[opensuse] Query Repository for Package information

2007-01-08 Thread Jeffery Fernandez
Hi Is there a tool on OpenSuse 10.2 where I can query packages from the Software repositories? something similar to rpm -qipl in Yast UN-INSTALLED packages don't show the file list (Don't know who decided to hide the files list if its not installed). I just need to see the paths to package

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-08 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 21:28 +, Pete Connolly wrote: > I still have a Win32 boot partition on this system in case I need to run a > game that doesn't work on Linux. Haven't booted into it in 6+ months :) My daughter has a laptop running Windows XP. Previously, she used the family computer an

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Tuesday January 09 2007 2:09 am, Peter Cannon wrote: > I could go on the list of 'I can drive but don't ask me whats under the > bonnet' users is endless. That it is! Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Martin Mielke
nice ol'good ASCII-art :-) - Original Message From: Peter Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Charles philip Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 12:28:38 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs Ysgrifennodd Charles philip Chan: > > > You can send

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Cannon
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:28, M. Fioretti wrote: > (1) I regularly meet _professionals_ saying things like "My new > computer? I _believe_ is manufactured by that company... what was its > name now... Pentium Inc., I believe, but why? Does it make any > difference??".  Or people proudly telli

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 16:34:05 PM -0800, Tony Alfrey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My puzzlement is why the home user buys a cheap box, yet pays for the > hassle and expense of M$ upgrades, yet doesn't buy a Mac up-front, which > IMHO is a near-perfect unix platform, at least as far as the user >

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 E. Hoon Shim wrote: > I'm a firm believe that Microsoft is in a perpetual loop, they raise > prices to make up for all of the piracy and/or all the work they put > into the product to prevent piracy. The high price makes piracy even > more attractive

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-01-08 Thread Jigish Gohil
On 1/9/07, Joseph Loo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am beginning to experiment with beryl (1.4) on opensuse 10.2. It seems that fo some users, adding the beryl-manager in the gnome session will invoke beyrl-xgl. In other users, it will not be invoked at all. The effect is that the window borders w

Re: [opensuse] Can't find growisofs

2007-01-08 Thread Digvijoy Chatterjee
linux-AMD:~ # growisofs -dry-run -Z /dev/dvd -R /home/digz/debian-31r4-amd64-binary-1.iso Executing 'mkisofs -R /home/digz/debian-31r4-amd64-binary-1.iso | builtin_dd of=/dev/dvd obs=32k seek=0' I: -input-charset not specified, using UTF-8 (detected in locale settings) mkisofs: Value too large for

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Mike McMullin
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 19:16 -0500, E. Hoon Shim wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm a firm believe that Microsoft is in a perpetual loop, they raise > prices to make up for all of the piracy and/or all the work they put > into the product to prevent piracy. The high p

[opensuse] Beryl

2007-01-08 Thread Joseph Loo
I am beginning to experiment with beryl (1.4) on opensuse 10.2. It seems that fo some users, adding the beryl-manager in the gnome session will invoke beyrl-xgl. In other users, it will not be invoked at all. The effect is that the window borders will not appear. The work around is to add beryl-xg

Re: [opensuse] Network Manager??? (WiFi problem)

2007-01-08 Thread Tom Patton
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:59 -0600, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > Anders Johansson wrote: > > On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:12, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > >> Not butting in...well a little. I could never get this thinkpad (r40) to work wireless in suse9.3. Yast in 10.2 found it, set it up, I added ki

[opensuse] Configure Firewall to work along side Xen

2007-01-08 Thread Jeffery Fernandez
Hi, I happened to install Xen Virtualiser on my Opensuse 10.2 and I am having an issue whereby my networking doesn't work. I figured it is got to do with the firewall because if I stop the firewall, everything seems to be running ok. Could someone help me in configuring the firewall so that I d

Re: [opensuse] Re: printing

2007-01-08 Thread Chuck Davis
Thanks again Darryl for point me to that link form Johannes! CD On 1/8/07, Darryl Gregorash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-01-08 20:55, Chuck Davis wrote: > Unfortunately, the CUPS update that screwed up the database requiring > the deletion Darryl mentioned did not fix the problem of jdk1.

