Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
On Friday 20 April 2007 10:26:29 Volker Kuhlmann wrote: * USB, and pretty much all hotplug, device mount options suck hamsters with straws. In a galactically big way. That is, there's no way to change them. Not even with a degree in computer science (ok so hacking the source(TM) should do it).

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:33:42 Henne Vogelsang wrote: Is that not the same as we have now? Henne No, now packages from other vendors are locked. Nothing should be locked unless the user locks it. I am just saying the solver should not take a update from a _different_ vendor (different

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Martin Schlander
Den Friday 20 April 2007 12:00:25 skrev Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett: On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:33:42 Henne Vogelsang wrote: Is that not the same as we have now? Henne No, now packages from other vendors are locked. Nothing should be locked unless the user locks it. I am just saying the

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Fri 20 Apr 2007 21:55:46 NZST +1200, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: right click in the icon of the device and select properties... there you can change mount path, and other stuff. Thanks, didn't know that. And it remembers devices. Can't change gid though. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Fri 20 Apr 2007 20:53:50 NZST +1200, Ludwig Nussel wrote: SUSE Linux uses a default umask of 0022 and creates home directories with mode 0755. So it does just work (TM). No, I do not view no access control as solution either. What I had in mind was more like any files copied to or created

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi, On Friday, April 20, 2007 at 12:00:25, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:33:42 Henne Vogelsang wrote: Is that not the same as we have now? No, now packages from other vendors are locked. Nothing should be locked unless the user locks it. I am just saying

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Schlander schreef: Den Friday 20 April 2007 14:42:42 skrev Henne Vogelsang: I like the suggestion a lot. The user will specifically want to install the packman versions of crippled packages, but won't want build service re-cripped newer

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
On Friday 20 April 2007 13:13:04 Henne Vogelsang wrote: I see and i dont like it. Because that would mean that you never get anything updated from a 3rd party repo because there the vendor will always be != what you have now a.k.a. SUSE after a install Of course not, because the package from a

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
Il giorno ven, 20/04/2007 alle 14.42 +0200, Henne Vogelsang ha scritto: The user specifically requested newer unsupported packages by adding the 3rd party repo. Why would the package manager hold back those packages and install them only on request? In general, users add packman and other

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Benji Weber
On 4/20/07, Henne Vogelsang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Friday, April 20, 2007 at 12:00:25, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:33:42 Henne Vogelsang wrote: Is that not the same as we have now? No, now packages from other vendors are locked. Nothing should be

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Here're the minutes from the meeting. * log entries in .changes file Just a simple Update to version x.y is not valid but happens far too often. .NEWS file for major changes? Goal: present the changes done to packages to users in a good way We have not found any appropriate

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Martin Schlander
Den Friday 20 April 2007 14:42:42 skrev Henne Vogelsang: I like the suggestion a lot. The user will specifically want to install the packman versions of crippled packages, but won't want build service re-cripped newer versions to override them. This is is such a special usecase that you

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
On Friday 20 April 2007 14:42:42 Henne Vogelsang wrote: The user specifically requested newer unsupported packages by adding the 3rd party repo. Why would the package manager hold back those packages and install them only on request? No, especially with the build service, you never know what

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi, On Friday, April 20, 2007 at 15:06:34, Martin Schlander wrote: Den Friday 20 April 2007 14:42:42 skrev Henne Vogelsang: I like the suggestion a lot. The user will specifically want to install the packman versions of crippled packages, but won't want build service re-cripped newer

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Matthias Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Autofs5 instead of autofs4? autofs5 is a complete rewrite, moving autofs from kernel to userland. Uhm, I cannot remember having said that ;-) That's what I understood - which means I did not

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Il giorno ven, 20/04/2007 alle 14.42 +0200, Henne Vogelsang ha scritto: The user specifically requested newer unsupported packages by adding the 3rd party repo. Why would the package manager hold back those

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M9. schreef: Alberto Passalacqua schreef: Il giorno ven, 20/04/2007 alle 14.42 +0200, Henne Vogelsang ha scritto: The user specifically requested newer unsupported packages by adding the 3rd party repo. Why would the package manager hold

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Dominique Leuenberger
On 20-04-2007 at 16:06, Martin Schlander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder, do kde-backports and kde-playground have same vendor? If not this behaviour would also make it possible to have kde-playground enabled for certain packages, without constantly having to be alert as to whether

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Martin Schlander
Den Friday 20 April 2007 14:24:53 skrev Benji Weber: I like the suggestion a lot. The user will specifically want to install the packman versions of crippled packages, but won't want build service re-cripped newer versions to override them. Also it would help discourage upgrade all mentality

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi, On Friday, April 20, 2007 at 13:24:53, Benji Weber wrote: On 4/20/07, Henne Vogelsang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, April 20, 2007 at 12:00:25, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:33:42 Henne Vogelsang wrote: Is that not the same as we have now?

