Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:07 -0600, Stevens wrote: > I just finished an evaluation of Beryl, Emerald and XGL on my Suse 10.2 > system and I have to say that Vista has nothing special in comparison. > What a desktop enhancement! > > Now, having said that, I have to report that I removed it all fr

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, Fred A. Miller wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 9:46:19 pm Kai Ponte wrote: > > The articles I had read - which all delt with why Linux doesn't come > > pre-installed on mass-market systems - had to do with certifying all > > hardware works when there is no OS loaded.

[opensuse] Re: Flushing Beagle

2007-02-26 Thread email . listen
On Mon, 26. February 2007 06:47:06 Clark P. Case wrote: > OK, I have searched the lists as best I can, and even tore through the > Beagle project wiki Is there ANY way to flush or clear the beagle > index? I simply cannot find the answer... > > Thanks in advance... I switched from beagle to tra

Fwd: Re: [opensuse] Motherboard help please -part answered.

2007-02-26 Thread scsijon
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:22:06 +1100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [opensuse] Motherboard help please -part answered. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Not sure if this shoul

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 26 February 2007 9:46:19 pm Kai Ponte wrote: > The articles I had read - which all delt with why Linux doesn't come > pre-installed on mass-market systems - had to do with certifying all > hardware works when there is no OS loaded. > > Now, when I used to mass-market white-box systems in

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Fred A. Miller
On Monday 26 February 2007 5:05:58 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: > I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics > card, hard drive, DVD. > > It would cost me a hundred bucks less for the Vista box.  I don't think > Dell has quite got this worked out yet. No.hasn't started yet

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 26 February 2007 23:21, Kai Ponte wrote: > > It works in Firefox although the: > >    http://www.vh1.com/shows/series/top_20_countdown/ > > has big gray surface and then below the rest of the page. > > > > When you open it in Konqueror the menu is missing, and than using Video > > link an

[opensuse] Flushing Beagle

2007-02-26 Thread Clark P. Case
OK, I have searched the lists as best I can, and even tore through the Beagle project wiki Is there ANY way to flush or clear the beagle index? I simply cannot find the answer... Thanks in advance... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [opensuse] Motherboard help please.

2007-02-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 26 February 2007 23:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It has a Chrome9HC IDG Graphics Engine onboard. "Integrated Chrome 9 HC IGP Graphic Engine." Google search for linux via chrome 9 gives a bit more. Not much. -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Konqueror can't open USB floppy.

2007-02-26 Thread M Harris
On Monday 26 February 2007 14:52, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > Open the floppy drive Hal. Hal, Open the floppy drive. I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that... -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 26 February 2007 07:06:26 pm Rajko M. wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 20:22, Jay Smith wrote: > > >I haven't seen the tarball and the files within, but using update via > > > YOU you will get the flash7 updated to flash9 with all tweaking needed > > > to work properly on openSUSE. > >

[opensuse] Motherboard help please.

2007-02-26 Thread scsijon
Not sure if this should be ot but here goes. My old system motherboard has died. It has been recomended to replace with a Gigabyte VM900M http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?gig-vm900m&P=1 hope it didn't wrap It has a Chrome9HC IDG Graphics Engine onboard. ?Are any 10.2 users usi

[opensuse] Has everyone updated the opensuse hardware list?

2007-02-26 Thread scsijon
Went to do a lookup in the hardware list the other day as my Motherboard has "passed on". Very dissapointing list in there, surely we as community members are behoven to others to add our bits and pieces as we find out whether they work or not so they don't have problems or waste hard earned money

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Carlos,, You are correct. It works great when you have a disk that goes caput and you get a new disk for replacement and you try to save as much data as you can. It though this was Daniel's situation. This is not a tool for an unwanted delete file etc. Regards, -=terry(Denver)=- On Tue, 2007-

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, Peter Van Lone wrote: > On 2/26/07, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That was my assessment too. This stuff has no place on a working > > machine. > I believe it is much like faster processors, larger drives, and more > memory it will not be going awa

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread M Harris
On Monday 26 February 2007 21:01, John Andersen wrote: > >   If yes to the above, what message comes back? > > More to the point, if you press and hold the power button > what happens?  Shutdown? Yup.   heh... no no no , actually... I was trying to do some diagnostics with MacGyver...

