Re: [opensuse] URGENT!! (and don't be angry for the Subject of this mail)

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 28 January 2008 13:09, Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
> Montag, 28. Januar 2008 James Tremblay:
> > ON a positive note , all of us who use linux are helping simply by
> > not forcing new computers to have  to made.
>
> This notion keeps popping up among linux people. To actually verify it
> I suggest you install opensuse 10.3 on a box that's 4 years old. You
> will not be pleased.

I have an AMD K6 (1.4 GHz, 512 MB memory) that is definitely older than 4 
years. It has had SuSE (or whatever they were called at the time) 9.1, 9.3, 
10.1, 10.2 and currently has openSUSE 10.3 on it.

This is a desktop machine (no real server functions) but as a desktop my 
experience has been that each release *seems* faster than the previous one. 
(Most likely this is due to improvements in KDE specifically). 


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Re: [opensuse] Strange SATA problems with openSUSE

[Don Raboud]

On Friday 25 January 2008 07:43, Clayton wrote:
> I've posted a couple times about this with no replies yet
>
> Earlier today, the entire computer came crashing to a halt... so it
> forced me to spend more time looking into the problem.
>
> The motherboard I have (ASUS M2N-e SLI) has 4 SATA2 ports.  SATA 1, 2,
> 3 and 4.  I also have a SATA1 RAID controller with 2 SATA ports.  I
> have drives connected on IDE0 and IDE1 and they are working fine.
>
> Scenario 1: If I leave the RAID card out, and just connect drives to
> SATA 1 and SATA 2 the computer boots fine.  BIOS finds the SATA
> drives, and Linux is happy.
>
> Scenario 2: If I add drives to SATA 3 and 4 in Scenario 1, the BIOS
> sees all four drive2, but when I boot Linux, it errors out.  I can
> boot the OS, but the error logs fill up with errors, and I have
> serious performance issues.. until it just dies altogether.
>
> The boot errors look like this:
> -
> <6>ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> <4>ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
> <4>ata3.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4)
> <4>ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
> <6>ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
> <4>ata3.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
> <4>ata3.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4)
> <3>ata3.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
> <4>ata3: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
> <4>ata3.00: limiting speed to UDMA7:PIO5
> <4>ata3: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs
> --
> and continue on for quite some time.
>
> Scenario 3: If I add the RAID card in to Scenario 1, but do not
> connect any drives to the RAID, all boots and works OK.
>
> Scenario 4: If I connect 2 SATA drives to the RAID card, and have two
> drives from Scenario 1 also connected, all works and boots OK.
>
> Scenario 5:  If I connect a SATA drive to SATA 3 or 4 in Scenario 4, I
> get the same results as with Scenario 2... a long list of SATA errors
> on the boot.
>
> Has anyone encountered this before?  Could it be a hardware issue.. a
> failing SATA controller on the motherboard, or is it some obscure
> Linux thing?

Hi Clayton,

Was all this working before your crash?  

In reading your posts (this one and others), I've not seen any scenario since 
the crash where disks on SATA ports 3 and 4 work with 10.3, at best they are 
recognized by the bios.  Have you eliminated the possibility of any hardware 
problems with those two ports?

I would suggest booting your Scenario 1 but with the two disks attached to 
SATA 3 and 4 (instead of 1 and 2). (You might have to 
adjust /boot/grub/device.map temporarily.)  Perhaps boot just one disk at a 
time?  Maybe boot with a live CD to see if there is something specific to 
10.3?

Not sure what else to suggest.  Best of luck.

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Re: [opensuse] Update Problems - libxml2

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 24 January 2008 00:37, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Packman should not provide libxml2, its just too lowlevel to work well
> enough.
>
> (Additionaly they can and should rebuild with a newer -release to make the
> update work better.)

Thanks Marcus.

I think I will wait to see if a newer package comes out of packman.

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[opensuse] Update Problems - libxml2

[Don Raboud]

Hi,

Earlier today I was notified of a update (10.2, x86_64).

The update was for libxml2 to version 2.6.26-28.  This is a needed security 
update according to zypper.  However the package is locked and can't be 
updated in this manner.

The problem is that I currently have version 2.6.26-27 from Packman.  (I don't 
really know why that is.  I install the usual multimedia stuff from there 
plus an occasional "update all in this list" in YOU on the Packman 
repository.)

My understanding is that by installing such packages from packman (or other 
such repos) security updates for those packages would be up to me.  That 
doesn't seem to be what is happening here.  

So... why is a SUSE update trying to update a package from Packman?  Is this 
normal or is something wrong on my end?

I generally try to keep up with all of the security updates, but I am hesitant 
to accept this one since I don't really know what the differences are in the 
Packman repository with this particular package and what might break as a 
result.  

I tried "rpm -q --whatrequires libxml2", but the only Packman package that 
showed up there was libxml2-devel-2.6.26-27.pm.1 :-(

Any help/insight would be appreciated.

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Re: [opensuse] VPN Question

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 09:43, PerfectReign wrote:
> Doesn't do me any good. I delete all non-read emails every time I
> check my mail.

Doesn't that get boring after a while? 8-)

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Re: [opensuse] xterm max min ?

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 01:43, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> How can I set xterms to max every time I start one up.
>
> The definition of max and min can be viewed here:
>
> http://www.urbakken.dk/min.jpg
> http://www.urbakken.dk/max.jpg

Right click on the xterm title bar, select Advanced->special window settings->

and you can specify things like maximized, no window borders, etc. Not sure 
about setting up both max and min for the same application though. 

(Also available through Personal Settings -> Desktop -> Window Specific 
Settings)

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Re: [opensuse] Permissions and Catch-22

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 16 January 2008 16:38, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> (I chose "df" instead of the more obvious "mount" simply because the
> output is easier to read, in my opinion.)

mount | column -t

make the output much easier to read.

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Re: [opensuse] like acobat reader

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 10 January 2008 17:02, Philippe Landau wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > On Jan 10, 2008 5:28 PM, Michael Skiba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Am Donnerstag, 10. Januar 2008 22:51:48 schrieb Philippe Landau:
> >>> evince is probably safer:
> >>> Adobe applications are notorious for "phoning home",
> >>> telling Adobe what you do when,
> >>> and Adobe is a known bully of the copyright mafia.
> >>> Additionally, Adobe software tells the authors of
> >>> some pdf files when you open/read their documents.
> >>
> >> Have any sources for it?
> >>
> >> I knew Adobe was calling home, but that a person can request a
> >> notification was new to me... (or do you just mean the possibility?)
> >
> > PDF files can have internal macros to make this happen.  I have heard
> > of at least one company that has implemented the logic.
>
> Had to rescue the page for the occasion, sorry for the
> currently unavailable links to helping.net.
> http://justwars.com/linux/Adobe-Acrobat-Spying-on-Users.html

Among the options one can set in Acrobat reader is to specify a proxy which I 
usually set to 127.0.0.1 to avoid things like this.  (I am not paranoid, just 
don't like the very idea.)  Of course, being closed source one has no idea if 
acrobat reader honors these settings or not.


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Re: [opensuse] Lost JPEG Preview / KDE Photo editor

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 20 December 2007 23:14, Kai Ponte wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007 11:57, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-20-07 11:56]:
> >  [...]
> >
> > > Still no icons - I set Kview as the default action for all image types
> > > in configure desktop, but I get nothing still.
> >
> > open konq -> Settings -> Configure -Konqueror -> Previews & Meta-Data
> >   adjust "Maximum file size:"
>
> Thanks, Patrick. That didn't do it either. Max size is now 6MB.

The kdegraphics3 package has the bits which generate preview images in 
konqueror (I think).

What version of this do you have installed?  Maybe verify that rpm?
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Re: [opensuse] context menus kde question

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 10:12, M Harris wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 December 2007 12:49, Don Raboud wrote:
> > Hope something here helps.
>
>Yep...   sounds like its time for me to upgrade.

:-)

In the meanitime, have a look at

/opt/kde3/share/templates

That is where the available "create new" stuff seems to live.


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Re: [opensuse] context menus kde question

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 05:31, M Harris wrote:
> hi folks,
> I have an openSUSE |KDE context menu question:
>
> When I right click on the open desktop, or within a folder, I have a
> submenu option called "Create New" under which I have options for Folder,
> Text Doc, HTML, etc. Here is the problem:
> I would like to be able to modify that context menu, to include other "new"
> items like OpenOffice types.  New Text File creates a kwrite object. I
> would like it to create an OOo type instead. How do I modify the context
> menus?

I currently already have the option to create these file types, and I didn't 
do anything special to set those up (I wouldn't know how).

I am running 
10.2
KDE 3.5.5 (release 45.6)

and

> rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice
OpenOffice_org-2.0.4-38.7
OpenOffice_org-templates-labels-a4-1.0-3
OpenOffice_org-templates-presentation-layouts-2.0.4-10
OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter-1.0-514
OpenOffice_org-templates-labels-letter-1.0-3
OpenOffice_org-templates-en-2.0.4-10
OpenOffice_org-kde-2.0.4-38.7


Hope something here helps.

