination TV and monitor).  It seems it is not good to have
both connected. Luckily the drivers for that were installed into the
display itself when it was hooked up to Windpows...well, at least it
functions as a TV with the right channels programmed as a result of that.


The pizza and beer route seems good.   Not sure about adding  girlfriend
at this time.  The benefits outwiegh the complications! Found I have a
linuux guru right here at work!!

One thing....Stephen says in answer to my question....

paul> (4) Can I just put a CD or DVD of any good installation and
    paul> write over it?

Stephen> No, because you'll have different hardware etc.  Fix the
installation
you've got, or find someone to fix it for you.


Ok.....because of time constraints (I was suppposed to be updating my own
website and creating a P-machine website for some of my students)  and the
fact that I am going to be in the U.S. for 4 weeks, I have decided to
leave the thing in English for now and come back to it in April.   The
notes here will be immensely helpful.  But just for the sake of
knowledge---if I were to get redhat (called fedora now?) as someone
mentioned, and DID stick it in the drive and said INSTALL, would it?   
Also, a friend says he got Knopppix on CD and he thinks it works in
Japanese, albeit in its slow mode (not installed).  if so, that may be all
I need for the occasional use I have. But you all have encouraged me to
get this fixed and not to give up.

(and if there is nothing equivalent to Yast in other distributions, it
seems like I SHOULD stay with Suse for now).


By the way, for what it is worth...the system I reinstalled in Japanese
last night  gave me this data, after entering the text  Jonathan
mentioned.  I am not sure how useful it will be as i won't be able to work
on this until April, but for the record here it , and I am curious if
there is some surpirse there that would be enlighteneing.

arenson@example.com:~> printenv
LESSKEY=/etc/lesskey.bin
NNTPSERVER=news
INFODIR=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info
MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/gnome/man
KDE_MULTIHEAD=false
HOSTNAME=usen-221x242x10x37
XKEYSYMDB=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
HOST=
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
PROFILEREAD=true
HISTSIZE=1000
XDM_MANAGED=/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-:0,maysd,mayfn,sched,rsvd
STYLE=Keramik
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/opt/gnome/share/themes/Geramik/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/arenson/.gtkrc-2.0-Keramik:/home/arenson/.kde/share/config/gtkrc
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/opt/gnome/gtk/gtkrc:/opt/gnome/share/themes/Geramik/gtk/gtkrc:/home/arenson/.gtkrc-Keramik:/home/arenson/.kde/share/config/gtkrc
KDEHOME=/home/arenson/.kde
XSESSION_IS_UP=yes
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/java/jre
USER=arenson
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31:ex=00;32:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:*.com=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.dll=01;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tbz=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.deb=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.zoo=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.tb2=00;31:*.tz2=00;31:*.tbz2=00;31:*.avi=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.aiff=00;32:*.au=00;32:*.mid=00;32:*.mp3=00;32:*.ogg=00;32:*.voc=00;32:*.wav=00;32:
OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin
XNLSPATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/nls
HOSTTYPE=i386
SESSION_MANAGER=local/usen-221x242x10x37:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2593
PAGER=less
LD_HWCAP_MASK=0x20000000
KONSOLE_DCOP=DCOPRef(konsole-2762,konsole)
MINICOM=-c on
PATH=/home/arenson/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin
CPU=i686
JAVA_BINDIR=/usr/lib/java/jre/bin
KDM_AUTOLOGIN=arenson
KONSOLE_DCOP_SESSION=DCOPRef(konsole-2762,session-1)
INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc
PWD=/home/arenson
XMODIFIERS=@example.com=kinput2
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java/jre
LANG=ja_JP
TEXINPUTS=::/home/arenson/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX:/home/arenson/.TeX:/usr/share/doc/.TeX:/usr/doc/.TeX
SHLVL=2
HOME=/home/arenson
LESS_ADVANCED_PREPROCESSOR=no
OSTYPE=linux
LS_OPTIONS=-N --color=tty -T 0
no_proxy=localhost
XCURSOR_THEME=blueprint-cursor-theme
WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde
LESS=-M -I
MACHTYPE=i686-suse-linux
LOGNAME=arenson
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/gnome/lib/pkgconfig
LESSOPEN=lessopen.sh %s
USE_FAM=
ACLOCAL_PATH=/opt/gnome/share/aclocal
INFOPATH=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info
DISPLAY=:0.0
LESSCLOSE=lessclose.sh %s %s
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1
JAVA_ROOT=/usr/lib/java
COLORTERM=
_=/usr/bin/printenv
arenson@example.com:~>




arenson@example.com:~> ps aux |grep -i canna
wnn       1892  0.0  0.0  2096 1024 ?        S    10:24   0:00
/usr/sbin/cannaserver -u wnn -r /var/lib/canna
arenson   2804  0.0  0.0  2652  724 pts/1    R    10:40   0:00 grep -i canna
arenson@example.com:~>


arenson@example.com:~> ps aux |grep -i kinput
arenson   2819  0.0  0.0  2652  736 pts/2    S    10:41   0:00 grep -i kinput
arenson@example.com:~>




Thanks again,

Paul








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Paul Arenson
paul@example.com

TokyoProgressive Editor http://tokyoprogressive.org

IndyMedia Japan Editor
http://japan.indymedia.org
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