Re: [opensuse] wierd behaviour of xmms all over sudden

2007-01-08 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 08 January 2007 07:12, Rikard Johnels wrote: > Hi all! > > I have this mp3 i made from a wav file a long time ago. > Its been working perfectly up until today. > Suddenly, as i play it in xmms its nothing but static and noice. > It plays about two seconds, and then its total garbage. > I

Re: [opensuse] Network Manager??? (WiFi problem)

2007-01-08 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 08 January 2007 08:45, David Mayr wrote: > > [...] Ot, how do I disable KnetworkManager and just use > > ifup and ifdown? > > AFAIK, it should be sufficient to start the YaST LAN module and > answer the first question "use Network Manager or traditional method with > ifup/ifdown" appropri

Re: [opensuse] Re: printing

2007-01-08 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-08 20:55, Chuck Davis wrote: > Unfortunately, the CUPS update that screwed up the database requiring > the deletion Darryl mentioned did not fix the problem of jdk1.6.0_01 > not finding the print services on the machine. Has anyone seen a fix > that will allow the Java print service to

Re: [opensuse] Speaking of Firefox...

2007-01-08 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 16:11 -0500, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Tuesday January 02 2007 9:35 am, BandiPat wrote: > > > > Actually, that's what I use for most things now Fred. Kong seems to be > > falling into the "works with everything" category pretty well. If not, > > I can spoof as Safari, which

Re: [opensuse] Re: Newbie with thicker skin

2007-01-08 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-01-08 14:39, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Hi, > > Darryl Gregorash wrote: > > [...] > >> Only if you need to connect to a printer >> installed on a Windows machine will you need to use Samba (I think, I've >> never tried this from a Linux system). >> > > no. Samba does not do any harm h

Re: [opensuse] Re: printing

2007-01-08 Thread Chuck Davis
Unfortunately, the CUPS update that screwed up the database requiring the deletion Darryl mentioned did not fix the problem of jdk1.6.0_01 not finding the print services on the machine. Has anyone seen a fix that will allow the Java print service to user openSuse 10.2 (boxed)? Thanks for any adv

[opensuse] Trouble unmounting samba filesystem under 10.2

2007-01-08 Thread Greg Wallace
I just recently upgraded to 10.2 and, having followed the notes about having to use cifs instead of smbfs under 10.2, went about the process of doing the conversion. The mounting aspect wasn't too difficult. I just converted mount -t smbfs share mount-point to mount.cifs share mount-point and

Re: [opensuse] Updates

2007-01-08 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 08 January 2007 20:17, you wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 16:34, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 07:08:02PM -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 January 2007 21:29, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > > > > I have tried to configure updates and am not having

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Curtis Rey
On Monday 08 January 2007 16:34, Tony Alfrey wrote: > E. Hoon Shim wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm a firm believe that Microsoft is in a perpetual loop, they raise > > prices to make up for all of the piracy and/or all the work they put > > into the product

Re: [opensuse] Yast install working but DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND

2007-01-08 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 08 January 2007 16:50, Martin Andersson wrote: > Hej > > Every time I install a package with Yast I get this complaint. > > "Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: db4 error(-30987) from > dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found" > > I only press ignore and the i

Re: [opensuse] Re: Updates

2007-01-08 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 08 January 2007 15:30, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Doug McGarrett wrote: > > On Saturday 06 January 2007 21:29, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > >> I have tried to configure updates and am not having success. I have > >> never had this problem with Suse before. I have registered the purchase >

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Tony Alfrey
E. Hoon Shim wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm a firm believe that Microsoft is in a perpetual loop, they raise prices to make up for all of the piracy and/or all the work they put into the product to prevent piracy. The high price makes piracy even more attractive and in

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread E. Hoon Shim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm a firm believe that Microsoft is in a perpetual loop, they raise prices to make up for all of the piracy and/or all the work they put into the product to prevent piracy. The high price makes piracy even more attractive and increases their efforts.

