Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
Peter Czanik wrote: Hello, I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like: I will add to this. I don't remember if the yast install console (there is one available, don't remember the F-number) allow partitioning, but the rescue mode allows it. however, with 10.2, when you _have_ made a swap partition, the automatic partitoner/installer is confused and don't allow to use it by default for the final install (it uses it for yast) practically, what I did: create a swap, mkswap, launch install... ok when come to partitioning (free disk), I was said that 3 partitions where needed: * my original swap one, * a new yast proposed swap partition, * the / partition. I didn't too much look at the details (alas), go to expert mode, delete the new swap and / yast proposal, don't touch my swap one, and add all the rest as / after that, yast complain it can't mount the /dev/hda1 partition on the swap mount point... may be my original swap part was reaffected by yast, but in a funny way :-). I had only to go back to partitionner, assign and format my swap as swap, the rest as / and all goes well. but, here, there are two potential problems: * a pre-existing swap should be used as swap :-)) by default * why was a swap mount point ever proposed :-) on such system, when a swap part is needed, creating it should be proposed jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] How can we support better Virtualization in openSUSE ?
On Mon, 21 May 2007 01:26:22 +0100, Sid Boyce wrote: I guessed that immediately I saw the no supported hardware found in dmesg. I thought so, since you said that you got yourself new hardware :) I just added it as info for others. Philipp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
On Mon 21 May 2007 18:23:42 NZST +1200, Peter Czanik wrote: Installation on these machines is getting more and more difficult due to RAM requirements of the installer (especially the package manager). Right now the only way to install openSUSE on such a machine is to enable a swap partition at the beginning of installation. You can only do that if the installer is able to proceed to the point where it asks whether to enable a swap partition which already exists on disk. The 10.2 one doesn't get that far with 128MB RAM, a black screen and hard-hang results. Hmm I think that box had onboard shared-mem graphics which prob effectively took 4-8MB off. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd schreef: Peter Czanik wrote: Hello, I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like: I will add to this. I don't remember if the yast install console (there is one available, don't remember the F-number) allow partitioning, but the rescue mode allows it. however, with 10.2, when you _have_ made a swap partition, the automatic partitoner/installer is confused and don't allow to use it by default for the final install (it uses it for yast) practically, what I did: create a swap, mkswap, launch install... ok when come to partitioning (free disk), I was said that 3 partitions where needed: * my original swap one, * a new yast proposed swap partition, * the / partition. I didn't too much look at the details (alas), go to expert mode, delete the new swap and / yast proposal, don't touch my swap one, and add all the rest as / after that, yast complain it can't mount the /dev/hda1 partition on the swap mount point... may be my original swap part was reaffected by yast, but in a funny way :-). I had only to go back to partitionner, assign and format my swap as swap, the rest as / and all goes well. but, here, there are two potential problems: * a pre-existing swap should be used as swap :-)) by default * why was a swap mount point ever proposed :-) on such system, when a swap part is needed, creating it should be proposed I would very well welcome this proposition on the short term. Yesterday i wanted to update 10.0 10.2, on a Compaq Armada E500, with 192MB Ram. (Not possible caused by unsolvable deps.) Yast suggested to use the available swap-partition, and continued. However, the new install somehow screwed the partition label, and install was terminated. W2K, and the 10.0 install unusable... Now i did re-install W2K, and am facing the same prob. It is solvable, but for people not as familiar, this would be: Not possible to install SuSE OS. This is the last thing we would want, i guess? jdd - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUYSlX5/X5X6LpDgRAnUfAKDjF9TISYLj4LIiWlTs7Csiz/G1UACgyDWx AVUoctn7QI4bQAkeYz6UUCE= =hzWr -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] SaX2 source
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[opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the subject. They stop the process of copying or comparing..very annoying. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUY4uX5/X5X6LpDgRApZ9AKCTn8MzhBdtP2iA/Yimb4jD+d1qPgCgmtbG dNnY3aqPZx3DN1IGlqI9X8M= =BiBU -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.
Not a solution for newbies, but you can shut beagle down temporarily with: beagle-shutdown Ciao, A. Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 14.18 +0200, M9. ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the subject. They stop the process of copying or comparing..very annoying. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Not a solution for newbies, but you can shut beagle down temporarily with: beagle-shutdown Might be not so bad, when on, it takes aaages to synchronize. Ciao, A. Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 14.18 +0200, M9. ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As the subject. They stop the process of copying or comparing..very annoying. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUZWlX5/X5X6LpDgRAszXAJsHliH9M0aXvOKQry9yXXcQJaEEFgCfUH5p EHg0o3QUS5RRK9EvwLctKm4= =901+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.
Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 14.50 +0200, M9. ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Not a solution for newbies, but you can shut beagle down temporarily with: beagle-shutdown Might be not so bad, when on, it takes aaages to synchronize. What do you use to synchronize? I do my backups with rsync, and excluding the first sync/copy, it's pretty fast. Regards, A. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Il giorno lun, 21/05/2007 alle 14.50 +0200, M9. ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Not a solution for newbies, but you can shut beagle down temporarily with: beagle-shutdown Might be not so bad, when on, it takes aaages to synchronize. What do you use to synchronize? I do my backups with rsync, and excluding the first sync/copy, it's pretty fast. Is it cmd? Is it standard in openSUSE? Is there a manual? I am not yet used to the huge amounts of data in a home dir ;-( So i use something like Krusader, but it is so damn slow, one thinks it stopped. Second, i store on a networkdrive, with samba on it, using fat32...since i got one, but i am not able to get nfs on it (can not get into set-up, firmwareprotected) which would make a lot of things a lot easier.. Synchronising did not work:-( I am now throwing the old back-up away, (which also takes too much time!) to just copy my home again... lost my whole afternoon. I have to rearrange my partitions: /var and /usr are running out of space very quick, and my /boot is still too small... so i have too get rid off my old config, and start brandnew, with updated 'needed space info' ;-) This realy slows down the proces... Regards, A. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUabVX5/X5X6LpDgRAtM+AJ4siJhBnjN+ai9Yb+sC5NByH1YbEgCePIfG V5gN27+JS/RA7m36Tt1x+GM= =nc15 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] SaX2 source
On Monday 21 May 2007 13:57:34 Rafał Miłecki wrote: Hello, Where may I find sources of SaX2? http://www.google.com/search?q=sax2+x11 first and second result: http://sax.berlios.de/ http://developer.berlios.de/projects/sax/ -- Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett Novell :: SUSE RD, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.
Is it cmd? Yes, it's a command line tool. Is it standard in openSUSE? Yes, it's installed by default. Is there a manual? You can just type man manual in a terminal and read there, but this link provides you some useful hint to do backups: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ You might consider also Unison, which is another tool to synchronise directories. It's available in the OSS repository of openSUSE and you can find more information here http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Both the tools can use the network to synchronise, by means of SSH. Regards, A. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: On Mon 21 May 2007 18:23:42 NZST +1200, Peter Czanik wrote: Installation on these machines is getting more and more difficult due to RAM requirements of the installer (especially the package manager). Right now the only way to install openSUSE on such a machine is to enable a swap partition at the beginning of installation. You can only do that if the installer is able to proceed to the point where it asks whether to enable a swap partition which already exists on disk. The 10.2 one doesn't get that far with 128MB RAM, a black screen and hard-hang results. Hmm I think that box had onboard shared-mem graphics which prob effectively took 4-8MB off. linuxrc in 10.2 is setup to ask for swap if you have less than about 256MB RAM (provided you already have a swap partition.) Just did a quick check and it works for me (even with mem=110m, which should approximate your config). Steffen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Beagle and beagle-helper real obstacles when making back-ups.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Is it cmd? Yes, it's a command line tool. Is it standard in openSUSE? Yes, it's installed by default. Is there a manual? You can just type man manual in a terminal and read there, but this link provides you some useful hint to do backups: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ You might consider also Unison, which is another tool to synchronise directories. It's available in the OSS repository of openSUSE and you can find more information here http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ Both the tools can use the network to synchronise, by means of SSH. Regards, A. Very usefull indeed! ;-) I also discovered that the cause might be: ext3 fat32, in which is deleting from pc, instead right off the networkdrive even slower than comparing(!)(it is still deleting, while the new copy is ready for at least 20 minutes... have too look into this!) I now copied my home, which gets a little too fat if you ask me: 6,3 GB, to an existing Reiserfs partition somewhere on another drive, which took just a few minutes..:-) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUa22X5/X5X6LpDgRAhUrAKC2vW7aIKw6LQcDcasTTI2oQiVu5wCfW1EK ss2a8tIJPotYV5pkHSJTcRo= =/mnO -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steffen Winterfeldt schreef: That sounds rather like bug. Please consider a bugreport. Steffen Well, i never encountered this before, but i never installed 10.2 on 'small' machines before... 10.0 did install without running out of RAMspace.. I would rather wait untill someone else also gets this problem, and than back up, unless you all say to file a bug offcourse.. (i can not reproduce it now) But if it is possible to give Yast the ability to create a swap partition, this would be logical. (since it is needing this huge amount of space...) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUbOSX5/X5X6LpDgRAjy0AKCM/pgtbgJ0sp95DjkjFc6m+RXLywCggBvY 8DYZIrYvbuta489zaR3EAug= =NrC3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
