Re: [opensuse] alternate boot options for installations

2007-01-02 Thread jdd
Carl Hartung wrote: This is similar to what I need to do, but I already know how to proceed *after* I've booted the installation kernel from grub. in that case, it's enough to have the files /boot/../linux and initrd in any filesystem grub compatible (ext, reiser, dos) to start the install.

[opensuse] Icons disappear in KDE when using Firefox

2007-01-02 Thread Curtis Rey
Happy 2007 all! :D I haven't figured out why when I start Firefox the Icons on my desktop (KDE 3.55) disappear. For instance, if the browser opens in the right corner position 0.0 and is say 1024x768 on a 1280x1024 then all the Icons behind this space are gone - and therefore when I move the

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Robert Smits
On Monday 01 January 2007 17:06, John Andersen wrote: > Yup, 10.1 pretty slow. I found 10.2 much better in this regard. > I still have one 10.1 machine to upgrade. It's not much slower than 10.2 . I leave only the update,and the opensuse distribution repos turned on and set to refresh, and it t

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-02 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Mandag 01 januar 2007 23:41 skrev Mike Grello: > On Monday 01 January 2007 04:57 pm, John Andersen wrote: > > On Monday 01 January 2007 10:25, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 17:42 -, Dave Howorth wrote: > > > > marketing?) who might raise an objection later. Far simpler to j

Re: [opensuse] The Perfect Setup - OpenSuSE 10.2 (32-bit)

2007-01-02 Thread Koenraad Lelong
Hans du Plooy schreef: On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 19:09 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: [snip] [snip again] If anyone who knows MySQL well knows which table contains the e-mail address, I might get courier to authenticate against that instead of against pam. Hans Hi Hans, I do authentication agai

Re: [opensuse] What happened to synce, rapi and kcemirror

2007-01-02 Thread Marcel Ruff
When i now start odccm it returns silently, can i assume that it started properly? Now i don't know what to do next... The IPAQ is, according to /var/log/messages', connected. Entering 'pls' returns pls pls: Could not find configuration at path '(Default)' Entering 'rapip:///' in konqueror r

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/1/07, Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where did you get "lidmad" from ? That's definitely not an RPM for SUSE Linux. As far as I could see it came from VLC player. Their repository for SuSE 10.2 is http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/0.8.6/SuSE/10.2/i586 There is libmad-0.15.1b

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Monday 2007-01-01 at 14:37 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >>> Each configured repository can individually be set to "Refresh" or not. >>> Only when the repository's refresh is "on" does it retrieve the content >>> informatio

Re: [opensuse] What happened to synce, rapi and kcemirror

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/2/07, Marcel Ruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When i now start odccm it returns silently, can i assume that it started properly? I guess so. Now i don't know what to do next... The IPAQ is, according to /var/log/messages', connected. Did you configure synce serial connection and star

[opensuse] Active desktop borders in KDE (10.2)

2007-01-02 Thread Marius Roets
Hi everybody, I always enable active desktop borders in KDE (gives the ability to change desktops as if it were all one big one). In 10.2 there has been a change in how this works however. When it is enabled, it now wraps around (if I move the mouse out on the left side of the leftmost desktop, it

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread jdd
Pascal Bleser wrote: Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.1 I can't agree with such assertion. I don't know about smart (safe for your numerous mails) and don't want to unless it becomes the official

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 11:12 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: > > Firing that module takes half an hour or more in my system (10.1). > > Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 > http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources > http://opensuse-community.org/

Re: [opensuse] Switch from KDM to GDM

2007-01-02 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 19:59 -0500, Doctor Who wrote: > > > I want to switch to using the gnome display manager from kdm. How do i do > > > that? > > > > # $editor /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager > > # SuSEconfig > > > > Detlef > > Thanks! There i

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Curtis Rey
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 02:12, Pascal Bleser wrote: > Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 > http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources > http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.1 Excellent!! Fur Dunke und glückliches neues Jahr! Curtis -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot,

Re: [opensuse] What happened to synce, rapi and kcemirror

2007-01-02 Thread Marcel Ruff
Did you configure synce serial connection and started it? I have my iPaq on ttyUSB0, so I used synce-serial-config to set it up and then I'm calling synce-serial-start to actually connect to PDA. Ahh, yes these are lost in suse 10.2 as well, i can't find them anywhere. Do you remember where yo

