[opensuse-factory] rug forgot on what platform it runs

2007-04-03 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Hi, I can not use rug anymore on my system. It seems not to be a general problem of zmd, as zen-updater for example is perfectly able to install the updates. if I issue a 'rug ping', the OS is marked as {noarch} and whenever I issue a rug in packet this ends with an error, without a very nifty

Re: [opensuse-factory] rug forgot on what platform it runs

2007-04-03 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
Hi, On 03-04-2007 at 14:45, Dominique Leuenberger if I issue a 'rug ping', the OS is marked as {noarch} and whenever I issue a rug in packet this ends with an error, without a very nifty message stating what could be wrong. I've seen a very similiar (equal) bug existed through ALPHA of

Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages in default installation (tsclient)

2007-04-03 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Terje J. Hanssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-02 12:50]: Terje J. Hanssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 I haven't read through this whole thread, but I miss immediately the following two usual packages for seamless integration of openSUSE Linux with Windows (to run Winapps):

Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages in default installation (tsclient)

2007-04-03 Thread Terje J. Hanssen
Benji Weber skrev: On 4/2/07, Terje J. Hanssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terje J. Hanssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 I haven't read through this whole thread, but I miss immediately the following two usual packages for seamless integration of openSUSE Linux with Windows

Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages in default installation (tsclient)

2007-04-03 Thread Terje J. Hanssen
* Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote on Tue, 3 Apr 2007 * * Terje J. Hanssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-04-02 12:50]: / I filed a bug about ICA and a RFE about missing tsclient rpms at./ / https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=223735/ / / / As I still haven't found any

RE: [opensuse-factory] Packages in default installation (tsclient)

2007-04-03 Thread Robison, Jonathon (M.)
Be nice. No snapping at each other ;-) --jmr -Original Message- From: Terje J. Hanssen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 4:21 PM To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages in default installation (tsclient) * Bernhard Walle

[opensuse] Resolvable NetworkManager, transaction failed

2007-04-03 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Hi list... Oh, this update thingy. On my SUSE102. the small taskbar icon is orange. I click to update, get a list of updates and I proceed. I accept the stuff to upgrade and then I get: Transactions failed: Resolvable NetworkManager 0.6.4-51 (http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/suse/update/10.2)

[opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it was only for Windows. Encrypted DVDs, no problem. It's got all the codecs you need. I'm one happy newbie Linux user. Got my jazz radio

[opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 x86_64 RAM disk server lock ups

2007-04-03 Thread David Wilson
Hi guys, How are you keeping ? I have three Opensuse 10.2 x86_64 installations running on separate HP-ML370G4/5 servers (Dual Xeon). Both systems have 4gigs of RAM each. On these systems I'm running Asterisk which provides telephony for a 100 seat call center. The conversations that are

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Ralf Müller
Am 02.04.2007 um 19:51 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: We currently use LTO. It works ok - for a tape. As all tapes it is slow as hell for recovery case, a LTO media is mechanically robust but can't be used that often (we change media after 15 backup cycles and already had rejected tapes). We

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Ralf Müller
Am 03.04.2007 um 07:13 schrieb John Andersen: Yes. Seagate has announced them and Hitachi is about to deliver ... Tapes wear out just doing their job. They wear out sitting on the shelf. Ack. Disks don't need to be trundled. Not with today's bandwidth. The entire backup can be off

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 x86_64 RAM disk server lock ups

2007-04-03 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, David Wilson wrote: If I disable the RAM disk and record the conversation straight to hard disk then everything is fine - the servers do not lock up. Unfortunately I have to use the RAM disk due to performance issues with writing the recordings straight to disk. It

Re: [opensuse] openoffice with nvidia X angs when press menu

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-04-02 at 21:45 -0400, Nate Pearlstein wrote: There are some options in OOo to disable 3D that might help. I have tried /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/soffice uncommenting export SAL_NOOPENGL=true; to no avail. Are there some more

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 10:21 +0200, Ralf Müller wrote: You can get 1TB drives? Ok - give it 3 month ... : rumored not to be as reliable as normal sizes, yet. Not robust. Not easy to handle (*FRAGILE*) and certainly NOT

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Jan Tiggy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dwain wrote: You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it was only for Windows. Encrypted DVDs, no problem. It's got all the codecs

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Mark Goldstein wrote: On 4/3/07, Jan Tiggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dwain wrote: You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it

Re: [opensuse] DVD Installation using Sony device

2007-04-03 Thread Rui Santos
John Hughes wrote: It's a Foxconn P9657AA motherboard with Intel E6300 dual core processor. The motherboard has P965 + ICH8/ICH8R chipsets. Probably your DVD is not being recognized by that current Kernel Driver. Do you have your IDE BIOS settings at Compatible/Legacy mode ? If so, try to

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 4/3/07, Jan Tiggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dwain wrote: You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it was only for Windows.