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Re: [opensuse] Basic Bash Question

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 16 December 2007 18:54, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
>   How do I call 'ls' from within a script without it also returning the
> contents of the present working directory? Here is the line from my script:
>
> ls -al /usr/lib/libGL.so*
>
> Here is the output:
>
> # ./linux/scripts/showLibConfig
> 250sata.pdf 7857.pdf Bannykh-ArizMedBoard.pdf Bannykh-TennMedBoard.pdf
> bin broadway.pdf david.asc Desktop Documents linux log Pictures
> public_html westlaw-renewal_20071129.pdf /usr/lib/libGL.so Config
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-11-09 16:19 /usr/lib/libGL.so ->
> libGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-12-16 16:25 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 ->
> libGL.so.1.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-12-16 16:25 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 ->
> /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 391344 2007-09-21 20:34 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2.sav
>
> as you can see, it looks like 'ls' is evaluated before 'ls -al
> /usr/lib/libGL.so*' gets evaluated. How do I fix this?

Does calling /bin/ls instead of just ls help?

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Re: [opensuse] FYI re Seagate drives

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 11 December 2007 12:59, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On another line... what is this:? "First Western Digital restricts sharing
> of multimedia files" - does it means that somehow they manage to restrict
> what type of files I save to a drive? How?

This was "discussed" recently on the register.




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Re: [opensuse] ESATA

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 09 December 2007 04:02, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Advice: When posting technical questions, be sure to
> use the correct terminology, otherwise, when you write
> diesel ngine, but you actualy mean bicycle, everyone
> thinks you are crazy.

For certain values of "everyone".

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Re: [opensuse] rsync questions - backups - again !

[Don Raboud]

On Saturday 08 December 2007 21:51, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> The disk needs to be partitioned before doing a restore with dd.  It copies
> partitions, not disks.  It makes partition images, not disk images.

This is true if to copy partition, but dd can copy entire disks as well. No 
pre-partitioning required in that case.

I recently backed up an entire disk with three partitions (including one 
encrypted)  to a new disk (same model) without partitioning.  Something along 
the lines of 

dd if=/dev/ of=/dev/  bs=8M

Works fine.

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Re: [opensuse] Unmounting CD (OT)

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 05 December 2007 12:00, Jason Craig wrote:
> Anyone have any idea how I can trick or otherwise get the system to eject
> this disk? 

Have you tried 'eject' from the command line (as root if necessary)?

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Re: [opensuse] Any "Cut and Paste" HOWTO's?

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 26 November 2007 16:18, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2007 14:41, Don Raboud wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > I've seen very similar behavior with some of the apps you mentioned.
> > Specifically cutting a graphic out of Acrobat and attempting to paste
> > into openoffice impress.
>
> Don't let that fool you. It's a long-standing bug in Adobe Reader (which
> is what you meant, I assume, since Acrobat is available only on Windows
> and Mac and the program formerly known as Acrobat Reader was renamed
> Adobe Reader quite a while ago).

Yes, I meant Adobe Reader.


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Re: [opensuse] Any "Cut and Paste" HOWTO's?

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 26 November 2007 15:01, Chris Worley wrote:
> I've been using Unix since the 80's, and prefer X's
> left-button-drag-cut (or double or triple click) and
> middle-button-paste to WinDoh's, but, these days, nothing seems to
> work.
>
> I mostly use KDE, Konsole, Evolution, Firefox, and OpenOffice, and
> mostly just want to copy and paste text between these apps.
>
> Copy/paste within the same Konsole session seems to work properly,
> but, between apps is hit-and-miss.  I.e. I'll copy some text from an
> OpenOffice editor (using left and middle mouse clicks), and paste into
> a Konsole... and it takes a couple of tries before it pastes.
> Aggravating.
>
> In years past, this worked seamlessly... but my last few revs of
> OpenSuSE (the only place where I use a GUI) seem to have lost the
> ability to cut and paste w/o multiple tries.
>
> I tried cutting a graphical section out of Acrobat.. and it said it
> had put it to the clipboard, but I could not paste into any app,
> including "gimp".
>
> Cut&paste within an app is not that helpful, we need to cut and paste
> between apps.  Does X need to "go back to the drawing board"?

Do you have Klipper running?

I've seen very similar behavior with some of the apps you mentioned.  
Specifically cutting a graphic out of Acrobat and attempting to paste into 
openoffice impress.  Often nothing would get pasted or else something that 
was put in the clipboard previously would get inserted.  Whenever this 
happened I found that if I clear the clipboard contents (using Klipper), and 
then redo the copy and paste it will generally work.  Annoying to have to do, 
but works repeatably.

I have recently turned off Klipper and the behavior seems much better, but 
that is based on very limited testing.

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

[Don Raboud]

On Saturday 24 November 2007 12:16, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> I have to jump in here: I have had the same issues as the OP, but with
> mutliple versions of suse. My first version was 9.3, installed on an
> ASUS based clone notebook. Then SLED on the same notebook, then SLED
> on an HP nw8440 notebook ("SLED supported"), then SLED sp1 on the
> nw8440
>
> In my it seems to be every other boot ... or sometimes I will go
> several boots in a row being able to access a cd, and then not. I may
> have to reboot a time or two or three before the cd icon appears on
> the desktop and I can access ANYTHING in the cd drive.
>
> What could cause that? 

I really do not know.  cdrom.ko is a kernel module which (I assume) is needed 
to access the cdrom.  It doesn't seem to be loaded in the OP's (and your) 
case otherwise why would hwinfo try to load the module (and subsequently fail 
when run as a sub-root user).


The may be a bug about this already since it doesn't appear to be an isolated 
event.  Maybe a search on the web for the error messages in hwinfo would lead 
to something further.

Failing that, if/when the cd doesn't work again, I would suggest checking the 
loaded kernel modules to see if cdrom is still loaded.

lsmod | grep cdrom

If it doesn't show up, have a look at the boot log to see if any indication is 
given for why it wasn't loaded.  Try loading the module as root

modprobe cdrom

and see if that helps.  Actually, why not list the kernel modules loaded when 
everything *is* working and then again when the cdrom doesn't work.  Maybe 
the differences will provide a hint.


Failing all else, maybe add cdrom to the modules to be loaded on boot in YaST.  
I don't *think* this will hurt anything .



> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> /usr/sbin/hwinfo | grep cdrom
> probe = 0x00138fc4aa17fffdfffe (+memory +pci +isapnp +net +floppy
> +misc +misc.serial +misc.par +misc.floppy +serial +cpu +bios +monitor
> +mouse +scsi +usb -usb.mods +adb +modem +modem.usb +parallel
> +parallel.lp +parallel.zip +isa +isa.isdn +isdn +kbd +prom +sbus +int
> +braille +braille.alva +braille.fhp +braille.ht -ignx11 +sys -bios.vbe
> -isapnp.old -isapnp.new -isapnp.mod +braille.baum -manual +fb +pppoe
> -scan +pcmcia -fork -parallel.imm +s390 -cpuemu -sysfs -s390disks
> +udev +block +block.cdrom +block.part +edd +edd.mod -bios.ddc -bios.fb
> -bios.mode +input +block.mods +bios.vesa -cpuemu.debug -scsi.noserial
> +wlan -bios.crc -hal -bios.vram -modules.pata -max -lxrc)
>   WARNING: Error inserting cdrom
> (/lib/modules/2.6.16.46-0.14-bigsmp/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko):
> Operation not permitted
>   WARNING: Error inserting cdrom
> (/lib/modules/2.6.16.46-0.14-bigsmp/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko):
> Operation not permitted


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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

[Don Raboud]

On Saturday 24 November 2007 10:56, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote:
> > /usr/sbin/hwinfo | grep cdrom
>
> probe = 0x138fc4aa17fff9fffe (+memory +pci +isapnp +net +floppy +misc
> +misc.serial +misc.par +misc.floppy +serial +cpu +bios +monitor +mouse
> +scsi +usb -usb.mods +modem +modem.usb +parallel +parallel.lp +parallel.zip
> +isa +isa.isdn +isdn +kbd +prom +sbus +int +braille +braille.alva
> +braille.fhp +braille.ht -ignx11 +sys -bios.vbe -isapnp.old -isapnp.new
> -isapnp.mod +braille.baum -manual +fb +pppoe -scan +pcmcia -fork
> -parallel.imm +s390 -cpuemu -sysfs -s390disks +udev +block +block.cdrom
> +block.part +edd +edd.mod -bios.ddc -bios.fb -bios.mode +input +block.mods
> +bios.vesa -cpuemu.debug -scsi.noserial
> +wlan -bios.crc -hal -bios.vram -bios.acpi -bios.ddc.ports=1
> -bios.ddc.ports=2 -bios.ddc.ports=3 -bios.ddc.ports=4 -modules.pata -max
> -lxrc) WARNING: Error inserting cdrom
> (/lib/modules/2.6.22.12-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko):
> Operation not permitted
>   WARNING: Error inserting cdrom
> (/lib/modules/2.6.22.12-0.1-default/kernel/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.ko):
> Operation not permitted
>
> >> block.3: cdrom
> >> int.2: cdrom

That looks strange.

