SCIM chinese input fails to work

Hi all, I’ve just installed the SCIM input method for chinese pinyin, configured hotkeys and all, but it just do not work, i tried many hotkeys but, i still cant type chinese, i’ve installed almost everything from suse repositories for scim, but still nothing works, i’ve installed chinese language from yast also, my current keyboard layout is USA/RU China only works with english, and SCIM do not work, what is that i’m doing wrong, i’m quite frustrated about the fact, cause last time i managed to install and use scim correctly, dont know what can be wrong((( well at present my hotkeys for chinese pinyin (ctrl+alt+p) they simply do nothing, and other hotkeys too, hot to get it running???