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread Matthias Koenig
Andreas Jaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Autofs5 instead of autofs4? autofs5 is a complete rewrite, moving autofs from kernel to userland. Uhm, I cannot remember having said that ;-) autofs5 of course keeps the two component structure: User space daemon and kernel module. The

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
Exactly, so for crippled packages, you want to switch vendor, and keep upgrading from the same vendor. If you lock them like now, you dont get upgrades If you allow inter vendor upgrades, if a crppled version from another vendor has a newer version, it will be replaced. I think my proposal of

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread jdd
Andreas Jaeger wrote: Challenges are especially: * Languages and localization think at a small enhancement: langage is not as much a goal than keyboard. I'm french. I read english very well, but using QWERTY layout on AZERTY keyboard is always a problem (specially with punctuation

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread Andreas Jaeger
jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jaeger wrote: Challenges are especially: * Languages and localization think at a small enhancement: langage is not as much a goal than keyboard. I'm french. I read english very well, but using QWERTY layout on AZERTY keyboard is always a problem

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread jdd
Andreas Jaeger wrote: jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jaeger wrote: Challenges are especially: * Languages and localization think at a small enhancement: langage is not as much a goal than keyboard. I'm french. I read english very well, but using QWERTY layout on AZERTY keyboard

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Druid
I think my proposal of - no automatic inter-vendor upgrades, only explicit - only explicit user locks (rules) is much more simple and consistant. Its better, a little bit saner. I would prefer not to upgrade by default. You dont need to upgrade either when there is a new version of a package

Re: [opensuse-factory] RFC: Topics for 2007-04-19 dist meeting

2007-04-20 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Jaeger schreef: jdd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andreas Jaeger wrote: Challenges are especially: * Languages and localization think at a small enhancement: langage is not as much a goal than keyboard. I'm french. I read english

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread M9.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Druid schreef: I think my proposal of - no automatic inter-vendor upgrades, only explicit - only explicit user locks (rules) is much more simple and consistant. Its better, a little bit saner. I would prefer not to upgrade by default. You

Re: [opensuse-factory] Locking packages ...

2007-04-20 Thread Druid
This is not realy correct, if a system has to be improved, in this case the way to update/grade, this feature has to be tested vigourously, i would not want to call this behaviour 'upgraditis' ...in this case.. You wouldnt call but it is. And who said all repositories contains tested

Re: [opensuse] Raw Printer server

2007-04-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 08:51 -0800, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007, Johannes Meixner wrote: Hello, On Apr 19 00:54 John Andersen wrote (shortened): On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: I have an unsupported USB Lexmark P3450 printer ... have

Re: [opensuse] AutoCAD and Linux?

2007-04-20 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 18:29 -0500, SOTL wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 03:11, Clayton wrote: I know this is an oft asked question, but... well, I'm going to ask it again to see if anyone here has recently been playing with getting AutoCAD working in Wine Some guy did a few years did in

Re: [opensuse] Re: mailing from CLI

2007-04-20 Thread ken
On 04/19/2007 06:17 PM somebody named Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: Wed, 18 Apr 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joachim Schrod wrote: I have never used a Linux (or any other Unix system, for that matter) without a locally configured mail system -- it is a sure disaster waiting to happen. Just to

[opensuse] Re: Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?

2007-04-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Alexey Eremenko wrote: look here: http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Scanners#Hewlett-Packard HP OfficeJet 5610 is a very powerful device configured within seconds. That's compared to my previous scanner, UMAX Astra 3600 that doesn't work in linux at all - thats a day-and-night difference ! !