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 26 February 2007 20:46, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 05:32:39 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: > > Kai Ponte wrote: > > >> It would cost me a hundred bucks less for the Vista box. I don't > > >> think Dell has quite got this worked out yet. > > > > > > I seem to recall there being

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 26 February 2007 18:56, John Andersen wrote: > ... > > Except no mention of what the Campus Clown got. > At the school I went to, he would have gotten a hockey stick in the > teeth. I hesitate to ask, but what school was that? RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addit

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread M Harris
On Monday 26 February 2007 20:56, John Andersen wrote: > Except no mention of what the Campus Clown got.   > At the school I went to, he would have gotten a hockey stick in the teeth. heh... and uh, well, there was a chase scene... ended up with a splash at the duck pond as I remember jus

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, Joseph Loo wrote: > I so not strongly disagree with the people, but I find the ability to shade > the windows very useful. You must be using a different definition of the common term "shade". Shade has been used in linux for a long time. Double click the title bar of a

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, Jan Tiggy wrote: > WTF cares about what distro? We just need mashines especially laptops > checked  against linux. Exactly.If dell had to stand behind their warranty for linux they wouldn't be jamming ATI cards into the machines without dragging ATI through a knotho

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 26 February 2007 20:22, Jay Smith wrote: > >I haven't seen the tarball and the files within, but using update via YOU > > you will get the flash7 updated to flash9 with all tweaking needed to > > work properly on openSUSE. > > > >Mine is working fine with YouTube. > >I guess that is good

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, M Harris wrote: > Well, its about time. It doesn't look like Dell will be totally patronizing > one distro, but one article said Dell was working with Novell. The is a > fantastic action... because it was the result of Dell taking a hard look at > its user suggestion box

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread Joseph Loo
Peter Van Lone wrote: > On 2/26/07, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That was my assessment too. This stuff has no place on a working >> machine. Maybe just to show off, but realistically it adds nothing >> to usability that can not be achieved easier with multiple desktops. > > I ten

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, M Harris wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 18:58, Angus MacGyver wrote: > > 2) How could this be setup so that either some users, or all "valid" > > users can perform the action - > > If a normal user presses the kde menu button (lower left) and selects > "Log >

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread Peter Van Lone
On 2/26/07, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That was my assessment too. This stuff has no place on a working machine. Maybe just to show off, but realistically it adds nothing to usability that can not be achieved easier with multiple desktops. I tend to agree, but I do think that th

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > I'm sorry, but I see the > above scenario as an I D Ten T error. Everyone deserved exactly what > they got. Except no mention of what the Campus Clown got. At the school I went to, he would have gotten a hockey stick in the teeth. -- ___

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, Stevens wrote: > I just finished an evaluation of Beryl, Emerald and XGL on my Suse 10.2 > system and I have to say that Vista has nothing special in comparison. > What a desktop enhancement! > > Now, having said that, I have to report that I removed it all from the > co

Re: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, ken wrote: > I have almost the same problem on my Dell.  When I switch from mains to > battery, there's a CPU spike which lasts for several minutes. That is perfectly normal. On mains the pc runs at full speed. On battery it drops to about half. Usually by changes to c

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Brett Lyon
On Monday 26 February 2007 13:57, Jay Smith wrote: > So I installed Flash 9 from tarball onto my computer. It works pretty well > except on some sites, drop down menus will go behind images or I'll get a > lot of grey in some areas. Anyone else experience that? If so, how did you > fix it? Maybe th

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 26 February 2007 05:32:39 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: > >> It would cost me a hundred bucks less for the Vista box. I don't think > >> Dell has quite got this worked out yet. > > > > I seem to recall there being some argument for this a while back. The > > pre-loaded machine

Re: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, Roger.Munoz wrote: > > I've had a look at top and nothing jumps out to suggest anything is > > wrong. I think the problem lies with acpi because if I turn off acpi > > at > > > boot, every thing is ok (apart from the fact the powersave functions > > are > > > disabled).

