Re: [opensuse] Extremely large fonts when connected to lcd tv

2007-06-07 Thread Alistair M
Hi again, I was finally able to get the fonts under control. I went to the KDE Control Center -> Appearance and themes -> Fonts and then forced (if my memory serves me correctly) 92 dpi fonts. That seems to keep the fonts to one size. BUT...I still seem to have the LCD tv flickering (res: 1024x

Re: [opensuse] Open konqueror from kfmclient

2007-06-07 Thread Michal Hlavac
Dňa Thursday 07 June 2007 08:34:44 Michal Hlavac ste napísal: > Hello, > > I have latest KDE updates from repos.opensuse.org for 10.2 > When I am trying to open konqueror through kfmclient openProfile > webbrowsing I get this error: > kfmclient: ERROR: Couldn't start konqueror from konqueror.deskto

Re: [opensuse] Undelete

2007-06-07 Thread Russell Jones
Dave Howorth wrote: G T Smith wrote: VMS if I remember correctly defaulted to 3 being available but the version numbers incremented (on the setup I was working one could flag files to be archived overnight and ask for them back later). Most editing applications I have dealt with create a back

RE: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread Morten Bjørnsvik
|-Original Message- |I understand you have to be careful with xfs. When there are |large number of files being used, xfs caches a lot of the |data. I read somewhere, that xfs under heavy load will lock up |sometimes and use all your memory up. | Maybe that was a fact years ago with im

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (10.1)

2007-06-07 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carlos F Lange wrote: > I solved the problem with brute force (see my other e-mail today), but I > wanted to reply here to see if learn some more. > > On Tue June 5 2007 14:11, G T Smith wrote: >> Carlos F Lange wrote: >>> On Tue June 5 2007 09:37, G

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John E. Perry wrote: > Russell Jones wrote: >> ... >> Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your >> pennies on something else. >> > > Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (only a little > more costly than c

RE: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 10:12 +0200, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: > Maybe that was a fact years ago with immature releases pre 2.4.19 versions. > That is _NOT_ true now. XFS is probably the most stressed filesystem > on the planet. Most Hollywood studi

Re: [opensuse] KDE 3.5.5 -> 3.5.7 upgrade conflict

2007-06-07 Thread Will Stephenson
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 18:58:14 Francesco Teodori wrote: > You are right. You need to reinstall kdepim3-networkstatus. I made a > mistake while writing. Actually: I removed kdepim3-networkstatus in the latest 3.5.7 as part of a 10.3 feature and completely forgot to consider the effect this woul

[opensuse] updatedb within a chroot environment

2007-06-07 Thread Matthew Stringer
I've got a system where users run in a chroot environment, which contains a full working copy of the OS. Within that environement I've got findtools-locate installed. If you run it it creates a 10 byte updatedb database file and that's it, no error. I'm assuming it's because the hard drives do

Re: [opensuse] Re: amaroK sound glitches - SOLVED

2007-06-07 Thread Martin Mielke
Hi again, after some days experimenting I think I have fixed the problem... I installed the helix engine, as suggested (wow, it depends on a lot of things, dude!) but the Banshee player hangs just after it starts and I don't seem to be able to include the helix engine into amaroK...

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread James Knott
G T Smith wrote: > John E. Perry wrote: > > Russell Jones wrote: > >> ... > >> Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your > >> pennies on something else. > >> > > Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (only a little > > more costly than cat-5 when I bough

Re: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread James Knott
Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 10:12 +0200, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: > > > Maybe that was a fact years ago with immature releases pre 2.4.19 > versions. > > That is _NOT_ true now. XFS is probably the most stressed filesystem > > on the planet. Most Hollywood studio backbones and

[opensuse] mod_auth_pam Apache

2007-06-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
Anyone know where I can find this for openSUSE 10.2? RPM would be nice. E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] mod_auth_pam Apache

2007-06-07 Thread Hans van der Merwe
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:44 +0200, Hans van der Merwe wrote: > Anyone know where I can find this for openSUSE 10.2? > RPM would be nice. > > I see mod_auth_pam is not maintained anymore? What are people out there using to auth their Apache servers? I dont want to keep a username/password mir

Re: [opensuse] updatedb within a chroot environment

2007-06-07 Thread Russell Jones
Matthew Stringer wrote: I've got a system where users run in a chroot environment, which contains a full working copy of the OS. Within that environement I've got findtools-locate installed. If you run it it creates a 10 byte updatedb database file and that's it, no error. I'm assuming it's