[opensuse] Some points of real annoyance in the 10.2 DVD install

2007-01-08 Thread jfweber
It doesn't seem to know it's a DVD, and insists I put one of the cds, into the cdr which, BTW isn't the drive I installed from ( no kidding!) It seems most unwilling to accept any of the prior happy install sources.. I'm still fighting w/ that.. gotta get my KonvenientSuse installed so I can ge

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Charles philip Chan: You can send me a pint of vitual Bitter. ;-) Charles _.._..,_,_ ( ) ]~,"-.-~~[ .=])' (; ([ | ]:: '[ '=]): .) ([ |:: '| ~~~~ Enjoy! Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [E

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Charles philip Chan
> Many thanks to you all for your patience and forebearance. No problem. > If any of you get to Cardiff, drop me an email and I'll buy you a > pint. You can send me a pint of vitual Bitter. ;-) Charles -- panic("floppy: Port bolixed."); linux-2.2.16/include/asm-sparc/floppy.h pg

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-08 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 08 January 2007 13:28, Pete Connolly wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 12:37, Kai Ponte wrote: > > On Sunday 07 January 2007 09:10, Pete Connolly wrote: > > > On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:56, pelibali wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I don't mind to spend some money to get a great look

Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Billie Erin Walsh wrote: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium UPGRADE [DVD] $154.99 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE [DVD] $249.99 Microsoft Windows Vista Business UPGRADE [DVD] $194.99 Well, you only get ripped off if you buy it...you can download O

[Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs]

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
--- Begin Message --- Ysgrifennodd Randall R Schulz: On Monday 08 January 2007 10:21, Peter Bradley wrote: Huh? The only thing I wrote on this topic was a question about S/PDIF outputs from disc players and inputs on contemporary sound I/O hardware. Sorry Randall. My bad. I got conf

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Charles philip Chan: [EMAIL PROTECTED], I checked the rpm's for you. They moved kscd to kdemultimedia3-extra. kdemultimedia3-CD now only contains kaudiocreator. Bingo Now, I realise I've not behaved like the most intelligent of users, and I apologise for that. Many thanks

[opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT

2007-01-08 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium UPGRADE [DVD] $154.99 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate UPGRADE [DVD] $249.99 Microsoft Windows Vista Business UPGRADE [DVD] $194.99 -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YO

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Charles philip Chan
On 8 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem now is that KsCD no longer seems to be installed (at least > it isn't in /opt/kde3/bin where it used to be), [EMAIL PROTECTED], I checked the rpm's for you. They moved kscd to kdemultimedia3-extra. kdemultimedia3-CD now only contains kaudiocr

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Charles philip Chan: It is sitting there right in the directory: http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.0/x86_64/kdemultimedia3-CD-3.5.5-28.2.x86_64.rpm Forgive me. I'm trying to do too many things at once and not doing any of them well. OK. That's n

[opensuse] Yast install working but DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND

2007-01-08 Thread Martin Andersson
Hej Every time I install a package with Yast I get this complaint. "Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: db4 error(-30987) from dbcursor->c_get: DB_PAGE_NOTFOUND: Requested page not found" I only press ignore and the installation seems to work OK. But it's really annoying when installi

Re: [opensuse] Stopping Smart upgrading itself

2007-01-08 Thread Pascal Bleser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Stringer wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 09:47, Reinhard Gimbel wrote: >>> Hi, I'm running 10.2 with Smart 0.50rc1. >>> >>> However everytime smart runs an update it downgrades Smart to .49 and I >>> loose all my channels. Yes, on purpose.

