Re: [opensuse] Gimp and Firefox
Philipp Thomas wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:28:22 +0100, peter wrote: > > >> Consider what would happen to Apple sells if Adobe would perform such a >> port. >> > > To be frank, I'd say it wont do much. My observations tell me that most > Apple users in the arts and ad business have no interest in Linux. > > Philipp > Lots of computer users, especially Apple users who generally choose Apple because it is "simple and intuitive" perceive Linux as a monitor and keyboard hooked up to a mainframe with the only user interaction being long lines of typed commands and code. Maybe not that bad, but there is still this sentiment that Macs "do image manipulation" or "do sound recording/editing" better (than anything that could possibly exist), despite any evidence otherwise. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Flac to mp3
clarge wrote: > Is there a program to do the above? And if so what is it? > > $> ffmpeg -i foo.flac -acodec mp3 -ar 192k foo.mp3 should do this, but I tried and failed to find out how to maintain the "tags" from the FLAC and use them as the MP3's ID3 tags. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] ffmpeg - convert flac to mp3, keep tags
OK I've got the basics of ffmpeg, I can convert a FLAC file into MP3, but the catch is that the new MP3 has no ID3 tags. Now, I don't know too much about FLAC, but these files seem to have Artist, Title, etc. "tags" in them (at least they show up in Kaffeine), is there any way for ffmpeg to copy them over, or must I really create the tags by hand? Thanks, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] MySQL GUI frontends
Bob wrote: I've played around with MySQL on the command line, creating an addressbook database and importing some data. I'd like to use a GUI frontend to add/edit the data, but I'm not sure what's available in linux. Any suggestions? Happy Christmas :) Also, if you use Eclipse already for anything I know I have tools installed for MySQL and databases in general. Can't remember if they are plugins or came with the platform SDK. I can look let you know if you are interested. Merry Holidays --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Real-Time Kernal Questions - renice alternative
David wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:28:19 -, Jason Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I looked into the topic for a bit, what I was "needing" the RT kernel for was audio recording/processing. Normal users can't run threads in "realtime" priority, the super user can, but then running general applications as the superuser is not really the best idea. Just an idea... would it be possible to re-nice the program you are using? Cheers, David Sorry, don't really know what the 'nice level' does or what 're-nice' means :). I'll look into it. One program I use, Traverso (http://traverso-daw.org) specifically notifies you at startup (letting you know that it's not a failure but may cause performance issues) that it could not set realtime thread priority, but I have not (yet at least) had any actual performance problems, so I prefer to pretend there is no problem :). --Jason. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Real-Time Kernal Questions
Carl Luescher wrote: Carlos, explanation is close enough, makes sense, as I've been reading up on this too. Marcus, yes, I now have to agree that for the regular, the default kernels are just fine. The rt stuff I can see as being more application specific as perhaps in the medical or aeronautics fields. Thank you both for your enlightening inputs! Carl I looked into the topic for a bit, what I was "needing" the RT kernel for was audio recording/processing. Normal users can't run threads in "realtime" priority, the super user can, but then running general applications as the superuser is not really the best idea. At any rate, I guess the RT kernel has facilities for setting up a group or users that can run realtime threads. How much this affects the performance of these applications, I don't know and haven't found out. I decided that it was too much trouble right now to try out a RT kernel, especially after I finally got lm_sensors working the recent kernels for 10.3, and I prefer to hold off until/unless I see poor performance in my audio apps. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] File associations
David wrote: > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:39:44 -0000, Jason Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Furthermore, is there some way to change the behavior in Konqueror (now >> I'm browsing local files) such that when I double click a text document >> it will open it for EDITING instead of just for looking at it? There >> doesn't seem to be anything that controls this in the aforementioned >> file associations menu, and I would far rather retain my habit of double >> clicking rather than "right click, open with, kwrite". >> >> Thanks, >> --Jason > > Hi Jason, > If I've understood you correctly, what you want to look at is the > "embedding" tab on the right hand side of the file associations > screen. Look up "txt" for example. By default it's set to use embedded > viewing which means it previews within Konq. Change it so that it uses > external viewer and set that to Kwrite. Same if you want to view jpegs > in a separate viewer and so on. Check it out, you'll see how it works. > Hope that helps, > David > Yep, that's exactly what I wanted as far as local files! Thanks David and Kai as well. Now, does anyone know where Firefox is getting its associations from (where it wants to use KGhostView instead of KPDF - what is set up in KDE file associations)? thanks, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] File associations
