[opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Stephan Kulow
Hi! Not sure there is a lot to status report, but I try: - the number of incoming bugs is growing, for some components almost dramatically. So much time is spent in screening at the moment. For a glimpse, check http://tinyurl.com/2cxbto (you're very welcome to help screening duplicates)

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Wolfgang Rosenauer
Stephan Kulow wrote: Hi! Not sure there is a lot to status report, but I try: - the number of incoming bugs is growing, for some components almost dramatically. So much time is spent in screening at the moment. For a glimpse, check http://tinyurl.com/2cxbto (you're very welcome

[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-gnome] Some comment on openSUSE 10.3 and GNOME after a month from release

2007-10-31 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
I think bug reporters and testers did their job during the development stage, the bug slashing weekend and the community contribution to 10.3 were probably the biggest since the birth of the project. As a consequence, I think some more effort to fix at least the most annoying bugs,

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Ken Schneider
Stephan Kulow wrote: Hi! Not sure there is a lot to status report, but I try: - the number of incoming bugs is growing, for some components almost dramatically. So much time is spent in screening at the moment. For a glimpse, check http://tinyurl.com/2cxbto (you're very welcome

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider: Stephan Kulow wrote: Hi! Not sure there is a lot to status report, but I try: - the number of incoming bugs is growing, for some components almost dramatically. So much time is spent in screening at the moment. For a glimpse,

Re: [opensuse-factory] #327336 yast2-ntp-client

2007-10-31 Thread Katarina Machalkova
Hi, Are there any plans to publish the fix to yast2-ntp-client as an update to 10.3 ? The issue should be fixed by now, however it's not up to me to decide whether it is worth online update :) The bug does not affect functionality at all, just these repository scanning popups might be

Re: [opensuse-factory] #327336 yast2-ntp-client

2007-10-31 Thread Gabriel .
2007/10/31, Katarina Machalkova [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Are there any plans to publish the fix to yast2-ntp-client as an update to 10.3 ? The issue should be fixed by now, however it's not up to me to decide whether it is worth online update :) The bug does not affect functionality at all,

Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages for Qt Jambi and Qyoto

2007-10-31 Thread Pavol Rusnak
Raúl Moratalla wrote: Thank you for packaging smoke and qyoto. I installed them, but the package of qyoto is missing some files: the assembly (qt-dotnet.dll) and qt-dotnet.dll.mdb (I don't know if this file is needed). That's exact problem I was expecting. I have never packaged a mono

Re: [opensuse-factory] Packages for Qt Jambi and Qyoto

2007-10-31 Thread Pavol Rusnak
Marcus Rueckert wrote: why not in the KDE:Qt4 project? There is no KDE:Qt4 project, only KDE:Qt. If this is what you meant, could you please add me as a maintainer? I will move packages ASAP. And if somebody creates Jambi bindings, they could be put there as well. -- Best Regards / S

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Ken Schneider
Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider: Stephan Kulow wrote: Hi! Not sure there is a lot to status report, but I try: - the number of incoming bugs is growing, for some components almost dramatically. So much time is spent in screening at the moment.

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider: This would require remastering 10.3 and we want to avoid that. How is that? Deltas are used all the time to update the alpha/beta releases, how is this different? Just curious. When we master a new alpha, we create a delta to the last one.

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Creighton
Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider: This would require remastering 10.3 and we want to avoid that. How is that? Deltas are used all the time to update the alpha/beta releases, how is this different? Just curious. When we master a new

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Roberto Mannai: Hi Stephan, why does the report start from november 2006? Which products are you considering? I cannot understand what are you measuring; open bug of course grow in the time; it would be more meaningful to show the ratio between open /

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Roberto Mannai
Hi Stephan, why does the report start from november 2006? Which products are you considering? I cannot understand what are you measuring; open bug of course grow in the time; it would be more meaningful to show the ratio between open / closed in each component, and resolution type. Best regards

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Roberto Mannai
I think so :). So are you measuring the delta Y (size of bugs open) between X and (X - 1) of time? On 10/31/07, Stephan Kulow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Roberto Mannai: As a user and if searching which distro to choose, I would be interested to see how

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Roberto Mannai: I think so :). So are you measuring the delta Y (size of bugs open) between X and (X - 1) of time? I just let bugzilla plot the number of open bugs over the days. Greetings, Stephan