Are you running the 2.6.22.12-0.1-default kernel (uname -r)?
What happens if you run the same command as root?

Did you try Kevin's suggestion?

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Re: [opensuse] 10.3, Why is my CD ROM not showing?

[Don Raboud]

On Saturday 24 November 2007 09:17, Constant Brouerius van nidek wrote:
> Have changed now completely to 10.3 and was happy until I wanted to burn an
> copy of the Opensuse 10.3 life for a friend.
> K3B told me that there seems to be no carom drive installed. Looking
> further into the problem I also found that an inserted CD or DVD did not
> show up with the well known question what to do with the inserted medium.
> Looking into the hardware list of Yast I did not find any trace of a CD/DVD
> ROM. I know I have used the DVD to install 10.3 and I know that everything
> worked fine as I was burning my first copy of the life CD some week ago.
> Where did the CD vanished to? Could be that this phenomena was already
> discussed and I may have missed it. A google did not show up my problem but
> masses of USB problems etc..
> Could somebody see me through my search for my CD ROM drive?

I know you've looked in YaST, but what is the output from

/usr/sbin/hwinfo | grep cdrom

Is it really blank?

If so, does the CD/DVD drive work? It is possible that drive died, or maybe a 
cable has come loose.  Do you have another bootable disk that you could try 
booting with or even another OS installed to test the drive with?

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Re: [opensuse] nVidia GeForce 8500GT not active at boot after nvidia-xconfig tweak

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 20:49, Denis Brown wrote:
> Dear List Members,
>


> At this point a cold boot.   Disturbingly during the POST there was *no*
> video on screen.   The card and monitor have dual (analogue and digital)
> connections but video did not appear on either.
>
> Once the POST was over and Linux took over things, I get the log-on screen.
>
> Subsequent cold starts repeat this behaviour - it is as if the video card
> has had a "personality change" and now only works in conjunction with the
> Linux OS and the nVidia drivers... it no longer functions "stand alone"
> with just the motherboard BIOS.

What is the vga= parameter in your grub menu, (/boot/grub/menu.lst).
Try putting vga=normal there and see if you get the startup messages.

Alternatively, what happens if boot in failsafe mode, any difference?

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Re: [opensuse] No hard disks were found - 10.3 install

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 15 November 2007 12:36, Mike Grau wrote:
> Although the downloaded DVD iso MD5SUM checked out, I did burn the DVD
> over a NFS mount. Perhaps that's not a good idea? Perhaps, as Jose
> suggested, the iso is corrupt. I'll download and burn a new DVD and see
> how that goes.

Since the md5sum of the iso checked out, it seems like the download went OK, 
although the burning process might not have.  Rather than burn a new disk, 
there is (was?) an option during the installation to check the installation 
media.  Did you try this?

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Re: [opensuse] Compiz on ATI: Worked until I installed fusion-icon?

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On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:23, Magnar Strand Olsen wrote:
> After I installed ATI 8.42, Compiz fusion worked as it should - however,
> I got the common problem of the systray icons being scattered around,
> and the kicker panel not working properly.
>
> I thought it might be a good idea to install fusion-icon - in order to
> quickly switch compiz on and off.
> But the next time I logged on, the once-working Compiz was reduced to a
> sad state - unmovable windows without borders/window decorations, no
> working visual effects, etc.
> Of course, I tried to remove fusion-icon again, but it didn't help.
>
> I tried to manually start compiz:
>
> compiz-manager &
>
> didn't do it,
>
> compiz --replace ccp &
>
> gave me the broken desktop with the borderless windows.
>
> Any ideas?


From the compiz-fusion icon in the system tray (if you can see it) try 
temporarily selecting kwin as the window manager, then switch back to compiz.

I've managed to get back window decorations on occasion using this method.

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Re: [opensuse] Kmail problem

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On Thursday 01 November 2007 12:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am having kmail connect to my pop3 mail account, I know the server is up
> because I am able to ping it, but it could be having trouble (sadly it
> happens a lot with my ISP).  The thing that is throwing me off is the error
> message that I am getting, usually I get an error saying that the server is
> sending an improper greeting, or something like that, but this time I am
> getting this error "Unable to complete LIST operation." after that comes up
> Kmail just sits there saying that it is Preparing Transmission from my ISP
> and thats it.  It doesn't lock up or anything because all the menus and
> buttons responded, its just not communicating with the server.

See if the thread starting here helps.



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Re: [opensuse] HOW TO CONNECT TO A wINDOWS SERVER FROM MY LINUX/SUSE LAPTOP

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 12:09, Ben Kevan wrote:
> > An error occurred while loading
> > smb://ctrc35/InfoSys/SOFTWARE/APPLICATIONS/create:
> > Timeout on server
> >  ctrc35

That is the same error I get when the server doesn't exist.

Can you ping the server in question?  If so, try noting its ip address and 
using that instead.

smb:///InfoSys/SOFTWARE/APPLICATIONS/create

Or as was suggested,

> smb://ctrc35.yourdomain.com/InfoSys/SOFTWARE/APPLICATIONS/create


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Re: [opensuse] subnet mask for 192.168.1.2

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 29 October 2007 04:15, primm wrote:
> On Sunday 28 October 2007 20:58:42 Don Raboud wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 October 2007 05:19, primm wrote:



> > > What's my Subnet Mask?
> >
> > /sbin/ifconfig will show you what you currently have.  Look for the bit
> > that says Mask:...
> >
> > As other have said it is most likely 255.255.255.0.
>
> /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:4C:FD:33:DE
>   inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0



> eth1  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:05:1C:10:EE:75
>   inet addr:192.168.2.1  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0



> Does that confirm 255.255.255.0?

Yes.  Each of your two interfaces has the same mask (the "Mask:255.255.255.0" 
bit), and because of this they are on different networks.

eth0 can communicate with all machines with addresses 192.168.1.*.
eth1 can communicate with all machines with addresses 192.168.2.*.

To have communication between them (or with other networks), you need to have 
routing information set up appropriately.


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Re: [opensuse] Compiz - Features & Screenshots

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 15:12, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
> Don Raboud wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 October 2007 14:02, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
> >> I ended up with a six-sided hexagon shaped cube
> >
> > Not to be too pedantic but... oh never mind  ;-)
> >
> > Nice looking screen shots, BTW.
>
> Yes, I know, I thought about the proper label for the extruded hexagonal
> shape as well. (circle/cylinder) But I couldn't come up with it at the
> time. (Looks like it got you as well) So cube it stayed.

Hexagonal prism?

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Re: [opensuse] Compiz - Features & Screenshots

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On Sunday 28 October 2007 14:02, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote:
> I ended up with a six-sided hexagon shaped cube

Not to be too pedantic but... oh never mind  ;-)

Nice looking screen shots, BTW.

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Re: [opensuse] subnet mask for 192.168.1.2

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 05:19, primm wrote:
> In yast network card static
>
> IP adderss, Subnet Mask and Hostname
>
> My IP address is 192.168.1.2 and my hostname is hh1.local
>
> What's my Subnet Mask?


/sbin/ifconfig will show you what you currently have.  Look for the bit that 
says Mask:... 

As other have said it is most likely 255.255.255.0.

 
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Re: [opensuse] CD not found

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 21 October 2007 21:21, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On Sunday 21 October 2007 18:03, Don Raboud wrote:
> > On Sunday 21 October 2007 15:03, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > > I just tried to play an audio CD.  I got a message that said CD not
> > > found, try running cdparanoia -vsQ as yourself, not root.  So I tried
> > > that.  Here is what I got (long, sorry about that)
> >
> > < snipping many devices tested >
> >
> > What is the output of
> >
> > /usr/sbin/hwinfo --cdrom
> >
> > That should tell you what the CD device is to help narrow things down.
>
> The output of that command scrolls across the screen and is gone in less
> than 1 second.

There is a number of line of output.  To see them all try

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --cdrom | less

and use the up/down arrow keys to scroll through, press 'q' to quit.


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Re: [opensuse] CD not found

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On Sunday 21 October 2007 15:03, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> I just tried to play an audio CD.  I got a message that said CD not found,
> try running cdparanoia -vsQ as yourself, not root.  So I tried that.  Here
> is what I got (long, sorry about that)

< snipping many devices tested >

What is the output of 

/usr/sbin/hwinfo --cdrom

That should tell you what the CD device is to help narrow things down.

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Re: [opensuse] boot problem

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 17 October 2007 17:45, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> So booting from a floppy also works.  And booting from the install DVD
> works to boot from the HD, so I believe your HD MBR is also correct.
> Looks to me like a BIOS boot selection problem.  Since floppy, cd, and
> HD via DVD all work, looks like your BIOS is either not setup to boot
> from HD, or its settings cannot read it correctly, i.e. maybe try
> changing LBS for Large or something like that.