Re: [opensuse] What happened to synce, rapi and kcemirror

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/2/07, Marcel Ruff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you configure synce serial connection and started it? > > I have my iPaq on ttyUSB0, so I used synce-serial-config to set it up > and then I'm calling synce-serial-start to actually connect to PDA. Ahh, yes these are lost in suse 10.2 as we

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Nelson
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:32:31PM -0500, BandiPat wrote: > Copy and paste from the email Mike, they both still work as James > mentioned. I had done that, but in both cases had neglected to include the leading "=". I tried it again just now and yep, it does work. Michael -- If a kid asks whe

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: > >> Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 >> http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources >> http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.1 > > I can't agree with such assertion. > > I don't know about smart (safe

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 11:12 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: Firing that module takes half an hour or more in my system (10.1). >>> Definitely get rid of ZMD on 10.1 >>> http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources >>> http:/

Re: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-02 Thread Basil Chupin
Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-01 at 01:08 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: In Firefox - which is the, or one of the, browsers under discussion the default place where files are downloaded to if nothing is deliberately set is the Desktop. Check

Re: [opensuse] Icons disappear in KDE when using Firefox

2007-01-02 Thread Basil Chupin
Curtis Rey wrote: Happy 2007 all! :D I haven't figured out why when I start Firefox the Icons on my desktop (KDE 3.55) disappear. For instance, if the browser opens in the right corner position 0.0 and is say 1024x768 on a 1280x1024 then all the Icons behind this space are gone - and theref

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Basil Chupin
Mark Goldstein wrote: On 1/1/07, Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Where did you get "lidmad" from ? That's definitely not an RPM for SUSE Linux. As far as I could see it came from VLC player. Their repository for SuSE 10.2 is http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/0.8.6/SuSE/10.2/i586

Re: [opensuse] Icons disappear in KDE when using Firefox

2007-01-02 Thread Curtis Rey
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 04:23, Basil Chupin wrote: > Curtis Rey wrote: > > Happy 2007 all! :D > > > > I haven't figured out why when I start Firefox the Icons on my desktop > > (KDE 3.55) disappear. For instance, if the browser opens in the right > > corner position 0.0 and is say 1024x768 on

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread jdd
Pascal Bleser wrote: You don't know about smart, so why are you giving your opinion anyway. because for me SuSE = Yast and I wont change that. I also have seen bugreports for smart, there are also other systems (bare rpm, apt...) smart is only _your_ choice Zen being "in the main Novell p

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/2/07, Basil Chupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I also had a similar problem with something connected with amarok or at least something I downloaded from videolan.org and raised the query about my problem in the smart mail list. After I received the answer to my query I deleted the RP

Re: [opensuse] Icons disappear in KDE when using Firefox

2007-01-02 Thread Basil Chupin
Curtis Rey wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 04:23, Basil Chupin wrote: Curtis Rey wrote: Happy 2007 all! :D I haven't figured out why when I start Firefox the Icons on my desktop (KDE 3.55) disappear. For instance, if the browser opens in the right corner position 0.0 and is say 1024x768 on

Re: [opensuse] Active desktop borders in KDE (10.2)

2007-01-02 Thread Basil Chupin
Marius Roets wrote: Hi everybody, I always enable active desktop borders in KDE (gives the ability to change desktops as if it were all one big one). In 10.2 there has been a change in how this works however. When it is enabled, it now wraps around (if I move the mouse out on the left side of the

[opensuse] verify unicode/utf-8 fonts

2007-01-02 Thread Morten Bjørnsvik
Hi Is there an easy way to verify which font are unicode/utf-8 from command line without actually loading in the font? You can set encoding to 'uni' in xfontsel and see which fonts are unicode when choosing family. Thanks -- Morten Bjørnsvik Experian-Scorex AS, PB 121, 0102 Oslo, Norway --

[opensuse] Re: verify unicode/utf-8 fonts

2007-01-02 Thread Joachim Schrod
Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: Is there an easy way to verify which font are unicode/utf-8 from command line without actually loading in the font? xlsfonts | grep -- -iso10646 I don't know if that catches all; learning the ins and outs of fontconfig is still on my todo list. Joachim --

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: >> You don't know about smart, so why are you giving your opinion anyway. > > because for me SuSE = Yast and I wont change that. I also have seen > bugreports for smart, there are also other systems (bare rpm, apt...)