Re: [opensuse] Trouble installing Nvidia Driver

2007-02-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 26 February 2007 15:58, Mike Noble wrote: > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module! ... > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Have you tried to configure card using sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia while it is used in http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA#The_h

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-02-26 at 10:13 -0700, Teruel de Campo MD wrote: > > Use ddrescue > > #dd_rescue /dev/broken /dev/sda Be carefull, that doesn't save an image file. It will overwrite the sda partition table et all. - -- Cheers, Carlos E.

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-02-26 at 19:46 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote: > Hello Sandy, Daniel, Patrick, Carlos, Teruel, James, Bandi... :-) > > thank you very much for your hints. Meanwhile I have downloaded several "live > CD's and tried with them what I was ab

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Jay Smith
>I haven't seen the tarball and the files within, but using update via YOU you >will get the flash7 updated to flash9 with all tweaking needed to work >properly on openSUSE. > >Mine is working fine with YouTube. >I guess that is good test for Flash. Ya, mine is working fine for the most part

Re: [opensuse] Error with updater (SOLVED)

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Lewis
Robert Lewis wrote: > There was an error in installation source initialization. > > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse/: Can't > check if source has changed or not. Aborting refresh. > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/: Can't > provide //media.1

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 26 February 2007 19:33, Jay Smith wrote: > >Know that you have introduced potential problems to your system > >installing a tar-ball. openSUSE is an rpm based system and your rpm > >dabase does not know about flash9. Best to remove the tar-ball and > >install the available rpm, > > [E

Re: [opensuse] CPU reviews or comparisons for the average Linux user?

2007-02-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 25 February 2007 23:56, David Brodbeck wrote: > Jonathan Wilson wrote: > > What runs KDE the fastest when you have all the standard office > > applications running (FireFox, OpenOffice, Kontact) and SpamAssassin > > starts sucking the life out of your box when Kontact checks for new mail?

[opensuse] Error with updater

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Lewis
There was an error in installation source initialization. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse/: Can't check if source has changed or not. Aborting refresh. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/non-oss/: Can't provide //media.1 from http://download.opensuse.o

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Jan Tiggy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Knott schrieb: > There's a Canadian company that sells notebook computers with Linux or > no OS for less than they charge for the same hardware with Windows. > http://www.angelcomputer.com But those are crap. My old Acer costs the half and is

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Tony Alfrey
James Knott wrote: There's a Canadian company that sells notebook computers with Linux or no OS for less than they charge for the same hardware with Windows. http://www.angelcomputer.com Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Tony Alfrey
Kai Ponte wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007 02:05:58 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_d520?c=us&l= en&s=bsd&cs=04 I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics card, hard drive, DVD. It would cost me a hundred bucks

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Jay Smith
>Know that you have introduced potential problems to your system >installing a tar-ball. openSUSE is an rpm based system and your rpm >dabase does not know about flash9. Best to remove the tar-ball and >install the available rpm, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ftp-1.gwdg.de/linux/suse/opensuse/repos

Re: [opensuse] Rosegarden for SuSE 10.2

2007-02-26 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 26 February 2007 07:21, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Damon Register <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-26-07 06:40]: > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > 19:54 wahoo:~ > smart query --show-channels rosegarden4 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [packman] > > > > Thanks for your answer. If I understand correctly,

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread M Harris
On Monday 26 February 2007 18:58, Angus MacGyver wrote: > 2) How could this be setup so that either some users, or all "valid" > users can perform the action - If a normal user presses the kde menu button (lower left) and selects "Log Out," and the "End Session for Userid" comes up... is

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread David Brodbeck
Angus MacGyver wrote: > For my home network (laptop excluded), and I think to be fair, a normal > company working environment, which is where Novell is aiming their linux > product at, where all users should be centrally managed, the users > logged onto the console really need to have the rights to

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread Angus MacGyver
/me shakes head in despair. Two questions get asked... ... and the response is a lecture-style, based on a (wrong) assumption that everyone is just migrating from Windows (only use that excuse for an OS when my work enforces it on me - my Linux use goes back to RH4.0 back in '96) and a sizab