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Roberto Mannai: As a user and if searching which distro to choose, I would be interested to see how many bugs are closed for that distro, so seeing how much support is given. Those users will hardly read opensuse-factory I'd assume. Greetings, Stephan

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Richard Creighton wrote: Stephan Kulow wrote: Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Ken Schneider: This would require remastering 10.3 and we want to avoid that. How is that? Deltas are used all the time to update the alpha/beta releases, how is this different? Just

Re: [opensuse-factory] [status report] openSUSE distribution, week 44

2007-10-31 Thread Stephan Kulow
Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 schrieb Boyd Lynn Gerber: I do not know anyone that is able to use the repair system. I am talking about aprox... 200 users. This to me is a major pita. I really think that we should get a delta. I really need to create new iso's. I am getting pestered because

[opensuse] Re: Turning off the hard disk

2007-10-31 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Albrecht Mehl wrote: I would like to use my opensuse 10.2 system on a MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum board with a Hitachi SATA 160 GB HDS722516VLSA80 hard disk mostly without the hd running, i.e. I imagine copying the files needed for my daily work at the beginning of a session to a ram disk and then

[opensuse] 10.3 amd64 firefox/java

2007-10-31 Thread Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP)
Hi, Does anyone know if there is a solution to opensuse 10.3 on 64bit amd cpu with 64bit firefox and 64bit jre/java jre1.6.0_03. It seems that in the standard opensuse 10.3 64bit install it installs a 64bit version of firefox and java just doesn't seem to work in firefox. I've googled and

[opensuse] 10.3 amd64 firefox/java

2007-10-31 Thread Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP)
Hi, Does anyone know if there is a solution to opensuse 10.3 on 64bit amd cpu with 64bit firefox and 64bit jre/java jre1.6.0_03. It seems that in the standard opensuse 10.3 64bit install it installs a 64bit version of firefox and java just doesn't seem to work in firefox. I've googled and

Re: [opensuse] For Which Repositories Is Automatically Refresh Unuseful?

2007-10-31 Thread Jan Kupec
Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 19:33, Ben Kevan wrote: Well, they (Novell / SUSE) will get complaints, reports of malfunctions, or people throwing up their hands and walking away (without even bothering to let the vendor know). It's the principal of least surprise. As it

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 30 2007 16:46, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Because everyone knows that the disk drive/SATA-bus/controller/PCI-bus/DMA are the limiting factors in raw dd speed, so who cares how the kernel/app are compiled. But dd doesn't write to disk... it writes to buffers held in RAM, and then forgets

Re: [opensuse] Is it possible to install 10.2 Kernel on SusE 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Oct 30 2007 21:40, Keith Mayfield wrote: Subject: [opensuse] Is it possible to install 10.2 Kernel on SusE 10.3 Yes, but you will not be able to load modules compiled yourself because of the GCC mismatch. There is some critical software, Apani VPN, that I need, but will not build on using

Re: [opensuse] Turning off the hard disk

2007-10-31 Thread Albrecht Mehl
Dear Mr. Roloff, thank you very much for your reply which shows a way to achieve the disered result even though it is not Suse. As not much of an Linux-expert, I have additional questions. Eberhard Roloff schrieb: Very easy, but unfortunately not suse related. 1. Download a knoppix CD or, if

Re: [opensuse] Eclipse hangs

2007-10-31 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Claude Fuhrer wrote: G T Smith wrote: Claude Fuhrer wrote: Hello After a lot of works. I finally managed java to be usable on my laptop. But, there is still a problem I cannot solve. When I start Eclipse (the version installed by the RPM or the

Re: [opensuse] kdar for 10.3 - SOLVED

2007-10-31 Thread Istvan Gabor
have been mentioned. However, you could perhaps follow the following advice: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/susenovell-60/kdar- for- opensuse-10.3-595266/ Thanks Thomas: In the meantime I could compile kdar myself. I removed the following suse 10.3 dar related packages:

[opensuse] About kde4...

2007-10-31 Thread Hudibras
Hi, I've just downloaded and installed new kde4 release, but it doesn't work. I know it's still in development, but considering that it's beta4, I think it's stable enough to work properly. If not, what's the use of installing every package if it displays this message error at startup: Cannot

Re: [opensuse] How do I manage kernels in opensuse

2007-10-31 Thread Aniruddha
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 00:38 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Ok I can do that :). I also discovered that there is a kernel source available kernel-rt. You only see it when you search for it in zypper (in yast2 it's invisible). I currently have the 2.6.22.9-0.4 kernel-source version

Re: [opensuse] For Which Repositories Is Automatically Refresh Unuseful?