Re: [opensuse] Openoffice 2.2: Missing fonts in math formula imported from MSWord

2007-04-20 Thread Guido Pinkernell
Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2007 schrieb Thierry de Coulon: On Thursday 19 April 2007 20:47, Guido Pinkernell wrote: I have checked this problem with some users from the openoffice users list first. They could not verify it on XP and on PCLinuxOS. So it looks like an problem with my openSUSE

[opensuse] 10.1,10.2 usb drive, external harddisk: bad performancewith ext3 or reiser

2007-04-20 Thread Franz Petri
Hi, I have a problem getting the performance up when writing to an external harddisk, connected via usb 2.0. It shows when doing: i) cp file_from_local_sata_hdd to_usb_hdd_formatted_with_ext3fs_or_reiserfs ii) tar -xf file_from_local_sata_hdd

[opensuse] Re: Openoffice 2.2: Missing fonts in math formula imported from MSWord

2007-04-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Guido Pinkernell wrote: I have checked this problem with some users from the openoffice users list first. They could not verify it on XP and on PCLinuxOS. So it looks like an problem with my openSUSE system. I hope some of you can help: The first URL links to a MSWord file which contains a

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Prajjwal Devkota
Hi Everyone, I am just using this script as a starting point: just pulling all the patch rpms that are available in the updates repository. Maybe I will rewrite it to pull only the installed rpms later, but I hope it will work as a starting point to get things working. My HAL cdrom access

RE: [opensuse] beagle again - was: Disk I/o In 10.2 Significantly Slower Than 1.0(reiser)

2007-04-20 Thread Morten Bjørnsvik
|From: John O'Gorman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |We had to disable beagle indexing to prevent it hogging CPU time. | The priority of beagle-indexing must be completely wrong it should be nice -19 It has been discussed before, but why is mono apps running with high priority? Everything else hangs

Re: [opensuse] Re: Raw Printer server

2007-04-20 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Apr 19 19:39 Eberhard Roloff wrote (shortened): On Wednesday 18 April 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote: I have an unsupported USB Lexmark P3450 printer ... Is it still possible to share this printer, as RAW, with cups and samba to Windows machines? ... my recommendation would be

Re: [opensuse] Micro pauses, or CPU spikes?

2007-04-20 Thread eshsf
Ok, I am a post to the list because I think that's no problem. On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:24:23 +0400 Aaron Kulkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eshsf wrote: Hello, On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:27:36 -0500 Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 04:15, Clayton wrote: ...

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Prajjwal Devkota
Thanks Rauch, it seems I was really taking the long way round! rsync -av --include=*.patch.rpm --exclude=* --partial --progress --delete-after rsync://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/ /usr/local/src/update/patchrpms I just added exclude and include patterns to the command you gave

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:03:33PM +0545, Prajjwal Devkota wrote: Thanks Rauch, it seems I was really taking the long way round! rsync -av --include=*.patch.rpm --exclude=* --partial --progress --delete-after rsync://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/

[opensuse] 2 different users, 1 with xgl (beryl), 1 without xgl (beryl); possible?

2007-04-20 Thread drek
Hi all, Is it possible to have 2 users on the same computer, one using xgl and beryl, the other not using xgl and beryl? The two users are not logged in simultaneously. The reason for this: beryl isn't stable enough for me to work on all day, but for some purposes I like beryl. So sometimes I

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-20 at 08:47 +0545, Prajjwal Devkota wrote: Lets see if I can isolate the patches required, or find another way to cache updates. Does anyone have any idea about using yum/smart to do the same? I plan to look into that soon.

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Prajjwal Devkota
You should perhaps know that fixes also arrive in .delta.rpms and sometime there just are the FULL rpms. When you mention it, yes. But I got my problem fixed with the patch rpm, which is why I was fixated on the patch rpms. I am scared about the number of FULL rpms I will have to download--

Re: [opensuse] 2 different users, 1 with xgl (beryl), 1 without xgl (beryl); possible?