The problem is known. See: Instlux - setup openSUSE Linux from Windows: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276450 -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ Partition Magic was not so bad at all. I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too change the sizes of existing partitions. Now, one has too back-up his/her home, throw away all partitions, and start all over again. And in the low ram case, one is not even capable to reach the partioner, which is off course not very sane.. More logic would be: Load the files nessesary to create what is needed first, (the room for the system, and i am still convinced, that there are seperate partitions needed, for: /boot,/,/opt,/usr,/var, (and evt /tmp), swap, and /home.) and then, one should be able to change sizes, without having to delete /home. It must be possible to reduce the size of /home, if more room for fi: /boot, /usr, and/or /var is needed. I realy mean that it is totaly anoying, not being able to change your available room, without spending hours to back-up the data you want to save.. I hope it is not too late for 10.3 final, to change this, but this hope might be in vane... I simply can not understand that nobody else finds this nessesary. - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. OS: Linux 2.6.18.8-03-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systeem: openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64) KDE: 3.5.5 release 45.4 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUbnlX5/X5X6LpDgRApsrAJ9IerW8gwgNLHAiAWKi2qIRTET93ACg3hcN 51tNTkRPhvZABmIE5+9yzbM= =G5+3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Peter Czanik wrote: I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like: http://www.genesippc.com/openclient.php , but also many old PC's, which are still suitable for running xfce, Opera, vnc and rdesktop. Installation on these machines is getting more and more difficult due to RAM requirements of the installer (especially the package manager). Right now the only way to install openSUSE on such a machine is to enable a swap partition at the beginning of installation. Here comes a catch: one can not enable a swap partition, when a HDD is not yet partitioned, or partitioned for Windows, so the disk has to be partitioned manually with fdisk or parted before the installation can begin. I wonder, if support for swap file could be added to LinuxRC, so these machines could be installed a lot more easy. There are many ways implementing it. For 2-3 installations even an USB key would do the job (yes, I know that they don't like many write operations, but one does not install machines so often :-) ), or any existing ext2/reiserfs/FAT partition, which Linux can write. One could use a 'swfilepart=/dev/sdb1' parameter to choose a device and then create a big enough 'suseinstallswap' file, which can be deleted at the end. 'big enough' is about 350MB for factory / ftp installation source. Then mkswap, swapon could be ran on it, and installation of these low RAM machines could be done just as any other openSUSE install. This is of course only for 'advanced' users, who know what they do, just as installing from a partition, where the user needs to take care, that the installation source is not formatted during installation :-) Really cool users can show their advancedness by booting with (for example): insmod=vfat exec=mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foo bs=1G count=1 ; mkswap /mnt/foo ; swapon /mnt/foo ; /usr/local/bin/umount -l /mnt which does exactly what you want. :-) No idea what evil things will happen if you resize that partition in yast, though. Steffen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
On Monday 21 May 2007 08:37, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: ... Really cool users can show their advancedness by booting with (for example): insmod=vfat exec=mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foo bs=1G count=1 ; mkswap /mnt/foo ; swapon /mnt/foo ; /usr/local/bin/umount -l /mnt which does exactly what you want. :-) That's definitely cool, but I'd turn down the dd buffer size and compensate by increasing the record count. If a buffer of the specified size (bs= argument) cannot be allocated by dd, it will fail. (It's not going to affect the speed unless the buffer size is ridiculously small, since the whole thing is utterly I/O-bound.) Given that no swap is available at the time, asking for a gigabyte would mean that many users' systems would not be able to accommodate this request. Speaking of failure, you might want to replace the semicolons with double ampersands, so the later commands only execute if the earlier ones succeed. By the way, why attempt to unmount /mnt? Since there's now an open file there, is it not guaranteed to fail? ... Steffen Randall Schulz - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...
On Mon, 21 May 2007, M9. wrote: We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ Partition Magic was not so bad at all. I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too change the sizes of existing partitions. Now, one has too back-up his/her home, throw away all partitions, and start all over again. And in the low ram case, one is not even capable to reach the partioner, which is off course not very sane.. More logic would be: Load the files nessesary to create what is needed first, (the room for the system, and i am still convinced, that there are seperate partitions needed, for: /boot,/,/opt,/usr,/var, (and evt /tmp), swap, and /home.) and then, one should be able to change sizes, without having to delete /home. It must be possible to reduce the size of /home, if more room for fi: /boot, /usr, and/or /var is needed. I realy mean that it is totaly anoying, not being able to change your available room, without spending hours to back-up the data you want to save.. IIRC there was a project once (long past) for a standalone-partitioner (based on parted, if I'm not mistaken). My personal opinion is that a really good partitioner is one of those projects that will never be done for linux. I hope it is not too late for 10.3 final, to change this, but this hope might be in vane... I simply can not understand that nobody else finds this nessesary. Actually, I don't partition my drives that much. Like, apparently, most users. ;-) Steffen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007 08:37, Steffen Winterfeldt wrote: ... Really cool users can show their advancedness by booting with (for example): insmod=vfat exec=mount /dev/sda1 /mnt ; dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/foo bs=1G count=1 ; mkswap /mnt/foo ; swapon /mnt/foo ; /usr/local/bin/umount -l /mnt which does exactly what you want. :-) That's definitely cool, but I'd turn down the dd buffer size and compensate by increasing the record count. If a buffer of the specified size (bs= argument) cannot be allocated by dd, it will fail. (It's not going to affect the speed unless the buffer size is ridiculously small, since the whole thing is utterly I/O-bound.) Given that no swap is available at the time, asking for a gigabyte would mean that many users' systems would not be able to accommodate this request. Granted. 'bs=1M count=1024' would be better. Speaking of failure, you might want to replace the semicolons with double ampersands, so the later commands only execute if the earlier ones succeed. Bah! My commmands never fail. :-) By the way, why attempt to unmount /mnt? Since there's now an open file there, is it not guaranteed to fail? You need to get rid of it, because (a) yast uses /mnt and (b) yast might want to mount the partition itself. umount will not fail as '-l' makes a 'lazy' umount (unmounts no matter what). Steffen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: swapfile during installation
On Mon, 21 May 2007, M9. wrote: Steffen Winterfeldt schreef: That sounds rather like bug. Please consider a bugreport. Steffen Well, i never encountered this before, but i never installed 10.2 on 'small' machines before... 10.0 did install without running out of RAMspace.. I really wonder how we did that. :-/ But if it is possible to give Yast the ability to create a swap partition, this would be logical. (since it is needing this huge amount of space...) The swap-file suggestion sounds not bad. But the tricky part is of course to track the partition as unchangeable. Steffen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...
* M9. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-21-07 14:07]: Beagle is a disaster, which keeps creating unreadable files, that no one will ever use again. Beagle is the example of the 'cluttermachine'.. in my vieuw.. No, it *is* handy, even if you have order. You must have an older version which had problems or you have mis-configured somehow. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows
I would like to go even further and feature-request openSUSE setup on NTFS entirely ! ! ! Is it possible to achieve ? -NTFS capabilities: I don't know for sure, but it looks like NTFS-3g has enough POSIX compatibility to make it possible to install openSUSE on ntfs-3g partition entirely. That is - mount / partition on NTFS, as well as swap-on-NTFS. -How to install ? I have theoretical alternative: use RPM for Cygwin to just install openSUSE distro on local Windows folder, without rebooting and going through Yast-setup. Some easy setup could be built very quickly for Windows (using InnoSetup) Then we will need just to reboot into openSUSE to start the new system ! -What this will require from openSUSE? probably integrating ntfs-3g into the ditrso, plus building initrd with ntfs-3g, so that the kernel can mount the / partition. What do you think about it? Please help me push ntfs-3g into openSUSE ! https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=247750 -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] SaX2 source
Am Montag, 21. Mai 2007 19:02 schrieb Rafał Miłecki: 2007/5/21, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.google.com/search?q=sax2+x11 Thanks, that was so easy. I did not think about typing x11. One more question: is there some way to avoid problems cause by lack of XFree86 devel libs? When typing make I get: parse.c:21:24: error: xf86Parser.h: No such file or directory When you want to compile software, you should know pin. Just typ pin xf86Parser.h and let the computer search for the package. -- Machs gut| http://www.iivs.de/schwinde/buerger/tremmel/ | http://packman.links2linux.de/ Manfred | http://www.knightsoft-net.de - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows
This page indicates that it is indeed possible to run Linux OS on NTFS partition: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#rootfs Having Linux on NTFS can bring us to serious revolution across Windows users ! A real revolution in how Windows users *think* about openSUSE ! But we have to make it simple for the Windows crowd to install openSUSE on the same NTFS partition as Windows. (such as C:\) This means either enhance our current Basic Setup Routine and Yast-setup to handle those new requirements easily, or we need to write completely new (Windows-based) setup for openSUSE distro. Plus, We can go both directions at once. :) -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Partitioner needs overhaul...