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Jan Tiggy wrote: dwain wrote: You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it was only for Windows. Encrypted DVDs, no problem. It's got all the codecs you need. I'm one happy

[opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
How do I get the program to read the dvd? what audio and video codecs should I use? Dwain -- Dwain Alford P.O. Box 145 Winfield, Alabama 35594 telephone: 205.487.2570 cellphone: 205.495.5619 The artist may use any form which his expression demands; for his inner impulse must find suitable

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 04:50 -0500, dwain wrote: I'll have to try mplayer then. You can also try xine - with the added benefit that kafeine and amarok (and more) use the xine-lib engine. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [opensuse] Resolvable NetworkManager, transaction failed

2007-04-03 Thread James Knott
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list... Oh, this update thingy. On my SUSE102. the small taskbar icon is orange. I click to update, get a list of updates and I proceed. I accept the stuff to upgrade and then I get: Transactions failed: Resolvable NetworkManager 0.6.4-51

Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 4/3/07, dwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get the program to read the dvd? what audio and video codecs should I use? I installed w32codec-all from Pacman and had no trouble since (played DVD and so on). I remember that when compiling MPlayer from sources, I did have to install

Re: [opensuse] Resolvable NetworkManager, transaction failed

2007-04-03 Thread Verner Kjærsgaard
Tirsdag 03 april 2007 13:26 skrev James Knott: Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Hi list... Oh, this update thingy. On my SUSE102. the small taskbar icon is orange. I click to update, get a list of updates and I proceed. I accept the stuff to upgrade and then I get: Transactions failed:

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 04:50 -0500, dwain wrote: I'll have to try mplayer then. You can also try xine - with the added benefit that kafeine and amarok (and more) use the xine-lib engine. Well, i tried Mplayer and I couldn't get it to work. As with Jan, who had a bad

Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread Jan Tiggy
dwain wrote: How do I get the program to read the dvd? what audio and video codecs should I use? First of all if you want a multimedia SUSE then you need additional repositories: - packman (libxine1, w32codec, xvid, mplayer, mencoder, KMplayer, Mplayer, Kaffeine, vdr, vlc)

Re: [opensuse] openoffice with nvidia X angs when press menu

2007-04-03 Thread Nate Pearlstein
Carlos E. R. wrote: The Monday 2007-04-02 at 21:45 -0400, Nate Pearlstein wrote: There are some options in OOo to disable 3D that might help. I have tried /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/soffice uncommenting export SAL_NOOPENGL=true; to no avail. Are there some more 3d variables soemwhere?

Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Jan Tiggy wrote: dwain wrote: How do I get the program to read the dvd? what audio and video codecs should I use? First of all if you want a multimedia SUSE then you need additional repositories: - packman (libxine1, w32codec, xvid, mplayer, mencoder, KMplayer, Mplayer,

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Ralf Müller
Am 03.04.2007 um 11:10 schrieb Carlos E. R.: You can get 1TB drives? Ok - give it 3 month ... : rumored not to be as reliable as normal sizes, yet. This may be. The Hitachi drives are not released yet. But to speak for these 750GB Segate drives, which are the same technology: I have

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Hudibras
El mar, 03-04-2007 a las 06:55 -0500, dwain escribió: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 04:50 -0500, dwain wrote: Vlc is a very great multimedia player, maybe the best one. I can play all type of files, and it never complains at all. Xine engine is good, but not great; IMHO,

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/04/03 03:03 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it was only for Windows. Encrypted DVDs, no problem. It's got all the codecs you

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Jan Tiggy
dwain wrote: But I'm not interested in a multimedia program flame war. We all have our preferences and use what works for us. Some like Koffice and others like Open Office. Some like xine, others Mplayer and I have found that VLC meets my needs. I guess that's what it's all about. Windows or

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/04/03 03:03 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it was only for Windows. Encrypted DVDs, no problem. It's

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 06:55 -0500, dwain wrote: I appreciate the recommendation of xine though. Welcome. We each have our preferred apps. :-) By the way, xine also finds the needed codec automatically, if it is in the system; if it is not,