Where does Firefox get it's file associations from, anyone know? I click on a PDF link, and Firefox asks if I want to save or open it, and the only program that it shows in the "open" dropdown is KGhostView (labeled default), which I think is far inferior to KPDF, which usually opens my PDFs. I found the file associations menu in Konqueror, browsing my files, so that's nice, but are there some overriding settings somewhere? Furthermore, is there some way to change the behavior in Konqueror (now I'm browsing local files) such that when I double click a text document it will open it for EDITING instead of just for looking at it? There doesn't seem to be anything that controls this in the aforementioned file associations menu, and I would far rather retain my habit of double clicking rather than "right click, open with, kwrite". Thanks, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SED help
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 10 December 2007 13:45, Jason Craig wrote: In the original sample script I wrote for Chris, there were slashes in the target and / or replacement text, so I illusrated the technique of using an alternate separator character to avoid having to escape that character when you need to include it in the pattern or replacement. My bad, I checked out sed's man pages and now I know; it will accept a variety of delimiters! :) --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] SED help
Chris Arnold wrote: Open the file in Kate and do a search and replace on the string indexFRMB01C001 and replace it with indexFRMB01C002 I don't need to do a "replace". I need to add some text before the indexFRMB01C00? Oh, sorry I went straight to the script and didn't read your message very well. To do this, use the sed command sed --in-place= -e "s/\(\/[^\.\/]*\)\(\.htm\)/\1YOURTEXT\2/" "$target" this assumes no lines end in the middle of your HREF filenames. Replace YOURTEXT with what you want. --Jason On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Chris Arnold wrote: Using SLED SP1 and SED. I need to add some text before some existing text in 1 file, in about 100 different spots. The existing text is as follows: 1 The section of text above will differ in every line. So the section indexFRMB01C001 will appear as indexFRMB01C002 on the next line and so on for all 100 lines. Randall S wrote a killer script that would add quotes to some text so i am trying to modify that script and use it but not having much luck. Here is the script: #!/bin/sh targetList=( # ... or "ls": $( ls *.php ) ) for target in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; do sed \ --in-place= \ -e "1s;*.htm;'&';" \ "$target" done You can see that i am trying to use a wildcard in *.htm..Clearly, i don't know what i am doing :) Can someone (nicely) help me with this? -- 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] SED help
Chris Arnold wrote: Using SLED SP1 and SED. I need to add some text before some existing text in 1 file, in about 100 different spots. The existing text is as follows: 1 The section of text above will differ in every line. So the section indexFRMB01C001 will appear as indexFRMB01C002 on the next line and so on for all 100 lines. Randall S wrote a killer script that would add quotes to some text so i am trying to modify that script and use it but not having much luck. Here is the script: #!/bin/sh targetList=( # ... or "ls": $( ls *.php ) ) for target in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; do sed \ --in-place= \ -e "1s;*.htm;'&';" \ "$target" done You can see that i am trying to use a wildcard in *.htm..Clearly, i don't know what i am doing :) Can someone (nicely) help me with this? You need to use regular expression syntax for wildcards. The dot (.) character represents almost any character (newlines depending on settings) and star represents 0 or more instances, so .*\.htm is the regular expression syntax for the more familar form of *.htm that you are thinking of. The backslash escapes the dot so \. means the actual dot (period) character. I'm not too familiar with sed but I imagine that this command sed -i -e "s/.*\.htm/\&" file will probably do what you want. -i is short for --in-place. Note that .* greedily matches characters, except for new line, so this is only going to match the first ".htm" it finds on a line. If you might have more than one per line, you need to find some way to delineate the toke, maybe if it is surrounded by whitespace or a quote or something. Also note that the & character by itself will reference the matched text, and the escaped & (\&) will be the actual & character, I assume that's what you wanted. I'm not sure of the semicolon syntax you have used, thus i have replaced the semicolons with the standard forward slashes. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] First Moonlight port of Silverlight to Linux due in six months, ported by Novell.