Re: [opensuse] alternate boot options for installations

2007-01-02 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 03:00, jdd wrote: > Carl Hartung wrote: > > This is similar to what I need to do, but I already know how to proceed > > *after* I've booted the installation kernel from grub. > > in that case, it's enough to have the files /boot/../linux > and initrd in any filesystem gru

Re: [opensuse] XGL and Radeon X1300

2007-01-02 Thread Jens Nixdorf
Am Montag, 1. Januar 2007 16:39 schrieb Dotty Pixel: > XGL isn't working with my Radeon X1300, meaning I can't do the effects > such as the desktop cube and 3D games. I've been looking around on the > ATI website, and I found a driver for Linux, but it still doesn't seem > to be working after the d

[opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, I've recently installed Suse10.2 on my new computer which has an Intel DP965LT motherboard. It has the ICH8 chipset and Suse detected & installed the Intel HD-Audio driver (snd_hda_intel) for the soundcard, which works fine for playback. However, only the Digital Line In is available as an i

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 00:07 -0800, Robert Smits wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 17:06, John Andersen wrote: > > > Yup, 10.1 pretty slow. I found 10.2 much better in this regard. > > I still have one 10.1 machine to upgrade. > > It's not much slower than 10.2 . I leave only the update,and the

[opensuse] Re: Active desktop borders in KDE (10.2) (SOLBED)

2007-01-02 Thread Marius Roets
On 1/2/07, Marius Roets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everybody, I always enable active desktop borders in KDE (gives the ability to change desktops as if it were all one big one). In 10.2 there has been a change in how this works however. When it is enabled, it now wraps around (if I move the mo

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Janne Karhunen
On Monday 01 January 2007 21:55, Mark Goldstein wrote: > I've installed smart (smart-0.49.1-40.guru.suse102) and almost > immediately bumped into the following situation: it indicates that > there is upgrade for amarok but fails to perform upgrade: I have been wondering if package managers as we

Re: [opensuse] alternate boot options for installations

2007-01-02 Thread Felix Miata
If you have a working grub, there are plenty ways to boot without a CD or floppy drive. Here are a few: title Install SuSE Factory mirrors.kernel.org http kernel (hd0,4)/boot/factinst/linux noapic install=http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/ hostip=192

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/2/07, Janne Karhunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 01 January 2007 21:55, Mark Goldstein wrote: I have been wondering if package managers as we know them today can never be proper solution to software installation. If people are to use it, it needs to be better and easier than 'set

Re: [opensuse] alternate boot options for installations

2007-01-02 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 09:13, Felix Miata wrote: > If you have a working grub, there are plenty ways to boot without a CD or > floppy drive. Here are a few: Now *that's* a keeper! I guess it pays to return every so often and review how the opensuse website has progressed. Thanks, Felix, and h

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-02 Thread John E. Perry
Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Monday January 01 2007 3:17 am, Basil Chupin wrote: >>> This is interesting. The FireFox I have installed is from SUSE, including >>> their latest update. There ISN'T in my home dir a /home/xxx/firefox >>> directory. There's a .firefox dir. with not much in it. Now, WHY i

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-02 Thread BandiPat
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 00:46, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Tuesday January 02 2007 12:08 am, Renegade Penguin wrote: > > I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they > > got upgraded recently, and if you don't have IE, it doesn't like > > it.  This is very common with some US

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Robert Lewis
Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > I've recently installed Suse10.2 on my new computer which has an Intel > DP965LT > motherboard. It has the ICH8 chipset and Suse detected & installed the Intel > HD-Audio driver (snd_hda_intel) for the soundcard, which works fine for > playback. However, only the Digita