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Hudibras wrote: El mar, 03-04-2007 a las 06:55 -0500, dwain escribió: Carlos E. R. wrote: The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 04:50 -0500, dwain wrote: Vlc is a very great multimedia player, maybe the best one. I can play all type of files, and it never complains at all. Xine

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Hudibras
El mar, 03-04-2007 a las 08:27 -0400, Felix Miata escribió: On 2007/04/03 03:03 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: You can have amtrax and kaffine and xmms. The best media player out there is vlc. I have it on my Windows box and now I have it for Linux; and I thought it was only for

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/04/03 07:45 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: Felix Miata wrote: vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and switch the equalizer on and off. To view your dvd select File/Open Disc. Make sure your dvd player is in the Customize box under Advanced Options and clik OK.

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread dwain
Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/04/03 07:45 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: Felix Miata wrote: vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and switch the equalizer on and off. To view your dvd select File/Open Disc. Make sure your dvd player is in the

Re: [opensuse] Communicating with Vista

2007-04-03 Thread Matthias Titeux
Le Lundi 19 Mars 2007 00:35, Paul Abrahams a écrit : I just got a new laptop with Vista preinstalled (I'm sure I'm hardly the only one). Apparently Vista has trouble communicating with Windows XP, and the XP solution is to install a protocol called LLTP. A Google search revealed that there's

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 4/3/07, Ralf Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 03.04.2007 um 11:10 schrieb Carlos E. R.: In theory a HD electronics can break down. In the same circumstances with removable media, the media itself can survive, you just replace the drive and recover the data. There are more things that

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Steve Jeppesen
On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:27:44 -0400 Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been thoroughly displeased with Kaffeine, so upon seeing this thread I immediately installed vlc. 10.2/packman/guru installation seemed to go normally, but vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and

Re: [opensuse] Communicating with Vista

2007-04-03 Thread Martin J Hooper
Matthias Titeux wrote: Le Lundi 19 Mars 2007 00:35, Paul Abrahams a écrit : I just got a new laptop with Vista preinstalled (I'm sure I'm hardly the only one). Apparently Vista has trouble communicating with Windows XP, and the XP solution is to install a protocol called LLTP. A Google search

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 02:10, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... By the way, I just seen for the home market HD external boxes with an ethernet port: small cpu + some memory. Some support some kind of ftp or http server, NFS and / or CIFS are usually the primary file access protocols and

Re: [opensuse] Communicating with Vista

2007-04-03 Thread John Pierce
I just got a new laptop with Vista preinstalled (I'm sure I'm hardly the only one). I got one too, the first thing I did was insert my OpenSuSE 10.2 bootable dvd and wipe out vista completely (including the recovery partition). The best way to communicate with vista, DON'T. If I could have

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/04/03 08:36 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/04/03 07:45 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: Felix Miata wrote: vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and switch the equalizer on and off. To view your dvd select File/Open Disc. Make sure

[opensuse] Weird KDE Crash

2007-04-03 Thread Jay Smith
Let me give you a little background. I have recently been having CPU fan errors and as you know, when it goes out, my CPU overheats and computer locks up. Reluctantly, I have to reboot the computer the hard way. Now, I have done that no more than 20 times in it's life (or at least since i've

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Quoting Adam Tauno Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Next time we need to change backup system we will go to USB/eSATA disks - one disk for each tape media we currently have in use: Pro: - you don't need an expensive tape-drive - you can already have 1TB per media You can get 1TB

Re: [opensuse] Communicating with Vista

2007-04-03 Thread Catimimi
Paul Abrahams a écrit : I just got a new laptop with Vista preinstalled (I'm sure I'm hardly the only one). Apparently Vista has trouble communicating with Windows XP, and the XP solution is to install a protocol called LLTP. A Google search revealed that there's been some effort to make

Re: [opensuse] Weird KDE Crash

2007-04-03 Thread Carl Hartung
On Tue April 3 2007 12:08, Jay Smith wrote: snip This problem happened right after the latest hard reboot. Any ideas as to what might fix it? I really don't want to have to reinstall. Thanks all. Hi Jay, There's nothing weird about it... the filesystem has not been shut down correctly. When

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Ralf Müller wrote: There is much less fragile   mechanics in it, there is no electronics in it ... Who are you trying to kid? -- _ John Andersen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] Communicating with Vista