2007-10-31 Thread Aniruddha
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 15:27 -0700, Ben Kevan wrote: When they closed with WONTFIX I was suprised since Novell should be doing EVERYTHING they can to trim of milliseconds off of the packaging management. Well, if they're not literally fixed, then I can kind of see their point. If

Re: [opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-31 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: This might be a little bit offtopic. I do not want to offend anybody at openSUSE and don't want to be rude but I think openSUSE could not make a decent package manager since 9.3 or 10.0. Even in 10.3. These are the reasons why I don't use YAST package manager: - YAST package manager is

[opensuse] System shutting down problem

2007-10-31 Thread Jeyaprakash
I am using Open Suse 10.3 HP Compaq Presario C555 TU. I have got problem in shutting down the system at times. At the last moment of the shutting down process, the screen becomes coloured and nothing happens after that and the system does not power down automatically. Kindly help me to trouble

Re: [opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-31 Thread Igor Jagec
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 19:15 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 07:57:22 am Igor Jagec wrote: Yeah, I noticed that too. Especially when I want to do some trivial stuffs with Yast2 (such as changing date and time), since Yast2 sometimes reads package database. Anyway, maybe

Re: [opensuse] Turn off colors in vi or vim

2007-10-31 Thread Istvan Gabor
that's how I like it. I really don't appreciate trying to make out dark blue text on my black xterm, so I always nuke that irritant soon after install. Hello: How can I turn off color in konsole? Or change the colors for other? Thanks, IG Filmek egy kattintásra tőled #8211; Zene és

Re: [opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-31 Thread Igor Jagec
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 08:36 -0500, Bryen wrote: As for the time changing, this was a bug which is claimed to be fixed with 2.16. But, even though I told them it isn't, they still consider it fixed. (shrug) I don't know, I don't use any package from the Factory tree. Here's the version I

Re: [opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-31 Thread Igor Jagec
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:22 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: This might be a little bit offtopic. I do not want to offend anybody at openSUSE and don't want to be rude but I think openSUSE could not make a decent package manager since 9.3 or 10.0. Even in 10.3. Try Yum and you'll see what

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-31 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:47:28 Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Oct 30 2007 10:20, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:42, Russell Jones wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007 08:58, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 11:54]:

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-31 Thread James Knott
Aaron Kulkis wrote: Especially since currently, memory modules are still only 32 bits wide...motherboard manufacturers are at liberty to make the external data bus either 32 bits or 64 bits wide. ??? I thought memory was 64 bits wide these days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR_SDRAM If

Re: [opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-31 Thread James Knott
Jay C Vollmer wrote: On Tuesday 30 October 2007, Doug McGarrett wrote: Trying to open a .wmv file in Kaffeine, it says no plug-in available. Is there one, and if so, where, and what's it called? --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M.

Re: [opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-31 Thread James Knott
Doug McGarrett wrote: Trying to open a .wmv file in Kaffeine, it says no plug-in available. Is there one, and if so, where, and what's it called? --doug There is a plugin on Packman IIRC. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

[opensuse] update evince dependencies

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Harmsen
I ran Yast online update and evince triggered a lot of depency issues: -poppler-qt has missing dependencies -delete popler-qt -popler-devel has missing dependencies -popler-qt4 has missing dependencies -tetexlive-bin has missing dependencies -kdegraphics3 has missing dependencies Is it safe to

Re: [opensuse] For Which Repositories Is Automatically Refresh Unuseful?

2007-10-31 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I was wondering if the main repositories: - Main Repository (OSS) - Main Repository (NON-OSS) are changing now that the final release has been made? If not, I'd turn of Automatically Refresh on these repositories to speed start-up of

Re: [opensuse] Is it possible to install 10.2 Kernel on SusE 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Keith Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is some critical software, Apani VPN, that I need, but will not build on using the SusE 10.3 kernel. Apani software did build using 10.2 kernel. Apani will not have a solution for a while, so I was wondering if I could install the 10.2 kernel

Re: [opensuse] Which Updates/Yast/Sysconfig script creates Link?