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 17:25 +0200, M9. wrote: We see that the suggestion to create a serious partitioner, like PQ Partition Magic was not so bad at all. I constantly run into problems, because it is much too difficult too change the sizes of existing partitions. I would suggest using LVM! Now, one has too back-up his/her home, throw away all partitions, and start all over again. What's wrong with that? More logic would be: Load the files nessesary to create what is needed first, (the room for the system, and i am still convinced, that there are seperate partitions needed, for: /boot,/,/opt,/usr,/var, (and evt /tmp), swap, and /home.) and then, one should be able to change sizes, without having to delete /home. The systems i have to manage, have seperate /boot (normally not mounted) /usr and /opt (both mounted RO), seperate /tmp, /var, /var/log, /srv, /tmp and /home. It must be possible to reduce the size of /home, if more room for fi: /boot, /usr, and/or /var is needed. Create them at minimum, and resize them when needed I realy mean that it is totaly anoying, not being able to change your available room, without spending hours to back-up the data you want to save.. As said, use LVM with lvm+reiser you can enlarge them on-the-fly, but have to unmount them for shrinking I simply can not understand that nobody else finds this nessesary. (Some people only create root-partition and root-user ;-() Have a nice day, Same to you, Final remark, for small partitions (100MB) use ext3, not reiserfs And for those that never change (usr, opt) journaling is not needed. -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] VJ decompression error
After a problems with my ISP (Timofonica), I must to go back to my old 56k sporster Robotics and my older ISP (in the absense of adsl), but I has frequently disconnections problems with it. The dmesg result is: SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV IN=modem0 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.189.244.228 DST=200.45.208.50 LEN=457 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=52 ID=13266 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=27556 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 ACK PSH FIN URGP=0 OPT (0101080A6A887173000C7C18) PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=modem0 OUT= MAC= SRC=221.208.208.86 DST=200.45.208.50 LEN=486 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=55888 DPT=1026 LEN=466 PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT-INV IN=modem0 OUT= MAC= SRC=62.189.244.228 DST=200.45.208.50 LEN=457 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=52 ID=13931 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=27556 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 ACK PSH FIN URGP=0 OPT (0101080A6A888A73000C7C18) SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=modem0 OUT= MAC= SRC=221.208.208.96 DST=200.45.208.50 LEN=486 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=47166 DPT=1026 LEN=466 PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error PPP: VJ decompression error Regards - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] SUSE Linux Thin client solution
On Thursday 05 April 2007 17:47, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: Adrian Schröter wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 15:23:31 wrote Terje J. Hanssen: Novell recently introduced SUSE Linux Enterprise Thin Client Solution http://www.novell.com/news/press/novell-introduces-suse-linux-enterprise -th in-client-solution/ Does someone here know if this TC solution is based on a netboot SLED10 image only, or if it also possibly and alternatively can make use of the NX clients/server solution for Linux and Windows without the need to boot a new OS? SLED 10 only. Does possibly openSUSE 10.3 include this TC solution as OSS or non-OSS? You can create easily a ThinClient image with kiwi. IIRC Marcus has also a config for ThinClient in it (btw, kiwi is also used for the Novel ThinClient solution). If the config does not exist, please ask Marcus to add it. Thank you for the information and clarification. Rgds Terje J. Hanssen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] update to this thread http://en.opensuse.org/LTSP -- James Tremblay Director of Technology Newmarket School District Novell CNE 3\4\5 CLE \ NCE in training. http://en.opensuse.org/education - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse-factory] Installing on SATA HDD with SATA DVD-Burner
Hi list, I have installed openSUSE 10.3 alpha 4 on a SATA2 HDD using a SATA2 DVD-Burner. So far so good. However the mobo has Radeon Xpress 1250 integrated graphics which only runs in framebuffer mode on alpha 4. I would like to exercise the graphics chip in 3D mode but so far there are no opensource drivers for the X1250 and the ATI Proprietary Linux x86_64 Display Driver 8.36.5 does not yet support X-Org 7.2 found in alpha 4. Now openSUSE 10.2 GM is pre X-Org 7.2 so the Proprietary Driver would probably work there but sadly 10.2 does not support SATA HDDs and SATA Burners :-( Can anyone tell me how to install 10.2 GM with the necessary SATA support? Hardware: ASUS M2A-VM mobo (AMD690G chipset) Athlon 64 X2 4800+ CPU Kingston KVR667D2N5K2/2G (2GB DDR2/667 RAM) 320GB Seagate Barracuda Sata2 HDD Pioneer DVR-212 Sata2 DVD Burner - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: Using Instlux: issues setting up SUSE from Windows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexey Eremenko wrote: This page indicates that it is indeed possible to run Linux OS on NTFS partition: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#rootfs Having Linux on NTFS can bring us to serious revolution across Windows users ! A real revolution in how Windows users *think* about openSUSE ! Oh, really. But we have to make it simple for the Windows crowd to install openSUSE on the same NTFS partition as Windows. (such as C:\) we ? Sure, go ahead, implement a proof-of-concept then come back with !!!. This means either enhance our current Basic Setup Routine and Yast-setup to handle those new requirements easily, or we need to write completely new (Windows-based) setup for openSUSE distro. Plus, We can go both directions at once. :) Go ahead. The source code is available. PS: opensuse-factory: Discussion about all Alpha, Beta, RC and Factory versions of openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org/Communicate#Development_Lists - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGUniNr3NMWliFcXcRAhTEAJ0RYsOeC6jar3rGX1EZ4KTgUPcaHACfQSj0 iThY6uQ4/yo0dlDvK4zaZQk= =QWLQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] ntsc to pal
I've read the google articles filled with command line kernel jargon which I simply don't understand. All I want to do is convert my ntsc DVD's to pal so that I can watch them in Spain. Can SuSE 10.2 do that? TIA Steve. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:39:42AM +0200, Primm wrote: I've read the google articles filled with command line kernel jargon which I simply don't understand. All I want to do is convert my ntsc DVD's to pal so that I can watch them in Spain. Can SuSE 10.2 do that? OK, stupid question first - have you actually tried to play them on a DVD player in Spain? Most TVs nowadays take both NTSC and PAL. Your main problem is likely to be region coding rather than NTSC vs PAL. Get yourself a multiregion DVD player in Spain, and you'll probably be fine. HTH... -- David SmithWork Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] STMicroelectronics Home Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] FW: IPTABLES
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 19:35, Tage Danielsen wrote: If I can use Jerrys suggest i like to try this, but it have to bee easy for the windows users to use rdp. Next what do I have to do? Regards Tage Yes, it can be setup to be easy to use. but does require that the user do one additional step: Step 1) Double Click Tunnels Icon, enter username/password Step 2) Double click one (or more) RDP session Icons. I would start by testing it yourself. Once you get the feel for it and have set up the configurations Icons ect. you can install putty on the other windows machines and pass it out to your clients. Basically, all you have to do is to open the ssh port on the SUSE Firewall, (check that ssh is started, I think that is default in SUSE) Install putty and configure a tunnel... Hmmm, I've done documentation for this once upon a time, let me look... See if the following document helps: http://home.intergga.ch/Westrick/Using SSH tunnels from M$ Windows.pdf it uses VNC as example (instead of RDP as you are trying to Use) I change the SUSE SSH Configuration as follows: 1- Create User Group to control access - Create Group remotesh, - Add users that are allowed remote access to the group. 2- In file /etc/ssh/sshd_config add the following lines: - AllowGroups remotesh - GatewayPorts yes - X11DisplayOffset 50 - X11Forwarding yes 3- In file /etc/ssh/ssh_config Add lines: - ForwardAgent yes - ForwardX11 yes Addtionally, I change the port of the ssh server so as to avoid the Password attack currently infetcting the internet. Granting / Revoking remote acces on a user basis can now be controlled via YAST; by adding removing specific users from the remotesh group! Jerry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] OpenSUSE 10.2 install from USB stick
I want to install OpenSUSE 10.2 only from a USB stick. I see info in the OpenSUSE site about doing an install from a USB stick, getting all the packages over the network. I want to get all from the USB stick. Is there any reason I could not 'simply': Copy the OpenSUSE install DVD to a USB stick. Run syslinux to make the stick bootable Boot/install from the stick. I would imagine an autoyast.xml file could be placed in the root of the USB stick as well. Any known problems with this approach? Any obvious step I have missed? -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Fax: Int +46 8-31 42 23 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Eudora in Wine
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running the 64 bit OpenSUSE v10.2 and have installed Eudora running in wine. Eudora works well in this environment, with the exception that when I attempt to import something, e.g., addresses or mail directories I get an unhand led exception error message and Eudora closes. I was wondering if anyone has managed to get Eudora to work in wine and has been able to import files? I realize that Eudora is going open source, but who knows when that will be available! Any hep will be appreciated. Have a look at the app db on www.winehq.org . You may find some tips, and you can report your experiences there too. http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=62 http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=646 (this is a duplicate AFAICT) I'm afraid I'm not at all hep. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-05-21 at 10:39 +0200, Primm wrote: All I want to do is convert my ntsc DVD's to pal so that I can watch them in Spain. Can SuSE 10.2 do that? AFAIK, DVD media are neither NTSC nor PAL. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGUWwWtTMYHG2NR9URAvWvAJwPb7r/yKeTx6LaOcMTFPG1zJ51awCdF7nS LLsC33zGi9MdotkvlueK4m8= =lQWH -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
On Monday 21 May 2007 11:03, David SMITH wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:39:42AM +0200, Primm wrote: I've read the google articles filled with command line kernel jargon which I simply don't understand. All I want to do is convert my ntsc DVD's to pal so that I can watch them in Spain. Can SuSE 10.2 do that? OK, stupid question first - have you actually tried to play them on a DVD player in Spain? Most TVs nowadays take both NTSC and PAL. Your main problem is likely to be region coding rather than NTSC vs PAL. Get yourself a multiregion DVD player in Spain, and you'll probably be fine. HTH... Hi. Yeah of course. Tried to play it but no go. I just thought that somehow SuSE would let me play the ntsc DVD's on my PC. Region coding is another new to me too. I can see the dvd as vob, bup and ifo files. The vob seems to be mpeg but mplayer gives me 'Seek failed'. Maybe it's not possible under SuSE. Meanwhile I shall visit my local electodomseticos (shops where they sell video, fridges and televisions?) store and go to buy yet another dvd player! Thanks for your advice. Lynn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] RE: Have you experienced a general sligish DNS resolution - OT - Just slightly
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The Monday 2007-05-21 at 12:06 +1000, Registration Account wrote:
Thanks for your comment. I understand I can trust a cached DNS server to
just do what is can do without defining zones, however in this case I
don't want to let it do what it wants to - if I did it would probably
just ask my ISP DNS servers first and then other local DNS servers.