Also with some BIOSes you can also specify *which* hard drive to boot from.  
Have a look at that as well if you have multiple drives.

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Re: [opensuse] mainboard questions

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 16 October 2007 11:15, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> The hardware _is_ well-supported by Linux. Anecdotal evidence (is that
> an oxymoron?) is that Linux is _not_ well-supported by Asus. I cannot
> confirm or refute this, since the only thing I ever rely on the
> mainboard vendor for is BIOS updates.

Overall I have not found many problems with ASUS boards, but one thing I often 
have problems with (using these boards) is the sensors package.  

On an older board the package installed but the results were not useful. 
Apparently (information gathered from a web search) ASUS would not provide 
the appropriate hardware information to the developers at the time. 
(Sorry for lack of detail here, but I no longer have this board. It had an AMD 
K6 processor though, to give an idea of the timeline.)

Several months ago I updated to a newer AMD Athlon 64 X2 system with an ASUS 
M2N-E mothboard.  I did finally get sensors to work, and now I have exactly 
two items listed - temperatures for CPU0 and CPU1 - nothing more.  The 
temperatures themselves seem reasonable, but no other information is 
reported.

Of course this may all be down to me doing something wrong (a distinct 
possibility) or the fact that this is a relatively new (~1 year old?) 
motherboard. 

I have had no^H^H relatively few problem with the sensors package on any of 
the Intel boards I have used.  Lots of information is available (fan speeds, 
voltages, memory usage, etc.)


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Re: [opensuse] Help with encrypted partitions/drives under 10.3

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 08 October 2007 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hopefully the wisdom of list users will fix my problems
>
>
> Problem one:
>
> I installed 10.3 on my Acer Ferrari Saturday, after backing up /home
> to some external hard drives. Those hard drives are encrypted using
> YaST's partitioner (under 10.2, using loop-crypt) and via command
> line (losetup -e twofish256). When I try and mount them under 10.3
> using the YaST partitioner, they are never mounted. I have tried
> mounting them manually from the command line, but they never mount.
> The twofish256 option doesn't work (ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid
> argument), so I tried twofish, but the drives still never mount.
>
> As it stands now, the entire backup of my e-mail and documents are
> sitting on some drives which are unreadable unless I revert to 10.2
> on one of the other machines.
>
> Problem two:
>
> In the process of troubleshooting problem one, I decided to wipe out
> of the of the drives and encrypt it via the new method (LuKS). I set
> the options to not mount at startup and to be mountable by user, and
> mount by device name. I can't mount that drive either. It appears
> that every time I shut the laptop down the mapper device disappears,
> forcing me to re-create it each time. After doing this, the drive
> will mount, but I am never asked for the password.
>
>
> Has anyone run into these problems? How did you resolve them?
>
> Thanks in advance.

Is the kernel module cryptoloop loaded?

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Re: [opensuse] Couldn't complete LIST operation

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 02 October 2007 09:26, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> - this puzzles me..
>
> - Kmail has started to pop up a dialog (warning) box uppon its first
> retrieval of mail (POP3) from certain accounts, saying:
>
> Couldn't complete LIST operation
>
> (Translated from danish..)
>
> - but only the first fetch. And (I think), I get all mail subsequently.
> - it's not just my PC (SuSE10.2) but others too (SuSE10 and even 9.3)
>
> - anyone seen this?

Yes.  This has happened to me previously.

What was happening in my case was that a particular message seemed to cause 
KMail grief and leads to that error.  Only ever happened with POP accounts.  
I was not able to retrieve any messages in this situation.

Other clients (like Thunderbird), or a webmail interface had no problems with 
the "problem" message.  What I ended up doing was using Thunderbird to go 
through the new mail, delete those I didn't want, remark all of the new mail 
as unread and be sure to leave a copy on the server.  After that KMail worked 
OK.  Might be easier with  webmail interface though.


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Re: [opensuse] cups and Windows

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 30 September 2007 17:57, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> On 10/01/2007 07:51 AM, Don Raboud wrote:
> > http://192.168.0.2:/631/printers/printer_name
>
> Correction, no slash before 631, i.e.
> http://192.168..2:631/printers/printer_name (which is really queue
> name).  HTH

:-(

But the "0" in 192.168.0.2 was ok  ;-)
Finally I think we agree on

http://192.168.0.2:631/printers/printer_name

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Re: [opensuse] cups and Windows

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 30 September 2007 16:58, Ron Eggler wrote:
> On Sunday 30 September 2007 03:55:16 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > but I'm still not able to login to "http://192.168.0.2:631";
> > > What went wrong here, what did I forget?
> > > Thanks lots for your help!
> >
> > This one:
> > # Only listen for connections from the local machine.
> > Listen localhost:631
> > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
>
> Oh okay, I added following line below "Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock"
>
> Listen 192.168.0.*:631
>
> but it still wouldn't let me in by typing 192.168.0.2:631 and i do not have
> a firewall active so we can forget bout this... :o

How exactly are you trying to connect to the printer from the windows machine? 
By typing "192.168.0.2:631"  in a browser?  I don't know if that would work.

In the add printer dialog in windows, you select network printer and at some 
point you can select a specific url.  If the printer queue name on 
192.168.0.2 is "printer_name" then the appropriate url would be

http://192.168.0.2:/631/printers/printer_name

If you've already done this then never mind... (I don't remember the beginning 
of the thread...)


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Re: [opensuse] cups and Windows

[Don Raboud]

On Friday 28 September 2007 07:32, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Sep 27 2007 21:45, Ron Eggler wrote:
> >On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:12:34 pm Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> On Sep 26 2007 18:48, Ron Eggler wrote:
> >> >> If you use IPP printing from Windows, you need to use "Publish
> >> >> Printer" in the CUPS webfrontend.
> >I'm either blind or
> >my cups has following link on tthe homepage (192.168.0.2:631):
> >ESP|Administration|Classes|Help|Jobs|Printers|Software
> >and when i click on printers (where i assume it to be) i get my
> >printer: "Deskjet_D4200" and following link buttons:
> >Print Test Page|Stop Printer|Reject Jobs|Modify Printer|Configure Printer|
> >Delete Printer|Set As Default
> >and
> >Add Printer
> >So I'm really not sure what you see. Am I looking at the wrong page or
> >something? :o
>
> Hm, I have cups 1.2.11, which is a bit newer than the one from 10.2
> (1.2.7)...

I have 10.2, cups 1.2.7 and I have 
Home|Administration|Classes|Documentation/Help|Jobs|Printers

Under "Printers" all of my defined printers have a "Publish Printer" option.

As well, under "Home", there is a button "Manage Server" and following that 
there is a checkbox option

"Share published printers connected to this system"


What version of SUSE are you using and what version of CUPS?
Which RPM packages do you have installed?

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Re: [opensuse] Re: RAM

[Don Raboud]

On Friday 21 September 2007 12:12, Jeremy Figgins wrote:
> I've seen a lot of "top" output thrown around on this topic and a bunch
> of  people have touched on this issue, but let me ask this question:
>
> I'm sitting right now in front of my 1gig machine. I have my normal set
> of apps open: firefox, thunderbird, konsole, etc. How can I tell if I
> would benefit from additional RAM? What command and what output do I
> need to pay attention to?

On Friday 21 September 2007 12:29, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> Another indicator is if you see the ammount dedicated to "buffers" and
>> "cached" is small with little free memory.

By way of an example, this is the top output from my desktop machine currently 
with 2G of ram (and not to much open right now).

Mem:   2075524k total,  1695896k used,   379628k free,   520148k buffers
Swap:  3148732k total,  128k used,  3148604k free,   519956k cached

There is:

379628k free memory
520148k for disk buffers
519956k currently cached

for a total of about 1.4G of ram "available if required" without touching 
swap.

The output of free contains the line

-/+ buffers/cache: 6559041419620

The last bit says the same thing, that about 0.6G is currently actually used 
and that 1.4G is "available".  (Note that free defaults to displaying in 
kilobytes).

At least that is my understanding...

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Re: [opensuse] Re: OpenSuse 10.2

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On Monday 17 September 2007 20:46, RTF wrote:
>  I tried what I normally would have used as
> a root username and password unsuccessfully.  The same with my normal
> username and password.  I have not set them but don't know how now to do
> that?  Any clues?  It is installed but I have not yet assigned a
> password for root (nor is root recognized without a password (which I
> have not yet assigned) and I certainly have not yet assigned a regular
> username and password.  :(

When you boot openSUSE (using GRUB I assume) there is a place to enter boot 
options.  If you enter "init=/bin/bash" (without the quotes) that will boot 
and get you a shell with root permissions.

Here just issue the command "passwd" to set the root password to whatever you 
like.  

After that reboot normally and you should be able to log in as root.

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[opensuse] Sorting contacts in KAddressbook..

[Don Raboud]

Hello,

I have created a new address book within Kontact and filled it in with a list 
of student names.  I've tried to sort the list based on Reverse Name ( ).