2007-10-31 Thread Andreas Jaeger
David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Folks, Everytime some suse update or yast script runs it recreates the link: /usr/lib/libIndirectGL.so.1 - libIndirectGL.so.1.2 This is the proper thing to do and is done by ldconfig. How do I find out what is doing it to tell it to

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-31 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 10/30/2007 11:05 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: That means that what I have to do is to get into YaST2 and redirect the loader to where it should be, or equivalently to give a command-line instruction that will do the same thing. I don't know how to do either of those things, and the books I have

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 amd64 firefox/java

2007-10-31 Thread Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP)
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote: On 10/31/2007 04:52 PM, Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there is a solution to opensuse 10.3 on 64bit amd cpu with 64bit firefox and 64bit jre/java jre1.6.0_03. It seems that in the standard opensuse 10.3 64bit install it installs a 64bit version

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-31 Thread Anders Johansson
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:47:28 Jan Engelhardt wrote: Another cookie: int p = 0; int *x = p; int main(void) { *p = 1337; } yields (for both 64-bit and 64-bit PIC): 400510: 48 8b 05 11 0b 20 00mov 2099985(%rip),%rax I

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 amd64 firefox/java

2007-10-31 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 10/31/2007 04:52 PM, Otto Rodusek (AP-SGP) wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there is a solution to opensuse 10.3 on 64bit amd cpu with 64bit firefox and 64bit jre/java jre1.6.0_03. It seems that in the standard opensuse 10.3 64bit install it installs a 64bit version of firefox and java just

Re: [opensuse] 64 bit vrs 32 bit advantages speed etc.

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Cannon
Robert Lewis wrote: I recently bought a 64 bit machine and have 10.3 loaded . It seems very fast. I am trying to appraise if the advantages of having some software not work because of driver issues is worth it. I've just done a 64bit Boot test while it doesn't really answer your question it

[opensuse] yum repos and zypper update

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
I'm wondering if anyone knows of an obvious reason zypper update would say there is nothing to do even when a newer version of a package has been added to a yum repo I have defined. Yes, I did a zypper refresh to force an update of the cache. And even more interesting, I can do a zypper search

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-31 Thread Stan Goodman
** Reply to message from Joe Morris (NTM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:12:20 +0800 On 10/30/2007 11:05 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: That means that what I have to do is to get into YaST2 and redirect the loader to where it should be, or equivalently to give a command-line

Re: [opensuse] Compiz - vista like Right Side Panel

2007-10-31 Thread Will Stephenson
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, David C. Rankin said: Gabriel . wrote: 2007/10/29, David C. Rankin J.D. P.E. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guys (and girls) I have seen screenshots of compiz with a vista like right side panel holding the clock, calendar, system stats, etc. that I would love

Re: [opensuse] yum repos and zypper update

2007-10-31 Thread Sebastian Brandt
Hi! Tom Horsley wrote: I'm wondering if anyone knows of an obvious reason zypper update would say there is nothing to do even when a newer version of a package has been added to a yum repo I have defined. Yes, I did a zypper refresh to force an update of the cache. And even more

Re: [opensuse] Turn off colors in vi or vim

2007-10-31 Thread Bryen
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 12:01 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: How can I turn off color in konsole? Or change the colors for other? Thanks, IG Depends. Turn off what colors? Can you give us examples of what action/command line tool is generating colors for you? -- ---Bryen---

Re: [opensuse] Cleaning repository 'Packman Repository' cache always takes a lot of time.

2007-10-31 Thread Sebastian Brandt
Istvan Gabor wrote: Hello: These are the reasons why I don't use YAST package manager: - Furthermore why does it have to refresh all repositories if you want only remove or check something? ACK. - You still can't change the order how repositories are processed (discussed elsewhere). -

[opensuse] Unclean shutdowns in 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Myrosia Dzikovska
I recently upgraded to 10.3 from 10.0 on a Sony Vaio PCG V505DP laptop. My 10.0 setup was very stable, but I am experiencing a serious problem in 10.3 with unclean shutdowns. Every so often (once in 5 times, maybe) my KDE refuses to shut down - some windows, like KNotes, stay on screen, but

Re: [opensuse] yum repos and zypper update

2007-10-31 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:23:50PM +, Tom Horsley wrote: I'm wondering if anyone knows of an obvious reason zypper update would say there is nothing to do even when a newer version of a package has been added to a yum repo I have defined. Yes, I did a zypper refresh to force an update of

Re: [opensuse] Turn off colors in vi or vim

2007-10-31 Thread Berthold Gunreben
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Cristian Rodriguez wrote: Bryen escribió: How can I turn off colors in vi (actually vim) permanently? echo syntax off ~/.vimrc That also disables other functionalities. To just turn off colors you probably have to create a new colorscheme ( :help colo ). See also