2007-04-20 Thread CyberOrg
On 4/20/07, drek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to have 2 users on the same computer, one using xgl and beryl, the other not using xgl and beryl? The two users are not logged in simultaneously. The reason for this: beryl isn't stable enough for me to work on all day, but for

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread G.T.Smith
Stevens wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 16:15, Clayton wrote: Personally, I prefer a gui to cli since I am basically lazy and would rather point-n-click than lean over and open a terminal window and type, then wonder what I forgot to enter when it doesn't work right. Am I glad the

Re: [opensuse] Disk I/o In 10.2 Significantly Slower Than 1.0 (reiser)

2007-04-20 Thread Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett
On Friday 20 April 2007 06:11:34 BandiPat wrote: And don't for zmd, zypper and any of the nasty mono updaters. zypper? What do you understand for zypper -- Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett Novell :: SUSE RD, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe,

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread Clayton
paragraphs, but reuse those paragraph with the command history. In some ways one can be more lazy with the command line than with a gui when you know what you are doing :-) Ahh... if only I could get the new user's minds around Tab complete (even though it's there in Microsoft as well, they've

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Rauch Christian
Prajjwal Devkota wrote: #!/bin/bash BASEURL=http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/suse/update/10.2/rpm/i586/; WORKDIR=/usr/local/src/updates/patchrpms/ cd $WORKDIR #get list of rpms from the patch directory wget -c $BASEURL

Re: [opensuse] openSUSE 10.2 cannot see external USB HDD

2007-04-20 Thread John O'Gorman
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 08:58 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 06:19:23AM +1200, John O'Gorman wrote: But, on opensuse 10.2, the device does not even seem to be noticed by the system (does not register with lsusb or dmesg). John, you might try the new

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:39:17PM +0545, Prajjwal Devkota wrote: You should perhaps know that fixes also arrive in .delta.rpms and sometime there just are the FULL rpms. When you mention it, yes. But I got my problem fixed with the patch rpm, which is why I was fixated on the patch

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Prajjwal Devkota
Both deltas and patch RPMs are generated internally. If the deltasize is approximately the size of the patch rpm, only the patch RPM is used. Thanks Marcus. Prajjwal Message Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain confidential information. If you have received it in error, please

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread James Knott
John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007, Stevens wrote: Well, DUH! This IS a linux list, ain't it? If someone doesn't know about the man command by the time he/she gets here, then there is always Linux for Dummies at Amazon.com. either that or man man Or man rtfm.

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Prajjwal Devkota
Based on the rsync script, the fact that patch, delta, and full rpms may all be important, and to save bandwidth by preventing unnecessary files, my new script is the one below: #!/bin/bash PATCHDIR=/usr/local/src/update/patches

Re: [opensuse] the new openSUSE kernel and the IDE

2007-04-20 Thread scsijon
At 08:47 PM 4/19/2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-04-19 at 11:03 +1000, scsijon wrote: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3320620A_5QF2M56F-part15 Carlos (and others (?aj)), can you check / could you check / have you checked? if you had the

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-20 at 15:39 +0545, Prajjwal Devkota wrote: I am scared about the number of FULL rpms I will have to download-- bandwidth is something that I would not like too congested. Then limit the bandwidth: --bwlimit=KBPS

Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?

2007-04-20 Thread Philippe Andersson
Dave Howorth wrote: Philippe Andersson wrote: From experience, the proprietary Epson driver integrates well with Sane, which means that Kooka works with it as well. But that's only if you're on i386. Last time I checked, no such driver was available for x86_64 (that was a while ago, though).

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread Rauch Christian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdd wrote: James Knott wrote: Or man rtfm. ;-) man rtfm Aucune entrée de manuel pour rtfm You need wtf ( ftp://ftp.rauchs-home.de/suse/10.2/noarch/wtf-20051104-0.rauch.1.noarch.rpm ) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ wtf rtfm RTFM: read the fine/fucking

[opensuse] rndc: 'stats' failed: permission denied

2007-04-20 Thread Oliver Gros
On SuSE 10.1 when trying to run rndc stats I get the Permission denied error. host:/var/lib/named # rndc stats rndc: 'stats' failed: permission denied named is running in root-jail. All other rndc commands work without any (visible) issues. The stats file is configured in the named.conf as

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread jdd
James Knott wrote: Or man rtfm. ;-) man rtfm Aucune entrée de manuel pour rtfm (in english: no manual entry for RTFM) :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin, inventeur http://lucien.dodin.net/index.shtml -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Caching updates locally/Local update server

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Riess
Prajjwal Devkota schrieb: Based on the rsync script, the fact that patch, delta, and full rpms may ... If some installed packages are going to need new packages to be installed during upgrade, thats up to the sysadmin to pull manually. I think this link could be usefull to generate a real

[opensuse] Re: Raw Printer server

2007-04-20 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Johannes Meixner wrote: [...] I like HP very much because it is one of the few printer manufacturers which do really support Linux. Indeed, they see this as a business opportunity where most others terribly fail, e.g. lexmark, epson and canon inkjet printers or allinones. In particular

Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?

