[opensuse-factory] ide module bug #250241

2007-03-16 Thread jdd
Hello :-) Trying to install alpha 3, (VirtualBox) I hit the bug in subject. I could do the install going to ncurse yast and loading the ide-disk module. however this module is located in the unknown folder and it takes me at least one hour to find it :-(, should it not be with the ide modules?

[opensuse-factory] interrupted install without root pass

2007-03-16 Thread jdd
Hello Trying to install alpha in the VirtualBox VM, I tested the minimal grafical I was asked for cd #(more than ) and did not give it (I haven't already dl them). This led me to the usual root screen, without having defined the root passwd. But the usual workaround don't work :-(

[opensuse-factory] DNS server IPs not retained in 10.2a2

2007-03-16 Thread Silviu Marin-Caea
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=255312 Added to most annoying list too. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse-factory] ide module bug #250241

2007-03-16 Thread Steffen Winterfeldt
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, jdd wrote: Hello :-) Trying to install alpha 3, (VirtualBox) I hit the bug in subject. I could do the install going to ncurse yast and loading the ide-disk module. however this module is located in the unknown folder and it takes me at least one hour to find it :-(,

Re: [opensuse-factory] ide module bug #250241

2007-03-16 Thread Juan Erbes
2007/3/16, jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello :-) Trying to install alpha 3, (VirtualBox) I hit the bug in subject. I could do the install going to ncurse yast and loading the ide-disk module. however this module is located in the unknown folder and it takes me at least one hour to find it :-(,

Re: [opensuse-factory] interrupted install without root pass

2007-03-16 Thread Anders Johansson
On Friday 16 March 2007 11:06, jdd wrote: starting the rescue, mounting /, chrooting to / and launching passwd led me to an error because of a bluefish (not sure of the word) /dev/random unavailable blowfish, not bluefish :) It is an encryption algorithm In the past few releases, you can't

[opensuse-factory] mkdir /sys

2007-03-16 Thread Donn Washburn
Hey Group; I am running SuSE 10.3 alpha - which runs very nice. I do have a question. Permissions are rather easy to figure out but what is NEW that causes root to not be able to mkdir in several places as in /sys. At boot time I get a error message that states my modem

Re: [opensuse-factory] mkdir /sys

2007-03-16 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:30:49PM -0500, Donn Washburn wrote: Hey Group; I am running SuSE 10.3 alpha - which runs very nice. I do have a question. Permissions are rather easy to figure out but what is NEW that causes root to not be able to mkdir in several places as in /sys. No one

[opensuse-factory] SuSEconfig apparent hang

2007-03-16 Thread Sid Boyce
Whilst doing update or software installation in YaST, I was getting an apparent hang during SuSEconfig of the tetex module - it has got stuck there for around 8 hours and counting until I killed SuSEconfig. While YaST was still updating packages, I tried installing another RPM and got a

[opensuse-factory] brp scripts in autobuild

2007-03-16 Thread andreas . hanke
Hi, from various discussions in bug reports I know that brp scripts for the following are installed in autobuild: - check whether .la files have an empty dependency_libs line - check whether .la and .pc files have references to the build root - check whether .desktop files have all their icons

Re: [opensuse-factory] brp scripts in autobuild

2007-03-16 Thread andreas . hanke
and others, if present The others are (or were): brp-check-buildroot brp-check-la brp-desktop brp-noexecstack brp-pie brp-rootfs (what does this do?) brp-rpath brp-strip-debug brp-symlink (this one is present in rpm) brp-tcl Other interesting scripts seem to be applied after the build: ...

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, M Harris wrote: So, WinNT did not truly implement preemption... and the WinNT kernel was never preemptable. Jives with my experience. I've written loops so tight (with no IO) that you had to power off the machine to kill them. Any IO in the loop, whether something

Re: [opensuse] What I Want

2007-03-16 Thread Benji Weber
On 3/16/07, Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ( I downloaded flash 9 from Macromedia and installed the rpm, then linked the /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so to the firefox/plugins directory.) You're making it far too difficult for yourself, simply install the flash-plugin package in

Re: [opensuse] What I Want

2007-03-16 Thread Benji Weber
On 3/16/07, Benji Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're making it far too difficult for yourself, simply install the flash-plugin package I meant flash-player of course, also there's even a flash 9 package in the mozilla repository: http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: Are you saying that only kernel security issues are relevant? The next security advisory (from today) was about PHP ... I'm afraid I just don't get what your talking about :-( Yes, its becoming obvious. php and mozilla can be compiled and will