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-31 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 10/31/2007 08:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor. In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then mount the root partition of the drive, i.e. mount /dev/md0 /mnt (Not sure if these are still needed in 10.3 or not) mount -o

Re: [opensuse] Unclean shutdowns in 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Will Stephenson
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Myrosia Dzikovska said: I looked through /var/log/messages and /var/log/XFree86.0.log, but neither seems to have any error messages. I checked my hardware status with smartctl, and it reports being fine. How could I begin to trace this? Have a look at bug

Re: [opensuse] Unclean shutdowns in 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Carl Hartung
On Wed October 31 2007 08:56:07 am Myrosia Dzikovska wrote: I recently upgraded to 10.3 from 10.0 on a Sony Vaio PCG V505DP laptop. My 10.0 setup was very stable, but I am experiencing a serious problem in 10.3 with unclean shutdowns snip Hi Myrosia, Can you please describe exact upgrade

Re: [opensuse] yum repos and zypper update

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Horsley
Zypper by default updates Patches, the regular method of our update delivery. Use: zypper update -t package to update just-package-updates updates. By golly, that does work. I guess the next step is to investigate creating patches so things can be more automatic. Thanks! -- To

Re: [opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Harmsen
Does the w32codecs package exist for amd64? I mean is there w64codecs? On 10/31/07, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: Trying to open a .wmv file in Kaffeine, it says no plug-in available. Is there one, and if so, where, and what's it called? --doug There is a

Re: [opensuse] Wifi Install Problem

2007-10-31 Thread Donald D Henson
Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Donald D Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-30-07 16:27]: I've been trying to get wifi to work on my Inspiron 1501 laptop. Aside from the normal problems associated with a wifi install, everything was going smoothly until I tried to install an Invalid Driver! using

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 upgrade

2007-10-31 Thread Stan Goodman
** Reply to message from Joe Morris (NTM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:06:21 +0800 On 10/31/2007 08:26 PM, Stan Goodman wrote: In Yast2 boot loader, or etc/sysconfig Editor. In case you have never done this, you would log into the rescue system, then mount the root

Re: [opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-31 Thread James Knott
Peter Harmsen wrote: Does the w32codecs package exist for amd64? I mean is there w64codecs? My system is AMD64 and runs whatever Kaffine came with it. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] HowTo Install New 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default kernel and SAVE my present one too

2007-10-31 Thread L. Mark Stone
- David C. Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Listmates, Jan: | | How can I install the new 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default kernel with | Yast | and tell Yast to leave my old kernel there, and Don't delete it this | time? I know I can do it. On 10.0 I had 11 kernels and sources on the | same

Re: [opensuse] Unclean shutdowns in 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Will Stephenson
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Will Stephenson said: Have a look at bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336669 and see if it matches your experience. Does 'ps aux' before trying to logout/shut down show a number of processes in the 'D' state? It sounds like it to me. I should

Re: [opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-31 Thread James Knott
James Knott wrote: Peter Harmsen wrote: Does the w32codecs package exist for amd64? I mean is there w64codecs? My system is AMD64 and runs whatever Kaffine came with it. Sorry, that should read whatever Kaffine came with the 64 bit 10.3. -- Use OpenOffice.org

[opensuse] no way to install from remote iso?

2007-10-31 Thread Bernd Melchers
Is there any way to install from a remote (ftp or better: nfs) dvd-iso (e.g. nfs://nfshost.bla.bla/path/to/openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-x86_64.iso) image after booting with the mini-iso (e.g. openSUSE-10.3-GM-x86_64-mini.iso)? I tried it, but if i give nfs://nfshost.bla.bla/path/to/ as the installation

Re: [opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-31 Thread BandiPat
On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Peter Harmsen wrote: Does the w32codecs package exist for amd64? I mean is there w64codecs? On 10/31/07, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug McGarrett wrote: Trying to open a .wmv file in Kaffeine, it says no plug-in available. Is there one, and if

Re: [opensuse] Wifi Install Problem

2007-10-31 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Donald D Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-31-07 09:55]: [...] The *.inf files contain the info needed to make wifi work. They have numeric names such as 'R33087.inf' and is distributed as part of a 'cabinet' file. (Fileroller can handle it.) then