Re: [opensuse] xgl not working for 10.1 (Gnome)

2007-02-26 Thread Jonathan Puthoff
> On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:42 -0600, Jonathan Puthoff wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I am trying to get the 3D desktop working on a brand-new install of > 10.1. The installation of xgl and compiz packages (fresh ones!) worked > fine and so I did Control Center -> Desktop Effects -> Enable Desktop > Eff

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread James Knott
Kai Ponte wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 02:05:58 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: > >> http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_d520?c=us&l= >> en&s=bsd&cs=04 >> >> I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics >> card, hard drive, DVD. >> >> >> It would

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Kai Ponte
On Monday 26 February 2007 02:05:58 pm Tony Alfrey wrote: > > http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/latit_d520?c=us&l= >en&s=bsd&cs=04 > > I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics > card, hard drive, DVD. > > > It would cost me a hundred bucks less f

[opensuse] LDAP served network

2007-02-26 Thread Rikard Johnels
I am trying to get my network up on LDAP user authentication. I have several machines (Three servers and 10 workstations), and a handful of roaming users that uses several boxes at different times. I wanted a central user administration instead of having to walk around and locally add all the new

Re: [opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Jay Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-26-07 13:59]: > So I installed Flash 9 from tarball onto my computer. It works pretty > well except on some sites, drop down menus will go behind images or > I'll get a lot of grey in some areas. Anyone else experience that? If > so, how did you fix it? Maybe the

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-26-07 13:50]: > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > The GNome Partition Editor probably does as much for a better price: > > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php > > > I've never had much luck with gnuparted. I always get 'unsupported > feature' when I tr

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread M Harris
On Monday 26 February 2007 15:36, Billie Erin Walsh wrote: > Why in the world would anyone set their, often times very expensive, > laptop down on a table and leave it unattended? (don't be a cluck) ... everyone was sitting right there... that's the whole point... the guy ran thr

Re: [opensuse] Pre-Installed Linux On Dells Coming!!

2007-02-26 Thread Tony Alfrey
Fred A. Miller wrote: — Dell reports on what it plans to do with this feedback. Quoting: "[W]e are working with Novell to certify our corporate client products for Linux, including our OptiPlex desktops, Latitude notebooks and Dell Precision workstations. http://www.dell.com/content/topic

[opensuse] Trouble installing Nvidia Driver

2007-02-26 Thread Mike Noble
Kernel: 2.6.18.2-34-default #1 SMP Video Card: evga GeForce 6200 A-LE When I try to install (using yast) the following nvidia-gfx-kmp-default - NVIDIA gfx driver kernel module x11-video-nvidia - nvidia GL drivers They get installed without any problems. I then go to hardware / Graphics Card and

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
M Harris wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007 01:11, John Andersen wrote: > >> What security expert sits a child at the console and then in the same >> breath preaches security as a reason to inconvenience the vast majority >> of users? >> > I'll give you another real world scenario (m

Re: [opensuse] Konqueror can't open USB floppy.

2007-02-26 Thread Billie Erin Walsh
David Brodbeck wrote: > My USB floppy won't open in Konqueror. Konqueror gives me this error > message: > 'Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface > "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist.' > > Any suggestions? This used to work, and I can access the drive fine > with mtools.

Re: [opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-26 Thread Jan Tiggy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M Harris wrote: > Well, its about time. It doesn't look like Dell will be totally patronizing > one distro, but one article said Dell was working with Novell. The is a > fantastic action... because it was the result of Dell taking a hard look at >

[opensuse] Linux on Dell preloads

2007-02-26 Thread M Harris
Openoffice". http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2007/tc20070226_415604.htm?chan=technology_technology+index+page_today's+top+stories http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070226-8923.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129363-c,linux/article.html -- Kind regards, M H

[opensuse] selecting different video card in Yast - Suse 10.0

2007-02-26 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, The MB has on onboard VIA video card that freezes the computer after Yast, Sax2, or X tries to access it. I noticed that in 9.3 you can select a different video card in Yast (or Sax), but not in 10.0. In 9.3 I can atleast select VESA frambuffor mode to get X running, but no such option in 1