Why I elected to define external zones is that I wanted a cached answer
from a source well outside the country - so in some ways I have
circumvented a situation where a cached answer could come from a local
source.
You don't need to define any zones to achieve that behaviour.
What you need is playing with the options in /etc/named.conf:
forward first;
forwarders { One_IP; Another_IP; };
with this two lines, the named daemon will ask first those DNSs servers
you list there - and you choose them local or in the antipodes. Or remove
those lines and it will always ask the root servers.
But you do not need to define any zone at all.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with syslog-ng syntax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-05-20 at 21:44 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: from /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf on openSUSE 10.1: # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! # # you can modify /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in instead Yes, but this dissapeared in 10.2. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGUW7/tTMYHG2NR9URAvkiAJ9JMY6oJBhzsah+LDnDUQl7wh2cRwCgiZ5v Iy5omAA0NrIaPPzcLCw8LDI= =ESwu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-05-21 at 10:39 +0200, Primm wrote: All I want to do is convert my ntsc DVD's to pal so that I can watch them in Spain. Can SuSE 10.2 do that? AFAIK, DVD media are neither NTSC nor PAL. I'm afraid that there are differences in format. I googled a bit and found this page: http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Articles/PALvsNTSC/PALvsNTSC.asp The problem here is DVD region though. I'm sorry to say that it's American invention aimed to bother honest people. There is quite a chance that you won't be able to play the DVD just because of different DVD region (USA being 1 and Europe 2). For such tasks I use combination of Wine (sort of Windows runtime environment in Linux) and DVDShrink (freeware windows tool). On my old Athlon XP2100+ it takes close to 45minutes to create region-free DVD. Cheers, Tosuja -- Petr Tosuja Klíma Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.tosuja.info ICQ: 52057532 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Corrupted audio driver 10.2/64bit?
Hi, Am running Suse 10.2 X64, and up until the other day, working perfectly (well, almost.) Have had a few issues intermittently with the audio drivers (onboard, Realtek/Intel/VIA/Azalia HD Audio), with trying to get some applications to 'share' the sound card, but nothing huge.. until now! Thought I would be clever (1st mistake!) and see if there were any drivers specifically for the sound card, so came across realtek-linux-audiopack-4.05f on the Realtek site (http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1PNid=24PFid=24Level=4Conn=3DownTypeID=3GetDown=false#High Definition Audio Codecs) Installed and since have no sound at all. in KDE if trying to play sound, either get nothing, or the message xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers. KMix shows up as empty. Trying to use Yast (it recognises VIA High Definition Audio Controller - Not configured) to update drivers gives me : an error occurred during the installation of VIA High Defintion Audio Controller. The kernel module snd-hda-intel for sound support could not be loaded. This can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. After having done this, running lsmod shows that the module IS actually loaded, but get the same messages I REALLY don't want to have to rebuild the OS. Can't find any uninstall for realtek-linux-audiopack-4.05f?? Have deleted the directory created and makes no difference. I'm NOT an expert, but know a little I'm assuming that there is a module loading that shouldn't be... or something wrong with the loading of a module, but can't figure out where all of that is done. Any help appreciated!! John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:59:03AM +0200, Primm wrote: Hi. Yeah of course. Tried to play it but no go. I just thought that somehow SuSE would let me play the ntsc DVD's on my PC. Region coding is another new to me too. I can see the dvd as vob, bup and ifo files. The vob seems to be mpeg but mplayer gives me 'Seek failed'. Maybe it's not possible under SuSE. Meanwhile I shall visit my local electodomseticos (shops where they sell video, fridges and televisions?) store and go to buy yet another dvd player! AFAIK, there should be no reason why a PC shouldn't be able to play NTSC DVDs. PC DVD drives are, however, region locked. You can usually change the region a fixed number of times (e.g. 8), before you then can't change them at all. It is possible to download replacement firmware for some PC DVD drives which overrides this. However, if anything goes wrong, you may make your DVD drive completely unusable. i.e. do it at your own risk! If you already have a domestic DVD player, have you tried to see if it can be region-unlocked? Some players can be unlocked by entering a secret code on the handset. Do a bit of internet searching before going out and spending more money. As other people have mentioned, region coding is a scheme mandated by the large US media corporations to allow them to control the markets, and is, quite frankly, a royal PITA. Oh, and given my profession, the above advice and opinions are my own, and have nothing to do with my employer... -- David SmithWork Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] STMicroelectronics Home Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] amarok crashed while restoring manually saved session
Hello, I haven't got a clue why amarok crashes every time it tries to start on kde login... I saved the lots of different sessions, but amarok always crashes during start up... Thanks DEBUG INFORMATION === Version:1.4.5 Engine: xine-engine Build date: Mar 29 2007 CC version: 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux) KDElibs:3.5.5 release 45 Qt: 3.3.8 TagLib: 1.4.0 CPU count: 2 NDEBUG: true file `which amarokapp` === /opt/kde3/bin/amarokapp: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.4, not stripped (gdb) bt = Using host libthread_db library /lib64/libthread_db.so.1. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 47795796232896 (LWP 11298)] 0x2b784a8c8c5f in waitpid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #0 0x2b784a8c8c5f in waitpid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x00405bac in Amarok::Crash::crashHandler () #2 signal handler called #3 0x007f1200 in ?? () #4 0x2b784a3eefd5 in operator () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #5 0x2b784d0da6eb in DCOPProcessMessage () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 #6 0x2b784d0e8a53 in KDE_IceProcessMessages () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 #7 0x2b784d0d633b in DCOPClient::callInternal () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 #8 0x2b784d0d6639 in DCOPClient::callInternal () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 #9 0x2b784d0dab78 in DCOPClient::call () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 #10 0x2b784d0daba3 in DCOPClient::call () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 #11 0x2b7849464d42 in DeviceManager::getDeviceStringList () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #12 0x2b78494650a9 in DeviceManager::getDeviceList () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #13 0x2b78494e8a0d in MountPointManager::init () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #14 0x2b78494e8ef7 in MountPointManager::MountPointManager () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #15 0x2b78494e90ec in MountPointManager::instance () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #16 0x2b784951946e in Playlist::Playlist () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #17 0x2b784958a91c in PlaylistWindow::init () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #18 0x2b7849387bbd in App::continueInit () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #19 0x2b7849388452 in App::qt_invoke () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 #20 0x2b784a18f57c in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #21 0x2b784a474ce2 in QSignal::signal () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #22 0x2b784a1a8005 in QSignal::activate () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #23 0x2b784a1ae618 in QSingleShotTimer::event () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #24 0x2b784a138405 in QApplication::internalNotify () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #25 0x2b784a139037 in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #26 0x2b7849b7af88 in KApplication::notify () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libkdecore.so.4 #27 0x2b784a12ea4f in QEventLoop::activateTimers () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #28 0x2b784a0ee77d in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #29 0x2b784a14cfb3 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #30 0x2b784a14ce62 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 #31 0x004049cf in main () #0 0x2b784a8c8c5f in waitpid () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00405bac in Amarok::Crash::crashHandler () No symbol table info available. #2 signal handler called No symbol table info available. #3 0x007f1200 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0x2b784a3eefd5 in operator () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib64/libqt-mt.so.3 No symbol table info available. #5 0x2b784d0da6eb in DCOPProcessMessage () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 No symbol table info available. #6 0x2b784d0e8a53 in KDE_IceProcessMessages () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 No symbol table info available. #7 0x2b784d0d633b in DCOPClient::callInternal () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 No symbol table info available. #8 0x2b784d0d6639 in DCOPClient::callInternal () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 No symbol table info available. #9 0x2b784d0dab78 in DCOPClient::call () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 No symbol table info available. #10 0x2b784d0daba3 in DCOPClient::call () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libDCOP.so.4 No symbol table info available. #11 0x2b7849464d42 in DeviceManager::getDeviceStringList () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 No symbol table info available. #12 0x2b78494650a9 in DeviceManager::getDeviceList () from /opt/kde3/lib64/libamarok.so.0 No symbol table info available. #13 0x2b78494e8a0d in
Re: [opensuse] cmd kdesu yast2: Su returned with an error
Hey there, thanks a lot. That was the reason... The file kdesurc wasn't there at all. On Monday 21 May 2007 07:44:54 Benji Weber wrote: On 20/05/07, Siegfried Wolkenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I get the error message Su returned with an error when I try to execute kdesu yast2 in an xterm (bash). Could be this problem again: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-amd64/2007-03/msg2.html _ Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-05-21 at 12:15 +0200, Petr Klíma wrote: AFAIK, DVD media are neither NTSC nor PAL. I'm afraid that there are differences in format. I googled a bit and found this page: http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Articles/PALvsNTSC/PALvsNTSC.asp Ah, I see. |The first thing I need to clarify about DVD is that PAL and NTSC are | words and formats that are applied to DVD for convenience, and because | of historical convention. There is nothing fundamental about a DVD | which makes it either PAL or NTSC, but for simplicity and brevity, I | will continue to use these terms throughout this article. It is the pixel numbers, and perhaps frame rate; not the real NTSC or PAL formats, but similar. Anyway, NTSC or PAL should not make any difference paying in Linux. A stand alone player might be another matter. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGUX1YtTMYHG2NR9URAm0tAJ4iYSwM+PKkrMSMhyAn0XFj2WTJYACdG7Xp ZujeCOmCSQ1TTKtGjpUI8sM= =fFQN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-05-21 at 11:34 +0100, David SMITH wrote: AFAIK, there should be no reason why a PC shouldn't be able to play NTSC DVDs. PC DVD drives are, however, region locked. You can usually change the region a fixed number of times (e.g. 8), before you then can't change them at all. It is possible to download replacement firmware for some PC DVD drives which overrides this. However, if anything goes wrong, you may make your DVD drive completely unusable. i.e. do it at your own risk! However, region enconding is ignored by linux players; the reason is that they have to break the encryption anyway using the libdvdcss library. Once broken, why should they care about one more impediment? Now, Primm, have you installed libdvdcss? Without it, any linux player will fail. Plus, you can not use the players that come with the distro: either compile them yourself, or use those repackaged by some one like packman (try xine or mplayer). Also, don't try to play the vob files directly, that doesn't work. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGUX2gtTMYHG2NR9URAgEaAJ9qnDR/XmIMEiWlWeAcnrlQ9GCD/ACfcZQN kS2+VeWTBB7YrBAbboUst1E= =ZlpR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] X hangs, when konqueror tries to open some https-urls...