Philipp Thomas wrote: On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:28:44 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: 2.) Moonlight will save *LOTS* of people from having to run Internet Explorer in order to access sites they MUST use in order to do their jobs. Oh come on! At least in its current state, I really doubt that anyone is actually using silverlight. I have yet to come aross a web site that uses it. Philipp True, beyond the little "playgrounds" MS has probably paid for, no one is currently using Silverlight, so we probably should just ignore it and hope it never takes off. If it does become as ubiquitous as Flash, hopefully by that time it will either be too difficult to try and make a "catch-up" Linux version, or perhaps by that time MS will just have realized how powerful a bludgeon it has become and refuse to open it or modify it for other than pre-approved uses (tried Flash on 64-bit Linux lateley? Hint - Adobe doesn't care, despite what it has told the "developers" it has put on the "converting code to 64-bit " job to tell us.). As much as we may hate MS software, we must, when given the opportunity, seize any openness that they will allow, because we all know the MS way: take something that has been standardized, or suggested to be standardized, make an implementation that follows little or no commands/suggestions in the standard, refuse to document or open the MS way to scrutiny, and by virtue of its market share distribute its soon-to-be de facto standard among countless users who really don't know any better. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] ntfs problems
Chris wrote: > Hello, > I have two external ntfs disk and one IDE with the > windows.My problem is that I do not have permission to > write/create on these disks.I have installed the > driver for ntfs.I think is standard.I have OpenSuse > 10.3 KDE. > > Thanks in advance. > > http://en.opensuse.org/NTFS Is very helpful for entries to /etc/fstab. If you are manually using the "mount" command, I'm not precisely sure how the "user,users,gid=users,umask=0002" part would translate, but I'm sure "man mount" will probably shed some light on that. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Unmounting CD (OT)
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Jason Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Try: > > lsof | grep "/media/CD1" > > to find out what has it open. > > HTH, > Jeffrey > It was "wineserver", but I suspect that probably the install program itself was at fault. I'm sure on a windows system it just ejects the CD and says 'nuts to anyone who has an open file'; at any rate I'll probably pursue this with some Wine people to see who is at fault. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Unmounting CD (OT) - solved
Jason Craig wrote: > Don Raboud wrote: > >> 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)? >> >> >> > Root was necessary. > $ eject -r > Reply: > umount: /media/CD1: device is busy > umount: /media/CD1: device is busy > eject: unmount of `/dev/sr0' failed > > --Jason > > Haha, I actually was able to make an ISO image of the second CD, unlink "~/.wine/dosdrives/d:", and then link it to where I mounted the image of the second disk. Here's to hoping that Wine can clean up after me and continue making ~/.wine/dosdrives/d: point to the mounted CD --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Unmounting CD (OT)
Don Raboud wrote: > 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)? > > Root was necessary. $ eject -r Reply: umount: /media/CD1: device is busy umount: /media/CD1: device is busy eject: unmount of `/dev/sr0' failed --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] I am so mad I can't see straight!!!!!
Richard Creighton wrote: Get with it openSuSE If my name was Bill Gates, I'd be spending a few million, maybe billion, on lawyers about now regardless of whether or not 'free software' is exempt from destroying peoples work or not. I am that mad that if I were indeed him, I'd go from richest man in the world to poorest, paying lawyers to induce management at openSuSE once and for all to opt for what is right rather than what is expedient. In all fairness, the people that make "unfree" software probably care less about what the software does to your system. All "unfree" software I have seen has absolutely no warranty (real or implied, and this is becoming more and more supported by law now--interesting that something you buy can do exactly opposite of what it is supposed to yet you can't even get a refund) and the companies that make it don't care what it does to your system as long as it doesn't hurt their sales. In fact, if they could make software that hurt your system knowing it would INCREASE sales, they would. At least the makers of free software (who don't issue warranties either) usually at least care about the end user. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Unmounting CD (OT)
Hi, not really about SUSE, but here goes. I'm trying to install a Windows program with Wine. The program has two discs, and when the install asks for the second one, I am unable to remove the CD, it complains that wineserver is still using it. Now, I know wineserver *looks* like it is using it, but obviously the install has stopped actually reading the disk. Anyone have any idea how I can trick or otherwise get the system to eject this disk? thanks, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Second Try: Redesign of YaST Control Center
Aaron Kulkis wrote: I would prefer that items not installed have greyed-out icons rather than just removing them. That would let any knowledgeable administrator know that the item is available and can be installed. Great idea. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/