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Doug McGarrett wrote:  And there still seem to be, according to the messages on this list. Don't come to a help list and then point to all the problems that show up there as evidence of a pandemic problem. That's like saying that all Fords are lemons, because that's

Re: [opensuse] ALC850 problems in 10.2

2007-03-16 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
M Harris escribió: You are being bitten by the decision of Novell to install *only* open code drivers... and unfortunately the Realtek stuff is not... realtek provides opensource drivers for their cards and that particular one is supported by ALSA perfectly. signature.asc

Re: [opensuse] What I Want

2007-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Benji Weber wrote: I meant flash-player of course, also there's even a flash 9 package in the mozilla repository: http://software.opensuse.org/download/mozilla/openSUSE_10.2 Unless you need x86_64. Still out of luck waiting for that version. --

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-security] Daylight Savings Time patches for SUSE version 9

2007-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Wednesday 2007-03-14 at 10:42 -0700, Roman Drahtmueller wrote: The Wednesday 2007-03-14 at 10:23 -0700, Char, Aissa wrote: Hello Aissa, Does anyone know where I can get Daylight Savings Time patches for SUSE version 9 There is

Re: [opensuse] ALC850 problems in 10.2

2007-03-16 Thread Anders Norrbring
Cristian Rodriguez R. skrev: M Harris escribió: You are being bitten by the decision of Novell to install *only* open code drivers... and unfortunately the Realtek stuff is not... realtek provides opensource drivers for their cards and that particular one is supported by ALSA perfectly.

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Clayton
What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at film.com. Basically the same functionality that a Windoes user would have on the same

[opensuse] install early version without messing grub

2007-03-16 Thread kanenas
What's the easiest way to install an earlier suse version on a spare partition and still keep the latest grub that comes with 10.2 (along with an intact 10.2 partition)? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] install early version without messing grub

2007-03-16 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
kanenas escribió: What's the easiest way to install an earlier suse version on a spare partition and still keep the latest grub that comes with 10.2 (along with an intact 10.2 partition)? why you need to install an earlier version in the first place ?? signature.asc Description:

Re: [opensuse] Determine Web Server type

2007-03-16 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:02 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph hth regards, Carl Yes, it helps, thanx. Curiously I get IIS on Linux ?? Akamai might use a reverse proxy cache that runs on linux but the webserver where the pages

Re: [opensuse] Getting YaST to update 3rd party apps

2007-03-16 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
Adam Jimerson escribió: It is slightly annoying to run the online update in YaST and it will tell me that there is no updates, then I go into Package All Packages Update if Newer Version is Available and it will have several updates listed. The default beaviuor is sane and I expect it will

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread Hartmut Meyer
Hi, On Friday 16 March 2007 08:21, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: Are you saying that only kernel security issues are relevant? The next security advisory (from today) was about PHP ... I'm afraid I just don't get what your talking about :-( Yes,

[opensuse] Strange dependency problem during distribution upgrade

2007-03-16 Thread Michael Schmuker
Dear list, I tried to update 10.1 to 10.2 using the download-iso. Yast was resolving the dependencies, and I followed the suggestions. Now, after two iterations of dependency display and resolving, the dependency-resolver-screen reappeared, but it was blank! No package displayed, no choice

[opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate: I run SUSE 10.0 and 10.1 on various computers. Usually, we set it up so that the computer time is set to UTC, and we then state where we are in the world. On many machines, we have a problem where the time seems to get

Re: [opensuse] setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-16 Thread Jerome R. Westrick
On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:12, David Mayr wrote: Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 19:47 schrieb John Andersen: On Thursday 15 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? Mirroring is not too bad for swap. When the system needs

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread peter nikolic
On Friday 16 March 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate: Any ideas or suggestions? Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all connected to the net or a network with one machine connected to the

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Fredag 16 marts 2007 11:23 skrev Roger Oberholtzer: This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate: I run SUSE 10.0 and 10.1 on various computers. Usually, we set it up so that the computer time is set to UTC, and we then state where we are in the world. On many

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 11:23 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On many machines, we have a problem where the time seems to get screwy between boots. It is usually the time of day more than the date. The error seems to be random. Not just the

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-16 Thread Anders Norrbring
Anders Norrbring skrev: Sandy Drobic skrev: jdd wrote: Anders Norrbring wrote: actually a software based piece of trash with a BIOS onboard. Oh, I also placed an order for a Adaptec 2820SA HBA which is a real RAID controller sqorry if I seem silly, but how can any raid controller work