Hello, When I try to open this link (https://www.sparkasse.it/public/ddw.aspx?n=1431l=3ly=10h=s=1id=cd=1) in konqueror, X crashes sometimes - X doesn't respond to any usercommands but [ctrl-alt-backspace]. What can I do about this? This bug lurks around since SuSE 8.0. I just never felt like telling anyone :-). It is no big deal to me, since I use firefox instead (just for this link and some other ssl-pages... The same thing happens, when I do this: I have a hotmail account and use Kopete's msn chat service. Kopete is also capable of telling when new mails arrived. Also on every log in it propagates unread mails in your hotmail mailbox. Clicking on open unread mails or open new mails results in the bug described above - X simple hangs and denies the service. Sometimes also kded uses up all the cpu time (this might be some other problem not related to this, though) Thanks very much! Any other folks bothered by this bug? PS: About software-versions and so on: I always use the latest stable version of openSuSE and the packages provided by the buildservice. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:08:15PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: However, region enconding is ignored by linux players; the reason is that they have to break the encryption anyway using the libdvdcss library. Once broken, why should they care about one more impediment? I assumed that Linux DVD players were still bound by the region encoding on the drive, but ICBW; I don't bother playing DVDs on my PC as I've got a proper DVD player downstairs. Of course, the next question for the OP is - Can you play PAL (region 2) DVDs on your PC? Is it just the NTSC ones that you can't play, or is it all commercial DVDs? -- David SmithWork Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] STMicroelectronics Home Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntsc to pal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-05-21 at 12:29 +0100, David SMITH wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 01:08:15PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: However, region enconding is ignored by linux players; the reason is that they have to break the encryption anyway using the libdvdcss library. Once broken, why should they care about one more impediment? I assumed that Linux DVD players were still bound by the region encoding on the drive, but ICBW; I don't bother playing DVDs on my PC as I've got a proper DVD player downstairs. My case is the reverse, but the number of DVDs I own is less than my fingers (in one hand), so I have little justification to buy a unit, even if they are cheap. There is almost no room near the TV set... I have heard of region issues, but I'm not clear on it. The dvd readers are installed without region code selected. If used on windows, the software will activate one region, but not in Linux. If you only use it in Linux no region is selected at all and it works. However, it has been said that once a region is selected, it will refuse to play dvds from other regions, in linux - this I can not verify nor certify. It's just a posibility, but I don't think it is true. Of course, the next question for the OP is - Can you play PAL (region 2) DVDs on your PC? Is it just the NTSC ones that you can't play, or is it all commercial DVDs? That's a good question. :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGUYmUtTMYHG2NR9URArf+AJ0bC6whPRepryisSwefuL21L02CzwCeLcuk MLiV1exuGuAVBkn7Hr4LYD0= =Rirt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:21 -0700, Carl Spitzer wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 22:38 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat 12 May 2007 22:18, James Knott wrote: Also, anyone who's used audio cassettes for data storage can tell you about failures! ;-) TRS-80 days . . . probs with wobbly plugs! TRS 80-4p yeah those where sturdy little machines attached KB, no HD unless you wanted to buy one the size of a turntable which cost $500. I still have a disk notch-er for making use of dual sided single density 5.25 floppies. I donated it many years ago and its probably in a museum. Came standard with green or black screen and two floppy drives. I can not remember trashing any disks except when someone set a drink on one. Nice to meet another old timer. Ah... nostalgia. Atari 800 1200, no HD and TV as monitor. Also Commodore Amiga (A500). Still have all three but haven't fired them up in a while. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with xorg and video
M Harris wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007 23:01, Jim Flanagan wrote: In KDEconfigure desktopscreensaver, I get the message: The specified library screensaver could not be found. The diagnosis is: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: drmCloseOnce I'm sorry Jim, I missunderstood you... thought you couldn't get the X configured correctly. Just to make sure we're on the same page... does you X setup work... in other words, do you get a desktop ? So, the problem is the screensaver? Does xscreensaver work? Just remove and reinstall the following packages: kdeartwork3-kscreensaver kdeartwork3-xscreensaver xscreensaver If this does not work, just to be clean about it, remove kde and reinstall kde. Sorry for not being clear. I DO get a desktop. But there are a few things broken with my setup. One is screensaver as mentioned. Another is glxgears, it won't run, returning the same error that screensaver does, /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: drmCloseOnce. This is what lead me to beleive that x is not configured properly, but it may be something else. Not sure what exactly the problem is. Another problem is clicking in My Computer returns an i/o error. I tried uninstalling the screensavers, but that did not help. I'll try uninstalling KDE and see if that fixes the problem. Thanks, Jim Flanagan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with xorg and video
On Monday 21 May 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: I had already tried running sax2 with the -r and -m and 0=radeon. Just now I tried again, but first renaming xorg.conf. This did write a new xorg.conf file, but nothing is improved. In KDEconfigure desktopscreensaver, I get the message: The specified library screensaver could not be found. The diagnosis is: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: drmCloseOnce Possible reasons: - An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module - You have old third party modules lying around. Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, consider contacting your distributor or packager. Not sure that this is about, but has been a problem since I uninstalled the ATI rpm. Screensaver was working fine before I tried the ATI driver. Jim F === Ok, it sounds like you did not turn on 3D while in sax2 then. It's possible that your screensavers are zonked, but more than likely, I would guess that you failed to accomplish everything while in sax2. If you do glxinfo from the shell, do you see direct rendering = yes there? If it's no then guess what? Yep, 3d is not turned on and you need to go back into sax2 to take care of that. I'm guessing you are trying to run a 3D screensaver when you get the error? Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems
Came standard with green or black screen and two floppy drives. I can not remember trashing any disks except when someone set a drink on one. 8 inch floppies were the business. I had an 8 inch floppy drive and a 7.5 inch letterbox. Work the creases out and they still read. This on a Research Machines 380Z which ran MP/M as a network server - in 48k! Sadly my watch is more powerful now, not to mention my mobile phone. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice.org 2.2
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 18:53 -0400, James Knott wrote: http://software.opensuse.org/download/OpenOffice.org/ -JP I just downloaded the latest 64 bit and noticed the splash screen is now Just what I needed, Thanx, I had the i586 version on last week; Writer often freezes the whole KDE on the x86_64 system. :-) Al -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] RE: Siutable File Systems
Kevin Thorpe wrote: Came standard with green or black screen and two floppy drives. I can not remember trashing any disks except when someone set a drink on one. 8 inch floppies were the business. I had on CP/M machine. Had to umount them to don't lose data (and no other drive :-) this made me very cautious when beginning the use of Linux :-)) I remember I got 64Kb 5 floppies, I couldn't understand they could fill so much data is so tiny drive :-)) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://gourmandises.orangeblog.fr/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Re: Suse + NFS Client
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem using NFS with SLES 9. I can access our NAS server and mount the share. It's used for maildir and pub directories of the users. Everything works and the data are readable and writable. But I can't lock the files and therefore no quotas are available. The kernel shows the following error: May 14 14:23:38 vrwtb2 kernel: lockd/statd: failed to create /var/lib/ nfs/sm/nas01: err=-2 May 14 14:23:38 vrwtb2 kernel: lockd: failed to monitor nas01 Did you try to force NFSv3 (mount option nfsvers). I encountered several problems with NFSv4 between Linux and Solaris, some of them in the locking area. Forcing Linux and Solaris to use v3 made it work again; maybe there's a similar issue at your situation. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] [OT] Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning
There is a hellova lot more complaints about how people post than offending posts.. Get over it. B-) On Sunday 20 May 2007 5:49 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Pueblo Native [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-20-07 16:50]: Actually, GT Smith, it is more on topic than you think, in that first off, I need to check the contents of my klipper before I do a cut-copy-paste job. THIS was the article that I was referring to: http://cbs4.com/entertainment/local_story_137115622.html The Arkansas child support story was something completely unrelated Anyway, I pulled up that story, then started looking through my games, just thought it was an odd one (and a slow news day at that matter) NO, it is still OT and you even advertise the fact in the Subject: line. It belongs in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do you insist on bringing offtopic into the opensuse users list? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] X hangs, when konqueror tries to open some https-urls...
