Re: [opensuse] Re: sound volume control not working as wanted

2007-11-09 Thread jdd
Ed McCanless wrote: Just to let you know your not alone, I have noticed this on my Suse 10.1 amd64, but I havn't a clue what's been changed. thanks :-) if nothing new, Ill will try bugzilla jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2007/10/27/127022-Claire-Dodin-une-Toulousa

Re: [opensuse] Can't set resolution after NVIDIA graphics card installation.

2007-11-09 Thread Ed McCanless
Ed McCanless wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: > >>> This indicates to me that NVIDIA could not recognize the monitor at all >>> (except that it is there.) >>> >>> Note the line "(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5500 at PCI:1:0:0 >>> (GPU-0)." I have AGP (unless pci and agp slots are interchangeab

Re: [opensuse] opensuseupdater and 'secure' file permissions

2007-11-09 Thread JB
--- Marcus Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, do not use opensuseupdater in secure mode, or > make zypp-check-patches.wrapper also setuid in > /etc/permissions.secure > > Ciao, Marcus > Thanks Marcus, that works. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tir

Re: [opensuse] sound volume control not working as wanted

2007-11-09 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue November 6 2007 12:33, jdd wrote: > do somebody know how to make the main out be front? If you right-click on the icon in the taskbar, it lets you "Select the master channel" and then you pick the one that works. Unfortunately this option is not offered anywhere else. I think it should b

Re: [opensuse] USB external drive.....a good one!

2007-11-09 Thread Robert Smits
On November 9, 2007 08:33:03 pm Fred A. Miller wrote: > I'm mentioning this because of some complaints about some USB drives > that don't like Linux. BestBuy and I imagine some other stores have > several of the Seagate FreeAgent Pro external drives on sale. I picked > up the 500G drive today setup

Re: [opensuse] Can't set resolution after NVIDIA graphics card installation.

2007-11-09 Thread Ed McCanless
Ben Kevan wrote: >> This indicates to me that NVIDIA could not recognize the monitor at all >> (except that it is there.) >> >> Note the line "(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5500 at PCI:1:0:0 >> (GPU-0)." I have AGP (unless pci and agp slots are interchangeable. >> Maybe I should examine th

[opensuse] Roadmap for openSUSE 11.0

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Kevan
I was checking out the openSUSE wiki and came across: http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.0 Goals for 11.0 - > KDE 4.1 > X.org 7.4 > Gnome 2.22 opensuse 11.0 will be out ~ june/july 2008. we can hope that KDE 4.1 will come out around six months after 4.0, therefore may/june 2008. KDE 4.1 will

Re: [opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Robert Smits
On November 9, 2007 10:24:20 am Eberhard Roloff wrote: > > While this study is great, one should not forget that the google usage > environment of hundreds of thousands disks is not directly comparable to > what most people do at work or at home. > > I.e. most people do not work in air-conditioned

Re: [opensuse] Yast Software Mgmt. Slower, and Slower and Slower

2007-11-09 Thread Rajko M.
On Saturday 10 November 2007 12:24:17 am Ben Kevan wrote: > >  zypp.db       │128186K│Nov  7 18:39 > >  zypp.db       │ 58667K│Nov  9 17:54 > > > > > > Here is only few (16). > > And you guys thought you had it bad: > > l /var/cache/zypp/ ... > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 42458112 2007-11-09 21:08 zyp

Re: [opensuse] Can't set resolution after NVIDIA graphics card installation.

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Kevan
> > This indicates to me that NVIDIA could not recognize the monitor at all > (except that it is there.) > > Note the line "(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5500 at PCI:1:0:0 > (GPU-0)." I have AGP (unless pci and agp slots are interchangeable. > Maybe I should examine the card more closely.

Re: [opensuse] Can't set resolution after NVIDIA graphics card installation.