Re: [opensuse] Turn off colors in vi or vim

2007-10-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:16, Bryen wrote: How can I turn off colors in vi (actually vim) permanently? In keeping with my theme of answering questions not asked, I'll show you what I do: I add these to my .vimrc file: map ^[c :syntax on^M map ^[w :syntax off^M That way I can turn

Re: [opensuse] Turn off colors in vi or vim

2007-10-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 04:01, Istvan Gabor wrote: that's how I like it. I really don't appreciate trying to make out dark blue text on my black xterm, so I always nuke that irritant soon after install. Hello: How can I turn off color in konsole? Or change the colors for

Re: [opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-31 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-31-07 10:27]: [...] There are no 64bit codecs available yet. Kaffeine and mplayer have to use the 32bit codecs, thus requiring them to also be 32bit. It may be that the 64 bit kaffeine like Konqueror can still

Re: [opensuse] Stupid Compiz questions

2007-10-31 Thread CF
Bob S wrote: Stupid question #1. How do I turn it off ?? Open a terminal, login as root and type the following: gnome-xgl-switch --disable-xgl (remember: as root user!), then logoff and logon again, or if you prefer to, restart your computer. SQ # 2. How do you close an app without going

Re: [opensuse] Unclean shutdowns in 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Myrosia Dzikovska
Hi Will, I am not on x86_64 but actually this sounds very similar. When I was looking around for causes, I noticed processes that I haven't been able to kill, even with kill -9 run as root, and was puzzled by that. This happened to yast2 twice, and also to kio_http and kio_imaps. I am running

Re: [opensuse] Unclean shutdowns in 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Myrosia Dzikovska
Hi Carl, no, I made an upgrade from an installed system. I know it's not always ideal, but I have a number of my own rpms installed over time (nothing that would be relevant to this issue, just various software utility packages), plus other configuration, and from my point of view it's a major

[opensuse] ATI Driver - Which Version?

2007-10-31 Thread Jim Flanagan
I have an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP card, and am unsure which version of the ATI driver I should run in opensuse 10.3. The one click method says this newer version 8.41.7 is good for radeon 8500 and newer. But he ATI site shows the older version 8.28.8 from Aug 18, 2006 to be the last version that

Re: [opensuse] HowTo Install New 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default kernel and SAVE my present one too

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Creighton
David C. Rankin wrote: But so far in 10.3 every time I install a new kernel and source, Yast or zypper or whatever the clever package, keeps removing the original kernel. How do I make it stop. None of the automatic installation tools (Yast-zypper-smart) seem to leave the old

Re: [opensuse] HowTo Install New 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default kernel and SAVE my present one too

2007-10-31 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Richard Creighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-31-07 11:22]: David C. Rankin wrote: But so far in 10.3 every time I install a new kernel and source, Yast or zypper or whatever the clever package, keeps removing the original kernel. How do I

[opensuse] Anyone else having rpm2cpio trouble?

2007-10-31 Thread Bryen
When I run rpm2cpio (packagename) I get a very scrambled output, and when it returns to the prompt, the prompt is scrambled too, as well as anything I type. Only way out of this is to close the terminal and restart. Another symptom, rpm2cpio --help works before I actually run an rpm2cpio

Re: [opensuse] About kde4...

2007-10-31 Thread Hudibras
El mié, 31-10-2007 a las 13:15 +0100, Will Stephenson escribió: On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Hudibras said: As usually, thank you for your answer. I've just downloaded and installed new kde4 release, but it doesn't work. I know it's still in development, but considering that it's beta4,

[opensuse] Process Hangs / D-wait / Novell Bug 336669

2007-10-31 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=336669 This is a very uncool situation. I encounter these processes hanging in D waits quite a lot and it is very disruptive. Whatever the problem is, and it seems to be one of those bugs exacerbated by multi-core systems that we've known was

[opensuse] language at boot

2007-10-31 Thread Jason Craig
I recently upgraded to 10.3, and now at the boot screen where I select normal or failsafe (is this grub?) under F2 for language it says English (UK). No other language is in the menu. When I finish booting, the language settings say only English (US) is installed. This is a bug I assume, or

Re: [opensuse] OS 10.3 Problem with digital camera Canon Powershot A550 reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8

2007-10-31 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:30:21PM +0100, Franz Petri wrote: Hi, I have the following problem with a Canon Powershot A550 digital camera: When plugging it into an arbitrary free usb-port it is recognized by KDE right away, but it takes ages (about 20-30 seconds) until it is accessible via

