Re: [opensuse] custom kernel

2005-09-26 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:45:39PM -0600, Andreas Girardet wrote: > Hello team > > I am recompiling the kernel rpm's and noticed that the nongpl rpm ends > up basically empty. > > Does anyone have an idea on how to get all the non gpl modules back > into a custom rpm? You need the km_.rpms a

Re: [opensuse] GnuCash on openSuse

2005-09-26 Thread Rauch Christian
Rauch Christian schrieb: > Hi List. > > > Thanks to Eberhard there now is a mirror at ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/misc/suser-crauch/10.0/ Thank you Eberhard! -rauch - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional com

[opensuse] custom kernel

2005-09-26 Thread Andreas Girardet
Hello team I am recompiling the kernel rpm's and noticed that the nongpl rpm ends up basically empty. Does anyone have an idea on how to get all the non gpl modules back into a custom rpm? Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EM

Re: [opensuse] df and usb cf reader

2005-09-26 Thread jdd
Christian Boltz wrote: Hello, Am Montag, 26. September 2005 19:49 schrieb Claes at work: cd to /media/sda1 and then issue the df command, it should now show the amount of used/free space. Make sure you cd back to your home dir before removing the device. What is the reason the current director

[opensuse] Introduction and SuSEguide idea

2005-09-26 Thread Matt Downs
Hello all. My name's Matt. I've been using SuSE now for about a year or so. Started out with 9.1 Personal, moved to Pro, then 9.3, and now I'm using OpenSuSE 10.0 RC and waiting for my copy of SuSE 10.0. I still consider myself a newbie to Linux, but I have gotten pretty comfortable in "thi

[opensuse] Re: YaST URL entering

2005-09-26 Thread Alexander Antoniades
Given the ease of something like klik:// and kio slaves, how hard would yast:// be implement. It's not like you can accidentally have someone messing up your system, since they would need su access to add it as a source. Of course it's the usual effort v use, since you don't really add sources all

Re: [opensuse] df and usb cf reader

2005-09-26 Thread Christian Boltz
Hello, Am Montag, 26. September 2005 19:49 schrieb Claes at work: > > cd to /media/sda1 and then issue the df command, it should now show > > the amount of used/free space. > > Make sure you cd back to your home dir before removing the device. > > What is the reason the current directory is signif

Re: [opensuse] Introducing new Mailing Lists @openSUSE.org

2005-09-26 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Thiel wrote: ... > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >We have had numerous request for a list to discuss packaging related >topics. Here it comes... Yes, yes, yes pleaaase :) > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >If you are interested in documentation, t

Re: [opensuse] No /dev/video0

2005-09-26 Thread meister
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 22:21 schrieb houghi: > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:17:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > well ivtv-tuner.ko is the "driver" for your tuner. You have to load > > it via modprobe. Do a > > strings /media/root/lib/modules/2.6.13-8-smp/extra/ivtv-tuner.ko > > and che

Re: [opensuse] df and usb cf reader

2005-09-26 Thread meister
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 15:59 schrieb jdd: > I Have a dane-elec usb compact flash reader and dane-elec cards. > .. > mounted on /dev/sda1 > .. > how can I know the card size if not with df? Hi jdd, echo $(($(cat /sys/block/sda/sda1/size) / 2)) KB -- mdc -

Re: [opensuse] No /dev/video0

2005-09-26 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:17:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > well ivtv-tuner.ko is the "driver" for your tuner. You have to load it > via modprobe. Do a > strings /media/root/lib/modules/2.6.13-8-smp/extra/ivtv-tuner.ko > and check for "param" to see if it takes some arguments. [EMAIL PRO

Re: [opensuse] df and usb cf reader

2005-09-26 Thread jdd
cd to /media/sda1 and then issue the df command, it should now show the amount of used/free space. don't change any thing :-( jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr -

Re: [opensuse] Stuck with a message "229 Entering Extended Passive Mode" when trying to use ftp!