2007-11-09 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 09 November 2007 11:01:00 pm Ed McCanless wrote: > (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU > (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5500 at > PCI:1:0:0: (--) NVIDIA(0):     @@@ (CRT-0) > (--) NVIDIA(0): @@@ (CRT-0): 350.0 MHz maximum pixel clock

Re: [opensuse] Yast Software Mgmt. Slower, and Slower and Slower

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Kevan
On Friday 09 November 2007 04:01:12 pm Rajko M. wrote: > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75791360 2007-11-09 00:01 zypp.db > > zypp.db │128186K│Nov 7 18:39 > zypp.db │ 58667K│Nov 9 17:54 > > > Here is only few (16). > And you guys thought you had it bad: l /var/cache/zypp/ total 415

Re: [opensuse] compiz-fusion help

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Kevan
On Friday 09 November 2007 07:49:08 pm Bob S wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007 01:26:29 pm Ted Markowitz wrote: > > FYI, Bob, I see exactly the same "cube-less" behaviour. This is on a new > > Dell Latitude 830 running openSUSE 10.3, with compiz and emerald > > apparently functioning OK under Xor

Re: [opensuse] Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Kevan
On Friday 09 November 2007 07:38:09 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: > > Have you tried not doing the libgl renames? Mesa should be updated and > > possibly the issue fixed. > > > > Ben > > All original libs restored and tried. No different than before. Compiz > will not even whimper wi

Re: [opensuse] Can't set resolution after NVIDIA graphics card installation.

2007-11-09 Thread Ed McCanless
Rajko M. wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007 05:19:14 pm Rajko M. wrote: > > >> Somewhat spartan Section "Modes". >> You can comment out that line too, like this: >> # Modeline "800x600" 38.34 800 832 928 1024 600 604 608 >> 624 -HSync -VSync >> > > Trigger finger :-) it wasn't fin

Re: [opensuse] compiz-fusion help

2007-11-09 Thread Bob S
On Friday 09 November 2007 01:26:29 pm Ted Markowitz wrote: > FYI, Bob, I see exactly the same "cube-less" behaviour. This is on a new > Dell Latitude 830 running openSUSE 10.3, with compiz and emerald > apparently functioning OK under Xorg 7.2 using an NVidia Quadro NVS 140M > card with the native

[opensuse] USB external drive.....a good one!

2007-11-09 Thread Fred A. Miller
I'm mentioning this because of some complaints about some USB drives that don't like Linux. BestBuy and I imagine some other stores have several of the Seagate FreeAgent Pro external drives on sale. I picked up the 500G drive today setup with a SATA and USB connection. It also has a 5-yr. warranty.

Re: [opensuse] Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
Ben Kevan wrote: > Have you tried not doing the libgl renames? Mesa should be updated and > possibly the issue fixed. > > Ben All original libs restored and tried. No different than before. Compiz will not even whimper with the original libGL.so.1.2 in place or libIndirectGL.so.1 in place. See

Re: [opensuse] opensuseupdater and 'secure' file permissions

2007-11-09 Thread Joe Morris (NTM)
On 11/10/2007 01:20 AM, JB wrote: > Greetings All - I'm running openSuSE 10.2 and running > into Bug 282674. > > The gist of the problem is that if I change the > system's file permissions to be 'secure', then the > OpenSuSE update applet fails with a yellow warning > triangle. Bug report 282674 co

Re: [opensuse] audacity startup problem

2007-11-09 Thread Basil Chupin
Istvan Gabor wrote: I'm not sure what is causing audacity not to start for your, but I can confirm that Audacity ? 1.3.3-beta (Unicode) is running without error on 10.3 on my laptop. Happy hunting. Thanks. I could start audacity logging in as another user. So something

Re: [opensuse] Re: Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
Eberhard Roloff wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: >> Ben Kevan wrote: >>> On Friday 09 November 2007 08:55:01 am David C. Rankin wrote: (New thread) I have also included additional detail at the bottom that may help. I have tried compiz with both the ATI 8.42.3 driver via Yast from

Re: [opensuse] Yast Software Mgmt. Slower, and Slower and Slower

2007-11-09 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 09 November 2007 12:21:55 am Ben Kevan wrote: > On 11/8/07, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rajko M. wrote: > > > On Thursday 08 November 2007 11:03:34 pm David C. Rankin wrote: > > >> Listmates, > > >> > > >> Yast/Zypper software management and online update modules have

Re: [opensuse] Can't set resolution after NVIDIA graphics card installation.