2007-04-03 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Matthias Titeux wrote: Le Lundi 19 Mars 2007 00:35, Paul Abrahams a écrit : I just got a new laptop with Vista preinstalled (I'm sure I'm hardly the only one). Apparently Vista has trouble communicating with Windows XP, and the XP solution is to install a protocol

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
FYI: Media that has an alignment track laid down by the manufacturer will be destroyed by using a tape degausser, so a quick test to see if your drive uses an alignment track is to take a tape media you plan to throw-out and run a $30 tape degauser across it. If the tape fails to work at

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
Next time we need to change backup system we will go to USB/eSATA disks - one disk for each tape media we currently have in use: Pro: - you don't need an expensive tape-drive - you can already have 1TB per media You can get 1TB drives? Yes. Advertised in the Sunday paper at

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:04 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Ralf Müller wrote: There is much less fragile mechanics in it, there is no electronics in it ... Who are you trying to kid? That there are no electronics in a tape? Take one apart sometime, there isn't. --

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: But if you want to have 50+ USB chassis with hard drives to cycle your backup on then by all means.   And if you purchase eggs in a sac you will see breakage as well. You keep putting forth this idea that hard drives should be moved around

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:04 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Ralf Müller wrote: There is much less fragile mechanics in it, there is no electronics in it ... Who are you trying to kid? That there are no

Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread JB2
On 03 April 07 06:57, Jan Tiggy wrote: snip But be careful while downloading. Few files, especially libdvdcss, might violate some King George's Acts and AFAIK Alabama still conduct capital punishment... Keep your political views off the list. thx Jan Yeah, whatever. -- To

Re: [opensuse] Help Killling Process

2007-04-03 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
Gnome System Monitor also works great. On one machine I use Gnome a lot so It helps to have something handy on the tool bar. I keep it on the lower one. CWSIV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] making mplayer work

2007-04-03 Thread Jan Tiggy
JB2 wrote: Keep your political views off the list. Yeah sure 'coz you say so. Sue me ;-) For my part this topic is closed! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Adding biometric security to a computer

2007-04-03 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
An African charity my church works does micro loans to help really small businesses. These are not cash but small bank accounts secured with cards, passwords and fingerprint readers which also check for a pulse. This last eliminating the cut finger risk and well publicized to save the customers

Re: [opensuse]] Win vs Lin info

2007-04-03 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:48 +, Russell Jones wrote: Don't confuse certainty with ideology. Hedge your bets and you won't be wrong. But you won't be right either. I know MS is appropriate in certain situations. But one needs to take their strategy and the distortions they create to

Re: [opensuse] Weird KDE Crash

2007-04-03 Thread Sunny
On 4/3/07, Jay Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me give you a little background. I have recently been having CPU fan errors and as you know, when it goes out, my CPU overheats and computer locks up. Reluctantly, I have to reboot the computer the hard way. Now, I have done that no more than

[opensuse] OT: Monitoring uptime, downtime/uptime, reboots, availability/stability of Suse Linux servers

2007-04-03 Thread Rejaine Monteiro
Hi all, This is off-topic, but maybe someone can help me.. I need to monitor uptime, downtime/uptime and reboots for all my Suse Linux servers and show for all users in a simple way all statistics of servers avalilibity/stability I'm using Nagios to monitor servers, hardware and services,

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 10:20 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote: ... There are 2 categories of tape, those with a manufacturer's alignment track and those without. Those with should also survive a multi-foot drop onto concrete. Those without will

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 10:30 -0800, John Andersen wrote: That there are no electronics in a tape? Take one apart sometime, there isn't. There are no electronics in a disk PLATTER either. John, that's grasping at straws. I wasn't aware

Re: [opensuse] what a great media player

2007-04-03 Thread kanenas
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/04/03 08:36 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: Felix Miata wrote: On 2007/04/03 07:45 (GMT-0500) dwain apparently typed: Felix Miata wrote: vlc refuses to do anything other than open, close, and switch the equalizer on and off. To

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 07:44 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007 02:10, Carlos E. R. wrote: ... By the way, I just seen for the home market HD external boxes with an ethernet port: small cpu + some memory. Some

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread jdd
Carlos E. R. wrote: I wasn't aware you could buy the platter separately, and insert it into a drive bought without platter. zip drives, jazz ones, and now DVD, bluray... all reading sequencially. tapes are good as long as you don't need the data... jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien

Re: [opensuse] Help Widescreen 1680x1050, Intel 915G can't get display configured

2007-04-03 Thread david rankin
From: Sunny On 3/28/07, david rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mates. I have a new Acer AL2216W that runs native at 1680x1050. The install is Suse 10 with xorg-x11-6.8.2-100.2. The video card supports 1680x1050 Oh man, I just saw what you are using ... so bad luck. I ordered one of

RE: [opensuse] OpenSuse 10.2 x86_64 RAM disk server lock ups

2007-04-03 Thread David Wilson
Hi John, Thanks for your reply. Basically there is no real structure under /var/spool/asterisk/monitor - it's one directory. While 60 or so agents are on calls there will be 60 .wav file being written simultaneously to the RAM disk. The filesystem was ext3 but of course we are now using tmpfs.