2007-04-20 Thread Robert Smits
On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 4499 will run only with the Epson propritary driver. The 4990 will run also with the sane. I went through the same process you are going through now. After considering all the pros an cons of all the generation scanner O went with

[opensuse] GoogleEarth never reaches past splash screen

2007-04-20 Thread Philippe Andersson
Hi list, Just finished upgrading my laptop from 9.3 to 10.2 (online update performed). I'm busy checking that everything survived the big switch, and I just noticed that GoogleEarth now refuses to start (never reaches past its splash screen). Latest version of GE available. Tried reinstalling

Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?

2007-04-20 Thread Philippe Andersson
Robert Smits wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 4499 will run only with the Epson propritary driver. The 4990 will run also with the sane. I went through the same process you are going through now. After considering all the pros an cons of all the generation

Re: [opensuse] GoogleEarth never reaches past splash screen

2007-04-20 Thread Francesco Teodori
have you enabled 3D acceleration? Francesco Philippe Andersson wrote: Hi list, Just finished upgrading my laptop from 9.3 to 10.2 (online update performed). I'm busy checking that everything survived the big switch, and I just noticed that GoogleEarth now refuses to start (never reaches

Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?

2007-04-20 Thread Dave Howorth
Philippe Andersson wrote: From experience, the proprietary Epson driver integrates well with Sane, which means that Kooka works with it as well. But that's only if you're on i386. Last time I checked, no such driver was available for x86_64 (that was a while ago, though). The 32-bit Epson s/w

Re: [opensuse] SSH session not terminated when rebooting machine + startup question

2007-04-20 Thread Petr Klíma
Carlos E. R. wrote: The original poster did not say that the shutdown command is issued from the ssh session. That's an assumption made later by Harris. That's right, ssh session is not terminated in any case - I can submit reboot from other session or locally, nothing matters. Look: open a

[opensuse] encrypt dvd without touching the kernel

2007-04-20 Thread Marschall Kurt
Hello How can I encrypt my DVDs? I know about dm-crypt and aespipe, but for some reason I cannot find the required packages for SuSE 10.2, nor am I able to compile them. What's the best way to encrypt a DVD? It should be futureproof, secure and some kind of standart (i.e. tested, foolproof)

Re: [opensuse] GoogleEarth never reaches past splash screen

2007-04-20 Thread Philippe Andersson
Francesco Teodori wrote: Try this LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so googleearth Francesco I just did. It crashed my X server. Got me back to the KDM screen. Don't worry, though. No harm done ;-) Ph. A. -- *Philippe Andersson* Unix System Administrator IBA Particle Therapy | Tel: +32-10-475.983

Re: [opensuse] GoogleEarth never reaches past splash screen

2007-04-20 Thread Sunny
On 4/20/07, Philippe Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Just finished upgrading my laptop from 9.3 to 10.2 (online update performed). I'm busy checking that everything survived the big switch, and I just noticed that GoogleEarth now refuses to start (never reaches past its splash

Re: [opensuse] Disk I/o In 10.2 Significantly Slower Than 1.0 (reiser)

2007-04-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-20 at 00:11 -0400, BandiPat wrote: On Thursday 19 April 2007, John O'Gorman wrote: run top and look for 1 or more instances of beagle running. We had to disable beagle indexing to prevent it hogging CPU time. And don't

Re: [opensuse] Installation problems (OpenSUSE10.2) - formatting hangs

2007-04-20 Thread G . R . Tabor
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, I have a problem installing OpenSUSE10.2 on a pc with a SCSI system disk. I was running SuSE 9.3 (professional edition, bought), but was having problems doing an upgrade, so I decided to do a clean install of the new OS.

Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?