2007-11-09 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 09 November 2007 05:19:14 pm Rajko M. wrote: > Somewhat spartan Section "Modes". > You can comment out that line too, like this: > #   Modeline     "800x600" 38.34 800 832 928 1024 600 604 608   > 624 -HSync  -VSync Trigger finger :-) it wasn't finished. Commenting out the line will a

Re: [opensuse] Hard Drives Are Such Interesting Devices!

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sector remapping occurs only on sector write, so this is expetced > behavior. OK, but this seems to be a serious shortcoming in the operation of these drives and / or their SMART monitoring firmware. Basically, they declare as intrins

[opensuse] Re: Hard Drives Are Such Interesting Devices!

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:09, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > This is a follow-up to the thread "Hard Disk Failing." > > ... A final note: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Ex

Re: [opensuse] Can't set resolution after NVIDIA graphics card installation.

2007-11-09 Thread Rajko M.
On Thursday 08 November 2007 11:05:06 pm Ed McCanless wrote: > Rajko M. wrote: > > SaX2 or Xorg can refuse to load some resolution that is too high for > > monitor physical capabilities. Check other 2 tabs for horizontal and > > vertical synchronization ranges and monitor physical size. > > Freq. 3

Re: [opensuse] ATI, 8.42, 10.3: The X server always start with max resolution

2007-11-09 Thread Rajko M.
On Friday 09 November 2007 03:21:08 am Magnar Strand Olsen wrote: > Rajko M. skrev: > > On Thursday 08 November 2007 03:43:33 am Magnar Strand Olsen wrote: > >> fazer skrev: > I installed the 8.42 drivers, but it gave me a desktop resolution of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the highest resolution

Re: [opensuse] Test

2007-11-09 Thread Kai Ponte
On Friday 09 November 2007 13:05, Test wrote: > This is a test Test failed, pigfu... ...oh, wait. This isn't alt.2600, huh? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Hard Drives Are Such Interesting Devices!

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:17, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-09-07 19:12]: > > ... > > > > An interesting aside: The actual capacity of this drive appears to > > be nearly 7 GB (out of just under 140 GB) _larger_ than specified. > > only possible problem, p

[opensuse] Re: Hard Drives Are Such Interesting Devices!

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:09, Randall R Schulz wrote: > ... > > An interesting aside: The actual capacity of this drive appears to be > nearly 7 GB (out of just under 140 GB) _larger_ than specified. Here's another interesting observation: These seven percent are very close to the ratio of 10

Re: [opensuse] Hard Drives Are Such Interesting Devices!

2007-11-09 Thread Patrick Shanahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11-09-07 19:12]: > invocation of "dd" (the stock dd, not dd_rescue) to copy zero bytes > (supplied by /dev/zero, of course) over the failing sectors. > > Voila! After this, the bad sectors could be read without

Re: [opensuse] Hard Drives Are Such Interesting Devices!

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 16:09, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > This is a follow-up to the thread "Hard Disk Failing." > > To recap, SMART reported drive errors of the "...XYZ..." variety ... Sorry. I meant to look up the specific error attribute names and fill them in. They are: - Current_P

[opensuse] Hard Drives Are Such Interesting Devices!

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Hi, This is a follow-up to the thread "Hard Disk Failing." To recap, SMART reported drive errors of the "...XYZ..." variety on a young and lightly used Western Digital Raptor drive. It turned out (see below) that any attempt to access any of sectors 261200 through 261343 (a 144-sector range) w

Re: [opensuse] Software Updates hanging

2007-11-09 Thread Bryen
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:01 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > Bryen, > > On Friday 09 November 2007 14:39, Bryen wrote: > > It seems that my software updates is hanging. Quick question, if I > > stop and restart it, will everything be okay? > > Please tell us something about your setup / config

Re: [opensuse] Software Updates hanging

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
Bryen, On Friday 09 November 2007 14:39, Bryen wrote: > It seems that my software updates is hanging. Quick question, if I > stop and restart it, will everything be okay? Please tell us something about your setup / configuration / installation. Most importantly, which version of SuSE Linux /