Re: [opensuse] multiple proxies in kde

2007-02-26 Thread Richard Bos
Op maandag 26 februari 2007 10:23, schreef Kostas Georgokitsos: > I have 2 proxies in my network and would like to let smome applications use > one and some the other, particularly with amarok. is there a general way to > do that? Amarok had no special configuration option. Alternatively, setting >

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread Richard Bos
Op maandag 26 februari 2007 18:17, schreef Jay Smith: > >Now, having said that, I have to report that I removed it all from the > >computer because of the extra overhead that it requires and because I > >personally do not need or want many of the bells and whistles that are > >provided. So, to summ

Re: [opensuse] Consistency with power privileges

2007-02-26 Thread M Harris
On Monday 26 February 2007 01:11, John Andersen wrote: > What security expert sits a child at the console and then in the same > breath preaches security as a reason to inconvenience the vast majority > of users? I'll give you another real world scenario (more relevant) that I experienced

Re: [opensuse] Bluetooth Mobile Phone Connectivity

2007-02-26 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 26 February 2007, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have been able to use mobile phone with bluetooth (i.e. Nokia 6310) > on SuSE 10.2? Its seems like bluetooth services are running, but there is > nowhere to connect to mobile phone. > > The questions are: > > 1) How t

Re: [opensuse] Railworld does not run

2007-02-26 Thread Anders Johansson
On Monday 26 February 2007 13:08, James Knott wrote: > Kai Ponte wrote: > > On Sunday 25 February 2007 11:02:50 am James Knott wrote: > >> J. Scott Thayer M.D. wrote: > >>> I am running Suse 10.2 x64 on an AMD 64 Turion (Acer Ferrari). > >>> Java is Java 1_5_0sun according to the Yast Software Mana

[opensuse] Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Jay Smith
So I installed Flash 9 from tarball onto my computer. It works pretty well except on some sites, drop down menus will go behind images or I'll get a lot of grey in some areas. Anyone else experience that? If so, how did you fix it? Maybe there's a setting in firefox or something? -- To unsubs

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread Daniel Bauer
Hello Sandy, Daniel, Patrick, Carlos, Teruel, James, Bandi... :-) thank you very much for your hints. Meanwhile I have downloaded several "live CD's and tried with them what I was able to, till now with no success. Nothing really important has been lost, so I will not invest too much work on th

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread David Brodbeck
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > The GNome Partition Editor probably does as much for a better price: > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php > I've never had much luck with gnuparted. I always get 'unsupported feature' when I try to use it on ext3 volumes. It doesn't seem to like NTFS, either.

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch

2007-02-26 Thread David Brodbeck
JB wrote: >> By the way, PEOPLE SHOULD STOP USING MP3! >> > > Agreed > > I thought about it a couple of times, but most of my music listening is on portable devices or my car stereo. Hardware ogg/Vorbis players are very thin on the ground. I'm not sure why, but I heard somewhere it's b

[opensuse] Konqueror can't open USB floppy.

2007-02-26 Thread David Brodbeck
My USB floppy won't open in Konqueror. Konqueror gives me this error message: 'Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist.' Any suggestions? This used to work, and I can access the drive fine with mtools. My USB thumbdrive still works, to

Re: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread ken
On 02/26/2007 11:40 AM somebody named Roger.Munoz wrote: > On 02/26/2007 09:22 AM somebody named Roger.Munoz wrote: >>> solving this one? >>> >>> >>> Roger >> I have almost the same problem on my Dell. When I switch from mains > to >> battery, there's a CPU spike which lasts for several minutes.