Re: [opensuse] Undelete

2007-06-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:29, Dave Howorth wrote: > ... > > It's interesting watching people reinvent wheels over and over again. I think you confuse invention with design and / or fabrication. > Cheers, Dave Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional command

Re: [opensuse] GUI for environment variables

2007-06-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 22:31, Ken Jennings wrote: > On Wednesday 2007-06-06 00:20, M Harris wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 June 2007 21:13, Kai Ponte wrote: > > > > > > > > > "Hi, my name is, Kai." > > > > > > (from audience) "Hi, Kai!" > > > > > > "I am a Kate user and I don't know Vi." > > > >

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread George Stoianov
On 6/6/07, Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-06-06 at 15:47 -0400, George Stoianov wrote: > If you cannot resize I think you maybe able > to create an encrypted file and mounted using some loop mechanism I > cannot remember

Re: [opensuse] Mount ISO as user

2007-06-07 Thread Mike McMullin
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:41 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: > On Wed, June 6, 2007 9:07 pm, Mike McMullin wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:55 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote: > >> On 6/6/07, Mike McMullin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > umount -d /mnt/mountiso > >> > mount -o loop $1.iso /mnt/mountis

[opensuse] Large Raids with lots of disks [Was: Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV]

2007-06-07 Thread Greg Freemyer
On 6/6/07, Matthew Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've a server with 24 500GB SATA 2 hard drives with RAID5 running 10.2. *** Warning, the hp trained storage engineer part of me is coming out. A 24 disk raid5 is not normally recommended. It is much more likely to fail than a ra

Re: [opensuse] Large Raids with lots of disks [Was: Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV]

2007-06-07 Thread Matthew Stringer
On Thursday 07 June 2007 16:08:54 Greg Freemyer wrote: > On 6/6/07, Matthew Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've a server with 24 500GB SATA 2 hard drives with RAID5 running 10.2. > > *** Warning, the hp trained storage engineer part of me is coming out. > > A 24 disk raid5

[opensuse] beginner's questions

2007-06-07 Thread Klaske Hoekstra
Hello, I switched from Windows to Opensuse last weekend, on my Dell Inspiron 9100. I'm totally new in this environment, and need some help and I hope this is the right list to get it. . I installed pure-ftp, as I need a ftp programme, and got the message that it was successfully installed; howeve

Re: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread Rikard Johnels
On Thursday 07 June 2007 13:29, James Knott wrote: > Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 10:12 +0200, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: > > > Maybe that was a fact years ago with immature releases pre 2.4.19 > > > > versions. > > > > > That is _NOT_ true now. XFS is probably the most stressed

Re: [opensuse] updatedb within a chroot environment

2007-06-07 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 07 June 2007, Matthew Stringer wrote: > I've got a system where users run in a chroot environment, which contains a > full working copy of the OS. > > Within that environement I've got findtools-locate installed. > > If you run it it creates a 10 byte updatedb database file and that's i

Re: [opensuse] beginner's questions

2007-06-07 Thread Guillaume R.
* Klaske Hoekstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-07 19:51:18]: > Hello, > I switched from Windows to Opensuse last weekend, on my Dell Inspiron > 9100. I'm totally new in this environment, and need some help and I > hope this is the right list to get it. Welcome so :) > > . I installed pure-ftp, as

Re: [opensuse] GUI for environment variables

2007-06-07 Thread Guillaume R.
* Mohammad Bhuyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-05 14:24:17]: > Any suggestion regarding GUI tool to see the list and editing > environment variables. Yes, use gvim :) > KDE based tool will be nice. AFAIK Gvim is not part of KDE toolset but it's well integrated. Guillaume -- To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [opensuse] beginner's questions

2007-06-07 Thread John D Lamb
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 19:51 +0200, Klaske Hoekstra wrote: > Hello, > I switched from Windows to Opensuse last weekend, on my Dell Inspiron > 9100. I'm totally new in this environment, and need some help and I > hope this is the right list to get it. > > . I installed pure-ftp, as I need a ftp prog

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 07 June 2007, James Knott wrote: > > If I remember correctly shielding is a two way thing, basically you are > > running a potential 40ft radio aerial in the latter case. If you have a > > lot of cables or have anything which is sensitive to radio emissions > > close by, Cat 6 starts ma

Re: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 07 June 2007, Morten Bjørnsvik wrote: > I've used the xfs_repair, xfsdump, xfsrestore and xfs_db tools extensively. Why? I can count on the fingers of one hand ho many times I've had to use the equivalent utilities on the 10 or 12 servers I manage over the years. They all run Reiser