Re: [opensuse] Updates

2007-01-08 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 07:08:02PM -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 21:29, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > > I have tried to configure updates and am not having success. I have never > > had this problem with Suse before. I have registered the purchase with > > Novell, tried

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Charles philip Chan
On 8 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ah, in that case, it doesn't appear to be available. Not for x86_64 > anyway. It is sitting there right in the directory: http://software.opensuse.org/download/KDE:/KDE3/SUSE_Linux_10.0/x86_64/kdemultimedia3-CD-3.5.5-28.2.x86_64.rpm > Would I be OK

Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.

2007-01-08 Thread Pete Connolly
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:37, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 09:10, Pete Connolly wrote: > > On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:56, pelibali wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I don't mind to spend some money to get a great looking and lovely > > > game, such as e.g. FizzBall ( http://grubbyga

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Dumps and Dump Analysis

2007-01-08 Thread Seth Arnold
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:13:40PM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: > The LKCD patch is no longer part of the SUSE kernel source. I checked > lkcd.sourceforge.net, and no patch for the current version. It appears > that kexec / kdump is now the only dump tool available for SUSE. > > Yet, the lkcdutils

Re: [opensuse] Connecting PPTP VPN

2007-01-08 Thread James Knott
Herbert Graeber wrote: Timo Hoenig schrieb: On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 23:58 +0100, Herbert Graeber wrote: Meanwhile pptp support is in GNOME CVS and has been heavily reworked for NetworkkManager 0.7. Nevertheless it may be useful for the author. Fixes are also being applied to the

[opensuse] Kernel Dumps and Dump Analysis

2007-01-08 Thread Bill Anderson
The LKCD patch is no longer part of the SUSE kernel source. I checked lkcd.sourceforge.net, and no patch for the current version. It appears that kexec / kdump is now the only dump tool available for SUSE. Yet, the lkcdutils package is still part of the distribution. It should really be dropped, a

[opensuse] kernel-vanilla-2.6.18.2-34.x86_64.rpm ?

2007-01-08 Thread Rene Salmon
Hi list, Just found the kernel-vanilla-2.6.18.2-34.x86_64.rpm in the 10.2 repo. As far as I can tell this rpm did not exist in 10.1. We sometimes need to use vanilla kernels in our shop due to some vendor drivers and such. Just have some questions: I take it this rpm is the unpatched vanilla ke

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Charles philip Chan: Well, I've installed kdemultimedia3-sound-3.5.5-28.2.x86_64.rpm as kscd is not in kdemultimedia3-sound. It is in kdemultimedia3-CD. Charles Ah, in that case, it doesn't appear to be available. Not for x86_64 anyway. Would I be OK installing the i58

Re: Vedr. Re: [opensuse] Problems installing 10.2 on 256 mb system

2007-01-08 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Torvald Bringsvor wrote: > --- Boyd Lynn Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > > > and that seemingly tries to do mount -t ntfs !! > > > > > > Is this a known problem? What can I do about it? > > > > I did an installation on a system with only 128 MB. > > Because of ZMD you > > ha

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Charles philip Chan
> Well, I've installed kdemultimedia3-sound-3.5.5-28.2.x86_64.rpm as kscd is not in kdemultimedia3-sound. It is in kdemultimedia3-CD. Charles -- printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: I'm broken.\n", dev->name); linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/plip.c pgppQAtolDwKL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Darryl Gregorash: Add it as an installation source in Yast; then use the Yast "Install/Remove Software" module. Don't bother about all that smart nonsense, Yast is your friend :-) Well, I've installed kdemultimedia3-sound-3.5.5-28.2.x86_64.rpm as suggested, but it hasn't made

Re: [opensuse] Tomcat5 on Suse 10.0

2007-01-08 Thread George Stoianov
On 1/8/07, James D. Parra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Just installed Tomcat5 from Yast and, I was curious, how can one tell if it is running as a stand alone or as Servlet/JSP container? You have to start it from the system services. You may want to install the example apps as there is n

[opensuse] Re: Newbie with thicker skin

2007-01-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, Darryl Gregorash wrote: [...] > Only if you need to connect to a printer > installed on a Windows machine will you need to use Samba (I think, I've > never tried this from a Linux system). no. Samba does not do any harm here but is is _not_ needed. As long as your windows box runs win 2k or

[opensuse] Re: Updates

2007-01-08 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Doug McGarrett wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 21:29, J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: >> I have tried to configure updates and am not having success. I have never >> had this problem with Suse before. I have registered the purchase with >> Novell, tried configuring KDE_Updater_Applet and all to n

Linux games and game consoles ( was: Re: [opensuse] Ordering the "FizzBall" game for Linux.)