Re: [opensuse] What I Want

2007-03-16 Thread Tony Alfrey
Stevens wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 21:02, Tony Alfrey wrote: I am in the process of building a new box and am loading up Firefox/Sea Monkey and found that flash and quick time plug-ins were not available for Firefox/Sea Monkey for linux. Did you somehow get flash functioning? Thanks

Re: [opensuse] very weird error on make install for netspeed-applet

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
Cristian Rodriguez R. wrote: Abstract escribió: /usr/local/share/omf/netspeed_applet /bin/sh: line 3: 11269 Segmentation fault scrollkeeper-update -p `scrollkeeper-config --pkglocalstatedir` -o there is your problem, some application segfaults there. segfault is short for

Re: [opensuse] very weird error on make install for netspeed-applet

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
Russell Jones wrote Though it's not very revealing. You need to see what the configure script was doing at that point (use the less command). It may give you a clue. Sorry, see the install: section of the Makefile, not the configure script. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Adam Williams
What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at film.com. Basically the same functionality that a Windoes user would have on the

[opensuse] Vista shares again

2007-03-16 Thread Hans van der Merwe
I can't find any bug reports at kde.org or openSUSE about Vista shares not working in KDE Konqueror (smb://). Anyone else also having issues with this - or just me? (mount -f cifs, by hand works) E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread James Knott
Kai Ponte wrote: The OS/2 machine finished all tasks in about two minutes. The Win95 machine finished in half an hour. It was amazing. My morning routine at work, with a computer running XP. Turn on computer. Go get coffee Logon to XP Enjoy coffee and read newspaper, while waiting

Re: [opensuse] samba vs cifs ... what's the diff?

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: But Open Source should not have these problems. That's why its open. Anybody can pick it up and maintain it. It still has the advantage that there isn't abandonware and cemeteryware, i.e. products that are dead /and/ buried. These projects can be picked up, whilst

Re: [opensuse] Strange dependency problem during distribution upgrade

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:18 +0100, Michael Schmuker wrote: Dear list, I tried to update 10.1 to 10.2 using the download-iso. Yast was resolving the dependencies, and I followed the suggestions. Now, after two iterations of dependency display and resolving, the dependency-resolver-screen

Re: [opensuse] mod_perl in OpenSuse 10.2

2007-03-16 Thread David Bolt
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Michael Folsom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:- David, Richard, Bruce - Thanks to all - I have learned lots however still not enough to solve the original problem - Anyway, after I edit mod_perl.con to include the suggested changes I still can't run scripts from /srv/www/perl-lib

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:32 +, peter nikolic wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: This is probably a hardware issue, but I need to see how to investigate: Any ideas or suggestions? Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all connected to

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: So, we then tried setting the computer to local time, informing SUSE of this. Same problem. It is not SuSE's problem, it is yours :-p By 'informing SUSE of this', I meant that we made sure the sysconfig was set to understand that we

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 11:23 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On many machines, we have a problem where the time seems to get screwy between boots. It is usually the time of day more

Re: [opensuse] Off Topic List ?

2007-03-16 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-15-07 23:13]: Is there an off topic list officially? I went out to the openSUSE site and looked through the mailing lists... but don't find it... if it exists. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by mlmmj X-Mailinglist:

Re: [opensuse] Re: Novell's Virtual Server Deployment Solution [Was: VMware]

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007, Greg Freemyer wrote: Novell Data Center Management Solutions The brain of Novell data center management is Novell ZENworks(r) Rest of post missed due to the commotion of every one running screaming from the room. They really

Re: [opensuse] Mount problem

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
John Andersen wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Sunny wrote: I used the 10.0 fstab as an example to mount the hda partitions for my 10.2 fstab and added the hda lines I needed. No good. When I boot 10.2 it boots to a console and X is not started. I had to delete the new 10.2 fstab to

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Tom Patton
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:14 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: I'm not a script wizard, maybe someone will chime it... Couldn't you parse a NEMA sentence to get mmddhhmm.ss to use for the argument to date? Use that in a script parse

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:32 +, peter nikolic wrote: Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all connected to the net or a network with one machine connected to the internet setup a ntp server use that to check against at boo time ..