Sloan wrote: Jason Craig wrote: If ncurse mode is the mode in which it draws a pretty blue background and little borders around stuff with ASCII art, then yes. Memory usage (gauged through free -m at least) goes up only 13MB when "yast2" is run from CL, but when the Software Management module is started (with a grand total of 0 repositories) then it uses 40MB, and with OSS and Update repositories, and trying to install a package it must use at least 53MB because some pretty terrible results ensue. Even 53 MB is a small fraction of the memory on a recent desktop machine. How much RAM does this server have at its disposal? Joe It's a rather cheap VPS and thus is only equipped with 128MB of RAM for me. As for zypper or zmd, rpm -qa | grep zmd gave no results and zypper sl said "bash: zypper: command not found", so it appears neither. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/
Sloan wrote: What version of suse do you have there? 10.1 had serious issues with package management, 10.2 was improved, and 10.3 is quite nice actually, as long as you do not install zmd, but zypper instead, for your package management needs. If you're using sles 10, they have done some work on that to fix some of the more egregious shortcomings. It is 10.2, and the host installed it (from an image I imagine) when requested. Thus, I am unsure of whether zmd or zypper is used. How do I tell? Sorry, I am a programmer and consider myself and expert user (maybe not an expert LINUX user), and some of the finer points of *nix administration are still unknown to me; simply have been learning as I go. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/
Sorry, didn't send to list --- Begin Message --- jdd wrote: Jason Craig wrote: but the YaST control center does not have all the same modules that are available on my desktop, System Services being one that is missing. are you root? Yes, at least supposedly. I'm logging in as root, but I'm not entirely sure if this is "root" or "root-like" access, as it is a VPS and not a dedicated server. Also, YaST has (during attempts of usage of the "Software Management" module) overgrown my limited free memory resources, and that's just no fun. in ncurse mode??? jdd If ncurse mode is the mode in which it draws a pretty blue background and little borders around stuff with ASCII art, then yes. Memory usage (gauged through free -m at least) goes up only 13MB when "yast2" is run from CL, but when the Software Management module is started (with a grand total of 0 repositories) then it uses 40MB, and with OSS and Update repositories, and trying to install a package it must use at least 53MB because some pretty terrible results ensue. --Jason --- End Message ---
Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/
Sloan wrote: Jason Craig wrote: Sloan wrote: Thanks, I forgot to mention that the main idea was that I couldn't use YaST in this particular context. How odd - I'd love to know what context that might be (boggle). In any case, you can use one of the commands mentioned. Joe My playground VPS allowed me to choose from a pretty significant list of operating systems, and I decided to run SUSE to see how it behaved in a server environment. I haven't figured out why yet (I assume it has something to do with how the VPS is set up and administered by the host) but the YaST control center does not have all the same modules that are available on my desktop, System Services being one that is missing. Also, YaST has (during attempts of usage of the "Software Management" module) overgrown my limited free memory resources, and that's just no fun. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/
Sloan wrote: Jason Craig wrote: Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly because it is difficult to find proper search terms. Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I want to start the server in, say runlevel 3, so I know I need to add links to /etc/init.d/rc3.d/ but I'm having trouble finding information on the proper way of doing this. Can anyone point me to some documentation, or give a quick explanation of the numbers, letters etc. used in these symlinks? Unlike the old school unices where you tediously create symlinks by hand, linux distros provide gui and cli tools to automate the process. In yast, suse provides a runlevel editor under "system", or you can simply issue a chkconfig or insserv command to set the runlevels for a particular program. See the man pages on those commands for more info. Joe Thanks, I forgot to mention that the main idea was that I couldn't use YaST in this particular context. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] adding links in /etc/init.d/rc*.d/
Sorry, I've been struggling to find any information on this, mainly because it is difficult to find proper search terms. Say I've installed some software, like PostgreSQL, that adds a beautiful script to /etc/init.d/ that starts or stops the server. Now I want to start the server in, say runlevel 3, so I know I need to add links to /etc/init.d/rc3.d/ but I'm having trouble finding information on the proper way of doing this. Can anyone point me to some documentation, or give a quick explanation of the numbers, letters etc. used in these symlinks? thanks, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Second Try: Redesign of YaST Control Center