Siegfried Wolkenstein wrote: Hello, When I try to open this link (https://www.sparkasse.it/public/ddw.aspx?n=1431l=3ly=10h=s=1id=cd=1) in konqueror, X crashes sometimes - X doesn't respond to any usercommands but [ctrl-alt-backspace]. What can I do about this? This bug lurks around since SuSE 8.0. I just never felt like telling anyone :-). It is no big deal to me, since I use firefox instead (just for this link and some other ssl-pages... Works fine for me, though, since I don't have an account, I can't go any farther. John Perry opensuse 10.2, fully updated under opensuseupdater, hp dv6000CTO laptop -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] X hangs, when konqueror tries to open some https-urls...
On Monday 21 May 2007 16:49:02 John E. Perry wrote: Siegfried Wolkenstein wrote: Hello, When I try to open this link (https://www.sparkasse.it/public/ddw.aspx?n=1431l=3ly=10h=s=1id=cd= 1) in konqueror, X crashes sometimes - X doesn't respond to any usercommands but [ctrl-alt-backspace]. What can I do about this? This bug lurks around since SuSE 8.0. I just never felt like telling anyone :-). It is no big deal to me, since I use firefox instead (just for this link and some other ssl-pages... Works fine for me, though, since I don't have an account, I can't go any farther. If it hangs, then it hangs even before I can see the login form. John Perry opensuse 10.2, fully updated under opensuseupdater, hp dv6000CTO laptop -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with xorg and video
BandiPat wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007, Jim Flanagan wrote: I had already tried running sax2 with the -r and -m and 0=radeon. Just now I tried again, but first renaming xorg.conf. This did write a new xorg.conf file, but nothing is improved. In KDEconfigure desktopscreensaver, I get the message: The specified library screensaver could not be found. The diagnosis is: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: drmCloseOnce Possible reasons: - An error occurred during your last KDE upgrade leaving an orphaned control module - You have old third party modules lying around. Check these points carefully and try to remove the module mentioned in the error message. If this fails, consider contacting your distributor or packager. Not sure that this is about, but has been a problem since I uninstalled the ATI rpm. Screensaver was working fine before I tried the ATI driver. Jim F === Ok, it sounds like you did not turn on 3D while in sax2 then. It's possible that your screensavers are zonked, but more than likely, I would guess that you failed to accomplish everything while in sax2. If you do glxinfo from the shell, do you see direct rendering = yes there? If it's no then guess what? Yep, 3d is not turned on and you need to go back into sax2 to take care of that. I'm guessing you are trying to run a 3D screensaver when you get the error? No, I did not turn on 3D in sax, but the screensaver is not 3D either. I'll have to wait until later in the day to work on this again, but I did not see how to enable 3D in sax. There is a check box, but it was greyed out. Is there another command in sax that will enable this? Many thanks, Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Seeking Simple Image Editing Tool for Web Development -- RESOLVED
On Saturday 19 May 2007 09:58, Randall R Schulz wrote: I need to create some textures for a Web interface in PNG (or GIF) form that include transparency. ... Is there some other package, ... that I can use to quickly create a simple stipple pattern with transparency? I found a Wikipedia article that compares image editing software (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster_graphics_editors) and it mentions an open-source Java program called JDraw (http://jdraw.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=6). JDraw is intended to be used for the sort of task I have (creating small bitmaps for Web sites edited with simple drawing tools and pixel-by-pixel manipulation). JDraw has its own quirks and limitations, but it seems to be manageable. I still have to learn how best to create the kind of image I need (a translucent texture that suggests the draggability of a UI element). But I've got something now, which is better than nothing--where if you did not know the element could be dragged, you'd be unlikely to even try to reposition it. Thanks for the suggestions. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Simple RPM question
Hello guys, Is there a way to remove a package and ALL its dependencies? For example, I installed mplayer and I had to install 9 other packages to satisfy dependencies. If I no longer want mplayer I'll do this: rpm -q --last to see the last packages I installed. Ill then do rpm -e with EACH one of them. I noticed that you can only specify one package with the remove switch...It will be great If I could rpm -e this,that,the-other-one, blabla or something like rpm -e MPlayer --along-dependencies :) (if and only those packages are needed only by MPlayer of course...). I'm not interested in a shell script. I just would like to know if there's a switch I'm missing (I read the man page but found nothing). Thanks! Jorge -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
I just got my new HP/Compaq 9440 laptop on Friday. It is pre-loaded with Windows Vista, which looks nice... http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/64 ...but is already starting to irritate me. In any case, I want to dual boot. I don't suppose I can wipe Vista off of it, since it is a work laptop. I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little choice. Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed? -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] What Novell?
I know this is probably OT to many of you, but I thought you'd appreciate it. As many of you know I work for LA county, which has 98,000 employees. I currently am in charge of computers for one department, with about 1,100 employees and roughly 800 PCs/60 servers. We are entirely Windows based. One of my buddies works for our retirement association - connected to us but separate at the same time. They run GroupWise, Netware and several dozen SLED machines. I was talking to him about the situation with Novell's marketing this weekend, when he brought up Brainshare. Apparently he ended up at a round table discussion with Ron H. where Ron started talking about Novell and SUSE marketing. My buddy point-blank asked Ron, what Novell? Essentially no one ever hears of SUSE or Novell. He went on further to describe how pathetic the marketing is compared to the onslaught of MS marketing that he and his management must fight every day. Ron apparently gave some wimpy reply that they are working on it and that marketing should get better. To which my buddy - a CNA from the 3.12 days - replied that he'd heard this for over a dozen years. Nice to hear we're at least talking to the Novell management. :P -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Simple RPM question
Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello guys, Is there a way to remove a package and ALL its dependencies? For example, I installed mplayer and I had to install 9 other packages to satisfy dependencies. If I no longer want mplayer I'll do this: rpm -q --last to see the last packages I installed. Ill then do rpm -e with EACH one of them. I noticed that you can only specify one package with the remove switch...It will be great If I could rpm -e this,that,the-other-one, blabla or something like rpm -e MPlayer --along-dependencies :) (if and only those packages are needed only by MPlayer of course...). And therein lies the catch. To do what you would suggest you would have to have to recode rpm to do what you are talking about. And what's so bad about a shell script? I'll grant you, it's not easy, but if I wanted easy I would have stayed with Microsoft. On the plus side, you don't have to wait around for somebody to recode rpm (of course, you could also attempt that). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] OpenSuse vs MyRealBox again
Now again its happening I can post to the list from here but not receive. Why is the server having these problems. Just because Messaging Archetects took over Myrealbox from novell is no reason to have these issues for now the third time in a year. -- ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ || | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] [OT] Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning
* Brad Bourn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-21-07 10:47]: There is a hellova lot more complaints about how people post than offending posts.. Yes, yours. You set a fine example, top-posting, full quoting including sigs *and* bitching about bitching. Get over it. Yes :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Simple RPM question
Let's make it clear: RPM does not resolve dependencies. Not for install and not for uninstall. Basically this means, that you should use Yast: it can remove unneeded dependencies, yes. RPM is low-level package manager. Yast is hi-level package manager. -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse vs MyRealBox again
On 5/21/07, Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now again its happening I can post to the list from here but not receive. Why is the server having these problems. Just because Messaging Archetects took over Myrealbox from novell is no reason to have these issues for now the third time in a year. It worst case scenario I can give you a GMail invitaion. It is a very powerful email service. -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] [OT] Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning
LET ME GIVE YOU THE ALL CAPS ONE THEN, FOR MORE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. B-) On Monday 21 May 2007 10:10 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Brad Bourn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-21-07 10:47]: There is a hellova lot more complaints about how people post than offending posts.. Yes, yours. You set a fine example, top-posting, full quoting including sigs *and* bitching about bitching. Get over it. Yes :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse vs MyRealBox again
On 5/21/07, Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/21/07, Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now again its happening I can post to the list from here but not receive. Why is the server having these problems. Just because Messaging Archetects took over Myrealbox from novell is no reason to have these issues for now the third time in a year. It worst case scenario I can give you a GMail invitaion. It is a very powerful email service. -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov There is no longer need for invitations for gmail, AFAIK. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] [OT] Linux in the classroom (K-12)