RE: [opensuse] subversion install (Suse 9.3)

2007-04-03 Thread James D. Parra
James D. Parra escribió: Hello, Installing subversion from source and I was able to find the Berkeley DB files needed to compile (loaded the development package from the DVD), however although Apache2 is installed (from the DVD) I can't locate the apxs files. Any ideas on where I can find

RE: [opensuse] DVD Installation using Sony device

2007-04-03 Thread John Hughes
The SATA controllers say: Drivers: ata_piix, generic Loading ata_piix, generic The IDE controllers say: Drivers: ahci, para_jmicron, generic Loading ahci, para_jmicron, generic I've tried various combinations of brokenmodules to force certain modules not to

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:27 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: But if you want to have 50+ USB chassis with hard drives to cycle your backup on then by all means. And if you purchase eggs in a sac you will see breakage as well. You keep

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
Let's regress a bit. Based on your responses, we know you are an experienced user. So, lets try to think of ways that files can be deleted or hidden. Is it possible that something might have changed the partition table, so now you are mounting the wrong partitions. I've done that to myself a

[opensuse] Need to create a single-disk installer

2007-04-03 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all. I'm needing to create a single CD/DVD that will automatically install and configure a stripped down SLES9 server. I've got an autoyast control.xml file created that works from my pen drive just fine. But I'd like to see if I can minimize the amount of media swapping involved by

Re: [opensuse] SCPM Problem?

2007-04-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:12:35 -0500 John Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This truly is one of the strange ones, hit or miss. It works fine for some people and not for others. I do appreciate you assistance, and I am not going to give up until I find the problem. Good. My profiles work fine

Re: [opensuse] SCPM Problem?

2007-04-03 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 03:12, John Pierce wrote: Well, first things first...does the file exist in that location? You might also try running 'scpm rebuild' to clean up the database. I remember having to do that a few times in older SuSE versions where switching profiles sometimes

Re: [opensuse] SCPM Problem?

2007-04-03 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 22:42, Anders Johansson wrote: On Tuesday 03 April 2007 03:12, John Pierce wrote: Well, first things first...does the file exist in that location? You might also try running 'scpm rebuild' to clean up the database. I remember having to do that a few times in

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-03 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 04:19:31 +0200 (CEST) Carlos E. R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many people here for which English is not the first language (idioma nativo), me included and we are used to fuzzy English, so 99% of people here are very tolerant with _that_ ;-) And 100% should be.

Re: [opensuse] Gnome 2.18

2007-04-03 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Martin J Hooper wrote: Is there a repo with Gnome 2.18 anywhere?? Or a howto to get it installed? Why? Every new version of gnome is more and more crippled as they REMOVE more and more customization options to be hard set for 'the typical user'.. who, in fact, doesn't actually exist. -- To

Re: [opensuse] Error occurred while creating the catalog - Unknown error: unable

2007-04-03 Thread Stephen Yee
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Re: [opensuse] subversion install (Suse 9.3)

2007-04-03 Thread Cristian Rodriguez R.
James D. Parra escribió: Thank you for the info. Very useful. ;-) Performed the upgrade, however the repository can't be browsed. browsed with an svn client ? with a web interface ? I assume you : 1. if it is a web client,you have apache installed, you upgraded apache 2. you upgraded

Re: [opensuse] Need to create a single-disk installer

2007-04-03 Thread Magnus Boman
Mike, On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 15:30 -0600, Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all. I'm needing to create a single CD/DVD that will automatically install and configure a stripped down SLES9 server. I've got an autoyast control.xml file created that works from my pen drive just fine. But I'd like to

Re: [opensuse] Need to create a single-disk installer

2007-04-03 Thread Mike Diehl
Yes, there is. Our final deployment will be in limited rack space on a stand-alone network. We have the additional need to manage complexity since we won't be managing the server(s) directly. On Tuesday 03 April 2007 15:31, Magnus Boman wrote: Mike, On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 15:30 -0600, Mike