Re: [opensuse] Test

2007-11-09 Thread Novell OpenSUSE1
Please test somewhere else. On Nov 9, 2007 2:05 PM, Test <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a test -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Software Updates hanging

2007-11-09 Thread Bryen
It seems that my software updates is hanging. Quick question, if I stop and restart it, will everything be okay? -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] bonding again - performance issues

2007-11-09 Thread JJB
Hello, I set up bonding on our SUSE machines as described in a thread from a few weeks ago. Instead of boosting network performance, the effect was to degrade network performance significantly.. The setting was the "rr" round robin setting. Can someone suggest an alternate approach? The serve

[opensuse] The "live: 10.3 (KDE) disk question

2007-11-09 Thread Dennis J. Tuchler
I burned a 10.3 "live" disk and tried it out. Thinking about using this as a rescue disk, I tried to mount the hard drive only to find that /dev/hdan (where n is a number from 1 to 8) was not recognized as a device. Is there any way I could get the "live" CD to recognize and let me have access

[opensuse] Test

2007-11-09 Thread Test
This is a test -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Randall R Schulz wrote: >> While this study is great, one should not forget that the google >> usage environment of hundreds of thousands disks is not directly >> comparable to what most people do at work or at home. >> >> I.e. most people do not work in air-conditioned data centers and most >> de

Re: [opensuse] Re: sound volume control not working as wanted

2007-11-09 Thread Ed McCanless
jdd wrote: > jdd wrote: >> Hello, >> My brand new acer 9410z works beautifully under openSUSE 10.3, mostly >> out of the box and even the wifi with some tweak, but the sound >> control is curious. >> >> I use kde and kmix, as ever. Now the control displayed by kmix is not >> working. That is it don

[opensuse] Re: Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
David C. Rankin wrote: > Ben Kevan wrote: >> On Friday 09 November 2007 08:55:01 am David C. Rankin wrote: >>> (New thread) I have also included additional detail at the bottom that >>> may help. I have tried compiz with both the ATI 8.42.3 driver via Yast >>> from www2.ati.com and with the 8.4

[opensuse] No application names in GNOME 2.20 Application Browser

2007-11-09 Thread Peter Cox
I'm not sure what I did, but when I open the Application Browser in GNOME 2.20 (openSUSE 10.3), the application icons are now centered in each column with no application name to the left of each icon as it previously had. No other applications are affected, just Application Browser. Any ideas on wh

Re: [opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 10:24, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > On Friday 09 November 2007 09:43, Robert Smits wrote: > >> ... > >> > >> http://209.85.163.132/papers/disk_failures.pdf > > > > ... > > While this study is great, one should not forget that the google > usage env

[opensuse] Re: sound volume control not working as wanted

2007-11-09 Thread jdd
jdd wrote: Hello, My brand new acer 9410z works beautifully under openSUSE 10.3, mostly out of the box and even the wifi with some tweak, but the sound control is curious. I use kde and kmix, as ever. Now the control displayed by kmix is not working. That is it don't reduce or raise the soun

Re: [opensuse] Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
Ben Kevan wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007 08:55:01 am David C. Rankin wrote: >> >> (New thread) I have also included additional detail at the bottom that >> may help. I have tried compiz with both the ATI 8.42.3 driver via Yast >> from www2.ati.com and with the 8.42 driver generated from t

Re: [opensuse] audacity startup problem

2007-11-09 Thread Ed McCanless
Istvan Gabor wrote: >> I'm not sure what is causing audacity not to start for >> > your, but > I can > >> confirm that Audacity ? 1.3.3-beta (Unicode) is running >> > without error > on > >> 10.3 on my laptop. Happy hunting. >> > > Thanks. > I could start audacity logg

Re: [opensuse] heat and stress GPU

2007-11-09 Thread Ed McCanless
Eberhard Roloff wrote: > Hi, > > I change my gpu from an old ATI 9200 to a better supported NV7600 > > Me being computer sound adverse, both are silent i.e. I am fortunate > that I can go by without gpu cooling fan noise. > > However from what I feel with my fingers and see via different tools > (v