Now I finally feel like participating in this thread... Stefan Hundhammer wrote: > We identified a number of problems with that old control center: > > (1) There are too many icons in there - way more that can easily be navigated. > > (2) The groups don't always match users' expectations. > (E.g., is firewall more related to security or to network?) > I think that the best solution to these three problems are a tree structure. People (here and in the card sort study) have expressed confusion over why a network device is not hardware. Easy fix, you can keep network devices as a node, just move it under hardware. The other categories under hardware would be things like I/O, Multimedia (maybe), Wireless Devices, and Hardware Info; although it is now unclear what the difference between a "modem" and "bluetooth" that makes one a "network device" and one not. I think the card study really helps a lot to figure out where in a tree structure all the items should go, and with a fairly deep tree, node duplication does not add nearly as much clutter as a flat or 2-level tree (current structure), so not everything has to go in one place and one place only. So at the root, you probably will have something like four, maybe five nodes (Software, Hardware, System, Security/Users, Misc/Information). Consider the consolidation of nodes, and some key duplications in certain areas, and you will probably end up with a similar number of leaf nodes as we have right now, but in a structure that quickly moves you from wide categories to specific modules. > (3) It's hard for newbies to figure out what does what. > > (3a) Sometimes it's hard to figure out the difference between modules. > An approach for newbies can spawn almost directly from the tree structure. I've heard mention of "wizards" before. Have a button or category or something that says "I'm a Beginner...", and from the outset, tell the beginning user that some of these system settings can "break" their system if they are not set right, and that they should not set anything unless/until they know what the setting is/does. Then you can proceed in a tutorial mode; ask "Do you want to..." and give the user a list of say five to ten of the most commonly used tasks (probably stuff like software management, date and time, graphics or mouse settings) and one more that says "something else". If they select the common ones, great, the common case is fast! If they want something else, the "wizard" can proceed (probably in the same tree structure as they would be organized in the YCC) to ask questions like "Do you want to add/remove/configure your software or applications? Would you like to set systems settings like date/time, power settings?" Examples are good for newbies I think because sometimes a category like "System" doesn't tell a newbie what it's going to do, but an expert can probably figure out the types of things that are going to be in that category (or already knows whats there). > (4) It's often enough hard for expert to find things. > A tree structure, if kept organized, helps here too. As someone noted earlier in the thread, "design constraints" would also help. If you give a (rough) limit of how many leaf nodes can be children of a single node, then when there are too many children you must find common threads between different modules and use those to group the modules. I think this evolves into a structure that the expert can navigate with the greatest of ease. After all, at it's basis, Linux/UNIX is all about files and folders. Everything is a file, and these files get grouped together with folders, and if an expert Linux user doesn't understand the file/folder paradigm, perhaps he is no expert. > (5) It's not exactly pretty. > Seeing what's coming out of you guys/gals at Novell, I don't think anyone has to worry about this one. Besides, as long as its not ugly enough to scare off those accustomed to "Windows by Disney" and the new "Windows by Pixar", appearance is secondary. :) --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Recommendations for a new graphics card
Bryen wrote: I'm looking to get a new graphics card to support my new 24" LCD monitor. I don't want to spend alot of money and I'm not looking for fancy latest and greatest whiz-bangs. What cards have you seen out there/used that are reasonably low-priced, support 1920x1200 resolution, and can do the 3D stuff? I'm leaning towards nvidia as the brand name, but now I'm interested in which models are best. I also have a 24" LCD at 1920x1200. I'm running with an nvidia 7200 gs, but only because a friend gave it to me because he decided not to build a new computer. I'm looking for a better one now, but the 7200 is dirt cheap, runs my LCD just find and the drivers in 10.2 and 10.3 are just fine. For 3D, I can play Day of Defeat source at native resolution, but that may be partially due to the fact that the rest of my computer outperforms the card. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Kernel Update and USB Mouse on SuSE 9.3
Ruben Safir wrote: Hello I've update my kernel to get it to function with new hardware and the modules for my eepro100 and USB mouse aren't working now. Where is the scripts that initiate these things so that I fix this. It doesn't seem to be in the /etc/rc.d/ directory, or at least I can't seem to find it with Grep. Ruben I believe the stuff you would expect to find in the /etc/rc.d/ directory is in /etc/init.d/ --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Converting CPU temp in sysinfo:/