In looking over the list I realized that it was not in the same order as the 
official class lists.  Looking into this further, what I have found is that 
the sorting seems to be based on the entire string +  
at once rather than on  first and then  as a secondary 
criterion.

For example, (using made up names...)

The official list might have
...
Ma, Steven
Martinez, Rick
Mather, Thomas
...

but KAddresbook shows this as
...
Martinez, Rick
Ma, Steven
Mather, Thomas
...

based on the first three letters Mar, MaS, Mat even though MaS comes from
Ma, S(teven)  

This is very reproducible as I can "move" Steven around in the list 
by "changing" his First Name :-)

This behavior is wrong IMHO, but I do not know if this is a bug or if there is 
a setting somewhere that controls this that I have not been able to find.

Anyone else seeing this?
I'm using 10.2, fully patched.

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Re: [opensuse] Repo - No Media

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 05 September 2007 11:18, Donald D Henson wrote:
> I'm running OpenSuSE 10.2 and am trying to add a small program called
>
> 'glabels', using YAST. When I click the 'Accept' button, I get:
> > Cannot access installation media
> > 20070902-145913 CD 1.
> > Check that the server is accessible.
> >
> > Show details
> >
> > URL
> > http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/10.2/
> >
> > Media source
> > http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/suser-guru/rpm/10.2/ does not
> > contain the desired media
>
> Can anyone explain this error message to me? I don't understand what the
> problem is nor do I know how to fix it. Any assistance will be appreciated.

Something very similar was discussed here recently.



Short answer: add RPMS to your URL shown above, so it becomes


See if that works.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: How many cpu's can linux support?

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 26 August 2007 05:58, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
> On Sunday 26 August 2007 10:43:42 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> How many cpu's can linux support?
> >
> > cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor | tail -n1
>
> processor: 1 (one)
>
> rpm -q kernel-default
> kernel-default-2.6.22.2-ccj52
>
> Any idea what is happening? I have Core 2 Duo

You also have a processor "0".  Try just

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ^processor

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Re: [opensuse] Can't access CDDB Data - sometimes...

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 01:24, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2007-08-19 at 18:35 -0600, Don Raboud wrote:
> > Alternatively, is there a better/alternate way to do this ripping which
> > will incorporate the CDDB information.
>
> Have you tried grip?

Not yet :-)

As I mentioned in a previous post, k3b is working well for what want to do, 
but I'll look at grip as well.

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Re: [opensuse] guru url

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 20 August 2007 11:04, jdd wrote:
> each time I try to install a guru packages, I have a error "package
> not found" on this URL:
>
> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/10.1/
>
> what is worng? I have no error message in the configure upadte part
> (and this is 10.1, not very fast on this respect, not ideal to tests :-)

What package manager are you trying to use?

If YaST, I'm *guessing* you might need to add "RPMS" to the end.

I have for example (under 10.2):


I'm not sure about this though.  If you check the openSUSE web page 


the link for 10.1 is as you have shown, but the subdirectory under that 
link, "RPMS", is the one which contains the repodata directory, which I 
believe is the important part.

Then again, I don't really know all that much about this stuff.  What I have 
shown seems to work here though (in 10.2).

I hope this helps.

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Re: [opensuse] Can't access CDDB Data - sometimes...

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 19 August 2007 18:35, Don Raboud wrote:
> Does anyone here know how to get konqueror to access this CDDB information?
> Alternatively, is there a better/alternate way to do this ripping which
> will incorporate the CDDB information.

Sorry to reply to my own post, but after years of using it, I just realized 
that k3b is capable of ripping CDs, and incorporates the CDDB information. 
This is exactly what I was looking for (and it was right in front of me the 
whole time...)

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[opensuse] Can't access CDDB Data - sometimes...

[Don Raboud]

Hi all,

I am trying to rip audio CD's to flac using konqueror's audiocd:/ feature.  
When doing so, there is no CDDB information shown, just Track01, Track02, etc.
This used to work in 9.3 or 10.1 (I forget which I used to do this before) but 
now I only have 10.2 running here.

On one of my computers Amarok CAN access the CDDB information, so it seems to 
be available (Amarok is currently set to access freedb.freedb.org using port 
8880).  On the other Amarok can't access the information, but I that is a 
problem to be solved later).

Does anyone here know how to get konqueror to access this CDDB information?
Alternatively, is there a better/alternate way to do this ripping which will 
incorporate the CDDB information. 

Thanks.


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Re: [opensuse] Is it possible to edit and save PDF forms?

[Don Raboud]

On Saturday 11 August 2007 15:53, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my country our administration is using PDF forms that we can print and
> fill, or fill in the PC and print - but we can not save them, which is a
> nuisance.
>
> Acrobat Reader - which is is the only PDF reader that allows filling PDF
> forms in Linux (neither kpdf or evince even tries to work) - simply
> refuses to save form data. It only saves the empty form. According to
> > we need to use another version of the reader, called "standard", which I
> assume is not free (as in beer). Or, alternatively, the form owner has to
> generate a "rights-enabled PDF form" using "Adobe LiveCycle Reader
> Extensions", which I think it is a server solution. Ie, works online
> somehow.

< snip>

Hi Carlos,

At work various pdf forms are available and I've been able to save many of 
them using the version of acrobat that comes with openSUSE 10.2 (+ whatever 
updates have come out).  These are simple forms with dates, text fields, 
number fields, etc.  Not all forms are like that of course, but there ARE 
some that work.

Unfortunately, I can't help you with getting this to work, other than to let 
you know that it is possible.


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[opensuse] Printing Problems through D-Link Router

[Don Raboud]

Hi all,

I recently got a new computer (openSUSE 10.2, x86_64, fully patched) which 
does not have a parallel port. However I have an old HP Laserjet 4M (old, but 
works well) which only has a parallel port connection.  This is at home, and 
I have a small D-Link DI-704P router which has a built in parallel port for 
sharing a printer - exactly what I would like to do here.

After a rather frustrating bit of time I sort of have the printer working.  I 
set it up as a remote LPD server (router address 192.168.0.1) with 
queue "lp".  This "sort of" works in that the test pages (from CUPS and YaST) 
print just fine, but the document I wanted to print wouldn't.

By trial and error I discovered that some documents will print, however some 
won't.  For example, kwrite will print a text file (/etc/fstab for example) 
just fine, and postscript and pdf files generated (through CUPS) from this 
file using kwrite also print fine (from acrobat for example). However, 
openoffice writer with a simple text file will not print (the lights on the 
printer blink for a few seconds but then stop and no paper comes out).   
Similarly a pdf generated in openoffice writer from a simple text file does 
not print.  Other pdf files (generated in Kile for example) seem to print OK.

So, not all postscript of pdf files are created equally.  However, I know very 
little about the format of postscript and pdf files and how these differences 
could affect essentially just the data passing through the router. (These 
files print just fine with this printer on another machine with a parallel 
port so I know the printer works.) I've looked at the logs in the router and 
the only messages related to printing are pairs of messages like

Printing jobs started from 
Printing job finished

with no indications of any errors.  I checked the D-Link web site and there 
are no firmware upgrade for this router, and all of the support seems to be 
windows based.

I've tried several different ppd files for this printer (though not all) and 
they each show the same behavior.  I'm not sure what else to try and am 
looking for some suggestions (wild guesses also accepted).

I hope someone here can shed some light on this for me.

(I could always get a pci card with a parallel port I suppose, so if I don't 
get this to work that is probably what I will do, but of course I would like 
to figure this out. )

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Re: [opensuse] Beagle Configuration

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 13:50, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> There is one (1) aspect of zen that I DO like. There are certain
> packages that I use that do not come from SuSE sources, Gramps for one.
> Yast can't seem to install from my Download Directory since about 10.0.
> It won't accept it as an install source at all. If I right click on it
> there are two (2) "Open With" > "Install Software" things to choose
> from.  The second one will do a VERY good job of installing the
> software. The first one doesn't do much of anything as far as I can tell.
>
> If I click on the RPM in Konqueror it, I guess, opens to another thing
> with two boxes at the top. One says "Install With Yast" and the other
> says to make it an install source. OK, Install With Yast - Yes - "No
> source available". In 9.X [ whatever I was using ] Yast worked just fine
> for installing things like Gramps from my Download Directory. Never
> argued one bit.

As I recall that was because a command (installation_source or something 
similar I think it was called) got replaced around 10.0 or 10.1, but 
Konqueror "Install With YaST" still tried to use it, so of course it failed.

The command createrepo can be used to make a directory of downloaded rpms 
visible to YaST as an installation source.  I think this can be done through 
Yast -> Installation Sources as well.  After that you should be able to 
install using konqueror.

Createrepo was not installed by default however, and the command needed to be 
run everytime an rpm package was added to or removed from the directory.

> In this one instance Yast does not do as well as zen. In every other
> instance Yast is far superior to zen and Smart [ rather more like STUPID
> IMHO ].

No comment :-)

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Re: [opensuse] User permission problems - plz help!