[opensuse] Re: Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007 09:43, Robert Smits wrote: >> On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12:31 G T Smith wrote: >>> Robert Smits information rather confirms what I have suspected for >>> some time about how one should assess a S.M.A.R.T report, >>> unfortunately Robert did n

Re: [opensuse] What is the development with the RandR problem

2007-11-09 Thread Razi Khaja
> On my desktop I cannot change the screensize of my desktop. At the moment I > have problems while working in a 1600x1200 environment. My normal workplace > has for better readability 800x600. An alternative to changing the resolution would be: Yast2 -> Hardware -> Graphics Card and Monitor (a)

[opensuse] Re: What is the development with the RandR problem

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: >> Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: >>> Have probably missed a RandR discussion. But assuming that this is >>> already an older problem, is there a workable solution? >> what RandR problem? > > On my desktop I

Re: [opensuse] Unable to connect to mainframe using x3270

2007-11-09 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Biju CP wrote: Hi I am trying to use x3270 to connect to a mainframe, on port number 623, but am unable to. It shows an error "The service timedout", can you please suggest why this error is occuring / how can i resolve it. Is this a problem with the mainframe server or the emulator

Re: [opensuse] Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Billie Walsh wrote: On 11/07/2007 Aaron Kulkis wrote: On the basis that SMART was wrong *once*, are you willing to bet YOUR DATA that his old drive has NOT run out of internal spare sectors? I don't think that I EVER suggested that he should just ignore it. I just suggested that there was a po

Re: [opensuse] Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Aaron Kulkis
Billie Walsh wrote: On 11/08/2007 Patrick Shanahan wrote: you made *his* day and ruined yours :^( He couldn't ruin my day if he tried. I woke up breathing this morning. Everything after that is gravey. Hope to do the same thing tomorrow morning. After a year in Baghdad, and having part of

Re: [opensuse] Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 09:43, Robert Smits wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12:31 G T Smith wrote: > > Robert Smits information rather confirms what I have suspected for > > some time about how one should assess a S.M.A.R.T report, > > unfortunately Robert did not give a link for the pape

Re: [opensuse] Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Robert Smits
On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12:31 G T Smith wrote: > Robert Smits information rather confirms what I have suspected for some > time about how one should assess a S.M.A.R.T report, unfortunately > Robert did not give a link for the paper he referred to. I would be > interested to have a look at i

Re: [opensuse] Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread Ben Kevan
On Friday 09 November 2007 08:55:01 am David C. Rankin wrote: > Synopsis: > > Compiz was running great under xorg 7.2. I upgraded to xorg 7.3 now > compiz will not start no matter what. This thread picks up from "Yast > Software Mgmt. Slower, and Slower and Slower" that I hijacked from myself. > >

Re: [opensuse] opensuseupdater and 'secure' file permissions

2007-11-09 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:20:36AM -0800, JB wrote: > Greetings All - I'm running openSuSE 10.2 and running > into Bug 282674. > > The gist of the problem is that if I change the > system's file permissions to be 'secure', then the > OpenSuSE update applet fails with a yellow warning > triangle. B

Re: [opensuse] What is the development with the RandR problem

2007-11-09 Thread Constant Brouerius van Nidek
On Friday 09 November 2007, Dave Howorth wrote: > Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > > Have probably missed a RandR discussion. But assuming that this is > > already an older problem, is there a workable solution? > > what RandR problem? On my desktop I cannot change the screensize of my deskto

Re: [opensuse] Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread CyberOrg
On Nov 9, 2007 10:25 PM, David C. Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp > --indirect-rendering --no-libgl-fallback > compiz (core) - Fatal: GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap is missing Missing tfp means compiz is not able to find the right libGL.