All, I just saw this on another mailing list. I know there has previously been a little discussion here about using Linux in a classroom environment. (K-12 I assume). Apparently, the below is fairly big deal and if there are any of you from the Atlanta GA area you may want to volunteer. === From: Steve Hargadon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [K12OSN] NECC 2007 Open Source Pavilion - Looking for Volunteers! To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Support list for open source software in schools. [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, NECC is coming up (June 25 - 27 in Atlanta), and this is a combination of a status report and a call for volunteers. Please forward this email to your Free and Open Source Software friends! NECC is the National Educational Computing Conference (center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2007), and it attracts over 15,000 educators each year. It's arguable one of the largest (if not the largest) educational technology shows in the world. For the last several years NECC has supported an Open Source Pavilion (apologies to Richard Stallman) with an Linux thin-client lab for demonstration purposes. Last year we added a speaker series, which is now a part of their main program. This year we are getting our own large room (!!) and adjacent hallway space. Hurrah! This year's speakers can be seen at our organizing wiki: http://necc2007.wikispaces.com/Speakers. There will also be two Birds of a Feather sessions on FLOSS: http://necc2007.wikispaces.com/Birds+of+a+Feather. OK. Now, about getting help! We could really use: 1. Setup volunteers. We'll set up the lab and computers late Saturday afternoon / evening (June 23). Maybe we'll get some pizzas and make it a party. 2. Volunteer for milling around Monday through Wednesday (25th - 27th). The Open Source Pavilion needs folks who'll just answer questions (mostly really basic) about what FLOSS is. Come for an hour, or come for three days. 3. Playground booths, same three days. These are 5 - 10 stations where we'll be demonstrating different FLOSS programs. Previously we've showcased OpenOffice, GIMP, Audacity, Linspire, SchoolTool, Edubuntu, Moodle, Firefox, and Knoppix. We're open to just about anything that you'd like to demonstrate that will give our attendees some good hands-on, one-on-one demonstrations. If you can bring your own computer, that helps, but if you can't just let us know. We also welcome proposals from commercial vendors who will commit themselves to also supporting the FLOSS ideals and helping out in general. You can go to the wiki (http://necc2007.wikispaces.com) to sign up to volunteer or send me and email letting me know what you can do. Take care, Steve -- Steve Hargadon [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.SteveHargadon.com 916-899-1400 == Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] [OT] Linux in the classroom (K-12)
On Monday 21 May 2007 10:21, Greg Freemyer wrote: All, I suppose the others trying to staunch the flood of off-topic posts on this list are getting tired of having to say it and perhaps some think there's only a few who care, so I'll chime in this time and say: If you know it's off-topic and go so far as to mark it as such, then SEND IT TO THE OFF-TOPIC LIST! Please! Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Still having problems with xorg and video
On Monday 21 May 2007 10:06, Jim Flanagan wrote: There is a check box, but it was greyed out. Is there another command in sax that will enable this? Well, supposedly, the card you are using should allow 3D with the out-of-box drivers... but my experience is that you need to use the ATI proprietary driver to get 3D working, and in that case you don't want to use the check-box in yast anyway on my card the 3D check box was also grayed out... -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Simple RPM question
Op Monday 21 May 2007 17:13:57 schreef Jorge Fábregas: Is there a way to remove a package and ALL its dependencies? For example, I installed mplayer and I had to install 9 other packages to satisfy dependencies. If I no longer want mplayer I'll do this: rpm -q --last to see the last packages I installed. Ill then do rpm -e with EACH one of them. I noticed that you can only specify one package with the remove switch...It will be great If I could rpm -e this,that,the-other-one, blabla or something like rpm -e MPlayer --along-dependencies :) (if and only those packages are needed only by MPlayer of course...). I'm not interested in a shell script. I just would like to know if there's a switch I'm missing (I read the man page but found nothing). rpmorphan? Alright here is a webpage ;) http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/rbos/openSUSE_10.2/repodata/repoview/rpmorphan-0-0.8-2.1.html -- Richard Bos We are borrowing the world of our children, It is not inherited from our parents. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Simple RPM question
On Monday May 21 2007 11:12:16 am Alexey Eremenko wrote: Let's make it clear: RPM does not resolve dependencies. Not for install and not for uninstall. Correct. YaST/Smart/Apt/whatever-your-choice-of-package-manager-is all use RPM to check and report dependencies that an RPM package requires against the RPM database of packages. It is still left up to us humans to resolve any reported conflicting or missing dependencies. That's why we get paid the big bucks and not RPM. Basically this means, that you should use Yast: it can remove unneeded dependencies, yes. YaST/Smart/Apt/whatever-your-choice-of-package-manager-is; Yes, use a package manager to inform you of conflicts and allow you to deal with them. You can do this maunally on the command line via rpm if GUI is too much trouble. RPM is low-level package manager. As low a level as you can go using RPM... Yast is hi-level package manager. A nice GUII wrapper may be more to the point. -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov What was the question? Seems like you know the answers already.?.? -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] [OT] Now this gives Playing with your pingus a whole new meaning
woot! last word naner, naner, naner. On Monday 21 May 2007 12:30 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Brad Bourn [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-21-07 12:33]: LET ME GIVE YOU THE ALL CAPS ONE THEN, FOR MORE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT. :^) you are demonstrating an IQ countable on one hand :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Simple RPM question
On Monday 21 May 2007 2:44 pm, Richard Bos wrote: rpmorphan? Agh Richard this is great !!! I had NO IDEA this existed. THANKS! That would help in cleaning da'house a little bit !! All the best, Jorge -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Simple RPM question
On Monday 21 May 2007 2:48 pm, S Glasoe wrote: What was the question? Seems like you know the answers already.?.? Thanks guys for the comments. I'm 95% sure that I can't do what I want to do with rpm. I just wanted to make sure that there in fact ISN'T an option to accomplish what I want. Jorge -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:35 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: I just got my new HP/Compaq 9440 laptop on Friday. It is pre-loaded with Windows Vista, which looks nice... http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/64 ...but is already starting to irritate me. In any case, I want to dual boot. I don't suppose I can wipe Vista off of it, since it is a work laptop. I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little choice. Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed? I honestly don't know, did it come with the install disks, or has HP/Compaq created an image that resides in the first (hidden) partition that you can do a restore from? I haven't heard anything on M$ tweaking NTFS, or did they ship Vista with the new(?) WinFS? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
Figuring I would just go for it and install SUSE on my laptop, I booted the DVD. Unfortunately, when I got to the partition menu, I got the following choice: Delete Windows partition /dev/sda1 (85.1 GB). Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under Windows. The same went for my 6.4 and 1.5 GB partitions. I'll have to wait for *nix to catch up with the filesystem. Maybe I can run VMWare instaead Darn! I really wanted to play Chromium and Planet Penguin Racer on my 17 screen... -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Evolution/palm sync woes
Hi all, I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool of myself :( She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I proudly told her that evolution would do this without difficulty. Hah, bloody wrong :( I've been round the houses with 10.2, first it didn't recognize the device, then I tried to install new versions, all manner of nonsense. I've tried compiling and installing from source, but now I think I'm close. I finally figured out that the system wasn't doing the patch downloads, so when I got that configured properly, I found hundreds of updates, including evolution and gnome-pilot updates. Well, next I found that the system would recognize the palm, and would sync, but that there were no evolution conduits offered. Then I located them in /opt/gnome/share/blahblah/conduits, but worked out that the set the system was working with are in /usr/local...blah. So, I copied them over. Now I have been able to select the evolution conduits, but they don't work :( If I enable the calendar conduit and hit sync, It shows the top progress bar at about 1/8 of the way across, then the bottom one just bounces back and forth really fast. Then eventually the palm times out and it's all over. Any suggestions? Surely this can't be so hard? I must have broken something in all my long trials, but how do I reset everything to the out of the box configuration (without reinstalling the whole machine!) Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Evolution/palm sync woes
Quoting Simon Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool of myself :( Nah, you're looking like a true geek! She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I Good bloody luck! I've had no end of difficulty trying to successfully and consistently sync various palm devices. This goes all the way back to me trying with my Palm III under Mandrake 6 in '99. I'm not sure about gnome but in kde there are various options for synching - all which work to some degree of success. Your main issues are the user permissions to the usb virtual port that is created for palm - which is usually /dev/pilot but symlinks to /TTY/USB/USB1 or soemthinglikethat - and the timeouts on the palm device. What Palm Pilot does she have? -- k -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:58:12 -0700 Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Figuring I would just go for it and install SUSE on my laptop, I booted the DVD. Unfortunately, when I got to the partition menu, I got the following choice: Delete Windows partition /dev/sda1 (85.1 GB). Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under Windows. The same went for my 6.4 and 1.5 GB partitions. I'll have to wait for *nix to catch up with the filesystem. Maybe I can run VMWare instaead I understand that Vista comes with a built-in partitioner. I've also found that running QTParted from a Knoppix boot tends to work better than the SuSE or Fedora partitioners. -- Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
* Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-21-07 16:00]: Figuring I would just go for it and install SUSE on my laptop, I booted the DVD. Unfortunately, when I got to the partition menu, I got the following choice: Delete Windows partition /dev/sda1 (85.1 GB). Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under Windows. Well, one thing about it. You will not be messing anything up. No loss for windoz to disappear. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ Registered Linux User #207535@ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
I never tried Vista, but ! Well, there is a complex way: 1. install Win XP 2. install openSUSE 3. upgrade XP to Vista. This will work for sure. -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
If you want sefety through, stick with VMware/VirtualBox/VirtualPC -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Strange behaviour of ACPI on laptop
I have a laptop with a strange behaviour. If I turn on ACPI when I boot the machine, the USB connections do not work (or at least, they work very bad. A USB mouse is very very slow). If I turn off ACPI when I boot the boot the machine, the USB connections do work but the wireless card does not work. I would like to have a setup, where both the wireless network card and the USB ports are working at the same time. I had been looking at http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/opensuse102_reference/data/sec_pmanage_acpi.html but I have my problems to find oout, which module I should include, and which I should exclude. I hope someone know how to help me. I could imagine some information of the BIOS system would be a great help, but I do not know how to get the information for the BIOS. Only thing I can see is, the BIOS is based on software from Inside Software CDU. -- Best regards Torben Frøberg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Evolution/palm sync woes