Re: [opensuse] Icons disappear in KDE when using Firefox

2007-01-02 Thread Curtis Rey
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 04:39, Basil Chupin wrote: > Curtis Rey wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 04:23, Basil Chupin wrote: > >> Curtis Rey wrote: > >>> Happy 2007 all! :D > >>> > >>> I haven't figured out why when I start Firefox the Icons on my desktop > >>> (KDE 3.55) disappear. For in

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Janne Karhunen
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:16, Mark Goldstein wrote: > > I have been wondering if package managers as we know them today > > can never be proper solution to software installation. If people > > are to use it, it needs to be better and easier than 'setup.exe'. > > Personally I do not like "setup

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ian, On Tuesday 02 January 2007 05:40, Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > I've recently installed Suse10.2 on my new computer which has an > Intel DP965LT motherboard. It has the ICH8 chipset and Suse detected > & installed the Intel HD-Audio driver (snd_hda_intel) for the > soundcard, which works fine for

[opensuse] PCTEL 2304WT v.92 MDC Modem on Dell Laptop

2007-01-02 Thread Felix Miata
The sticker on the bottom says Latitude C510/C610, but in messing with this thing (not mine, bought used by its current clueless owner) I've also seen indications this might be a C640. It was given to me to "fix" the modem under W2K, when his original problem was a screwed up ISP with non-working

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Gustav Degreef
On 1/2/07, Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip And if you like yast2, use yast2 with the zypp backend. Yes, that is what I'd like to do on 10.1 The latter actually being what we explain and recommend, here: http://opensuse-community.org/Package_Sources/10.2 And yes, the first s

Re: [opensuse] PCTEL 2304WT v.92 MDC Modem on Dell Laptop

2007-01-02 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi Felix, the guys at Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com/) have developed some drivers you could find useful for your Dell laptop (and some other Winmodems out there). I used them for my Dell D610 and worked quite nice... well, not quite... you'll get a 14.4 Kbps limit for the free-ware drivers

[opensuse] Keyboard layout problem

2007-01-02 Thread c.tzoumakis
Hello, I've just installed suse linux 10.1. When I add a greek keyboard it doesn't work at all. In the right bottom side of screen panel it is displayed the indication 'err'. I used the kcontrol to add the keyboard. Additionally I entered the command manually and I received the next faults. Could

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 12:56 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 11:12 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: > Firing that module takes half an hour or more in my system (10.1). > >>> Definitely get rid of ZM

Re: [opensuse] PCTEL 2304WT v.92 MDC Modem on Dell Laptop

2007-01-02 Thread Andreas
Le mardi 2 janvier 2007 07:28, Felix Miata a écrit : > lspci says the following about it: > 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev > 02) (prog-if 00 [Generic]) > Subsystem: PCTel Inc Dell Inspiron 2100 internal modem > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5 >

Re: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-02 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 23:14 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: ... > OK, I've "un-preferenced" my Firefox back to its dreary basic self :-) and > tested on a pdf file and I see what you mean by the pdf file going into /tmp > when simply viewed by Acrore

Re: [opensuse] Tux Magazine - Bad News

2007-01-02 Thread Lívio Cipriano
On 2 January 2007 00:31, Lee Ross wrote: > Are there any other resources available that communicate at the Tux level? >   I've searched on Google from time to time but found nothing close to Tux. I red Tux a few times and I agree that must be very helpful for newbies. When I

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 1/2/07, Mathias Homann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am Montag, 1. Januar 2007 22:38 schrieb Pascal Bleser: before you do, post the output of "rpm -qi libmad" here, ok? Name: libmad Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.15.1b Ve

[opensuse] modems

2007-01-02 Thread Hans Krueger
has anybody got 10.2 to work as a fax sever with an Lt modem ? -- Hans Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] registered Linux user 289023 411024 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Rajko M.
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 08:53, Janne Karhunen wrote: > While > this can be made as such with package managers as well, there > still are way too many things that user has to know and/or > that can break. The problem is that ends like in proprietary solutions with marketing department involve

[opensuse] 10.2 Intallation issue

2007-01-02 Thread ePortel PC Systems (Linux Support)
Hello everybody I just downloaded Open Suse 10.2 as a DVD .iso for X86 platform. About halfway through the installation I get an error that reads "Xorg. x-11;-server" can not be found on media. The install has been tried 3 times with the same results. I downloaded the .iso 3 times to enshure