2007-01-08 Thread jfweber
On Sun January 7 2007 12:10 pm, Pete Connolly scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer: > On Sunday 07 January 2007 15:56, pelibali wrote: > > > > Ps. Maybe a link to a review of that game doesn't hurt: > > http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/11/fizzball-well-designed-enjo

[opensuse] Tomcat5 on Suse 10.0

2007-01-08 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Just installed Tomcat5 from Yast and, I was curious, how can one tell if it is running as a stand alone or as Servlet/JSP container? After the Yast install, will Apache2 already know how to use it? Many thanks, James D. Parra Systems Administrator, IT Dept. Music Reports Inc. [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [opensuse] fonts after kernel update

2007-01-08 Thread Istvan Gabor
> > I've experienced recently something that never before. > > On a 10.1 system I updated the kernel from 2.6.16.21- 0.13- > > default to 2.6.16.27-0.6-default. Naturally I had to rebuild the > > NVIDIA driver too. After starting my KDE (3.5.5 "release > > 45.1") desktop I noticed that the font

Re: [opensuse] Re: printing

2007-01-08 Thread Chuck Davis
Yes, thanks Darryl. It fixed my problem as well. Chuck On 1/8/07, Robert Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johannes Meixner wrote: > Hello, > > On Jan 5 15:50 Chuck Davis wrote (shortened): > >> I have installed 10.2 on a machine. When I tried to print from Java I >> got an error that Java cou

[opensuse] Treatment of sources in Yast software installation (10.2)

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Abrahams
I have a couple of questions about how Yast handles multiple sources for software installation: 1. If a source is unavailable (an unmounted DVD, for instance), does that block the installation or does Yast simply move to the next available source? 2. When the same package is available from di

[opensuse] FreeNX reconnect problem from different machine

2007-01-08 Thread Moby
Hello all, I am running FreeNX on a Linux machine. On client machines (both Windows and Linux), I use the nx client from nomacine.com. After connecting and setting up a freeNX session, I can suspend the session and then reconnect fine as long as the reconnection occurs on the same client machin

Re: [opensuse] ndiswrapper modprobe failure on 10.1

2007-01-08 Thread Mike
On Monday 08 January 2007 07:09, Mike McMullin wrote: > I'm trying to get wireless running on a laptop. The pcm-cia card > requires the use of ndiswrapper to handle the driver. I have > ndiswraper configged, and have had it write it's configuration for > modprobe. However modprobe complains tha

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 08 January 2007 10:21, Peter Bradley wrote: > Ysgrifennodd J. Scott Thayer M.D.: > > For what it's worth, I tried KsCD after reading this thread and it > > didn't work. When I tried Amarok it worked just fine. Is using KsCD > > mandatory? S > > No, Randall. Huh? The only thing I wrote on

Re: [opensuse] encrypted usb drives - fixed mount points

2007-01-08 Thread Dennis E. Slice
Huzzah, it works! I just changed the relevant (currently only) cryptotab line from: /dev/loop0 /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk320 reiserfs twofish256 acl,user_xat to: /dev/loop0 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_3200JB_External_xxx-part1 /media/usbdisk320reiserfs twofish256 acl,user_xattr where usb-WD_320