2005-09-26 Thread meister
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 14:52 schrieb James PEARSON: > I just installed RC1 at work on a spare PC where I was previously > using SUSE 9.3 and I am currently having a problem connecting via ftp > to a Sun server. > ... > This eventually timeouts and I get > 200 EPRT command successful. > 425 C

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10 RC 1 shutdown shows junk screen

2005-09-26 Thread meister
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 15:30 schrieb Shriramana Sharma: > Whenever I shutdown, I see junk screen with the bottom half of the > screen with random colours and some while text on the top left of the > screen with the green text (presumably "done" but I'm unable to > actually read it) on the to

[opensuse] Touchpad

2005-09-26 Thread meister
Hi, I have a Acer Aspire 3022WLMi Laptop with a Synaptics touchpad. If I install ksynaptic I can configure a lot of features, but I can't make the touchpad recognize a finger tap as a click. If I uninstall ksynaptic everything works again. Somebody else with this problem? If I use YaST to conf

[opensuse] Kinstaller and Yast

2005-09-26 Thread Kenneth Aar
Hi Does anybody know if Kinstaller is included in suse 10? (Yes I know it's for us point and drool people) Also I would like to know if there are any planned improvements in installing applications with yast. 80 % of the time it works fine, But the rest of the time it can't handle the depende

Re: [opensuse] df and usb cf reader

2005-09-26 Thread Ken Schneider
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:49 +0200, Claes at work wrote: > > > > cd to /media/sda1 and then issue the df command, it should now show the > > amount of used/free space. > > Make sure you cd back to your home dir before removing the device. > > > > What is the reason the current directory is signific

Re: [opensuse] df and usb cf reader

2005-09-26 Thread Claes at work
> > cd to /media/sda1 and then issue the df command, it should now show the > amount of used/free space. > Make sure you cd back to your home dir before removing the device. > What is the reason the current directory is significant? I can't find an explanation for that in the df man page. Claes

Re: [opensuse] df and usb cf reader

2005-09-26 Thread Ken Schneider
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:59 +0200, jdd wrote: > I Have a dane-elec usb compact flash reader and dane-elec cards. > > they read and write nicely under RC1 > > but when I do a "df" they are not listed. Mount show them > mounted on /dev/sda1 > > why don't df show them? > > how can I know the card

Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, jdd wrote: > > > so there will be three downloadable versions, with the 10.1 alpha > > > added to the boxed version. quite a lot. > > > > No there will be two versions. 10.0 and 10.0 OSS. > > two "stable" if you want. I'd call them "flavours", as they are binary-compatible

Re: [opensuse] houghi's makeSUSEdvd for other distros?

2005-09-26 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:47:11PM +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > I was just wondering whether houghi's makeSUSEdvd can be used (with slight > modification) for creating installation DVDs out of the CDs of other distros > too? makeUSEdvd is build around create_package_descr, wich is a specifi

Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

2005-09-26 Thread jdd
houghi wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:22:02PM +0200, jdd wrote: looks like this add a level of complexity :-( Not more then what there already is, at least not really. what will be the difference between SUSE Linux 10.0 downloadable and SUSE LInux OSS 10.0 also downloadable ? I guess pr

[opensuse] houghi's makeSUSEdvd for other distros?

2005-09-26 Thread Shriramana Sharma
I was just wondering whether houghi's makeSUSEdvd can be used (with slight modification) for creating installation DVDs out of the CDs of other distros too? Just curious, not that I'd want to leave SUSE. :) Oh, and I put this on the list as I thought others may also be interested in houghi's (

Re: [opensuse] YaST URL entering

2005-09-26 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 houghi wrote: > When you want to add a new instalation source, you need to enter three > things. > 1. The type of source, e.g. CD, HD, FTP, HTTP > 2. The server > 3. The directory > Is there any reason that you can not do this on one line? e.g. > ftp

Re: [opensuse] Introducing new Mailing Lists @openSUSE.org

2005-09-26 Thread Kevin Donnelly
On Monday 26 September 2005 16:35, Christoph Thiel wrote: > it's time to talk about new mailing lists @openSUSE.org. This is the list > that we are having in mind right now. Please feel free to comment and/or > suggest additional lists and be sure to bitch and complain a lot ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] YaST URL entering

2005-09-26 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:26:05PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote: > As far as I know we already have an enhancement request on this... > > > > Also, what is the file where this information is kept? > > /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE* OK. Thanks for the fast reply. houghi -- Quote correc

[opensuse] Introducing new Mailing Lists @openSUSE.org

2005-09-26 Thread Christoph Thiel
Hey there, it's time to talk about new mailing lists @openSUSE.org. This is the list that we are having in mind right now. Please feel free to comment and/or suggest additional lists and be sure to bitch and complain a lot ;) As soon as we reached a consensus on that lists, I'll make sure to ge

Re: [opensuse] security?

2005-09-26 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:27:46PM +0200, Peter Czanik wrote: > Hello, > I just received a security advisory about X.org: > > Package:XFree86-server,xorg-x11-server > Announcement ID:SUSE-SA:2005:056 > Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:00:00 + > Affected Produ

[opensuse] security?