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello all: I've got also a question related to the DVD install source and opensuse 10.2 repository. Fact: The SUSE repository has more packages than the DVD (either downloadable iso or commercial double-layer). So it is advisable to add the repository to the install sources beside the DVD or

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread jdd
Pascal Bleser wrote: Personally, I stick with smart because I like it better than yast2/zypp and nobody prevent you from doing so, this is linux's choice :-) Don't attend SLED/SLES marketing conferences, spend time with the people who use openSUSE. Since when is this [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? he

Re: [opensuse] Smart failes to upgrade amarok

2007-01-02 Thread Janne Karhunen
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:17, Rajko M. wrote: > Every human activity involves some learning, and using package manager is > not really very sophisticated. It is, really. You need to know quite a bit - mainly which package solves which problem. Videos do not play, browser plugins do not work,

Re: [opensuse] Connecting PPTP VPN

2007-01-02 Thread James Knott
Khanh Tran wrote: On 12/20/06, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to set up a PPTP VPN to a customer's site, using SUSE 10.2, however, I'm not having much luck making sense of how to do it. Does anyone have surefire instructions for doing this? tnx jk Use the instructions from

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 19:50 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: > So how can I make sure that only those packages will be > installed from the repository that don't exist on the DVD? In 10.1 it depended on the order the repos were defined: those at the

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-02 12:50, Istvan Gabor wrote: > > So how can I make sure that only those packages will be > installed from the repository that don't exist on the DVD? > All the packages on the DVD are also on the repository, so you can't. Even if you turn off the DVD in Yast/installation sources, t

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

2007-01-02 Thread 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 allow

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 13:49 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-02 12:50, Istvan Gabor wrote: > > > > So how can I make sure that only those packages will be > > installed from the repository that don't exist on the DVD? > > > All the packages on the DVD are also on the repository, so

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 Intallation issue

2007-01-02 Thread James Knott
ePortel PC Systems (Linux Support) wrote: Hello everybody I just downloaded Open Suse 10.2 as a DVD .iso for X86 platform. About halfway through the installation I get an error that reads "Xorg. x-11;-server" can not be found on media. The install has been tried 3 times with the same results

[opensuse] Re: Missing Trophy and vouchers

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 18:54, Challenge co ordinator wrote: > Thanx for replyin Pete, but as I said in the text, this was about two > months ago at club night. > > bag with the prizes in > > > > Pete . Humm .. now you come to mention it eeerr nope i know you sai

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-02 13:53, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > > Asked another way, how can one make sure that duplicate packages are > taken off of the DVD instead of downloaded from the repo? > > Carlos already answered this in his message just a few minutes before mine. -- The best way to accelerate a

[opensuse] qn about ZEN

2007-01-02 Thread Dennis J. Tuchler
What is the functional difference between ZEN and YAST when it comes to upgrading? -- Best regards, Dennis J. Tuchler University City, Missouri 63130 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-02 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-01 13:27, James Knott wrote: > FWIW, when I create a 4000 MB slice, K3B shows it as 3.9 GB and 482 MB As we already know, sizes depend on whether you are a programmer, or live in the real world: 4 GB = 4*1024 MB = 4096 MB, and 4000 MB = 4000/1024 GB = 3.906 GB -- The best way to acce

[opensuse] Installing WordPerfect 8

2007-01-02 Thread A. den Oudsten
My trials to install WordPerfect 8 for Linux (from 1999) in OpenSuse 10.2 did not succeed up to now. Is it possible to start the machine with Knoppix 3.2 and than install WP in the map I intended? Tia Andre den Oudsten -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mai

Re: [opensuse] Connecting PPTP VPN

2007-01-02 Thread Herbert Graeber
Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2006 19:56 schrieb James Knott: > I'm trying to set up a PPTP VPN to a customer's site, using SUSE 10.2, > however, I'm not having much luck making sense of how to do it. Does > anyone have surefire instructions for doing this? I have put a package for NetworkManager-ppt

Re: [Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Mail from FireFox.]