[opensuse] opensuseupdater and 'secure' file permissions

2007-11-09 Thread JB
Greetings All - I'm running openSuSE 10.2 and running into Bug 282674. The gist of the problem is that if I change the system's file permissions to be 'secure', then the OpenSuSE update applet fails with a yellow warning triangle. Bug report 282674 confirms that the updater requires setuid privile

[opensuse] gmplayer hangs

2007-11-09 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: Recently gmplayer frequently hangs with the following message (especially if playing is started by double clicking): MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: decode_video - MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM. Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace a

Re: [opensuse] audacity startup problem

2007-11-09 Thread Istvan Gabor
> I'm not sure what is causing audacity not to start for your, but I can > confirm that Audacity ? 1.3.3-beta (Unicode) is running without error on > 10.3 on my laptop. Happy hunting. Thanks. I could start audacity logging in as another user. So something is wrong with my home folder/set

[opensuse] Got Xorg 7.3 and Lost Compiz

2007-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
Synopsis: Compiz was running great under xorg 7.2. I upgraded to xorg 7.3 now compiz will not start no matter what. This thread picks up from "Yast Software Mgmt. Slower, and Slower and Slower" that I hijacked from myself. Ben Kevan wrote: > > Can you give me output of rpm -qa | grep xorg ? > Be

Re: [opensuse] What is the development with the RandR problem

2007-11-09 Thread Dave Howorth
Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > Have probably missed a RandR discussion. But assuming that this is already an > > older problem, is there a workable solution? what RandR problem? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Yast Software Mgmt. Slower, and Slower and Slower

2007-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
Ben Kevan wrote: >>> Ben >> Yes, I have just about all of them. >> >> Now that I've got you, any thought about why compiz will not work with >> Xorg 7.3? Updated 7.2 to 7.3 and it is dead. All the libs are fine, >> xorg.conf is the same. fglrx loads fine. AIGLX loads fine. It just >> doesn't li

Re: [opensuse] openSuSe 10.3 + compiz-fusion: systray icons opens as small windows

2007-11-09 Thread Magnar Strand Olsen
2007/11/9, Pablo Bueti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've a fresh install of openSuSe 10.3 with all the updates to date > applied, kde and compiz-fusion over Xorg and nVidia XFX 8400 GS 512. > When system starts some systray icons aren't show in the taskbar, they > open as small windows with a 'x' to clos

Re: [opensuse] openSuSe 10.3 + compiz-fusion: systray icons opens as small windows

2007-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
Pablo Bueti wrote: > I've a fresh install of openSuSe 10.3 with all the updates to date > applied, kde and compiz-fusion over Xorg and nVidia XFX 8400 GS 512. > When system starts some systray icons aren't show in the taskbar, they > open as small windows with a 'x' to close it. Happens mainly with

Re: [opensuse] audacity startup problem

2007-11-09 Thread David C. Rankin
Istvan Gabor wrote: > Hello: > > This is on openSUSE 10.3. > When I start audacity nothing happens. Audacity does not > open its window. According to ps audacity is running. > When started from konsole, with "audacity", there is no any > message. > I tried both 1.3.3-46 version from suse reposit

[opensuse] What is the development with the RandR problem

2007-11-09 Thread Constant Brouerius van Nidek
Have probably missed a RandR discussion. But assuming that this is already an older problem, is there a workable solution? And by the way, what is the best way to search for an answer in our list with google? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] openSuSe 10.3 + compiz-fusion: systray icons opens as small windows

2007-11-09 Thread Pablo Bueti
Todd Ness escribió: > > I had a similar problem, it was related to running X with dual monitors > and multiple panels, each panel had a notification area or "systray" > What I did to fix that was to remove all notification areas, then just > add one on one of the panels, logged out and restarted. T

Re: [opensuse] Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Friday 09 November 2007 01:12, G T Smith wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > ... > > It's only 86 lines, but it confuses me, too, at this point. > > > > I've attached the output of "smartctl -a /dev/sda". If you or > > anybody can tell me something meaningful, feel free. > > > > > > Randall Sch

Re: [opensuse] openSuSe 10.3 + compiz-fusion: systray icons opens as small windows

2007-11-09 Thread Todd Ness
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:31 -0300, Pablo Bueti wrote: > I've a fresh install of openSuSe 10.3 with all the updates to date > applied, kde and compiz-fusion over Xorg and nVidia XFX 8400 GS 512. > When system starts some systray icons aren't show in the taskbar, they > open as small windows with a