Adam Jimerson wrote: > Is it possable to change the CPU temperature reading in sysino:/ from reading > in Celsius to Fahrenheit? Its not hard to do the conversion myself but I > think it would be nice to have it reading in Fahrenheit, which is what I am > use to. > Well, I'm sure the underlying gadgetry is "sensors" which is really "lm-sensors". Try running the "KSensors" frontend and right-click the icon, select configure, select the preferences tab and here you can select what units to display. This may or may not change what is displayed in the sysinfo:/ screen; I myself do not see temperature here so I cannot test this idea. As a bonus, if all you are looking for is temperature monitoring, then the KSensors program itself may be your solution. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Eclipse 3.3
G T Smith wrote: > > Are you having problems with Java 6 on any other platforms? > > > Nope, mainly because at this moment in time I have no need to deploy it > :-). There was a reported issue with the SuSE version that seems to have > been contained (if not fixed)... > > I am also running a couple of things which just might get fritzed by > such a deployment, and I do not want to let myself in for that kind of > grief just now. > > If I upgrade to SuSE 10.3 and this has Java 6 as default this may become > a problem (I have not checked whether this is the case or not). At the > moment 10.2 is working well for me. Most of the improvements reported as > part 10.3 are not relevant to my usage, and some of the reported problem > areas are. So for the moment on balance there is not a great incentive > for me to make such a move. This situation will change but not in the > near future, and maybe my move will be to 11.0 and not 10.3... > I would not worry about the upgrade at least Java wise, I went from 10.2 to 10.3 and I've still got Java 1.5/JDK 5don't know why they have to think of two names for every release :) --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Java
clarge wrote: > Is there a problem with installing jave in 2 differnet locations? Suse seems > to put it in many places. Staroffice wants it in /usr/java which doesn't > exist on my system. > > SuSE 10.3 > > Thanks > I would probably prefer to use "ln -s" to make a symbolic link from /usr/java to wherever java is installed, rather than install it in a second location, unless Staroffice can be somehow set to look for java elsewhere. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Eclipse 3.3]
Glenn Holmer wrote: On Friday 16 November 2007 01:31:39 Jason Craig wrote: As far as Java, I generally dislike Java and don't use it much, so I don't feel I can comment on Eclipse for Java work, but I use it daily for web development, PHP, and Python, and semi-daily for C/C++, and I love it. On SUSE 10.2 and 10.3. I love how I can go from work computer to laptop to my home (SUSE) box and work on the same (or different) projects with the same tool, and different underlying build environments. http://www.netbeans.org/products/cplusplus/ http://www.netbeans.org/products/visualweb/ http://www.netbeans.org/products/mobility/ http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/jruby_on_rails/jruby_on_rails.html http://www.netbeans.org/download/flash/netbeans_6_gui_builder/netbeans_6_gui_builder.html Fair enough. I was not saying NetBeans didn't do any of these things, nor saying that I have even used NetBeans, nor claiming untrue things about it. I simply said I think Eclipse on Linux, SUSE in particular, is fine; this specifically in reply to someone who thought Eclipse 3.3 was not good on SUSE. --Jason Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Eclipse 3.3
Chuck Davis wrote: Well, Jason, perhaps they have changed but it doesn't look like it. I read the reason they had to ship their own jvm was because real java cannot be used to do their instant/constant compilation -- that's what I've read. I've also read there is a JSR to add that capability to real Java. In my experience, and admittedly I do a lot of Swing development, Eclipse is not usable on Linux (unless the one jvm instance per open JFrame was a bug they've since fixed). I've seen plugins that have specific warnings they only work on Windows. To me, that voids the whole concept of Java. Chuck Well, whatever you have read is wrong. Eclipse does *NOT* provide it's own JVM. http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Eclipse_FAQs#Getting_Started --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Eclipse 3.3]
Sorry, accidentally replied instead of sent to list --- Begin Message --- Chuck Davis wrote: > I'm with you, Glen. Eclipse 3.3 on openSuse 10.2 just sucks. I > presume it would be the same on 10.3. I find nothing wrong with Java > 1.6. I've been using 1.6 features for many months without ANY > problems. The major problem with Eclipse is they ship their own jvm > if I recall correctly. And stuff written to their jvm may not work on > real Java. Secondly, if you want to create Swing components it starts > an instance of the jvm for each JFrame -- which means your memory is > gone in a big hurry. Swing development is really painfully S-L-O-W. > I won't go into the issues with SWT which are fairly well documented > elsewhere That's a lie. You say the major problem with Eclipse is that they ship their own JVM. They don't. They require you to supply your own, and recommend that you use 1.5. So, now what is Eclipse's major problem? As far as Java, I generally dislike Java and don't use it much, so I don't feel I can comment on Eclipse for Java work, but I use it daily for web development, PHP, and Python, and semi-daily for C/C++, and I love it. On SUSE 10.2 and 10.3. I love how I can go from work computer to laptop to my home (SUSE) box and work on the same (or different) projects with the same tool, and different underlying build environments. --Jason --- End Message ---
Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird Calendar [Solved]