Re: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 07 June 2007, Rikard Johnels wrote: > Never had any problems with XFS. > As people have stated; it cashes alot, > > XFS is fast, reliable and scales well, How the heck can you put those two statements in the same email??? -- _ John Andersen

Re: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 07 June 2007 12:47, John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007, Rikard Johnels wrote: > > Never had any problems with XFS. > > As people have stated; it cashes alot, > > > > XFS is fast, reliable and scales well, > > How the heck can you put those two statements > in the same email

[opensuse] Kmoon

2007-06-07 Thread Clive Rogers
Hi All, I have searched the achieves and can find nothing to help there. I have SuSE 10.2 and running KDE. I have the kmoon applet running which is out of sync with reality. Anyone got any clues to putting this right ? -- Kindest regards, Clive. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.rogers/ Fi

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread John E. Perry
James Knott wrote: > G T Smith wrote: >> John E. Perry wrote: >>> Russell Jones wrote: ... Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your pennies on something else. >>> Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (only a little >>> more costly t

Re: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread James Knott
Rikard Johnels wrote: > Never had any problems with XFS. > As people have stated; it cashes alot, so if you are unlucky and get at power > out at the wrong moment, the filesystem MAY corrupt. > But so far i have been lucky i guess. Even with power outs i havent had any > trashed drives (yet) > >

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread James Knott
John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007, James Knott wrote: > >>> If I remember correctly shielding is a two way thing, basically you are >>> running a potential 40ft radio aerial in the latter case. If you have a >>> lot of cables or have anything which is sensitive to radio emissions >

Re: [opensuse] Kmoon

2007-06-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Clive Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-07-07 16:18]: > I have searched the achieves and can find nothing to help there. > I have SuSE 10.2 and running KDE. I have the kmoon applet running > which is out of sync with reality. hummm, is it drunk or ... ? > Anyone got any clues to putting this ri

Re: [opensuse] Kmoon

2007-06-07 Thread Pueblo Native
Clive Rogers wrote: > Hi All, > > I have searched the achieves and can find nothing to help there. > I have SuSE 10.2 and running KDE. I have the kmoon applet running which is > out of sync with reality. > > Anyone got any clues to putting this right ? > > Okay, exactly how is it running wh

Re: [opensuse] beginner's questions

2007-06-07 Thread Jos van Kan
Replies interspersed. Klaske Hoekstra wrote: > Hello, > I switched from Windows to Opensuse last weekend, on my Dell Inspiron > 9100. I'm totally new in this environment, and need some help and I > hope this is the right list to get it. > Absolutely. Welcome to the club. > > . As a keyboard sett

[opensuse] greeter goes wild

2007-06-07 Thread jef peeraer
my greeter ( opensuse 10.2 ) does very weird. Every keyboard action changes the resolution of the screen. Someone seem this before? In the xorg.log everything seems normal. The detected device is -> Shared PCI/AGP Mach64 in slot 0:5:0 detected thanks jef peeraer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAI

Re: [opensuse] Kmoon

2007-06-07 Thread Clive Rogers
Hi Patrick, On Thursday 07 June 2007 21:28, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Clive Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-07-07 16:18]: > > I have searched the achieves and can find nothing to help there. > > I have SuSE 10.2 and running KDE. I have the kmoon applet running > > which is out of sync with reali

Re: [opensuse] Kmoon

2007-06-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 07 June 2007 13:16, Clive Rogers wrote: > Hi All, > > I have searched the achieves and can find nothing to help there. > I have SuSE 10.2 and running KDE. I have the kmoon applet running > which is out of sync with reality. > > Anyone got any clues to putting this right ? I just tried

Re: [opensuse] Kmoon

2007-06-07 Thread Clive Rogers
Hi Randall, On Thursday 07 June 2007 22:09, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007 13:16, Clive Rogers wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have searched the achieves and can find nothing to help there. > > I have SuSE 10.2 and running KDE. I have the kmoon applet running > > which is out of

Re: [opensuse] Kmoon

2007-06-07 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Clive Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-07-07 16:58]: > Hi Patrick, > > hummm, is it drunk or ... ? > > No sir ! not me or the applet ;-) but I might be :)^ > The phase that is showing is not the same as seeing the phase of the > Moon. Right now the phase of the Moon is around 1/2 moon. The p