[opensuse] Bluetooth Mobile Phone Connectivity

2007-02-26 Thread Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)
Hi, Anyone have been able to use mobile phone with bluetooth (i.e. Nokia 6310) on SuSE 10.2? Its seems like bluetooth services are running, but there is nowhere to connect to mobile phone. The questions are: 1) How to pair KDE bluetooth services with mobile phone? I have several dialogs in K

[opensuse] Re: FreeNX problem on 10.2 [SOLVED]

2007-02-26 Thread Sunny
On 2/25/07, Sunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I have exactly the same problem as Elvis in this thread: Unfortunately, this is the only place I have found at least someone mentioning this problem. I have tried all the suggestions in th

Re: [opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread Jay Smith
>I just finished an evaluation of Beryl, Emerald and XGL on my Suse 10.2 >system and I have to say that Vista has nothing special in comparison. >What a desktop enhancement! > >Now, having said that, I have to report that I removed it all from the >computer because of the extra overhead that it

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Daniel: Use ddrescue #dd_rescue /dev/broken /dev/sda There is an rpm for suse. Ciao -=terry(Denver)=- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread Roger.Munoz
On 02/26/2007 09:22 AM somebody named Roger.Munoz wrote: >> solving this one? >> >> >> Roger > > I have almost the same problem on my Dell. When I switch from mains to > battery, there's a CPU spike which lasts for several minutes. I believe > it's due to hald, its being confused, perhaps in so

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-02-25 at 19:03 +0100, Daniel Bauer wrote: > > The HD (with Suse 10.0, ReiserFS) of my moms old laptop is broken and I > thought, maybe there's a possibility to revover her e-mails and some OOo > textfiles, but google wouldn't help

[opensuse] Beryl

2007-02-26 Thread Stevens
I just finished an evaluation of Beryl, Emerald and XGL on my Suse 10.2 system and I have to say that Vista has nothing special in comparison. What a desktop enhancement! Now, having said that, I have to report that I removed it all from the computer because of the extra overhead that it requir

Re: [opensuse] Microsoft ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 bln in patent case - MarketWatch

2007-02-26 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-02-26 at 01:43 -0500, Bryan S. Tyson wrote: > I still maintain that in casual conversation or email, when 99% of people > say "ogg," they are not really talking about ogg the container but > ogg/vorbis, the free and open audio forma

Re: [opensuse] Re: CPU reviews or comparisons for the average Linux user?

2007-02-26 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 26 February 2007 01:37, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007, Martin Mielke wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > you might find this chart interesting: > > > > http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/11/21/the_mother_of_all_cpu_charts > >_2005/pa ge39.html > > Nope. Too old. I don't think an

Re: [opensuse] Google Earth OT

2007-02-26 Thread A. den Oudsten
David Brodbeck wrote: A. den Oudsten wrote: nv (no 3D-support) So I suppose that my card indeed is too old for 3D No, you're using the open-source nv driver, which has no 3D acceleration whatsoever. You need to use the binary drivers from NVIDIA's site to get acceleration. I followed th

Re: [opensuse] su required to run, but permission denied?

2007-02-26 Thread jan kalcic
Jon Nelson wrote: >> >> One. Never use just 'su'. *always* use 'su -' to reset your environment. >> >> >> It's not so mandatory. It depends on what you really need to do. Regards, Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] S3 Savage and (XGL or AIGLX)

2007-02-26 Thread robermann
Hi all Is there anybody who get an S3 Savage card work with XGL or AIGLX? Days of google search but nothing... Regards Robermann -- Change your perspective... play the source code: www.codesounding.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additiona

Re: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread ken
On 02/26/2007 09:22 AM somebody named Roger.Munoz wrote: >> solving this one? >> >> >> Roger > > I have almost the same problem on my Dell. When I switch from mains to > battery, there's a CPU spike which lasts for several minutes. I believe > it's due to hald, its being confused, perhaps in so

[opensuse] Opensuse Mirror

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Standish
I am currently on a team which operates a large linux ftp mirror. We currently mirror the opensuse.org ftp site. We are interested in mirroring software.opensuse.org, guru and packman repositories. If someone would like to contact me off list I will respond with my work email and maybe we could

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread James Watkins
On Sunday 25 February 2007 18:03, Daniel Bauer wrote: > Is there a Linux tool to make a bootable CD, that will then search the disk > and give possibility to save found files to a floppy? I have found Insert to be very useful: http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html In your case, gpart and

Re: [opensuse] KNetworkManager: Such a tramp!