Re: [opensuse] fonts after kernel update

2007-01-08 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/01/08 18:48 (GMT+0100) Istvan Gabor apparently typed: > I've experienced recently something that never before. > On a 10.1 system I updated the kernel from 2.6.16.21-0.13- > default to 2.6.16.27-0.6-default. Naturally I had to rebuild the > NVIDIA driver too. After starting my KDE (3.5.5

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Darryl Gregorash: I use xmms, and it works just fine. It definitely has a setting for analog or digital extraction, and AFAICR always has. I've also got xmms, but it just comes up as an unreadable tiny black square on my monitor. I've failed to make any sense out of it at all

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:40, Anders Johansson wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 04:38, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > Now that I think of it, I wonder if there are audio cards out there > > with S/PDIF input connectors. I've had several with S/PDIF outputs, > > but I don't think I've seen S/PDIF

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd J. Scott Thayer M.D.: For what it's worth, I tried KsCD after reading this thread and it didn't work. When I tried Amarok it worked just fine. Is using KsCD mandatory? S No, Randall. KsCD is not mandatory. I have Amarok 1.3 installed, but I don't see how to get it to play a

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Mike McMullin: Also note that some mobo's and optical drives come with ports for digital sound connection between the two, bypassing the IDE cable. Hmm. Which is why I'll do almost anything to avoid opening the case. :) Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Playing CDs

2007-01-08 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd Darryl Gregorash: Good grief, Charles, he's probably got an empty DVD drive! :-) Peter: in the Yast installation source module, just disable the device as an installation medium. If necessary, add in an ftp or http repository from one of the mirrors. Heh! Well, not an empty dr

Re: [opensuse] Cannot mount thumb drive

2007-01-08 Thread ka1ifq
On Monday 08 January 2007 13:00, Joseph Comfort wrote: > Yes, I should have said that the thumb drive works on my WinXP system on > the same computer. I also installed SuSE 10.2 on another computer > (PIII, 256 Mb; installation was smooth, unlike my current HP Pavilion > a1520n), and the thumb dri

Re: [opensuse] Cannot mount thumb drive

2007-01-08 Thread Joseph Comfort
Yes, I should have said that the thumb drive works on my WinXP system on the same computer. I also installed SuSE 10.2 on another computer (PIII, 256 Mb; installation was smooth, unlike my current HP Pavilion a1520n), and the thumb drive worked fine. I did say that, initially, I had no problems w

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 Apache2 stray semaphore?

2007-01-08 Thread Carl Hartung
On Mon January 8 2007 11:45, Per Jessen wrote: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=229200 Thanks, Per. I have to remember to check there first for this kind of thing. Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] fonts after kernel update

2007-01-08 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello all: I've experienced recently something that never before. On a 10.1 system I updated the kernel from 2.6.16.21-0.13- default to 2.6.16.27-0.6-default. Naturally I had to rebuild the NVIDIA driver too. After starting my KDE (3.5.5 "release 45.1") desktop I noticed that the fonts on the d

Re: [opensuse] Network Manager??? (WiFi problem)

2007-01-08 Thread David Mayr
> [...] Ot, how do I disable KnetworkManager and just use > ifup and ifdown? AFAIK, it should be sufficient to start the YaST LAN module and answer the first question "use Network Manager or traditional method with ifup/ifdown" appropriate. -- David Mayr, http://davey.de openSUSE LINUX, htt

Re: [opensuse] KDE Desktop Fonts

2007-01-08 Thread Don Raboud
On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:40, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: > Strange problem. The fonts under the icons on the user's desktop are > all outline (in white outlined in black). I can't change any of the > fonts in the Configure Desktop > Appearance > Fonts menu to change them > to solid or bold. Is

Re: [opensuse] Re: printing

2007-01-08 Thread Robert Lewis
Johannes Meixner wrote: > Hello, > > On Jan 5 15:50 Chuck Davis wrote (shortened): > >> I have installed 10.2 on a machine. When I tried to print from Java I >> got an error that Java could not find a printer service. >> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213362 > > > >> So

Re: [opensuse] Network Manager??? (WiFi problem)

2007-01-08 Thread Dennis J. Tuchler
Anders Johansson wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:12, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote: My wireless "card" (really an Intel Centron wireless feature) was read and installed when I installed my 10.2, SO I tried to connect with a wireless router. Firefox reported that it couldn't connect. So, as su,

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 Apache2 stray semaphore?