2005-09-26 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, I just received a security advisory about X.org: Package:XFree86-server,xorg-x11-server Announcement ID:SUSE-SA:2005:056 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 14:00:00 + Affected Products: SUSE LINUX 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3 SUSE Linux D

Re: [opensuse] YaST URL entering

2005-09-26 Thread Christoph Thiel
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, houghi wrote: > When you want to add a new instalation source, you need to enter three > things. > 1. The type of source, e.g. CD, HD, FTP, HTTP > 2. The server > 3. The directory > > Is there any reason that you can not do this on one line? e.g. > ftp://ftp.example.com/dir

[opensuse] YaST URL entering

2005-09-26 Thread houghi
When you want to add a new instalation source, you need to enter three things. 1. The type of source, e.g. CD, HD, FTP, HTTP 2. The server 3. The directory Is there any reason that you can not do this on one line? e.g. ftp://ftp.example.com/dir/opensuse cd://media/dev/ http://mirror.example.net/

Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

2005-09-26 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:22:02PM +0200, jdd wrote: > looks like this add a level of complexity :-( Not more then what there already is, at least not really. > what will be the difference between SUSE Linux 10.0 > downloadable and SUSE LInux OSS 10.0 also downloadable ? I > guess proprietary

Re: [opensuse] From 5xISO's to 1xDVD ISO

2005-09-26 Thread Uriel_Carrasquilla
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Re: [opensuse] packman missing lots of x86_64 rpm's

2005-09-26 Thread Andreas 'GlaDiaC' Schneider
Cameron Seader wrote: > Not sure if this is the place to post, but packman is missing lots of > rpm's for the x86_64, I cannot install all the kde rpm's unless you have > them built for x86_64, it only looks like you have the i586 arch for > them. Please could someone update these. > Thanks > Camer

Re: [opensuse] packman missing lots of x86_64 rpm's

2005-09-26 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi, On Monday, September 26, 2005 at 09:05:58, Cameron Seader wrote: > Not sure if this is the place to post, but packman is missing lots of > rpm's for the x86_64, I cannot install all the kde rpm's unless you have > them built for x86_64, it only looks like you have the i586 arch for > them. Pl

Re: [opensuse] From 5xISO's to 1xDVD ISO

2005-09-26 Thread houghi
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:27:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When I try to install a new game, yast wants me to add the 4th DVD. > I checked the .../media.1/media file and Houghi's shell did change it > properly to indicate "1" Device. > what could be the flaw in my thinking? What is the

[opensuse] packman missing lots of x86_64 rpm's

2005-09-26 Thread Cameron Seader
Not sure if this is the place to post, but packman is missing lots of rpm's for the x86_64, I cannot install all the kde rpm's unless you have them built for x86_64, it only looks like you have the i586 arch for them. Please could someone update these. Thanks Cameron -

[opensuse] Unlocking some locked pages on openSUSE.org

2005-09-26 Thread Christoph Thiel
Hi there, it's a great pleasure for me to announce that we just decided to unlock some of the locked pages on openSUSE.org. Those pages include: - http://www.opensuse.org/Download - http://www.opensuse.org/Communicate - http://www.opensuse.org/How_to_participate If you have change requests f

[opensuse] From 5xISO's to 1xDVD ISO

2005-09-26 Thread Uriel_Carrasquilla
The version I am talking about is SUSE 10.0 OSS RC1. I used Houghi's makeDVD...sh to create an iso that fits in a DVD. It created the ISO OK and the DVD starts the installation properly but I did not go through the entire install process: my intention was not to create a DVD for a new installatio

Re: [opensuse] packman for PPC

2005-09-26 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Would you please supply a URL? I can' find any ppc packages on >"packman.links2linux.de" or "packman.iu-bremen.de" > > No, as it's not yet part of the 'official' packman. I'm not a programmer, and new to packaging (if I don't count that I did some packages 5-6

[opensuse] df and usb cf reader

2005-09-26 Thread jdd
I Have a dane-elec usb compact flash reader and dane-elec cards. they read and write nicely under RC1 but when I do a "df" they are not listed. Mount show them mounted on /dev/sda1 why don't df show them? how can I know the card size if not with df? thanks jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: h

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10 RC 1 shutdown shows junk screen

2005-09-26 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Monday 26 Sep 2005 19:03 samaye Pavel Nemec alekhiit: > what graphics card is on motherboard? > If it is nvidia, do you use native (nv) driver or proprietal from nvidia >(nvidia) It's an Intel motherboard so it uses Intel® GMA900 onboard graphics subsystem as shown at http://intel.com/des