[opensuse] Re: Kernel Modules [OT]

2007-03-16 Thread Russell Jones
Kai Ponte wrote: For example, I often use the Cisco VPN client to telecommute. It seems that every few weeks - I guess when kernel update happens - the client fails. I'm then forced to recompile. In the case of a vpn client I would tend to agree, I see very little reason for placing

Re: [opensuse] Mount problem

2007-03-16 Thread Sunny
On 3/15/07, Bob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Sunny, Yast partitioner did the trick. Still am curious why editing fstab didn't work though, Oh Well! Thanks again If you have saved your old fstab, than compare it with the one cuild by yast and you will see why :) Anyway ... I'm glad it

Re: [opensuse] very weird error on make install for netspeed-applet

2007-03-16 Thread Abstract
Russel and all others, thank you for the tip. You make a good point about why the applet is not available easily anyways and stuff like this is probably it. I never had a compiled source break after the ./configure or make steps, especially in make install. I thought that was th easy part. :)

[opensuse] Re: setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-16 Thread Joachim Schrod
Jerome R. Westrick wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 20:12, David Mayr wrote: Am Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 19:47 schrieb John Andersen: On Thursday 15 March 2007, James D. Parra wrote: Isn't mirroring a swap partition a bad idea, or at the least wasteful? Mirroring is not too bad for swap.

[opensuse] Re: setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-16 Thread Joachim Schrod
James D. Parra wrote: Hello, I have two identical drives, mirrored as /dev/md0, however I am unable to carve out mount points on it or put a swap partition on it. One drive is a system drive and I'd like to mirror it. What is the best way to accomplish this? Normally you don't mirror drives,

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-16 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Fri, March 16, 2007 11:09, Anders Norrbring wrote: Oh yeah. Today the Adaptec 2820SA adapter arrived... What a difference! Everything runs on the controller, and it's MORE than twice as fast than the Highpoint. Glad to hear! Hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:39 +, Dave Howorth wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:32 +, peter nikolic wrote: Can't you use NTP to set the time on boot i take it they are all connected to the net or a network with one machine connected to the internet

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 07:12 -0600, Tom Patton wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 13:14 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:42 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: I'm not a script wizard, maybe someone will chime it... Couldn't you parse a NEMA sentence to get mmddhhmm.ss to use

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-16 Thread Anders Norrbring
Hans du Plooy skrev: On Fri, March 16, 2007 11:09, Anders Norrbring wrote: Oh yeah. Today the Adaptec 2820SA adapter arrived... What a difference! Everything runs on the controller, and it's MORE than twice as fast than the Highpoint. Glad to hear! Hans You get what you pay for.. ;)

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Stevens
On Friday 16 March 2007 03:02, Clayton wrote: What I want is a system that has a web browser that can display the streaming videos included on many websites, including the different news services like Reuters, ABC, CNN, etc at Yahoo.com and the trailers at film.com. Basically the same

Re: [opensuse] Strange dependency problem during distribution upgrade

2007-03-16 Thread Michael Schmuker
If in yast, on the 10.1 install, have you selected the option to reset any conflicts that have been set to be ignored? If there are any, maybe the 10.2 yast in the install gets confused. Just something to try. [...] Perhaps you should rebuild your rpm database. Tried both, no change...

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Dave Howorth
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: The values are over a serial port. These are high-end Trimble receivers. The reason for the serial port is that there is a pulse-per-second signal that tells when certain calculations in the receiver were done. We are striving for sub-meter accuracy in a vehicle

Re: [opensuse] Off Topic List ?

2007-03-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 15 March 2007 23:25, Charles philip Chan wrote: On 16 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huh. Is there a way to decode rot13 in KMail? Can't find an option in kmail, but my lowly Gnus can. ;-) As could Mozilla. I don't know if that's still in Firefox, but I'm kind of guessing

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Sunny
On 3/16/07, Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then maybe you can call, skype or IM me and tell me what I am doing wrong, because Suse 10.2 is the only system that it doesn't work on here, and I have done (3) 10.2 installs so far. email me off list to continue this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fred

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE, IBM ServeRAID, I/O Errors

2007-03-16 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have an IBM xSeries with an IBM ServeRAID controller running openSUSE 10.1. Previously, for years, this server ran SuSE 9.2 and was absolutely ROCK solid. a lot changed, also the driver, as you can (now) see it is now capable to fetch this special case it is now capable to fetch this

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 15:40 +, Dave Howorth wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: The values are over a serial port. These are high-end Trimble receivers. The reason for the serial port is that there is a pulse-per-second signal that tells when certain calculations in the receiver were done.