[opensuse] openSuSe 10.3 + compiz-fusion: systray icons opens as small windows

2007-11-09 Thread Pablo Bueti
I've a fresh install of openSuSe 10.3 with all the updates to date applied, kde and compiz-fusion over Xorg and nVidia XFX 8400 GS 512. When system starts some systray icons aren't show in the taskbar, they open as small windows with a 'x' to close it. Happens mainly with KMixer and openSuSe update

[opensuse] Ensoniq 1371 not working after yesterdays update

2007-11-09 Thread Constant Brouerius van Nidek
On my suse 10.2, with KDE, I am using an Ensoniq 1371 sound card. Yesterday I made an normal update with smart. After I had a small electrical blackout I had a reboot. If I start Kmix I get a blank page without any information. With yast for a reinstall of the soundcard I get the information tha

SUCCESS! Was Re: [opensuse] Compiz on ATI: Worked until I installed fusion-icon?

2007-11-09 Thread Magnar Strand Olsen
Joseph Loo skrev: >> After I installed ATI 8.42, Compiz fusion worked as it should - however, >> I got the common problem of the systray icons being scattered around, >> and the kicker panel not working properly. >> >> I thought it might be a good idea to install fusion-icon - in order to >> quickl

Re: [opensuse] Kernel Updates Put Bad Device Names In "/boot/grub/menu.lst"

2007-11-09 Thread Mohsen Rezayatmand
Not only grub but also lilo is being effected, that is if you are using lilo and lilo.conf look at my lilo.conf. good think I saw it before I reboot the system (SuSE 10.2): # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Nov 8 09:15:38 EST 2007 menu-scheme = Wb:kw:Wb:Wb timeout = 600 lba32 chang

[opensuse] Error - KInternet (Could not connect to local server. Maybe smpppd is not running...)

2007-11-09 Thread williamkow
I'm a newbie, and recently newly installed OpenSuSE version 10.3 (KDE) and I have problem to connect internet using my mobile phone Nokia 6230 via USB cable to my computer. After logon with root account and then trying to troubleshoot my problem to connect to ISP. Could you please advise me for

[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-gnome] Upgrading from GNOME:STABLE and KDE:KDE3 repositories messed up the system for the 1st time

2007-11-09 Thread Rodrigo Moya
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 02:50 -0300, CF wrote: > I use openSUSE 10.2 / GNOME and every month I upgrade the system from > the repositories GNOME:STABLE and KDE:KDE3 using the mirror from > http://ftp.skynet.be. The upgrade always goes smoothly with no problem. > However, yesterday after upgrading

Re: [opensuse] Sound issues

2007-11-09 Thread james Smullins
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 05:29 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote: > > Do you have anything like a TV card hooked up to it? > > I have the same problem with mine due to my TV card. It seems in Linux > it won't turn off the audio like it should. I just mute the input from > the card when I'm not using it. N

[opensuse] Re: How to install independant RPM packages in SUSE 10.3 GNOME?

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Ken Schneider wrote: > Aaron Kulkis wrote: >> Kevin Dupuy wrote: >>> Hello everyone! >>> I'm having trouble wit Gtkpod 0.99.10, and I'm trying to install an >>> independent RPM of Gtkpod 0.99.8 (or whatever). I downloaded the file >>> and double clicked on it, but it appeared it wanted me to extrac

[opensuse] Re: Help with Java installation on SuSE 10.3

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote: > Thank you very much. > I did that. Still R GUI for SUSE 10.3 does not work. > > Regards, > maura > > Hi Maura, in case your problem persists, what is your java version on your machine? Find out with ex. "rpm -qa |grep java" if you are getting multiple java pack

Re: [opensuse] zypper error [SOLVED]

2007-11-09 Thread Ken Schneider
Gabriel . wrote: > On Nov 8, 2007 4:30 PM, Ken Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After running zypper I get the following error. >> >> QSettings: failed to open file >> '/usr/lib/qt3//etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc' >> >> >> This happens whether something is actually updated or if I manually >

Re: [opensuse] zypper error

2007-11-09 Thread Gabriel .
On Nov 8, 2007 4:30 PM, Ken Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After running zypper I get the following error. > > QSettings: failed to open file > '/usr/lib/qt3//etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc' > > > This happens whether something is actually updated or if I manually > check for updates. > Thi

Re: [opensuse] zypper error

2007-11-09 Thread Jan Kupec
Ken Schneider wrote: > After running zypper I get the following error. > > QSettings: failed to open file > '/usr/lib/qt3//etc/settings/qt_plugins_3.3rc' Hm. Are you sure this is related to zypper? zypper and qt have no relation at all. Maybe you are talking about YaST Software Management? Or the

Re: [opensuse] I finally switched over to Linux, but ...