Re: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 13:07 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007 12:47, John Andersen wrote: > > On Thursday 07 June 2007, Rikard Johnels wrote: > > > Never had any problems with XFS. > > > As people have stated; it cashes alot, > > > > > > XFS is fast, reliable and scales well

Re: [opensuse] Reiserfs unstable under load using large LV

2007-06-07 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Thursday 07 June 2007 15:11, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 13:07 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Thursday 07 June 2007 12:47, John Andersen wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 June 2007, Rikard Johnels wrote: > > > > Never had any problems with XFS. > > > > As people have stated

Re: [opensuse] Kmoon

2007-06-07 Thread Clive Rogers
Hi Patrick, > > Also, from the command-line: Date > echo $TZ This gives the right date and time. > > Another clue. I just activated the "Moon Phase" applet. Right > clicking gives a configuration option, but I see nothing there. btw, > my applet also shows abou

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:52 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: > My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile > devices have encryption built in. Just wondering, encryption costs (some) cpu-cycles. Why ebcrypting evrything under root, usr, opt, srv, etc, tmp and var? Everything the

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread James Knott
Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:52 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: > > >> My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile >> devices have encryption built in. >> > > Just wondering, > > encryption costs (some) cpu-cycles. > Why ebcrypting evrything under root,

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread Joseph Loo
Kai Ponte wrote: > On Thu, June 7, 2007 4:17 pm, Hans Witvliet wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:52 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: >> >>> My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile >>> devices have encryption built in. >> Just wondering, >> >> encryption costs (some) cpu-cycles.

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread Kai Ponte
On Thu, June 7, 2007 4:17 pm, Hans Witvliet wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 11:52 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: > >> My company has a new policy coming into effect, requiring all mobile >> devices have encryption built in. > > Just wondering, > > encryption costs (some) cpu-cycles. > Why ebcrypting evryth

Re: [opensuse] Encrypting all partitions or just Root

2007-06-07 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 18:12 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote: > That is my initial thought. One of the articles I referenced, however, > mentioned how the root partition - particularly the FUBAR myriad of > folders containing stuff - will have personal i

[opensuse] Audio Woes

2007-06-07 Thread Jerry Houston
I'm having a really hard time setting up the audio support on the computer I built for SuSE 10.2, and I'm hoping to find someone who's been here, done that. The sound card is onboard, on an Elitegroup motherboard, and YaST2's hardware information identifies it as a PCI "Elitegroup audio device," w

Re: [opensuse] Audio Woes

2007-06-07 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:35, Jerry Houston wrote: > I'm having a really hard time setting up the audio support on the > computer I built for SuSE 10.2, and I'm hoping to find someone who's > been here, done that. > > The sound card is onboard, on an Elitegroup motherboard, and YaST2's > hardware

Re: [opensuse] Audio Woes

2007-06-07 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 07 June 2007 21:31, Jerry Houston wrote: Jerry, this mail arrived direct to my inbox. You should use Reply to All in Thunderbird. It will send 2 emails if you don't edit the address field, but it will land in mail list. > On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:35, Jerry Houston wrote: > > I'

[opensuse] smart conflict

2007-06-07 Thread Bob S
Hello SuSE people, Was trying to download and install some packages with smart. Got this error message: error: file /usr/bin/test_physfs from install of physfs-1.0.1-32 conflicts with file from package physfs-1.0.1-32 How can there be a conflict in those packages? Also, as an aside, Can anybo

Re: [opensuse] beginner's questions

2007-06-07 Thread joe
Hey, pure-ftp is an ftp server program. To download ftp links you can use firefox etc, or use the fireftp plugin for additional ftp features. If you want a dedicated GUI ftp client, gftp comes on the suse CDs. I like the command line ncftp client, also on the suse CDs. You can download filezilla 3.

Re: [opensuse] smart conflict

2007-06-07 Thread Kai Ponte
On Thu, June 7, 2007 8:57 pm, Bob S wrote: > Hello SuSE people, > > Was trying to download and install some packages with smart. Got this > error > message: > > error: file /usr/bin/test_physfs from install of physfs-1.0.1-32 > conflicts > with file from package physfs-1.0.1-32 > > How can there be

Re: [opensuse] Audio Woes

2007-06-07 Thread Basil Chupin
Jerry Houston wrote: I'm having a really hard time setting up the audio support on the computer I built for SuSE 10.2, and I'm hoping to find someone who's been here, done that. The sound card is onboard, on an Elitegroup motherboard, and YaST2's hardware information identifies it as a PCI "Elit