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 16 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: But then you're not really talking about old/unsupported versions anymore. Instead you're talking about something that started as - say - 8.1 but by now has hardly any resemblance to that version anymore. Simply because you kept updating all

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread Chuck Amadi
John Andersen wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007, Hartmut Meyer wrote: But then you're not really talking about old/unsupported versions anymore. Instead you're talking about something that started as - say - 8.1 but by now has hardly any resemblance to that version anymore. Simply because you

Re: [opensuse] Re: setting up a raid (Suse 10.0)

2007-03-16 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 16 March 2007, Joachim Schrod wrote: SUSE normally starts mdadm and notifies you about disk breakage. For extended supervision Nagios is even better. That has not been my experience. I've always had to take steps to make sure mdadm is started in monitor mode at each boot. --

[opensuse] Grub Boot Loader Question

2007-03-16 Thread russbucket
Just installed the new kernel update. Grub was effected slightly. Had to add failsafe. Is the following correct? I copied the old menu.lst entry and change the Kernel version. (line wrap caused by kmail). ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe

Re: [opensuse] install early version without messing grub

2007-03-16 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Friday 16 March 2007 04:09, kanenas wrote: What's the easiest way to install an earlier suse version on a spare partition and still keep the latest grub that comes with 10.2 (along with an intact 10.2 partition)? The answer is to NOT allow the install of the earlier suse write its boot

Re: [opensuse] Grub Boot Loader Question

2007-03-16 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-03-16 11:53, russbucket wrote: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- opensuse 10.2 root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.1-default root=/dev/hdb5 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi =off apic

[opensuse] Scanner for Linux

2007-03-16 Thread Lívio Cipriano
Hi all, Any suggestions for an USB 2.0 scanner for Linux? -- Regards, Lívio Cipriano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Grub Boot Loader Question

2007-03-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 10:53 -0700, russbucket wrote: Just installed the new kernel update. Grub was effected slightly. Had to add failsafe. The old file was saved by the update, you can recover it complete. Is the following correct? I

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 13:18 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Actually: - set up the clock. To local or UTC time? To whatever time your clock uses. For instance, if I do (as root): nimrodel:~ # date Fri Mar 16 20:00:02 CET 2007

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 16:59 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: photocells to precisely locate control measurements. As serial and parallel ports go away in modern computers, I wonder how this functionality will be maintained. Expensive I/O cards

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 20:14 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 16:59 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: photocells to precisely locate control measurements. As serial and parallel ports go away in modern computers, I wonder

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 20:06 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 13:18 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Actually: - set up the clock. To local or UTC time? To whatever time your clock uses. For instance, if I

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
BandiPat wrote: One thing to remember here. These sites are not always designed well or correctly. Either on purpose or just stupidity, they don't always build their sites with everyone in mind, nor do they bother testing beyond one browser. Sad, but true fact of life. Very true. If

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-16 Thread David Brodbeck
John Andersen wrote: My point was, that without testing a samba or nfs transfer you have no way of judging the load imposed by scp. I kind of wish there was a flag to tell scp to negotiate the password in a secure way, but *not* to encrypt the transfer. Often, when I'm copying files over a

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread Richard Bos
Op vrijdag 16 maart 2007 05:29, schreef Kai Ponte: The OS/2 machine finished all tasks in about two minutes. The Win95 machine finished in half an hour. I like this comparison, which I did last week because openSUSE felt so much faster. Well see for your self: 1. System comparison Creating

Re: [opensuse] SuSe 10.2/64 4Gb memory problem

2007-03-16 Thread Alexey Eremenko
try kernel-bigsmp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Grub Boot Loader Question

2007-03-16 Thread russbucket
On Friday March 16 2007 11:56, Carlos E. R. wrote: Thanks to Carlos and Darryl. The space must be a slip odf my finger, its not in the old version. I'll remove it and see what happens. The Friday 2007-03-16 at 10:53 -0700, russbucket wrote: Just installed the new kernel update. Grub was

[opensuse] move a Reiser partition, adjustments of GRUB bootloader

2007-03-16 Thread Birgit Kellner
Hi, I have a laptop with openSuSE 10.2 and Windows XP as dual-boot with GRUB as bootloader. SuSE currently has one Reiser partition plus a swap partition, and there are two Windows partitions, one hidden and one, well, not. It turns out that I need more space for XP, so I first shrank the