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: > On 11/16/2007 02:37 AM, Jason Craig wrote: > >> Huh, that's odd...I was on 2.0.0.6-something and now I've just upgraded >> to 2.0.0.9 from the Mozilla build service, and with both versions >> lightning-0.7-tb-linux.xpi says "Lighting could not be installed because >> it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type >> (Linux_x86_64-gcc3)". Back to trying to build it I guess :) >> >> >> > The arch listed on their site for Linux is x86, so I think you are > correct. BTW, Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 is available via the openSUSE build > service. > > Aha! The sources pointed to when I clicked "build lightning" did not work, but upon clicking "other systems" from the download page, I found different sources which (after about 15 solid minutes) built succesfully! Hope maybe this helps someone, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird Calendar [Solved]
John wrote: > Hi Jason, just checked and I was actually running > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have now uninstalled and installed > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Initially lightning didn't work, but uninstalled > the xpi and reinstalled lightning-0.7-tb-linux.xpi. Actually not real > sure where I got this from, I think straight from the Lightning > download page. (downloaded 1/11/07) Just checked and that is the > default download for Linux... > > Good luck, John. Huh, that's odd...I was on 2.0.0.6-something and now I've just upgraded to 2.0.0.9 from the Mozilla build service, and with both versions lightning-0.7-tb-linux.xpi says "Lighting could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Thunderbird build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3)". Back to trying to build it I guess :) --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Thunderbird Calendar [Solved]
John Bennett wrote: With a bit :-) of assistance from the bugzilla crowd, this has been resolved! The problem was that the fat32 partition was not being mounted with the "exec" option. After doing this, all is working great! Would highly recomment anyone who is looking at an email/calendar solution to check out Thunderbird/Lightning combo. Thanks, John. May I ask, are you on x86-64 and/or did you compile the source yourself? I haven't been able to find a 64-bit binary of Lightning, and can't get the source to compile yet. thanks, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Scanner and 10.3
Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Nov 1 14:46 Jason Craig wrote: I recently upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3 and now my HP PSC2350 scanner no longer works. In GIMP, when I go to acquire, nothing happens. When I went to go check on settings in YaST, when I go to "Scanners" it leaves me with an error of "Cannot build driver database". Anyone have ideas? See http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Configuring_Scanners_from_SUSE_LINUX_9.2 in particular the "Trouble-Shooting (Debugging)" section. I don't find a "Cannot build driver database" in YaST. What are all exact error messages which you get? Was it "Aborting: Failed to create the scanner database."? Yes, sorry. :) What is the result when you run as root /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_scanner_database 1>/tmp/database Are there error messages? Does /tmp/database contain a long list of scanners? Kind Regards Johannes Meixner Well, I sent a message earlier to the list, but I'm not seeing it. Anyways, I tried this and it told me it needed sane-backends, and then I was able to detect the scanner but GIMP still wasn't working right with the scanner, but a shutdown and later restart seemed to do the system well. All seems fine now. Thanks! --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Scanner and 10.3
Johannes Meixner wrote: > Hello, > > On Nov 1 14:46 Jason Craig wrote: > >> I recently upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3 and now my HP PSC2350 scanner no longer >> works. In GIMP, when I go to acquire, nothing happens. When I went to go >> check on settings in YaST, when I go to "Scanners" it leaves me with an error >> of "Cannot build driver database". Anyone have ideas? >> > > Was it "Aborting: Failed to create the scanner database."? > If yes, the comment in the YaST sources is: > Yes, sorry :) > - > Only a simple message because this error does not happen > on a normal system (i.e. a system which is not totally broken > or totally messed up). > - > ;-) > > What is the result when you run as root > /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/create_scanner_database 1>/tmp/database Thanks for the reply, I thought my message was dust in the wind at this point. At first the result was a message saying "missing sane-backends" so I fired up the package manager and installed "sane-backends", which at the same time removed "sane" (I figure the system knows what it's doing). After that this command worked fine and /tmp/database was filled with a driver database. Also, the Scanner section of YaST no longer complains, but it does now display two scanners; one driver: "not configured" HP PSC2350 series and one driver: "hpaio" Hewlet Packard PSC_2350_series. Testing the hpaio scanner works, attempting to delete (or test) the not configured scanner doesn't work and GIMP still does not work when I do File->Acquire->xscanimage->Device Dialog... xscanimage from the command line as root works like a charm, but from user level it complains that no scanners were identified. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] prebuilt Lightnint plugin?