Re: [opensuse] GnuCash on openSuse

2005-09-26 Thread Rauch Christian
Rauch Christian schrieb: Hi List. The repository is at http://rauch-webdesign.de/suse/10.0/, but i would appreciate anyone, who could offer a mirror for these. -rauch Addendum: For those interrested, the whole patching thing has been documented at https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucas

[opensuse] GnuCash on openSuse

2005-09-26 Thread Rauch Christian
Hi List. As there are no up-to-date gnucash binaries available for opensuse, i have built them on my own. Everybody who is interested in, i set up a Repository containing GnuCash 1.8.11, aqbanking, libchipcard2 and other dependencies not available within opensuse repository. I have tested these

Re: [opensuse] SUSE 10 RC 1 shutdown shows junk screen

2005-09-26 Thread Pavel Nemec
Shriramana Sharma wrote: Does anyone else have this problem? I searched http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse/2005-Sep/ for the word "shut" and got no results so am posting. I am running a DVD (thanks houghi) install of SUSE 10 RC 1 on a Pentium 4 3 GHz system with Intel 915 GAV motherbo

[opensuse] SUSE 10 RC 1 shutdown shows junk screen

2005-09-26 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Does anyone else have this problem? I searched http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse/2005-Sep/ for the word "shut" and got no results so am posting. I am running a DVD (thanks houghi) install of SUSE 10 RC 1 on a Pentium 4 3 GHz system with Intel 915 GAV motherboard. No separate graphics c

[opensuse] Stuck with a message "229 Entering Extended Passive Mode" when trying to use ftp!

2005-09-26 Thread James PEARSON
Hello all I just installed RC1 at work on a spare PC where I was previously using SUSE 9.3 and I am currently having a problem connecting via ftp to a Sun server. I can connect with my ftp user to the Sun machine as shown below but I can't ftp. The ftp port is open and I can connect fine to th

Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 26 September 2005 8:34 am, Marcus Meissner wrote: > We usually do: > > 1 - security fixes  (at security teams discretion) > 2 - (critical) bugfixes (at project manager discretion) Thanks for the fast response Marcus. Exactly what I wanted to know :) Jorge

Re: [opensuse] packman for PPC

2005-09-26 Thread meister
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 12:19 schrieb Peter Czanik: > Hello, Hi Peter, > During the weekend I have compiled all Packman packages, which did > not require missing PPC openSUSE packages. Here is a list: well done! > ... > As this is the first time, I put rpm's on-line, I would like to get

Re: [opensuse] No /dev/video0

2005-09-26 Thread meister
Am Montag, 26. September 2005 01:32 schrieb houghi: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 02:49:35PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Am Samstag, 24. September 2005 17:13 schrieb houghi: > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 02:36:54PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > wrote: Here I get stuck. What is the correct tune

Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:32:24AM -0400, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On Monday 26 September 2005 6:11 am, Michael Loeffler wrote: > > This two versions receive bugfixes via YOU. > > Hi, > > What's the policty for YOU updates? I know about 3 kind of updates: > > 1- bug-fix > 2- security-fix > 3- en

Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 26 September 2005 6:11 am, Michael Loeffler wrote: > This two versions receive bugfixes via YOU. Hi, What's the policty for YOU updates? I know about 3 kind of updates: 1- bug-fix 2- security-fix 3- enhancement I used to think that SUSE only provided security fixes. For example, if

Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

2005-09-26 Thread jdd
Michael Loeffler wrote: We will offer a SUSE Linux 10.0 for free downlaod (from October 6th on) under Released Version. This is a subset of the retail box and comes with propietary software and will be very close to the goal beeing the most easily usable Linux out there. Under the same section

Re: [opensuse] packman for PPC

2005-09-26 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, During the weekend I have compiled all Packman packages, which did not require missing PPC openSUSE packages. Here is a list: bmp-0.9.7-14 dvdauthor-0.6.11-0 dvdbackup-0.1.1-0 ftpcopy-0.6.7-0 hddtemp-0.3_beta14-0 kaffeine-0.7.1-2 lame-3.96.1 libcaca-devel-0.9-0 libdvdcss-1.2.9-1 libdvdr

Re: [opensuse] Differences between SUSE Linux 10.0 and OSS 10.0?

2005-09-26 Thread Michael Loeffler
On Sunday 25 September 2005 06:39, HG wrote: > Hello! > > Thanks for the answers. I guess Google didn't find the archives of > > this list, but I did find this: > > http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16015.html > > ... which was exactly the kind of thing that really didn't help me at all. > >