Re: [opensuse] Scanner for Linux

2007-03-16 Thread John Pierce
Any suggestions for an USB 2.0 scanner for Linux? I do not know about single function flatbeds, but we have an Epson CX6600 PSC that is greatly supported. Opensuse 10.2 with the iscan-free packages configures it out of the box. You will still need to setup the saned portion if you want

Re: [opensuse] [SLE] Slow transfers from Linux Server

2007-03-16 Thread John Pierce
But scp is so convenient for doing copies compared to the trouble of setting up an NFS mount (and then dealing with processes hanging in the D state every time the server is down.) -- I use rsync and ssh to backup our home directories and the initial transfer of my folder was about 2.0+ GB and

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread John Pierce
The best server operations team is a Man and a German Shepard Dog. The man is there to feed the dog, and the dog is there to make sure the man never touches the machine. I certainly agree, I have a myth backend running on opensuse 10.2. The only updates I allow are to mythtv, that is to gain

[opensuse] kotd on opensuse 10.1

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I would like to install a newer kernel than the one that came with 10.1 so I can take advantage of sata hot swapping that works better than in the kernel that comes with that release. I have added a 2.6.17 kernel on my own and it works fine. But there are little things that are different from the

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Peter Bradley
Ysgrifennodd David Brodbeck: Some sites are still designed for Internet Explorer only, and it will be a cold day in hell before Microsoft ports that to Linux. I understand you can get it to work in CrossOver Office. If you really want to. Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] SATA RAID recommendations?

2007-03-16 Thread Michael Folsom
I've got about 6 large sata raids (16 drives in each) and many smaller guys - all with 3ware cards in them - frankly with no problems at all. The 3ware cards are more expensive but if you really want a raid that works day in and day out they are the way to go - M-- On 3/4/07, Anders Norrbring

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 20:32 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: This file serves to compensate the hardware (cmos) clock for drift. If the drift is very wrong, your clock will be set very wrong on next boot. Do you know how drift is computed?

[opensuse] AppArmored FireFox for openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-16 Thread Alexey Eremenko
hi all ! I would like to feature-request AppArmored FireFox for openSUSE 10.3 ! The point is: Microsoft did Protected-mode Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista, and so, our community must respond with something. The best response I see is an AppArmored profile for FireFox. I think openSUSE

Re: [opensuse] Why I don't upgrade often

2007-03-16 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Thursday 15 March 2007 19:12, M Harris wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 18:53, Doug McGarrett wrote: One of the other things that bothers me is the continual changes to or elimination of things that work, in favor of cutting-edge stuff that doesn't actually work. Are you running

Re: [opensuse] Time stability

2007-03-16 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-03-16 at 20:30 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: rs232 -- usb converters, that's the cheap way... Except that usb converters do not transfer all the modem control lines quickly. At least the ones I have tried.The pps signal is on

Re: [opensuse] What I Want (was Why I don't upgrade often)

2007-03-16 Thread Richard Bos
Op vrijdag 16 maart 2007 22:25, schreef Peter Bradley: Ysgrifennodd David Brodbeck: Some sites are still designed for Internet Explorer only, and it will be a cold day in hell before Microsoft ports that to Linux. I understand you can get it to work in CrossOver Office. If you really

[opensuse] Re: AppArmored FireFox for openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-16 Thread Alexey Eremenko
P.S. The armored version must have a separate icon too... what about a knight ? Or FireFox icon with small shield on it? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] AppArmored FireFox for openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-16 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:40:37PM +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote: hi all ! I would like to feature-request AppArmored FireFox for openSUSE 10.3 ! The point is: Microsoft did Protected-mode Internet Explorer 7 in Windows Vista, and so, our community must respond with something. The best

Re: [opensuse] AppArmored FireFox for openSUSE 10.3

2007-03-16 Thread Michael Nelson
I'd much rather they devote those resources to getting the package management / update stuff right on this, the third try. -- If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is God is crying. And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is Probably

[opensuse] Does anyhave has the NVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 working on opensuse-10.2?

2007-03-16 Thread Richard Bos
The subject basically says it all: Does anyhave has the NVidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 working on opensuse-10.2? If yes how did you do it? I followed some howto's and the last helped me the most, which is this one: http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA The build starts, but the compile fails with: ERROR:

[opensuse] High-speed date transfer using a USB cable?

2007-03-16 Thread Paul Abrahams
I want to copy the contents of a partition from a disk drive on one machine to a disk drive on another. Within a single computer I can do this using the dd command, but it isn't clear how to use that command for networked data transfers. I'm also wondering about doing the transfer using a USB

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