Does anyone happen to know the location of a prebuilt Lightning (calendar) plugin for 64-bit Thunderbird? I tried compiling the Mozilla sources, but it's dying with compilation errors. thanks, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] Time Change work for everyone? (In U.S.)
Bryen wrote: > Just flipped on my computer and time fell back 2 hours instead of one > hour. Anyone else experience this? > I actually just had the wonderful experience of realizing I could have slept for an hour longer and still not missed the start of the Bronco's game. Mine worked fine, 10.3 x86_64 in the Mountain timezone. --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] Scanner and 10.3
I recently upgraded from 10.2 to 10.3 and now my HP PSC2350 scanner no longer works. In GIMP, when I go to acquire, nothing happens. When I went to go check on settings in YaST, when I go to "Scanners" it leaves me with an error of "Cannot build driver database". Anyone have ideas? thanks, --Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] finding info on MAC address
"ip link" on the command line I believe will show your mac address. --Jason James D. Parra wrote: Hello, What program shows info for MAC addresses? For example, I see a mac address connected to a wireless device, but I want to find out what IP address it has and possibly the machine name. Thank you, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[opensuse] language at boot
I recently upgraded to 10.3, and now at the boot screen where I select normal or failsafe (is this grub?) under F2 for language it says English (UK). No other language is in the menu. When I finish booting, the language settings say only English (US) is installed. This is a bug I assume, or does someone know something I don't? thanks, Jason -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [opensuse] pci-e video cards?
David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. wrote: > lismates: > > What, out of the following, would be my best bet for compatibility with > opensuse 10.3? The system is a Dell Optiplex w/Intel P4 2.8G with a > pci-e 16x slot. I don't mind working with, or building, the proprietary > drivers for ATI or nVidia. Basically, I use the pc as a desktop, but > want something that will work well with compiz. Occasionally, my son > will fire up a game as well. I'm looking at: > > MSI GeForce 8600 GT 580MHz 256MB PCI-e x16 Video Card Over Clock Edition > > MSI GeForce 8600GTS PCI-e 256MB SLI Ready w/ Heatpipe Video Card > > MSI GeForce 8500 GT 256MB PCI-e Over Clock Edition Video Card > > MSI GeForce 8500GT PCI-e 256MB Video Card > > EVGA 8500GTS PCI-e 512MB Video Card > > EVGA GeForce 8600GT Superclocked 256MB PCI-e Video Card > > EVGA GeForce 8500GT 256MB 450MHz PCI-e DX-10 Video Card > > BFG GeForce 7300 GS 550MHz - 256MB PCI-e x16 Video Card > > From ATI > > Kaser Radeon X1300 256MB PCI-E 256MB Video Card w/S-Video > > VisionTek Radeon HD2600PRO 256MB DDR2 PCIe (Dual DVI-I, TV/HDTV) Video Card > > Diamond Stealth Radeon X1550 PCIE 512MB GDDR2 Video Card > > Any I should absolutely stay away from? > > > I have a GeForce 7300 GS, only 10.2 but I'm sure it is a similar situation with 10.3? It's a Chaintec, but nowadays they are all pretty similar. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