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 21:33 +0200, jdd wrote: tapes are good as long as you don't need the data... True... - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-03 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Monday 02 April 2007 21:46, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-02-07 20:32]: [...] I tried that, and was rewarded with Password for doug on localhost? I don't know what password it wants. I have tried all the passwords that I normally would use, and none

[opensuse] OpenOffice_org-de-2.1-17.1.x86_64.rpm missing

2007-04-03 Thread Michael Riess
hi, is there any reason for missing OpenOffice_org-de-2.1-17.1.x86_64.rpm in http://software.opensuse.org/download/OpenOffice.org (de is the what i am missing) or otherwise: how do i know the author of a repo in build-services to contact? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-03 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-03-07 18:22]: On Monday 02 April 2007 21:46, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-02-07 20:32]: [...] [...] I have read man lppasswd but I don't know what to do next. It would appear from the error message that the

Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice_org-de-2.1-17.1.x86_64.rpm missing

2007-04-03 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Michael Riess [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-03-07 18:44]: is there any reason for missing OpenOffice_org-de-2.1-17.1.x86_64.rpm in http://software.opensuse.org/download/OpenOffice.org (de is the what i am missing) ?? Missing? or otherwise: how do i know the author of a repo in build-services to

Re: [opensuse] SuSE removes files

2007-04-03 Thread Hudibras
El mar, 03-04-2007 a las 16:17 -0400, Jerry Feldman escribió: Let's regress a bit. Based on your responses, we know you are an experienced user. So, lets try to think of ways that files can be deleted or hidden. Thank you. I said before I was not going to follow the thread, because of some

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-03 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-03 at 18:21 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: lppasswd is your problem man lppasswd I have read man lppasswd but I don't know what to do next. It would appear from the error message that the username is doug, but it says on

[opensuse] sound error

2007-04-03 Thread bill biggs
suse found the sound card will use it in root but not user How do I get it to work in user -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [opensuse] subversion install (Suse 9.3)

2007-04-03 Thread James D. Parra
James D. Parra escribió: Thank you for the info. Very useful. ;-) Performed the upgrade, however the repository can't be browsed. browsed with an svn client ? with a web interface ? I assume you : 1. if it is a web client,you have apache installed, you upgraded apache 2. you upgraded

Re: [opensuse] sound error

2007-04-03 Thread Carl Hartung
On Wed April 4 2007 20:28, bill biggs wrote: suse found the sound card will use it in root but not user How do I get it to work in user Hi Bill, A brief snippet from my forensics notes: Unless all logged-in users are members of the audio group, it looks like /dev/dsp will only work for the

Re: [opensuse] printer problem

2007-04-03 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Tuesday 03 April 2007 18:50, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-03-07 18:22]: On Monday 02 April 2007 21:46, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Doug McGarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] [04-02-07 20:32]: [...] [...] I have read man lppasswd but I don't know what to do

[opensuse] How to setup a booting splash?

2007-04-03 Thread Magiclouds Magicloud
Dear all, I installed my openSuSE 10.2 with text terminal, then I installed X over internet. So after I choose to start openSuSE in grub, the rolling text appears. Could someone tell me how to use the splash? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [opensuse] SCPM Problem?

2007-04-03 Thread John Pierce
Sorry for the delay in the response time, I was away for a few hours. Jerry! I am using the ndiswrapper, this laptop has an internal pci express broadcom chip and even with fw-cutter it will not functionn properly, I understand that when we get to a 2.6.20 kernel it may well work. Anders!

[opensuse] easiest-to-maintain and trouble-free VPN solution?

2007-04-03 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Dear list I wish to run a VPN server on a Ubuntu Linux and all client machines are SuSE 10.2 Linux. My goal is: 1. the server must be very easy to maintain, not easily broken, trouble-free; that is I wish to use the most stable technology. 2. the same requirement on client

Re: [opensuse] Tape backup? - slightly OT

2007-04-03 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 03 April 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: No, you really need to look at a phone bill.  Mine comes every month in a big box which includes frame-relay and a dozen T1s.  All this off-site over-the-wire backup sounds great until you calculate the cost of the WAN connections - I could

[opensuse] What source package provides xorg-server.pc on Suse 10

2007-04-03 Thread david rankin
Mates, I am trying to compile xf86-video-intel-1.9.93 from xorg. ./configure fails with the error: Package xorg-server was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `xorg-server.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package

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