2007-01-08 Thread Per Jessen
Carl Hartung wrote: > I've used YaST to configure Apache2 so it listens only on localhost > and must be launched manually (in a shell: 'su' > password > > 'rcapache2 start'). > > Immediately after the server launches, an apparent 'stray' temporary > file shows up directly under '/': "session_mm_a

[opensuse] wierd behaviour of xmms all over sudden

2007-01-08 Thread Rikard Johnels
Hi all! I have this mp3 i made from a wav file a long time ago. Its been working perfectly up until today. Suddenly, as i play it in xmms its nothing but static and noice. It plays about two seconds, and then its total garbage. I suspected a corrupt file (maybe a disk goig bad or something), but m

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread ka1ifq
On Monday 08 January 2007 08:17, Martin Mielke wrote: > No use for this, as the box is completely powered off... as if you pulled > the cable... Strange, but I have seen the actual end of the power cable being too long and not connecting fully cause this. I pulled the cable from the wall

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Jay Smith
You know what, I am having a similar problem with my notebook. It runs both Edgy Eft and OpenSuSE 10.2. Both of them have problems with randomly crashing and then I'd have to hard reboot in order to get back to use. After a while, I determined that it was indeed Hardware related. Try runnign ano

Re: [opensuse] How about integrating real 3D desktop - Looking Glass into openSUSE ?

2007-01-08 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 07 January 2007 21:26, James Wright wrote: > Alexey Eremenko wrote: > >> As soon as we have 3D monitors available it may become worthwhile. > >> > >> Given that we don't have such hardware, how can one call one 2D > >> representation of 3D any more "REAL" than the next? > > > > Good point

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 08 January 2007 08:37, Basil Chupin wrote: > Clayton wrote: > >> is there any way to check the temperature and watch the r.p.m. on the > >> fans w/o > >> going to BIOS-level? > > > > lm-sensors works well for this. Once you ran sensors-detect you can > > use lots of different tools to vi

Re: [opensuse] Question for iPod users out there!

2007-01-08 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Jan Kupec wrote: Jorge Fábregas wrote: Hello there, I'm planning to buy an ipod and after googling for "linux+ ipod" I think I'm going to use GTKpod. I have a question though... Assuming my iPod is already formatted with FAT32, isn't it just a matter of mounting the ipod and copy my mp3

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 08 January 2007 07:59, Basil Chupin wrote: > > Crashing happens at random... well, haven't sit back watching the box > > till it dies/powers off... Anyway, the last crash happened to me > > yesterday while working and listening to some streams using amaroK.  I > > tried the streams again

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 08 January 2007 07:29, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > "totally powered off" ? > The power supply fan is still running I guess? > > More info. > Does it crash while you're working, or after some time, while some GL > screensaver is running...? Just went through something like that here

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Clayton
> If you want a GUI based output of this, you have more choices than you > can shake a proverbial stick at. I like SuperKaramba and the Cyanpses > plugin. > http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssuperkaramba.html Just for the record, that netdragon url is deprecated. superkaramba is at version 0.41

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Tom Patton
sorry...must remember ctrl-L! Perhaps you should choose a different session type on login, like fvwm, and see if it stops. That would isolate kde and screensaver issues. Then I'd try booting with acpi off... Tom On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 05:17 -0800, Martin Mielke wrote: > No use for this, as th

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Mathias Homann
Clayton schrieb: > If you want a GUI based output of this, you have more choices than you > can shake a proverbial stick at. I like SuperKaramba and the Cyanpses > plugin. > http://netdragon.sourceforge.net/ssuperkaramba.html Just for the record, that netdragon url is deprecated. superkaramba i