2007-02-26 Thread Timo Hoenig
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 12:55 -0900, John Andersen wrote: > My KNetworkManager seems to find networks (especially un-secured ones) > in the neighborhood and connect to these at random each time I power up. > > Is there a way to get it to stay home, and always connect to my router (which > does use

Re: [opensuse] PC won't boot from SuSE 10.2 DVD

2007-02-26 Thread S Glasoe
On Monday 26 February 2007 06:05:06 am Damon Register wrote: > I have an IBM NetVista PC with a 866 MHz Pentium 3. I just upgraded > to a new Samsumg DVD writer drive. The bios is configured to have the > DVD drive before the hard drive in the boot order. The PC is able to > boot with CD1 of the

RE: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread Roger.Munoz
> solving this one? > > > Roger I have almost the same problem on my Dell. When I switch from mains to battery, there's a CPU spike which lasts for several minutes. I believe it's due to hald, its being confused, perhaps in some loop which takes a lot of processing to resolve. The video is "j

[opensuse] NTFS-3G driver and boot time project

2007-02-26 Thread Rasto
Hello. I´ve got two question. My first question is about the ntfs-3g driver. Now, when is in a stable version will be the ntfs-3g driver available in openSUSE 10.3 default?Will it be possible to write to NTFS partition? And my second question is about boot time project(http://en.opensuse.org/Boo

Re: [opensuse] Wireless setup [OT]

2007-02-26 Thread Koenraad Lelong
Koenraad Lelong schreef: Russell Jones schreef: You could look at kismet http://www.kismetwireless.net/ , wellenreiter http://sourceforge.net/projects/wellenreiter/ and if you're feeling flush, wi-spy http://www.metageek.net/ ... Thanks for all suggestions. Since I think I could use that wi-

Re: [opensuse] Rosegarden for SuSE 10.2

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Damon Register <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-26-07 06:40]: > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > 19:54 wahoo:~ > smart query --show-channels rosegarden4 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [packman] > Thanks for your answer. If I understand correctly, I would have to > have SMART installed to be able to do this. to get

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 package management

2007-02-26 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Ross Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro > to OpenSuSE 10.2. In terms of package management, here is what I do with > 9.3: > > 1) Copy installation media to file server > 2) Periodically mirror updates to file server via rsync

Re: [opensuse] 10.2 package management

2007-02-26 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Kai Ponte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 23 February 2007 08:15:56 pm M Harris wrote: >> On Friday 23 February 2007 12:12, Ross Davis wrote: >> > I am trying to decide if I am ready to make the jump from SuSE 9.3 Pro >> > to OpenSuSE 10.2. >> >> You know what? If it aint broke leave

Re: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread ken
On 02/26/2007 07:56 AM somebody named Roger.Munoz wrote: > Hi all > > > I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FS415B laptop running opensuse 10.2. > > The problem I have is that when the system is running on AC adapter, the > system takes about two minutes to boot up and video playback is very > jerky despite

Re: [opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
Roger.Munoz wrote: > I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FS415B laptop running opensuse 10.2. > > The problem I have is that when the system is running on AC adapter, the > system takes about two minutes to boot up and video playback is very > jerky despite kpowersave reporting the cpu speed at 1.73 GHz!. > > T

[opensuse] Sony Vaio speed issue - battery normal, AC slow !!!

2007-02-26 Thread Roger.Munoz
Hi all I have a Sony Vaio VGN-FS415B laptop running opensuse 10.2. The problem I have is that when the system is running on AC adapter, the system takes about two minutes to boot up and video playback is very jerky despite kpowersave reporting the cpu speed at 1.73 GHz!. This problem is not app

Re: [opensuse] broken HD, data recovery possible?

2007-02-26 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Daniel Feiglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [02-26-07 01:34]: > I don't use ReiserFS, but I have a copy of Paragon's Partition Manager > on one of my Win clients which does "see" ReiserFS partitions. A quick > check of the User manual reveals that this program formats, copies, > resizes and moves ReiserFS

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