2007-04-20 Thread Robert Smits
On Thursday 19 April 2007 14:24, Alexey Eremenko wrote: look here: http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Scanners#Hewlett-Packard HP OfficeJet 5610 is a very powerful device configured within seconds. That's compared to my previous scanner, UMAX Astra 3600 that doesn't work in linux at all - thats a

Re: [opensuse] beagle again - was: Disk I/o In 10.2 Significantly Slower Than 1.0(reiser)

2007-04-20 Thread Joe Shaw
Hi, On 4/20/07, Morten Bjørnsvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The priority of beagle-indexing must be completely wrong it should be nice -19 It definitely should not be nice -19. You probably mean nice +19? The version that ships with openSUSE 10.2 doesn't nice itself at all, so any adjustments

[opensuse] so far OT it's untrue but still worth a try

2007-04-20 Thread peter nikolic
Hi Folks as the subject says so far OT it's untrue but you gotta start somewhere I need a schematic diagram for a Hill DX700 audio power Amp , oes anyone have any ideas where i can get my hands on a copy (it seems several output devices are totally short curcit and i aint got the first

Re: [opensuse] Disk I/o In 10.2 Significantly Slower Than 1.0 (reiser)

2007-04-20 Thread M Harris
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:01, John O'Gorman wrote: We had to disable beagle indexing to prevent it hogging CPU time. Yeah, seems Beagle is like a good hunting dog that chews up your slippers and barks a lot between outings. :) -- Kind regards, M Harris -- To

Re: [opensuse] so far OT it's untrue but still worth a try

2007-04-20 Thread M Harris
On Friday 20 April 2007 10:56, peter nikolic wrote: I need a schematic diagram for a Hill DX700 audio power Amp  , oes anyone have any ideas where i can get my hands on a copy   (it seems several output devices are totally short  curcit and i aint got the first idea what they are (no markings

Re: [opensuse] Scanner recommendation? Epson 4490 any good?

2007-04-20 Thread Dave Howorth
Philippe Andersson wrote: Dave Howorth wrote: Philippe Andersson wrote: From experience, the proprietary Epson driver integrates well with Sane, which means that Kooka works with it as well. But that's only if you're on i386. Last time I checked, no such driver was available for x86_64 (that

Re: [opensuse] so far OT it's untrue but still worth a try

2007-04-20 Thread M Harris
On Friday 20 April 2007 11:09, M Harris wrote: I need a schematic diagram for a Hill DX700 audio power Amp  , oes anyone have any ideas where i can get my hands on a copy   (it seems several output devices are totally short  curcit and i aint got the first idea what they are (no markings

Re: [opensuse] GoogleEarth never reaches past splash screen

2007-04-20 Thread Philippe Andersson
Sunny wrote: On 4/20/07, Philippe Andersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Just finished upgrading my laptop from 9.3 to 10.2 (online update performed). I'm busy checking that everything survived the big switch, and I just noticed that GoogleEarth now refuses to start (never reaches

Re: [opensuse] SSH session not terminated when rebooting machine + startup question

2007-04-20 Thread Michael Letourneau
Petr Klíma wrote: Carlos E. R. wrote: The original poster did not say that the shutdown command is issued from the ssh session. That's an assumption made later by Harris. That's right, ssh session is not terminated in any case - I can submit reboot from other session or locally, nothing

[opensuse] How do I make adjustments in KDE's XGL settings?!

2007-04-20 Thread Chris C
Hello everybody, After an update on 10.2 I rebooted the computer and noticed a couple of changes related to XGL setting in the KDE desktop. I now have 6 desktops displayed on the taskbarinstead of 4...and The window seperate feature works now when the mouse is in the bottom left corner of the

Re: [opensuse] Disk I/o In 10.2 Significantly Slower Than 1.0 (reiser)

2007-04-20 Thread Alexey Eremenko
I would recommend you to open a bug report on that topic. -- -Alexey Eremenko Technologov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Halting the system with /home on NFS fails from kde or gdm [Was: SSH session not terminated when rebooting machine + startup question]

2007-04-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-20 at 17:07 +0200, Petr Klíma wrote: Oh and I see that I forgot my second question before. It's related to shutdown rather that to startup though. You'd better open a new thread. I'm changing the subject for this one, anyway.