2007-01-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 02 2007 9:23 am, John E. Perry wrote: > Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Monday January 01 2007 3:17 am, Basil Chupin wrote: > >>> This is interesting. The FireFox I have installed is from SUSE, > >>> including their latest update. There ISN'T in my home dir a > >>> /home/xxx/firefox

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-02 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-02 02:55, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: > > b) > Namedropping is popular. I always see to that company logos etc., are > properly > displayed just about everywhere when I go to a first time demo of an > application or a desktop for a buyer. Having a logozied (new word :-)) setup > is a f

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 02 2007 9:35 am, BandiPat wrote: > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 00:46, Fred A. Miller wrote: > > On Tuesday January 02 2007 12:08 am, Renegade Penguin wrote: > > > I've noticed that - several banks use the same back end and they > > > got upgraded recently, and if you don't have IE

Re: [opensuse] Re: Missing Trophy and vouchers

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Nikolic
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:46, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-02 14:11, Peter Nikolic wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 18:54, Challenge co ordinator wrote: > >> Thanx for replyin Pete, but as I said in the text, this was about two > >> months ago at club night. > >> > >>> bag with the

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: > Pascal Bleser wrote: >> Personally, I stick with smart because I like it better than yast2/zypp > > and nobody prevent you from doing so, this is linux's choice :-) > >> Don't attend SLED/SLES marketing conferences, spend time with the p

[opensuse] Xinerama + XGL | Full screen videos and windows are on both display [u]

2007-01-02 Thread lala [c]
Hi, can anybody tell me if its possible to have full screen windows on one display again? since i upgraded to 10.2 maximized windows or fullscreen movies are drawn over both screens... thats not what it should be i think ;) cheers, and a happy new year to all ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

[opensuse] Problems with patterns

2007-01-02 Thread Joseph Comfort
IMHO, the patterns software management feature is far from satisfactory. I tried it out on a recent 10.2 install, and then when I went back and tried to customize my installation (adding and deleting rpms), I ran into strange dependency problems. For example, I invoked the 'Games' pattern but, wan

Re: [opensuse] SUSE repository

2007-01-02 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustav Degreef wrote: > On 1/2/07, Pascal Bleser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And if you like yast2, use yast2 with the zypp backend. > > Yes, that is what I'd like to do on 10.1 > >> The latter actually being what we explain and recommend, here: >>

[opensuse] Interesting video finding.

2007-01-02 Thread Fred A. Miller
Now that I'm taking some time off, I started to look further into tweaking this box. One common problem was that I didn't care for a PERCEIVED slowness in my nVidia 16X performance, and of course because of well known continual driver problems blamed nVidia that I had to reduce the color depth t

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Ian Moore
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 01:37, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Ian, > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 05:40, Ian Moore wrote: > > Hi, > > I've recently installed Suse10.2 on my new computer which has an > > Intel DP965LT motherboard. It has the ICH8 chipset and Suse detected > > & installed the Intel H

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Ian Moore
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 01:16, Robert Lewis wrote: > Ian Moore wrote: > > Hi, > > I've recently installed Suse10.2 on my new computer which has an Intel > > DP965LT motherboard. It has the ICH8 chipset and Suse detected & > > installed the Intel HD-Audio driver (snd_hda_intel) for the soundcar

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:35, Ian Moore wrote: > ... > > > > I have a system with that chipset and there's a BIOS option to > > choose legacy vs. HD audio. I set it to legacy and the analog audio > > output work as expected. I haven't tried connecting a microphone to > > that system. > > So doe

RE: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-02 Thread Greg Wallace
On Tuesday, January 02, 2007 @ 1:39 AM, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: >On Monday 01 January 2007 11:12, Mike Noble wrote: >> On Sunday 31 December 2006 14:32, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: >> > On Monday 01 January 2007 00:00, Carlos E. R. wrote: >> > > The Sunday 2006-12-31 at 13:38 +1100, Jeffery Fernande

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Robert Lewis
Ian Moore wrote: > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 01:37, Randall R Schulz wrote: > >> Ian, >> >> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 05:40, Ian Moore wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I've recently installed Suse10.2 on my new computer which has an >>> Intel DP965LT motherboard. It has the ICH8 chipset and Suse d