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 28 March 2007 11:41, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> On 3/28/07, Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Alexey,
> >
> > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 12:48, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> > > So, do you have any idea how to setup KDE to be able shutdown/restart
> > > instead of only logging off ?
> >
> > You can set this up in the KDE Control Center:
> >
> > KDE Menu
> > -> KDE Control Center
> >   -> System Administration
> > -> Login Manager
> > Activate Administrator Mode using button at bottom of window
> > -> Shutdown (tab)
> > Allow Shutdown: local:  (from pop-up menu)
> >
> >
> > Randall Schulz
>
> I did this, but it doesn't helps !

I haven't been following this thread too closely, and I apologize in advance 
if this is repeat information, but have you tried

YaST -> Security and Users ->  Local Security [ choose custom Settings ]
next -> next

and there are options for the Shutdown Behavior of KDM.
I have mine set on Automatic and can shut down from KDE as a regular user.


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Re: [opensuse] opensuse updater

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On Tuesday 20 March 2007 11:19, Robert Lewis wrote:
> With the opensuse updater (blue orb that turns orange when something is
> ready to receive)
> there are two updates being offered that I don't want as they insist on
> ekiga being
> removed.  These are CVS updates for opal and pwlib.  I unclicked them to
> keep from
> having them loaded.  However, the orb remains orange.
>
> I have checked with both the maintainer of ekiga and packman and am told
> not to use
> these CVS versions as they are not compatible with ekiga.  There not
> coming from packman
> either or guru.  I think they are coming from one of the repositories at
> SUSE that
> I have added but am not 100% sure.
>
> Opal
>   Open Phone Abstraction Library
>   Catalog: 20070206-121527 Type: Package
>
> pwlib
>   Portable Windows Library from Equivalence Pty. Ltd.
>   Catalog: 20070206-121527 Type: Package
>
> 1) How can one tell which repository is offering what package?

From the command line 'rug sl' should tell you what repository the catalog 
number corresponds to.  (Rug is the command line interface to zmd.)

> 2) How can I turn off a package so that the orb turns normal but that
>  if a newer one shows up that I am alerted?

I don't think that is possible at present (without removing the entire 
catalog).

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[opensuse] YaST partitioner question - mounted disks

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Hi,

When I fire up YaST -> System -> Partitioner, there is a warning that pops up, 
essentially saying, among other things,

NEVER (my emphasis) partition disks that may in any way be in use (mounted, 
swap, etc) unless you know exactly what you are doing.

Let's pretend for a moment that this applies to me and I click Yes to 
continue.  I am curious about the "never" part of this.

In my situation, when I installed 10.2 I created primary swap and root 
partitions in sdc1 and sdc2.  I created an extended partion (sdc3) and 
put /home in a logical partition (sdc5).  I intentionally left unallocated 
space at the initial install.  I would now like to allocate this additional 
space (sdc6) and mount it at /local.

Is it safe to do this while the disk is mounted?

I would like to know because I have done this already (several times) :-) and 
it did not seem to cause any problems - except the last time.  The 
repartitioning worked, but /local was hosed (interpreted as a read-only file 
system and no changes could be made - even as root).  

I checked the disk and it turned out that sdc was failing SMART tests, and I 
have replaced it.  I have in the past tested the disks occassionally (and 
will now do so more regularly) and I do not recall this disk ever having 
failed the smart tests before this (but I am not sure about this).  

I'm guessing that there was a bad area on the disk, which wasn't accessed as 
it was in the unallocated space.  Allocating the space led to these problems 
surfacing.  

I do not think that this was related to repartitioning the mounted disk, but I 
would like some confirmation if possible.  As I said, I've done this on other 
disks previously and have not noticed any problems.  Was I just lucky those 
other times (and doing something I shouldn't be doing) or was I unlucky this 
time.  

Any information will be appreciated.

(I am getting somewhat paranoid about this because this is the 4th hard drive 
I have had die on me in roughly the last 18 months. I don't know anyone else 
in that time who has had even one go bad.)


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Re: [opensuse] ZMD on 10.2 without warning has gone T**s up ..

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On Tuesday 06 March 2007 10:47, peter nikolic wrote:
> Hi ..
>
> working away on my laptop   no problems at all (apart from the darn windows
> box on the next desk)   ,  I noticed an update showing for xsane so told it
> to carry on and update   it sits there for the best part of 2.5 hours
> checking dependencies   then the ZMD  icon changes to a red square saying
> ZMD not running and no matter what i tri i can not get  ZMD to come back to
> life   .
>
> What am i missing/not trying   to get it back up and running   rebooting
> the laptop has not solved the problem .
>
> If you need more info let me know what ..

try as root
rczmd stop
mv /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db.bak (or something else)
rczmd restart

and wait.  I've also had to reboot (or drop to runlevel 1 and back) to get 
this to take. 

This has fixed several problem which crop up from time to time with zmd for me 
(although not yours specifically IIRC). If it doesn't work, it is always 
undoable.

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[opensuse] OpenOffice Presentations - problems with graphics file formats

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Hi all, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. I would appreciate any 
help with this, or a pointer on a more appropriate place to look.

I am using openSUSE 10.2.

I am trying to put some presentations together using OpenOffice Impress 
(version 2.0.4, build 2.0.4.7), and I want to include some graphs generated 
with gnuplot (version 4).  I generate these as eps files.

Within Impress, eps is listed as a known graphics file format, but trying to 
insert this image results in an error: "Unknown Graphics Format".

As a workaround, I have found that, using another program (xfig), I can import 
the eps figure from gnuplot, and then simply export as an eps figure. 

gnuplot.eps -> import into xfig -> export xfig.eps

No other steps are taken.  The resulting xfig.eps file IS recognized by 
Impress and gets displayed more or less correctly.  However, if that image is 
resized in Impress, some of the lines go missing, fonts become jagged/blurry, 
etc.  These are things I would expect from a bitmapped image, but this is not 
how I understand eps files to work (which is one of the reasons I prefer to 
work with eps files).  

Based on this and some other experimentation with xfig export options, It 
almost appears that some sort of preview image is included within the 
generated eps file and THAT preview image is what is shown by Impress - does 
anyone know if this is true?

I suppose I could figure out the size of figures I need at the end, get 
gnuplot to generate the figure at this size, do the xfig thing and have a 
useable file at the end, but I don't really look forward to doing that with 
all of the figures that I would like to include.

Can anyone shed any light on this for me? 

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Re: [opensuse] The smbfs/cifs fiasco in 10.2

[Don Raboud]

On Friday 02 March 2007 15:29, Paul Abrahams wrote:
> On Friday 02 March 2007 5:23 pm, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > nslookup lactarius
> >
> > Perhaps just the hostname cannot be looked up using DNS?
>
> Yes, that's the immediate cause of the problem, but I don't know a simple
> cure for it since I'm using DHCP for the IP addresses of my local net.  And
> it shouldn't be a problem anyway since (a) it wasn't a problem in 10.1, and
> (b) Konqueror has no trouble finding the lactarius host using the smb:
> protocol.

Paul,

If I understand you correctly, `ping lactarius' does not work on your machine. 
Does `ping lactarius.complete.domain.name' work?

If so, do you have 'complete.domain.name' listed in the domain search list.

YaST -> Network Devices -> Network Card -> 
then edit card and select Hostname and Name Server

It might help...

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Re: [opensuse] Spelling Knot Werking in KMail

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 20:16, Kai Ponte wrote:
> I just knowticed somefing in Kmail.
>
> I used to have spell checking enabled by default. I have the ispell
> dictionary enabled and don't recall changing anything.
>
> According to KMail Help...
>
>
> KMail will automatically check the spelling of your message (in HTML mode
> this currently does not work) and display unknown words using red color. If
> there are too many unknown words KMail will disable its checking. To select
> the language used for checking, select View->Dictionary. You can disable
> automatic spellchecking in the Options menu.
> To check the spelling of your message using a dialog, select
> Tools->Spelling KMail uses KSpell to check spelling, which is the KDE
> frontend to the ispell or aspell spelling checker. Note that you may first
> need to configure the spellchecker using Settings->Spellchecker
>
> I can do the manual spell checking but it used to to auto spell checking.
> Any ideas?

Yes.

This caught me as well not that long ago.  The Options menu referred to in the 
KMail Help is available in the composition window (and only in the 
composition menu as near as I can tell, although I imagine it is in a config 
file somewhere).

In my case, not only was automatic spellchecking turn off, but for some reason 
KMail also defaulted to composing all messages as HTML.  It took me some time 
to finally figure out how to turn that feature off (the same options menu in 
the composition window).


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Re: [opensuse] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 13 February 2007 18:19, Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> >> On Monday 12 February 2007 11:48, Bryan Tyson wrote:
> >> Just for clarity, in 10.2 you can choose from several package
> >> management systems.  Under YaST->Software Management->Patterns both
>
> Where do you find "Patterns"? I followed the path as described but see
> nothing about "Patterns".

YaST -> Software Management ...

Opens by default to "Search" in the combo box (just under the Menu items).