Re: [opensuse] Halting the system with /home on NFS fails from kde or gdm

2007-04-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 20 April 2007 10:16, Carlos E. R. wrote: The Friday 2007-04-20 at 17:07 +0200, Petr Klíma wrote: ... I use OpenSuse 10.X with /home on NFS (not sure if it's significant...). The problem is that sometimes reboot or shutdown doesn't proceed and halts. Last message written on the

Re: [opensuse] encrypt dvd without touching the kernel

2007-04-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-20 at 17:28 +0200, Marschall Kurt wrote: How can I encrypt my DVDs? how about these? * Testing encrypted backup to dvd, Carlos E. R. (24 February, 2006) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2006-02/msg01751.html *

Re: [opensuse] Halting the system with /home on NFS fails from kde or gdm

2007-04-20 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-04-20 at 10:27 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: My guess is that the nfs session refuses to umount because there is a user process (the one doing the halt) running from there. Or the halt process is a child of kdesu that is

Re: [opensuse] so far OT it's untrue but still worth a try

2007-04-20 Thread Stevens
On Friday 20 April 2007 12:46, peter nikolic wrote: Thanks for the info unfortunatley no hits on this Amp a real pain in the butt all devices used are devoid of numbers/id of any form No offense intended, but why don't you toss it in the trash and buy a new power amp... one of the nice

Re: [opensuse] so far OT it's untrue but still worth a try

2007-04-20 Thread Tony Alfrey
peter nikolic wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007, M Harris wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007 10:56, peter nikolic wrote: I need a schematic diagram for a Hill DX700 audio power Amp , oes anyone have any ideas where i can get my hands on a copy (it seems several output devices are totally short

Re: [opensuse] so far OT it's untrue but still worth a try

2007-04-20 Thread Tony Alfrey
Tony Alfrey wrote: peter nikolic wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007, M Harris wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007 10:56, peter nikolic wrote: I need a schematic diagram for a Hill DX700 audio power Amp , oes anyone have any ideas where i can get my hands on a copy (it seems several output devices

Re: [opensuse] AutoCAD and Linux?

2007-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote: Would this work for you? - put AutoCAD onto a Win2003 terminal server. - make a Linux desktop icon with rdesktop -some-parameters... -s C:\Program Files bla. bla.autocad.exe IP-of-w2003-server That would give the user a perfect fine SuSE/Linux desktop with an AC

Re: [opensuse] so far OT it's untrue but still worth a try

2007-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
If you have USENET access, try sci.electronics.repair. I've often had good luck getting info there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] errors from dmesg

2007-04-20 Thread Darryl Gregorash
On 2007-04-20 11:59, James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Getting strange error messages from dmesg; SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.20.6 DST=192.168.20.129 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=143 DPT=2502 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0 SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=eth0

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
Clayton wrote: Ahh... if only I could get the new user's minds around Tab complete (even though it's there in Microsoft as well, they've never discovered it) and up arrow to the previous command :-P Instead they laboriously retype the commands or type in long paths... and typos are

Re: [opensuse] Re: mailing from CLI

2007-04-20 Thread David Brodbeck
ken wrote: If I needed a mail server, well then, yes, I'd use it. But I don't need that. It just seems ridiculous to set up a mail server on every machine on which somebody sends out an email. I don't know. It depends on how you look at it. To me it's like asking, Why should I have to run

Re: [opensuse] Critical Sound Problem - very deep level - help needed !

2007-04-20 Thread Theo v. Werkhoven
Fri, 20 Apr 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Theo, what's your version of sound chip ? do: cat /proc/asound/card0/via82xx $ cat /proc/asound/card0/via82xx VIA 8237 with AD1980 at 0xe000, irq 177 Theo -- Theo v. WerkhovenRegistered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread James Knott
Clayton wrote: paragraphs, but reuse those paragraph with the command history. In some ways one can be more lazy with the command line than with a gui when you know what you are doing :-) Ahh... if only I could get the new user's minds around Tab complete (even though it's there in Microsoft

Re: [opensuse] Best way to convert wav to mp3

2007-04-20 Thread James Knott
David Brodbeck wrote: Clayton wrote: Ahh... if only I could get the new user's minds around Tab complete (even though it's there in Microsoft as well, they've never discovered it) and up arrow to the previous command :-P Instead they laboriously retype the commands or type in long paths...

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