Re: [opensuse] OpenSuse10.3 will not boot into KDM with ATi graphics card - SOLVED

2007-10-31 Thread Jim Flanagan
Rajko M. wrote: On Saturday 27 October 2007 08:17:31 am Jim Flanagan wrote: Rajko M. wrote: ... It will be interesting to see what nvidia Xorg.0.log tells. BTW, do you have any other Xorg logs in /var/log/ I used as root in runlevel 3 command: X -configure which produced

Re: [opensuse] Turn off colors in vi or vim

2007-10-31 Thread Istvan Gabor
How can I turn off color in konsole? Or change the colors for other? Depends. Turn off what colors? Can you give us examples of what action/command line tool is generating colors for you? I meant the foreground color of konsole window, ie the text/ characters. Eg that root login

Re: [opensuse] smart howto handle dependencies?

2007-10-31 Thread Michael Skiba
Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2007 13:20:56 schrieb Teruel de Campo MD: ref: opensuse 10.3 smart: 0.51 Q: if you have many packages to upgrade but few are dependent of a library that is not available for example, how can you install upgrades that are OK and leave the ones that are not?. I have

[opensuse] opensuse 10.3 smart pkg conflict

2007-10-31 Thread Jeff Weber
I have a package confict when attempting to update opensuse 10.3 from the smart package manager: file /usr/lib/libmtp.so.6 from install of libmtp7-0.2.3-0.pm.1 conflicts with file from package libmtp-0.2.1-10 file

Re: [opensuse] HowTo Install New 2.6.23.1-900.ccj58-default kernel and SAVE my present one too

2007-10-31 Thread Richard Creighton
Patrick Shanahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Richard Creighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10-31-07 11:22]: David C. Rankin wrote: But so far in 10.3 every time I install a new kernel and source, Yast or zypper or whatever the clever package, keeps removing

[opensuse] How do I set up an shared agenda with evolution?

2007-10-31 Thread Aniruddha
I would like to share my evolution agenda across my lan. Where do I start looking for solutions? Do I need to setup a server? And if so which server exactly? -- Regards, Aniruddha Please adhere to the OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_mailing_list_netiquette

Re: [opensuse] language at boot

2007-10-31 Thread Mark Goldstein
On 10/31/07, Jason Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded to 10.3, and now at the boot screen where I select normal or failsafe (is this grub?) under F2 for language it says English (UK). No other language is in the menu. When I finish booting, the language settings say only

Re: [opensuse] Turn off colors in vi or vim

2007-10-31 Thread Bryen
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 17:45 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: How can I turn off color in konsole? Or change the colors for other? Depends. Turn off what colors? Can you give us examples of what action/command line tool is generating colors for you? I meant the foreground color of

Re: [opensuse] Turn off colors in vi or vim

2007-10-31 Thread Istvan Gabor
Randall R Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] írta: On Wednesday 31 October 2007 04:01, Istvan Gabor wrote: that's how I like it. I really don't appreciate trying to make out dark Konsole's color settings are kept in Schema definitions. You can switch schemas in the Schema sub-menu of the

Re: [opensuse] .wmv files

2007-10-31 Thread Peter Harmsen
Thanks! Yes i also hope we'll get 64bit codecs and flash someday :-) Peter On 10/31/07, BandiPat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Peter Harmsen wrote: Does the w32codecs package exist for amd64? I mean is there w64codecs? On 10/31/07, James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] ejabberd for opensuse 10.3

2007-10-31 Thread Marcus Rueckert
On 2007-10-08 13:27:27 +0400, Roman Makurin wrote: Is there any ejabberd repo for opensuse 10.3 ? Or where can I get ejabberd related packages for 10.3 ? I found packages only for 10.2 :( we finally have building packages again. can you test them and report back if you see any issues? thanks

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 Intel Video

2007-10-31 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/10/30 14:47 (GMT+0100) Andreas Jaeger apparently typed: Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Because of the Intel video, I'd stick with 10.2 until 11.0 has been released. What problem do you have with the Intel video in 10.3? Note among other things the fix dates on those marked

[opensuse] Re: ATI Driver - Which Version?

2007-10-31 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Jim Flanagan wrote: I have an ATI Radeon 9000 AGP card, and am unsure which version of the ATI driver I should run in opensuse 10.3. The one click method says this newer version 8.41.7 is good for radeon 8500 and newer. But he ATI site shows the older version 8.28.8 from Aug 18, 2006 to be the

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