- Original Message From: Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool of myself :( Nah, you're looking like a true geek! She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I Good bloody luck! I've had no end of difficulty trying to successfully and consistently sync various palm devices. This goes all the way back to me trying with my Palm III under Mandrake 6 in '99. I'm not sure about gnome but in kde there are various options for synching - all which work to some degree of success. Your main issues are the user permissions to the usb virtual port that is created for palm - which is usually /dev/pilot but symlinks to /TTY/USB/USB1 or soemthinglikethat - and the timeouts on the palm device. What Palm Pilot does she have? Oh dear! I didn't think it would be that bad (and here's me hoping to get this working with a whinedoze mobile device too!) The devices and permissions seem fine. It will run the core/original set of conduits. That is, it does backup etc. (I don't know where it puts the data, but it does the backup and a bunch of the other conduits that are enabled!) However, it's the evolution-specific conduits that don't work. As I say, initially they weren't listed, then I discovered the files that represent them were present but in a directory other than where evolution was looking. Then I copied the files and they just don't seem to work, but don't give error messages. I'm not at her place right now, but if memory serves, it's a Palm Z1 (cheap and cheerful, genuine Palm, about a year or so old, color screen). Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Evolution/palm sync woes
I have not had any problems to sync the treo 700p (and before 650) with kpilot. Kpilot offer two choices kaddress and evolution. I use kaddress. It works very well. I am running suse 10.2 -=terry(Denver)=- On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:26 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote: - Original Message From: Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to get my girlfriend a Linux system, and am making a fool of myself :( Nah, you're looking like a true geek! She needs to have a working mechanism for syncing her palm device. I Good bloody luck! I've had no end of difficulty trying to successfully and consistently sync various palm devices. This goes all the way back to me trying with my Palm III under Mandrake 6 in '99. I'm not sure about gnome but in kde there are various options for synching - all which work to some degree of success. Your main issues are the user permissions to the usb virtual port that is created for palm - which is usually /dev/pilot but symlinks to /TTY/USB/USB1 or soemthinglikethat - and the timeouts on the palm device. What Palm Pilot does she have? Oh dear! I didn't think it would be that bad (and here's me hoping to get this working with a whinedoze mobile device too!) The devices and permissions seem fine. It will run the core/original set of conduits. That is, it does backup etc. (I don't know where it puts the data, but it does the backup and a bunch of the other conduits that are enabled!) However, it's the evolution-specific conduits that don't work. As I say, initially they weren't listed, then I discovered the files that represent them were present but in a directory other than where evolution was looking. Then I copied the files and they just don't seem to work, but don't give error messages. I'm not at her place right now, but if memory serves, it's a Palm Z1 (cheap and cheerful, genuine Palm, about a year or so old, color screen). Cheers, Simon You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. — Naguib Mahfouz Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Strange behaviour of ACPI on laptop
Quoting torben [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a laptop with a strange behaviour. If I turn on ACPI when I boot the machine, the USB connections do not work (or at least, they work very bad. A USB mouse is very very slow). If I turn off ACPI when I boot the boot the machine, the USB connections do work but the wireless card does not work. I would like to have a setup, where both the wireless network card and the USB ports are working at the same time. They should. I've yet to boot 10.2 on a laptop but 9.3 10.0 all work fine in this regard. I had been looking at http://www.novell.com/documentation/opensuse102/opensuse102_reference/data/sec_pmanage_acpi.html but I have my problems to find oout, which module I should include, and which I should exclude. I hope someone know how to help me. I could imagine some information of the BIOS system would be a great help, but I do not know how to get the information for the BIOS. Only thing I can see is, the BIOS is based on software from Inside Software CDU. Well, we can probably guess the bios from your laptop model and processor. What is the laptop, and what does it say on the screen when you open My Computer (KDE) or Computer (GNOME)? -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
Quoting Patrick Shanahan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-21-07 16:00]: Figuring I would just go for it and install SUSE on my laptop, I booted the DVD. Unfortunately, when I got to the partition menu, I got the following choice: Delete Windows partition /dev/sda1 (85.1 GB). Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under Windows. Well, one thing about it. You will not be messing anything up. No loss for windoz to disappear. LOL! Unfortunately, I probably need it. It IS a work laptop, after all... Can XEN run Vista? -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
Quoting Jerry Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 21 May 2007 12:58:12 -0700 Kai Ponte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Figuring I would just go for it and install SUSE on my laptop, I booted the DVD. Unfortunately, when I got to the partition menu, I got the following choice: Delete Windows partition /dev/sda1 (85.1 GB). Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under Windows. The same went for my 6.4 and 1.5 GB partitions. I'll have to wait for *nix to catch up with the filesystem. Maybe I can run VMWare instaead I understand that Vista comes with a built-in partitioner. I've also found that running QTParted from a Knoppix boot tends to work better than the SuSE or Fedora partitioners. Ahh, so it does! The disk management tool now does partition shrinking. I just tried it out and was successful. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
Quoting Mike McMullin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:35 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: I just got my new HP/Compaq 9440 laptop on Friday. It is pre-loaded with Windows Vista, which looks nice... http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/64 ...but is already starting to irritate me. In any case, I want to dual boot. I don't suppose I can wipe Vista off of it, since it is a work laptop. I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little choice. Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed? I honestly don't know, did it come with the install disks, or has HP/Compaq created an image that resides in the first (hidden) partition that you can do a restore from? I haven't heard anything on M$ tweaking NTFS, or did they ship Vista with the new(?) WinFS? I have a restore disk that I can use. I don't need to worry too much, since I haven't even installed Office or anything beyond Pan and Thunderbird. I wonder if SUSE has fingerprint recognition. I need to check that out. The login by swiping concept is cool. I think I'm gonna go for it. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
On Monday 21 May 2007 10:35, Kai Ponte wrote: I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little choice. Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed? hi Kai, You can do this, but the other way around. I assume that your HP came with either a restore disk or a restore partition? The technique is to blow the disk away and install openSUSE *first* leaving a workable partition at the front-end of the drive (appropriate and large enough) for you to *restore* vista into when you are done installing openSUSE. Good luck... -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
M Harris wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007 10:35, Kai Ponte wrote: I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little choice. Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed? hi Kai, You can do this, but the other way around. I assume that your HP came with either a restore disk or a restore partition? The technique is to blow the disk away and install openSUSE *first* leaving a workable partition at the front-end of the drive (appropriate and large enough) for you to *restore* vista into when you are done installing openSUSE. And also create a FAT32 partition, where My Documents can be moved to, for data interchange between the two systems. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
Quoting James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED]: M Harris wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007 10:35, Kai Ponte wrote: I've read that dual-booting under Vista is not as easy as 2k/xp because the partitioning is different. Every guide I've read so far says to have the Windows installer create a partition to be used later for Linux. Well, HP created the partitions for me, so I have little choice. Can I safely (at least reasonably) resize or am I screwed? hi Kai, You can do this, but the other way around. I assume that your HP came with either a restore disk or a restore partition? The technique is to blow the disk away and install openSUSE *first* leaving a workable partition at the front-end of the drive (appropriate and large enough) for you to *restore* vista into when you are done installing openSUSE. And also create a FAT32 partition, where My Documents can be moved to, for data interchange between the two systems. Okay, thanks. I'll give it a go tonight and see what happens. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop?
On Monday 21 May 2007 16:32, James Knott wrote: The technique is to blow the disk away and install openSUSE *first* leaving a workable partition at the front-end of the drive (appropriate and large enough) for you to *restore* vista into when you are done installing openSUSE. And also create a FAT32 partition, where My Documents can be moved to, for data interchange between the two systems. Yes, yes... and another thing... ... when you restore vista (after installing opensuse) your machine will only boot into vista... because the grub mbr will be gone... not to worry. After you restore vista, and make sure it works, then boot into opensuse from the DVD (like you are going to install) only don't update/install... take the *other* install option and from there *repair* the installation. One of the options is to restore the mbr... which will allow opensuse to boot from grub. But there is more... once you can boot into opensuse again. Then you will need to modify the /boot/grub/menu.lst file so that you can boot vista from grub. Good luck... -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Dual Boot Vista on Laptop - Not Solved!
Kai Ponte schrieb: Figuring I would just go for it and install SUSE on my laptop, I booted the DVD. Unfortunately, when I got to the partition menu, I got the following choice: Delete Windows partition /dev/sda1 (85.1 GB). Resize impossible due to inconsistent fs. Try checking fs under Windows. I guess that you did not shutdown Vista, but have put it in an s2disk-like mode. This is default when pressing the switch off button. In this case, boot into Vista and perform a clean shutdown (iirc there's a little arrow next to the pseudo-shutdown button). If this does'n work, run chkdsk C: /f and reboot (at least this worked in XP). Robin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