Use this combo box to select "Patterns"

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Re: [opensuse] 10.2 is turning into a nightmare

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 12 February 2007 11:48, Bryan Tyson wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 19:13 -0800, J Sloan wrote:
> > all systems here are running better than any
> > previous release of linux I've tried.
>
> I think it runs just fine. I have no complaints about how it runs. My
> objection is that to install one measly package takes so long I have to
> go away and do something else while it scans the repositories. 

Just for clarity, in 10.2 you can choose from several package management 
systems.  Under YaST->Software Management->Patterns both

Enterprise Software Management (ZENworks Linux Management)
and 
openSUSE Software Management

are available.The first one is essentially the same as from 10.1 and I 
agree with you it is still ridiculously slow.

However I've found the openSUSE Software Management choice works quite well 
and is *much* faster than ZEN and friends.

> How do you set it up so that packages can be installed in a normal length of
> time?

I don't know what you consider a normal length of time, but I just fired up 
YaST -> Software management and it took 36 seconds to scan the repositories 
and bring up the installation screen (I have 5 listed, one set to refresh). I 
imagine there is still room for improvement here, but this is by no means a 
showstopper for me.

> And why does it not come that way by default? 

Unfortunately the installation defaults to the Enterprise version.  From your 
complaints it sounds like you went with the default.  (correct?)  

I know you've said you've gotten rid of 10.2 for these reasons, but if you 
like it otherwise, you might to try it again, and avoid ZEN and company.

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Re: [opensuse] KSCD and digital playback

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 07:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all.
> I recently changed my DVD recorder (a Plextor PX-760A). This one does
> not have an analog audio output so I have to play my audio CDs using
> digital playback.
> Well, I am using both SuSE 9.2 (KDE 3.3) and OpenSuSE 10.0 (KDE 3.4).
> On SuSE 9.2 KsCD has this option while on OpenSuSE 10.0 KsCD has not
> (better, I see the option but it is not "underlined" and I cannot check
> the box.
>
> Any help?

Not really.

As I recall, KsCD digital extraction worked with 9.3 as well, but that option 
was somehow disabled in 10.0 and 10.1 (and possibly 10.2).  I eventually gave 
up and just used xmms or Amarok - either work fine.

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Re: [opensuse] Suse 10.2 shared printer + Mac OSX (solved)

[Don Raboud]

On Friday 02 February 2007 07:24, Art Fore wrote:
> I think what is confusing is what the printer name should be, but guess
> the best way to find this out is to look at localhost:631 instead of
> yast hardware printers.

lpstat -p

will also list the printers.

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Re: [opensuse] nvidia binary driver - Lcd can't display at 60 Hz

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 22:37, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:07:15AM -0700, Don Raboud wrote:
> > In looking into all of this however, I have discovered that I can't get
> > my monitor to display at its native resolution (1280x1024) at 60 Hz.
>
> According to what?  Gnome or KDE?  Ignore them.  What does the OSD in the
> *monitor* think you're feeding it?  Worry about what's actually coming out
> of the video card first.

Marc, thanks for the tip!

Yes, I was using KDE.  I couldn't find a command line alternative to get this 
information and didn't even think of checking the monitor itself.

The monitor reports 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz, so it looks like all is well (apart 
from what KDE reports).

Having said that, I checked my laptop last night and found the same behavior, 
KDE reports that the display is at 50 Hz when I have set it for 60 Hz. 

Of course, there are no monitor controls on the laptop to get at the OSD 
information.  Is there a reliable way to get the refresh rate information for 
a laptop?


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Re: [opensuse] nvidia binary driver - Lcd can't display at 60 Hz

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 11:45, Andreas wrote:
> I had the same problem with my ati card and the binary driver. Adding a
> line "VertRefresh  50-60" in the monitor section of xorg.conf helped.
>
> Here is the monitor section of my xorg.conf:
> Section "Monitor"
>   Option   "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
>   DisplaySize  376 301
>   HorizSync30-83
>   Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
>   ModelName"CM2019"
>   Option   "DPMS"
>   VendorName   "ICP"
>   VertRefresh  50-60
>   UseModes "Modes[0]"
> EndSection

Merci.

However, I already had that in my xorg.conf file

Section "Monitor"
  Option   "CalcAlgorithm" "XServerPool"
  DisplaySize  376 301
  HorizSync30-82
  Identifier   "Monitor[0]"
  ModelName"[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
  Option   "DPMS"
  VendorName   "--> LCD"
  VertRefresh  50-60
  UseModes "Modes[0]"
EndSection

Any other ideas?

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[opensuse] nvidia binary driver - Lcd can't display at 60 Hz

[Don Raboud]

Hi all,

I've been following some of the advice on the list recently about improving 
the fonts in 10.2.  I have seen a huge improvement so far, but there are 
still some issues.

In looking into all of this however, I have discovered that I can't get my 
monitor to display at its native resolution (1280x1024) at 60 Hz.

NOTE: I'm using KDE and to get the refresh rate I right click on the desktop,
choose "Configure Desktop..." and then look at the refresh rate 
under "Display".  Is there a command line alternative to get this info?

Monitor:LCD BENQ FP937s
Graphics Card:  NVidia GeForce PCX 5750
NVidia Driver:  1.0-9746

I have been using

sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia

and have tried many variations but I can't get 60 Hz.   I have tried selecting 
the generic LCD monitor (instead of the BENQ) and explicitly choosing 
the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mode, testing looks ok and claims to be at 60 Hz, but 
when 
I save the results and go to init 5, the display is back at 50 Hz.

I've also tried (even though I don't know if I should) 

sax --vesa 0:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

which didn't help.  I've also tried to generate another modeline using

gtf 1280 1024 60

and replacing the modeline in xorg.conf with these values.  This allows me to 
select between 50 Hz and 55 Hz from the KDE desktop settings, but still no 60 
Hz.

Finally, if I modify my current xorg.conf file and change the driver 
from "nvidia" to "nv" (and make only that change), I can get a display at 60 
Hz, but I lose the 3D acceleration and some of the font improvements as well.


Does anyone know how I can get 60 Hz on this monitor with the binary nvidia 
driver?

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Re: [opensuse] mail kontact kmail setup

[Don Raboud]

On Friday 26 January 2007 12:45, M Harris wrote:
> hi folks,
>   Where does Mail Kontact Kmail hide the controls for determining how 
> often
> an automatic "check for mail" will occur?

Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Accounts -> 
-> Modify

near the bottom, "check interval"

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Re: FIXED: Re: [opensuse] Re: updater and purging items from an unused repo ...

[Don Raboud]

On Friday 26 January 2007 07:32, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> well I re-registered SLED (which added back a couple repositories that
> had been lost) and then I removed and re-added the repos suggested by
> the Jem Report ... and, VOILA! I had tons of items return to my
> updater ... but ... shriek! The danged extra gnome stuff was STILL
> there.
>
> So, it could only be that these items were appearing because the repo
> was still defined in installation sources. It was DISABLED and set to
> NOT refresh  but ...
>
> So I deleted that repo, and did a refresh of the updater, and ... all
> that remained in the updater was stuff that I thought should be there.
>
> wow ... so, what, exactly, does "disable" do with regard to a repo?

I believe that enable/disable only applies to YaST.  The sources can still be 
there and active in zen/zmd even when disabled in YaST.  Deleting the repo in 
YaST probably deleted the repo in ZEN/ZMD as well.

At the command line, what is the output from 'rug sl' and 'rug ca'?
(You might have to be root to do this).  These will tell you what repos 
ZEN/ZMD is using.

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Re: [opensuse] Re: updater and purging items from an unused repo ...

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 25 January 2007 11:01, Peter Van Lone wrote:
>
> Anyway, so I tried Yast Online Update ... it found tons of items,
> including security updates, but ALL of them were flagged "keep" and
> "update" was not available to choose (it was greyed out). Plus, there
> were no details, or version info or anything about any of the items.

In 10.1, YaST online update shows all patches, even ones that have been 
installed. These are shown as blue checks.  The new ones to install would be 
shown with a black check.

> Weird. I clicked accept and ... the window just went away.
>
> Good grief.
>
> Anyone have an idea? Is this a "bug" or somewhow expected/normal behavior?

If there were no new patches to install, the window just closes when you click 
accept.  In that sense I believe that would count as expected behavior.

However, that still doesn't help with the other issues.
What happens in YaST online update if you filter by installation source?  
Which installation sources show up?

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Re: [opensuse] Re: updater and purging items from an unused repo ...

[Don Raboud]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 13:45, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> On 1/24/07, Peter Van Lone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > damn, thought I had it. I unloaded the updater, and then did this:
> >
> > rczmd stop
> > rm  /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db
> > rczmd start
> >
> > Then reloaded the updater and did a refresh. And, it is STILL chock
> > full of "gnome repo" goodies that I do not want!
>
> so, I guess now it worked ... I think inititally I copied the zmd.db
> to a new name, and did not rm the original one.
>
> Anyway ... now, when I go into the updater, there are only 8 updates
> available, and they are generic "SUSE Linux 10.1 FTP" and etc ... none
> of the items that should have been available from the packman and
> other repos that would then get me multimedia support.
>
> G
>
> I'm trying to follow the jem report ... any ideas here, folks?