2007-11-09 Thread drek
On 11/09/2007 12:32 PM, drek wrote: > On 11/05/2007 10:34 AM, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: > >> 3. I used (and paid for) Babylon for translation. The free dict is not >> the same. E.g., in Babylon I hover over a word and press CTRL-right >> mouse and got a window with the translation for all dictiona

Re: [opensuse] I finally switched over to Linux, but ...

2007-11-09 Thread drek
On 11/05/2007 10:34 AM, Ronald Wiplinger wrote: > 3. I used (and paid for) Babylon for translation. The free dict is not > the same. E.g., in Babylon I hover over a word and press CTRL-right > mouse and got a window with the translation for all dictionaries I > needed (e.g., Chinese Traditional, Ch

Re: [opensuse] Sound issues

2007-11-09 Thread Billie Walsh
On Thursday 08 November 2007, james Smullins wrote: > > > I have a very annoying problem. mobo has MCP55 High Definition > AudBandiPat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>io > > > using the snd-hda-intel driver. The out put is horrid a constant his > > > and when music or any other thing is playing it sounds full

Re: [opensuse] mysql starts with --skip-grant-tables

2007-11-09 Thread Michal Marek
Adam Fisher wrote: > I did a fresh install of 10.2 and now when I start mysql (rcmysql start). > It starts with --skip-grant-tables and the mysql.sock is loaded in > /var/run/mysql/.protected folder. I have apparmor turned off and don't > see how it is installed in chroot. In my.cnf it is not lis

[opensuse] audacity startup problem

2007-11-09 Thread Istvan Gabor
Hello: This is on openSUSE 10.3. When I start audacity nothing happens. Audacity does not open its window. According to ps audacity is running. When started from konsole, with "audacity", there is no any message. I tried both 1.3.3-46 version from suse repository and 1.3.3- 50.pm.beta version fo

Re: [opensuse] ATI, 8.42, 10.3: The X server always start with max resolution

2007-11-09 Thread Magnar Strand Olsen
Rajko M. skrev: > On Thursday 08 November 2007 03:43:33 am Magnar Strand Olsen wrote: > >> fazer skrev: >> I installed the 8.42 drivers, but it gave me a desktop resolution of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the highest resolution my 19 inch Hansol CRT monitor supports). After some hassl

Re: [opensuse] Hard Disk Failing

2007-11-09 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randall R Schulz wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2007 01:46, G T Smith wrote: >> Randall R Schulz wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> I'm not finding this very clear... >>> >>> >>> Randall Schulz >> You could try the -a option which will give a description of all

Re: [opensuse] ATI, 8.42, 10.3: The X server always start with max resolution

2007-11-09 Thread Magnar Strand Olsen
Ed McCanless skrev: >>> I installed the 8.42 drivers, but it gave me a desktop resolution of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the highest resolution my 19 inch Hansol CRT monitor supports). After some hassle (see my previous post) I got the ATI control panel working, enabling me to switch re

[opensuse] heat and stress GPU

2007-11-09 Thread Eberhard Roloff
Hi, I change my gpu from an old ATI 9200 to a better supported NV7600 Me being computer sound adverse, both are silent i.e. I am fortunate that I can go by without gpu cooling fan noise. However from what I feel with my fingers and see via different tools (via (k)sensors, hdtemp and the nvdock/n

Re: [opensuse] YaST online update design question

2007-11-09 Thread Stanislav Visnovsky
Dňa Friday 09 November 2007 07:09:50 Robert Lewis ste napísal: > I am running 10.2 and about to convert to 10.3. > > I have always wondered why rpms are downloaded > and then installed. And then the next one downloaded > > Instead of downloading the next RPM to be installed > while the previou