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Adi Pircalabu
Ian Moore wrote: > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 01:37, Randall R Schulz wrote: >> Ian, >> >> On Tuesday 02 January 2007 05:40, Ian Moore wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I've recently installed Suse10.2 on my new computer which has an >>> Intel DP965LT motherboard. It has the ICH8 chipset and Suse detected >>> &

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-02 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 15:09 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > > works. I ALLWAYS see to that the first desktop background sports the > > company > > logo. They don't say anything..., but they love it. > Some of them actually understand that you

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-02 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-02 at 14:38 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote: > On 2007-01-01 13:27, James Knott wrote: > > FWIW, when I create a 4000 MB slice, K3B shows it as 3.9 GB and 482 MB > As we already know, sizes depend on whether you are a programmer, or

Re: [opensuse] PCTEL 2304WT v.92 MDC Modem on Dell Laptop

2007-01-02 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/01/02 10:28 (GMT-0500) Felix Miata apparently typed: > The sticker on the bottom says Latitude C510/C610, but in messing with > this thing (not mine, bought used by its current clueless owner) I've > also seen indications this might be a C640. > It was given to me to "fix" the modem under

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Ian Moore
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:26, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:35, Ian Moore wrote: > > ... > > > > > I have a system with that chipset and there's a BIOS option to > > > choose legacy vs. HD audio. I set it to legacy and the analog audio > > > output work as expected.

[opensuse] DNS not responding through firewall

2007-01-02 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, I set up DNS to on Suse 9.3 and it is not responding to requests coming through the firewall (Mikrotik). Everything else is coming through the firewall, mail, ftp, web, .etc., so its not the firewall. I can get DNS requests to respond from the server from the local LAN, but not externally.

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Ian Moore
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:44, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > To: > Ian Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: > opensuse@opensuse.org > Date: > Today 09:44:44 >   > Spam Status: Spamassassin 0% probability of being spam. > > Full report: > No, hits=-1.9 tagged_above=-20.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50

[opensuse] Xorgx-11-server Not found during installation...WHY?

2007-01-02 Thread Chris (ePortel PC Systems)
Hello everybody I just downloaded Open Suse 10.2 as a DVD .iso for X86 platform. About halfway through the installation I get an error that reads "Xorg. x-11;-server" can not be found on media. The install has been tried 3 times with the same results. I downloaded the .iso 3 times to enshure

Re: [opensuse] DNS not responding through firewall

2007-01-02 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 17:43, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > I set up DNS to on Suse 9.3 and it is not responding to requests coming > through the firewall (Mikrotik). Everything else is coming through the > firewall, mail, ftp, web, .etc., so its not the firewall. I can get DNS > requests

RE: [opensuse] DNS not responding through firewall

2007-01-02 Thread James D. Parra
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 17:43, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > I set up DNS to on Suse 9.3 and it is not responding to requests coming > through the firewall (Mikrotik). Everything else is coming through the > firewall, mail, ftp, web, .etc., so its not the firewall. I can get DNS > requests

Re: [opensuse] Changing users temp folder

2007-01-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:00, Greg Wallace wrote: > ... > > Doesn't ~/.bashrc run every time you open a shell? The commands contained in ~/.bashrc are executed for every shell invoked unless the "--norc" option is specified. That's true not only for interactive shells but also for shells lau

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Randall R Schulz
Ian, On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:42, Ian Moore wrote: > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:26, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > ... > > > > The label at the bottom right of the window is "HDA Intel". > > So your system does have the inputs - perhaps it's a different > chipset? Well, the system incorpor

Re: [opensuse] No analogue inputs with Intel HD Audio ( ICH8 ) on 10.2

2007-01-02 Thread Ian Moore
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 11:12, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Ian, > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 15:42, Ian Moore wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:26, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > The label at the bottom right of the window is "HDA Intel". > > > > So your system does hav

Re: [opensuse] Getting rid of "Marching Penguins"

2007-01-02 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 06:30, Michael Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:32:31PM -0500, BandiPat wrote: > > Copy and paste from the email Mike, they both still work as James > > mentioned. > > I had done that, but in both cases had neglected to include the leading > "=". I tried it agai

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