I had something very similar happen not long ago.  After 
removing /var/lib/zmd/zmd.db and doing a 'rug refresh' I had only two updates 
available, *both were the same*, something like

Suse_10.1_dvd_x86_64

I don't remember exactly, but there was "dvd" and "64" in there and I don't 
even have a 64 bit system :-(

It eventually just went away, and one day, a few days later, I had regular 
updates again.  I did not remove and reinstall the installation sources, and 
I did not run YAST online-update either in that period of time, although they 
might have been useful approaches.  I don't recall, but I may have rebooted 
in that time, but not immediately before it started working.

One thing you might want to try is to drop to runlevel 1 and then back to 5 
(or rebooting for a more drastic step).  This seems to sometimes help ZEN/ZMD 
along when merely stopping/restarting ZMD doesn't quite do it.

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Re: [opensuse] Here we go again!`

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 14 January 2007 03:58, HG wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On 1/12/07, Curtis Rey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well, tried to run YOU as well as YaST to contact the repo and got this
> > message AGAIN,
> >
> > File ./media.1/directory.yast not found on media:
> > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/
>
> Yeah, I'm having this same problems. On couple of installations. Glad
> to hear I'm not alone! :-) I was too afraid to ask about it here(*)



> (*) All new system, great fanfare, and still from the users point of
> view - doesn't work. Yes, it's easy to guess that it's maybe something
> to do with the mirrors, but all that is hidden somewhere. 

I've seen this as well, and it really seems to be a problem with the mirrors.  
If I use a web browser and point it to



the file "directory.yast" seems to be shown every time I have checked.

However, follow that link and you are taken to one of the mirrors (at present 
the file simply contains a few lines of text).  

When the problem you mention occurs, it the selected mirror that returns the 
file not found error, not the download.opensuse.org site as seems to be 
indicated in the error message.  You can see all this by trying with a web 
browser.

> Besides, if it's a mirror/server problem, then one should not need to do
> anything to fix it. But at least in my case, weeks have not fixed it.

I've seen it for days at a time, but never weeks.  I don't know if it is 
possible to "suggest" to the download.opensuse.org site to try another 
mirror.  I suppose you could add one directly, if you know of one you are 
satisfied with, and bypass download.opensuse.org altogether.


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Re: [opensuse] KDE Desktop Fonts

[Don Raboud]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:40, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> Strange problem.  The fonts under the icons on the user's desktop are
> all outline (in white outlined in black).  I can't change any of the
> fonts in the Configure Desktop > Appearance > Fonts menu to change them
> to solid or bold.  Is there a way to accomplish this change?

I think what you want is

Personal Settings -> Appearance and Themes -> Background 
- choose Advanced Options
- uncheck Enable Shadow


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Re: [opensuse] Hibernate on Lid-close - OpenSuSE 10.2

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 19 December 2006 21:38, Jay C Vollmer wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> Yesterday I installed OpenSuSE 10.2 on my ThinkPad T41 and am so far
> delighted by the improvements over 10.1.
>
> Anyway, can someone tell me what has happened to the switch in power
> management configuration which allows automatic hibernation on lid-close
> events?
>
> I can't seem to find where it's located, but I may simply be having one of
> my spells and can't see what's in front of me.
>
> If someone would be kind enough to tell me where the control for lid-close
> events is located.

The following link

Re: [opensuse] Log file for KMail?

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 10:52, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 18:37, Don Raboud wrote:
> > It seems like KMail is choking on at least one message somewhere, and I
> > am looking to find out a bit more information about which ones.
>
> kmail will log to .xsession-errors, have a look in there and see if it
> tells you anything sensible

Thanks.  No there was nothing at all related in there that I could see.
Any other ideas?

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[opensuse] Log file for KMail?

[Don Raboud]

Hello,

Does anyone know if there is a log file associated with KMail?  I've not been 
able to find one.

At home I have a pop mail account with my ISP and occasionally (twice in the 
last three weeks) KMail is unable to retrieve any of the messages.  The only 
information is a dialog box which says something along the lines of "Unable 
to complete LIST operation" (sorry, can't remember the exact message right 
now).

The solution when this has happened has been to use another client like 
Thunderbird, or even webmail, and simply delete the unwanted unread messages.  
After this, KMail worked fine once again.

It seems like KMail is choking on at least one message somewhere, and I am 
looking to find out a bit more information about which ones.

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Re: [opensuse] Wide Print Dialog in KPDF

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 11 December 2006 23:00, John Pierce wrote:
> Ok, I just found out that the print dialog is overly wide when called
> from any kde app, including konqueror.
>
> Can anyone tell me where I can find the cause of this.

Not sure if this will help, but in the title bar, right click and 
select "Configure Window Behavior" and then "Window-Specific Settings"

Anything there that looks suspicious?

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Re: [opensuse] What is the name ?

[Don Raboud]

On Monday 11 December 2006 00:27, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> The Xterm is still not fixed. I can get xterm to get maximized, but
> after it has been closed and opened again it has the same little window.
>
> What I have tried is the options mentioned under the 6 options:
>
> Do not affect
> Apply initial
> Remember
> Force
> Apply now
> Force temporarily
>
> I have for instance choosen the "Force" after having set the wanted
> figures. After I clicked on "OK", and the xterm got maximized.
>
> Then I closed the xterm, and restarted it where the old little xterm
> screen reappeared.
>
> I looked back in the setting area, and could see, that "Force" still was
> active, even the little screen was active.
>
> It seems like the manually settings are not saved even I clicked on "OK"
> after having set the wanted figures.
>
> What the heck can be the reason ?

Any luck with this?

For what it is worth, xterm is obeying the manual settings here.  Since you 
have tried many things, maybe there are some conflicts.  

Try opening xterm, in the title bar select "configure window behavior" and 
then pick "Window-Specific Settings".  If you see a bunch of entries for" 
Application setting for xterm" get rid of them all.

Then try once again Advanced -> Special Application Settings and set

Maximize Horizontally - Apply Initially - and check the last checkbox
(these are just what I selected as a test case)

Close xterm.  Next time xterm is run it is maximized horizontally here.

Hope this helps.


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Re: [opensuse] HOWTO Configure window open location and size

[Don Raboud]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:00, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:

> How/where can I get the respective windows to remember their locations
> and size. I would assume on each app window but have driven myself
> arounnd several bends trying to figure out which does what so some help
> would be appreciated.

Under KDE, right click on a window title bar, chose Advanced and then special 
window settings (or special application settings), whatever seems 
appropriate.

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Re: [opensuse] VMWare Full-screen problems with nvidia binary driver

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 12:28, Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 19:49, Don Raboud wrote:
> > nvidia driver 1.0-9629
>
> Try 9631 - it fixes some fullscreen X.org crash bug.

That seems to have fixed it.  Thanks.

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Re: [opensuse] VMWare Full-screen problems with nvidia binary driver

[Don Raboud]

On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:52, John Andersen wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 09:49, Don Raboud wrote:
> > However, if I change the screen resolution in XP to match what my monitor
> > is using (1280x1024) *before* switching to full screen mode, the full
> > screen works OK, but then of course the non-full screen view requires
> > scroll bars to navigate the desktop.
>
> Did you install vmware tools in the Virtual machine?

I hadn't originally (I did say I did not know much about virtual machines) but 
after your response I have..

Installing vmtools does seem to improve the overall appearance and usability 
of the vm, but the full-screen issue still remains.  Switching into full 
screen mode results in being kicked out of the kde session entirely.

Any other ideas?

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[opensuse] VMWare Full-screen problems with nvidia binary driver

[Don Raboud]

Hello all,

This may not be the best place to ask this, but its not entirely 
inappropriate.

I have recently downloaded the free VMServer, created a virtual machine and 
installed XP Pro.  When I try to switch to full screen mode (using the 
toolbar or CRTL-ALT-)  not only does this *spectacularly* fail to 
work, but I am kicked out of my KDE session and wind up back at the kdm login 
screen.  Not Good.  This is using the nvidia binary driver (1.0-9629).

However, if I change the screen resolution in XP to match what my monitor is 
using (1280x1024) *before* switching to full screen mode, the full screen 
works OK, but then of course the non-full screen view requires scroll bars to 
navigate the desktop.

If I switch to the supplied open nv driver, the full screen mode works fine, 
regardless of the selected resolution of XP (at least the ones I have tried).  
The monitor switches to 800x600 for example and the XP "desktop" fills the 
entire screen.  In the non-full screen view the XP desktop just sits inside 
the VMware application as I would expect it to.

I suppose this could be a bug in the binary nvidia driver, but it might also 
have something to do with my particular settings. I am just not very familiar 
with virtual machines so I though I would ask here.  Anyone else seeing this 
behavior?

kde 3.5.5 release "45.1"
VMware 1.01
nvidia driver 1.0-9629
kernel 2.6.16.21-0.21-smp

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