Re: [opensuse] Connecting PPTP VPN

2007-01-08 Thread Herbert Graeber
Timo Hoenig schrieb: > On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 23:58 +0100, Herbert Graeber wrote: > >> Meanwhile pptp support is in GNOME CVS and has been heavily reworked for >> NetworkkManager 0.7. Nevertheless it may be useful for the author. > > Fixes are also being applied to the STABLE branch of NetworkManage

[opensuse] PT wiki

2007-01-08 Thread Hugo Costelha
Hi, After having talked with other people involved on the PT wiki, and having sent an e-mail to discuss it on the wiki mailing list, I, the coordinator of the PT wiki, hereby invite all portuguese speaking, including the brazillian portuguese speakers, to join the pt.opensuse.org wiki. I propo

Re: [opensuse] USB not working with openSuSE 10.2 final version (i.e. retail boxed version)

2007-01-08 Thread Richard Pace
On Sunday 07 January 2007 14:32, Niels Øtergaard Kjær wrote: > Richard Pace wrote: > > I've reported this to Novell, bug report 231118, and also posted to > > KDE-Linux list with no response from KDE-Linux, and it doesn't appear > > that anyone at Novell has any reply yet to the problem report. I

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Clayton
> lm-sensors works well for this. Once you ran sensors-detect you can > use lots of different tools to view the fan rpm/core temps etc. > (KSensors, gkrelm, SuperKaramba and pretty much any monitoring plugin, > etc etc). Thanks for this. I'll now try these lm-sensors thing. (I rather miss the Mo

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Leen de Braal
> Martin Mielke wrote: >> No use for this, as the box is completely powered off... as if you >> pulled the cable... > > if really so it's off course a HW problem, not any software one > Think so too. Open the case and check the thickness of the dust-layer on your coolingblock on the cpu (under th

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread jdd
Martin Mielke wrote: No use for this, as the box is completely powered off... as if you pulled the cable... if really so it's off course a HW problem, not any software one may be problem with the power cable (I experienced this myself) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Votez pour nous, merci http

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Basil Chupin
Clayton wrote: is there any way to check the temperature and watch the r.p.m. on the fans w/o going to BIOS-level? lm-sensors works well for this. Once you ran sensors-detect you can use lots of different tools to view the fan rpm/core temps etc. (KSensors, gkrelm, SuperKaramba and pretty muc

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Basil Chupin
Martin Mielke wrote: Hmmm... that sounds weird... is there any way to check the temperature and watch the r.p.m. on the fans w/o going to BIOS-level? Thanks, Martin - Original Message From: Basil Chupin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: opensuse Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 1:59:35 PM Subje

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 05:17 -0800, Martin Mielke wrote: > No use for this, as the box is completely powered off... as if you pulled the > cable... > > > - Original Message > From: Hans van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: opensuse > Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 1:55:45 PM > Subjec

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Clayton
is there any way to check the temperature and watch the r.p.m. on the fans w/o going to BIOS-level? lm-sensors works well for this. Once you ran sensors-detect you can use lots of different tools to view the fan rpm/core temps etc. (KSensors, gkrelm, SuperKaramba and pretty much any monitoring

Re: [opensuse] hplip suse10.0 HP f335 create print queue failure [SOLVED]

2007-01-08 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jan 8 02:46 Mike McMullin wrote (shortened): > lpadmin -p HP-F335 -v hp:/usb/Deskjet_F300_series?serial=CN69JJZ0YN04VQ > -E -P /usr/share/ppd/HP/HP-DeskJet_F300-hpijs.ppd.gz > > Note the location of the ppd.gz file was slightly different. I assume this is because you built HPLIP from

Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often

2007-01-08 Thread Martin Mielke
No use for this, as the box is completely powered off... as if you pulled the cable... - Original Message From: Hans van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: opensuse Sent: Monday, January 8, 2007 1:55:45 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] openSuSE 10.2 crashing too often [ snip ] Try connecti

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